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'» Discoveries Renew Interest in Story of Plato's Submerged Continent ?Srf.~ TAPESTRIES LIKE PHJUUOH'S fteilevee Indians of 8an BlM Hlnten v" land Are Survivors of Race Which Inhabited Atlantis--Had Narrow Escapee. , Oeioa, Panama.--The Lo«t -• tms bobbed op again, this time In Panama. An Englishman, Mitchellpledges, recently made a two days' gourney into the mountains of the San Bias hinterland, and came back with his suspicions that the Chauquanaqua Indians* are the survivors of the ohce proud inhabitants of Plato's subpnerged continent. He brought the suspicions In the Shape of tapestries with designs ao knueh like those of Pharaoh's wires that he must have the experts of th® (British musenm and of all the world Eo pronounce upon them. Incidentally >e put President Harding's name oil (the map in the shape of a "new" Mountain, some 8,000 feet high; King George got another of similar altitude^ and Doctor Porras a whole range. The explorer had the usual narrow leocapes from imminent death by sea land land, and has set tongues wagging about the likelihood of the Isthmus being the tail-end or head-end of the •Atlantean continent. • i Both Side* of the Caee. «j Although an American ethnologist, [William H. Babcock, has burled Atjlantls for the last of many tiroes In hia present book, "Legendary Islands of the Atlantic," published by the (American Geographical society, this latest resurrection is likely to stir the {protagonists of the missing link between Gibraltar and Panama to life again also. The biggest friend of the long-lost tale Is a German, Herr Prof. Frojbenlus of Berlin, who traversed much jof West Africa to see if there were toot some leavings of the lost there, >Hi&m '• ®»d he professed to be quite con- »1pced that t there are. Professor weiner of Harvard, from a study of the similarities of plants and animals Of Africa and South America, inclines to the hypothesis that the sons of Ham once passed dry-shod from the Senegal to the Amazon, or vice versa. It is understood that if Hercules had not gotten home-sick when he had the Job of holding up Mount Atlas for a while he might have beaten Columbus by some 4.000 years, and that too, by walking over to Colon, but the Greek explorer had enough of It with that little job around Morocco, so he set ap his pillar* and went home to Svfiefsee: Mltcheil-riedgW comes as the cll- «f a aambor of explorers who have beea dipping into the San Bias problem, and maybe he has the key. He has the advantage of the labors of many predecessors In his task. He has the tapestries, and they look like the work of the Hebrew children who made clothes for Rameses--or maybe, he says, they are like Astec work. At any rate they are like the work of other people than mere Indians; and how could those mountaineers get those designs except by having them handed down from the folks who crossed the sea when it wasn't any sea at all? Moreover, the men jn the mountains wore great big earrings of solid gold. Who taught them to dig for gold? The problem Is truly formidable, and one may watch the ethnological Journals fir * BOW with interest. Pay $10 to Foreign Office Now Charges Same as United States Would Tax Entrants. VEXATIONS BESET TRAVELERS American Tourist Who Crosses Ku* rope Must Be Prepared to Pay $10 to Cross Every Frontier-- •V^-„ »H«rts Are Crowded, .M ^erftn.--The German foreign office is now charging foreign visitors to Germany the same amount for passport visas that the respective governments of their countries ask of Germans. Because exchange fluctuates so rapidly the foreign office fixes the number of marks the foreigner must pay anew each month. This means that, while Austrians can now enter Germany on paying the equivalent of 15 cents, Americans must be prepared to pay at least $10 to cross every frontier, and if one should have failed to Here h a Fine Harbor for Sale kti The British ministry of transport is looking for a purchaser of the harbor ,a( Ramsgate. This semi-developed harbor is not needed by the ministry for j governmental shipping, and as a result has been put . on the market. The Ramsgate corporation, representing the township, has the matter under consideration but probably will be unable to undertake the purchase because o{ the immense financial investment necessary for further developments. The photograph shows Ramsgate harbor and part of the town. , ^ have fulfilled formalities he Is bur dened with absurdly heavy fines. A recent traveler coming from Italy to Munich by way of the Austria n strip of territory through Salzberg was asked by the Austrian authorltiet to pay the equivalent of $20 for theil little rubber stamp. Objecting to pay Ing this amount, the traveler finally induced the authorities to reduce th» amount to the customary $10. Difficulties by both Polish ard German governments in crossing Prussia end the Danzig neck of