Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 4

&icrwich Lulletin and Confied & yeac, WEEK ENDING JAN. 2nd, 1921 10,902 THE UNITED WORKERS. In view of the report of the activitiks @uring the past year Norwich cannot fail to fully gppreciate the fact that it has within its midst doing such magnificent work speh an organization as the United Workers. For nearly a half century the interests and the welfare of.the unfortu- Bhte residents of the city have been get- ting considerate attention. The work has grown from a mmall begifining, has branched out §n many directions and as it has gathered age it has assumed re- #vonsibilities that .correspond with the Recds and the growth of the community. As the centra] organization of many im- portant depariments no better ovijence of the appreciation for the character of the work that it has been doing can be desired than the interest manifested in its actiwities and the contributions which have been made for its support. It has end will continue to be engaged in the gharacter of work that canmot fgil 1o rouse the support of those who have but little to give in a worthy cause as well 2s those who have much. . With an organization actively en- geged in seeking out and relieving those who are in distress through difficuities caused by sickness, misfortune or other eauses, helping them to tide over hard rlaces and to regain former conditions, or by advice and kindly assistance en- couraging others to get o new grip on Hfe it is bound to mean much to any community. But the United Workers un- dertakes with success much greater ser- Viee throuzh its employment burcaw, its public health nursing, its visitation com- mittees, its clagses for the instruetion of ohildren, its Rock Nook home and its Sheltering Arms and in each of these. jn- stances Norwich finds reasons almost ev- ery day for expressing its gratification not only that sueh an orgenization ex- Ists but that it was conceived and meas- urcs up so well to the task for which #t wes intended. There is no community where condi- tions do not prévail calling for the ser- vices of such an organization and there cannot be too deep an appreciation of the fact that provision was long ago made for it here. But successful and beneficial as it is it likewise deserves ail possible support and encouragement, WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION. connection with the diseussion which has been going on for some time 80w in behalf of disarmament, with Sen- ator Borah taking a leading part in pres- enting and working for such legisiation, there cannot fail to be interest in the out- come of the resolution ‘Which the senator has presented calling for information from the naval affairs commlitee as to vhether it would be practicable to sus- vend for a period of six months the na- val building programme which is now underway in orger to facilitate the in- vestigation as to what constitutes a mod- ern fighting navy. This would, of course, if decided in the affirmative, provide 2 short naval holi- cay, since it would mean the stopping of construction for that period, with the evident determination to let the result of the inquiry or future conditions guide the action on its continuance if the held- up should be continued. When we stop buflding we are of course stopping expenditures unless the haiting of the work, the scattering of the present organization of shipbuilders snd the getting busy again would in fact %0 increase the expenditures ag to have it amount to an actual waste. If the ex- penditures are going w Do Stopped there shoul@ be a reason for it other than the biling up of future expenses. In all probability there will be no ac- tion taken at the present session of con- gress which will bring about the much desired conference of the leading naval powerg for the discussion of disarmament or a naval holiday. Great Britain will not know until some time in the fall what its polley is going o be regarding the navy. Japan is going ahead with construction but it is apparently inclined to listen to a naval heliday propesition of a disarmament agreement, and what- ever is the outcome it seems necessary that there should be an understanding be- tween the leaders. That such will be thaoutwmo(thoeflomtmmmng made is indicated but the actmal steps in that direction will in all prebability be left with the new administration and the next session of congress. In RIVERS AND HARBORS, Thet the appropriations committee in Washington is determined to keep expen- @itures down to rock bottom if they have anything to say about it is indicated by the recommendation of less than $16,000,- 000 for the rivers and harbors