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NEW BALKAN WARS SEENBYTAIIEl Allies Allowing Turks to In i stall Gendarmerie Held B Big Mistake. FEARS NEW MASSACRE? iTench Publicist Says Near Eas rr....kU TT Q TToilincr to I * & Accept Armenian Mandate. Ill A MIRK TAIUIIKI . Former French High i oniiniMkionrr t / the I nltcd States. gpp.-ial table to The Star. I'AUIS, October 14.?After anotlu brief scare, due t ? Lord t'urzon's sudde visit to Paris, the Mudania agreemer .s signed and delivered. It marks an other great concession by the powers t the Turks. Whereas the agreement c Jv-pt^tnber -3 only provided that Thrac W-vikl he delivered to Kemal and hi torc?Ks following signing ??f a forma peace, the armistice agre*. ment allow Jain? within a fortnight to install a gov vrnment and. what is worse, gendarm eri?-. It takes a cl< \>r mind to distinguis between the Turkish gendarme and Turkish soldier. Both are masters ai tlo art of torturing Christians. Apparently the return of the Tur Irouses tio t motion it? either Knglan or France. In France the sen-.i-othcia press has sueceeded in persuading th people that we were within an inch t war. c<?iise?|Ueiitiy there is r? joicin "that it has been averted. although, trut to tell, it never was imminent. More t over, the opposition developing in Lou don against IJoy 1 (borge strengthen the Paris legend that l'oincare obtaine a grcait triumph over his British col league, which is ridiculous, since th French policy bats finished by p lac in "he I>arclanelles exclusively under IJrit ish control. * French (.Ice Paradoxical. It is astonishingly paradoxical tha French opinion is gleeful over the rt turn of the Turk to Kurope. That jo will not last. In Kngland Lloyd George undoubted blundering has made th near eastern question a battlegroun of parties, enabling a coalition of th opponents of tin- premier. The late* deemed the situation serious enough t break the long sib-nce with his Man Chester speech and other party leadei an* taking the platform to debate th ,.f rhe The Phrisfians' i Thrace. ev*-n at th?- straits. are foi gotten in the party fracas. It is w the first time in England ami elsewhcT that parly strife tak?-s priority over na tional interest. It is impossible to overestimate th extreme gravity of the events noi unfolding. Not alone is victory car celed on one of the. war's greates battlefields after only four years not only is it wonderful encourage ment for the pan-Germans and th pan-Slavs who dream of revenge, bu according to the latest agreement! iv e now have the same territoru situation which provoked all Balka wars, whose effect oil European pol icy is only too well known. BInnie Part American. "When the Turks and Christian clash in Macedonia war is inevitabli and it is curious that the Frolic papers ignore this truth taught b long experience. Added to this is th Russian danger, for the Soviets, Ilk the Kemalists and Germans, have ter ritory to n-comjuer to t trace the peac whieh they never have recognized. American public opinion seems t see further than the French and Brit v :sh. Amerieari newspapers are dis turbed by the refiux of Turkish bar barisrn. and th- v are right, but. to h perfectly frank. 1 must say the Unite. States is largely responsible for Jh xisting conditions. If the Unite States had not quit th*- game so ab ruptly in 1920 and had accepted th proposed Armenian mandate, it coul the Levant, restrained the absur megalomania of the Greeks. encour aged by the English. and curbe France's pro-Kemalist zeal. Thus th perfectly just criticisms of the Ameri can press lose some of their force. In general, it is going to be rathe difficult for America to convince Eu rope of her viewpoint after declarini she desires to have nothing more i common with Europe. Abstention i not a method of action. Action entail risks, ar.d whoever refuses risks can not expect to influence solution.