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Evening star., 1925-11-11
FRENCH PREPARE
FOR ARAB ATTACK
Rebel Tribesmen Push Close
to DamasCus-Count on
Defenders Weakness.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. November u.-Late ad-
vices from Syria are to the effect
that the rebels and the Djebel Druse
tribesmen are closely investing Da-
mascus and that the French there are
being so placed as to he able to cope
with any eventuality.
Apparently it is the purpose of the
rebels to so harass the French as
Ia bring about general uprising.
with which it is thought the French,
without receiving further reinforce
ments. would he unable to success
fully cope. At any rate the situa-
tion still is extremely serious
No report has yet come to show
that the French have gone on the
off. nsive against the rebels. as II
had been reported they would do,
or has there been received any de
tails of the encrClinE movement
which was said TO be under way or
OF the outcome of the reported oper-
ations against the bandit Bakrl,
president of the Syrian republic.
The French are said to be using air
planes near Damascus To bomb the
rebels
Refugees Crowd Beirut.
The refugee concentration camp
AT Beirut. which is filed with Arme-
mans and others who fed precipl
lately from the danger zone. is de-
scribed as extremely insa nitary. with
many of the occupants i'll and with
no medicine and little water available.
The American Near East Relief is
being besieged by destitute refugees.
mostly Armenians from Asiauc
Turkey.
From Alexandria, Egypt. comes
report that Gen. Sarran, former
French high commissioner in Syria.
who is on his way back to France 10
report on recent events. declared he
felt that he had done his best to full
fill the French mandate in Syria. He
disclaimed responsibility for the bonn
bardment of Dana sous. saying that
he could not surrender the city to the
bandits and that there had to be fight
ing in the streets.
Stopped Plunder Of City.
Il stopped the pillage." Gen. Sar-
rail said. THAT was the extent Of
my military expression. and, notwith
standing what some foreign news
paper correspondents said, | had the
situation we'll in hand"
The general blamed the British con
sui at Damascus for provoking a
panic.
Like the United States Government.
which recently sent torpedo boat de-
stroyers to Syria TO protect American
interests. Italy is dispatChing to the
Island of Leros. in the AEGEAN Sea.
squadron of warships to protect its
nationals in the disturbed region If
such step should become necessary
In Damascus there is an Italian
colony, and also an Italian school
with 13O students and an Italian hos
IF I,aT7S
Evening star., 1925-11-11
Meets Operators Tomorrow.

The governor Will obtain the latest
views of the operators at Harrisburg
tomorrow when he will meet w. W.
Inglis. chairman of the operators ne
gotiating committee.
The conference between Mr.. Pinchot
and Mr.. Lewis was held While they
ate breakfast, in order to permit the
governor to catch an early train for
Harrisburg. The governor said his
future action could not be discussed
al this time. as he was in a delicate
position. Neither would he predict
whether there was any early prospect
of getting the two sides together 10
negotiate wage agreement. The gov
ernor intimated that nothing had
come to him from the operators indi-
eating a change in the situation since
he conferred with Messrs. Lewis and
IngliS in the middle of Septemher.
Evening star., 1925-11-11
Extra Session Not Sure.

The governor refused TO commit him
self when asked whether he would
bring the coal situation To the atten-
ton of the Legislature if an extra ses-
sion is called. He said he had not yet
determined whether an extra session
should be held. Ii is known that the
governor is considering the calling of
an extra session in January to con-
slider revision of election and bank
ing laws.
Mr.. Lewis said there was no pres
ent development in the situation. He
added he did not care to talk or the
conference, as the situation al present
is in the governors hands and any
iafarpsstiop should cenae from him.
Evening star., 1925-11-11
COKE PRICES SOAR
AS COAL SHORTAGE
HERE SEEMS SURE

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Evening star., 1925-11-11
BLAZER TRAGEDY
SOON UP TO JURY
Counsel for Physician Ac-
cused Of Staying Deformed
Daughter Make Final Pleas.
RN the Assnnilfnd press

