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Evening star., 1925-10-04

see how the British can either refuse
to continue their responsibility for the
Irak under their mandate or abandon
Mosul to the Turks without further
loss of prestige. which may prove In
the end almost as expensive as a war
itself. There is only one imperial
problem for Britain and II extends
from Alexandria to Honkong. In
Egypt. in Mesopotamia. in India and
in China. Britain is face to face with
a growing spirit of unrest, Of hostility.
Weakness at one point encourages
resistance at another.
Prestige Weakened.
The World War gravely weakened
the prestige Of all of the western ma
tions in Asia. At the same time 1t
even more seriously crippled them,
so far as their own resources were
concerned. So far as one can now
see, this unrest and hostility to the
foreigner are likely to continue and
to grow indefinitely. In the region
Immediately called into question by
the Mosul dispute. Turkey will GER
tainly continue to plan for the recon
struction Of her old empire and she
feels the British her real enemy both
because Britain backed Greece In the
late Greco-Turkish War and because,
without British support, the Arab
state in Irak could hardly resist Turk
ish arms for any long period.
In the present crisis war may be
averted, although. it seems to me, the
Turkish danger has been underesti.
mated rather than exaggerated. but
the fact is fairly clear that sooner or
later the British must decide to fight
to retain their influence In the valleys
Of the Euphrates and Tigris or retire.
Even If they choose to fight the
chances are that in the opening
phases they will be forced to retire
not alone from Mosul but not impossi-
bly, from Bagdad, and reconquest
might prove as difficult as the original
adventure. in the opening chapter OF
which a British army surrendered to
the Turk at Kutel-Amara. If the
Turk should succeed in retaking Bag.
dad, too, one may well doubt If there
should be much left of the Arab state
and the struggle might extend to
Palestine.
What we are seeing Is by no means
the first. but one of the most sig
nificant, in a long series of crises In
European imperialism in Asia. Young
China, at the other end of the line
Is at the same moment challenging
British Empire in the same spirit al
though with other weapons than those
employed by the new Turkey. OF
course, China is not young and Turkey
Is not new. but all Asia seems stirring
again and it is the destiny Of Britain
as the great imperial power. to en-
counter the rising storm. After all
Mosul is only a sign just as the
Shanghai outbreak was less con
siderable portent. What matters is
that the gospel or heresy of self-de
termination seems to have found deeE
and dangerous lodgment In the Ori
entail mind.
(Copyrirht 1921
Evening star., 1925-10-04
SUNSHINE CURE HELPS BRAINS.
LONDON SCIENTISTS DISCOVER
Ultra Violet Ray Treatments Improve Mentality of
Patients, Tests Made in English Schools =.
and Hospitals Reveal. -

bound immobile to their beds. The
diet and treatment of all were the
same, but 10 of the children We're
given systematic treatment with arti-,
fetal light. Sir Henry Gauvain re-
ports:
Mental Effect Marked. ~.
while the physique of those receiy-
ing light treatment showed improve
ment as compared with the others. the :,
effect on the mentality was even more
definite. Those exposed to light were
markedly happier, more vivaciousg
more alert and. l may add, more mist
chievous.
They would often laugh and sinss
and appeared to be overf1owing wiAf
animal spirits. while their fellows re-
manned silent"
So If any parents or teachers find
| their children are not mischievots
enough they may liven them up a bis =
by letting a little sunshine in. But
not too much or too long Al a time.
Interrupted and periodic exposure &S!
| solar rays is superior to continual
| treatment. Five or ten minutes at a
| time at first. gradually increasing so
as to produce tanning without burnlr
| ing. And remember that window glass,
is Opaque to the short rays that are.
| wanted. So Is clothing. except the
very thinnest Artificial silk. rayon.
| natural silk. but even liEhtest fabric
| Of artificial silk will cut off more than
half Of the ultra violet rays. Though.
| 1t be the brain that one wants TO Stin-
ulate, direct action" is dangerous.
Hats or eye shades are usually needed,
Every one who has dabbled in pho
| Biography knows how variable sun
! light is in its proportion of the short
| waves that affect a sensitive plate1
and the same is true of sensitive,
| skin. Ten minutes of summing win
sometimes raise blister. and on AM
| other day when the daylight SCENT,
| equally bright one can stand an eX-
| posure for hours without blushing or
browning. A Photographic exposure
meter or strip of sensitive paper cam
serve as a test of the actinic and,
therapeutic intensity Of the light, On
account of the variable and uncertain
character of sunlight, hospitals. often.
prefer to use the rays given off -hy -th8,
mercury-quartz or carbon arc lamps.
where the dose can be definitely regu-
! lated. -
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Brooks Comet Not Yet
Found by Astronomers

