The Polk County post., November 12, 1920, Image 4

Pageant of “ The Spirit of Temperance”
Ancient Trees for the Lincoln Memorial
The moving of a number of boxwood trees, ranging In uge from 200 to 300 years, to he transplanted around the
Lincoln Memorial In Washington, Is the biggest tree project ever undertaken by the D istrict of Columbia. These
trees are so large In some cases they have to be divided before It Is possible to move them. They were purchased
from the Ueltm uller estate In W ashington. They have to be carried five miles.
Trade Avenues
to Be Revised
Changes in Near East Will Bene­
fit Manufacturers in America
and Western Europe.
WILL CUT OUT MIDDLEMEN
Must Inevitably Be Greater Proportion
of Shipping Direct to Black Sea
Porta Than Existed Before
the War.
Constantinople.—Owing to the gen­
eral revision of boundaries of nations
In the Balkans and other parts of the
Levant, it Is expected thut trade ave­
nues between the Near Hast and west­
ern Europe and the Americas will be
revised in a m anner th at will benefit
the western nutions th at stand reudy
to meet the new conditions.
In the opinion of most experts fa­
m iliar with the commercial conditions
In the Levant there m ust Inevitably be
a greater proportion of shipping direct
from points of production to Blnck sea
ports than bus existed during the war.
Will Aid Manufacturers.
In other words, m anufacturers will
get Into direct touch with m erchants
In big distribution centers nnd elim­
inate the middlemen and the tran s­
shipment In Constantinople to a con­
siderable extent. Tho limited and un­
satisfactory docking facilities In Con­
stantinople nnd the prices demanded
by the lighterage tru st and shipping
agents dominated by various Euro­
pean governments are regarded a s
making this Imperative.
Admiral Mark Bristol, the American
high commissioner, recently visited
Bulgarin, nnd Is much Impressed by
the th rift nnd Industry of the Bulga­
rians nnd the skillful way In which
they have cultivated nil their land In
an effort to throw off the had effects
of the war. He believes th a t Varna
and Bourgns are destined to become
much more Im portant because of the
Intelligence and Industry of the Bul­
garians.
Odcssn, In the opinion of many stu ­
dents of Black sen commerce, will
never again he as im portant relatively
ns It was before the war. If B essara­
bia rem ains In the bands of Kounmnla
It Is expected here th at n tariff wall
will go up which will prevent Odessa
from controlling the trade of th a t
rich area as It did in the past.
The business of Sebastopol, Theo­
dosia and other Crimean ports Is com­
paratively small. Novorossiysk, the
grain-shipping center for the rich
farming districts owned by the Cos­
sacks, has equipment for shipping pe­
troleum In ta n k s ; and Is an export cen­
ter for lin e ore, potash, oilcake and
many other products.
Georgian Ports to Gain.
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Allentown, Pa.—The oddest
legal document ever filed In the
office of the recorder of deeds
In this town was u deed offered
by Edw ard H. Schlechter.
It provides for the tran sfe r of
four tra c ts of land In Lynn
township, Lehigh county, from
William Schwab and Missouri
E verltt, both single, .o Charles
A. W eaver stipulating th a t the
purchaser of the property shall
during the lifetim e of Schwab
nnd E v erltt ‘‘give them comfort-
able support nnd nourishm ent,
clothe them, keep the fuel box
well stocked and furnish each
$50 a year as spending money."
On th eir death W eaver Is I >
provide a suitable burial In the
New Tripoli churchyard.
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Distilling the New “ Straw Gas”
Millions From Italy Alone Are Re­
ported to Have Booked Pas­
sage for United States.
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Alfonso Tireless Hunter
Santander, Spain.—No fatigue or
physical effort Is too grent for King
Alfonso when he hunts the chamois In
the Plcos de Europa, as he did this
yenr In A ugust a fte r attending the
horse races and personally steering his
yacht to victory In the regatta at San
Sebastian.
T he p arty Included the queen,
Princess Alice of Albany, Infanta Lu­
isa, In fan te Carlos, Prince and P rin­
cess de Bourbon, Lord Athlone, Mar­
quis nnd M archioness de Vlllavlclosn
de A sturias, Luis de Busumnnte nnd
a num ber of court funstlonarles of
high rank.
The site of the hunting box Is Llo-
roza, at a height of 8,450 feet above
sen level, nnd here has been built a
m iniature pnlnce containing many
modern com forts. At night It Is al­
ways cold nt this height.
