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Show Sunday, March 23, 1923 Editorial Mines Financial I PUZZLING PROBLEM IS FACED BY HELLENIC KINGDOM 2i 2 i)! Land of the Dons Is Enjoying Almost Unprecedented Prosperity ExEmperor Karl and Prince Otto unusual photograph of formi r Kuiwror Karl of Austria nmiggrr elilcst on, Prince Otto, which recently arrived from Switzerland. former roval family is living tn exile. It h possible that Karl shortly be jiroolaimed ktujj of liungsrv, a It ta aaul that the recent flection of Admiral llorthy aa regent of Hungary la but th first atop toward tbo restoration of the llapsburgs to power. An and fata U:'re tlio iV I Vest Pocket Monarchy Liechtenstein It Still On the Map. Greek Whq Live in Coun try Not Enthusiastic for Change, Is Claim Made. gotten Area. . By PAXTON HIBBEN. (Chicago Tribune Foreign New Bervi-o- .) SMYRNA, Feb. IT. "An American tnan-6at- e for Turkej. with Greek troops and Creek officials under au Amerlran l.lgli Coinmlcfcloner aa the lnatrumenta for ex. ecuting the mandate. This Ik the strange combination with which the f.ghting archbishop" of the Creek church in Smyrna,. JJb'liVior Chrysostom, proposes to solve the near custern problem. It is only one of a dozen solution which can be heard put forward any morning In the Rue Frank. It J tho sole subject of conversation tn Smyrna. Everybody has bis own little solution, gnd no two conceptions dove-al- l. Man Power Lacking. "We had to ask an exception In favor pt Greece in the application of the eight-hoday provision adopted by' the International labor conference at Washington because we have more work than our men can do, and, at the aaine time, we are reaching out to take still more work on our shoulders. "Not only do we lack the men, but we also lack the ariministratois for a job l.ke this. More than half the trained administrators in Greece belonged to the King's party, and Ventzelos not only will not make use of them, but he insists on partisans into every putting his political post, and many of them are not fitted lor the work. The high commissioner is a first-claman, but he has no end Of trouble getting his own orders carried out as he wants them carried out, simply because he hasn't the personnel." An American business man of Smyrna cohort this view, and added: "The Greeks haven't the money to carry out the mandate. Greek rule will mean a big profit for a few favored Greek banks and shipowners who are on the inside, and ruin lor everybody else. After the Balkan wars, Greece was doubled in size. The Greeks have pot digested Macedonia yet it's in an appalling state If they got Smrrna, of disorganization. Greece will have quadrupled in sise in Seven years, and, owing to the fart that only one political puny is allowed in Greece now, there will be only half as many men available to handle the new Monte Carlo Is Becoming Famed for Notoriously Poor Dancers - ' 4. ot ' By IIE NET WALES, -(Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.) OXTE CABLO, March 27, What misernbjo dancers they are iu Monte Carlo! Nobody ean fox in a troit or one-ste- and 1 vest-pock- et e Country Swept by Wave of From East 27,--- The Fiume Hotel Man Enconnters Trouble By Universal Service. -- The judgment of SMYRNA, March Solomon was delivered recently by a cadi of this city. Six Turkish fishermen were returning home when they discovered that a new rope had been stolen. The leader immeto lodge a comdiately called on the cadi The judge summoned the six plaint. AU denied men and examined them. knowledge of the rope. "that you re"I see, said the csdl. member nothing of what occurred. Go home now and enjoy a good night's rest, but come again tomorrow." At the same time he handed to each man a twig of a pomegranate tiee. The twigs were identical In length, and the cadt declared that the one taken away bv the guilty man would grow In hours. In this length within twenty-fou- r way tne thief wquid easily be discovered. The following day the fishermen again caliel on the Judge, to whom they returned the six twigs. Ths cadi- at once man, saying. turned to the youngest "You are the guilty one, for you have cut for fear of being off a part of your twig " suspected The cadi was right Ths thief confessed end was sent to prison, and the. chief fisherman Knl his rope returned to h'm. C- , Orlando Wilson, and DAnnunzio, Then Decides on Ironhead. to By GEORGE SELDES. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.) FIUME, March IT. Pity the poor FI nmlans! Life Is one occupation after another. The war over, came the Serbians snd the Then the Italians, afterward the allies, then d'Annun-slAnd now, who looms on tho horizon? Take the case of poor Gugllelmo Loca, for example. OugU ran a hotel in this town before the war. He is a and met hard timea; but with the armi- s. o. pro-Itali- , Sug-gestio- ns pend, she has materially helped him to endure it. Nome early marriages msv be improvident, but my experience s that it is often a distinct advantage. If an incumbent has not a wife, he will certainly have to engage someone to look after the things in the parish which only a woman ean attcud to. And then, very likely he will have to engage a housekeeper also. Mr. Phillips scouted the idea that many married men present themselves for ordination. , Mostly Fancy Free. There is a movement on foot, said private secretary to Arehbishop Benson., I osed to see all the candidates before ordination, and few of them were married. ' It was a rare thing for them to be engaged. There is a movement on foot, said Mr. Phillips, to ensure that no curate shall have a stipend of less than 200 a year. I doubt if many of the younger men are receiving much less than 180 at. present. Tho smaller incomes of 150 or so go to the older men of fifty and sixty who have not made great headway in the churgh. How much poverty exists in clerical households may be judged from the fact that the Poor Clergy Belief corat its last meeting gave away poration nearly 1000 in gifts which are not intended to do more than tide the recipients over temporary distress. At a meeting held early in January, 1274 was given, and at the end of December 2155. j ... - ' . - Weddings Since Her Babyhood Hat Never Been Permitted to See Painting by Any Other Perton. ht ed . i became Hotel Wilson. Every- - BRITAIN CONSIDERING bodv cheered. The boys from the fleet Uked the beer there. A few months and there was treble in Versailles. Gugll climbed a ladder on day and hi place became Hotel Orlando. He climbed the ladder again when a romantic poet cam to (own. Behold, Hotel d'AnnunzIo. But the poet saw no poetic Justice and sent word h.v messenger. Boor Guglt was at his wits end almost. However, in time he sent out Invitations for th grand opening of the Hotel Testa dl Ferro. "Hotel Ironhead the place wi1 remain. service of flying boats could Gugd doesn t care if tha naxt occupation be usefully employed for the distrlbutioa Is by th- Turks. of mails. - ! 1 been disclosed. It Is, of course, legal In every respect and completely binding on the bzldea and bridegrooms, no (ewer than fifty of whom appeared before the sheriff on New Year's eve to swear oq oath In the pretence of witnesses that they had fulfilled the requirements under the marriage echeduie. Th ceremony was afterward completed at tho office of the registrar. Dur- Inf tbo foar 4&0C couples have thus peart 3 before ths sheriff 4n easy rec. total by Suoo and ord, beating last the record war rufcjjty lKt. yrs euu-peal- Porters a "Big Ilelpr The port rs who handle tha baggage of travelers are (tarty to the business, and the last two minutes before disembarking witness a frantic scramble of women transferring packages of toiwico from under shawls to the pockets, hats, belts and breei he of baggage porters. Tbei e Is little or no effort at concealment, and the customs officers who .search bona flue traveers-wit- h persistent vigor wink at the. traffic and claim a share of the spoils. The smuggled dgarets In from Gibraltar find their way brought up the line to the Interior of Spain, partly through the hut railway employees. principally through men , in the Vguardia civil, " whose business it Is to prevent smuggling. I have seen these opera bouffe militiain cooked hats and yelmen, resplendent low belts, ' re ling packages of tobavro to local dealers along Ihe line at p9 per cent profit. The dealer also makes, naturally, another loo per cent in tnis HL.jji trade, and by the time the cigarets ge, to ths consumer they are oo expensive luxury. Food Is Plentiful Cigarets are all that they are short of In Spain, however. Theie has beeu ifo such widespread prosperity in th peninsula since Ferdinand VII lost the Amei-ica- n co'onles. Every foot of "vega is under cultivation, and food is plentiful and cheap. The freight warehouses are plied with ploughs, cultivators, harrows and other agricultural Imple- ments, in which the formers have Invested part of their profits and these tools are not made in the United state, either. They are of Spanish t are the shoes, the textile,manufacture, the electrical machinery and tne foodstuffs, with wiiUh all the shops are plentifully supplied. While the remainder of Europe has been g engaged In mutual there past five years, Spain has been busy a sound economic Independem e achieving far more durable than th flow of wealth she once enjoyed from her colonies overseas. , Today Spain is economically independent. It has been an uphill fight.