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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
INTELLIGENCE TEST
FOR AUTO DRIVERS
MAY BE ONE OF SAFETY-FIRST
LAWS OF ISTS-UNSKILLED
DRIVERS RESPONSIBLE

Chicago-(A. P.)-An intelligence
test for the man or woman who drives
motor car is possibility within
the next two or three years.
Representative of Is middle wes-
tern states are to be invited to attend
the conference of motor vehicle adj
ministrators, representing state auto
mobile licensing bureaus, to be held
here early in September, at which
plans will be made for working out
safety-first laws for automobilists and
pedestrians. The movement is being
fostered by the National Safety coun-
Gil. The convention is to be called
by Fred M. Rosseland, chief of the
public safety division of the National
Safety council.
The man who drives a car for
somebody else must pass an examina-
tion." said Walter w. Miller, chief
clerk of the automobile division of the
Illinois department of state. But
anybody can drive an automobile if
he owns it, whether he has ordinary
horse sense or not.
The accidents do not happen to
licensed chauffeurs. They happen to
the unskilled drivers. The confer
ence will make plans for uniform
laws to govern the licensing of auto
mobile operators to see if they are
sufficiently competent mentally to
handle motor driven vehicle. Some
form of intelligence test is likely to
be devised
Representatives of the state depart
ments of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wis
consIn, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, Ne
braska, and North and South Dakota
will be invited. 1t is hoped to have
the conference just prior to the meet
ing of secretaries of state at Ashe-
vile. N. c., September 10, IA, Is.
There is real need, according to |
the officials sponsoring the confer
ence, for uniform laws of driving to |
lessen the death rate. One way sug- |
gested is to prevent a man who never |
mas handled car before from buy
ing machine and promptly setting
forth as If he were an experienced
driver. This prevalent custom could
be prevented, they say, by forcing the
dealer by law to see that everybody
to whom he sells a car is Thoroughly
instructed before he is permitted to
operate it on the public highways.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
Ancient Coins Found
at Foot of Mt. Etna

Rome.-Interestingr relics In the form
of two large brass vases filed with
pieces of gold, and believed by ex-
ports to belong to period 800 or 400
years B. c., have, by order of the gov
eminent, been removed from Ognina,
which is situated at the foot of Mount
Etna, to Rome.
The vases we're discovered in q ifs
sure in the ground under an old wall,
after a slight earthquake, by a deaf
and dumb peasant. The news of the
find only reached the authorities when
the peasant offered the vases for sale
to collectors
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03

The system has been in operation
throughout the Lewiston branch since
July IL.
The system is a combination of cleo
trical, pneumatic and mechanical de-
vices applied both to the track and
to the locomotives. These devices
slow down, or, wnen required, bring
to complete stop, any train which
approaches too closely to another on
the same track, whether going in the
same or opposite direction or when
switches are improperly left open.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03

bound and thrown into a dry well,
there to perish miserably of suffoca-
ton after debris had been tumbled
down the well to silence their cries.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
ODD COMMUNITY
BARS OUT WOMEN
Athos Peninsula in Greece Has
One of the Strangest Govern
mentS in the World.

