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| Roger . «the Yankees, _special. th Frazee Washington without | ants,’ said McGraw, “ and 1 can say nderstanding naving | that -the club is equally pleased to 3 ) have a player of Groh's ability and Frazee stated after the confercnce| character-oh our roster, I expect hin'x’ that tnere was nothing he.could say!to be’a big acquisition to’the team. other than that. the proposition had e e not gone through.and .that it remain- | PROSPEROUS BASEBALL SBASON ed for Griffith to make the next move. { o::m:"m‘:x“t::en in “S:i,mcz'i'fé:, “While the old axiom, ‘take nothln:d fn;' with-Connie Mack, who is in Texas, Eranted in baseball’ still holds‘ wiod, 1 and that word was being awaited from |think that I can safely f;ledlcme "o“m him before the transaction .could be|DPanuer vear for the national game, consummated. d The trade was said to include send- | tonal league, when asked to comment up- on the outlook in baseball. “Certainly ing - Jo, Digan " to; the Red_ Box ,;’1‘,‘} there are numerous signs which would an- 1y to talk over the deal, Jand returned jany definite been reached. Joe Judge *and Outfielder - Bing ler to. the ‘Athieties. Other players 0 were reported to be involved. Later Mr. Frazee smald that Mr. Grie-|23dplay frthe fans -~ = fith_advised him that he could obtain| “The past vear has been one of & | Dugan from the Phiiadeiphia club, and |faction to both the followers of the game ! trade him to Boston for Peckinpaugh.|2nd those financlally interested. e The Boston magnate declared that he |OF leasue pennant races developed an un - Uy clogs and cramatice climax and wanted additional players and that|USuas Pt o e heati tn {Mr. Griffith's refusal to hake: t')|the World Series was ome e MACK NOT CONSULTED ABOUT TRIPLE DEAL |signer with the subsequent restoration " 1 an@l retention ¢f public confidence in the Sun Antoplo, Thoiahy h;n:x::-‘;;:i‘: integrity of the sport was perhaps the out- his | standing feature of 1921 in baseball. morning he had not been consulted about the reported-three cornersd deal| “Many circumstances enter into a con- and | sideration of 1922 prospects and the mar Washington, ihvolving the services of | jority of ‘thess’ make for-a continuatton Joe Dugan of the Athletics. He said Dugan did not want to pl; delphia when he and that possibly he will be “goiten|players have been shiftpd from one team but that if he t Philadelphia, manager of the Philadelphia, to him the Athletics to part with him. GROH IS A FULL FLEDGED & MEMBER OF N, Y. GIANTS | 54 pltehers and other plavers New York Jan. 4—Heinie Groh, to- day became a full ‘fledged member of | the New York National League Base- | ball Club. The former Cincinnati club | secured from the Reds in_ex-|than was T George Burns and Mike 'a two club race'I believe that Gonzales and a cash bonus reported fmore teams ‘wili bo fighting for the pan- and lnant in 1922, Byen . with Pittzhurgh year contract |leading for a majority of signed a two New York, Jan, 4—A hitch in” filo!lt the office of the Giants this af- roposed three cornered trade 4 layers, involving the Wash-| . John J, McGraw, vice president and n and Philadelphia teamng mm.gr of the dub, refused to state the American League, by which!the: paugh, former cabtain of | whether Groh received a bonus for would become manager, signing. He said the terms of the con- tof the Senators, developed today atitract were betwéen player ‘and club, "a conference between Clark Griffith, adding that agreement upon detatls of owner of the capital club and Harry | the contract required only a few min- of | ternoon. 