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The Washington times., 1922-11-26

1t. In the paper money Of 1922 q
new system of notation has been
adopted, moving the decimal point
to the left; thus 25 rubles In the
present currency represents ESQ
900 Of the old. a quarter Of a mil
lion. And the government will
print no more of Its old-time paper
money. but very shortly. according
to Captain Hibben, who talked
with high officials, including Com
rade Trotsky. a new metal coinage
will be established, and this. with
the improving industrial condi-
tions, may go far toward restoring
Russia's commercial credit.
OF the sincerity Of the Soviet
leader in his idealism. Captain Hib.
ben remains convinced. and this
in spite of the fact that unfriendly
propaganda seek to picture Trotsky
as q tyrant, who has reduced his
people to such a state Of poverty
that he has them now in his power,
q condition which he and his as
sociates are falsely reported to On
Joy.
It Is to the Russian Red Cross.
which Captain Hibben represents
as secretary since his discharge
from the American Army In 1919,
that we are indebted for the oppor-
tunity OF bringing Russian drama
tic artists, musicians, and painters
to. the United States, mot only to
secure funds for Russian relief"
SO we are told, but also to dem
onstrate to the American public
the high standard of art in Russia
since the revolution some twenty
years ago, under the old regime
in Russia. Capt. Paxton Hibben
was secretary of the American
Embassy at Petrograd. and he has
a thorough knowledge of. and q
conservative attitude toward Rus
sia. and all things Russian.
A scholar and diplomat. he 10 1t
the same time one Of the people
who has the confidence OF both
America and Soviet Russia. and
would not mind IL we should hap.
pen to call him "Comrade Hibben"
Perhaps we shall have tho pleas.
ure Of welcoming Captain Hibben
at the same time with Malyav1n,
the Soviet painter. when he comes
this winter to Washington with
his exhibition Of Russian painting.
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VIENNA, Nov. 25


Ut is no longer possible to doubt
that Austria 10 doomed unless
- her last despairing appeals for
help are answered with dramatic
rapidity.
Evidence abounds on every hand
of the imminence Of a catastrophe
which would convulse Central
Europe. Four years of suffering
have now reached their climax.
and even II the desired aid be i'm.
mediately forthcoming It Is not
easy to sec how disaster may be
averted.
The cost Of living has been
trebled In the last three months.
The monthly index figure. which
IL worked out by q subcommittee
composed Of representatives Of all
classes Of the community, shows
that the average increase OF the
cost Of necessities Of life between
July 15 and August Is was 124
per cent.
Most OF the shops In Vienna are
closed. THESE shops which are
open display only few perfectly
unwantsd articles. All public
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VIENNA SHOPS CLOSE
AS MONEY SHRINKS

necessities and especially imported
goods are carefully hidden away.
Tradesmen keep all the more valu.
able stocks at homo and do not
care to sell them.
People may be seen rushing from
one grocer's shop to another trying
to obtain even a tin Of condensed
milk, fresh milk being unobtain.
able, as the farmers prefer to feed
their pigs on 1t rather than send
1t to town.
Large quantities Of timed milk
were displayed In the shop win.
dows one evening, and the next
evening the milk had disappeared.
The grocers had decided after clos.
ing time to hold 1t UP until prices
again advance.
Prices Of everything are not
rising daily but hourly. "where
win this lead tor" a shopkeeper
was asked.
His laconic reply was:. 1--WE shall
close togetherg'
The shops in the heart Of the
city. near to the fashionable hotels,
are kept open. but these are enter.
cd only by foreigners who are ask.
cd TO pay with foreign money.
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VAGARIES OF GULF
Stream Worry
BRITISH SCIENTISTS

bergs have been sighted far south
on the trade routes this year. We
attribute this to the Gulf Stream
breaking up the northern ice.
"The high sea temperature may
be due to disturbances below the
bed of the ocean as well al to
vagaries in the course Of the Gulf
Stream. The sharks which have
been caught at different points
round our coasts and the extra
ordinary quantities Of great Jelly
fish which have invaded the Eng
lish Channel were attracted by
the warmth of our northern waters
this summer.
1--WE have no real knowledge
what is happening deep beneath
the surface of the sea- We can
only conjecture. Scientists, how.
ever, seem to think that the Gulf
Stream is disracefully disorderly."
1t has become a British habit to
blame the Gulf Stream for every
thing. 1t was cursed for the wet
summer Of 1920 and for the hot
summer Of 1921. Various reports
in other years declared that 1t
ran too fast or too slow. 1t was
even said to be going backwards
in 1906. 1t was stated to be the
cause Of the vanishing herring har-
vest last year.
The real trouble about the Gulf
Stream is that no one can rely on
it. 1t is the feminine quantity Of
ocean currents.
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Chicagoan Travels
Around World i'm
Twenty-Five Years
BY Universal Service.

