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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JULY 17, 1924. "REMEMBER, I'LL TREAT YOU AS A FRIEND, NOT AS A DOCTOR" gnrrfilp Pails Some day they will wake up to I be fact that true freedom of political thought exists only south of their southern border. And also that the people never know what is good for I hem.

Then Ottawa will decide, not Regina or Edmonton. And then will Ihe ranks of the teetotalers be cdosed again to restrain the impetuous who have the nerve to believe that political freedom Implies personal liberty as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. as in general appearance as any Wall Street broker. It in plpRnant to know that Li.iug i an optimist about China, that he txpppts bnnrlitry to be put down, though' stories nhout it bavo been greatly cxaggprateil that he paints the Chinese people as peaeeful ami fairly prosperous1. eouiiug from Tlin, be Is an optiuiift.

En. rope's future. Ho thinks Geruiany "ill not want to go to nar again for at least ten years. He says he tvat ii ii. (i montb tthoreaftrr.

ami percent interest i harged on ilie un-1 a ill balance. The Mock carries 0 percent dividends. It is a good 111 ostrnent for those who have faith in Ihr company's fiiturp, as most Brock -lynites linvp. If the offer is taken Hip workers will harp invested in I'll property and to that degree will hp niploying thcnisch es. Tliet this condition is marki'l ailvniitng" in avniilini of labor troublpH is prnvpil liy many lilp pxporftupjits WmwmimM-ww Ki 0mMJff Hits r.

9 lyn. July 17, 1887. It may be that, in somebody's collection of curiosities, Well, Well Seen a Shower of Froggies Lately? Fate of World Hangs on Discovery irotjnnl by I. at'. ar iTral Uik H.Kh THL'flSDAT RVKSI.Vli.

IT Entneii th- KiooMvn I'Matorttt a a betond Olasa Mail Matter. THE ASSO UIKII PHESS KVVS. The I -x hjanly entitled to the una fur r-publM-a ion of nil llewa di.pat, lies lu op not otherwise tre.lne.J thi." an! alt-o am loral nm of a ii-ouK puL-l't-herl herein. AM rights i i-pnbi of ape, t.l d.epatih-a heiein ai eerved. Thia raper has clri-u'atton l.aiBer'han thai of any other Evening 1'ar'r of I'laaa in th t'ntied Stalea.

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Tlaxmond tl'jnn'enn. Serreta ry. MAIN UFFHE Building. Wa slt'ngtnn and nn etteete Telephone No Main. KfBSt'Rlf'TION BATES.

Three Cent Dal'y. Five C-nta Sunday, by Mail Pottpmd (Outaide Brooklynl. 1 1 mo. I :no.l Pallv and Sunday iis.10 It 30 I'allv onlv I 1 Sunday only S- Mond.v lermnn Thur.dav icheaa 1 Saturday iChureh NotK-esi 1-' lurt. Wei.

or Frt 1 4 Foreign Retea Po.tpal.1 Pal'y and Sunday Sundav nn.v Monday 8 0 5 Eag't Library. Tear. Library, Alir-anae tl.TS I Tear. mm Eaale A Itna nac Jinn SENATOR WHEELER'S CONSISTENCY. Senator Wheeler of Montana.

a free and irrepressible votehunrir. has every right to bolt the Democratic ticket and take the stump for Senator La Follette, but he puts a strain upon logic when he explains that his action is demanded by consistency. Mr. Wheeler finds that he cannot consistently support John W. Dai is, hut.

on the other hand. I oan support Senator La Fol-lerte." While Mr. Wheeler cannot con-! istentl.v support Mr. Davis he finds it altogether consistent to declare that he is still a Democrat in Montana, where he will work for the re-election of Senator Walsh and the Democratic ticket. Senator Walsh and the other Montana Democrats who will receive help from Senator Wheeler will support Mr.

Davis, while he will divide his efforts. He will help Senator La Follette a little while he indirectly helps Mr. Davis a little. This kind of consistency will probably be common enough during the campaign. La Follette himself will hov the same brand.