Polish territory will continue to take the pleasure out of travel and to hamper business in this corner of the world. Both states demand full sets of special visas and the universal $10 payment of Americans. The Poles rarely hesitate In the corridor to turn out all who fail to observe this letter of the law, whatever their nationality Is. Now that reparations, railroad and other international commissions are meeting it is time that another one meets an! determines ways t> eliminate petty vexations to travel. German summer resorts, and especially bathing beaches, will be particularly overcrowded this summer^ according to the statements which German hotel proprietors make. They are trying to keep as wide a range of prices as possible for all sizes of pocket book s, but the steady Increase now In cost of living is forcing all prices skyward. The range for rooms in the smaller bathing places today extends from 100 to 800 marks, and for Americans from a half again to double this amount, or in other words from 75 .ents to $5. Ordinarily the German hotels and pensions made pension rates. Now, owing to the wide fluctuations in food prices, they give a price for rooms and leave the amount they charge for meals open. It is possible at most of the summer resorts to secure three and four rootas with kitchen at prices around 12,000 to 20,000 marks, or in dollars from $400 to $700 for the entire three months' season. < * * i - T T . tS.3 ,v ' viuV . Anuzmjj&r arf ttiziis ffoit itrUi&i i»-- fe>, .1. Killed Snake in Fireplace. Greensburgh, Pa.--Derry, the railroad town at the foot of Chestnut ridge, has produced another snake story. Fred Yokum, whose home crowns Mossholder hill, says that he killed /wo snakes that crawled across his path as he was preparing to rest a bit in the yard. Thinking the yard of his home was too thickly populated with snakes for comfort, he went inside the building. Tfcere he found a huge snake curled up at the fireplace. The third snake he killed after a battle.. COURT TkAINS HAVE APPEARED ft! r •• [Economy Mo Longer Keynote In British Court Functions. 1 1 • Two Yards, However, Necessary (lain 8anction of Brltiah Rul- •re--Fashionable Dressmak* ..jp ere Happy Again. ,1- tendon.--^Bcoaomy is no longer to !be the keynote of court functions at 'Buckingham palace. No more "economy courts," as they were called, are to be held. These were established toy their majesties after the war to iaet fashionable society a much needed example in curbing extravagance. The seal of royal approval again has been bestowed on court trains. Indeed, no woman can be presented at court who does not wear one. Of course, as a man the lord chamberlain cannot presume to be an expert on fashionable feminine dress, but It is one of his many official duties to lay down the rules and regulations to which women must conform at the moet exalted of court functions. That is one of the things for which he is paid $15,000 a year. He has to be a peer, besides, to qualify for the exalted office which is accounted among the political plums that the prime minister has to give away. The present lord chamberlain is in the top class of the peerage. He Is the duke of AtholL By restoring the court train be has earned tae blessings of the fashionable dressmakers. But they would have lengthened their blessings if be had lengthened the trains. Before the war three yards was their regulation length, while Queen Victoria didn't consider four yards too long. By the new regulations they need be only two yards in length and should not extend more than nineteen baches from the heel of the wearer when standing. To walk backward before royalty In a train three yards long without getting tangled op in it, imposes a severe tax on fhe agffify antf StflT! of nof a few socially ambitious women. Queen Mary is a very kind woman, and she would naturally wish to spare her sex making exhibitions of themselvea Hence she was In favor of the shorter length for tralna. , J. American-Made Cheese 1 Now Invading Switzerland Washington.--Switzerland, the home of the cheese, is being invaded by the American product, according to a report from Consul Murphy at Lucerne, the Commerce department announced recently. Constant Improvement of American types of Swiss rhnnsu. be said, has had much to do with their introduction into Switzerland and other new markets and the Swiss rhn--n has had to make room tor its foreign relative. St. a Man and Wife to Lead Adam and Eve Existence Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Sutter, of Boston, Mass., are ready to go Into the Maine woods to prove to a modern world that a man and woman can exist on their own resources without the aids of civilization. They will enter the wilderness, leaving clothes, food, lire, and weapons behind them. Sutter Is twenty- *evea years old and his wife hot twenty-three The experiment Is to continue six weeks, during which time they will live In the dense woods, now uninhabited except by wild beasts. Over s Century Ago. * Sbreka. Kan.