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLETON. Colo, November II.
While bells today rang out the
passing of an anniversary memor-
able the world over, the voices of
counsel raised in final pleadinES rang
in the ears of - men in district court
here who must decide the fate of DR..
Harold Elmer Blazer, country physi-
clan, charged with the murder of his
S+Year-old daughter. Hazel - the
'child-woma n who never grew from
infancy.
Did Blazer actually slay his first
born child?
If so, was he insane when he took
her life?
If the deed was his, did he do
wrong when he slew the imbeCile
cripple, who was not. defense attor-
neys contend. "a reasonable human
being as comprehended by the statutes
of ColOrado"r
Evening star., 1925-11-11
COOLIDGE HONORS
NATIONS WAR DEAD
IN REVERENT RITES

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Evening star., 1925-11-11
DEBT COMMISSION
SUBMITS PROPOSAL
TO ITALYS EXPERTS

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Evening star., 1925-11-11
RADIO HEADS PLAN
TO LIMIT STATIONS
AT MEETING HERE

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Evening star., 1925-07-12
Division Over Merits of Horse and Cycle
AS Boys Gift Creates Deadlock in Town

for years or. friendly terms with a
bicycle.
Z. Finely l have never met a horse
that did not holler murder IL he was
kept without food or gin for days at
the outside, vile on the other hand I
have set in my Office with the BIZ
cycles all Winter long and the only
noise in the room was me beating
away on q typewriter.
That is the gist of the argument,
and l would like to hear expressions
whether from partisans or neutrals in
regards to what they think of the
proposition, as it has became very
important in our little community and
maybe one of you boys or girls could
advance thesis that would put the
finishing touches on the argument.
Meanwhile 1 forgot to tell you last
week another sad incidence in the life
of Walter Catlett the comedian. One
day he thought he would be awfully
nice to his own kiddies and several of
the neighborS children, so he invited
them all out to a base ball game and
as a comedian would, he neglected TO
look up the schedule and when Wal.
ter and his young visitors arrived at
the Polo Grounds, they found they
was no game scheduled for that day.
You can imagine how tickled the kid
dies was and now they have got q
greater opinion than ever of Walter
as q comedian,
Evening star., 1925-07-12

lust a second, but I'd love TO see them.
room and for a while she couldn't find
the samples. but she had some dandy
new hats, anil I just grabbed a few
moments, not over sixty, TO try on all
of them, and then she found the sam
pies, and | helped her choose between
cretonne with a pattern of green
crocodiles and a Spanish gingham in
red and mauve. l amt just sure
which she decided on, but I'm posi-
tive it wasn't the one | did.
Well anyways by then ] SAYS | sim
ply got to run, I'm in awful hurry
dear, I'll bring Junior over just as
soon as he wakes up. So / flew back
home and got Junior up and dressed
and took him over. and come right
back, practically, and then it only
took me few minutes, maybe thirty
more to dress, and then l come down
in my fighting clothes. and there was
Geo. fast asleep on the morning pa
pers. X * x
"ELL4. naturally l woke him up,
and he says great Scott, look
what time 1t is, good heavens woman,
do you expect to play around Now?
And | says j certainly do, do you
suppose I've hurried through my
work and gone and washed up and
put on all this makeup for nothing?
Not much, George, l says, ! am now
ready to spend the day with you, come
on and spend ii freely. or I'll never let
you stay home and interfere with my
housekeeping and regular work again,
So Geo. saws all Blank. with a yawn,
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Our Pick-It- -Up-and-La -It-Down Habit
And the Great American "Tired Feeling

Maybe" says I, but everything
you been pulling don't prove they is
anything wrong with us gems of the
ocean. We just got more progress than
the yokels on the other side of the
drink
you can call it that" comes back
Finnegan, IF you wants to, but just
where does the progress come in max
ing four balls equal a walk? Where's
the progress in making a spade bid
better than a club bid in bridge?
guess you think you're making prog
ress every time you change your
shirt
Maybe I'm not" l replies, but the
laundry butcher is
The trouble with lotta folks over
here" says High Dome" lis that
they ball up progress and change;
and
You gotta have it," 1 interrupts,
Ito make it,
Gotta have what?" asks Finnegan.
Change 1 tells him. You can't
get ahead without it."
I'VE amt talking money now"
snaps High Dome ] imagine the
folks that change the name of Ger
man measles to liberty measles
thought they was making progress in
medicine
81 guess you're right" I agrees.
About what?" inquiries Finnegan.
About Americans getting tired
quick" I yawns. Got any nice fresh
new Subjects?"
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Summer White Houses.

