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Good Will Offering to Peo-
ple of United States.
Washington—Sent by the American
University of Beyrouth, Syria, as a
good will offering to the people of the
United States, 13 living cedars of Leb-
anon from the Phoenician coast at the
eastern end of the Mediterranean were
recently unloaded in America. At the
direction of the President they were
planted in the grounds of Arlington
National cemetery, overlooking the
Potomae river,
In the Bible these majestic trees are
called “the trees of Jehovah, the
cedars of Lebanon, which He hath
planted.” Their most famous appear-
ance in history was when King Hiram
of Tyre transported Lebanon cedars to
Jerusalem for ling of Solo-
the building
mon's temple,
Famous Trees Never Numerous.
differ as t how
non
accor a
Scholars 0 many
there were, In an-
to the National
cedars of Leb
tiquity,
Geographic
It is
the limestone r
completely clothed In
trees, In ancient times
already valued, not only
SOC
that at no time were
Let
majestic
probable
the inon
these
the wood was
for its great
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To Be June Bride
Miss Helena Woolworth MeCann,
granddaughter of the late F. W, Wool-
worth, founder of the mighty Wool:
worth fortune, who will be married in
June to Frederick Winston Churchill
Guest, son of a British member of par-
liament,
strength and resistance to but
also for its rarity.
Some decades ago, with the encour
agement of Queen Victoria, the small
remaining cluster of giant trees was
inclosed by a stone wall. The trees
had long been considered sacred to
man, and Hadrian issued an imperial
order that the groves should not be
harmed. Later the Maronites, who
have a small chapel amid this tiny
forest, threatened excommunication
for anyone who harmed the trees
But herds of goats have showed less
respect than man, and by nibbling at
the saplings have prevented new
growth,
A count of tree rings, made on small
branches, indicates that the Lebanon
cedar has a slow growth and a long
life. The cedars are not nearly So
tall as sequolas, but they have thick
trunks, as large as 47 feet in circum-
ference. A notable feature is that the
horizontal branches are so thickly car.
with needles the
firm cones appear as though up-ended
on a well-kept lawn,
On Republic's Flag.
The site of the chief cedar
of rare
massive
and 4.000 feet
rot,
peted that heavy,
grove
one beauty, the
amphitheater
high.
stage
hind them the k
to its cniminating
10,000 feet above
rises
than
ranean.
The famous cedars are in the Leba-
nese republic, at of
the Mediterranean, just north of the
Holy Land. Although the Lebanon is
included in the French mandate with
Syria, it has its own government un-
der a Syrian president. The flag of
the republic is the flag of France with
a green cedar of Lebanon in the cen
ter.
The cedar of Lebanon also appears
on the seal of the American University
of Besreuth, donor of group of
cedars to America, and lapel buttons
bearing the university's insignia are
worn by graduates throughout the
Near East. The cedars have been
studied by specialists of the univer
sity. Dr. George E. Post of facul-
ty. authority on Syrian botany, made
the statement, “There is not and never
has been a rotten Lebanon cedar. The
wood is incorruptible. The imperish-
able cedar remains untouched by rot
or insect.” The wood, like that of the
cypress and the sequoia, Is close
grained and aromatic,
the eastern end
the
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Eye Expert Says Eight
Proper Age for School
Boston.—Children should not be per
mitted to go to school until they reach
the age of eight, in the opinion of Dr.
Laurence P. Folsom, president of the
New England Council of Optometrists,
“The eyes of the human being,” he
gays, “do not reach the state of ma
turity until the child is eight years
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strain to which we subject the eyes
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avoided to insure healihy eyes among
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IN PARTS OF AFRICA NEARLY
Christianity and
Civilization
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
In a recent issue of a metropolitan
newspaper Appeared a cartoon in
which our Capitol
building at Wash-
ington was se
curely embedded In
a huge rock which
rose from an Angry
The waves
dashing against
the rock were va-
riously named:
Marxism, Red
volt, and Leninism.
But the
named Christian-
ity. That picture
Was more a
cartoon. It
preachment of the highest order,
it rushes for expression, history,
tionalism, patriotism
The ar rock
civilization safely
sea.
lo
rock was
than
was
. is
Gibral
John Lyman of Stanford university
photographed as he was breaking the
world's record for put by
throwing the shot 54 feet 1 Inch.
the shot
‘
in denominational organiza-
It has no reference to the di-
‘splits”
tions,
an organically united Protestant world
impossible. Christianity as pictured
in the cartoon, harks back to those
fundamental virtues and beliefs to
which every person can give assent,
and upon which the entire Christian
world can build a permanent civiliza-
tion. Principal among these virtues is
brotherhood—a condition of society in
which the spirit of mutual helpfulness
dominates and not the Epicurean phi-
losophy “every man for himself and
the devil take the hindmost” The
principle of liberty is important, but
it is in danger of being misunderstood.
Liberty 1s not license. Liberty is al
ways limited by the sanctions of the
moral law. Christianity also elimi.
nates the ultimate domination of that
spirit of selfishness which always de-
stroys. It emphasizes the importance
of “service” without which neither na-
tionalism nor business can succeed
Christianity has always emphasized the
importance of education. Very near
the church has always been located a
school.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-
piness will never perish from the
F YOU wish to have your roots at
ve you consider outline
n. This is not confined to
shapes of furniture and articles in the
room, although these play a part. It
chiefly consists in the imaginary lines
which are subtly registered on the
vision by the linear contours of arti
tract! must
decoratic
example some articles are high, some
low. The eye takes in these differ
if a line
| were drawn on the wall up and down
It
the is
monotonous,
It is
outline decoration
It is inartistic.
therefore, to intro
in heights of articles and
jest any length mar a
beauty outline. For-
tunately there is in most persons an
inherent, If unconscious appreciation
of this essential detail of interior dec-
oration.
Breaking Up Wall Spaces.
There is expression, breaking
up the wall spaces, which In effect,
brings about much the same desirable
result. However, the decorative out.
line has nothing to do with depth of
| articles but of their flat silhouettes,
while the bulkiness or lack of it comes
i into the equation when breaking up
wall spaces,
In the consideration of outline dec
oration there immediately springs to
mind built in bookcases, with their
long even line across the tops. Good
essential,
of decorative
he
decoration not
ghelved walls,
notwithsta
line,
the monotony until It
solves from the picture,
bookcases are from
and the
way up.
only
but reco
actually
Variety in Effect.
In the first Instance
Takes Much Water to
Quench Engine’s Thirst
Long-distance nonstop runs and
high speeds on our rallways demand
enormous quantities of first-class
water, much of which is purified by
being passed through water-softening
plants before it is supplied to the
troughs placed between the running
lines at convenient points,
letween 3,000 and 5,000 gallons of
water are carried in a locomotive
tender, and into a series of troughs
varying in length between 600 and
700 yards hinged scoops are lowered
by the fireman of an engine running
over the troughs, the speed of the
train forcing the water through in-
ternal vertical pipes leading from the
scoop to the tanks of the engine ten-
ders. By this means, between 2,000
and 2,000 gallons of water can be
picked up in 15 to 20 seconds, and
on the assumption that a passing
train picking up water draws 2,000
gallons from the troughs, it is calcu-
lated that the normal water level is
regained in less than five minutes,
The water troughs are filled from
storage tanks with a capacity of any-
thing up to 30,000 gallons. Zach
trough has {ts own valve and aux-
{liary tank apparatus preventing the
passage of a train on an “up” line
reducing the level of a trough on a
“down” line. The Flying Scotsman
on its 14 miles journey from
King's Cross to Edinburgh “drinks”
on six occasions, picking up some 11,
000 gallons An-
Fa
of water~London
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mentioned,
naments,
between them relieves
of the outlines,
outline decoration,
will be achieved.
decorated and
see whether the outline
are goc dad or
rooms already
nished, and
decorations
ment. Do not
decoration, but so manipulate
things to produce good «outlines with
out diminishing other necessary and
desirable qualities and characteristics,
It is the combination of comfort with
griistry that distinguishes good dec
oration,
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Sun Dogs and Halos Vegetable Woy
A sun dog, or parhelion, to use its he bad given up
technical name, is a bright spot which
appears near the sun when sunlight
shines through a thin cloud composed after
of ice crystals floating In the atmos
phere. Halos are the result of the re.
fraction of the solar rays by these
crystals. Sun dogs are sometimes
tinged with color, and may appear at
all times of the year, because even in
the warmest weather the temperature
of the upper atmosphere is below
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WASPS HAVE BEEN
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CARRYING
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