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sm automotive thames ass'n. Organized in Columbia With 'Many Members Columbia, Xov 3.?A charter will t>e asked tliis week by the South Car olina Automotive. Trades Association, ^organized at a meeting heldJbere last Thursday, . The association will have -.no capital stock. Its revenue will be . ;der^ved, from .dues and such assess .-jioen-ts as may. be authorized by the ..board of directors. Although organization of the asso ciation was only perfected last Thurs . da>V applications for membership are .coming,in f^rom automobile and ac cessories dealers all over the .State, it ?is-ssaid; -..rFn-stheJ* details in, connec tion with the organization will be worked out _at . a meeting of the $bard of direcWrs to be held here next Thursday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock ?: the. Jefferson Hotel. Ttre constitution of the association ^a?vides that retail and wholesale dealers in passenger automobiles, ?.aeroplanes, trucks, tractors, motor ;C53gles and accessories thereto, and >nanagers of factory branches doing business in South Carolina are eligi ble to membership! "Curbstone deal ers' are not eligible to membership. A ^'curbstone dealer" is defined as one who has no stock of goods and no regular place of-business. The. constitution also provides for a^sbeii?te memberships, those being iel^ifele to it .being, salesmen, repre ?ae?rcting manufacturers, jobbers or v ^distributors and employees of mem hers of the association. /Officers of the new association say Xhat it has been received with a great deal of enthusiasm by the automobile and accessories dealers of the State and it is predicted by them that all representative dealers of the State Wi}l_soon be affiliated with it. \rAmong those who have/already be came, members of the association are: Highland Automobile Co., of Green Ie; J. L. Bolton, of Union; Sottiie tdillac Co., of Charleston; Gibbes l^Machinerj- Co., of Columbia; Overland Piedmont Company of Spartanburg; ?verland-Holleman Company of An derson; P. B. CDell -and Son, ot ? ^lit'mire; Sumter Motor Company oi .-?'Sumter;- Carolina Motor Company, -lojc. of Camden; S. P. Cross, of Ches ter; Charleston Motor Sales Co.,, of Charleston; Consolidated Auto and ,i?rruck Co., of Charleston; Overland ' Columbia Co., of Columbia; J. B. Fri . 'day Motor Co., of Darlington; Caro lina, Auto Co., of Newberry; Eddie -Jenkins of Columbia; Ellis-Harton ./Motor Co., of Clinton; Camden Mo ?or? Co., of Camden; D. B. Hatcher V?iid. T. K. Gibson, of Gibson; fowler's ?^Battery Service* of Columbia; Sum "^er Sales Company of Sumter; Flor f.ejjce Motor Sales Company of Flor .%ixe$; J. S. Wingo and Company of >^^artanburg; Motor Accessory Sup .. ply Co^of Charleston; Chandler-Har " 'xtigh Motor Co., of Sumter; Davis Mo Company of Columbia; Carolina '?^?chinery Co., of Sumter; Carolina ^?*P6"?nd Accessory Co., of Columbia; T^^nville Nash Sales Co., of Green I'jr&te; Consolidated Auto Company ot ' Columbia; Liberty Motor Co., of ^?jgarieston; Greenville Cadillac Co., of Z&Greenville; Marion Motor Co., of Ma ::i*li?n| W. P.}Law. of Darlington; Cen li; Garage, of Prosperity; S. B. Me ter, of Columbia; Capital City Ga .4?r*fcge and Tire Co., of Columbia; ^iSSrw/Zi?n Motor Co., of New Zion; :*;fB$rns Motor Co. of Columbia; Yarn / s?ros. Co., of Smoak; J. 0. and A. L. *>5bteeeden, of Be^nettsville; Gresham ^ifptor and True*- Co., of Greenwood; J^etitral Motor Co., "of Columbia; Car ^.^olhta^ Motor and Accessory Co., of iGhester; Ives- Motor Co., of Florence; ^^fcBchor Motor Co., of Sumter; Shir l*4KEa -Garage, of Belton; Calhoun Mo 0$fc~Ssdes Co.. of St. Matthews; Car iv.ter Motor Co., of Columbia; - Colum bia Motor Co., of Columbia; Colum ; ??3bia Sales Agency, of Columbia; Shaw */Motor Co.. of Columbia; Barrow Mo -?;$or and Truck Co.,N of Columbia. / ^ ? iAmong the associate members are :y3&- L. Hart, of Columbia; W. E. Rob ,.erts of Columbia; J. W. Wakeheld, of ^gjflumbia; E. H. Russell, of Atlanta, W- J- Barbour of Columbia; -t^r?nk H. Gibbes, of Columbia; C. G. scWelbourne, of Columbia: H. D. Fulm /?'of Charleston. 0UTLET TO PA?IF m IC FOR BOLIVIA c?hile Cedes Strip of Land North *>:' of Aries Province ^Washington, Nov. 4.?Chile has giv - ^l Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific by ^f&tingr a strdip of land north of > ..Aries Province, according to offi -:-^fal advices received here. PAIGN TO ENV , LIST CHILDREN ?lift ' 1 ' <aSPOys and girls of this city belong #M5g. to Sunday Schools?or Church .kjBWiooIs. as they are known?of the ...p^SiscOpal Church, will b?gin next .'