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1927—PART 2. THE SUN’DAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 25, — The Story of Civilization (Continued from Third Page.) Athens passed into the hands of Cleon, a rich tanner, representative of the commercial Interests that wanted a “knockout blow"—ie., the utter de- struction of Sparta as competitor for the control of empire and sea. In a t play, “The Babylonians" B.C), anes took a fling at Cleon, such hypodermic effect that ¢ stratego prosecuted him and the burl A later play recalls kad him fined. e maxent: “And huW' C |r\-n |n‘v'|‘\|e‘ r'?r"n |-v\‘\“ oo muTw'::"me garsled his throat with lies Niagra'd me and slooshed me, ‘il almost With so much sewerage L gave up the ghost? The protagonist of the Ach: _\.n\x s the farmer Dicaopolis (City of Jus tce’”), who complains that hi: Tand: have been dsvastated by war and is aanxious to resume his pre-war indus- 1ry of selling wine. Tired of waiting for the politicians to bring peace, he proposes to make a separate treaty with Sparta. “Well. e s bravely, \d a chorus of |\mmlu mu,hlmls. » very s, even, I've m ‘ot e blame in every instance? how dare ye faces, to suppose He agrees to die if he cannot prove that Athens is as much to blame as Spar o hi Ping block, and he m kes his argu- ment with the understanding that hi hearers. it unconvinced, may sever his head from Mis body. As the argu- ment proceeds, the people of Acharnia divide into two groups, one for killing him and the other for declaring him 3 The war sroup calls in a “general. Lamachus, who at- 1 Di opolis with a spear, a; ainst which the farmer opposes his meat spit. The general, worsted. goes off in a huff to battle. Presently he re- anpears, defeated, wounded and pro- fane: no modern satire has ever so Jessly punctured the military type. ay ends with Diczopolis selling in the form of wine, to the Acharnians while they dance in revel- Ty with something of the released joy ¢ November 11, 1918, * ok % x In the following year Aristophanes continued_the attack, and this time aimed it directly at Cleon. The lead- ing character of the play is that fa- mous_political_nonentity, Demos, or the People. Demos is a rich house- holder. whose major domo is called the Tanner. Cleon is not named, but the allusions were understood by every auditor, including Cleon, him- self, who saw the play. The satire was =0 sharp and clear that no actor would take the part, for fear of the political recrimination; whereupon Aristo- with the audacity that made t, took the role himself. A slave, Nicias (the name of the va- cillating leader of the aristocratic party—the Lansdowne of 424 B. C.). tells his master Demos that he can find him a much better major domo than the Tanre: and announces that an oracle has told him that the next ruler of Demos’ household will be an offal seller. (A satire on Nicias' pro- pensity to superstition, and the manip- ulation of the temple oracles by politl- cizns.) An offal seller comes along, and the | aves hail him: Chief that shall be of our glorious Athens.” “Prithee,” says the offal seller, “let me go wash my tripes and sell my sausages; you make a fool of me.” But one Demosthenes assures him he has just the qualifications for rul- Ing the house of the People: is he not a rascal? And when some doubt arises 10 the effect that the offal seller may have some good quality which would unfit him for public office, Demosthe- nes asks anxiously, has the offal seller an education? He is reassured to find at the gentleman has no education at all; and therefor the offal seller is crowned major domo of Demos’ house. But the Tanner appears and pro- tests. A contest in adulation begins, to see which of -the candidates can yraise Demos more fluently. The ri- vals bring a feast of good things and lay them before Demos like a platter of preelection promises. The offal seller proposes that as a test of their honesty his locker and that of the Tanner should be mearched. In the Tanner’s locker a heap of succulent cGainties is found, in particular a mas- sive cake, from which he had cut only a tiny portion for Demos. The Tanner Alcibiades defeated him in a contest for the office of strategos, and plunged Athens into war with Sparta again. * ok K Kk Aristophanes and Socrates. Rehind the disintegration of Athe- nian public life, Aristophanes be- lieved, lay two insidious evils: Democ- racy and irreligion. Like Socrates and Nietzsche, he would have defined democracy as disbelief in great men; and, like them, he could see nothing in the “sovereignty of the people” ex- the sovereignty of politicians. ut though