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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
MOSES IS BEATEN
 BY THE BRITISH
 ARMY ENGINEERS
5 Hours For Journey That Took Israelites 40 Years Across Desert From
 Sinai to Jerusalem
By CLAIR PRICE

Jerusalem, June 2S.-CSpecial) )-The journey to Jerusalem over the new Pal estine military railway begins at Kan tart East, on the Suez canal, and ends ir a hot tub bath.
 Strictly speaking, it begins several days before one reaches Kantara East. Two or three years from now, a civilian may be able to buy ticket to Jerusa- lem at Bab el Hadid Station, in Cairo Cor at Thomas Cooks anywhere, so far as that matters), just as civilian buys a ticket to Oshkosh at Northwestern Sta tion, in Chicago. But today, buying a ticket to Jerusalem involves permits.
 For the Palestine Military railway is operated by and for the Egyptian expe- ditionary force of the British army, and Palestine is governed pro tempore by the occupied enemy territorial adminis- tration Che lady that's known as Oeta) of the Egyptian expeditionary force. The railroad is still under military operation, and the country Is still under military occupation. The fact that civilian traffic is permitted at all is a favor on the part of the military authorities.
 Strictly speaking, the journey to Jeru- salem over the Palestine Military rall- way begins on the fourth floor of the Savoy hotel, Kash-el-Nil street, Cairo, where lives the lingulSucal lady that known as Oeta.
 Oeta among other things, attends to civilian traffic over the Military rail- way. and since there is first-class accom- modation for only six civilian passengers on the Kantara- -Haifa trains, Oeta tells you in any language you happen to use when she can take care of you-provlded, of course, that the permit office will let you go. I went to Oeta on a Saturday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
GERMANS GO AFTER
 ITALIAN BUSINESS
VOn BuelOw and BernstOrff Say Many Complimentary
 Things About Italians

Rome, June 2.-Already German influ- ence has been exercising itself in Italy in an endeavor to win back it's pre-war trade which annually amounted to nearly $2OO, ,OO0, 900, exports and imports.
 Interviews have recently been pub lshed in Italian papers which endeavor to establish the idea in the Italian mind that had Germany been consulted in the matter of Italian claims at the peace con- ference, Italy would have secured all that had been asked. This has been inter- preted by many prominent Italians as purely subtle bid for Italian patronage, anticipating the resuscitation of friendly commercial relations between Italy and Germany.
 Chiefly among the interviews appearing in Italy were those of Prince Won Buelow and Count Won Bernstorff. The former was married to an Italian and maintains in Italy one of the most celebrated villas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
To Banish Wrinkles and
 Freshen Up Quickly

After a strenuous day outdoors. when winds, heat and exhaustion have com bined to take away ones freshness and caused the skin to wrinkle and sag-or after a tedious or fretful day indoors one often has urgent need for some quick rejuvenator. Maybe there's a dance on for the evening, or some other social event. How in the world can one make herself presentable, looking as she does? It's quite easy.
 Just get an ounce of powdered saxo- lite and half pint witch hazel at the nearest drug store, mix the two and three minutes. Then look into your mirror and behold the wonderful trans formation! Wrinkles have vanished. loose tired muscles have been rested and "firmed up," marks of fatigue have flown, and you look so much brighter and younger you can hardly believe your eyes. No one need hesitate to try this, the witch hazel and saxolite being so perfectly harmless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
Whitman as a Critic

William B. Cairns in the Yale Revie~.
 whitman's expressions regarding htera ture are somewhat incoherent, as are' doubtless. those of most of us who write on the subject The poet. the 'literatus, as he likes to call him. IS to be great force in the future. It Is the literature or the future, of the democracy whicn IS coming, that interests him, Of the hter ature of the past he sometimes speaks with respect, rather more often with con tempt At all events. he insists that IL has had it's day. His worst charge is that the masters of the past have all been moved by the ideals of feudalism Too many of Shakespeare's characters are kings and queens and nobles. There has been too much Journalism, too much pret- tiness. For himself, he lays down rules few figures of speech. no references to the rulers or the great men of the past, simplicity, directness. homeiiness. Most of these are dicta to which the teacher of composition would in general say Amen Yet, like other poets who have propounded theories. he ignores all his prescriptions when he rises to the heights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