^pitnday a five-week's period of activ ?? jX?f. in connection with the churchs' "\Nfition-wide campaign, ?vhich is a ^ifrtovement to arouse the entire church 5*6? broader and more practical use -J^Incss. ^/The Church School program has ?ft>r' its purpose the enlargement of J^ff? usefulness of the schools. Cen v<^ral plans are for a pageant in every ^Jr^aiscopa I Church Novmber .10. to "py. p?^sented by Church school chil \*Tp*:n >n the chancel of the church, at ;3$e chief ervices of the day. v.. ;The pageant is ^ianned to present aShe motive of the campaign and the -mission of the .'hutch. It will be practicaliy uniform for Episcopal churches, and is to be written by^the Rev. George Long, .of ^AyarsaTtf,-!!!..-, prepared a." notable p^tgeant .'it j^jfje/.geVieral convention of the church "' hi, Louis, three years ago. /TChe program is to culminate in a recruiting campaign. Throughout th? Ration the church has planned by the {program to bring into Church Schools !fi?I),000 more ? boys and girls. It is teams of. school members will ??tailed for ^?userto-house canvass nlistmetftsu . J'. . -i^i^i BULGAiaaW FEBS COMPLAINT Prime Minister Says His Coun try May Drift Into An arehy j Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 26, via* Cour j jVr to Bucharest and Paris, Oct. 7.? I M. Todoroff; Prime Minister of Bul igaria, who returned today from Paris, [ characterizes the terms of the peace {treaty with Bulgaria as extremely se-' vere, but hopes the allies after going over the arguments and data present . ed by the Bulgarian delegation will see the justice of modifying them. He told the Associated Tress Corre j spondent, that the allies, in drawing J up' the terms, apparently had taken into account only the interests and de l mands of Greece, Serbia and Ruman . i ia, with no reference either to Bul garia's needs, rights, or capacities. [ "Their sole thought was to punish us;" he said; "simply because we had been dragged into war on the side of Germany by the action of a faithless \king and against the will ?f the peo ple." "Bulgaria may drift into anarchy," said the Premier, "unless the military stipulations'of the treaty 'are changed. The government cannot maintain in ; ternal order and fulfill its military . requirements with an army of only 20.'000. White-,I think -Bolshevism ? will never gain 4 foothold in Bulgar ; ia, it is possible something worse . than that?revolution?may come if ? the terms are riot changed." "Many of the terms, not only are not in harmony with but are.cpntra ? dictory of the principles proclaimed : by the great nations, and especially ? by the United States. For instance. > j Bulgaria is required to /^ive up to Ser [ I bia territory which has been Bulgar >' ian since Bulgaria existed. No one has ever questioned the nationality ? of the people of Czaribrod and the other cities on our western frontier - which we must "how cede to Serbia, i The Allies say this territory is taken ; away on strategical grounds. But [ why invoke the claims, of strategy : against a country of only 5,000,000 ? people in favor of Serbia . with 13, .' 000.000, Rumania with 17.000,000 and ! Greece with 7,000.000. making a to tal of 37,000,000? This is the height ? of injustice." . The. Prime Minister declared the [ failure of the Peace Conference to [ solve the vexed T)obrudja question was a keen disappointment to the j Bulgarian people. "Southern Dobrud > ja," said he "is a province which the Rumanians have heid for only three or four years?without any ground in ' ethnography or justice. The Bulgar ; ian people had hoped this injustice would be removed. The Rumania occupation of that country is the only thing that estranges the friend-' ' ship of the two countries. "The taking away of "Western Thrace In order to form part of an international State deprives us of all .. access to the Aegean^ Sea and paralyzes , our economic life.. Bulgaria's exit to the seaco?st- w-as-"obtained -with the consent of 'Serbia, Greece and the oth : er. Balkan States. Our people., had ' hoped this dor would have been ' opened wider Vy the inclusion of Kavalla, but instead it has been shut entirely, and Bulgaria loses contact with the great sea powers. "Under the provisions of the peace treaty the populations of Thrace and other Bulgarian regions are left un der Greek and" Serbian rule. Condi tions, instead of being improved, are made worse. Instead of giving free dom to such people in the Balkans as c?siie it, other peoples, who hitherto have been free, are enslaved." The Bulgarian statesman said the fman-riai conditions of the treaty are! far in excess of the capacity of