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The Seaforth News, 1927-08-11, Page 2HOLY LAND HAS FELT MANY EARTH TREMORS Recent Quake Damaged Sacred Shrines in Jerusalem and Brought Disaster and Suffering to Other Ancient Towns IVlade Famous by the Bible For some weeks past reports have cend'ants of Lot. An aviator flying been coming in from the Near. Fast over the City of Ammon reports that telling of damage done by the earth- he saw ono of its minarets fall as if it quake that visited the Holy Land. had been cut down with an axe, The heaviest shocks have been felt The earthquake passed lightly over through the hills and plains that lie Tiberius, and the crumbling' stones to the east of the fertile Jordan Val- on its shares that tell eloquent tales ley. But the greatest anxiety has "of the sojourn, of,Jesils an the north- been felt for Jerusalem, with its ern end' of the silent body of water. oountless treasures of blblieal' days, It passed to the westward, complet- And the monuments built by the Mo- -lug its circle of the IHoly : Land and lyammedans on ,the foundations cif • rested heavily upon; Ramleh, the Ara structures' originally raisedby the mathea of the days of the Next/. Testa hands of the Jews, No great harm mont. On the crest of the hill on has' apparently come to the Dome of which it sits Ramleh commands all the Rock with its fairylike minarets; the fertile region around about it, it is said that it has been disturbed from the mountains to the Mediter- but that the dome and walls of ' irri- ranean Sea. descent beauty still stand intact. The Ito position has ever given it power, atncent vaults that protect the Holy for it lies at the ancient cross -road Sepulchre axe said to have suffered that led from/ Egypt to Syria and considerable. shock, more dangerous from the sea to Jerusalem. Ramleh because of a condition of ill repair. the "sandy" it was nailed by its Arab It is not the first' time that an founder. The minaret of its mosque earthquake has rocked this sacred serves as an observation tower and spot. "And, behold, there was •a great can be seen for miles about. In 1099 '4arthquake; for the angel of the Lord the Crusaders- took and forttfled it, ?Ascended from heaven, +and came and .leaving a romantic tower as a -mo, rolled back the stone from the door, menthe of those tortured 'times. Even and sat upon it" ' So :wrote St. Mat- though the town became Mohamme- thew• dare the Franciscan fathers were Under the -roof -that coversthedim- given and have held the right to take ler lighted angers chapel and the en- in pilgrime passing through the coun- closure behind it, where the believ- tryside. The heavy .stone wails of the big go to worship before the tomb of "monastery gave lodging to Napoleon Christ, is the rock of Golgotha. at the time off the siege of Jaffa, and Through the mysterious blackness its cells served as hospital wards for that fills the vastedifice the yellow his wounded soldiers. candies. gleam on the altar erected .41 no time in its career has Ram - over the spot where St. Helena was leh so well served the world 'as when, told in her revelationthat the cross" in 1918, General Allenby : elected to had stood. From top to -bottom its granite mass is split. As the. Greek priest in charge points to the cleft he repeats the words of the Gospel: "And, behold, the veil of the temple tions in the Holy Land, and it was was rent in twain, from the top to at Ramleh that he urged kis' troops the bottom, and the..eerth did quake, to victory, a victory "based on the and the rocks rest" justice of our cause and faith in the VICISSITUDES OF TETE SITE. sustaining help of the Almighty." establish his headquarters near it during the campaign that expelled the Turk from the Near East. From there he directed his brilliant opera - OLD LONDON HJUSE COLLAPSE$' Interesting view of a house that collapsed in London, Eng., with the firemen searching the ruins. slumbered quietly in the Treat of the sun, barely stirring to shake off the The whole historyof the imposing. STRIFSI STILL -REIGNS. : dustycoat of passing automo'bile3, It and at the same time tawdry building Peace has not yet settled upon the is reported that the oldest section of has been one of unrest dating back site that plays so large a part in the the town lies half in ruins. , to the times when Hadrian, fearing imaginations of many Christians. Few town's in Palestine have so the power of the environment sacred Strife reigns among the denomina completely kept their age-old atmos, to so many of his subjects, raised a tions that have a right to own its phere as Nablus. Under the pointed broad terrace over it and, defying the shrines and chapels each refuses to roofs' of its covered bazaars there God of Jew and Gentile, erected a co-operate with the other, and in con- lurks the smell of centuries, With temple to Venus within sight of Cal- 'sequence all abstain from doing their, doors flung wide the wank -skinned na- van thinking to perpetuate his fame share of the upkeep of the church. tivescarry on their duties..