day, as I happen to live where he
passes to or from his lodgings out of
town. He never sleeps at the White
House during the hot season, but has
quarters at a healthy location some
three miles north of the city, the Sol
diers' Home, a United States military
establishment. L saw him this morn
ing about S1aa coming in to business,
riding on Vermont avenue, near l.
street. He always has company of
25 or 80 cavalry, with sabres drawn
They say this guard was against his
personal wish. but he let his counsel
lors have their way.
THE party makes no great show in
uniforms or horses. Mr.. Lincoln on
the saddle generally rides a good-siZed,
easy going horse, is dressed in plain
black, somewhat rusty and dusty,
wears a stiff black hat, and looks
about as ordinary in attire, ETC., as
the commonest man. A lieutenant,
with yellow straps, rides at his left,
and following behind, two by two,
come the cavalrymen, in their yellow
striped jackets. They are generally
going at slow trot, as that is the
pace set by the one they wait upon.
The sabres and accoutrements clank,
and the entirely unormental cortege
as it trots toward Lafayette Square
arouses no sensation, only some curl
Gus stranger stops and gazes.
II see very plainly Abraham Lin
coins dark brown face, with the deep
cut lines. the eyes, always to me with
a deep, latent sadness in the express
sion. We have got SO that we ex-
change bows, and very cordial ones.
Sometimes the President goes and
,comes.in~ansQpen,,ba The cav
Evening star., 1925-07-12

but what's ALA this got to do with
the passing of Jnah-jong?"
"Mah.jong or Hot Dog" replies
High Dome" they're all victims of
that American tired feeling
Bunk says 1. IF they don't do
nothing in this country excepting
change from one thing to another
how does it happen that they been
playing base ball for about so years
and"
Base ball. interrupts Finnegan,
lis got more to do with dollar chas-
ing than ii has with fly chasing, and,
like l told you before, the itch for
the iron men is about the only pas
time in this land that's got a perma-
nent wave. AS far as the sporting
aspects is concerned, they's been a
lotta changes, amt they?"
They used to play it with whisk-
ers," / admits.
HTF you can think back 10 years" "
goes on High Dome," you'll re-
call that they've been all kinda
variations rung into the sport-foul
strikes, inf1eld popouts, livelier balls,
canning the splitter and such. I'll
wager that the game of cricket's be-
ing played in England today exactly
as it was when Brian Boru knocked
S6 runs offa the delivery of julius
Ceaser.
Take this NAH iong you're asking
about. In China they been playing it
the same way for $4,000 years. 1t
wasn't over in this country more n
three days before they begun chang.
ing the rules on it. Is that right?"
Evening star., 1925-07-12

all right, he says, | suppose / will
haf to go drag myself around coupla
holes, let's start on the fourteenth,
just wait a few minutes while i
change my shoes and find my cap and
see are my clubs all there, l meant TO
look EN- over this morning, but /
didn't get time, ! won't be long.
So Geo. crept upstairs softly SOS not
to wake too much ambition, and after
he had called me three times TO help
him find his other sock, his new Fly
ing Fish putter. his bow tie, and got
me to help him button the front of
his cap, why we started out, only
turning back twice, once for his pipe.
and again for his tobacco, and a coupla
times more for matches and another
pipe, because he brought the wrong
one. first shot. And we reached the
golf course in plenty of time TO shoot
the nineteenth hole before dark.
When we got home, Geo. frightened
up considerable. He was thinking 1t
would soon be morning.
Say Jennie, he says to me, why
don't you run in town tomorrow and
have a bite of lunch with me? You
must get tired of 1t out here in the
suburbs with nothing 10 do.
Well, that was what might of been
called a perfect end. In fact, as flops
go, the day had been a complete sue
cess. And so when Geo. decides to
stay home again. / am conner vary
the programme a very little. I am
not conner shoot any golf. l am
conner shoot myself, instead.
tCopvrirht 1925
Evening star., 1925-07-12