Activity Is the watchw ord during the
king's short stay. Everybody must
have b reakfasted nnd be ready to stn rt
at seven In the morning for the hlgh-
ALIENS CHOKE
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because of their unlim ited petroleum
supply piped In from Baku. These two
ports supply a population of about quantities. In 1013 the United States
8 , 000 , 000 .
received 120,790 tons of the Georgian
These ports also ship
Before the w ar Potl was exporting manganese.
between 500,000 and 000,000 tons of much Circassian w alnut nnd licorice
manganese annually from the Inex­ root. T he ore, coal and oil ports are
haustible deposits near K utais. Most tho centers to which American ship­
of this went to Germany, although the ping will more n aturally tu rn for re­
United States nnd England took small tu rn cargoes.
Spanish Mons;_h Chases Chamois Day
After Day Over Mountains of
Plcos de Europa.
"The Spirit of Tem perance," a pageant depicting the grow th of the United States Constitution up to the eighteenth
amendment, featured the fifteenth International congress against alcoholism, held In Washington. Ttie pageant was
staged on the east steps of th e capitol. The photograph was made while the fam ous dry am endm ent held tha
center of the stage In a garb which to some of the sp ectato rs seemed more somber than th a t of his black-robed
brothers.
er peaks, where the chamois Is found.
All the hunters are provided with
ropes In case of danger In passing the
deep precipices, on tho edge of which
the chamois generally Is found.
Alfonso w as this year lucky ns re­
gards w eather, nnd each day the roy­
al party brought back to the hunting
box on the backs of donkeys a con
sidernble bag of game.
N otw ithstanding the strenuousness
of the dny’s work, the king was al­
ways ready the following morning to
s ta rt out aguln at an early hour.
SPOILS SAILOR'S GOOD TIME
POOR COME FROM MANY LANDS
Forsake Their Own Soil for the Dream
of America— Hordes That Returned
to Homeland After War Are
Flocking Back.
New York.—Once again a suffering,
congested Europe is piping its worn
and motley peasantry to the United
States. Not a record of ancient na­
tions Is In existence which can tell a
tale of such a flow of humanity.
From Italy is heard Hie report th a t
no less than 1,000,000 have booked pas­
sage for the dream land.
W herever a liner docks In Europe
sweaty
peasants,
burdened
with
slrtped nnd shapeless baggage, wind
their way Into tho steerage.
In every nation the poor are forsak­
ing the reality of their own soil for
the dr.-am of America—free, golden
America.
When the w ar w as over th ere wras a
scam pering for passports and a flock­
ing back to th e homeland of Immi­
g rants of pre-w ar days, Polish, Italian,
Czecho-Slovak, Irish nnd B ritish—all,
hungering for a breath of m other soil,
departed.
B ut It Is not w hat once tt was—over
there. And they are coming back, dis­
enchanted. These form a goodly p art
of the steerage population.
Block Ellis Island.
Feminine Holdup at Bordeaux Pulls
The tide of im m igrants has swelled
Trigger and Takes His
week by week, until last week the
1,900 Francs.
brusque but kindly gates by which all
Bordeaux.—Yves Borthnn sauntered
off the good ship I.averdlere where he
presides over the destinies of the gal­
ley, with 1,000 francs In his pocket
and a grent longing In Ills heart for
a ‘‘sailor's good time.”
‘‘H ands up.” was the shout of a
feminine voice that greeted him ns he
turned Into n w aterfront street from
the docks.
“This Is a good Joke,” said Yves, ns
he wheeled about to look Into the muz­
zle of a businesslike pistol, held by a
steady feminine hand. "This Is In­
deed a good Joke, let me kiss you—”
“Iilng I" spat the businesslike pistol
nnd Yves felt a stinging pain In the
left shoulder.
When he awoke the 1.900 francs
had gone nnd so had the businesslike
woman.
WARNING
ON SOFT
DRINKS
Federal Officiale Say Many Fake Fruit
Beverages Are Being Sold in
United States.
Washington.—W arning against fake
fruit beverages th a t have flooded the
soft drink m arket since prohibition was
Issued by the public health service.
Many of the orange beverages. It
was said, consist only of sweetened
carbonated water, flavored with a lit­
tle oil from the peel of oranges nnd
artificially colored.
