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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

How Burles0n'S Higher
Telephone Rates Work

Under the old order, if John Brown
wished to talk to William Smith, he
might put in call for William Smith;
that is, he might ask the operator not
only to get the telephone number at
which William Smith might be called,
but to call William Smith himself to
the phone. Or John Brown might
want to talk to William Smith at a
appointment to have William Smith
put on the telephone at that hour
Or he might want William Smith to
call him at a certain hour and have
William Smith call him, with the
charges reversed. Any one or all OF
these things, John Brown might have
done under the old schedule without
any extra charges over the published
rates for three-minute talk.
Now it is different. Under Post
master General Burleson's new sched-
ule, John Brown cannot talk to vii.
liam Smith unless he puts in what is
now designated a person to person
call" The rate for such a call is 25
per cent. greater than the minimum
rate for three minutes conversation.
The only service John Brown can now
get for the minimum rate is what is
known as a station to station" call.
This merely entities him to call tele-
phone number and talk to whomever
answers the phone. AS only an in
fnitely small percentage of long dis
| tance calls are for anyone there" at
the number called, the number OF
| cases where Mr.. Burleson's new mini
mum rate will apply, will be prac-
| tically negligible.
Not only must John Brown pay e1.
ira in order to have William Smith
himself put on the phone, but If he
wishes to have Mr.. Smith put on the
phone at particular time then an
other additional rate is charged,
known under Mr.. Burleson's new
schedule as an appointment rate"
Moreover, if John Brown calls for
William Smith and the operator re-
ports that he is not there, and Mr..
Brown has the operator ascertain
when he will be there, Mr.. Brown is
charged an extra fee for this service
which is known as a report charge"
Rates Actually Doubled.
All of these various services have
been rendered by the telephone COM
panies without extra charge and as
the majority of long distance calls in
cludes at least one, and maybe all of
these services, the actual increase in
rates under Mr.. Burleson's new tele.
phone order approximate nearly 100
per cent.
The new rates mean an increase of
thousands of dollars annually in tele-
phone bills of large corporations and
a price to the individual so high as to
be almost prohibitive. Under Post
master General Burleson's administers
tion Of the postal department the
mails have become SO irregular and SO
undependable that the larger bust.
ness. banking and manufacturing con-
Germs have been resorting more and
more to the telephone. Now they fear
that this service is going to be Grip
pied even as the mail service has been
crippled and at the same time (aa
with the mail service) the rates ad.
vanced.
The Larger Issue.
In a larger sense, there is the men
ace of an autocracy established under
the pretense that it is necessary to
make the world safe for democracy.
That Is the issue which the various
state commissions are bringing into
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

The Legislatures are busy en-
acting laws against dogs and cats,
mice and rats, the gopher, crow
and weevil, and fix the price of
women's hats and slam all forms of
evil. A life of high resolve they'll
lead in session most the winter, a.
passing laws that none will read
except the public printer.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

Besides our regular livery and
transfer service, our new Beth
lehem truck equips us for the
heaviest kind of work. Get our
terms. Curnow Livery & Transfer
Company.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31
BACK AGAIN

Now you have a place to get
your moneys worth. Buy your
wood and mining timbers of the
G. L. Lamb Lumber company, at
our old stand, corner railroad and
Miner street.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

