Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FROM BLACK ? RIVER T?ffi^ON Mr.' Dabbs* Describes Motor Trip Across State to Moiuv ?" tarns- . ... ^' .'U - Tryon. June 9.?It .was 8:20 o'clock Wednesday before-*We could leave home for the run irp nere. Mr.: Henry Moses said he was com tng that day and we were.tp leave messages for each other at Cam 1 den bridge. When I crossed the bridge peeper told me " Mr. Moses was X* 1-2 hours ahead of us. He ?was coming by - Columbia and Union. I have not hard from- him since. . We had only one mishap, when in passing a wagon3&ear Mr. Whit Boykin-srl did not Wait for the wagon to get clear out of the : track with the result that'-our big car skidded1 into the side- ditch. Fortunately it was not deep and only a gradual slope. ? The-six men xrfeo were in the wagon stopped to - help us out but not before their wagon-had skidded into the right hand ditch. It was.impossible to get out right there and by: their aid pushing we plowed alongr rthe side ..Of the bank for five hundred yards where a grassy place enabled me to guide the car back.^ 4nto the road. There had been a. big rain all the night before and until not long before we came along. And the recent work by the t Kersh?w "fore.e had only smoothed'up the road, but put no top' soli on - it ' From the county line for four or 1 * five miles about BoykiriV mill. is the worst road between '? here and "K?rne. This side of the river the Ifershaw forces are widening and - grading the road toward Great ' Falls and Ridge way. ' When com pleted'it will be a fine road. ^ ? The Great Falls road shows signs of heavy traffic when we* and has. some bad ruts in ?t: but isigood by straddling the rats. We met and: passed on this road- more; cars on this trip than on all the other' trips, together since we have been trav eling it. ? It has evddentl^.become piOpoular. It is entirely too crook etf for^fast driving. The Southern Fewer company instead of^plowing it up and scraping it :as our Sum ter county road authorities; always do, are hauling fresh top. soil and covering the bad places, ^th 30il that will make a "good road; From Great Falls to. Chester the road is fine. The Chester cham . ber of commerce maintain.right ?>n the square and on the. ground floor a rest room. It is-.also,;the head quarters of the county, health nurse> A neat colored maid . keeps it "clean and looks after the^^pomfOrt of visitors. Besides ;tjje .reception room there are suitable, .rooms for. ladies to rest in- and .for..mothers to leave young babies, for ,a. nap in Httie beds and cribs. ' AJso.a room with water cooler, table -where a . Ittnch. may be spera-d; laboratory and toilet and telephone n??ke the place complete for tire.d . mothers and especially those, with , young . children. . .s.?;_ ' ? We found the road .-from. Ches ter, to within a mile., of Wilks burgh very- much improved-. From Wilksburgh to Broad river,, at the bridge, the road .is had, worse than I ever saw it due tp so much rain and the increased travel that has been turned that tway^since the feri&ye was opened last.'. summer. Chester has a .force .at work build ing a new road out from t>he bridge and will probably elevate i% all the way to WilbsbuTgb'. It is,,at least a year's job. u . From Lockhart to -Leckhart Junction the road is w.el|:J?igh per fect, and from Sparta?l?urg to Tryon the same remark holds good. We reached Tryoh ajtK>ut;5:S<L in time to write and maij. several cards on the down train..,, Reached r'$he Refuge" at 6,;J,5. We'made Ith*} run from Chester to .spartan burg, 5S miles in 2 hours and. .. twenty minutes, and from Sumter to Spartanburg, lw jailer, on Id gallons gas or 15:5 mHese:'to the. gallon, - which is pretty good for* a ?-passenger car heavily, loaded and; ?With 12 miles of as bad oread as ope; can find in a daj's run, to.say nothv . ingr of the,road from Black River to Dalzell. ..... Oats and wheat not near- all out ^ome peas being sowed ./where the "\ ,srai? ? has been mowed.-or where they line up the shocks. Tvre saw cradles being.used twice; "mowers several times," but gener ally Wnders were in~use:}iio save "?le grain crop. Some of-the wheat is better than it gave- promise of Oeing six weeks ago. Corn generally small forrthe time of year, but well worked}. Cotton from good size with-hands picking bell weevils to just up and being chopped. Mr. Hamilton Boykih has a field of big cotton not yet chopped, working after'the latest . government advice. Boll "weevils reported killing the- bud iri the cet t<6fflt up here as high as Laurens and TDnion. These up-country; people are reported to be trying to grow one more l>ig crop of-cotton. Signs of big rains all the way .from home. The latest rain Wed nesday was about Boykin's mill. From Spartanburg ? to the moun tains the big rains have not been so late as further down;' I have watched the weather reports and for some; time Asheville,Atlanta and Charlotte have sho-#n very light or no'rainfall. So this moun tain and Piedmont country is not so wet as the lower belt. ? B. W. Dabbs. Commencement at the TJniver gxty of South Carolina 131 now in full sway. The commencement program will be concluded Wed nesday morning when the annual graduating day exercises are to be t