he had a sec for Socrates, he was convinced that the religious heresies of the great gad- fly had helped to loosen those mu ds which had once made for in- cha cter and y. He liked to sit in the S company (as in P ymposium), and_exchange mer ts with the old master of del hut at the same time he made uproarious fun of the new philosophy, of it plitting logic and nebulous me play which ates himself enjoyed— “The Clouds” B.C). As the play opens we find an old- fashioned gentleman by the name of Strepsiades, who is looking for * way of paying old debts,"—i. e of not paying them at all. He is de- lighted to hear that Socrates operates a Thinking Shop, where one v learn to prove that anything is Ilph( even if it is wrong. So he goes t this “School of Very Hard Thinker In the middle of the classroom he sees Socrates suspended from the ceiling in a basket, engrossed in thought, and some of the students bending down with noses to the ground. * % % X In another scene we have the son of Strepsiades, Phidippides, meeting, in personification, Just Argument and Unjust Argument. Just Argument tells him_to be like the men of Mara- Unjust Argument preaches Nietzsche to him. What good, he argues, have men ever gained by jus. tice, or virtue, or moderation? For one honest sucgessful and respected man he can name ten dishonest suc- cessful and respected men. Take, for example, the gods, who stole, lied, murdered, and committee adultery on the slightest provocation, and in re- tyrn_have been worshiped by all the Greeks. When Just Argument doubts that most successful men are dishon- est Unjust Argument asks him “Come, now, from what class do our lawyers spring?” Well, from the blackgua; Surely. 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The old imption that this at- tack on Socrates was one cause f the philosopher's condemnation to long since been abandoned. was brought out 24 years before the famous trial. 1Its good- humored satire does, not seem to have offended Socrates; he stood (as we have told) throughout the perform- ance, to give his enemics a better shot; doubtless he enjoyed the farce as much as any man; and his friend Plato did not hesitate to recommend “The Clouds” to King Dionysius as a jolly play. Laughter does not kilf, it cleanses. What a hoon it would be to philosophy today if some one could laugh it out from its graveyards_of dead disputes into the sunshine dnd merriment of life! * k% X Aristophanes and Euripides. But there was another target at which Aristophanes aimed his satire; and in this case with intent to kill. For Avistophanes, unlike the great martyr of philosophy, was a conserva- tive “ayistocrat, not an aristocratic radical; his ideal was the old-fash- ioned Athenian who had fought at Marathon and had loved his cities and his gods without asking ques- tions. He despised the new-fangled skepticlsm of the sophistis, the socialism that was beginning to ap- pear among the slaves, and the in- dividualism_that was wrecking Athens under the ip and example of Alcibiades; above all he scorned the alternate misogyny and feminism, the ality and rhetoric of Iuri- This man he set out to de- He began with a play called “The Thesmorphoriazusae” @11 B.C), from the women who annually assembled s to celebrate the Thesmo- feast of Ceres and Prose They discuss the latest diatribe of Euripides against their sex, and plan revenge. Euripides wind of the proceedings, and iades his uncle, Mnesilochus, to as a woman and enter the meet- ing to defend him. A woman_complains that Euripides has deprived her of a living: She had made wreaths for the temples, but since Euripides had shown that there were no gods the temple business had gone to pieces. Mnesilochus, rising to the defense, pursues an un- expected line of argument: Euripides should be let off because, first, his worst sayings about women are pal- pably, visibly and audibly true, and because, again, the charges are mild compared to what women themselves know to be the truth. The ladies suspect (though here Aristophanes shows an _imperfect knowledge of the sex) that this tra- ducer of womanhood cannot be a woman; they tear his disguise from the face of Mnesilochus, and he saves himself from being scratched to death only by snatching a babe from a woman's arms and threatening to cut STEAMSHIPS. _ SOUTH AMERICA Pour lusuriously appointed 21.000 oty T gh I OTIAN'I‘OS MO.' EQ and BUENOS AIRES. MERICAN LEGION PAN AMERICA SOUTHERN CROSS WESTERN WARLD. 