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THE ECLIPSE THIS WEEK

On Saturday of this week will oc­cur an eclipse of the sun, which will be total over a section beginning at a point in Minnesota, where the band of darkness will begin. It will race eastward at 150 miles a minute, widening to almost 200 miles in an hour, leaving the mainland at Long Island to be lost in the Atlantic.

The phenomenon will be visible as a partial eclipse as far scuth as Porto Rico, but the day will be blotted out only in the strip described. In this band thousands of scientists, equip­ped with every invention of the time, w#ill record the details surrounding the most spectacular exhibition of nature, while chickens go to roost and supei'stitious ones turn to pray­er.

Children and grown people living in the path of the moon’s shadow will be thankful that our lunar orb does not stay between us and the sun. They will realize, as the dark­ness arrives, how important is the sun, -and understand more readily that 'it is the source o f life as well as light.

By radio, wireless, telegraph, tele­phone, telescope and camera the eclipse will be thoroughly reported New truth may be discovered but man, in the face of all his inventions, will lose this rare opportunity i f Sat-

' urday is cloudy. Such is man’s great­ness!

Eclipses are so well understood that it is hard to realize the terror struck in primitive minds by such phenomena. Most of us recall the victory of the ancient general who capitalized his advance knowledge of a coming eclipse— completely hoo­dooing his suspicious, superstitious enemies. A t Rome at one time, it was blasphemy, punished by law, to ascribe an eclipse to natural causes. The ancient Chinese thought that great dragons were trying to eat the sun, and so they beat drum: and brass kettles to frighten the mon­sters from their prey. It i ' even re­corded that in 2200 B. C., the sta!e astronomers were put to death be­cause they were drunk during an eclipse and unable to attend to their duties.

Let us not smile derisively at the people of ancient time— certainly not until superstition and prejudice pass from us. The amazing feats’ of the ancients, with only crude instru­ments, pre* worth recalling once in a while in order for our materialistic age not to become too "proud of it­self.

I f you, Mr. Reader, recall that a thousand years before our era the Chinese were recording authentic ob­servations of comets, eclipses, etc., and had determined the obliquity of the ecliptic by 1100 B. C. you will think more of the Chinese. If, when inclined to dwell on the greatness of the modern age, you recall that 600 years before Christ the Greek, Thales, taught that the stars shone by their own light, but the light of the moon was derived from the sun and that the earth was a sphere, anil that a hyndred years later Pythag­oras suggested that the earth re­volves round the sun, you will rea’ ize that it is up to modern men to “ show their stuff” to the coming ages.

have the curve of tlu r~ad more like a street. This is possible along ninety per cent of the high­ways at no additional expense. Thus is the tendency for cars to crowd in the center relieved and consequently the danger o f accidents is lessened.

All the rules, regulations and laws that can be passed will be of little

no avail so long as any man or woman can buy an automobile one minute, step into the state licensing department and get a permit to drive the next minute, regardless o f his familiarity with the car, its opera­tion or road rules. No other piece of machinery in the world is operated on such a haphazard basis. The mar­vel is that instead of 22,000 deaths a year, there are not 200,000 deaths.

Remove the cause and you will remove the accidents. Intermediary measures will be useless. Compulsory automobile accident insurance, oi worse yet, monopolistic state auto­mobile accident insurance, a sug­gested remedy, will simply encour­age recklessnesses for it will tend to remove restraint from an already careless person.*

THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING

Local merchants will be interested to learn, if they have never heard before, the story of the syndicate which tried to buy the name “ Royal” to be applied to a new baking pow­der. The proposition of the syndi­cate was to pay $2,000,000 a letter for the name, and to leave the own­ers the formula and the plants. This was some twenty years ago but the offer was refused.

Local advertising is the same in value although, of course, on smaller scale. The merchant who regularly advertises gets his name before the public and eventually, if honest, wins for his business a de­pendable reputation and a recogniz­ed name. It is the biggest asset of his business.

We recall the story of a merchant in a small town who was in the habit of running an advertisement in every issue o f every local paper. Some­times the ads were big and, more of ten, small, but they were where the subscribers could see them. 0*e time, he says, he was too busy, and forgot to get his copy in the papers for a few weeks. He awoke when an old customer met him and said, “ I thought you were out of business; I haven't seen your advertisements lately.”

