Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-25
SOCIETY
TO REDISCOVER
LOST CONTINENT

AINIfo, d uly 1f.--4NOW Ile'e tiiN A'CA IL
Ipole has been flown over twice, and
automobiles are traversing the Sa-
haran wastes Of Africa which once
bore no other indication on maps but
the words Here are Elephants a
society has been formed to re-discover
continent lost td sight for some
1000 years
The Society for the study of At
Ilantis' is group that believes
continent in the Atlantic ocean once
connected the old and new worlds and
that its existence is the explanation
oJ various language, anthropological
and other problems. The society hopes
to establish the. former existence OF
the island continent by seeking out
all traces that remain, just as an six
! thousand years or so the existence of
Japan might be proved from families
] that had scattered abroad, if the is
lands disappeared.
Roger Devigne, author of a book
on Atlantis, told the meeting at which
the society was formed that Atlantis
must have existed in sort of geo
/ logical middle ages, and that during
the quaternary epoch it must have
had it's center of civilization probably
where the Saragossa Sea is.
The meeting decided that the pres
ent moment was admirably adapted
i to founding such society when
/ American missions were preparing to
explore the Mayas cities of Yucatan,
and the pacification of the Riff would
facilitate exploration of the mysteri-
Gus prehistoric Berber monuments of
the western Atlas mountains.
The society is to meet again in the
autumn, when it will have the results
of Doctor Charcot's new Atlantic
soundings which he has just begun to
make from his Arctic yacht, "Pourquoi
! Pas?" before it, as wei as report
on NJ Rutots excavation work in
/ south Morocco.
/ A library of books dealing with the
lost continent will be formed. The Sec
i tion containing novels will be the
largest.
Il American jazz musicians must here
after play on stage as vaudeville
artists and not as dance musicians
solely, according to Billy Arnold, who
has been directing jazz bands in
FRANCE LOT S0V0Fdl years. Oily GA
plains that the French labor ministry
has banned jazz musicians In order
to protect French players, but that
! players now in France who have been
here since 1922 are exempt from the
provisions of the ministerial decree.
i Bands made up of American musi-
clans have recently been ousted from
French cabarets and French players
installed in their places despite the
fact the Americans had valid con-
tracts, according to- AYnold. How
4 ever, as such bands can operate as
vaudeville artists, seated on stage,
Arnold believes there is a 1oophole in
1.-THE decree.
IF such bands play from a stage
as artists Arnold declares, there
! is no way from stopping people in the
room leaving their chairs and dancing
to such music
A broken umbrella has brought 5000
francs to the city of Rouen. An Eng
lish visitor to the city recently recol-
1 lected that on his last visit to the
/ town ten years ago, his automobile in
1 turning to enter the race course,
broke a lady's umbrella. Considering
himself entirely to blame, as ne had
not sounded a warning, the English
man handed over to the mayor 5000
hospitals, the poor and the perma>
nently disabled of, the war.
Even at the present rate of ex-
change the city of Rouen finds the
sum ample compensation for broken
umbrella and due appreciation has
been expressed by the municipal au-
| thorities.
Although President Doulnergue,
! chief magistrate; of France, shaves
! closely every morning. he had to go
/ over his face again at night if he IS
going out to ar official dinner or re-
ception.
! This secret leaked out recently when
the outgoing ninth BRAND cabinet
came trooping to the Elysee palace
at o'clock in the evening to present
it's collective resignation. A lackey'
in some confusion, explained to Pre-
mier BRAND that the president had at
that moment towel about his neck
and was welding brush and sather'
Would the gentlemen wait? They
agreed to.
NJ Doumergue, knowing that he had
hard job before him, ordered that
the liquers and cigarettes be served
to his outgoing ministers so that they
might not become too impatient dur
ing the presidential scraping.
"a Belinagraph" post has been es-
tablished in the office of Chief of Po-
lice Morains The duties OF TINS
branch of the. service will be to trans
nit photographs and finger prints by
wire or wireless telegraphy by means
of an apparatus invented by Edouaro
Belin. An interchange of these means
Of Identifying criminals has been ar
ranged in all the chief cities of
France and it is hoped that all the
capitals of Europe later will do the
same.
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