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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
AMENDMENT TO
PACT OFFERED
Colombia To Be Paid 3O,OOO. 900 ii
Proposal by Senator Ransdell
Is Passed.

Washington, April 19-An amend
ment to the Colombian treaty, pro-
viding for the payment of $50, ,0OO,-
600 to Colombia and for the ces-
sion by that country to the United
States of the Providence and St.
Andrews islands in the Caribbean
sea, was offered today by Senator
Ransdell, Democrat, Louisiana.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
voTE0N FORTY
four HOUR week
Fsurteea Cities Report Favorable
Progress to typographical
Onion.

Des Moines, Iowa. April 1s.-
Fourteen cities reported favorable
progress toward = 44-hour week 1t
the Missouri Valley typographical
conference here yesterday after
noon.
May IL the date set for formally
establishing the 44-hour week prop
osition. Several cities reported
they were already working under
an agreement of that kind. The
conference continued today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
PROTECTION OF
FORESTS URGED
Secretary Wallace Asks Governors
to Proclaim Week of Spe-
cial Observance,

Washington, April 19.-Secretary
Wallace wrote letters today to the
governors of all the state asking
their cooperation in the nation
wide forest protection week, May %
to %, recently proclaimed by Pres
ident Harding.
Menace of a future timber short
age, the secretary said. threatens
20 become present economic
fact" and spells disaster" unless
the rate of burning is materially
checked.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
FARMERS MEET.

,"ssnlnyton. April 19.-The farm
lss,,soons comforting here on
r'sove ~. matters now before con-
h. ~: r.. were augmented today by
%,;Ssa ;Ssaonal Board of Farm Organ
~ 'n'' which began a 3-day ses-
~, rue National Farmers union
~. ssAaer hero tomorrow for q
dai.EMe EMeeting and at the same time
uoss A'es rom farm loan associa-
un,s, VIII meet to organize q ma
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
BANDITS HOLD
up MEAT TRUCKS

Chicago, April 19.-Bandits today
held up two meat trucks and es-
capped with meat valued at more
than 5000. The holdups were in
different parts Of the city but took
place within five minutes Of each
other.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
Continued on Page Three.)
WILL FIGHT July 9.

New York, April 19.-The Demp-
sey Carpenter heavyweight cham
pionship bout will be fought in
Jersey City, Saturday. July 2. This
announcement was made by Pro-
moter Tex Rickard here todaY.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
ELECT WOOD.

Philadelphia, Pa, April 19-Ma-
jor-G General Leonard Wood was
elected head of the University OF
Pennsylvania.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
TO REVIEW FLEET.

Washington. April 19.-President
Harding accepted the invitation to
review the fleet April %, on the
Virginia capes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19
POLICY DIVIDEND.

Washington, April 19.-Secretary
Mellon announced dividend Of not
less than 81 on one thousand on
government policies.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-19

CONTINUED on Last Page.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

city whore tho Khan had representa-
ton.
"'rhr Eu iilu< Khan is purely n
Protestant AMI political orraai-
zat!on.' he said. Il. docs nuf seal.
political power. II has offered his:
rewards for captur. OF law breakers
POSING as klanSmv.. and lis records
show where II has provided suhstal-
ttal adj FOR those ncod!MG il. In ,hy
six years have been with III. or
der / have received only Slo.0on AMI
my Atlanta home WAS tho xii, OF
members, most OF whom subscribed
less than Il dollar. L: the Eu iIlu<
were q lawlcss band there would not
hc such Il growth of membership. in
Guiding leading citizens OF many con-
mnniti's, North. East and South"
-" Not Receive Large Salaries.
Denying that officials of Ia" organ
ration received ia;Hc sums ms Snla
ricS. or bonuses. MIR. Simmons said.
NV" ar" spending the surplus
money of tho ilan in further build
INK and enlargement OF Ltnicr Uni
vc,sity, atlanta. GA. We have srrr,
ana are spending on I.au!cr Uuiv.r-
sity the sum of Si5o,cou."
lie introduced into the record the
entire record ana expenditures per
tanning 90 ianicr University. also the
entire receipts and expenditures Of
I'll" khan ana added:
TN" university is not src;arian:
i; docs not teach nor even touch th'
Eu kiuN Khan; the only two courses
that are compulsory, is - course in
the fundamentals 81 our civilization
which are the tCnrtS OF the Christian
rcliEion using tho Holy bible as ::
basic text book ana the teaching and
intoxicating The fundamentals OF pure
Amrricanism AMI development Of cor
rect citizenship
Many al IN" faculty and trustees
are not even members Of the khan.
They are among the leaders in cdu-
Cational work in the south and would
not be connected with an institution
OF organization that vas even family
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13
OPENS BROTHERHOOD
OF ST. ANDREW MEETING
Thirty-Sixlh Annual Conven.
ton of National Body
at Norfolk.