WashingtOn.-'SThe AthoS PENN
sula in Greece, to which the patriarch
of Constantinople, head of the
Greek church, has retired because
of pressure from the Turkish gov
eminent, is one of the queerest
communities and has one Of the strang-
est governments in the world" says a
bulletin from the Washington head
quarters of the National Geographic
society.
"On the 200 odd square miles of this
rough peninsula which lacks little Of
being an island, it has been unlawful
since the year 1915 for a woman to set
foot. Moreover, domestic animals are
barred Even the eggs and milk that
the good monks Of Athos eat and drink
must come from farms safely across
the border of the strange monastic
republic.
Treasures of Byzantum.
1.-THE entire peninsula is given up to
monasteries of which there are 20,
mostly on the slopes or cliffs of Mount
Athos, the 6,35O-foot promontory that
raises near the outer end of the head
land
There are one or more monaSteries
for each of the countries, or in some
cases the communities that accept the
Greek rite-Greece, Russia, Serbia,
Bulgaria, Anatolia, Constantinople and
many others.
1.-The mOnasteries are today one of
the richest repositories of the illumi-
mated manuscripts, statues, paintings,
mosaics and other works of art pro-
duced in the heyday of that gilded
eastern Rome.
"The monks of Mount Athos have
traditions of the beginnings of their
establishments as early as the days of
Constantine the Great, about 300 A. d.
But history tells of the foundation of
the earliest of the present monas-
teries, that of Lavra, in 969. The
latest was established in 1915 a cen
fury after the fall Of Byzantium.
''The monasteries are in every con-
situation some on gentle
slopes near the sea, some on lofty
crags overhanging the beating surf,
and others inland on shoulders of the
sacred mountain. All consist of walled !
spaces in which are churches chapels, |
dwelling houses or dormitories, guest |
abodes, libraries, and in the case of /
Tie eSldDIiSlllneUtS uuucT Il uOulnQl-
regime, refectories. The |
East has always been turbulent, and |
Mount Athos knows its east; so all the |
Enclosures are fortified.
Has Queer Government.
THE government of Mount Athos
mas been republican in form for more
han $50 years-since 1000, six years
before the Normans conquered Eng
and. Each monastery elects repre-
sentative who is sent to the centrally
situated village of Karyes, which is the
capital. There the delegate occupies
| dwelling owned by his abbey and
constituting a sort of embassy build
ng
1.-THE twenty representatives sit as
he most blessed assembly of the
acred mount, parliament more ven
rable than that of London, if that
'Ody be dated from the recognition of
he elective principle. The executive
# Mount Athos is a body of five monks
hosen by the monasteries voting in
roups Of four. Four of these execu-
ives each keeps in his custody a quar-
er of the great seal of the republic
nd the fifth, the secretary, carries a
andle which locks the fragments
roperly together
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
HOW TOWN COT
PECULIAR NAME
Peculiar, Mo-, UnconsciousIy
Christened by Peeved Post
office Department Official.

Washington.-There Is a very pc
culiar story connected with the NAM
| ing of Peculiar, Mo.-which is also
peculiar name for a town.
The federal government does not
| are born or feel the urge for a cog
nomen, but the Post Office department
does regulate them to the extent Of
prohibiting duplicating of names with
in the same state. So when a newly
formed community in Missouri sug
gested a certain name for its post
office, the department informed the in
habitants there was already one by
that name in their state.
Several other names were chosen by
the residents and submitted, but al
ways with the same result. Finally
an exasperated official Of the depart
ment, in refusing the latest choice,
wrote the city fathers among other
things "that it was mighty peculiar
they could not find a good name for
their town.
Whereupon he received the follow
ing reply: Acting on your sugges-
ton, we select the name Peculiar"
day.
Rule in Naming New Towns.
There is only one rule in the NAM
ing of new towns, and that Is that
there shall be but one of the same
name in a state. But that does not
prohibit other states from boasting
towns of the same name. For instance,
there are 40 names used more than 20
times each to designate towns and
cities.
Benjamin Franklin is remembered
as an inspiration more than any other
person, and Franklin as a town name
takes the prize, occurring 81 times in
81 states.
The others in point of popularity
run: Clinton, 30 times; Chester and
Arlington, 20 of each Washington, %;
Troy, Salem, Madison, Marion, Man
chester and Clayton, IT; Glenwood,
Kingston and Newport, 26; Ashland,
Centerville and Cleveland, % Auburn,
Dover, Hillsboro, Lincoln, Monroe,
Oxford, Princeton, Springfield, War
rem and Union, "a; Greenville and
Wilson, %; Belmont, Buffalo, Canton,
Dayton, Eureka, Liberty, Milford and
Plymouth, D; Burlington and Leba-
non, 81; Portland, Lexington, James
town, Hudson and Danville, 20.
Bane of Postoffce Clerks.
Duplicated names are the bane of |
the postal clerk, and the Yankee repu-
tation for originality rises staggering I
when confronted by the apparent lack |
of imagination used to name Ameri-
can communities. There are even two
Chicagos, six Philadelphias, seven De-
troits and IA Denvers.
Similarity in names also causes the
postal department considerable trou-
Die. Indistinct penmanship might
easily confuse Eldoro Iowa, with FL
dorado, Iowa. In Pennsylvania alone
)egin with the prefix Green: Greene,
GreenbuT, Greencastle,
Green Land Greenoch, Greenpark,
Greensburg, Greensboro,
Queenstown, Greenville and Green
valid
There is a partially for Bloom as a
,refix in New York state, as, for ex-
nipple, Bloomburg, Bloomingdale,
Blooming Grove, Bloomington and
Foreign cities have contributed
heir names freely in this country. J
There are IS towns known as Paris
nd like number of Genevas II Ber-
ms, despite the war, II Moscows, IL
yiennas, six Pekins and two Brussels.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
Car Control
to Stop All r. r. Wrecks