the people to meet. The country already j was under a tremendous war debt.! from which it would take years to recover. To pay the allies an indem nity of half a billion dollars would impose a further enormous burden on her. On the question of the League .of Nations, M. Todoroff said he hoped the idea would be fully realized and that Bulgaria would be permitted to become a member of the League. "We are especially grateful to the United States," said the Minister, "that Tharce was not put under Greek servitude, but is given the oppor tunity of free development under] the protection of the League of Na tions. Bulgaria would like to see the same principle extended further so as to include Macedonia." ENGLISH COMPANIES STI^L IN RUMANIA ^ _? 1. Berne. Oct. S.?The Rumanian Bu reau states that newly-formed Eng lish companies, backed by English : banks, have begun operations in : Transylvania. They have already bo?ght ? potash plant, iron mines, ce ment ami glass plants and are now negotiating to purchase^ all the im portant coal, gold and copper mines in the country. The Rumanians welcome English interest and capital in Transyi -ania and the Banat. which have been neg lected in past years owing to lack of; capital although there is plenty4 of natural wealth. American capitalists are also ob-j taining important concessions in Ru mania especially in oil mines Red Cross in Poland. Warsaw. Oct. 3.?A sharp speeding up of th^ American Rod Cross relief machine in Poland in an attempt to (mitigate the hardships of the ap 1 proachirig winter, is tho pet result Of a two-week's conference between I the general staff at Paris and Lieut-: enant-<"olonel A. J. Chesley, of Min-1 neapolis. director of Red Cross oper-, aliens in this country. Colonel Ghesley has arrived in War- j s: w with am outline of new plans pro-j ? for an expansion of the work in the ?>>\v;\-liberated territories of iht East, and a large increase in the tonn ige of supplies destined for these regions. Six n ' .; field ''nits recentlyl added to the Red Cross Poland will i ?rilitate the execution of the new |ef program. 3 The Honest American Laboring Man vs. the Radical "Reds" ? We are constantly in receipt of many personal letters, some of which cannot be published over the names of the writers, because to do so would ut. I times invtdve.'them in dilliculties hi their own communities or with their customers. Many men are so situ ated that their hands are tied and they cannot say publicly even on vi tally important questions the things they would pike to say. One letter of this kind which has been received, in hearty commenda tion of the position taken -by the ed itor of the Manufacturers Record rn a telegram to Judere Gary urging that there should be no arbitration with the radicalism which is seeking to overturn the government, carries the following interesting statement: "Union labor has nothing to fear, nothing to howl about, when it is given its just due. In this present strike, it would seem thaf? every rea sonable thing is thrown to the winds, and they are striking for the one pur pose of turning the whole thing into a Soviet machine, although we are told that the average American work man is not , doing so much belly aching. It is the 'Red' who is howl ing,.and may th-3 Lord speed the time when they will all be in the country where we don't shbvel snow. N:o;.v, my #dear sir. it's up.-' to you and yo?r kindred to; fight the good light "Of rightness aind righteousness. I do not for one: moment; believe you are against the laboring man. You know and all men know that he'is the one thing needful to keep the wheels turning around. He should have his due, and is entitled to it. but he is not entitled to dictate the policy of the man who is putting up the money. I get my living from the laboring man. I am thankful, however, that the boys down here are not radicals; they are Americans, and stand for decency. I believe Mr. Gary will win this strike and that it will be the best thing that ever happened for capital, and for organized labor as a whole as well. The average American man of means and brains, the man who makes things go, is not a deril; he is always, or nearly always, a.man and he wants to do right. The whole thing now tends to prevent him from even treating labor as well as he woukt lfke to do. due to the hellish ideas ?rffbibed from the 'Red' ele ment. I am for capital having its legitimate rights'; - the capitalist is the agent r^5?