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Show m GLEM E mm TIGER" AIM FRANCE AMERICA TELL eeyNTRY MT-HAVE-T- REPARATION MONEY. SAILED ON will, join the league. country WILL WHY Hi E bare a voice la the nomination and selection of judges tLjthe International Court of Justice set up by the League of Nations, there Is renewed Interest in Washington in what Is said te be the possibility that eventually this ARMISTICE DAY the Work of Reconstruction Devastated .Region Goto on Slowly and Fund Mutt Bo Obtained for Material and Labor. War- - In By EDWARD B. CLARK On Armistice day, No Washington. vember 11, Clemenoeau, "The Tiger" of France sailed from Havre for tot United States to present here the cause of the French people and, as It has been announced, to make clear the ex act position In wh$i the French tlnd themselves today. This aged but still stalwart French man will come to Washington and here will meet the President, the secretary f state, and others. It la expected thaV In private conversation be will My some things to the American offi cials which ho will not say upon tha public platform. It may be that the visitor will bring his heaviest guns to bear In what may be called tills private action. All of France is not In sympathy with Glemenceau's Intention to lay the cause before the American people, but Washington hears that In a general way France hopes that some good may come of It The writer of this spent two months fa France during the summer that has Just passed. There seems to be some ignorance today concerning the exact condition of the countryside of France. Americans generally do not seem to Hmow Just bow much reconstruction work has been done nor do they seem to know just why It is that, as some people have put it, the French are acting "contrariwise" on the subject of llsartnament and on some other mat ters which have produced a little fric tion with the countries which were the Hies of France in war. France Is Acting Humanly. 8osie American officials have visited jlFrance recently, and unquestionably iney nave told their chieis tn wasn Ington just what they have found In the land of the sister republic. Every' body wbo makes the least study of con ditions in France must find the satne The moat militant element tn the Democratic party clings to the belief that ultimately the United 3tatea will enter the League of Nations and some of the Pemocrats seem to believe that the present administration la not as antagonistic to the thought of league membership as once It was. This feeling of the Democrats Is not shared at all by the Republicans except those In the party ranks with whom the wish may be father to the thought and who, although maintaining their party standing, always have been more or less In fsvor of the pol Icy of league .membership. It seems to the present writer, from a somewhat careful stuCy of the situ ation, and from what can be learned that from administration leaders, there will be no closer approach to membership in the league soon than there Is at present, except as such an approach may be seen In the determination to enter the International Court of Justice and to take part In the great, economic parley which may straighten out the financial affairs of the world. Guessing at Harding's Intention. There are Republicans here who say President Harding Is more advanced In his "international thinking" than are Dtber powerful leaders' lo his party. Again It may be said, however, that no one ever gets an expreswhich sion from the administration smacks at all of a desire for league membership, but it is true that such SEALS FOR PRESIDENT Lovelorn Girls FormjGluhLf professing his affections and giving a full account of himself, which will be submitted to the girl be has decided on. It la predicted that this suggestion will not prevail, for it is too slow and complicated for Cupid. But there will be frequent dances aud excursions, IS KEEN so that the young people will have an FIND COMPETITION of knowing each' other opportunity well. They say the men will have a good Wearing of Green Ribbon Is Sign Girl time, due to the natural surplus of Is Quite Serious and Wants to women In France, which the war has Must Oocy Get Marc accentuated. t- Rules, Despairing of Achieving Wedded Bliss They Unite to Accomplish Their Purpose. to feed Itself, words as, come from the administration leave the Impression that the President would like to go a consid erable distance Into. tlie field of help for the other peoples of the world, and that he probably