Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1922, Page 5

HARDEN WOUNDED BY TWO ASSASSINS Nationalist ~Soldiers, Who . Marked Him for Death, " Arrested for Attack. Br the Associated Press. BERLIN. July 4. — Two men at- tacked Maximilian Harden. editor and political writer. near his home in the Grunewald, a suburb of Berlin, vesterda He wihis taken uncon- scious into the house, where he was found to be suffering from five wounds in the head. The assailants were arrested. Herr Harden has incurred the hatred of the nationalistic agitators and was near the top of the list of men marked for assult. along with Theodor Wolff and Max Warburg. __For the past six months Herr Har- den has been less active than usual. He also refrained from giving public lectures, where he always was the target for grilling by monarchists. _One of the men arrested in connec- tion with the aitack on Harden is med Weichardt.» the police an- need today. Weichardt, accord- to the police, possessed a mem- ship card in the ociation of ionalist Soldie = The attempt on the life of Maximilian Harden, one of the most noted pean publicists. comes just a little more than a week after the assassination of Walter Rathenau, the German foreign secretary. which took place in the Grunewaid. Herr ‘den in the course of the war published many striking articles in his new /ukunft, mostly denouncing Fovernment. The ire of the imperial authorities by his statements, and i July. 1917, his publication was suppressed for the re- mainder of the war. In one of his articles that attracted much attention he eulogizcd President Wilson: in another he appealed for Ger- man democracy. WOMEN POOR LOSERS. Reverses Are Taken Too Much to Heart, Financial Expert Says. Mary M. MeBride, in the N. ¥ Evening Mail. Feminine psychology precludes the possibility of woman being the same sort of “good sport” as a man. A man says so, albeit before he had finished he seemed a little doubtful, v was inclined to withdraw ment altogether, except as by the advice with which this portentous warning ran. “don’t gamble in stocks and bonds. In other words. the bears probably get the woman who buyrs on ma : Since the advice giver was Dr. S, brer, professor of insur merce of Wharton ance at the University of Penn: ia, possessor of an awe-inspi string s and author of bo it may s as gne ha od sports?” 1 demanded “But they are” Dr. Huebner hastily answered. “T did not say they arej not good sports. only that they are not the same kind of seod sports as men. Men are born zamblers, most of them, but women. being more 1m- petuous and lsss expericnced, are in clined to take losses too much to h Besides. it is much more serious for a woman to lose all she has and have to rt over again than for a man. That is why I & _woman ought not to buy on marsin ghe should leave the security market strictly alone except where she buy reliable sccuritivs outright for in vestment and puts them away.” Of the eleven hundred students in Tir. Huebner's classes, twenty-five, he savs. women. “And.” he added, his e s twinkling, “I must fess they are some of my best student Perhaps in future years. with more contact with the world and more study of busine problems. women will overcome their own psychology.” HOW VIEWS CHANGE. Estimate of Parents, Transformed | by Passing Years. h Up to five thinks them the wisest in- dividuals on h. He quotes their zs and considers ir opinions with preference given to the maternal wisdom By the tim. he is old enough to take his bath a he thinks over the m er a des that mother s he thought she was, but father knows a goed many thing and cites to himself their respective opinions on swinimin’, fishin' and ge- ‘1 as smart fng to the barber vs. maternal hair- clippin= About the time he sneaks dad's razor to his own room and experi- ments a little with the fuzz on his chin he concludes father is a well meaning duffer enonzh. but mother knows less than nothing. Five years later he pities the igno- rance of the whole world. and espe- cially that of the old folks. At thirty, about the time ne wants| to borrow some of his financial mistakes. he thinks father's and mother's advice is pretty good sometimes. Ten or fifteen years i has had a lad or two o begins to wond od the old foli v. when his parents are dead, he idealizes them as the greatest characters of their age and spends hours telling his chiliren how im- plicitly he always heeded and obeyed the slightest wish or command of his parents and how he cver and always took their advice in the crises of life. NEW COMMUNITY CENTERS. