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The Washington times., 1922-05-28

LONDON, May II.
<<- NGLISH women as a race
are heading straight for
H sex extinction, unless
there are speedy and fundamental
changes in the prevailing system
of physical education for the mod
ern girl"
This startling statement was
made by George Chalmers, secre-
tary of the College OF Preceptors.
Bloomsbury Square, where a joint
committee has been formed, repre-
sentatives of the medical and
teaching professions, in an en-
deavor to stay the peril OF this
threatened extinction.
Increasing numbers OF medical
men and women, scientists, biol
ogists, head mistresses OF colleges
and high schools and universities
are coming to the conclusion that,
in a generation or so women AS
sex will no longer exist If they are
further developed in the modern
masculine mode of physical in
struction," added Mr.. Chalmers.
"In view of the urgency OF the
situation, and the sound scientific
and medical opinion submitted TO
us, we have formed this joint COM
mittee to conduct a thorough in
vestigation into the matter all over
the country.
THE committee represents the
British Medical Association, the
Royal Colleges of Surgeons and
Physicians, the British Medical
women's Association and includes
the most eminent representative
of the teaching profession in all
it's ramifications. Among the mem
bers OF the committee are Sir
Charles Ryall. Or. Alice Sander
son Glow and Miss Cowdray. head
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due TO a new apparatus invented
by DR.. Owens for examining ulr
and estimating the amount Of dust
It contains.
Large quantities Of dust are ctr.
rted by the northwest winds across
the North aea from Germany,
which can be detected by ANALYSIS,
Britons- get a very good idea, in
fact, of the state OF activity OF
German industry by the amount
OF dust srattuiteusiy deposited On
the shores when the wind II In the
right direction.
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One other. a voice that h:
brought healing in its consolin
message to many a broken hear !:
Our bonnie BARNS there. Jean.
She was bath GUIDE and fair. Jean.
And oh. we grudged her satr
To the land o. the leali
A final word. Scotsmen are we
come because, while proud Of the
own national characteristics, the
appreciate the qualities Of othe
races.
They admire the achievement
of other races and delight to SHOW
1t. II l were to select an exampl
/ should say that we admire tn
achievements of the great Austria
ian, New Zealand, Canadian ant
American peoples; and believe tina
the more the English -speakini.
races know of each other the bette
for the future Of the world. Blu
east-west-hame's best.
When / have come back from
foreign lands, I have breathed m:
native air with a JOY too intens
for words. l have lain in the puI
pie heather and buried my face IL
the grass-aye, and nibbled it like
a deer. I have drunk the waters
Of its bournes like the saumon and
the trout. My love for Scotland.
my filial piety for that grand auld
Mither will die only with my last
breath. And when that day comes
my only grief will be that shall
never again look on old Scotia s
hills. but I'll die with this prayer
on my lips:
Aud Scotland. I, adore ye
| love ye' cause ye bore me
love your fame. l love your NAME
love ye cause ye are my hsme.
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~ EFORE the end Of 1928 that
n area OF the Atlantic be-
tween the United States
and the Azores will be spanned by
a submarine cable capable Of car
rying ten times as many messages
as any line now in existence. Plans
have been completed to extend the
new communication link later
from the Azores to Emden, Ger.
many. In its final state the pro-
posed cable will be 1904 miles
long.
Charles G. Dubois, president Of
the Western Electric Company,
when interviewed regarding the
relation OF the transatlantic ca
BILE project to his recent visit to
Europe said:
My trip had for its principal
purpose the completion Of negotia-
tons previously begun here with
respect to the manufacture OF sub
marine cables under our inven-
ttons. It is our belief that by the
carrying capacity OF trans
oceanic cable will be increased
several fold"
Some Of the cable companies
have shown an sctive interest in
cables of this type and as the
Western Electric Company is not
at present equipped to manufac-
ture long submarine cables, but is
desirous of having its inventions
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diCtine Monks.
LONDON, Nav 81

THE island of Caldey. off the
Welsh coast. less than three
miles from Tenby, belongs to tho
Benedictine monks. and IL is by
the monks themselves that a Pas
sion Play is presented
II was first given five Yeas ago,
but not until this present year was
Unknown that visitors not belong
ing TO the island might witness it:
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BRITISH WOMAN
HEADED FOR
SEX EXTINCTION
Secretary of College of PERCEPTION Warns
Against Peril and Urges Speedy and Fun
damental Changes i'm the Prevailing Sys-
tenn for Physical Education of Modern
Girl.

