Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

nature and by way of certain fructify-
ing maxims of his as to the duty of the
civil power to control schism. Be that
as 1t may. he left the world an immortal
legacy in his Confessions" and his
THE City of God" Ode Civitate Deb
He was born in Numidia, was early de-
voted to Manichaeism, proceeded Neo-
was converted to Christianity as i'm
mortally described in the Confessions. "
GREECE.-Here is something of real
Importance. 1t is still, as of old, a mat
ter of furious debate whether the island
now called Ithaca (next to the smallest
of the Ionian Islands west of the Greek
mainland) is the Ithaca of the Odyssey.
The director Of the Acropolis Museum
claims that he has discovered convinc-
in" proof that 1t is. Consult the passage
in the Odyssey near the end of Book
XIII where the Goddess Athene directs
OdysseuS, back on his native island after
his interesting adventures, to seek out
his old swineherd and lie low in his
shack pending developments. Butcher
and Lang render as follows: Him tthe
swineherdD shalt thou find sitting by
the swine as they are feeding near the
Rock of Corax and the Spring of Are
thusa and there they eat abundance
of acorns and drink the black water,
things that make in good case the rich
flesh of swine" M. Kyparissis has To-
Gated the Rock of Corax Arethusa's
black water and the swine in such good
case Though, alas, neither Odysseus nor
Eumaeus in the flesh). There can be
no doubt about it, whoever holds for any
other site is a moron and a BLACKBOARD.
TURKEY AND PERSIA.-The Turk
ish government requested the Persian
government to allow Turkish troops to
pursue Kurdish rebels across the Turko-
Persian border The request was re-
fused. A dispatch of August 13 tells OF
such pursuit Notwithstanding, and war
between Turkey and Persia seems a
possibility in consequence. Observe the
triangle of territory in Northwest Persia
south of Ararat, north of Lake Urmla,
west of the railroad which comes down
from Ervivan through Julea to Tabriz;
that's where the invaders are. Both
Mustapha Renal and the new Shah of
Persia are men of pith and sagacity A
set-to between them should prove IN
teresting The dispatch, however, seems
dubitable.
TURKEY.--A Danish archeologist is
trying TO get permission to investigate
| what remains of the column OF Con-
| stantine in Constantinople. which dates
| from 326 A. d. He believes that the
cross on which Christ was crucifed,
brought to Constantinople by Constan-
! tines mother, ST. Helena of York, Is
within the base of the porphry column.
| side by side with the palladium OF
Rome: also that the holy grail is with
| in the column, besides II baskets con-
tanning crumbs from the feast provided
bv Christ and the adj with which
| Noah built the ark 1t is to be hoped
| that the Danish pundit will be allowed
| to bring these relics to light.
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INDIA.-The raiding Afridis-vari-
ouslv estimated to number between S.
| 600 and O000-continue to make
| themselves unpleasant in the vicinity OF
Peshawar. but they constitute no really
| serious threat TO the key to the Khyber
IF S." the garrison. supported by so or
more planes of the magnificent Royal
| Air Force. being quite adequate. The
I latest reports indicate that the airmen
! and British Indian cavalry are giving
| it hot and heavy to the invaders, whose
activity is attributed largely to mem
dacious propaganda importing the
downfall of the British raj.
Dine heasr of recrudescence OF Hindu
Moslem clashes on considerable scale.
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! PORTO RICO.-Porto Rico is not In
q good way. The area OF the island is