Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 4

REPARATIONSPLAN S AGAN DELAYE French Proposal Not Likely! to Be Made Before End of Week. By the Associated Press. ¥ PARIS, January 22.—Presentation | of the new FKrench plan for a Ger- man reparatién settlement which it has been announced would be given to the members of the reparation com- | mission today, has again been delay- ed. Tt is cxpected now the plan willy not be ready until the end of this| week. Discussion of the plan in the | commission will mot, in that event,| begin until next week: Although the reasons given for the delay is that. more time is necessary to transcriba the plan, and put the finishing touches on it, the develop- ments in the German situation are re- zarded in - reparition .circles. as the, main cause, The new French reparation plan pro- vides for a German domestic loan of three billlon gold marks guaranted by the Reich’s leading industrialists. France Would Take Most. | With the exception of 500.000.000 | gold marks, which would be used in | atabllizing the currency, proceeds of ! the proposed loan would be paid_on the allied reparation account. The | guarantees demanded by France :.re! practically the same she now holds !league of | 1shii, EAGUE COUNCIL MEETS IN PARIS ON THURSDAY Several New Faces to Be Seen at Table When Important Ques- tions Are Taken Up. B the Associated Press, PARIS, January 22.—The first ses sion of, the enlarged council of the nations will be held in Paris, beginning next Thursday. Sev- eral new faces will be seen, includ- ing those of Hjalmar Branting, Swe- den, and Senor Blanco, Uruguay, new- Iy elected members; former Premier |Salanda of Ttaly, who will succeed the Marquis Tmperiali, and Mr. Adatchi, who will sit in the place of Viscount who 8 now iu Japan. Rene Viviana will substitute for Leon Bourgebts, France. Great Britain, Belgium, Spain, Bra- zil and China will have the same representation as at the-last meeting of the council, respectively, Earl Bal- four, Pxul Hymans, Count Quiones de Leon, Senor de Gama and Mr. Tang Tsai Fou, the Chinese minister to Rome. : . One of ‘the first questions be brought up will be whether the ¢oun- cll shall. In accordance with the sug- mestion made at the last assembl call an internations] conferen deal with the extension of the Wash- ington naval ers which were not repre Washingtou conferenc enfled at the Premier Poincare. Louis Barthou | and the other French cxperts make | their pr@posal contingent upon the withdrawal of all resistance to France's Ruhr policy and to all action in other territories occupied| under the Versailles treaty. No Moratortum. In commenting upon the fact that the plan provides, for no moratorium, I'rench officials point out that a two- ar delay would “be considered if] Germany agrees to submit to the coercive measures permitted by the treaty. As the case now stands. it | is said. there is little use in offering | # moratorium if the German govern- ment refuses to recognize the treaty that imposes the payments. SCANT COMFORT IS SEEN IN THYSSEN'S' CAPTURE { Germans Say French Have Real Tartar on Hand in Making Patriot Prisoner. H By the Assoclated Press, RERLIN, Jan 22.5-The business associates’ of Fritz Thyssen assert that the French caught a real tartar when they laid hands on him. “His will has the unflinching quality of the anclents.” said one of them. “He Is a block of granite, and the French will break their teeth trying to budge him.” Emil Kirdorf, one of the Rhenish coal magnates, discussing the arrest by the French of his associates, said today: “I know Fritz Thyssen; I heard him apeak at the session when he decided to transfer the coal syndicate's head- quarters to Hamburg. He just car ried us along by his fervor and devo- ion to the fatherland. There was no wavering in his determination, and when he got through speaking the rest of us felt exactly as he did. Fritz Thyssen and the rest of them have shown the world that the race of Ger- man is not extinct.” GERMAN PRESS BANS - FRENCH SPORT NEWS Students and Theater Managers Also Join Boycott in Berlin. BERLIN, January French rac- ing and other'sporting news has been added to the German boycott index against France. The National Zeitung announces that hereafter it will sus- pend the publication of news of French sporting events in deference | to “the wishes of all decent and pa- triotically inclined readers. German student fraternities are pe- titioning university heads to exclude Frenchmen, Belgians and Lithuanians from all sources. The Theater Managers' Auoclltmn] has passed a resolution to exclude; French plays of all catagories, The' Actors’ Union publishes a protest; against “The inundation of the Ger- | man stage by frivolous, lascivious and TAUANPLERTOL. § ON RUKR 15 HITED ;Bo‘me Declared to Be Exerting In- _fluence on This Country for Intervention. LONDO .