Well. that put me in mind of Jun
ior and that | hadn't seen, nor what
was far worse, heard him in quite
some time. So / says lost ball, my
eye don't talk to me about lost balls,
just lost a child. what can he be
doing, l got to find him right away
and stop him doing it!
And SO / commenced calling, hey,
Junior, where are you, and Geo. sang
a tenor to it, and at last we found
Junior in the shoe & umbrella closet
under the stairs. where he had just
made a complete success out of COW
ering every part of himself with the
shoe backing.
Well naturally | had to clean him
up, with a lot of help from Geo. who
stood behind me with his hands in
his pockets and made remarks such
as come on Jennie, hurry up, I'm
crazy to get out on the course.
And I says good heavens, l can't
go until I'm done, can /? And he
says well, how much longer will you.
be. And l says that depends oR if
the grocer sends the things in time.
| got to telephone my order now.
Well. Geo. followed me to the phone
and listened to the order as if it was
Cuba on the radio, and by this time
it was up to me to get the potatoes
on IL lnSy was 10 DS uOIlt III lliIte lOI
lunch, and Geo. watched me do so.
Then I got Junior out of the chair
where I had made him sit for punish
ment. and right away the phone rung
and it was Mrs. Joe Bush. AS took
down the receiver Geo. says lemme
answer it, / want to help, and l says
hush up, do!
Who is that you're talking to. dear.
says Mrs. Bush at once, it sounds
like a gentleman, And l says oh no,
it amt, it's my husband, he's home
today.
And she says oh I'm so sorry dear,
is he sick? And I says no, I'm sorry
to say he's not.
And she says you poor darling, I
know how it is, they just upset every
thing don't they, ! know Joe stayed
home not long ago and all l done was
wait on him. And l says yeh, that's
me too, I haven't had a chance to do
a thing today, and 1 intended to get
my new curtains up. but ! haven't
had a second, what with him hanging
around.
So Mrs. Bush says, it's a shame.
and you are such a busy woman,
Evening star., 1925-07-12

are you going to the Thursday Club
meeting this afternoon, | suppose
you won't be able to get away. And
l says no dear, I'll have a lot of
extra dishes this noon, and the liv-
ing room amt tidied yet, there's not
much use doing it when it's being
used-you know. cigar ashes and
newspapers all over the place. I'm
way behind with my work, are you
going to the club, dear?
And she says, yes, really oughn't
to so, 1 got some cherries to pre-
serve. and il l leave them another
day they may not keep. whatter you
think? And i says, oh, / guess they'll
keep, what are you going to wear
this afternoon?
And she says why l can't decide,
would you wear my black, or my new
foulard. If you was me? And | says
I'd wear the black, it makes you look
so thin. Well. says Mrs. Bush.
guess I'll wear the new fouIard then
the girls has all seen the black SO
often.
And | says yes dear, that's a fact
l guess Ill have to get something
new before the next, meeting. And
Mabel says. this is a good time for
it, they are having some wonderful
sales down at the Emporium.
And l says yes, some perfectly
grand sales, well, dear, / guess | got
to hang up now, call me up again
real soon SOS we can have a little
talk. And she says, yes, must rush,
too, l just wanted to know how you
were, and I'm real sorry to hear
about George.
Then we hung up and George says
for the love of lucy, who was that
you was talking TO, was you giving
out an interview or what, you been
talking over half an hour, come on
now, let's beat it, | want to play
some golf. And / says no such
thing, the potatoes are done, and it's
lunch time.
And Geo. says. aw forget II. let's
eat later, lets go right now. And L
says shame on you George Jules,
amt YOU got no consideration for
your child? He's got to be fed on
time, if you amt, / can't go off and
leave this house any time / want,
just because you can leave the office.
] got a one-man job. i can't quit,
there is nobody to take my place.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
BY SAM HELLMAN.

