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REDS' ACTIVITY
IN ITALY STIRS
MEN OF WEALTH
Enounce They Have Formed
Vigilantes Societies to Crush
Bolshevism Tired of Gov
( ernment Injetioru
Rome. Declaring that the policy
of the ICitti govermcnt is iii-
' adequate to stem . the " tide of
bolshevism in Italy,' vhtn of eaLth
all .over the country are organizing
a system of vigilante societies, like
those of the western state? in' pfo
I neer days, whose avowed'object is
4o make war against the reds, v
- A fewdays befotfe Premier Nitti
left for the inference at San Rcmo
" a delegation of wealthy citizens of
Bologna, the municipality ofhich is
'. in the hands of the socialists, waited
on the premier and curtly informed
him that they had formed a vigilante
society, making n6 secret of its aim.
They told Signor tfitti that they
i would proceed vto immediate, action
1 unless the (government took decisive
measures to ""protect life 'and
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Money Values Falling.
The ,men behind this vigilante
movement believe that the constant
fall in the value of the Italian lira is
an inevitable result of the spread of
extreme socialist doctrines, which
cause strikes and general disturb
ances, often amounting to armed re
bellion, giving rise to alarm abroad
and consequent depreciation .of the
lira.
It is in the provinces of the south,
, where illiteracy is as high, as ,76 per
, cent that the reds are gaining most
of their adherents. Their slogan is
the land for the peasants! Aear
Bari, on the Adriatic, there is a force
of 10,000 men, nearly all ex-soldiers,
organized on military lines, ready to
invade thev "latifondi," or large es
states, unless the latter are .broken
up, and handed' over to the tillers of
the sou. , - n
Wokers Demand Soviet
In Turin the workers are demand
v ing the formation of workers', Conn
ie cils, on the soviet plan. On the
other hand, the emplovers have sub-
Scribed a fund of 7,000,000 lire to
fight the men.
Premier Nitti is said xto believe
that the unrest in Italy is merely a
- nassinor ohase of the conditions re
sulting from the war and that it wirfj
burn uselt out. lhe conservative
element of the population is not of
this view. . It demands urgent meas
ures against the radicals to stave off
national ruin.
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Much public notice has been given
to the labor conditions and wages in
the linen industry in Ireland. When
the governmert outof-work dona
tion:;, ceased the linen workers were
v unemployed-two days per week ow
ing to the shortage of flax. The em
ployers . voluntarily undertook to
make this good and continued to do
so throughout the year. , This ready
willingness to guarantee a fair re
turn to, labor, by, mill owners did
much to create the confidence that
characterized 'he relations iii this
consular district between employers
and empldyea in most of the prom
inent industries. .
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.Women to Regenerate India,
Hindu Suf fragist Assured
Female Novelists, Scholars, Editors, Poets, Lawyers,
Doctors and Teachers Are in New Era, Accord
ing to High Casje Hindoo Feminist, Who Is in
Europe to Bring West to Proper Realization of
"... Her Country. 'I
By. WILLIAM L. MALLABAR,
Iniernatteul 'ewi ficrrlc Staff Ctm-
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London. "No : self-respecting na
tion tvith-' a great past such as we
httve had likes to be pitied and the
missionaries ' have pitied us, in ig
norance." This was one of the statements
hiiade by MrsMaraliny Sen, one of
the leading high caste women ot ln-
ma,, wno is in cngiana ior me pur
pose of instructing the Occidental
nations in a proper realization of
India, and, I incidentally, to attend
the forthcoming conference of wom
en s - suffrage organizations. 1 he
conference will be the first to be
held since the war, and although at
first it was intended to hold it1 in
Madrid. it has been decided to have
it in Switzerland, the Spanish gov
ernment having decided that it had
so many' anti-clerieal features that
it was inadvisable to allow it to be
held in- spam.
I Missionaries Aid Much.
"We Indians have been taught a
great deal by the mrssioiianes, can
tinued Mrs. Sen. "Thev have felt
for us, worked for us and, perhaps
some of them have died fr us- Still,
with all due. respect and gratitude
for all their well-meaning efforts I
must say,; speaking in general terms.
they have failed to enter into our
hearts, because' they have looked
upon our religions and civilization
they i have not troubled to : study
them,.' they do not think anything
can be worth existing besides Chris
uamiy ana western civilization.