—The Italian government, according to the Times correspondént at Rome. is eyertin influence on the American as well the British government with a view to preventing any further advance of the French into German territory, but all reports of active Italian interven- Ruhr question are demied by th~ Ttal- fan foreign office. The Times, in an ing the extraordinary rest of Pritz Thyssen and his col- leagues has produced in German says that there may be calculatior in the measures of resistance taken by the German govrnment, but that 80 far as such calculation is hased on the hope of foreign intervention in behalf of Germany it is largely mis- directed. . “Great Britain certainly will not.in- tervene,” declared the Times, “and we see not’ the slightest prospect of any American action.” GERMAN SECRET MILITARY FORCES MAY STRIKE SOON (Continued from First Page.) editorial discu effect the miners through French ‘restriction particularly if it is seen that this governmental aid _is frustrating French purposes. If there is gen- eral industrial paralysis there are certain to be untoward clashes be- tween the French agd Germans. Communists Feverishly Active. The communists are feverishly ac- tive in the Ruhr, according to ad- vices which have been received in Washington, working in anticipation of the moment when, courage sup- planted by the bitterest hatreds, stomachs gnawing and suffering gen- eral, there will be better chance of bringing the workers under the standard of the internationale. In the meantime it is declared that younger workers are disappearing from the Ruhr and are being mobiliz- ed in ane guise or another in other sections of Germany in anticipation of the moment when active militar: resistance against the French will be ushered in. It is regarded as extremely signifi- cant here that the semi-military or- ganizations which have obtained new life since the French invasion are in active command of German officers of the imperial army. who are more or less responsive 'to dictation frorh tawdry French concoctions. H REPORT TROOPS ACTIVE. | IN MUENSTER SECTION | Maneuvers in Presence of Luden- dorff and Accumulation of Sup- plies Told of in Dispatch. By the Associated Press. H PARIS, January 22—Important| troop movements are reported at Muenster, says the Duesseldorf cor- respondent of Le Matin. Trains are forming at the depot and quantities; ot forage are accumulating. Gen. f.udendorff was there on Saturday) when training and other maneuvres were practised in his presence. The ministry of war could not con- firm this despatch. { | STOPS TAX PAYMENTS. } Finance Minister Directs Tariffs Only Be Paid German Account. Ry the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 22.—Minister of | Finance Hermes has issued an order forbldding the payment of customs and coal tax and export dues to any account other than German. The Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists has decided to ry on no business relations with France or Belgium as long as the oc- cupation of the Ruhr continues. —_— | DEPORT BANK DIRECTOR. i 2 French Order Expulsion From Dues- seldorf of Herr Lieneweder. DUESSELDORF, January 22.—in addition to deporting Count von Roe- dern, chief German representative in the Wiesbaden district, the French authorities have ordered the expul- sion_of Herr Lieneweder, director of the Duesseldorf branch of the Reichs. bank. He refused to obey tl in- structions of the economic mission, ——e RUSS PROTEST INVASION. Demonstration Against French Held in Vladivostok. Ty the Associated Press. VLADLIVOSTOK, January 22.—Work- men paraded here in a demonstra- tion against the French occupation of the Ruhr. The demonstration was nrdered by the soviet government of- ficials. Bands played a dirge. GOLD MARK PRICE FIXED. By the Associsted Press. BERLIN, January 22.—The Reichs. wank has fixed the purchase price of the twenty-mark gold plece for the Ludendorff and his cohorts, now ac- tively engaged also in preparing for | a counter Tevalution in Germany that will at once wipe out the present form of government and scotch com- munism. Question of Military Fore ¥or the moment, at least, the threat from the secret military units of Ger- many is considered more of an ac tuality than the communistic effor in the'Ruhr. That they will attempt to expel the French, at'least conduct a guerilla warfare that will lead either to the eventual ouster or com- plete domination of all Germany by the French, is thought certain. There is considerable speculation as to the ability of the Germans to pre- serit any sort of organized military effort. The British and the allies have insisted that the Germans are im- potent to wage any kind of a conflict against the French, organized or un- organized. In resisting the thesis of other allies the French have insisted that the secret military forces of Germany have and are of sufficient size to watrant their own main- tenance of the largest standing army ever sustained in Europe's history. If the allied thesis is correct them not much can come of Gérman mili- tary effort. If