* "With this reservation. I heartily agre with the American pr- ?s that Etirop is committing gross stupidities in th mar east. H uj.j riyiil. IJeji.? 3$ I?; Fall Sho1 Ther f Women's Deps J High Sho Most of the high-grad $6 to $10 a pair. Ever: our best selling lines. A but not every size in evei in Black Kid, Tan Russia tone effects. The Oxfor sia; welt soles, military i and plain Pump? with tu I Women*s P\ II | ot the fopu A Ci JpAMIi > r ; . v, ' I t I i To Depart for Austrian Post in January fcj >! f S ,j i K^KKrTniHHHI^H l _ . . - a. ... ? S?\? ? I'ilSf ] i w no n?M iwrn MJiuonva ni rori iriy^r, I will drrart early In January for Au-nj trin. where he will nerve an military 11 | attaehe at the American legation at i- ! Vienna, lie will alno nerve an an at0 | tnehe at the legation at Prague, ( cei'hnnhiviiklii. GERMANY TO ELECT i! HEAD OF REPUBLIC si . ,!| Will Select President to Sucf) ceed Ebert, Who Was Named by Assembly. dj lit u tlUII i t V U A inur. C | <;crm:iny** l-'ort'iiuiNi Publicist. I Sp?*?*i:il **;?l?lf? I'ispatcli to Tin- Star. | IJKIiL.! N. October 11.?in seven } weeks, for the first time, the German \\ j people will elect a president. Ebert. v ) it will b<- recalled, was named in 1919 's | by the national assembly without a ^ 1 plebiscite. Why his mandate outlastie j ed the general assembly which elected >r him and why the reichstag never n 1 until now consulted the popular will i must interest the people of the United e | States. n j Those who remember the heated, -j often savage, electoral battles* in t ; America, France. Mexico, even in quiet e j Swi tzt-riand. might imagine trembling:, i- 1 violent agitation here. Should they j listen in the trains, in street cars, in e | restaurants the conversation so overiv . heard would all be about the high i- j prices, which are unbearable; taxes, >t J tariffs, unheard-of workers' wages; 5; J occasionally of attempts to poison too i- I talkative accomplices in Kaihenau's e murder with chocolate, but almost t. never about the presidential eLection s. which is so uninteresting that no canyet have appeared. " ! Indifference Analyzed* | Is the president's power so restrictj ed that his person does not matter? 1 No. Wilhelin von Hohenzollern, in s j his tedious book, which, because of its a. I author, demands an annihilating anhjswer. boldly declares eveji the kaiser y'was without real power and was e j forced to yield to the chancellor's will, el The man who writes that for thirty -'years had and used despotic rights, c J named and dismissed chancellors, min' isters and state secretaries; made o | them wait like lackeys or travel a -I whole day to report to him fnr - ty minutes in some hunting lodge. - snip, train station or theater; called J them insulting names in marginal d notes on their reports and behaved e- like a Turkish sultan in his interu, course with the greatest ministers and - j most eminent statesmen of modern e 4 times. d I The late Wilfred S. Blunt relates in " his interesting book. 'My Diaries/* d j how Sultan Abdul Hamid advised the " kaiser t<> dismiss the all too powerful Bremarck. e ' 'Would you like to see how I treat my grand vizier?' "Instantly Kamil Pasha stood before him with bowed head and folded " hands. The sultan let him stand un^ noticed for a while and then said y casually: |s " 'You needn't wait; it's nothing im_ i portant. Go!' ; f "And the vizier went. Wilhelm took : the lesson at heart and dismissed the j chancellor hardly less brutally." j Of course, the president has less I absolute powers, but th-?se he has are ; sutticient to make the choice irnporStore Hours?8:30 to 6== leasing Novelties in C wing of Stylii e is a display of wide variety irtment that will give womei Strap Patent L ips Pumpi A delizli t f u 1 Of Colonial d model in patent gi w,th s leather, with turn sole and Louis hee Cuban heel. turn Boles. $8.00 $8.00 An Important Sale < es, Oxfords a e shoes in this lot formerly sold f 7 pair is our own goods, remnant 11 sizes can be had in the combined ry style. The high shoes can be fo i Calf and a few in Gray Kid and 1 ds are in Brown Kid and Brown 1 and Louis heels. Also Patent Oxfi rn soles and Louis heels. Your ch ure Silk Hose in All lar New Autumn Shades tmplete Line of Orthopedic Foe 310-312 SEVENTH STRE ???? i sac s ' . Vv ' . - . w . 