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1 i. 17) ni LA HI THE COM M IMWI A' H XV. -NUMBER 88. Hungarians SOVIET DA'S IninRed ! FOREIGN EXPORTS Army nuiIiJM.st, May 30. At least li)0tX) Hungarians taken prisoner v Hussia eariy m me wnvi l.ve R'ltie ,1 the Ked army, ac- wording t ret n rn i ng Hunga r ian officers leased wh has just been re- l,v The UoisnevivKi. kjl, about 00 are officers. In t lies jsrfdit'U'Il Thousands ot former lltngarian an life in soldiers have taken Russia, many having iou"e t)u. Communist party. ChildrenAnd Old Veterans Decorate The Graves , J j (By Associated Pressl Gettysburg, Pa., May 30. N.-liuoi children joined with vet ,,nn, of ihe Civil War in decora ting the graves of former Un- of ion soldiers in Memorial Hay. observance Optimism Is Returning To Ship Owners j Stockholm, May 30. Shipping "onoaic. is rapidly increasing m ac- Y.-ihie throughout Sweden, wording to the Stockholm press y-o'ich -umiwuts on this fact as i Ihi iiiosTsignTft o returning optimism among ship i -viurs. i On! ya few months ago ships sold at 100 kronor (about $27) ;i on. Later the price advanced to 10 kronor per ton for newly vom-tructed ships, while now it to purchase vessels at .'!0 kronor per ton. The Stockholm papers see in tli is rapid advance fairly ssure i!r)ss. of brighter prospects in th'j jtasiiit'ss world which means that shipowners feel (certain that they will soon have ample use for all their vessels. Packages, Duty Free, Admitted Into Russia Moscow. May 30 Plans are i'liiiom-f i! for admitting itno Rus s;i. duty free, packages from '-Mi-oad f,,i- individuals and which 'i't.iii: )iv f00( or clothin" in- the coal mines and that will; of thesj youths have been trans-nd-.-ii exeiusivelv for personal exist if Mr. Lewis of the United j formed, and constant reference !s I K'llN these parcels must not ex - 1 pounds in weight. 1he Soviet customs regula Men peis.ui is entitled to !.reivi iom foreign countries bv (tost dian 'in i v. e Uriilei t '. ' this ruling not more packages each month. ((nitents of the. nareels will )f' -subject to dutv 1 ,,,.. I .... i if the food and ! ' ' onai elteets bundle. are sent in the "fii i MORE CHEERFUL Mav U). Moscow is "P- To the foreign vis-i mm- noticeable that lugub-: 'pressions are no longer 'In Mile. I he f;, hut are in the minority t(1s of the constantly in-: Hi So; t !ue street crowds. Prices j ;md monev denreciatos i M,l! .nevertheless shops at"1 Ui IO ( re a u I Ti ir utimTini-t! i i "P'nii !!' to l-Ar oiil P.... .-.11 lien- i '"ml.ies tlioi-f. 1 mn, ,,f till SS I'll 4-X - desponden-! fa) H The . r'u;ai)or of the pedes- MOSGQW BECOMING FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION OHJHE INCREASE By Grateful Gdiipitry meia Than Russians . Moscow, May 29. Soviet Rus sia s foreign trade department has no definite statement to make as to what products it has on hand for export from Russia this summer, but the departmen tal manager has told the corres pondent that the exports of 1922 would greatly exceed those of last year. Petroleum from the Baku fields is expected to be exported in considerable quantities, while 3umbei flax and furs, valued at several million dollars are al ready at the ports awaiting ship ment. Twenty thousand tons of pe troleum have alrea'dv been shio- ped to England. Leonid Kras- sin, commissar for foreign trade, recently in formed the State Plan Commission that he had succeeded m breaking the oil ) blockade created by American! and Dutch oil interests hreaktnffi t lie oil blockade created by American and Dutch oil interests against Russian petroleum. It was claimed in Russia that everv attempt to sell Baku petroleum abroad was blocked by under bidding on the part of its com petitors. An Archangel dispatch to the Moscow papers dclars that Ar changel expects a great amount I of business this year. Lumber exceeding the 1921 export is al ' readv said to be gathered in the Archangel regions for shipment. Last year Archangel's lumber ex-, ports, according to Soviet figures were valued at nearly $4,000,000 OIINGER OF RADICAL Pittsburgh, Pa., iVIay 29. En lightened public opinion must set itself definitely against un just demands of labor to prevent establishment of high wages for any class of labor, Thomas Me Adams, president of American Bankers Association, ( Friday told delegates to the con vention of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association. He added that his belief in the proper organization of labor did not blind him to the dangers of labor overleaping itself under radical leadership and attempt ing to run counter "to economic forces bv trying to establish one I class of workers in a more favor I iddp nosition as to wacps a?ainst LEADERSHIP QFLABOR the best interests of all classes ot; gentleman was lie wlio