phia.-Tests Of an automat-
ic train control system, under prac-
teal operating conditions on the Penn
sylvania railroad between Lewistown
Junction and Sunbury, Pa, justify
hopes that the system may provide
successful solution of the problem of
preventing train collisions automatical-
ly, regardless of human failures, the
company announced.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
Bulgaria Field for U. S. Trade

Sofia, garia-The American con-
sui here believes Bul garia offers an
excellent market for manufactured.
articles of many kinds. He<is Graham
Fl. Kemper and he says the value Of
the market is evidenced by the desire
of foreigners to share In 1t.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
AustrIans Moving to Berlin.

Berlin.-Lfving is so much cheaper
here than in Vienna, due to the fact
that the German mark Is worth so
much less than the Austrian crown,
that many Austrians are said to be
moving to the German capital
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-03
Sale of Blood Aids Students

delphia.-Several students in
the University of Pennsylvania sum-
mer school are paying part of their
expenses by giving blood for trans
fusion, the university hospital reports
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28

shocks of my life l held out my
hand for the Times and read the lit
tie announcement.
Good 1 said. Il shall attend the
reception which I see is being given
after the ceremony. 1t will be inter
esting to see Norman Greyes' taste in
pearls. I see that he is having his
collection strung as a wedding pres
ent for his wife
IF you do, you're a mailman" the
lawyer declared angrily.
.'Madmen- for luck I replied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28
VOW +liI 60 ON WITH STORY
Michael Savers Continues


GGX/oU We're just in time she
said. That was a wonderful
Jump"
The old gentleman was in the road
by this time and gripping my hand.
MY good fellow" he exclaimed.
You have done a great days work
for yourself For Gods sake, say that
you understand English
"I have hewn wood in Devonshire, -
I told him. 'I speak English or
French, which you will"
MY name" he announced, sis Lord
Kndersley. You will never regret
this days work.
made some attempt to descend,
but he held me in my place.
You must drive US to the next
town." he insisted, Ito Hyeres or Tou-
lon. will reward you handsomely,
but we cannot be left here. and I will
not let that wretched youth touch the
car again
Where are you going tor" I In
quired
England" the girl answered,
to Boulogne."
ST will drive you to Boulogne," I
said, If you will give me that young
mans livery and papers, and recon-
pense my comrades there for my alb
sence They will have to engage an
other woodman."
1T is agreed" he declared eagerly.
We shall not quarrel about terms. I
promise your'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28
ALTMAN
BY AL POSEN

States Government. The American
authorities, he said, were trying to
give them this money in the form of
schools and hospitals, but that was
no good -
This is our country" he continued.
let the white man pay his rent to
his Indian landlords mind his own
business, and leave the landlord alone
If we want schools and hospitals We
will build and run then" ourselves.
White men cannot teach what we In
dams want to learn, anyhow"
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When will you marry me, Janet?''
he asked a little later on, when he
had set me back in my chair and
seated himself by my side.
Marry your" I gasped. How can
you talk of such things?"
Simply because they have to be
talked about before they can be I'M
dertaken,' he replied. 81 look upon
you as Michael's widow, but you have
never cared for him as you are going
to care for me-
Continued in Our Next Issue)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28

thu American continent to send dele
gates to a conference for the con
sideration of measures to defend what
Chief Dominic Two Axe describes a.,
the inalienable right of the Indians
to mind their own business without
outside interference"
The principal question for discus,
sion at the conference. which is to be
held at Onondaga reservation, New
York, June /, and 8, will be con.
corning moneys which the Indians
claim is owed them by the Uniteu
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28

k6X you were just in time she
said That was a wonderful
jump"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28
Janet Takes Un the Story