the French have been right then the danger is extreme. The Germans, following the French line of argument, have been and are at the moment ‘able to mobilize: an army of & half ‘million. men. The French insfst that the Germans have |secreted machine guns and enough large stores of cannon and other larger equipment to make any.threat extremely effective. The French have insisted that the Germans have been building great airplane fleets under the guise of commercial craft. The whole of Germany is honeycombed by secret organizations well officered-ana susceptible of mobilizatjon . in short periods, they have' insisted. Accepting France's argument against her own demobilization, the Germans, if they are further fired by alleged French. injustices and their own sufferings certain to-come with con- tinued occupation of the Ruhr, and stultification of all German {indus- trial effort, may strike and strike hard. In case the Germans do not move it will be ‘taken for granted in Washington officialdom _ that _the French have constantly waved Ge: many’s - potential military threat merely a8 a subterfuge to conceal further plans in regard to Ruhr and Rhineland annexation. If the Ge ‘mans do strike, militarjly speakin; then a new war will Have come to pass, officialdom being not so con- cerned to its causes as to- its actualities, which, it is believed whole-heartedly, will engulf the en- tire continent before settiement final- ly is reached. Outside the Movies. Mother—Come along, darling, it's getting late. We must go home. Small Daughtér—Boo-0o. Don't want to go. Want to stay and see some more people shot! tlon to bring about arblitration on the | “DIVINE HEAL *,AND HERMIT OF PACIFIC COAST, WH( 'LIVES AMONG ROCKS NEAR SEA greement 1o ngval pow- | E 5 | i i By the Associated Press LUXOR, Egypt, January ~—Inter- est in the tomb of former King Tu- tankhamen was temporarily diverted through the discovery by the Ameri- can, archeologists of the body of an Egyptian princess of 4.000 years ago, and apparently one of the beauties of the first Theban dynasty, which flour- ished 2,150 years before Christ. The bosom and neck of the princess are delicately tattooed with small bluish symbols and traceries emblem- | atic of her caste. The body was mar- | velously well preserved. The hair and teeth are intact. Slight indenta- tions on the neck, wrists, fingers and ankles indicate that the princess wore necklaces, bracelets and rings in her death sleep, which were stolen when vandals desecrated her tomb. The body appears to have been that of a slender, and statuesque but im- mature girl. " I3 is believed she dled at an éarly e. There is a long mark across the stomach, evidently inflicted with a hot iron. This has inclined the medical experts to be- Jieve the princess succumbed to an organic disease, which in ancient| times was treated by violent counter- | irritants. The body will be sent to 1168 SCHOOL TEACHERS ' SUFFER FROM GRI [ ] | Epidemic in D. C. Held to Em- phasize Need of Well Trained Substitutes. !, One hundred and sixty-eight. or about 10 .per cent, of the teachers| !in the white public schools are con- {fined 'to their beds today with the igrip. and school officials have been iunable to fill their places with the | proper substitutes, being forced to {uee efghth grade pupils to act as monitors in the teacherless classes. Many pupils also are absent on ac- count of {llness. e The colored schools likewise have been affected by the grip ldemic. Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant super- intendent in charge of colored schools, however, has not completed the tabu- lation of ‘statistics showing the num bér of teachers out because of illnes: in the division of the school system under his direction. Epidemics such as the present, it was pointed out, serve to emphasize | the need of well trained, paid corps of substitute teachers. Under the present arrangement the schools have to depend on u few former teachers to_act as substitutes. the present emergency,” said ‘we are taking auy AMERICAN PROTECTORATE IN RUHR SECTOR URGED ; I € i Germans Hit Upon Plan as Way to Save Region From Control by French. By the Associated Press. d BERLIN, January 22.—An American protectorate over the Ruhr section as a compromise alternative to thel present French invasion is being pro—} posed in bourse circles, which be- lieve that such a settlement would, ave the Westphalian industrial area ; from¥French control. - H In support of the proposition that the United States assume such an ad- ministrative mandate It is argued thit since the German government is confining itself to an attitude of pas- sive resistance the time is ripe for diplomatic counter-steps, inasmuch as the French plans, wocording to the German view, aspire to the organisa- tion of a gigantic Rhenish industrial “No hard monopoly, which would be bound to develop competition with American and British industries. A Future Politician. From the Boston