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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
SPRING BREAKUP
Of RUSSIAN RIVERS
MEANSF00DS SUPPLY
Aftermath of Terrible Winter
Revealed as Waters Garry
Victims Bodies.

London. June 17.--(By The Asso-
ciated ress.)-Russian rivers are now
open to the transportation of Ameri-
can Relief administration supplies, and
the transportation problems which
faced the organization in Russia last
winter are nearing solution. accord
ing to cable advices received at Lon
don headquarters.
Food shipments are being made on
both the upper and the lower Volga
in larger quantities and with more
speed than in the past, and tributary
rivers. now%%open. make it possible to
penetrate TO more remote districts.
Meantime the spring break up is re-
vealing in all its horror the aftermath
of the terrible winter hunger. At
Aktubinsk 10000 bodies of famine vic
tins have been washed up by the
floods on the Hairpin bend of the
Elck river. New diseases also are ap-
pearins. There is some smallpox, and
a great deal of scabics. trachoma and
dysentery. but. the medical department
OF the American Relief administration
reports a decided improvement in both
children and adults rs a result of
American rations.
American corn is proving more than
satisfactory. II yields II per cent
more in the grinding than the native
variety. and when boiled gains from
five to six times in weight.
Cholera is increasing in many Sec
tons Of Russia as the spring advances
but the medical officers of the Ameri-
can Relief administration, acting in
concert with the Russian health de.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

exist in 1920 but which are by no
means insurmountable.
These differences are of two kinds,
moral and financial. Undevastated
Germany can pay in full but the notion
that she cannot has spread and taken
roo throughout Germany, making a
psychological obstacle. Moreover,
Germany. by her initiation policy. has
caused the mark to fall so low it no
longer is worth anything, hence a
monetary obstacle.
No Ruhr Occupation
When Germany has been taught by
actiOn-occupation of the
Ruhr is unnecessary for that-that
peace treaties are serious affairs and
have been stabilized even at a very low
rate of exchange and revenues from
taxes can be calculated with some GER
tainty, and when German taxes are
made equivalent to the ~Frenchman's,
then annuities can be arranged and
loans based on such annuities won't
be difficult. Then and then only can
a reduction of the debt be considered
based on an equivalent reduction of
all other war debts.
For two years the allied policy has
been consistently to place the cab be-
fore the horse. Discussions of all
sorts covering allied debt cancellations,
and many others wholly unreal
liable have taken place. but until Ger
are definitely utilized
for regular payments nothing can be
done. Sooner or later this condition
will be fulfilled. If Germany needed
a year or two of respite France would
to have temporary help and this
would give Great Britain the oppor-
tunity to show her solidarity with
France without risk. and this would
a happy effect in America
At any rate we cannot continue turn
ng our backs to the truth both in
.ondon and Paris, because truth
will prevail as always.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

partment, hope to check the epidemic
speedily in the regions where the
regions where the American Relief ad-
m~inistration is working.
Eight million doses of a~nti-cholera
vaccine, from America will be used and
American Relief administration direc-
tors at several points in the famine
regions, particularly at the refugee
camps. are educating the population
in cleanliness by granting rations onl!
to those refugees who will work 10
clean the camps.
Messages describing the actual dis
tribution Of American relief set forth
that on thA banks of the Ural river.
on the borders of Asia. refugees and
peasants on receiving the American ra-
ton. lose no time in cooking it. The
river banks soon are black with little
groups sitting happily about an i'm
provised pot in which the first real
food they have had for months is
boiling merrily.
The corn is issued in the raw state
and is received in bags. aprons and
knotted coat sleeves with all the
~graceousness and gratitude
which seems characteristic of the Russ
"Mortars and pestleS of every con-
prehistoric styles and shape
improvised." the message says,
''for the purpose of grinding the grits
and in one hour the meal was boiling
over numerous fires" $50 ravenous
were some of the beneficaries they
not even wait for these prepara-
tons TO be made, but munched the
grits whole"
$4,000 people are now receiving
the American ration in the khirgiz
and the Bashkir republics. of which
Orenburg is the capital. This has been
one of the worst famine districts and
not long ago the people in some sec
tons had become so violent that an
order was issued restricting the town
flok to their homes after eight O'Clock.
Murder fer the purpose of acquiring
and food had become common
and reports of cannihalism were wide
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
MINISTER
WANTS AMERICANS
RECOGNIZE LAND
Declares His People HOmOge-
neOuS and Desire Chance
for Progress.

