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half its wealth and all it's beauty. 1t
is one of the marvels of human history
that the Greeks, who might well have
dcspaired at this quick undoing of the
work of many generations, reSolutely
set TO work, under the guidance Of
ThemistoCles, Cimon and PeriCleS. to
rebuild their city and make II more
beautiful than before. pericles merely
brought to completion the plans and
labors of so years.
1t was his good fortune to find for
his purposes the architectural genius
Of Ictinus and the sculptural genius of
Pheidias. Seldom has supreme talent
come in so abundant cluster, and sell
dom has it bound diverse souls into
such fruitful cooperation.
Pheidias-though here again it is
only legend that speaks-had been q
slave or the son of a slave. So genius
persists in rising recklessly in any
rank and starVes as often as it grows.
Cimon, predecessor of PeriCles as Il
ruler of Athens, had given Pheidias
his first great commisSiOn-the mold
ing f a colossal bronze statue, so feet
high, of Athene PromachoS, Athene
the warrior. The body was of ivory,
the drapery of gold; the gilded spear
top and helmet were visible from the
sea, proud symbols OF the mllltarlSm
that infected the victorious city. Moth
ing survives of it now but it's pedestal.
x !; x =
Time has been equally ruthless with
other masterpieces Of Phaidias. His
statue of the Lehman Athene, which
Lucian called his most perfect wor ,
is gone without a trace. OF another
statue-the Zeus of Olympia-only a
copy of the head remains. 1t was a
colossal affair. If Zeus had risen from
the seat on which the sculptor placed
him his divine head would have bruis-
Ell itself against the temple roof. This
disproportion was atoned for by the
bcnignity and majesty of the face,
which already revealed in the artist s
work the influence of the philoso-
piers Its beauty" thought the Ro
man rhetor Quintilan, seems to have
added Sc nothing to the received reli-
gion." Fare to Olympus" counseled
the historian Arrian, that We may
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see the works of Phedias, and account
it each one of YOU a misfortune if We
die with this still unknown" And Dio
ChrysOStom said: ANY man who is
heavy laden in soul, who has suffered
many misfortunes and sorrows in his
life and who has no comfort of sweet
sleep. even such one, | think, if he
stood before this statue, would forget
all the dangers and hardships of this
mortal life"
Such was the man to whom, in the
year 445 3. c., Pericles assigned the
task of adjoining with statuary the
temple which ICtinus and Celebrates
were designing dis shrine of the
Athene Parthenos (Athene the Virgin
and as home of the virgins parthenon)
who served as her priestesses. For
nine years they drew and carved and
built. When they were finished they
had produced the most perfect work
yet made by the hand of man.
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of the garrison had been dispatched
westward to meet the threat Of an
invasion of kwangtung Province
from Kwangsi Province (Why such
threat does not appear and that tn
Red civilian leaders of Canton saw
therein their chance. Gen. Chang
Fax Wei commanded the garrison
the same who a short time before b!
a neat little coup had made himself
local commander, ousting the redoubt
able Ii Chat sum from that eminence
Now the ousted gentleman had oWne'
the authority of the Marking govern
ment, and Chang was esteemed
Marking to be a Red. Why, then,
should the civilian Reds have deal
with Chang as they did? One ma
never be sure of the why" in Chine
especially in Canton; but probably
they suspected that Chang was, lik
most Chinese generals, out for No. /;
that his devotion to Communism w
not of purest ray serene At any rate,
there being left in the city only tn
merest handful of Changes huskies. o.
the morning of December l the civil
ian Red leaders let loose on the much
veXed city a mob of 'Iawless reso-
lutes," industrial workers, peasants
Including robber bands of aforetImt
peasants), members of a workmen's
Red corps For two days the mo
murdered, looted. burned and Other
wise comported themselves in the
familiar manner of Chinese mobs,
poisoned with BolsheVist doctrine
painting for the millennium Ia Russo.
Part of the remainder of the little gar
rison joined the insurrectos, the rest
were disarmed or cut down. the gates
Of the city We're closed, and out of the
mass meeting a Soviet government
sorts was evolved.
