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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
EQUALITY OF STATUS IN
GERMAN UNIVERSITIES
Edict Of SocinlIst Prime Minister Re.
hchicd by Studcnts ms Dcatroy-
Ing German TrndItionx.

BERLIN. May GA conflict ia
dere!oping between various students
iratcrnltics and tho Socialist Prus-
san Minister OF Education. Herr
hacnisch. His plan 10 dcmocratizo
universities Is meeting with strong
opposition from many or tho stu
dents. large number OF whom are
additionally staunch supporters of
monhrch!cal. pan-Gcrman and anti
the advent OF Or. Woligang Kapp
ana the militaristic countcrroyolu-
ton with enthusiasm.
10 nuili!y their influence in these
matters, Herr Haenisch worked orr
Il scheme under which equality OF
status was established between for
c!En students and German studcntS
Fratcrnitics wcr. forbidden to en-
gage In political and religious agita-
hon. and government reprcsenta-
tive was TO sit on fraternity COM
thair activities and report upon them.
These measures are wraihfulIy
denounced as opprcssively reaction
ally by tho student world OF Cor
many, which is preparing to resist
their Imposition to the uttcrmost
Especially do they object TO tho pro-
posal that foreign students at Cor
man universit'es should be placed on
an equality with themselves. At the
present time the German universities
are said to be overrun with Polish
youths do not relish the idea of hav-
ing TO fraternize with them on equal
terms. Still more strongly do they
resent having government rcpreEen-
tativcs sent among them TO act. they
say, a S ~informers."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
Ivory.


oh. what are you selling whers
market ways narrow.
Meath windows OF fate through
their yashmaks agleam?
Pearls for princesseS. paints for the
wamton?
Muslin of moon webs. or damascened
dream?
Crosses and rosaries, wan with the
OF penitent lips that their pure
ness have pressed:
Fair. carven baskets. by sandalwood
haunted.
Safe and secure for secret at rest.
Ivory! Ivory! Cry my pale ivory!
Ivory that still has the tusk In 1t,
scimitar shaped to blade SWIFT
Leaves letting light in on love that
Proof on the script OF a treacher-
Gus friend.
Ivory! Ivory! Cry my bravo iyoryi
Buy of me dagger hilts, ear rings
and trinkets-
Quaint battered Hotsam from
China's far seas;
Mandari MS. chossmen. fan handles.
mirrors
VIII you not buy of me treasures
like these?
ivory! Ivory! Cry my rare iyorv,
Go your way! Sell your wares, Fate
send You fortune.
The road to tho Dream from tho
l have built me a lodge I'm a parder
OF lilies -"e"
A towel Of ivory. matchless and
Ivory! Ivoryl Cry my fair ivory.
Ethel NJ. Hewitt in Harper's Mag.
,, ~ IL. 1. :
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
Prices After the Civil War.

