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THE ECLIPSE OX JANUARY 24.
It' clear weather prevails on January 24, the
people of the Eastern portion of the United States
will witness the finest heavenly phenomenon of a
generation—a total eclipse of the sun.
While tliepath of totality will be confined to a
strip of territory running roughly from New Haven
to Duluth, the eclipse will be partial over most of
the Eastern half iof the United States.
Elaborate preparations are being made by sci
entific men for taking photographs of the eclipse,
which will be caused, of course, by the moon's pas
sage between the earth and the sun.
At the western limit of visibility the sun will rise
in eclipse, while farther east the total eclipse will
occur shortly after sunrise.
When one reflects upon it. the fact that astrono
mers can predict eclipses with such unerring accur
acy is wonderful, but like many other wonders ac
complished by the minds of men—no longer excites
any particular interest.
Nothing is more certain than the movements
of the heavenly bodies. As surely as the sun rises
on January 24, so surely will the moon appear di
rectly between the earth and the sun, causing the
temporary eclipse of our solar system’s great lumi
nary. There is no guess work in the calculations of
our astronomers.
PRINCELY GIFTS OF 1924.
While the amounts given to educational, scien
tific and charitable purposes during the year of .1924
have not equalled those of some former years, the
sums set aside for these purposes by American mill
ionaires reached the total of approximately $130,
000,000 for the year.
A striking feature of the year's giving was the
donation of $1,500,000 by an unknown donor to the
1'n ion Theological Seminary.
During the past ten years the beneficence of two
men of wealth stand above all others. John 1). Rocke
feller has donated the fabulous sum of $575,000,000
to educational, religious, scientific and charitable in
stitutions. Andrew Carnegie gave $350,000,000 for
similar purposes, his hobby being public libraries.
In these ten years gifts totalling a billion and a half
have been made by Amercan men and women.
So, while modern business practices make pos
sible the accumulation of vast fortunes, they also
make possible magnificent philanthropic enterprises,
which promote the advancement of knowledge and
the progress of the world.
More and more are men of great wealth com
ing to the view that only by using it for the benefit
of humanity can they leave behind them anything
of permanent value, or anything worthy of remem
brance.
Two outstanding philanthropists of 1924 are
James B. Duke, who donated $40,000,000 and George
Eastman of kodak fame, who gave $15,000,000 for
laudable enterprises during the year. Mr. Eastman
has so far given no less than $58,000,000 from his
fortune made from his epochial photographic in
ventions.
The safety of America is largely bound up in
the fact that most of our great captains of industry
have human hearts and unbounded vision.
VALUE OF PEACE PRIZES.
Not yet, but after awhile perhaps, the world
will tote up the value of the various “peace prizes”
that have been won by the most skillful of word ar
tists and thinkers. Just what value can be placed
upon these “prize winning essays” is impossible to
foretell, but it may be hazarded that it will not be
greater except in terms of cash paid the authors.
Edward Bok started it off when he offered
$100,000 for the best “peace plan’’—$50,000 upon
acceptance of the plan by 1he judges and $50,000
when the country, through act o£ congress or by
overwhelming popular approval, accepted the for
mula on a working basis. What most of us remem
ber about the $100,000 contest is: First, the size
of the prize; second, the propaganda that was used
to put it over; third, the controversy that attended
the award; fourth, that somebody, a professor, won
the first $50,000. Few remember the name of the
winner or the substance of his formula,accept that
it was something of a rehashing of the league of na
tions covenant. Nobody seriously believes he ever
will receive the remaining $50,000, which will be
his, his heirs or assigns, when the program is writ
ten into our laws.
Dr. David Starr Jordan recently won a $25,000
prize award for a peace plan. The most interest
ing fact about it to the man in Main street was that
he had forgotten all about his plan after he had
submitted it, until lie was proclaimed the winner.