But the 'revolutionaries' taste of
the MuscOvite millennium was brief.
Chang FAX Wei, escaping by the skin
Of his teeth on board one of the Ma
tionalist (Nanking) gunboats in the
river, declared himself a loyal serv.
ant of Marking. He recalled his
expedtionary troops. and by noon Of
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ii. The PartIienOn.

As you stand before it the first
impression is one Of desolation. Under
your feet crackle and glisten frag-
ments Of marble that once were part
of the temple. You take a chip in
your hand and examine it; it is of
sparkling white, and comes from
Mount Pentelicus, where you may see
the quarries and runways that pro
Yided the marble for the Parthenon.
Then that impression of ruin passes
for while. and the combined sim
plicity and power of the edifce en-
Velops you. This is no mere beauty,
as the Alhambra has beauty, or the
Tai Mahal; it is grandeur, sublimity,
the masculine majesty Of mountains
or the sea. Nothing could be less
pretentiOus or more impressive; these
unadorned Doric columns, this sim
pie triangular pediment, this plain
rectangular design-here are no frills
Of any kind, no bizarre embellish-
ment Of details, no romantic dom
nance of any part over the whole.
For it's grea tness is in its entirety
rather than in its parts. 1t was
so placed that one might see it all
at q glance; it is not suffocated by
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The Story the Week Has Told

the 18th, after brisk fighting, the Nan
king gunboats assisting them by a
bombardment. they had taken the
town. Execution of Reds on the
grand scale followed. The total of
dead in the three-day affair was in
the neighborhood of five thousand
OF course, the mob proceedings
caused perturbation to the foreigners
in the international settlement on
Shamen Island separated from the
city by a very narrow channel only
and no doubt much more to the for
Higners foolish enough to be residing
ir the native city. British, Japanese
and American marines We're stationed
on Shamen three American war YES
sells lay in the riyer). But the foreign
ers were not moested; there were, APP.
parently, no exhibitions OF anti-foreign
feeling.
There were simultaneous Communist
disturbances and outrages in sundry
other towns. as Changsha. Hankow,
Wuchang, but on q smaller scale
(and readily, it would seem. suppress
ed by the Nationalist authorities, sug-
costing a certain concert of action.
perhaps, as the Marking authorities
assert, engineered by Soviet Russian
emissaries.
am inclined to think that the
moderate comparatively speaking
only Nationalist movement will be
strengthened by the general reaction
to the Red outrages.
X x x i:
United States-The Senate has re-.
ferred to the Reed committee on
campaign funds, for further investi.
cation the claims of Frank L. Smith
ard William S. Ware TO seats in the
Senate and has denied them the seats
pending report by the committee and
action by the Senate thereon.
With Senators-elec Ware and Smith
excluded, the Senate is made up of AT
Democrats, As Republicans, / Farmer
Laborite, mot counting the Vice Pres.
iden0. Mr.. Shipstead, the Farmer-La-
Dorlte, is generally accounted as Of
almost the same political complexion
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PHEIDIAS AND GREEK ART.
l. PericIes Finds Pheidias.

y the year AIS BIC. a number of
Greek states under the leader
ship of Athens, formed a league
i for self-protection against Persia.
Athens contributed ships, the
! other states money; and. since the
common treasury was at the Temple
| of Apollo, on the Island of Delos the
league came to be called the Delian
Confederacy. AriStides known as the
just" was placed in charge of the
/ finances of the league.
But years went by and Persia made
no war. The Athenians, tempted to
! imperialism by their power, trans
, ferred the treasury from Delos to
| Athens. against the protest of their
allies, and very soon the league be-
came an empire automatically ruled
! by the democracy of Athens. Sparta
/ saw, feared for her own independence
and set about to form rival league
! In the midst of the greatest age of
art in all history war raised its head.
! Pericles, falling heir, as controller
! OF the treasury, to the IL. ue'S acCu-
I mulated gold, fretted at the idleness
! of so much wealth and longed TO use
! 1t in some way that might immortaliZe
| his city and his name. He saw the
! sunlit peak of the ACrOpolis and Wis
stoned for 1t temples fairer than any
! that man had ever reared to the gods
! He did not care for these deities as
| the people did having too many
! skeptics for his friends; but he saw
! that they might be made symbols and
/ inspirations of heroism and civic
pride if they could be refashioned in
the image of the nobest men.