y, The ne climax Of Civil War prices was reached
az tho close OF 1864 and lasted for only a short
shnSodi IN 1919. The highest point touched
cant ca an average increase we'll past 100 per
ing LOT three. and some for four and five time a
WHAT dney brought the beginning of the
t VAT, The general price level, 2i7 points was
nv imehy points above that reached by the sign
Larry In 1865 -four selling at S22 bar
REL REL. sugar had advanced to SO cents a pound
outter to 15 cents, and vegetables Canned
SooGs, teas and coffees had doubled in price
ssIn nag moved up from $40 barrel whole
S S 70 500 Goal was selling for $40 ton,
kerosene Tor 90 cents gallon. n spool OF cot :
soi , tnte ad lor 80 cents. and musIins that had
sso o, LOT from b TO cents yard in 1860 were
"aru 10 get at as cents a yard
but people who had to buy commodities
near the close and immediately after the close
OF the civil War had experience that has
itol yet come TO the present purchasers Prices
o oeG 70 iali early in 1865 as II became more
ana more apparent that the war must end
soon. BY the time Leo surrendered in AprI Of
mat year there had been "A decline Of 81
points In the general plane of prices.
by 1866 the decline was arrested md n
snSht upward movement began that continued
INC war we're not again reached. For another
year prices Eesitated. and then with 1869 four
years after the ending OF the war, a steady
aecLine set In. For the three years from 1871
cline paused 1t then began once more and
continued until 1873. thirteen years after tho
close of tho war, when specie payments was
resumed and the pre-war level of prices was
reached. '''N ""'
T., what caused the decline. according to prof
r. W. Taussig. the distinguished Harvard
oconoinist was the increase in population and
weaith so that there was a gradual growing
production. ~ ~ "
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
Time to Tnke Counsel.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir-ln yesterdays editorial you very
courteously and kindly take Mr.. Taft TO task
for his lack of vision; May not in the same
spirit take you to task Tor your lack OF vision,
and with more proprety perhaps. for you
really criticize Mr.. Taft for seeing too much
the breaking up of the Solid South-while it
seems TO me you see too little in not recognize
ing this danger
II the Democratic party puts beer and
wine" plank in its platform it Will drive out
OF its ranks hundreds OF thousands who never
dreamed that they could do otherwise than
vote the Democratic ticket for the Seasons
you give. No doubt you honestly think that
the majority OF the Democratic voters OF the
South see in this the opening wedge for whis-
ky and the saloon, and have heard the
frank declaration of our Democratic brethren
of New Jersey, with their great foreign born
membership. that it is intended for that very
be wet the ocean" The closing Of
the liquor cures. the empty alcoholic wards in
hospitals. the open doors of jails that never
could be left open before, with other cstab
lished facts. speak eloquently of the good al
ready done by prohibition. We sympa thize
quircd. in greater or lesser degree, the alco
holic habit. but we wish to see general ions
coming on with no alcoholic faint in their
blood. Tho people have spoken, the States
have spoken. would II not be wise to give the
constitutional law at least fair trial?
to contend against without attacking the tenn
perance sentiment of the ma ton. Let take
counsel together for there is a danger ahead
which some OF us do not realize and we may
yet hear the cry that startled the house of
Judah. ITO thy tents, Israel" and that dis
rupted and ended that great nation.
SAMUEL B. WOODS.
Charlottesville, Va, May IA, 1920.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
NEW GREC|AN EMPIRE
IS BORN At SAN RENO
Elcuthorios Vcnizclos, Who De-
throned Constantine, Is Brains
Who Rounded Out Empire.

LONDON. May 22.-Quietly. almost
unnoticed and without any ostenta-
tious aas-wagginE. n now empire has
just been born In Europc--the empire
or greater Greece.
the event took place at San Reno.
served because the world was at that
time more interested in the fate Of
Germany, Turkey and Armenia and
the patching up Of the Frankfort
The cmpirc-builder who has put n
bigger Greece on tho map is Eieu-
thorios Fenizclos, who dethroned
King Constantine. and who was re-
Sarded rs the brainicst of all the
delegates attending the Paris peace
conference. In triumphantly round
ing off at San Reno fifteen months
OF the cleVerest and most consistent
Of Lloyd George and Millerand. with
Mill dissenting. Had President WILL
son sent plenipotentiary to San
Remo, he too would have dissented
as Frank Polk was ordered to do at
the Hotel de Crillon last July.
Now Touches Four Sens.
Greater Greece now touches four
seas-the Adriatic. tho Aegean, tho
Black Sea and the Mediterranean. It's
northern frontier runs in an unbrok
en- line from Epirius in tho west to
the ChatalJa lines in the east. 1t
takes in disputed territories inhab-
TAINTED by Albanians. Juso- Slavs.
Bulgarians and Turks. 1t gets tho
Dodccannese the Aegean Islands
that Italy occupied) and in Smyrna
the mainland OF Asia.
According to Nenizelos, the sub
Jects OF Greece now number 1900
900, compared with 100000 before
the new figure at nearer 100000.
This achievement is hailed with
delight by Pan liellcnists, who ad-
moist s h reaa hs! dn M25E only # a
grct is that Constantinople was not
also given Into their hands. But
in the chanceilcries OF Europe there
is grave doubt that tho new en-
or other causes remove Venizelos
from control
1t is claimed that in both East
err err, and Western Thracc. Bulgaria
OF revenge. against an unfriendly
neiEhbor who holds territory mostly
peopled by. Bulgarians. other enc
mics, actual or potential, ring around
greater Grcccc-Jugo-Slays Alban-
ianS and Turks.
Smyrna Settlement u Compromise.
The smyrna settlement was COM
promise. The population OF the town
is overwhelmingly Creek. but with
It's port IL is the gateway to Asia,
Indispensable TO the commerce OF
every nation and priced beyond meas
ure by tho Turks. To hand 1t over
to Greece would almost certainly
have rallied all that remains OF Tur-
key to die In tho last ditch under
Mustapha Renal.
1t was therefore decided to give
tho Greeks of smyrna local autonomy
under Turkish sovereignty. with
guarantees for the freedom OF the
port and u plcbiscitc five years hence.
wisconsin was discarded in the
settlement of Greek claims in favor
of British strategic ideas. y strategic
wedge has now been driven across
Thracc. dispellinS any future menace
OF renewed 'Hrang mach osten" by
a German Magyar combination, with
bulgaria aS It's spcarhcad. The Bcr-
lin -BaSdad road TO India Is pcrma-
nently barred. and Bulgaria has been
isolated between the greater Greece
tho greater Roumania and the great
or Serbia.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
AMUSEMENT PLACES FAIL
TO MAKE TAX RETURNS
At Least 5000 Involved, While
ScniPcrs systematically Drfrnud
Government.