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. & The drug store has come to be the new center of community life. and scores of them in New York are putiing in cushioned seats around the ®oda fountain, or stocking up with tables and chairs where there is room, and keeping open until lons after midnight. The closing of the saloon nd the shifting of women away from astry shops. have given the chemists a new lease of life. At first it looked as if the delicatesseners would fall heir to the honor, and for a time in Gotham they did get a strong play. but the odors of the cooked meats. and openly disnlaved prepared salads proved too much for the olfactory or- gans of the public. Many discovered that eating after midnight was harmful to the digestive organs. In the last six months there has been a gradual settling of custom when he his own, the why he never ¢ to accept the drug store as the legiti- mate and only proper successor of the saloon. Through the bright-light belt the drug stores are crowded far into the morning hours, and the time- worn question, “Where shall 1 meet * now has for its universal re- spons: t the drug store.” What liquors are legally sold under & physician’s prescription are handed over the counters of some drug stores. The drug addicts find solace for their cravings in haunting the proximity of the rooms and rows of drug jars, and even if they cannot procure the now” to snuff up the nostrils or th& ‘shot” for the hypo needle, they like to come in and hang around the plate. It is possible for them in certain places willing to take the risk to ob- tain their pleasure poison. Today one can buy most anything in a drug store, the drugs themselves forming the smallest item in the day's sales. Just take notice from now on and watch the steady growth in impor- tance as a center for-congregation of the drug store. In fact. | parents ; money from dad to cover | GERMAN PEASAN REAPING HARVEST Pays Off Debts With Depre- ciatéd Marks and Gets Big Price for Products. (The following Is the fourth of Mr. Moder- well's series of article on present day living conditions in Germany.) BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. (Special Correspondence of The Star and Chicago Daily News Forelgn Service.) BERLIN, Germany, May 11.—"1 hate the peasants. They are rich. But they don’t care about what is hap- pening to us in the citv" | Some such remark is heard repeat- edly in Germany these days. It Is significant of a situation in nearly every nation east of the Rhine—the jma between town and country. The cities are suffering for lack of food. The farms will send food only in re- turn for manufactured goods and only when the price offered is high. Before the war the German peasant was a hard worker, paying a couple of marks a day or less to his help and rarely in the course of a year ating the meat which he raised. Though he usually bwned a small farm. his land was generally well mortgaged to city bankers and he was obliged to scraDe and save to pay the interest. { When the mark began to fall he was able to pay off his debts, principal and Interest, In depreciated paper. Where he had borrowed a_thousand dollars he paid back a hundred. or even fifty. He suddenly found himself in com plete posseesion of his farm and mas- ter of all it produced. For years he had been slave-driben by the city. Now the city came to him begging for bread. ~He replied: “Give me the things 1 want in exchange and give me plenty of them.” It was not al- ways the most essential crops for which he was offered the highest price. Thus the peasant has been free to name his price and arrange his crovs to a considerable degree as he chose. Al this has tended to raise the price of food. The city complains that the peasant is failing in his patriotic duty. The peasant continues to smoke his long. painted pipe and grunt. Labor Unions Temporarily on Top. The industrial working class is one of the first to feel the effect, for rise more slowly than prices. wage: For a short time after the 1918 revo- lution the factory worker was top dog. The trade unions jumped enor- mously in membership. until it be- came almost completely true that every wage-earning person in Ger- many was a labor union. The eight- hour day was written into the con- stitution of the German republic. The industrial boom has abolished unem- ployment and provided at least for y bread if not for daily meat. ge demands. stimulated by rising prices. have usually been readily met out of the fiood of paper money. and | strikes have become less frequent. Much confusion exists about the true condition of the German work- ing class. The best figures 1 have been able to collect from various sources, German and allied, would in- | dicate that the German workman's dard of living is distinetly lower it was before the war. A skilled tmetal worker received the early | months of the present y nominally | about thirteen times his pre-war wage: a bank clerk about sixteen imes: a worker in the building trades {eighteen times: a printer about seven- teen times. The lowest figures to meacure the increased number of {marks necessary to maintain life in j January. 