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The Washington times., 1915-09-30
TODAYS BEST FILMS
BY GARDNER MACK.

Julia Dean In Judge Not or the
Woman OF Mona Diggings." adapted
from the story by Peter B. Kyne
UniversaD. the Strand. Ninth and
D streets.
''Thc Battle of Przemysr' Ameri-
can Correspondent Film Coz. the
Leader. Ninth between E and F.
streets.
"The Battle Of Gettysburg" pro-
York Motion Picture Corp.). the EN-
pire, 915 H street northeast, and the
Staunton, Third and streets north
east.
Helen Badgley in "Helen's Babies"
based upon the story by John Hah-
berton (Thanhouser). the American.
First street and Rhode Island ave-
nue..
Joseph McDermott and Mary Ma
latesta In "A Difference Of Opinion"
adapted from the story by Roy Nor
ton Biography, the Revere. Georgia
avenue and Park road.
Vivian Martin in THE Little
Dutch Girl" adapted from Two
Little Wooden Shoes by Ouida
World Film CorpJ. the Idippodrome.
New York avenue and Ninth street
Hobart Henley and Gretchen Led
erer in "The Tenor." by F. McGrew
Willis Gold SeaD. the Dixie, Eighth
and II streets northeast.
El.ie Janis In THE Caprices Of
Kitty" (Morosco). Crandalls Apol-
10, 624 H street northeast.
Octavia Handworth in THE Great
Ruby" Uubin), the Garden, 42S Ninth
street.
"Gparding Old Glory" (F. Q.
Neilson), Crandau's, Ninth and K
streets.
Mary Miles Minter in Always
in the Way" Metro Pictures). the
Masonic Auditorium. Thirteenth
street and New York avenue.
Mary Pickford in "Fanchon the
Cricket" (Famous Players). the
Circle, 2105 Pennsylvania avenue.
Charles Chaplin in THE Film
| Johnnie" (Keystone). the Virginia,
Ninth between F and G streets.
Agnes Vernon in 1.-THE Deceiyers"
| (Gold SeaD, the Arcade, Four
| teerth street and Park road.
Mignon Anderson in "Milestones
of life Cautual Master Picture),
the Olympic, 1431 y street.
Note-These selections are made
from programs prepared by the
and no responsibility 70 assumed for
The Times. They are based on :hs
personality OF the players and the
producing company. and not per-
sonal inspection. except In special
eases. q. n
The Washington times., 1915-09-30
The "New" in Ribbons

Ribbons enjoy q very prominent place in fash
ION; Novel style ideas have been employed to use
ribbons as a dress trimming not only for narrow,
but for the wide widths.
Many late novelties are now being shown to-
gether with tho staples:
- Ottomans in the fall shades; New Plaids
New Dresden Patterns. Novelty Bandngs for Hats
Narrow Fancy Ribbons for waist trimmings; Moire
in colorings for chiljren's use.
Main floor center.
The Washington times., 1915-09-30
Maine Organizations
Receive At New Ebbitt

Members of the Department Of
Maine. G. A. r.. and the Woman's Re-
lief Corps held joint reception last
evening at the New Ebb!tt. Repre-
sentatives were present from nearly
every department of the G. A. r. and
w. r. c.. and kindred organizations.
The guests were received by Senior
Vice Commander Era Jordan. Of the
Maine G. A. R.. and Mrs. Elizabeth
Savage. president Of the Maine w. r. c.
Refreshments were served.
The Washington times., 1915-09-30
Soldiers Learn to Cook.

LONDON Cby maiD. Sept. l2.-Over 100
domestic economy instructors under the
auspices Of the London county council
are enrolled for the taak Of teaching a,0oo
British soldiers the art ofcooklng. Bread
and the correct way to boil potatoes are
the chief features Of the campaign to
make army cooking better. Scoros Of
cooking schools for the soldiers have
been established In many parts Of Lon
don.
The Washington times., 1915-09-30
The "NeW" in Veilings

Fall-winter fashions make insstent demand
for Veilings. and we are ready with host OF
meshes and patterns. novelty is shown In Lace
Vandyke Veils in all Of the fashionable shades;
also Lace Chiffon Yelling. bordered in both long
and square styles now in vogue.
Main floor center.
The Washington times., 1915-09-30
- GARDNER MACK.