by universal service.
ROUND the world in twenty
two years is Clyde Allen
Dickinson's record. He returned
home today.
Twenty-Five years ago Dlckin.
son shipped out Of Chicago as
helper on a mule train. He had
cents in his pockets. His trip
took him to South Africa where
the Boer war was in progress.
At Durham. Natal, he was paid
off-15-and received his dis
charge.
For years he Travelled from set
tlement to settlement in Africa,
exhibiting phonograph and
later, . moving picture machine
to the thrilled natives. From AZ.
rloa he journeyed to Burma In.
dia, China. the South Sea Islands
and all of the out-9f.the-way
places of the world.
"It was good stuff" ne said
on returning home today, but
wouldn't advise any youngster to
try II. no matter how much he
thinks he likes romance, IT'S .
long pull and . rough one"
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years of his bride. the average OF
the bridal couple was just about
right.
But theirs was a hectic honey
moon. Mrs. Aisop couldn't keep
away from Broadway. though her
husband sought to lead her into
the paths Of pleasure in Europe.
California, Canada, Palm Beach
and anywhere that she desired.
But the lure of the lights Of the
incandescent alley ever called
her back and always she re-
turned.
And always she forsook the old
man for the swift young crowd
that has made the old street IA.
nous. Actors. actresses, Divorces.
and the dancing fringe Of DO.
hemian society flocked around
her. The superannuated bride.
groom had given her 100000. it
was said, and Broadway was not
inclined to let gosling SO al.
Turing run unpicked.
1t was champagne. champagne,
and more Of the same all around.
with Effle Pope Alsop for many
. day thereafter. Often she would
run short Of taxicab fare and be
driven to the nearest station house,
nearly helpless, to face a COM
plant of swindling-and she with
a fortune in jewels on her fin.
gers.
A SARDONIC JEST.
The Night Court got to know
her and 1t always seemed such a
joke to Effie. for she would al.
ways have the Waldorf called and
always the aged Alsop. white
bearded. bent and sick Of heart,
would come and plead for her
and pay and let her lead him
back to their car.
But the old man got weary
after a while and shut off his
wife's allowance. Then as though
for revenge. she got an engage.
ment to sing at Hammerstein's
old Victoria, diasonally across
the street from the Knicker-
booker. but the act didn't 20
anywhere except out. for all the
bravery Of It's scenery and cos.
tunes, for all the bravery Of the
beautiful. nervous, young woman
with the thin, small singing voice.
Edward Alsop filed suit for d.
vorce then and the siri.wife coun.
tered with q suit for divorce also.
He charged desertion and she
charged cruelty. calmly asserting
that he was so fervent a lover.
so ardent in his caresses, that
life with him was impossible.
At that. the old man filed q
deed in Pittsburgh. transferring all
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youth and strength and freedom
than the splendors of the Alsop
mansion in Washington where
the old men and chattering old
women pass through the gilded
corridors.
THAT was the trouble. 1t
wasn't his jealousy. though when
he became jealous of his own
son 1t was rather a pity. 1t wasn't
his being stingy, for I could usually
coax him into paying my bills.
1t wasn't lack of affection, for
my husband was too foolishly af.
fectionate.
TT was the blind. impossible
idea that he could mold me I'm
spirit to the likeness of his aged
friends and still keep me happy"
A TRAGIC INTERLUDE.
1t was between the time when
they separated and the granting
OF the decree that Effie Alsop de.
cided to invade the stage. She
took ~ q team-mate one Prince
Paul De Clairmont. who claimed
to be of the Russian nobility and
the original Of the hero in Elinor
Glyn's vivid 'Three Weeks"
But on the eve OF their engage.
ment Paul committed suicide, and
when Erie did appear with new
partner tho aot was not exactly
. permanent success. Mrs, Aisop
could sing somewhat and dance
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SOVIET USS
Booming Its Arts,
SAYS FLAMBEAU