held, and at which time the follow ing men of our city wflt receive their degrees: Bachelor of Arts, l-$r. Aaron Henry Green: Bachelor Of Laws, M*. Samuel Howard Jones, and Mr. William Brooks Stuckey. Mr. Lewis Browning Woodson of McDonough, 0a., who worked for the Item one summer, better known to us as "Lanes From Louie," will also receive the Bach elor of Laws degree. If there is a girl who has never been kissed it may *be because her moutn has never been shut. ECONOMY INROAD BUILDING Better to Build Cheaper High ways and Maintain Them Than* to Buifci Expensive Highways Not Warranted BytheTraJfk The advantages of hard surfaced roads are so obvious as to need no argument to support their desira bility. In regard ? to good roads, as to most good things, there are degrees of excellence. When the best is beyond our" means,; surelv it is wise to get better roads?to improve and maintain what "^e have, when the -cost of the- best "is prohibitive. While the roads oyer which, there is heavy traffic in the vicinity of the cities, and towns of the state should notwithstanding the cost: be "hard surfaced; it is evi dent that for- the most part the public roads of the state must, un der"pre3ent conditions/ be surfaced with top soil, sand-clay or gravel. Such being the case it is; fortunate that under f?vor?ble conditions the earth road when well drained and free from ruts is. quite satisfac tory for light ^traffic. The claim is not made that under all condi tions the earth road is good neOugh but it is heldih?t with proper con struction and -maintenance tne earth road is a good road, and that it may serve a community well un ti Itbe increase of traffic makes a more un3rielding surface' impera tively necessary. It is to be borne in mind that when the time comes that the earth surface wiH pot stand the - < traffic much '>f the work', of making tnc Toad can'he utilized in providing the bed for the paved surface. In South Carloina the -records for ?92 ivsliow that on- an average: about [two-thirds of the total cost, %S^02T* Iper mile, of a completed sand-elay ; or top soil road was for the work other than sur?acing-r--for clearing ; and grubbing;--grading and ' minor drainage structures. So two-thirds iof the outlay in making?? the road I is a pejrmanent -investment far-pr?is 'ent;use and will be>available for reducing the cost of future im provement. The record shows al so- that the expenditures '($31,173) for one mile of paved surface would provide seventeen miles * of top-soil or sand-clay surfaces The cost of-a. mile of paved surface was nine-tenths of the total cost of an average mile -Of completed road. The figures of the United States Bureau of Public Roads -for l?ld, the latest available in- this connec tion, show that oply. about* 12 per cent of the total mileage", ofroads in the country was" what could be classed as surfaced. While 'great progress is- being' made in the building of'states and other high way systems, in a total of about two and a half million miles of roads; of all classes- only about three hundred thousand are in any "way i-surfaced. So it is to be expected j that for some" years to . come the class designated- as earth roads ; will -continue to constitute;the bulk I of the ?roads-~ of the; country. It^ is I true that of the federal aid extend ! ed to the state roads, more than I one-half has been expended on those with paved surface; but >the mileage of the unpaved roads has been considerably the greater. I Maryland, which has one of the I finest systems efv improved high ways i?-the> United States;-has fol lowed the plan of gradual Im provement. The roads, in ^-Mary land were originally comparatively ?inexpensive, costing only what'- th e taxpayers were 'witling to pay' for. The first lew years'the average cost is given as less than $10,00& a mile. In some cases tltere-w-ere consider able grading "-and- "drainage, -but in others it was Only to resurface the old turnpikes; already- graded and drained'. Prom a 'relatively 'small investmenf in"'low" types of road there has 'been huflt up a system better from ye^ar. to year?*-the gradually increasing outlay being conserved.: Appiication to Sooth Carolina. ? Those'who-advocate that steps. shouM he: immediately taken, and that the large? amount of funds necessary should bemade ' avail able at. once, to hard surface- all important public roads in this, state might take notice of the ex ample of Maryland in this mat ter.- . The wise pooey seems to be pro vide for conditions at present and' in" the- near-future; and to meet traffic conditions as they develop." Without large outlay routes can be "opened up to serve present needs, and experience w?H make manifest' the roads that require resurfacing Of harder ' material to withstand the traffic that -passes over them. *? With adequate maintenance many of the earth' roads of- the state will serve well their purpose until the increase of traffic war rants the laying of a paved sur face. While any type of road re-j "quires some maintenance, there is; no question of the need of main tenance on earth roads. In some localities?as in Sumter county for instance?the lack of soil suitable for road surfacing may warrant the paved surface as soon as it can be laid. Conditions like those existing in Richland county also may warrant the considerable expenditures involved. As stated in the beginning, the traffic where heavy in the vicinity of the cities and towns of the state may require! the paved road. The best road to I build is the one that without undue j expenditure of time, labor and) ! money best meets all the condi- j Itiona.?S. C. Highway Bulletin. It's eksy to make a monkey out of a man when you get him up a tree." ?