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Having attacked Kuripides for dis- like of the expensive sex, Arist phanes turns about, with comic pr ilege, and attacks him for favoring the emancipation of women, for join- ing Plato and Pericles In their efforts to remove the disabilities that limited all honorable women in ancient and for playing so persistently hose communist Utopas that were so prevalent in the last year of the war, they were in our own magnificent kolocaust. In a middling play called “The clesiazusae” (393 B.C), 1. e he Alderwomen,” a clever suffragette, Praxagora, berates her female friends as fools for letting themselves be ruled by such dolts as men. She practices a fiery speech, arranges a meetlng and proposes laws nationalizing c thing but toil. But she concludes with a car exception: “All labor and toil to your slaves you will leave.” In the famous comedy of “The Birds” (414 B.C) the attack on Uto- pia continues, Two citizens who de: spair of Athens climb their w abode of the birds, hoping there to dis- cover the finest way of life. With the help of the birds they build a Utopian city, Nephelococeygla—Cloud-Cuckoo- Town—the great bird city. All sorts of unbidden guesf get in, poets, priests, sooths metricians, lawyers and sycophants; but they are driven out. New gods are invented in the image of the b nd those made in the image of man re deposed. *“No poet, not even Sh 1 ley,” says Symonds, “has exceeded the choruses of “The ‘Bird: Clouds' in swiftness, condensed imagination. alone in his _“Midsumme Dream’ and ‘The Tempest deron, in some of his dramas, carries us away into some enchanted land, where the air is purer and the skies ave larger than in our world, whej s are close above our heads and dazzling fire- flies ave tangled in the meadow grass beneath our feet.” But in the end Aristophanes dreams ot a Utopia_himself. There was one thing that he hated far more than Socrates and Euripides; it was those middle classes which had undone the old aristocratic rule of Solon and Per- icles; it was their money-grabbing that disgusted him beyond bearing and made him lament that under such leadership Athens would never g produce an schylus or build a try to s, geo- thenon. Utopla would be where they should be put in place, * Kk X ¥ In his last play (388 B.C) he per- sonifies wealth as Plutus, and shows how much more powerful this god s than Jupiter: “What do men offer prayer and sacrifice to Jove for but for ‘money? Money is the true ruler alike of gods and men.” Had he not shown, in ‘The Iccleslazusae” (178) that even the statues of the gods held out their hands for money? Various veople address Plutus: “Do not men go to parliament thrcugh you? Who swells the navy estimates but you? Why are bad novels written ‘but for you? * ¢ ¢ And Lais loves that lout—and all for you! * * * Of all things comes #a- tiety. W tire of love, of loaves, of music, sweetmeats, of honor, cheese- cakes, bravery, dried figs, ambition, biseuits, high command, pea soup; of you alone is no man filled too ful The only trouble is that Plutus is hlind, and Chremylus proposes to have him go to the Temple of Aesculapius and have his eyesight restored. Plu- tus goes and comes back with eye- sight clear, resolved now to make only honest men rich. In a trice all things ara changed, and Utopia begins to march out wpon the stage. People now prosper through decency better than through thrift, and in ‘a short time all Athens is crowded with virtue. Strange to say, the temples are de- serted, and Mercury comes to Chremy- lus to complain that nobods any attention to the gods more. Chremylus advises him to quit the service of Jupiter and join the staff of Plutus. Finally the priests them- sclves desert the temple and ask for honest work, and all ends in a chorus of praise of the new and happy world that has come with the reign of Plutus of the Clear Ey * ok ok K not find here much positive philosophy, and perhaps we have no right to expect it of Aristophanes. His task was different. Like Voltaire, r. to attack and_politics, the ugline: the greed of imperialism and atality of war. He did it magnificently, so well .000 years, his blows teach s it would have heen better for him to side with Sec- rates and Euripides and seek a solu- tion forw rather than an alliance of aristocrats and peasantry. But he did what he could—he annihilated with laughter. It is dishonor to him that he failed. are apt to fail, be- cause they attempt unprecedented things. The great satirist needed all his laughter to hear the sight of his city driven at last to defeat, sur- render and humiliation. The revolt of the slaves in the silver mines of Laurium had disrupted Athenian finance; the flight of thousands of ex- ploited workers to 8 rta (another evil seems always better than our own) had weakened the army in num- ber and morale, and the defection of ‘We may STEAMSHIPS. " YORK flllfl un tarse, uludzm. comiortable In 50-" o, Excelieat Cormie shurt route. through bookinks. to_principal po in Scandinacia. 