•Bakers y, g P by a magnificentRomanforum. that On a dais to the left of the entrance make bread in primitive .earthen, he ordered to be placed to the south Moslem guards sit playing cards all ovens. Gaudy camel trappings and of it. day; theirs is the duty to keep order strings of colored beads hang from The columns that ornamented it lie in the building, where lights never the ceilings of the low dens called beneath some fifteen feet of debris, cease to 'burn in the arugels' chapel. shops. Native food is cooked in the accumulated by the battles risen and Cable reports indicate that the tre- open and i9 brought right out of the the elements have waged over Jeru- mors swept from the Church of the i,metal caldrons by beturbaned men '-salcm. Only within recent years have Holy Sepuldhre across the valley and anal women heavily veiled, 'en arch and worn paving stones come up the silver gray slopes of the Mount SAMARITANS IN NABLUS. ! to light beneath the Russian convent, of Olives, sparing the oldest and most In the remotest section of the town, , confirming archaeologists in their congested portion of the city within living proudly by themselves, are a statements about the location of the the walls where Jewish, Armenian small band o'f Samaritans, perhaps scene of the passion. and Christian quarters are intersect- 150 of them, scorning to mingle with One hundred and ninety years after ed by David Street. The outlook tow- their Mohammedan neighbors: They the Roman Emperor's act of destruc- or on the summit of the hill that claim to be the direct Samaritans to :tion, Queen Helena, wife of Emperor commands a view of the minarets of whom Philip preached, and who Fol - Constantine; caused his handiwork to the Dome of the Rock and of the stern lowed 'his teachings. In the ICeniset es i3e removed and uncovered what re- hills and valleys that form a barrier Samire, the Samaritan synagogue, maimed of the cave in Joseph's gar- this side of tho Red Sea must have where these lean, bearded man war- den. She ordered that domes and 'been shaken to its very foundations. shipis preserved a treasure of no lit - arches he raised over it to protect' it Close by, it is said, the English Gov- ti, e interest—an ancient book of they for all time. eminent House and the Hebrew Uni Pentateuch. Cautiously, and for a' The days of strife over the holy varsity buildings suffered consider - few piastres, they unroll rile fragile site had barely begun. For many able damage. parchment from its sticks and permit centuries Moslem and Christian Palestine knows the earthquake. In the visitor to behold the Phoenician fought over. it. Upon one occasion the Old Testament, Amos and Zach- 'characters used by the Jews prior to Khalif Hakent, thinking to break the ariah both record the ravages that their captivity. power of his religious enemies, cornfollowed in the wake of an earth- The land around Nablus is fertile mended that all their churches in quake at the time of Uzziah, King of with. Bible association. Tiers was the .Palestine be sacked. The rocks of the Judah, whose long reign of 52 years country to which Abraham came with 'Holy Sepulchre were broken. Relent- .was full of srife and warfare with Sara -h nd Lot when he, went forth to {ling, the Moslem chief gave hes con- the Philistines and the Arabians. 'go into the land of Canaan. "Arad ;sent for its reconstruction. On the Joeephus assorts that he suffered a Abraham passed through the land poorly lighted walls' some of the mo- just punishment for tranogreesin'g into the place of Siehem." Under sales put in place then can still be the kw. some forgotten strip of land Joseph Radio Notes Effect of Aurora Borealis on Canadian Radio Reception Montreal -"Dons the Aurora bore- alis when in visible display interfere with radio reception," was a questions drected to A. R. McEwen, Director of Radio, Canadiah National Railways, in an endeavor to 'roach some' tion of a problem which has caused a great' deal of discussion, Mr. Mc - Ewan was approached because his de- partment )las unusual opportunities for observing the manifestations of the'"Northern Lights," and the effect of tite phenomina on reception ap- paratus. During a period of three years logs have been prepared daily,by operators in charge of receivoing sets on Cana- dian National trains, an average of 120, such reporta being filed each week dealing with reception- conditions across Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this. material being ob- tained from tate performance of . sets instal'led on the principal trains of the Canadian National System. Out of his own persoual experience, amplified by the observations con- tained in the train radio fogs, Mr. Mc- Ewan answered the question by say- ing: Not To -Blame - seen. In another century the Crusaders .left their stamp on its facade and in. its chapels. Fire ravaged tho temple's .interior early in rho last century; on Yea walls the smoke stains can still be seem HEADQUARTERS OF ALLENBY. "On the other side of Jordan by, Jericho" eastward and out