the road. II the director sees
where II can he done, and the
photoplay. when 1t 10 once COM
pleted, Is finished and cannot be
changed except In . few minor de-
cannot be done. Yet. knowing this.
some directors insist on putting
them on with an imperfect under
standing OF the script.
THAT Is what ! am going to try
to avoid. and 1t IL the opportunity
to test this theory that l look for
ward to-
The Washington times., 1915-09-30
New Wash Gloves

Wash Gloves are assuming greater i'm
portance with every day of the autumn sea-
son, and it is now realized that they will be
worn very extensively with the tailored suit.
We direct especial attention to Hand
some Quality New Wash Kidskin Glove that
IS the finest we have ever been able to obtain,
and is guaranteed to wash as satisfactorily as
SIX: One-clasp style, in shades OF olive
putty, oyster, gray, and white, with self or
black embroidery. $l.5O pair.
Also One-clasp Wash Doeskin Gloves, in
white and natural, $1.OO pair.
Main floor, Center M
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
oONTBADICTING THE PREsI-
DENT

It is no secret that Democratic
pressure is being brought to bear
upon President Wilson to induce him
to make an honest confession with
regard to the war tax" The plan
advocated by some OF the sanest OF
the party leaders is to do away with
the farce of this so-called war tax"
and 80 enlarge the schedules OF the
Underwood tariff as TO make up the
deficit that has resulted from Demo-
cratic extravaganza, incompetence
and unwise experiments. But the
president is still holding out, al
though his position is growing more
and more untenable. One OF his own
officials has thoroughly discredited
his claims, and in such a way as to
leave no loophole for explanations Or
excuses.
The department or commerce has
Just filed its official statement OF
the total valuation OF imports and
exports for the calendar year 1914.
1t is a strange document to come
from Democratic sources at this par
ticular time. inasmuch as 1t shows
that the total valuation OF imports
for the year 1914 was $1,7S9,O22,-
426, as against $1,792.596,4SO for
the calendar year 1918. This indi-
Gates a decrease of importations OF
only $3,574.O54. There was an In
crease of $1O5,345,951 in the value
of imports admitted free OF duty
and decrease of $109,420,O05 In
the value of dutiable imports. This
difference could not by any stretch
of the Imagination account Cor the
necessity of taxing the business In
terests OF the country more than a
hundred million dollars a year as
war tax."-Kansas City Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
WHO IS TO DECIDE?

The Topeka Capital quotes Billy
Sunday as saying: Everything the
DEVILS in favor of I'm against, I'm
against the theatre because the
deyips in favor OF 1t. I'm against
booze and I'm against card parties
because the DEVILS in favor OF them. :
The Capitals sensible comment iS;
Letting the devil decide for him is
not the most intelligent way to go
through life, though 1t may be the
easiest way to slide through. Because
the devil is for card playing, Sunday
is against card playing. And with
dancing. the drama and other diver
sions and amusements likewise, con-
sidered by him to be sinful.
"If there is one thing that &C
counts for the longevity of the Cath
Ollie church 1t is, on the contrary, Its
broader and deeper conception OF
sin The Catholic church attri-
butes all sin to seven broad, general
causes; rather to seven intrinsic
parts of the human structure, or the
human heart. These seven human
qualities are gluttony, lust, envy
anger, pride, covetousness (avarice)
and sloth. It may be that others
should be added; for instance, fear
But these sources of evil living are
broad and deep; they go to the soul
of the matter. 1t is not dancing
therefore, that is Objectionable, bat
lust. For every dancer who goes
wrong because of lust, thousands are
unhurt by this diversion. The same
is to be said of card playing. 1t is
not card playing that is a sin, 1t Is
covetousness or greed. but for every
card player who becomes a habitual
gambler a thousand card players are
unframed by the game. Would not
Sunday better denounce banking, or
any other money business? To the
extent that brilliant but not entire
" sound preachers like Sunday at
tribute the evil and sin in the world
to wrong causes and overlook the
real enemy, It can not be said per-
haps that they do harm by their
preaching, but they fall short Of do
ing the good that their eloquence
and magnetic qualities should enable
them to do"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
OUR GOLD SUPPLY