That was some years ago. The merchant has a big business now and is one of the best advertisers in. his town. He makes it his personal busi­ness to get up his copy on time, every time.

SUGGESTIONS FOR ACCIDENT PREVENTION

Secretary Hoover, in an address before the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, asked for the co-operation of all interests in an effort to reduce the now rapidly increasing number of deaths and in­juries due to traffic accidents. He stated that there were 22,000 such deaths and 678,000 serious injuries last year and that nearly eighty per cent of the highway accidents were due to the automobile.

Here is a suggestion for lessening accidents. In the old days, a road was rounded up like a railroad grade with deep ditches on each side. Pro­bably two teams passed at a pace of about three or four miles an hour on every five-mile stretch. Today our modern highway grades are largely the same, with a strip of pavement in the center on which scores of auto­mobiles pass in a mile traveling at a rate of speed varying from twenty five to forty-five miles an hour. With good driving, there are no accidents. Misjudgment one way or another, however, and automobile crashes with another car or goes in the ditch.

Instead of digging ditches on each side of the road, use the same labor and extend the grade and the cul­vert coverings from the edge of the pavement at a gentle slope to the

PARTYRESPONSIBILITY

The issue of economy in public affairs brought President Coolidge more votes* from all parties than all the other issues combined.

Coolidge has courageously vetoed supposedly popular appropriation bills amounting to billions of dollars which were demanded by powerful organizations, largely within his own party. But in spite of this, his honest and sincere demand for economy won him the immense popular vote.

Will the administration in power for the next four years heed this warning from the people who voted for Coolidge, as well as about 5,- 000,000 voters .who cast their ballots for the Third Party, doubting d>oth the old parties?

The need for economy and tax re­duction in state and national affairs is uppermost in the minds of the people and unless the two old parties recognize this vital issue, they will have serious trouble in 1928.

Consider a few facts: According to Senator Borah, in Scribner’s Mag­azine for January, in 1913 the state and federal tax bill was $2,104,000. 000 and eight years later this bill was $7,061,000,000. In 1913, 6.4 per cent qf the national income went for taxes, and in 1922 we were tak­ing 12.1 per cent. In 1894, taxes were $12.50 per capita and in 1923, they were $68 per capita.

In the past ten years, state taxes increased from 100 to 350 per cent; and the farmer’s tax bill, compared to his income, amounted to 16.6 per cent of his entire income. On top of this, the farmer and livestock man saw railroad taxes increase from $272 per mile in 1902 to $1,241 per mile in 1922.

LOOKING THEM OVER , stance, will bring thousands of yen. r& i-l^~;-X~X-X~X“X~:*<“ :**!*t*X~X**X* The number is what you buy— the

price has nothing to do with the cost

In conspicuous gold letters the names of Engineer Walter Read and Thomas H. Kelly of the Long Island Railroad, have recently been painted on the cabs of their regularly assign­ed locomotives, numbers eighty-four and 223, running on the Long Island Railroad. Five engines have thus far been named in hortor of their driver.

Gould & Rogers have been award ed the contract to erect the new fire­proof building for the Seaside Bank at the corner of Main street and Old Mill road, Westhampton, on the site formerly occupied by Union Chapel. Work will start within a few days.

At the annual meeting of the Southampton Horticultural Society one night last week, George Rupple of Bridgehampton, who has been vice president for some time past, was elected president of the society.

Two small children o f Mr. and Mrs. Edward McKay, a colored fam­ily living a short distance from St. James on the road to Ronkonkoma, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home about 10:30 o’clock Sunday night.

Previous experience of travel in large cities becomes null and void here. The wind is quickly taken out of one’s sails. A fter a morning’s shopping, the newcomer in Shanghai climbs in a ricsha, wearily gives the street name to the coolie, and sub­sides for a nap during the forty-min- ute roll from the Astor to FYench Town (where almost everybody lives.) Unable to sleep in quite the ease of a Yellow taxi on Fifth ave­nue, a languid eye counts bound- foot women or pink funerals. “ Where is the kick in Shanghai, anyway,” she murmers, “ I ’ll have to go up river.”