X x X 4
But who could refashion them?
| Where Were there ar lists profound
enough to conceive a Zeus, a Hermes.
an AphroGite, an Athene, worthy of
an age of poets and philosophers des-
tined to remain for many centuries
unsurpassed?
Not that there had been no great
Greek art before. Architecture had
flourished in this dry air. among these
mountains so rich in perfect stone.
Far back in the seventh century BIC.
the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor had
built a temple to ArtemiS Diana) at
Ephesus-at first of wood. which the
Cimmerians burned. and then of
stone, which HerostratuS destroyed on
the day of AleXander's birth. PeiSis-
tratus, about $50 BIC, had begun a
gigantic temple to Zeus on the plains
of Athens; it had been left unfinished
| at ms death, and only in the days
of Antiochus Epiphanes We're those
fine Corinthian columns added, Of
which Is still stand to greet the mod
ern pilgrim. At Girgenti, in Sicily,
home of that fiery philosopher En-
pedocles, Greek colonists had built a
Temple of Concord as a gentle emol-
| lient of Mediterranean puGnacity. And
at Paestum. some 80 miles south of
Vesuvius, other Greek colonists had
| built magnificent Temple of Posiedon
/ Tea. $50 B.CD, which still ennObles
southern Italy and rivals the majesty
! of the Parthenon.
x X 4 4
| Sicily and Italy were fortunate. The
| Persians did not reach them in 4S0 b.
c. nor sack their capitals. But Xerxes'
army destroyed not only every home
| in Athens, but every work of art.
| When Salamis was won the Atheni-
| ans returned to a city which had lost
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4 \ and for closer cooperation be-
tween labor and capital.
Deeply impressed by the "enlight-
ened" trends i'm American industry.
members of Australia's recent indus
trial mission to the United States have
returned to their country with lengthy
recommendations for the improve
ment of industrial conditions i'll
Australia.
Their report to Prime Minister
Bruce reCounts i'm detail their obser-
vatiOns during their nationwide tour
of the United States the past Summer
and stresses the many favorable inn
pressions gained as to the prosperous
state of Americas wOrkingmen and
employers, alike
Part of this report, it is understood,
was compiled during the mission visit
to Washington last May during which
time they conferred with officials of
the Department of Commerce and were
accorded every hospitality by this
Government.
Pictured as Industrious.
The picture of America drawn by
the Australian visitors who repre-
scented labor. capital and the govern
ment. was one Of a progressive coun-
try of intensively Industrious habits.
whose citizens are ever on the alert
to avoid waste and get the most out of
their work.
Efficiency" the mission found, has
become the WatChWOrd of Govern
ment, arrangements, employers and
employees. The whole country veri
tably teens with efficiency, it seemed
to these distinguished observers.
The mission investigated aproxi-
a, IND
tries, visiting all the principal indus
trial centers in the country. OF these
it was found that more than 80 per
cent were operated on the open
shop basis.
The understanding" which exists
in the United States between the en-
ployer and the working man was a
matter of special comment in the re.
port. The mission considered this
friendly relationship as heralding "a
new spirit in industry" which Aus.
tralia would do we'll to cultivate.
A feature of American industry. the
| mission declared. appears to be "the
anxiety of employers generally to
| understand the wants and require
ments of their employees and. on the
other hand, the readiness Of employers
TO grasp the idea that the interests
This spirit in American industry, -
the mission announced, lis exemplified
in many instances by the action OF
the employees in suggesting improve
ments in methods of production, and
in the practice of many unions of EN-,
| ploying technicians, professors and
engineers in research work
Employees appear to feel that they
have invested their labor in the in.
dustry in which they are working
and therefore they are anxious that
1t should prosper. They no longer
object to the introduction of more
efficient machines and methods.