- - Even in 1917 her Imports still exceeded her exports by some 34.636,009, hut that wa tiiq last iap. Last year Spanish production topped the grade and, against 311x.311d.'Vij In imports, (Spain balanced IlS.t.SH.OOo in exports, snd settled down comfortably tn the class of creditor nations, despite her large national debt of ,421,666,909 pesos about 31,684,317,900. throat-cuttin- Has Counter-Deb- t. For against that debt Spain now hat a counter-deb- t due tier from France. At the end of 1917 the French government contracted in Spain for supplies to the value of 35,909.000 pesetas monthly, the woole to total 4nO.00o.O90 pesetas, some The first payment on tins $90,090 non. debt falls due tills spring, and Fran-must scrape up the money in gold lo liquidate, or repudiate her indebtedness. The Spanish people, therefore, are not only living very comfortably on what they but are making produce themselves, more out of their exports than they a on their imports and they have spending s regular income from France besides to take care of the interest on the national - i "Joint1 f , Infant Art Prodigy Has Shown Aptitude Prefer the Sheriff Trie Jugo-Slav- Austria. Eight hundred fresh cases of Influenza have just been reported to the municipal health officers of Budapest Since January 16 4390 people have been stricken by The Budapest authorities are disease. taking a serious view of the position. They have ordered all the cinemas, dancing places and theaters to be closed until fur Chtirch ther orders. " Influenza hat also begun to appear In Vienna. Stringent measures are fcelng taken by the governments concerned to prevent So-call- ed Irregular Marthese diseases from spreading. The closing down of ail the frontiers in central the eastern Europe has been resorted to, riage It Amazingly Popbut In spite of all precautions the weakened condition of all the peoples, through the lack of sufficient nourishment and ular in Glatgow. medical supplies, renders them easy victims, and mortality Is appallingly high. In eople rs dying daily Budapest fifty from influenza, mostly within forty-eigthe hours after appearance of the illness. By Universal Service. LONDON, March IT. A matrimonial Reports of plague In Silesia are withThese rumors out foundation. were record has Keen created at Glasgow durIs it with a view believed, to spread, closed. The preventing allied troops from entering the ing the year just marriage has. been amazingly Irregular plebiscite area. .... popular during ths twelve months, it has Many Scotch Girls Joint t , - York; Opinions Differ. e in Naming : I Clerical Circles in England Are Startled by Made at: the Convocation oF " Manner ts t- Bishop's Ban on Marriage of Curates Raises Big Question conditions prevail in this Since 1711 It ha country. been an hereditary monarchy. The ITInce j of Liechtenstein spends his time eltner in his Viennese palace or in bis castle of and the Feldsberg, in lower Auatria; One-Ste- p 'goveming 1s done by a regent As for public debts. Liechtenstein has none. How i: gets into all these wars U a mystery, for it has no army. It hasn't the sign of a court, therein differing from Monaco much smaller in area, but twice as large In population whose prince has tlx adBj" Universal Service. jutants, a couple of aides, a palace comONDOX, March 27. Clerical cirmander and a few more dignitaries. trente-edown a mess of louis at Liechtenstein, in point of population the cle Were startled by the suggesIn smallest monarchy the world, survived quarante? razed storm which tion, made in the sober atmoshouses the out of the the a few in couples get evening and Hapsburg. Seemingly noon the floor und whirl a little, but phere of the Convocation of York, was noticed a "house." Anyway, it not for long. It is 10:30 when one has body curates that not was it ought not to marry or confor the storm to big enough finished coffee and by that time it is template marriage for the present. ( well to get the hat boy and be on your hit. Convocation was ' discussing the wav to the Sporting elub, because there is only a few more hours of play before serious financial straits of so many closing. of the clergy. The suggestion of an Even the professional dancers who among the bishops to arrangement are on deck to lead Jlie couples around refuse for ordination younft men who 8nd show them the new steps are very contemplate marriage came from the weak sisters. If an American tries to Bishop of Liverpool. on a little them, they shimmy spring Mandeville B. Phillips, who, as secstumble over his feet. They like the retary of the Poor Clergy Belief old rocking chair movement with the has unrivalled opportunities exaggerated dipping of the shoulders for learning the truth about the strugand the crouch step with the bent knee gles of the poorer clergymen, did no on ho turns. see eye to eye with-thbishop. DisThe .clients are expected to square mutter later,-hsaid:' the cussing time note the dancers a ten franc every Being: with of make sacrifice the dancing On Falling in Love. , they , them. Hometimes they try to square I certainly think