Italians contend that it was his object to solicit Italian favor when he said:
 "Fiume is an Italian town and must go to Italy. All it's inhabitants are Italian except small minority. Everything in Plume Is Italian. In fact, most Hungar- to Italian than to Jugo-Slav rule"
 Count Won Bernstorff seeks in his inter view intended for the Italian people to forgive Italy for allying herself with Ger many.s enemies. He admits that had the ancient German despotic rule won, Italy would have never been forgiven, but that the new Germany, is ready to forget the past and start over again.
 His interview given to the Giornale d Italia recently has been treated in the same light as that of Prince Won Buelow, while Italians are saying of 1t, We pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

With steel helmets of white above their ruddy faces, forty-six officers and 1,495 men of the 339 Infantry, first American trops home from ser vice in Northern Russia, arrived in Hoboken aboard the Won Steuben. The 339th is the regiment about which the "mutiny" story, which aroused nationwide comment, was circulated several months ago.
 Pure bunk" was the character ization of the story by Major !. Brooks Nichols, wealthy Detroit manufacturer and clubman, who was in command of the returning troops.
 More bunk has been published about the North Russia expedition than any phase of the war;" raid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

fer to trust in victory than alternatives"
 Count Bernstorff failed to arouse any great enthusiasm among the Italians for the proffered forgiveness.
 But the Germans have not been asleep in Italy. Already German goods are find- ing their way into the Italian markets. A Milan newspaper recently announced that a large shipment of German jewelry had been received at the frontier destined for all parts of Italy. German printing prod- ucts, tourist guide books and stationery have been on display in shop windows for weeks. Some of them were pre-war stock, but by far the greater part is new.
 Watches are not being turned out fast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
ON EDGE OF THE DESERT

Kantara was the base of the Egyptian eXpeditionary force during the war and the greatest army depot in the world. It straddles the Suez canal, on the west bank filling the sandy space between the reedy fringes of Lake Menzaleh and the canal bank, and on the east bank covering square miles of the yellow sands of the Sinia dasert Before the war it was an Egyptian government quarantine station and consisted of a couple of white cubical buildings with sun-bleached pink trimmings. At the time the armis- tice was signed, it was a city of sand and canvas with exclusively military pop ulation of 113,0o0. Demobilization has now decreased its population by more than half, but it is still a military area. Al civilian from the time he reaches Kan tara at D. m. until he leaves Kantara East at 11:90 p. m., is rarely out from under the eye of a military policeman.
 When you step off your train at Kan tara, the first military policeman who spots your civilian clothing, pilots you to the small reed hut which houses the Permit Officer. Another military police man bundles you and your baggage into the civilians lorry which takes you and the three or four other civilians bound for Palestine down to 'the river Che reason the Suez Canal is so blue is, I think, because it's banks are so yellow), across a British army pontoon bridge and over the macadamiZed roads of Kan tara east to the two long cinder plat forms which are kantara East station. Very soon, possibly before this is printed, waiting rooms for civilian passengers will have been erected at Kantara East station, but at present the only station buildings are the semi-permanent shops, the permanent concrete building which houses the Railway operating staff, a temporary reed hut for the railway transport officer and a temporary ticket office half as big as woodshed. Here, at present, you occupy your time until 11:3O D. m by sitting in the cnders in the ccasional company of military police man.
 The Palestine Military railroad is a double-track, standard-gHuge road which follows the great caravan route across the Sinai desert and the old Turkish metre-gauge noad into Jerusalem. It runs north from Kantara East, picks up the Mediterranean coast at Fl Arish, fol- lows the coast within a mile or two th rough Gaza and within a short dis tance of Ludd, where it turns inland for the run north to Haifa, which is military headquarters for Palestine. Ludd station was opened on Feb. 4, 1918 and the work of pushing the standard gauge up the Wady el Surer toward Jerusalem was begun April 22 and completed June 9, so that the old Turkish station outside the walls of Jerusalem was opened for British standard-guage traffic on June l5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

