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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
By FLORENCE E. YODER

home. But then you see we haven't!
SO it takes the whole of my salary to
keep things going. Mother says that !
shouldn't grudge it, and If 1t were only
a case Of mother, shouldn't mind al
all-in fact, | would be only toe
thankful to be able to help her. But
when it comes to the buying of dance
frocks and all sorts of pretty clothes
for the girls when I'm longing myself
for them, it is really very hard! They
as just as strong and well able to work
as l am"
My sympathies are entirely with this
business woman. 1t is, indeed. very
hard that she should have to suffer for
the selfishness of her sisters and the
ill-judged view of her mother, for that
is just what it amounts to.
Every business woman has a duty to
herself that is just as important as hei
duty to parents or relatives. While
she should certainly pay certain sum
per week toward the upkeep of the
home, this sum should not exceed what
she would be required to pay in any
good boarding house or private hotel.
IN cases where no money is coming
into the home, and the parents or fam.
lily are really incapable of earning
money, then it is the duty of the wage
earning daughter to devote al the
money she can possibly give from
her salary toward her upkeep. But
she should be held in great esteem
for SO DOING. For it is hard for
young woman to have such a burden
placed upon her shoulders 1t robs her
OF much of the natural pleasures and
youthful joys OF life, although, at the
anne time, her generosity will bring
her deeper joy than any mere gale.
ties or luxuries could give.
The brother who CRAFTS on his sis.
ter's generosity is to be heartily de.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
HISTORICAL PAGEANT

Columbus, Miss, March 24'--Grea'
preparations are being made Tor ln'
presentation of the historical! pageant
play which the senior class OF the III
dustrial Institute and College, assisted
by the entire student body Will present
on the campus commencement ~eeA'
The play will be given on the AFTER
noon of Thursday, May q.
The production was written by "
former student and graduate OF the
college, Mrs. Frances Jones Gather
now of Mobile, Ala, and will be pre-
scented under her direction, assisted by
Miss Emma Ody Pohl, of the physlca
culture department. The basis of the
pageant is the history OF Columbus
as typical of the history and develop
ment of Mississippi. with prelude an'
postlude of the present time Although
the leading parts in the play will b.
taken by members of the senior class
the entire body of over seven hundred
young ladies will participate. lnteres
in the event will be statewide as prae
tically every section Of Mississippi i
represented in the student body of tn
college.
Elaborate preparations are bein
made for the presentation of the play
which Is expected to surpass all pre-
vious commencement events. The COS
tunes, which will be made in Chicago
especially for the play, will be hisloI
ically correct and very elaborate an
beautiful. The play will be staged O
the campus green under the big stat.
ly elms, the topography of the ground
forming natural arena, and gran
stand seats will be constructed on
surrounding elevated area, formin
ideal conditions for the presentatio
Of the play.
Special trains will be run to Coun
bus for the event and it is expecte
that visitors from all sections of Mi
sissippi and adjoining states will com
to witness the performance.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
/ The News Daily Magazine Page For Everyone

husband, interested Secretary Dan
iels, who persuaded Congress to pass
a law reinstating her husband Then
when criticised, the secretary declared
that if he were in love with a girl and
she would marry him, he would wed
her no matter what the cost. Satur
day night, celebrating his views in
his cosy Washington home, the Score.
tary said:
! When we follow the lodestar of
love, we cannot go far wrong. In
every walk in life, the married man
is far more efficient than the single
one. The latter has no distinct pur-
pose. The married man has. There
are the wife and the babies to think of.
| He must, of necessity, be more steady
| than the man who cares only for him
| self.
Ever since l have been in public
life | have advocated marriage. 1t is
the greatest steader in life. And
want to say here that no matter what
others may think, do not believe red
tape regulations should refuse men the
right to obey the dictates of love.
When Lucy Hoke Smith, daughter
of the Senator from Georgia, wanted to
get married at the time the Mexican
situation was acute last spring, she
appealed to me. Her husband-to-be
was in Mexican waters. | transferred
him to the MayAower here in. Wash
ington and the wedding took place on
schedule time.
Just about the same time, a young
master-at-arms on the Georgia was
hoping to wed. l transferred him to
the Brooklyn Navy Yard and he too,
got married on schedule.
Il am determined to encourage mat.
rimony among naval men in every way
possible. | do not agree with some of
the services elder disciplinarians that
young men are better unmarried. My
experience has proved the contrary in
the case. Then, you know, in the
spring the young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love- When that
love is to be ripened by matrimony,
he should be encouraged, not re
proved"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
THE BUSINESS GIRL

