Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1930, Page 42

10 SAMARKAND SHOWS STEADY DECLINE! Orders of Soviet Speed Fall| of One-Time Rome of Asia. By the Associated Press. | BAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Soviet, Republic, August 23.—Once called “the ! Rome of Asia” for its ecclesiastical| learning and piety, and “the Athens| of the world,” for its art and culture, ancient Samarkand today is a dying | elty. It has been a dying metropolis for: 800 years, but the recent closing by! the Soviet government of the many i mosques and schools of divinity of! Tamerlane’s_once proud city, together with the Bolshevists' destruction of private trading, seems to have hastened its death agony. With the exception of a few scattering bazaars and a few privately owned tea shops, Samarkand todsy is.only a giant tombstone over the ruins of its great past. Religious Centers Closed. Its 105 mosques, 14 medresses, 6 Jew- ish synagogues and 91 mektebs are closed or are in ruins and communism and materialism are displacing the old religion and spiritual fervor. y Trading in the old city seems to be confined to the street hawking of bread, vegetables and small wares by im- | poverished natives. The only ather places where the visitor finds any life | are the “bakhohisarai” (tea shops),| where the native Uzbekistans, Sarts, Turkomen, Kirgiz, Kazaks and Tadjiks sit on the naunches, Chinese fashion, day and night, sipping green sugarless tea, puffing hubble-bubble pipes, carous- ing and retailing the tittle-tattle of the town. On Great Caravan Route. Located in the center of a great| caravan route, connecting China, India, afghanistan, Persia and Russia, and lying in a well irrigated and fertile area, Samarkand possesses vast com- mercial possibilities, which the existing Soviet regime has been quick to seize. But the government is confining its activities and improvements to the new city of Samarkand, which is about three miles from the old capital and which was founded by the Czarist regime in 71. laA.! Samarkand now is the capital of the Soviet-fostered republic of Uzbekis- tan, whose area is almost twice as great as that of the New England States, but whose population is less than that of New York City, the Soviet authorities have converted one of the old palaces of the Czarist regime into a parliament and government house. Here those descendants of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, who have embraced Com- munism, make the laws and direce the olicies of the new Soviet state, wuich as been built upon the ruins of the old empire of those mighty warriors. ABUSE IS FACTOR IN ART DECEPTION Shotgun, Broken Glass and Smoke House Aid Production of “0ld Masters.” TOLEDO, Spain (#).—A shotgun, & ham or sausage smoke house, some bro- Xken glass, plenty of nerve, a muddy back yard and considerable skill in painting are used in the production here of “time-stained” pictures by ‘“old mas- ters.” T The public, however, is becoming more canny, and the business is less lucrative than it used to be. One of the producers of t‘old mas- terpieces” gave this recipe, which he has used successfully for many years: 1. Get canvas of texture and weave approximating as nearly as possible that used in the period of Velasquez or El Greco or whomever you are going to “produce.” Crumple and rumple it long and hard. Use it as a floor mop with your feet. Scorch it with some Then bury it in the ground in mud. _Stretch canvas on easel. 2. Paint on the now “old” your copy of the master’s work. 3. From a distance of 40 or 50 feet shoot it with a scatter gun loaded with . birdshot. This makes worm and moth | holes. i 4. When quite dry, take the painting from the easel, rumple it well, cracking the surface thoroughly. Scratch it some with & chunk of broken glass. Rub it with a dirty rag or one well soaked in' strong coffee. 