He will a Republican here and a Democrat there, in return for like favors. A close examination will show that there is a consistency in this form of political maneuvering in tnat these lfho find it expedient to divide their allegiance expect to help themselves. When Senator Wheeler says he cin-not support Mr. Davis but can and will support Senator Walsh he means imply that he thinks lie has better chance of Improving his own fortunes by this plan than by any other. Mr.

La Follette is popular among voters In Montana who have supported Senator Wheeler in the post. Mr. Dnvis is, so far. an unknown quantit.v there. Senator Walsh is also popular among the Wheeler followers.

It was therefore easy for Mr. Wheeler to make his decision. There was not. however, any reason at all for the absurd statement given out by Senator Wheeler attacking the Democratic Convention for nominating John W. Davis.

"The nomination of Mr. Davis," declares Senator Wheeler, "was brought about in the hope it would make possible a big campaign fund." There were a good many conflicting motives at the Democratic Convention, but this is the first time it has been charged that the tired delegates who finally turned to the Davis candidacy were driven to do so by the hope of raising a big campaign fund. Even Mr. Bryan, who was the most active opponent of Mr. Davis, never suggested this motive.

This charge breaks down at two points, on both of which Mr. Wheeler might have been reassured. It is commonly charged that this Government has been dominated by an unholy alliance between Wall Street and Big Business, which seek a high tariff as a subsidy. John W. Davis is the enemy of special privilege in every form, but Ii" is utterly opposed to the protectionist tariff theory.

How much money does Mr. Wheeler imagine the manufne'uring end allied interests would contribute to help elect a man who will renter attacks upon the Republican tariff? As for campaign funds in general. Senator Wheeler should remember that his friend ami defender. Senator i Borah, is chairman of a special ei.iu-mlttre that intends to cheek up on campaign contributions and expenditures every ten days between now and November. He might have waited a little while before making this par-ti'Ular attack upon Ihe Democratic nominee in order tu show bis confidence In Senator Borah.

The i 1 1 1 ether reason advanced by Senator Wheeler for his desertion nf that part of the Demoeratic ti'lief that will hurt him least is the familiar one that Mr. Davis has had J. Plerpont Morgan for a client. Sen-ator Wheeler is still facing that he illegally represented cerMiu rfw in Montana. We do not rr tie minted i'ue law in taking the isum that are named in this charge, mid v.e do not believe that he should be i rifielzcl for representing oil companies.

Vet there is as much ground for criticizing Senator Wheeler for his legal connect as there is for his charges Mr. Davis, (STOCK FOR H. K. T. EMPLOYEES.

There seems to be no ad ro rnmouflago in the I). -p. 'Vfer of shares of its preferred ock to :4.0.no emplovees, to bp pir chased ou the Instalment plan, $3 told by derma bankers that they np- proved and would support the Danes repnrmbms plan. Liaug-Sblh-YI is a world observer, intelligent and rofieetiviv Behind his calm are the long centuries of Confucian traditions, of universal courtesy, of truth, of art, of honesty. That we might learn something from him and something from China ii a thought that, might commend itself to a philosopher, it wp really had a philosopher In America.

SCANDINAVIA IN BROOKLYN. There is pleasure and pride for Brooklyn It the (act thar the rrooklyn Museum keeps pace with and is in touch with manifold phases cf the borough's development. This is strikingly illustrated in the effort Curator William H. Fox is making for a Scandinavian section and ilie trip to Sweden, Norway and Denmark In pursuance of that effort from which he has just returned. Danes, Swedes and Norwegians have much in common despite many points of differentiation.

Fifty years ago, even twenty-five years ago, tney constituted a relatively small segment of Brooklyn's population. It is net so now. Living In large numbers down in the Gowanus and Red Hook sections and In some other waterfront territory, they emphasize the fact that these Nordics are first of all sea goers. But scattered all over (ho bor ough are skilled carpenters, builders, metal workers and professional men of the same racial stock. Danish churches.

Swedish churches. Norwegian churclies of different denominations are open every Sunday with preaching in the old language. Yet these people are good loyal Amor leans and flue citizpns. thrifty, clei.n-living. industrious, temperate and forward-looking.

They will appreciate the Museum permanent exhibit. Mr. and Mrs. Fox have purchased in all three countries specimens of rustic of upper-class and of modern decorative art. representative of what is being done without machinery in Scandinavian lands.