with a request to be permitted to go to Jerusalem by Sundays train. (Oeta was busy when I entered; she was engaged in answering the questions of r appli- cants talking simultaneously in 17 diff ferent languages, and she was looking out the window most of the time at that Oeta had berths available on the following Tuesday and Saturday trains only. I chose Tuesday and spent the .n- tervening time acquiring at the permit office a deckle-edged diploma entitled, Permit to Enter Palestine. Good on date named ONLY" and a permit in English and Arabic, valid for five days from date, authorizing the bearer to proceed to the canal zone. These in hand, nothing remained but to distribute bakhs hish to whomsoever bakhshish was due, and buy ticket to Kantara
 Tn the present state of the Egyptian State railways, due to the Egyptian un- rest, one reaches Kantara at p. m. to wait at Kantara East the terminus of the Palestine Military railway, until Il 80 D. m., for the Haifa train, which con meets for Jerusalem at I,udd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06
s13 TO JERUSALEM

The Haifa train comes alongside plat form about 10 o'clock and at the same time the window of the little ticket of- flee is opened and a kerosene lamp is lit within The four or five of us who had been waiting for it to open, dropped down off the cnder platforms and walked across to it. We stood in front of the window confrcnt6ng the railway trans port officer and corporal within, and the moonlit stiffness of the night made us speak in low tones as if we were a band of ooEspirators. Here We re- ceived out military movement orders and our civilian tickets. The first class fare from Kantara East to Jerusalem, ln- ] cluded sleeper. is 26O piastres ua).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

Major Nichols. What gave rise to the story that Company I, of the regiment, had mutinied was an in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

Across the great Sinai desert, it was laid at the rate of mile or two meN>- a day, the construction gangs working behind outpost screens which had been flung out ahead of them. As fast as ties could be slapped down on the sand and rails spiked to them trains were pushed out to feed the front and shovel gangs kept the way clear of the drifting sands. When the road comes under civilian management, it is possible that more permanent road bed may have to be laid under it, but that is on the knees of the gods.
 When connection was established with the Turkish metre-gauge in Palestine, the narrow-gauge was used for sixteen hours of the day, the remaining eight hours being used by construction gangs
 in converting the narrow-gauge road to standard-gaage. Construction work was interrupted time and again by the ex- agencies of the military situation. As it stands today, it is the work of the 115th, 116th, 265th and 266th railway construction company, the 272nd light railway con
 struction company, the railway operat- ing division, the 9Sth light railway oper- ating company and the 9Sth light rail- way train crew company, all of the British Royal Engineers; the 1st brdg- ing company. Canadian railway troops; the 299th railway construction company Sikh Pioneers, Indian army; the Egyp- ton army reserve and the Egyptian labor corps. All were attached to the Egyptian expeditionary force of the
 British army, commanded by General Sir Edmond Allenby. -s- With nightfall, Kantara East becomes the quitest place in the world. The floor of the desert is covered with miles upon miles of army tents, dimly still in the moonlight The lights are few and far apart. save for the big desert stars and the tall glow of distant ship creeping through the canal with searchlight on | it's bow. What does the Suez canal look 1 like by moonlight? Well, careful and conscientious canvass of the half-dozen Of us who finally slipped away to have
 look at it, conduces to the opinion that 1t | looks about like the Suez canal.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
Re0iew of Weeks
Trade in Richmond
Steady Movement IN Retail
C1rctes-No Midsummer
Dizziness for Jobbers.

Trade conditions in and around
Richmond are accurately pictured in
the following special report. compiled
by II. 6. Dun " co. exclusively for The
Times Dispatch:
There is still a steady movement at
rcttil in most ScaSouablc lines and re-
auction sales arc not being resortcd
10 as early this season as usual; high
prices are having no apprcciable effect
on sales.
Mahufacturing concerns are busy and
me TABOR situation has improved
Inc Jobbng trade reports business
Eoidihg up we'll. the usual early sum-
mer dulincss not yet having become
general, and IL is believed that the
midsummer season viii be shorter than
in previous years
Dealers are generally optimistic, and
the country generally has become
reCohciled to high prices. with the re-
SUIT mat merchants are buyin. far
!her INTO the future and present stocks
i" retaii stores are nearer normal
ACTIVITY continues pronounced in The
footwear market. buying of fail and
winter goods having taken on consider
aoie proDortio ls. and dealers are find
ing II Impossible to supply the d,u,;nd
Tor certain grades
produce dealers are we'll sunniicd
anG some declines arc reported
building operations show further OK
rahSlon There is a very fair demand
ror money at current rates: clearinrS
from week to week showing large IN
creases over the same period last wear
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
THE DRY GOODS MARKETS
Activity All Along the I.In-Sun,,,.
hardly " 10 Requirements.
PRICES No Lower