^the multitude; when the time colries for him to pass. God, in His wisdom, will 'do away with him, but until that time he it is who opens the way and makes the world move. This is the highest truth.. "We need an educational cam paign similar to that put forth dur ing the war. It will bring results: howling a>nd force will never do it. If we have to use a club to the ?Red.' we can do it, but for the average, Aiheric?n' he can >e led, and not driven.1 "During the war T was food ad ministrator. I did not try to force anyone..;io. do anything: I appealed to their patriotism, and it worked. * * * Why not a campaign now, rather than the TaiKjPrice bull' they are pulling? We want^fo give them the truth, and the truth" is that,the high cost of liv ing will only be reduced by scientific efficiency and economy. Let's preach 4fcis from every stump, and the fair price .artists, will not have such a ter rible amount of work to do. trying to take from some and give to others, i The average American has sense; he j can be appealed to. but the "Reds,' it would seem, are comparatively hope less, and the remedy should be ap plied that suits the case." \_ FRENCH POPULA : TI0N SHRINKING 389, 575 Less Than in 1917, Ex clusive of War Loss Paris, Oct. 7.? A continued shrinkage of the population of France is shown by the vital statistics of the republic for the year 19IS, which have just appeared. Without counting the war losses, the French nation nun>bers 389,575 less than in 1917. These figures af fect only the 77 departments of. France which were not in enemy oc cupation. They are th<^ excess of deaths over births. The decline is attributed mainly to the ravages of the i.n.'iuenza epidemic in the latter half of 191 S from which i: is com puted that about 200,000 persons died. Compared with 1917, there was an increase in marriages of 19.364; but the number of divorces also rose from 5,572 to 8,321. ' ; ??? AMERICAN TOBAC ? i CO IN FRANCE/ Paris. Oct. 10.?The opinion of ttim average French smoker is that the: government will not readily dispose of the billion packages of American Cigarettes and enormous quantity of smoking tobacco bought of the Am erf ican Expeditionary Force. He admits that both cigarettes and^ tobaco arc prepared with greater; finish, that the quality may be finerii ^ut he has the habit of tin- old French': brand <>f tobacco which is coarser, stronger and produces a far moraJ disagreeable odor, and he wants no? other. The French brand however, is | searco. R is distributed to the tobac co shops but once ;i week, in limited quantities, and, rather than accept the.American substitute, the French smoker yrcts out early and stands in i line patiently for two hours, in the! hope of refilling his pouch. Sometimes In- goes away disap pointed, tin* supply having given out before his turn came, hut rarely rloes he accept the American substi-*. tute which is not to his taste, and'? .noreover, is twice as costly. mif^ RELATIONS [ ?H i WITH NORWAY1; Broader Relations to Be Estab lished Between Countries' 1 ? 's. v . ? ?? i ? , > ? _ i i . ; \ Christiania, net. 5.?There are abundant signs everywhere of the de velopment of broader commercial re-j latlonships of every kind between Nor- j way and the United States, accord ing to Marion Letcher. American con-1 sul-general. In a statement con cerning the Norwegian-American Ex- j hibUxon here Mr. Letcher, *>aid: "Previous to 1914 our trade with | Norway was exceedingly light, hut J now notwithstanding the long and ex pensive freight haul American com-! modifies are almost as common in 1 Christiania as in New York. A num.-j her of Norway's enterprising young) men have gone over to my can, during the last several months': to ? study these conditions at first hand ? and to form connections there. "This exhibition, which is confined i practically to goods to be displayed by] Norwegian representatives of Ameri- i can firms, will emphasize the value of doing business through direct Nor wegian representation' rather than through distributing agencies located in other countries, and T am sincerely hopeful that American business men 'Will not fail to see the force of thi$ . lesson. "Up to the' present the trade that has sprung up between the two coun tries has been largely fortuitous. -American/business men will be wise .to understand this and prepare for more permanent relationship through fixed local representatives." DRINKING IN GREAT BRITAIN British Saloon Keepers Propose New Bill to Regulate :'Hours London. Oct. 3.?Twelve hours a ' day for drinking will be proposed by British saloonkeepers in a bill they expec: to introduce into Parliament. Before the war the numbed of week day hours for the sale of liquor was fixed at 19 1-2 ir: Tendon. 