Whereas, the time has come in
which permanent road building should
be undertaken on comprehensive
scale, and
Whereas, the need for finding en-
ployment for a large number of sol
diers and others is very apparent. and
Whereas, the building of permanent
roads is a program that will serve the
end Of employing large numbers Of
workers, stimulate all industry, pro
vide means for increasing food pro-
duction and transportation, and at the
people of the nation that will show
greater economic advantage than any
other one thing:
Therefore, Be 1t Resolved by the
Colorado Good Roads Association that
we favor the immediate nationaliza-
tion of about 10000 miles of national
highway, the creation of a National
Highway Commission with power to
act on all such matters, and the pro-
viding by Congress of money to pave
the entire National Highway system
as rapidly as possible; the work to be
carried on simultaneously in all states
as far a spractical conditions permit;
Be 1t Further Resolved, that the
sense of this resolution be transmit
ted to the members OF Congress from
Colorado with the demand that they
vote for such laws;
Also we favor the extension of the
present Federal Aid plan SO that the
secondary highways of the state may
be brought to high standard Of high
way construction;
Be It Further Resolved, that a res
olution be presented to our State Leg
islature for passage by 1t, demanding
that Congress pass laws Immediately
providing for the National Highway
program as contained in this resolu-
tion.
Be 1t Resolved that we recommend
and urge the immediate passage of a
measure now pending before the Gen
eral Assembly and designated as
House Bill No -" and in the Sen
ate designated as Senate Bill No.
49," providing that tax Of one cent
per gallon be hereafter levied on every
gallon of gasoline used for power pur-
poses in propelling motor vehicles on
the public roads of Colorado.
Be 1t Resolved that we urge and
recommend the immediate passage OF
a measure now pending before the
General Assembly and designated as
House Bill No. -" and in the Sen
ate as Senate Bill No. -" pro-
viding that the inheritance tax be
henceforth doubled, and 1t is further
urged that the increase Of inheritance
tax SO provided for shall by appropri-
ate and further legislative action be
transferred to the Road Fund and
used for the maintenance and con-
struction of system of permanent
highways in this state.
Be It Resolved that we unanimously
recommend and urge that the Gen
eral Assembly. in the present session.
submit q Constitutional Amendment
to be voted on in the next general
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

Our drivers are careful, our new
Bethlehem truck is equal to al
most any load, and you can feel
confident of good service if you
engage the Curnow Livery &
Transfer Company.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31
Because Germany Lost,
Farmer Takes His Life

Jefferson City, Mo.-Despond-
ent because Germany lost the
war, Henry Sanders, a wealthy
bachelor farmer, took his life BY
jumping from q ferryb0at at
Bagnell, Mo. He was born in
Germany. He repeatedly had
sent money back there before
this country entered tho war,
and attempted to do 80 after
ward.
Before he took the plunge he
tied a rope around his body and
fastened the other end to the
boat It was only necessary to
pull In the line to recover the
body.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31
uNAPPREciATEp WIT.

Men are really too mean for any
thing
whats the trouble now?"
why, I asked John for an automo-
bile today and he said that I must be
contented with the splendid carriage
that nature has given me-"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

Have your suit cleaned and
pressed by Dalton, the cleaner.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

II the present plans OF the state
Association of County Commiss
toner's and the Colorado G DIS
Roads association are carried out
Colorado will eventually have a
network Of p rmanent concrete
roads and establish herself as II
good roads paradise. The plan is
to have the people vote twenty
million dollar bond issue and
then pay off the bonds by tax of
one cent a gallon on gasoline, and
by doubling the present inheri-
tance tax.
The following resolution of the
Good Roods association should be
carefully read and considered, as
the proposition will be very much
in the lime light until it is voted
on by the people in November,
1920. Read these resolutions and
keep posted on this very important
matter.
The sun., 1919-06-29
British FGes Adventures the Twilight the Turkish Empire

Reformer. even to the extent OF copy
ing his dress, with the help of British
tailor living in Constantinople) had
shown signs OF leaning toward the
Allies. He was trying to form a party
and to gain influence. He took every
chance OF mixing with the populace,
visited the districts devastated by the
great fires that ravaged Constantinople
in 1918. and was never tired of dis
tributing bdksheesh. His reputation
had grown among the people. and he
was popular. no doubt. But was he
strong enough TO be independent of
the Committee of Union and Progress?
That was his trouble.
The exiled pro- Entente Prince Suba-
ed-Din also commanded a following
among the educated Turks, but he had
no following among the masses. And
In the East a cause must have cham
pions ready to fight for II in the
streets. else all Its struggles In the
columns Of the press are in vain.
Then there was the Grand Vizier.
Talaat Pasha. who in the early days of
the war had played second fiddle to
Enver Pasha, but who later over
N'se~NN"SN AAAo AAioio iiOtOilOuS
What was passing in the clever brain
OF the man who had massacred the
Armenians and evicted the Greeks and
yet ruled Turkey with n certain ruth
less efficiency? Now that the discon-
tented multitudes whom he had
wronged were finding voice, how would
he face the music?
That he was an INSCRIPTIONS schemer
and butcher there was no doubt, vbut
his courage could not be questioned.
According to his own lights the fat
telegraphist who rose ito be Grand
Vizier was a patriot. and honest by
comparison with most Turkish politi-
clans. Now that the crash was immi-
nent what would he do?
What the others would do was a
foregone conclusion. They would run.
Djemal Pasha minister of Marine and
the man who killed so many Of the
Christians OF Syria), with cynical
cruelty stamped on his features like
the brand Of Cain. and Enver Pasha
(the notorious Minister OF War;, with
his glittering uniforms. his poses and
his peacock wits. had become men of
straw. Allenby's great advance In
The sun., 1919-06-29