Tirana, Albania. June 17.-CBy The
Associated Press).-'Recognize u.s.
said Bey Ahmet Zogu, Albania's min
lister of the interior to the Associated
Press correspondent in a recent inter
view. IF America recognizes us. and
sends a diplomatic representative to
Albania. it will be the biggest boost
Albania can have he declared.
I'VE are an ancient and proud race.
We have traditions a%ntedating the
Christian era. We have suffered under
the tyrant's heel. We have been OPP
pressed by both Asiatic and European
peoples. We have dreamed for cen
turtles a dream of freedom. We are the
most homogeneous race in the Balkans
and long for the chance to determine
our destiny by ourselves. America,
whose pages of history CLEAN with
glorious deeds in the couse of human
liberty, should recognize Albanin, for
it is a country which has suffered long
centuries of serfdom and now. born
again as a nation, want to retain the
so long withheld"
Bey Ahmet Xogu comes of noble
fighting stock. Tribal traditions and
feuds in Albania have bred in him a
warriors spirit. To-day. he
is the one hero in Albania, and he
out in bold relief as the young
is trying to foster in national
existence. He is a young man-not
than % years of age, and is re-
as the real ruler of Albania.
Slight of stature. tall. blonde. with blue
eyes, he has one passion and
is to put Albania on it's feet and
set her house in order. Intrigues creep
into the political life of the young and
state. but Iogu has always
been able to nip them in the bud and
maintain respect for constituted author
ty.
Albania is rid of internal quarrels'
ne said to the correspondent. I'VE have
A little army of 5000 men. These are
be used to keep order. When other
say that Albania is attacking
hem, it is absurd, for Albania has
the means nor the forces to
attack anybody. We have a population
estimated at over 100000 and all
A~lbanians. There is not n foreign
.ribe or sect or group within bor-
lers. On this alone, we have q right
our nationhood."
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
STARVATION FEAR
DRIVES UKRA|N|AN
PEASANTS TOWNS
Soviet Crop acquisitions ARD
Responsible for Loss
of Hope.

Odessa. June 17.-(ByS The. Assoc
clated Press. Fear of starvation In
the Ukraine. once regarded as the
richest farming country in the world.
has become so acute that thousands
of peasants are abandoning everything
they possess and flocking to the cities
where they hope to exc out an exist
ence until all danger of crop requests
ton of the Soviets has passed.
Hope for better crops this sum.
mer seems to have been lost. Mer-
chants here who formerly sold agri.
cultural machinery in the Ukraine ara
making no efforts to dispose of their
stock. There will be no crops to
speak of this year, and next season
1t will be worse" they say.
The Ukraine. commonly called tho
"granary of Europe" produced nearly
100000 tons of wheat and cereals
In pre-war years. Its annual yield Of
potatoes averaged 6.0O0.00O tons. In
1914 it marketed 27.0OO, 900 head Of
horned cattle. 100000 horses and
6,3QO.OU pigs. 1t also exported coal,
iron and manganese, dairy products
and blooded horses.
The Ukraine. twice as large as tho
British Isles and with a pre-war
lation of 10000, 900. is fast becoming q
desolate waste, according to the refug-
ees. The only reason it has held t
gether until now. they say is because
of rich stores of grain accumulated in
the days of prosperity. which were
shielded from the Soviet Commissars
the plea that they must be used for
seed. Now that these are exhausted.
the rich, black earth of the Ukraine
must lie idle and worthless.
Included among those who face star
walton are half a million German coll
onists, descendants of Germans who
settled in the country more than 100
years ago by invitation Of Catherine
the Great. In the German colony Of
Gros Liebenthal. near Odessa, one city
of 10000 population :s said already to-
be in the grip of famine. In this seq
ton some 10000 acres Of grain was!
sown annually before the war. Today
there is not a sheaf Of wheat to be
seen. In another section where So
900 acres formerly were sown, there
is now 100 acfes under cultivation.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
Poincare Is Anxious
to Get Direct News
and u. S. Impressions