er almost ‘When appropriation bills were before congress the last time there was a detef- mined fight made against spending money for rivers and harbor projects wWhich could wait without any greater harm re- sulting therefrom. There was a whole- sale siashing of the appropriation in be- half of economy and from all indications available with the re- over $62,000,800 with maintenance and im- e expenditures committes is evidenily determined that it will have no part in backing apy such patronage schemes pnder exigting condi- tions gt least. e EMERGENCY PROTECTION. From such progress as has peep made with the bill for the federal regulatiop of the ers there aye those who logk upon {t as giving (nereased asgurance that there will be government regulation of the coal industry. In view of the ex- periences of the ggnsumers, the taking | abroad of sufficient coal to fload the mar- kets of Hurope and the enormous profits which have been drawn from the pockets of the people it is not surprising that there is an insisfent demand for some action on the part of the goyemment that will make such impossible in the future. Even in the face of conditions the Cal- der bill for control of the coal business is meeting svith ng little pppesition. There are these Who are pioking flaws in it and ghowing where |t will aid rather than block profiteermg, and thers are also those who are pointing to an increase of government in business undey such | legislation, all of which is bound tg get congjderation while the measyre is under consideration. Now is of .course the time to show up any bad features and have them eliminated, if such can he shown to be the case. ¢ The Calder bill is intended to take care of conditjons in the future and it has been brought forth because of the wreteh- ed situation that has been prevailing concerning the supply of fuel. The ima- bllity of the government to do anything more than threaten has shown the need of new-legislation. The unwillingness of the coal operators put the necessary Te- forzms into effect themselves has incyensed the need. It ig time fo guard against any repetition and when the Calder bill gives the authority to the president to declare an emergency, when it is estab- Jished that such exists, and to fix the price of coal- and commissions there is furnished a means which does not now exist for protecting the people against unreasonable conditions. It is realized that it is the protection of the con- suiner’s interests at the time when they most peed it that is aimed st rather than the pytting of the coal business into gav- ernment hands. ———— SCHWAR'S EXONERATIONS, "There wiil be no surprise at the state- ment from the house committee investi- gating the shipping board that it'ls sat- isfied that the charges against Charles M. Schwah Were not proved, nor at the accompanying statement that they were net true. 9 Frem what the: country knows of this captain of industry and from what was Gisclosed concerning the much digeussed voucher it was impossible to believe that Mr. Schwab had been drawing funds from the shipping board for his own use, especially when he made denial of any such thing and declared that he never received ' anything for eypenses during the time he entered the service of his country, not, so much as. the dollar a year that was the salary fixed for such war work directors. & That much more has-been -made out of this matter than would have been the case had it been an ordinary -individual who was involved, is probable but to at- tack the integrity of such a man, holding the position he does in the industrial Iife of the country is not a matter to be re- garded lightly as the manner in whish Mr. Schwab received it.plainly showed. From the statement by the cpmmittee it is plainly evident {hat there was nothing to the charge, that it never ought to have been-made and that it is bound to react upon the maker much more seri- ously than it can ever affect the reputa- tion of Mr. Schwab. It was one. of those unfortunate cases where such serious charges ought not ‘to have been made publicly without proof to back them up, but where it was possible to ereate a sensation by the making of such 8 claim- and undertaking to base it upon some- thing which could not be proved but whieh could be openly and effectively de- nied. In view of the decision of the committee, and the exoneration of Mr, Schwab which will be regarded ag in ev- ery way justified, the weight which will “a attached to the other testimony of the accusing witness will be greatly dis- counted. ;m-mmu. NOTES. It is useless to expeot that spring can come unti] winter gets this kind of weath- er out of its system. This is the weather which makes one fhing of getting things ready to open up the cottage at the geashore. Another oil company has announced a cut of 50 cents a barrel but don't expect 'teo much from such reductions. The one great fear now is that all the delayed snow shoveling will be plled up for us during the pext few weeks. Rew that a big underground cellar has been uncevered in Kentucky interest will be keen to learn what it was filled with. Just at present with the three and 2 half million out of work it doesn't look as i 'we needed to increase immigration. 