* . >? ... - / < 9> ? ? i Conan says spirits seldom smile I while being photographed. Perhapg j they realize' the joke is on them. If music is the language of love, a saxophone player hates every body. ? ? ? The finest thing about being a farmer is you never have to leave home to go to the countryt Second Class Postage Bill to Help Newspapers Now in Congress Washington. June 11.?Reduc tion of second-class- postage rates, which were originally imposed as war taxes, was proposed in a bill introduced in the house today by Representative M. Clyde Kelly, re publican, Pennsylvania. The bill is intended.to give relief to the news papers and- magazines which have made representations to congress that the continuation of high pos tal rates seriously affected the en- j tire publishing industry. The Kelly bill would repeal the i last two of the four increases in postal rates which were made un der the war revenue law of 1917. Representative Kelly, in a state ment issued today, pointed out that newspaper and ? magazine publish- i ers*of the country are in need of j relief from this discriminatory war j tax in order that- the press may continue t?v function. He stated ?that the proposed measure retains the present zone system of postal charges but reduces the amount of charge from the fourth advance effective July 1, 1921, to the second! advance in rates which became ef fective July i; 1919. According to | Mr.-- Kelly, the -rates asked for would still give the government 175 per cent : more than the pre war rates and would not relieve the publishing industry of 1 cent of the other federal taxes paid by St in common with other indus tries. 'rThe present postage rates on newspapers and publications were fixed m the war revenue law passed in 1917, and are 325 per cent,higher than the pre-war rates," said Rep resentative Kelly. "Every one of the items carried in that measure with the exception of the tax on second-class mail matter, has-been modified or repealed. These war tinier postage increases have driven millions of pounds of second-class matter from the mail into private channels of distribution. There is something radically wrong when private companies can make a handsome profit at rates less than those ^charged in postage. I be lieve- there is no -good reason why the publishers of newspapers and magazines should be singled out to pay this extra war tax." "The newspapers and other periodicals," continued ? Mr. Kelly, "are the very fountain source of first-class and fourth-class mail. They also- ?perform- ari invaluable service in freely carrying messages of-the postoffice and other, depart ments of the * government direct to the people:* They are really sell ing agents- for the government but they get no commissions on their sales* It Is a common sense policy ] to give them advantageous rates I in- the m?il." ''The fact' that these high rates are charged on the advertising pages does riot lessen the injustice Advertising is riot merchandise, but information. The' newspapers are information'highways just as es sential to the business prosperity of this country as the highways ] and waterways. Not a sale can be | made or a pound of goods shipped J without- the interchange of infor mation. The advertisements are} chronicles of every advance in in- j dustrial achievement. Without them publication of the newspapers and magazines would be impossible." -The "bill has been referred to the house postomee committee and j hearings will be held' at an early date. ? " ? + ? ? AGE OF HEROINES When ? Woman is More JBeautiful^ Intelligent and Attractive Chicago, June 12.?"Old maids" need hang their heads no longer. The ideal age for a heroine of moving picture romance or of love stories generally is today 28 years. | an age that only a few years ago was regarded by the general pub lice aa fixing a woman difinitely in the ranks of confirmed spins, terhood. This is the conclusion made from a careful study of the 27,000 love stories which the1 lay public, amateurs from all walks of j life, wrote for the scenario contest recently conducted by The Chicago Efaily News. Representing not what ?scenario and magazine edi tors'or "writers guess the public's, choice" to .be, these manuscripts w^re first h'?nd information on the actual tastes of* the people who buy books and who attend moving picture exhibitions. - "Striking unity among the na tionally scattered contestants upon the subject of the he roine's age is among the first things to be noted by the judges," said James Shyrock, di rector of the contest today, an nouncing the facts as brought out J by ?he competition. "It is too gen eral to be accidental and represents ! undoubtedly, a c o u n t r y-w i dl e j change in ideals. "Few of the heroines are in their teens, only a handful, are