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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
FEAR SPREAD OF BLINDNESS
Scientists Alarmed by Reports From
the Oasis Towns Of the Great
Sahara Desert,

A plague Of blindness is sweeping
the oasis towns Of the Sahara desert
according to a dispatch received at
Washington from Bi~kra. Or. Touiant
of the Pasteur Institute of Ophtal-
mOlogy, who is conducting expert
ments on a herd Of monkeys I'm an eff
fort to isolate the germ which Is blind
ing tens Of thousands Of Arabian chill
drcn, has informed the American Red
Cross that eight of every ten children
In the Sahara are now affected.
The white nuns Of the Sahara are
treating the eyes Of hundreds Of chill
dren. with Biskra, "the Garden Of Al.
lah" oasis, as their headquarters, they
tour the desert on camels, visiting the
oasis town where the plague is at its
worst.
With the approach Of the hot months
1t is feared the disease win become
even more widespread The filth Of
the oasis towns and the uncovered
camel meat market breed countless
millions Of flies even during the winter
months. Flies are believed to carry
the germs Of granular rachoma, with
which in northern Africa 100000 Arab
children are infected.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
e lain F0NDQESS FOR COLOR
Gipsy Who Lost Gold Coin Buttons
in Sight Fair representative
Of His Face.

According to several different organ
Izations now actively engaged IN the
work of transforming the allen popu.
lation into real Americans, the melt
Ing pot works slowly and sometimes
merely ScOrchcs rather than trans
forms ITS material. remarks the New
York Evening sun. II has been point
ed out many times that the first step
of the process seems to be to rob the
foreigner Of all his romance and pic
turesqueness and leave him a rather
untidy, awkward figure in strange
land.
Occasionally there are found per-
sonalitieS too strong to be dismaycd-
women usually, but once I'm while n
man whose soul is above derby hats
and suspenders. Such a one Is com
PEELED to forSake much Of his gorgeous
ness of apparel but the spirit finds its
way to flight with the best material
at hand
The latest example Is that of a gypsy
who asserted after modern Ameri-
can street fight with some of his tribe
the other day that gold coin buttons
of his clothes were missing after the
encounter,
Not often do we see rival Of Solo
mon arraycd as was this gypsy, but
there are some to lend a touch of color
to an otherwise drab and mcrcen0ry
existence since HI Henry used to lead
his minstrel parade In similar attire
III the south of Europe the women
have the fashion of wearing their
dowry woven In chains of coins in
their hair, In northern Europe and in
America some of them wear the FOR
tunes of their fathers or husbands in
similar fashion in the way of jewels,
but men seem more conservative,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

have in orphanages and elsewhere I'M
der our care 10000 homeless, father
less or motherless children who are
absolutely dependent upon us. This is
exclusive of GO hospitals with 6,552
beds, 12S clinics, rescue homes for
girls and unnumbered thousands OF
refugees who are being helped through
our Industrial relief and in other ways,
THE Near East Relief has during
the past four or five years commits
stoned and sent to the Near East more
than 900 American relief workers, of
whom 500 are still in the field, all of
them working at great financial sacri,
dce-the standard salary being $50 per
month and maintenance-and many Of
'ham facing great personal danger and
hardship in the performance of their
life.saying service. A score of them
have died from typhus or other dis.
eases more or less related to their
faithfulness in the performance of re-
lief service.
Nor is that all We have raised
and disbursed during war times and
in war-tOTn area, in large measure
under enemy control, more than SAL
100000 in cash, and, including -four,
Red Cross and other supplies admin.
iacrgd by our agents, total of cash
and supplies in excess of S50,000,000.
The official reports show that on June
50, 1920 we had in orphanages $4,000
children, and that we are partially sup.
porting outside of the orphanages
7GO39 children, making a total of no.
600 boys and girls now under the care
of the Near East Relief"
Mr.. Dodge considers the work of the
Near East Relief one of the most stu.
pendous undertakings of disinterested
philanthropy the world has ever seen,
"In countries whose population to,
tails more than 100000 souls, Ameri.
can idealism eXemplified by the work
of the Near East Relief constitutes
today torch of enlightenment and an
influence for peace throughout the
whole Near East" he maintains. "Our
American ideal of liberty, industry and
helpIulness has brought us as people
happiness, prosperity and fulfillment
out Of the fullness of this heritage we
are furnishing a faithful and undaunt,
ed Christian people the brotherly aid
which will enable them to reach the
same fulfllment that God has given US.
1T is an achievement of which every
American may well be proud"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