NY HssoC!t'cu lFrSH~l
WASHINGTON, May 22.-IuternaI
revenue collections were instruct
cd today TO begin campaign
10 force IN" payment OF admissions
taxes collected by theaters and NOV
ing picture houses. Reports to the
Treasury Department were declared
10 reveal that probably 5000 such
amusement places had failed to turn
IN the taxes collected from patrons.
Mr.. Williams advised the patrons to
observe whether the tickets are prop
crly stamped as to the admissions tax
together with the name of the de-
fender and the box Office price.
Commissioner Williams said that
Investigations by the Internal Revenue
Bureau showed that ticket scalpers.
were prohteering in the sale of thcatcr
tickets by putting the war taxes
into their own pockets. thus defraud-
ing the government and the pur-
chascrs."
Mr.. Williams ordered prosecutions
in every case where investigation
showed wi1ful refusal OF the the-
atrical interests to pay the tax.
The bureau will recommend ex-
IRENE penalties against guilty
ticket scalpcrs."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
THIS is TIME FOR REAL
TEST OF WATERWAYS
General Hines, OF Transportation
Service, Tells Congress Com
mitteo Not Sell u. s.. Barpcs.
lDy Associated Pressl

lBy ASSOCIATED PreS61
WASHINGTON, May ga Devclop-
ment OF tho American TRADE affecting
al Gulf points depends largely on
fthGnp bunker coal which can BIO OBJ
or tho Warrior River Waterways sys-
tenn. BrigaGier-Gencrnl Frank Il.
Hines. chief OF the war department
House Interstate Commerce Commit
tee.
Though appearing before the COM
tho New York barge canal to STATE
water ate, TRANSPORTATION generally.
coal can be supplied so cheaply "a
at Mobile. declared Gen. Hines, cI-
planning that local officials were
OF a terminal that would be adequate
Tor handling bunkers. Ho urged thar
inc committee consider advancing
from earnings of the terminal.
General iiinse opposed tho provts-
York State operators preference right
Sly Kirk sanaI; After sqvs Pa ens
the barSes and other government
owned equipment should be transfer
rcd to- other government-opcrate ed
Mater lines on the Mississippi or tho
Secretary Baker. in a letter sub
mitted to General Hines. took a sim
ment OF tho Senate provision would
cause tho sale of ninety-two barges.
and would lead, him to recommend
Immediately that Congress provide
funds for their dupl Icatfon Mr.
Baker explained that the War Depart
h is now making n national sur
COMMUNICATIVE development of water
transportation.
General Hines in this connection. ITO
make n real test OF the WATERWAYS.
The raj roads.for tho first time, are
Of equipment and they could nor
catch up with all their demands for
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
Twenty.Five-Ccnt Bread