On the other hand, they welcome
scientific management, and encourage
their members to increase production
in order to cheaper the product which
they are manufacturing. thus making
it available to increasing numbers OF
their fellow workers"
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The Story of Civilization

Note--In the fifteenth instalment of
his STORY of Civilization" to be pub
lshed next Sunday. Dr. Durant will
write on "AristOphanes and the Pelopon-
upsiau War
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FARMING RESEARCH PAYS
AMERICA HUGE DIVIDENDS
Agriculture Department, With Larger
Allowance, Could Extend Work to
Save Many Millions More.

drums Of country life. II has solved
many intricate problems to the meas
/ urable benefit of our farms and farm
ers. Despite remarkable COnSumma-
! lions which have been made, there Is
much left 10 do. In fact, there Is
more need today for scientific research
( of great Investigation than ever be
! fore in the history of American agri
/ culture.
Assembled under the roofs of the
many agricultural department build
ingS which dot Washington's skyline
is the most efficient scientific re
search personnel ever modified to I'M
ravel agricul;ure'S battling mysteries.
our Government hopes potentially to
occupy the fun time of these special
lists in research which will solve the
remaining riddles of farming, our
greatest American industry. The hun
dredS of Investigators at the State
agricultural colleges and experiment
stations assist Uncle Sam as their re
search programs dovetail without du
plication with the experimental work
of the Washington department.
A case in point of the evil results
which accrue where technical investi
CATION is neglected is that of our rap.
idly disappearing chestnut woods
Chestnut blight is graduating chest
nat timber from the roster Of Amer
lea s commercial woods Millions and
millions Of chestnut trees have been
destroyed by blight in the % Eastern
and Southern States where the species
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Might Have Stopped Blight.

If adequate research funds had been
available when chestnut blight was
first discovered in the United States,
our national scientists probably could
have originated effective control meas
ures. a dearth of research dollars re-
suited in the blight securing such a
foothoId and extending its operations
so that our chestnut trees are doomed
to extinction. Practically all of the
chestnut forests north of Virginia and
east of the Allegheny River have been
killed by the blight. The destruction
of the chestnut woodlands in southern
Appalachia and the Ohio Valley is well
under way. AS a result of this sacri-
flee of native chestnut trees, Ameri-
can industries are obliged to import
large amounts of tannin at high cost
The Department of Agriculture in
cooperation with the State experiment
stations now has 1000 experimental
projects in operation. The eventual
results of this extensive research pro.
gram will add billions of dollars to
the agricultural wealth of this coun-
try and foreign lands which avail
themselves of the discoveries made by
their American cousins. To the aver
age individual this appears like n
tADST1-
mentation Our agricultural authori-
ties say that it is but a reflection of
much more similar work which should
now be under way.
One of the interesting activities of
the Bureau Of Entomology is the i'm
portation of parasites which are in
imical to certain other parasites that
attack our leading economic crops. A
battle royal is staged between these
members of the insect world. many OF
which are microscopic microbes. Par
asites of the European corn bOrer, for
example, have been caught in Europe
and subsequently liberated in the in
tested sections of the United States.
To certain degree they have waged
successful warfare against the destruc-
tive corn borers. Capt. Kids of
American cornfields. Parasitic enc
mics of the japanese beetle, brown
tailed moth and many other crop de-
spoilers have also been introduced
profitably to our shores. Special care
and caution are exercised in such work
not to import any parasites which may
become menaces to our farming opera
fiOnc
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CEina.-The central executive com
mittee of the KuOmintang convened
at Shanghai December and adj
iourned December 10. During most
of the session a mighty logomachy
ragged between the Marking and Can
ton groups. the former accusing the
latter of Red affiliations, the latter
accusing the former of usurping an
undue share of power and office in
the Nationalist movement. But at
last the dissensions were composed
and the harmony found expression in
a momentous decision; namely, to Of
fer TO Chang Kai-Shek leadership Of
the Nationalist movement, as being
the man best qualified to conciliate
cooperation Of the Earring factions.
Chang. who was just around the cor
ner. at once accepted.
