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New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
English Poets Burial
Strangest EUer Held

LONDON, Sept 1s (By The Assos,.
ated Press).-one of tha strangest
burials ever known in England was
that of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet.
diplomat, traveller and opponent OF
British rule in Ireland, India and
Egypt. Il wish," his will said, ITO be
buried in the simplest manner, to be
laid in the ground wrapped in my old
Eastern travelling carpet. without coffin
or casket."
These instructions were faithfully
carried cut when he was buried IN
Sussex. -Jis daughter, Lady Went
worth, and his grandchildren and a
few friends were present. He desired
to be buried by men employed on his
own estate, and to the pallbearers he
bequeathed $40 each. The will further
requested shat my muse, Elizabeth
Lawrence, shall accompany me to and
arrange me in my grave"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Pope Cuts Expense to Live
Within the Papal Income
Financial Expert To Be Installed at Vatican .r,
Staff of Attendants Will BE Re-.
duced to Minimum

proprietors, but was continued hv tho
Cathoiics, who, even to-day. give 70
the collections in the churches for the
apkeep Of the Pope and his court.
To-day the Holy See has pstrim onv
invested in stock to the amount OF
nearly 1oo'ooo,ooo lire, 100000 of
winch is invested in Italian consoli.
GATED war loan, bought during the war
ana afterward by the late pope Rene
dlct' who was criticized because it was
not considered a neutral act to buv
war loans. The income Of these in
Vestments covers one third of the ex-
penses (Which, before the war
amounted to 100000 lire). which. NV.
ing to the high cost Of living have
now reached about 100000 lire. The
diference is made up from "peter,s
renee from all over the world. as
wen as private offerings from devout
Catholics. The war has reduced many
OF the latter, as, for instance, that OF
the Emperor Of Austria, who. from b;e
own private purse, always sent
yearly sum OF 100000 crowns to the
Pope, while the Austrian archduk.s
and the Hungarian mobiles were eonaI.
ly generous
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
.~hovoS g kE rS.-o We

able for fast motor traffic. In the mean
time, however, while there are thou
sands of miles of roads not really
adaptable for automobiles - sunken
roads, high hedges, hairpin curves, hid
den sidetracks--it is obvious that the
driving of motors should be adapted
to the highway, which too often leads
at present to the cemetery or the hos
pital
This is where American methods are
being brought under review to sec
whether England may not have some
thing to learn from them. Most acci-
dents in England happen at crossings
or turnings. This is due to slipshod
Interpretation of the rules of the road
1t is generally assumed that the right
of way must be given to travellers OF
the main track and that those on the
side roads should yield preference But
there is no regular enforcement Of any
rule whereby q driver must pay spe
cial attention to traffic turning in on
his own side - in England, the left
Again, the crossroads often are 30
similar in quality that it is almost i'm
possible to tell which is the main, if
indeed there is one. An elementary re
form which is being urged here is
that all roads should be classified and
numbered upon signs.
The accidents often occur through q
car coming along its own side of the
road but making short turn across
at cross roads. The American example
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
A-Rays Used to Cure Malaria
Sufferers I'm Roman Marshes
Patients, Unable to Take Quinine or Other Med
cines, Said to Have Recovered After
Radio Treatment

ants rendered immune, this part of
Italy, which lies near Rome, will be-
come the garden spot of the Roman
province.
The cause of the heavy death rate
in this section Of the country has been
it's distance from the centers of civili-
cation, away from the railway and the
towns and the fact that work was
continued even during the months
when malaria was prevalent Now an
effort is made on many Of the big farms
to suspend during this injecting period,
and to raise as many head Of cattle as
it is possible. Where cattle Craze the
mosquitoes do not increase in as great
numbers as where none are kept. For
this reason large numbers of pigs are
being raised in this district, and ma
laria has been reduced.
With modern methods the wonderful
stretch Of country from velietri to the
sea will be liberated from the terrible
scourge of malaria, owing to the efforts
of the doctors in charge of the X-ray
experimental station. 1t is their idea
that not only shall sufferers be treated
but that all the peasants in tho
.malarial district shall undergo exami
nation, after which the doctors will de.
eide whether they should take preven,
tive courses. This system will probably
do away with the use of quinine except
in certain cases. Landed proprietors
as well as agricultural societies, have
all decided to back this scheme.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Paris Predicts Return of
Bustle by Next Spring
Skirts With Hip Panniers of Wire Cane Are
Popular; Turkish Flags Fly in the French
Capital Following the kemaIist Victory