When, in October. 1-tLT', the Paris exposition closes, by consent of the three governments the Scandinavian exhibits will coine to Brooklyn and from here will be sent to other points In the United States. Mr. Fox announces that several private collectors, including Prince Eugene of Sweden, will lcid some of their treasures. It is a sill.v sort of chauvinism that would deny to people from other lands the right to be proud of rlie civilization from which they sprang.

In a sense such civilization is tlifir best gift to Americanism. CO-OPERATIVE WHEAT SELLING. Students of trade combinations in the United States find a unique type in the arrangement just entered into by an organization of wheat erow-ets to buy for 52S.000.000 the plants of five great grain elevators, and control storage in Chicago. It is said that has already been paid in and the scheme is going through. No person not a wheat raiser may become a director of the elevator corporation.

Under the terms of the Federal anti-trust law organizations of farmer'' are exempt from its operation. Probably if capitalists had done hat (lie wheat farmers are attempting prosecutions might have ensued. Nothing of the sort Is possible here. Indeed all parties and all factions in America are friendly to co-operation. Bankers are not unfriendly.

Simultaneously with the news of Ihe Chicago experiment comes the announcement that the Federal Loan Board in Washington has reduced from 5' to 3 percent the interest charged ou direct loans to co-operative institutions. Altogether the loans to such bodies amount to $38,000,000 in the whole country. Unwholesome is the "sky-rocketing'' of wheat on rumors of short crops in Canada. Unwholesome is most "sky-rocketing." That the new elevator combination will do much to stabilize prices is a point in its favor. The farmers have no use for Pit gamblers.

Speculation is no part of the motive that brings them into the wheat-selling business. BACKSLIDING CANADIANS. Another citadel of teetotalism has joined the ranks of the backsliders. Saskatchewan, one. of Canada's western provinces, has decided by popular vote, emphatically to go wet, with government supervision.

The citizens who live on the hanks of the Saskatchewan have thus Joined hands with their brothers across the border in the prairie province of Alberta. It is difficult to comprehend thp attitude of these Canadians. In this country we do things better. We do not leave it to the States to decide whether they shall have liquor ith "no drinking on the premises." Congress takes no chances with a stiff necked and perverse generation. We have an amendment to the Con- lltution which cannot be changed for eais and which, tinder the high moralities prevailing among Congn ss-men ith fences to mend, stands no chnce of being repealed.

What do these Canadian provinces want, anyhow? Self-determination ou the liquor question? How Hilly. A FREE LANCE HOI P0LL0I STYLIST. John R. Coryell, collaborator anil admirer of Ambrose Bierce, author of something like a thousand stories and mazaglne articles, passes at the age of 7(1. He will be classed perhaps with "Old 8leuth" Harlan P.

Halsey and Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey. whose sponsor he was with the firm of Street Smith. But really his range was wider than thelm. He could be a "Nick Carter" or he could be a Bertha M. Clay on occasion.

He was the first "Nick Carter." till Dcy took the job. He had something of Bierce's in articles, and St. Nicholas bad found his storlps for little children worth printing. "Nothing offended him so much as an attempt at 'fine says the editor who handled most of his later matter: "simplicity was his God, and he had the ability to write stories that any one, learned or illiterate, could pick up and enjoy." Incidentally it may be said that Frank A. Munsey actually based the foundations of his business success on that same facility, writing most of the stories that made the Golden Argosy attractive to common folk Munsey worked for himself, and got the rewards of his work.

Coryell was a free lance most of his life, and always a hot pollol st.vlist. It is the fashion of those who think they make "literature" to look down on what the public generally finds most pleasure in. They never think to make comparisons. For example the number of persons who have read Laura Jean Libbey might be set up against the number who have tackled Thomas Hardy or William Dean Howells with impressive dramatic effect, In our judgment the popular lictionist has his or her own place in letters. Offenses to moral sentiment are not found in this field.