1t was exactly two months after 1
had left Marseilles when Norman
Greyes walked into my little sitting
room in Smith St., Westminster,
where I was busy tipping play for
the agency which occasionally sent
me work. Before had got over my
surprise at his coming, felt his arms
around me-and every atom of
strength leaving my body. The most
wonderful moment of my life had ar
rived
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28

During the whole Of our four days
journey, the girl who sat by my side
all the time, remained as though
wrapped in her thoughts and spoke to
me only after long intervals.
How is It that you, a woodman,
can drive a motorcar?" was her first
question.
"I have not always been a wood
man" I answered.
why did you want that boys pa
pers?" she asked.
Because wished to reach England,
and might find it difficult to get a
passport of my own" / admitted
On the following day. after a pro
longed silence. she again adopted an
interrogative tone.
why did you risk your life for
us?" she asked. with curious abrupt
ress, toward the close of a long days
run.
Because 1 admired the way you
were facing what seemed to be certain
death" I told her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28
REGN HERE TODAY

vendetta begins between
MICHAEL SAVERS. noted criminal.
and
SIR NORMAN GREYES. once of Scot
land Yard. when Savers beautiful
housemaid,
JANET, saves him from Sir Norman
by shooting dead an officer sent TO
arrest him Janet becomes Savers
wife and accomplice. After many
narrow escapes from capture, Michael
goes to live with two woodsmen.
Pierre and Jacques. Led by Mihcael,
the three scheme TO rob passing mo-
torists By blocking a bend in the
road with a lumber wagon tourists
are made to run down an embank-
ment and in the confusion of rescue
the watching lumbermen rob the in
jured of their purses. One day
Michael goes to the rescue of beau
tiful girl and her father. whose car
runs wild
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28
ASTHMA

Don't suffer another day. If you have
spasmodic or true asthma. take HOMODYNE
CAPSULES In most cases they act like
magic and make the worst sufferers forget
they had asthma. Thev give sure and quick
reief-y0ur money back ii they fail Guar
anteed free from dope" injurious OF habit
forming drugs Tell your friends who suf-
fer HOMODYNE CAPSULES are for sale
at Pearson Drug Co. and other drug stores
expensiFe-Adver1isem
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-28
INDIANS WANT TO
MIND BUSINESS

MONTREAL, Quebec, May 2S.-A
call has been sent out to all the In
dams Of the six nations throughout
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-02
EMILE | IMI I
MAY YET BE
ACCEPTED
Solution Of Ship Liquor Con-
troversy Is Up to State De-
partment Diplomacy.

Because President Harding Is
definitely opposed to convening an
extraordinary session OF Congress
before December to deal with the
international ship liquor contro-
versy, the State department will
exert every effort during the COM
Ing months to solve the problem
through diplomatic channels, Gov
eminent officials said today,
The next step In the negotiations
now under way between the United
States on one hand, and Great
Britain, France, Japan, and other
maritime nations. on the other, is
the replies which these govern.
ments give to the proposal of
Secretary of State Hughes to ex-
tend the American right OF search
and seizure from three to twelve
miles into the sea. If foreign gov
ernments agree to this, Hughes is
willing to draw up a treaty which
will permit their ships to bring
beverage liquor into United States
ports under seal,
Britain toward this proposition has
dlTC6Ady DC0Al tHU0uEn
the recent address of Lord Curaoa
In the House of Commons, but the
British views have not been eena-
munioated officially to the State
Depa rtment.
Secretary Hughes feels that his
proposal has not been fully under
stood by the powers involved and
hopes the way may be cleared for
an agreement by future exchange
of notes and by conversations with
foreign diplomats in Washington.
If Congress happened to be in
regular session at this time, there
is no doubt that the liquor tangle
might be cleared up more speedily,
hut President Harding does not
want a special session, so the State
Department will have to go along
single handed during the next six
months in trying to effect an adj
iustment, and, to avoid serious COM
plications with foreign governments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-02
DRAWS
HUNDREDSOF
TOURISTS
Railroads and Agencies Report
Record Influx of TraV-
eIers to Washington