T seems incomprehensible to the average
American consumer that any condition
could arise in this country that would
Justify an increase in the price of a 10-cent
loaf OF bread to 25 cents, and vet warning
that this may be expected has been issued
by Julius H. Barnes, director of the United
States Grain Corporation. He has become
so alarmed over the crop outlook and the
utility of tho government in controlling
prices that he asked for conference IN
Washington to consider measures for deal
Ing with the unpromising future.
Only one fundamental cause could arise
making such thing as Mr.. Barnes fore
sees remotely excusable That would be
a wheat-crop shortage to such an extent
that America. for the first time in its his
tory. could not provision itself If less than
enough wheat is raised in this country to
provide bread for the 100000 people,
then it is easy to understand that famine
prices would prevail. Discouraging as some
of the crops have been, they are not sufllci-
emily discouraging to indicate an actual
shortage. Enough wheat will be grown to
feed America. The government knows that
and has said so. There probably will be
considerably more than enough. leaving
fair margin for shipment to other coun-
tries. If expectation of wheat or flour re-
suits in an outrageous increase in bread
That is the remedy. 1t is drastic
remedy but it is merely the exercise of the
right of America to consume it's own food
products. AS long as this country produces
more than enough grain to ration the Amer
lean people it is proper and right that any
surplus should be exported and used to feed
the people of other countries and other con-
tinonts. But it is neither right nor proper
that an inadequate supply Of American
grain should be divided with anybody.
Every time there is a suggested embargo
upon exports there is a loud cry OF protest.
Such measure, it is said would hurt bus
mess" destroy the great exporting interests,
close American ports and do certain other
disastrous things. And Congress has shrunk
from such an embargo as from a poisonous
thing. But tho time may como when Con-
gress dare not stand in tho way and that
tlme may approach as the new wheat and
corn crops are harvested.
Every American consumer is willing that
every American producer should have Il fair
and reasonable price for the things pro-
duccd. The people. as n whole, insist that
the farmer, as class, shall be we'll paid
for his products, but the people are not dis
posed to pay excessive prices for bread in
order that expectation may go along un-
checked and greater profits may be made
in foreign than in domestic markets
II the Washington conference called by
Mr. Barnes becomes convinced, therefore,
that there will be a serious shortage of
grain. and that this shortage will result in
2o-ccnt bread, provided eXporta lions con-
tinue. it need consider hut one measure to
meet the emergency. That measure is an
embargo on further expectation of grain
and grain products.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
POZNAN UNDERGOING MANY
CHANGES SINCE WAR DAYS
Polish Names Have Been Subs tuted
for German Designations
Throuc hout CITY.

POzNAN. POLAND. May 22.-
Roman, which for more than a hun
dred years under German rule was
known as Posen, is undergoing many
alterations as result of the out
come of the war and the peace con-
ference. which gave PoZnan back to
changing the name Of every street in
town from German to Polish was
completed. the task having been
worked out by commission which
became n city of the new republic
One of the principal thoroushfa
which had been known as Beriiner
siTa .:Is has IA, been renamed the street
being what is considered the very
last day of the Germans in Poznan.
y great square in the center of the
city. which since 1898. excepting an
eight, year interval after Prussias de-
feat by Napoleon Chat being the
year tho Germans came TO Poz-
nam, had been called Wilhelm platz.
is now known as Liberty Place. And
great statue of Frederick Ill.
n Which , stood for years in Wilhelm
been torn down by Polish residents
OF PoZnan during the night OF De-
cenIher p. 1915. when there were
tween German and Polish subjects.
the upshot of the demonstrations con-
vincing German officials that 1T would
DC useless 10 enueaVOT further to
continue PoZnan in so-called Ger
man territory. The German 6oldiers
began withdrawing that night.
Gradually since then German resi-
dents have been leaving Many OF
them were born in PoZnan or vi
cinity.
Within the past fourteen months
II is estimated that approximately e.
900 Germans have departed from Poz-
nan. most of them being officials who
held government positions under the
German regime. and their families,
and officers of tho German army. Poz-
nan city officials estimate that about
$1,000 persons have moved to Poznan
in that time, the majority of these
having come from Congress Poland.
Poznan today is city of about
10000 inhabitants. and considered by
Germany prior to the outbreak Of
the war as the strongest fortified city
on its western frontier. All the old
forts. redOubts and batteries built
by the Germans still stand.
When the Germans were in control
Polish classes in the schools were
forbidden. German is spoken so gen.
orally in Poznan. however, that even
under the white and scarlet flag of
tho new republic it is taught in a
certain number Of schools.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
Thoughts for Today
Futility of Price Fixing.
ny HOMER HOYT.