5. If it is a religious subject, hang the picture from the mantel of any old- | fashioned inn or dwelling among the | hams or sausage that are being smoke- | cured. In 15 days the picture will be well seasoned, just as if by centuries of | candle smoke in a church or cathedral. “And what will you get for such a picture?” he was asked. “All I can, of course. But it isn't much. On an average not more than 20 duros” (less than $15). “Oh, you may find a rich tourist once in a blue moon, bv* most customers nowadays know exr what they are buying. “And £ nother thing: I am proud of my wc... Anybody can hit a pic- ture with a shotgun, but only a real artist can first paint that picture to look like Velasquez or Grec canvas Loch Lomond Goes Begging. Efforts to dispose of famed Loch Lo- mond in Scotland have met with little success. There have been few inquiries for the estate surrounding it, and a movement to make it a_national park appafently has failed. The owner, the Duke of Montrose, offered to deed it to the government in settlement of death taxes, but Premier MacDonald recently - announced in the House of Commons that “no government departments seem to that it would be desirable in the national interest to acquire the bonny banks of Loch Lomond.” ! MISS KATHERINE HENDRICK, Bryn Mawr graduate and_daughter of Frank H. Hendrick, New York lawyer, teogyt B WASRINGTON, D. THE SULI C., AUGUST 24, 1950—PART THREE. s EOLD HELD CURSE [ [ ome wessi |[STUDENTS OUTGROW FATHERS _ |peNey) SGHT]W October 18. MISS ALMA BARBARA ZWISSLER, Whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. Zwissler, announce her engagement to Mr. W. Frank Gatewood, the wedding to take place in the Church of the Epiphany, - to. OF PENAL COLONY French , Government Plans Change of Rule to Prevent Abandonment. CAYENNE, French Guiana (#).—Gold has almost ruined this country. The French government recognizes this to be the case and a complete change in government and commercial policy is being made to prevent virtual | abandonment. | It isn't that there is too much gold, | but too much gold-digging. When the ' yellow metal was found in 1853 the | farmers and the woodsmen dropped | their plows and their axes and took up | picks, and so have their children and | their children’s children. As a, conse- | quenice agriculture, once rich enough to | | export, hardly feeds a population that | has diminshed rapidly and is now only 33,000 for the 33,000 square miles of fertile flelds and rich forests. Among these people are 5,000 convicts and 600 government officiais. To begin with, President Doumergue, at Paris, has signed a decree creating the “Territory of Inini” including all but the coast region, and giving it & | new government, a separate budget and & scientific commission to develop the country’s wealth. Off here is the world famous Devil's Island, where the French officer, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, was held for five years. On the mainland is the main prison camp. A good part of the population is composed of men whose convict sen- | tences have expired, but who must re- main here because they were sentenced | to more than eight years. Britain's new submarine has been named Pandora. 00ks P Special Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, August 23 (N.AN.A) The birth of the jDuchess of York baby has been a costly event. This is mainly due to the fact that the EXPENSES AT BIRTH OF YORK HEIRESS WILL TOTAL $38.157 Duchess’ Desire That Baby Be Born in Scotland Adds Thousands to Costs of Event. | Another time an insistent rumer as- serted he was in love with Lady May ambridge, daughter of the Earl of thlone, who is Governor General of South Africa and the brother of Queen | Mary. MRS. GEORGE RODNEY HALE, Before her marriage July 18, Miss Mary Einwechter of Illinois avenue northwest. —Clinedinst Photo. Shoe Museum Opens. VIENNA (#)—A private shoe mu- seum has been opened here showing footgear as far back as that worn by the Germanic tribes who fought the invading Roman legions in the marshes | of Mecklenburg. Nearly 17,000 tons of coffée have been shipped from Nicaragua this year. Baum’'s Connecticut Avenue Baum's September Sale THIRD SUCCESSIVE GENERATION Harvard Records Commend “Power of Food, Diet and Enlightenment to Bring Back Mighty Men.” | By the Associated Press. | _ CAMBRIDGE, Mass, August 23.— | For the third successive generation Har- | vard men are larger than their fathers. { The statistics are a comment on the potential power of food, diet and en- lightenment to bring back the Biblical days when there were mighty men on earth. The finding is made at Peabody Mu- German. Later comparisons will be made with the country at large, using records of the Civil War, Mexican War, ‘War of 1812, Revolution and the ship- ping period of 1780 to 1830. | Mr. Bowles has preliminary reports ' girls of today make similar advances over their mothers. Sixty-tnree pairs English, Canadian, Scotch, Irish and old | from Women's colleges showing that the | HARVED BY FELD Students Fail to Return After Riots Between Religious Factions. Assoclated Press Correspondent. | DACCA, Bengal (#).