--George A. who has lived tn the lifetime of every President of the United States except Washington, was one hundred and one years ofd recently. Member* of the family assert that Mr. Gordon is the only grandfather of & Civil war veteran still living, and one of few, if not the only man, living who heard Revolutionary war stories from his grandfather, who fought for independence. REMOVE TUMOR FROM BRAIN New York Girl Expects to Have tight Restored After UmMMMJ Operation. KewYortu--An operation described by surgeons as "quite remarkable" has been performed at Ann May hoepital, Spring Lake, N. J. Dr. K. Wlnfleld Ney of New York, chief of the neurological-surgical division of the United Statee army medical corps, removed a tumor from the region of the pituitary gland of the brain of Miss Marian Voget of Asbury Park. The girl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto VogeL The tumor was the size of a small walnut. To reach it an opening was made in the skull and the left lobe of the brain was lifted. Miss Vogel was on the operating table for several bour% d<uing which a Mood transfusion was necessary. The tumor had caused partial blindness. A complete recovery is expected. TJokled Wife to "*eare; She Suae. Minneapolis. Minn.---He tickled me until I cried." declared Grace Marchand, sixteen years old. In asking a divorce after nix months of married life. ------------- r rrirr»i» nit sis "g Berlin Doctors Listed Who Speak EngRsh Bert In.--Americans in Berlin no longer need to be afraid. In case of sudden Illness, of being unable to obtain the highest class of medical attention because of lack of knowledge of the German language. The American Chamber of Commerce here has completed the mobilization of all English speaking doctors in the city who will be availaUe In such emergencies. * * t A ^ * V* h . J. Itf XMUNDSEN will explore by airplane this summer in the North Polar regions and by radio will tell the world all about It as he goes along. So it does look, after all, as If there was something new under the sun. J Capt. Roald Amundsen is the ffcmous Norwegian 'explorer who dlscovered the South Pole. The purpose of his present expedition is to re- 9 7 ^ sume the work interrupted last year by mishap. He started from Norway under government auspices to explore the Arctic. After drifting through the Northwest passage his vessel, Maud, had a propeller blade smashed in. the ice off the northeastern Siberian const. So the Maud was taken to Seattle for repairs. Hie sturdy vessel was thoroughly refitted in Lake Union, Seattle's fresh-water lake. And that's how It happens that Amundsen's second start is from America. Amundsen visited Washington before his start and evidently established friendly relations with Uncle Sam. "We want to find out what is In the Arctic circle," he said there. "It is believed that the information which may be obtained fH>m a thorough inspection of the territory around the pole will be of value to science." "I am going to retire from the exploring boslness when this trip is finished," he said. "I have been engaged in making explorations ever since I was twenty-one years old, and I think it is about time to rest a little bit. The life is a very hard one and makes great demands upon strength and vitality. At any rate, I have been at it for a good many years and I have had about enough." Jules Verne has nothing on Roald Amundsen, as the Norwegian outlines his plans for exploring the roof of the world. His expedition will not be like those which have preceded it. Its vision will not be confined to a few miles on either aide of the ship, but from the air it will be able totake in at a glance objects 200 miles away. It will not be for years cut off from touch with the outside world, leaving friends and relatives, to wonder If the northland had smashed in Its Icy fist the hardy adventurers who encroached on its fastnesses. Instead, it will talk by radio every day with all the world. It will not have spent years charting merely a narrow strip, but, with the aid of aviation will be able to chart 1,000,000 square miles, sketching the currents of the air as well as those of the sea. He hopes to accomplish with his airplanes In a five-years' voyage what would take a score of years, millions of dollars and many lives ill only a ship and dog sleds were employed. ,, ^ Now, here's another view of the expeditionbased upon the additional fact that Vllhjalmnr Stefansson, the famous Canadian explorer. Is also headed for the Arctic. Capt. C. D. Pedersen, the "Lone Wolf of the Arctic," skipper of the whaler Hermann, thinks there's something doing beside science in these two expeditions. Captain Pedersen was in San Francisco just before Amundsen's departure from Seattle. He said he was anxious to sail, so as to get a ring-side seat