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ogized for having questioned a German
officer and went away. So did l.
Half an hour later / made my way
to the Russian tramp steamer that
was TO take me to Odessa and stayed
on board for the night. Next morning
| disguised myself as Russian sailor.
and my friend, the chief engineer, led
me TO a carpenters workshop, where
Capt. White was already in hiding.
The steamer was delayed in the Bos-
porus for three more weeks, so that
all this while we had to knock around
the Turkish capital in various dis
guises. During this period all sorts o,
strange things happered. One day,
for example, visited the Greek cafe
proprietor, who took me TO a little
restaurant where. he said, he wished
to introduce me to lady. The lady
was indeed an old friend of mine.
Her name was Capt. Yeats Brown. a
British cavalry officer. who had es-
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that the Colonel was at large. The
story OK his escape and what followed
Is as fantastic as any tale from the
Arabian Nights.
Col, ~" had been brought to the
Turkish Ministry OF War to be court
martialled for an attempted escape.
One day. having been acquitted owing
to the lack Of evidence. he was allowed
into the city for a walk. He persuad-
ed his escort to take him to a tea
shop, where he got into conversation
with a certain Mile. *" This lady.
young, beautiful and wealthy. was an
admirer and good friend Of the Brit
ish. and she offered to help the pris-
oner in any way possible.
In Turkey anything can be done by
means of graft; so that a few judi
clous bribes to the guards led to fur
Their meetings between the Colonel and
Mile. TX" Col. ~" mentioned that
he wanted to escape, and the lady
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go home. buy a shop and live thereaf-
ter in semi-idleness. So many of them
followed this plan that the villages in
many instances had more shops than
could be supported. There is a legend
of a place where all the people lived
by doing one another's washing.
Il saw a shipload of 500 Greeks re-
turn from this country. Four hundred
OF them took the same ship'back TO
America. They found Greece over
crowded with shopkeepers and decided
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that which herein has been written, IL
Is profitable to the people that the
eight are present In the upper branch
of Congress. At all events they will
lesven the lawyers. And put some
yeast into the dead mass of technical
ity and procrastlnation. Moreover.
their committee reports will be gram
NAUTICAL and. readable and none of their
sentences will fill two sheets of fools
cap paper, with an overflow into an
other.
Now About Senator Moses.
OF the ten Republican members of
the new Committee of Foreign Rela-
tons, which will pass judgment on the
treaties of Versailles. three are news
paper men, and one, Henry Cabot
Lodge, the chairman, Is a professional
author. There is printers ink, too. on
Philander Chase KnoX's fingers, mas
much as that gentleman, while Il boy,
learned to set type. on the Brownsville
| Clipper, at the command of his father,
50 as to learn spelling. punctuation and
| syntaX. But agreeable as the claim
might be, from a writer's standpoint
Mr.. Knox cannot be catalogued as n
newspaper man, but must be cast into
the outer darkness among the lawyers.
| Mr.. Harding and Mr.. New who have
places on the committee, already have
been mentioned. There remains Mr..
Moses of New Hampshire-George
Higgins Moses of Concord This arti-
Gle is to be about him.
Mr.. Moses, from this point on, will
occupy the centre of attention, with
some incidental references to other
men of interest and Importance. Per-
haps it will be wise to classify him at
the start in order that the reader may
not be misled as to his status in poll
tics. He might be a prohibitionist, a
standpatter or n radical. But let him
parse his own sentence.
A "Rcnctianary" Defined.
what kind OF a Republican are
your" the interviewer inquired.
you can say" Senator Moses an
swered, his blue eyes glowing with
pride and conviction behind his spec
tacles, that 1 am an Unconditional
Republican. Please capitalize the u
(which means"
Exactly what It means" Senator
Moses interrupted, "by any definition
that can be found in any dictionary
published in the English language
No dictionary being in sight, the
interviewer ventured his second in
quiry. What" he asked, "is a reac-
tionary?'
AT luncheon to-day, in the Senate
restaurant" Mr.. Moses replied, "Sena-
tor Swanson Of Virginia, speaking Of
; the division in the Democratic party
six years ago, said that a reactionary
: is the person who has something that
you want 1 will adopt his under
; standing of the word
} Having thus established his location
as n party man. Senator Moses opened
4 box. took out a cigarette, stuck Il
iI. an amber holder, lit 1t with a safety
; match and smoked.
