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to our weary crew, for at Jidda l had
determined to wait until the wind
shifted around and gave us a chance
to beat UP to Suez for dry dock and
repairs.
At Jidda we found that that sup
! posed 19-mile flashing white light TO
warn poor mariners from the treach-
erous coast at Mocha had been ex-
tinguished long before by the Be
douins.
Jidda is an old, decrepit, crowded.
and dirty little town. Not a single
hotel is to be found there. Mr..
Thomas Cook has no bright young
man waiting to greet tourists. You
may search the narrow, crooked
streets from sunrise till dark and
never discover vendor of picture
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Say Speaker Rarely Knows Own Voice

mouth, if he cannot pronounce TIL
even after the demonstration-whic
is often the case. All he has TO do
is breathe in or out, and he produces
the sound. Having once accomplished
that, he is on the road to success.
Provincial dialects form a third
group. The Bowery bold for bird
is an example. These faults require
the same treatment as do the foreign
dialects.
HsCAREbESS defects are numer
~ Gus indeed. For instance how
do you pronounce widths? Prob
ably you slur over it until the result
is something like wits Pumpkin
is another one-we generally hear
'pungkin.' That is because of the
difficulty of transition between the
eonsonants p and X. The p sound
is made at the front of the mouth:
the k sound in the back, where the
soft palate raises against the wall of
the throat. 1t is too much trouble
for the ordinary talker to make that
difficult and quick change from the
front of the mouth TO the back, and
so he uses an 'ng' sound, which is
formed far back in the mouth. That
goes easily with k, and 'pungkin'
is the result.
Inc naSdl voice causes mOCn
trouble-both excess nasality and In
sufficient nasality. Clamp your nos
trils with your thumb and foretinger
and repeat this sentence: Many mar
ried men must make money The
peculiar tone YOU notice is due to in
sufficient nasality If you pronounce
such a sentence the same way when
your nostrils are open as you do when
you clamp them you are troubled
with lack of nasal tone
Excess of nasality can be detected,
as Mr.. Borden points out. by repeat
ing a sentence containing no nasal
consonantS. 1t should sound the same
whether or not the nostrils are clamp
ed. Thus: shakespeare is regarded
as a great playwright AS this Locks
nasal sounds. there is no occasion
for the air TO go through the nose.
1t does not, of course, when the
nostrils are clamped. and likewise it
should not when they are open. If
there is a noticeable difference. it indi-
Gates that the speaker is allowing air
to go through his nasal passages when
he speaks ordinarily. as does the New
Englander with his twang. when he
should not be doing so.
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But gradually the pounding became
less and less. The tide was coming in
as the dawn came slowly creeping up
from behind the grim desert noun
tainS. Then the sun rose round and
red, and on shore l could see figures
running back and forth. and far up
the coast line the tip of mosque
minaret glistening white. The crowd
on shore increased; through the
glasses we could see a long row of
Arabs squatting like vultures on the
sand dunes.
And still the tide rose. AS the sun
climbed higher and higher, lighting
up the water. we looked out anxiously
seeking an opening in the sand bar;
and suddenly we spotted. there in the
line of white breakers which marked
the sand bank, a bit of blue water.
Here was the thousandth chance. We
took 1t.
Dresser tried the auxiliary gasoline
motor, which we used in times of
necessity, instead of sails. 1t worked.
Up anchor, and with the lead line
measuring our depth every Is sec
onds we crawled slowly ahead. With
full motor we could just make steer
ageway.
The bow of the Wisdom poked slow
ly into the strip of blue water. Not
crucial moment. Then by the deep
three" sang out Mac from the chains.
Three fathoms of water; three faith
oms, and we draw only two! The
thousandth chance had won.
Ten seconds more and we were out
side-and safe.
Outside the south wind was still
blowing strongly. so we decided. de-
spite the loss of the lead keel and the
open seams in the stern which made
up keep the pumps going almost con-
tinually, that, rather than turn back
ANONYMOUSLY to Alden. we would
keep on for SueZ. With that fine
south wind we thought we could make
1t surely in few days with the motor
for now the use of much sail was inn
possible, for without keel to balance
her the Wisdom was pretty likely to
turn turtle under full canvas.
