North Carolina Newspapers

10 dOOKXHOSAM POST-DWPATCB. fUCflifeOiiD OOLNTY. N. 0 DISARMAMENT UP ! 10 UNITED STATES NO TIMI HOWEVER TO WORK j OUT PROBLEM BEFORE AD- MINISTRATION CHANCES. our can to lead the way Mondcl of Wyoming Say If an Agree ment is not Reached Soon Amer ica Will be To Blame. Washington. An International agreement lor limitation of arma ments it absolutely essential to the avoidance of bankruptcy by some of the more important nations of the -world, with attendant measureless confusion and distress Representative Mondell of Wyoming, republican bouse feader, declared before the house naval committee. It an agreement is not reached In the near future, Mr. Mondell aaid the fault will be that of America, as in former, days the fault was that of Germany. Ho added, however, that there was no time to work out the problem before the change in admini strations next mccth. I "The fault will '.;3 oura," bis assert ed, "beca'uee as we are' th? only grsr.t 'nation which ould maintain cnos mous establishments on land and sea without bankruptcy, without be ing condemned to bear indefinitely and add today's frightful load of na tional debt, it is out duty to lead the way toward relief from the present and future burdens of war-like expen ditures, which irksome and oppressive to us, would be unbearable to other nations. "More than that, it is our duty to lead the way, because strangely enough, we are the only great nation that, since the world war, has official ly taken a position favorable to the increase rather than the decrease of armaments and warliko expenditures. Fighting to Save Her Son. Ossinglng, N. Y. Mrs. Anuna Fos ter, mother of Jesse Walker, the Evansvilie. Ind., youth sentenced to be electrocuted in Sing Sing prison, having been unsuccessful in her ef fort to have Governor Miller save his life, left for Washington to try and enlist the aid of the United States senators from Indiana and possibly President Wilson in her son's behalf. $1,368,977 for U. S.- Treasury. Greenville, S. C. R. Q. Merrick chief federal prohibition enforcement offlc8r for South Carolina, ia a report made public here, declared that a to tal of $1,368,977 in fines, taxes and as sessments were collected and paid In to the treasury of the United States as proceeds from the work of his force of 16 mea. Pinal Action Expected. Washington. The National execu tive committee of the American Le gion, meeting here in the first of a three-days' session, Is expected to take final action on the offer of the Knights of Columbus of a gift of $6,000,00 to be used for the erection In Washing ton of a war memorial building. ft Headed by New Premier. Athens. Delegates sent to the near East conference in London late this month will be headed by M. Kalogero poulos, the new premier, it was said here. M. Gounarls, minister of war, will not go to -London, it has been de cided, in view of British opposition. Birthday of Charles Dickens. ; London. Dickensian enthusiasts are celebrating the '109tfr9 anniver sary of the birth of Charles Dickens. The famous novelist's home at Gado- hill and other former residences were visited by "pilgrims. t ,; , Man Dies While Running Auto. i Norfolk, Va Aubrey W. Anderson prominent automobile man, died at ateerit? wheel of his machine while driving between Norfolk and Suffoll; He was accompanied by his wife and daughter, and was to all appear ances in the best of health. Work on Jail Edict. Newport News, Va. The work or Jail edict which city officials threat ened a few days ago, has cut idleness and begging here to a minimum. City Manager L. C. Thorn declared. Warship will be Target. Washington A large warship, pos tblv a former German craft, is to be ftombed.by naval aviators to test the value or aircrau against major ur fftce vassels. Admiral Coontz, chief. of naval operations, announced before the house naval committee. Death and Wounds by Bombs. Belfast. Ono constable was killed and two others woundad by the ex plosion of a bomb thrown at them while thay were on duty at' Warren Point, near Dunkalk. Michsel Collins Killed. IWWin. Michael Collins, adjutant general of the Irish republican army, was killed in file ambush at Burgtrtia last week, in whleS it was previously reported lie had bees wounded, ac cording to the police authorities item OoUtaa. they declare, was shot dead. We've Cut Prices to a Point Where They Really Are Low. or Februar HALF PRICE SALE offers you the Best opportunity of the year. Come to Charlotte to Carolina's Greatest Furni ture House. Parker-Gardner Co. Charlotte, N. C. WRKLE , "After Every Meal" Everywhere AH over the world people use this goody for its bengfife as mil as its pleasure. : Keeps feeffs clean, breath sweet, throat soothed. Sealed Tigfrt CM appetite "" digestion. 