to the plain the earthquake took its toll. Here white villas nestle in an oasis of palm trees and orange groves, whose golden fruit slakes the thirst of wanderers creasing the, desert. To the north of Moab and beyond the fertile valley of the Jordan lies the: land of the children of Ammon, dos - In those remote days when the was buried. Great were the days voice of the Lord vra heard by the when after Solomon's death the crown people of the earth, He spoke unto was offered in the sacred old town of Joshua, bidding the children of Israel Rehoboam, and when Jeroboam fortf- appoint for themselves cities of re- fled its' walls so that it might become 'i idenee it is ,� fuge. By a strange co nc hes capital. Though it never regain - through the lands where the 'cities of el its prestige after the Samaritans refuge" were located that the earth- to thenorthoutgrew it in strength, quake has pursued its way, striking its inhabitants retained their repute terror to the hearts of those sheltered as roma fighters; and when, on Sept. in cities and the poor nomads wan- 21,,'1918;-Allenby's troops and some Boring with their donkeys. French "spahis and light horse •guard Over the slopes of Mount Ephraim attacked the little City of Nablus, and to the , north of Jerusalem liesthey defended it with valor, Nablus, within the shadow of Mao site of Sheclrem, "city of refuge." Since 'as he one of tho landed aristoc; the World War the quaint little townracy?" "Not yet—but 1Walsle's :doing that clings close to the ground hast her best." HOW OLD,? Sale of Old English Estate of Rollright,lnvolves Famous Roll-- riglt Stones 'Which Are Believed to Have Been • Standing 'for --:More Than.. 4000"•Years Oxford, Eng. -The disposal by" auc , placed .on:, the same general plan as tion sato of another well known Eng- Stonehenge 'and Avebury, .:though the lisle estate; „that of Little Relliight orig'inal Position wa;s even more ex- tenslve. Many of the stones have Manor in the. Cotswold district, has � been •removed by the People ofhthe aroused unusual.interest•becauso the region for building purposes, but the property includes the remains .of the "king stone," inane than eight feet old Druidic circle known as the Boll- high, : still points toward the rising right Stones, a monument of the past sun, quote as the "pointer stone" at which many antiquarians. believe 1,0 Stonehenge. The position, 'indicated be even older than Stonehenge. , at a {distance by a •sentinel -like clus- Th'e Rollrigh,t Stones stand upon for of hardy pines, is so exposed and the crest of _ a hill almost exactly so wild and deserted and generally where the shire lines bf Oxford and somber as quits logically to have Warwick meet,' and In that exposed gathered about it in the past all man - and commanding position they have per of -folk tales and legends. remained, in the consensus of s'elen- tifle opinio, for more than 4000 years. They are by no means as well pre- served nor as :imposing as- those on. Salisbury Plain, for they are largely in the, rough,. never having; been dressed or fitted to one another,' a fact which strengthene the.theory that they were placed by an older and more primi- tive people then erected Stonehenge, a people who knew noticing of theart of masonry. - ' Stones Are Weatherbsaten To -day they are much scarred, beat- en and battered; -and theseve'fe Weatli-, er and high winds of .their exposed'. position have eaten away their sub- stance and perforated some of them With holeslilee those in a sponge, A crude :iron railing incloses the circle, -and among the stones the- haitdy•s'crub of this weather-beaten region grows without let or hindrance, 'for little or no attention hfis"ever been paid this most' significant British monument of antiquity. '•' famed monument as one of England's The stone circle of Rollright was most remarkable antiquities. "Periodic cycles of poor radio condi- tions have occurred recently and no doubt the Aurora display has been given a share of the llama by owners of -radio reoeiving ,sets Canada be- ing olos'er to the magnetic pole than most countries offers greater opport- - for the study of this effect on radio transmission; These Northern Lights are believed to be due to clouds of electrons shot oft from the sun, causing ionization in the rare up- per atmosiphere. The Aurora is gen- erally ,accompanied by large disturb= ing currents on the earth's surface ef- ifecting land telegraph lines aol ocean cables which use the earth as a return path. These wandering currents ap- A Center of Roadways As in the case of the other stone circles, which many antiquarians are now attributing to a period even earlier than the Druidic, there radiate from the Roilright circle ancient road- ways' or 'trails to all points., of the compass, One follows the ride called Edgehill along the descent pic- turesquely known as "Surmising"; another beads' off into Northampton- shire through Tadmarton Camp, one of the oldest of the ancient Briton earthworks; a third, goes toward the north through Moreton in the>1Marsh and