Syria had knocked the stuffing out OF
them.
Djambolat Bey minister of the In
terior), Rahmi Bey (the powerful Vail
OF Smyrna) and other young Turk
Liberals" were deserving the rotten
Turco- German ship o. state now that
it was sinking. Behind the opposition
parties, who wanted to open the Oar
danelles, was that ancient statesman.
Tewiik Pasha. very pro- Entente but
very aged. And more or less isolated,
but representing a compromise be-
tween all parties, was IZzet Fuad
Pasha- a veteran with the reputation
Of being a straightforward soldier
who had always fought for Turkey,
although his friendship for Kaiser
Wilhelm caused him to be suspected OF
pro-German tendencies.
Col. ~" summed up this tangled
situation and decided on a very daring
plan OF action. Just after the bomb
shell of the Bulgarian armistice fell he
wrote strong memorandum, suggest
ing that II Turkey now SIZED for a
separate peace she would obtain bet
ter terms than IL she waited until
Hctthohy was tuOIOuSHly DedltH. , us
memorandum, which was originally
the draft of a proposed proclamation
to the Turkish army, passed success
fully through the hands OF European
lady. a well known Turkish politician.
and the Sultan's dentist. The Sultan's
dentist gave one copy of it to the Sui
tan and another to Fethi Bey, the new
Minister OF the Interior.
Just previous to these events-on
September 29-the Turkish Cabinet
had met to consider the Bulgarian de-
lection; and the Grand Vizier. who ar
rived from Germany by the last Balkan
express to pass through Sofia, had Of
fered his resignation. At the time no.
body could form an alternative minis
try. so Talaat Pasha again took up
the reins of power.
The Sultan and the Minister of the
Interior received their copies OF Col.
"Z's" memorandum on October s. Dur
ing the intervening days it had become
more and more plain that Germany
was doomed to disaster.
The Sultan and the peace parties,
therefore, wefe looking for a suitable
bludgeon with which to deliver knock
The sun., 1919-06-29

guarded. In the following spring,
Tittoni called again at the Palace Of
the Quai d'Orsay to inform the French
Government that Italy had abandoned
her policy of neutrality and had
thrown in her lot with the Entente.
A DistinEuished Oxonian.
Tittoni possesses a most perfect COM
mand Of the English language. He
received a portion of his education at
the University of oxford. where he was
graduated with honors and was known
as one Of the best speakers Of the
Union, the famous debating club, pub
fishing at the same time a series of
clever and widely quoted articles in
the Oxford LdiC Magazine and Re
pic,r, of which for the space of n year
he was associate editor. He likewise
distinguished himself while at the
university in athletics and on the river.
and became imbued with those tastes
for sport OF every kind and for healthy
outdoor life which are among the prin-
cipal characteristics of the English
speaking race. After leaving oxford
he spent some time at the Belgian
University OF Liege, where he became
the favorite disciple of Emile de La
valeye. On his return home he mar
ried a very wealthy and beautiful
woman. daughter of a multi-million-
aire of the name of Giovanni Traversi.
When Traversi died in 1900 at Ma
pies, where Tommaso Tittoni was then
Governor and Project of the Province
his intimate personal friendship
with Victor Emmanuel III. dates from
that time when the King. prior to his
accession. was in chief military COM
mand Of the region-it was found that
the old gentleman had left the bulk OF
his fortune TO his grandson, Antonio
Tittoni. the offspring OF his only daugh-
ter, Beatrice. and of her husband, the
new Minister of Foreign Affairs. cut
ting of his two sons, Camille and
Giannino Traversi. without a cent. AL
though playwrights Of some note
they were heavily in debt. and to
make matters worse, had become in
The sun., 1919-06-29

