The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 6

4 E 5 ' t 1 ¥ FETA Bah et BT sy asa SAPAUUTTUA NTT) Pee et es ey OP SEE AS PR: - CEP Pe OTP cit oni niin Ce TTT TTTH Past Year's Disasters Signs Of Allah's Wrath, Says Guardian of Omar's Mosque JERUSALEM IHE. venerable and devout sheikh of the famous Mosque of Omar will never believe that “natural causes” had anything to do with the death and destruction spread through the Holy Land by the earthquakes of the past year. As he watches workmen clearing away the wreck of once beautiful buildings or consoles those who lost relatives in recent catastrophes, he strokes his long, white beard and intones of the infinite justice of Allah. “It was nothing but the fury of Allah,” he pronounces, “the fury of Allah visited upon a wicked humanity. And do not for a moment think that by a wicked humanity I mean only the heretic unbelievers who rejected the holy doc- trines of Mohammed, Peace be Upon Him. No. This time I include all mankind.” “They all went wrong in their ‘modern’ man- ners and modes of life’ Their short skirts, their bobbed hair, their dances and social entertain- ments—who of us, who of our generation ever heard of such fastness of life? “It is a pleasure seeking humanity, a humanity which pinned its faith to the coin and all that coin can bring. There is no trace of piety, of charity, of all those noble qualities which made for an elevation of an otherwise brutal man to a higher, almost divine plane. “I am far from preaching asceticism, and a hypocritical discarding of all legitimate pleasures which are man's. No. I never implied any- thing of the kind. But I cannot help telling you that if mankind will go on in this corruption, this calamity will be but the chapter before the end. For the end of the world is dawning, sooner or later. It may come tomorrow or it may come the day after. It is bound to come anyway. “TOOK at my own Moslems. None of them cares today to follow the prophet's com- mands. None of them remembers the fast of the holy month of Ramadan. You would find but very few who stand the fast all the thirty days as we have been commanded by our prophet and sages. “Most of them prefer their gambling dens, their intoxicating drinks, and their women in addition to the allowed number that they can marry. Their hearts are now made of iron, their conscience is gone, their bodies prevail with their bodily desires and pleasures. “Can such a wicked society even seek the compassion of Allah? Can they claim that their lives are just, clean and innocent as were those of their fathers?” The noble sheikh is but one of many Moham- medans in the Holy Land who regard the earth- quake as Allah's way of telling the world that it must not go on enjoying pleasures that blot cut all thoughts of living according to divine commandment. The discoveries of modern seience about the natural and understandable causes of tremors in the earth’s crust, mean nothing to this mosque keeper, who looks upon the world in much the same way as his ancestors did centuries ago. For all his fatalistic view of the calamity that came, as he thought, to punish those who walked in ways not to the liking of Allah, the sheikh Whittlin’s ENRY FORD, on his way to Europe, was master of cere- monies and asked that the ship's orchestra play doth- ing but the old-fashioned dances. . . . Just another cadence. cf his incurable . one 4 tintypes. Leather pocket-books are perhaps the best ex- ample we have of the skin you love to touch. Statistical Note: No matter how much some men drink to forget, it seems like they never for- get to dri se 48 A prominent social worker says that beating a child in early youth will make a criminal of him in later life. In other words, from cuffs to handcuffs. nena : That large, wide stream of traffic that flows from the gates of our cities each Sunday, might be called the golf stream. Te costs around $45 ¢° Fags Lonies on ie telephone, which seems t' another proo! it silence is golden. * * ig pal this science of reading your char- acter by your handwriting, a very indicative point is the manner in which you make “eyes.”” A The Church of St. John . . . rocked and crumbled when convulsive tremors shook the Holy Land. had compassion for the victims and appreciation for the assistance rendered by a shocked and big-hearted world. S6JT is true,” he said, “that we saw in the earthquake the hand of Allah, but this did not relieve us of the responsibility of going to the rescue of the afflicted. “The enlightened British government took the baie in hand and organized relief on a grand scale. “Nathan Strauss, that noble American phi- lanthropist, displayed his generosity by cabling a considerable _:um to be used for the relief of sufferers. This gesture coming from a Jew— with whom we are not in sympathy religiously —was greatly appreciated by us here.” The catastrophies that have spread misery in the Holy Land in the past year were not, as such happenings go, especially devastating oc- currences. The world remembers many calami- ties that exacted a far heavier toll in life and Property. jut Palestine is a sacred place to all the world—the cradle of Christianity, much more than an arid spot on the map cf Asia. That's why the news of its worst misfortune, sent to every corner of the globe by radio and telegraph and telephone, shocked millions of people and brought instant and generous response to the call for relief. HEN one read in the morning paper that , 80 many bodies had been recovered in the ruins of Jericho, he forgot—or did not know— that this place so outstanding in Biblical writing is not really a city, as the western world under- stands the term, but a very ancient, and rather dilapidated little town. _ The average time for lunch in this countr; is seventy minutes, accordin’ to th’ news. It seunds reasonable; ten minutes for eating, half an hour for addin’ up the check, an’ half an hour worryin’ about the answer. se 8 Barnum’s well known quip revised by Euro- peans during the touring season would read to th’ effect that there’s an American born every minute. **# 8 Now that the women of Paris are goin’ t° wear hats made of