Of the Crounch End School and
College.
I'VE particularly seek opinions
from teachers and headmistresses
on the physical effects they have
observed on their pupils of gym
nastics, with and without appa-
ratus, and especially the effects Of
such strenuous games as hockey,
football. swimming. rowing. horse
riding. foot racing and lacrosse.
We are also making inquiries in
regard to the personal influence
exercised by drill and games mis-.
tresses on adolescent girlhood.
MOTHERHOOD IMPAIRED.
From medical men and women
and the hospitals we are anxious
to collect statistics of the sterility
OF the sporting types Of women
the typical products of our modern
schools for girls.
hD hASoANot piNiNooioh
long had misgivings about our
present system Of physical instruc-
ton for women, and many OF its
most distinguished members are
continually asserting from their
own experience that the functions
OF motherhood are impaired by
these strenuous games. and that
they cause incalculable suffering
TO women in later years.
Added to this. we have had
sound scientific opinions submit
ted to us by eminent biolosi lists,
pointing out that in these siren
uous games women are spending
all their capital with the conse-
quence that they are producing AN
emasculated race Of men.
MALE ELEMENT PRESENT.
These biologists also point out
that woman has a male as we'll as
a female element in her compost.
ton, and that the accumulated ef-
fects Of the present system Of
training tends TO develop only the
male in her. with the consequence
that we shall soon have a species
OF human being who is neither man
nor woman.
I'VE are working on the assump.
tion that there is a fundamental
difference in the organism of a
man and woman-that our girls
can be taught to exercise healthily
without blindly initiating the vio.
lent games OF men and BOYS.
I'VE desire that stress should be
laid on the fact that this is NOT an
anti-feminist move. On the con
trary, the most distinguished men,
bers OF the committee aver that
women, as the mothers Of the race,
are superior to men"
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it has room for 1000, ,OOo, 900
people.
Russia, stretching from the
Icy North TO the warm and tor
rid zones, produces not only
vast quantities of wheat, rye.
oats. etc. but an abundance OF
maize. rice, cotton and other
southern produce as well On
its gigantic plains unlimited food
crops can be grown.
Before the war Russia raised
more than half OF the worlds
rye, more than one-third Of the
worlds barley, about a quarter
of the worlds wheat and oats
and possessed more than $4,000, 900
cattle, more than $4,000 900
horses, etc The absorption of
Russia would make Germany
self-supporting and would enable
her to laugh at a blockade.
Russia has by far the largest
store of timber in the world. 1t
is exceeding rich in coal. iron,
copper, zinc, petroleum, gold and
many other minerals. The won
derful rivers of the country are
a resource of the greatest value.
The possession OF Russia ap-
peals, therefore, not only to the
German advocates of expansion,
to the patriots and to the sol
diers, but also to the business
men and to the people in gen.
eral.
VAST SUPPLY OF FOOD.
Economically Germany and
Russia supplement one another.
Russia produces gigantic guam
titles Of food and Of raw mate.
rials, OF which normally she has
great surplus. She requires
to exchange that surplus against
manufactured goods. Germany,
on the other hand, Is a highly
developed industrial state which
wants to exchange her surplus
of manufactures against the food
stuffs and raw materials which
she lacks.
A partnership between Germany
and Russia is, consequently,
mutually advantageous.
The Russian people have little
talent and little liking for indus.
trial management and for the
mechanics of modern civiliza-
ton. They lack experts Of
every kind. On the other hand
the Germans have super.
abundance of skilled workers.
such as engineers. chemists.
mechanics, foremen, ETC., partly
owing to the natural bent of the
people, partly owing to the large
number Of their educational and
scientific establishments.
Germany lacks workers and
has a surplus Of experts, while
Russia lacks experts and has q
vast surplus 81 workers.
Up 10 comparatively recent
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thing being done-and that 10
there
Those looking down among the
actors in this sequence Of scenes
have no sense of watching a pIav.
but know they are beholding a
number of intense believers en-.
gagged in a deep single act Of faith.
1t is incomparably more impressive
than any play, incomparably more
arresting and more moving.
What one behOlds is not the
skilled manipulation Of machinery
there is no machinery. but soul
action|, as straitly restrained ex.
ternally as may be. There is
throughout profoundly movip-
and noble reticence.
UNSEEN CHANTERe
In place Of dtc c'uEu~ 'rers =, ne
behind "4rrato> rro. p .,-
acte" To one 3D.. .. go.-l olt
"",..... ,t .,....g - RE
sir =. To .'-Ir .- even mo.
note & H. .4lh scripture as
it is ea,laI Nv describing the pas
sage II .e Redemption Tragedy
which is at the moment being
enacted.
One chanter gives only the words
OF Peter, another those OF Judas.
or PLATE, or Caiaphas; the whole
group sing when the multitude
speak, and the chant is then har-
monized. So Of the words used hy
Christ: They are sung by an un-
seen singer. But the various char.
acters enacting the several parts
illustrate the words by their action,
appropriate and just, but re-
strained. as have said.
THE SUPREME SCENE.
The lighting Of the fourteen
scenes is amazingly skillful, and IL
also another instance of that amas-
insly perfect restraint.
There is light just enough, barely
enough. and yet quite enough.
Whence or how It comes does not
appear. It Is there. with no be.
trayal Of a mechanical throwing Of
II there.
In the supreme scene Of all n
fades, absolutely imperceptibly. to
complete darkness. till only the
Cructfied Himself Is visible
through the gloom. soundless,
motionless, utterly alone.
The words chanted are those OF
the Gospels only, without addition
or paraphrase, and they are given
in English; except that In certain
scenes (as in that of the Entomb-
ment), the characters are, by force
OF the narrative itself, silent, a few
verses OF the Stabat Mater are
chanted to the solesmes tones. At
certain places. too. the audience.
between the risings OF the curtain.
almost whisper one or the other
of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the
Rosary.
The whole Of this Passion Piav
has been arranged, and It's music
made by the Prior of the Abboy.
the Very Rev. Dom Wilfrid Epson.
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By "JOEHN AYSCOUGH''- %.
(WeU-KnOICn
Otherwise Is