04 ount”of salary . involved ov AWEAD, SAYS HEYDLER Rrefident- John A, Heydler, <f the Na- 1- | pear t&ndicate a prosverous season ahe for the club owners and Interesting races ther Ve thrand e ¢ seball. There was no abe o than B & o itha histerv cf baseba ere of confidence or popularity and the {zame was well supported in both ‘the ma- "% | jor and minor leazue citics. The selec- tion of Judge Landis, as baseball commis- Various Clubs Strangthened <f popularity of the game. Many trades and deals hawe been made which wijl strengthen various clubs. In some cases in another adding new color, stimulation have. no/and power to a club for-a player can out- grow his usefulness by remaining in one city toc long. Spring training restrictions har'e been removed making it nossible to uth for a more protracted session of conditioning. thus faising the standard or of earl n play. Spoa - _ “pecifically of the National league T ¢ - that T epect a Closer race sea st season, th: FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MAEKET WAS IRREGULAR. market today, | ITt Péaper the af- | Kelly ; and) Ker issues. and mz 850000 shares equip. swayed hyiM K & T pr the Mo Pacific tndustrial | Mo ‘Tac nr mects of the as_affecting the au- u to 10,000 < Ints ranging low racord of § 3+4. but ares at the d with the ! 5 the short cn af Goneral Motos the close of ar action on the sev- Fulshark {Penn R R Métar_accessories. reased| prestrra consa- than | 5 per cant. atcf su~nlied at | f the ses- were liberall were | the' London rate easirg only slight ¥ s except | conditicius featured the mod- | drately lagge dealings fn honds. Liber- | 1rars Oil L and losses and a2 similag, foge yparked the Forecasts pointéd successful flotation of the new 340, | $00.000 Dutch East Indies loan. Wiles (par vatul) agregated $16250,- | U, S N7 Al »eo Total | \jax Rubber Sp T enrecott: e Steel . Les Tre & Rub Lehigh Valley Marine a ! Marine pr ... o | Mexican P=t Mami € M K & TeX Biscuit | | he | Peoples Gas the | Bhita Co Pittg Pure Oil Ray Cons Rv Stan] § olReading ... 0 | Reprocle T & Steel | Rép SBteel .,... | Sears Roebuck n Cos Southern Southern Southern Stram C Ko | Studebaker a- | { | Texas €n .. Tex Pacific Tob Prod ion Pacifie Union Ol Union Fruit Un Ret St T 8 Food to U7 S Rubber U S Steel .. TS Steel pr Ttah .Con Van Steel Wabash Wabp A .. Westinghouse White Motor Willys Ov . Worth Pump COTTON. steady; middling 19.05. MONEY. fer; high 5 L% L CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET Yc an@ provislons 2 1-2 to 20 -cents. 4nd that purchases for Europe 400.000 bushels. turn of grain values Chieago Grain Market. Lew. Closa, 109 111% 100% 1013 . .. B2y 53% July ... 54% 54 543 | oats— v A May [ o8 a1y 39 utes discussion. I “Groh expressed keen pleasure at the opportunity—to play with the Gi- i | attendance record: -winter. is exceptionally Pratt, Magshall far by an; Guernsey™ the of theJeague er ard Robert: also. I intercolleg and P ate chi point winners. New York, Jan. 4.—Spot ecotton New York, Jan. £—Call money eas- low 4; ruling rate 571-2; elosing bid 3 1-2; offered at 4 ; last loan ¢; call loans against. acceptances 4 1-3, Chicago, ; Jan. 4 —Readiness with which all margin calling was met today on 'change even Where the amounts de- manded were excessive, had a decided- Yy stimulatine effect on the grain mar- %ets here.. Wheat closed strong at 3 to 3 7-8 cents, net higher with May 1.11 1-3 to 111 5-8 and July 1.01 to 1.01 1.8, Corn gained 1 3-8 o 1 5-8; oats 7-8 to Ths fact that rumors of impending fi- nancial trouble for board of trade firms had in‘every instance fafled to be sub- stantiated and that ample funds were 2hown to be avajlable led to general buying .and a sham advance as soon as the wheat market opemed. = Belief ap- peared to be widespread that yesterday's selling ‘was ‘much overdone, and as a consequence the pit t&May was at/times almost bare’ of offerings. Another -bulle ish influence was gossip that export - iness on a liberal scale was in progrebs during vesterday's demression amounted to 1,- Notwithstardding irregularity in the hog manget provisions reflected the up- some fine of | see him in action. day President