17 in pro vincial towns and 10 in the country. The new bill proposes to leave Sun day hours substantially as they were , in pre-war times, the London num ber, T, being applied to the whole of England. Framers of the measure say they r ~a"re seeking to convert the public ' hp.use ? from a place used^?terely for s the consumption of alcOjbJH-fc? drinks into one of varied publicv:?^eshment and social entertainment.-'-^ They pro ' pose to remodel public houses in or der to make them commodious and airy and to introduce music, dancing and games. Temperance leaders strongly op pose the bill. "The liquor trade." t commented George B. Wilson, secre -fcary of the United Kingdom Alliance. ; ''fear the advance of public opinion in this country and is alarmed by what has taken pla^e in America. Ir. is proposed to make the drink .""Shop so attractive that it will bec<*n| the so cial center of the neighboihdbd. open apparently to women and children, as , well as men. It seems impossible to believe that the great voluiie of pub lic opinion will agree to Ma measure which will enormously increase the power of drink." i Under the war-time regulations, which are still effective, hours for the - sale of drinks in public houses are restricted to between 12 o'clock noon and 2.CO p. m., and between 6 and 10 p. m. AERIAL MAIL SERV ICE NOT NEW IDEA ._ London, Oct. 9.?Use of aerial mail service in the recent railroad strike in Great Britain called attention to the fact that transport of mails by air is close upon a half-century old. The Tust aerial posts on record were\hose conveyed by balloons out of beleaguer ed Paris, September, 1S70. Ten years later the British admiralty conducied a series of tests to ascertain the prac ticability of utilizing balloons on an extensive scale for the carrying of ?nails but these tests resulted in noth ing of importance. India was the scene of +ho first ex periment in the conveyance of mails by heavier-than-air machines. It consisted of the carrying of some 5, 000 letters by a British pilot in a bi plane a distance of one mile at Alla habad in 1911. Later in the same year the same pi lot carried the first United Kingdom aerial post inaugurated between Lon-1 don and Windsor. The first long-dis tance postal flight also occurred in 1011 when a French aviator ^arned a quantity of letters from ?ssy-Ies-. Molineux to Deauvillc?112 miles. The" world war put the airplane to the final test as an aid to postal com munication. In May. 1017, Italy es tablished an air post service between Rome and Turin designed to relieve j congestion on Stale mil ways caused by the transport of troops and war material. A seaplane post from j Naples to Palermo followed to avoid the submarine menace, which inter-1 rupted the regular boat service. [' .The United States created the first j ; regular daily air post connecting New) ; Vork. Philadelphia, and Washington j 'on May' LS. 1918. A dnilv post b\ air between Vienna | i ? v- * ? >? j and Kiev. Russia, via Cracow and Lemberg was maintained by Austria for six months in UtlS. about 1. 000 letters being carried on each i flight. .Within the past few_ months., regular air "postal. ' services*'" have sprung up in France. Morocco.. Tunis, Switzerland, Germany. Smith America and others are being contemplatedj-< in the Belgian Congo, South Africa. I: Egypl and India. The efficiency of the airposts de- 1 veloped during the nine days of. the 1 recent railroadmen's strike has great-. 1 *y popularized the idea with the Eng lish public and officialdom* ? , ??3 < REB ^ j ?? m 'jBALKANSi! Help to Be Extended After War j Work "Ends j Bucharest, Rumania. Sept. 22, via ?Paris.?When the American Red Cross quits the Balkans, when it# work there is completed, the people are not to be left entirely alone. This waq the promise made to the Bal kan people by Colonel Robert E. Olds, Commissioner for Europe of the A.merican Red Cross, at the inaugu ration here of the Red Cross' program of medical and reconstruction work which is to follow the work of emer gency relief now drawing to a close. '?The great work done in the 'Bal kans," said Col. Olds, "in.the main, is over. The work of feeding and cloth ing the helpless peoples of the Near East is drawing fast to a closei But we shall not leave these nations with ! out substantial legacies and perma ; neht reminders of the work already i done here. ' j Hundreds of Red TYoss women and i men have left the Balkans for their j homes in the States, but small groups j will remain to continue .their work. I In Serbia. Bosnia,. Herzegovina, Al | bania, Montenegro, Greece, and Ru mania., childrens? 