1921 on the scale on which {it was maintained in 1913, is twenty- one. > This is issued by the German Zovernment, which is interested in Keeping the figure low, since it must | raise the wages of its innumerable {employes accordingly. The figure | forty is often given, but taking thir la nwderate figure, the workman | | Would still be from a third to a half | {below his pre-war standard. | The fact that necessity has taught ihim ways of piecing out his income | (by special bonuses in the shop or by | special gardens in which he may raise | his own vegetables). may be offset| by the fact that his increases come several jumps behind the rising prices. Yet he lives. on the whole, idecently and without actual sufter- {ing. All Workera' Interents Allke. Another important fact is that the {waxes of skilled and unskilled are i niuch more nearly equal than before | the war. Tley are now all in the same boat and may be expected to act pretty nearly as a unit in case of a social upheaval. The working class, therefore, is} compact and busy, with a formidable power of resis nce. But its active i pelitical power i Tts political i parties are Lopel terly quarreling. the function of the social democrats~in i the present coalition government is to sign on Wirth's or Rathenau's dotted line. What the_ working class is con- istantly haunted by is insecurity. A panic or an industrial depression { would throw it into the streets with- Iqut savings and with a bankrupt government unable long to give as- sistance. The aristocracy has had a varied fot. The true junker or gentleman | farmer is better off than before. The city aristocrat, whose property was largely in_bonds, may be reduced to i poverty. Th> son of the junker, who usually had a high government or army job, is out of luck. But on the Whole it may be said that with some | difficulty the noble class is holding {its_own. These are some of the tricks which the paper mark in its decline has played with German society. For Ul ese changes of fortune are mot a | mere matter of bookkeeping; they represent an actual shifting of wealth | from certain classes to certain other | clisses, a new way of dividing the{ inational income. The shift may be | summarize: as follows: (1) The middle class has lost near- Iy all its wealth, which has gone ! partly to (2) The peasants, who have pald their debts and are now small in- | dependent lardlings; further to (3) The schieber. an amorphous| | class of ‘adventurers, living largely ! upon the misfortunss of others. The working class has ceded a consider- ablespart of its share of the national ircome to others. Thus the middle clars and the working class have lost; the peasants and the schieber have galned. But there 18 still another gainer—the most spectacular and in some ways | the most sinister of all—the indus- | wlatist. {BOUND BY ROPE OF PEARLS., lSo Princess Marie of Pless Remains in Germany. { From the Chicago Herald and Examiner. { Princess Marie Theresa Olivia of Pless, acknowledged the most beauti- ful princess in Europe, is a prigoner iin Germany—bound by a strand of pearls twenty-three feet long! Princess Marie, known to her | ffriends as “Daisy,” a daughter of Mrs. Cornwallis-West. the famous Engli: hostess. and a sister of the Duchess | of Westminster. is a virtual prisoner at Partenkirchen, in the Bavarian Alps. She can leave Germany if “she wishes, but she would be forced to give up her pearls. a string twenty- three feet long, numbering two thou- sand jewels in all; and she would have to give up an annual income of one million five hundred thousand marks. Z She is officially separated from Prince Henry of Pless, her royal con- sort, who lives at Castle Fuersten- berg, Silesia. “I'd rather die here,”.she exclaimed, “than give up my pearls, my com- panions, my badge of coquetry! The Gi'rl-Web 'i'hought We Were Mhrrymg i GO Home Mow ? | SHouLD SAY Ng_l’! WHY.WE'VE COT A GooD | HALF HOouR BEFORE DARK. THIS 15 THE BEST THME ~ RIGHT MOw . Db You THINK FOR ONE MINUTE 1D LET A FEW MOSEUITDS ArMD A LITTLE RAIN INTERFERE WiTH FISHIMG 7 NOT ont YouRr LiFe! CAST CveRr BY THAT BIG ROCK — THAT LOOKS LIKE A BuLLY PLACE. THEN "LL ROW You oueR To THE OTHER S.CE CF THE LAKE AnD WE'LL FiISH THAT. I'M HAVING A GRAMO TIME ! 