under the aurora borealls. From that vantage point he wants to watch what he says is history's greatest international marathon across the top of the world, in which the untold riches of the northland will reward the victor. Principals In the International race to the pole will be Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, who'll represent Norway, and Vilhjalmar Stefansson, who'll carry the flag of Great Britain. They'll start as soon as the Ice will let them-* Amundsen from Seattle with a ship equipped with airplanes and radio, Stefansson from Wrangel Island with the old-fashioned equipment of dog sled. The two explorers tell the world they'll shut themselves off from civilization and risk their lives in Arctic icepacks for the glory of discovery and scientific achievement. But "Wolf' Pedersen says there's More than that In the expedition. He sees a race for vaat treasures hidden behind the ice barriers. He says the explorers are seeking for Norway and England great radium mines, vast oil fields and coal deposits, fossil ivory, diamonds, areais of fertile land where reindeer thrive. *T cannot believe," Pedersen says, **that England and Norway have gone to this great expense purely for exploration purposes. "For I myself have seen oil ooze from the ground and form a lake near Polat Barrow--Oil so pure that natives bar* R fefc lamps witho«l refining! "And I have seen coal beds so easily tapped that even the lazy natives use them. "That is not all--I have heard tales of fossil. Ivory, of furs, of radium, of great meteoric diamond beds that formerly furnished crown jewels for Russia. The wealth of the Arctic is tremendous." Pedersen may be right of he may be wrong. Anyway, there is corroborative evidence of sorts. Stefansson certainly "seized" Wrangel Island last - year and took possession in the name of Great Britain, notwithstanding it was discovered many years ngo by United States naval vessels and claimed as United States territory. While Stefansson has refused to divulge the purpose of this year's expedition he did say this: "The development and colonization of the Northland will surely begin with the present generation. The mystery woven around the north has resulted from misinformation. Theories that it is uninhabitable have been forever rejected, for it has been proved that fuel and food exist in abundance. "Since the true conditions in the north have been realized colonization and commercial exploitation will surely follow. The animal life Is the basis of attraction for commerce. At first it would be largely a source of meat supply, but there are also large deposits of oil, coal, copper and other metals." Amundsen seems- to have many friends and they have contributed liberally to his exceedingly comprehensive equipment. An American manu- • facturer of airplanes has "chipped In" to the extent of about $40,000. He has contributed an allmetal monoplane which has been tested to meet arctic conditions. -- Besides the monoplane, Amundsen will take a , ; scout plane, a smaller British ship which will be used only within the vicinity of the Maud. The monoplane, with a cabin in which passengers have been carried, will be self-support ing. She is so equipped that she can carry large stocks of fuel and provisions and to her can be adjusted skis, wheels or pontoons, so that she can land on any surface. With her aid, Amundsen believes he can chart a 200-mlle-wlde course across the top of the earth. The planes will be designed to permit of landing on land or water and will be equipped with fuel tanks for twenty hours' flying. Only one plane will leave the ship at a time, with the second always available for relief work. ^ Two Norwegian aviators. Lieutenant Omdal and Sergeant Odd Dahl, accompany Amundsen. They will carry a moving-picture outfit and about 90.000 feet of film. Both Omdal and Dahl are ' expert wireless operators and expect to keep the Maud in touch with Spitzbergen, and to receive messages from the Norwegian wireless station at Stavanger. They also expect to talk with Washington. % They plan to flash reports from airplane to the mother ship, which is equipped with transmitting apparatus of 2,000 miles radius. The ship then will communicate with Alaska, and Nome will relay to the powerful station at St. Paul, on the Behring sea. St. Paul will send the messages directly to Washington. Dr. H. U. Sverdrup, technical expert for the expedition, assembled at Seattle what was said to be the most complete equipment of technical apparatus for meteorogleal research ever assembled for a polar expedition. The equipment, packed in forty cases, was lent to the expedition by the Carnegie institute and Smithsonian institution. the coast and geodetic survey and the United States weather bureau. The Norwegian army and navy have presented to the explorers the arms arid munitions they way need and sixty boxes of specially selected *r