Offenses to taste may be condoned, on the ground that it is better to read some thing than to read nothing, and that those who enjoy "Nick Carter" and Eertha M. Clay ill never revel in Galsworthy or Anatole France. THE STONE OF DESTINY. It is true that, as related in Genesis xxviiiilS. Jacob, after he had seen the angels ascending and descending on the ladder, "rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillow and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upou the lop of it." But that this stone was of Scotch sandstone, and Is the identical one that has seen the coronation of Celtic and Pictish and Scotch and English Kings for so many centuries could only be accepted by a Scotch mind like that, of David Kirkwood, M.

P. Kirkwood wants the stone returned to Scone Scotland from West minster. And strangely enough his hill wins on a first reading vote in Commons by 201 to 171. Scone was the ancient capital of Pictavia. It.

had Moot Hill, where the Picts assembled in a sort of par liament, called the "Hill of Belief" from the legend that the acceptance of the Christian faith was first promulgated there. It did not have the "Scone Stone" till about 900 A. when Kenneth, whose reign marked the merging of the Scots and the Picts, brought it from Ireland, where it had for perhaps five centuries bei-n associated with the crowning of Celtic kings at Dunstaffenase Castle. That at some time it hud been brought from Scotland to Ireland geologists are ready to swear. There is no Scotch sandstone in Jacob's former habitat However, the Scotch have a notion that where this stone goes Scotland will be dominant.

Edward I of England didn't know this when be tor the relic from Scone in 1206 and deposited it at. Westminster, where it lias lain under the coronation chair. Three Stuart Kings. James Charles 1 and Charles II, were crownei at Scone, though the stone was in England, but they brought Caledonia to the front just the same. Reflections this phase of history have made members of Parliament more, willing to let the Stone of Destiny back.

If Scotch domination can be removed from English politics. English thought and English letters by so simple a device, much will have teen accomplished for pan-Anglicanism. Tammany, and especially the Gas House District, go too for when the Board of Aldermen establishes an "Anawanda Park" In Ridgew-ood. To that degree the late Charles F. Murphy, head of the Anawandas, never sought to enlarge bis phylactery.

The zeal nf Leader Al Hohley in the Fourth District and Leader John R. Crews In the Fifth for Cnolidge may be more or less hampered. Sheriff Harman, a Democrat, has found a Job for each of them. Politically speaking a bird in hand Is worth two In the bush. There's no avoiding the thought that th Jl.noo.nort sent by the Rockefeller Foundation to assist in rebuilding the University of Toklo should be a sort of international emollient.

Japan cannot help belus sewhere. The one that has been at- mpted in Philadelphia with sucrrss niuili nmre rangerul than the H. M. T. proposition.

Citizens generally want the B. M. T. to be prosperous, and know that eiherw-ise it cannot be progressive. Also they want, continuous service without breaks caused by strikes, whether the strikes are violent or not.

They therefore have gmid reason for approving the instalment stock sales to all the B. M. T. orkor. OUR CITY OF DREADFUL STREETS.

No finer example of waste of taxpayers' money could he found than the holes in Coney Island avenue, put thorp the day after paving operations were completed. According to the rules of city departments, nothing can be done. So long as a builder obtains a permit to dig. none can stop him. As a consequence the thank-you-nia'ams which greet motorists all ever the borough continue in undiminished numbers.

Lack of co-opera-lion is responsible for our "city of dreadful streets." New York is not alone in thl senseless s'ate of Recently a noble bml arose in the British House of Lords to Inform his peers he had won a bet that he could send a team of t.hovelers into any prominent London street, dig a hole and have no authority question his right. The reason for this, he explained, was that each city department thought one of the others was doing the work. Something of the same topsy-turvy condition prevails in New York. It is hard to find one principal thoroughfare that is not torn up some-nhere along its route. It would not be so bad if an honest attempt were made to patch over the holes, once Ihcy are filled, ith patches' which would stay put.

But the result of i he first rainstorm Is to make new itches a series of bumps. It. is about tune that some energetic official took upon himself the task of co-ordinating new building operations ith new mad work. There are enough silly vnys of disbursing the taxpayer's money without permitting indiscriminate tearing up of streets and the ruination of new roads. JUDGE MAYER'S RETIREMENT.