7 720 W —By WEBSTER. camP 7 WANT You To ONER PO . You \E BEEN RowWin® FoR ABouT Gomt’ BAk To 1 DoN' T / a LUCK AND BRIDES' VEILS. Even Milliners’ Models Keep Fin- gers Crossed While Trying On. From the New York Evening Sun. Lisette, whose clever fingers have fashioned that miracle of beauty. the wedding veil, for many of the smart- est brides in the city, was instructing an apprentice. The apprentice young, so young that she still lieved in the existence of her Prince Charming. As she watched Lisette’s busy fingers weaving orange bloss was jinto the tuile she smiied. “When I am married I shalt have a veil like that,” she asserted confi- dently. Lisette removed some pins from her mouth and sighed a weary sigh as she called for a model to try on her com- | pleted wedding veil. The young apprentice was anxious to please Lisette. Besides, she want- ed to see how she would look in a wedding veil. “If you are in a hurry gested obligingly, “I'l you finish draping the vei Lisette rolled her eves in horro My child, no. Never. You are 2nd vou are pretty. Perhaps your chance will come. Never, never ruin it by trving on a wedding veil. It is bad luck. You will never marry then “Eut our models try on hundreds. protested the young apprentice in her and while disappointment. “That is different. Tt is their busi- ness. For them it is not such bad luck. Besides. most of them stand with their fingers crossed whenever they have to try on a wedding veil or a wedding dress. Evew many brides will not try on their veils and | and | | they make us hunt up a model that is dresses before their wedding da, almost their double to stand for their fittings.” Lisette rather liked the young ap- prentice. So she leaned over con- fidentially. “Listen, and T will tell you a secret. If you want to get a_husband you must do what I say. Whenever You work on a hat or veil for a bride pull out one of your own hairs and sew it up somewhere inside the crown. The girls here almost fight for the priv flege of putting one of their own hai into each bride's headcovering; And the young apprentice saw Lis ette pull out one of her few fast- graying hairs and sew it into the cloud of tulle and orange blossoms. WEATHER MAN'S FORECAST. Accuracy About 35 Per Cent for Country in Five Years. From the People’'s Home Journal. For a period of five years the United States weather bureau in its fore- casts for the entire country has scorad above 35 per cent. This, of course, is not perfect, and the more the forecast it restricted in area the less the prob- abllity of exactness. There are times when storm centers and_cold-wave areas take abnormal paths, become practically stationary or dissipate rapidly, and these are conditions that are difficult to foresee. While the forecasts are not infal- ible, many people do not realize tha much of their lives is regulated bs them. The business man takes th: weather bureau more serfously thar the average pedestrian. Produce deal- ers who handle perishable commodi- ties depend greatly on the forecasts, as the fortunes of their business often hang on the turn in the weather. Coal companies and companies which have large heating contracts must know the brand of weather expected. Marine interests are also protected by the display of storm warnings. As the forecasts are the best jude- ments of the best trained meteorolo- glsts, after a careful study of chart- ed conditions telegraphed from all over the American continent, the pub- lic should note and bear in mind the good work of the bureau, instead of drawing general conclusions from the occasional’ mistakes. PRESENT UNITED FRONT. German Employers Organize Pow- erful Association. From the New York Times. German business men and manp- facturers have so perfected the As- sociation of German Emplovers’ So- cieties that they now form prac- tically a united front in the strug- gle against the demands of the labor unions and the legislative program of the radical parliamentarians, ac- cording to the business report of the association for 1921. The work of organization has been carried so far that the whole country, including the occupled territory, is covered with a network of state, provincial and district societies, embracing 215 main units whose members own or control about 100,000 plants and em ploy approximately 8,000,000 men and womens —_— No snake, frog, toad or lizard has ever been seen in Newfoundland, mg’ she sug-| oung | An American Race Type. From the New York Sun. | The on of Dr. Hrdlicka of the Smithsontan Institution that de- scendants of the earlier Americans | | exhibit disting ical char- | acteris i is e bservers i as though | xtent a distinct rac la recently did i American women. The con Hrdlicka tends to atific support to this impre: Hrdlicka says that Am { whose ancestors of three to e | erations were born in t [ possess a stature decidediy tion of some | Dr above the of others living here today, {and also above that of m Euro- | peans. He seems to believe that the { form of the h ent. on the whol alzo a bit differ-; | The variation probably is due to | the fact that the earlier immigrants {to t country came mainly from @ i Great Brit and Ireland, while the inewcomers of the last few decad from other parts. 1d time to affect descen- comers a little, e of the later! erhaps the often the older fm 1a decline of in relative reproduction and in 1 |3t ¢ he partly the effect of the | curvival of the fiitest in the adjust- | Ims-nl to a new climate. MOUNTAIN THAT SHIFTS. 