<Iy YHAT'S happened to NAH
" jong?" l asks High
NV , Dome" F'innegan.
It's gone where the
ping pong and the cross
word puzzle twineth." returns the sage
of the second precinct. The only sur
prise is that they stuck as long as
they did. I guess they outstayed the
rest of the fadS on account of their
being the least bit cuckooer."
It's funny" l remarks, philosophic.
the way paStimes come and go. 1t
seems like it was only tomorrow when
everybody was batty about prevailing
winds and five-letter word ending in
@ and meaning a five-toed fish that
only ate grasshoppers on Sunday"
What's funny about it?" comes
hack Finnegar. There is only one
sport the Americans stick to, and
that's pursuing the plaster"
Wv hich?' ! inquiries.
Chasing the cush," he explains
"Dogging the doubloons. Looping after
the long green. And even that has it's
variations. One year everybody's try
ing TO make the mazuma by crashing
Wall Street. Another season and oil
wells get the call. Right now Florida
real estate seems to be the high card
in the deck. They amt nothing that
goes along unchanged long in this
country. I've seen guys go out and
vote the Democratic ticket on account
of just being tired of voting for Re-
publicans. According to the dope,
we're supposed to be the greatest hus-
tiers in the world. but they amt no.
body that gets tired quicker"
Well" 1 remarks, that amt so
bad. besides-''
No" cuts in High Dome" 1T
amt. I guess the guy that took the
first bath was just tired of laying
around dirty, but this pickit up-and
lay-it-down habit of our folks is got
some bad points. too. We're the best
little starters in the universe. but
among the rottenest finishers."
How do you mean?" | asks.
Take the schools, for example, !"
says Finnegan. I'VE make every kid
go TO one of those things, but we yank
EN- out and slap EN- into canneries
and cotton mills before they've got hep
to what all the shooting's about. A
town goes out and blows itself for a
flock of millions to doll up the burg
and right in back Of the swell plaza
they throw up or the nifty city hall
you find pile of garbage and eight
folks sleeping in one bed"
That's because they amt got
enough dough, isn't it?" | wants to
know.
There's only one thing that doesn't
change around here" growls High
Dome" land that's the vacuum un-
der your hat. No, it amt on account
of being shy of the shekels. It's
Just on account of getting tired. A
city with all the jack in the world'll
start a swell park in one part of
the joint, lose interest before it's fin
ished and go in for public baths in
another part of the dump. The re-
suits is that the average American
town is mixture of spiffy flower
gardens and scabby weed patches.
Ever been in Berlin?"
NO" 1 tells him.
Neither have |" returns Finne-
gan, so / can tell YOU all about it.
Evening star., 1925-07-12

hold of a horse and thought and
thought and thought and in the final
analysis as they say, he named the
horse Swope.
5. Now in regards to keeping a BIZ
cycle. My own kiddies has a couple
of them and on rainy nights they
keep them in what l jokingly call my
office, and when they want to use
them they take them out without
putting no harness on them or curing
them or nothing. And during the
time they are in there they don't
never disturb me at what the critics
refer to as my work.
Do you think / could work in the
same Office as a horse? All the time
would be saying to myself l can't
work like a horse so why work at all?
But l would always know that l can
work as good as bicycle because
they's genally always something
wrong with them. either they creak
or they are rusty just like their room
mate.
s. On the other hand If you have
got horse you half to find room for
him in the stable and personly the
only place we could room a horse
would be in the next stable to our
COW and how do you know that a
horse and cow is going to get along
under the same roof? Whereas l
never met a cow that couldn't remain
Evening star., 1925-07-12

"CO you're going back to college
this Fall" l said to the
Bright Young Thing on the
- veranda of the Summer
hotel. Aren't you sorry?"
I'm a way | am she said, but
in another sense I'm glad to go back.
One can't loaf all the time
She looked up from her cross word
puzzle with great earnestness.
How full of purpose these modern
students are. L thought to myself. In
my time we used to go back TO col
lege as to a treadmill.
II know that" l said, but what
mean is that college. after all, is a
pretty hard grind. Things like mathe-
matics and Greek are no joke, are
they? In my day, as 1 remember
1t, we used to think spherical trigo-
nometry about the hardest stuff of
the lot"
She looked dubious.
Il didn't elect mathematics, she
"Oh," i said, II see. So you don't
have to take it. And what have you
elected?"
For this coming half semester
that's six weeks, you know-Tve
elected social endeavor.''
"Ah," 1 said, that's since my day.
What is it?''
'Oh, it's awfully interesting. It's
the study of conditions
What kind of conditions" I asked.
IAN conditions. We take up So
ciety."
And what do you do with it,
"Analyze it," she said.
But it must mean reading a
tremendous lot of books
NO" she answered. It's all labora-
tory work"
What do you mean by laboratory
work."
Well" answered the girl student,
with thoughtful look upon her face.
you see, we are supposed to break
society up into its elements"
I'm six weeks"
Some of the girls do 1t in six
weeks. Some put in a. whole semester
and take IL weeks at it."
$50 as to break it up pretty thor
oughly?" l said. But how do you
go at it?'
We'll" the girl said, its all done
with laboratory work. We take. for
instance, department stores and fac
tories. The first thing is the de
partment stores"
And what do you do with it?'
I'VE study II as a social germ
"Ahi" / said, 'as a social germ