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The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21
Place in CeyIon Was Founded
437 B. c., and Covered Area
of Sixteen Square Miles,.

Boston.-Of the buried cities OF Cey-
lon, the most fully excavated to date is
Anuradhapura. Not that excavation
can be said to be at all complete, but
at the present stage startling facts are
revealed.
Here, says a writer in the Christian
Science Monitor, was an ancient city,
contemporary Of Rome, which for
extent quite dwarfs It, "Road-center-
ing Rome" was builded on seven
small hills-Anuradhapur splendid
structures cover an area at least six
teen miles square. At least-for neith-
er the out city walls nor its exact
boundaries have as yet been deter
mined. Decipherable "Asoka" char
acters place its founding as o royal
city at 437 B. c.; Its desertion as such
did not take place until late In the
Ninth century.
Twelve hundred years of puissance,
of luxury, of splendid architecture
and vet the western world knows of
II nothing. Attacked by the jungle
the moment the nightfires of civiliza-
tion flickered out, like the vast ruins
of Aztec culture In Yucatan, Its part
Is as legendary, its wonders as myth
cal as Ilium, Troy, or pent-up Utica.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21
Pair Die at Same Time
While Seeking Health

Scranton, Pa.-Mr. and Mrs. John
Perry, parents Of nine children, died
at exactly the same hour on little
farm at Forest Lake, where they had
moved in an effort to regain their lost
health. Perry was fifty-one years old
and his wife was forty-five. The wom-
an died of a complication Of diseases.
The husband succumbed to miners
asthma. The couple lived at Scranton
until two years ago, when Perry de-
cided to move to the farm near Mon
trose, Pa. in an effort to fight off tho
rayages of his ailment.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21
Big Risk Taken
By Engine Crews
Pink Slip Shows Who
Will Be the Boss

A youth and a maiden were in
the marriage license bureau, at
San Francisco, Cal. When they
left, with marriage license In
the youths pocket, clerks found
a small pink paper on which
was written the following:
Henry, get haircut and mani
cure; get full-dress suit; wash
head; don't put water on head;
get pair of garters; perfume
nicely; don't eat onions; get
full-dress collar and necktle; get
shoes; get hat; get new tooth
brush; get the license; get
flowers; be on time for wedding;
don't forget the ring. Mary"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21
Hen Has Record for Big Eggs.

Ashland, Ore.-Mrs. ]. f. Ramsay OF
Ashland lays claim to having worlds
champion hen when 1t comes to laying
large eggs. All eggs laid by this hen
are unusually large, but one egg which
measured S1s by 71s inches, is be-
lieved to be one of the largest ever
laid in Oregon. The hen is Barred
Rock, from the famous Oregon Agri-
cultural college strain, and is three
years old.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21
Cat in California
Fights Own Image

Huntington Park, Calf, has
cat that fights its own reflection.
The cat lives In n grocery
store. 1t hops up on the counter,
looks into mirror, and sees Its
own image. Then the fun be-
gins.
Pussy dashes against the mir
ror, spits and claws, but the
other "cat" does the same.
After firing itself out, the ami
NAL will seek corner and for
get the one-cat battle for a
while.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21

AS young men boarders are not lack
ing, 1t is the boast Of the place that
romances which have led to about 81
marriages have begun or eliminated
within it's walls
The food, served with southern
reckless profusion, is really southern
cooking
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21

elbow attached to the top of the loco
motive stack, for throwing the smoke
back over the top of the cab were
found very effective in reducing the
temperature and improving the atmos-
pheric conditions In the cab.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-21
Jungle Hides
Ancient City

