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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

CHANCELLOR STRESEMANN, in
~ an address to a group of editors,
made public his plan for reparations
and settlement of the Ruhr problem.
He said in part:
According to the Versailles treaty,
Germany's Indebtedness is guaranteed
by national property. What l propose
concerns direct collaboration of pri-
vate property and therefore goes be-
yond the Versailles .treaty. Our call
ing upon private property in Germany
creates realizable security, whereas
the securities under the Versailles
treaty cannot be cashed at present.
IF mortgages are inscribed as first
mortgages on state and private prop
erty of the entire economic system of
Germany in favor of the German state
to a certain percentage-these mort
cages can be considered realiZable and
movable yalue-and brought into a
trustee company in the administration
of which ~reparations the creditors
would participate. The interest on
this mortgage would go to the trus-
tee company, which would take up the
loans after issuing obligations based
on these mortgages and their interest.
This would give France possession of
big sums as well as urn the interest
payments into cash in a set time.
"Such fulfllment certainly is not
theoretical nor general guarantees, but
real facts, free from ambiguity. This
offer can place France in possession
of payments, upon which all the con-
ditions the French made for withdraw
ing from the Ruhr are fulfllable.
I'm order to make it actual, ii is re-
quired that the Ruhr again be under
German control and the German SOW
ereignty restored in the Rhineland.
Our offer can bring a solution to the
passive resistance if we are given a
guarantee that after an agreement has
been reached the Ruhr will be evacu-
ated and the old rights restored in the
Rhineland.'
Herr Stresemann tacitly admitted
Germany had lost out in the Ruhr but
made no direct reference to the gov
ernment's readiness to call off passive
resistance.
France still insists that passive re-
sistanee must be officially ended, and
also that evacuation of the Ruhr can
only be effected in proportion to pay
ments made.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

a S MAY be supposed, the sessions
"a Of the League of Nations last
week were not especially pleasant.
Delegates of the lesser nations were
impatient and dissatisfied, and repre-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

OF ITALY'S two %quarrels, that with
- Jugo-Slayia held the greater pos
sibilities of expanding into actual hos
t~ilities. If it should result in warfare,
however, Greece also might well be in
volved. NJ. Ninchich, head Of the Jugo-
Siavian delegation in Geneva, said he
had not yet gone beyond the stage of
negotiations. In Paris it was asserted
that Italy was about TO proclaim the
annexation Of Fiume and thar Jugo-
Sisvia would make no serious protest
provided Sussak and Porto BarrOs,
adjacent towns, were not directly af-
fected. Italian troops are concentrated
at Trieste and the Italian navy is
ready at laramie. The Serbs are hur-
riedly recognizing their army on
French lines and are getting great
quantities of ammunition from France,
purchased with part of their new
French loan Of 300,000,0O0 francs.
Colonel Gonatas, head of the Greek
government. says Italy is sending
large quantities Of arms and ammu-
milton to Narna to equip the Bulga-
rians for war if Jugo-Slavia and
Greece combine against Italy. Ru-
mania and Czechoslovakia show indi-
cations Of remaining neutral or siding
with Rome.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

a NTHRACITE operators and min
"A ers settled all their differences
aaI signed a two-year agreement, and
mining is about TO be resumed. The
pact gives the men a 10 per cent wage
increase, the eight-hour day, collective
bargaining and revision of wage rates
and schedules. The workers gave up
the check-off system of collecting
union dues. AS usual the public will
pay for this, as anthracite coal will
be advanced rs cents or 81 a ton. That
is, unless Governor Pinchot's plans to
avert this are successful. He believes
the interstate commerce commission
should consider a new anthracite
freight rate to help absorb the wage
increase, and wants the federal coal
commission to make public its findings
IA profits and costs of mine operations
and in wholesale and retail distribu-
ton. He suggests the other governors
join him in seeking methods to pre-
vent the higher prices. President
Coolidge has let it be known that he
and the federal agencies will do all
they can in this line, and when con
gress assemblies the President will rec
ommend such legislation as the coal
commission sponsors.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26
Italy Promises to Evacuate the
Greek Island of Corfu on
September IT.
FIUME DISPUTE DANGEROUS
Chancellor Stresemann's Plan to Mort
gage All German Property-Relief
Work for Japan-Spanish Army
Revolts Against Government
American Destroyers Wrecked.
By EDWARD w. PICKARD