(WeH-KnOUn Novelist and Essaust Who
Otherwise Is Monsignor Bckerstafe- DreuDJ
Priest VINO Served at the Front Senior Roman Catholic Chapan o
the British Forces During the War and Was Twice Mentioned Dis
patches Describes am Island Passion Play Given Annually ne
dictine Monks
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LONDON. May 81
+ F we want to understand the


full significance of the agree
- ment between Russia and
Germany. which was cast like
bomb-shell into the midst Of the
Genoa Conference we must cast
a glance at the character, the
interests and former relations Of
the two countries.
The gravity of the situation
which has now developed will
then be manifest.
Before the war practically all
Germans were expansionists, but
while united in purpose they diff
fered in aim. They formed two
great schools.
The Conservatives favored ex-
pansion on land. especially in the
direction of Russia. They viewed
the fleet and the Emperor's
oversee policy with distrust.
They wished to bring about the
expansion of their country in the
traditional manner.
LIBERAL PARTY WON.
The Liberal parties, the great
manufacturers and traders, and
the people living in the great
ports wanted Germany to become
a maritime and a colonial Power.
They carried the day. The EN-
peror proclaimed: "Germany's
future lies on the water" and.
at his bidding, Germany chal.
lenged England with fatal results
to herself.
The failure of Germany's mari
time policy has given new pres
tige to the programme of the
junkers and Of the leading
soldiers. Ever since Germany's
defeat the feudal and military
leaders have proclaimed that
Germany was vanquished by the
blockade, by death and starva-
ton; that It was a mistake for
her to abandon her historical
policy of expansion by land; that
she can become unconquerable
and irresistible by absorbing
Russia.
ROOM FOR 1 oOo,oOO.ooo.
Those who advocate Germany's
expansion eastward point out that
a Germany stretching from the
Rhine to the Behring Strait and
from the Arctic Circle to the
borders Of Persia, India and
China would dominate the world.
Before the war Russia had
about 10000, 900 people. That
country is a gigantic reservoir
of man-power, the potentialiies
OF which are unlimited. Previous
to the war Russia's population in
creased by nearly 100000 per
year.
As the total Russian Empire
II twice a. large as China and
forty times as large as Germany
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y
known, as only half a dozen other
visitors and myself have witnessed
the representations II was given
on each Friday during Lent and
on the Monday and Tuesday in
Holy Week. Beginning at O'Clock
in the evening, it lasts Just two
hours.
HAS SPECIAL FEATURES.
1t should he said at once that the
Caldey Passion Play is markedly
unlike any other represented else
where And II also must be said
at once that the attempt to give
a verbal description of it which
shall convey an adequate and true
idea must be hopeless. To under.
stand its wonderful appeal and
power it must be seen.
Here are some OF its special fea-
tures-and without seeing iu they
would perhaps seem to be all
against II:
Each character is represented
by a monk-at other Passion
plays there are male and female
actors.
= The monks are dressed in
their habits, voluminous ana
of milk-white wool, all alike except
the young Religious who repre-.
sents the Christus. who Is clad in a
girded alb of white linen. reaching
the ground, and long stole. the
emblem of priesthood.
2 No character speaks
A There is no scenery.
The action 10 not represented
on a stage. On the contrary,
the stage OF the hall in which the
Passion Play is given is occupied
by the audience, who look down
into what would lat any other rep
resentation) be. the auditorium, in
which the fourteen actions of the
play take place.
Nevertheless none who has seen
the thing can regret any Of these
apparent disadvantages. Reported
they do sound as II hopelessly MAX
ing against success: in reality they
prove to be only features in the
singular and perfect greatness OF
the effect produced.
MEDITATION AND OFFERING.
Let It be from the first under
stood what Ia intended: not IN
any sense whatever a stage play.
This is not a stage play with an
ineftably sacred theme. It is a
Meditation and an Offering. There
might be a vast audience, or there
might be none: the presence or
absence OF spectators is not OF
the essence Of the thing done,
which 10 the offering ,by the
participants IN the action Of
unique Meditation. a Passion Gin.
No doubt the absences alluded
to-absence OF costume, scenery,
dialogue-demand u singular art
TO supply their place, and II IL
thereI they demand, however.
moro than art. absorption in the
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
WAR ON Low TARIFFS.