Today one walks through the valley
fine old English wood. Pastured cat
tie keep lawnlike floor beneath
stalwart live oaks. banyans, teak, and
ficus trees. Monkeys, parrots and end
less sorts Of smaller feathered jewels
pass forever above you. Changing rat
tan, air-ferns, orchids, draping mosses
far aloft yield only dusky half-light
along the pathways. \-
Throughout the 256 square miles Of
this park-llke domain, now inter-
spersed with marble bathing pools,
now overtowered by soaring dagobas.
stand-and also lie-unnumbered
thousands of square stone columns,
unique to that far-off period of Cey-
Ion. These monoliths of every girth
and height are everywhere here,
Springing from wide marble platforms.
or embedded In the soil, once sup
porting canopies or upper floors. they
present feature the most casual visi-
tor cannot fail to find impressive. And
remember, they aro hand-hewn, man
handled monoiths; though much
smaller than those used by the Egyp-
itans. The "Brazen Palace" (erected
about 100 B. C.) had 1000 pillars sup
porting the second story.
The structures so made appear to
have been mainly for two uses-as
monasteries and their adjuncts, and
as precincts Of royalty. Indeed, 1t
seems as II the wide range Of Anurad-
hapura had been given over to the
highly active. recently introduced
Buddhism as a sort Of spiritual expo
sition ground, national Acropolis and
Chautauqua together. In the glory and
learning Of which royalty, semi-deified,
had natural place.
Huge Dagobas.
The royal establishment had many
elaborate bathing "tanks" "a Sanscrit
word) roundabout, and there were
many others of ritual nature scat
tered throughout the city. These un-
canopied, al fresco, some of them yet
holding water, have been excavated
by scores, their ancient splendor cas-
lily discernible. Another of the par
ticular features of this vanished civil
ization, of this buried metropolis, Is q
half dozen sky-scraping dagobas. Four
are of tremendous size, the Abhaya-
giriya having a height of probably 28O
feet and a base diameter Of 252 feet.
A dagoba Is memorial structure
(solid usually, occasionally also a rel
iquary) inspired somehow by Bud
dhism; is generally conical, and is
found of Characteristic type in each
ountry-becoming the well-known pa
CODA In China and japan.
The Abhayagiriya dagoba. around
which spreads a pavement eight acres
in area. has been calculated by an au-
thority as requiring bricks sufficient
ito have built wall ten feet high
from London to Edinburgh"
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Tool and EmpIoyer.

Representative Upshaw's PROPOSE
ton, that bootlegger and patron be
bracketed together, and when con-
victed both jailed, follows the line
often advanced about frauds perpe-
trated on the ballot.
Repeating at the polls-an offense
confined to large cities and frequently
committed there's practically en-
couraged, some men contend, by the
way in which the offense is handled.
Only the repeater, as a rule, is pur-
sued, and when convicted punished.
He is always a creature of no conse-
quence, without standing in the COM
munity, or shame in going to prison.
He is only the disreputable tool of men
higher up" who profit by the usu-
fruct of his rascality.
The proper course, it is asserted,
would be to pursue them, and punish
them when the goods" are traced to
them Prison would be appalling in
their cases. Apply that policy, and re-
peating would be diminished if not
abolished. No temptations spread, no
disreputable creatures employed.
So, as the Georgia legislator reasons.
should the course be taken respecting
the violation Of the prohibition law.
Go after the bootlegger's patron as
we'll as after the bootlegger. The lat
ter is but the tool of the former. The
former offers the temptation. and the
latter falls for it. No patron, no boot
logger: no bootlegger, no hootch bust
ness with it's defiance of law.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
The French Adventure.

Where do we go from here?' is a
question French craftsmanship might
we'll ask itself today. Ostensibly,
France is going into the Ruhr, but
whether she can find a stopping place
there is quite another matter. If the
Poincare government is to follow to q
logical conclusion the course it has set
cut upon, failure of the Ruhr occupa-
ton to produce reparations may neces-
state further movements into Ger
many. 1t may not be long until we
hear of French plans to occupy Berlin.
That occupation of the Ruhr will
not appreciably increase the sum total
of gold and goods France will receive
from Germany is the accepted conclu-
sion of all men other than Frenchmen
who have made a study of the prob
lem. If to present charges the cost Of
maintaining new occupying army is
to be charged up against Germany the
net return to France is likely even to
be diminished. The chief argument
France has advanced in support Of
her policy has been that her financial
necessities were such as not to admit
of further delays. If the steps she is
about to take do not result in relieving
those necessities the Paris government
either will have TO admit its error and
withdraw or proceed to even more
drastic measures. 1t would be an un-
tenable position for her to sit down in
the Ruhr and stay there without a
demonstration of effectiveness.
Whatever the Ruhr occupation may
amount to in the way of producing
reparations, it will furnish one of the
most interesting psychological expert
ments of which history has any rec
ord. Whether at the point of the bay
onet the capital and labor of a great
nation can be compelled so to employ
themselves as to produce a surplus of
goods has never been demonstrated
Slave labor has been required to pro-
duce surpluses where capital and man.
agement were free, but the enslave-
ment Of capital and management has
not before been attempted. Are the
Industrial leaders of Germany going
freely to apply their wealth and genius
to works over which French soldiers
stand guard? If they do so, it will be
a demonstration of something new in
human nature. If they do not, if they
sequester their capital and withhold
their genius for management, the
mines and mills of the Ruhr will be of
little use to the French.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Murder Has Been Done
For Less Than This