1 this kind of weather continues the groundhog Wwill be sure to hasten back to cosy emarterg for the rest of 'the win- ter. There continues to be proof that we have not reached the day of unsinkahle sinkable ships. When the presifent recommends - the dontinuance of air mafl serviee he is g faithfully dack of Pestmaster General Burleson. Because the French cabinet starts off with a vote of confidence it gives no as- surance that it will continue for any defi- nite period of time. The man on the corner says: There doesn't appear to be much thought wast- ed on affections in some cases untfl they have been aliensted. The country has been saved a billion doflars by prohibition is the clatm. There |ed, are those who eguldn’t Jeaye it alope who feel ‘that it has eost them about that wast be perfestly wop- ” ing to men who were keeping me mwflm began sWeet s vumnl.”relolu didn't seem to bother me | 3 = 4 the large eyes gazing whole-souledly &t | at all” { g 9 obof % young “I neyer heard anything so extraordin- - Free ] of & Method That Aflgm accepted for . It must be|ary,” said the sweet young creature in Can Use Without Discom just wonderful to write! I never heand | low, intense tones. “I suppose begmfse UI“O‘“D of such a thing!” I've never known a gedjus before—" ) s, e AT “Er-well, 1t happens freguently” said| * ~ + %e havea method for the cont Asthma, | the w‘l'n': m;ph bit wly.y“ot.hu- “Oh, but are” she insisted tense- . G it st ourexpense. MO wise the wouldn't have amy-|ly. “Dan't E_“y it1 You muyst be just wmq%flw thing 19 print” -| thrilled to find yourself removed from the | FESRC SFOS Asthma, you é es, 1 know,” the sweet young cres- | ordinary grubbing! Are you going to take fi""""‘ oW mathod. o ture told him a little bit impatiently, ¥I| 2 stydie? Why, I think it would be sim: te you live, no matter wiat yous | mean it Is 80 extraordinary really | ply exciting to have a studio a big oné a.i"'“' are troubled ..'-!'-, know an author! waq not of the| with dim shadows and lovely velvet |-v'k W"-“uuu‘- {3 St : ever knew one—] mb:‘omm handings end afternoon teas and a kiteh- | | pyics . ol 18- o‘ B ] trilied. ¥r. * ustte ‘whers somebody made m:., ae- | Fhler. :i,,., Drepaations. | ffers many inducements . h, - " paid liclous d; -up sandwiches and rayi-| “patent . ete., have 5 <= e Y young _.M m‘;‘i:"l‘;t l:g—(w,hl( tlm-ry.mi ola e wpen. whatever people 1;: 1o si exeryone at o: exne dlndue m every dePIM d fh m! T h w. Just sort of wrote it and they took it studios eat! ‘There would pe so muck . . that'a all thers Ip to ft and its ngt mch | atmasphere to inspire onet” -+ | breathingal wheesing, and ail those Wrwible § siore news we mention particularly i 2 of & story anyhew- “Qh, such @ place costs too ruch in .‘fi‘; lno&-hfiw bm X S h, 're just modestI* pro- | rent,” the young man Informed her. leday. Write now an n the ’ es and . tested. cmmw girl, zm. her head. stonce. Send nomoney. Simply mall coupo be- F low “Pell me right away just how you feel| ‘That won't matter,” urged the sweet | low. Do it Today—you donot even pay when'yon write a story-¢'m dying to | you creature excitedly, lgying a hand - " I should think it wopld be per- fectly marvelous to feel you werpe living in realms the ordi never nary pe d—and all that! I shoyld think we e S e e o s e op his eogt sleeve in her énterest. “Why, you'll be getting jusi oodles of money the minute other editors see this story. Tl be s0 prowd to thipk I can say that I koow youl! Maybe,” archly, “maybe you'll let me pour for you some time at, one of your teas? Oh, I'd loye to, Mr.' ‘Waxbeak—when will you give it® re would your mind is full of great thoughts and things and folks bother you with thelr silly affairg L “Why,” the young man said hastily, “really, you have a wrong idea, Miss Tardline!” T don’t at all live in reabms —well, whai{ yoy said! Why, Pm no! from anybody — T'm just the Miss Yardlipe, I.don’t suppose I'll ever write another story—this is the only idea I ever had in that }jne and it was founded on a real happening. I hayep't a parti- cle of imagination and, anyhow, it makes