Poat. I observed a group of small boys in a west end street. One had been an- novlpq another who was a little big- ger. Finally the bigger boy chased the smaller one, who ran for protection to the biggest boy in the group. The smaller boy obviously deserved chastisement, but his pursuer was much stronger than he was. The big- ough it over a moment, then rendered judgmen hittin a boy who ‘is going to be 2 judge or a political boss some day, 2 A L | | wt as “The Divine Healer,” c ocean at San Francisco. He takes dally waiks in the water, where he prays and lectures 1o passersby. Body of Egyptian Princess Of 4,000 Years Ago Uncovered the Cairo medical laboratory pathological examination, FIND FLY SWATTERS. for a Curios From Tutankhamen’s Tomb Made of Horse Hair. BY ARTHUR WEIGALL. By Cable to The Star. LUXOR, Egypt. January —A number of interesting objects were removed from the tomb of Tutank- hamen here today and taken to the workshop which has been speclal prepared for them. Among these was another footstool on which two gold- en. figures are cleverly inlaid repre- senting bearded Asiatics—a fact which shows again that this Pharach had a partfcular contempt for semetic peoples. Four 'alabaster vases containing perfumes were also removed. Marvel- oue as it may seem. a slight scent still can be detected from them. The Pharaoh fly swatters made of horse hair with beautifully carved ivory handles aiso appeared and several mus- fcal instruments, including reed pipes and a golden fife. came up from the om (Copyright, 1 by North American News- paper Alliance.) BRIG. GEN. L. M. BRETT TO ADDRESS RESERVES School in Advance Infantry Tactics to Follow Meeting, With Maj. Lee in Charge. Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett. retired, former commander of ‘the §6th Divi- sion overseas, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of Washington resefve officers Thursday evening at the Graham building, 14th and E streets northwest. Officers of the 320th Infantry, 313th Field Artillery, 80th Signal Company, 305th Ammunition. Train and 305 Air Squadron and all officers of the $0th Division in Washington and Bal- timore have been invited to attend. Following the meeting there iwill be a school in advance infantrs ta. tics for the officers of the 2d Battal- lon of the 320th Infantry, conducted by Maj. Brooke Le —_— ANNOUNCE RECEPTION. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. James E. Freeman will hold a reception for the mem- bers and friends of Epiphany Epis- copal Church tomorrow evening, from 8 to 11 o'clock. in the-parish house on G street. This 18 an annual cus- tom at Epiphany and this year Dr. and Mrs. Freeman will have assist ing them Mrs. Randolph H. McKim, Ad- miral M. T. Endicott,-Dr. and Mrs. A. R. Shands, Dr. M. F. Finley, Maj. Gen. and Mrs, John A. Lejeune, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt 0. Chance, Mr. and Mre. R. W. Hynson, Gen. and Mrs. Samuel T. Ansell and Dr. and Mrs. W. Sinclair Bowen. Charles F. Wil- son, & vestryman of the church, will ake the Introductions. Mr. Wilson also is chairman of the men's' com- mittee. and Mrs. Grace Berry, the woman’s _committee, which are In charge of arrangeménts. ARTS THAT WERE LOST. Devices Employing Steam Invented Before Christian Era. From the Detroit News. An old Greek experimenter of Alex- andria was working on a steam engine /invention years before the Chris- tian era. ‘He had an apprentice named Here. Hero constructed the first steam turbine engine, which was of the re- actionary type, but for all that it would spin like a top. He also invented a steam whistle and a preumatic blower by which he could sound trumpets and organ pipes in a way that mystified his public. Hero aiso made temple doors open and close mysteriously by use of com- ressed air and pistons. He made a untain which is still a philosophic toy known by his name. t He made the first machine to be put in operation by inserting a‘coin" in & slot and a “dioptric or lrylng tube,” which was the forerunner of the modern spy glass and opers gl _— Discouraging Example. From the Boston Transeript. ‘A little girl .was regarding with a|' eritical eye her newly arrived baby brother. The proud father, who was de- cidedly bald and was rather sensitive about it, “.l:yuM n.ubyb.