The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-25

the crowd and the cheers that went up
we're evidently all for the pleasant,
smiling, motherly looking empress.
and not for the cold stony Queen of
England. In yesterdays procession
1t was just the same. The crowd
cheered some. because even an Eng
lish crowd that has waited patiently
for hourse wants to hear itself cheer,
but the cheers were undoubtedly for
Cling George. whose face is rather too
calm, but in whose blue eyes there is
just a little OF the kindness and SYM
pathy that made him mother SO be-
loved by all classes of the people.
1t does not take much to make a
queen popular in England, the news
papers make this very easy, but
Queen Mary has made a bad start.
The court functions are stiff and cere-
monious. there is too much old fash
toned puritanism in the air and on
two occasions the queen has issued or
ders in regard to the dress of the
women she honors with her invita-
tions-orders which created much i'll
feeling-so much, indeed. that the
last time the order was said never to
have been issued, though no one was
hoodwinked by the denial.
Sir William Willcocks, who in the
interest of the Turkish government,
has spent about three years surveying
in Mesopotamia has discovered, he
thinks, the locality of the Garden of
Eden, namely in the district between
Babylon and Bagdad.
In the time of our first parents this
region must have been a fertile para.
disc, bit now. like many other places.
1t has seen better days-in fact, it is
almost a desert.
But that does not suit the purpose
of the Turkish government, which, as
we all know. has now opened up an
era Of reform, and 1t is going to do
for Mesopotamia what the Anglo
Egyptian government has already
done for the country of the lower Nile.
The late Sir John Arid was the con-
tractor who built the Vastly barrage
Mt Assouan, SO as to suffuse the arid
regions around with the fertilizing wa.
ters of the Nile: and Sir John jackson
Is the man who Is to perform cores
ponding feats on Euphrates. under a
job contract, which will run into some
thing like $1OO.O0O.OOO. And may he
live to get every penny of his money
from the Sultan's treasury.
Already what soldiers term an "ad-
vance party" of about 5000 men is en-.
gagged in rough preliminary work
laying out the camp. so to speak and
the executive staff of the enterprise is
now being selected by Sir John Jack.
son, assisted by his first-in-command
of the constructive army of Mesopota-
mia. This is Mr.. Arthur Noel Whit
ley. another Yorkshireman, who has
just reached London from South
America. where he was second. in.
command OF another great Jackson
cnterprise-the construction of a rail-
road 300 miles long. across the An
des. from Africa, in Chilli, to La Paz,
the capital of Bolivia.
Having thus variously exercised his
genius. Mr.. Arthur whiteley is now
about to address himself to what his
friends are sure will prove his master
piece. He is going to put the spade
in at Hildia, the Assuan of the Eu-
pirates: but that will only be one of
three great barrages on this ancient
river and the Tigris. At first a dis
trict of 100000 acres will be irrigated,
at a cost of $7.25O,O00 after which the
value of the land now practically nil.
will then be ut least $50, 900, OOO When
entirely irrigated. Sir William Will
cocks. its surveyor. estimates that his
Garden Of Eden will have acquired a
value OF $190.000.0O0.
An interesting practical experiment
in the development Of friendly rela-
tons between Englishmen and Ger
mans Is being carried out by Mr.. H.
Lionel Rogers, head master OF Kings
college school in London. He and
the German master at the school last
Easter. which has proved a complete
success. and which. it is hoped. will
be the first Of a series OF similar
friendly interchanges between English
and German schools.
| The idea originated when a boy at
Kings College School expressed a de-
sire to visit Germany with Herr Koch
during the Easter holidays. II one,