Little Compton; Mut a fourth leads to Chipping Norton ane beyond—all. traversing fair ,and picturesque sec•, tions of the matchlese Cotswold ole= trice. The possibility existsthat. the new: owners 'of Rollrlght Manor may "re, store" the ancient circle as has been done' at Stonehenge, in, which ease it will become second only to that world - • Athabasea at the northern boundary, of Alberta and the Northwest Terri-, tory, to, the effect that on more than' one occasion Its had splendid recap -I tion at that point from CNRA (Mone -- ton, N.B: ; CNRO, (Ottawa) and other stations in Canada and the United States during periods when the Aurora was partleularly brilliant. "This testimony 'coming from a point where there are no local die-' turbances of interference, is' of some interest in the general discussion re- garding such phenomena on broad• r casting and tie reception at distant 1 Places, McMllllan's• Opinion "One man who should know the ef- fect of the Northern Lights on radio is Donald McMillan who passed right - under the Aurora display' during hie. trip to the Arctic and reported that it had no effect oh static. "Referring again to cycles' of poor radio reoeptfon, the theory has been advanced that abnormally largedis- turbances 'on the sun have been ac- companied by violent expulsions of tremendous clouds of;,eleotrons, .In order to understand how radio chan- nels may be affected when these ex- tra electrons are shot off from the sun, we must first• take into consider- ation the theory devised by tite late Oliver Heavyside. This theory ' as- sumes that .should a person ascend through the earth's atmosphere he would eventually reach a point at which theatmospheric pressure is so slight that the gas becomes a geed conductor of electricity, hence a good reflector of radio waves. e "Thus we can consider the earth as being surrounded by a reflecting medium.' Near the earth is more, air, which is a conductor iri the daytime and an insulator during the night, be- cause during the daytime thesun's rays ionize the air. . The reflecting medium can then be_ considerably downward, or as being nearer the earth's surface during' the daytime [than it is at night, for after the sun sets de -ionization occurs in all the lower atmosphere and there is left ithe .upper layer, or shell, surrounding 'the earth. Heavyside then assumes that radio waves glidealong the inside of this shell for great distances with very little loss, - The irregularities of reception are aeoounied, for by the changes itt the Heavyside layo't•. Changes in signal:strength et a given point aro accounted for in this way. 'Probably the best . indication we have of the existence of this so-called Heavyside' layer is the "Aurora bora- ails display. This display, as observ- ed by the individual, may be merely an Indication that the Heavysde layer, or electron-Chargedatmosphere,. a Same John 'Wesley said, `'I am not careful for what may be a hundred' years hence. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the, present moment." pear to be of low frequency and, there- fore, would not directly affect radio re- ception, such as lathe case of static. "There is no record on the head- quarters of the Radio Department of the Canadian National Railways, a let ter' from tthe Federal •G.overnrnent (agentat Fort Smith, situated on the • tundrod or more miles above the earth's surface really exists, At any rate, whether the Aurora borealis ap- pears or not, the electrical condition. of the Heavyside layer seems to affect the transmiss'lon of radio frequency waves." ,The .conclusions toi be drawn from the foregoing are that 'while the," Aurora cannot be said to actually as feet radio transmission and reception, at the same time this, phenomena' is at' times the visible.eign of other causes which do affeot radio, and, therefore, there le'oertain relation be- tweein them. Will Rogers's Own Idea Of Two National Melodies To -Editor; The New York Times. Beverley Hills, Cal.,—Lots of people don't know the difference between the two songs of America and England-- "Columbia, England-"Columbia, Gem of the Ocean,". and "Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves." Here is the difference;, "Britannia Rules the Waves," ' is a fact; "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean," 10 just a song. Yours, A Diagnoser of Songs. Age6Olc CUSteelrn Empress- ,of Japan Dons the Sacred. Girdle- -As Crani Circles Palace, Pres' aging a Son Tokio.