‘ = “What a'pity .our new hasn't got any hair,” she said. It'll grow.beautifully later on,” re- PRINTERS PLEAD FOR MORE WAGES International Vice President Appears Before House Committee. SEEK '20-CENT INCREASE | Frank Morrison of A. F. of L. Also Testifies to Conditions in United States Office. Charles P. Howard, vice president of the International Typographical Union, appeared as spokesman for a committee of fifteen employes of the government printing office before the House committee on printing, of which Representative Edgar R. Keiss of Pennsylvinia ls chairman, in sup- POrt of the Osborn bill for increase in the pay of printers in the government printing office. These printers now receive 84 and a fraction cents per hour, including a bonus of ‘approximately 10 per cent. crease this rate 10 $1.04 per hour for those classes in the government printing offick.whose wages are fised LY law. v ¥ Morrison Also Appears. Frank Morrisou, secretary of the American Federation of Lahc®, and a member of the typographical union, also appeared as a witness. Others who testifled were Walter N. Reddick, international president of the book- binders, and President Hedges of the local bookbinders' union and the prest- dent of the local pressmen’s union. Mr. Howard, speaking for the com- mittee, submitted data to show that wages of employes in the government printing office had not kept the pace with the increased cost of living. He also said that the wages pald to the same classes are less than the rates paid for like service in privately operated plants. Tn the past Congres: a wise publlc policy,” said Mr. How- ard, “when it maintalned wage rates for governmental employes In con- sonan: with those established for like service in privately operated in- dustries. It is on this basis largely that we urge the necessity for favor- able action upon the wage bill now before you. Wages Fixed by Law. _‘The wage rates of approximately 50 per cent of the employes in_ the government printing office are fixed y acts of Congress,” Mr. Howard reminded the committee. “For the other 50 per cent the public printer has authority to make adjustments from time to time as conditions may warrant or necessity seems to de- mand. “The operations of the inevitable Industrial and economic laws have created an emergency which should be met without further delay. Other than relief offered by the payment of the so-called war bonus, the print- ers in the government employ have had no rellef for a number of years. ‘This bonus has, even {f continued, proved totally inadequate. Year by year the 75-cent hourly rate for these clages of highly skilled employes, as fixed under the present law, has been thrown more and more out of line when compared to the rates paid other employes in govern and private institutions e Approach Retirement Age. “That great numbers have not left the government printing office is due in no small degree to the belief -that Congress at the earliest possible mo- ment would pass emergency relief legisletion. An additional reason is that after many years of service some are approaching. the time. when they 1 he entitled to retirement pay, which_they hesitate to sacrifice. Mr, Howard submitted data to show that “‘the wages paid these employes in government service are, scarcely without exception, the lowest paid for like service.” He also quoted sta- tistics as to the cost of Iiving. Refers to Labor’s Hours. Referring to the matter of hours of labor, Mr. Howard said that dur- ing the ‘past two years the rule of the trade in the commercial industry {has been established at forty-four {hours as the normal working week— in other words, the Saturday half hollday which' is enjoyed thres months in the year by government employes in Washington is operative through the entire year by approx- imately 90 per cent of the commer- clal printers throughout the country. Mr. Howard presented minimum wage scales in all the citles of the United States which have more than 200,000 population. The wage rates quoted therein, he said, are in many instances much less than the average wage paid to the printers, due to the ipractice ‘of paying additional sums by weekly or hourly basis above the | minimum’scate. " has_followed SIZE OF C. 8. A. ARMY Number of Troops a Matter of Spec- ulation. 4. B. Casselman, {n Curreat History Magasine. The estimate of 1,200,000 as the total of the Confederate Army for the four years of the war does not seem excessive or unreasonable as representing the military strength of the 5,000,000 white population of the Confederate states, aided by the 2,000,000 population of the sympa- thizing border states, and with an industrial army of 3,000,000 slav. The southern estimate, or “legend, as it has been aptly termed., of 600,000, has always seemed disproportionate. This estimate {8 of uncertain origin, and is not derived from any ofcial source. It did not originate during the war, but after the war had ended, when the Confederates had lost their records and were without official data on which to support their as- sertions. No_official summary pur- porting to show the total number ocan be found in the official records. I8 tragmoniary: As s (istration an entary. an illustratio; it has besn ascertained thet approxi- mately . 