I he well-meaning western peo
pie go out to work for and among
U9 without taking any -trouble to
know us. Nevertheless, ! must admit
that the missionaries sowed the first
seeds of education in India for
winch we can, never be too grateful.
Much thev have also done in times
of famine and epidemics and we
have much to learn from the work
ers of the west regarding what can
be done in the causeof humanity.
Just Now Awakening.
"India is just now awakening from
her sleep of the past 150 years.
Woman will be the regeneration of
ndia in this new era and to her we
must look. Our women are 'doing
their bit. and carrying on the old
traditions. We have women of high
literary ability, women with admir
able philanthropicalA activities and
women with the capacity for ruling
and managing big e-states. We have
lady novelists, scholars, t editors,
poets, doctors, nurses and 'teachers.
Some of, our lady landowners in
Bengal are known as better man
agers of their estates than the ma
jority of men landowners.
We have women lawyers, too
but they are not allowed to practice
in the courtSi which is very untair.
especially in 'India, where most of
theVhigh class ladies of both Hindu
and Moslem communities are still in
Purdah (behind the veil), and con
sequently they are not as well de
fended as they should be when forced
to appear in a court trial.
"The time is coming when man
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and woman, black and white, brown
or yellow, will be given the; same
chance and the same opportunities
all over the world and when all bar
riers will crumbledown.
" 'The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world.', and makes or un
makes nations builds or destroys
empires! The early teachings that
are instilled in baby minds take firm
root invisibly and bear fruit in, later
life and for generations.
"We must be given a fair chance
and must have the sympathy and co
operation of our men. We muSt ex
tend a helping band to each other if
we want to keep pace and prosper
ity in. this world. East and west
have met a"t last--have imbibed each
other's spirit and been benefited by
jt. One human nature is the funda
mental basis of the w'orld. We must
regard everybody else, as a brother
or sister soul cm tile path of life
and realize that the final goal is cer
tain for us all. - .;
Married When. Only 12.
Mrs. Sen" was married to her first
husband at the age of 12 years. He
died when she was but IS years, old
and 12 years later Mrs. Sen met her
present husband. The marriage was
a secret one, on account of the) laws
ot caste, w-hicn pronioit a wiaow
from remarrying. Mrs. Sen's own
account of the affair is as follows:
"t had to run away from my other
heme without the knowledge of my
father and mother and other rela
tives. I climbed over the garden
wall as my, gate was guarded by
armed sentriej, as are all the houses
of "titled people in India. I left
my home and with it all my prop
erty, for a Hindiuwidow, when mar
ried again, has no claim on ,her
first husband's property.
"My husband is the son of the
great Indian 'reformer, Keshulb
Chandra Sen and his .sister is the
Dowager Maharini of Cooch Behar.
I was entitled the Rem Mrinatim, ot
Paihparah, but have relinquished my
title. My husband has been local
adviser to the Indian students in
London for the past seven yfcars
and I assist him in this great work.
I can claim to be the first woman
to go up in an airplane .for some
10 vears ago I -made an ascent in
India with a Belgian aviator called
Baron, -de Cator. .- I have devoted
myself : to my husband's work and
have -done a little writing for publi
cation in my spare moments. I am
looking forward to the convention
at Geneva, where ' I will represent
oe women of India,"
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The Antwerp diamond cutting in
dustry is passing through a period
of. depression such, as it has not
known since the days of the Ameri
can financial crisis of 1907. .The in
dustry, which is of the greatest im
portance to the foreign trade of
Antwerp, - normally occupies about
1J.000 men. Of this number some
5,500 are now without employment,
and the figure' is expected to increase
during the present month. The in
dustry is working at oYily about 50
per cent of its normal capacity.
He's "so true-to-life that you actually take part in his pranks arid share
his fortunes. The years fade away and you imagine yourself a carefree
youngster again. The : whole family will enjoy him immensely
RUSSIANS NEED
JUST A CHANGE,
BRITISHER SAYS
More Production In Sovie
Progranf Red Terror No
Longer a Menace Condi
tions Still Bad.
London, England. "If Russia has
peace and the blockade is com
pletelv raised and trade relations
with the rest of the world resumed,
I think Russia will bfr a very rich
country in a few years' time."
