T ai-oHai Called
Port of Tragedy
Once Gave Promue of Be­
ing Metropoli»,
Washingtun.—Tai o-Hal, Island port
of call of the holm ward bound United
Htntes fleet which bus been visiting
In the Pacific, is described aa a ''port
of tragedy" In a bulletin from the
Washington (D. C.) Headquarters of
the National Geographic society.
"Situated nt the Innermost point of
a horseshoe buy which furnishes a rea­
sonably well protected harbor," says
tbe bulletin “Tai o-llal. once gave
per from Boston, lie named them the
■Washington Island»,’ and they almost
became American possessions, ('apt.
David Porter of the United States
navy took possession of Tai o Hal bay
In 1813 while harrying British ships
In the Pacific; subdued the Nukahlvlan
natives; and proclaimed the Washing
ton Islands territory of the United
States. But a mutiny of the ships he
(•ft In th» harbor put an end to hla
plan, and th» United Htat»a u»v»r f-
Studente From Cologne Visitingjhe United States
Fifty students from the University
of Cologne are visiting the United
States to study »conomlc and Indus­
trial conditions here, and to aid tn re­
storing friendly relations. They nr»
her» seen being shown the Pierce Hall
engineering building at Harvard.
“The Marquesas are of volcanle
origin. They «re extremely rugged,
and. except the valley Hour», there 1»
no level land In them, the observ-
pf from shipboard who sails among
them their sharp peaks, line behind
Une. cut the sky like the bizarre moun
tains of stage scenery.
“A number of the smaller Islands
sro now entirely uninhabited. Unless
some hardy race be brought to them,
*
“
Mar-
It will not be long • before
the
queans will be left virtually as they
were millenniums ago, before th»
Vikings of the Psclflc, In their huge
canoes, ¿a me tixclulm them for man-
kind.”
Memorial to Ruskin Is Unveiled
>4
on Nukahlva, largest of ths Marquesas
Inlands. Is listed aS the administrative
seat of the French government of the
Marquesas; but the honor la « hollow
one, for the Marquaaana are rapidly
dying off. Tlie hundred thousand or
New U»e Discovered
more who peopled the eleven island»
a century ago liave dwindled to three
for Old Town Well
thousand or four thousand.
Decatur, Ark.—The old oaken
Rosy Future Sssmsd Assured.
bucket with Its iron bound staves
"When Franca took the Islands over
of the days prior to discovery of
In 1842 the future seemed rosy to the
germs has become an outlaw, but
white settlers who want there. '1 he
the old tovn> well that went with
Islands teemed with superlatively
it here and did valiant service in
healthy, brawny natives. The rainfall
the pregerm days is being har­
world.
There
had
been
stories
circu
­
was abundant and vegetation grew
nessed to the necessities of mod­
Mittionary
Say»
Romancer»
lated In Sydney and other quarters to
rankly. Dreams of exceedingly pro­
ernity.
the effect that the Germans had pre­
Don’t Give True Picture.
ductive coconut, cotton nnd vnnllls
The town well, driven here
pares!
elaborate
fortifications
and
se
­
plantations filled the heads of French
many years ago and which fur­
cret
supply
bases
in
some
of
the
South
adventurers. Tai o-llal was built with
Tokyo.—A 2.000-mlle shopping ex­
nished drinks to thousands of
these dreams In mind, and store«. Inns,
pedition, from Jalult, one of the South sea islands.
hot, dusty travelers of the older
"For this reason the Japanese and
churches, schools, and another accom
sea islands, to Tokyo, was recently
generation, is to be used as a
prohibited
the
Is-
jail
—
other
allied
powers
civilization—a
made by Rev. C. R. Heine, a rep­
cooler for a modern, sanitary
psnlment
resentative St the American board of landers from any communication with
drinking fountain. Pipes from
sprang up.
Scene at the unveiling of a memorial to Ruskin at Chamonix. France. In
"But thing» did not work out as
missions, who has been stationed In the out-world, and boats were allowed
the town waterworks are being
had been expected. The Marquesan» the iXouod nX the right I» seen Ignace Faderewskl. the famous Po»*
laid to the well and a coil reach­
this lonely, far-away post for 35 years. to atop only for the purpose of landing
provisions.
W0
heard
vaguely
about
did not care to become plantation la­
ing to the bottom is to be placed
Out in the Marshall islands, which
pianist
and
statesman.
-
borers. They hud led Ilves of ense,
inside the shaft and under the
Is the group to which Jalult belongs, the war from the lips of the seamen,
spending their time In Idleness. In
where there are no automobiles and but it was not until everything was
water.
gathering nature's fruits, and In war
where one pays calls over a distance over that we were able to get defi­
among themselves. Some unscrupu­
of 200 miles. Reverend Mr. Heine re­ nite news at all."
lous planters tried rum and opium a»
ports that considerable progress is be-
Inducements to labor. They brought
Ing made among the natives under the
a certain temporary success, but they
supervision of the Japanese.
helped to bring a speedy end to all
Germans Are Deported.
hope for the survival of tho Mar­
quesas people. To drunkenness am!