in their very early twenties, the great ma jority are around 27 and 28. the authors seeming to regard this age. as woman's best, and woman as more beautiful, intelligent, poised and attractive there than previ ously. The judges declared that the age of the ideal heroine had been advancing steadily since the 1870's when a girl of 16 or 17^was regarded as romantically perfect. '"The judges explain this by cit ing woman's entrance into indus try, politics, education and by pointing out that woman today re fuses to grow old and takes better and more intelligent care of her beauty than she did in early pe riods! In the stories written by women, 60 per cent of the total, the heroines were on the average four to five years older than In the stories written by men." We should hate to be a bow legged girl arid have to stay at horns until'dark because we dress ed in styl?._,_ For Five-^ Belvoir: An History Picnic Ground ' Washington, June' 8.?"Belvoir, Virginia, where George Washington danced, where Martha Washington was entertained at week-end par ties, and where Lord Fairfax rest ed after his fox hunting, now is popularly known among Washing-, tonians as a 'destination' of inter est for the motorist and a lunch eon place for the.motor boat en thusiast," says a bulletin from the Washington. D. C. headquarters of-the National Geographic So ciety. "Though today there is just a small pile of bricks made in Eng land and a foundation which is al most imaginary; to tell where the historic-mansion stood,; the -very, spot itself speaks of the romance of which early Virginia history is redolent. Not a painting nor aur thentic plan remains to tell what, the old house looked like, but its lo cation on - a high green bank where the Potomac bends gently southward just below Mount Ver non and within sight of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason, the father of the Virginia Declara tion of Rights, was enough to in spire its preservation by transfer ring it to the United States army. It is now posted as an. animal res ervation and picnic ground. Had Ten-MUe River Front, ? "The estate stretched in the old days for ten miles along'the river, and the house site is a high point which juts out into one of the deepest places in the river channel. "From Washington, it is easily accessible by boat down the Po tomac or by an excellent military road leading to Camp Humphreys, built during the world war as a station for engineers. / "These stately gentlemen of Vir ginia had, from: their front .win dows or front yard, a magnificent view of the curving, banks of the river, and of the soft ? blue hills on the Maryland shore. Though the t\vb or three hundred yards of land that stretched on* on the right to ward the intake from the river are now overgrown with . trees and brush they must have been clear ed 'out then so the planters might have a good view of the vessels from England that put in at their wharves. Built in Days of "Spectator// 'The house was built, evidently in the early eighteenth Century? by William Fairfax, the cousin and colonial agent of the owner of the land. Lord Fairfax, who at that time having graduated at Oxford was basking ' in the sunshine of courtly favor and ladies' smiles* in England, contributing, as fancy pleased him, to Addison's 'Specta tor,' and moving in the inspir ing aaid intellectual atmosphere of Londc? society. "When his lordship was jilted at the altar for a suitor with a higher title, hje decided to seek surcease from his chagrin by visiting his cousin William who seemed to be enjoying life on his vast holdings in the colonies. So pleased was he with what one early writer terms 'beautiful prospects and sylvan scenes, transparent streams, and majestic woods.' that he afterwards took up his residence on part of his estate in the Shenandoah val ley. "It was at Belvoir that Washing ton came under the influence of the polish of an elegant English household. Most of his sterling virtues and simple morality he had learned under his mother's care, but in the Fairfax home and on his long hunting trips with Lord Fair fax and in his fireside talks with this veteran of experience who could tell him the opinions of the learned men at Oxford and of the gayety of English society he glenned much that stood him in good stead in later years. Why Mount Vernon Was Built. "Lawrence Washington, George's older brother had married Anne Fairfax, the older daughter of William Fairfax and it was for her that Mount Vernon was originally built.' Later when the house was being remodeled for the coming of the bride of George, it was Wil liam Fairfax who went over every day or two to be sure that the carpenters were getting everything in 'apple-pie order.' ?'.Situated as Belvoir was. so close to Mount Vernon and to Gunston Hall, it was the center of great so cial activity. Often whole parties would move from one large colonial mansion to another in a continual round of festivities. One amusing and delightful indication of the affection ?-xisting between the Fair f-fax family at Belvoir and George j Washington is a note written by i William Fairfax to Washington af I ter the campaign against the j French at Fort Duquesne begging ! him to come over on the next Sun day, 'or else the Lady's will try to get horses to equip our chair or [attempt their strength on fct tc 1 salute you.