Suddenly it seemed that, almost
with the thought of preventing us
from reaching Suez, the Red Sea be-
came enraged, for the wind shifted
clear around, and blew from the
north. And blew up hard. We could
make no headway against It. but list
Ing far over to starboard the Wis
dom seemed to stay in one spot, pitch
nose upward toward the sky and
fall back in the same place again, to
repeat the performance Wnen the
next wave struck her And all the
while the men pumped, and pumped
and pumped.
* *
WE consulted the chart. Jidda. on
w the coast of Arabia. was the
nearest port. SO l ordered the Dane
to shut off the motor. and, cautiously
hoisting what was left of the sails,
we tackled for that port. We sighted
Jidda at last, and as its tall white
houses rose out of the desert as we
approached. It seemed a haven Of rest
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delivering a talk before the class
room. and whom we criticized rather
strongly on his voice and method of
delivery. He thought the criticism
quite unjustified. Now it happened
that we had previously concealed a
dictaphone apparatus in the room, so
we had an accurate record of that
same speech which he had considered
so good.
I'VE told him to listen to a record
of a voice we We're about to repro
duce and criticize it. Then we turned
on the speech he had just made. He
began to writhe in his seat, pull up
his coat collar and exhibit various
other symptoms of discomfort. When
the end finally came he blurted out
You're certainly right! / ought to
get d on that. though, instead of the
G. you gave me. You rated me too
Hight! He criticized his own talk far
more severely than any one else had
done.
We have found this generally to be
the case: the best critic in the world
for your own defects is yourself, once
you are enabled to see and hear your
self objectively-just as other people
see and hear you"
Having thus demonstrated that the
individual cannot cure his speech de
fects by his own efforts alone. be-
cause, to start with, he often does not
hear those defects, the New York
University Investigators delved into
means of aid and correction.
They divided the faulty types of
speech into major groups. Mr.. Bor-
den explains the characteristics of
each group and how the cure is ef-
fected.
Organic troubles cause many
faults-tonsils or adenoids. or some
obstruction in the nose block up the
air passages. A surgeon must remove
the abnormal conditions, but after
that we have to spend weeks training
the patient to make the correct
sounds: he must learn certain words
all over again.
Foreign dialects are another type
of defect. The German language, for
instance. has no TIL sound as English
has, and so we must teach it to the
German immigrant. We have models
of the tongue and other vocal organs
which we work to show him just how
the new sound can be made.
Little nickel-plated instruments
which force his tongue into the cor
rect position are inserted in his
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postcards. There are no theaters, no
parks, no drives, no sports. Indeed,
stranger there is a sort of a pris-
oner, for the town is surrounded by
a high stone wall outside OF which he
is forbidden to go without permission.
Yet this queer and unlovely little
place rivals Southern California and
the Riviera in number of visitors.
Hundreds of ships. decks packed with
men, women, and children, sail there
each year from distant countries. and
two hundred million people dream all
their lives of making the long sea
voyage which terminates at its har-
Dor.
The reason for this strange condi-
ton is that this desert town is the
port to Mecca. where stands the
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pedition of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA and British Museums are
excavating, was discovered through the
perseverance of Maj. c. Leonard Wool
ley, a widely known Oriental archeolo-
gist.
that anything of value was buried in
that particular spot; all that had been
found was a brick pavement, revealed
after laborious digging through feet
of hard soil. Maj. Woolley hesitated to
spend money in continuing there, yet
he experienced a curious feeling i'm
pelling him to go on.
Almost the first days search after
he decided to continue yielded a door
socket of King Bur-Sin (2200 b. CD.
with SO lines of inscription giving the
history of the temples beginnings. But
it was in the western wing of E-dublal-
makh. the old shrine and court of JUS
tice, that the discovery was made that
overshadowed all others. Here the
pavement was Uttered with Jumps and
blocks of limestone, all belonging to
one monument, the stella.
This stella was a slab 5 feet in width
and perhaps 15 feet high. carved on
both sides with a. series of historical
scenes arranged in horizontal bands of
unequal heights. On one of the frag-
ments was found the name of Ur-
Engur, author of the stella, founder of
the third dynasty and builder of the
Iiggurat (pyramid or mound). and de-
spite the fact that none of the regis
ters is complete, the monument is one
of the two most important relics of
Sumerian art known. the other being
the famous but equally fragmentary
Stella of the Vultures in the Louvre.