lived m labor." j idleness. A few months in the "America has been built up on 'j school and the age-long tradition the development of individual ! was practically wiped out. The initiative, cheap fuel and cheap j boys now do all the work, includ transportation," he declared. ! ing the care of their own rooms "You cannot have cheap fuel un-j and the waiting on the table of der the conditions that now exist! i he school's faculty. The minds Miners has his way.'' i Mr. McAdams asserted that la-! bor which sought to maintain wao-es at war time levels hurt; itself more than it did capital U pi rit of progress that the school ;md added that the bill for excess located in the midst of a sloVern-. sive wasres for coal mining trans-; M rtation and bidding labor, in j Hie last analysis, came "largely out of the pockets of working; men, who can least afford to .i. i I pjjv It. j I He said that no element inj i business could permanently i maintain itself in a more favor-; 'able position than any other as i I ibe result of conditions created J j by the war. The worth of a lab-' i orer, he maintained, was deter-1 ' mined bv the economic business j value ef his services in the gen-; star. ral scheme of industry amL In boxing their only idea is to business. launch.' Boxing "fans" would Speaking of the coal strike,! be delighted .with the 'exhibition Mr. McAdams said that labor j put on by the Tirana vocational renditions in the coal field were unbalanced and will continue so v.ntil the nublic insisted on " -" - j. changing them. Tf we can solve this coal sit-' nation satisfactorily," he con - eluded, "it will do more to stim - uiate renewed t activity in busi-.; ness than anvone condition that is confronting the American peo - nie at this time.77 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, Washington, May 30. A na tion s tribute to its glorious dead reached its climax today at the dedication of the memorial erec ted beside the Potomac to Abra ham Lincoln by his grateful coun trymen. Chief Justice Taft headed the commission which has lavished endless thought on making this Mono embles of America's grat itude worthy of the man whose Memory it will perpetuate for -Americans always. President Harding in person accepted the work in the nation's name. WORK IS A DISGRACE IN ALBANIA Tirana, Albania, May 30. Work is a disgrace m Albania. One who is forced to it is imme diately ranked as belonging to the. lowest orders of Albanian so ciety. As a result of this point ol' view, American teachers as- signed to the American Red Cross Vocational school here had first the task of teaching the GO or more boys coming from the high er Albanian families that if they wished to learn any trade the idea of spurning the hammer and the saw must be dispelled from tiieir young minds. - When ilie Hiroys for their lessons in the vocations, they all refused to have anything io do with tools. They disdain ed touching anything that bore evidence of work. They refused to use brooms to sweep out their dormitories. They looked at , 1 i . i . . . . . Memorial To&braham Armenia's L jmcolm Dedicated Today Need Greater Afoeu.ea pre) JOIIHIIIE DELIIIQOENCY B. the chisel and mailet with repug the i nant eyes. the American teachers met this puzzling situation in a prac tical way. They began using tli tools themselves, freely and nat urally, and continued to demon strate the value and help of a iool to the workers until finally the passive resistance of the young Albanians-was completely overcome and they came to use every implement in the shop. Long centuries of caste had taught the bovs that the real to the upward struggle ot Amer i-an captains of industry who achieved their successes through work has imbued each with such ly, idle population, stands out in bold relief for its industry and zeal. The students are adopting all sorts of other American eharac- ..i.4.if..i nni fc i-i ntTi rillc it-ii1 i ;i jm nave j. n songs; they have class fights and colors, and they have developed a school spirit. They have taken to athletics, baseball being the ma jor sport, followed closely by boxing. Baseball is supervised by Ambrose B. Kelly, of Albany, N. Y., an old college baseball senool. it is practical! v an straight punching. There are no clinches. Each boxer thinks skill is measured by the rapidity ana force witn winch be can anil -torce v. iiu mvn up land blows on the other - . ,,i;:i v, r. i : land blows on the other mans : face without regard to his own protection. Blows are 'what count to these Albanian boys ( rnd they give and take them j ne b par tens. TXJE6DAY-1IAY 30, 1922. PROBLEM IN EUROPEAN Cfi llll TRIES ' Stockholm, May 27. Sweden has eliminated one of the worst ourses which the world war brought to neutrals and belliger ents alike, the alarming increase