me nervous to write. I'm going into the tannery business with my father next month, 80 I'm afraid—" “What?' gasped the sweet young crea- ture, in horror. “In a tannery! And give up your art? I never heard of such a thing! Whateyer are you thipking of?" “Paying bills,” said the young man, with a siight grin, as he rose to go. “You sea, I'm $0 be married soon and I've got to egrn @ real living! So giad to have ten a lossn’t pemove me general interests of humanking* “T've awways heard authors were shy,” the mweet young thing said rapturously, *and now I knowy! Fancy me krowing that at first hand — I ean’t remlize it} Why, when I fell the girlg Tve me an author and he’s told me ali about huw he writes and that I even know the pat- tern of his cuff links they’ll jieyar for- give me! I hope you always write aft- er midnight, Mr. it's so mueb more romantic ™ . the met you '?&ll 1" gald the sweet young creature when she had caught her breath, after being left alone, “the very idea! What a perfectly stupid, imposstble man! (;lch me even, ng his old story, the ¥ate- tal thing I"—Chicago News. of “Hands oft.” We would resent inter- LEYTERS TO THE EDITOR | 7, Z00 20 e limo mes vers auiciy. Oppeses Sheppard-Towner Bill. John Bull and Uncle S8am have much Mr, Pditor: News comes from Wash-|in common. Our duty is to aid in pre- ington that United States senators are |Sefving peage, not to abet war. compelled to vote against their convic-| Hoping I have not presumed too much tiong by their constituents at home. Of | In Writing you, I am course, if they really hear the voice of | Sincerely yours, their constituents they must respect it, FRED A. MACDONALD. but when it leads to rampant paternalism | Vesterly, Jan. 26, 1921 and socialsm we might think the sena- - tors sworn aliegiancy to the (lomstitu- tion would apologize for his follawing his convictions rather than his constitwents, | particularly when it is certain that he| hears oply from 2 doctored up lot of his “T'm ilepribly serry,” confessed young man, stealthly wiping his brow, “but I wrote my story first on backe af envelones and things when I was wali- ODD INCIDENTS IN, AMERICAN ¢ HISTORY “Why,” said the young man, “you secc,' wnlu‘tuenm.—decurod by those who have 2xes to Senator Frank B. Brandegee, of New London, Cenn., hag been given As a sample of the meny senators wno are working against their strougest convic- tiops. This senator came out in streag and eloquent terms ageimst the Sheppard- Towner bill and then hwmly acknowl- edged that he voted for it in obedience te his constituents. The bill is, as every casual observer knows, thoroughly pa- ternalistic, socialistic apd subversive of individua] liberty. It would seem im- possitle that people in the highly edu- cated states like Connecticut could for a ‘moment stand for such a dill. Senator after senator have shown us, that the trend throughout the country is for more and mor of a dependance upon the state or the federal government. Peo- ple want to be educated, doctered, nursed, fed, housed, clothed and amused more or less by the state. The starting point of it all has been the public school. Social- ists have ever told us that the publc school would bring socialism and sure endugh it is doing so valiantly in- every @ay affairs, whii> not deing it through the polls. Papers and people have act- uzlly in jarge degree refused to listen to anything that is calculated to stop the onward rush in paternalism. I have always known that senators and congmnessmen Were amenable to their con- stituents and have in the past frequently very successfully appealed to the con- stituents to call for a halt in their rep- resentatives when: things - were going wrong. But all this kind of action bears little fruit at present. Here fs the Shep- THE KU-KLUX-KLAN, The most remarkable as well as un- usual secret sogiety ever organized in ‘In this country was the Ku-Klux-Klan, existed in many of the south- erp states duris the period roughly speaking from 1866 to 1872. It is said to have . originated i Giles county, Tenn., during the administration of Geverner Brownlow, and was started by some young men of that state as a joke It finally became a serious political ferpe to _be reckoned with. Ku-Klux work was done by societies under the name of the “Knights of the White Cameiia,” the ‘Pale Faces” and the . “Invisible Empire of the South,” but all of them have, in records of legisiation and in history been merged into the, name of the original soclety so that itWill be conventent and sufficiently exact to refer to all their operators as work of the Ky-Kiux-Kian. * ‘The order attracted no attention un- til hegro suffrage