—Dacca, noted .ftm educational center, is a stagnated city. Because of its own troubles, at root | economic, but on the surface due to an intense Hindu-Moslem feud, the agita- seum by Gordon T. Bowles. It is based | from Smith College give the daughters tion by Mahatma Gandhi for the im- on records of Hemenway Gymnasium \and Harvard College physical examina- tion records. | These figures are all the more strik- ing because the fathers were more than & year older on the average, than the sons, who physically outclassed them. Nearly 3,000 Men. In comparison of the last two genera- tions of Harvard men, the hoys were 18.5 years old, where their fathers had averaged 19.6 years. The comparisons included 1,461 couples, nearly 3,000 men. In weight the boys of the third gen- eration average 149.48 pounds, the fathers 141.33. The sons' average ad- vantage was 8.15 pounds, or 5.77 per cent. The height of these same boys was 5 feet 10 inches. Their dads when a year older had averaged 5 feet 8.6 inches. The sons' advantag> was 11-3 inches, or 1.94 per cent. Mr. Bowles says “the grandfathers have not been calculated yet, but a survey sihows marked increase of the fathers or Harvard sons of today over |their fathers, that is, increase has been steady for three generations.” Among Old Families. All the comparisons are among old American families, whose descents are a marked advantage in weight and | mediate independence of India, has helght. Studies completed trom Wel. | Been ‘aimost vanoticed here. esley and Mount Holyoke also reveal | A marked increases. Comparisons are un- | e aan u,:&‘?"r;‘t::eflfil ,,‘;},‘tf OEENAVIRURY Seeer i I | ing has been intense and for weeks the M S ST | ity has been in a state of semi-siege. BRITISH BEER DRINKERS When the schools and colleges fe- | opened after the long vacation, few TO GET HONEST PINTS 5dents returned. Trammc in the thor- | oughtares is light in the daytime and el s | after nightfall is virtually non-existent. Licensing Commission Considers | SIOPKEePers put up their shutters st Establishing “Plimsoll” Marks | g::ges to the care of Gurkha watch- on Glasses. | Dacca's troubles are communal and | grounded in economic conditions. For- LONDON (#)—The Licensing Com. | merly the Mohammedans were land misslon is considering the question of | guners and the Hindus mostly tenants. establishing “plimsoll” marks on beer |Now the roles are reversed. glasses to insure proper measure. | “The sense of Ioss is seidom sbsent A glass thus marked will have &/ from the minds of the Mohammedans ring around it about one inch from the | ara it matters mot. tnat they theme. 1o otnmalds will be instructed 10| selves may have been to blame for the 8 p to the ring. The | changed condition, the Hindu is always extra inch will allow for foam. | Dined for a1l Ehe RAYATCK In the past some dishonest publicans | “ g5 the two factions nave taken to have made as much as $18 a hogshead boycotting each other. Hindu empl of illicit profit by using sqant glasses. | guy el Bot nire. Mohammedan. wo = men, and, worst of all from the Moslem Nearly half the automobiles at this | viewpoint, the Hindus have opened six year's motor show at Geneva, Switzer- | new bazaars where Moslems are not land were Americal lowe duchess elected to have the child born | Frequent visits of the prince to Cape- | in Scotland instead of in her home in | town, Where he was entertained by his | London. | uncle, the governor general, gave color | To begin with, the usual fee of Sir | to that story, but the truth is that there | Henry Simson, surgeon in charge, for is no sign detectable of an impending | such cases in London is only $1,050.