in juvenile delinqneey. ot a Country in Europe ,;s ..'aped.thip epidemic wheh contih ued to infect the youth after rrmed hdstilities has ceased. Sweden took immediate steps to eiieek the spread of youthful crim inality wh ich threatened to undermine the country's social structured . Fortunately, the country was prepared, having many,; years before the war es tablished excellent institutions for the training of children that showed criminal tendencies. Dr. David Lund, head of the Social Department of the Swedish Prison oBard, and recognized as one of the foremost European authorities on criminalitv among' youth, has now announced that the country has returned to nor mal in respect to juvenile crime. Dr. Lund attributed Sweden's success in combatting this evil to the excellent care taken of affected youngsters in special educational institutions whose in mates are given an exceptional opportunity of leading natural, healthy and active lives under the most wholesale influences and 1 v.'i ere they are given an,oppor ifyrto .;-aeqmre---t-'Only--some i book learning but to master the fundamentals of useful occupa tions. Of these schools that of ; ilJ1; YC" luc,VIlU1"1' the best known and probably the most successful. Here larm . . . t enmg, stock raising and arious nanaicratts are taught and here large numbers or young- sters seemingly predestined to criminal careers and prison life, have been redeemed with such success that during the past 19 years, only 10 percent' of the youth discharged from the insti tution have later been arrested and convicted of offenses against tin law. Hall originally was privately endowed. It takes boys between the ago of ten and 15." The report of Sweden's reform atory systems shows that 75 percent of the youths discharged therefrom have proved to be en tirely cured of their criminal tendencies, having turned into law-abiding citizens of regular habits. But Dr. Lund states that this percentage can be increas ed. He declares that he has f c und that only three percent of th morally defective vouth com ing under his observation is irre deemable. CONCESSION IN RUSSIA Moscow, May 30. Machinery en route and preparations are iS in full swing to begin mining operations early on the property of the first American concession ir Soviet Russia in the asbestos fields 40 miles north of Ekater irburg in the Ural mountains, savs an announcement. At the start. 1,000 workmen 4 are to be employed. With one or two exceptions, all of the personnel will be Russian. The j mine has been worked or a num. ier ot vears. ine concession lis or a 20-vear ieriod during which time 10 percent of the output will go to the government and at the expiration of the con cession - the property reverts to the government- TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE Durham, May May 30. Be cause the need in Armenia is far greater than in t,he famine dis tricts of Russia and the Ameri can people ought to respond readily and liberally, is the ex planation given by the Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover for asking Congress for an ap propriation of $20,000,000 for Russia and nothing for the near East Relief in a letter received here from his office by the Rev. Dr. Davis H. Scanlon. Dr. Scanlon wrote to Mr. Hoover and asked, in the name of Christianity, why a large appro priation frT-'tha T? i " w. vuv. LlOUlUil J was asked, when the Armenians, who stood by the Allies as Staunchly as they have stood by Christianity for centuries, not a cent was granted bv crovern mental action. He said he coun2vt ' ,a,ie ratings and at doors of understand' why a log-rolling Longress should forget they a (Christian body but could are not i t understand why a man of Mr. Hoover's ability should be a party to such a comment ary on justice and Christianity. The letter from , Mr. Hoover's office follows: My dear Dr. Scanlon: ".On. behalf of Mr. Hoover! 1,' oeg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of February 9, 1922 inquiring in regard to an appro priation for the Near East Relief. 1 understand that the Near East Relief Committee is at pres ent operating in certain areas m Southern Russia where there are a number of Armenians. Mr. Hoover has recently directed a member of Colonel Haskell's staff in Russia to investigate this area with a view to ascertaining just what the relative needs of the area are as compared with the! needs m tne rest ot ixussia.- as oon as the' report is received ! from this investigation Mr. Hoover Avill allocate to the Near! East Committee such a prepoi-! tion of the commodities purchas- the Consrressional Fund as i ! .n , v.4;..,. i. ! i will if urcseiii uie jciftiivt: iireii i o h 1 sections. f c aw T,.ir:.v, ni c t..i....;.. eernea, l regret inat l cannot furnish you the information you desire but it is my understanding fhat this portion of the Neor East Relief was not included in 1 lie Congressional appropriation 1 T . . 1 .1 . A. i for the reason that the area s small in comparison with Russia and that it was felt that private "harity could hope td cope with the situation, where the same would be impossible for Russia proper." Most sincerely vours, CHRISTIAN A. HERTER, Assistant to Mr. Hoover. eiBLICALTITHf ALBANIA'S SOURCE Of REVENUE Tirana. Albania. May 30. The Biblical tithe is the chief source of Albanian revenue and h;is constituted until the present iliH.e a "single tax" policy. A new fiscal policy is being intro duced and prominent among the many items proposed for taxation! are ocas, ror m mis primiuve country a bed is regarded as a lu vnrr. The origin here of the tithe can be traced to the Turks, who foi centuries have collected it from the people of Albania. It being a simple method of levying and a circumstance to which all the inhabitants had become accus tomed, it was-adopted by the new independent government as a means ot revenue, ine new gov-i eminent, however, has not found ! r mi it a very productive kind of tax; because of the ability with which the taxpayers are able to con-; ceal their incomes. So skillful j are the inhabitants in evading a large share of the tithe, that; new methods of taxation are be-; ing put into effect. "The tithe is still our chief source of revenue," said Kol Tbaci ,Albanian Minister of Fi-, nance, to the correspondent of I 5 CENTS PE& COP Jp STREETS OF OF BEGGARS Berlin, May 30.-Although public, mendicancy is forbidden by law, the streets of Berlin are lull of beggars who, especiallv after dusk, importune passersbv with harrowing tales, some of which may be true. Mutilated war victims, who exhibit genuine scars on the sidewalk, are always sure of pub lic, charity, but many others of the fraternity resort to more or Jess transparent tricks to excite compassion. They have estab lish cfi a " trade union m a northern suburb where. accord- nig 1 n 4. -" . . 1 . reports. 1 -2$t 150 learn- are beint" . . ,od in the art begging uding "making up. 1'tical Part of this ione takes 6 weeks, ami l'aurcllcs theaters and cafes. city is by the divided into "union" which peaces tified a certain pupils in number of cer charire. chancres sriitts weekly, and collects and distributes the proceeds. Every day, it is sfted, an av erage west-end district brings in about 3,000 marks. Certain fav orite sections command premiums up to 500 marks per day. These professional beggars are keen judges of human nature. Wealthy Russians are said to be their best patrons. Americans, on the other hand, are an ever hjs.ting puzzle to them. Some times, thev say, Americans are extremely generous and hand out five, ten or twenty mark bills with princely liberality, but others refuse to given anything. PEONIES Of. AMERICANS L L Tirana, Albania, May 26. Nickels, and dimes contributed by the children of the United Males have made possible the establishment of a vocational r-.diooi for Albania's boys and gi:ls. The institution, whic-i has accommodations for 300 pu pils, lias just been formally ded icated by Dr. A. Ross Hill form erly President of Missouri Uni versity, and now American Red Cross Commissioner for Europe. The entire Albanian Cabinet, menbers of the Diplomatic Corps and representatives of the League of Nations were pres ent at the ceremony. The Al- banian Vatra Band from Worces ter, Mass., played "The Star j Spangled Banner" wihle the American flag was hoisted on the school. Addresses were made by Dr. Hill and Ambrose Kelly, of Mechanicsvile, X'. Y., Director of the school. The Albanian Minister of Edu- ation accepted the gift on be- half of the government and said the school would be a constant reminder of the generosity and thoughtf ulness of the children of America, who were ever ready to help their little sisters and broth- ' ers m ioreign lands, lie said it '.vould be the constant effort of tiie instructors to inculcate in the Albanian children the high moral principles and ideals which had .made America so great. The Associated Press. "We de pend upon it for the current ex penses of the government but we find that it does not render suf ficient return to let our taxing stop there. We are already planning a new scheme of taxa- don. it is proposed to place a tax on 'beds, for to us the bed is not an absolute necessity. Our people have been used for cen turies to sleeping on the floor and continue to do so to this day. Today we see that beds are gradually being introduced by those who can afford them, cr, wrc art Tronosinir to nlace a iLx on these beds as v mf n - - & an article of luxury.1 BERLIN FULL ESTABLISH VOCATIONS IN v'JSL I M.
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