1 ;Changeable Mound of Sand in Southwestern Desert. From the Detroit News. In the great desert regions of xhel southwest there is a remarkable mountain of sand. The behavior of it mystified the early settlers who iin the days of '49 followed the old trail from Yuma to Los Angeles. The mountain was constantly ct ;:lx\‘g; form. The first pioneers mentioned it \to their friend a landmark by fo recognize it. wandered from the trail and were lost in the desert. I People discovered later that it was jthe strong winds that from time to {time sweep across the desert that} i made the mountain act in so queer !a way. When the wind blew it { <hifted the lonse sand from one spot o another, built new domes and pin- nacles and destroved others, until Within a short time the whoie moun- tain presented an entirely new out-| line against the sKy. Land That Is Thrown Away. ? From the Roston Transcript. S Bad fires are already raging ing various parts of eastern !\lnssachu-i setts, b they are nothing to what will prevail if there is dry weather in early M. The woods are full of fallen hranches, many of them of very the result of the ice storm larz 3 last 1. Entire trees have fallen| d there, and only in a few instances has this accumulation, the danger of which increases as it dries. been removed. Lacking the prov dential aid of a wet season. it Is in- evitable that there should ba a heavy | and in some places total destruction of woodlind growth, in-this section. The condition illustrates the tradi- tional indifference of Americans to the wood product of the soil. Because | the scrub growth, which is all that | the average citizen shows to develop | on his so-called woodland acres, is| of little value, the average owner thinks of his land as worth only what | it would be worth if cleared of its timber. All current ‘or ordinary es- timates of the value of what our New | England proprietors call a *“crop of wood” are based upon the worth of a chance growth of scrub noy more than twenty-five years old. The slight | value of this highly indifferent prod- | uct is realized by cutting it downi clean. and another accidental “crop” of the same sgrub growth allowed to| accumulate. In the meantime this, system, with fires which generally destroy the carpet of leaves in the fall and dwarf and stunt the timber, the soil actually deteriorates and | wastes away instead of growing| richer as it should do. | Very 01d Nurseuy Rhymes. - From the Detroit News. Some of the commonest nurser)‘l rhymes, which are taught to each succeeeding generation of youngsters. are of as great antiquity as many of the most celebrated poems and novels of English letters. “Sing a Song of Sixpence” was com- posed during the sixteenth century. “Three Children Sliding on the Ice” dates from 1539. “London Bridge is Falling Down” is apparently almost as old as the city itself. “Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been?” was writtey during the reign. of Queen Elizabeth. “Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket” came into being when Charles II was on the throne. . | advance roy i we had hefore. Phere LARGEST ROYALTY CHECK. | Fortune Paid for the Memoirs of Gen. Grant. From the Detroft News. In 1885 Mark Twain financial ng a period of prosper lisher of his own books. tion of the “Adventur berry Finn" at particularly profitable, hearing that Richard vf the Century ©f his memoirs, called ups and downs, that time had Company i discussing with Grant the publishing . who had his was enjoy- ity as the pub- . The publ s of Huckle- been and Clemens, Watson Gilder had been upon the gen- eral, with whom he had long been on intimate terms, finding out how developed It editors desired the bo not guarantee a profit the author. who had for the far the project had purpose ot soon appeared that the Century ok, would of .000 to cently experi- bu enced a failure in business and whose Clemens. whose thought was to serve hi “General, 1 have my cl me. T will draw you a §25.000 for the first memeirs, and will for each volume 21ty payme An arragement was Girant received 70 per c returns and. as is we book was a vast succ cation resulted in re Grant heirs of about first check to Mrs. drawn February 27, 18§ remains the largest ro history. dd volun Julia D. s ! health was breaking down. first and last s friend, said:: heckbook with check now for e of your e amount al may write as an nt.” made whereby cent of the net 1 known, the The publi- ipts by the $450.000. The Grant, 6. for $200.000, valty check 1n FAVORS EX-CONVICTS. Rule of Restaurant Manager in Engaging Waiters. John Dos Passos. fn Asia the manager of a popular New York restaurant complacently, his gaze fol- giving them a trial have proved conscienti reasonable than some which they mizht guide themselves|lowing the brisk movements of a s way into the new country.