| marriage of the prince to either a mem- | This fee covers his daily attendance on | ber of another royal family or to a mother and child for three weeks. But|member of a noble or untitled family. when Sir Henry was requisitioned to| By the royal marriage act, the prince. | go to Scotland, a different and vastly | as every other member of the royal more expensive arrangement had to be | family, 'has to obtain the King's per-| gl}adt He was paid $525 as a retain- | mission before marrying, otherwise g fee and will be paid at the rate|such a marriage would be invalid: This | of $260 & day while in Scotland in at- | act was passed in the last century in tendance on the duchess. |order to put a stop to notorious scan- Sir Henry's stay at Glamis is likely | dals arising from wild and ill considered to extend over at least 60 days, so his marriages of pre-Victorian princes of fee will be more than $15.000. Frank |the British royal house. It is certain Reynolds, the obstetric surgeon, Who |that by no possibility could the Prince | accompanied Sir Henry to Scotland, will | of Wales marry without the King's wish | receive about 25 per cent less than Sir|and still retain his position as heir to Henry. Thus zhed 1efis ‘""m’“eg“'fi i the throne. attendance on the duchess at the birth | of her child will amount to more than Unlikely to Abdicate. $25,000. | Rumors current this Summer, con- The medical eharges at the birth of | necting the prince’s name with that of Princess Elizabeth amounted to exactly | Mrs. Dudley Ward, who recently secured $1575, but that event took place in 'a divorce from her husband, may or London. |may not be well founded. but it is certain tha he prince marries her, MADYROher EApEnace. he would first have to abdicate his Apart from the medical charges, |rights of succession. A feeling exists however, there are many other expenses | in English circles in close touch with in connection with the birth of the the court that the prince is unlikely uchess’ baby. J. R. Clynes, the home | to do that. secretary, whose formal attendance at| Except that he isn't disposed to| the birth of the baby was necessary, | marry, the prince has an enormous has been quartered at the home of |sense of duty. He has practically no Lady Airlie, who lives near Clamis, for | expensive hobbies. With the excep- the first three weeks while awaiting the arrival of the baby. Mr. Clynes was accompanied by Mr. Boyd of the home office, who also has been quartered at Lady Airlie’s. Lady Airlie is by no means well-to-do, 50 she couldn't be expected to receive these officials as guests for nothing. She is being paid at the rate of $52 a week for each of these two guests. This expense would have been avoided if Mr. Clynes and Mr. Boyd could have been received at Glamis, but such an arrangement would have placed the duchess in a most awkward position, for she couldn't help reading every day in the home secretary's face the ques- tion, “When is this eVent going to take place?” or “Why on earth did I have to come to this outlandish if beautiful place to await the birth of your child?” In addition, every British colonial governor has to be informed by cable of the arrival of a new royal baby. These cabling expenses will amount to nearly $1,500, but this cost will be borne by the colonial office. Royal Salute Costs $3,000. And there are still a number of other expenses directly connected with the birth of the baby. These are: $500 for connecting by telephone Glamis Castle with the Duke of York's London home; head nurse at $50 a week for 12 weeks, $600; two assistant nurses at $30 each for 12 weeks, $720; baby's outfit, $500; firing royal salute of 21 ‘guns at three different stations, more than $3,000. Three weeks afier the baby's birth, she will be taken to the baptismal cere- mony, which will be performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The arch- bishop will receive a fee of $2,500. Two other clergymen will receive $250 each The registrar who attends Glamis :7;;;.!: to register the birth will be paid All the servants in the Duke of York's employ and all the servants at Glamis have received special gratuities to mark the birth of the child, and the total could not have amounted to less than $2,500. Part of this, however, will come back to the royal child in the form of a gold cup which will be presented to the Duke and Duchess as the babtismal gift from the servants to the baby, while hundreds of pounds will be spent by the relations and intimate friends of the Duke and the Duchess in the pur- chase of baptismal gifts. A great deal of expense would have been saved and a vast amount of in- convenience to many people would have been avoided if the duchess had consented to remain in London for the birth of her child. But she set her heart on_ the event taking place in Glamis, where she would be among her own people and in the home of her fathers. Speculate on Wales. ‘The birth of a