*" \ rear-01ds ? Modish^ garments rr&&r4vbT&?> olds follow the same lines as those of adults. Side drapes, irregular hnes and alt Here are a capo and party dress for dancing school - Sweden Recovering From Effects i of the War. Stockholm, April:- 20.?Sweden's complete future recovery from a se ries of painful operations for post war ills is forecast in the official economic report of the Swedish Foreign Office Commerce. Depart ment just made public. Its prin cipal note of optimism is the Swed ish exchange. After a year and a half of deflation and international liquidation still under way, the Swedish krona'is virtually at par. The government experts find that the greatest obstacles to economic recovery lie in the competition of countries with . depreciated cur rency . and in the fact that" wages have not yet been sufficiently re duced. Countries with low ex change can dump goods in Sweden at prices against which Swedish manufacturers cannot compete. Likewise, in the foreign markets, Sweden is severely handicapped be cause of her high exchange rate. The report states that there is a. strong tendency toward revival in many lines of industry but that the natural process of building up is de layed by unsettled conditions in central and eastern Europe; the monetary troubles and the uncom pleted process of wage adjustment. The Foreign Office finds that during: the second half of 1921 and the first quarter of this year there was observed a slight increase in -the activities of Sweden's basie in dustries accompanied by expansion in foreign trade, especially in tim ber, pulp and paper. Although great interest has been shown in an early return to the jjold standard, the " Foreign Office reports that doubts have been ex pressed of the wisdom of adopting the American dollar as basis of parity, as suggested by some finan cial experts. Bank savings and deposits show ? marked drop during the first quarter of the year. This is at tributed to consumption of capital during the period of depression. Never has the Stock Exchange witnessed such drop in values ot stocks, the market having been af fected, says the report, by the heavy losses suffered by- industrial corporations and the non-activity of others. Sweden is still suffering from a buyers' strike, which accompanied the sinking price level and most in dustries are working-on a scale of one-third to two-thirds capacity. The signs of improvement in un employment are weak. However the number of unemployed is go ing down. There were 158,700'job less on January 31 and only 156, |000 idle at the close of February and unemployment continues* to decrease. Of these more than-65, 000 were receiving government aid. The report emphasizes that al though large cuts in wage scales have been made, real wages?that is wages compared with eost of liv ing?are still above pre-war stand ard and must be lowered further. This held to be likely in view -of the cuts in the United States and Eng land. ? ? ? -' Phillippines have^doubled their debt again. They will soon be qualified for independence, Trouble with second hand infor mation is it has usually been mis used. ? ? ? Only thing these Wall Street ?&rmers raise are prices. ? <- -: Elinor Glyn says boys obey flap pers like dogs. That's puppy love. Fly paper doesn't draw as many I flies as limousines -do friends. When you see a bathing girl in water up to her neck, she's skinny. China's falling for the old shell game?war. Wo are sorry for the man without a country?especially when it's spring in the country. Sometimes this is the land of the free and home of the easy. In Boston they found three stills in one homo. This housing short age is something awful. Comfort is the modern watch word. New Jersey hen laid a flat egg. She expected to set. What's in a name? Lieutenant Duolittle flew 1200 miles 11 hours. ? ? ? ? Our objection to a cut-rate barber .-hop is that the rate is usually about two cuts per minute. ? ? o <'<>nan Doyle says people are straight in the next world. What else could one expect on the spirit KEPT FRESH IN ICE. Body of Viking is One Thousand . Years Old. The body 'of a Viking- ruler, 1,000 years old, standing upright in a huge iceberg, has returned to civ ilization after drifting for at least ten centuries through the ice-block ed seas in the barren Arctic regions. Preserved more perfectly than any body ever uncovered in mystic Egypt, the giant Norseman was discovered by Danish doctors star ing out at them from -his frozen winding sheet on the east coast of Greenland. .?? ? The body of the Viking found by the Danish men of medicine tower ed- seven feet tall. It was clad in rude ancient armor, gripping spear and v shield, with his head crowned with the winged helmet of Norse royalty. Standing sternly, this warrior of another day was an in credible platom of N^rse legendry. Skin was White and Firm. ? When the ice had been chopped away from the giant body, the Vik ing stood unravaged by time. The ?skin was white and firm instead of dried and shrunken, and the head and chin was - covered with hair that was long and red and silky. A ship now is bearing the body of the one-time Viking