The news from the textile and dry
goods centers OF tie country is to M
,;,,tt mar no deviation from the ac-
tlH!'F or the past few weeks han baep
4" 'uhfsSed' nearly all lines OF cottons
Nov , neing under order for the summer
,,m,ns ana other branches OF the trade
~ ritncing large business MANY
,, ar" so c,osely booked ahead TIM
aneE WI be una BILE 20 complete present
80, dcls until The late fail, and no,
demands from domestic and for.
sources cannot he handled b.cause
81. SIin-up condition OF manufac
i,yaa q oinniaints accumulate OF de-
are feeling the effects Of the shorta n,ea
Oh labor. and although manv
,1rn. T..Ih,s were careful not to sell ~
toward rapidly enough 70 me-, ZONE
nu.ieihenis Early In the week son,.
a fnrs Ii sr ray, goods was noted. but
p,lces and many lines arc nov, me-,
'"'Ne the wartime levels
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
BEYOND EXPECTATION
Shoe business OF Country seems to
BE Lending All other Zig
Lines.

One evidence of the large public pur-
chasing power appears in the cnntinu :
ancc Of an active retail distribution OIL
footwear stimulated by favorable
weather and reports that business Is
running beyond expectations are now
rather common. says Dun'S last report
With prices so high, it would seem
that demand for the nciter GrahcS
might Toe restricted. but buyers diSpihS
little or no hesitancy, and it is I note
worthy feature that the cheaper ines
apparently are not wanted. some pro
d,Iccrs now have all tho orders theE
can III for the season. the chief PROB
lem confronting them being one oi CD
tanning deliveries of leather, ana pre-
dictIons of still higher prices Tor "hptS
hecome more confident IS the niatcria!S
which enter into their manufacture
keen on rising. About ali varieties OF
domestic and foreign requirements re-
main buoyant. while the tone oil !ne
hide market is even stronger: IMAM pre-
wiouslv and trading is only limited by
The absence Of stable offerings
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
BUSINESS ON CARY STREET.;
GREEN STUFF HAS A SLUMP
Henfy Reccipts More Thnn Meet pc-
manufacturing n Fit Lowcr-VrnIs
Som"whnt Higher.

husinesE was active enough In tho
Gary ana Thirteenth Streets region an
a whole, was not exactly what ii.
Wholesale dealers and tn. commissiou
merchants who daily toll and sweat
down that WY would call a Satisfac-
tory week.
The rush of all things green. that
Is. All things in the vegetable and early
fruit lines. commenced in dead earnest
ana with some of these articles the
supply was in excess of eager demand.
n ,ne na;mr"l result WIS decided weak
the end. and by Friday ana sa,rrday
vegetables Of all kinds We're lower
Than they have been this season.
and "un nr.oy was a.E ksn IN larser recein,
Spring chickens went down TO ~ 10
- cents for the fattcst ana best con-
iitioncd. Hens closed at ~ to 30 cents
ana other fowls were also Il shade
cheaper
Calves that make tho veal were in
better demand. and the prices Went,
upward a bit. The hes; vcslS brought
1t cents a pound on the hoof. and from
mat. accordiAt: to qual!t", down to
II cents. Spring LAMBS went readily
At - 10 10 cents per pound
Wool was still in active demand. and
though the receipts were somewhat
larger than the week before, ther. was
no weakening in tho prices paid for the
better qualities.
There was and is very active de-
mand for hides, the green sailed Cand
ali green nlucs ought TO he sailed be
fore shipment at THIS season OF m"
vear) readily brought SO cents. The
few unsalted greens that came in
brought TO 3 cents less.
The outlook for this week is that
eggs will he steady at last weeks
quotations. butter will he firm AZ for
mcr prices, possibly a little higher.
as the hot weather may cur,a!i ship
ments, spring chickens seem 10 be ON
the toboggan, hens viii probably nc
steady AT the reduced figures OF last
u l.,s ~ I'M, he.
higher than last week. extra heavy re-
ceipts may make them even lower: wool
md hides Will hold their own if they
10 not go even higher.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
IRON AND STEEL REVIVE
Inst Week brought Forth What the
Zig and Little Dealers Call
Good News.