Then, the first thing she knows, she doesn’t know anything! Her hu­man horse is pulling her at a furious pace in and out of nauseating alleys, all but knocking her brains out on the poles of passing burden-carriers. Noses to which handkerchiefs are as foreign as fur coats to a South Sea Islander, together with the favorite Chinese street amusement of spitting up into the air, to see if it-will come down again, remind her unwillingly of breakfast. Shouting and stamp­ing does no good. Not one of the sur­rounding sea o f yellow faces knows or cares what’s it’s all about. Hor­rible beggars swarm around. A tall ragged ruffian chalks something on the arm of the ricsha. Then, a Brit­ish seaman heaves in sight, belays the ricsha coolie, tells her to keep out of the Native City alone, and she gets home with no harm done ex­cept to her self-sufficiency.

“ You’ll find Shanghai just a big European city— not at all Chinese— quite disappointing lack of atmos­phere” quoting seasoned tourists, who have done the world several times with Cook's guides and motor cars. » i

Oh, quite! Try getting lost. No policeman understands a word- you ask him. Downtown in the Interna­tional Settlement, the police are tur- baned Sikhs; they know the name of the street they’re standing on; no more. Up here, the police are French Annamites in cone-shaped hats, they don’t know that. And it’s o f just as much use to shout your address in a donkey’s ear, as to tell it to a ricsha coolie. But experience must be bought! And it’s healthy, perhaps, to realize what donkeys we all must seem to a Chinaman, newly landed on our shores.

Somehow, one does arrive .home. And home is pleasant and peaceful. Chinese servants make home life a bed af roses (till the bills come through.) As Elsie McCormick says in the delightful “ Audacious Angles on China,” the real Call of the East is “ Boy!” It takes time to discover that beauty and mystery we’ve read so much about at home; many never do; but every foreigner fits into this domestic ease like a “ Duck’s foot in a mud-puddle.” There are Ameri­cans and Britishers of twenty years’ residence here, who have never set foot inside the Native City, and who don’t know one word of Chinese. Why live abroad, then? Ah— if they went home they might have to go to work.

Women who, at home, would go into ecstasies over a new washing machine, or an electric stove to cook Hubby's breakfast on, never set foot in their own kitchens out here. You can’t press a dress or wash out pair of stockings. Missee would lose face with her servants. So far, I have managed to turn the faucet to draw my own bath, instead o f ringing for the coolie three floors below, but I daresay he considers me a low-born person unused to refined surround­ings.

The amah acts as lady’s maid, pressing, sewing, and hooking up, as well as taking care of the children. She is very good to the children, as most Chinese women are. The other evening, she stood in the doorway looking at them, in their mother’s arms, listening to a story. “ Velly good joss!” she beamed. “ One piecee boy, one pieCee girl. Me two-piecee children jus same.”

You just have to learn Pidgin En­glish, to get on with the servants at all. There’s actually a dictionary of it, published here in 1920, called “ Broken China.” It contains all those words that sounded so silly in stories, ,read at home, but which I already find myself using. Such as look-see, meaning a look around; tiffin, for the mid-day meal; chow, for any meal; cumshaw, a present; squeezegraft; godown, a warehouse; Boy, any male servant; No. 1 Boy, head servant; No.1 man (in business), the boss; good joss, good luck. And so on.

The funny words puzzle the child­ren. The first demand .little Jackie made, was for firecrackers. Amah said “ Me catchee Fi’clackers.” “ How do you catch firecrackers?” inquired Jack, scenting a new game.

Yesterday Jack and Peggy had a surprise, from the coolie who sets the table and makes beds— three fat- stomached Chinese dolls with scalp locks of hair in the middle of their heads, and a real little American Santa Claus. "Who bought you the dolls, Jack?” asked a caller. A mo­ment’s wrinkling of brows. “ The cootie!” he answered.