|waiter. I started it because I but it changed its appearance so|thought those fellows ought to be Patialy (hat - many of them failed|Eiven a chance .Afterward I found I ap 5 had done a good thing for myself in for most of them ous and more of the waiters “He was speaking to a patron about his new rule of employment For the strange rule cants able to t served a term in s tion. Almost all the w. of the other employ victs mong the w. inguishing fea s of the ures of employment s to zive preference to appli- hat they had penal institu- iters and some s are ex-con- iters there are only or three that display any of the nd manner- Former cquvict as he is known to the stage, ‘the screen. in fiction or—for that matter—in reality. The prevailing characteristic, how- ever, is genial desire to give sati factory service, and there is a notable of the supercilliousness professional waiters | regenerated convict tray carrie not one of them that habitual crimina ful in their present em eager to justify in e st imposed in them. s among these but suggests the Yet all seem cheer- nployment and very way the Wouldn’t Suit. From the Boston Transcript. Puffer—Any mosquito Real estate agent—N Pufter—Then 1 place. My wife will an’t es about here? ot one. take the let me smoke only when the mosquitoes are both- ering her. X The common housefl in the course of a in creams, nuts, chocolate—— 20,000 Summer Excursions the realm of taste achieve success L tantalizing, captivating confection specimens—mudli-flavored caramels, nougats, CORNWELL’S Bungalow Box “5 Room Sweets” A Pound-and-a-Quarter $1.55 sl . C, TUESDAY, JULY 4 1922. LAND WITH WOMEN IN-LEAD PROSPERS Paraguay of Taday Depicted Country Which Has “Come Back” Successfully.” A country whose population waa almost wiped out of existence, but which hus *“come back™ successtully; where women outnumber men several times over; where cattle graze the year reend under palm trees, and where bearded cowboys wear bloomers—such is the Paraguay of today, pictured in a bulletin from the logal headquarters of the National Geographic Society. The bulletin was issued following news dis- patches which state that a revolution has broken out in the litile Sbuth Amer- ican republic. : - “Paraguay, which has refused the of- tered mediation of foreign diplomats and has announced that its army will take care of the conntry’s latest revolu- tion with rifles and cannon, is living up to the military tradiiions which bave given it the most tragic history of all the countries of the Americas,” says the bulletin. Depopulated by W Next to the smallest republic in South America, with an area only about as large as that of the state of Wyo ming, Paraguav in 1868 had,a popul tion comparable with that of extensi Argentina and huge Brazil, and thanks to the military ambitions of its dictator, Francisco Lopez, the most powerful army in South America. Lopez be Ve himself destined to be the Napoleon of the western hemisphere, and in. 1865 confidently led the army of his little country against the combined forces {of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. “The five-year conflict was so bloody and the Paraguayans were defeated so signally that between. two-thirds and five-sixths of the population | perished. Oi a population that may have passed the million mark, only about 200,000 women and less than 20.000 men—mostly old, men and were left. ~ The losses were heavibr, probably, than those suffered by any other nation in mod- ern times. Even today Paraguay 1s largely a land of women. the men being greatly in the minority. History Filled With Confilcts. “Paraguay’s history has been filled with conflicts, violence and_unusual situations from the first. To begin with, there has been a slighter ad- mixture of European blood there than in any other South American country, jand the fire of the old Indian blood has been preserved. A little band of aniards sailed up the Plata and Paraguay rivers in 1536 and in the heart of South America founded a settlement. They took Indian wives. They and their descendants became | the “ruling power in the land, even- tually establishing great haciendas on which the Indians worked. Missionaries who went to the re- gion in 1609 brought the Indians to- gether into sottlements of their own and taught them to carry on agri- culture for themselves. This was resented by the half-breeds, and the situation was further complicated by the arrival of other missionaries, Who destroyed the early settlements.’ The first comers armed the Indians, ex- pelled the Spanish governor and the later arrivals and wrote the second unusual_chapter in Paraguavan his- tory. For more than one hundred vears they conducted a sort ot church state’ Later Spanish gov- ernors, who ecruelly oppressed the pple. came back into pewer. 