and bership on the ifeli but little below | those of 1920 and had the rotation of Sundays been favorable, a new record would have, undoubtedly -been made. ‘Many young and promising pldyers are being developed in our leagu should“Prove a strong and there | at' New Has at fiun/ next ' summay, = b | MACE STANDS BY Feiver Holdouts Expected - i OLD . TpM: 3 | {Contractual relatiohs twith the players {- Although a prophet s without in Will be more harmonious and there will | his cvbn. e not ‘be the holdouts which helped towreck | scour the coun ng to : the early /season chances of tedfns last |quire promising reerdits, Connie Mack st spring. I expect to see better | pltehing |adheres to his'old time folicy of develoning | ter drafting system . with .the mirors. “These are some of the things which |first baseman, was likewise . Quaker. inior. ‘that there |Connie first de a’ professienal of Herd crest in tase- | Pen whé was practically a Phila- There are likely to |delphia boy,.and afterwands he made .o be other factors of Immportante develop |star pitcher-out of ‘Joe Bush, another to be held in New-York on Fubruary, which { Philadelphian.’ 7 B will have an influencs 'in increasifg the interest in the gam. “With the New York Nationals in the |batting order by superior pn:awess with the role of World's champlons this feature |stick = And at the sams time-Ha developed alone should prove an ‘attraction’ in the not™ [ yet: Natlonal league and, in the cities of ‘our circuit. of the World Series remindggme th: the senicr league favored a retentlon of | It will be recalled that Joe Dugan was |2 joke hitter till the” wise Connie ‘tsok'| sight of the fact that a reduction to seven |him in hand and made him ome of the games will go a long way toward meeting | most dangerous batters In the American the Bbjection of 4 certain fraction of the |league. % fans who protested that attendance and o - gate receipts were rapidly cvershadowing )| MAJOR LEAGUES TO START the original idea of the series 1. & to de- | . . termine the best teamn in the major leagues 4t the end of each season. lead me to express the will be no diminuaticn of all next summer. 3 +hoom ‘to baseball Speaking ‘while the nine game series we have not lost YALE HAF GOOD ARRAY - OF FAST SWIMMERS Yale university will place another for- | the ‘schedule committee of the major midable swimming team in the field this |leagues, adjourned here late today. The year andshould have little trouble ig.de- | season will end October 1. % fending successfully 'the national coilegi- | Those attending the meeting were: ate champlonship won &0 brilliantly last | President Hevdler of the National Lea- Other sterling candi- well 100 and relay swims. In line for the 22 vard event stand and Cook, whose . Fepresentative entered and for the series andt slated g blest fin, group springboard ded by John Pollard, present |and Yale, mpion, Rrane, Mc ar are doing = rince, in particu! gVvery contest % and its prospects |MeCAFFERY IS ILL 4 . econd string men, vir- as =ood as the regulars will be ‘havine . 77 [that repcrts receved by him indicated M. the new 30, |McCaffery might not live through ~tha e Ak ol Mr. MECaftery has been in.roor health nuary 12. 1 be a frme op- :mpare th= play of hoth men..| &, nz partner Charl oon and evahing blocks, e ng with Hopmpe for y Peter- ! ture ...... 146 | 89 mate | Gladue . g a1 Brooks 99 Maven ...... 