glass it's imperative to re- member that people who walk in glass hats shouldn't throw stones. * * “Speaking of poker,” says Lem Haskins, “there's one time when it doesn’t pay t’ keep a straight face, an’ that's when you're drawin’ to one. *-_ -. *# A lot of men are very fond of small babies; others are truthful about it. eee A doctor in Maryland notes with satisfaction that the last of th’ form-fittin’ styles has vanished. He evidently has never seen a New York apartment. **e # A newspaper headline says that a man wed a girl he loved while she administered him an anaesthetic on an operatin’ table. Well, girls, that’s one way of gettin’ ‘em. * 8 4% A prominent educator says that it’s healthy for a youth t’ want to be at the head of every- thifg. But might we add: with th’ possible exception of funerals. a. mn JUSMUUUUANAAOERAUUUH UAL OAM AODAAOAAUAA ELAS AOULAU Gu taou as utteda sn404 ubinsvoscuan ss CAtMt OULD tase a oa} AUNTIE 2 Mu tec en tee Another scene of the destrue- struction charged against the inhabitants of a sinful world. The partial destruction of Shechem brought to mind, not the fact that this place is hardly a fifth-rate city by the standards of the fast-moving world, but the feeling that something sacred and priceless was in dire distress. So long as the world ex- ists, the Holy Land will be a shrine treasured by millions who believe in Jeeus Christ and the things he preached. Its soil and its history and its traditions are hallowed. At the time of the holo- caust a determined move- ment was under way to keep the. Cradle of Chris tianity from becoming a sort of holy waste-place; to rehabilitate it and its citizens without destroying any of its glory. The news of ake brought the fear that the desolation of this land might tend to the loss of its meaning to the world. Waiter: And would you like a demi-tasse, Miss? Quick Lunch Waitress: Er—Sure, and a cup of black coffee. NN NUNTINOUULUUNUUAUONUANANAEODOCUATEROSONAVEAAOOUU UAE Jonathan Swift-Love Coward Famous Loves Of Lovers lonathan wift,. . . Put himself beyond love, killed one woman, tortured another, BY ANTHONY PRAGA JU might call Swift an unconscious murderer, a man who killed a woman by an emotional oversight, and tortured ane from the = ae me is re was in a negation o! sym ‘ j thies, a carefully cultivated negation. He tried to put himself beyond love, Fe'developed a philosophy in which there was.no place for a generous accept. ance of life; he sought coldly to escape life's consequences. But he could not, and the consequences overtook him, falling first on the women whom he might have loved, and then, hi , on himself. Swift is Christian name was Jonathan) was born in Dublin in Novem- ber, 1667. His paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Dryden, aunt of the poet, his mother was related to Herrick, author of the ‘Hesperides. Life from the beginning was net kind to Jonathan, for his father had al- ready bon Fie a“ yy he was a, 06 Be ca me the rem- nants of a ly that was ting an uneven , ty. Tn 4 litle Hane Di, Silt secucnaa fe bores Je Celcom, and her son was left in the care of her brother-in-law, Godwin Swift. HIS man was harsh and unfeeling, and the bey, developing early a high T and independent spirit, suffered keenly as a result. The uncle made of charity to his nephew a Lgey mr and a reproach, and although oes ie ee a seed school. “tl yed ele skill eit ies. : on jater at Trinity . Dublin, i “special grace, and in after years he blamed his relative's poh so for his careless and un- successful | days. ae : He was still at the university when he met his “Varina”—Jane Waring, the sister of a fellow student—and fell in love with her. Aan intense emotion a which was c inevitable!) error of giving him oe advice, This lasted for a time, and then, naturally, came a i o (Copyright, 1928, NEA Magazine) ANAC NN AA STULL Nc Hester Veanhomrigh. . . passion became a violent thing, brought despair and death. - Then, in 1699, Sir William Temple died, leavi with on pe Tagale die loving ial, wa Three Women ee Were Made Wretched By His Stubborn Refusal To Return Their A ffections There comes the moment when her feelings alter, and she and her lover change places. Tt is now the woman who pleads, and the man who re- fuses, although Swift did not make his refusal categorical. He was either tired of his love for Jane Warieg: or fixed in his imistic pl sceorhe, perhay th. And the resul was that Swift, embarrassed by the attentions of a woman for whom he no longer cared, dis- ectanaied himself by playing rig. ‘rina could not stand it. ti i and with that vanished from his life. yumiliation rejection Swil met ol women were to suffer so much at his hands: Esther Johnion—'‘Stelle” Oe, san etait th Sin Wee aa was living under the protection e! whe, series Swift was empleyed, and at that time she was still a ; Sri ast ad ben, orders se met from love of the igious life), tutor, were soon on terme ah econ ‘Ths com on about twenty-six, his pupil abeut irteen. Ei jeer, a put on in hi 5 it in his frozen Paige not re f a thousand pounds, of Swi eo ey > epee was now re marred him wie see tae ee hehe ea ied Ne vas to grow passionate Passage of time. Swift, Mit Weiaes coed lave erred tea way. SWIFT, during one of his visits to London, met Hester Venhomrigh, the eldest daughter of a Dutch eo I the ii f Swift's life that, being in f he PRA oe gh es) ping Nyy ay og on “Vanessa” —Stella was lived over again; only with this difference: with Vanessa passion became a violent thi le thing that brought despair and death. Swift returned to Ireland, to be thats ey ‘anessa. The situation became acute. Vanessa attentions. Swift paid them in a measure. Stella was grief-strieken afd fads First, in order to make some amends to Stella; Swift agreed to s nominal Then Vanessa, tormented by her frustrated pasion, plunged into a head- long folly. She wrote to Stella, deelnteg i fa Ener bet toes i to Sante, and received the cha ing answer Sulla wert tee not, that was Stella's * she sent Swift Vanessa's letter. ift, furious, rode to Vanessa's houie, flung her, and rushed away from her forever. 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