The departm ent of agriculture has
ruled th at provisions of the pure-food
act will be held to have been violat­
ed In case such drinks are sold under
trad e names that load the purchaser
to believe they contain the edible por­
tion or Juice of the fruit named.
Avoiding the Appearance of Evil.
Montgomery. AJn.—Alabama legis­
lators w ere warned by Anti-Saloon
league w orkers that n perm it for near
beer In Alabama would mean the re­
This photograph allows H. K. Itoethe, Jr„ departm ent of ngrlcglture turn of the saloon. So the legislature
pert, distilling “straw gas," a product which can he used for both lllumlnat- voted down a law which would have
r and power purposes. The gas Is produced from wheat, oat or rye straw , perm itted cereal beverages .0 be sold
from corncobs, cornstalks and other vegetable m ntter ordinarily throw n In th e state, nnd the “dry" law here
ay. F ifty pounds of straw will make 300 cubic feet of gas, enough to run still read s: “Nothing shall tie sold In
Ight autom obile 15 miles, but the present problem Is to condense the gas Alabama which looks, smells or tastes
like beer."
th a t it cau be transported reudily.
nsplrnnts for entrance m ust pass
clogged and choked.
Five giant liners attem pted to un­
load th eir human cargoes on the Is­
land at once. The dikes were down, ns
It were, and E llis Island was jammed.
So an einhnrgo was Imposed. For 48
hours no bright-eyed im m igrant climbed
down on the Island from a steerage
gangway.
Those th a t hnd landed were packed
Into the narrow sleeping quarters. The
island Is a tight little Island In any
event, and th e q u arters w ere never
m eant to accommodate thousands.
A curious body might tip-toe Into the
q u arters at night. Thi y are sleeping
tight against one another, legs flung
out nnd tw isted one over the other In
an Indecipherable tangle.
Gawky boys, gay kerchiefs mufflerlng
Key Ceremony in London
Tower Centuries Old
London.—Few Americans who
have visited the tow er of Lon­
don have ever w itnessed the
ceremony of the keys, though It
1ms taken place nightly for
many centuries.
T he yeoman porter, with an
escort of guards, still nightly
locks the gates. Behind him
still w alks “a vnrlet a t two
pence a night to carry the keys,”
nnd, broad daylight or jo , fol­
lows the bugler w ith th e lan­
tern.
“H alt, who comes there?" de­
m ands the sentry.
“The keys." replies the yeo­
man porter.
"W hose keys?" nsks th e sen­
try.
"K ing George's keys," Is the
answ er.
At the end of th e ceremony
the yeoman po rter takes off his
hat and says "God preserve King
George." nnd guard and escort
reply, "Amen." Then the band
o r drum s nnd fifes play "3od
Save th e King" and buglers
sound the "L ast Tost.”
milk, never known sugar,” moaned th i
mother.
He w as a w ar baby, In all the pa­
thetic m eaning of the word. L ast week
the child died.
T he fam ily Is released, they are free
to do as they wish In the United
States, but the p aren ts feel th a t they
their necks, lean against posts and walk Into the new land a t the expense
walls, and try to sleep. Strange, but of th eir child.
Cases of equal pathos constantly
they succeed. They are very tired.
crop up and are passed over as p art of
Q uarters Are Squalid.
The washing facilities of ships’ steer­ the day's work by the officials on the
ages are not ample nnd In cramped El­ Island.
Congestion Abated.
lis Island they are also lacking.
T he stench of steerage and a curt-
Commissioner W allis said th a t the
ous horsy smell clings to the men nnd choke nt the gate Is relieved and the
women. It Is the smell th a t heralds sun-burned sons and daughters of old
the approach of imm igrants, a smell by Europe are stream ing mrough.
which they may be recognized.
In n little while the commissioner
In the women’s q u arters gayety of expects his staff to be augm ented by
coloring might strik e the eye were It about 200. H e also expects the erec­
'not for the squalor nnd the discomfort. tion of a new building the length of
One might stop and adm ire the broad the lslund. The accommodations are at
red shawl draping the shoulders of a present not 1 ig enough by half, he
Castilian beauty, and perhaps, pity her says.
with her raven headdress squnsbed
T here w as a concert for the Immi­
against a bundle of luggage, upon g ran ts on the Island one day. Drowsy
which h er head Is resting as she men nnd women heard songs sung In
sleeps.
th eir own tongues.