: The first Moses in America wa,
l named John. And he landed at Ports
} mouth, now a city of New Hampshire
in the year 1889.
"He was a cordwainer. or cobbler,
J said his descendant, the Senator.
In this Henry Higgins somewhat
3 bClittled John. A cordwainer is NOR,
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By JAMES B. MORROW.

TOTE has not been made Of the
N fact that eight newspaper
- men are Senators in Congress.
Several OF them-Harry New. for
example. and Medill Mccormick and
Arthur Capper. representing Indiana
Illinois and Kansas-are trained re-
porters.
All OF them have been successful as
writer's, editors and publishers. Hitch
cock OF Nebraska owns the Omaha
World s~nld, Harding Of Ohio the
Marion Star and Hoke Smith of
Georgia the Atlanta Journal. Edge
of New Jersey, a printer by trade.
formerly was proprietor Of a morning
and an evening newspapta at Atlantic
City.
Whatever otherwise may be said of
newspaper men, they get things done.
and punctually. Matters don't drag on
their desks. News is one Of the things
that are always served hot and on the
dot. II it is not, then II is no longer
news: a competing publication has
turned Il into legend or history.
Also They Arc Reticent.
II can be said, then. that newspaper
men are constantly on their toes.
There Is some disadvantage in the
strain and results OF that attitude, but
on the whole 1t is immensely to the ad-
vantage of the public.
Also of course newspaper men must
be alert observers and careful inves-
tigators. Here a hint and there
another by skilful workmanship be-
comes a solid structure. Splitting
hairs is one of the arts they have pur-
posely neglected. Such exercise would
do on a monthly, but not on a daily.
Again, a newspaper man who under
stands his business can spot hum
bug, animate or iflanimate, long be-
fore he or it is visible to other per-
sons. Such knowledge, however, Is
not always printed. II It were there
would be personal encounters ant
other sensational episodes in every
American community. And daily.
Really, newspaper men. taking into
account what they know, constitute
the most conservative class in all tht
confines Of human society. A bias
in chorus from them, on any day
almost, would equal the one at Jericho
The Eight Could Boast.
There are paper proflts-accrued
but often uncollectable-as we'll al
paper pugilists. These are rare, how
ever, when compared with papel
statesmen and politicians. Subtrac
publicity from almost ANY publ.'
character in the United States and h
would evaporate. A purling mis-
would go up from where he stood ant
all would be over.
The eight newspaper men in tn
Senate might If they would (but the,
nevert wild move their right arms fl
circles SO as to take in the Who'll,
chamber and say: Behold our handi
work" In some instances such
statement would be a boast; in other
a confession.
Joking aside, II the reader so regard
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10 make the United States their per
manent home.
The first Greek immigrants left
their wives in Europe. Immigrants
now bring them along. Greece has a
population OF about 100000 From
1908 TO the end of 1918 some $4,000
Greeks emigrated to this country, and
their leaving home has been nothing
short of grave national hcmorrhage
to their own nation"
tCOpyright, 1919. BY James r. Morroc
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nator Moses Unconditional Republican From New 7ampsh1
He Finds Scanning
the Tendo of
OwnBa PospeouEIs Reviewed

Jacob II. Gallinger. Chambers vocab-
uiary, written or spoken, was a terri
flying arensal of big projectiles. small
bullets and deadly chemicals. He
feared no man, barefooted or in boots,
walking or on horseback.
In his freedom with language, espe-
cially plain language, Moses Is not
url.ke Chandler. A myth is a myth
with him, though 1t may have two
legs and a head and wear a long coat
and be much exalted by common be-
lief and the newspapers. And he is
likely to say so.
But tempering his descriptions, pub
l!c)y made, at beast, is the Gallinger
heartiness, not to say kindness.
toward mankind collectively. Gal
l,nger was a country doctor before
he became a Senator riding twelve
ZIP and down hill townships in New
Hampshire and ministering to patients
over the boundary of Maine and across
tae line of Massachusetts,.
Benevolence shone from his coun-
tcnance. Healing was in the touch
OF lii, hand. Balm was part OF his
| presence. When the youthful George
Higgins Moses went to Concord to be
| tie Governors private secretary he
found Gallinger up before the Legis-
lature as candidate for Senator.
From that day onward Moses and CAL
linEer were sire and son, politically.