1 i IWf Right YS m vi BATUMi CENTER OF CRUDE OIL AND CLASSIC STORY Mingle an all-pervading odor or pe troleum with the aroma .of 1,000 years of history; picture the physical as pects of a Texas town of the gusher region, Including puffing trains lumber ing through the principal street amid a swarthy human content of Turk, Ar menian, Georgian and Greek,, and yon get an idea of the Incongruity of Va rum. Batum has grown like a mushroom within a generation because a pipe Une poured precious' oil through its Black sea port. It nestles at the foot hills of a stream of history that paral lels the pipe line and the ,550-mlle course of the railway to RaKu, which links the Block sea to the Caspian, and passes such peaks of legend n the 18,000-foot Mi Elburz, where Tro uietheus was bound to a rock as the vultures consumed his flesh. From 1007 to 1011, inclusive, nearly one-fifth of the world's oil supply came from the Caucasus region, and In nor mal times Batum was credited with exporting more petroleum than any other port In the world. Batum won this bobn by the nntnral advantage of a harbor ranked as One of the best In the world, despite the occasional storms tfiat render Its shelter treach erous. The city came to its Industrial own when It passed from Turkish domin ion to Kusslun hands in. 187S; but po litical troubles, even before the war bolts of 1014, affected Its commerce. Before the World war a movement hnd been launched to boom Batum as a health resort. In that field It had, some Rssets, despite its get-rich-qulck anomalies and unkempt appearance, such as a climate where the foliage was thick In mid-winter, and Its boule vards, shaded by palms, acacias and banana trees. In 1003 Batum had an economic ex perience that affected It more deeply, perhaps, than political disturbances. It never recovered from the general strike of that year, which spread over the entire South Russia, and, In Bar turn, brought paralysis to business, sufferjng to clttxens and palsy to prog ress. Batum Is built In a sort of amphi theater facing a beautiful bay. Wine was produced In the vineyards In Its vicinity ; and tn 'the spring toss of strawberries were grown In the fields nearby. Both products were exported before the war. In those days auto mobiles, sewing machine, fireleea cookers and writing materials patois' Its custom house oo their way to tha Caucasus or Persia. WHATS IN SOME GEO GRAPHIC NAMES Names of such women aa Joan of Arc and Edith Cavell are written in delibly upon the hearts of people for all ages. Generous and well deserved tributes have been paid lastingly to others, but so much hove their names become a port of our dally lives that many who frequently pronounce them are unmindful of their significance. Cities, rivers, provinces and Islands bear the names of women of distinc tion. Lady Franklin island, nenr Baffin Is land, in the arctic circle, la named for the wife of Sir John Frniiklln, the ex plorer who lost. his life in first finding the Northwest passage through the great Ice. of the polar regions. There is perhaps .no more beautiful story of untiring devotion and persistent ef fort than that of Lady Jane Frank lin who, after the failure of many at tempts, fitted out a ship which, though it brought back to her the definite proof of the Ions of her husband's ex pedition, established his achievement of his object. The picturesque stories of the lit tle Indian princess Pocahontas al ways will hold a loved place in the hearts of American childhood. Coun ties In Iowa and West Virginia, vil lages in Bond county, RUnols. and Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, and tn the Rocky mountains tn Alberta. Canada, are named for her. Queen Victoria's name Is. wrapped aroxind the BrltlsIfmpUe from the cnpittil of British Columbia, over the heart of Africa at Victoria Nyanza and Victoria falls, and beyond Into the Queensland nnd Victoria In far-awfiy Australia. America, too, In Its early dnys of colonization paid Its tribute to the queens of the mother country and to the gracious Indies who braved the dangers of untried shores with their lords. Elizabeth, a cape . In Maine, J and Elizabeth City In. Virginia, as well as the state itself, together with some 25 other places In the United States, bear the name of the clever, witty, versatile coquette, vho took the dtssension-torn England and whipped It Into a place as 'a world power. Elizabeth Carteret, the charming wife of one of the aristocratic propri- f rew jersey, snare wun Elizabeth some of the honor I ecera OX 180 WOO. Carolina, and Elisabeth City, m New Jersey, are named for her. The' name of Clara Barton is perpet uated in Barton county, Kansas, qnd the wife of Georgi Washington, who before her first marriage was Martha Dandridge, Is honored In the town of uanonage, nn. . Maryland and Virginia are fairly be- spattered with the names of the queens nnd princesses of England, the state name of the, former being taken from that of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles t Then, too, there are Annapolis, named for the wife of James I of England ; and Ann Arun del and Caroline counties, in Mary land, called after the wives of two of the Calverts; Fluvanna county and the North Anna river In Virginia, named for Queen Anne; and Charlotte. Amelia and Caroline counties and Charlottesville, the home of the Uni versity of Virginia, all called for the wives, and daughters of English kings. Marietta, O., wis named for the haughty, charming Antoinette. The Aleutian islands, off the coast of Alaska, when that territory wa Rus? slan, were known ,as Catherine archi pelago, In honor of Catherine the Great. Ekaterinburg wns named for i the Russian Catherine who ruled Rus- ! sin through her husband, reter tae Great. VERA CRUZ: TRAVERSING A CONTINENT IN 78 MILES "While fully aware of the high per centage of error most sweeping asser tions contahi, I nevertheless venture to claim that the country lying be tween the cities of Vera Cruz nnd Mex ico City possesses more varied nat ural attractions than any other area of similar extent In the world." s This Is the statement of Frank M. Chapman, In a communication to the i V...ln...,l f'.. ..III'.. ,A,.fnf, AnA,M. I . ..... It n Vera ruz. which flirures so con-T I splcuou.sly liT news dlsputches from 1 I MWttrtt. Doctor Chapman continues: i cue student or tourist, there can i be ko" question tl.nt one should enter j ?$ttfM from the gulf. A Journey from, Die ctwxt to the capital follows.a nat- ; ur;;l Kiir';esslii'i of climatic zones as ! we'.rs the pequence of early historic i events. "The day, Indeed, should begin at snnrlse, some hoars before disembark ing at Vera CrtW, with a hope that one mny have the rare good fortune to see, ths first rare of the sun touch the summit f Mt. Orizaba, the first, as It will be among the most Insllng, of enei's Impresalono of Mexico. The shore Is still acme SO railea distant, tho mountain ftself about 100 miles, and one is with difficulty convinced that the gleaming pink dood high above the horizon Is part of the still Invisible earth beneath It. Poubtlesa the Aztecs were not familiar with th's view of Mt. Orizaba, but from no 'tfher place Is their name for ltrCli laltapetl (the Star Mountain) siVep plicsblc. "Time was when Vera Cruz was dreaded as a pest-hole, and trains at once took one from the steamaprup th Sierras on the way to Mfrxloo City, usually aa fss as Orisaba. Now, how ever, sanitary conditions aad hotel ae ceminetlatiofca have been se Improved that one mj otay aero Without dan ger or "dlsfWafort. "In our Jeuroey fross tho galf to tho summit of tho Slewaa wo pso rhroogh tropical, temperate and boreal tones the Tierras Calloiite, Templada and Fria of the native. Our aerial Jour ney, In passing from sea level to snow line, may be a matter of 75 miles, our change of altitude approximately three miles; but. If we were "to seek the Canadian zone not on mountain top but on the coast, It would be neces sary for us to travel to Maine or Nhva Scotia. In other words, a Journey of some 1.500 miles would be required to Lrench conditions which are here dis tant but three altltudlnal miles. "It follows, then, that one can actu ally stand in n tropical Jungle, where parrots, trogons, toucans, and other equatorial birds are calling from the liana-drapqu trees, and look upward to forests of pines nnd spruce, where crossbills, Juncos, pine siskins, and evening grosbeaks are among the com mon permanent resident species. "Later we may ascend the snows on Orizaba to discover at approximately what altitude the palms of the Tlerrn Cnliente gVve way to the oaks of the Tlcrra Templada, to be In turn re placed by the spruce of the Tierra Fria." QUACKS: ANCIENT MODERN AND Do you regard cold cream as an ultra-modern palliative? Or pure food and drug laws as a com paratively recent type of legislation? Or the familiar "curt all" as an up-to-date quack device for thje twentieth century credulns? , You are wrjng. according to the statements contained In n communica tion to the National Geographic socie ty from Dr. John A. Foote. A part of the communication states: "Most people at some time or an other use cold cream. It seems quite a modern luxury. Indispensable alike to peer and perl, and adopted to many and varied uses. In fact, one traveler tells recently of having some of his cold creain eaten by a. fat hungry valet In Germany. So we are Inclined to re gard It as a fairly modern ' product. And yet 'unguent urn refrlgerans,' cold cream, has come down to us from Bo man days. The first formula is at tributed to Galen, who lived and wrote in tho 9otd ceprury. What we use today ia pnMtfcaUy tho tame, thtng 'Dr.' Galea original formula won tan Hated and 'improved hundreds of times. "Emperor Frederick XL of Sicily, In 1240 or 1241, published the first pure food and drugs act He was about 7(X) years auead of Dr. Wiley, for he speci fied strict regulations of the standard of drug purity, and provided for drug isnu-or- .,, nM ntfBr,Am of drug purity, and provided for d Inspectors, and lined all offenders. "The practice of medicine was also