Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1920, Page 2

PAGE TWO MALTA IN HISTORY Had Part in Each Step of West- erh Civilization. Island Made Famous Forever When It Beat Back the Turkish Hordes in 1565—Deserving of Prom- ised Home Rule. “Perhaps no other by-product of the world war save the recovery of Je- rusalem stirs the imagination so pro- foundly as the British announcement of home rule for Malta,” says a bul- letin of the National Geographic so- clety, which explains: “The Malta island group is a shrine of mythology, and of sacred and pro- fane history. Calypso, vampire of Homer’'s word motion pictures, res- cued the shipwrecked Ulysses, and employed her charms to make him stay on the island. St. Paul swam ashore there after his vessel ran aground. Publius, the island gov- ernor, according to Acts, 28, received and lodged him, and the apostle found- ed a Christian community before he departed. “The date of Christ’'s birth is but the half-way point in Maltese chro- nology. Since its recorded history be- gan ten nations have held sway over the coveted islands, beginning with the Phoeniclans of Paul's time, and running a scale of Greeks, Cartha- ginlans, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Ger- mans, Spaniards and French, until the present sovereignty of the British. “It has been said that Malta’s chron- icle holds, in microcosm, the history of Europe, and that its archeological remains mark each step in western civilization. 5 “But Malta was an actor, as well as a librarian of historic drama. Liter- ally she became the savior of the western world when the Knights of Malta beat back the Turkish hordes during the famous siege of 1565. The alien knights, along with native Mal- tese, kept the blighted head of Mos- lem from crushing the lands which fostered those infant idesls of free- dom which now are erected in Eng- 1and’s concession. “The thrills of that siege and the heroism displayed are unsurpassed. Of the 3,000 Maltese who fought with the knights, practically all were killed. Characteristic of the knights’ valor was that of th: defenders of Fort St. Elmo. Wounded and desperate, the few survivors of wmonths of fighting went to a small chapel within the fort, embraced each other, received the eucharist, and prepared to die. The little company was cut off from all assistance, but fought on. Many fell with sword in hand. “Fearing they would be exterminat- ed before the assailants were beateén back, a Maltese was sent to swim across the harbor by night to inform the grand master of the danger. The - messenger delivered his .‘message to Garcia’ by diving and swimming mostly under water. ‘Hold the fort, or die fighting,’ was the command he brought back. Every man obeyed— and died. But the consternation wrought by their frenzied resistance worked such havoc among the assail- ants that the news of it spread to other divisions of the Turkish forces, and turned the tide toward a Maltese victory. “In command of the Turkish sea forces was Dragut, who rose from cabin boy and galley slave to be ad- miral of the Turkish navy, and was * mortally wounded before Malta.” Deadly Snake in Bananas. Patrons of a prosaic grocery store in a sedate Iowa community had an exciting tuste of tropical adventure a few days ago. A bunch of bananas which had been ripening in the store for a week suddenly gave up a strange and brilliant snake, about three feet long and unpleasantly active. Taken in a glass-covered box to a local school, the reptile was identified as a hush master, most dendly of Scuth Amer- fcan snakes, Its slendér body is pink- ish-yellow in color. with a row of large, dinmond-shaped patches from head to tail. the Iatter being black, with stripes of pinkish-yellow. It is related to the better known fer-de- lance, but grows even larger than that six-foot carrier of swift poison. Be- cause of local prejudice ngainst the visitor, it was chloroformed.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. . Much Unproductive Land. About one-fifth of a billion acres of the cutover land and woodland in the United States might be cleared up and the stumps removed so that the land would be available for produc- tive farming. If all this agriculturally suitable forest and cutover land could be made into farms averaging 160 acres, it would provide 1,250,000 farms, an Increase of about 20 per cent over the present number. It is be- lieved unlikely that more than 50,000.