TTALY-which means Premier Mus
L solini-became more reasonable last
week in the matter of the occupation
of Corfu and the dispute with Greece.
In the council of ambassadors Lord
Crewe intimated that Great Britain
could not permit the Italians to hold
Corfu until Greece had executed all
the terms and demands, including the
arrest and punishment of the MUIR
derers of the Albanian boundary com
m~issioners, and there were unofficial
references to the British fleet, which
was supposed to be concentrated at
Malta. Baron Avezzana thereupon
agreed reluctantly that Italy should
~evacuate Corfu on September 81, Il
the ambassadors accepted this promise.
Italy, however, insisted that if the
assassins were not discovered by the
interallied commission of inquiry and
duly punished, Greece shall pay heavy
indemnity, not to exceed the 50,000.0 900
lire she has deposited in a Swiss bank.
If the murderers are found and pun.
ished, the payment to be exacted will
be nominal. To this also the ambas-
sailors agreed. Baron AvezZana said
his government fully believed Greek
officers were responsible for the crime
and that the Athens government would
do all 1t could to hide the criminals
and save them from punishment.
Early in the week it seemed that the
Italo-Greek row had BEEN ended by the
decision of the ambassadors, who i'm
posed on Greece conditions almost iden-
teal with those in Mussolinis ulti-
matum. Both nations accepted these.
but the %qulbbling that followed almost
exhausted the patience Of the League
of Nations. and the little powers In
the league saw in Italy's tactics a
threat against their own future safety.
Mussolini complained that Greece was
doing nothing to find the murderers of
the boundary commissioners. There
upon Greece arrested a number of men
and also, asserting that the real GRIM
inals were Albanians, called on AL
bania TO capture them. Albania re-
piled that the Albanian authorities
would be pleased to cross over into
Greece and arrest them if the Greek
government was not able to do it.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

CEIZING the opening presented. the
- Republican national committee last
week issued a statement to show at
length how the failure of the League
Of Nations to function In the Italo-
Greek dispute has completely vindi-
Gated the opposition of the Republican
party to American membership in the
league and to American ENHANCEMENT
in n such European affairs. The
committee made no direct mention of
the world court.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

sentatives of the great powers, espe-
cially Lord Robert Cecil, were on the
defensive. For several days, at the
request Of President De la Torriente,
the Corfu and Fiume affairs were not
openly discussed, and the league de-
voted itself to the Austrian situation,
concerning which it. could properly
congratulate itself. But finally HAL
mar Branting of Sweden broke loose
when the commission for disarmament
was debating the proposed treaty of
mutual guarantees. Declaring this to
be a coercive instrument, he asserted
the covenant already has shown Itself
to be rather fragile in practice, and he
questioned the wisdom of taking steps
toward more stringent measures when
the league cannot enforce those 1t has.
Other severe critics of the leagues
general policy and especially of the al
legged failure of the great powers to
live up to the covenant were DR.. Chris
tan Lange of Norway and Prince Ar
faed Dovleh of Persia.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26

q NE of the most serious disasters
" that ever befell the American
navy was the wrecking of seven de-
stroyers off Arguello light, 70 miles
north of Santa Barbara, Cal. The ves-
sells were travelling south in formation,
at 20 knots, in a heavy sea and dense
fog. They crashed on the rocks, and
were a total loss. Twenty-three men,
bers of their crews lost their lives.
The destroyers were of the latest
models and cost, when put into serv-
ice a few years ago, 100000 apiece.
THE eclipse of the sun was a dismal
4 failure, so far as the scientists
were concerned. 1t came off accord
ing to schedule, as eclipses have a
habit of doing, but the phenomenon
was so obscured by clouds that all the
photographs taken in the path of total
ity, at the southwest corner of the
United States and in Mexico, are prac-
tieally useless.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-09-26
GO NE of the most tragic epochs II
" American history relative I;