Last week was productive OF the hest
news th3.t has come from iron and steel
ccnterS in Il considerable period. accord
ing TO Dun'S report of Saturdays date.
Even with the constructive force OF
active railroad purchasing absent. the
.,cntlencsS OF the revival in this quar-
ter IL not TO be doubted and nothing
demonstrates the recovery more clearly
than the gain in manufacturing.
Whereas blowing out of blast furnaces
was recently a common condition, now
furnaces are being blown in to meet
the changed situation and some steel
mills in the Pittsburgh district and
elsewhere are running at a 80 per cent
rate or better That the May outputs
will mark the low point Of the year
is probable. as private domestic con
sumcrS. notably the automobile inter
csts. are contracting ahead more free
~ and a larger number Of foreign in =.
iuiries arc being turned into actual
orders Reductions in ocean freight
have made British markets more Access
sible to American products, while ooth
Japan and South America are buying
steadily.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
Summer Ariues
For Annual Visit
W1th Her Come Roasting
Ears, Raised Rents
and Hives.

Summer arrived Yesterday on her
annual visit. all dolled up In crepe
de .'chinks" shirt-waist. a dress Of
bulifroE green and a nowery lid trim :
med like cross between an ostrich
and Shanghai rooster. No welcome
home demonstration disturbed the
peace. and she took a street car for
town without so much rs being recos-
nizcd.
She came dressed like faith weather.
and viii probably have to use the same
duds while boarding in Richmond. as
ner hand bag was contisca;ed between
here and Baltimore. With her came
new roasting ears. mosquitoes. raised
discard conservation.
Conservation has been a national
Eoai-Eetter since Uncle Sam spla shed
over the International aquarium to
spank william. AS Miss summer has
promised big crop OF spuds. lots of
wheat. much hen fruit and a shortage
OF fire water. conservation has become
an ant ique. AS she was probably
weary last night she did not take a
shower, according to the weather man.
except, as he asserts, '"in the extreme
west portion"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
BUREAU SENDS OUT LIST
OF ARTICLES NOT TAXED
Merchants MIKE Inadvcrtnnt Levy ON
Goods Which LAW Fnits to
Include IuXurlcs.

Merchants hero have received a
statement of toilet articles upon which
the luxury tax is not properly charged,
some have inadvertently levied it
upon.
To correct this, the bureau issued
and preparations which arc and are
not taxable. Tooth brushes. nail Mes,
orange wood sticks are not taxable.
Peroxide Of hydrogen and withch-
hazel, when made in accordance with
formulas contained in the United
states Pharmacopoeia and not held
out, or recomm ended" in any way as
remedies or specitcs for disease are
not subject to the tax. hut II SO held
bic. Shaving cream is not subject 10
a consuming tax under Section 907
imposing a tax on toilet articles, hut
is subject to b per cent rnanufactui-
ers tax as toilet soap, imposed by
Section 900 of the Revenue Act OF 1918.
LaXness in the cancellation OF stamps
will not he tolerated BY the internal
revenue bureau. Receipts by the BIZ
reau of quantity OF uncanceled
purchased a, drug stores caused the
issuance OF warning that regulations
requiring the afiNing Of stamps In
such manner as 10 prevent future use
would De enforced strictly. Failure
% comply is punishable by fine of
III POSSIBLE" the regulations state.
the stamp SHOULD ne affixed so that
upon opening the package the stamp
OF the vendor, together with the date
when the stamp was afiiNed or can
celed must appear on the Cancelled
| stamp"