was® imposed on the south when ‘*dens” .begzn rapidly to be organized so -that in 1868 it was supposed to have a membership of 650,000. Its members claimed that the order was formed to check .the ma- chingtlons of the Union or Loyal Leaug- ers, secret societies, which were com- posed of negroes under the leadership of carpet-baggers and scalawags. the colored people at the close of the war pecessitated . it was said, some means of restraint which the government did not then afferd. In its beginning it Was not greatly different from the old The demorglization and turbulence of) submarines any more than we have n-l pard-Towner bill. I have sought to ap- | alave ' patrol, snd was intended simply peal to the voters fn Scnator Sheppard’s ! to seare the superstitious blacks into Yexas district and to the same in Repre- | good behavior and obedience, and its sentative Towner's Jowa district. Hardly | membership compesed sqme of the best quarter of the papers would pubiish me | citizens of the south. in either state. I have done the same Its original purpose, as set forth in in Ohio in connection with the Pess phy- | the prescript or constitution of the ilan, sical training bill, with the same resplut. | were the protection of the weak and Prominent men' have been jumping up | innocent from the outrages of law- in all sections of the country for severai|leas and bruital persons, the relief of years past damning socialism, while they | the injured and oppressed, and the as- fail utterly {o damn fits expressions | sistance to the government in the execu- threugh bills in congress or o damm it | tion of all constitutional law. at its source in the public schools. The| The gphere of operation was stylea sad part to consider therefore is that|the “Invisible Bmplire,” the chief func- | faflure in reform may mean sucoess at| tionary was the Grand Wisard, each revolution, with history repeating itself. |state was a Reaim, rujed over by a \ FRANCIS B. LIVESHY, g_lf:‘"fl D"‘“flbio‘*fi' mwmmm dis- W i 3 i was a Dominlon at the head of e B L, | e ; each coun- S try ;u a Province, under the rule of = Grand Giant, and cou ivided ia Urges Friendly Relattonshiy, eamps, or d:‘m. ucn)‘: xn:r,vemmy 3.&-,,:; Mr. Editer: In your issue of Jan. 26| Oyclops. The membvers of the dens 2 speech made by Francis P. Hayes was | were called Ghouls. reported in which Mr. Hayes takes op- The members of the Klan were dis- portunity to reply to Rev. E. A. Legs. | guised in long, white robes, their faces If your roport of Mr. Hayes' speech IS | were masked, and they wore a huge !carreet then it contains misleading and | cardbeard hat or cap with ears and horns ‘dmoned statements. attached. The horses which they rode According to the best statistics avail- | were quite as effectively disguised. able, the vensus of 1911 showed Ulster | Threats against those whom the Klan to have a population of 1,581,696, of | had marked were adorned with “a pic- Which 690,816 were Catholic and 396,880 | ture of crossed swords, coffip, skull and Were Proiestant. The predominant faith | crosshones, owl, bloody moon, and a train is shown to be Protestant not Catholic. of cars each labeled “K. K. K.” and the Ireland furnished 179,000 troops during | language used was mysterious ‘and san- the war, not 310,000 as Mr. Hayes states. | guiniary. gy Britain required the religious falth of Obnoxious men were taken at night every soldier and figures show 106,000 | from their houses by masked horse- Catholics, 73,000 Protestamts, and the!men and whipped, and if they would pooulation of Ireland to be 3,242,670 | not agree to desist from their work or Catholic and 1,147,549 Protestant. The|leave the country, they were more se- percentage of Catholic population in the| verely punished. Tnto an order of this forces was 3.2 per cent., Protestant €.3 | gharacter, natural;, many dasperate per eent. men affiliated themseives, unbeknows to Scotland with nearly the same popula- | respectable element. Horse thieves put on tion furnished 620,000 men for the im-| the livery of the Ku-Klux as g screen for perial forces. ' their depredations as did illicit distiliers It was in 1169 A. D. that Dermot Mac- | when deteeted in their evasion of the ex- Monogh, aided by Strengbon under au- |icise,” ‘Political Qutrages,” says Rhodeg thority of Henry II., seized Wexford and | in his “History of the United States,” Dublin. Therefore the invasion he men- | “were common enough. Heaven knows tions took place in the 12th cemtury, mot | but by no means were all the murd the 1ith, as he states, of negroes and white men political, and Regarding representation In the Eng- | the south incurred on this