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The victorious Spartans imm: diately blockaded Athens, and the once rich city, whose industrial develop- ment had made it dependent upon im- ported food, began to starve to death. She surrendered (402 B.C.), and one of the most destructive wars that history has known came to a disastrous end. Even the victors were exhausted and doomed to an early decay. In Athens poets remained, and artists and phi- losophers, but they knew well that the glory of their city would never return. When Aristophanes died, in 385 B.C the greatest civilization in the record of man was about to come to an end. (Copyright. 1927, by Will Durant.) CLIFTON. IFTON, Va., December g The Presh will hold_its Christmas tainment Monday night. Sprake Preaching her 24 for high Decatur Hefghts and_in will_be bought from V gruder. It contains 1 the purchase price tion chool. nier will Asher. It will contain 6 acres. cost boundary of Mount 24 (Spe- | street. Payment will tree enter- Mrs. Joseph -am. es at the Baptist Church will be advanced one hi tomorrow night, beginning at 6:4 order that Rev. C. . Taylor may | for buildings will be catch an early t or Alexandria. t Legislature, The Baptists held their Christmas v, 1929. celebration last night under the dire orge N. Palm tion of Mrs. Pyles, Mrs. Fanny M Iward Kincheloe and” Miss Alice Mantiply. | b It opened with a hymn by the audi- ence, Scripture reading and prayer by Rev. C. E. Taylor, a “Welcome” by Lillian Weaver, song_by the choir, [ 2V recitation, “Advice to Dolly,” by Dor- | private othy Mathers; recitation, “What|School. Grandma Says,” by Idell Spindle. A Dr. C. F. pantomime, “Bethlehem,” was 1 physician 1 sented by Lilllan Weaver, VivianSuit Ritchie phy: Hart, Madge LaDue, Idell Spindle, [ almshouse, H-len Buckley and Frankie Riordan. | Susie Several boys and girls gave a dialogue, followed by a wreath drill by Doris Fulton, Edith Curtis, Eugenia Buck- ley, Elizabeth Ruff and Lucille John- | the and “erve territory erected in both commun! road east Robert L. Spindle by Georges County Orphan: Under direction of the UPPER MARLBORO. UPPER MARLEORO, Md., Decem- (8pecial). — Prince County commissioners at their meet- ing Tuesday approved the resolution recently adopted by the county board | of education, approving the purchase | = school sites of property Georges nier. The proverty in Decatur Fleights | (70 ] and | is $15,000. The money will be taken from the $30.000 now in hand for erection of an addi to the Bladensburg Elementary The property in Mount Rai- be bought from Ulman $6,000 and will The property is in the Klein tzact nearest the northwest Rainier and ex- -second be made from the $20.000 now In hand for the pur- chase of a site for a_high school hetween Hvatts the District of Columbia tends from Thirtieth to Thirt “to Junior-zenior high schools will Money sought from the which meets Jan- James Berry and Woods have heen appointed the commissioners to examine and | G report whether public convenience re- «uires the opening of a public road beginning at Lusby's corner, Central enue, and running with the present to Pine Grove Maguire was appointed n to the county jail and Dr. sician to the eeunty each for one vear. Anne Spindle ha pointed administratrix of th been ap- estate of Prince * Court. town com- missioners a handsome pine the terrace of the home of r. and Mra. Frank Scrivener here hae heen decorated for a community Chriatmas tree. It will be illuminated a+ night Various groups have poieit singing exercises a Christma tarnabas tree oM anned the tres, vices wili ne Chureh, ¢ in | MOTTOW morning at A service night. held ristrnas p Thursday Sunday school pupil« Chrigimas entert Hill Methodist Episcopal Cn day at 7:30 p.m. Committees on Carnival Committees in chargs of the rapni val to be given by the wamen o1 ot Thomas' Church at Croome § day are: Snpper — M Hardy, Mrs, Haden, Mr 4 trady, Mrs. A. B. Duley, Mrs Burroughs, Mra. Claude Ta5r, Harry T n, Mrs. W. H Miss Johns Waods, Miss L Mra. Burns W i 2 Decora & Perey Mrs. he nch, Miss Blanche Og) bbons, Miss Cora Stamp, Miss Ma Agnes Duley and the M. Frank Hardy is in cha A pageant_entitled the Gifta” will be p ove Cnurch, near 30 p.m. __ RESORTS. S e~ -r’wv—‘vw‘{'?'.) A fi'I'F AMSHIPS. son. Elaine Mock gave a recitation, | = “Merry Christm: ;. 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