There is a genial fellow of our ac-
Quaintance who possesses a daughter
tho lucky dog: This particular man
is q. queer sort of cuss and he has
always thought, along with Barrie,
that there are only two great epochs
in a girls life. Contrary to all ac-
cepted thought upon the subject, mar
riage is not one of them. The first
great event is when the initial rec
ognizable smile ripples into baby
laughter; the second when she puts
up her hair.
This man we have in mind had
made a sort of dream ritual of this
latter and had planned a thousand
ways in turning the matter over in
his inner consciousness how he would
invest the ceremony with a thousand
little graces. They would talk about
it ever so much beforehand and, as
the day drew near, there would be
many little backward flights and
timorous fears of how it would all
turn out. In her childhood days he
would often toss her little name up
backward to get a provision of the
X.
would tantalize him, in turn, by
parading before him with a mountain
of finespun gold banked on her dainty
little head. 1t was to be a monu-
mental occasion and the poor fellow
hugged the thought to himself. They
would plan for it as for lord may
or's ceremonial.
The blow fell, as most blows fall,
suddenly, Unexpectedly. He went
home of an evening, carefree, Joyous,
to romp with this girl-child as of
old. She was going to a party and
she was fifteen going on sixteen, and
her mother, without a word of prep
aration for the shock, with a thought
lessness almost sublime, had borne
her off to hairdresser, where all
the iniquitous rites of that diaboIi-
cal institution were perpetrated. We
doubt very much whether this genial
fellow will ever be quite the same
the deepest, the most poignant hurts
somehow or other always seem to
come out of thoughtlessness and the
failure to grasp even family the 9TH
er fellows point of view. Even
fathers have few temples where
they make prayer.-Baltimore News.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
The Kew Bridge.

When the House of Representatives
on Saturday, in it's discussion of the
District appropriation bill, reached
the item dealing with the new George
town bridge. providing for miscel-
laneous supplies and expenses and for
it's transfer upon completion to the
jurisdiction of the District Commits
sioners, Representative Hill of Mary
land proposed an amendment giving
it formally the name of the Francis
Scott Key bridge. After Mr.. Hill had
read into the record the action of
numerous organizations in favor of
this name for the bridge. the House,
without any dissent from the PROPOSE
ton, adopted the amendment. If the
paragraph as thus drawn stands. and
obtains the approval Of the Senate, the
bridge will have been definitely named
in honor of the author Of ''The Star
Spangled Banner"
The reason for calling this bridge
for Francis Scott Key lies primarily
in the fact that for a considerable
period he lived in house which i'm
mediately adjoins the Georgetown ap-
proach. The house, though somewhat
changed at present, is still standing
there, and the hope is that it will al
ways be preserved as a memorial.
Francis Scott Keys fame rests
chiefly upon his authorship of the
poem written at the time of the battle
of Baltimore, when the British naval
forces were repulsed and the flag at
Fort McHenry remained flying after a
night of furious bombardment. But
Mr.. Key was a Washingtonian, serv-
ing here as district attorney at one
time, and was identified with the life
of the capital. This city has no memo
rial to him, though recently a national
monument in his honor was erected at
Fort McHenry. 1t is appropriate that
here at Washington should stand
some symbol Of the man whose name
is so intimately identified with the pa
triotic literature of the country and
whose poem Is sung constantly by the
American people.
The name Key bridge has become
associated with. the new structure, de-
spite the previous action by Congress
calling it the Georgetown bridge,
which was predicated upon the mis-
taken assumption that Georgetown
was named in honor Of George Wash
ington. That error has, of course,
been subsequently recognized, and it
is proper now that the House should
correct it formally and give the name
Of Francis Scott Key to the new via
dnaf
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Clearing Out the Street Poles.