410 86 Piter- will ‘oppose Roger Conti. the Xing- of Fra i = Schaefer on the latt ant tour of the country 2nd is providing ches. The new FLORIDA UNiVERSITY TO Pl i s Mind 5 PLAY HARVARD NEXT FALL e KAl i Tl P i Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 4—The Uni- |game was fast from whis versity of Florida was announced to- [It was not until the last basket had besn sthe opponent of the Harvard|caged that the winner 'was osrtaifi. The football team at the stadium here on)Norwich Boys had no-easy time to néss out | November 4, Filling of this date com- | victory for the losers t ‘kest the local The | hoopstars on thair toe games follow, all but that with Yale|layson -of Norwichs was tha plete§ the Crimson New U. 8. Minister To Persia - | THREE STRAIGHT GAMES Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld, thi newly appointed United States Minister to Persia. Rabbl will be the first rabbi to bacome a member of the diplomatic carps. | He is a personal friend of the rough his mem- oard of Education of Columbus, Ohlo, over the couniry for his work in edura‘ional lines. { waz barn in A fow voars after Rabbi Xornfeld < birth the fem- {1 ‘move? ta CAlmbus, Ohlo. was ordaincd Tn 1889. 7, Holy Cros: Bl during 1922 and comssquently\ cioser | home preducts ‘hécan not get heid of games. We are: also looking forward to | the elusive e .iu S %I |some form of agreement regardir@®a bet- | Am:s SErunk is a Philadelhia boy born and bred while' Harry Davis the great Dykes. who won his way into the regular 2 shortstop who under Mack’s coaching. “Beth thess boys are Philadelphia lads. . ' SEASON QN APRIL 12T Frenchlick, Ind., Jan. +—With- April 12 dticided on as the opening date for the American and National Lea- gues and ‘the uswal schedule calling for 154 games fixed the meeting “of gue and President Johzson of the Among-the crack sprintergs still avail- | American League, Barney Dreyfuss, able are three of fhe stars who were | president of the Pittsburgh club .of the Iy irStruméntal in shattering several | National League and William Harridge - and world’s relay records in 1820~ | secretary to B. B. Johnson, president ptain C. D. #Pratt, Leming, Jeliffe | df the American League. and Rebert Solley. ydates on hand are Gauss, gins, Colgate, Frost and Stewart, so Yale heeled for the 30, Hig- HARVARD TO ENTER RELAY TEAM IN MILLROSE MEET Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 4—Harvard a one mile rilay with Massachusetts r faney diving the blue have in train- | Institute of- Technology and a fresh- man one mile relay between Harvard lum Dartmouth- and Cornell will- beyen- erb | countered in a triangular meet at Me- work at ‘ractice and should be reliance | chanics Building, Boston, February : AT ATLANTIC CITY James . J.. McCaffery, ‘president of the Toronto. bascball -club, is seriously il at Atlantic Cii N, Ji, according ‘to word reccived Tuesday evening- by Lawrence Solmon, elub -treasurer.-— Mr. ‘Solmion said night. for about two years. About eighteen 'months ago he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis and has been partly inezpaciied ever sincé., He has becn president of the Toronto club f'r neflrly twenty y, during "that time the club has won five league championships. BOWLING RESULTS eresing and | Y| E DEFEATS NEW HAVEN Z HOCKEY CLUSB, 4 TO 2 2ccomp- New Haven, Jan. 4—The Yale hoc- ’s triumph- key team dgfpated the New Haven Amatewr Hockey Club here tonight. their | 4 to 2 chamsion is sure to a fine crowd and billiardists from |* all parts of the state will be'en hané to - SENIORS FIVE DEFEATS BALTIC IN €LOSE GAMF: The “Y" Senior basiketball-frve handed out a defeat to the Baltic Wanderers <n fore a large crowd of basketball fans. The la to whistle and ‘£very minute. Fin: 2 . chi#f poin‘ man while “Coady afd K. Hinds Aivicad honors. for the Baltic boys. The summary: “Y” Senmiors : Wanderers A Charnetsii i..... : . Swanstn : Right (eard IViIHame # S f....%.'R. Hines Lett Guard. Finlayson s ; Right Forward ., Substitutes—1L. Crarnefti for A. Char- Detski: Simineau for J. Hinns. Field .goals—TTinlayson -4, Greba 2, A. Charnetski 1, Holl' 1, Wiliams 1, .Coady 3, R. Hines 3, T. Swanson 1, Firth 1. _ ; Foul goals—Finlayson 3. Coady 3. The Y Simiors weuld like to arrange a ‘game with the Army-Navy five.of “Taft- ville in the near fatura. g - G0 TO FLES TEAM & In the- duckpin tourrmmenn, Capt. John Combies' five mada it three stralght Tedneéday night™ over. 