2 After independence from Spain was gained in 1510, Paraguay entered upon a period of dictatorships and became the hermit nation of the west. Trade with outside countries and the presence of foreigners was strictly prohibited and the country came to be entirely a self-reliant unit. A sort of communism was established for many years, a por- tion of the 1and being worked for the state, the proceeds being_used for the benefit of the people. De Franchia, the first and most benevolent of the dictators, was absolute despot of the Country for twenty-five years. When he died there was a short period of fighting and turbulence, from which Carlos Lopez emerged as_dictator. After him came his son, Francisco, under whom the population suffered its greatest losses. Woman Rules as Despot. “For some of Paraguay's greatest troubles it_is a case of ‘cherchez la femme.” Francisco Lopez, who was educated in Europe, was accompanied on his return v a woman who be- came the Du Barry of South_imerica. Lopez was completely under lier con- trol and through him she ruled im- petuously and reckless “Paraguay of today is a sort of inland Florida. of fertile soil, equable climate and an abundance of fruits and food products. On its rich grass lands vast herds of cattle graze the ear round under paim trees, tended by _cowboys, who. instead of the ‘chaps’ of our western plains, wear loose, baggy bloomers. Only Argen- tina, with its more extensive plains, surpasses Paraguay as a callle coun- trv. Recently a number of packing plants have been established by North American interasts. The Paraguay river has a greater flow than the Mississippi, and Asun- cion, the capital of Paraguay, though nearly a thousand miles from the sea. is a busy port for trade with the out- side world. Has “After the War Problem.” “paraguay had its ‘after the war problem’ a long time before it was forced on the rest of the world, and ihe little republic has largely solvea it. It was necessary for the women left after the war of 1565 to bring the country back to prosperity and their marked industry did it. Today there is a degree of gencral pros- perity in the republic that compares favorably with that in most other countries. But still it has its revolu- tions. The present one is the seventh since 190° Getting the News. w York Sun. ‘s my wife going out this evening inquired the lord and master as he en- tered his house. : , sir,” the maid responded. ‘And.” he further questioned wearily. «“am 1 going with her? —_— A Seasonable Prayer. From the Boston Transeript. Western exchange—The bhirds are singlng, the flowers are blooming and the fish are biting—may the good Lord help us to love our work inimitable, in theze deep dipped in Italian Sunday Paper Nougats, 95¢ Lb. Creamy 1white cubes of French honey mallow inter- spersed with nut meats. Al- monds and hazel-nuts ovened to rich munchiness. A pound. 95c. Cande- phone Envoys From Arab “Empire” World Capitals ! + Foreseen in Transjordania Ruler Declares Efforts of French to Stifle | Hedjaz Kingdom Sure to Fail—Ministers Showing Statesmanship:. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922, | AMMAN, Transjordania, July 3. |Washington and other world capit: will soon be graced with ministers representing an Arab “emplre.” This possible surprise to the world powers that think the quota of diplomatic representatives is complete was one of several disclosures made by Bmir Abdullah, ruler of Transjordania, lwlu-n he received the-correspondent in his tented capital a few miles out- side of this city. Officially, ministers, according. :z the Arab plan, play a role in world politics, and those ac- credited to the kingdom of Hedjaz formally wpeak for the entire Arab world, including the Arab popula tions, Christian as well as Moham meddn, of the British «and French mandates as well as of the less well known Arab kingdoms. The Arabs in accrediting ministers to Hedjaz have shown qualities of statesmanship matching the schemes of the western statecfaft which a sumed that the Arab kingdom w: effectively partitioned by the treaty of Versailles. Prince Abdullah of Transjordania 18 the second son and King “Feisal, ruler of Irak, is the third son of the aged Hussein, king of Hedjaz, who is a direct descendant of Hassan, the eldest grandson of the prophet Mohammed. Obviously the ministers to Hedjaz, appointed by the head of the most powerful family in the Mohammedan world, will express the aspirations of more than 200.000,- 000 beMevers in. that religion, while it is equally obvious that for political reasons ministers are selected from other parts of the Arab world than the backward kingdom of Hedjaz. Britain Best Ally. “We dislike the name ‘Transjor- dania’ _because we consider that this kingdom was created by the western powers merely as the southern