No wonder credit is easier in this
country, and the gold that went into
hiding at the outbreak Of war is
flowing through its customary chan
nels again. The danger of our gold
being drained off to Europe is now
past. Even the gold pool" formed
by New York bankers, which sent
large quantities of gold to Toronto
for European creditors to draw on
is likely to find its way back in the
course of a few months.
If there is to be any actual ex-
change of gold, 1t will be in the
form of European gold flowing to
America.
We still owe the old world a cou-
pie OF hundred million dollars, but
we are going to pay 1t back in mer-
chandise, not money. The payment
has started, and is proceeding with
unexpected rapidity. The $110,000,-
900 trade balance in our favor last
month means the cancellation Of
precisely that much of our foreign
obligations. There may be bigger
balances than that in succeeding
months, as the belligerent nations
increase their purchases in this
country. We are selling much and
buying little.
The deprivation Of customary i'm
ports, too, though inconvenient for
a time, on the whole Is proving to
be blessing in disguise. 1t means
the stimulation of American indus
tries and the supplying of our own
domestic market more completely
than ever before.
The money that re keep at home,
and the money we gain from Europe
as her Indebtedness to us piles up,
will make a greater war chest"
for the development of our indus
tries and the extension of our COM
merce.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

The hens of Kansas, declared
Jim Troutman in his Kansas Day
speech at Chicago, lay enough eggs
every two years to reimburse Uncle
Sam for all his expenses in the Lou
isiana purchase. What a joke 1t
would have seemed to those old
statesmen who haggled over the
price, and thought they were almost
bankrupting the government when
they bought that vast territory for
fifteen million dollars, what joke
it would have seemed to them If
some one had said that in a little
more than a hundred years the
hens of one small section of that ter
ritory would lay enough eggs in two
years to pay the whole bill!
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
puREAUcRATIo MoRALITY

The postoffice department con-
tinues to safeguard the morals OF
the nation. even in the realm OF art.
II has excluded from the malls cop
les OF the painting that won the
Potter Palmer $1,000 prize at the
Chicago exhibition.
The art experts. II appears, were
woefully mistaken about that pic
ture. While they paid II homage AS
an inspiring work OF art. along came
a discriminating postoffice inspec-
tor who declared 1t purely vulgar"
Prize or no prize. therefore, 1t must
be relegated to obscurity. Chicago's
morals have already been smirched
by gazing on this vulgar thing. but
the pure eyes OF the rest of the peo-
pie OF the United States shall be
protected from defilement.
The bureaucratic verdict is a re-
minder OF that other masterpiece OF
postoffice censorship which prohib-
tied the circulation of the Rockefel-
Ter vice commission report. The
department plays no favorites. So
biologists and art connoisseurs alike
must be protected from vulgar truth
whether in the form OF beautiful
painting or a scientific study. Some
day we may hear that the Bible has
been barred from the mails because
of the shocking frankness of some
parts of the Old Testament. But will
the department ever turn its blush
ing attention to the comic papers
from France and Germany?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
ADVERTISING FOR FRIENDS

Arthur Levin, wool merchant
from johannesburg. South Africa.
was alone in New York, and lonely.
He knew he had several old friends
in the city. but didn't know whore
20 find them. He hadn't been in New
York for twenty years. Solitary
meals In the big hotel dining room
made him miserable. He learned to
gather a bunch OF good fellows
around tie dinner cable before he
started on the long journey back
home. But how could he get hold
OF them?
Then a brilliant idea struck him.
It was almost flash OF genius. He
wrote a want adj and inserted It
in the newspapers. It was totally
new kind of lad" in the form OF an
invitation to all his friends to come
and dine with him the next evening.
He ordered a table reserved for an
Indefinite number of guests, and
waited.
They came. six OF them, old
friends that he hadn't seen for years
and years. The host had the time OF
his life, feeding those men and
reminiscing, and the guests had Just
as good time as he had.
Now, the genius in that idea con-
sisted in the fact that 1t was origl-
nal, and that it can be applied uni
versally. Suppose you're in any
strange city, and feel lonesome. Just
advertise for your friends! And II
you promise them a good dinner
have no fear-they'll see the 'ad'
and come.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
EARLY SPRING PLANTING
MEANS BEST CORN CROP

Manhattan, Feb. 2.-Plan on
early spring planting for corn, Mr..
Farmer-it means dollars and cents
to you. The damage done to the corn
crop of Kansas by the corn-ear worm
amounts to between four and five
million dollars annually, says J. w.
McCulloch. assistant entomologist in
the agricultural experiment station.
The only practical way of reduc-
ing the corn-ear worm injury when
corn is grown on large scale is
by planting the corn at the correct
time. Experiments made by the
agricultural college during the past
six years show the optimum time
for planning to secure the maximum
yield and the minimum amount Of
injury to be May 1.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

