The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-04
THE SUN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1914.

was in cocoanut OIL but II was found
difficult to cooper the oil, and the voy-
age waste through leakage was seri-
GUS consideration. Weber proposed the
shipment of tho dried nut and the diff
ficulties OF tho problem vanished In
this form 1t Ia sent to Hamburg there
the oil is extracted and the waste, as
oil cake. has n satisfactory sale price for
feeding store cattle. The oil carries the
quality OF extreme resistance to the cor
rosion Of salt air and Is therefore the
base of many marine engine lubricants;
II ia the only vegetable fat which when
saponifled forms a lather with salt
water: when the characteristic flavor
has been extracted It enters largely into
the adulteration OF olive oils and butter,
and where II adulterates II also con-
tributes food value. In the sos copra
sold in Apia and Levuka at generally
500 the long ton f. o. b. Then in
distant part OF the world a mechanical
discovery cut the price in half, machines
were invented for the economical ex-
traction Of the oil from the cotton
seed in our Southern States. and the
poor islander in the Pacific entered upon
period OF financial depression. The
former value, as new uses have been
found for the oil; to-day II stands rs
one OF the staple products of the world,
and the possession OF cocoanut groves
means unexampled prosperity.
The several authors in this great work
deal intelligently with the human prob
lem; they strive TO set forth how these
colonies may yield the ease OF good
lttttnu 20 an no ha aprNa1
his military duty and is next to busy
himself with the affairs of n lveli-
hood. This introduces for consideration,
before we close these records of colonial
life under the Black Eagle. the ques-
ton, what sort OF colonbsts Germans
make.
The English have impressed upon
their savage and dependent people tho
inexorablity Of that utterly incompre-
hensible thing English custom: they are
none the less liked for remaining mas
ters. The Dutch in their colonies are
looked upon az somewhat judcially
minded. emlnently fair but not always
alert, a convenient resort when disputes
arise. To be under the French colonial
administration passes somehow as sort
of game; tho master race are little more
than cheerful companions: the French
are OF marked sympathy with their un-
cultured dependents. But the Germans
| in their colonies are essentially paternal
they work diligently for the good OF the
dependent peoples along the line that
the highest good of the dependent pep-
pies Is e. work diligently.
| SO much in the newer lands must
rest upon individual Initiative, II is 30
much a matter of mutual adjustment OF
! new men and conditions new, that a
carefully devised scheme OF colonial
administration based upon the phllosp-
ply OF Kolonialwesen MAY prove quite
unavoidable Perhaps because they are
all so young perhaps because the colo
nlsts and the administrators are so de-
veloped along the line Of obedience tn
an established system, the German colo
MES do not seem To have caught the
/ knack of governing the lower races with
facility. II has been most Interest
! ing experiment: at any rate II has not
proved an expensive one, and the very
best that can be said for the German
colonial empire has been said most IN
structively and entertainingly in this
monumental work.