AS years went by Moses attained to
the rank of Gallinger's manager, and
to-day in the Senate he is Gallingers
successor.
| It was Gallinger who brought about
the appointment in 1909 OF Moses as
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Greece and Monte
negro. ut Is Greece or nothing"
Moses said to Phiiander C. Knox. who
vas to be Secretary Of State in Taft's
Cabinet.
GO home" said Mr. Knox, "and
keep your mouth shut"
Thus Is revealed some of the homely
mt chanics pertaining to the distribu-
tiGn of the high patronage. AT
Exeter and Dartmouth, six years in
all, Moses emphasized Greece, its Ian
guage and history. While a candidate
for Senator last year he addressed
the Greeks of New Hampshire in their
own tongue, and the French Canadians
we're similarly favored and impressed.
Venizelos Is His Friend.
A revolution OF the Greeks occurred
soon after Mr.. Moses took his post in
Athens. Military officers overturned
the Government. They were braSe and
able men," Senator Moses said to the
writer but were inexperienced parlia-
mentarians. SO they sent to Crete for
help and Mr.. Venizelos. the wisest and
most learned lawyer on the island, re-
sponded.
II met him on the day of his arrival
and at once had rush Of brains to the
head. in that ] recognized on the spot
his greatness of intellect and his power
In leadership. l called on him the
following day with all the Formally at
my disposal-a coachman, a footman
and so on-and he returned the call
the next morning. So began our
friendship. When President Wilson was
asked the name of the ablest man he
mot In Europe he promptly replied:
| Premier Nenizelos.'
THE Greeks" the interviewer ~c-
| marked, seem to be a shrewd trading
people"
They are. 1T takes they say, two
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mon to-day It would have been said
that they were insane. 1 have been
thinking also of the soldiers who re-
turned from war in 1865 and of those
who are coming back from France.
The armies of 1861-65 and OF 1917-1s
were composed of the same classes of
young men farmers, accountants,
students. artisans. school teachers,
lawyers and so on.
1.-THE men of SO found a free field
when their fighting was over. An EN-
pire waited for them beyond the Mis-
sissippi River. They developed It,
building railways, founding towns and
cities and establishing factories and
farms. Seeking a means Of express
sion they eagerly turned their minds
and hands to the work of the hour.
The contest was open to all.
"But the young soldiers who have
returned and are returning from
Europe discover that the Government
will be their competitor in many lines
of business. Big projects now must
be conceived and carried out by the
public.
Wonders what VIII Happen,
Romance has departed from en-
deavor. Imagination has ceased to be
| inspiring or profitable. For the SOL
diers of to-day, outdoor men and con-
| fident and vigorous, are tempera-
mentally and in other respects like
the soldiers of fifty-four years ago.
have been wondering" Senator Moses
said, what is going to happen"
| But what happened to YOU" the
interviewer asked. after you left col
lege?"
II had already made up my mind 10
become a newspaper man and wrote
to William Z. Chandler. editor and
owner OF the Concord Evening Mont
tor, and asked him for employment
He gave me place on his staff OF
reporters and paid me SO week.
thought the salary inadequate for @
bachelor of arts. but kept that view
to myself. Looking back I would say
that 50 was enough.
| Advancement came rapidly = anG
largely through luck. and the cub re-
porter. chastened by experience anC
hard work. was made managing editor
Senator Chandler was something OF 6
hypochondriac. and in 1898. his days
drawing to a close. as he thought. al.
though he lived almost twenty year:
longer, dying at the ase of 50. he be.
gan setting his estate after his owr
fashion. He sold the Monitor to hi:
son, William D., and myself"
by that time you had become g
Capitalist" the interviewer observed.
| HNo. Sepafor Chandler taolr my
rote. So at the age of go" he con
tinued. IT became editor and presi
don't Of the Monitor. My partner wa.
the publisher. On my election to the
Senate last year I sold my interest
to Mr.. Chandler, because l thought 1,
would be n handicap for a member
OF Congress to own a newspaper
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than a cobbler-he is a shoemaker,
an was Roger Sherman, signer of the
Declaration of Independence, and as
was jeremiah Jones Goliath, who,
changing his name to Henry Wilson.
became Vice President of the United
states.
AT the same time" the Senator con-
tinued. speaking of John Moses, "he
seems to have been a man of principles
and courage, for he was q steady
CT urchman in a community of corten-
tious, IL not belligerent, dissenters.