That is the general conclurion
brought back from Russia by lien
Turner, member of the British
labor-party's investigating commis
sion to Russia
"The men at the head of soviet
Russia's affairs have real business
capacity for increasing production,
Their; gosoel is more production
They are giving inducements of ex
tra food, etc., to workmen who in
crease their output, and they are
limiting the government ration to
those who fail to give their best ef
forts. There are no strikes; the
government won't tolerate them. In
deed, some of their proposals re
garding production and abolition of
the strike would gladden thvheart
of British employers, but they do
not suit me or my colleagues.
Red Terror Has Ceased.
The object of t he labor party's
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jjiuuc w vj investigate uoisneviM
administration and allegations of the
red terror. - Turner says, the red
terror has ceased, but that it existed
is proved by the soviet s official fig
ures showing 8,500, had been execu
ted for acts pf treachery and coun
ter-revolution. But the bolsheviks
claimed, Turner said, that the white
terror had been equally severe and
that the red terror was only in re
taliation. ,
"The physical and material condi
tion of Russia is so bad the Soviets
did not attempt to hide it. There is
grat lack of food, clothing, raw ma
terials, freight cars, locomotives and
road transport. TheV have had tre
mendously fierce battles with dis
ease. They have had a million cases
of typhus and scores'-of thousands
of cases of malaria and smallpox.
And they have no medicines, mither
have they fats nor oils. '
' Half Population Hungry.
"The hunger in Moscow. Petro-
grad and other large cities is due
partly ,to defective transport. 1
should say half the people are hun
gry all the time, although the people
in the cities get the minimum allow
ance of food. There were scenes of
desolation in' Petrograd."
Turner said' Lenine told him he
still believes "'Russia's example will
permeate turope, -although' Russia
itself will not take part ' in the
world's -revolution against the evils
of capitalism."
Lenine made it quite clear. Turner
said, that he would get all "the help
he could from India, Persia and the
near ast, in order to force Great
Britain to abandon the blockade and
start trade relations-'' : '
Turner said his general impression
of Russia wjs that it is "very des
olate," mostx of the shops being'
closed, and such goods and uncon
trolled foods as there arc being sold
m stfeet market places. .
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FIRST CLIMB OF
PIKE'S PEAK tO
BE CELEBRATED
Initial Ascent of Colorado
Mountain Made July 14,
18202,000,000 Have
' Since Duplicated Feat.
' Colorado Springs, ColoJ-The
one hundredth anniversary o
Pike's Peak ' was celebrated
Colorado Springs on July ,:
in
14
when special exercises , were held
at the summit and along the auto
mobile highway that climbs
miles over a serpentine route to the
top, 14,109 feet above sea level
Although Lieutenant Zebulon M
Pike, the intrepid explorer, first dis
covered Pike's Peak in 1806, he
never scaled the mountain, brand
ing the task as impossible for :
human being. But Dr Frank
James, a member of the expedition
of Major Long, in 1820, essapey the
featVn July 14, 1820, making the
journey from Fountain Creek, near
Colorado Springs to the summit.
Major Long, in honor of James' ac
complishments, named the peak
"James' Peak," but as early as 1840
trappers and plainsmen named it
"Pike's Peak," and the name re
mained.
Two Million Made Climb.
Since then two million people
have visited the summit, it is esti
mated; the crowds of toifrists in the
last twenty-five years forming the
bulk. .. In 188 a bridle path 'was
built; a wagon road to the summit
was built in 1880 and in 1891 the cog
wheel railroad, nine miles long, was
butlt. Burros were used also at
that time. I
in ivio tne present automobile
road was built at a cost of $300,000
after two years of cqnstruction
worK and many amicuities, espe
cially in securing labor. This road
is eighteen miles long, rises 6,695
feel in that distance, has an average
grade of 10j per cent, with 42 per
cent of the line in curves. It is
twenty feet wide with curves as
wide as fifty feet.
Caterpillar Makes .Ascent.
la April, 1919, a government War
tank attempted to' climb the peak
over the automobile highway, but
could not gt over the deep snow
drifts; however, a month later a
caterpillar, used for artillery haul-i
ing, made the summit without diffi
culty. On August 3, 1919, an aero
plane, piloted by Alexander Len-
drum of Colorado Springs, made a
successful trip over the summit of
the peak.
Pike s Peak is eight miles in an
air line from Colorado Springs and
the greater 'part of the mountain js
controlled by the city of Colorado
Springs, for its watershed .