American history relative u
law enforcement" is what Attorney
General Daugherty calls the Al months
that have elapsed since the enactment
of the Volstead act, in a report sub
mitted to President Coolidge concern
ing the work of the federal judiciary
in enforcing prohibition. An Oflicial
synopsis says the report reveals,
among other things, that the Depart
ment of Justice has been called upon
to prosecute a member of the judiciary,
prominent members of the American
bar, high officials of the federal and
state government, millionaires, scions
of the nations aristocracy-a sordid
story of assassination, bribery and cor
ruption that found its way into the
very sanctums wherein the inviolabil-
ity of the law was presumed to have
been held sacred"
Part Of the general lack of respect
for the dry law may we'll be laid tc
the pettiness of many of the enforce
ment officers. For instance: Last
week the British yacht Frontiersman,
commanded by Roger Pocock an6
manned by members of the Adventur-
ers' club of London, entered San Pedro
harbor, California, in the course of her
trip to find a round-the-world path for
British aviators. Federal officers
promptly raided the little vessel and
seized its private store of liquors and
attached the boat. That sort of thing
only disgusts those who know the
prevalence of bootlegging and moon
shining by u own citizens.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17
To $500 Caps $1.69
A Big Jubilee Saving For You

Most men and young wear cap during days like
these-wear smart one like the in this lot. OF all
wool materials modelled after the best and most popular
styles of the season. In light and dark coors to please the
fancy of every
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17

$3.50 RaincOatS $4.95
When the rain starts pouring down when
the bad weather of winter will it
find YOU with raincoat? YES! If you realized the
saving Joske's offer in this Of rubberzed ma
terial, waterproof, beted styles.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17
Another Great Value on
Union Suits $1.39

Your winter union suit needs can
sure be filled at Joske's, and here's
a value that should be welcomed by
every man. Are made of warm
fleeced knit which fits snugly and
with comfort. Long legs, long
sleeves. All sizes.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17
Lee Uni0n-alls $2.9S
They're Worth a Great Deal Nor
Regularly

For the aborng man, the mechanic the man VINO WORKS
around the househese Uniona just fit his needs for WORK
clothes They they long in lengths and have
sleeves Made heavy quality material and strongly sewed
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17
Now at a Jubilee" Price!

Oh, Mr.. Man! If you are looking for value, here
is. These union suits bought especially for this
sale, and We'll admit We made good buy So are
passing it to you. All in athletic styles, full cut
and we'll made Sizes from "a to As. Buy half a
dozen pairs.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17

Excellent grades of silk
stripe madras, neckband
styles. French cuffs,
pearl button front. In
handsome stripe patterns.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-17

These are Of fine count
fast colored percale and
madras crepes, in attract
i've patterns. Neck bands
and collar attached styles.
You'll want several.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
HOUSEKEEPING IN THE-DEsERT
Picturesque Scenes when Natives o.
Mssopotamla Gather for Their
Favorite Sport.

Horseracing is q sport beloved by the
natives OF MesopOtamia. They swarm
TO the Basrah races, and the autumn
meet Of this Arab Epson is a curious
and diverting sight. A European in
novation is the new brick grandstand
with q substantial roof and benches
spread with many-colored Persian
rugs. Behind the grandstand are the
wooden sheds rooted with mating to
exclude the heat. Here the horses are
stabbed and here resort the trainers,
stewards and the all important
'Totalisator." with his hangers-on. The
paddock is patch Of desert-like the
course itself. Native gamblers also
eongregate around the sheds. They are
dhaggy and picturesque at distance
AZ close quarters they are indescrib-
ably dirty and ragged. They sit In
circles in the dust, like q lot Of dingy
crows, needless Of the crowds surg
ing around them as they make their
rame and choose their favorites for
tie race. The desert man is a reck-
less bidder, he, stakes his all upon his
favorite horse. In stoicism he resembles
the American Indian, for whether he
Wins or loses his expression never
changes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
The Werewolf in England.