Continued from page 81
many as now, the attendance was
$4,000 per month.
What Ia the Soviet theory of
artf may be asked. Lunacharsky
has answered this question. Flu
turism," he says. "is the continue
ton Of the bourgeois art with Ger.
tain revolutionary attitudes. The
proletariat also win continue the
art Of the past. but apart from
the sane culture and perhaps di.
rectly from the renaissance, and
it will bear art forward. farther
and higher than all the futurists
and in q direction entirely differ
ent."
And what is this idealistic direc.
ton? As yet. we cannot say, but
we may hope that It is a con.
structive one. As Jacques Mesnil
points out. II was not until thirty
years after the French revolution
that its effect was directly e.
pressed In q new art, the roman
tic school. We must not be too
hasty in judging the Soviets.
1t IL true that the Russian art
lists are not by any means all sat
isfied with present conditions.
Far from 1t. Many Of them are
no doubt starving. So are the
artists Of all countries today, be.
cause in this commercial age the
dollar" rules, in Europe as in
America.
One charming Russian painter,
Nile. Dore, told Flambeau of the
privations she had endured in
Russia until At length she had
lost faith in the Soviets. and had
escaped to Riga. in Latvia. She
longed to come to America. Her
paintings were very carefully exc
cuted floral studies in decorative
character. She offers to contrib
ute to the exposition in Washing.
ton.
MONEY VALUE FALLS.
Industrial art, however, In re-
viving In Russia. Tho new de-
signs for linoleums and other ma
terials of everyday use are hope
full signs in their beauty Of con.
ception and execution.
The money Of Russia has depre.
ciated until today a novel scheme
by the government seeks to restore
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Once Old Mans Darling and Broadway Pet,
Effie Alsop Lands Friendless i'm Bellevue
gracefully. but the offering did not

gracefully. but the offering did not
take.
She used to say. when the honey
moon was full. that she just do
tested being young. She detested
society. she said. too. and It was
Mr.. Alsop's frigid conventionality
that first frightened her. But she
did like the society of Broadway
and the unconventionality OF the
Throbbing Thirties, she admitted.
and yet she paid this tribute to her
husband just before they parted.
And he was, too-full Of good
ness and kindness. but Of under.
standing the old man had little,
from his brides viewpoint. and she
had less from his, as developments
proved.
Mrs. Alsop cited her ideals after.
ward in this statement:
MY ideal life In the social
world would be such . life as
Mrs. Aimee Goraud. leads. filled
with interest and amusement! I
would die II I had to live as most
society women do--play bridge
and cards all afternoon"
In unmistaiable contrast to
her moods Of bygone days, Effis
Alsop. ouieted and reserved by
the grim realities Of her life, had
nothing 10 say the other day
when newspapermen carried her
the news that the Washington
millionaire had passed to the
Great Beyond.
II she felt any yearning for
the aged millionaire who divorced
her. she carefully concealed her
emotions. She refused to make
any statement: by her manner
she assumed that II was all part
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Cniverpal Service.
LONDON, Nov.


WHAT has happened to the
Gulf Stream,
Scientists are raising the Ques.
ton without much hope of a salts
factory answer. The Gulf Stream,
after all, 10 above question and
answer. 1t does unaccountable
things OF it's own accord, and
leaves the meteorologists wonder
ing.
It's latest trick is to bring into
northern latitudes flying fish be.
longing to the tropics and to raise
the temperature Of the Atlantic on
the American trade route to a TEN.
perature of seventy eight degrees.
These phenomena have caused the
British weather experts much hard
thinking. What has happened to
the Gulf Stream?
"All manner Of theories concern.
ing the Gulf Stream have been ad.
vanced." said q meteorologist yes
terday. "but no general rule Of be-
havior for this ocean current has
ever been defined. We know little
about the stream, though 1t has a
most important effect on our eli
mate. Some years ago the Gulf
Stream seemed to be running out
Of it's usual course, and the North
Atlantic waters reached tempera.
lures as high as eighty degrees.
IAN exceptional number Of ice.
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ASSpSShANCiyt Vho hiCt
the girl in Toxaway. N. c., where
their seventy-eight-year-ola father
virtually owned the town.
Efns Pope might have married
either Of them had she wished, or
any one of a hundred others. She
was a Georgia girl, daughter Of q
Washington physician. and beau.
tiful.
But instead Of marrying either
Of the Alsop boys--she married
their septuagenarian father! Broad.
way was startled out of its cynical
indifference that time. And Effie
laughed after the ceremony:
Eyes. dad really cut the boys out.
He IL 80 witty"
A HECTIC HONEYMOON.
They were married In Trinity
Church with quiet solemnity. and
that night the bridegroom sent the
bride to the Hotel Latham to join
her mother, while he went to the
Waldorf with his two sons, on
whom he u said to have bestowed
$1,o00,000 each to repair whatever
damage may have been done to
their hearts by his wooing and win
ming Of the girl who claimed their
love.
The boys were strong for their
new mother, declaring that IL was
far better to have a mother OF
nineteen ycare than one of ninety,
and II their father was thrice the
The Washington times., 1922-11-26
Leaves $40 i'm Hotel:
Writes for and Gets IL
Advantages.
BY DIR. BERNARD HOLLANDER
Tho Famous Psychologist.