advantage ought themselves by offering cigarettes to the Disease Comto be taken of the moment at 'which dapseuses and cigars to The a young curate falls in love.' There But, nothing doing! These cheap tips ing: may, of eourse, be circumstances which are courteously turned down by the absolutely negative marriage. But the professionals, who also give their pupils curate of today will need a "helpmata probably tho worlds dirtiest look if when he is an "incumbent, and by that the pupils try to make away (By Universal Service.) time the moment may have - passed, without coming through. BUDAPEST. March wav of never to return. disease which Is spreading over, central i have . known, jnuumerabie inEurope Is coming from the east ' Apart stances in which a young wife has from typhus and Spanish influenza, which been of inestimable benefit to a curate, are raging in Poland, cases of bubonic looking at things merely from a world' has been a pinch plague are reported In northern Rumania, ly point of view. If it at first to manage on a curates sti- in the neighborhood of Czemowttz. Tuberculosis has established a firm grip tn religious unit. "As an individual, the Mohammedan la as any, under an good a citizen equitable rule guaranteeing him his freedom. You have found it so The French have in the Philippines. exc. Ilciit Mohammedan citizens. In Egy-p- t to long as tne Brlttsa do the ruling the Mohammedans are all right. But the Mohammedan is Incapable of ruling others Koran Imposes equitably, lecause hi upon hliu another conception of the functions of government. "If tho Greek are given the villayet f Aldln, would you be In favor of admitting the Turks to equal rights and equal votes with the Greeks? j the aged prelate. Monaignor Chrysostom was a comftadjl in Macedonia long before he was ever Bishop of I frame. In thoae days, when he hunted the Turk on the slopes of the Fmlnitsa mountains, he was more need to crooking hta finger around a trigger t.ian extending it in blessings. He ran bis hand over his long white beard before replying to my question. '"lou see. he raid finally, "our wars with the Turks have left many scars. W are rather like the people of southern states after their war of jour i860 The Turk for us is a problem like your We might profit by your examrtro. ple hi Jelling with him " .. Hut Idvlltc or and Few of Nobody Can Fox-TrThem Can Tango; Too Busy Gambling to Learn. Smyrna Picks thief as Conditions Idyllic.- - tr S' If y. ss a Everybody had a hearty laugh, but no one took the trouble to write out another treaty, to the matter was forgotten. When the more recent unpleasantness began, Liechtenstein, under the suzerainn ty of the monarchy, lined up with the central powers; but Austria-HungarVersailles eliminated The peace bargain was made with the free state of Austria, and nothing was said about lonesome little Liechtenstein. 8o she turned to her other neighbor, the Swiss confederation, which probably won't be overburdened with th affairs of her new charge; fur on Liechtenstein's broad t'0 square kilometer there is s only 18.716. The capital, rvpu.stion of1376 inhabitants. By Correspondent. Ben e.l (Chicago Tribune Foreign 8LVILI.IL Spain. March 37. The of Spain no longer puff impudrntir at cfaiarets as thejr try to fascinate the young Juses of today. Generally speaking, there are no more cigareta Also, there are no more Carrnei. At least, the clgaret girl of Seville, of whom over 4uO0 usd to work In the gioat eighteenth century building used ss the government factory' onoe of Ferdinand VI are on a strike, like almost everybody else lu 8psln, and cigarets are next to impossible to obta'u at any price. Every once In a while a estan-co- s supply reaches tha government and for half an hour t.io previous "coffin nails' are on sale. The reserves had to bo called out to prevent rlota on some of these o and the line of waiting men block a. I traffic in the neighborhood until the euy-pl- y is exhausted. The principal source of supply of in Bpam is tho ancient method of smuggling. As there are non to be had In France, the smugg.ing is ail from Gibraltar. Every unoccupied hpaniurU, male or female, who can find some excuse lor going to Gibraltar crosses the bay from Algecira dally and return at sundown wtto tn many package of English tobacco snd cigarets a tan be about the person. Nsi Austro-Hungaria- mighty few of them ean tango. Maybe it is because they are too busy gambling all the time and get no practice, and maybe it is because they are mostly English here, and the English are notoriously poor dancers. There is a tea dance at 5 oclock every afternoon in the Cafe de t'aris, and there are elegant dances two days a week at the Park palace apartments up on the hillside. The members of the private rooms and the Sporting club are invited to attend these affairs, but very few of .them