'Capt. Henry Gee's team which had to\roll' with- out ity captain. -Supa’s 271 game him high three string total for:the match and but’ Salern ‘rolled a:sinzle of ‘97 whinh gave him- The - top iggividual. ‘stngle string. Team No"4.is to meet Team No. 5 ‘Friday evening: The scores: ke 7 Team 6, Capt. J. Combies 4 V8907 8T 95— 1 86 82 97— 265 78 85 78 234 L7821 88T ‘9a— 270 L83 . .95 . 77— 265 “ Totals D TR T S TIT) 2 T Team 3, Cdpt. ¥. Gee - Craney S e S MpAulifte A AR e T MMea . ‘88 a1 ¥5L . 75784 239 ‘3074 56 Nioz: 408386 1198 '’ —— = SPORTING NOTES. New Haven's mew. manager, Wid Bin Donctran and .~ Billy Gilbert, > the new Aotals is xnown all, | Waterbury piiot played together back Pawtucket back 1895. v Outflelder, Fred Balley of the Hartferd Club is in for a long ride. He has been shipped to the Portland ciub of ‘the Pa- 55 1.00 up. In last year's lneup ha had- Jimmie loom ve as a hitter but may develop 9-2 score. Miss Halen Boice made 7 of the 9 points resistered by her team. deal is sald to involve the fu‘iire purchase by San Francisco of frur Giants. Per- haps McGradv will be able to get back uite a slice of that §7 weiterweight, had to call off thres match- 5 on account of Lanahan breaking two knuckles of ‘mis right hand. Lanahan wiil be seen in action in about thres weeks. propossd triangular trade that wouwdd send Roger Penckinpaugh from the Red §ox to Washington as gaptain and man- ager of the Senators, and Joe Dugan from the Athletics to the Red Sox. Pitcher Dave Panfotth recently traded by the Columt: ciation) to the St. Louis Browns has an- nounced ‘that he wiil not redort unless he. gets part of the meney<he says red in the deal. He has notified the Cokurbus club of his intentions he says. will entera relay team at thd Millrose times | A. A. track games in New York“'eh- for the distance have n:t been beaten so | Fuary 1, it was announced here ionigh:. of a cdllege | The Crimson team will enter one of team championshiy | the medley relay events. rlunge” are | On February 4 Harvard will méet glider in the sranks | Xale in a two mile relay at\the B. vear and Wood, Coo- { A. A. games at the Boston Arena. Al- , plungers of title caliber | 50 on the programe for that date aremMmatch with Joe Lynch at the Garden, but hi manager, Yex Digmond. demanded.a guaranty of $30,000, with the option of | 37 1-2 per cent. Buff's manager’ claims he has an offer for three fights in Eng- lanad. . = accounts with /Red Chapman of Chelsez in their return clash at Bosten, Thurs- day night, winning the decision over| Chapman in one of the fastest . hitting cohtests . between little feilows on the night's calendar. -, 'In effering £40,000 to Kilbane to box a ‘title ,match avith .Charley Beecher, Phil Bernstcin named 126 pounds as the Wl‘l!:”}t this.now being the official featherweight Hmit all over the world. Bernstein told Kithane that 126 was the Walker law pro’ would _dgfend his title only at 122 pounds ringside. 25, for the- final event of -the inddor Taken as a whole the Eli squad har- | season. - > rotential victors for Shinners, the young outfielder for whom the Giapts paid a fancy prics in players and money .not long ago was turned down cold when he agked for a trial with the | Milwaukee club. his home town team, in | the spring of 1320. The Browns t-ssed same $40,000 aver_the left shoulder, for that is e¥proximately what McGraw gave Indianapolis for Shinners. _Out In San Francisco they have started re, and O'Connell is_ent! $75000 the J young star. So far, the a it. 2lthough the San Francisco club ma have a:mething to say about the matter. ! Ali“of which, however, is-of no corcern whataver to John J. McGraw. J. B M. Gley .97 106 128 . 331 Shaw 117 97 304 Seldel eaa 107 135 378 Pilling 125 102 327} Armitage . 112 108 313 538 5 571 1653 : Dare Devils Quimette .... 