king to Co penhagen, where skilled scientists will be called to perpetuate, if pos sible, the process of preservation by the injection of chemicals. The body will be placed in the Copen hagen museum if a method can be found to preserve the body as it was kept in the chilling embrace of the iceberg. Upon* the ? discovery of the -Viking's- body an expedition was dispatched from Copenhagen to Greenland to excavate the iceburg -in which 'the age-old king was found. This expedition has sent back word that seven other bodies as untouched by the years as the first,, have been dug from the mam moth cake of ice. "May Rewrite American History. The early history of America may be rewritten before the in vestigators are through. Already Copenhagen scholars are consider ing a theory that the Viking with his royal winged ? helmet may be no less a celebrity than Lief Erik sen. "Erik the Red/' -famed as a dauntless voyager of ten centuries ago and believed --by many his torians to have landed on the shores ofAmerica- 400 years before Co lumbus steered the Santa Maria into harbor at San Salvador. A Norse legend has it that "Erik the Red" was an earl banished tO j , Greenland beeause- of his secret ro- i ! mance with his liege lord's beau-1 tiful daughter. Hearing of a vast | land'to the southwest, Erik sailed | I away and is supposed to havej ; reached what is now Cape Cod: Bay, sailing along: Scituate Beach J pa3t Coronet Rock into Boston lharbor, and thence up the Charles river, into the Back Bay, where he landed near Cambridge and built a large house. ? Babies are Plentiful in Famine Re gion. Bubuluk, Samara Province, Rus-, sia, April 12 (The Associated ?Press>?There has been no baby famine'in the-Volga Valley. Even during the six months just passed, when hundreds of thousands of adults and children have died, the stork has made a valiant fight to keep apace with the Reaper. Ac curate statistics are just as lacking on the birth rate as on the death j rate, but an observer in the fam ine districts finds on every hand ev-1 idenee that the peasant mothers .have been fruitful even when the land was not. The Samara district, despite the I ravages of famine among children i last at?tumn, literally swarms with infants. Thousands of new-born babies, ' I thrust upon famine-strciken com-: fmunities by undernourished,moth- i eis probably have died within a j few days'or weeks after birth. I Others are tiny living skeletons With drawn face's Ike old men. But most of them whom the corre spondent saw at railway stations, in i box cars riding with their mothers to some, more fruitful region and elsewhere, seemed' plump and rosy and happy. ? Ah- American Helief Administra : tioh census of Samara province last j September showed that 44 per cent' of the Inhabitants were children under 16 years of age. " While the mortality among children was very high last September they have re ceived food from America and else where since then which the adults have not and the death rate recent ly has been higher among men than among either adult women or children. " Asked why the children lived and the adults died, a bearded-old peas ant with clear honest eyes shining from his weathered face said it was very simple. "When the children cry for food! we give it to them, even if it i3 the last we have," he said. ? ? ? ? The elder Booth, the tragedian, had a broken nose. A woman friend once remarked to him: "I like your acting, Mr. Booth; but to be perfectly frank with you I can't! get over your nose!" "No wonder, madame," replied Booth; "the bridge is gone."?Pho toplay. Rockefeller Foundation Aiding Po- j land. Warsaw, April 19.?The an nouncement has been made here that the Rockefeller Foundation of New York has>- signed a contract with the local Polish government providing for the establishment of a hygienic institute which will de velop the work of the national Pol ish Hygienical Institute already in operation. Under the terms of the agree ment, which appropriates $250,000 for the work, similar institutes will later be founded in other Polish cities if the Warsaw experiment proves satisfactory. Wonder if the Washington broad casting station is called GOP. All of them like to be fair and just; but try telling one s:;e is just The Spotless Town of Ci-oatia. Washington. May 2S.?A city which Croatians aspire to have added to the list of world capitals, judging from their efforts for in dependence, is told about in the following bulletin from the Wash ington, D. C headquarters of the National Geographic Society: "Zagreb, or Agram as it used to be known, sits in the lap of the Croatian hills and looks off across a fertile plain. The city is divided into three parts, one of which con . tains the Palace of the Banus, who under the rule of Austria-Hungary was the local administrator, and is reached by a funicular or by winding streets from the lower town/ A City of Scenic Beauty. "Up* from the railway station, almost to the main square of the city, there runs a fine Mall in the midst of whose lawns there are Va rious fine public buildings and a little to the left, as one looks to ward the hills behind the city, there are the beautiful grounds and buildings of the University of Za greb, which is unsurpassed in