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CLIFTON.

CLIFTON, Va, December "a (Spe-
ciaD.-The Presbyterian Sunday school
will hold its Christmas tree enter
tainment Monday night. Mrs. Joseph
Speaker is in charge of the program
Preaching services at the Baptist
Church will be advanced one hour
tomorrow night, beginning at 645, in
order that Rev. &. r.. Taylor may
catch an early train for Alexandria.
The Baptists held their Christmas
celebration last night under the direc-
ton OF Mrs. Pyles, Mrs. Fanny May
Kfncheloe and Miss Alice Mantiply
1t opened with a hymn by the audi.
ence, Scripture reading and prayer by
Rev. G. f.. Taylor, welcome" by
Lillian Weaver, song by the choir.
recitation, advice to Dolly" by Dor
othy Mathers; recitation, What
Grandma Says" by Idell Spindle. A
pantomime. Bethlehem" was pre-
scented by Lillian Weaver, Vivian
Hart, Madge LaDue. Idell Spindle.
Helen Buckley and frankie Riordan.
Several boys and girls gave dialogue.
followed by a wreath drill by Doris
Fulton. Edith Curtis, Eugenia Buck
ley, Elizabeth Ruff and Lucille john
son. Elaine Mock gave a recitation,
Merry Christmas; George Mock re.
cited santa Claus Visit; Opal Curtis
and Ruth Pyles sang n duet. Re
deemer Divine" The monologue,
Her Xmas Shopping" was given by
Edith Curtis. The play, Hope Eos
ter's Xmas Star" was presented by
John Hart, Kathleen Riordan. Louise
h ontZ, Mrs. Fannie May kincheloe,
Carl Franklin, Edith Curtis. Opal Cur
It's and Woodrow Mathers. Five boys
acted as carol singers. Rev. Mr.. Tay-
lor made an address, which was fol.
lowed by the Offering and a recita ton.
Welcome to Santa" by Everett
Koontz The fruit and candy were
distributed to the children by the
teachers. The program closed with a
recitation, Good Night" by frankie
Riordan.
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The Story of Civilization

| Alcibiades defeated him In contest
| for the office Of strategos. and plunged
Athens into war with Sparta again.
X y X
Aristophanes and Socrates.
Behind the dsintegration of Athe.
MAN public life. Aristophanes be-
lieved, lay two insidious evils: Democ-
racy and irreligion. Like Socrates
and Nietzsche, he would have defined
democracy as disbelief in great men,;
and, like them, he could see nothing
in the Sovereignty of the people en-
cept the sovereignty of politicians.
But though he had secret regard
for Socrates. he was convinced that
the religious heresies of the great CAD.
fly had helped to loosen those moral
bonds which had once made for In
dividual character and national 10y
atty. He liked to sit in the Socratic
company tas in Plato's symposium)
and exchange merry jests with the
old master of debate; but at the same
time he made uproarious fun of the
new philosophy. of its hair-splittinS
logic and nebulous metaphysics. in a
play which Socrates himself enjoyed
The Clouds" (423 B.C0.
AS the play opens we find an old
Sweepstakes. who is looking for "a new
way of paying old debts. ii. G., a way
Of not paying them at all. He is de-
lighted to hear that Socrates operates
Thinking Shop, where one may
learn to prove that anything is right
even If ii is wrong. SO he goes to
this school of Very Hard Thinkers. )"
In the middle of the classroom he sees
Socrates suspended from the ceiling
in basket. engrossed in thought, and
some Of the students bending down
with noses to the ground.
In another scene we have the son
of Sweepstakes, Phidippides. meeting
in personitication, Just Argument and
Unjust Argument. Just Argument
tells him to he like the men of Mara
thon: Unjust Argument breaches
Nietzsche TO him. What good, he
argues, have men ever gained by JUS
tice, or virtue. or moderation? For
one honest successful and respected
man he can name ten dishonest sue.
cessful and respected men. Take, for
example, the gods, who stole. lied,
murdered. and committee adultery on
the slightest provocation. and in re-
turn have been worshiped by all the
Greeks. When Just Argument doubts
that most successful men are dishon.
est Unjust Argument asks him:
Come. now, from what class do
our lawyers spring."
well, from the blackguards."
Surely. Tell me, again, what are
our tragic poets?"
"Blackguards."
"And now look around turning
and pointing to the audience), (which
class among our friends here seems
the most numerous?"
Just Argument gravely examines
the audience.
THE blackguards have it," he adj
mits, "by large majority. There's
one I know-and yonder there's an.
other-and there, again, that fellow
with the long hair"
Phidippides is so apt pupil of Un-
just Argument that he beats his
father. on the mere ground that he
Phidippides) enjoys 1t and Is strong
enough TO do 1t; and besides, he
asks:
Did you not beat me when was
boy?"
II did" says his father. Through
good will and concern for YOU"
Every WELL" answers Phidippides.
II feel the same kind of good will and
concern for you now that you felt for
me then
Sweepstakes begs for mercy in the
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UPPER MARLBORO.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Deem.
Der "a fSpeciaD. - Prince Georges
County commissioners at their meet
ing Tuesday approved the resolution
recently adopted by the county board
Of education, approving the purchase
for high school sites OF property In
Decatur Heights and in Mount Raj
nier. The property in Decatur Heights
will be bought from William +. Ma
gruder. It contains 1913 acres and
the purchase price In $4,000. The
money will be taken from the $40 1000
now in hand for erection Of an add.
ton to the Bladensburg Elementary
School. The property In Mount Raj
nier will be bought from Ulman &
Asher. Il will cost 5000 and will
contain acres. The property II in
the Klein tract nearest the northwest
boundary Of Mount Rainier and ex-
tends from Thirtieth to Thirty-second
street. Payment will be made from
the $40 900 now in hand for the pur-
chase Of site for a. high school ito
serve the territory between Hvatts-
Vile and the District OF Columbia
line"
Junior senior high schools will be
erected in both communities. Money
for buildings will be sought from the
next Legislature, which meets JAN
uary, 1929.
George ". Palmer, James Berry and
Edward Woods have been appointed
by the commissioners to examine and
report whether public convenience re-
quires the opening Of public road
beginning at Lusby's corner. Central
avenue, and running with the present
private road east 10 Pine Grove
School.
DR.. G. F.. Mcguire was appointed
physician to the county Jail and DR..
Suit Richie physician to the county
almshouse. each for one year.
Susie Anne Spindle has been ap-
pointed administrative OF the estate Of
Robert l.. Spindle by the Prince
Georges County Orphans Court.
Under direction Of the town COM
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thenon. Utopia would be where they
should be put In place.