7t.- , tant. They are less, of course, than President Harding's, but quite as his great as those of most European via' presidents of republics. The presi- prei dent cannot only prevent almost any- the thing he deems bad, but can exercise mai j a positive influence on the whole man- Cro Hgement and spirit of the republic if uto< he possesses the right personality. tha \ Reasons for the indifference are Jug* many. The German nation always Paii has been the easiest to rule, but it of should not be despised fo? this reason. ?u< Its efficiency in scientific, industrial and artistic work, which, after all, determines a nation's fate, can still, un- A der most unfavorable conditions, com- Prc< pete with all others, but the exag- J11 ' gerated respect for persons in author- jncJ ity has survived the kaiser's fall. bal1 Secondly, the Germans have repeatedly been told that their misery was due solely to the malice of foreigners w*' and that fortune can return only with i foreign hfelp. and any self-help is impossible under the malicious pressure of the war victors. False, But Readily Believed. That^ Is false, but readily believed 1 by a people whose political instinct, I never highly developed, now Is blunt- I ed by the struggle of every-day mis- I eries. Foreigners, however sympa- I thetic, cannot realize how demoraliz- La ing is the fact that the thousand- |J i mark note, which formerly kept a Wm family comfortable for two months, IT JIUW is lllSUIIlCieill LO uu; U. ?!??! l VI a I pa'** of theater tickets. I Thirdly, the idea has been im- I planted that for tactical reasons the I Presidency must go to a social dem- I ' ocrat and, if a social democrat, why I not Ebert? This Heidelberg tailor's JJ ?on, saddler, ex-editor of a small pa per. innkeeper, party searetary is "J popular among the bourgeoise. After violent speeches against repression .laws and rule, he, as President, calmly pulled the tlag of the idealist from its pole. Under his Presidency thoQsands of workmen and republicans have been ' shot and imprisoned while the mon- n | archist plotters are untouched. The |* I principle of equality before the law ! has been infringed and special jurisprudence involved for attacks and slanders against the President, the ministers and deputies. Even the [ Kaiser did not dare to make special j Jaws to protect himself, i Monarchist* Prefer Ebert. ! The monarchists and nationalists f desire no President this hard winter than this little, portly, cunning gen- i tleman who greeted our returning ; troops as "our unconquered army." I ! Fie reviews troops everywhere now j j like an emperor and covers all with i the social democratic liag. Unpopu lar with his own party, hated by the Li j best elements of labor, still if no f* i really popular candidate appears, or ! unless Ebert himself, seeing dangers JjJ | in the people's misery, retires to a j less responsible position, he will sucI coed himself. ! This is exceedingly to be regretted for the moral depression of the poo! pie equals their economic misery I and the needed new spirit cannot be I awakened by a man who takes prin- n r cipletf*. once called all-healing reme- ? dies, out of?the window like removed goods. (Copyright, 19112.) MWFll E BRITAIN'SCONCERN | i May Be Compelled to Align G Himself With Tories, ; Says Gardiner. B1 G. GAKDIVER, ! Britain's Foremost Liberal Editor. Special t'able Dispatch to The Star. LONDON". October 14.?The future I1 of Lloyd George is