The resignation of Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals to lake ef fect August 1 has been forwarded to Washington. The jurist offers no explanation, but adds that he will iiereafrer be the senior member of the law lirni of Mayer. Warfield Watson. We are inclined to think, how.

ever, that the explanation credited to a close personal friend was not without the judge's sanction. If so, inadequacy of Federal Judges' salaries was oniy a secondary Influence in bringing about the resignation. The at interests for which he has bp-oiiie responsible through Federal receiverships have strained even his tine physique. His industry has been tireless. And his fearlessness has involved continuous and often hostile criticism.

Indeed we Imagine that no judge on the Federal Bench has been more misunderstood than Julius M. Mayer. His decisions In receivership matters intended to protect investors in public utilities, necessarily a minority interest, from political-majority attacks in (he form of State laws which the judge regarded as confiscatory will be long debated by lawyers and laymen. They are debatable. But that, they are the logically matured sequel of the earlier decisions of Mr.

Chief Justice Marshall will not be denied by students. As Jefferson attacked Marshall so many JetTersoni-ans attack Mayer, but not otherwise. Politically Judge Mayer may now' resume his status as a real force in the Republican organization of Manhattan. He fought Mayor Strong. He clashed with Mayor Low, whu nevertheless appointed him a judge of Special Sessions to succeed Wil- Main Travers Jerome, elected District Attorney.

He fought the present boss-, Samuel S. Koenig, In Kill and was beaten. He left politics behind when he went on the Federal Bench, and his record is clean "as a hound's tooth," to use a Rooseveltian expression. His future will be wc-Jl worth watching. A CHINESE STATESMAN HERE.

"N'o one in China has asked me to borrow money In America and I have no wish to borrow- any for myself." is the answpr of Llang-Shib-Yi to a quest inn whether he was hnre to negotiate a loan. He has evidently a sense nf humor. He also has resources enough not. to worry much over the salaries or the maintenance of his two secretaries. He speaks only Chinese.

Yet be will learn much on his trip across the continent from New York to San Francisco. Every loan arranged by China "bile Liniir was Premier has lieen met promptly, prim Inn) "ml interest. If he hopes, as If is said, to lie elected President of the Celestial Republic for the next full term, his ambition is not absurd. Indeed he seems about the sort of man that China needs, per-Icips the sort of man that the world needs Stoutly built, aged with g'ay hair and gray mustache, he's IJNCUSAitte1 UNOFFICIAL grateful despite her more or less justified indignation toward the United States as a nation. Lord Renfrew salts August 23 for the United States.

Who is Lord Renfrew? If any Y'ankee boy ten years old doesn't know the face of the Prince of Wales, he ought to be spanked. So much for an "incognito." FORTUNATE DEADLOCKS If History Means Anything, 103 Ballots Insure Democratic Walkover. Editor Brooklyn Daiiy Eagle: SOME persons not students of American politics have professed to see In the deadlocked Democratic National Convention of a week ago (103 ballots to nominate a candidate) an unfavorable augury for Democratic success this year. Deadlocks are no new thing in American politics, and the notion that they are generally injurious to the party affected by them is a mistake. The New York Legislature In 1881, which had a Republican majority, bad a deadlock lasting from May 16 to July 16.

Them were 48 ballots to choose a United States Senator. At the succeeding election In November the Republicans carried the State by 13.000 majority. In the New Tork Legislature of 1511, which was Democratic, there vas a deadlock over the choice of United States Senator lasting from Jan. 10 to March 31. Notwithstanding, the Democrats carried the State at the ensuing general election.

The Democratic Na tional Convention of 1880 was bar-) monlous; only three ballots were taken. In the Republican National Convention In Chicago that year there was a deadlock lasting 35 ballots, during which the Grant-for-Presldent 308 stalwarts, as they were called, refused to recede.1 The deadlock was broken on the thirty-sixth ballot and the Republicans carried, subsequently, the election. Earlief. in 1852. the Democrats had a deadlocked national convention in Baltimore.

There were 48 ballots without a choice. On the 49th ballot Franklin Pierce of New Hamp- thire was nominated and was subse. quently elected. He had 254 electoral votes. His opponent, chosen harmoniously, had only 42.

Mr. Wilson, in Baltimore, in 1912. was chosen on the 48th ballot after the Convention had been deadlocked, Congressman Champ Clark having received on the 16th billot 551 votes of the 1088 votes cast a majority, but not two-thirds. Mr. Wilson, the nominee of the deadlocked Convention, was subsequently elected.

