The Washington times., 1932-02-24

Facing the Facts
Critics of civilization are always complaining be-
approach the fundamental things in life, "a catalogue
of these fundamentals ought to be issued The need
of water submit fundamentals travellers in deserts
supposed to have looked death in the face and seen
irages and otherwise gone through hell because they
lacked water The water missed in Bermuda came
from no stream that used to be the difficulty there,
that no streams exist 1t came originally from Gods
heaven, falling the just and the unjust alike, and
particularly falling long, sloping roofs which sent
it ingeniousy into underground vaults from which
local boy would gladly pump it twice day for eight
shillings week. That is, so long as it lasted
Turn Off the Tap
The cisterns are supposed to hold enough water for
winter but American habits hard to break In three
months we were waterless We borrowed; we pumped
from an auxiliary supply and we waited for rain It was
waiting for which gave the only sensation of being
face to face with the primal forces of nature and dis
agreeable it The rain hung the house. but hung
off; the atmosphere would get damp that you could
feel it congeang into raindrops face but it did
not CONCEAL the rooftop In weather or cool, IN
fog sunny days, rain promised but no rain came.
Nasty Nature
Our personal interest corrupted all pleasure in the eli
mate That believe is the worst thing of confronting
nature with private demands Nature only give
pleasure when dsnterested she is. The mo-
ment you need for the crops nature becomes spite
full wench giving the reasonable impression that she
never wanted human beings this earth and that she
will do her best to get rid of them
Perhaps ought to add that finally and at great
pense we got to large cisern and pumped
for three days. Nature must be, has said,
wonderful
Beethoven, the Belgian
grevous moment occurred during the late war when
1t longer possible for Beethoven to be German
and Shakespeare Engishman So Beethoven was post
humously converted into Belgian by the English and
the English neglect of Shakespeare became the German
starting point for providing him with a new spiritual
home This is normal propaganda and it interest
ing to observe that the Turks must be planning attack
somewhere because they have just produced an official
history of the whole world in four Volumes which indi
Gates that to all ntents and purposes the world would
not be worth living in if it hadn't been for the Turks
''Turk or French or Proosian''
The history was prepared by members of parliament,
colonels in the and the Gazs adopted daughter
is as the English straight from the horses mouth
1t proves that in ancient times the original Turks swept
over Asia and into Europe and assuming most of the
famous names of history discovered for the world of
men almost all the essential things Once long ago the
civilization Of Crete the equal of our own; at least
they had baths cosmetics and hardresers Now we find
that the Cretans really Turks So were the Myce-
Mans and if Helen was Greek the Trojans had prob
ably strong infusion with Turkish blood It even runs
to the Cets and Dublin is, in word, suburb of Is
tamboul -,