- 000 acres, or enough for perhaps 300, 000 farms, will be cleared of the stumps unless the govrenment assumes responsibility. Sardonic Suggestion. “Did you tell the janitor we need more warmth?" “Yes,” replied Mrs. Frizzle. “Did he pay any attention to the matter?” “Immediately. He sent up n booklet of winter resort advertisements.” The Trouble With Villa, Redd—Why don’t somebody down in ‘Mexico kill that fellow Villa? Greene—They -have, but the trouble 18 he won't stay dead. e e e e e o e St THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER l Poster Tells Dramatic Story l KNOWS NO ARMISTICE NEAR F AST RELIEF This picture, painted especially for the Near East Rellef by M. Leone Bracker, vividly portrays what words of the women and children of Armenia and adjacent countries. blessed Europe and America for more fail to express—the horrible suffering Peace has than a year but in Western Asia con- ditions more frightful than any war time experiences of the martyred popu- lations of Belglum and France still exist. Thousands of women and children escaped massacre by the Turkish soldiers only to face th2 terrible agonies of death by starvation. At the present time it is estimated that 1,250,000 adults and fully 250,000 orphaned children are completely destitute and in imminent danger of death by starvation and exposure. T The Near East Rellef, 1 Madison Avenue, New York, is at present the only organization giving aid to these suffering people and lack of f\m&s still prevents the reaching of more than & ACTIVITY IN HIGHWAY WORK Up to July 1, 1919, State Bon;in Aggre- gating $224,800,000, Had Been Authorized. Aside from money to be used co-op~ erntively under the federal aid road act, aggregating nearly $680.000.000, some states will expend large sums, and their several subdivisions will orovide large additional amounts. “It {8 Interesting to note that up te July 1, 1919,” says the secretary of agriemiure In his annual report. *atate bond Issues aggregating $224.- 500,000 had been authorized and ap- oroved by popular vote and that pro vision has been made for votins next vear on proposals for the issuance of additional state road bonds to the ex- tent of approximately $314.000,000. During the present and the next fiseal gear there will he made available for cond improvement &t least $1,000,000.- 300. Certainly few laws, if any, have prodnced greater results, either in terins of expenditures for a good pur- pose or in terms of helpful legislation and machinery, than the federal aid road act. It seems clear, in the cir- cawstances, that the principal limit- ing factors In the 1920 program will ve those of rail transportation for, ud production of, suitable road ma- terials, the contractors’ organizations available, and the labor supply.” SENTIMERT FOR BRICK SEEN Adherents ¢f Thiz Type Claim De- fects Are Caused by Poor Con- crete Foundation. Puring the last counle of years there 188 been a growi atiment for con- struction of hrick vements on bi- mminous found Pl aulherents »f this type of. the defects of th Parv e aused by tue con foundation. S K Al tuminous bure vl S gt Sl ¥ sore ire e the This Gorilla Neeas a Nurse. A relief from ennui is offered jn a recent notice in the "Personal” col- umns of the London Times. The ad- vertisement read, “A person wanted to look after a haby gorilla; wage 30 shillings per week. Apply ‘Alyse,’ 18 Sloan street, Knightspridge. The Bug Bible. “The Bug Bible,” published in 1551, contains the phrase “Afraid of bugs by night,” where the King James ver- sion reads, “Terror by night.” Kill the Name, Sclentists are trying to squelch a new epidemic, discovered in Japan and called the “tsutsugamushi.” Uncle Eben. “Sore men,” sald Uncle Eben, “git defrse’fs all tired out dodgin’ work.” small part of the stricken peopfe. Uncultivated Philippine Land. Surveys of the Philippine islands have shown that of the total of 120.- 000 square miles, the cultivated area is only '14.000 square miles, the remain- der embracing 61,000 square miles of commercial forests, 11,000 of non-com- mercial forests, 14,000 of unexplored and small islands, and various areas promising mineral products. The cul- tivated lands incinde 218,000 acres of rice, 1,236.000 of abaca or Manila hemp, 880,000 of coconuts, 440,000 of sugar cane, 145,000 of tobacco, 18,000 of mahogany, 26,000 of cacao, and 2,000 of coffee. Many Still Read Dickens. Charles Dickens has been ruled out by a class of the younger literary critics as a decided back number, but the statement by his British publishers that during the past three years the sale of his books has been almost dou- bled seems to refute that idea. Some of Dickens’ novels sell more than 50, 000 every year, and he has been dead forty-eight years. lis sales during the last ten years have been larger, it is asserted, than those of any three nov- elists put together. History You May Not Know. One earnest pupil in a coal-field school near Kittanning wrote an essay on Thanksgiving: “The Pilgrims sailed to Cape God,” she said, “and the first winter they went to pick mayflowers in Plymouth in order to show Geo. 8 that anyone could worship God in their own way.” ' Seeking a Termination. 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