Another peace prize winner is Viscount Cecil
of Chelwood, better known in America as Lord Itob
ert Cecil, the leading proponent of the league of na
tions in the British empire. Lord Cecil will attend
a dinner in his honor tomorrow night at which he
will be presented a $25,000 peace prize awarded by
the Woodrow Wilson foundation, as the man of the
present day who has done most toward promoting
world peace. This award differs somewhat from
the others, in that it is a recognition of actual
achievement, in which respect it resembles the fa
miliar Nobel prize award that is made annually.
Worthy efforts in the direction of world peace
deserve the highest commendation and reward. For
that reason the Nobel and the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation awards are of thehighest value. The
prizes offered for world peace formula is chiefly
important in promoting thecause of peace by center
ing public attention on the world desire of peace.
But, as the experience of the peacemakers at A er
sailles has proved, it is difficult to outline a char
ter of peace that is acceptable to all nations or thr.t
will not be abused and flouted even by its friends
when they are not in a position of being subject
against their will to its provisions.
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LIVING TOO FAST
It often becomes tiresome to hear the praise
of <yood old days from those who conveniently re
member agreeable phases of life as it used to be and
forget the rest. But it seems certain that in a by
gone epoch room was made for courteous and delib
erate forms which is out teeming, hustling era we
are inclined to neglect. The Christmas holidays
are supposed to provide an interlude in the business
of getting and spending; but too often, in a wild
rush and a hot fever, it is wholly devoted to those
very purposes, instead of to the quiet assessment of
true values and the re-establishment of a scale in
verted or perverted in our frantic, helter-skelter
days.
As life has been speeded up we have been in
danger of becoming increasingly enmeshed in the
machinery of our own devising. A shrewd observ
er of life in Philadelphia said that men used to be
annoyed if they missed the weekly stage-coach to
New York; then, when trains came, they were pro
voked if they missed the semi-daily express; at
length they were perturbed when they lost the fast
elevator to the umpteenth floor, and even when the
partition in the revolving door escaped them as they
rushed in to their business. Like the Red Queen
in “Alice of Wonderland,” we seem to have to make
such speed in order to remain where we are. The
world of industry or society spins under our feet,
and if we do not move fast as the treadmill we fall
behind, we miss a trick and we feel lost and out of
it. We cannot even bide our time on the step of
an ascending stairway; we must rush up it two steps
at once, carrying both hands full of baggage to some
other, swifter means of locomotion.
How can we down and still arrive? Do we
not all need now and then to stop and ask our
selves if we know where we are going and to in
quire if the speed is necessary? “Life does not
consist of running to a fire.” Somehow the big
gest of the busy people have a way of looking un
employed and at ease that is tantalizing to the lit
tle, fretful fellows. If money is the incentive to
hard work, the largest wages are not paid to those
who surround themselves with the most spectacular
disorder at their task. Efficiency usually means
a minimum of friction and confusion and time spent
in contemplation and preparation before the task
is begun.
Since scientists have approved the cross word
puzzle we may expect to see it lose popularity.
The problem of assiminating our Chinese popu
lation is being lessoned by the tong war.
The > ,y is demanding bigger appropriations,
probably for powder to blow up the rest of the fleet.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
ONE SHOW 8:00 P. M.
Matt Moore and Madge Bellamy in
No More
Women
Also A Mermaid Comedy—
RUNNING WILD
—Dance at A. B. Hall Saturday Night—
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MILITARY LAW EXCUSES
SWEARING AT SERGEANT
LONDON, Jan. 15.—British mili
tary law recognizes that soldiers are
liable to outbursts of profanity and
when a private of the First Royal
Dragoons was charged at an Aider
shot court martial with using in
subordinate language toward a ser
geant he was acquitted on the ground
that the expressions he used were
“common barrack-room language.”
“A soldier frequently uses vio
lent language, which is a mere out
burst of momentary irritation or
excitement, without at all intending
to be insuboi dinate,” says the Brit
ish military law martial.
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