province of Syria, just as Syria itself is merely a part of the Arab empire,” said Abdullah. “Great Britain has been the best ally of the Arabs and has kept all the promises made at the time of the war. but when the time comes the world will find the Arab people unite “France in two to force her African colonial policy upon Syria has lost all the Arab frierdship acquired in two centuries. France made a mistake in antago- nizing the most powerful family in Islam. while it is ridiculous to ex- pect a people with centuries of proud history, and Who, even under Turkish rule, furnished viceroys, marshals and premiers to the Ottoman empire. to submit to the dictatorship of petty French colonial officers. hough driven from our own coun- v and forced to live in tents by the same allles who we aided during the war, while these allies are living in the palaces of our country upon the resources of our lands, we do not be- lleve that this is the time for war. We realize that today we cannot match _ the ~French in military rength, while France. impoverished by the war and unable to pay her debts. does not realize that in the end the enforcement of her policy in Syria will require an army of 70,000 men. Personally I do not believe that enmity between the Arabs and France is necessary and I am trying to adjust the differences by friendly methods, though without much pros- pect of success. 1 must confess. People Hard to Restrain. “The Arabs have always been a free people. and even the Turks recognized that fact and now admit that their oppression caused the Arab upheaval at a critical time in the war. France is now playing the same role as the Turks played and Arab spirit of freedom is increasing daily. Ihave great difficulty in restraining the in- dignation of my people. “The United States has not carried out its noble promises of self-deter- mination for smaller nations, yet the Arabs have not lost confidence in the conscience of the American people. So long as the United States out of deference to European nations plays a role in world politics that is con- trary to its own ideals the Arabs feel that they must depend upon their own resources in winning freedom. All that this government asks of the United States i2 to send a consul to our | Business ears by attempting ! E are having requests for ' Apartment Houses ; Investment Properties Residence Properties List Your Properties for Sale With Us capital to secure information as to the actual situation in the Arab world.” When it was suggested that Trans- jordania, on account of its geographi- cal, political and strategical position, would be the nucleus of the contem- plated Arab empire, Abdullah's firm 1ips relaxed into & smile and his eyes Kled. would not want that idea to come from me,” he said. “Yet history tells vs that this portion of Syria never failed to support any effort for Arab freedom.” Visited By Few Strangers. Though Amman is only & few hours’ ride from Jerusalem, it is visited by few strangers, and travelers on the eastern side of the Jordan without the turban or red fez on their heads are looked upon with suspicion. Transjordania is a fertile country. where the east does not know the west, and where the farmer driving loaded donkeys, where the Bedouin jogging along with a string or camels and where even the goat herder in the flelds carries a rifle slung across his back. Despite this “touch of the primitive, the country has a few highways, colleges, schools and hospitals and other improvements made within the last two years, in- dicating a determination to “mect (he west.”" Great Britain created Tmensjordanis to satisfy the Arab ambitions for an independent kingdom' and also two purposes of its own—to form a buffer state between its own Pales- tine mandate and the hostile Bedouin tribes and as a counter irritant to the French mandate in Syria. How |long Transjordania will work accord- Ing to schedule remains.to be seen. Amman at the time of Alexander the Great was known as Philadelphia and traces of 'the Greek and Roman occupation remain in -the shape of a ruined citadel on a hilltop and an amphitheater on the opposite hillsidi Goats are now stabled in the gal- leries where once conquerors trod and marble columns serve as benches in front of the Bedouin cdllee shops. TRAVELING MEN TO UNITE. Salesmen’s Association Will Be Merged Into One Organization. From the New York Times. A movement is on foot for the consolidation of all traveling sales- men’s associations in the country into one national organization. Fred M. Lewis, who has been ap- pointed chairman of the first fa- tional convention of the National Council of Traveling Salesmen's As-, sociations, which will be held in Cincinnati October 9, 10 and 11, said that this was one of the two objects of the convention. 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