'hospitals, district nursing services, infant welfare work, nurses' training schools, the recon struction of hospitals and the med ical fight against tuberculosis, typhus, smallpox, and other too prevalent dis eases, will be. [carried on. Iii all this work native women will be trained to take up the work when; ! Red Cross workers leave six- months' j or a year from now. The emergency I relief work in the Balkans is ended, j but the constructive work will still go 1 on. FORM WORLD j > BROTHERHOOD I Organization Formed in Eng land to Bring People Together London. Oct. 1.?An organization j known as the World Brotherhood l Federation was formed here at the re i cent meeting of the World Brother j hood Congross attended by delegates I representing Great Britain, Canada and the United States. Its purpose (was declared to be to draw together ?'the people of the United States to cm I phasize the brotherhood of mankind, j obtain an effective League of Na i tions and to cultivate an international {spirit. Announcement was made at the election of the Congress that it was proposed to hold a world brotherhood convention in America in April 1920 wh^n the constitution is to be ratified. Canadian and American delegates were instructed to arrange for this convention in Washington, Phiiadef phia. Detroit or Buffalo. The constitution adopted provide? j for a World; Brotherhood Council com j posed of ten delegates from every na; ! tion which has a brotherhood organ | ization. Provision is made also for I the election by this council of dele j gates from every nation which has no I brotherhood organization. Five 'United States members of this coun cil were elected at the meeting here. !They were Dr. S. Zane Batten, of Philadelphia; Dri Robin Harlan, of New York; W. E. Weir. of New York; Dr. A. S. Taylor, of York, Pa:: and Dr. Bauchamp, of Nashville. Tenn. The following officers were elected: i President. John Clifford, D.D., Lon-, I don. Vice Presidents, Dr. Robert E. I Speer. New York; Dr. T. Albert Moore j Toronto; Premier Jan Smuts, South ? Africa. Secretary and Commissioner, WiK Ham Ward, London. ; Treasurer, William Heal London. Rev. T. Sykes, of London was elect ed as European Associate Secretary, and.Mr. .Thomas Howell, of Toronto, as Associated Secretary of North America. \ The congress adopted a message asserting that the sorrows and troub les of the world, social, "industrial' and international/ are due to "bro :en brotherhood" and that the special task of men of good-will and broth erly spirit is to knit up the strands of broken humanity into a new bond of brotherhood. It summoned men throughout the world to exemplify brotherhood in their -own lives and to strive for the reconstruction of the peoples upon foundations of brotherhood. American and Canadian delegates who met after the adjournment of the Congress adopted, as suggestions to the Canadian and American people that the third Sunday in March be denominated "World Brotherhood Day" and frequent exchange of visits between Cafiadido and United States representatives.'1 f The Canadian and United States delegates promised to d"dicate\ themselves to the work of emphasizing the brotherhood of man kind: NAPOLEON A GOOD COLLECTOR Paris, Oct. 1.?Premier Glemen ee.-ufs repeated statements to the ef fect that he would no* accept the sal ary paid to member: of the French Academy after he has taken his seat among the "Immortals" recalls the faiet that Napoleon never failed to collect this same stipend. There has been found among the Napoleonic records. the emperor's personal daybook, in which were minutely inscribed all receipts ami disbursements; The lSOfl volume be gins thus: *;?'^BrT55SB i "'Salary of his Imperial and Royal [ ?st.v as Member of the Institute: ' 1,200 francs." j Not one of the academicians least ( >f all Clemenceau, who have occupied | seats under the cupola across the Bridge of Arts since days of Riehe- ] ieu can boast of an item similar to . the second one in Napoleon's budget, j It reads: ' ' ( "French civil list. Emperor Napol- i francs." J j DON'T LIKE PAPER CLOTHES German Officials Have Difficulty in Making People Buy Them Berlin. Oct. 1.?Robert SSchmi Minister of Food, is attempting des perately to induce the German peo ple to continue to buy the substitute textiles made of paper so 'as to pre vent increasing the trade balance against Germany and foreign coun tries from which the paper clothing ? is coming. Thus far it has seemed to be rather a hopeless task. The Minister points, out that the greatly decreased value of the Ger man mark in foreign . countries has one advantage because Germany can manufacture such products as it has raw materials for and undersell* all competition abroad because, from the German standpoint, the French franc, the Italian lira and the British pound are worth in exchange several times more than they used to be. Minister Schmidt sees a hopeful market for German toys which, he i believes, has not been destroyed by the war and he looks also for a good market for German porcelain, china and musical instruments. When the unrest in Germany has subsided he predicts a bright outlook for Ger man industries. ARCTIC MAIL ROUTE ? : *?