Intends to make this journey afield if he can do It consistently with the majority thought of his party. It is bootless, spparently, however, for men and women wbo believe the United States should enter the League of Nations to think that during the present administration of American affairs there will be any absolute joining up with the European nations In the organization of the league as It exists today. It is held by the Republicans and men generally that It still Is the Intention of the United States to do what It ran unofficially to help matters In the world, but that nothing will be done which from the point of view of the would violate the American traditions of aloofness from what frequently are called foreign entanglements. Concerning Foreign Debts. PUN COLLEGE FOR OLD BOYS Among the hundreds of thou sands of surplus uoweu in France, a Oxford Would University Project small group of Paris mldiuettes have Take in Octogenarians Who formed a marriage club. Their insignia Want to Study. Is a small bit of green rlbpou ou, the coat, so that any man seeing a girl londnn. Jolly old cbappltj of fourSecbrated In tins way known right score years and ten, frolicking on aud she is quite serious sway that the Oxford playing fields and dodderwants to get married. in cushThe marriage competition Is keen ing septuagenarians lolling ioned punts on the upper reaches of ones the and among the Uinely girls, the Tltames may become realities, If have taken to this form of advertisethe plan for the entry Of the old as ment to settle down In life and have a well as the young to the famous Engto Due leave the .phance sweatshops. lish university is carried out. to the facilities of life in Paris there The suggestion Is that a college be ire numbers of bachelors, many of established for adults, as Ruskln col whom would like to get married, only was established for the education lege to now seemed never meet up to they of men from trades unions. Such s the right sort of girl. college. It is pointed out, would be a Fear to Make Break. haven of refuge for l acatSerious girls have hitherto met tivities of 4he university, and would tractive young men on their way to enable many adults to carry on studwork, and have seen others daily where ies which they started under the exbut they lunch, they have never dared tension course idea and which they allow the men to speak to them, nor have been unnble to complete.. flirt with the men, because they were afraid of being taken for something tbey were not. The girls "never could tell the Intentions of the men, and the men always suspected women who noticed them. Now all this has been changed. The man who wants to get married Wears a bit of green in his buttonhole, but be must not take advantage of this by going up and accosting the first girl he meets with a similar bit of St. Rate Exchange Patrick's color. According to the un Fluctuating written laws of the club, he must wait Sometimes Works to Advanuntil he has seen some girl member a tage of German People. number of times. Then, If their dally paths cross, he can finger his bit of ribbon In a suggestive manner. If she approves of him she will smile, and MINER NOW MULTIMILLIONAIRE then he can Introduce himself. Holds First Meeting. The club had Its first meeting the St Louis Man Leaves Brother In Gerother day In the crowded nelghorhood many $30,000, and Long Hunt for between the city hall and the Bastille, Beneficiary Multiplies but the members failed to reach any Fortune. agreement on how to get married. One suggestion seemed to carry weight. That was to give a number to every Berlin. Freakish pranks played by holder of the green ribbon, but they the fluctuating exchange rate are writhave to prove themselves worthy of ing a colorful chapter in the life of this and pass a medical examination. Germans. While the low value of the Then If a man's affections turn to some mark In most cases Is spelling grief, it attractive damsel, such as sometimes works to advantage of the he can go to the club and fill a form native. ar u .The-Whol- e rck qt:rkly. that It ha tgowe 'hut the I'ulttsI Now vor Wl.eti nmrki'il to HiiMxpi rife tint leltcr" r S..rfl:iii. "he refill or Ihn- - i.f ihe l,)nKe) 11 i: .1 i ill- Natio-i .m. .i.-i- Kim.- - jk IV ! I. lt' " - .SI 'UllliTiit 'lU, :irefi;l in III II i 111 I i.uk: - ' United States and League of .' Ctrlving to Be Tactful. -- : I ., .,, ;. !,;.. I , !t h (I N lti,.rn,-nn-.',11T, .,, . o l ufr -- College Raises Drug Herbs. 