The result. politically, is to en-
courage the protectionists to wage
war on lower tariffs. promised by
the Liberals, and, on the part Of
the revival of reciprocity negotia-
tions between the TWO countries.
Although the Liberals, led by
MIR. Mackenzie King, have been
forced by pressure from within
their own ranks to discourage any
prospect of lower tariffs, they are
compelled, by their dependence on
the farmer bloc in the House, to
take some action with regard to
reciprocity in natural products.
The Canadian protectionist press
blames the American tariff pro-
posals on the agricultural bloc in
Congress, a two-edged sword, de-
signed to set the Canadian farmer
against the American and so help
along the good work Of Anglo
Saxon friendship.
Anything that will tend to di-
vert Canadian trade from the
natural economic channels must In
the end, they contend, prevent
that assimilation Of the Canadian
TO American political ideals which
is the bette noir Of the Empire
binders. Hence the characteriza-
ton of Uncle Sam in protectionist
cartoons as an obese war profiteer,
who to the invitation to attend the
economic conference at Genoa ex-
claims as he peers through the
knot-hole in the international fence:
"why pay to go in, when I shall
reap all the benefits of their hard
work outside here without stirring
q finger
The protectionist in Canada Is
an Imperialist so long as Imperial
ism keeps Canada and the United
States separated by tariff walls.
His imperial ardor cools when
British competition in the Cana
dian market is encouraged by a
preferential tariff in favor of Brit
ish imports. The only party at
the last elections that attacked the
preferential tariff on British i'm
ports was the Conservative. which
is the latest refuge and defense Of
Imperialism in the Dominion.
Strange admixture of economic
prudence and imperial devotion!
The increase in American tariffs
against Canadian products Is just
what the Imperial. l.Protectionist
has been praying for.
MUCH. NEEDED LESSON
II teaches the Canadian farmer
and Liberal a much.needed lesson
on the fruitlessness OF the agita-
ton for reciprocity between the
two countries and justifies the far
sightedness of British investors
who helped to build Canadian rail-
ways east to west, instead of north
to south.
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Written for Universal Service.