Brooks comet, one of the seven
periodic visitors to the earth that
have been expected this year, the dis
covery Of which was reported by an
astronomer at Kiev, Russia, has not
been located in the sky by astrono-
mers at. the United States Naval OBJ
servatory, even though on several
clear nights the big 26-inch telescope
has been used to search for it.
According to Prof. Asaph Hall,
astronomer in charge of this instru.
ment, the position among the stars
given for the Kiev observation was
evidently in error. Report of a second
observation at the Simeis Observatory,
In Crimea, Russia, has just been re-
ceived through DR.. Harlow Shapley,
director of the Harvard College OBJ.
servatory, and on the first night that
weather conditions are sufficiently
good Prof. Hall will hunt for it again.
According to the new report, the
comet is In the constellation of Aqua
riHe and IL Of the twelfth magnitude.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

bAIOH SIliucHdId, IS pdSSiIt6
through much the same pc
i riod which Japan experienced
years ago. Up until 1909 we
had no right of our own free will to
fix customs tariff upon foreign goods.
Up until 1899 we had no power to
summon a foreigner living in our
country before our courts. Still re-
tanning the memory Of our own trying
experience. we are naturally sympa-
thetic with China's struggle to ema n
cipate herself from unilateral restric-
tions placed upon her freedom of ac
ton
Baron Shidehara was replying to
question from me regarding the cause
Of the turmoil In China and Japan's
attitude toward the turmoil. I knew
that Japan, more than any other
country, was vitality interested in
China, and also 1 knew that Baron
Shidehara, moro than any other
Japanese, was in a position to give a
penetrating diagnosis of the Chinese
situation.
Is Former Ambassador.
Baron Shidehara has been minister
of Japan's foreign affairs for about
one year now. He Is fat. forty and
full Of good humor. He was Ambassa-
dor to the United States longer than
supposed to have attended almost
more base ball games than Walter
Johnson himself.
Baron Shidehara knows the United
States. That is the first big reason
he was selected for his present job.
and that also is a compliment to this
country. Furthermore. he speaks
perfect English, which Is the second
reason. And in his faultless English
he continued his diagnosis of China's
malady and cure.
LIT took 20 years Of assiduous toll. e"
he said, for Japan to recover COM
plete judicial autonomy. 1 hope it
may not take China so long. During
those years we sent our young men
to Europe and to America to study
Western law. We introduced all need
ed reforms in our law code and judi
cial system. We remodeled our pris-
; ons. We gave every assurance, in
fact as we'll as in words, for the pro-
lection of foreign lives and property
within the empire. We did everything
jections which the foreigner might
have against being tried In Japanese
! courts. All this we went through be-
fore we finally persuaded the foreign
powers to relinquish their rights to
extraterritoriality.
Bad judicial System.
"China faces much the same task.
At present 1t cannot be said-and l
speak in all fairness to the Chinese
| that their judicial system affords suf'
| f1cient guarantees of justice. Practi-
cally every province Is dominated by a
military governor. whose authority
supersedes that of the courts. And
| many Of the Chinese prisons In the
| INTERIOR Baron Shidehara made
a wry face. But perhaps you have
seen them for yourself"
What would happen" asked. III
| foreigners In China relinquished their
extraterritorial rights tomorrow"
About what has happened to the
Germans in China. They were not
able to regain their eXtraterritorial
rights after the war. They must have
realized today what measure of JUS
/ tice they can obtain from the Chinese
| courts"
| When I asked Baron Shidehara
what he considered to be the solution
Evening star., 1925-10-04
By DIR. EDWIN E.. SLOSsON.