'Seattle, Wash. In connection wllh the college of forestry of the Unler-sltof Washington the department Is also, engaged. In growiiut crag hirbs. y This has been demonstrated In the case of Selinar Meyrowitz, a Berlin or chesira leader, who regrets that he did not receive a heavier fine than was meted out to him last summer for at tempting to take cigarettes across the Czech border. Meyrowitz was motoring to Marlenbad and, having a number of acquaintances there, he went well supplied with clgnrettes, which he purposed to distribute as gifts, ills Impression that the frontier customs control had grown lax was dispelled when the Czech customs authorities fined him 10,000 marks. Cut Fine in Half. Repeated pleas for clemency failed Meyrowitz, even after he hud pictured the sorry strults of the Intellectuals of how ever. " the nowadays. Finally, Czechs decided to Cut the fine In half, and Meyrowitz has now received a check fOMnore than 446 kronen, the rebate being reckoned according to the rate of exchange at the time sentence wag pronounced. Four tundred and forty-sikronen today are equivalent CO.OOO marks. father of six children, becante a multi- millionaire In marks over night through a legacy of $30,000 received from the estate of his brother, a St. Liuls hotel owner. The brother went to ttte United States some thirty years ago and had ils 4 e - THIS Buys Church to Have Place "in Which to Cuss" & , m in Vermont Henry Singer cnine to Ye.'ilie from New irk i JiKiO.OOO in cash nnil bought t in the bench city so t it church In i that he could "have a plin-which to cuss." This his wife in Judge Iliilm'-- i court In defending a suit hrouNt hy Men l.etler ngiint Singer on a ?1.Mk) note. Singer has been declared Incompetent and lie now his guiirdlim. wife RUNS Has Two Kinds of Gussts. ' Sttel-Barre- brick, while the long extension of wood. On one side of the .passage, the visitor as he enters the bulldln?, Is ii door which stands hospltahly open. It gives access to the ofilce. with its desk, register, hat rack, and the usu.il collecthn of armchairs. On the othei side, grim nml foreboding ts a sieW door. ;losed light, and only t) be uo locket' by the keeper'n l.ig key. lemliu, to the Jail part of the establishment. 11. B. Osborne, who perfoniiH the twofold Job of earing for guests who com ti him of their own free will nml accord and those who nre commltto his keeping tiy the county authorities, snys he does not see anytMnir very ex-- I trimnlliuiry In the combination and tlrvls bis dual dufleg nil a Mirt of fne day's work. 1 Village j Stand Grim Across From Hos pitable Passageway Into Comfortable Hotel Lobby. Entr, ar.d Foreboding Newfane, Vt. The county Jail and the local, hotel are combined under one roof In this town, and the functions of keeper and landlord are performed by one and the Mime Individual. Ti e plan Set World Record in Potatoes. bus Its advantage und, ns ,i mutter of hut Is claimed to be a pnictlcul experience, works perfectly. London. world's ecord In pouto growing In The Windham County holel, us the ivwrtcd from llktou. presence sIrii over Ihe iniilu entrunce reuils Is h a farmer lone. I wo aud of ii liuge number cf f story e'lllh-enamed K. 1'eel weighed potmon t0. painliil nlnle with peeu shutters tiding :t''4 pounds C ounces, nil of alter the conventional northern New which were produced from one pound England style. The northern, or uiiilii St of portion of the budding. Is liulli of I i V pple rd THE JAIL Ov Airplane View by th Ntllonsl OtMcrepblc ciety. Wuhlnftoo. V. C) Few places In the world have exer- (Froproa cised such a power of attraction, for travelers as Constantinople, or have hod such widespread reputation for being picturesque. The severe, classic art of Athens Is not found here; nor the dignity of Rome; nor the exciting, sullen spirit that permeates Peking. It Is not gay like Paris, nor learned like Berlin. An archeologlst would be better pleased with Egypt But this Is the place before which fiautler, Byron, Lott, De Atnlcls and Lainartine wept and swooned with delight before they sat down to fill boobs with ecstatic praises. But practical modernity has left its mark everywhere. Already there are on all sides the changes due to western influence trams, electric lights, telephones and a new safe bridge. Constantinople's geographical position has made her sanguinary history, for she controls a high road of commerce between Asia and Europe, sod Nature herself planned the ports. The city is divided Into three separated He quarters, Stamboul and on the European side, the