Tourist travel to Washington this
year is breaking former summer
records. according to railroad off,
cials and tourists agencies. Among
the largest delegations to reach the
national capital yesterday was a
party of one hundred coming most
~ form Alabama points. They ar
rived at the Franklin Square Hotel
and will spend the day visiting the
ctty's historical points. More than
1900 tourists will reach the city
within the next thirty-six hours.
Reservations have been made for
them at the various hotels,
"Washington Is making the
broadcast appeal as a popular point
to be included in the itineraries of
summer travellers in the east this
year recorded by traffic agencies"
said Frank @, Beiisw, secretary of
the American Traffic Association
at Wardman Park Hotel TODAY.
''It Is no longer merely a prinei.
pal terminal for the traveller intent
on visiting the nations capital, but
one of the show places all summer
travellers demand be taken in, Be.
fore-the-war travel to Washington
has been increased more than 500
per cent, Practically every rail-
road selling eastern tourist trip
tickets are routing trips to include
the city, In my opinion another
year will witness great increase
over this years travel to the CAP
ital, The truth of the matter is
this, Washington offers more to
the average American traveller that
is of permanent and general in
terest than any city in the East !"
Washington's forging to the
front is attributed by traffic men
to the aggressive publicity cam
paigns conducted by several of it's
organizations in their efforts to
make 1t a convention center.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-02
ALL Of WOMAN
HELD NATIONS
CHIEF PERIL
|65, 900 Girls Went Wrong IN
Past IL Months, Asserts
Knoxville Pastor.
International News Service.


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Juy. Eff
our nation is ever degraded 1t will
be because the women have de-
graded themselves and for no other
reason. Every nation il just 30
strong and good ais its women"
This was the remarkable warning
Of the Rev. DIR. b. A. Bowers, pas
tor OF fashionable Baptist Church,
to his congregation last night.
DIR. Bowers took for his text
Girls and Their Perils.'
The i highest created thing Is
woman he said, land God uses
her In b remarkable way.
when the devil came to earth
to tempt man in the Garden of
Eden, he first tempted woman. This
was because he knew IL he could
reach her he would succeed in his
enterprise
DIR. Bowers described some Of
the modern traps set for young
girls. He warned against "joy rid
ing" promiscuous eating and drink
ing, and said $4,000 young girls had
gone to the underworld in the past
twelve months.
Warning mothers OF their duties,
DR.. Bowers said: Unless our women
show greater attention to their
families than to poodles our country
Is going to the dogs.
The best thing a woman can
do, and the greatest thing she can
do for the country and for the
world is to establish a home and
become a mother. It is the hope
of the nation; it is the hope Of the
world"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-02
GEORGE DALAND
ACCEPTSPOST
IN ITHACA
WelI-KnoWn District Organist
to Leave ST. Johns Church
for Conservatory.

George Daland, organist and
choirmaster of st. Johns Church,
Georgetown, has accepted the posi-
ton Of head of the theoretical de-
partment of the Ithaca Conserva-
tory Of Music, Ithaca, N. Y, and
will take up his duties there early
in September.
Mr.. Daland came from Ell Paso.
Tex, last September to make his
home in Washington, and while
here has become widely known as
recital organist, having given a
series of six organ recitals in st.
Johns Church, and as many more
recitals In other prominent churches
Of this city.
He il a member OF the Arts Club
of Washington, and took charge of
two successful programs in that
club In April, one q rendition of
the Peter Pan Cycle by quartet
Of vocaIists under his direction, and
the other a recital Of the compost
tions OF Charles Wakefield Cadman,
in which he was assisted by Miss
Meta Craig, soprano.