v
In his last play 1888 B.C) he per.
sonifies wealth as Plutus, and shows
how much more powerful this god is
than Jupiter: what do men offer
prayer and sacrifice to Jove for but
for money? Money is the true ruler
alike of gods and men," Had he not
shown, in "The Ecclesiazusae" (778)
that even the statues of the gods held
out their hands for money? Various
people address Plutus:
do not men go to parliament
through you? Who swells the navy
estimates but you? Why are bad
novels written but for you?
And Lais loves that lout--and all for
you! OF all things comes sa-
tiety. We tire OF love, Of loaves. OF
music, sweetmeats. of honor, cheese
biscuits, high command, pea SOUP of
you alone is no man filed too full"
The only trouble Is that Plutus is
blind. and Chremylus proposes to have
him go to the Temple of Aesculapius
and have his eyesight restored. Plu
tus goes and comes back with eye
sight clear, resolved now to make only
honest men rich. In triCe all things
are changed. and Utopia begins to
march out upon the stage. People
now prosper through decency better
than through thrift, and in short
time all Athens Is crowded with virtue.
Strange to say. the temples are de-
serted, and Mercury comes to Chremy-
lus to complain that nobody pays any
attention to the gods any more.
Chremylus advises him to quit the
service Of Jupiter and join the staff
Of Plutus. Finally the priests them
selves desert the temple and ask for
honest work, and all ends in q chorus
Of praise of the new and happy world
that has come with the reign of Plutus
of the Clear Eyes.
We may not find here much positive
philosophy. and perhaps we have no
right to expect ii OF AristophaneS.>
His task was different. Like Voltaire.
he came to clear the air, to attack
the shams of sophistry and politics.
the ugliness Of plutocracy. the greed
of imperialism and the brutality of
war. He did it magnificently. so well
that even today, across 1000 years, his
blows teach and sting. 1t would have
been better for him to side with Soc
rates and Euripidcs and seek sOlu-
ton forward. rather than an alliance
of aristocrats and peasantry. But
he did what he could--he annihilated
with laughter.
1t is no dishonor to him that he
failed. Great men are apt to fail, be-
cause they attempt unprecedented
things. The great satirist needed all
his laughter to bear the sight of his
city driven at last to defeat. sur
render and humiliation. The revolt
of the slaves in the silver mines of
Laurium had disrupted Athenian
finance; the flight of thousands OF eX-
plotted workers to Sparta fanother
evil seems always better than our
own had weakened the army in mum
Der and morale. and the detection of
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name OF Jupiter; but Phidippides in
forms him that Jupiter no longer OK
lists, having been replaced by Vortex.
SO the father. smarting with his beat
ing, rejects the new philosophy, and
calls upon the citizens of Athens to de-
stroy Socrates. The citizens join him
and burn down the Thinking Shop,
pelting the philosophers in realistic
imitation of the way in which crowds
usually deal with philosophers-the
way in which the crowd would deal
with Socrates a generation later.
The old assumption that this at
tack on Socrates was one cause "
the philosophers condemnation to
death has long since been abandoned.
The play was brought out "a years
before the famous trial. Its good.
humored satire does. not seem to have
offended Socrates: he stood las we
have told throughout the perform.
ance. to give his enemies a better
shot; doubtless he enjoyed the farce
as much as any man; and his friend
Plato did not hesitate to recommend
THE Clouds" to King Dionysius as a
jolly play. Laughter does not kill, 1t
CleanseS. What boon 1t would be
to philosophy today II some one could
laugh it out from it's graveyards of
dead disputes into the sunshine and
merriment Of life!
" X
AristOphanes and Euripides.
But there was another target at
which Aristophanes aimed his satire;
and in this case with intent to kill.
For Aristophanes. unlike the great
martyr OF philosophy, was conserva-
tive aristocrat. not an aristocratlc
radical; his ideal was the old-fash-
toned Athenian who had fought at
Marathon and had loved his cities
and his gods without asking ques-
tons. He despised the new-fangled
skepticism of the sophistis. the
socialism that was beginning to APP
pear among the slaves. and the in
dividualism that was wrecking Athens
under the leadership and example of
Alcibiades: above all he scorned the
alternate misogyny and feminism. the
sentimentality and rhetoric Of Euri.
pideS. This man he set out to de-
stroy.
He began with a play called THE
Observation-Disclosures all BC), from
the women who annually assembled
at Athens to celebrate the Thesmo-
phoria--a feast of Ceres and Proser-
diatribe of Euripides against their
sex. and plan revenge. Euripides
gets wind of the proceedings, and
persuades his uncle, Mnesilochus, to
dress as n woman and enter the meet.
ing TO defend him.
\ woman complains that Euripides
has deprived her of living: She had
made wreaths for the temples, but
since Euripides had shown that there
were no gods the temple business
had gone to pieces. Mnesilochus.
rising to the defense. pursues an UNI
expected line of argument: Euripides
should be let off because, first, his
worst sayings about women are pal.
pably. visibly and audibly true, and
because. again. the charges are mild
compared to what women themselves
know to be the truth.
The ladies suspect Though here
Aristophanes shows an imperfect
knowledge of the sex) that this ira.
Queer of womanhood cannot be a
woman; they tear his disguise from
the face OF Mnesilochus, and he saves
himself from being scratched to death
only by snatching a babe from a
woman's arms and threatening to cut
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its throat II they touch him. AS the
women nevertheless attack him, he
unclothes the child, and finds that 1t
Is n wineslsin disguised as an infant
to escape the revenue officer. He pro-
poses to cut its throat just the same,
much to the distress of the wine
skins mother. Spare my darling,
she cries. Bring a bowl. If 1t must
die, let us catch its blood Mnesi'
lochus solves the problem by serving
as the bowl, while the women con-
clude the play with n unanimous
vote of condemnation against Euripi'
DIES.
~
AristOphanes and Utopia.
Having attacked Euripides for dis
like Of the expensive sex, Aristo-
planes turns about, with comic priv
ilege, and attacks him for favoring
the emancipation of women, for join
ing Plato and Pericles In their efforts
to remove the disabilities that limited
all honorable women In ancient
Greece, and for playing so persistently
with those communist Utopias that
were so prevalent in the last year OF
the war, as they were In our own
magnificent holocaust.
In a middling play called THE &c
clesia zusae" 1898 B.CD, /. 6, The
Achievement clever sunrasette,
praxagora. berates her female friends
as fools for letting themselves be ruled
by such dolts as men. She practices
a fiery speech, arranges n meeting,
and proposes laws Matchmaking every
thing but toll.
But she concludes with careful
excention: "All labor and toll to your
slaves you will leave"
In the famous comedy of THE
Birds" (414 Be- the attack on ITO
pia continues. Two citizens who de:
spair of Athens climb their way to the
abode Of the birds, hoping there to dis
cover the finest way Of life. With the
help of the birds they build a Utopian
city. ELECTROMAGNETIC
Town-the great bird city.
All sorts of unbidden guests try to
get in. poets. priests, soothsayers, geo.
metricians, lawyers and sycophants;
but they are driven out. New gods
are invented in the image Of the birds.
and those made in the image of man
are deposed. mo poet, not even Sb i.
lev" says Symonds, has exceeded
the choruses of The Birds and The
Clouds in swiftness. radiance and
condensed imagination. Shakespeare
alone in his Midsummer Nights
Dream and The Tempest or Cal
deron, in some of his alIegorical
dramas. carries us away into some
encha nted land. where the air is purer
and the skies are larger than In our
world, where the stars are close above
our heads - and dazzling fire.
flies are tangled in the meadow grass
beneath our feet"
But in the end Aristophanes dreams
of a Utopia himself. There was one
thing that he hated far more than
Socrates and Euripides; 1t was those
middle classes which had undone the
old arstocratic rule of Scion and Per
icles: it was their moneygrabbing that
Disguised him beyond bearing and
made him lament that under such
leadership Athens would never again
produce an -Eschylus or build a Par
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Alcibiades defeated him In contest
for the office Of strategos, and plunged
Athens into war with Sparta again.
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Alcibiades had left the state utterly
leaderless and adrift.