He bought a farm and its title has
remained with the Moseses ever since.
One of his sons. George, moved to
Maine. 1 come down from George and
that Is the reason 1 was born in
Maine. There Is always a George in
my branch of the family"
"
supposed to Work and DID.
And your father was a Clergyman
yes: he belonged to one OF what
| call the tifty-seven varieties Of Bap-
lists. He was a Christian Connection
Baptist and a sturdy Calvinist. The
favorite indoor and outdoor sport of
the old time New Englanders was the
starting of new religious and political
parties. My father seems to have
sympathized with that form of mental
initiative and spiritual refreshment.
early in my life, however, he
moved to Franklin, N. H. the birth
place of Daniel Webster. where he was
pastor of a congregation, and that
Nnfn I trrhN l,u.
my home. There were six children in
our family. l was supposed to work
and the supposition was carried into
effect. After preparing for college at
Phillips Academy, in Exeter, n. H.,
entered Dartmouth.
I'm those days Dartmouth students
Observing the usual practice, laugh,
school one year. peddled books ont
year and waited on table at a summer
resort one year. 1 did all three. Oul
State legislature met in June. I made
| plans, while senior, to- obtain q
clerkship, and by good luck was APP
pointed private secretary to cur Gov.
ernor instead.
why He Is Astonished.
That was thirty years ago. almost
to the day. have been watching
legislation during the generation that
has since passed-noting the bills that
are introduced and the laws that are
enacted. AS I contrast the present
with the days that are gone l an
somewhat astonished.
Formerly we stood manfully on ouI
own feet and worked out the problems
OF living for ourselves. Now We shout
to the Government for help. Passing
the buck has become a specially with
the American people. Parents hand
the discipline of their children over &c
the public schools. The citizen ask:
the municipality to take up the bur.
den that he should carry himself and
the municipality. evading the issue
appeals to the State and the State. ir
turn, calls on Congress In a loud voice
81 am an individualist and the prac.
tees now followed cause me some un-
easiness. This nation is strong and
rich because the men who made Il
so were self-reliant and resourceful
They fought their own battles will
courage and enterprise.
"If thirty years ago legislators hat
proposed such measures as are com
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His Two Unique Patrons.

In 4 sense, although he has his own
ethics. propensities and attributes.
Senator Moses reflects some of the
Municipalities of two contradictory
characters. 1t might he said that he
Is n refined combination, in some re-
srects, because of long association,
professional and personal. Of William
Eaton Chandler. Secretary of the
NAVY under President Arthur. and of
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Continued on TENN PnJ,'
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C0MIsI0N MoNETARIA WINS.
Now York Court sustains Demur-
rer I'm MftcheII's Suit.

Supreme Court Justice Guy handed
down decision last week In William b.
Mitchell's suit against the Comision
Monetaria of the Republic Of Mexico,
sustaining the demurrers Of the defend
ants, Comision Monetaria and Bank of
Montreal Plaintiff sought in this ac-
ton to restrain the Comision from prose-
cutting its previous action in the Supreme
Court of New York against the British
Bank of North America seeking to re-
cover about $4,000, which the Banco
de Isondres y Mexico had on deposit
with the British Bank and which the
Comision Monetaria is claiming as liqui-
dator of the Banco de Londres y Mexico.
Some weeks ago plaintiff sought to
obtain preliminary injunction restrain
ing the prosecution of the Comision's
action pending the trial of the suit
Justice Tierney denied this application
and refused to grant a preliminary in
junction. The defendants, Comislen
Monetaria and Bank of Montreal, having
interposed demurrers to the complaint
the plaintiff sought TO obtain Judgment
on these demurrers and a hearing was
held August 81. The decision of Justice
Guy determines that there is no ground
for the interposition Of a court of equity
to restrain the prosecution of the
Comision Monetaria's action.
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COFFEE CROP HARD
HIT BY JUNE FROST
OF 791, 100000 Bearing Trees
in Brazil 400,O00,000 Were
Damaged.
RECOVERY is EXPECTED
Three States Expect to Pro-
duce 8,818,750 Bags in d,
This Years Crop.
RECOVERY is EXPECTED

WASHINGTON, Sept. THE Brazilian
Ministry of Agriculture estimates the cof-
fee crop for 1919-1920 In the State of
Sac Paulo at 8,36s,750 bags. according to
report reaching the Department OF
State. The State of Minas is expected to
produce 100000 bags and the State OF
Parana 10000 bags, or a total of $685.
