SUCH IS LIFE
To
HIS TAIL
By Charles Sughroe
Story of Their Lives Is Al-
most Unbelievable.
Kansas City—On a burned and
blackened voleanic island that rises
precipitously from the sea nearly 600
miles west of the South American re
public of Eucador is gathered an as.
tonishing assortment of queer human
beings, says the Kansas City Times,
An account of the lives of these per-
sons on lonely Charles island furnishes
an incredible, almost unbelievable
story.
Weird stories of strange happenings
on the bleak, lava-strewn bit of land
that once was a convict settlement
have been filtering Into civilized haunts
of man. Captains and crews of small
trading vessels which put in at the
island have told outlandish yarns of
the inhabitants and their modes of lv-
ing. So disturbing were the accounts
that the government of Ecuador sent
officials to the isolated point of land
to Investigate. The inhabitants of the
island were questioned and their meth-
ods of living were inquired into. Then
an official report of the investigation
was filed with the Ecuadorean govern-
ment and authentic Information about
the island was made available. And,
surprising thing, the report substanti-
ates the fantastic accounts that have
been coming from the island!
Cast of Characters.
This barren, jagged, rocky Island
whose shores are washed by the equa-
torial waters of the Pacific has nine
inhabitants, The cast of characters:
Frederich Ritter, of Berlin. eminent
Charley Yates, Georgia Tech junior,
is shown above with the national in
tercoliegiate trophy he won by defeat-
ing E4 White of the University of Tex-
as In the finals at the Country club,
Cleveland, Ohio,
3
German physician, dentist and philos-
opher, who left a brilllant career in
Germany to seek a modern Eden on
the Pacific island,
His mate, Frau Dore Strauch Koer-
wein, who went to the island with him
from her German home, She and Rit
ter forsook civilization to live a life
of peace, which, they charged, modern
civilization denied them.
Baroness Bousequet de Wagner, of
Vienna, who went to the Island after
Ritter and his helpmate. Soon after
her arrival she set herself up as “em-
press” of the isle and governs her
“kingdom"™ clad usually only in abbre-
viated pink silk pantles and armed
with a 22.caliber pistol.
Philipson, Alonzo and Arends,
companions of the “empress”
came to the island with her.
A German couple, names unknown,
and their Infant child, born soon after
thelr arrival on the desert island.
Ritter and Frau Koerwien were the
first inhabitants of They
landed there with a pick and shovel
and a bag of seeds perhaps a
score of books, among them a volume
of Lao-tse, the ancient Chinese mystic,
Ritter refused an offer of a professor
ship at Freiburg, and left behind a
brilliant career as an experimenter in
nutrition when he left Germany seek
ing a lonely spot to “live his own life.”
He and his woman companion landed
on the island In 1920 and lived
there since,
Will Not Touch Meat.
are vegetarians and will not
the fish, turtle wild pig.
birds, wild goats, or other meat which
Is abundant on the island.
Fruits, vegetables, nuts and occa-
sionally a little chicken forms their
only food. Everything they partake is
mashed Into a pulp before it enters
their mouths, A dentist, Ritter. has
extracted all his teeth and those of
Frau Koerwein. It is one of the the
ories that teeth are a cause of short-
ened lives. With their teeth out, he
believes he and his companion may
attain ages of at least hundred
and eight years. However, to assist
them In thelr mastication, he has made
sets of rubber teeth which they slip
into their mouths at meal times
The two food enthusiasts live either
in a one-room shack bulit of rough
timber or In a faded tent near a spring.
Their homes are remote and access
bie only by climbing a stony path
which winds up a steep, mountainous
way. At the foot of the path is a bell
with a sign Instructing chance visitors
to ring It before they approach “The
Hermitage,” which Is the title they
have given their home. The signal is
to warn the two exiles, as, when they
are alone they wear no clothing, It
is only when visitors appear-—which
happens on the average of from six to
eighteen months—-that ther doh a bit
of covering.
men
who
the isle.
and
have
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“Taking the Profits
Out of War”
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
been
Some
Numerous suggestions have
made for the abolition of war,
of these have been
tried but not with
success. Public
opinion is at pres
ent aroused with
an enthusiasm
which argues that
if we would end all
war, we must strike
at the direct bene
fits which resuit
from it. One of
these is profits,
“Take profits out
of all war,” seems
to be the slogan.
With this sentl
ment dominating the public mind we
are not surprised to read press dis
patches as follows: “One of the sur-
est ways of preventing war would be
the government
not men
dustry, agriculture,
work without
Legion is quoted as having
that when men are dr
chinery, even to the plow and tractor,
and all farm
in the country should be drafted also.
fo give the
draft,
power to
in-
make them
American
ared
only but wealth,
and
profit.” The
de
afted, all ma-
Prettiest Angler
Miss Helene Gould of Forest Hills,
Long Island, was voted the prettiest
woman angler in the summer colony in
the Adirondacks near Stamford, N. Y.
She not only wears this picturesque
costume, but she gets the fish,
Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, whose judgment
is respected by many persons, in a re
cent address, remarked: “Recapture
all profits made by all industries en-
gaged In war supplies above a small
and reasonable return on the monies
invested, and that all profits which
fire an incentive to war must be abso-
lutely destroyed.”