Alcibiades had left the state utterly
leaderless and adrift.
In 405 BIC. the Athenian feet was
defeated and destroyed at Aegospo.
tami. The victorious Spartans imme-
dlately blockaded Athens, and the once
rich city. whose Industrial develop
ment had made 1t dependent upon i'm
ported food, began to starve to death.
She surrendered (402 B.C), and one OF
the most destructive wars that history
has known came to disastrous end.
Even the victors were exhausted and
doomed to an early decay. In Athens
poets remained, and artists and phi.
losophers, but they knew well that the
glory Of their city would never return.
When Aristophanes died, In 1856 Be.
the greatest civilization In the record
Of man was about to come to an end.
Copyright. 1927. by viii Durant)
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missiOners a handsome pine tree sJrl
the terrace Of the home Of MIR and
Mrs. Frank ScriVener here has been
decorated for community Christ ma =
tree. 1t will be Illuminated a. night.
Various groups have planned carol
singing exercises at the tree
Christmas services WIFI ne held at
st. Barnabas' Church. Ozon HU TO-
morrow morning at 7.30 ana II r,,riock.
A service was held AZ rnjdrlgh, tn
night. A Christmas pageant ain he
given at 81. Barnabas' Par;en iIaI
Thursday at 7:30 pm. PlayIsfz nv ,be
Sunday school pupils will fea,5,re The
Christmas entertainment AZ Tho Cxon
Hill Methodist Episcopal Churen ,TI,c4.
day at 100 pm.
Committees on Carnival
Committees in charge ot the carni.
val to BE- given by the women If u.
Thomas Church at Croorne Han FRI
day are: Supper Misc F,nrence
Hardy, Mrs. Nellie Turner. Mrs E1rner
BADEN, Mrs. Edgar Gable. Mrs t~rT,t..
Brady. Mrs. A. r. Dudley, Mrs percy
Burroughs. Mrs. Claude Tayrnao Mr..
Harry Tayman, Mrs. W. r. Tr;vaII.
Miss Johns Woods. Miss Lily yEjlIes.
Mrs. Burns Wilson, Mrs. Bowen Dr1.
vail. Decorations Mrs. WiUiar m
Branch. Miss Bla nche Ozls. Miss Maud
Gibbons, Miss Nancy Gibbons Niss
Cora Stamp. Miss Mabel Tayrnan Mis-.
Agnes DuIey and the Misses Doznsv.
Frank Hardy is in charge os tlckats,
A pageant entitled THE March NJ
the Gifts" will be presented A. Forsss
Grove Church, near Meadows, wednes-
day at 100 pm.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-14
HOPE FOR PLIERS
 D|MIN|SHES FAST
jContinued from First Page)