There have been mistakes in the past.
We are practically bankrupt. But We
honestly hate the Germans, and with
out kowtowing to the British look to
them TO help US and to be our friends,
as we want to be friends with them"
Col. "Z' and the Turkish Minis
ters thrashed out such questions as
Turkeys financial bankruptcy, the
opening Of the Dardanelles. the capt.
ulations, autonomy for Armenia and
Arabia, and punishment for the Ar
menian massacres and for the NAL
treatment of British prisoners from
Kut-el-Amara (whereby nearly so per
cent. OF the latter had died). Then
after dinner was over. the Minister OF
the Interior dictated in French a long
telegram, which the British Colonel
was to send to Mr.. Lloyd George as
soon as he should reach allied terri
tory.
Next day the Ministry tried to send
him out Of the country by aeroplane.
This proved to be impossible, for all
aircraft were in the hands OF the Ger
mans, 1t was therefore agreed that
he should receive special passports
and proceed, via Smyrna, to one or
other Of the Greek islands of Chios or
Mudros.
After Col. "Z's" dinner party of the
18th events moved rapidly toward an
armistice. The Vail of Smyrna created
sensation on the 18th by stating
plainly in Turkish newspaper that
peace negotiations were in progress
and that the Germans would have to
go. That same afternoon Col. "Z'
again met him at the Tokatlian Hotel
and discussed the best means of APP
preaching England for an armistice
By now the Colonel was going about
Constantinople quite openly. although
Capt. Yeats-Brown and the other es-
capped officers had to remain more OF
less In hiding.
Meanwhile Gen. Townsend, who was
still prisoner, had also sent a memo
randum to the new government. A
Turkish armistice commission was
formed, and the General was asked
by the Grand Vlzier to accompany the
delegates who were about to leave
Turkey: which he did. 1t was ar
ranged that Col. ~" would follow ir
a few days time.
The sun., 1919-06-29
Continued from Eighth Pogo.

the near East OF which Gen. AIlehby's
victories in Palestine and the Bull
garian surrender were the beginnings.
made him abandon this work for some
himself drawn into the very centre Of
the vortex of plotting that swirled
around the Sultan, the Ministry and
the Sublime Porte.
It was curious indeed, during those
critical weeks-when there existed
three separate conspiracies to over
throw the Turkish Government, and a
quarter of a million brigands in the
interior were eager for any chance of
loot and rapine-that several English
men got in close touch with the des-
perate situation and influenced 1t in
favor OF the Entente.
Gen. Townsend (the defender of kut-
el-Amara) from his prison on Prinkipo
Island was intriguing for the forma-
ton Of a pro-Entente Ministry. Col.
a." escaped and technically in hiding,
was contributing to the downfall Of
Talaat Pasha's Government and keep
ing his finger on the fevertsh pulse of
Turkish politics. Capt. Yeats Brown
and I, with four other officers. were
also engaged in various kinds of propa-
ganda- And similar work was done by
one or two European civilians whose
names 1t would be yet unadvisable
to publish.
cannot Judge just how much this
plotting and propaganda Influenced
the startling events that happened.
But this much was obvious-any
Britisher credited with some influence
found an attentive audience in the
circles that we were trying to save
what was possible from the Empire
ruined by the Germans, the Committee
OF Union and Progress and the Young
Turk Ministry.
AS We noted it from day to day, the
clash OF personality among the politi-
cal bosses Of Turkey was intensely in
teresting.
Since his accession to the throne In
July the new Sultan (who was model
Ing himself after Sultan Mahmoud the
The sun., 1919-06-29