I f we don’t get domestic service at home, we do get telephone service. Do I hear low groans? Did I ever call Central everything that a lady1 vocabulary could contain, in accents that implied everything else? Never again! Already I realize that the dear old U. S. A. has a point or two on the credit side. Just try telephoning in the Orient. Japan is the worst, so far. I spent one hour, in the Imperial, Tokyo’s best hotel, trying to get one number. Central doesn’t speak Eng­lish numbers, and the boy, though liberally subsidized, wound up each pf a series of long conversations with “ Wait. Will call.” Till I gave up. Telephones, in Japan, are just for style, I concluded. There are very few private ones; one company holds a corner on them, selling them to the highest bidders, who some­times wait ten years after buying a number before they can get it put in. A telephone number is an invest­ment like a bond. Enormous prices

o f the instrument or of installing it.In Shanghai, the services is suppos­

ed to be excellent, but I have just been out of luck, so far. Every time I take down the one-piece, Europ­ean style instrument, and murmur a number, a high, sad masculine voice sings, “ Engaged!” It took several attempts and some harking back to English-English, to realize that the line was busy.

Speaking of service, though, the regular domestic staff aren’ t the half of it. (W e won’t go into the irreg­ulars, here, that flock of relatives who inhabit every kitchen and help the regular? steal the food). But there is also the dainty little Japan ese amah-san, who comes once £ week to do nails and hair. The Chin­ese tailor in long black brocade coat and skull cap who brought fashion magazines and waved a tape-measure around and is supposed to produce thereby suits for the children by- Wednesday. And the carpenter who Was called in to remove glass-front­ed enameled bathroom cabinet?, placed as decorations on drawing­room and dining room mantels by an architect desiring latest American fashion. And the invisible laundry- man, who charges as. much for a handkerchief as for a dress “ one piecee, all samee” ;'and washes them we’d best not inquire where.

Private houses here don’t have cen­tral heating, arty more than they do anywhere else in the w6rld outside of America. Just lately an apart­ment house, with hot water heating, was put up as an experiment. Our house has salamanders (little coal fireplaces), and kerosene stoves. La­bor, of course, is easier to get than machinery and all ' these fires are kept up perfectly by the coolie who has that special job.

The question naturally arises. “ What do these ladies, deprived of scrubbing, baby-tending, and other normal feminine amusements, do all day long?

I hate to tell you. There isn’t any Santa Claus. To be in character, as Parisiennes of the Orient, Paris-plus, they should spend their days in get­ting beautified, their nights in riot­ous living. Whereas, as a matter of cold fact, the foreign women one sees about, look neither very young nor very dangerous. In spite of ru­mors to the contrary, it looks as if a census of adventuresses or social parasites would total up higher per thousand in New York than in Shang­hai. And in a competition, the would- be Pola Negri o f Shanghai should be given a handicap at the start, for how can a vamp do her worst with a Shanghai smudge on her nose? You can’t put j%ur nose outdoors without getting one, and the poor thing wouldn’t have a chance!

“ Alice in Wonderland.

FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION

World Co -̂rt Development*

Representative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, a Republican and a veteran of the WorlU War, has given a new indication of the widespread popular support for our Govern­ment’s entrance into the World Court. Charging that until now the United States had broken faith, with her dead by refusing to carry out the pledge to stop wars, Mr. Fish in­troduced into the House, January 2, a very strong resolution which con­cluded:

Resolved, (by the House of Repre­sentatives, the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress o f the United States that the pro­posal that the United States ad­here to the protocol establshing a Permanent International Court of Justice at The Hague, with certain reservations, recommended by Presi­dent Harding and by President Cool­idge, is in harmony with the tradi­tional policy of our country, which is against aggressive war and for the maintenance of permanent and hon­orable peace; and that said proposal deserves to receive and ought to be given prompt »nd sympathetic con­sideration as a'forward step toward outlawing war through peaceful set­tlement of justiciable questions.

A few days [later, Senator Willis, a strong Republican Administration supporter, introduced a resolution proposing the tlnited States’ adher­ence to the Permanent Court on es­sentially the smne basis as that sug­gested earlier py President Harding and Secretary Hughes, with the ad­ditional provision that this Govern­ment shall not] be bound without its consent by adyisory opinions o ̂ the Court.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is ihis week considering the various re olutions- pending be­fore it' in refirence tb the Court. (January 12, tjje Court met at The Hague for its seventh session). In Washington ^id throughout the country more than twenty national

questions as the recognition o f Rus­sia and the Permanent Court of In­ternational Justice are well known. Perhaps even more significant are | the less widely understood differences o f temperament and basic points of

iew between the two men. These factors may easily have seemed to Mr. Hughes too crushing a disadvan­tage to be worth while struggling against. This is all the more likely when one remembers Secretary of State Hay’s pronunciamento about the difficulty of working with the Senate even when personal relations between the State Department and the Committee on Foreign relations are not lacking in cordiality:

A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena;.no one can say just how or when the final blow will fall— but one thing is certain— it will never leave the arena alive.

The designation of Ambassador Kellogg as Secretary Hughes’ suc­cessor is, to put it mildly, surpris­ing, particularly in view of the Am­bassador’s none too vigorous health.

In reference to P r e s i d e n t Coolidge’s nomination of Ambas­sador Warren as Attorney General, it should perhaps be noted that the present good relations between Mex­ico and our Govfernment are due largely to the efforts of Mr. Warren. In Tokio also he had an excellent record as Ambassador. It would not be surprising if he were later made Secretary of State.

No Gun ElevationPresident Coolidge and Secretary

Hughes, acting together with de­cisiveness, have, temporarily at least, ended the agitation in Congress for an appropriation for the moderniza­tion of American battleships and tne elevation of their guns. The Admin­istration argues that though such ac­tion would not be violative o f the terms of the Washington Conference, the United States prefers not to take action which might tend towards the intensification of naval rivalry.

Thus the President and Secretary of State, by taking firm action against the anti-Japanese jingoes, have contributed substantially to­wards the quieting of international differences which contained in them­selves the seeds of friction between our Government and Japan and Great Britain.

J. G. McD.

Russian DevelopmentsCommunism has taken an impor­

tant step towards decentralization of governmental authority in Russia. As a result of an agreement between the Soviet officials and the represen­tatives of the peasants, reached on January 8, Communists will no long­er be nominated from Moscow to vil­lage offices. Hence the peasantry will have an opportunity to name their own nominees. No election, hoVever, is to be valid unless thirty per cent of the population partcipate in it.

Jean Herbette, the French Am­bassador to Soviet Russia, arrived in Moscow January 11. In an interview with the press he emphasized the importance of Russia’s settling her foreign obligations, particularly those owed the French small investors, as a means of gaining “ the sympathies of »these poor people towards the Soviet Union.” The Russian corres­pondents countered by inquiring whether France was meeting her debts to fhe United States.

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organizations ire intensifying andco-ordinating their efforts to secureprompt action Chairman of t tee of the F. P man of the sm endeavoring t< in the various ties. Members

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materially further the cause of the World Court (y writing directly to the President knd to Senator Borah and the members of the Foreign Re­lations Commijtee. Commendation of Mr. Fish and Senator Willis would also be helpful

The apparer^ly sudden decision of Secretary Hv^hes to resign March 4, 1925j has naturally evoked animated questionings as to his mo­tive. Until last Saturday’s announce­ment it was , generally understood that he inteifled to resign about March 4, 192fl primarily because of financial consiierations. The mystery lies in the ipexpectedness of his earlier leavini. Probably the most important fac or in this decision is

A series of six maps in color, of Southampton town, for the lands be­tween East Hampton town and Water Mill in 1670, have just been completed by William D. Halsey of Bridgehampton. They start at 1670 and show the development of the settlements o f Sagaponack, Bridge­hampton and Mecox, with all land divisions, owners, location of farm houses, churches, taverns, mills, ponds, roads, etc. Mr. Halsey has spent a lifetime on the work, search­ing old town records, and ancient maps filed in the clerk's office.

Due to the slippery roads, four motor vehicles ran into the ditch on the south side of the Montauk High­way near Amityville early Tuesday morning. One of them, a large tour­ing car, contained several hundred bottles of whiskey,, which was later seized by Federal Agents Smith and Sigel. The driver of the car abandon­ed the machine.

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