Three years ago the Pittsburgh
plan of city government was hailed
as "a super-commission form. A
council Of nine $65O0-a-year bust
ness men was thought to be q guar
antee of efficiency and economy
Now the councils back is against the
wall, and it admits a deficit OF
S1,3OO,OO0 in the current years rev.
enue. We read in a Pittsburgh pa
per, moreover, that 1.-The public will
have to pay for the blunders and
the extravaganza that set in several
years ago." 1t may be that the coun-
ell planned too extensive improve
ments. At any rate, while items from
soap to schools are being cut, six
members of the legislature are re-
ported to be rivals in drafting for
Harrisburg a bill providing for the
return to the old ward plan NJ
electing councilmen. Apparently, no
proposals for Simon-pure commits
sion form have been heard. The az
fair carries no conclusive verdict,
but the dramatic suddenness OF
Pittsburgh's disappointment rein
forces the lesson that spirit is more
than form in city government.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
NEuTRAL scHooL BooKs

What adult American has not
grown up with q lurking notion that
he ought to hate England British
tyranny" British "perfidy." Brit
fish Cruelty we're a part OF the
mental pabulum fed to school chill
dren as a necessary part OF their
education. II is only within a few
years that the school histories are
written in vein that does justice
10 an ancient enemy who is now our
best friend among the nations. And
there might be further improve
ment in that direction.
Some of our northern schoolbooks
still refer to the southern soldiers
of our civil war as rebels" and
some southern schoolbooks still
teach hatred or contempt for the
yankees" 1t is wicked and foolish
to arouse the animosities OF new
generations when those who fought
and hated with cause have softened
to forgiveness.
Now "barbarous Mexico'-for
which phrase may we be forgiven!
comes forward with an impressive
application of this lesson. Mexico,
Il must be admitted, had pretty good
reason for disliking us after the
war of 1S47, and at various times
since has naturally resented our
contemptuous and dictatorial atti-
tude. But the Mexican department oil
education has decided to wipe the
slate clean. And 80 the Mexican boys
and girls hereafter will find nc
more "odious Yankees" or "infa-
nous gringos" in their textbooks OF
on the lips of their teachers. The
department characterizes such ex'
pressions as unsuitable for the
minds of their children, because
they generate germs of odium In
compatible with proper infant edu-
cation, which should instill goodness
and love-"
II the present world-war were
traced to its ultimate sources, II
might be found to emanate chiefly
from Just such germs of odium'
implanted in childhood in the minds
of the men and women of the war
ring powers.
Racial and national hatreds are
not in the blood, as our own I'M
migrants from countries at war IL
lustrate every day. They are not
instructive. They are learned, as
surely as one learns the alphabet
and the multiplication table. Why
teach them?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
WOMEN AND PROHIBITION

Prohibition and woman suffrage
are the two most impressive things
in present American politics. And 1t
is interesting to note how startling
without much in common, they are
becoming more and more closely
identified.
1t can hardly be accidental that
the four states that voted for total
prohibition of the liquor traffic on
November 3-Colorado, Washington,
Oregon and Arizona-are all states
in which women possess full suff-
rage rights. In the last three, wo-
men have only obtained the ballot
within four years. 1t looks almost as
If the first thing the women Of
those states did, when they found
political power in their hands, was
to start to work getting rid of the
Demon Rum" The women of Ari-
iona and Oregon, enfranchised In
1912, were especially prompt in reg
istering their condemnation Of al
cohol.
This tendency ON the part of
women voters has been anticipat-
ed for many years. 1t has been OBJ
served that in nearly every suffrage
campaign the strongest opposition
comes from the liquor men. Now
their instructive opposition Is prov
ed to have logical basis. The is
sue hereafter will be more definite
than ever. other things being equal,
women suffrage will be expected to
entail prohibition.
Large cities, of course, with their
great foreign population, make a
difference. Prohibition will have q
hard, uphill fight In Illinois, and
still harder in New York state, even
after women win the ballot.
Economic determinism," too,
has much to do with the matter. It
can hardly be expected that women
win Turn suddenly against an tn-
dustry b. which is based the liveli-
hood Of great numbers of them. A
wine-producing state like California
will not prohibit the liquor traffic
until social evolution has advanced
much farther than at present. Even
a voting woman can't jump to So
clal and political perfection all st
once.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
STAMPING OUT CATTLE PLAGUE