DR.. George B. Gordon, director of
the Pennsylvania University Museum.
said that every new discovery in Bible
lands lends historical corrobora ton to
the Book of Genesis.
Even support is given" DR.. Gordon
said, ito the earliest and much contro-
verted story in the Book of Genesis
We have gotten back bit by bit until
now we are able to know the history
1000 years B. c. We may go back
further in time until we find corrobo-
ration of the stories of the very be-
ginnings."
Our first knowledge of Ur of the
Chaldeans," continued the doctor, lean
ing back in his swivel chair in his
office in the museum at 34th and
Spruce streets. Philadelphia, and gaz.
ing out of the window with a 5000
B. c. look in his eyes, utterly oblivious
to his present-day surroundings, 'is
from the Book of Genesis In the elev-
of the building of the Tower of Babe
after the flood. Then the narrative
goes on to describe the dispersion Of
the people and the confusion Of
tongues. -
Next we are given the genealogy OF
Abraham from Shem. the son of Noah
The chapter winds up with the state.
ment that Abraham, together with his
father. Terra; his wife, Sarai, and his
nephew. Lot, went from Ur to go into
the land of Canaan-that is to say, the
modern Palestine
Thus early in the Book of Begin.
nings we have a mention of Ur of the
Chaldeafs. 1t is not mentioned again
| in the Bible. the Book of Genesis be-
ling concerned thereafter with the wan
derings of Abraham and the adven.
| lures of his desceendants.'
1.-THE recent discoveries, as DIR. Cor
don then explains, reveal the fac
that the city of Ur was more thar
1000 years old when Abraham left 1t
Evening star., 1925-06-14
While Helpless the Grip of Neptune

For water is not only scarce here
between the desert and the salt sea,
but the water obtained from these
desert wells is as bitter as gall. /
declined the kaimakans offer, but
asked permission to take motion pic
lures.
Motion pictures! The benevolent
face. I explained. The interpreter
interpreted my explanation. And
finally the kaimakan gave permission,
but with a dubious air. AS we went
down the stairs l saw two masked
ladies peering out of a door at us.
No sooner We're we back at the
British consulate than the kaimakan
called up and said to hold up the pic
lures until he could telephone the
| King at Mecca. Telephone Mecca.
The mystic city, the unknown. 1t
sounded as If some one was saying:
wait minute until ! call up the
man in the moon" But the telephone
line to the Holy City of Allah was
efficient apparently, for a few min
utes later the kaimakan came back
all bows. His round. happy face rip
pied and rippled with ever-expanding
| lines of benevolence.
THE King was delighted to hear Of
our arrival, he said. Only the
presence of a guest-the ex-Sultan of
Turkey, who had arrived a short time
| before-prevented his coming down
from Mecca to receive us in person.
| Otherwise he would surely come.
But as he could not with politeness
| leave the Sultan, he was sending his
eldest son, Emir Ali, the Crown Prince,
to bid us welcome. AS for any pic
lures we wished to take, why. of
| course. And at our disposal We're
| what guards we needed, and any
| thing else we, wanted. Meanwhile,
| would we honor the kaimakan by our
| presence at a reception to be given
for us the next day?
Early in the morning after the re
ception given us by the Governor of
Jidda. I was informed that the
| Crown Prince. Emir ALI, Who has since
become King, had arrived from Mecca
and was waiting to receive me.
He was staying at his house, which
| looked out over the town wall to the
| sea.
| A black major -domo led US up a
steep fight of stairs to the second
floor, and there ushered us into a
waiting room. Almost immediately
| a spectacled, clean-shaven Arat
entered and was introduced to me by
the vice consul as Sheikh Fuad Ell
khatich, secretary of state. He &C
knowledged the introduction with a
| few courteous words in excellent
English, then led the way up to the
next floor, where he removed his
sandals at a doorway draped with a
silken curtain. He pushed this aside
then bowed as sign for us to enter
Seated on a divan at one end of a
long room was a slim, somber figure
in a dark kamis. The face was tha,
of an esthetic thinker, but the ener
getic movement bespoke the man OF
action as well. This was, of course
Emir Ali, with whom we spent ar
hour or more in pleasant converse
| ton.