When we remember the fabulous
fortunes which have been made out
of the manufacture of war materials
as well as the profits created by the
sale of food stuffs and other necessi-
ties incident to war, we are inclined
to believe that “taking the profits out
of war” would help to remove one of
the Incentives to warfare. We have
tried other schemes, why not try this
one?
It should be remembered, however,
that a disease is not cured perma-
nently until the cause has been re
moved. The cause for war lies much
deeper than just money profits, That
profit Is a large factor goes without
question, but nations do not go to war
Just for the purpose of increasing thelr
national treasuries, It seems to be a
serious question if war can ever be
abolished through the application of
a rule of practice which Is wholly neg-
ative, Many suggestions have been of
this character. Do not do this or that,
remove this cause or that cause. Very
good so far as they go, but negations
never get beyond a certain point In
the development of any great object.
Some commanding suggestion of a pos-
itive character seems to be needed. If
the cause of war Is “Greed,” why not
advocate the Infusion of Christianity
Niue has never yet been honestly
ed.
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he
y Lydia
Le Baron Walker
NE of the most difficult things to
teach some children is responsibil.
ity while others have a natural sense
of it. It is true that every normal per-
son has to take to himself the respon
sibility for his or her actions in ma-
ture years, in fact, In all years except
young childhood, when the responsibil.
ity for actions reverts to parents who
are held accountable, When a person
is irresponsible, he
is not normal and
must be treated as
Parents who
thelr
flimsy
such,
will pardon
children on
excuses would re.
sent belong told
thelr offspring was
irresponsible, It is
for them to help
thelr youngsters to
realize their re-
sponsibilities, and
¥
hus strengthen
1 #i
an awaxKenis
this sense,
thereby law and
der will be fostered, There is
WAYS A margin
dents which
permissible for acci-
not due to deliberate
CaArelessiness ar RHeck-
is a forn irresponsibility
towards
ure
ardiness
lossness r
towards one's self or
others, or both,
either
Courage is a total
for it
t
while
is alw
recklessn
aAyYS use
ily,
chance with the balance favorable to
disaster,
of greatness, recklessness of 1
Courage is one of the traits |
tures, chiefly, although It may perme
ate fine ones. It is sometimes the out.
standing fault in what would be great
ness without it
Lack of responsibility is f«
children who take no
prevent a ball from smashing a win-
dow. Parents can respon.
mibliity by making the child earn the
money to pay for the replacement of
the glass, A first offense can be made
easy to settie through letting the child
be paid for running errands, etc,
whereby he can earn the small sum
needed. But repeated carelessness
should not be allowed to pass so
lightly.
Inculeating Responsibility,
wand in |
i
precautions to
stimulate
Crime in children would be distinct
ily lessened if parents would help their
children from a very early age to feel
responsibility, not by thrusting respon-
sibility on them, but by seeing that
they take what falls naturally to lit.
tie ones. Caring for pets stimulates
responsibility. The knowledge that
their cats or dogs, birds or rabbits,
are dependent upon them for food and
water and shelter, that without such
care the pets would suffer, serves the
double purpose of inculcating respon.
sibility and helping the children to
love dumb animals,
A large number of auto accidents
are the direct results of lack of re-
sponsibility, Take a chance and it
may come out all right, and when it
doesn’t and terrible suffering and
deaths result, penaities must be paid,
but life cannot be restored.
Anticipate Pleasures,
There are few people who do not
enjoy looking beyond
prospect of good things that It is
hoped will come: to the fulfillment
of dreams; to a happy future, and a
successful This can be a fine
thing, since the person who
ilve without any
a person of vision.
the trend in
minds that
s¢e in the future
n
today in the
one,
world affairs
comprehend clearly
good
nated yet,
watch over a family of
who look /
will
many
which have
who
and
will
ize
ot cul
chlldren,
that, as parents, they have
vision.
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Mamma Coyote Knows
How to Handle Young
Stevensville, Mont, — Anxious
mothers can learn how to make
children behave by watching a coy-
ote on Carney Phelps’ ranch.
Phelps sald a mother coyote had
five pups of belligerent nature, To
keep them from fighting, she moved
into an old badger hole with five
tunnels leading from the malin
shaft.
By keeping one pup in each tun
nel, “Ma” coyote kept them apart,
except at meal times, when she and
“Pa” saw to it that peace was pre-
served.
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He saw her sitting in the darkened
room. Noilselessly he stole up be
hind her, and before she was aware
of his presence he had kissed her.
“How dare you,” she screamed.
“Pardon me” he biluffed readily,
*but I thought you were my sister.”
“Ass!” she exclaimed. “I am your
sister.”
Peaceful Election
“Do you ever have any
riots in Crimson Gulch?”
“No,” answered Cactus Joe. "We
hold a meetin’ and tell the citizens
exactly how they are expected to
vote, If there is any serious oppo-
gition we see to it that the disorder
iy element is on the way to the hos.
pital before the balloting starts”
Telling No Lie
Judge—You say you are a locke
gmith. When the speakeasy was
raided were you pursuing your oc
cupation there?
Prisoper—Well, yes, your honor, 1
may say I was, When the policeman
nabbed me 1 was making a bolt for
the door.—DBoston Transcript,
election
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