stantly invited poor young artists 10
his home, where he fed them we'll and
stuffed their pockets with tubes of
paint upon their departure.
Paris would have enough big gun
shells, gas bombs and hand grenades
scattered in its streets, parks aad sub
ways to make it look like a battlefield
IL the police did not have its dynamite
squad constantly at work picking them
up. This promiscuous discarding' Of
war souvenirs is the result of a scare
over the explosion Of several sach
ctrios
The owners apparently prefer the
method of quietly slipping their
trophies into neighbor's garbage can
or Of leaving them in the CUTTERS on
the park benches or in the subway sta
tions to that of notifying the police to
come and get them.
The police have collected 5000 vari-
GUS types Of explosive missiles. one
fourth Of which proved to be stii
Give" One in every fifty had fuse set
for firing, so that it would go off on the
slightest shock. Several Americans be-
came suspicious of souvenirs bought
in towns in the battle area and tele-
phoned the police, whose experts in
several instances are reported to have
had narrow escapes while testing tbs
missiles.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

lation. But the farther sighted of
those who favor it join in the demand
that the new method of road travel
should be made as safe as possible for
those who indulge in it and for other
users of the road.
Since the days Of Casars chariots
the width of road vehicles has been
fixed by tradition; it is such a width
IS enables one vehicle easily to pass
another. The char-a banc as a rule is
enormously too wide for any but the
main roads, and in the narrower lanes
is often a danger to its own passen-
gers and 10 other road users. Due to
the lessons enforced by the Romney
Marshes accident, the Transport
Ministry now is preparing bill which
will both control the size Of vehicles
and limit the more unwieldy to certain
classes Of roads.
Something already has been done in
the widening OF roads, the cutting away
of corners and the making of relieving
avenues for traffic. Though the work
is costly and moves slowly in conse-
quence, it is recognized that it must
go forward, or the condition of the
roads to-day IS but foretaste of what
it will be a few years hence. The cars
which were the preserve Of the wealthy
are being made every class's convey
ance and England has to legislate nov
for future in which every third home
may own car here. In time English
roads will be made increasingly suit
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
ROME, August 81.
RADIOTHERAPY station fol

4
"A Gently been installed at
Cisterna, near the Pontinc
Marshes, in charge of the we'll known
malarial expert, DR.. Pals. 1t is a
modern installation and great results
are expected during the next year
Experiments with X-rays in the
cure Of malaria were undertaken two
years ago by Professor Grassi, in the
Roman province, also by DR.. Pals in
the malarial district near the Venetian
Estuary. Their efforts consisted not
only of applications of the rays on
malarial patients, but also as pre-
vention for those living in an affected
area.
1t is now ascertained that in some
cases patient who could not take
quinine or other medicines for rcduc-
ing the malarial fever was cured in
six months from X-rays treatment on
the spleen. After one month the fever
came only Internationally, while after
four treatments and observation fol
six months the patient was cured.
The agriculturists interested in the
reclaiming of the Pontine Marshes ex-
pect to wipe out malaria, or at least
reduce the great mortality among the
landworkers in few years ow-
ing to this new experimental sta
tion. When the land is reclaimed, the
MOSQUITO exterminats1 and the peas
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
French Air Experts Say Gliding
Ever Will Remain a Pastime
Two Fathers of Aviation'' Declare Present Tests
Are Useless; German Feats Laid to
Constant Ascending Winds