107 95 in Panama has béen established hy Alma Mann,“12 years old, who walked thriugh the Canal Zone from ocean to ocean, a distance’ of approximafely 50 miies. i 16, hours and 26 minutes actual walking | time, an averaze of about three miles an hour.. Mies Mann, who is the Younzest £irl to undertake the feat. alsy holls the {Canal Zone women' chamvionehirs for high and fancy diving and swimming. regions of French .troops are being withdrawn as 4 result of the much discussed agree- men tbetween France and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Asiatic Tur- Kkey is the subject of the. following bulletin from,the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geo- graphic Society: , and a mining prospector were Sent out to find the most desirable resion in Asia -Minor they probably. would come nearer to agreeing. on -Cilicia than on any. .other section,” says the {bulletin. “In hardly, any portion: of Europe o America has fature been so ‘generous_as- to this relatively small area at the extreme northeasteérn cor- ner.of the Mediterranean; and though man_has not made the most of hix opportunities: on the material side by turning - potential into agtual riches, it ‘is‘onlya question of time—and per- hape-of .werld /politics—until he will. of Asia Minor -the fowlands form a | very narrow, strip. Near the extrenfc northeastern corner of the Mediterra- nean, however, at the southern ‘base of the ‘Asia Minor peninsula, the sea plain broadens out. forming a fairly lovel region more than 75 miles long and from 20 to 60 miles broad. At the sea’s ‘corner’ the highlands close in again, and the coast through Sy=| . |rfa .and Palestine for 500 ‘miles to Ezvpt is tugged except for occasiohal narrow strips. Cllicia, therefore, is a | sort of coastal oasis. 2 {the semi-eirgle tajns from | whose heavily wooded slopes timber. has been taken for ages and relatively treeless Syria. , From the Taurus flow numerous stréames the year round watering the fertile plain and making possible extensive irriga- (tion whenever the necessary dams and candls shall be.furnished. Even under the blighting rule of the Turk and with the handicap of a semi-no- madic, eemi-agricultural populace, which" has let ‘much of the country become swampy, Cilicia has produced good crops of rice, maize, sugar-cane, fruits tobacco and cotton. Its climate and- soil are especially good for the ‘fproduction ‘of the latter crop. “Some of the etreams flowing frem the high Taurus offer excellent op- portunities for power development, and In. the mountaine is much untapped mineral wealth..~The Taurus are fa- mous for their-sceriic heauty and they havé ‘been a practical~hoon through the centuries to the city folk 0 have dwelt in the €Cilician p! since the beginning of recorded history. Vil- las* were stru hills and ‘in the pleasant valleys that extend upward inthb the mountainss in’ both the Greek and Roman eras. In “this favored region the Germans ‘planned (to"create ‘a great base for the of their dreams of ex- | fntrudi: ‘| veloped “ from $1.00 ‘each customer Villg’a |~ ury 15, 1922. nd of 50 per o 00, or 20 per cght on’ to which we pay 4 per cent.| St L] 523553 e "5‘0‘ . SREL £ cent, .is oupons g per cent This coupon agcaép i Only one coup ts Depos cent. on yfiur $5.00, in addil C 4 One’of the strings ~of the O'Connel] 000 in this way. Harry Staut, manager of Jay Lannhan, Harry Frazee will not comment on the club (American Asso- Champlon Jonny Buff w: s offered u | Mickey Trav s of New Haven squared isfon. Kibane declined and said he It may he generally known that Ralph symposium to detrmine whether Jim led te any part “of the ants paid the Seals for the weem to hav A new record for wemen’s pedestrians in CILICIA Cillela, one of the most important Asia _Minor, from which “If an, artist, an enginegr, a farmer “Along. most of the southefn-coats “Back of ithe Ciliclan plains rises e Taurus Moun- eet the reeds of treeless Egv ameng the foots realizatio ‘It will add FIFTY: CENTS or ONE DOLLAR to your uvinpifdepooi\hdwithm. 