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The Washington times., 1920-01-22
AUSTRALIA EXCITED OVER
NEW DISCOVERY OF GOLD

LONDON, Jan. 22.-Western Aus
tralia is becoming excited over stories
of the discovery of new stretch
of wonderful gold-bearing country.
for the truth of which there seems
to be a certain amount of official
backing.
J. d. Connolly, agent general for
Western Australia, has received in
formation from his government that
recent finds in a direct line from
Kalgoorile cover a distance of about
sixty miles,'a stretch of gold-bear!ng
formation longer than anything of the
kind hitherto realized in Australia.
A more recent report from Kali
goorlie. too, records the hrst indica-
tions of fresh field in which the
samples from a lode that has been
struck are reported to have given
extremely high values. but the width
of the lode Is not yet known!
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
COMMUNITY SERVICE
OUTLINES DRIVE. PLANS
Business Men and Women To
Canvass City February
8 TO Is.

Roland Robbins. chairman Of the
campaign committee for the commun-
ity service, outlined his program yes
tsrday for HIS workers In the coming
campaign TO raise sss.Soo TO carry on
the work during the current year
The campaign will be held during
the week Of February D to 10. com
mittee OF sixty business men VIII
make a personal canvass OF the busi-
ness section.
The women's committee. headed BY
Mrs. Newton ID. Baker, wife OF the
Secretary of War, and consisting Oh
more than $50 members. VIII also can
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
NEW BUTTER AND EGG
PRICES TO Be FIXED

A new pronts schedule on butter
and eggs for Washington retailers
will probably be adopted this after
noon at a meeting OF the District
fair price committee In the Depart
ment OF Justice building. The COM
mittee also is expected to take action
on reports OF inspectors who have in
vestigated complaints of pronteering
In the District. Charges OF proiiteer-
ing. II found to be substantiatedy will
be sent to District Attorney Laskey
for prosecution.
Forty-eight additional grocers and
retailers In the District today signed
the agreemeI.t with the COMMITTEES
not to sell milk at more than 8 cents
pint and IS cents a quart as long as
II WHOLESALERS at 81 cents a gallon.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
WIDOW OF CAR VICTIM
GETS VERDICT OF $4,000

A Jury in Circuit Division No. I.
Justice Hitz presiding, yesterday
award a verdict of $4,000 to May w.
Payne in her suit against the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Com
pany for $4,000 damages for in
juries to her husband, Howard W..
Payne, resulting in his death.
Mrs. Payne, represented by Attor-
neys Conrad II. Syme and P. II. Mar
shall, said a street car collided with
her husbands auto as he was crossing
Dumbarton avenue at Thirtieth street
northwest, killing him instantly.
Besides tho wife, he left surviving
an infant son, Howard B. Payne
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
DODGE TREATY
ASCH|EF ISSUE
Party Men Gloomy Over Plan to
Tie II to Presidential
Campaign.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
/. N. s. Staff Correspondent.

Unless the Senate reaches a COM
promise on the treaty at an early
date, the only thing in the world
that can save it will be referen-
dunn. So do experts here figure the
slimness of it's chances.
If the present Congress. cannot
scare up the necessary two-thirds
vote, they argue (that is, sixty-four
out of a total of ninety-five Sena-
tors)-counting Secretary Of the
Treasury Garter Glass, named to fill
the vacancy>left by the death of Sem
ator Martin, Democrat, Of Virginia
to ratify 1t during this session, the
Treaty of Versailles has an extreme
1y problematical existence ahead OF
II so far as this country is concerned.
May Affect Elections.
Thirty-two Senators must stand for
reelection or replacement this year.
Their terms of office expires with that
OF the President on March 3, 1921. or
these Senators, fifteeL are Republicans
and seventeen are Democrats.
or the seventeen Democrats to whom
successors will be elected II they do
not succeed themselves, at least five
according recognized political bar
meters-stand a fair chance OF not
coming back to the Senate, their
party being in the minority in their
states with a tendency, as manifested
at the last elections, toward 1t be-
. coming more so.
Should these five Democrats lose the
election to their Republican oppo-
nents, the next Senate will number
SO Republicans and AZ Democrats.
And with what the Republicans
would consider the public's expressed
approval of their attitude to back
them up. it is regarded as scarcely
probable that the majority party
thus strengthened, would be more
inclined to compromise on the treaty
than 1t is at the present time.
Hard Work Ahead.
On the other hand. say the dope
sters, ,supposing the maximum of the
improbable should happen and the
entire fifteen Republicans should bite
the dust before the Democrats in the
race for the Senate this year, the
Democrats would still be minus the
necessary two-thirds majority. hav-
IHB Uul "n
against the Republicans thirty-two
They would have to win over at least
one Republican to their side to secure
ratification, and to date not a single
Republican has expressed himself, OF
voted. for the unconditional ratifca'
tion of the treaty.
In other words, the Republicans
under the most favorable conditions
possible, could, and 1t is believed
, would still block the passage of the
treaty, save as amended by the so
called Lodge reservations pretty much
as they stand. '.n
Nobody expects clean sweep by
the Democrats, however, not even the
most pronounced optimist in all the
ranks Of the party.
Supposing then-and this is deemed
by,political observers here to be much
nearer what will happen than that
either side will make a clean sweep
that the next Congress should be d.
.vided in pretty much the same pro-
portions as is the present Congress-
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
POUND AND FRANC DROP.

NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-Sterling and
francs again opened at new low rec-
ords today Demand sterling was
quoted at 3.60A. off "a from yester-
days low and franc checks were 12.O5.
off 2 centimes. Lire checks were OFF
4 at l4.14. Marks were .OI53 cents
and Belgian francs 1918 per dollar.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
QUITS STAGE FOR ANTIQUES.

PARIS, Jan. 22.-Le Belle Otero,
known twenty years ago as the most
beautiful dancer In Europe, announces
that she has elft the stage never to
return. Having been thrifty through
out her stage career. she is able to
retire on an income OF $4,000 She Is
devoting herself to the collection OF
ecclesiastical antiques.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
OPPOSES sEpIIloN RllL.

Alfred Bettman. OF Cincinnati. for
merly special assistant Attorney Cen
eral in charge OF ssdition cases dur
ing the war, declared the Graham
sedition bill IL "unconstitutionAl.
dangerous to freedom OF speech and
contrary to American traditions" In
a telegram received by Senator owen.
Oklahoma.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
Peeresses Ordered To
Wear Low Gowns In
House Of Lords Gallery

LONDON, Jan. 22.-war-time
dress restrictions will be removed
when Parliament reconvenes Feb
ruary 10. a was learned today.
For the nrst time since 1919
women will be allowed TO make q
dress event Of their appearance
In the galleries. \
Peeresses have been ordered
TO wear low-cut gowns without
veiIs>or feathers. instead OF war
time mourning.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22

what additional chances would the
treaty have of ratincstion which IL
does not already havr
All Answers Alike.
This question. put to a number OF
politicians on both sides the political
fence, brought forth the same re-
sponse: None.
Therefore, despite oratorical ngures
OF speech launched by party SPELL
binders about meeting the oposition
at Philippi and fighting II out, neither
side today appears to be over-enthu-
siastic for a showdown. Both. In
private conversation. are showing a
certain degree of hesitancy to make
the pact the paramount issue
Rather, they are railyfng to the view
that however important that ques-
ton really is. the voters may not con-
slider 1t SO. and thus may vote for
men and issues they know rather than
for something only the experts seem
fairly to comprehend.
Rising before each OF the parties,
therefore, some of the more out
spoken OF the politicians admit. Is a
big bugaboo, the bugaboo OF the
dark horse" Each party obviously
fears the independent" who. in
times Of unrest, dissatisfaction. and
party splits like these, finds the go
ing good.
Herbert Hoover is being watched
by Republicans and Democrats like
a hawk, so reports reaching the Cap
ital say. He is one OF the "indepen-
dents" who might very conceivably
spill the Presidential beans for either
artu ViDnTnla though his
denials may be that he has no such
honors in mind; that he Is not a
politician" that he is temperament
ally unfit to get along With" poll
ticians, and all the rest, the ground
swell in his favor admittedly keeps
on growing Notwithstanding.
Tired OF Party Men.
His Independence" is. perhaps, the
one thing that appeals most to the
public. who. say those whose business
1t is to keep their ear to the ground,
are tired of party men" and poll
ticians.
So old-style politicians here are re-
ported to be trying to figure OUT
what would happen II both the reGu-
lar parties should carry out their
threats and "meet at Philippi" to
fight out certain complex political
problems. Some Of them are said
to have 1t all figured out, that while
the regulars" tore themselves to
pieces on that famous field, some cir
regular" like Herbert Hoover, on q
non n-political but simple 'lets-get-
back business" platform. would
make off with all the votes.
The rank and file party men here
therefore, believe that under no cir
cumstances should the treaty go into
the Presidential campaign as the
paramount issue. II the Senate can
not break the deadlock and ratify
it now. there is a growing sentiment
in favor Of a treaty referendum, 10
be held simultaneously with the ma
tional elections next November * II
cannot be held before.
Many of the friends of the treaty
feel that 1t should be thus voted on
separately. on its own merits. and that
it's fortunes should not be tied up " ith
those of any candidate, Democatic or
Republican. II this cannot be brought
about, there Is a strong feeling that
the pact is doomed to pass on into
history as something that died a
bornin'.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
CATHOLIC WOMEN TO MEET.