account much lish parliament, Ireland has 103 mem- | obloguy which was not her due.” bers witn Scotland with about the same| In order to! upderstand and apprect- population having 72 members. ate conditions it s necessary to care- John Redmond in a speech mede in| fully study the political situation in the 1915 sajd of Ireland, “Today the people | south following the Civil war. The ir- broadly speaking, own the soil, today | respomsibie element that crept into the the laborers live in decent habitations; | Klan finally threatemed the general se- today there is absolute freedom in the | curity in the south and the hest class local government and the local taxation | of people in both sectiens, with the re- of the country.” establishment of permanent governments I hold no brief for England. sn,m‘ In the southern states decided that it committed wrongs and many of them, but | was time to break up the disorder. ‘what natien has not? Our hands are not President Grant, on March 23, 1871, absolutely elean in tnis respect. Bngland | urged congress to enact appropriate leg- is doing her best to right the wrongs,| islation to meet the situation, - has indeed righted many of them. gress on April 30, 1871, pessed the En- I am pleading for =2 continuance of | forcement Act, the important provision of friendly relationship with Great Brit-| which was the extemsion of the juris- ain. Providenee has in a pecuMar man- | diction of the United States Courts to ner gommitied the future happiness of the | all Ku-Klux cases and authorizing the world o the two great English speaking | president to suppress the disorders. Only in the spirit of harmony | Although convictions were not numer- and good wili can the problems be solv- | ous, the seems tp have caused a - great falling off in the number of out- Instead of pointing to the burming of | rages, and the Klan, as an active organ- our capitol in 1812 which both England | ization, gradually dfed out. After 1872 rica regrets, I would point to | the outrages of the Kn-Kiux-Klan proper, the unfertified boundary between Canada | for the most part, ceased. and the United States; the well known | (Tomorrow—When Pairick Henry Pro- incident at Manilla Bay May 1, 1898 claimed Independence.) will A distillery for the- production of al- England is perfectly able to settie the | cohol from sotol, & native plani, has been anestion. Let ym adont the mallay ' bullt in Moxice, - £ . FREE TRIAL COUPON ONTIE! A-CO., Roomi 69 N B e Hodsom Otrects, Dodaior s ¥. Bend freg trjal of your method t9; a i concessions that prevail in week. $6-inch Curtain Scrim, cream and ecru, with neat open- work border—Price now 15¢c a yard. Curtain Scrim, 17¢ in white, Stories That Recall Others | A ‘Compliment in Disgulse. Mrs. X had ®ntertained her afternoon club. A dainty luncheon was served and William, aged 7, missed none of it. As they wers leaving and eosh guest I ime telling Mrs. X what an able she had had, William rc. ™ od: Mrs. X, 1 wish we were just beginning to eat again.” 36-inch Colored Border Scrim, in & good assortment of patterns and colorings—Price now 17¢ a yard. Curtain Scrim, 29¢ Better quality Curtain Serim, col- ered border, good assortment — Price now 29¢c a yard, 59¢ Marquisette, 33c 36-inch Marquisette, white, cream and ecru, with neat borders, a good assortment—Price now 33c a yard, formerly $9¢c. 85c Marquisette, 59¢ 36-inch Marquisette, with neat lace edging—Price now 5% a yard, formerly 85c. Curtain Muslin, 33¢ 36-inch Curtain Muslin, in dots and " figured designs, a good assortment —Price now 33¢ a yard, formerly 49c. Casement Cloth, 69¢ 36-jnch. Casement Cioth, in gold, brown and green—Prics now 6%c a yard, formerly $1.25. 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The next morning when tic duck ar- rived she proceeded to finisa her clean- ing, ‘when suddenly she stopped and go- ing 6 the telephone she calld up the butcher and told him she wanied some- one to come after that duck right away ag she would not keep it. “Why,” asked the butcher. “Because it is deformed,” she replied, “and I could not eat a single mouthful of it.” 3 “But,” said the¢/ perplexed man, “I per- sonally cieaned that duck and I thought at the time I had never seen a finer one. Just where-is it deformed?” “Why,” she said, “on its windpipe is a hard growth that looks just- like & sheil.” As soon -as the choking butcher could control his . voice he called back: “Heavens, woman, that is the thing it quacked with.” IN THE DAY’S NEWS £ BMYRNA. The province of Smyrna, on the ceast of Asia Minor, which Was placed under | Greek . administration = following the ‘World war, and in regard to whose fu- ture status a question was raised on the return of King Constantine'to the Greek | throne, is the subject of the following bulietin' jsSued from the Washington, D. C., headquarfers of the National Geo- graphic Society: “The basis for Greek claims to the Smyrpa district in Asia Minor s put pithily in a statement which former Pre- mige Venizelos of .Greece is reported to have made to the supreme council of the | ailies, ‘We, scek no mandate, we seek to enter our home.’ “Smyrna, and the remainder of the west coast of Asia Miror, which have| been accepted as Turkish with little ques- | tion for many generations, had a well developed Greek civilization and culture When the ancestors of the Turks, haif- civilized nomads, were still wandering with their flocks over the bleak steppes | of central Asia. “The portion of the province of Smyrna occupied by Greelc forces comprises roughly old Tonia, a country which was as purely Greek as Attica itself, and The followin'i offerings should be an incentive for every houscholder to take advantage of the this department during this -$3.00, formerly $4.50. 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The cities which they built in this favored land of sunny mountain slopes, fertile valleys, and good harbors were thriving and wealthy marts of trade and centers of culture -eight hundred years or more before the time of Christ, when they are first heard of in recorded history. “Smyrna. is one of the eities which claims to be the birthniace of Homer, and tradition even points out a cave near the oity in which he is said to have com- posed many of his:-poems. Sappho w born. in Asiatic Greece and maintained school in one of its cities. Sculpture, painting, and practically every phase of the Greek art which has delighted later generations and served as their models had. its beginning in Asfat'c Ionia, and flourished there before coming to full flower in Atheng and the other eitles of Furopean Greeco. FEphesus, whers that world wonder, the temnle of Diana, stood, was not far from the present city of Smyrna, and a dozen more of the great cities of the early Greeks were nearby. “After a period of ‘Independ:nce Ionta continued to flourish 25 a country of predominant Greek eulture and marked commercial importance under the suzer- ainty first of Lydia, the country of the famous Croesus, and later, Persia. Again wholly Greek, it was associated Wwith Atlrens st the height of that city’s pow- er, and then accepted the leadership of Alexander. A prosperous period as & Graeco-Roman province and a long era under the Greck empire of Byzantium followed veiore the Turk first gained con- trol, a century or so before the fall of Constantinople. Even following the in- corporation. of the Smyrna district into the Turkish empire more than 500 years ago, it remained largely Greek in popula- tion, Before the World war fully haif the quarter million inhabitants of the city of Smyrna were Grecks. “The modern province of Smyrna is the most fayored of all the. provinces of Asia Minor. It contains three of the most considerable rivers of the country, including the Meander, whose serpentine course has given the English language an expressive verb. Fertile soil and tem- New Minister From Costa tion as ups. Doctor Octavio Beecha, newly &p- pointed minister from Costa Rica. He was recemtly received officially ison, B E | | perate climate have added to the regiom's attractions, while the possession of a port and city—the city of Smyrna—unequaled by any other in Asia Minor has comtrib- uted another immeasurably important as- set. Though jmperfectiy tilled during its control by Turkey, the prevince of Smyr- na has nevertheless been noted for its fine fruits. For a long time it has furnished the best figd and raisins which reagh the markets of Europe. “Poets and. travelers have sung sad told of the beauties of the eity of Smyr- na throughout the ages. The nucleus nestles in the lowiands about its harbor, and behind, the city rises tier above tier against. the neighboring highlands. Uniitke many cities. that have survived for long ages, Smyrna has retained the same name from the dawn. of history. This city should be dear to the heart of the modern feminist, for it took its name from an Amazon who is reputed to have l|;1f:xye\l an important part in #s early life.” - o A SIS I IS ESIE20E20 e ‘Where will youfind an- other food that comes to you ready-cocked with such flavor, economy and health building satisfac- Grape:-Nuts ‘This combination of wheat and malted barley is a firm favorite with families that . have used it for years and know its food value for . both children and grown: “There's a Reason”