2. in opening an account during the Holidays SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OF THE ANKERS TRUST COMPANY THAYER BUILDING ; We will accept this coupon as FIFTY CENTS on a deposit "of $1.00, and as ONE DO! . such original deposit is not withdrawn before one year from January 15th; 1922. Your deposits earn an addition- under the rules of our Savings To umt; i ym-l on a deposit of $5.00, if al 4 per cent. interest Department. BANKERS TRUST COMPANY THAYER BUILDING NORWICH, CONN. Open Every Saturday Evening From 6:30 to 8:30 tary frontiers in the Old World, They | DE VALERA HAS SUB- MITTED ALTERNATIVQ through a deep gorge known as the : (Continued From Page One) beasts of burden, stream bed. But more than 400 years before Christ some nameless De Les- seps constructed a roadway through the defile for wheeled vehicles, a work which probably course of history in that part of the world, Cilicia becan}: house for commerce betWeen’ Egypt, Syria Arabia, Mesopotamia and even the Far West on the one hand, and the Greek and Roman worlis ®n the other. Almost exactly over this great the famous Railway has been constructed in late years making Cilicia again an im- portant way station. British spldiers, “prisoners of I much of the labor in. canstructing the difficult seetion of the road through the Taurus. “Whether “conquest ebbed eastward or westward Cilicia was its path. The Persians héld“the Coun try 1000 years beforé Christ. Xeno. phon and Cyrus passed that way. Alexander came through the gates to Cilicja in 333 B. C. and defeated Da- rius’ on the plain of Issus’ After his death a. Greek kingdom. .sprang up there. Rome. set up her standard in Cilicla in' 103 B. C., to remain for several hundred . years. Tarsus, home of St. Paul, was the principal city. of Cilicia in. Roman times. was made a free city by Mark An- tony; and there he was vieited by in 2 narrow apd contemplate With the states of the British R A | N Mean of tianssocist while laying dow Tt status for Ireland the text of the trea Following is the text o pertant provisfons of De V. tive proposal: Status of Ireland: executive and judicial the Turks, ple of Ireland. That for M n corcern Ireland sha e stafes’ of the B: the kingdom nion of Canada, purgose of com ‘be associated with sh commonwealth, nam of Great Brit: T the commonwealth of A minion of New Zealand an South Africa. That wien acting as an asssclate, the rights, status and privileges of Irelan{ shall in- no respect be enjoyed by any other componen: states of onwealth; that the mat ters of commor®concern ghal! inclure ds fense, peace. war political treatiss and a$ matters treated as of common concers the British common hése matters thers less than thos¢ the British com; among the states o wealth, and that in shall e between Treland ‘and the British ccmmonweal: action founded on con several government m: That in virtue of this Ireland with the states of, the British monwealth, the cltizens of Ireland in any e states shall nct be subject to any ties which a citizen of one of the British common- “The Arabs had thelr inning at the ownership of Cilicia, retaining con- trol from the seventh to the tenth centuries. During this period Byzanti- ay beyond the Taurus, and the Ciliclan Gates. formed - the " bulwark of Christendom against the Moslems. “France’s’ interest in Cilicia, which was recognized -after thé World War when she was given a mandate for part of the territory, may be traced to ‘the Crusades. A, Frank /kingdom was maintained in Syria for more than a hiundred years thirteenth * centuries. large numbers of Armenians had mov- ed from she north because of Turkish encroachment, and had set kingdom 'of Lesser Armenia in Cilicla. Christian kingdom the tation as the @ component states of ritis wealth would not be