Titularly civilian head, though the
precise title does not appear in the
dispatches Yet, though Chang does
not recover the title of generalssimo
as too invidious. he reserves the sub.
stance. He is. we understand, to di-
rect military affairs, will probably in
person command a new drive against
the North.
One important instruction the com
mittee gave to the new chief eXecu-
tive. namely, to effect withdrawal of
all Soviet Russian consulates estab-
lished on Nationalist territory. The
necessary steps to this desirable end
are being taken by DIR. c. c. WI, for
eign minister of the Marking govern
ment and the more brusquely by rea-
son Of the Communist disorders at
Canton and elsewhere. which ensued
Immediately upon the adjournment Of
the committee, and which Marking
attributes in chief to furious fresh ac-
tivity of Soviet Russian agitatOrs.
Canton has had another lurid expert
enca. II seems that the greater part
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Studying Wild Plants.

Our entomologists are making care
full studies of wild plants as Carriers"
which spread their insect and fungus
diseases to important cultivated crops.
MyriadS of bacteria and insects which
as yet have not been destructive in
this country live on wild vegetation
and may on occasion suddenly spread
their attacks to cultivated crops. The
national army of entomOlogistS is
studying the life histories and activi-
ties of these bugs" so that control
measures may be developed to stamp
| them from the farming map whenever
| they display dangerous symptoms.
Uncle Sam commissions certain of
his scientific corps to travel in foreign
countries and learn all there is to
| know about crop and live stock pests
which are critical abroad but which
! have not yet emigrated to the United
States. Notifications for the extermi-
| nation of such pirates should they sur
reptlhously gain admission to this
country are being developed. This is
practical preparedness to resist foreign
invasion by food crop freebooters.
American farming pays an annual
tribute of 81 900, 900, 900 to crop enc
mics established so extensively in this
country that it is now impractical to
attempt their determination. This is
another illustration of the bad effects
resulting from limited funds for scien-
tific research Most of these destroy
ers could have been barred from entry
If our technical machinery had been
well financed for such campaigns dur
Ing the infancy of this influx.
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BY HENRY w. BUM.

. HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
i seven days ended December
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seven days ended December
II:
Great Britain.-In the course of the
week both houses of Parliament de-
bated the new Church of England
prayer book submitted to their suf-
frages. One cannot but feel that as
regards the majority of the honorable
gentlemen, the question was not quite
in their line, though, of course, this re
mark does not apply to the lords
spiritual. whose participation in the
debate in the upper house made that
debate of peculiar interest
The Lords accepted the new book
by 241 to So, i far larger majority
than was expected and no doubt due
to the arguments of the approving
bishops. In a most dramatic session,
in an atmosphere charged with tense
emotion. the Commons, 247 to 200, re-
iected the book, the fruit of p years
labor. 1t was the most exciting ses-
sion since the war days. Lord Hugh
Cecil and Premier Baldwin were the
grand champions of adoption. Chief
in opposition were Sir William Joyn'
son-Hicks, home secretary, and Ross
lyn Mitchell, Scotch Presbyterian and
Socialist, whose denunciation smacked
of John Knox. and who averred that
adoption would mean the doom of the
established church as a branch of
Professionalism. When the result of the
voting was announced, a cry arose,
"Protestantism is saved" The Arch
bishop of Canterbury wept; so did
many women in the galleries; so even
some of the honorable members. 1t
is widely thought that disestablish-
ment of the church will ensue on
urgency % shades of primates dead
and gomez of bishops themselves, the
! ma jority of whom passionately adj
vocated the new book as promising
better discipline and unity in the
church. Apparently the argument
that it represented important yielding
! to the High Church element, as per
hitting Though not making manda-
! tory certain uSageS, smacking of
Rome, killed it, though the result
| turned on a straw.
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USTRALIA is going to emulate
the American movement for in
creased efficiency in business
4 and for closer cooperation be-
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NOTE.-With regret I postpone
notice of the fantastic ending, in the
League Councils Hall of Sessions at
Geneva. of the fantastic seven years
so-called war between Poland and
LithuaNia.
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y the year AIS Be. a number of
| Greek states. under the leader
l ship of Athens, formed a league
i for self-protection against Persia.