the chief subject engrossing all England today. With the passing of the near east menace j the plans of the premier are discussed IT "j everywhere. Will he resign? When |"| I will the general election come? What I I' will be the political alignment when I it does come? I Matters cannot go on as at present. I j The premier's astonishing diplomatic ' methods in relation to the Turk have mm | left him in an extraordinary position. Q i He is distrusted by all parties about j equally, but the new factor in the ' situation is hUa loss of the support of I the newspapers. Heretofore his chief I power came from that source. I Near-panic pervades tne financial I and commercial world at the revela- | tion of his political levity. City opinion may be summaried thus: PJ| "He landed us in the position where U we have the choice of fighting the i?| j Turk without other European support II or of kowtowing to him. We have I l| kowtowed and suffered a humiliation || l no great nation should accept." ' II i The tremendous assaults of James | || )ur ^ sh Pumps [ in our i a wide choice. I > Kv Some la Black 8?tla at * .? . nd Pumps !| rom I ; % $1.95 1 two- T I flus ords oice $1.55 ' X Per Pair ! >twear 5T<0WE t : co. ET - v . - v.,'"' . : 1 , I lis Garvin on him show how low prestige has fallen because Gar's former enthusiasm for the lifer approached idolatry, lie wa* heaven-sent minister, hardly hurl, almost godlike. He was Pitt mwell, Lincoln, all in one miracus body. Now he is more black n I, who have been exposing his deries for seven years, even have nted him. He is the chief author all of Europe's misfortunes anc st be cleared out bagran<l baggage Fights, Bark to Wall II England is laughing at this undented somersault, but the sigeance of the comedy is great. It icates the complete pricking of tin ble of the greatest re^putatioi r blown in Kngiisn pontics. ?ui rgre, with his back to the wall I fight desperately. >eculation renters on the questior 415 1 7th St. N. W. BETWEEN Jjt D&E J The n in the ci coverings paying e? A Wonderful l)Kpln? for Full 9x12 Axminster Rugs. $32.50. 9x12 Brussels Soamless Rug-. $21.75. 9x12 Brussels Rugs. $16.75. 9x12 Gold Sen 1 Ongoleum Rugs (perfect). $16.20. 7.6x9 Gold 9#h1 C 7 oleum Rugs (perfect). $10.10. 4-PIECE TUI The 1 I his is one ot the ma prices to be lowest ? with chifforettc. See it?the pri This Kitchei Cabinet Sliding Porcelain T $29.75 With tilting* flour bin. spice jars and all that c asked for in a kitchen cabin Vtf Steel Bed, Spring and Mattress; $19.75 2-inch continuous post be one-Inch fillets, . in walnu mahogany, golden oak ar porcelain white, woven wh constructed spring and so top. 50-pound A | a Ml mattress. Sale Jh I \f J1 Price ........ ^ * " * ?1'PlIS - 4 r M M - m ' of whether he will make the plunge to th$ right or the left. His recent ; efforts have been directed* toward i making peace with the liberals, but "no thoroughfare" Is, inscribed or , ihis path. Any compact with labor is out of the question. His own personal following is small and will ? vanish if he is unable to provide troughs for their hungry mouths. , There remains the lories. But the I ! tory rank and tile is as hostile to . v Lloyd George as Is the rank and file of the liberals und laborites. He does, however, retain a powerful hold on the leaders of the tory faction whom he has skillfully involved in . his failures, and who .see no otoanc* of retaining office excepting through i bis strategy. It seems probable, t therefore, that he will plunge to the right, raise the cry of bolshevism tc j discredit labor, and seek to capture > stray liberal support on the ground IBE====igEE=== m lost comprehen ity. The manj will make yoi 3isier. This Beai Choice of Tapestri< <>enuine '"steriliz scats and backs. S10.0C JgSBSi*. ^ >OR WALNUT BE Biggest Value in the City!, ny SPECIALS that arc proving MA semi-VANITY, large dresser, bow-em cc is amazing. 