The Catholic Women's Service Club
will meet in the Catholic Community
House. COL e street northwest, at 8
o'clock this evening. A card party
will follow the meeting.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
MEXICAN SITUATION
SOMEWHAT EASIER
American Oil Companies Get
What They Wanted, and Re-
Iations Are Smoother.

The settlement OF the dispute be-
tween American oil interests sho 'he
Mexican government over drbllns
OF wells in Tampico and adjacent. dls-
tricts, was considered by ofnciais
here today TO have gone far toward
smoothing out the ruffed relations
between the United states ana
Mexico.
A message given out late yester-
day by the Association OF American
Producers Of Petroleum in Mexico
with headquarters In New iork'
stated that Carranza had lifted his
ban on the drilling OF new weIls, aho
that pumping OF existing wells would
be resumed, under an agreement
reached by the American oil interests
and Carranzs.
Fear that the Mexican governments
revenues would be materially de-
creased by loss OF taxes on oil ex,
ported to the United States prompted
Carranza to agree TO the temporary
settlement, officials here believed to-
day. Thirteen million pesos was de-
rived from tax on oil exported from
Mexico to the United States between
September, 1918, and June, 1919, II was
learned.
40 Companies In Plea
Carranza's action was in response
to representations made TO him py
forty-six oil companies, requesting
that the restrictions on drilling be
lifted without prejudice to the rights
or position of either the companies or
the Mexican government. Since the
ban on drilling and working Amer
lean wells became effective, one field
near Tampico has been exhausted by
going into water, the Americans IN
formed Carranza-
Oil association officials said Car
ranza's concession allows American
companies to take out provisional
drilling permits. which will permit
operations pending enactment OF q
new petroleum law by the Mexican
congress- The ban on drilling orig
Inally' was enforced by Mexico be-
cause the American companies re-
fused to take out drilling permits
which would bind them, In advance,
to obey the proposed petroleum law
which is considered confiscatory. The
provisional permits do not bind the
Americans to obey this law.
U. s. Officials secretive.
Although United States Government
officials claim to have no knowledge
Of the settlement, saying 1t Is pri-
yate matter between the oil COM
panies and Carranza, 1t was learned
that Secretary Lansing took up the
matter with Mexico last Thursday.
January Is. and that the settlement
was reached, and approved by him.
two days later. Officials Of the Ship
ping Board were active in obtaining
the settlement owing to the urgent
need of getting oil for American mer-
chant shipa
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
7waNr TO rs oAwcE7

This Seasons New steps taught BY Prof
Cain, Americas foremost dancing teacher
reachins exclusively At the
RIGHIwAY SCHOOL Of DANCING.
isis New York sge. (bet. izth isth sta)
only up-to-date Dancing Academy south
of New York. TOu need not have appoint
m.nt Private lessons any hour. 1se,
private room for beginners Open a mi.
10 10 D. IN. Phone Fr. 1884. I'D.
The Washington times., 1920-01-22