Personally Eugene Debs wouldn't
hurt a fly. lie is about as mild a man
nered man as ever preached rcyolu.
ton. It would grieve him to have tC
slit the throat of the bitterest enemy
of the Cause" But he is not cirCum
spect in his choice of language whcr
he breaches socialism, and he has Z
wide influence among the radical
DebS used that influence during the
war to the injury Of the government
and was properly convicted and sen
fenced to ten years imprisonment
President Wilson has declined to par
don DebS, though such action was rec.
commended by Attorney General Pal
mer. The President reasons, no doubt,
that the granting Of clemency in this
case might encourage similar mani
festations of diSloyalty on the part Of
others in the event of another war.
Granting this, there are many never
thcless who will hope that Dcbs will
not be required to serve out his full
term lie is an old man, and person
ally u kindly one, though an obSesscd
and mistaken one He has been pun
ishcd and no good purpose is served
by afordng him continued opportun-
ity to pose as a martyr
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1921

For a time Charles G. Dawes was
frequently mentioned as one of those
most likely to be invited into the
Harding cabinet. Lately there has
been less frequent mention of his
name, and not long ago it was an
nounced that he had been ruled out.
A good many people have wondered
why such a good Republican, who in
addition to his eminence as a business
man and fnancier had an excellent
war record, should be turned down.
Perhaps the answer has been given in
Mr.. Dawes testimony before a Con-
gressional smelling" committee inves-
tigating the conduct of the war.
From his remarks before this com
mittee it appears that General Dawes
is not in accord with the Republican
plan of detracting from the glory OF
the war achievements, Admitting that
some mistakes were made, he holds
that the accomplishment Of the war
administration as a whole was ire
mendouS one deserving the highest
praise, and he has no patience with the
men who seek to make political capt
tai out of the mistakes and the waste
inseparable from the hurried prepare
4 ,F A V,,aripu'g "a ~
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
"A NATION SAVED
BY AMERICA" SAYS
CLEVELAND II. DODGE
New York Business Man Describes
Vast Armenian Work of
Near East Relief.

Cleveland H. Dodge, New York bank.
er and business man, director of the
National City Bank, and treasurer of
The Russell Sage Foundation and of
the Near East Relief, declares that "a
nation has been saved by American
philanthropy, and the generosity of the
American people through the Near
East Relief, in it's work for the Ar
menians.
"The lowest official estimate indi-
Gates that one million persons are liv-
ing today who would not be alive had
it not been for this relief" Mr.. Dodge
continued, 81 have an autograph letter
from Dr. II. Ohandjanian, president of
the Armenian Republic, in which he
writes: America literally saved us
from starvation
wholly aside from adults who have
been saved from starvation, we today
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
LEGAL NOTICE..
NOTICE OF SALE IN PARTITION.

NOTICE OF SALE IN PARTITION.
IN CIRCUIT COURT FOR MANIrowoC
COUNTY.
Nellie Agnes Ryan, Mary Cumm-
ings, Belle Ryan, Julia Gallagher,
Lily O'Neill, Frank Hurley, James
Hurley and Harold Hurley,
plaintiffs,
Rose Brown, Agnes Gehrke, May
Burns, Patrick Burns, Ellen Hus.
cbke, an infant, and Patrick Cavs-
naugh special administrator OF the
estate of John Ryan, deceased,
Defendants.
BY virtue OF the order for partition
and sale made in the above entitled
action on the 30th day Of Decent Der,
1920, tho undersigned, sheriff OF Man.
itowoc County, Wisconsin, will sell At
public auction to the highest bidder at
the front door on the east side OF the
court house in the city OF Manitowoc, In
the county OF Manitowoc and state Of
Wisconsin, on the oath Gay OF February
1921, at 10 O'Clock In he forenoon OF
that day, free and clear OF all encum.
brances thereon the real estate direct.
ed by said order to be sold and describ-
ed as follows, to-wit:
The south west quarter (S.W.4)
OF the north east quarter (NEL
and the south east quarter SEQ
OF the north west quarter IN. IT,
all in section thirteen (l3), town.
ship No. twenty (20) North OF
range No. twenty .one (2l) East,
in the town OF Maple Grove, In
Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
That each OF the two above describ.
ed forty acre tracts will be offered
for sale and sold separately, except
that II both are purchased by the
same person one instrument OF con.
veyauce covering both tracts will be
executed.
That such sale will be for cash.
Dated January 4, 1921.
CHARLES SCHUETTE
Sheriff OF Mauitowoc
County, Wisconsin.
Kelly Il Wysemsn,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Pub.Jan. 6, l3,20,27, Feb. $40
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
RIGlDLY EXCLUDE FRESH AIR
French Seemingly See No Reason
My 1t Should Ever Be Adj
mtted to Bedroom.