suits that have been accomplished.
But the Voisins and Louis Bleriot
fathers of aviation" believe that
gliding will never be more than sport
and that it will add nothing to our
ability to fly practically and COM
mercially.
G. Voisin has made aeroplanes fol-
the last twenty years, and most OF
the first successful flights were made
by noted aviaters in his planes. He
claims that, since the great aviators
such as Breguet, Bleriot. Caudron,
Morane and Nieuport have taken no
interest in these recent attempts at
gliding. it is sure guaranty that such
efforts are useless.
Bleriot, who was the first man to
cross the English Channel in an aero
plane (July 20, 1s09), is more definite
ir his criticism Of gliding.
"They are always talking of imitat-
ing BIRDS" he said, "but the idea is
basically wrong. A bird has a power
full and efficient motor at it's beck and
call. 1t glides under certain special
circumstances in order to economic
its forces, but when ascending winds
fail, or there is an air pocket, the bird
falls back on it's wings for propulsion
There never will be any practical fly
ing without motor, and the re-
searches nowadays should be confined
to perfecting the motor.
Gliding may become a sport. like
tobogganing, but never anything mors.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

1t will require special districts, as
winter sports have their places in the
Alps, where ascending winds are COM
mon. Such winds are ordinarily rare,
especially in France, so that gliding
is nothing more than coasting down
hill, as one would on bicycle. The
three-hour fight in Germany merely
shows that they have found place
where there are constant ascending
winds. If you can stay an hour in the
air, there is no reason why you could
not stay twelve, but always in the
same privileged and restricted district
where winds ascend. I dare the Ger
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

w UROPE has found new toy
n and has taken up thia novel
n plaything with furor. Afte,
--AA---@ the trials Of motorless flying
| in France and Germany, many prog
nostications have appeared which
claim that it will soon be possible to
fly anywhere in a small-winged ap-
paratus. From what is said. in ten
years we will be able to jnmp off a
roof in one of these machines and 60
to the Office or visit a friend in dis
tant city.
The fights SO far have given results
of nearly six minutes in the air in
France and over three hours in Ger
many. The French are disheartened
to think their enemies have been able
to beat them this way, and the Ger
mans are elated. A large London daily
newspaper wants to bring England to
the fore in motorless flying and has
offered a prize Of almost $4,000 to
stimulate interest. Columns are de-
voted every day in all Continental
newspapers telling Of the wonderful.
secrets of flying and how delightful 1t
will be in the future when all
will be able to fly around like lot OF
bees, if only the problems Of the sub
ject are attacked scientifically and
everybody takes up the practice. Even
Henri Farman has come forward with
we'll advertised approval of the re-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
American Speakers Aid
German PyOhibitiOnists
Teuton Dry Chief Says Pouerfy
Is Turning Workers Frons
Beer to Gre Children Snmp