volved in the tolls of an unsavory
money lender of the name Of Paffoelli.
This man on discovering that he could
get nothing out Of the dead million
aires two sons turned his attention
to their brother-in-law, Tommaso Tit
toni.
After his attempts to secure a COM
promise Of his claim by the statesman
proved Intellectual he caused him to be
notified that he would charge him
with having poisoned his father-in-
law and with having forged the sig
nature to the will and that he would
further demand the annulment Of the
document on the ground that at the
time when it was dated and signed the
testator was VIGOROUSLY OF feeble
mind and not in possession OF HIS
faculties. Tittoni responded by in
shutting proceedings against Raffoelli
and his confederates for blackmail.
But owing to the mans intimate asso-
Citations with that criminal organiza-
ton of terrorism known as the
Camorra he was unable to get any
court either to hold or convict them,
which naturally his political foes
undertook to construe as constitut-
ing an admission by the judicial
authorities to the effect that the
charges brought by Raffoelli were well
founded and not of n Matchmaking
character. While neither King Vic
tor Emmanuel. Queen Helena, nor
those who know Tittoni and his wife
accorded the slightest degree OF
credence to the insinuations OF Raj
foelli, nevertheless they received such
widespread publicity as nearly to
drive him out Of political life. as in
tended by his political adversaries
There is no doubt that he. suffered
very acutely and was embittered by
this persecution. which ended by
causing him to seek a change Of scene
as Ambassador to the Court of St
Jamess.
Tittoni was only for short time the
representative of his country in Eng.
land. 1t INDY be questioned whether
his mission was altogether a success
The sun., 1919-06-29

out blow to the Young Turk Ministry.
By this time Capt. White and
were safely out of Turkey-had been
in Russia for three weeks, in fact
and were on the point of leaving for
Bulgaria. Col. ~" intended to fol-
low us across the Black Sea to Odessa
by hiding in the next Russian boat to
leave the Bosporus. He decided to
stay in Constantinople, however, for a
remarkable reason. A Turkish envoy
asked him, as a special favor. not to
carry out his plans OF escaping from
the country. because the Turkish Gov
ornment believed he would be useful
to them in arranging an armistice.
What followed learned. after had
rejoined the British, from Capt.
Yeats Brown, who remained free in
the Turkish capital until the armi-
stice was signed, and from Col.
~" himself, whom I met in London
just before left for America.
The Colonel received an urgent
message asking him to meet the Vail
of Smyrna at the Tokatlian-one OF
the two best hotels in Constantine
Pile. There the British officer and the
high Turkish official shook hands
and entered into a discussion Of the
situation.
Col. ~" accompanied by lady
who throughout the war did magnlfi-
cent work for the British. went to an
address given him and met the new
Minister of the Interior and other
notabilities. Over the dinner table
there was then the strange spectacle
OF the mighty questions Of peace and
war being discussed by an escaped
prisoner OF war and a prominent Min
lister of the country in which he was
technically still captive.
The British Colonel explained that
though he was working for allied In
terests, his friendly advice was that II
would be greatly to Turkeys advan-
tage to sue for a separate peace. be-
cause whereas Germany wanted &c
keep a weak Turkey which she could
dominate, the Allies principles OF the
rights of nationality forbade any idea
OF complete domination.
The Turks attitude at this curious
meeting was summed up in a remark
made by the Minister OF the Interior:
I'VE know We have lost our chance
The sun., 1919-06-29
SlGNOR TITTONl
WHO SUCCEEDS ORLANDO
IS HEAD Of the /TALiAN
PEACE DELEGATION

In the first few months of the war
a work appeared in Rome entitled
"Italy's Foreign and Colonial Policy"
consisting Of selection of speeches
delivered in the Italian Parliament by
Tittoni during his six years OF Office
at the Consulta as Minister of Foreign
Affairs. 1t would be difficult to find
anything more enlightening than the
declarations contained therein of his
views and aims. One of the ablest OF
American students of international
affairs in epitomizing its contents eS-
pressed the opinion that Tittoni had
done for italian diplomacy what John
Hay had done for the diplomacy OF
the United States. "in making it
straightforward and businesslike, in
stead of indirect, ambiguous and evas-
i've" The book betrays throughout
a scarcely concealed aversion for Aus
tria, a thorough distrust of Germany
and a conviction that the friendship
of England and of France is indis-
pensable to Italy. In its pages are to
be found also number of very APP
preciative remarks concerning the
welcome afforded and the opportun-
tiles afforded to italian immigrants in
America.
AS for his friendship for France he
probably never felt happier in his life
than when as Ambassador he called
upon the French Minister OF Foreign
Affairs in Paris in the first days Of
August, 1914. to inform him in the
name Of his Government that Italy
had refused to side with Germany and
Austria in their war of aggression.
had emancipated herself from the
! thraldom of the to her so unpopular
| and oppressive Triple Alliance and
therefore that France was under no
necessity whatsoever to divert any Of
her troops from the German front to
her Italian boundary line. which she
| could thus afford to leave entirely I'M