In the course of his admirable state
ment in explanation of the District ap-
preparation bill Friday, Representative
Cramton, in charge Of the measure as
representing the appropriations COM
mittee, referred to certain proposed
street improvements in terms that
bring back to mind the long fight
against overhead wires and obstruct-
ing poles waged in Washington, in
which The Star was foremost as an
advocate Of clear, safe streets. He
noted the condition, of Bladensburg
road, commonly known as the Balti-
more pike. now having a line of poles
down the center" where, it has been
said, more bootleggers and patrons
of bootleggers are killed of than in
any other section around here" Mr..
Cramton went on to say that 1--WE pro-
pose to improve that street through
the removal Of the poles from the CEN
ter of the street"
Doubtless many Washingtonians OF
later advent do not recall the struggle
r,sAt was waged to keep the streets of
Washington free from disfiguring.'
dangerous poles and wires. Had It not
heen for the opposition to these poles.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Defends Frances Course.
Writer Believes Occupation of
Ruhr to Be just.

To the Editor of The Star:
have read with interest your edi-
torial in Saturdays Star entitled
weighing the Sword" but am not
convinced of your conclusion that
"civilization would stand aghast" if
France goes to the threatened length
of seizure of the Ruhr district in an
effort to collect reparations from
Germany. Why should France be de-
MED the sympathy and moral support
of the nations who fought by her side
because she takes measures to en-
force the collection of the reparations
Germany under the treaty agreed to
pay? If it is wrong to enforce the
collection of a just debt then our
system of Jurisprudence is wrong, for
the property of the debtor in all
civilized countries may be seized In
satisfaction of the debt. Did not
Germany take Alsace-Lorraine from
France and enormous sums of money
in satisfaction for the war of 1870?
Why have the troops of the allies,
including our own soldiers, been sta
upon LIlc the sLi :
mistice If not to compel Germany to
live UP to the treaty? If the German
hordes had devastated our land, loot
ed and laid waste our cities, and in
f1icted untold suffering and death
upon our people and then failed, when
finally conquered. to pay for the
damage done, although having suf-
fered no such devastation herself and
although continuing to possess and
enjoy territory of such boundless
wealth as the Ruhr district. would the
citizens of this country. stand
aghast" at the determination to take
the property of the debtor nation as
security for the cash it refuses to
pay? Why should the French people
be burdened with per capita tax ap-
proximately three times as great as
the German people have to pay Git
has been so reported) and then permit
Germany to say she cannot pay the
reparations?
Your historical allusion to the sack
ing OF Rome by the Gauls is not in
point. France did not engage in a
war for conquest nor is she demand
ing the spoils of war, but restoration
can appreciate that civilization
would stand aghast at the prospect
convinced that France should be de-
serted by her allies because she says
that she proposes to take security for
the debt which Germany says she
cannot pay, and IL the allies support
France in her just claims there will
be no war. E. NJ. CUSHING.
Rosslyn, Va. r. D. l.
Evening star., 1923-01-08