CHICAGO, Nov. rs.
WHATEVER other folks may
w think of Chicago and it's NOR
ais, Mrs. J. A. Hillerich, Louis.
vile, KY, will have an abiding
faith in Chicagoans' integrity.
writing to the Hotel Sherman.
she said she had left a $50 bill
beneath the mattress in room 1917
Assistant Manager Ernest Reul in.
vestigated. II was there.
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of life. Nor did she indicate in
any way that she either expected
him to forgive her in his viii,
or that she knew she would not
receive any part of his estate,
no matter how small.
His death to her apparently
was just another chapter in her
life-but this time an event In
which she had played no part.
He had merely passed out Of
life's picture as far as she ap-
peared to be concerned.
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liCnaire VINO DfeO q
Few Days Ago, Now
Lives in a "Walk
Up" Apartm t,
But the Gay Lights
She Loved So Well
Are Still i'm View.
NEW YORK, Nov. Is.
A MOTHER chapter in
"A the hectic life Of
IA Effie Pope Hill
Alsop was written a few
days ago when sophis-
ticated Broadway, just re-
covering from the news of
her poverty-stricken condi-
tion and her removal to
Bellevue Hospital, suffer
ing from alcoholism and
veronal poisoning, learned
that her one-time husband,
Edward B. Alsop, million
aire retired steel manufac-
turer, had died in Wash
ington in the palatial home
where she once had hoped
to reign as it's chatelaine.
Immediately after the
news of the death Of the
aged millionaire palled
upon the white light dis
trict there was some specu-
lation that she would be
membered in his will and
that her said plight might
be obliterated.
But those who remem-
bered the details of the di-
vorce insisted that what
ever settlement had been
made at the time that the
decree was signed had long
since been dissipated by
the young woman, whose
May December romance
was blighted in less than
three months.
When they carried the
screaming young woman
out Of the ambulance into
Bellevue, with a policeman,
a doctor, and a nurse
struggling with her, a
passerby stared at the
frenzied face beneath the
disheveled, bobbed golden
hair, and exclaimed:
"Why that's Effie Alsop,
isn't iti"
And his companion re-
piled:
"Effie Alsop' that's a new
one on me-"
New York forgets so
quickly. Tearing with teeth
and nails at her captors and
shrilling hysterical defiance,
Ef'ie battled like a wildcat
to keep out Of the place she
had so long feared-Belle-
vue, with its psycopathic, al
coholic, neurotic and all the
other dread departments.
But it was as though fate
was forcing her in and with
her registration in the ia
nous institution the title of
the last chapter of another
tragedy of Broadway was
written.
MAY AND DECEMBER.
The tragedy began in the most
metropolitan point on Broadway,
the point where Forty.second
STREET flows across the old thorough
fare, to a thunderous chorus of
traffic turmoil. The story begins
at the switchboard of the old
Knickerbocker Hotel, where Effie
Pope Hill presided ten years ago.
She was nineteen then and hun.
dreds of men fluttered around her.
Among them were Hal and Ned
Alsop, youths of nineteen and
twenty. respectively. who had met
the girl In Toxaway, N. c., where
their seventy-eight-year-ola father
virtually owned the town.
Effe Pope might have married
either Of them had she wished, or
any one of a hundred others. She
was a Georgia girl, daughter of q
Washington physician. and beau.
tiful.
But instead Of marrying either
Of the Alsop boys-she married
their septuagenarian father! Broad.
way was startled out of its cynical
indifference that time. And Effie
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-05-26
LATER ALFALFA CUTTING
FOUND BETTER PRACTICE