Europeans do not like fresh air.
writes Theodore Roosevelt in Average
Americans. They feel a good deal
like the gentleman in Stephen Lea
cocks story who said he liked fresh
air, and believed you should open
the windows and get in all you could.
Then you should shut the windows and
keep 1t there II would keep for years.
| have been in many rooms IN
France where the windows were nailed
shut The beds also are rather ne
markable. They are generally fitted
with feather mattresses and fealher
quilts. Very often they are arranged
in a niche in the wall like closet,
and have two doors, which the aver
age European, after getting into the
bed. closes, thereby rendering 1t about
as airy and well ventilated as a coliln,
/ remember my own billet in one OF
the towns where we stopped. AS |
was commanding officer it was one
of the best and was reasonably warm
ID was warm because the barnyard
was next door, literally in the next
room, as all that separated me from
COW was a light deal door by the
side Of the bed. The cow was tied to
the door. When the COW slept | slept;
but If the COW passed a restless night
| had all the opportunity [ needed
to think over my past sins and future
plans,
In another town an excellent billet
was not used by the officers because
over the bed were hung photographs
Of all the various persons who had
died in the house, taken while they
lay In that bed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

Lloyd George sums up the in'crnn-
tional situation thusly: IAN the allied
nations are agreed that Germany must
pay her indemnity by exports. All the
allied nations are agreed that they do
not want German exports Every ma
ton wants TO protect its own indus
tries. Every nation wants TO collect
It's debts. Germany has not gold
enough TO pay the allies, the allies
have not gold enough to pay America
and everybody wants to be paid in
gold" From which statement Of fact
We gather that the millennium is still a
long way ahead.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

Or. u. OhandJanlan, mediate assist
Armenian Pres. ance to prevent
the starvation Of the Armenian PEG.
pie before the next harvest can be
gathered. President, Ohandjanian's
message reads,
owing to hail, rain and field
mice, the harvest in Armenia fell
below expectations. Standing crops
appeared well but owing to poor
seed. returns We're not as good as
was expected Maximum returns
100000 tons, only sufficient for
eight months for one and a half
million people Food crisis critical
and intensified by new Turkish in
vasion of Armenia. 1t Is estimated
that 100000 peaceful inhabitants of
Sarikamish and Kars region have
been forced to renew the life of
refugees and fee towards the in
terror Of Armenia. There are also
large numbers fleeing from Bolshe
viks in Azerbaijan and Southern
Russia, and coming to Armenia
Farmers, fearing famine, are unwil-
ling to sell crops, thus leaving the
cities foodless, In addition to the
Armenian crops ten thousand tons
have been purchased from neighbor.
ing countries,
In order to save Armenia 1t is
necessary to secure -four from
America, $4,000 tons, maximum re-
quirement. In the name of the Ar
menian Government and the Ar
mcnian People, beg that you use
your wide influence in order that
the Near East Relief may secure
and ship the flour needed l am
sure that in this serious crisis the
Near East Relief will not fail to
continue its aid to Armenia in her
struggle for existence.
Ell OHANpJANIAN,
"President of Armenia"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
UdIrY Market.