all Jugo-Slavia. "Zagreb has a fine museum in which one can see the lovely-peas ant costumes of Croatia, which, like those of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, did much to give Austria-Hungary an enviable repu tation as a museum of loveliness. Bach region has its own pattern, some heavy with gold on ' black silk, others brighter with reds and yellows massed on white. Croatia, is a picture-book land in which the j distinctive dresses 'Of . the peasants form one of the main items of in terest. The region of Zagreb has its own lovely costume. To see it at its best one must attend a market day in the great square named after Count Josef Jelacic, Croatia's most famous banus, whose part in the Croatian Revolution of 1848 won him the love of his fellows and the honors of Vienna. "Except on market-day this great square is a drab, uninterest ing place. Early in the morning on the days of the market long lines of tables are placed on the j cobbles until they reach to the very tables of the coffeehouses along the southern side, and the country roads are alive with attractive figures, clothed in their holiday best, en route to th8 market. Where "Roll Tops" Are Convea tional. ?The waists and skirts of the women are of white, with much red embroidery up andN down the front, around the waist and across the apron. Stout white hose witfa roll tops and ribbon garters fill hi the space between the. knee length skirts and the moccasin like slippers of soft leather. Around the head is worn the Slavic shawl, 4hat form of seh%beautification which reduces the high cheek bones of the Slav to a pleasing oval that would honor a Madonna of Italy. 'The women are both venders and shoppers. But many a sturdy wife is assisted by the presence of her picturesque man, whose cos tume, is just as colorful as her own. His rather full white trousers are worn loose or "strapped in at the bottom with the thongs which se^ cure the sandals and his heavily embroidered shirt hangs down out side to a truly Slavic length. The yellow vest, with scores of bright buttons and gay stitching: is likely to be worn unbuttoned, unless his shirt lacks ahrple decoration. j Attire is Blaze of Color. ""Almost always one is likely to see some of the gypsies of the re gion and spattered with fire as is the white costume of the Croatian women, they seem lacking in color when a Gypsy woman strides by. j Her head shawl is a blaze of Turk-1 ey red. The massive red flowers; or other designs in her waist may j or may not be carrying on silent \ war with the tone of the headdress, but if by any chance they har-J mohize, the bright colors around j the bottom of the apron surely do not. * "The Gypsy woman's main dec oration, besides the bright rings of metals which emphasize the pro letarian quality of her hands, is ? long necklace of the huge silver wheel currency . which bore the head of Francis Joseph and helped to make him popular throughout the now defunct empire of the Hapsburg. "Behind the city there are lovely valleys reaching into the hills and livened with singing brooks on their way to the Save, with peas ant houses flanked by huge hay cocks hiding in the trees, and along the ridges are scattered the eeriesj of suburbanites who love the air. J "Here too, is one of the finest} wild parks in Europe, its vegeta-! tion untamed and full of beauty, j with benches pleasantly located to look off across the city and the valley of the Save. j "But perhaps the prevailing im pression of the visitor is not con cerned with loveliness which Na ture has lavished on the surround ings but the way in which man has kept the place attractive. The! tables of the coffee shops are asj spotless as . the white skirts of thej women and as soon as the market is over, usually at noon, the cob bles of the trg are polished till they shine. Every bench, lettuce leaf or plum pit is spirited away so that its presence may not add a touch of variety to the great grey square in which, but a few hours before, a thousand gaily dressed people surged back and forth in the eternal drama of barter and! sale. Constantly Fights Dirt. "Out in the wide plain beyond the Cathedral there is an amuse ment park or circus ground where the Croatian peasant follows his main delights of eating, drinking, singing and dancing. But with nightfall these colorful folks are well out on the white roads which, lead to their farms, the woman | toiling along under the large wil- j low basket with the newly-pur chased geese rubber-necking from their elevated coign of vantage and the man, his brimless black felt hat, compromise between dunce cap and derby, with its bright band around it perched over one ear. and his yellow vest, studded with small bras| buttons until one can scarcely I see the leather, flapping idly be I side his care-free bosom. A. yeri ? table spotless town, Zagreb, em ! ph?sizes the labor of women in . a way which reminds one of the elec I trie sign in which a woman is eon j stantly fighting dirt. "At evening time the citizens in ! vade the square which during, the ; day has been crowded with conn I try folk and the hundreds of little tables outside the coffee shops Ue j come centers of discussions which deal with everything from politics to love. Then