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F you think you know how your
own voice sounds to others you
are wrong-completely wrong.
/ No one hears his own voice as
other people hear 1t. This has
been indicated as the rule without ex
ception in tests carried on for the last
three years by Richard G. Borden, S.
c. B., A. NJ, and Alvin G. Busse, NJ.
A, psychologists at New York Uni
versity.
Take. for instance, the case OF
Graham MacNamee. ''over-the air"
announcer. whose voice is familiar to
many thousa nds of radio fans. Be
ing a specialist in public speaking"
Mr.. MacNamee certainly knows more
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by the New York University psychol-
ogists. Not once have they found a
person who recognized his own voice
when it was reproduced so that he
could hear it as others did. During
one part of their experiments the
Psychologists took 200 pairs of boys,
testing them two at time. In every
case A would recognize BIS voice when
1t was reproduced on the dictaphone
record. and b would likewise recog-
nize AS. but in no case did either
A or B recognize his own manner of
speaking
Why is It that every one of us thus
has two voices-one that he himself
hears and a different one that every
one else hears?
Partly because each of us hears
his own voice through the tissues of
the body as well as through the air
surrounding him." answers Mr.. Bor-
den. You know what a difference it
makes II you hear sound travelling
through some denser substance than
air. such as water or earth.
1T is the same principle here. The
sound of your voice comes to your
ear not only through the air imme
diately around you, but also through
a part of your own body. The total
effect made upon your ear drums Is
quite dlfferent from that received by
others who must catch the sound of
your voice as 1t travels through the
air waves alone.
Every one is inclined to magnify
his own speaking ability. Men have
a tendency to think they are possessed
of strong. deep tone which they may
in reality lack"
THERE is one type Of talker who
is crushed far more than any
other when he understands how he
sounds to other people. He is the
orator-especially the orator with af-
fected airs. I'VE have found" says
Mr.. Borden. that the habitual speech
maker discovers his own voice to be
much more difficult of recognition
than does the person who INDUCES
only in ordinary conversation. These
loud speakers are often quite hu-
inflated by the expose.
THE speakers most severe critic
is himsef,' the psychologist declares,
"once he has learned how he does. in
fact, sound to others.
Il remember one student who was
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about his own voice than does the
average man.
To make the test he was taken to
the psychology laboratory, where he
talked into microphone connected
with a dictaphone recording appa-
ratus. When his speech was repro
duced on the dictaphone record his
friend Carlin, also a radio announcer.
happened to be outside the room and
recognized the voice at once as being
that of MacNamee. But MacNamee
himself at first declared he had never
heard it before, and was amazed to
learn the truth.
This is typical of every test made
Evening star., 1925-06-14

In preceding article Capt.
Salisbury vividly described a visit
made by him and Merriam c.
Cooper to Murderers Island, the
convict colony maintained by the
British on one Of the Andaman
Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
This was one of the many strange
places touched by the yacht Wis.
dom in its wanderings as a sea
gypsy.
This is a joint record of their
adventures, although for conve-
nience in the text Capt. Salisbury
appears as the narrator.
Evening star., 1925-06-14
BY NJ. S. MALONEY.

stella, or carved commemora-
tive monument, the most i'm.
portant yet found at Ur of the
! Chaldeans. where the joint eK-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-07-04
COL. JOHN D. MARKEY
RECEIVES PROMOTION
Appointed Member General Staff u.
S. Army-Will Act As Advisor
On National Guard Affairs

Col. John d. Markey of Frederick,
Md, has been appointed by the War
Department as member of the Gen
eral Staff of the United States Army.
The appointment is effective July l.
Col. Markey will act as advisor on Ma
tional Guard affairs and will be SEN
ior of four officers who will develop
policies and plans affecting the Ma
tional Guard of the United States,
which numbers approximately $780,
900 men.
Col. Markey will retain command
Of the First National Regiment Of the
Maryland National Guard. During
the world war he commanded the
112th machine gun battalion of the
29th division. Later he was promot-
ed to Lieutenant Colonel and COM
manded the 114th Infantry of the 29th
division.