Golden Horn between thenand Scutari squats on the Asiatic side, across the Bosporus. Like outstretched arms, the two straits come up from the Sea of Marmora to the south. Galata and I'era are the European Quarter, opposite Stamboul, where the representatives of foreign powers have long maintained their embassies and homes. Once the suburbs of Stamboul, this part of the city was known ns Justlnlanapolis until tbe Genoese made It intc an Italian ton a and fortified It with walls and many towers, one of which, the Galata Fire Tower, still stands, a lofty lookout station from which fires are reported and signals flashed to ships after dark. l'era's crooked streets Nowadays are alive with allied soldiers, refugees, relief workers, adventurers, peddlers, beggars, and a few tourists. Passports, unless one has business, are difficult to get, and tourists are rarely seen. The American residents number about four hundred, the largest colony between Borne and Manila. There Is but little social life, and the only places of amusement are the cafes and restaurants, with their adjoining cabarets and moving-pictur- e screens. Galata Bridge It Keynote., While tbe Galata bridge letveen the European quarter and Stniuboul still lives up to its tradition of having every nationality In the world cross It at least once an hour, It lacks some of Its old chunii, beeanse of the Turkish ptuiple's renunciation of color. The men for the most part have udopted the Eurofiean business suit, with which they wear a red fez, 'and the women's costumes nre usually sf black. What the Blaltu bridge Is to Veitlce, the I'ont Neuf to Parts, the Westminster to IjOtidon, so is the Guluta the keyuote bridge to Constantinople to the elty. A ronstnnt stream of polyglot peoples flows across the Golden Horn: Kussiun refugees, in puiamaemtttt tucked into trousers grown too large; aud Anneulnn and Greek men-huntrefugees; British, French nod Italian army and nvy officers; AmHi"in sailors; Chinese, Japanese and Persian merchants; the last of the btitiuoded eunuchs; dervishes In brown, with I'eru-Galal- ono-hul- , Klstlnc c;.n cunt minei In the ( nlted pro'hiee from 7l0,(ij!,(H(' cone-shape- d hats; Cretans a In ba.'g.v Grevk trousers and embroidered eils chiffon black with priests streaming from their bi:ls; baiuals (porters) with roomfuls of furniture on their bucks; Arabs In yellow maimed and dlxc-isebeggars; llohammeduu priests In pink or green robes; black troops in red caps and sashes; Jewish guides; American relief workers; Hindustani gunrds tn twisted turbans and scarlet capes; an d occaslonul woman gypsy In v w of Constantinople. So- s l.os Angeles. i BONIFACE i ,i executive ofMces, she was greeted with a real Harding smile. The President purchased the first tuberculosis Christmas seals from her mid wished her and all her little helpers success Id the work. been believed dead many years. The miner, after his brother's death, had changed his place of residence, and during the time he was being sought that the bequest could be given him Its value computed In marks meantime bad multiplied many times. Inherits Millions. A young woman habitue of one of Berlin's dancing places has fallen heir to 70,000,000 marks left her by an aged American who died of heart disease while visiting Germany. The old man "net the girl casually in the dance hall Several days prior to his death. Business culled him to Westphalia. He lie-came III while making the Journey. The girl was informed mid reached Ids bedside just berore the end. A few days later a notary delivered her a sealed portfolio hlch her acquaintTire tool boxes, containing sulllclent to equip five, ten and twenty-fiv- ance hud willed her because she had nun or more, are placed on a pack mule and stationed throughout the na- brightened hi lust days on earth. It tional forests by the United Stales forest service to light forest fires. This contained Jewelry; $15,000 photoginph shows a ranger and a mule loaded with a fire box which is to be erahle other foreign currency, tbe In a placed j murk value footing up "0,000,000 strategic position:. onc-slxt- fr .7',--. When little Sally Le Fevre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. I Fevre of Washington, knocked on His President's window at the White House A Bochum miner named Baeenskl, living In humble circumstances and the el ... -- Publicity for British Cows. he --k x I - -" - to nearly which would not Involve the Bending of armies and nnvles to Europe, there to collect the money by force. It also was Intimated that some of the speak- advertising is oHng tried In Knpland for milk. The plan calls 'or etch dairyman and each dls- tributer to contribute of a cent a gallon toward a fund which Is to be used to advertise the value of milk as a food. One of the nrpunients will be that the dally nmnitMplion of niilk per rap- ila In Ki.g lunl. ahoiit a third of a pint, is only a third of Ihc (niniimpMnn In the Unit I Stiilex.