Shohoygan Falls, Wis On The Wis.
consin cheese exchange at Plymouth on
Monday 10 factories offered | ,73l boxes
boxes Of cheese. A sold 40 follows 60
twins At 2Jtc; 400 daisies AZ 24sc; 800
double daisies at 23tc; 80 cases young
Americas NJ 2jc; 355 cases lcnghorns at
2jtc, l5Oat 25ic, and 4l6 boxes square
prints at pc.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

The Department Of Labor's uncm-
ployment survey shows that 3,472, tG6
persons, or one third Of the country's
total working population in manufac-
turing and city industries, are idle, the
percentage Of unemployment running
as high as 50 in Michigan, where the
automobile industry was especially
hard hit by the business depression In
no other period Of the country's his
tory has such widespread industrial de
preston been unaccompanicd by Gnan-
cial panics. In 1873, in 1898 and
again in 1907 banks were forced by
hundreds TO close their doors. Nothing
of that kind has occurred in the pres
cnt period Of industrial depression,
and the reason is clear The Federal
Reserve banking system, one Of the
great domestic achievements Of the
Wilson administration, has made Gnan-
cIal panics unnecessary and almost I'M
possible There is reason for believing
that depressions without pauics must
in the nature Of things be merely
transtory, and for the restoration Of
industrial activity which is in sight the
Federal Reserve bank act must again
be given credit
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
RETAIL


Al the genuine Mochn coffee and
the skins known to the trade as mo.
chas come from the Yemen plateau,
In Arabia From Snna, the center and
capital Of this rich and fertile district,
70 Alden on the coast Is about 200
miles, and 70 Hedeldn about 100 miles.
Everything Is transported on the backs
OF cnmels, though railroad thirty
miles long, running from Alden TO La
hey, has been opened.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

There are men that, like great noun
tain peaks, grow as we recede from
them. With mountains il is distance
that gives perspective and true
realization of their magnitude. Stand
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
What occnnlnnhu Meann

The word IS derived from the Greek
words "kenos meaning empty and
"taphos,' meaning tomb. other
words a ccuotuph Is nnhral
monument erected m honor person
whose body Hos elsewhere.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
Mated Pigeons.

When pigeons are married." they
remain true as steel, divide labor, are
ever in each others company, not at
tractcd by new faces do not bother
about their neighbours business, and
are always busy at their own work
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
Armenian President
Asks American Aid
e r va n, Ar.

e riv a n, Ar.
menia: DIR. H.
o h a n d ] anian,
President of the
A r m e nian Re-
/ public, has sent
I an urgent cable
gram to Charles
V. Vickrey, Gen.
eral Secretary
of the Near East
Relief, l Madi-
son Ave, New
York City, re-
q u e sting i'm.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
NOTICE FOR ADM NlsTRATION AND
NOTICE 10 CREDITORS

NOTICE FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND
NOTICE 10 CREDITORS
State Of Wisconsin, County Court Manitowoc
County-ln Probate.
In Re Estate uf Mich 2amburek Deceased.
NoTIcE IL II hereby GIVEN That at the special
term OF said Court to be held on the 2nd
Tuesday tbeing the Sth day OF March, A. %.
1921, ut the Court House in the CITY of
Manitowoc, County OF Manitowoc and State OF
Wisconsin, there will be heard and considsr ed
the application OF Frances Zamburok for the
appointment of an administrator OF the estate
of Mich Zamburek late Of the town Of Cato
in said County. deceased;
Notice Is Hereby Further Given, That at the
special term OF said Court to be held At said
Court House, on the End Tuesday. (beiLg the
l4th day. of June, A. d. 1921, there will Do
heard, considered and adjusted, ali claims
against said Mich. Zamburek. deceased
And Notice Is Hereby Further Given That
all such claims for examination and allowances
must be presented to said County Court vt the
Court House, IN the City Of Manitowoc, In said
County and state, on or before the 18th day OF
June, A. ID 1921, or be barred
Dated February eth, 1921
BY the Court
JOHN CHLOUPEK,
County Judge
Healy & Joyce, Attorneys
Pub, Feb 49, II a.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
Money,

money,
Money doesn't go as far as 1t did,
but you have to go about us far as
ever to get it-Philadelphia Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
How to Tell SanOhIrse

~" 70 TIT odpphIrca.
a really good sapphire should appear
blue by artificial light as well as dov.
hght; some stones have trace OF
black, and some red, the latter MAXIM
them resemble amethyst. especially by
lamplight, or gasllght.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

Rose Brown, Agnes Gehrke, May
Burns, Patrick Burns, Ellen Hus.
cbke, an infant, and Patrick Csvs-
naugh special administrator OF the
estate of John Ryan, deceased,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-10