slowly and silently they disperse and-across the emjify square there go a main and a maid, a figure m'blaek and a figure in white. Her pretty head holds no heavy basket. Not a burden in the. world has she. But against -she black of the man's attire there are . two spots of light. A narrow white mass marks the edge ol her novel and like a-great white chry santhemum against his breast he carries her big white hat/' j Tacna-Arica: The Alsace-Lorraine of America. < "Washington, May 2 f?Just what I is the "Tacna and Arica Contro versy" which is holding the center/ of the diplomjtaic stage in Wash ington while special envoys fromr Chile and Peru try to solve it? The National Geographic Society, from. its headquarters here, an swers this question in the follow^ i ing buUetin: \ "The Tacana and Arica question I can perhaps best be understood,", says the bulletin, "if it is taken zss a rough American equivalent of Alsace-Lorraine, Italia Irr??enSa< and the Danzig corridor, all jumbl ed together. On the. siirface,rthe Tacna-Arica matter may appear "; to be merely a question of wheth er a plebiscite shall be held "and, how, but there is a great deal more \ behind it. As a matter of fact it Is intimately concerned with ques tions that involve Bolivia as. .well as Peru and. Chile, \ though the first named country has no claim to the Tacna-Arica area itseit and is not represented at the Washing ton meeting. Wars, treaties that are none too clear, indemnities, , filibustering expeditions, valuable mineral deposits," strong mx&ary positions, national sensibilities and;, politics?these are some of the many cross-currents that affect both the' two-sided and tbree-sided aspects of the problem. " Problem Born efr War. ,"Phases of the question can be traced back to the days when Pe ru and Bolivia were connected un der the vice-royalty of Peru,, but it became a full-fledged problem'dur ing the last quarter of * the past-cefn tury. Then Chile stopped 1 more than 500 milesshort of its preserit northern boundary, Peru^ extended some 300 miles farther south, aikd Bolivia?now the land-locked ; Switzerland of' South America? had a coastline of nearly 200 miles This 500-mile strip is largely a re gion of desert plateaus and rocky mountains, and 60 years ago it was considered very nearly worthless. Chile-had not. even adequately ex plored her northern frontier prov inces, and Bolivia and Peru were far from being intimately ac quainted with their territories. Then came the discovery of ^ nitrate deposits in the Bo$viui coastal region. There* was a rush, of minere and prospectors fromv va rious countries, among ttjem many Chileans. When friction arose "be i tween- the Bolivian government' and a Chilean mining company over the ; payment of taxes, Chile sent sol diers and later declared -Tjj&i*, against Bolivia. Pern was drawn; in as the ally of Bolivia, arid from this threes-cornered war the Tacna Arica question was born. "Chile was completely -vfctorious, and as the spoils of war took the . entire Bolivian coastal region with; its nitrate beds. "From Peru tiie victorious country took its south ernmost province, Tarapaea, also rich in nitrates. Next to Tar?paoa on the north lay the Peruvian province of Tacna with the port of Arica. This region Chile took" tor ; a ten year period after which.? there was to be a plebiscite' to de termine to which country?Pert* or Chile?the area should afterward belong. The details of the holding of this plebiscite were n?t "clear ly set out, and the two countries have never been able to agree as to the procedure. Bolivia Would Boy ^Corridor* "In the meantime, Bolivia, which had lost her road to the sea; con tinued to harbor the feeling that she had been misused and th&t some sort of 'corridor* should ije provided for her. - For years Bo^ livia accepted only a truce with Chile, unwilling to agree to the to tal loss of her sea provinces." At one time Chile agreed to sell tiKte land locked country a port and a roadway through the former Pe ruvian province of Tarapaca, but Peru strenuously objected and the deal fell through. "Later Bolivia accepted a money indemnity: "The treaty provision -callfn? for a plebiscite for Tacna also provides; that the country losing, the land* shall receive five mHlion dollars from the winner. One solution Of the matter which has been sug gested by Bolivia is that she, in dire need of an outlet to a port, be ceded the disputed region, and that she pay five million dollars to each of the other two countries,** ? ? ? The trouble with a girt throwing: herself at a man Is she has to pick herself up afterward. Pestor (looking up from his newspaper): I say, Jim, what is the Order of the Bath? Nestor (embracing the oppor tunity): Well, as I've experienc ed it. it's first the water's too hot then it's too cold; tben you're short a towel; then you step On the soap, and, finally^ the telephone bell rings!?Tips. Three ladies were discussing the recent marriage of a well-known actress. "You know it is said that before she accepted him she masde a full confession of all the indis cretions of her life." "What touching confidence,** sighed one lady. "What needless trouble," added another. "What a wonderful menioryV* finished the third.?Everybody^