In every nook and corner of the business
world there is Il wonderful kind Of calculat-
ing machine that is built of nothing more sub
stantial than air and that Is operated by per-
petual motion without cost to anyone.
There is q separate machine for each COM
modify and for each market In every country
of the world. and the hundreds OF thousands
OF separate machines are linked in vast
system.
demand and supply Of every article OF
MERGE in every nation, and with absolute pre-
cision they flash upon the screen every minute
and every hour the net results. These magi-
cal devices are the machinery of demand and
supply, determining prices.
What arc the scientific principles that govern
these marvellous pieces OF mechanism? Bust
ness men safely trust prices to the law of
supply and demand. They have condolences
in tho natural forces of the market, but the
price system works perfectly and so auto
matically that few business men aware of
the nature of the natural competitive machin-
cry that controls prices.
In any market will find two groups of
people. the buyers and the sellers. The buyers
represent the forces of demand; the sellers
are the spokesman for the supply. At any
iime there are great many people in the
market who would buy If the price were lower:
and at the same time there are many sellers
who would sell IL the prices were higher.
People do not buy in the most cases without
reference to the price, but they willing to
pay SO much for any article, and no more. If
the price is too high they refrain from buying
AT the same time there producers who
would manufacture more goods If the price
were higher. but who find II Improbable to
produce at the ruling price. Thus. before the
market is opened and before any price Is
fixed there are large number of potential
buyers and potential sellers, each with his
own idea of how much he is willing to pay or
how much he wants for his goods.
Now this is the wonderful system of bal
ances that operates to. fix the price Of every
thing. Unlike everything else. 1t operates ut
zero cost and it never breaks down.
Yet legislators and commissions sometimes
think they can invent better machine for
liking prices than tho magical machinery Of
supply and demand.
At great cost and effort they erect pricc-6x-
Ing boards. and then they find out Mt last that
these boards are long. narrow and wooden"
and that they have obstructed for operation
of tho normal market machinery
All efforts to fix price In defiance of the
law OF supply and demand have In tho end
proved as futile az tho offortss.of King Knute
to stay tho rising of tho tido-Copyrlght, 1920.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
Bashtul Missouri
Youth Wins Girl
II e Grs Her Whisper
eyes" Over 1900
Miles Of Wire.
IBy UnIvcrral seryicel

SAN FRANCISCO. May 22.-The
little word Yes" cost Arthur Man
chester. railroad inspector. eighteen
hard.earnea dollars. but he's happy
and he thinks the price cheap.
Manchester recently telephoncd
MISS Clara Snyder. his sweetheart.
who resides at Hannibal. Mo-. a
distance OF 1900 miles from this
heart.
Hello, Is this clara?" asked
Manchester.
Yes" camo back tho reply from
We'll. this is Arthur talking. I'm
In Oakland, California. viii you
marry meg"
g., This was evidently unexpected.
Tor there was n short pause Then
caIne back the little word Yes"
Manchester was in Hannibal sew
erai months ago. At that time he
evidently lacked the nerve TO pop the
question. With 1900 miles separnt-
ing him from the best girl he mus
tsred courage. Now he says no is
the happiest man in the world.
Miss Snyder. before saying good
by. said she would start within n i.w
days for tho Pacific Coast, where tho
wedding ceremony will be performed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-23
What About Villa?

\ GREAT deal of curiosity has been
I aroused in recent weeks as to whether
Francisco Villa, the most elusive of all the
international criminals. will have hand
IN the government of Mexico or will even
tually constitute himself n thorn in the
side Of the revolutonists just as he did
with respect to the unlamented Carranza.
There is sound reason for believing that
he will fall into line and give his support,
for the time being at least, to De la IIuerta
Recent dispatches from Mexico have
bought to give the impression that this
"archhandit' was so far down and out as
"A military factor that his forces at this
time consist of little more than a body
guard. This government has information.
however that Villa actually has a cavalry
force OF something like 5000 men and is
IN position to increase that number greatly
II the occasion should arise.
IL is fact, officially vouched for that
villa, after ALL Is an easy man to get along
with II he is not pressed too hard. 1t is
well known that he has been in constant
communication with certain American ad-
visers, who have kept him tanned to a
greater or less extent. For this reason he
has kept comparatively quiet during all the
negotiations which preceded the "bloodless"
revolution. He arrived at an understand
ng with Obregon some months ago, which
made him supporter Of the Sonora leader
villa turned against Carranza not be-
cause the former preferred life of ban
ditry, but because Carranza betrayed his
own professions and failed to carry out the
program OF relief for the lower classes of
MeXicans, to which Villa is passionately
devoted. With that, Carranza sought to
outlaw his former lieutenant, and the
United States Joined in the campaign fol-
lowing the massacres of Ysabcl and Column
bus, y. NJ.
In recent years Villa has sought by every
possible means TO regain the good will of
Inc American government. He has denied
emphatcally that he knew of or approved
the raids which resulted in the Pershing
expedition, and otherwise has sought to re-
lnstate himself in the graces of Washing
ton. But distrust of him has been too deep
and he remains marked man in so far
as the United States is concerned II re-
mains TO be seen If he is given a clean bill
by the new regime in his own country