subject to, and re ciprocally for the citizens of these stater That fir the purpose of the association, twelfth and {AMajesty as head of the apsociation That €0 far as her resources permil Ireland shall Trovide for he sea, lapd and air. shall repel late the integrity of her s-1l or territert waters, or to use them o to Great Britain and ke of “After the Turkish Empire gained control of Cilicla in the sixteenth cen- tury the Armeniads in the population suffered much at the hands of the Moslem fanatics. Adana, chief modem ciey of the:plain, has been the seen of one bloody massacre after another in which woman and chijdren as well as men have been slaughtered by the cogstal defense, wi cifitfes and an assume an arb! “Keen memories of the massacre of ish debt and war 1209 when the Young Turk movement arose, of that during the World War when the British left Galipoli, and es- pecially -of that of 1919 to celebrate the growing power of Mustapha Ke- mal Pasha, are no doub trespensible for the fears of the Christian inhabi- tants of Cilicia as the French evacu- ate the territory_and leave the ¢ou: try. to occupation by the+Kemalists, " JACK FROST Jack Frost is an embarrassing vis- itor if he comes too early or stay too late, but in the main he's a bene« Belfast and Lough bors remaining 1 cllitles for coastal def, A resolution added o the presses willingness east ocounties priv “not less substantia ed for” in the dfcument signed don on Deécember 6. ficent old duffer, and not the enemy of plant life that He is supposed to be, -according to an article in the Jour-| nal of Agricultural \Research, wrftten by F. V.;Coville, a botanist of the Unlted States Department of Agricul- ture.. The article records a series of Mistress Of Greek Embassy In Washington experiments _with healthy plants, and freezing winter temperatures to plant the spring. One fact stands the dormant con- clear in’ the Tesult; dition of the plant in winter is.not the result of cold -and- freezing; on the other _hand, clod stimulates the revi- val.of life in the plant when spring comeés again, it 1s said. Such an explanation 6f the effect of cold is new to thé everyday readet, who is used. to . looking upon winter air’ as detrimental -to plant life, forc- ing the .shrub into a dormant state scarcely better than dedth. But heal- thy, husky blueberry bushes which Mr, Coville sheltered Went to sleep just the same, despite the fact that the air. was kept at a growing” temperature. The shrubs, he admits didn't go to bed so ear! they did when Jack Frost used to hur- | ry them off, but go to sleep they did. Their leaves dropped off, and in the warm greenhouse the plants went into a dormant. condition exactly like that of others outside in the cold and snow, Morcover, they were late in waking ¢ i ¥hen spring. came. Some, indeed, slept zhro\ggh the whole year. 7 EGG’S FIGHT WITH MOss A French naturalist: recently had the rare opportunity. of intensely interestthg an egg And a 'moss p); \The egg was that'of a lizard which had been deposited on 2 cushion of moss. It was inclosed by a white pro- tective covering of leather-like tough- The ‘moss“on which the tip of the egg rested secreted at the' point of contact a substance that gradually dis- solved the leathery shell of the egg. When there was no longer any re- ! the stem of ‘the moss plant penetrated tife shell through the substance of the ing at the opposite end. But the egg was equa! to the emer- gency. It eveloped the stem of the moss inside the egg with-a membra- nous coating that formed an insulat- ing tube around the intruder. Then the moss sent 6ut side brances through' the. egs, these were made innocuous by an al- - betwed S ComYRIONT CLINEONGT, WARR VATOR. Mme. Joan Gennadlus 1s' 2o latest arrival in the. diplomasia circle of the national capital. is the wife of the new Greek Eie- | fister to this country. ire Relief SureDlGESlTION FOR N