avail themselves of the bid. The presence of a man 'at one of these afternoon dances is taken as interritory." dubitable proof that he is broke. Why should one waste time 'dancing in the Good Word for Turk. beautiful afternoon of golden sunshine There is a very considerable party In when he might be in the Casino pulling Smyrna, in which not a few Greeks are of numbered, favoring a continuation Turkish administration under one ofthe larger' European powers as mandatory, in rather than annexation to Greece. Even Monsignor Chrysostom lias a good word to say for the Turk as an Individual. ' "Man to man. there Is nothing wrong with the Turk," the archbishop declared. fWnat is wrong Is his religion and the part It plays In his government. With the Turk, the church la the state, and Novel Che state Is the church. It Is so written In the Koran, and every Turk believes it, whatever he may pretend. So long as the Turk governs, he governs as a Moslem, net as a citizen. Of course, Man From the Idea of church and state has been Finds Guilty abandoned by the western world for more than a century. Yet that Is what Ihe supporters of any Ottoman governAmong Sii Suspects and ment, In Anatolia or anywhere else, are standing for, for the Turk bas no concep. Obtains Confession. tion of a state which la not primarily Question Is Parried. and Cheap, and Country Economically Independent Hearty Laugh Enjoyed. One I Food, However, Is Plentiful By PARKE BROWN. (Chicago Tirtbun Foreign News Sendee.) BERLIN, March IT. Liechtenstein, the forgotten , Wlhat? Yes, it's a eountrj'. but a one. between It lie mighty small Switzerland and Austria. If you have a large map you can find It. Once, more than half a century ago. It waa forgotten when something stopped the war it was supposed to be engaged In, and now the same thing lias happened again. It probably wouldn't have been noitced at all except for an unoffl cial announcement that hereafter the Interests of Liechtenstein in Berlin will he cared for by tho Swiss minister. The other time In 168 Austria signed peace witu Prussia, but Its ally, Liechtenstein was overlooked. Many moiuna later It was discovered that a state of war existed between Liechtenstein and Prussia. ( would think ttjat the .Greeks at least would be unanimous In favor of tha annexation of Smyrna to the Hellenic j Not at all! It is only tl.ei Kingdom. Creeks who do not live In Smyrna who j a e enthusiastic for cteek rule; those who live here are Inclined to be very duulous, and the more Intelligent and prosperous the Greek the less eager he appears to be for an out and out Hellenic administration. "The .Iwct of the matter Is that we can't swing it," a Creek business man put We have bitten off more than we lu can chew. Right now we have cloee on In the villayet of Aldln. 75,000 soldier every one of Whom ought to be at home working with all bta might to put Greece on her financial feet, instead of over here coaling the country more money. Difficult, to Obtain Supply of the Tiny Smokes. Concerning Nearly For- American Business Man is of Opinion That Only Few Would Profit by Scheme. of Today Find It Carmens Facts Are Given Amusing SP1I OLD By Universal Service. PARIS. March 37. Fearing tliat Marie Desportee, infant art prodigy, may lose her talent If slion-eto eee painting or art of any kind, her parents have sequestered her in the outskirts of Paris. The child works have been compared to th best of Plrasoo and Moreau, and sro entirely ;ontaneous. 8 tie has never had a lesson of any kind. From her babvhood he was fond of drawing, and- - her parents satisfied this ambition and tpuired her on by locking her up In an empty room atth snd a bunch of crayons Phe win paper told she would not be Ut out until she had a picture. The worked so well tliat the fame of ti. child artist has spread over Fans. tthe has abandon! tie colored cravens for oil palming, but her work remains as strikingly original as before. The thud Is unaware of the stir she Is and no" artists or "strangers "are crcaring allowed to her to c a Fre, ii approarh hiiltant future before hei pro-oui'- I I b' debt. No wonder they are making preparations for a carnival searecord-breaki- son in Npain. MAKES CASH PROFIT BY DELAY OF CASE (Chicaeo Tribune Forrien News Service ) BERLIN", March ?7. Instead of being punished for an offenaa committed iu 191&. a resident of Baden, near tho Frim border, haa marie a twh profit a a tna result of tha court aeten anramst him Swim horutr He was arrested by t police on charaea of amuggling and compelled to deposit a CHh bond i.f f,o francs At that ti.ne Ins The him ThOO marks. Th lira;.! out anl It was oniv reentl tiat was sentemed to paj J mh francs fun francs as coats. the balance of fcs Threrrc ! l?fh) francs. fnca, t Hik tt to it he recci, f ?tt. htni,, mMik ami trad a fo. piofii of ly iuhr a:n rturrd |