j. pmvlsioVs, tested by Prof. Torup of the physiological laboratory of the University of CbfMin^. AVith the explorer will be Capt. Oskar WlQtlng, sailing master, who stood at his side "on" the South Pole, and G. Olonkin, engineer. Six Siberian natives who Joined the Maud in 1920 will fee in the crew. Captain Amundsen expects to strike immediately into the outward <or northern drift of the Ice as It leaves Bering sea in the spring break-up, and to swing with the northeasterly current d«r» tog the summer. v' Provisions for seven years will be taken, though file expedition figures on getting through inside i).0f five years. . Just by way of reminder that getting to th* . North Pole even with airplane and radio and all modern improvements still has its incidental hazards and thrills, Amundsen's big flyer had to make a forced lunding in Pennsylvania the other day. Amundsen was In it, but none of the adventurers was injured and the machine was only slightly damaged. However, as a reminder th* flsreed landing was a success. Of course a forced landing in Pennsylvania is quite a different thing from a forced landing e» toe ice in arctic weather and far from civilization. So there are possibilities in arctic dying that will keep the world Interested in the progress of the Maud and her aviators. . There are even those who think that tha attempt to fly to the pole presents one of the most dangerous expeditions ever attempted by MB and that its successful accomplishment will put a great feather in the hat of aeronautics. Wouldn't it be a queer thing if Amundsea should go flying some day from the Maud and should see Stefansson crawling along by dog sled OQ the ice below him? And Stefansson, hearing the drone of an airship propeller, sh/fuld look up from his sled oa the ice and see Amundsen far la the air above hlfn? Capt. Roald Amundsen has long been a prominent figure in polar exploration--so long that be has the right to rest oa his laurels at the end of this expedition. He was born in 1872 at Borje, Norway. Be **• eeived a public school education and became a pallor at an early age. He was a member of the Belgtca Antarctic «•» pedition of 1897-9. ' On his return he planned an expedition for the discovery of the Northwest passage and the location of the magnetic pole. He purchased and outfitted the schooner GJoa. He sailed June 14k 1903. from Christianiu. The expedition was both Important and successful. He located the magnetic pole near Boothia Felix, the extreme north end of the North American continent. He waa the first to make the passage from Europe to Alaska, which he reached early In December, 1906. Amundsen then turned his attention to the Antarctic. Sir E. H. Shackleton in the Nimrod ha4 reached a point ill miles from the South Pote January 9, 1909. In 1910 three expeditions started in search of the South Pole: Amundsen in the Pram; Capt. Robert F. Scott (Great Britain) ha the Terra Nova, and Capt. Wilhelin Fllchner (Germany) In the Deutschland. A little later Dr. 'Douglas Mawson sailed In the Aurora from Walea and Captain Shlrase la the Kalaan Mam tN» Yokohama.. * The Fram was the first to report. She aRlveft at Hobart. Tasmania, March 7. 1912. She IHHtfit 'the news that December 14, 1911, Captain iJMgndaen and four men had attained the Booth r«l|t> and had remained there four daya. ARE WOMEN MORE TRUTHFUL? & Opinion Divided aa to the Result of QraaJUng Right of Suffrage to the Fair Sex. J*" > ^ Has petting the vote made women more truthful! London magistrates are hotly discussing the question raised by one of their number, who recently said women were deficient on the witness stand owing to excess of muiwttna **4 Inability to the truth. His colleagues dissent vigorously. One says: "You cannot have truth and slavery together. While women were kept In subjection you could not expect them to be wholly truthful. Now that they are men's equals they are free to tell the truth." It may be doubted whether this rather left-handed compliment from their champion will please the sex. Tot that argument about begetting deception is familiar to all who have observe^ repressed children. May It not have been true also of repressed women in the long-ago days when they were in subjection? But wasn't that ancient history long before they got the ballot?--Pittsburgh Di» #atofc. ' .r^5 Willing to -- WosaseeHeT ' > Reluctance on the pert of ROOM religious converts to give up all of the allureasents «( the world b ttlaatrated by a story told in a Portland • week, says vthe Oregoaiaa. flwr- f rat or is a southerner, aa* MM'SMK at ': one time he was at a cototed Ing." The fervid preacher ubilil the candidates as they went thseagfc the ceremony. To an Immense coalblack lady he said: *~Ah! sister; when you comes out ef the watah you'll be whiter than saow.** "Ah doan* know about th*!^' ur«a the unexpected response, "that* 0$** too fur. A light chocolate U bit.., 4 <.,A Ml " i