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_‘| D. L. Mustric Beauty Shoppe Seldom Visited to Jason of the Gold Miss Ritter is one of a half dozen language, according *****AWiFEigners â€" who â€" have ~ visited" â€"thivâ€"iccoplepge to the mot =<â€"â€"‘‘lostâ€"people." She went there an an ‘guages than any@#h eflflit?m’mw««l.tjvwfl_( They have long since Saventian=wildren who .were in the language . which they Near East Relief orphanages in Arâ€", of which traces are le menia. â€" Ifomp w Showed Heroism The "high point" of Miss Ritter‘s two years of service and adventure, she said today. was her visit to Saâ€" ventia. She told the story in a matâ€" terâ€"ofâ€"fact way, although it was obâ€" vious that there was a robust heroâ€" ism required of the American girl who made this unprecedented jourâ€" ney! Armenia. Turkey â€" and â€" Palestine,. she proved herscif equally at home in field and office, equally cool in adâ€" ministrative erises or in facing the guzs of hostile tribesmen, who robbed the party of which she was a memâ€" ber in Russia a year ago. This medâ€" al is awarded to her in special tribâ€" ute to her skill, diplomacy and courâ€" ago> in the trying emergencies and vicâ€" issitudes of a work which has taken her across a dozen international borâ€" ders and required her to meet a conâ€" stant varicty of tasks and problems." the New of the N went to She was held up by armed bandits in â€" Russia on one oecasion, their shots puncturing the framework of the automobile in which she was ridâ€" ing, although she was fortunately unâ€" harmed. She travelled more than 1000 miles on horseback in Persia, and she risked typhus and other refâ€" ugee epidomics in her relief work in Syria and Palestine. of the . sh> has commission of the Near East Reliefâ€" the most important office held by any woman in the organization, and her work has meant more than 20,000 miles of travel, by railroad, steamâ€" ship, automobijJe, stage coach, horseâ€" back andâ€"even by camel and donkey caravan. "The name of this oldest republic, which very few have ever heard about, is Saventia," she told an interviewer today. "It is located among the inâ€" accessible peaks of the Caucasus Mountains in Southern Russia, and it has been a free republic continuously for 4000 years." For (the past two been the secretary commission of the Ne the most important o The question is answered by Miss Pauline Ritter of New York, who has just returned from two years of serâ€" vice with the Near East Relief in Turkey, Russia and Persia. dist What is the oldest existing republic} in the world? New York Woman Visits AImost Inaccessible Little Nation ] and Tells About Her | Notable Trip | OLDEST REPUBLIC N WORLD IS DESCRIBED SAVENTIA IN CAUCASUS Â¥ou will have absolute priâ€" vacy in our beauty and hair cutting parlor and our work will more than please you. RARCRLLING WATER KAVING HAIR BOBBING FACIALS MANICURING RAIR DYRING SHAMPOOING SCALP TREATMEXTS Call and Make Your Appointment for Permanent . Wavingâ€"early mornings or evenings + For Ladies and Children Only MARCRIIINC weather sets in. Now fingers, combs, water Highland Park 1990 f. Permanent Waving We Cut the Very Latest Room 8â€"9 New State Bank Building â€" Upstair@ Phone Highland Park 1990 _/ 4 & J f‘“w“N Held up by Bandits Just that York Admin bork Administrative offices in East Relief, Miss Ritter onstantinople as secretary erscas administration, and ust completed her second at capacity. In Turkey. mpleted her second acity. _ In Turkey, y â€" and â€" Palestine, if equally at home \ Why go to Chicago for a permaâ€" y nent wave when you can get Â¥ the finest kind right here at \ home. Don‘t wait unti) the hot . Now is the right season. If you want water waves or marcel waves, phone 1990 for an appointment. the Keen Steam Oil oi the great Caucasian glacier. Are Impressed "I visited a half dozen of the vilâ€" lages in the course of my mission on Lehalf of our orphan children. â€" After a few days, the villagers were no longer suspicious of me. They were tremendously impressed to find that Americans were caring for a group nler Saventi ¢f permission Republic. . It border, and a They have longisincfi lo;t the ;ritten Tanguage .which they once bad. and \ Free for 4000 Years "The Saventians boast that they have been a free people for 4000 years. Their freedom is due in part to their racial pride and their inâ€" dividual bravery, but also to the imâ€" prégnability of the mountain fortâ€" ress in which they live. Every one of the 30,000 people in the tribe is armed to the teeth, and they live in stone forts like no other habitations in the worldâ€"tall towers of solid rock, many of which date back countâ€" less centuries. Herodotus and other lassical historians wrote . descripâ€" tions of these towerâ€"homes as they were 2000 years ago, and the nature of the tribe has changed very little since the time of Christ. â€" Ethnologâ€" ists believe that these people are desâ€" cendants of _ the Chaldeans; they themselves trace their lineage back to Jason of the Golden Fleece; their _l_'inkuagm _according to the experts, t ds en es of which traces are left on a few anâ€" cient monuments.. 