ERNEST HARVJER. New York, July 15, M'24. Campaign Against Cancer tWestnitnatr IF It be true that the cause of cancer is a micro-organism, the belief of the general practitioner that It Is a. communicable but not an hereditary disease Is reinforced. What is certain about cancer Is that we are gradually gathering together a vast body of knowledge about It.

that we know the channels by which It marches from one part of the body to another, and that we have a certain number of general Ideas as to the course of lite we should adapt to avoid it entirely, for the rest, it is Inevitable we should await with son-e impatience more n-ws about a discovery which, if confirmed, would lift a very dark shadow from the world. Some day, we cannot doubt. It will be lifted Whether the moment has arrived we cannot a.t present determine. If some of this flotsam from an un known world exists to this day. If anybody can send information to me.

at my present address, 39 Marchmont Russell Square, London, England, we may have more material for tin opening of such vistas as have not fluttered and urged In minds upon this earth since the period of 1492. OPPOSITION to this new research is: that there are no unknown worlds, probably relatively near this I earth: that, therefore, many strange I objects and substances cannot drift I from unknown worlds, or lands, sky ward. The new idea is to shift the I logic: that these things come if I from unknown worlds, perhaps ncai- bv: that, therefore, there niaj be I such worlds. CHARLES FORT. 23 Marchmont Russell Square, London.

England. A GUIDE'S PRAISE Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Just a few lines in behalf of your Brooklyn Daily Eagle Party, which has just ended its trip by auto in our unknown Southwest country, among the Indians and prehistoric villages of the unknown races. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Party is the largest and the first of lta kind to travel in this section of the country, and must say that this pary is the best that I have ever been out with and a great pleasure to me to be able to travel with theml out here. I am Just a guide of thisl Southwest section for years andl have taken many small parties onl various trips, and must say that H.I V. Kaltenborn has won the prize tnl describing the country at the camp- fire talks at Mesa Verde.

I will let the members of the! party be the judges of how they! were treated and taken care of onl their high-speed' trip through ourl country out West. My description of your party Itl that they are a party of good Ameri can scouts, young and old. LEO R. LEADEN (a Guide). Gallup, New Mexico, July 3, 19241 Freedom of Choice (Belton, Mo Standard.

Anybody who would rather right than President can usualbl have his way about it. Progress aunneaponi star. I Habit clings. The old-timer wlirl worked his way through college now working his son's way through! I After Southey. Hundrtda of vopi.

many of thm civnl Mm. hava kin-n in the fbjhtlns tio Paulo and the neighboring Brasilia-! country. New a. Now. Mr.

Correspondent, Your news is full of gore: Dut I would crv for reasons whv And scenes that went before Pray tell us all abet the war, And hat killed other fori Was government so wretched. And life so fraught with ill. In climate mild, where Nature smlleil As crops enriched Br-utUT Pray tell us what 'twas all about. And we shall understand, no doubtl But hopeless as old Casper In Southey'a Blenheim rhyme, Fierce Mr. Correspondent Sits pretty, marking time; He tells not what the cause may bl Behind defeat or victory! Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: UPON the 20th of June.

1887. a little carved stone fell from the sky at Tarbes, France. About a montb later the fail from the sky of an unknown substance was reported from Brooklyn. It may be that, about another month later, an object somewhat like the carved stone fell in England. I have hundreds of records of objects and substances and living things which, it is said, have fallen from the sky, several of the objects seemingly or obviously the products of means like human handiw-ork; many of the substances, and some of the living things, unknown upon this earth, all the data converging In their indications that often, sometimes a dozen times a year, flotsam from other worlds reaches the atmospheric coasts of this earth.

AS to all such phenomena, the attitude of conventional science Is to deny when It can reasonably deny, and sometimes to deny anyway, and then to disregard, or to assert that an object was upon the ground and was mistakenly supposed to have fallen from the sky. and then to disregard; or to explain that something had been picked up from one part of this earth's surface by a whirlwind and cast down somewhere else, and then to give no further consideration to the subject. But It may be that in these days of widening speculations, and of intolerable restrictions to emigration, or the need for new worlds for the restless populations of this earth, and the development of vessels which might reacii other worlds, if there be other worlds, this' general subject, with its hosts of data and its exciting indications, will have to be considered. Some day the little carved stone of Tarbes may be a historic object. In the records of this earth it may occupy a more definite place than that of the vague story of a carved paddle, which, we are told, once drifted to a coast of Europe and bo-came a datum for speculations which were opposed by all the dogmas oi the conventional science of the time.