1t has been known for some years
that the ultraviolet rays, whether
they come from the sunlight or the
lamp. will greatly ben
AT and often cure children crippled by
ricketts, or tuberculous joints. 1t is
now found that light treatment not
only betters their bones and improves
their general health, but also bright
ems their brains and sweetens their
dispositions.
A class Of boys from the London
slums who were taken to the garden
of a private house on Clapham Com
mon, where they studied and played
all day long, attired in very short
shorts and no Shirts showed at the
sunlight as London affords had in
creased their mental capacity and
alertness as we'll as their appetites
A comparison Of the results Of men,
tai tests made in the special schools
for physically defective children in
London with those made on the chill
dren who had taken the light treat
ment at the Lord Mayor Treloar Grip
pies Hospital at Alton showed a
marked superiority for those who had
the advantage of the sunshine. Both
groups of children were naturally re-
tarded on account of their disease, but
the mental retardation Of the London
children was on the average 1.95
years. while that of the Alton children
was Ia years. Both groups were
about the same age, IL years, and the
London children had had more
schooling.
Rays Improve Nutrition.
Sir Henry GauVain, superintendent
OF the Treloar Hospital, in reporting
these results is careful to add
''It is not our object to aim a blow
at the solidly founded theory that In
telligence is innate and cannot be in
creased. 1t is probably quite indis-
putable that an individuals amount of
mental energy is fixed and unalter-
able. But 1t is unalterable in the
same way that the maximum power
of an engine is unalterable. An engine
of a maximum of 40 horsepower can
by no trick be made any more power
full. But the ways are legion whereby
it can be made less powerful dirty
sparkling plug. faulty magnetic, dust
in a delicate piece of mechanism-any
of these things and many others may
reduce its power far below 40. 1t is
suggested that the case Is no different
with mental energy.
I'VE advance the suggestion which
further investigation may confirm or
disprove, that ultra violet light, shown
to be an important factor in effectins
tissue change. may thus improve the
nutrition of the. gray matter of the
brain and in this way increase the out
put Of mental activity which we claim
follows judiciOus exposure to light"
A more exact test was made at
Alton on a ward containing 20 small
children. all afflicted with tuberculous
disease Of the spine, and therefore
Evening star., 1925-10-04
No Corner There.

From the Birmingham News. . .
England can pay through her mo-
nopoly Of rubber. but poor France
hasn't even a monopoly of naughty
books any more. .q~l.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
The Real Need.

From the Danville Bee
New vest-pocket battery will run a
car 10 days. But what we need is q
pocketbook that will run one forever.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
BY DREW PEARSON.

.O OkIO, JAJAN.-"China," said
Baron Shidehara. 'Is passing
through much the same pc
i riod which Japan experienced
Evening star., 1925-10-04

Here was a decision which opened
the way for the clash that followed.
1t was clear that the commission be-
lieve6 that as between Turkey and
Irak sta anding alone. il was the course
of wisdom to give the territory to
Turkey, which could, if it chose, take
Evening star., 1925-10-04
MOSUL DISPUTE MENACE
TO BRITISH POWER In ASIA
War for Reconquest Would Be Popu'
lar With Turks-Row Is Like
Crisis in China.
BY FRANK III. SIMONDS.

T HE dispute over Mosul. which
has set the League of Nations
by the ears and preserved the
i threat of war during most OF
Evening star., 1925-10-04

. HE following Is a brief sum.
mary of the most impor.
tant news Of the world for
L the seven days ended Octo.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
ENLISTED MAN is
MADE COMMANDER

Frank L. Peckham, department COM
E1ander Of the department Of the Dis
erict of Columbia, is the first enlisted
man to hold that position. He served
as private and corporal In the tank
corps and motor transport corps in this
country and in France.
Born in Philadelphia in 1885, Mr..
Peckham was taken to Washington by
mis- parents while an infant He re-
ceived the degree Of bachelor Of laws
IN 1908 and Of master Of laws in 1909
from the National University Law
school.
At the age Of eleven, he became a
page in the United States senate. From
1905 to 1919 he was closely associated
with Louis A. Coolidge, well known
Washington newspaper correspondent.
lie was private secretary to Mr..
Coolidge during his term as assistant
secretary Of the treasury under Presi-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
LegiOn's First Gun in
Illegal Voting Battle