Walking races, burro races and
motorcycle -races have been made to
the top, and many noted race driv
ers, including Ralph Mulford, Bar
ney Oldfield, Hughie Hughes, took
part in tne automobile races . in
1916. Mulford made the best time
for the twelve-mile course from
Crystal Creek to the summit, this
banc 18 minutes and 26 seconds.
Jn September the auto, hill-climb
contest? which was discontinued
during the war period, will be re
sumed, as well as an aeroplane race
around the peak from Denver.
E
Treatment
By DR. ANDREW A. GOUR
At the request of a number
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or spons roaay 10 a suojeci wnicn is
important to many bow legs,
The true case of bow legs means
that the tibia, or shin bone, is
curved outward as well as the knees
spread apart. The bow in the shin
bone cannot be corrected by gym
nastics. The only cure for this lies
in surgery ana one must- proceed
cautiously in such treatment.
Whether or not the shin bone is
bent in bow legs, the knees are al
ways apart when the heels are held
together, and that is why most bow
legged people are so conscious of
their defect. In some cases bow
legs result fram such activity as
long continued horseback riding.
The inside, or adductor, ,muscles of
the legs . are made too strong for
the outside, or abductor, muscles
and the knees are spread outward.
buch cases are menable to correc
tive exiercises. AnothCr common
cause of bow legs in the very young
is the pernicious habit of mothers or
nurses keeping too large and bulky
diapers on infants, compelling them
to keep their knees spread and the
legs bent in as one who rides horse
back. The majority of bow legs are due
either to malnutritionvin infancy or
to premature walking, or both. Mal
nutrition in- this case means a low
intake of organic salt containing
foods. A lack of these salts results
in soft and weak bones. In a hild,
whose blood and bones are lacking
in these bone 'forming elements, no
matter how early, or late he begins
to walk, his legs will bend when
the body weight is placed upon
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and bow legs is only one sign of
his general malnourished condition.
One of the first methods of pre
venting bow legs, or of helping to
correct an established case, is to
supply the blood with the elements
necessary to solid borje growth. This
means that vegetables of all kinds
and coarse breads should ' always
predominate in the diet. Rubbing
of oil on the skin, in the hope of
helping bone growth as has always
been advised in rickets, is a waste
of time. Bones are built up from
elements ' furnished by the blood,
not from oil rubbed into the skin.
Besides the diet, in young chil
xen, and also in grownups, the
nees can be made to approximate
each other by placing a pillow be
tween the ankles and strapping the
nees together during the night, lo
prevent the knees from bending, a
piece of thin board is attached along
the outside of the legs. This should
e repeated every aiaht along with
the exercises explained below, until
the knees are brought together to
stay.
From the muscular viewpoint the
nside muscles of the legs must be
extended and the outside muscles
made stronger and shortened. This
s done by such a simple procedure
walking on the inside edges ot
the- feet. You evert the feet by
raising the outside edges and walk
or stand Ibout for long . periods.
Another simple method is to lie on
one side and keeping the upper foot
everted, raise the leg and at the
same time to increase the work of
J the abductors, resist this lift by
frressing down with the hand on the
thigh, as see'n in illustration 1.
This movement can be made far
more effective by s"bme one offering.
aidonlirie corrective force on the ac-
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of Bow Legs
ofljtrve leg. The operator places one
Uband at the outside of the knee an
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flie other at the inside of the ankle
(illustration 2.) and, as
the leg
lifted he offers hard resistance
downward at the knee, but at the
same time he lifts at the ankle, thu
making the resisting hand at the
knee offer enoujrfc force to oppos
the oatside muscles of the leg arid
the pwird pressure of his own hand
at the ankle. Such an exercise at
fords passive correction of the knee
joint and active exercise ot tne at-
tected muscles., lne inside mus
cles are thus Extended ,while the
outside ones are being made shorter
and stronger..
If the bow-legged person want
moe difficult work without needing
the co-operation of some one else
he can assume side .iall position
that is, Rearing 'the weight on the
left hand and the outside of the left
foot, the right hand on the hip or
offering resistance to the moving leg
and go through the same evercise
explained in illustration 1.