2 and most diffieult of mountain trails. In many places the difficult stretches, with a mountaineer fore and aft to pull and push. Only a week before, four horses were lost on this same journey. â€" s s weeks of the about ten Ten D n Days from Railway ‘ the ne@rest railroad station ut ten days of steady climb irseback to the border of Sa. irough a wilderness of snaw. to the mother of all l.t;- °d qualities of love, hunting and agriâ€" their stone towers, which usually have three floors, connected by ladders. The cattle and animals are stabled on the lower floor, and the ho‘uo-} hold on the second story. The top ; floor is a store room for their m[ Their diet consists of black bread,| and a dish they call hatchaquri, an| odd mixture of corn meal and goat‘s | cheese. | .dl«nefllfi-m-h“ tribe, and they promised to send their head men to our orphanges to select a first unit of children for repatriaâ€" tion. It is quite likely that this Amâ€" erican work for their children will result in breaking down the isolation of this people and bringing them YELLOW CAB RATES First twoâ€"thirds mile .....______35c Each additional 1â€"3 mile .___.10¢ No charge for extra passengers. PHONE HIGHLAND PARK 200 "The natives are white, with fair THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PAREK, ILLINOIS BIVIS1ION of KMAt1I0ONAL BalRt There Is a HYDROX Agency Near Your Home Pure Rich Creai Far Greater Quantities of It Go Into HYDROX than the State Laws Require That‘s what makes Hydrox Ice Cream so much richer, so much higher in food value and so much more nourishing than practically any other good food you can buy for the table. Make Hydrox Ice Cream a part of your dinner tonight. SPECIAL THIS WEEK ~_ _ NEW YORK There‘s real economy, too, in serving a food that conâ€" tains so much real goodâ€" ness at so low a cost. rm‘ Mr. Wythe points out that addiâ€" 35¢ f tional electric energy is urgently 10c | needed in Mexico, and declares that ers. | the entire situation is being investiâ€" 2000 | gated by a commission of the Mexâ€" CHOCOLATE ALMOND 50c _Full Quart Brick need for electric power, and at the same time of a new comprehension of this country‘s vast hydroelectric power sources, is noted here by George Wythe, acting United States Commercial Attache in Mexico City, writing for the monthly bulletin of the American Chamber of Commerce in Merxico. Vast Water Power Is Available and First Project Likely to Be Started on the growing realization of Mexico‘s POXER FOR MEXICO Lerma River Between Two Layers of limi work of surveying, water | completed last August. Instead of going to waste down the channel of| the Lerma, at times causing m‘ ting floods, these waters will supply the growing demand for m} power in the Federal District (that is, Mexico City and its suburbs) and,| through a‘ comprehensive system of| canals, to be constructed by the gpvâ€"| ernment, irrigate a large: territory near Acambaro. out," he declares, "probably will be near the headwaters~of the Lerma meters northeast of the famous minâ€" T of Guanaftato. . _ "A masonry dam will be built and tancously with the government‘s amâ€" bitious irrigation projects. PRODVCTS coB P oR A t 1lo x it will be stored 500,000,000 ment. Hydroclectric powâ€" will" beâ€"developed simulâ€" ~" ~rilidng 1 5 enpeaant uk * â€" : * esd Wke oollints . c rome n L o ly spent by the government on the irriâ€" gation system will amount to several millions of pesos. "It is expected that the initial inâ€" another unit of the same size. _ _ *At one point a tunnel three kiloâ€" meters long will give a head of 200 meters. A highâ€"tension transmission line, 25 kilometers long, will connect the mining camp of El Ore, now the terminus of a power line from Mexâ€" ico City, to the new plant." units of 30,000 bu-tpo'u-,-fltfiis can be increased when by (approximately $7,500,000 in Ameriâ€" An actor famed for his krs. Was socked in the eye by his Mrs He groaned aloud When he faced the crowd For instead of applause he got hrs THURSDAY,â€" MARCH 8, 1927 FIGURE THIS OUT Cost Is Large 445