Paris. June 17.-(By The Associ-
ated Press. premier Poincare is
keenly interested in direct news and
impressions from America and takes
care hat every prominent American
who desires to see him shall have an
opportunity of doing so. He has fire.
%quently suggested that distinguished
Americans should call on him SO that
he might obtain first-hand information
on the situation at Washington and
the varying phases of public opinion
in America toward France. The pre-
mier has so far advanced in his ability
TO speak English that he now talks
quite readily. although he began to
learn the language only in the early
winter of 1918, after President Will
sons arrival in Paris.
While he is extremely anxious that
Americans should understand France.
he feels it is equally the duty Of
Frenchmen to inform themselves about
America.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

lust and mild as the sermon on the
mount and which we will not reduce
like dishonest shopkeepers. That is. OF
course, unles we receive compensation
elsewhere. Don't forget article %
anex two says the reduction of debt
only can occur by unanimous agreement,
Don't waste your time considering a
little loan of 300, 900 paper marks.
That's no use to me. Ny neighbor who
is suffering from rupture of neutrality
has n prior claim to minc and, SO. little
would be left to me. You have enough
common sense to understand | can't
abandon my right to sanctions which
halt the debtors breathing for n time
at least. Outside of these little excep-
tons 60 as far as you like"
Everything Topsy Turvey
Charlie looks at the thermometer. 1t
is 100 in the shade. Everything is topsy
turvey.
Did anybody ever hear before of the
borrower making conditions to the lend
er or a bankrupt nation calling a
tremendous sum a little loan?" They
want me to send heaps of money to
Europe and let the receivers decide
what is TO be done with it. All of them
have different ideas and. besides, the
weakest is to have his breath cut off
for n time to strengthen him. These
people seem to have had a sun stroke.
/ wish I had my fire hose. Oh, for a
custard pie! 1t would cover my retreat.
On the promenade deck of the George
Washington homeward bound he has a
sudden:
Perhaps this whole comedy was
Just to show us that we who paid for
the war with our blood money shall
not only be victors without compen-
but we must abandon all of the
lent to Europe and even send
more so that the old world may begin
to get in order again. Were those
people so stupid they thought l
wouldn't see through their trick? No
doubt if / had granted the loan it
would have been Il great laughing suc-
cess in Europe but it would kill me
with the American public"
The grand young man then puts his
finger to his brow over his melancholy
comic eyes and decides to launch his
new film Chaplin and the Loan" If it
Is shown next season, don't forget this
collaboration.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

f
The Olympic quivers with pride a!
she takes the worlds favorite ABOARD
! and lifts anchor amidst rejoicing. Ever
the ocean is too respectful to be rough
Three capital ships and a submarine
fleet with 7,777 reporters aboard sal
from the nearest harbor to meet thu
salvation steamer. A hotel has to b
rented for the secretaries who are
crammed with letters and many tender
love missives but most of them fol-
money which the writer's jokingly cal
loans.
The episode: What won't and can't be
repaid is in this film called loan. His
little moustache witches and our hero
c~omprehends the situation at a glance
These good people who receive me
with such kindness have a debto from
whom nothing is to be gotten today or
tomorrow and they want me to ad-
vance him money wherewith to pay his
debt. Their confidence touches me but
before consent / must examine the
condition of this debtor whom / am
supposed to heal .,.
Questions Clergyman
He questions nearby gentleman who
looks like a clergyman who has left
the church for the cotton trade. The
latter. hearing the word heal, says:
That is BID unfortunate expression,
Mr.. Chaplin. If this fellow gets well
too quickly he may injure our trade
as he did before we gave him the five
famine cure while our Christian
hearts bled at the thought. What we
want is to prevent him profiting from
paper money and we can't do that by
helping him make his money worth
more than the paper wherein it is
printed. We hope you'll do this and
with your great prestige explain to
our friend ally and principal creditor
how this debtor must be spared. Other
wise II he pays too much he will get
i'll and cheap again and our trade will
suffer fore than ever"
Second episode: The Invalid to be
only half cured. Two Of a quartette
are ready for any sacrifice the ohters
will agree to. Som ebody with waving
banner and Jacobin cap approaches
and says with exaggerated pathos:
"font let my dear %hypocritc friend
cad you astray. This Mr.. Albion thinks
of himself and when he speaks of
and IOlglolIa he really means
and birmingham. The invalid
must recover, for only then can he meet
demands for payments which are
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
PARIS CABARET
PATRONS TICKLE