--TNuthm's Hunt- K-.'i-,-.- Pranks Played by Mark's Fall New Plan to Prevent Forest Fires and ers were long on threats but short on ways and means. Of course there Is general agreement that the United States cannot collect Its debts by force. It now Is known definitely that there will be representatives of the United States In a financial conference of the great powers of the world. Out of this conference there may come some mentis of adjusting finances so that the present conditions of threatened bankruptcy here and there may change and a slow return to financial soundness In European inuntries rosy he assured. When this condition Is reached Wsshlngton folk say Hint means will be found to secure from the foreigners the money which Is due to the United States. mm: Pans. XYZ-21S- Then the spokesman went on to say .France eats an enormous amount of that the President would give a rebreadstuff s. ward to any man who would point out Reconstruction Is Slow. the means of getting the definitely Stories have been printed to the effect that reconstruction work In France foreigners to pay their debts, a means was going on rapidly. It Is going on. but not rapidly. Village after village which one passes If he through visits the once embattled front are (till lerel with the plain. It would take a long time to rebuild the destroyed structures In France even If the man power of the country whs nt mark. Moreover, building the pre-wconstruction In Franre is solid conThe French build for nil struction. time. The work necessarily would be low under any conditions. Today neither the man power nor the money to rebuild Is forthcoming, and therefore, except for temporary shelters, a considerable part of the population of northern France still Is homeless and till lias do place In which to transact the mercantile businesses of the country. It Is believed that Monsieur Clemen-ceawill set forth these conditions when lie come to the United States and will make them the basis of a Statement that the reason France Is M Insistent on Immediate repartition money Is that unless It is paid quickly France cannot go on with Its biiildinj; operations. France has Imported Into the country a good many Italian, Spanish and Portuguese laborers. They are taklnr the place of the French youth who were killed In the war. These men. of course, must he paid, and hiilldinp inn terlal must be paid for. The French government Is undertaking the pny tnents, bat the money Is Iqiani the promise of the reparations money, and If this Is nut forthcomhii; othere probably will be something like llmm dal chans In the European tvpti'iiir thins, so far ns the Frriich Viewpoint is concerned. Ik Rmp'e 'Homebody lias tuken auitr whin i people had and they Inssi ih-- i h,. somebody sliull put It Imrk mid w II I i nine-tenth- cereHls 11 extra-mura- thing, and that Is that whatever France has done or Is doing is prompted by the dictates of human nature. Some of the things which the republic has done and for which it has been criticised probably would be done by any other country under like conditions. It has become known definitely The human nature equation Is strong within the last few days that so long as a factor In the whole problem. as the present administration Is In Reconstruction and reclamation, as power at least there will be no canthey apply to France, may be said to cellation of the debts of the foreignbe different things. Reclamation has ers to the United States, but It also to do with the reclaiming of the fields, Is known that. In spite of the cries their retelling and their replanting with here and there about forcing payment, crops. Reconstruction has to do with the administration will attempt to do the rebuilding of the farmhouses and nothing with a strong hand to secure the thousands of hamlets, villages. for the United States the war debts towns and cities which were de-- due It from abroad. yed during the war, At the White House the other day. s It can be said that about an authorized spokesman for the Presiof the agricultural acreage of France, dent said he bad noticed here, there which it