A superstitious belief in the We're
wolf Ian evil creature supposed to be
Z human being In the form OF wolff
still fingers among the country folk
Of Hampshire. England. In one dis
trict the children are not allowed to
take a certain fleld-path across the
downs for fear Of meeting this dreaded
creature. An old woman of the place
when questioned told how her mother
and grandmother before her had al
ways warned her Of the werewolf
saying: He looks like \ big dog.
but he used to be lady! Other In
habitants Of the village show reluc-
lance to cross this path after dusk,
and many assert that they have seen
upon the downs large dog which has
vanished on being approached. Belief
u lycanthropy was widespread during
the Dark Ages, when men displaying
al the predatory instincts and ferocity
OF wolves wandered in masses through
southern Germany and parts Of Italy.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
Designing the Great Seal.

Some time ago an account was given
Of how the great seal of the United
States was designed. Franklin, Adams
and Jefferson were appointed to select
device on certain well-remembered
day-July 4, 1776, no less. and there
was much discussion regarding that
important matter. Franklin wanted
design of Moses dividing the Red sea
and submerging the hosts of Pharaoh,
with the motto. "Rebellion against
tyrants is obedience to God" Adams
suggested Hercules and his club, while
Jefferson preferred the guiding of the
children Of Israel. Afterward the max
ing Of the seal passed into other hands
and 1t was not until June 20. 1882,
that the great seal of America with
the eagle as It II today. was finally ac-
cepted.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
Sheet FIeeces Like Robes.

A wool market is held annually at
Patseo, In the wilds Of Tibet. The
Tibetan owners Of sheep barter the
fleece Of their fl0cks for Indian tea
and rice and cotton goods. These
sheep cannot live below 10000 feet
above sea level. and as their wool
d In great demand the traders have
to bring their commodities on pack
ponies, mules and donkeys right up into
the heart Of the mountains.
About the middle Of July the
traders. both parties, converge onto
high valley some 1900 feet above
'sea-level, and there pitch their re-
pective camps The Tbetan sheep
obligingly carry their own wool to
the shearing ground, and emerge slim
and shorn from a mass of fleece. which
looks like buffalo robes. These fieeces
are rolled into as small compass
a. possible, after being wound into
tight ropes, and are bound onto the
pack animals.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
a ouack ouaeks.

A quack cure for the evils OF reck-
less driving Is offered by psy-
chologist, who says the slow, nervous
driver who has in his mind or his SUBJ
consciousness the vision of wreck IL
the one who goes headlong into a
crash. Instead of vision Of the ac-
cident and how 1t happens the driver
must have clear vision of how TO
drive correctly In critical situations.
Every neutrality-suspicious. driver of q
light delivery truck proceeds with per.
feet self-confidence. proceeding In
many cases without regard to the
rights Of other drivers, feeling that the
impressive displacement Of his vehicle
In the atmosphere ahead Of the driver
Of a passenger vehicle will warn that
driver not to stand up for his rights,
has clear vision of how to drive. He
sees himself hogging the road and get
ting away with it.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
How TO Get Used to Noises.


"What like about the neighbor-
hood" insisted the enthusiastic resi-
dent of Brooklyn Heights, us the quiet.
No trelleys, no elevated roar, no heavy
trucks laundering through our streets,
no sound from the subway. Why, l
think"
Just a minute objected his friend
from across the bridge. s'You live so
near the harbor that your back door
is virtually dock, and yet you have
the nerve to tell me that. yours Is a
quiet neighborhood. What about the
tugs and harbor craft that go footing
up and down the bay all night I"
"Well," admitted the BroOklynite, Il
do remember hearing a toOt or two
the first few nights / lived there But
/ never hear 'em nov"
Exactly said the Manhattan man.
"Just what thought. Used to EN-
now. That's Just the way the elevated
and the two-ton trucks affect me now.
Any neighborhood's quiet II you live
there long enough. New York Sun.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
CAN GO LONG WITHOUT FOOD
Healthy Human Being, Drinking PIsn.
ty Of Water, Will Survive Fast
Of Forty Days.

