The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-02
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

William Lequeux, the English nov eI1st' who has 8 large following in this country as we'll as in Europe. will begin his fftfeth year today, having been born In London on the second of July, 1864. His latest novel deals with his experiences in tke Balkan war and the scenes are laid in Servia and Albania. MT. LeQueux travelled sx- tensiFelE in those countries Macedo- nia, Turkey, Montenegro and Bulgaria, pcrore the war, as we'll as acting as correspondent during the recent strug- gle of the Palkan States with Turkey, and Is thoroughly familiar with the subject of which he writes. He is a commander of the orders of St. Sava of Servia and Danilo of Montenegro. For some time he lived in the little republic of San Marine, a mere apeck on the map of Europe, and was made consul of the republic and a member of the San Marino Order.
 MT. LeQueux was educated in Eng land and Italy, and afterward studied art in Paris. He forsook the Latin quarter and his artistic ambitions to make a pedestrian tour through France and Germany. His accounts of his ex-. periences on these trips won him a place as correspondent, and later as sub-editor, on the London Globe. While sti1l actively engaged in journalism he published his first novel, '4Guilty
 
 book was eufhciently successful to en- courage him to write another, Strange Tales of a Nihilist.'' Twenty years ago he abandoned newspaper work to de- vote his entire attention to novel writ ing, and since than has published an average of a book a year.
 N6r LeQueux has an intimate know1- edge of the secret service of all the European powers, and many of his novels are based on this insight into affairs that are a closed book to or dinary mortals. The novelist Is an in- veterate traveller. and has spent years in wandering through Algeria, Moroc- co, the Sahara, Asia and the Balkan States.
 ''spare the rod and spoil the child, :" is an old proverb that meets with the approval of Prof. Frank Morton Me- Mury, one of the foremost American. authorities on pedagogics. The pro lessor of elementary education at Teachers College, Columbia universi- ty, is a. Hoosier by birth, having been born near Crawfordsville, Ind, fifty one years ago today. Prof. McMurry advocates the restoration of corporal mends certain restrictions, such as| that the child be examined by p11y- sfcian before the ''licIxings' Is applied and that the written consent of the parents to the punishment be secured, when possible. He declares that there are many disobed1ent and disorderly children, who have little regard for the rights of others and little fear be- yond that of bodily hurt who can be taught respect for authority only by a proper application of the rod. Of course. whipping hurts the whipper more than the whipped, but Prof Mo Murry believes that school principals should not only be permitted, but com to administer doggings for the good of teh child when other correc- tive emasures have failed.
 z1sxPr1nce Olaf, who may some day succeed his father. Haakon VII, l as king of Norway, will celebrate his tenth birthday today. Queen Maud, 1 teh mother of the little Prince, is a l sister of King George ", and 1t is said that she has determined that her son l shaIEa be educated in an English unt- | versitys