was Impossible to till during and that men were rising the war because of military operations to everywhere "If these say: foreigners do not and of the destruction Inflicted, have us the money due, the United 4ay been reclaimed. During the senson States should get after them with a which has just passed, France raised club." enough SvJ.ilT.: M bsggy trousers; Levantine tradesmen; Albanian peasants in embroidered white leggings; Uuwullnns, Filipinos, aud a few drummers from "points west of Chicago" all these miss back and forth In the course of a day. The taxes were recently doubled on the bridge, and the eight Turkibh collectors were ordered to make the Turk, lab women, previously exempt, pay for the privilege of crossing the GoWen Horn. The women, however, indignantly refused, and at both ends of the bridge a constant conflict went on between protesting officials and the women, who slipped by with exclamations of anger. Tbe collectors did ' not hare the temerity to lay hands on these toll evaders, necause Turtusn women were for so long a time the exclusive property of their husbands that custom still forbids a man detaining a woman by force In any sort of public argu- ment The traditional sacredness that the person of a Turkish woman bad a curious result during tbe war, for the Tnrks did not dare to search one of them, even though It was known" that she carried unlawful messages la her garments. On both sides of tbe bridge are docks for small steamers that take commuters back and forth between the Golden Horn and Scutari, tbe 15 stations of the Bosporus, and the Prince Islands. At rush hours these efficiently operated boats are as packed as a New York ferry. j Stamboul Is Really Turkish. If anything of the real Turkey is to be seen, I'era must be abandoned for In this ancient city, which Stamboul. was Byzantium and New Rome, tbe coffee turbehs mosques, houses, (domed , tombs) and fountains remind one, even In their dilapidation, of tha city's past days of greatness. Although the houses arejearly all constructed of wood, they are never painted, for the Turks have a theory that If their property looks prosperous their taxes will be increased. So the window lattices crumble and fall tbe boards sag, tbe shingles warp, and nothing la repaired. Tbe population is Inactive and looks discouraged. Men sit In cafes and talk about tbe hard times. Old greybeards sit on tbe sidewalks and smoke nargl-lelir The has a stand near the centrally located mosques, and still makes an excellent living from tbe Turks, few of whom can read or write. A group of dervishes, who, like the city, have declined In plcturesqueness, puss slowly np tbe streets. Hatnals, the. native expressmen, stagger along, crying, "Make wayl" As In the old days, kubobjees slice off strips of roasting meat to tempt the appetites of the passe rsby. As In Pera, Russian refugees hare been everywhere, selling flowers, kew-pi- e dolls, oil paintings of Constantinople, cakes and trinkets, books and newspapers printed in Russian. They slept in the open streets and on tbe steps of the mosque. They lonfed, begged, worked when they could And I s. letter-write- a Job, and sometimes sobbed with hunger. Burned Houses Not Rebuilt Tbe devastating fires that ' have ever been working toward the destruction of Constantinople caused the city to be built anew every 50 years, until struct Ion of wooden houses on the site of burned ones; la fact. It was provided that no bouses at all should be built until tbe city government planned new streets. Nothing has been done about the planning, l ow ever, and ttte result is that of Stamboul mors ihari houses, burned during tha , one-fourt- h past twelve years still lies In ashes. Scutari, too. has vast ruined sections, .so has Km ii, on a much smaller scale. The publisher of The Orient, the only In American i.evKjnper Stamboul, snys that the tires have caused tbe housing situation to become acute and tlie rents to mount enormously. Tn fact. It costs ijore to live ta Constantinople today than in any other city In tbe world, not excepting New York. The city is especially crowded now wlUi refugees and foreigners, wbo sdd &0 per cent to the population, which, according to estimated figures, now tuts 2.250,000. This overcrowded will condition grow worse until some one starts to rebuild the ruined areas. As Starwboul has stood since SOO B. C, It woullt be a crime against science to rebuild without scientific supervision of the digging f tha end a systematic exDlora'ion site by nrclieologlsts |