Another type of resistive exercise
that can be repeated over and over
is to spread the legs apart against
resistance, while seated. The oper
ator offers resistance at the ankles
(illustration 3). "o make this more
effective. the feet are kept everted
lo render the last exercise more
effective, in fact, to make it correc
tive of the knee joint in older per
sons (as old as 21, in one case), the
bow-legged person locks one leg
of the chair, and the operator places
himself with the feet well spread so
the one knee ispressed against the
outside of the active leg, one hand
grasps at the ankle to pull outward
and the other is placed along the
skin t steady the movement. As
the legis forced outward the opera
tor resists hard enough at the knee
to oppose the abductorsNof the leg
and his own hand at the ankle, all
the while straightening his own re
sisting knee a little to accommodate
the needs of the exercise.
All o? the above exercises are re
peated with the other leg an equal
number of times. Lach movement
should be repeated at least 10 times
at every exercise. They should be
done morning and evening and as
many times during the day as is con
venient. Perseverance is the key
note of success. There are many
more movements possible but these
are specific.
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Of he 167,000 railroad employes
in Italy about 67,000 are organized
and the remaining 100.000 axf not or
ganized. The organized employees
are distributed among three organ
izations, besides the Sindacato Fer
rovieri. These three other organ
izations, with a total membership of
27,000, were opposed io a strike and
willing to accept the concessions
made by. the government. As re
gards Jhe 100,000 unorganized em
ployees it may be safely assumed
that they also were not in favor of
a general strike. Only the Sindacato
Ierrovten resolved to reject the gov
ernment's proposals and to call a
general strike. Thus only 40,000 out
of a total of 167,000 employees, or
less than one-fourth, precipitated a
tie-up of the Italian railroads.
AH industries in the United States
increased the total amount of their
payrolls for June, 1920, as compared
with June, 1919. In 10 of the 13 in
dustries investigated by the Depart-receipts
nnent ot uanor mere also were in-
creases m the number of persons
employed.
APRIL FOOL DAY
STARTS RUSH ON
NEW GOLD FIELD
Wiseacres Think 'Day Inausx
picious for New Bonanza
Goose Started Scramble of
' Prospectors.
'Calgary, Alta.-An Afril Foot'
Klondike. that's what the wise
acres call it. And it was causes
by, a goose supported by a duck,
which ought to cinch it. But
others are not so sure. It may be
a real gold field.
A Calgary butcher bought some
geese from a farmer onSnake creek -
near L)e VV niton. 20 milts south.
Two sizable gold nugrcts were
found in the crop of one of the
geese when it was killed. A little
later, the butcher bought sonii; ducks
ficm the same , farmer. Another
gold nugget was found in the crop
of a duck,,
Prospectors Start Out.
The butcher consulted a man who
had invented a gold separating ma- "
chine. The two hurried to the farm.
They brought back a qiantity of
gravel and sand , which they had
scooped tip by hand along Snake
cieek. City Chemist Field found it
contained $18.30 worth of cold oer
cubie yard,. figuring the gold at $20 ,
an ounce.
The tifws IpaVrd nii anA a mid
rush o'f people from Calgarv started
for Snake creek.- Excited argonauts
on foot, horseback and in automo
biles cluttered up the roads Snake
creek, they found, was only two
miles long. It rises in a spring and
nicanders through a coule; mostly
on the ranch of C. G Beeching.
Hundreds of gold hunters staked
cairns. Ihese claim-staking opera
tions continued by moonlight. Thev
proved up by digging a lot of lples.
This was on April 1.
- He Will Use Plow.
But none of the potential placer
miners thinks of the Snake creif
diggings as an April Fool's, joke
They have faith in their clatms.
They talk of getting in up-to-date
mining machinery.
lheres plenty of gold to be cot
out of the Snake creek country,"
said Mr. Beeching, "but the best way'
to get it is witk a plow. It is one
of the richest farming regims in Al
berta. I believe all this taflr of
placer gold is the 'bull,' but tWe's
real bull that may horn itito the
romance. When the ,at7ditas
tart mining they'd better keen an
eye to the windward or my old herd
leader will give them a run for their
golden dreams. He's a bad actor
when he starts."
In Buenos Aires the erection of "
cheap houses and apartment houses
tor workmen is in the hands of a
ational commission of cheap
houses. The commission was cre
ated in accordance with a law of
October S, 1915 designating a cer
tain amount of funds for fli erec-
ion of cheap houses for workmen in
rder to influence and stimulate
public sentiment in cheaper rents.
The Jockey oJub of Buenos Aires is
to pay a certain percentage of th:
of the races held every Sun-
day and Ihursday toward the pur
chase of. lands and the erection of
these houses
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