Hundreds Of persons, aliens and
Ghose otherwise disenfranchised, voted
at the last general election in Colo
rado, according to Denver American
Legion officials. Many, in so casting
their ballots, knew they they were vot-
Ing fraudulently, the Legion charges
The Legion fired its first gun in a
campaign to purge politics in Colorado
when John @. Vivian, commander Of
she department of Colorado, conveyed
10 District Attorney Joseph w. Hawley
OF Trinidad, a request that Hawley
prosecute eight alleged aliens who
are Charged with unlawfully exercising
the rights of citizens in the last cleo
ion. The Legion will probably initiate
similar action in other sections of the
State.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
Famous Forts In
u. S. History
Bv ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(0. 1925. western Newspaper Uniou)
Past 1t Ran the Historic
"Road to Oregon"

To write the history Of the great
West without mention of Fort Laramie
would be like playing Hamlet without
the melancholy Dane. Few posts have
played a more stirring part in the
story of the frontier than it. From
the date of its establishment in 1884
by Robert Campbell, who named 1t
Fort William in honor of William Sub
lette, his partner in fur trading, down
to the end of the Sioux wars, Fort
Laramie was always an important
center of activity in the northern
plains.
The American Fur company re-
named it Fort John, in honor of John
Sarpy, one of the partners in that
company. But even before they dis
mantled the post and moved it mile
further up the North Platte, some time
in the middle 40's, it became known as
Fort Laramie, thus helping perpetui
ate the memory of certain La Ramie,
an early h-Canadian trapper who
had lost his life in an encounter with
hostile Indians near there.
Although Fort Laramie was one of
the best known rendezvous of the old
time mountain men, the most impor-
tant era in its history began in lS49
when the government purchased the
fort from the American Fur company,
and it BECAME the military sentinel at
the eastern foot of the Rockies. AS
such it saw that epic migration, the
long trains of covered wagons" go
winding past along the Oregon trail,
bound for Oregon or California.
The Fort Laramie of a later period
was fully as important as It was in
the fur trading and emigrant days.
Here in 1851 gathered 10000 Indians
Of the plains to make a treaty guar
anteeing safe conduct for the emf
grants treaty which was soon re-
duced to scrap of paper; from Fort
Laramie in 1865 was begun the road
to the new Montana gold fields which
brought on the Red Cloud war Of 1866
81, and the next year Fort Laramie
saw the signing of another treaty of
peace in which the great Indian lead
er achieved his greatest triumph by
forcing the commissioners to grant
him virtually everything he asked.
When war broke out again in 1876,
Fort Laramie was the center OF ac-
tivity for the military expeditions sent
against the hostile Sioux and Chey-
ennes, but when that war was over
the principal reason for Fort Lara
mics existence ended, and from that
time on it's glory and Importance
Waned
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18

dent Roosevelt. He then became an
examiner in the customs division of the
treasury. He resigned in 1910 to be-
gin the practice of law.
Mr.. Peckham has been very active
In the affairs of the American Legion.
He joined Tank Corps post No. 10 in
1919. He was senior vice commander
and later commander of the post. He
acted as spokesman for a special COM
mittee from the department of the Dis
trlct of Columbia to protest to Presi-
dent Harding against the release Of the
sO-called political" prisoners. He led
the fight against proposed approprla-
ton for the relief of German women
and children, which was defeated in
congress.
< In April, 1924, Mr.. Peckham was
married to Miss Marghueritta G. Kond-
rup, OF Washington. Mrs. Peckham
has been an active member of the
american Legion Auxiliary. She is
now president of Tank Corps posts
unit of the Auxiliary. Mr. Peckham,
who was a delegate to the San Fran
cisco and st. Paul conventions Of the
Legion, is a charter member of Voture
locale TIA Of the Forty and Eight.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
The Fort on the Great
Inland Sea