Harbor Grace said plane passed the point last Monday morning. However, little credence was placed in the Harbor Main reports.
 Still Have Hope
 The hope of authorities in the other rumors, however, was demon- strated by the concentrated search continued on land and sea in the North Atlantic area. On the belief that the airmen may have been forced down in one of the many bays In the region, vessel was ordered to search Placentia bay and nearby waters. The Newfoundland govern ment planned to send the steamer Daisy to search the south coast of the island, while radio stations throughout the region were ordered to be on the alert for messages from searching vessels.
 Fog Delaying search
 Fog delayed the search in the Newfoundland region yesterday. two transatlantic liners arriving in New York reported the presence of 20 icebergs in the ship lane where Nungesser and Coli may have drift ed, and the Los Angeles after sweep ing a 100-mile lane from the New Jersey coast at Point Pleasant to Nantucket Light reported nothing but visibility good. result nil" The dirigible returned to its hangar, at
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phone trio, Moonlight and Roses, following which the Arm Chair Hour was introduced. It was presented by the studio male quartet. ard the first number was Tn The Gloaming." The Hour each week is given over to the old songs. offered in a different way by able talent.
 WTAM, Cleveland, came in with its old time volume, putting to shame many of the nearer stations A program from WEAF was being presented, as usual, and we heard the Anglo -Persians in two-part suite, Gall of The Desert" The first part was The Almas," and the sec ond Patrol" It was distinctively a descriptive piece and was well pre- scented. Then the group presented that old familiar "Mossouri Waltz ' The Persians were also heard from WGY.
 WEAN, Providence, came through with unusual clarity, caused by a lack of interference on it's wave. "All I Want Is You" with vocal chorus. was offered by Hawaiian instru- mental quarter. followed closely by march in the Hawaiian strain.
 