750 bags for the three States. =
The frost in June. 1918, damaged the
coffee crop heavily. The coffee trees In
bearing are estimated at 7o1,00o,000
trees, OF which 4oo. 900, 900 were seriously
injured.
The zone which suffered most Is served
by the Paulista Railroad. whore some
districts show a loss OF from 70 to 30 per
cent, while the average loss In the
whole zone served by this limo amounts
to about So per cent. The zone served
by the Sorocabana Railroad has an av-
erage,loss OF so per cent.
The Mogyana, which serves tho high
est attitudes, suffered only 4e per cent,
there being hill districts where losses
were only from rs to 80 per cent. In the
zones served by the Sac Paulo Railway
and the Central of Brazil the losses were
least, averaging IL per cent
The crop for 1920-1921 may prove q
good one, as, according to latest advices
the damaged sections are recovering.
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|GORCAS WILL FIGHT
PERU YELLOW FEVER
Is on the Way to Lima to In
Destigate Plague.

= LIMA, Sept. THE Government of
Peru Is determined to rid its ports of
the dread yellow fever which has been
raging OF and on along the northern
Pacific p9rts of South America for many
years
With lila aim in view Gen. Gorgas,
who cleaned Up the Panama Canal Zone
and Guayaouil Is on his way to this
country to investigate conditions in
Paita and Canao. Gen. Gorgas will
make Investigations In every section of
the country where modern sanitary
methods are required.
The business men OF Callao ara show
ing considerable interest in Gen. Cor
gass arrival, as It IN believed that
through his efforts this port will be
cleansed for good of the disease that
occasionally visits this city.
1t Is believed that other countries of
South America will cali Gen. Gorgas
for consultation after he completes his
work in Peru.
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COFFEE EXPORT TAX OPPOSED,
Coiombian Growers Argue That
Injustice VIII Result.

BooorA. Sept. Coffee growers Of
Colombia are still worried over the bill
recently brought before Congress- which
proposes levytng tax of 8 centavos an
arroba on all coffee exported The pur-
pose Of this tax is to provide a fund
which will be spent in measures do
signed to prevent the spread of a coffee
blight (unclnerlasis) which is now
threatening to become serious
The necessity of combating this
disease Is recognized by all, but It is
felt the proposed tax will work con-
siderable injustice. 1t has been pointed
out that although present prices are very
high they have come only after four
year period of leanness from the difficult
ties OF which the planters are just be-
ginning to energy 1t is further argued
against this tax that its return VIII be
uncertain. II 1t should happen that the
disease should spread to such an extent
as to cut down exports. revenue would
be cut Just at the time when 1t was most
necessary
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ARGENTINA PLANS
new TAX MEASURES
Levy on Incomes a Feature Of
Government Budget for
the Year 1920.
TARIFF WILL BE REVISED
Non.Residents, Even If For
eigners, Will Be Assessed
on Argentine Holdings.

The Argentine Government has sub
,,,tted TO Congress the budget scheme
a. 1920. The total revenues are esti-
mated at 42S,244, 7o0.51 paper pesos and
.hs aggregate expenditures at 42s,134,-
ss147 paper ro os. The latter represent
an Increase of 37,145,4s3.11 pesos, COM
nared with the 1918 budget
The outstanding features Of the pro-
uosed budget are;
1al Modification Of the customs tariff
ArInelng merchandise valuations up to
sate. No fundamental changes In the
tsr,f have been made since 1905.
m A fixed export tax of s per cent.
m the value of domestic produce, and
~ per cent. on other merchandise Of
o,bar foreign or domestic origin sent
sbroad, This new tax will replace the
present export duties.
(c) An income tax.
Here is summarized the essential pro-
visions of the proposed income tax:
All persons and corporations located In
,be Argentine Republic shall pay an
nually a fixed tax of per cent on their
net income obtained within the country
or abroad during the preceding year.
Non-residents, whether Arge,.tinss or
foreigners, and corporations organized
outside Of the country shall pay a fixed
tax OF 3 per cent. on the net income
derived from property or values located
in Argentina
BESIDES the tax referred to In the pre-
ceding sections q surtax shall be paid
on total net incomes In accordance with
the following scale: