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BALKAN PEASANTS
GET POOR MING
How People Exist on Meagre
! . Food Mystery to Ameri-:
can Vigors
- BELGRADE, i Serbia! To the Ameri
can visitor, accustomed to, the ordinary
comforts of lif, it Is a constant, source
of f wonderment how the - peasants and
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poor ot the Balkans are anie to exist
- ti.. -maao-rn fSnri thftv have. Corn
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bread of poor r quality, supplementefl
with eoat's cheese or ordinary leek
or" onions, forms 'the diet of 'a ."large J
part of the village population.
slender regimen produces robust bodies,
strong musfcles and rosy cheeks. The
old adage thai bread is the staff of
life finds its best proof here.
iOn the whole, the poor or the Balkan
ountries have an unusually hard lot
In life. Their poverty i practically
permanent. Their plignt seems to excite-little
sympathy .from "those who
are well off. There is a calloused ln
dlfference to the suffering of tne poor
which strikes an-American as almost
heartless. In few if any of the JBal
lean states does the government make
any. provision for the care of the poor.
This work in the past has been left
largely to foreign relief agencies and
private ' charitable organizations. i
The eight-hpur working day so com
mon in the United States is. unknow
In the .rural districts . of the Balkans.
The, peasant works from ounnse .until
after dark. He is so bent and weather
scarred that . he looks twice his-ago
s after 30. In some cases he belongs to
nomadic tribe?" and leads an existence
- unknown.1 in "the country districts ox.
America. At night one oftejti passes
whple, wagon loads of them on the road
going fro mtown to town. Every man
Is asleep n the top of his load, and is
. not disturbed by . thoughts 01 Durglars
or highwaymen.
The pheasant removes his hat, to
every one better dressed than himself
and gets his ox-cart off " the road tor
every automobile that passes. He is a
simple ' honest, home-loving . person
with much homely virtue. The peasant
women have enormous families of chil
dren, about hadt of whom survive-ever
survive, the rigors of child-life in the
extreme conditions that prevail in the
Balkans.
UNIVERSITY FOR
SCHOOL BEAUTY
Plans Call for Imprpve
ment of Groupds
"" .- " (Special to The Star
CHAPEL HILL, Oct. 26. Ugly school
, buildings and bleak school grounds
-will be: a thing of the past in North
Carolina if the bureau of 'extension -of
... the .University- xf North Carolina has
its way. The bureau has drganlzed a
dlvisi6n 0f design '"and improvement ot
3cbool . grounds and has set to worfe to
neip scnoois ail over the tate make
the most of their surroundings. ,
At -'the head of the division will be
Dr.?W. C. Coker,-Kenan professor of
botany at the university and director
of,- the university arborettfm. Miss
- Eleanor Hoffman will serve as secre
tary and field worker. .
Dr. Coker has had experience, in
beautification. The present arboretum
at the university, by all odds the most
beautiful section of the campus, is a
monument to his work. A. few .years
ago it was a swamp; now it is filled
with rare trees, and shrubs, systematically-arranged,
an object lesson "in
what can be done very easily. The new
Presbyterian church grounds in Chapel
Hill are also partly his work.
The division will issue a bulletin
' , which will contain more than twenty
designs of actual and imaginary school
grounds, together with photographs of
illustrative plantings from .various,
' such as the university arboretum, pri-
... vate grounds, mills, community houses;
also plan's of walks, arbors and other
beautifying agencies. The text of the
bulletin will consist of suggestions as
to planting, descriptions of. trees,
shrubs and flawers, alL picked out for
various kinds of climates and parts of
' 'the state.
Miss Hoffman, the field worker, will
" be available, the bureau announces, for
' trips to communities or schools that
(wish advice and suggestions for. de?
; sign. No charge will "be made foiuher
work beyond the traveling expenses.
The bulletin will be available to any-
one. ' ' . .
, The Tar Heel, student newspaper at
the university, thinks that university
. politics ought to come out in the open
i and that there ought to be more po
k lltlcal fights made after the fashion of
real fights waged in the state and na
' tlon. Recently, the f reshmen waged
the most widely advertised campaign
- for class officers that the campus has
seen In many years. Time waj and not
so. many years ago, that a Tfreshman
election meant a single meeting away
off somewhere far from the sophomores
and at that the meeting was apt to be
raided by. upper classmen. But this
yearthe. campus looked-on and laughed
'.when the youngsters posted the town.
' with -signs, slogans and appeals for
particular candidates. "A good politi
cal campaign waged above-board is
valuable in the iraining.it will fur-
. nish, editorialized The ' Tar Heel.
"What's better to test men than an
v open contest of anygort?. That's all
politics 1." '
- RUSSIA. RATIFIES PEACE '
LONDON, Oct. 26. Ratification of the
' preliminary peace treaty between - Po
land and Bolshevik Russia was voted
byithe All-Russian Soviet, according to
a .wireless Message from Moscow.
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as It stays on until you wash It off.
It is so lifelike in appearance that it
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Miss Catharine Mulqueen, the charm
ing young . prima -ionna vh has the
title r role In "Irene," coming: to the
Acodemy of Mulc matinee and night
Saturday, Oct. SQth.
ENGLISH TAUGHT IN
SERBIAN SCHOOLS
Language, Now Made Compul
sory Study in Advanced
Studies in Country
BELGRADE, Serbia, Oct. 26. -English
is being introduced throughout the
schools of -Serbia. It is now made a
compulsory subject ( in the normal
schools.' The first courses in English,
which were inaugurated in Belgrade a
year ago under an American teacher,
Dr. James Wilde, of Chicago, have
yielded such excellent results that the
government has decided to make the
language a part of the clrcula of all
schools.
Heretofore the dominating language
of the Serbians, apart from their native
tongue, has been German. The "Ger
mans were quick to see the advan
tages of introducing their larfguage as
a means of acquainting the school
children with the ways and customs
of the German people. The pupils were
given little chance of acquiring the
things that go to mae up the life
and culture of Anglo-Saxon civiliza
tion. A very large proportion of Serbia's
school teachers were killed in war, 800
having died during the Bulgarian oc
cupation. Scores of school buildings
were destroyed, and most of the school
books printed in the Serbian language
were deliberately confiscated and burn
ed by the Bulgars. Even Bibles were
carried off, the object of the Bulga
rians being to displace all books, in the
Serbian language with publications in
their own tongue. '
Notwithstanding these disasters, out
of 2,100 .schools in Serbia, nearly 2,000
have reopened. So great Is the thirst
for education In Serbia that It is a
common th-inar fnr cWMren In tVi!
country districts to leave their homes
before daybreak-and walk for several
hours to reach school,-not returning
home until late in the s evening. The
school jbuildings, owing sto the ravages
of , wAr,: ; often; are without ; "window
pahesV heating desks, : books "and even
writing material. -v. -
So great is the shortage of teachers
and the Influx of pupils that the for
mer have to work from dawn until
night, taking their classes in "re
lays." . -f '
THINK BELGIAN BAG WON
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Officials of the
Aerp Club-. of America today conceded
that the Gordon Bennett international
trophy for free balloons had been won
by the Belgian entry "Belgica," piloted
by two Belgian army 'officers," Lieuten
ants De Muyter and Labrousse.
ALL WRONG .
1 WAS HER LiVER
Before Taking Black-Draught,
Missouri fiady Was Troubled
Wiih Constipation, -Head- '
ache and Bad Taste
in Mouth.
GRANDIN, Mo. Mrs. Susa Brooks, of
this place, writes f ' "Some time , ago I
was in a bad 'fix, with stomach and
liver trouble. 1 did not feel good at
any time. I was very constipated, and
had headaches ftom this condition,
and had, a continual hurting in my
stomach, and "bad taste in the mouth.
Could tell my liver was all wrong.
'I had known of Eflack-Draught, so
decided to try it myself. I began with
a large dose or doses, gradually getting
to smaller doses. It regulated my
bowels, relieved me of the hurting in
my stomach,' cleaned off my liver and
made me feel,.like a new person."
If you get up In the morning feeling
as tired as you did when you wept to
bed achy, coated tongue, .bad taste in
mouth, sallow complexion hen your
liver has not done its full duty, and
your system has absorbed the poisons
which your liver should have taken
away. -
An occasional dose of Thedford's
Black-Draught will help this inlportant
organ to function properly. '
Get a package of The'dford's. Black
Draught liver medicine today. , '
Druggist sell it, or can get it for you.
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ASSERTS HARDING
FAVORS SOVIET
MOSCOW, ; Sept. 23 England, '.. by
breaking: off negotiations ; . with '. 'Jje
Kameneff, -the former Russian trade
comfnissioner in London, ' has -lost , an
opportunity to play ... the leading t rdle
in world politics, says Karl Radek, rad-ical-
leader." .. i.;: " . '"y
"The political j sceptre has , fallen
from the hands of Lloyd-George from
the hands of England,", he -asserts in
an article in the Isvestia. ,. .'-
"Trade negotiations wth. Soviet Rus
sia .fcould have reprBented ,for Eng.
land a victory'over. Trench and Ameri
can ' imperialism oyer French Impe
rialism because- . French 'creditors
would have been 6bliged- to allow- the
gold,, which the French capitalists con
sider their property to . pass Into Eng4
lish coffers; over American imperial
ism, because the English gpvernment
would receive supplies and raw. mate
rials not under the control of Ameri
can monopolies,
'To realize'this -victory. It was nec-
fessary to establish political peace wltn
soviet Russia. , -Nv
"The breaking off of diplomatic
Keep Your Blood Pure - )
Nature Will Do the Rest
Did you know" that ninety per cent
of all . human ailments .depend upon
the condition' of your blood?
. Nature gives her warnings in various
unmistakable jways, so that when the
appetite falls, and you become weak
and listless and a general run-down
condition seems to take possession of
the whole body, It is-an unfailing sign
that impurities will, steadily accumu
late .until your general health will be
seriously affected. - You should recog
nize the importance," therefore, of very
promptly cleansing out the system, and
keeping the fbloodV supply pure and ro
bust." ' ' .
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$1.25 Roxford undershirts or
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negotjifonsameiis tBattn'4pitical
initiative passes ito tne nanus ui
France, . which is openly supporting
Wrangel," Radek continued., 'Simul
taneously, theRepublican party of the
United V States; and -Its presidential
candidate, Harding, have declared In
favor of the recognition of Soviet Rus
sia, demonstrating that Anie'rlcan capi
tal Intend to put England in the sec
ond "place :-by beginning jtrade relations
with Russia and cutting off England's
only non-American source of oil sup
ply.":." : " '
Radek concludes w the article by say
ing that the action of th6;Brltish gov
ernment was induced -ot. so much by
the defects of the redvarmy as by. the
victories pf the Communist idea in
London and Warsaw, ', ""The English
gpvernment has concluded; that we are
too strong : to. fee further strengthened
by) bffleial recognition and diplomatic
pourparlers,.' and it is too weak - to
tolerate, in London political represen
tatlves of Soviet Russia,1 .he added.
. ; "The voice of Soviet Russia has been
stifled tnr London, but It will be heard
not Only Jn London, but among the mil
lions of workers in the east."
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