Most
of the Germans, he reports,
soddenness were soon added the white
left
voluntarily
at the beginning of the
man's diseases—diseases which meant
Earth- rial hospital foundation $3.000.000 last
World war and the rest were deported . Japan Make» Use of
year, and $500,000 Inter.
little to the civilizations of America
“One may count on the Ingenuity of when the war ended ami the Islands
At that time, the American organisa­
quake Money.
nnd Europe that had become largely Both Island» Have Moved,
this
man.
who.
during
many
consecu
­
were put under Japanese mandate.
tion suggested to the Japanese author­
Immune to them, but which carried
tive months kept watch on the moun­ Now there Is only one other white on
Say» Cartographer.
off the islanders like files.
Tokyo.—Construction of the two ities that the fund might be used for
tain peaks for the favorable nwment | the Island beside Doctor Heine, who
“Tnt-o-Hal, which had waxed, ns
large
memorial hospitals In Tokyo and the establishment of a memorial hos­
when the light permitted him to fix In
quickly waned. Today leas than 150
Paris.—Following atorlea that a new a direct line of view the two highest Is an Australian. There are no hotels, Yokohama with the remainder of the pital, since the funds for relief work
no motion-picture shows and no amuse­
the were no longer needed.
people live In the village, nnd there island was about to apiwar at any mo­
summits of the Alpine range. Hte ments. and the roads are mere path­ proceeds of the fund raised In
While the offer was made uncondi­
Red
la only a handful of whites. Aban­ ment in the Gulf of Biscay. It 1» n"’
United
States
by
the
American
ways not more than eight feet wide, Cross for earthquake relief following tionally, the Japanese officials con­
doned buildings nre on every hand: reported In the French press that the observations were carried out on 7
traders’ shops, dwellings, an Inn. a tslunds of Sardinia and Corsica have different peaks and were verified sev­ cut between the plantations and the the catastrophe Of 1923 will be com­ curred with the suggestion coming
from the American Red Cross head­
leper house. Tho once populous val­ apparently shifted some ten meters eral times by photographic and scien­ jungle.
menced early next spring.
“No, the South sea-Islands are not
quarters.
leys back In Nukahlva have been toward the east. Sclentlde investiga­ tific appliances. Monsieur Helbronner
The
amount
to
be
expended
on
the
Since the remittance, the fund has
abandoned to the rank growth; only tion of this strange fact has been go­ has all the necessary equipment with exactly as painted by the romancers,
hospitals is approximately 8,500,000
been swelled by Interest, and by the
the half smothered pintforms on which ing on for some time, with Paul Hel­ him In Corsica, and It Is now a matter said Doctor Heine, “as far as comfort­ yen.
• •
time the hospitals are completed,
dwellings stood tell of their pnst use bronner, cartographer, who started his of awaiting the results of the tests able living Is concerned. But It Is
For the Tokyo Fraternity Memorial more than 500.000 yen will have ac-
he
Is
about
to
carry
out.
His
calcu
­
quite
true
that
the
9.500
natives
of
by man. In the valleys not wholly career na an Alpine climber, playing
hospital, a site valued at 625.000 yen
abandoned, the few survivors have the role of Island locator. Writing In lations may prove of Invaluable inter­ the Marshall .group are nearly all well- has been purchased In Honjo, and the crued In this way.
moved near the sea for neighborliness. Le QuoUdien. Jenn Cabrerets give« est to science. A triangulation of ex­ to-do, because of an Industrious de­ Fraternal Memorial hospital founda­
“The Marquesas nre In two groups. this account of the wanderings of the treme precision may be , able to de­ velopment of the land. There is no
termine If certain geologists are right great wealth and yet there Is no pov­ tion has begun the work of training FIND CLIMATE HAS
Nukahlva Iles In the northern group. two Islands:
EFFECT ON SUICIDE
In their assertion that Corsica. “»e erty at all. Some of the native chief­ 100 nurses who will be used in the new
Seventy miles of ocean separate It
"Helbronner first started by scaling
building.
from the group to the south. It was the mountain peaks of France. Italy other lands, moves across the surface tains even have private yachts, which
The hospital building and Its equip­
the southern grobp, discovered In 1595 and Switzerland, and was not long In of the globe somewhat like Islets of take them from one Island to another,
German Investigator» Make
each one being between 60 and 100 ment will cost about 2,375.000 yen and
by Mendana that was named Mar­ discovering that the official map of the foam on a cup of coffee.
the
foundation
has
set
aside
4,000.000
miles apart. They may even have
Statistical Survey.
French Alps was far from being exact
quesas.
Similar Claims Made.
yen as an operating reserve fund.
planes some day.