—TDmprosd donned the eactetlobihe," or i3lydle$to,_wM�ych cxre will wear until the certain happy event which ..is expected - about a month hence. To -clay is a lucky day, according to the old Japanese calen- dar, and it was made doubly fortunate by a crane which flow over the Im- perial Palace 'this morning, circling several times. The crane's visit is in the eyes of` the populace a -most for• tnnato omen, presaging the birth of a eon. Awing to the imperial mourning, the rejoicings which 'customarily ac- company the presentation of the g sac- red girdle were omitted, but the an ilius rituals associated with an - 'dent veli the ceremony were solemnly conduct- ed Shinto Priests, Tho by girdle, which • is of the finest white silk, twelve feet long, was pre- sented tp -tlie Empress by'Prince Ilan- la in a magnificent lacquer box. Her majesty immediately sent it to the Imperial Shrine,- whereit was Ceremoniously purified by prayer. The spirits of the imperial ancest- ors were invoked and prayers wore offered. to•; them and -to the ,Gods -of Heaven and, Earth. The Empress ''enjoys exeeUent health. The presentation of -a special girdle to expectant mothers ' ie a., custom which has been observed' for centur les. among •:wile nobility and higher class families of Japan, When there Lis no son fie the family, the occasion aseumes a special significance with additional prayers that the child may be a boy, for he Japan there must be - a son to carry on the family name. Thus the adoption of the girdle by the Empress was attended by the prayers of the whole country, for the only child of the Emperor and Ent' press, who before her marriage' to the then Prince, Regent on Jan. 5, 1924,, was Princess Nagako, eldest daughter of Priuce Iiuni, is the infant Princess Shigeko Teru, born Dec. 6, 19295. A. an edict promulgated in 1889 bars woman from the throne, the na- tion is anxiously awaiting the birth of a Crown Prince. Until that event,, Prince Chichibu, the second brother of the Emperor, who visited America on his way from 'England to Japan lastyear, is heir -apparent, he Empress was not permitted to -a d • the funeral of the late Em-' e. •, la t De eentber b Y the court s p ph3'sibfsns, who announced then that an imperial child might lie` expected in August. , :G Constantinople' From a third -storey flat on the heights above tite Due de Fora I look- ed out on the most beautiful view I ever saw from a window. Below neo the Sea of Mannora was lashed into foam by a cutting wind, ,and, on either sid-e deep blue mountains were massed against a- stonily sky. To the east was the Gulf of Ismid and behind it in brilliant sunshine the high ridges, of the Astatic s'ide,' : This is only a 'segment of the great Constantinople panorama; go up two stories and look, out on either site, Now you see the Golden Horn and Stamboul 'and the great mosques with their domes and minarets rising above the crowded roofs of the old city Turn again and lock north end you may trace the course of tho Bosphorus by the sud- den sham of its waters between the wooded hills. - There is in all the world no suoh site for a city, and whatever it may bo within, Constantinople is all glorious without. Looking at it, one under - 'stands its lure. , It is beautiful, his- torical, and romantic; it has every'con- ceivable utilitarian advantage. It is one of tho'great gates of the world...'. Constantinople is etre unsolved prob- lem of the New Turkey. Kerma]. has deliberately turned his back -on Con stantinople and taken his Government ituto tit'o' wilds 'of Asia Mior. There Hofdind the Line at Bay. 'are, from a Turkish point of view, "Got anything on'ihe end o' that quite sound political reasons for this line yet, Bill?" step. In Constantinople the Turk "Have I1 Say,' Joe wait till that, feels himself smothered by foreigners. • There is nomore cosmopolitan city in tho world;; fate and geography have attracted to it a mixed population from ' all the maritime nations; Greeks, Jews, Armenians; _Syrians, and pout. descript Levantines have for genera- - tions made it their home, .. In the bracing climate and compata.tive iso•Iae•. tion of the Anatolian highlands, it is believed that'he will learn to. be, him - Revenuer < gits' further away and I'u. show von whatl sot" Wife -"Was Mrs. De Style in her new gown when you saw,. her?", Husband — "Partly." — Th,e Boston m REG'LAR FELT ERS—By Gene Byrnes. n 014 MOM! 1 Nips ?">4E ONEY obg nt9 THE GLASS THATGoT A 14W4'RE® IN LoNUbivtSION, eielE TEACNER GAVEMEA $ORA GE ANY A ,PIECE -OF ri- OAKS v l rl4 v ALNV s . WITH ON FOR &EEll:11W A 149d0erPo )1• lase Gt� He Follows Orders. 1 bit) NOt! WE AIT ALL.ot, a :-tp TALK 'LACK. TO TNE•TEACHER 4� 421 Ire v.. r self and unlearn the fatal tiabit of running Lor. foreign assistance (and baksheesh) on any slight emergency To quit Constantinople is therefore declared to -be a n'ooessary.part of the policy of .Turicification • The.Turk , r Is. from henceforth to be master in' his own house 4.0., principally the home-. .. lanais" of Ana glia; ant to'show'lil1ti.. self in earnest he solemnly goes into t -ho. wilderness and quits the city - which was the 'prid'e and shine of talo old regime. To the mod'erh Turk, Constantinople reeks of the Ottoman Empire, and by leaving it, ho wishes you to understand that lee has made a complete' break with the old tradi- tion. --J. A. Spender, in "The Changing East" (1928). "Our nr'nse.unl has acquired a new. lte.mbrantlt." "About time, too- ,The othea••one was getttin,g very old." ilavo` yon hoard: of the young wife won cooked three eggs nine minutes because her fussy husband Wanted each, egg'rooked three ntiuutsa?"