He was awarded the D. S. G.. and
was decorated by France and Belgium.
He was a member of the American
Battle Monuments Commission ano
chairman of the military affairs COM
mittee of the American Legion.
Col. Markey is well known here
and his friends and acquaintance will
be glad to hear Of his appointment.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-07-04
Presbyterians viii Hold
Service in Mardelo Church

A Presbyterian service will be held
ir the old Mardela Springs Presby-
terian Church on Sunday, July 5th, at
o'clock.
The neighboring Mackenzie churches
will join with Wicomico, Salisbury,
in this service. This will last not
more than one hour, which will leave
time for friendly greetings. Many of
the visitors will bring their lunches
which may be enjoyed on the lawn
near the famous Spring, under most
pleasant and favorable surroundings.
For a number Of years no Presby-
terian service has been held in this
old building, but other denominations
have been having services there from
time to time. 1t is expected that the
Presbyterians of the Mackenzie church
es, will so interest themselves in the
old edifce, that it will be kept in re-
pair, and be used for all times as a
house of worship. The public without
regard to denomination are invited to
attend this service.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-07-04
ON
SHORE SPUDS
FAIRLY STEADY
Eastern Shore And Norfolk Districts
Supply Two-Thirds Of Country's
Consumption.
NEW JERSEY DROUGHT
CUTS INTO OUTPUT

The movement of potatoes from
E. S. of Va, and Md. continues
heavy but has not yet reached the
peak established last year during the
weeks of July nor is it as heavy as
during the first week of July in 1923,
according to the reports of the Uni
ted States Bureau of Agriculture
Economics. The movement from the
ashore" during The last week has
heen 2,O91 cars, an increase of about
go cars over the previous week and
ever 800 more thon during the cor
re spending week in 1924 when 1,772
cars moved off the Peninsula; in 1923
there were 1892 cars shipped. The
movement from the Norfolk district
has been liberal, amounting to 754
cars, only Ia more than during the
same week last season. On the other
hand the movement from North Caro-
lima has been very light. The Eastern
Shore and Norfolk districts have sup
piled about two-thirds of the total a.
mount of potatoes shipped for the en-
tire country, the total of which was
4,267 cars as compared with $3.50
cars last year and 1867 in 1923. Last
year this section supplied less than
one-half of the total amount of pota-
toes moved during the week. During
the last week there was very good
demand until the last few days and
the fob. price advanced to $3.50
$4.75 for u. S. No. Is Cobblers, and
held steady for few days, but with
the falling off in buying, prices de-
clined to last weeks price of $4.25
$3.50 per barrel.
The large terminal markets were
fairly steady during most of the last
week but on Monday and Tuesday of
this week generally showed signs of
weakening under slow demands, this
probably to some extent to
the approaching holiday. Prices in
Philadelphia have ranged from S4.25-
$500 with most sales during the
week being around $4.75. In New
York the range has been from $4.00-
$3.50 on June 23d to $5.OO-$5.25 on
Saturday June 27, but declined to
$4.3O-$4.75 on Tuesday, June 30. Bos-
ton and Chicago have held steady
from $5.25-S5.5O, while in Pittsburgh
the market declined slowly from $3.50
to $5.OO-$5.25.
Reports from New Jersey indicate
but slight relief from drought condi
tions and indications in the Southern
counties are for considerably less
than so per cent. of crop or yield
of about 20 barrels per acre. There
are small lots being dug for the near
by markets but the carlot movement
will not begin until about the last of
July.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-07-04
Bootleggers Pay Rotary
Club Members Compliment

A little group of men in the city of
Cleveland paid the members of Ro-
tary International high compliment
the other day.
These Clevelanders were bootleg
gers. They had laid in extra supplies
preparing for rushing business.
But they were sorely disappointed.
Rotary had just held it convention
there, with some $4,000 in attendance.
Most conventions mean heavy prof
its for the bootleggers. They have
learned that when a lot of men fore
gather in strange city they usually
call loudly for drinks.
But with Rotary it was different.
Sales absolutely were not above nor
NAL. Hardly a single delegate bought
a drink.
"These guys must take their ideals
seriously" complained one of the
bootleggers.
That's just it. They do. That's
why the name Rotary is honored thru
out the country.