Dp0\
1Ws1nA And sales of other of our most
&<Y luxurious furnishings well as
the things yon need for every day
use Prices of furnishings, along with prices
of clothing and everything else, are on the way
up. Regardless of that, we add these sales of
mems furnishings to the Pre-lnventory sales,
tomorrow.
Men,. 81 90 Necl<we.r e for 81. CSC
Mems 81 so Neckwear. .$l.1s
Mem. $500 Necewear.
Mems $3.50 Neckwear. .$ls5
Mems $500 Neckwear. ...................$z'3S
Mems $500 Neckwear. .$3l5
500 Soft or Stiff Cuff Shirts; $l.5o and $500;
all sizes excepting 14k .$1.15
800 Russian Cord Shirts. $500 6 for $loJ 1886
100 Madras Paiedbosom Shirts were S. and Sc 1856
Discontinued numbers of Full Dress and Tuxedo Shirts
some slightly soled; in broken size .$135
Mems $1,000 Silk Shirts Fancy White SITS
12oo Irish Linen Weave" Handkerchiefs; were Csc
(per half dozen $11O) per dozen. '........ $215
Broken assortments of Mems Underwear Wool Mixed
and Ribbed Babrggan; in broken size ranges II Price
$50 Pairs of WooLMixed Half Hose; Black Natural;
value up to 75c per pair ..'.............. 45c
s4O0 WooLMxed Paamas; light weight per suit .$2s5
Odd lot of Fownes, Meyers and Dents Cape Gloves,
$3.50 $50 value (slighy soiled spoed) .$1s5
The sales of mems and boys suits and
overcoats entire stocks) continue with the
added sales of mems furnishings.
&AbM4Mz4mz&
Nationally KnoDn Store for Men and Boys
THE AVENUE AT NINTH
Daily, $50 to 6
The Washington times., 1920-01-22

what additional chances would the
treaty have of ratincstion which IL
does not already havr
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
Adding Mems Furnishings
to the Pre-InUentOry Sales

OMORROW we add a sale of
mems neckwear to the Pre-ln-
ventory Sales. A sale of mems
shirts. A sale of handkerchiefs.
And sales of other of our most
luxurious furnishings-as well as
the things you need for every day
The Washington times., 1920-01-22
-Pre-MUent0ry Sales

about higher shoe prices
coming seasons. Prices
higher. We have simply
our prices regardless.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
No Popcorn

4 RE you one of those countless
~ thousands who come to New
York from San Francisco.
Kansas City, New Orleans, Chicago.
or even from as near by as Phila-
delphia, and then walk for miles
through crooked, straight, narrow
and wide streets in the great me-
tropolis in quest for one of those
little, steaming, whistling, odorous
popcorn wagons?
If you are you know the outcome
of your tour. You found no pop
corn wagon. Therefore, you went
to your room without popcorn; like
wise without peanuts.
And, of course, you've wondered
why! And it is just as easy to tell
you why as it is to fall off the
proverbial log.
The reason is this: New York men
and women don't like popcorn or
peanuts. Those things smack of the
small Town and the circus ground.
Silk and satin New York cares for
no such rural commodity!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

sieged. For five and one-ha1f GEN.
turtles the long agony has been en-
dured. But In the last 100 years,
slowly and surely, the Turk has
been driven back. First, Greece
was liberated, then Serbia, then
Bulgaria. Now it is the turn Of
Thrace, and, in effect, Constanti-
nople is released.
Incidentally, the dream of the
Kaiser has been shattered. In that
dream there was nothing so improb-
able as we sometimes think. Islam
has always employed the most pow
erful political weapon available. If
her capital had moved from Mecca
and Bagdad to Constantinople, why
should it not move further west to
Berlin? If caliphs had been sue
corded by sultans why should not
sultans be succeeded by kaisers?
If the sword had passed from Arab
or Saracen to Turk, awhy should it
not be handed on to Prussian? 1t
would be kismet. 1t would be fate,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

of that vacation room and board
rose to a new high point last year,
but this summers vacation bill is
due to go still higher.
A Vacation With Pay
Hence the matter Of paying for a
vacation may amount to a rather
serious problem for 1920. Well,
then, as the Americans Land Service
suggests: How about substituting
for it a '"vacation with pay? Thus,
take the case of Gertrude, one of a
vast number of her kind.
This rather pale young lady is
employed in an Office in the East
Forties. On one Of the spring days
so productive of vacation thought
she hurried back to work from a
hasty luncheon, her brow corrugated
as she wondered how and where she
was going to spend her two weeks,
which she would have to take early
this summer for business reasons.
At this perpleXing point she hap
pened to meet a friend she had not
seen all winter, and the friend, not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