L ittle children, too, might a ttra c t the
Louis F. Post, assistan t secretary of
eye.
labor, waved an American flag and
A story Is told of a family of three, pleaded th at the aliens be regarded as
coming from Cracow, nnd prevented visitors, as honored guests.
from leaving by the illness of the six-
In the back of the crowd a hundred
year-old child. The child was born In stow aw ays clustered. They have the
a concentration camp where the par­ sym pathy of all, but they m ust submit
to th e rigor of th e law, which re­
ents bad been kept by the A ustrians.
quires th a t no passportless person may
Milk Unknown to Baby.
‘‘H e has never known the ta ste of land.
U. S. WOMAN REAL
RULER OF ARABIA
Former New York Society Lead­
er Becomes Adviser to
Emir Feisa!.
MORE POWER THAN CABINET
Resigns From American Red Cross
and Takes Up Work Among the
Arabs, to Which She Expects
to Devote Her Life.
Chicago.—Six years ago Mrs. Anna
L. F ish er was an ordinary American
w omnn. H er sole claim to distinction
lny in the fact th a t she was prominent
In society In New York, w here she re­
sided.
T hat was before the war. Today
Mrs. F isher Is a captain In the A ra­
bian army and the power behind the
throne In the regime of Emir Feisal.
The story of Mrs. F isher's sudden
rise to g reater power in the N ear E ast
than Is exerted by the League
of Nntlons was brought to Chicago by
E. M. Newman, who met tier while on
his recent tour of the Nenr Enst.
Mrs. Fisher, Interested In philan­
thropic work even before the war, en­
listed early In the Bed Cross for serv­
ice in Armenia. T here she came
In contact with the Arab, when Emir
Feisal, son of Hussein, king of Arabia,
rnlsed n groat arm y and drove the
T urk from Armenia. The present
ru ler of the Arabs Immediately be­
came Interested In this Intelligent
American woman nnd sought her ad­
vice on the many problems which con­
fronted him in his struggle to put
A rabia on a firm basis.
More Power Than Cabinet.
It w as not long before Mrs. Fisher
w as possessed of more power than
any member of the cabinet. She re­
signed from the Red Cross and began
her work nmong the Arabs, to which
she expects to devote her life. Mrs.
F isher was promoted to the full rank
of captain in the Arabian army and
a fte r the occupation of Damascus by
Feisal, Joined him In his new capital.
She has since been his most intim ate
adviser.
It was ns a result of Mrs. Fisher's
advice th a t Feisal retreated to the
mountains when the French th reat­
ened Damascus with destruction and
later went to England to demand that
the promise made him during the war
th a t he was to be ru ler of the new
Arab kingdom be kept.
Mrs. F ish er’s am bition now Is to
aid In th e reconstruction of a new
Arab kingdom.
O utlines H er Plans.
"I shall p ut a little of the ‘pep’ of
the American In this land of the ori­
ental,” she told Mr. Newman. “Their
ways are not our ways. T heir way
of thinking Is not ours because they
have been handicapped by lack of
education, and by prejudice and super­
stition. Inculcate Into the minds of
these people a little of the practical
common sense of our American wom­
en nnd It will astonish th e world
w hat these A rabs will accomplish.”
Mrs. F ish er has Issued an edict to
Arab women to discard European dress
and retu rn to the fashions of their
own land. To acompllsh this she has
established schools w here Arab women
nnd girls are being tau g h t to m ake
nnd em broider dresses from m aterial
made In th eir own country. She has
ordered the revival of silk nnd wool
to be used In making rugs and carpets.
A Long-Lived Flock.
Columbus, O.—When Mrs. E sther
Dohoney died, nt the age of one hun­
dred and two years, four children, th e
youngest of whom was seventy-two
years old, w ere a t h e r bedside.
Population Center Has
Shifted East Eight Miles
The center of population of
the U nited States for the new
census ngaln will remain In
Monroe county. Indiana. But
It will he located from six to
eight miles due enst of Bloom­
ington, the old location.
Ten years ago the population
center was located first by cen­
sus experts on a farm eight
miles ea st of Bloomington.
M arkers were erected, but three
weeks la te r the census bureau
fixed the center on a factory
site, w ithin the city of Bloom­
ington, w here It has remained
until new.
T w enty years ago the center
w as n ear Columbus, Ind., and
this will he the first tim e In the
history of the U nited States
th a t the d rift has been east­
w ard Instead of w estward.