Paris. June 17.-Cabaret dancing b
Paris is becoming a problem in uncer-
tain finance for proprietors as well az
customers. \ score or more Of these
high tension night life places have
dropped out of existence during the
past few months. only to be replaced
by, others offering slightly different
thrills mt somewhat higher prices.
The rroprietors say that dancers will
not %patroni&c one place for any length
of time. and consequently they must
charge high prices for a brief period
in order To pay for the cost of insfalla-
ton. then close when the places are
no longer a la mode.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
EXPECTS Pre- RS talk VIII EXTEND
Gardiner Sees London Calm as Poincare Comes
Persecution of Many
Has Forced Armenians
Music to Minor Keys

Constantinople, June IA radical
change in the national music of the
Armenian people is being planned by
the native teachers who are in charge
of the educational work of the orphan
ages in the Armenian soviet republic.
They purpose to eliminate the mote
of sadness and submission and sub
stitute a more joyous spirit, according
to L. Ray Ogden. Oakland, Cal, super
intendent of the American industrial
school where 1900 Armenian orphans
are learning native trades.
MANY generations of suppression
and persecution have left an indelible
impress on the popular music and
folk songs Of the Armenian people"
said Mr.. Ogden recently. The native
dances. poems. and plays are all in q
distinctly minor key with is bound to
have a depressing effect on the youth
of the country. But with the dawn of
a new freedom. this note of sadness
ought to be changed. so far as pos
sible, into aspirit of inspiration and
enthusiasm. In the schools. WI have
agreed to eliminate some of the most
depressing of the national folk-songs,
replacing them with other national mu-
sic revived from the ancient songs of
the shepherds and farmers"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Former French High Commissioner
to America.
Sseciai Wireless TO The Great Falls Tribune.
Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune

Speciai Wireless to The Great Falls Tribune.
Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
Paris, June 1.-THE big Preparations
struggle is next on the calendar. The
less Germany pays the more becomes
her talk about reparations and ii does
not seem that Frances chances of col
lecting are any better than they were
Is months ago.
1t is unnecessary to repeat the events
which have led to the present crisis.
Germany's reply of May 81 promising
what the reparations commission de-
manded was based on the hypothesis of
On international loan. The bankers
commission decided the loan was i'm
possible unless Germany's debt was re-
duced. which France declines and which
the treaties stiplate shall not be done
excepting by unanimous vote of the
commission. '
Frances present position being
founded on Germany's promises which
in turn. are based on the unrealized
hypothesis. certainly is not favorable.
For the present We are operating under
the Cannes agreement which provides
for only 10000, 600 gold marks annu-
ally and when Belgium's priority is de-
Quoted there is little left for France.
Business Badly Conducted
This whole business still is being
badly conducted. Take the case of the
bankers, for instance. Their job is to
sell securities to the public. They
must consider whether their wares will
their customers. An absolute
prerequisite is a guarantee of suf-
ficient annual payments to meet the
and amortization. If this con-
dition IL not fulfilled it is useless to
talk about a loan.
Yet the bankers were called together
my effort vas made to compel
Germany to arrange such annual pay
Naturally the bankers decided
a loan was impossible. When they
suggested a reduction of the debt
merely meant it's easier to Dor
row one billion than 10 billions.
Faced by these facts. many Frenchmen
ire despairingly asking whittier we
ire trending. / myself do not share
his pessimism. Why? Because, con-
the way the reparations mat
.ers have been handled for 30 months
t would be more astonishing if any
'esult had been achieved. The whole
hing now must be undertaken anew
With certain difficulties that did not !
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
HIS POLICIES
THOUGHT BAD
FOR ENGLAND
Liberals Oppose French
Militarism as Similar
to Germans in 1914.
Says France Blocking
All Available Roads
to European Peace.