THE French Academy of Science accepted that a little disk of stone, which had been cut Into shape by means of tools, did frill fron the sky at Tarbes. June 20. 18S7. See "Comptes Rendus." 1887. page 1S2.

I' was covered with Ice. The object was explained In accordance with the dogmas and the restrictions of ideas which prevailed almost 40 years ago. and -which continue to this day. of course: that the stone must have been picked up in a whirlwind from some other part of this earth's surface and then cast down at Tarbe. It was traced to no known whirlwind.

It fell alone, or unaccompanied by anything else such as a whirlwind would catch up with a little stone from this earth's surface. It may exist somewhere In France to this day. One suspects that dim hieroglyphics may some day be detected upon It and conceivably be translated. In the New Tork newspapers of July 18, 1857, was Reported the fall of the day bfore, In a thunderstorm In Brooklyn, of an unknown substance. It Is said to have been porous and plastic and of a vivid green.

Though at first plastic. It soon became brittle and friable. It resembled dfposiUonc upca a battery, but. according to analysis, there was no copper in it. IF, at this late date, this reported occurrence can be investigated, it may add another datum to the hosts of reports upon strange substances which have drifted from other worlds to the shores of this earth, despite every orthodox pronouncement, or disregard, as to the subject.

Once upon a time even the fall of stones now known as meteorites was denied by orthodox science. The French Academy of Science, late In the Eighteenth Century, supported Lavoisier's Investigations, if be did investigate, declared that stones did not fall from the sky. But early in the Nineteenth Century, Chladni collected and published all findabie and. after a while, it was accepted that stones do fall from the sky. The orthodox reasoning which at first opposed him was that there are no stones in the sky, that, therefore, stones do not fall from the sky.

Upon a former occasion there had been similar opposition to a new idea and similar reasoning: that there were no lands west of Europe: that, therefore, strange objects and substances could not drift from westward lands to Europe. A month after the reported occur-ance at Brooklyn, a little iron object, discoidal, perhaps, or an oblate spheroid, was said to have fallen from the sky to a garden in South London. (London Times. Feb. 1.

18S8). It was examined by a chemist, who reported that it was not of meteoric material: therefore it has been disregarded. The orthodox attitude has been that unless a thing conform to old criteria it cannot be admitted. Therefore nothing new can be learned. Therefore it is about time that there should be an attitude which is not orthodox.

OBJECTS and substances have, according to scientific journals, which never have shown the sometimes academic and sometimes savage narrowness of individual scientists, fallen from the sky. with many indications, such as exotic appearance, that they came from unknow worlds, arriving sometimes under circumstances which suggest that they came from other worlds which are not minions of mites away. I list a few of many references which Indicate that this earth may be by no means so isolated in space as is generally supposed: indications which are enough to stimulate thought upon this earth like the excitement which expressed itself in Europe in and after the year 1492: The disk again: a disk made of quartz, said to have fallen upon a plantation In Dutch Guiana: object said to be In a museum in Holland (Notes and Queries. 2-8-92: a yellow substance containing blue globules (Nature, 2-166: a lavender-colored substance (Bull. Soc.

Met. de France. 1904-124 1 a pulpy object: covered with a material like cloth lAmer. Jour. Sci 2-335) flakes of something that looked like beef (Sci.

34-197): nut-sized masses, gelatinous, spreading a sweetish odor (Comptes Rendus. 2J-542): something like psper (Proc. Roy. Irish 1-3791; a woolly substance In large lumps (La Nature, 1SS3-342); something like butter (Phil. 19-224); a glue-like substance (Ciel et Terre, 22-198) a purple-red substance (Cambrian Natural Observer.

1905-30). TWENTY pounds of a "vivid green" unknown substance are said to have fallen from the sky, In BrooUr.