"TllICn universal SSiN'So'
MONTREAL, Quebec, May 27.
"HAT Canada and the United
States form one economic
- unit is a fact which the
Canadian realizes when he feels
the pinch of high-tariff measures
that originate in Washington.
The worst Of 1t Is that he is cry
ing over the split milk Of 1911.
when the Taft-Fielding pact was
defeated in a flag-waving election
that drove the Liberals out Of
power in Canada.
There is secret rejoicing in the
protectionist camp in the Domin-
ion that the return Of the Liberals
to power comedies with Repub-
lican tariff proposals that shut
the door against reciprocity. To
scale the custom duties above those
fixed in the Fordney schedules and
TO carry the protective principle
further than the Payne-Aldrich
law is an exhibition Of Republican
zeal in the raising of tariff walls
that are bound to lead to interest
ing developments in Canadian
American relations
The Washington times., 1922-05-28
BY j. ELLIS BARKER
IAN Authoritative Writer on Internatio

menace OF Expansion Towards the East if Germany Swallows Russia
Points Out That Cermans Peaceful Penetration Of Vast Empire
Will End by Making Her resiSteP2nerSh Is logical and
Natural to the Two PeoDIeS
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HEAVY BLOW AT EXPERTS.

Although Canadians have been
assured by the late Lord Bryce
that their form Of government Is
more democratic than that OF the
United States, protectionists here
never fail to dwell upon the superb
ority of a political system that con.
fers upon the American President
from time to time powers to raise
or lower tariffs that are not en-
joyed by the executive at Ottawa.
The permanent tariff measure
reported to the United States
Senate by the committee on
finance deals a heavy blow at
Canadian agricultural exports in
times when the farmer is hard
pressed by a combination Of cir
cumstances that make farming .
serious economic problem. 1t also
comes at a time when many
American farmers have been at
tracted to western Canadian dis
tricts by the depression on the
American side. The effect Of the
tariff emergency during the nine
months ended with February Of
this year was a reduction in the
export Of Canadian grain to tho
United States from thirty'nine
million bushels to ten million. The
export OF cattle was cut in half.
and the reduction was general in
all agricultural products shipped
across the border.
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NEW CABLE TO GIVE
TEN TIMES SERVICE
United States and Azores Will Be Linked
Next Year With Latest Invention
i'm Undersea Wiring.

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tween the limited States
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and probably to very few was this
known, as only half a dozen other
visitors and myself have witnessed
the representations II was given
on each Friday during Lent and
on the Monday and Tuesday in
Holy Week. Beginning at O'Clock
in the evening. it lasts Just two
hours.
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BY Universal Service.
TnNnNN Nav 81

LONDON. May 81.
IkCNGL1sH women as a race
WIZ are heading straight for
H sex extinction, unless
The Washington times., 1922-05-28

~ NCE, am told, somebody with
a mistaken sense of humor
~ approached fellow country
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-11-02
Novel Shooting Feat.
TO THE MEMORY
OF THE

An interesting experiment In freak
rife shooting was described recently
by an English officer. ~ have fired an
ordinary wax candle through four
deal boards placed a foot apart" he
said II used six inches of wax candle
and thirty-three grains Of powder with
the usual wads. The shot was removed
by cutting or the top half-inch Of the
case, and a candle weighing one and
a quarter ounces was inserted fred
at a range Of about FIVE yards. Each
plank was perforated. There were
plenty of pieces Of dry wax on all the
boards, but the first. When fired
against planks placed Immediately back
to back, the candle went through the
first and was brought up by the solid
weight Of wood Of the other three"
Major Hardcastle added that certain
gamekeeper won many bets by shoot
ing candles through a spade.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-11-02
ICE CREAM MUST BE
KEPT UP TO STANDARD

Manufacturers of ice cream in Ken.
lucky will not be permitted to lower
the percentage of milk fat in their
product, it was announced in Louis
vile by the State Board of Health
the announcement coming as a mega
tive answer to petition filed by the
manufacturers with the Board in
August.
The present law requires that plain
ice cream contain not less than 10
per cent butter, and that fruit and
nut ice creams contain not less than
requested that minimum requirement
for all three kinds be reduced to s
per cent.
Action on the petition was not TAX
EN- by the State Board of Health, ac-
cording to Miss Sarah II. Vance, di-
rector of it's Bureau of Foods, Drugs
and Hotels, until after she had inves-
tigated the matter thoroughly and
had made inquiries as to the proce-
dure in other states at the recent
convention of the National Food Of
ficials' Association in Kansas City.
Refusal of the request was neces-
sary, Miss Vance says, because of the
fact that a majority of the states of
the union have a butter fat require
ment at least as high as Kentucky's.
She also advised not to permit the
butter fat standard to be lowered by
the Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry
of the United States Department of
Miss Vance adds.