ing Gertrude's perturbation, asked
her the reason for her frown.
Then Gertrude confded her vaca-
ton problem to her friend, saying
that she was strong enough to work
but certainly needed a change, as
she had not felt just right ever since
she had had the "flu."
"You come along with mel" COM
manded the friend. II know Just
the thing for you this summer. I
just signed up there myself" and
without stopping to explain she hur-
ried Gertrude over to the Licking
ton Theater, where a few minutes
later Gertrude had registered as a
farmerette in the American Land
Service for three weeks. And that
is why she is looking happily for
ward with hundreds of others to
this coming vacation-"with pay"
Helps Farmer, Too
The third great problem she and
the multitude Of her fellow men and
women farm helpers and farmer
cites will help to solve is the
dilemma in which the American
farmer finds himself at the threshold
of his harvest season. The farmers
of this country are facing the most
acute shortage of farm labor since
the war, and every man or woman
who can help them gather this sum-
mer's harvest will at the same time
be performing real economic serv-
ice to the country. For the Ameri-
can Land Service believes that if the
present underproduction of farm
products can be started toward it's
old normal volume the abnormally
high food costs can be correspond
ingly reduced
This idea of farm volunteer re-
cruiting is expanded to even a
greater extent, in the enlistment of
that vast multitude of city seasonal
workers who have many weeks of
idle time on their hands. The
American Land Service, in the first
month of its enlistment campaign,
enrolled nearly 1000 city men and
women at its headquarters in the
Lexington Theater, ST. Lexington
Avenue. A large proportion of
these recruits are city seasonal
workers, anxious to keep occupied
for health, profit, or for both
reasons.
Nearly every trade, occupation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
n Thunderstorm in the Making

FAVE you ever been up in the
air to watch a thunderstorm
grow? If you were merely
on the ground looking up, then you
saw only the bottom of it. The air
man is the one who sees just what is
happening in thunderstorm, and
the birth and growth of a regular
summer JOY killer.
A few hours before the sky was,
perhaps, perfectly clear. All at
once q few white patches become
visible to the eye, and if they quick
y begin to dot the whole sky it is a
warning sign. Each fluffy cloud
represents the point where moisture
rising from the earth has begun to
condense. The rapid formation of
the clouds means uneven heating of
the surface of the earth and the
presence Of lots of moisture in the
air. The clouds grow to-
getnef, forming a continuous rolling
mass of dense vapor, cutting off the
flyers view Of the earth.
SO far the storm has been only
threatening. The clouds have spread
sideways as far as they can; now
they begin to grow heavier. The
heated air from the earth below
pushes through the heavy layer and
bulges it upward. Higher and
higher it is pushed, while more and
more moisture condenses, and this
great bullying mass of vapor, some
times three or four miles high, has
become a thundercloud. It's bullying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02
4 TURKISH beauty IN the costume of the uative


and profession is represented in the
questlonnaires signed by them. Be-
sldec school teachers, artists, ste
nographers, students, professors,
lawyers. electricians, and other in
door workers, the list includes the
garment workers, who have several
months idle time; the hat trade,
which has three months slack be-
tween the straw and felt hat sea-
son; the wall paper industry, which
is only active six months in the
year; the millinery trade, which is
dormant between seasons, and the
special seasonk workers like those
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

in the Christmas and Easter novelty
trades.
By taking up the slack time of
these workers, the organization is
making every effort to revive those
industrial habits formed during the
critical years of 1917 and 1918,
when thousands of patriotic men
and women became farm helpers
and farmerettes, cheerfully working
for the farmers, who had been de-
prived of their hands by the call~of
war, or had lost their "hired mem
through the superior wages and
more attractive living conditions Of
fered by the great industrial CEN
tiers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-02

zantium and the Bosporus-the
gateway to the trade of what we
call the Russian Ukraine - that
Athens and Sparta went to war. The
crescent on the Turkish flag is not
Of Moslem origin. Mahomet never
authorized it. 1t cVne from Egypt
to Greece and from Greece to By
zantium, where the Turks discov-
cred it and made it their own.
The control of the Dardanelles
was the underlying reason for the
siege of Troy, lasting ten years and
immortalzed by Homer. An OBJ
struction to the arms of Greece was
swept away when Hector fell victim
to the arms of Achilles. To this
day, of the million persons who live
in Constantinople one-third are
Greeks and only one-half are classed
as Turks.
Herxes-possibly the Ahasuerus
who deposed Queen Vashti and fell
in love with Esther, the Jewish
maiden-swept with his hordes of
Persians across the Hellespont, west
of Byzantium, but was checked at
Thermopyla by the heroic Leonidas,
and retreated in rage and ruin, leav-
ing behind him untouched the queen
ly city. In his famous march of the
Ten Thousand, Zenophon, too, visited
Byzantium, which was defended by
the Greeks against Philip of Mace
don, but when the encouraging elo-
quence of Demosthenes was silent,
fell to the conquering might of Alex
ander the Great-then bound for the
Indus.
Under the Romans the city de-