regulated. A physician was required I to have a diploma from a university ) before he could study medicine; then j he took a three-year course In the school of medicine and one year prac tice wider a practicing physician'. Spe cial post graduate work in anatomy was required If he was to do surgery, "All this was ia the so-called 'dark ages.' Even the fees of physicians and pharmacists were strictly regulat ed by law and were In purchasing val ue about the same aa the charges of the present day. Physicians were not allowed to own drug stores and drug adulterators were severely dealt with. "Mlthrndatium was the name' of the great antidote of Roman pharmacy. ' Ii had from 40 to 50 vegetable, Ingrtdl- j enls. enls. few of which had any real we- uicinai value except opium, ana tuese drug wet blended 'with honey. "It remained for Xero's physician, Andrnmachus, to put the finishing touches to this wonderful compound. Andromachus added viper's flesh to the formula and called his new compound Therlacn. He wrote some verses dedi cated to Nero, describing this medicine and claiming virtues for It which la our day would subject him to prosecu- tlon. Evidently he believed he had created In this one compound n veri table pharmaceutical monopoly. "Galen, one of the fathers of medi cine, went even further. He recom mended -It as n cure for all poisons, bites, headaches, vertigo, deafness, epilepsy, apoplexy, dimness of sight, loss of voice, asthma, coughs, spitting of blood, tightness of breath, colic, the- " . . .. ' nine passion (append'Sc'Ms), Jaundice, tinfdetiing of the-spleen, stone, fevers, dropsy, iejirosy, melancholy, all pesti lences, etc. Nowadays he would prob ably have Included coupon tlrufth, golP shoulder and movie eye. "As Galen's writings dominated med ical thought for over 1,500 years, It i not surprising that, this advertisement , made Mithrsdatlum, or Therlaca, a valued remedy. Every physician of note for centuries afterward clnlmedl some Improvement on the original for mula." SAGH ALIEN: A LONG TIMEI POUTXAL PERPLEXITY . The island of Saghallen, recently sabjej of diplomatic corresporidencet between the United States and Japan, has been a political perplexity both to Russia and Japan for many years. Seen after the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the east coast of North America, a Japanese feudal baron dispatched an agent to this far northern Island of the group that swings south from Si beria, at the mouth of the Amur, to Formosa and Fuklen on the China coast. Within twenty years after that rite Russians had landed on' Sagha nen. The Japanese subsequently made several trips of inspection but a small iwndful of Buoslan colonists remained and teday th majority of tho perraa wmt mhoMtaats of Soghailon are Rus sian, while to tho Japanese It Is lit tle mora than a aummer Jiahing re sort. In 1853 Russia sent an ambassador to Nagaski and a band of troops to Saghallen. While the ambassador conducted negotiations the troops built a fortress but, after repentpd attempts, the boundary question was still un settled. By 1875 the sea-going Japanese gave up all rights In Saghallen to the Rus sians in return for full rights In tbe Kurlle Islands and this condition of affairs continued until" the Treaty of Portsmouth which gave southern Sag hallen, up to the fiftieth parallel, to Japan. Japanese Saghallen has Wttle agri cultural land but has large forests of both deciduous and evergreen trees, amounting to more- than 8,000,000 acres. Japanese pape mills are sit uated In Otoniurl and elsewhere and an effort Is being made to develop the? papermaklng industry. But It is on fishing that' the ma jority of the Japanese Inhabitants de pend for a living. As soon, as the sum mer season Is over the fishermen mi grate to the southern Islands of Japan for the winter. Mauka, on the west coast of Saghallen, is the .center Of tho crab fisheries and much of tho crab flake consumed In the Far East comes from this little town. A post road connects Mauka with Toyohara, which is the capital of Karafuto. tbn name which the Japanese have given to the southern part Ot Saghallen. Saghallen has less than sixty mllesa of railway and white, red or wue nnes are painted across the windows of the cars to prevent the people from trying to stick their heads through tne glass, The average annual temperature of Saghallen Is near the freezing point and If the Japanese are ever to colonize the island they will hawe tod change their methods of dressing and building. Karafuto has much coal and there- ia considerable gold, but In the pnst the Russian residents have largely con fined their efforts to farming and the Japanese to fishing. Saghallen has not been developed to any greet extent, but what natural de velopment has taken place has been done more by tho Russian exiles whose permanent homes weVe there than by the Japanese whose fishing- camnj trading centers have dotted th shorn- MMMnraHSflnrrii - r - - in"