, 1920-11-25
FOREIGN

Erivan, capital of the Armenian re-
public, has been. evacuated, communi-
cations between the great railway
junction of Alexandropol and Tiflls,
capital of Georgia. having been cut,
completely isolating 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 vizier. He asserts the
Pan-Islamic movement is directed
against the "imperliallst 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 a total of 1900. In October
there were only 945 applications,
and this month the total is expected
to be further reduced to $50. Ac-
eording to lawyers. hundreds of cou-
pies have accepted cancellations
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 a French lieutenant, recently oh
famed 100000 francs (nomlnally about
1857, 000) from the French ministry of
finance on presentation of a payment
order purporting to have beer issued
by the quartermaster of the army Of
occupation at Mayence. The order
proved to he a forgery. The police
arrested Henri PLATED, 81 years old, a
tailor. They say PLATED confessed to
the crime, adding: "Some say it is
hard TO obtain money from the gov
eminent. It's easy"
The defeat of the Venizellstas 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,
Aas otiSihIhf OlluSdl, btIltlduNf
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
to carry out the policies of
President Wilson.
GENERAL
Three persons were e~lectrocuted at
Sturgeon Bay, Wis, when their auto
mobile plunged over a bridge and
an electric wire carrying 49,
900 volts.
school Week" will be observed
5-11, as the Commissioner
Of Education is designating the first
full week in December as "School
Week"
Thieves ransacked the apartments
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Richards Of
Philadelphia, Pa, and got away with
securities totaling s137,-
and some cash.
Equal suffrage for women means
that they must not wear their hats
in his court room, Justice of
the Peace F. p. airing declared when
he fined two women IS each for con-
of court when they refused to
remove their hats. The women paid.
When the justice called the court to
order he said: Everybody will
remove their hats" Mrs. Os-
Mccain and Mrs. Frederick Rit-
failed to do so. The court hest
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
equal suffrage with men they
can also remove their hats in my
court room"
A prison guard and a convict were
shot and two other guards badly
at the Missouri state peni-
tertiary ut Jefferson City. Mo, when
four convlcts made an unsuccessful
attempt to fight their way to freedom.
The men We're captured before they
could get outside the prison wall.
Three-flfths of the original supply
of timber In the United States Is gone
and every year we arc taking out
of our forests four times the amount
timber that We are growing. The
virgin forests of the United States,
which formerly covered 800. o 10000
acres, have shrunk to one-slxth OF
that area. All classes OF forest land
in the United Stntes-including cul.
led, burned and cut-over areas-now
aggregate 483,OO0,000 acres. or n little
more than one-half our original
forests. The answer TO the forestry
problem of the United States is not
to use less wood. but to grow more
to put our idle acres of burned and
l~ogged-off timber land at work grow
ing trees. Three-fourths OF the prob