girl baby to the prin- cess has set the world speculating again on the possibility of the Prince of ‘Wales marrying. The prince is now 36, though few people, seeing his lithe, boyish figure, think so, and if he had followed normal royal traditions he might have been married the best part of the last 15 years. ‘The name of every imaginable prin- ceds, 'l English and foreign, has been coupled from time to time with the prince's. It was thought at one time that he was attracted to Princess Martha of m. who is now mar- ried to the Prince of Norway. | tion of hunting, of which he is pas- | slonately fond, he has fewer hobbies than any other rich man. He neither | bets nor keeps a racing stable. He does | not_possess a yacht, nor even the smallest sloop. He does not care for shooting or fishing, and his name cer- ainly has never been coupled with the tage or music hall. . The prince has a passion for golf and likes playing squash racquets at| |the Bath Club, but those pastimes are |just the opposite of extravagance. | | Practically his whole time is devoted | to his duties and such a character is { unlikely to let down the British public | | which has a genuine affection for him | |and which would be deeply grieved if he | | abdicated. The salic law does not hold in Eng- | 'f;’llle'.|l-l!!z||¢t g , NO one need be satisfied with less than Baum’s: furniture—thanks to the prices of this SEPTEMBER SALE ERHAPS from its reputation for style and quality you have imagined BAUM'S furniture to be expensive. It is anything but expensive—even at normal times. Now this year's September Sale, coupled with present business conditions, has driven already modest prices to the lowest levels ever. The result? BAUM'’S furniture and lamps are luxuries HESE lovely suites for dining room, living room and bed room—these distinguished indi- vidual pieces—are waiting to grace your home at a price no greater, and frequently less, than you would pay for furniture less fine. On all five floors there are values that make this September Sale outstand- ing in our own experience—and, we think you will agree, in yours. All furniture is from BAUM'S regular stock—nothing whatever has been purchased land and, therefore, the birth of a! second daughter to the Duchess of York ! need not affect the prince. The suc- | cession of the crown in a direct line is amply assured because in addition to York and his two daughters, who each could wear the crown, there are Princes Henry and George who could succeed. . Has Plenty of Brothers. ‘The impression prevails that the birth of the new baby will have no effect on the prince’s matrimonial plans. “If I should get killed I have plenty of brothers to succeed me,” he once said during the war. He probably still bases his scheme of life on that formula. There is one point about the suc- cession to the British throne by a woman which requires a little clearing up. The law which calls the eldest son or the only son an heir will do as much for one daughter, but will give no daughter any precedence over sisters. All sisters are co-heirs together. If the Prince of Wales should suc- ceed to the throne and_ die childless he'd be succeeded by the Duke of York, who, in the event of his not having a son, would leave the crown to his t daughters. This creates an impossible situation, and no doubt a new act of settlement would be passed in time. The question is a pretty one for heralds and genealogists, but it can be said with considerable certainty it doesn't worry the Prince of Wales. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) i U. S. HEAT SURPRISES Colombia With Low Temperatures Marvels at Marks Here. BOGOTA, Colombia (#).—Down here in the tropics, where the sun is reputed to sizzle into the very souls of men, folk read wonderingly of the July heat waves in the United States. . ‘When newspapers carried reports of the deaths of 150 persons in the Eastern States on July 22, Colombians in top coats and ponchos were amazed. On that day the {_mperature in Bogota was 50 degrees, which is as cold as the city ever knows. The following day the thermometers registered 70 degrees, maximum heat for this place. Jq-nnele;u—p: I—I;Id. HONOLULU (#)—Of the 73,180 puplls in the public schools here, 309, 115 wére Japanese, 7,670 Hawalian and 6,076 Chinese. The listed 11, 1853 puplls, that every one can afford. 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