the capital might have had rapid tram
sit much more quickly than 1t was
eventually provided. But IT would
have been at the cost of the streets,
which now are almost wholly free
from the distractions. In consequence
the city is far safer. not only in point
Of traffic but in respect to fire fighting.
The "city limits originally consti-
tuted the area Of strict overhead wire
prohibition. AS those limits were out
grown, were, in fact, discarded in law,
and urban conditions were developed
beyond the old technical boundary Of
the city, the prohibition against new
aerial wires was extended. Still in a
few instances poles have remained
within what has become the urban
area. those on Bladensburg road as an
example. There are others, as, for in
stance, on Connecticut avenue beyond
Rock creek, and Georgia avenue from
a short distance above Florida avenue,
and on North Capitol street and Michi-
gan avenue into Brookland. In some
cases the underground conduit system
has been carried farther out by volun-
tary action of the traction companies.
Recently an effort was made to effect
the removal of the poles from the
lower portion of Connecticut avenue
extended, and it was hoped that this
would be done in connection with the
reconstruction of Calvert Street bridge,
but the opportunity was allowed to
pass without such action.
The proposal to remove the poles
in the interest of public safety. These
poles, as Representative Cramton indi-
Gates. have been the cause of many
deaths. The street itself is much fire.
quented, not only by the illicit traffic
to which he has referred, but by a
great volume Of entirely legitimate
traffic All the users of the road are
endangered by these poles in the CEN
ter.
1t would be gratifying to have the
definitely extended by legislation. A
start in this direction by the proposal
to remove the poles from Bladensburg
road gives hope that this may be ac-
complished, and then Washington will
be relieved even further of the element
of insecurity and danger from which
other cities so greatly suffer, and from
which it has been at slight sacrifice in
the past kept SO free.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Martha Washington
Stamp Retired i'm 1909

To the Editor of The Star:
In an article in The Star discussing Q,
some of the new postage stamps the
statement is made that when the new
four-cent stamp bearing the portrait
of Martha Washington is issued on
the 18th of this month it will be the
first time the portrait of woman has
appeared on a limited States postage
stamp. The article also says that
when the new 8 and 10 cent stamps are
placed on sale the same date. with
the portraits of Jefferson and Monroe.
respectively, these statesmen will for
the first time be thus honored.
May I point out that the first United
States stamp to bear the likeness Of
a woman was issued in 1902-03. when
the eight-eent stamp Of that series car
ried portrait of Martha Washington.
This stamp was continued in circula-
tion until 19OS-09. In connection
with women's portraits on our stamps
1t might also be said that in 1907 the
five-cent stamp of the Jamestown"
tercentenary issue bore a portrait of
Pocahontas. Jeffersons portrait
first appeared on the five-cent denomi-
nation of the series of 1876: his
portrait was lnen lnciuQeQ In all IS
sues teXcept special commemorative
series) until 19OS-O9. Monroe's por-
trait was first placed on United
States stamp in 1904-the three-cent of
the Louisiana Purchase" issue.
OF twelve portraits borne on this
new issue of 1928 all but three have
heretofore appeared on our stamps at
various times; the new faces are
those Of Hayes, Cleveland and Roose-
welt.
WIN. Lay PATTERSON.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Lenin Again Reported Ill.

A report has recently come out of
Russia to the effect that Nicolai Lenin,
head Of the Russian soviet govern
ment, has had a relapse of illness and
is now in extremis. A brain specialist,
it is stated from Berlin, has been sum-
moned from that city to Moscow. The
dispatch from Berlin to this effect
states that DR.. vogt's mission is being
concealed by the announcement that
he is going to Moscow as delegate
to the Russian neurological congress,
which opens tomorrow.
Intiuuations to the effect that a fall
ure Of Lenin's health following his
recovery from the illness of last win
ter have already been heard, But so
skepticai has the western world be.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
Theodore Roosevelt.

Some friends of Theodore Roosevelt
make an annual visit to his grave. An
association exists for the purpose. This
years visit was made on Saturday, the
fourth anniversary of his death.
1t is an unusual tribute to the
memory of an unusual man.
He did not while living and in ac.
ton lack for large appreciation Of his
talents and manysidedness. On the
contrary, his friends were legion and
showered him with evidences OF ad-
miration and affection. He had all the
honors in politics, including the high
est, the presidency. He had thousands
Of readers for the products Of his busy
pen. He had crowds to hear him when
ever he took the stump or the plat
form.
1t is true, however, that not until
he died was appraisement of him and
what he represented as full as de-
served. But since then he and his
performances have passed in just re-
view; and he is acclaimed now as hav-
ing been one Of the extraordinary men
of his era, considered without regard
to position or nationality.
He had made himself world figure;
and distinguished men from all parts
OF the world coming to America find
their way with flowers to the ceme-
terry where his body lies Soldiers,
statesmen, men of general affairs,
from remote countries are familiar
with his career, and, as do men Of his
home country, associate themselves
with displays of respect for his mem.
ory.