The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-09
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A Truly Modern Psoples

1 A OOnAoAA0OAOAN HI AAOAA0Au A@S 1tc~N' IA cred the origin of the many false and
 erroneous ideas that are current about the country in other parts of the world1 In the 1 first place it was found that schools in America and England were using textbooks in which Holland of a century ago is depicted; l horse-drawn canal barges; wide, ugly trous- | CTS post chaise and other pre-Victorian lm- | plenlents. As matter of fact the Dutch cities compare favorably in modern appear | ance with others. An Amsterdammer will | look as interested and curious at a Zealand | farmer and his wife in national costume as an American tourist from Cleveland, for in- stance. There is little difference between Rot l terdam, Lisbon, Riga OF Boston. But on the | Zuider Zee islands the old costumes and cus- l toms still prevail. There they are one of the | chief sources of income during the tourist season. When the first tourist boats arrive, | the boys and girls of Marken shed their mod- | ern clothes and put on the colored trousers l wooden shoes, lace caps adorned with gold parade up and down the main street, pose for I the tourist cameras and call out, Splendid, 4 splendid" to attract attention to themselves. Their quaint clothing and even the old fur | nitlre in their homes they sell to the high est bidders. They get a new supply from
 the secondhand stores for the following sea
 son to repeat their little game of deception Red Tape.
 Santa Messina came to America in 1919.
 In Castelamara. Sicily, he left behind sweet
 heart In New York he, took out first citi- | zen papers in 1922. He was told that ip-
 tending citizens may bring out relatives with
 out regard to the immigration quota from
 theii country. Sante sailed for Sicily. Upon | arriving there he was told by the American consul in Palermo that the immigration rul- | ing about relatives had been rescinded He married, stayed a few months and was in- formed in due course of time that the old | law was aasin in effect. He sailed for Amer ica with his bride. While on the high seas | the law was again reversed and Mrs. Sante could not enter the country. They stayed a 1 week at Ell.s Island and both sailed back to Sicily Later Sante came to America alone.
 Last August he was told that the order had again become effective. So he sent for Mrs. Sante and the baby. Now mother and child | are in the detention ward at Ellis Island. The American consul in Palermo only
 stamped the vice card once, while he should
 have made two impressions, once for the mother and once for the baby. The result is
 the three months old baby is to be deported
 under the ruling. How ridiculous are literal
 interpretations
 Theory And Practice.
 In Lessons on Teaching Humane Educa-
 tion in Elementary Schools" we read : Q. Are fur garments absolutely necessary to
 man? A. No. Q. Why are furs worn in
 summer? A. For adornment; because it is
 the fashion. Q. What expensive fur is the
 badge of royalty? A. The ermine. The trapping of this little animal is especially ferocious. The hunter smears a piece of metal with grease. The animal licks off the grease and his tongue freezes to the metal. O. Would the fur dealers engage in business if there were no buyers? A. No. o. Then
 we must really blame whom for the crime? | A. The wearers of furs. Of course to the idealism of the composers of this symposium of questions and answers it is a sad reRliza-
 tion that the natural world is not serene l.Utopia of peace and harmony, but rather a 1 savage battleg round, where only the. fittest l SUI vive If man did not trap the ermine, the fox would devour him, skin and bones. And if the composers would spend a winter or so in the subarctic they would find that woolens
 and cotton are little protection and that they
 would be glad for a pair of deerhide mocca- sins, a beaver cap, a lynx nose protector, bearskin coat and a pair of moOsehide nit
 tens lined with rabbit fur.
 l , They Were Misused.
 The great ZR-3 has been launched at | FFiederichshafen and will sail for the United Il States within a few weeks. It's the greatest
 and most successful airship that the world hes yet seen and It's the last to De uehVeteu under the Treaty of Versailles. The great zeppelin works will be torn down, the plans
 and designs destroyed and airship building
 will be thing of the past in so far as Ger many is concerned. Germany is compelled
 to tear down the works thdt gave birth to
 this triumph of soul and science, That is the
 spirit of Versailles, says Foreign Minister
 Stresehann. No one will deny the marvellous
 scientific achievement of the Germans in air
 ship and airplane construction. But was it really a triumph of soul to send these giant
 dirigbles across the Channel to rain their
 loads of deadly explosives above London? To any one who visited the London east end dur ing or after a zeppelin air raid the horrible scenes of mutilated and torn bodies of men, . women and little children might have appeared as a triumph of soul but then the soul of At tilla, Alva or Ivan, not the soul of Goethe, Schiller or Wagner.
 I BEING INTERPRETED
 Save the farmer" says the demagog. . | What he means is. Farmer save me. '-TOle-