NORFOLK. VA, oct l9.-Follow-
ing the meeting OF the National
Coupcil at the Southland Hotel this
morning. and Il series Of sectional,
conferences during the day ia the
convention hall 1T tho Ghcut club.
the thirty-siNth annual convention OF
the brotherhood of st. Andrew was
officially welcomed 10 the city tonight.
Sessions o: The uain body az the
convention will continue through tn,
remainder .; the weck At tho Chen,
club, while ;hc boys convention Will
bc in session at the parish house uf
christ Church
-Nctins for Albert l.. Roper prc,i-
dent of the council. City Attorney
K. w. p.atross made the welcoming
address on behalf nj the city of Nov
folk
bishop l.. n Tucker and Eishop
Cu-AdjUtor y. {. Thompson welcomed
the visitors on behalf OF tn" church
and tho diocese "f tibet Southern
district, Y. H. Eonsail, Of rhila-
dclphia. president OF the BROTHER
hood, called the gathering IL order
and presided over the convention.
The chtcf work OF III. evening scs-
sion WIS tho crrauiHatiun of the
convention. .nc!Mdin. election of con
veut!ou uccrS aud tho appointment
al committees The committee on the
conventions mcssar. 30 the brother
hood was heard during the evening.
~ ;hc same time the boys convcn-
tion in Christ church parish house
me, ana Was welcomed TO Norfolk
otuially ana in behalf OF the church
and local ho.~' organizations. The
boys session was featured by an adj
dress by Canon Sh-y % Toronto on
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

W" haN" h""n offered and urged TO
Use. h> 'hoS" WHO are :tnti-toinuu
'ath"iiy ami not members a.: the Kan.
possibly IA" greatest existing mass
az data mnd material AGAINST III"
is"n'.;u Catholics and knights al tot.
uhnnS. II tn" Khan was anti Etman
'a'h"ii' "" would have certain,
used tn" material offered us. but IN,
offer Ma. refused.
discussions Involving amy nau's,
religious belief ar. never allowed
in a meeting or III" klun.'
DECLARING that the attacks aral: y
'ho k'tn were originated and started
Icy n" Now York World. whose main
""tr"S" * circulation and revenue.
thc wiiu"SS said:
tn" World il the stronghold OF
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13
RICHMOND IlMES-D DISPATCH: THURSDAY OCTOBER 49,

'inE'd Win what has been charged
against III" khan.
"rh" "hnrr" is mud. ,ha, we Aro
"ri:hn'..od I" preach ANA jrarh rclir
i"nS iniui"ranr" nnd especially that
"" ar" Hn;i-i:"maT Catholic. anti
lew nnd an,l-n"rr".' AIR simmons
continued.
Tile works OF tn" l,lam PROV. this
absolutely untrue. Many alleged
ouiraEcS have been attributed to Tho
kinn. bui none al these were against
Roman Catholics, Jews and nccraa.,
per So and non" were committed Ly
the khan. |, is indeed strange tina, n
wo "rItrized |" pvrs"cut" tho Roman
Catholics. Jews ANA negroes. tba.
n"thlnr has been don" AGAINST them.
since tho fight against tn, i,i,u
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

ia" Democratic newspapers and the
'V'n""ri'ti" party. and Il haa hccn
SAID hy those in Il position to know,
t''at IL the World could by shrcw l
rr"rarnnda aud unthruthful islanders.
lore" republican CONGRESS and ni-
mih'strati"n To Throttle and destroy
purely loyal American Protestant
irat"rhal organization. us is the Eu
h!uN Kan. that it's hundreds Of thou
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