 The Musical Cameos were heard from WABC, New York. We didn't stay very long. Somebody recited a few lines of poetry and then the or chestra played and then somebody recited a few lines of poetry and then the orchestra played, etc., etc., ad infinitum.
 kDKA, Pittsburgh was loud enough, although we noticed the old friend, that on-and-off buzz, at that station. Later we picked the call let ters of WADC, Akron, out of the mess down around 26O meters. 1t was no small accomplishment.
 That's all for today, thanks!
 p F, L.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-14
SATURDAY.
Eastern Daylight Saving Iin,e.

Note-Asterisks <s) Indicate Pick
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9-Popular music l0-Dance music; songs
 02O-WSAI, Cincinnati-328 9-News: music CHICAGO ON THE AIR,
Through he Static

Conditions were still better las' night. There was some static, but 1, i was present in an almost negligible quantity. Volume was excellent and there appeared to be no facing at all ! The only fly in the well known oint- i ment was a continued buzzing which | came on about 10 o'clock. It gave stations a rather funny quality and added to the general dissatisfaction with the entire week.
 
 WTIC offered two stellar features last evening, the Goldman band and ' the Chamber Of Commerce program One ran right into the other and, as a result, we spent two solid hours at absolute peace with the world Con sale at all music stores). The Gold man concert was more Of popular nature last night. including the well known "Marche Lorraine" and the overture from Mariana" by Wal lace, together with one of Goldman's own numbers, "On The Go," which was haracteristically sparkling and brilliant. "Pinafore," by Gilbert & Sullivan, those extraordinarily clever light opera composers of a genera ton ago, came in for its part of the attention, the band presenting gems from that famous presentation. The band was in customary good form.
 
 1 The Hartford Chamber Of Com merce program scintiliated. It srarkled. It was OK. Tho programs thus far have set nev mark in radio entertainment in this section of the country and because of the fact that the artists presented on each program have been of such q character as to guarantee genuine entertainment, listeners have come to look forward to the Chamber pro- grams, assured that they are hear ing the best. And so it was last eve ming. Paul Althouse, tenor, and Arthur Middleton, baritone, the Gold Dust Twins of the concert world, If we may use such an expression. were featured. along with May Singhi Breen, famous banjoist, and Peter DeRose. pianist. and th3 Hartford Chamber Sinfonia, a concert orches- tra which does not sink to the back ground for anyone, and rightly. The program was we'll arranged. Mir. Alt house and Mir. Middleton provided bits from grand opera along with the I lighter classical numbers. Breen and DeRose looked after the light popu- lar side of the program, while the Slnfonia took care of the instru- mental portions. Designed to please everyone the program never once became monotonous. there being continuous variety. Delightful. Of especial note was the duet by Mir. Althouse and Mir. Middleton, "Sol- cmne in Quest -ora." from La Forza del Destino' of Verdi; the banjo and piano duets and the ukulele and piano duets, to say nothing of the vocal duets by Miss Bree1 and MT iDeRose, and the three excellent Sc. Elections by the Sinfonia.
 WIZ, awfully distorted at o'clock in the afternoon, was all right when 1t went on the air al night. and it's wave was consistently steady and free from disturbance We heard one selection by a saxo-