premier Poincare's visit to London
has aroused little enthusiasm, In the
opinion of Mr.. Gardner, because there
Is a general feeling in England that
the policies for which he stands are
inimicaI to British interests. Liberal
sentiment, he suggests, is just as
much opposed today to French mill
tarism as it was to Prussian militarism
in I9I4.)
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
By MACMILLAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Publicist
Special Cable to The Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1929. by The Great Falls Tribune

Berlin, July 17-Permit me, dear reader, to put my dispatch
today in the form of a Charlie Chaplin scenario entitled 1.-THE
Loan"
Despite his short coat and wide trousers which do not re-
mind one of Wall street everybody credits him with the power
of settling Europe financial troubles and general disorder. He
receives a polite invitation from a creditor quartette while a
debtor whose groans can be heard across the ocean, promises
by wireless to sing nothing henceforth but Charlie Uber Allies"
Uncle Sam warns him that this time he is not going to a tragic
but to a comic lunatic asylum and that, as an American and the
urgently invited saviour, he will have to pay 40 times ordinary
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
TARD|EU SAYS
GERMANS MUST
PAY DEBTS NOW
Loans Impossible
Till Currency Stable
and Obligations Met.
Respite Would Furnish
Britain Opportunity to
Bolster Finances.

(When Germany agrees to complete
her obligations and her currency is
stabilized. M. Tardieu believes annu-
tiles and loans based OF them can be
arranged. II Germany must have a
respite. Great Britain will have an op-
p~ortunity to show her solidarity with
France by extending temporary finan.
ciaI assistance).
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
PUbLIC|ST WRITES OF LOAN
IN CHAPLIN MOVIE SCENARIO
USING MORGAN AS CHARLIE
Lays Blame for Bankers Failure to Finance
Europe at Door of Franco-British
Jealousy.

Failure of the international bankers, under the leadership of j. p
Morgan. successfully to finance Impoverished Europe, was due to the jeE
oudes existing between France and England, in Mr. Hsrdens opinion, and he
writes of II in an aIegorcaI manner evolving a Charlie Chaplin movie
scenario with this cast: j. P Morgan is Charles Chaplin; first advice gver,
England; second advice gver, Franco; suffering neighbor, Begium)
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

The most important tin mines are
at Cornwall, England, worked from
earliest historic periods.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

The first ten verses of the TIE Deum
are said to date back to the End
century. "
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18

Paul Revere of revolutionary fame
vas a silversmith. his work being ex-
hibited in the Boston Museum in 1906.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
BIRD SAYS ENGLANDS
PREMIER MOST ANXIOUS
TO ARGUE PREPARATIONS
Purpose Of Poincare's Visit to London Said to Be
Preparation Of Base for The Hague Confer
ence; France Wants Perpetual Credit Against
Germany More Than Actual Money.

premier Lloyd George will take advantage Of the presence Of Premier
Polncare In London to discuss reparattons with him and, Mr.. Bird says, as q
result the moratorium for Germany Is expected to be contInued)
By WILLIAM BIRD
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-08

Madame Petrova has added i'm
measurably 20 her following among
playgoers, picture fans and vaude-
Vile devotees. with her latest tri-
umDh, The White Peacock" which
Will be the attraction at the oliver
theater Tuesday oct. 10.
The sheer brilliance Of the lines"
declares one metropolitan critic. at
test as well as do the big situations
TO her writing talent which with
her knowledge of the mechanics Of
the stage, assures works of note
from her pen in the future if she
chooses to devote her chief atten-
ton 10 writing" The play tells a
story of a marital triangle richly
embroidered with romance Disgust
ed by her husbands inhdelity, Re
vette. the heroine of the play. por-
trayed by Madame Petrova. decides
TO leave him and live her life as her
conscience dictates. Her talent as a
painter facilitates the beautiful
Spanish girl in establishing herself