Some weeks ago pig disappeared
from it's sty on a Cornish farm. Search
was made, but the creature could not
be found, and was given up for lost.
Twentyfour days later q man pass
ing an old mineshaft heard something
below, and made search. There was
poor piggy, some thirty feet down.
quite unhurt, and 1t was speedily got
out.
It was thin. but otherwise not a bit
the worse, and at once started feeding
ravenously, says London Answers.
It takes long time to starve a fat
pig, which can actually lose half its
weight before 1t dies. Most full-grOwn
animals can 60 without food for q long
time, and can lose as much as two
fifths of their weight before succumb-
ing. An exception Is the mole, which,
when deprived of food, starves to death
in less than 4S hours.
A healthy human being can fast 40
days If he or she takes plenty Of wa
ter. A case is on record of wOm-
an going 43 days without food, during
which time her weight decreased from
l4S to 30 pounds.
Children cannot fast for long with
out fatal consequences. They collapse
after a fast Of three to five days, and
lose quarter Of their weight.
Snakes, of course, are the champion
fasters. The big python in the zoo
recently went more than two years
without a meal.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
True saeriHela, Spirit

Dad was having one of his ecOnOrnf
cal fits. Bluebelle received solemn
caution to cut down on expenses. Dad
pointed out number Of things the
government was taxing and declared
that more would be added to the list.
He said he had even heard 1t rumored
that the authorities were contemplate
ing slapping tax on bridge games.
The girl was not greatly disturbed.
"Au right" chirped Bluebelle. I'm
willing to play bridge al day long tor
my country"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
MOULD BE REAL PARTNERS
And Beth Husband and Wife OUGHT
q Ds Permitted to Have Their
Own Way at Tlmes

Il Is not so nearly true as 1t was
years ago that men earn money and
women spend 1t, but 1t Is still con-
dderably true. Men still have control
= the chief agencies for wage-earning
and earn most Of the wages paid.
women have the spending Of most Of
the money that Is earned and brought
home for the support Of families. The
chef end Of man Is still what the
Westminster catechism says 1t is, but
bis next most important end is to sat
Iny women. Women are more con-
tented when they have their own way
part Of the time-so are men. Wom-
ems wishes should be dominant In
certain departments of life, mems
wishes in certain others; but there is
NO department Of life in which women
can afford to ignore the wishes OF men,
or men the wishes Of women.
And so 1t Is that In public as well as
In private dealings between men and
women persuasion works better than
Against exacting women
men are instinctively on their guard.
They usually avoid such women If they
can. No men can afford to be driven
By women into positions they do not
approve Of, and II they cannot run
away they are likely to turn obstinate
Or worse. But most men are very
open to persuasion. and II led around
10 look at proposal from that point
u view their objections to 1t may dis
Record.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
DISEASE CAME FROM EUROPE
no record OF. or Name for, Malaria,
has Been Found Among the
American Indians.

Inc SLOW diseases which sap vitality
do not have spectacular records. hnt
"a the long run the damage which
tney DO is incalculably greater than
tnat OF epidemics, writes Herbert ].
Spinden in the Worlds Work. Malaria
Tor instance, Is greater obstacle TO-
day to the development of the tropfcs
than yellow fever ever was, although
the latter could accomplish much at
one fell swoOp. For one thing the
e1ects of malaria reach around the
globe and into nearly all It's habitable
parts.
The three kinds of malaria are de-
scribed by the Greek physician Hip
pocrates and the names which we
use today are of Re nan origin. The
two-day fever is called tertian, or
third, because the Romans counted
both ends of any numerical sequence.
and the three-day fever Is called quar-
tan, which means fourth. There is
no good evidence that malaria ex.
listed In America before the discovery.
we do not find terms for 1t In Ameri-
can Indian language nor do we find
any records that the early explorers
In Central and South America suffered
from this disease For instance Cortes
led an army across the base of the
peninsula Of Yucatan, through re-
gion of swamps and flooded streams
where today malaria is rife In every
village. yet we find no mention of this
Illness among any of his troops or In
dian burden bearers
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
Figured VOiles
79c Quality SIC

One lot of Egyptian Voiles in
a splendid variety of patterns
and colors; 79c quality for SIC
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28

One rack Of ladies' dress
Skirts of serge, cord or fancy in
gathered or pleats. Values to
$3.50 for $500