Claimed for America.
as compared with foreign mnpa. which
The building and equipment of the
“But If one wants to call on a white
Berlin.—One of the most remarkable
"The northern Islands remained un­ were more precise. In July Inst he
"Tho German professor Wagner
known to the outside world for 200 embarked for Corsica. In order to see brought forth a •‘mllar hypothesis friend In the South seas the nearest memorial hospital to be established at statistical surveys ever made, devoted
and
years and were then discovered by an If the Isle of Cyrnos was still In the within recent years. He affirmed that are In the Gilbert Islands, which are Yokohama will cost 500,000 yen,
to all phases of the subject of suicide,
American, Captain Ingraham, n aklp- same place that bad been aralgned It the superficial crust constituting the under the British mandate and some this institution will have double this was made public here. The survey em­
amount
as
Its
reserve
fund.
300 miles away.’’
by the scientific geographers of the continents float above the centra
braces all of Europe and Is char­
The building for the memorial hos- acteristically exhaustive and detailed.
last century. There are even some magna of our globe. Continents and
Life Usually Routine.
The German Investigators establish
doubts about the Immobility of Cor- oceans would
“Life in the South sea Islands Is for pltal In Tokyo will be an iron and con-
------- therefore appear
. __ to bo
crete structure and is designed to be scientifically that climate and suicide
but
a
floatlug
drapery
thrown
upon
the
most
part
uneventful,
”
says
Doc
­
slca
1
Scorned Sheik Take»
Accurate Tests Made.
the body of the earth. And this cloth­ tor Heine, “and there was one period proof both against fire and earthquake, are mathematically related that coun­
Clothes to New Mamma
"Some time ngo, following Investiga­ ing seemingly becomes torn nt times. shortly after the World war for more it will be completed within two years. tries with variable climate produce the
The American Red Cross society most suicides, and that these coun­
tions by the Italian government. It was Thus still according to Professor Weg­ than a year that the Inhabitants were
Oakland, Cui.—A youth for
transmitted
to the Fraternity Memo- tries are found between 47 and 57 de­
announced
that
the
two
Islands
—
Sar
­
ener
the
edges
of
the
continents
Amer
­
without
newspapers
from
the
outside
whom police are searching dem­
dinia and Corsica—appeared to have ica. Africa and Europe should fit to­
grees east longitude and 20 and 34 de­
onstrated a unique method of
moved the appreciable distance of ten gether, If It were possible to join
grees north latitude, which embraces
squaring accounts, after a girl
meters toward th^ast. M. llelbron- them.
central Europe.
had rejected bls advances
ner Is now about to verify this. _lhe
Jeannie Yvonne told the young
There are more suicides in flat coun-
“It is obvious that It will be less
difficulty has been the uniting of Tou­
man, whose name the police are
try than In mountainous. For cen-
difficult to observe the drifting of an
lon, or the Island of Porquerolle, by Island like Corsica—if there Is a drift
withholding, that she was "off
tral Europe, May and June are tbe
a direct Imaginary Une to the Island
most productive of self-destruction and
him like a wet bathing suit,” so
—when Its actual position has been
of Corsica. This line of view Is no recorded In relation to the continent.
when she was absent from her
the favorite days are Monday and
longer Impossible today, as It would However, It Is hardly probable that the
room n short time later, the
Tuesday for men and Sunday for
have
been
In
the
past.
From
Cape
youth loaded a suitcase with
women. One-third of the suicides are
verification will be fulfilled In our
Corsica M. Helbronner succeeded re­ time. Today it 1» difficult to say if
her clothes and left a message
committed at night, the rest in the
cently. when the night was exception­ Corsica has moved within the last half
forenoon and afternoon, with a very
which read:
ally clear. In distinguishing the power­ century or whether It has been wrongly
“This 1* a dose of your own
few in the early hours of the morning.
ful
projector
which
the
admiralty
had
Twice as many Protestants in Eu­
medicine. I have a new mamma,
, recorded on the map by the early ge-
Installed on the hilltop of Le Faron In
who can use the clothes nicely.
rope ended their Ilves as did Catho­
I ographera.
France.
lics. Among the Jews suicide Is on
the Increase, especially among those
who are not orthodox, for in eastern
Europe, among the pious Jews, practi­
cally no suicides at all are reported.
Four men commit silicide in Ger­
many for every woman, but more wom­
en between the ages of twenty nnd
thirty kill themselves than men. Di­
vorce plays a big role In suicide In tbe
reieh, for there are ten men divorced
who commit suicide to one married
man. nnd five divorced women to one
married woman.
It is established that women prefer
drowning as a means of death, while
men evince no marked partiality for
any particular method.
The investigators insist that the
movies Influence suicides. They ana­
lyzed 250 pictures and found there
were 97 murders, 51 divorces. 19
rapes, 45 suicides and 176 thefts. I he
investigators conclude from this that
I the movies have a harmful effect on
those predisposed to self-destruction.
Germany has the highest record for
child suicide, ten hoys under sixteen
penal<>■ need Smoot id Utnli bus shaved off his mustache, so this recent nnd three girls for every million pop­
portrait of him Is of especial interest. Besides being one of the most prominent ulation, while France has three boys
Republican members of the senate, Mr. Smoot is a member of the American and one girl for the same number.
debt-funding commission.
South Sea Stories
Distorted, Is Claim
Corsica Off Base,
Sardinia Shifts
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REMAINDER OF RELIEF FUND
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