The agricultural department Is
likely to be criticised by those suf-
fering loss from the live stock quar-
antine established in several states
for the purpose of stamping out the
foot-and-mouth disease. The Illinois
live stock commission will undergo
similar criticism for its unprecedent-
ed closing of the Chicago stockyards.
But these measures are evidently
necessary, in view of the epidemic
which, coming presumably from Eu-
rope, has appeared in several parts
Of the country in a more virulent
and menacing form than ever be-
fore.
There can be no temporizing with
such evils. The wise method is to
stamp them out in their inception
And costly as may be the present
quarantining campaign and stoppage
of shipments, the price is trifling
compared with the loss to be expect
ed If the epidemic were allowed to
spread through the mingling Of
healthy and disease animals in ship
ping centers and on live stock trains.
There is danger to human beings
as we'll as property loss, in this in
lection. The disease is transmissi-
BILE through milk, butter and cheese.
1t is relatively harmless to adults,
but may prove fatal to children.
There need be no fear of catching it
from meat, for the few infected cat
tie, sheep and hogs reaching the
stockyards and easily discovered by
the inspectors and Immediately de-
stroyed.
There may be shortage of meat,
with slight rise in prices, while the
shipments are restricted and the
big stockyards are closed for disin-
lection. But the public must endure
1t as patiently as possible, in the
knowledge that the Inconvenience is
unavoidable, and will not last long.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
ROUND THE WORLD TO RUSSIA

Trade can usually find way, In
spite of difficulties. With Russia
shut off by enemies and neutral ma
lions on the west and south, but
eager for supplies from the United
States, she is reaching eastward
around the world for them. A new
commercial route is established by
means of volunteer fleet plying be-
tween Seattle and Vladivostok, from
which port the goods are shipped
across Asia by the Siberian railway.
The American northwest is al
ready feeling the stimulus Of the
new market. There is reported to be
a fine demand for flour, grain and
salmon to feed the Russian army.
Factories are planning extensions
and bank clearings are growing.
II the usual European routes re-
main closed and the Pacific re-
mains open, the whole country may
soon profit from this outlet. Manu-
featured goods from the east and
south may be shipped via the Pan
anna canal to northwest ports for
trans-shipment across the Pacific
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

General Miles suggests that after
the close of the present war Ger
many will have lost so many men
that she will do as she did after the
Thirty Years War-legalize polyg-
amy. However, the world has chang
ed some since the Thirty Years War
and it will not be well for any one
to make arrangements to return to
the Fatherland until the order is
issued, suggests the Leavenworth
Times.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
KNowLEDGE AS A DEHoRNER

Many portions of President Will
sons speech to the convention OF
the American Electric Railway as
ISOLATION are subject to criticism but
his statement that he has met many
men whose horns dropped away the
moment he was permitted to examine
their character is filled with truth.
Most of the prejudices of the world
are based on misunderstanding.
knowledge is the greatest dehorner
extant. During the week Mother
Jones, who has been regarded as =
professional trouble-maker by many
excellent people, had a personal con-
ference with John d. Rockefeller,
Jr. At its conclusion she declared
that the young millionaire had been
terribly misrepresented."J She con-
fessed that she had participated sn
the Misrepresentation. Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter has not given the public a state
ment as to his impressions Of Moth
er Jones, but It is altogether likely
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
nerce.

Rev. Charles E. st. John, min
lister of Philadelphia, in an open
letter to the pastors Of that city
writes: DAY after day Mr.. Sunday
is holding you and your churches
up to the ridicule of a mob. You can
stop it If you like. He will let you
alone If you say he must. He will
cease soiling the lips of Christ with
the coarse slang that debases his
own language, IL you demand 1t.
Sundays frequent attacks and cri-
ticisms of churches and church
methods are at least deplorable and
perhaps dangerous. The greatest
harm Sunday could do would be to
ALLEVIATE the people from their
churches. The churches are here
doing good every day in the year"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

In a speech the other day Presi-
dent Wilson declared that the Amer
lean people were destined to have
another great season of business
prosperity. They are; and they are
determined to have it even II they
have to wait for 1t until they have
an opportunity to elect a Republic
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