1,000 names are missing from the captured rolls of a single regiment, - the 60th North Carolina. The Rev. Dr. McKim. an ex-Confed- erate officer and. & writer on this sub- jeot, quotes a letten recsived by him from Col. Walter G. Taylor, Gen. Let's adjutant general, saying: “I regret to have to say that T . know of no reliable data in sup- port of any precise number, and have always realized that it must atter of con- In the absende of complets official records, the question still remains largely & matter of oconjecture Neither the Confederate légend. of 600,000 nor any later estimate can be accepted as final or as even approxi- Four thousand years.ago the Egyp- tians -boasted folding beds. . What is more surprising, 4,000 years ago the dwellers along the Nile <herished folding beds. ‘This significant bit of‘news brought to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a 'fnlfi b.d‘purl ined t:::mh‘ tomb of ol EYDt provec the folding bed was prised as a luxury ‘'which only the very rich who could elous tombs could afford. The legisiation sought proposes to ia- | | i a ride to help pa the season with their parents, Mr. and Tests of the Army’'s plans for pro- tecting the Panama canal will be made during the week ending Febru- ary 24, In conjunction with' the oper- atfons. ‘of the United Stated fleet. mobilized: for spring manecuvers. /It will f6rm. the hostile forces attacking | the wateryay. Details of the .plans | will oil¥* B¢ unfolded as the two forces operate against each other next month. Only the general prob- lem has been made public For the week the hostile or “black fleet will be assumed to be cruisin in the eastern Pacific at a time when relations between the “black” gov- ernment and the “blue” government defending the canal are strained. The defenders of the canal will know that the “black” fleet is planning visit to Magdelena bay and “blue naval forces will have been ent through the canal to operate from the Pacific entrance in co-operation with the “blue* army forces holding | the canal zone. Maneuvers Held Important. Beyond this general picture of the situation, known to both sides, de- velopment of an attack'on the canal | defenses in a way best calculated’ to | test the Army's plans will be worked out by Admiral Jones, commander-m- | chief of the United States fleet, and the commanding general in the zone. The importance of the joint exer. cises is pointed out in a War Depart< ment communication, which says: “While the plan for the defense of the Panama canal is as complete as | it’ can be made, it s impossibie to provide for ‘every contingency that might arise in an actual war. Even in war-gaming the defense plan is not | GIANT TREES IN SWAMPS. Rivals of the Redwoods Found on the Atlantic Tidewater. As the depth of the sea produced | for us minerals in great'varlety and | profusion, so its shallows have been | the great breeding ground of myriad jecies of animal and plant life. Up-| wgrd through the ages its shallow eficroachments havé carried these forms, crowding the narrow waters with them and leaving their remains to incrust the surface when after some millions of years the slow-ris- ing bosom of the land carried them above the steaming waves. i Salt marsh levels and tidewater | swamps have thus today a prodigious ! fertitity that finds expression in splendid forms of renewed life, forms | of great utility to man, writes Win throp_Packard in the Christian Sei ence Monitor. | One of these is the “tidewater cy-| press,” a noble tree which grows only | just_above the margins of the tide: as they flow today. Its habitat fol- | lows the coast line of North America | from Virginia south to Florida, along the gulf coast to Texas and up the valley . of the Messippi river wher- | ever tide-level swamps existed at the | beginning of this geological era. n fact, cypress, because of its seeming abllity to resist the ravages of time and decay indefinitely, has been dubbed “the wood eternal. The “bald cypress” of the tidewater swamps of the southern United States grows only with its roots under water. That they may breathe, these ots send up singular growths, called “knees.” hollow wooden - pyramids sometimes several feet high, tha protrude most grotesquely above the | dark swamp water. The trees them- selves are “swell butte as the lumbermen say—that is, large at the very bottom but tapering soon to 2 columnar trunk that rises grandly, smooth and clean, sometimes a hun- dred feet to the first limb. They grow in scattered dignity, sweet and sour gum, ash and maple’ crowding about their bases, but' reaching at their best not a half of their height. ‘Wherever the cypresses grow the wood is a temple of which the trunks of these great trees are the columns holding up the sky for a roof. The buttressed roots give them ood anchorage in the mud in whichi they stand and their towering trunks; are from flve to twelve feet in'diam- eter. Their age, readlly proved by counting the‘rings in the stumps where the lumbermen have been at work, s anywhere from 600 to 1,200 years. A few trees are older, and there is one mighty moss-grown pa- triarch in the Salkehatchie swamp in South Carolina which is estimated to be 1,600 years ol Sentimentally speaking, it seems a ity that these great trees should go e will take ton centuries to replace them, yet in ten years or less