SANTOS feast t'in hate to feed upon
the prodigal Christian; they laugh
ed when in the scene with Tubal he
suffered himself to be banded about
| between exultation over Antonio's
misfortune and rage and the prodi-
gality of his runaway daughter. He
was simply as Jew despised crea-
ture and he was doubly despised as
an extortionate usurer. For the
rest the English public had no ac.
quaintance with Jews, except IN
books and on the stage. From 1890
until the middle of the Seventeenth
century the Jews were entirely ex-
Guided from England. Every preJu-
dice against them was free to flour
ish unchecked.
Did Shakespeare in certain meas
ure share these religious prejudices?
We may be sure he was very slightly
affected by them, if at all. Had he
made a more undisguised effort to
place himself at Shylock's standpoint
the censorship, on one hand would
have interviewed, while on the other
hand, the public would have been be-
wildered and alienated.
It is quite in the spirit of the age
that Shylock should suffer the pun
ishment which befalls him. For his
obdurate vengefulness he is deprived
not only of the sum he lent Antonio,
hut of az his fortune and is finally
like Marlow's Jew of Malta, the work
by which Shakespeare has been con-,
siderably influenced, compelled TO
change his religion. The latter de-
tail gives something of shock to the
modern reader. But respect for per-
sonal conviction when it conficted
with orthodoxy, did not exist IN
Shakespeare time. 1t was not very
long since Jews had been forced TO
choose between kissing the crucifix
and mounting the faggots; and in
Strasburg, in 1349, nine hundred of
them had in one day chosen the latter
alternative 1t is strange to reflect,
toe, that just at the time when, on
the English stage, one Mediterranean
Jew was pictured poisoning his
daughter and another whetting his
knife to cut his debtors flesh thous-
ands of heroic and enthusiastic He
brews in Spain and Portugal, who,
after the expulsion of 100000 at the
beginning of the century, had Sc
cretly remained faithful to Judaism,
were suffering themselves to be tor
tured, fiayed and burnt alive by the
inquisition, rather than forswear the
religion Of their race.
But what is most surprising, doubt
less, is the instinct of genius with
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which Shakespeare has seized upoa
and reproduced racial characteristics,
and emphasized what is peculiarly
Jewish in Shylock's culture. While
NARROW, according to his cuSom,
made his Barabas revel in mythology
cal smiles, Shakespeare indicates
that Shylock's culture is founded en-
tirely upon the Old Testament, and
makes commerce his only point Of
contact with the civilization of later
time. All his parallels are drawn
from the patriarchs and the prophetS.
Sundered from the regions, the
social forms, the language, in which
his spirit is at home, he has yet re-
tanned his Oriental character. Pas
sion is the kernel of his nature. His
vengefulness is many times greater
than his rapacity. Avaricious though
he be, money is nothing to him in
comparison with revenge. 1t is not
until he is exasperated by his daugh.
ter's robbery and flight that he takes
such hard measure against Antonio
and refuses to accept three times the
amount of the loan. Unchivalrous,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-10
S H VI o C K
Americus Man Discusses Shar-
acter Recently Played Here
BY Fritz Leiber.
BY MARCUS KoPPEL.

IN the eyes of the modern reader the
= central figure of the Merchant of
Venice" is, of course, Shylock, though
there can be no doubt that he APP
peared to Shakespeare's contempora-
ries a comic parsonage, and since he
makes his final exit before the last
act, by no means a protagonist. In
the humaner view of the later age,
Shylock appears as half pathetic
creation, seapegoat, victim; to
the Elizabethan public with his ra-
pacity and his miserliness, his usury
and his eagerness to dig for another
pit into which he himself falls, he
seemed not terrible but ludicrous.
They laughed when he went to Bas-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-10
NEGRO TURNS UP AFTER
ABSENCE FROM COURT

When Superior court recessed
Wednesday night until Thursday
morning White Dowdell, a negro
who entered a plea of guilty of
making and having liquor, but had
not been sentenced, was permitted
on his own request to return home
upon his promise to be back the next
morning, he being under bond of
5000 signed by several prominent
Americas negroes. When court con-
vened Thursday morning he was not
present, nor was anything heard
from him, and he was put down as a
fugitive. This morning, however,
he walked into court and explained,
when questioned, that he was feeling
sort of rheumaticky and didn't want
to come yesterday, and besides want
ed day at home with the folks.
Judge Littlejohn gave him IL
! months or A months and 500 on one