BERLIN, Sept I6 (By The Associst~
ed ress).-Americsns are taking an
active part in the movement to put
Germany on the dry list. Recent meet
ings held in various parts of the eoun-
try presented speakers from Connecti-
cut and Minnesota, who described the
progress Of the prohibition movement
in the United States.
These gatherings have revealed d
surprising amount of sentiment among
the people in favor of the abolition OF
alcohol, it is asserted in a statement
by DR.. Reinhard Strecker, of Darn
stadt, president of the committee con-
ducting the campaign and former
Hessian Minister of Education.
He expressed special surprise and
pleasure at the moderation and abb
stinence now being shown by the
young men. The best sections Of Ger
many's youth are against alcohol, DIR.
Strecker said, and these no longer
drink or even smoke. He added:
! Particular signihance may be at
tached to this restraint on the part Of
German youths, since it comes entirely
on their own initiative, neither the
church nor the school up to this time
having taken the alcohol question seri-
ously."
He declared that need is the stern
| teacher which is gradually but in
evitably educating the Germans up TO
| L. - rF
ing high prices of necessaries they
were becoming more and more restive
at seeing valuable foodstuffs going into
the breweries and distilleries. The
workingman, too. was paying more at
tention to the question, realizing that
every liter of beer he consumed would
! provide six hungry children each with
bowl Of barley soup.
The prohibition movements grest-
est success thus far, said Dr.. Strecker,
was the result of the straw vote at
Bielefeld, where 90 per cent of the
voters Endorsed it. This polling was
all the more noteworthy, he added, be
cause it was based on the political
lists of qualified voters.
! The depreciation of the mark has LETT
German horse racing in the doldrums,
| from the owners point of view at least.
and, reports are current that many
stables are to be abandoned entirely
| or else reduced. In efforts to stem
the wave Of financial pessimisn, which
has hit racing circles, a number OF
clubs have made attractive increases
in the purses for the autumn events
The Steeplechase Association Of
KarIshorst is Offering 6,4o0,o00 marks
for its ten-day program in October
after originally announcing that the
total would be 3,iof,00 marks. The
money to be awarded on the day of
the Grand Prix of KarIshorst is raised
from 100000 to 100000 marks.
New schedules announced by the
Union Club and the Berlin Racing As
I sociation for their Gruenewald meet
ings during the coming few weeks
show that the original purses have
been increased from 10000 to 10000
marks each. The Berlin Trotting Az
sociation also has materially raised SIS
| awards
The distressing position Of the horse
owners is declared to be due TO the
fact that the purses have not kept pace
with the rate of exchange.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

mans to fly around Paris without mo-
tors; it could not be done.
"Some people are even foolish
enough to compare gliding with sail
ing a boat. But the important differ
ence is that when winds fail sail boat
just floats along without harm, but if
wind should fail while gliding the
aviator risks a sudden crash.
GAS a sport which can only be in
,dulged in when there is not only wind
but special kind of wind, it is not
very interesting. 1t is only a nine
day wonder that is doomed to be for
gotten in time"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Late Pope Stinted Himself
To Contribute to Charity

Though his revenue was greatly -
duced, the late Pope stinted bims.1s
IN order that there should be more
money for the many charities and war
funds, which he gave to so generouslv
Just before his death he sent a relief
expedition to Russia, with rice and
cereals, and gave 100000 lire to the
fund raised by Nansen, and bought
land at Nettuno on which he spent a
million for building home for tuber-
cular soldiers. There are hundreds
Of churches in the devastated region
to which he supplied funds for their
rebuilding.
1t was only natural that when pone
rus al assumed control of the pana1
FUNDS he should find it necessary 70
enforce regime of economy in which
ne is. taking personal interest.
though the matter is being discussed
by commission of cardinals. Grad.
uaily these reforms will be put into
effect.
rope Plus has the happy faculty of
never worrying about whether he is
following tradition. This is an argu-
ment which never sways him. Even
IN the smallest matter he follows his
own custom. Former popes always
allowed the Papal barber to shave
them, whereas Plus XI, ever since hi,
youthful days, has always shaved him
self, and now that he Is Pope he con-
tinues to do just as he has always
done.
Other popes followed certain cere-
mony in being dressed in the morning.
For Leo XIII, being an old man and at
times very feeble, it was a necessity:
others found it irksome, but submit
ted. The present Pope dresses him
self entirely, even carrying his shaw
ing tackle from the shelf in the bath
room, to the small mirror by the win
dow, where he shaves and then puts it
back in its proper place. The Papai
encourage gasped when first this was
repeated throughout the corridors Of
the palace, but the Pope Was quite Sc
rene through it all. He uses, not any
modern razor, but an old fashioned
one. which he brought with him in his
travelling bag when he came to Rome
from Milan for the conclave. The
Papal barber is allowed to sharpen
this razor and to cut the Pope's hair.
This function of cutting takes place
on certain afternoon at $3.50 in the
Pope's bathroom. This and the weekly
| confession are the only two events in
the Pope's life which are exactly on
time to the minute.
Though Pope Plus K and Benedict
| XIV both broke the old rule that the
Pope should never have any ono to eat
at his table, so far Plus XI has not
had his brother or sister to eat with
him. Often when he is finishing he
calls in his secretaries and discusses
certain work to be done.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

ment here just now, due to an agitation
Looking towards greater safety, which
apparently is compelling the govern
smciit to take action. The agitation fol-
lows an appalling series of motor acci-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
British to Study American Road Rules
LIN Crusade to Curb Motor Accidents
Private DriverseAre
Given License ses
Without Passing
Ability Tests