Il former kiansman. who wrote Il SC
rics or articles about the orSuniza-
ton, said
Just as Judas betrayed Christ for
thirty pieces of silver. SO there was
found by the Hearst paper G. Andcr-
son Wright. u former k!ansman. who
for money betrayed his oath. My In
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

formation, is that the Hearst papc
paid this man 5000 cash ana 81
II week as long as he worked on Il
Storic: and also agreed to protc
him from amy damage suits and 9th
legal action resulting from his Lib,
Gus stories. These stories being f:sl
from start to finish"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13
IMPERIAL WIZARD
WAVES EMPHATIC.
DEFENDING ORDER
F,om First Page. J

continued From First ragc.)
the par; Of alleged klansmcn Mr.
simmons declared that when mem.
hcr took tho law into his own hands
lic automatically was dropped from
the organization.
"Aua have never yet failed" he
added. ito turn over 10 the local au-
ihoriticS. II had il. any evidence
needed 20 bring about Il conviction. !
have been doing everything in that
direction and NO man living can say
trat !. personally or rs head Of the
ilun. ever attempted To shield Il Grim
janl. y members oath requires him
to- uphold and respect the law. Oar
ritual. about which 50 many SANDER
IuS things have been said. * copy
ichtcd. and fled these i've years in
me library Of Congress. Surely. IL
would not have been put there under
the o"c az the government If We had
anything - conceal. There is Moth
in- I'M i, but love Of country and
mr." Amrricanisln
Prevents Rather Than Inritc> Rints.
The charge that The Khan sought 10
obtain officers OF the luw as
member was characterized by.
ia" imperial wizard 'aS 4
tremendous indictment auain.,
Tho honor ~ American citizenship"
Denying that this Khan melted TO riot.
ho declared NO RIO, had occurred in amy.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

inc sour bile, fou! eases ard con-
"'iPat.h matter which IL prnGucini;
'he misery. y cascar.: tonight will
s'FaiS: 'ch You up b" morniuE-1 20
S'"t DON Keeps your head clear.
St"haCa sweet, liver and bowels reg.
rldr for uontLs--Adv,r.fs. ,rcrr
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13

sands OF members. friends AMI those
VINO think nv does tho khan. would at
tho polls three years from now for
get party lines and prcrcrenco ami
vote the Democratic ticket"
it"i"rrinE To attacks an the khan
ny Hearst newspapers" Mr.. Simmons.
turning toward G. Anderson Wright
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-13
CONSTIPATION SOURs STOMACH AND
KEEPS YOU SICK, BILIOUS, HEKDACHY

No odds how bad your liver. s.om-
ach or bowels. how much your head
HSh'S' now miserable aud unccinfor;-
h"Ic YOU ar" from constipation. in
digestion. hiiioUsncss-you always
get relief with CaScnrcts. Tho.
cleanse Your liver and bowels of al.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

the edge of the cafe table. Behind on a
little platform fenced with red baise musi-
clans keep up reterant hummng and twa.g-
ing out of which theme in minor key Climbs
and skids in an endless arabesoue. There is
kind of lutte, either. violin and woman
who sings In the st i = stool with coffee
cups and hot or nestle The either is
r,..,od by grzzled man with bottle nose
and spectacles who occasionally throws his
head back and opens his mouth wide and let's
out happily great Gregoran yodel which
the other voices follow and lead back with
difficulty into the web of sound. AT the
tables packed under the locust tree. where
they will get shade in the afternoon, sit peo-
pie with narghel;s or cigarettes or German
pipes or American cigars drinking mastic and
beer and coffee and even vodka. There is
smell of tobacco and charcoal and anis from
t>e mastic and douzico and grilled meat from
the skewers of chiche kebab. and discord-
ance of many hostile languages and shuttle
Of feet from the street under the terrace.
Leaning my chin on my hands and looking
down at the strip of cracked and dusty pave
ment between the bare feet of the boys who
sell cakes and p;stachio nuts and fy-spotted
candy along the terrace wall and the row Of
autos for hire of which the drivers, mostly
Russians in various patched uniforms, lon
and sleep and chat waiting for fare through
the long afternoon hours Across
that space shoes, feet, shambling legs crossed
arms, arms swinging vacantly, stoop shoul-
ders, strongly nodded backs under thin cotton.
chests brown and sweat-beaded shawls black
wells of women, yakmaks faces All life is
sucked into the eXpressiveness of faces A
boy, skin the color of an ealthen pot eyes
and lips of a drunken Bacchus swaggers bv
jauntily, on his head tray of roasted yellow
corn girl patters along mouselike; fea-
lures droop very white, Ike freesia behind
thin black veil. A white bearded man in a
blue gown red-rimmed eyes as bleared az
moonstones, being led by tiny brown boy.
Two mammals, each strong enough to carry a
pi2no alone, with deeply marked, mindless
features, and the black boards of Assvrian
bowmen. Three Russians, blond thick-chest-
ed, of the same height, white canvas tunics
pulled down tight under their belts blue eyes
with freshwashed look and their hair patted
nd slcked, like children dressed for a partvX
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