Delaying the cutting of alfalfa until
it is nearly in full bloom has been
found a better practice than moving
it soon after blooming starts. Trials
made by the United States depart
ment of agriculture and state expert
ment stations indicate that the yields
are larger over period of years, and
that the life of the stand is prolonged
by delaying harvesting until the plants
are nearly in full bloom.
Hay made when the plants are
nearly in full bloom possibly is not
quite so palatable, but this is OFFSET
by the gain in quantity of hay. The
fields that were cut prior to or at the
beginning of blooming showed a ten
dency to die out sooner. Cutting
crop. late in the fall so that not enough
growth was left for protection IN the
winter also had much to do with thin
ming stands. The department recon-
mends that alfalfa be given time to
reach a height of 6 to inches before
cold weather shuts off the sap flow.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-05-26
THE ATTRACTIVE INDUSTRY OF FOX FARMING

plan with watch tower in the center
OF the circle. Each pen is so feet by
20 feet by II feet and is funnel shaped.
The small end is nearest to the tower.
They are separated by width OF S
feet. The bureau of biological survey
claims that disease cannot travel over
five feet This ranch has taken an
extraordinary precaution and have
made their width eight feet.
Each pen contains two foxes, male
and female. The feature of the pens
sloping toward the tower has a very
good advantage, especially during the
mating season, as the caretaker is
able to watch the foxes at all times
There is a searchlight in addition to
be used during that time The care
taker has before him at all times a
chart showing the pen numbers and
name of the foxes. In the diagram is
kept a detailed report of the actions of
each fox If a fox fails to eat two
meals in succession, it is Immediately
taken out and put in another pen for
that purpose and taken care Of Up
to the present time there has not been
a sick fox on the Spokane ranch. In
fact, foxes are said to be more hardy
than either dogs or cats.
Foxes are fed twice a day, morning
and evening, and their food consists
approximately of so per cent meat, 25
per cent milk, 25 per cent stale bread,
vegetables, apples, ground bone, fish
and fats. The cost of feeding is about
one cent per day per fox. AS fox
will eat less than one-half pound of
food daily the success of fox farming
can be attributed to the extreme low
cost Of maintenance. Grass and other
green foods are put in the pens at
various intervals, as the animals re-
quire something to keep them healthy.
The kennels are as clean as possible
and are washed out once or twice
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-05-26

ing the shanks coated with these
nalrs. The imitation of the Silver
black fox is almost impossible because
-ol these silver banded black hairs.
me most common imitation is the
herman dyed pointed fox made from
.ne common red fox dyed black, which
nas white hairs from the bodies of
uaugers or other animals sewed into
or fastened into it by adhesive.
IL was the writer's privilege some
: .ilne agosto be offered an invitation by
pir. y. M. Robinson of Spokane, Wash
mston, president of the United States
SnVer Fox Farms corporation, to visit
.ie spokane farm that is situated on
sne famous Appleway six miles from
ne neart of the city, 1t can be truth
i'ls SAID that Mr.. Robinson is to be
.Onsidered an acknowledged author
'S on Silver Black fox farming as he
LOO made constant study of the sub
soo' ana has exhausted every possible
aleans to obtain information pertain
US 20 them and has visited every Sill
~ 20 slack fox ranch in North America
~ any note. /. The drive to the ranch
= Ok miles from the heart of Spokane
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-05-26

year with solution of creoline. Lots
of breeders dip the fox pups after they
are weaned in very weak solution of
creoline 10 rid them of fleas and other
vermin. s. -
The Silver Black fox is very pro-
life animal and reproduces from the
time it is year old until it attains
the age of twelve or thirteen. They
breed once year and raise two to
ten pups to litter. A successful Sill
yer Black fox ranch in Canada has
had an average of four and fiye-eighths
pups to hitler for the last five years.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-05-26

hangover of two feet, so it can pc
seen that should fox escape from ms
nen. if is practically Impossible ior
him to get away. AT night time tnere
orc two. police dogs that circle the
entire enclosure and act in the capac-
itv of silent patrol men. It mlgnt DC
we'll to say here that the Silver BACK
fox does not mind these dogs ou'
rather seem to regard them as 'nen
protectors.
The pens are built on avceil'i e'ilNe1