-H < 'J \ Direct Service Between Alaska and Siberia Nome. Alaska, Sept. 15.?Establish-/ ment of direct mail and .telegraphic communication between Nome and Anadyr, Siberia, is now under inves tigation by two inspectors of the Qostofiice department. The proposition, if carried dut, bears large possibilities for this once ? wealthy gold camp. In Northeast Si beria there are approximately 50,000 people who must provide the bulk of their supplies either from Nome, one hundred miles away, or from Pejro pavlosk, nearly a. thousand miles dis tant. Norne> it is argued by officials interested, in the government's, in- . quiry, should be the logical market tor all of the vast area lying north of Kamchatka peninsula. . ^ By the close,of this year's naviga tion period, it is estimated, ' nearly $500,000 worth of American goods will have been carried from Nome to the Siberian coast, and that with only a few small vessels engaged in* the trade, v Siberian furs in return for Amer ican goods seems to be the possibil ity of the future should the govern ment's service'be established. In ad dition, it is pointed out, this will re sult in closer relations between Si berians and residents of Seward Pen nsula. i Lewd Films in Germany. Berlin, Oct. 2.-^Some "relief from the "enlightenment" or "explanation" films that have "been deluging Ger many since the revolution .'is "coming, though slowly, from an ,unexpected ,.source?from . boys and girls in, a great many small cities who . have seen one cr more of the films and who have banded together to "boy cott them. Such organizations have been formed in.'Leipsic, Hamburg and in such Berlin suburbs ?s Frieden?u, Lichterfelde, and ..Lankwitz. Yet such isolated protests against the evil cannot do much to put down the entire system and, as the Prus sian Minister President announced yesterday, there is no legal way of stopping the films except under the law against lewd pictures and. draw ings. A,' conservative writer! iji ijhe Kreuz Gazette blames unscrupulous film producers for "the plague" an'd at the same time says the decent pro ducer is under tremendous pressure because he simply cannot make : his decent films marketable, and is inevi tably drawn by the generally prevail ing tendency for salacious pictures, which the writer terms as a spot of shame on German public life. .. Judge Hell wig in the Conservative Monthly declares that children and voung people are learning familiarity .with subjects which they never even dreamed of a few years ago, and that the situation is an "example Of the benefits of the revolution." Dr. Hellwig despairs however of accomplishing much except by law, for-he-has seen, night after night long queues of girls and' young men, waiting to get into the "explanation" films and shunning- the few theatres where decent films are displayed. The German Minister of the Inter ior, Herr Koch, has anounced that he was preparing a bill for censor ship of films, for presentation to the Oerman National Assembly. SILVER IN ALASKA Tokio, Sept. 2S.?The Japanese press says that Yamaji Muto, W-ho will A'o to the international labor cbngress at Washington as the delegate repre senting: the interests of capitalists will si rive for the postponement of the 8-hours working day. so far as Japan is concerned. To suport Mr. Mu'o in the coming congress the Japan Master Spinners' Association has decided to send-, to Washington a private delegation con^ sistihg of six business men interested in the spinning industry who will act as private advisers to Mr. Muto.. (ireat Destruction by Storm in Mexico Mexico City, Oct. 0.?Refugees from the state of Chiapas which dur ing the last week in September was visited by the most devastating storm in its history, who have arriv al in Mexico City say that virtually iho entire n^rth part of the state was flooded and that the towns of To nobi and Chilon have been leveled. Oeath losses are placed at one thous ind with property damages running uto .millions of pesos. Every vestige if crops has been destroped. The government has dispatched several relief trains to Chiapas.