ers and kewpie dolls, shoe laces and umping
Jacks and little colored silhouettes under glass
of mosques and expresses, and cakes round
and square and life preserver shaped They
are men of all ages and conditions mostly
with dense, white, northern skins and fair
close cropped hair all with drawn hungry
look about the cheekbones and yelled shudder
Of pain in their eyes. In the restaurants one
through the open windows pale girls
with wells bound tight about their hair, wander
lstessly from table to table Two rouged and
densely powdered ladies in twin dresses Of
hounced pink on the arms of a pair Of stout
Armenans, hustle out Of an allcyway. from the
end Of which comes a sound of a piano and
singing.
Further along onc-lcgged Russian soldier
stands against lamppost, big red hands Gov
cring his face and sobs out loud
I'HE plush salon Of the Pera Palace Hotel
The Archbishop, tall man in flowing
black, with beautiful curly, chestnut -colored
beard and glmlet eyes, is pouring out an i'm
petuous torrent of Greek Listening to him.
a Greek lady elaborately dressed in rose sat
IN; also an American naval officer, journal
ist and miscellaneous frock- coated
people. Clink Of ice in cocktails being
brought to two British majors across the
room. The Archbishop lifts slender Byzan-
tine hand and orders coffee Then he changes
to French, lisping little his long. balanced
phrases in which predominate the words
"horreur," "atrocitee" "euvre humanitaire"
"civization mondiae." The Turks in Samsoun
the Kcmalists, who weeks since deportcd
the men Of orthodox faith, have now posted
an order TO deport the women and children.
Three days' notice or course that means
massacre, says some one hastily
The Archbshop's full lips are at the rim OF
his tiny coffee cup. He drinks quickly and
rncticulously. In ones mind beyond the red
plush vision Of dark crowds crawling inland
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

fczzes too large for their bullet heads and
stately gentlemen in frock coats and white
vests with festooncd watch chains and grave
bearded theological students in neatly wound
white cotton turbans all squattng close to-
gether with their shoes beside them. yellow
bright beam of sunlight, striking across the
pcarly simmer of the dome, gave full on the
bronze face and shining beard Of the mollah
who was reading the Koran and brought fierce
magenta fame into the silk hanging that fell
from the front Of the pulpit platform. He
read IN wooden staceato voice, swaying
slightly with the rhythm, and in the pause at
the cn0 Ct each verse soft Amccn growed
through the crowd
1t is for the fall &C Adrianoplc, this day
every year, the young man with the green
tassel on his beads whispered in French in my
ear. Many OF these people come from Adri-
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

handed him the water, he had had to crouch
low to the ground to drink it, his back was
so bent, and the gesture full of sceptered kings
with which he had put back the glass and
thanked me with a of a skinny, corded
hand.
Something in that wave of the hand, of the
soaring of mnarets, and the cry of muezzins
and the impassive eyes of the elderly Turkish
gentlemen in white vests sitting so quiet be-
side rejoicing Greeks in the Taxim Garden.
There were reasons for learning Turkish.
Then when one has seen all one can stand
OF international vaudeville Of Russian ladies
trying to earn a few pennies for the hard
bread Of exile, Of Levantine dancers and
bleached European singers, one walks home
along the Grande Rue de Pera. Along the
curbs arc more Russian refugees, soldiers in
varied, uniforms that once were Wran-
gels army, selling everything imaginable out
of trays slung about their necks, paper flow
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