510.00 Cash. Su.uo W( i oP This Compl Walnut Din ?'? ** This splendidly dei newest style oblong L Cabinet. Six genuine | HE AT EI ft ' d Hot Blast Heater _ ' No niofe worry about fires "keeping: ?? id in" all night with a -.t. e hot blast. They are now marked at ; $22.75 ' *2 Cn?h?SOe a Week 9 jjjfcyr, : of the succeii* of hi* Irish policy and the pursuit of the Gladstone traditions In the near east. Premier Will Resign. One thing generally is agneed. He will not resign. He knows that the chief source of power is possession of office, and that once he is robbed of this power recovery would be problematical. His aim, therefore, will be i to keep the shadow of the coalition even though the substance has gone, and decide the date and issue of the general election rather than leave j that advantage to others. The strength of his position is the { poverty of the fcory leadership. ' Chamberlain, Churchill and Birken; head all have failed, and there is no 11 outstanding figure to lead any revolt i sive showing oi r styles of Suit ir selection eas; utiful Upholstei ss, Velours and Tapestry and ed" upholstering, and sprin ? Cash, $2.00 Weekly sjjl 3DROOM SUITE $1 1 A WVELl.S t bed and B B m M tekly. * *' nrTfflSDXQBr $2.50 Weekly Payt lete Queen Anne ling Room Suite at signed Suite consists of Walnut Buffo tilling Room Table, and very newts Leather-scat Chairs make up the co IS?RANGES I'hie Ki^t, Range, $2t \J ! A rantte of the _ Quality with larg CHI Heaters *er ,s an ? 'he-best and most I I??? nomlcal oil heater J FREE FR know. Specially , J" ced al niece Dinner S 26-p leer RogerOk ver Set with s/v pOrohnne of fll< ! over. 30c ? Week ' 1___^ EIDI=^=IOK^^=3QE V % .. ^ 'Si r there against Lloyd George dictator- j ship. The present impression is that j he will force the election before Christina*. ^ What will be the result? It is most problematical. There Is an overwhelming: fueling against coalition. j and there may be. a landslide against; its continuance by the tory voters, i . In that caso the libera! and labor par- | tic ties would be enormously strength- j ve ened. It mow is estimated that labor' ^ | may secure one-third of the house of p j commons, the. tories rather more and ;ca | the liberal*? lets*. wl j Would labor take office with the'ou liberals? It is more than doubtful, j Meanwhile we await the declaration I of the election and an outburst <??! ed anti-boftphevisnu with Lloyd George po playing the role of St. George slaying j Ki the suppositious dragon. i Vs i (Copyright. I?22.t -PI ^:i?? lllli r fine Living Roo te Designs and < y. The prices r *TTi,!T"""MTii?iE"irW ed Suite ) Velours Combined J !129 a 8-PIECE DINING F IN SOLID $5.00 Cash, $1.0t Beautiful < lak Bullet \\ iiii 11 top. round extension table. 6 d chairs $149 ' t. with mirror hack; the very t design semi-inclosed China mpletc outfit. i?STOVES Ii: M ( e oven. ] ^ cellent ? ^ ^ . .. | Nifty Oak Heater ?E I Oil." of the Kreac42_ est fuel saver* Is a *t or Xlftj Oak Heater < Sll- I You <an 1>U5* " now every ; at only ' $7.95 ??inii?.IKII?_ II * 4 . ' - n ' j' -? ' . u rl >* iala. ^ r. . APPROVE REALTY LAW. _ i sal Estate Association Would License Brokers. JEW YORK, ^sctoln-r 14.?The Nj<iuu Real Estate Boards' Associa ?n at the ftnal seHh'on of its con-# % nth n approved a new law drawn to embody the association's advocy of licensing real estate brokers, xich will be presented to the varis state legislatures tor passage. Eight real estate boards Were <-lacito membership?tb?>*c of T*?^-uiart, Ind..: Florence. Ala.; N* wt<?>> ins.; Loraine. Ohio; Bloom field. *V. l; Portsmouth. Ohio; Eake a., and Newport News. Va. hi ibi m f 415 9 7th St. N.W. | jv BETWEEN || | u * * lu E ?m Suites [ colors of lake the Floor Lamps Tlit- uuvaiic*- fall pal- , erns in floor lamps* ar?- P" uore beautiful than ?-v**r fore. 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