The Ordway new era., 1920-11-26
FOREIGN

fires are believed to have been of
incendiary origin.
Erivan, capital of the Armenian re-
public, has been evacuated. communi-
cations between the great railway
junction OF Alexandropol and Tlflis,
capital of Georgia, having been cut,
completely isolatlng Armenia from the
outside world.
Turkish nationalists consider the
treaty between Turkey and the allied
nations invalid and have designated
soviet Russia as the warden of the
orient" declares Talaat Pasha, former
Turkish grand vizler. He asserts the
Pnn-Islamic movement is directed
against the "imperlialist oppressors of
Moslems."
Divorces are decreasing in France
because of the lack of houses and
apartments. Before the war the
monthly list of divorces attained in
Paris total of 1900. In October
there were only 945 applications,
and this month the total is expected
to be further reduced to $50. Ac-
cording to lawyers, hundreds of cou-
and agreed to go on living together
for the simple reason that they can
not find places to live apart, other
than in small hotels.
a young man, wearing the Uniform
of French lieutenant, recently OBJ
talned 7S6.000 francs (nominally about
Sl57, ,0O0) from the French ministry of
finance on presentation of n payment
order purporting to have been issued
by the quartermaster of the army of
occupation at Mayence. The order
proved to be a forgery. The police
arrested Henri Platel n years old, a
tailor. They say Platel confessed to
the crime, adding: Some say it is
hard TO obtain money from the gov
ernment. It's easy"
The defeat of the Yenizelistas in
the Greek elections leaves the Lloyd
George cabinet In England as the only
war government in Europe which has
survived the world conflict. Russia is
not taken into consideration, as the
soviet regime at Moscow has not been
recognized by the allied powers. The
war governments of the following
European nations have fallen: France,
Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia.
The war government of the United
States also has gone by the defeat of
Governor James NJ. Cox, who was
pledged to carry out the policies of
President Wilson.
GENERAL
Three persons We're electrocuted at
Sturgeon Bay, Wis, when their auto
mobile plunged over Il bridge and
struck an electric wire carrying 49,
900 volts.
"School Week" will be observed
| throughout the nation the week of
December 5-11, as the Commissioner
of Education is designating the first
full week in December as "School
Week"
Thieves ransacRed the apartments
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Richards OF
Philadelphia, Pa, and got away with
negotiable securities totaling s137,-
600. The thieves also took clothing,
jewelry and some cash.
Equal suffrage for women means
that they must not wear their hats
when in his court room. Justice of
the Peace F. p. airing declared when
he fined two women IS each for con-
tempt of court when they refused to
remove their hats. The women paid.
When the Justice called the court to
order he said: Everybody will
please remove their hats" Mrs. Os-
car McCann and Mrs. Frederick Rit-
ter failed to do so. The court hesi-
tated a moment, but the two contin-
ued to wear their hats. Five dol
lars and costs for contempt of court"
said the justice. "If women can
have equal suffrage with men they
can also remove their hats in my
court room"
A prison guard and n convict We're
shot and two other guards badly
beaten at the Missouri state peni-
tentiary ut jefferson City, No, when
| four convicts made an unsuccessful
attempt 10 fight their way to freedom.
The men were captured before they
could get outside the prison wall.
Three-fifths of the original supply
of timber in the United States is gone
and every year we are taking out
of our forests four times the amount
of timber that we are growing. The
virgin forests of the United States,
which formerly covered S22,O00,O0O
acres, have shrunk to one-sixth of
that area. All classes of forest land
In the United States-including cul-
led, burned and cut-oyer areas-now
aggregate 463,OO0,OO0 acres, or little
more than one-half our original
forests. The answer to the forestry
problem of the United States Is not