over sun-shrivcled hills. The women were
crying and wailing in the streets of Samsoun,
says the officer. The news must be sent cut
continues the Archbishop; the world must
knew the barbality Of the Turks America
must know. A telegram to the President of
the United States must be sent of Again in
ones mind beyond red plush curtains and the
polished phrases Of official kilograms the roads
at night under the terrible bood-orange neon
of Asia, and the wind Of the dehles blowing
dust-swrls among hudded women singing
the dark attentive eyes OF children, and far
off on the heat-baked hills a sound of horse
men.
In big armchair beside the window a Turl.
with grzzled eyebrows and with eyes as soft
and as brown as the Archbishop's beard looks
unmovcdly at nothing. One by one the oval
amber beads Of conversation chaplet drop
through his inscrutably slow, white fingers.
TNHEY sell amber beads and the notarcs and
acribes nave their little tables and stools in
the court Of the mosque Of Bayazid. Charitable
people have left foundations for the feeding of
She pigeons that circle among the dappled
branches of its planes and perch drinking,
bcaks tilted up Threats shimmering with each
swallow, the marble verge of its washing
fountain. One haring roon stood against the
cold granite Of a column watching Bedouin
in stiff bournouse of white wool dictate let
ter to scribe with the gestures Of an emperor
composing an cdict 70 conquered city, when
noticed that a constant string of people was
going in under The tab portal OF the mosque.
Advcnturing inqusitivcy near, | beck
y
silk tassel at the end Of his string Of amber
beads. A porter obsequiously pushed bic
slippers over my shoes, and | stepped over The
high threshold The nuce. red-carpered floor
under the dome and the daiscs along the sides
were full of men, bcggars and porters and
artisans in leather aprons and small boys with
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

Of sun, or hand, lean and brown, is lifted
to gray beard. Beside me three young men
IN fezzes Of bright red are exchanging
Wltticsms. An old gentleman with a puffy,
red face, dressed in the eternal white vest and
bToad-tailed frock coat, listens, looking across
his nargheh with eyes sparkling and occa-
sonaly throws his head back and roars with
laughter. A yellow, slender man with green
carpet slippers beside him is looking into va
cancy with large, ycilow-brown eyes, in his
hand a long amber cigarette-holder that is
bright gold when the sun strikes it,
Sans connaitre les classiqges on ne peut etre
nj dplcmate nj politician nj oratcur
But orc can sit in the shade where the cool
wind rustlcs the vine leaves, letting the days
slip through TIE fingers smooth and decorous'y
shaped the Jumps Of amber Of the conversa-
tion beads with which one hand or the other
constantly plays.
Ont Of the snorting and grinding in low gear
comes a staff car full Of Allied Officers, CLINT
of geld braid and chattering of voices
cloud of dust hides it as it crawls up the un-
even read.
A flock OF sheep scampcrs bleating out cf
tie dust followed by two shepherds, who shout
and throw stones and beat with their sticks
until tie sheep begin to tiow through tie mar
row gate like water through the outlet in
trough.
Sans conniatre les classiques A
party Of the inter-Allied police force has ap-
peared and the stare searchingly in the faces
OF the Turks in the c.fa There are two Ital-
ian gendarmes. with shiny zoe -cornered hats
a ID buttons on their coatea Is. so,,@ British
M. P.'s, with faces like pink wax and na~l
red neeks; Trenchmen with the whiskers ia
miliar to Paris cartoonists. They are all
red faced and sweaty from their rounds, and
there is dust their highly polished shoes
When they have stared their fill at the people
in the cafe they turn and go through the gate
into town. Under the vines one has noticed
Them The voices of the cid men continue and
the slow movement of hand stroking beard
In the upper bowl of the narghelis there is
Little red glow at long intervals when the
smoker pulls deeply Above the gray towers
and the wall kites with black curved wings and
h wkheaks circle in the porcelain blue sky
A FRAGILE SAVIOR comes from the tiny
rounded leaves Of the basil in a pot on
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

anople, fled from the Greeks. Commemora-
ton.
The man who had been reading climbed
down cumsily across the magenta silk hang
ing and a taller man with full lips and dark
cheeks flushed under hollow eyes took his
place.
Now he will pray for the army in Anatoa
His body erect, his eyes staring straight
INTO the sunlight, his hands raised level with
his beard, the new mollah shouted prayer
full Of harsh ringing consonants and brazen
horns and kettle drums And all through the
mosque under the family blue dome men
looked beyond the palms Of their raised hands
at the flaming magenta silk and the priest
praying in the yellow shaft Of sunlight and
the Ameen at every pause rose from grow
to a roar grew fierce and breathless till the
little glass lamps tinlllel in the huge fiat
chandeliers above the tUrbans and the fezzes
rolled up the succeed walls shook the great
dome IS the domes Of the churches must have
shaken with the shout of the fighting men OF
Islam the day Constantine's city was carried
by assault and the last Constantine killed in
his purple boots.
Al the door they left every enc was pre-
sented with card which Was cut of the
great mosque of AdraAople, and with small
tissue paper bag Of caMdos