Of setting at crossroads central
pillar. around which car must be
taken, is recommended for adoption
here. County councils are urged, too,
to take the initiative, which the law
in fact already gives them for ear
marking certain roads for one-way
traffic-as is done very generally in
America-and reserving others for the
uses of certain precisely defined
classes of vehicles.
Another point to which attention is
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

dents in this country since the holiday
season began, eliminating in an un-
usual one which involved the loss of
eight lives. On the Romney Marshes,
in Kent, a motor coach overturned in
the dusk into q ditch fianked by high
reeds almost the color of the road;
the upturned coach trapped many of
it's occupants underneath in the water
and eight of them were drowned be-
fore it could be righted.
The circumstances of this accident,
the last and crowning tragedy in a
steady succession, concentrated public
attention upon the undue percentage
Of them for which numbering vehicles
Of the type of the motor coach and
char-a-banc are responsible. From this
beginning inquiry spread to cover the
whole field of road transport under the
new conditions of to-day.
Present Motor Coach Traffic
A Problem in Itself
The enormous postwar development
Of motor coach and char-a-banc traffic
In this country presents questions of
its own. It creates 3 new problem in
transport. 1t has taken its place
among the permanent means of get
ting about the country; the char-a-banc
is the poor mans alternative to the
automobile Of the rich, and it has
come to stay. Already the mooting
of plans for its regulation has pro-
duced son,e outcry about class legis-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
" q v e rn I'M G nj LIS
Alarmed by Death
Toll Due to Lack
of System
By Ware B. Wells
LONDON. Sent,

LONDON, Sept, 2,
MEXICAN rules of the road
and regulations for the CON
troll sof city traffic are in
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
By Agnes r. Mackenzie
ROME, Scptember I

~ -w- AID bomb been dropped into
~he Offices of the Vatican il
B h would not have caused more
-A - dismay than the Pope's de-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
PARIS, September l.

~ UROPE has found a new toy
~ and has taken up this novel
y plaything with furor. After
~s2kA--sG %ha Aria1a AZ ,ntnrlarr A,,i,an.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
PARIS, Sept. 16

PARIS, Sept. 16
(BU The Associated Press)
ss%w@ HE return OF the hustle by
next spring" is the definite
prediction, regarded as a
threat in some quarters,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-03
TO CALL ON BANKS
Preferred Stock in Hotel Com.
pany Directors Next Objective.
Banks and Trust Companies
Underwrite $4,000 Worth.

The banks and trust companies
which have underwritten shares of
preferred stock in the Topeka Hotel
company up to 5 per cent of their
capital stock and surplus, will be
called on within the next few days
to sign up for their subscriptions, o.
B. Cutler, president of the temporary
board of directors of the company.
said today, Cutler reported on the
status of the hotel project to the di-
rectorS of the Chamber of Commerce.
Letters are now being written to the
banks and trust companies, asking for
their agreements. There have been
subscribed in this fashion $4,000
worth of the preferred stock, Cutler
said today, and not all of the banks
have signed up. Some of them, in
addition, have given their verbal
agreement to underwrite their share
of the stocks. Others have not been
seen at all
1.-The reason that we have not
signed them all up yet is that we
wished to wait and see that all the
common stock was disposed of.
Otherwise the agreement would have
been null and void anyhow" Cutler
said.
After all the banks and trust com
panies have signed up for their pro
portion of the stock, another selling
drive by the Chamber of Commerce
will be staged. The present plans are
to have the campaign open January
IT and to canvass individuals and
firms in person for the sale of the
preferred stock