the Big Salkehatchie will be bare of market- able cypress as will most of the other | tidewater swamps of Amperica. - On other hand, they are so isolated | that few people of the whole world know of their existence and fewer still would be able to make pilgrim- es into the swamp depths to see them. It is a_historic adventure to reach them and get them out for the i service of mankind, and that service is great indeed, for they make thc [ finest lumber that .exists. Perhaps the biggest and oldest of ajl the red cypress trees in the world today are in_this Big Salkehatchie swamp. Not far from them, along the smooth highwa: eads | { which | Atianta, Ga., and on to more south- | ern winter resorts, thousands of mo- tors_purr, carrying pleasure seekers south for the winter. Few indeed of the’ 's_realise the wonders of these big trees, which;ars so near at hand, as wonderful in their way as the sequoias and t_redwoods o the Pacific’coast, which are visited ria and George, younger sister and brother, the day's fun at Palm Heach, where they are spending Army’s Plans for Protecting Panama Canal to Be Tried Out| | the waterway | sible proteetion from any attack | one point | | i Mrs. Raymond Baker. conelusive short of The best test of the plan, war, is maneuver in which 211 movements are actually made, the weather, season. climate or distance.being factors that are as real as in actual war.” 0ld Theory Wrecked. It was such a test, although Army only participated in i game, which upset comple some | ars’ ago the whole theory of de-| se_of the canal. BDefore that it d been aesumed that the sweep dense jungle on either side of | afforded the best pos- | of land Maj. assigned agreed wi forces, he Gen. Clarence Edwards, when to command the zone, dis- h this view. Dividing his; ordered an attack made | which would test ‘his opinion. By | herofo efforts an infantry regiment forced its way through the jungle | undiscovered by the defenders, coming | in between the locks on the canal at ! The defending line had! no force before it adequate to prevent the capture and destruction of the locks Navy Plans Maneusvers. That ended the old theo s for the locks It made the e problem for the Army almost ! wholly one of mobile forces. | Both before and after the week of | joint operations with the Army, the | fieet wiil engage in other purely | naval maneuvers and exercises in the. canal region. cretary Denby and a party of members of Congress will | witness the latter part of l]'XP per:l-‘ tions, making the trip on the naval transport Henderson. During this time the old battleship Towa, now radio <ontrolled, will be sunk by the| guns of the fleet. | Russ Students | Wear Garments | cartoon of campus-cut clothes does not apply to the University of Petrograd. Advices received today by the American relief administration stated that of the first sixty-seven students who have inquired how they could refit their wardrobes from material which the admin- istration announced it was prepar- ing to ship to Russia, not one had purchased a new garment w hin a vear and some not for five. At the School of Oriental Languages the ratio between overcoats and students Is one to ten, and carpets are being utilized for footwear and. leggins. A ‘professor of mathematics, who had a sult and overcoat stolen from him. found that three- months' salary would be needed for replacements, which he does not expect to make before next fall. —_— Cautious. Saleslady—T hear that you and yomr husband are, going abroad to acquire an inheritanc but why don't you go together on the same_ boat? riend—No! Y tell vo hip should go under there'll al take over the inh Hotel Roosevelt 16th, V & W Sts. ining Room Now Open Breakfast to 9:30 Luncheon 12:30 to 1:30 Dinner 6:00 to 8:00 Table dHote and a la Carte service Music Every Evening | witn [ (naturalization bureau, | Labor; i PRESDENT NANES CTZEN COUNG New Body, Representing Al Government Departments, Will Supervise Training. Under an executive order, made public today, the Federal Council o Citizenship Training fs created Ly President Harding. All governmen! departments, as well as the board vocational training and the Vetera Bureau will be represented in t new body. which will hold its firs meeting in the War Department nex Friday. The order directs that the counci elect its own officers and determine its own procedure and that its ports be to the various governmeni departments through their representa tives on the council. he duties of the council,” order said, “are to make construct suggestions how teders offices may co-operate to secure more effective citizenship training. both ir their own work co-operatior pub priva the country re as to he and in oty and s througho 1 fede agenci facilitie available a further the work The federal ag sented in the membership of t council are the bureau of educat: 1 rior Department; operation a trainiug division, ge ff \} . 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