The story of Fort Ashley, Utah, is
the story of a AshleySmith eXplora-
tiOn of two great men to whom his
tory has given but small measure Of
the credit due them-William Henry
Ashley and Jedediak Strong Smith.
That story goes back to 1922 when
Ashley organized the Rocky Mountain
Fur company and set out upon
trading and trapping expedition up
the Missouri. In that company were
men whose names were TO loom large
in western history for the next half
century--Andrew Henry, David Jack
son, William Sublette, Milton Sub
lette, Jedediah Smith, Robert Camp
bell, Thomas Fitzpatrick, James Bird
ger, Samuel Tulloch, Etienne Provost
(for whom the city of Provo, Utah,
Is named) and James BeckwOurth.
The 1922 expedition went up the
Missouri to the mouth of the Yellow
stone. The next year Ashley led an
other to the Arikara villages on the
Upper Missouri. In 1924 his company
penetrated to the Green river valley
and the next year to the great Salt
lake on whose banks he built the
little stockaded post which bore his
name. The next year he made an
other trip to his post, bringing with
him some small cannons on wheels,
the first time in history that artil-
lery of any sort ever penetrated this
wilderness.
Although Fort Ashley in itself new
er became as important as a number
of other fur trading posts in the
Rockies, Utah can take pride in offer
ing it as her most important fort
solely because of its connection with
the name Of Ashley and his men, es-
pecially Jedediah Strong Smith, the
American Ulysses" whose explora
lions much more richly deserve for
him the title of "The Pathfinder" than
do those of Gen. John G. Fremont.
Here are some of the achievements
of Ashley and his men: They were
the first white men to travel the cen
trail overland route to the Pacific in
the winter, the first to use that varia-
ton OF South pass, named Bridger's
pass, after one of their number
they We're the first Americans to in
vestigate the mountains of northern
Colorado; they were the first to en-
ter the Great Divide basin; the first
to cross almost the entire length of
southern Wyoming; and the first 70
navigate the dangerous canyons of
the Green river. When Jedediah
Smith pushed on to California from
Fort Ashley he was the first Ameri-
can to reach California by land and
he was also the first to traverse the
full length of California and Oregon
by land. With such a list of "histor-
zeal firsts" to the credit of the men
who founded Fort Ashley, it can well
take its place in the front rank of
American forts.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
Too Busy

picked up any clues in that murder
case yet" asked the reporter.
1'Wa-all," drawled the chief of po-
lice, as he scratched his official head,
~the boys have been SO busy lately en-
forcin' the parkin' law, lookin' fer
places where they sell regular beer,
Seepin' an eye on the bathin' suits an
Censorin' books an movies, that they
haven't nacherly hao time to get start
ed on that case."-American Legion
Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18

Twenty-six years is long time to
wait TO be proclaimed hero by your
country. That has been the expert
ence of Col. Harry Q. willard, re
tired, adjutant of the American Lee
gion post at Lewistown, Mont, who
was recently given a citation by the
War department for displaying gal
iGntry in action at Las Quasimas and
Santiago during the Spanish American
war in Cuba.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
Shortage of Food Grains

There is a shortage of 401 100000
bushels of wheat and 173,O00,O00
bushels of rye in the worlds crop this
year, according to the International In
stitute of Agriculture in Rome
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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under
hich
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tie forms dIcate in the itiOns.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18

Horizontal.
4-Ga~den plat
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S-S8ck
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IA cup that cheers
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2O-Frame TO support a coffin
22-Applaud
26--A form of ice
26-Stutter
2S-MOrally improved
3O-A dish made with pastry
8I-It is so
33-Mnles or females collectively
34-A parent
S6--What the United States iS suDnOSed
to be
SS-The woman
39-Chief deity of historical Egypt
41-RighteOus
42-InVeSt
43-PuIlS
A4-The thing
45-TO exercise power
47-TO mimic
49-KOu
5O--A unit
$50 supply weapons
65-EnuSiVely sentimental
bS-COurSe
62-HypOcrisy
63-IngenuOus
65-TO drudge
66-AccJmpfish
67-Poem
6S-TO drink little by little
7O-In that way
IA notorious fiddler
73-Gone by
75-TO offer for sale
77-Genus homo
7S-Stepped rapidly
7S-The essential person
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Pound
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3-TO stay for
4-EXiSt
6-VisfOnary person
Elm the direction of
7-OurSelves
S-Disfigurement
8-PrOceed
IO-EndS of stockings
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-18
Dialects in South A..

There are many difersr, !"
spoken by the Dutch inb ,a, y
South Africa, the most conn r','.
Plat Deutsch or Low Drtos ~
Low German. @