The business girl has a difficult
proposition to face in the share which
she shall or shall not take in the duties
of the home circle.
While it Is true that many working
girls are today keeping every cent they
earn, and are living on the indulgence
OF parents and relatives, it is still
girl is contributing largely to the up
neep of home and parents.
This is all very right and proper
where the proportion of the girls sal
airy is SO adjusted that she doesn't give
too much to the home and too little to
herself. But unfortunately, too many
working girls are today robbinfg them.
selves Of the money that is justly their
own in order to support selfish parents
or improvident sisters and brothers.
ones duty to ones parents is diff.
cult ethical problem, and the pity of it
is that it should ever become a prob
lem at al, instead of delightful and
pleasing duty to perform. But the
selfshness of some modern parents is
making things very hard for the
daughter who is brave enough and has
grit enough to go out into the world
to work.
receive many letters from girls
who are confronted with this very
problem, and who are rendered really
unhappy by the importunate Claims of
the home circle.
One business woman who holds all
excellent position with a well-known
firm declares that she never has a cent
to spend on herself. II have three
younger sister, all of whom live at
hofhe,' she declares, land mother
says she is determined that they shall
never work. That would be all very
well If only we had good income and
could afford that they stay idle at
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
LOSES MILLIONS IN
... kAlSER'S VENTURE

Seattle, Wash, March 24.-Five mil.
lion dollars invested in Canadian coal
lands by Count Alvo Alvensleben Of
Seattle is likely to be irretrievably
lost because the count was unfortunate
enough to have interested with him in
his big mining enterprise no less a per.
sonage than the Emperor of Germany
The count, too, is German. Since the
outbreak of the war, he has confined
his business operations to the Ameri.
can side of the line. He is the domin.
ent figure in the Issaquah and Superior
coal mines of this state.
According to advices from Washing.
ton, 1t is known to the British author
tiles that part of the money he invest.
ed in the Canadian mines was the
Kaiser's, and it is believed that the
title may be Cancelled and the property
confiscated by the Canadian govern.
ment The only question at issue is
whether this money belonged personal
ly to the Kaiser or whether he caused
it to be invested on behalf of his EN-.
pire. In the latter event, the property,
which has been extensively improved
and developed, will revert Immediately
to the Dominion government.
Much of the property involved,
which Is situated in the GroundhOy
anthracite district and at Inc head
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-24
THE PROBLEM OF CLOTHES
5y a Smart Girl

The time is drawing very near when
must return to town and dreary
cnther once more. l hear that there
- been snow and sleet In town and
together It must be very depressingl
4ere the weather is lovely, and leaves
n5thing whatever to be desired.
ny friend, the little widow, Is going
way tomorrow morning. I am sure
at all the men in the place will be
adfully disconsolate without her.
fer before have met anybody who
1derstood SO thoroughly the art OF
Nepaging men.
"a 4eccmp-Aled her yesterday morn
~ on tour of the hotel grounds.
8lnk she wished to get rid Of some Of
~ admirers, for, although we had
my requests to Join us in our walks,
III would have none of them.
dorothy and wish to talk serious
ne don't want any stupid men
1und." was all that she would say.
Hen We got out Of earshot Of thu
HE began talking. 1t seemed
ohe had taken fancy to sme and
Nd ne 70 some and pay her visit
- home n New York.
rhnpld love to give you q good
~ . have the pleasure Of your
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going through the canal of more than
100000 tons a month. not above per
cent has been transferred The vast
body of the canal traffic is of through
goods. but even the transfer cargo
makes a good deal of local business for
the isthmus.
In the operation of the wireless sta
lions, in the supplying of bunker coal
Balboa, in the provision for fuel oil
itself through the construction period
to finished town, the head of the
canal administration, this year has been
one of achievement.
The close of the first year also grati-
fies American sentiment, and perhaps
has some strategic significance in that
the battleships have passed through.
There was disappointment when Gov.
Goethals spoiled a congressional picnic
by announcing that Gaillard cut would
not be ready for the warships in March.
although President Wilson could not
have made the voyage because of GER
tain events in Europe which required
his presence in Washington. There was
also disappointment when the Fourth
of July trip of the Secretary of the
Navy through the canal was called off.
Yet, a little later the feet passed
through. The Missouri, the Ohio and
the Wisconsin. composing the Naval
Academy practice squadron, and carry
ing naval cadets from Annapolis to San
Francisco. passed through the canal
July 16, just eleven months after it was
opened to mercantile traffic.
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British merchant marine by driving the
Germans off the sea and absorbing their
trade has been manifest, but there has
been an actual loss of traffic due to the
complete paralyzing of German over
seas commerce. Allowance must be
made for this in any guesses as to the
future volume of traffic through the
canal. During the first year it has
meant a subtraction of revenue tolls.
and from present indications this
minus quantity must be allowed for
during another year at least.
The first year of operation has
brought some surprises and has con-
founded some prophecies. 1t was quite
generally assumed that the canal
sounded the doom of the sailing ships
Just the opposite has happened. They
1t has been demonstrated that they can
use the canal to advantage.
In June the barkentine John c. Meyer
of San Francisco passed through the
canal with a cargo of lumber from
Oregon for Quebec. She lost time in
the area of doldrums. west of Central
America, but she saved fifty days in the
voyage to Quebec compared with the
voyage around Cape Horn.
During the same month the four
ma sted steel bark Bell was dispatched
from Balboa for Japan with a cargo of
oil from Philadelphia. Later in the
month her sister ship. the Daylight,
passed through the canal with a cargo
of petroleum from New York for
Shanghai.
The Bell and the Daylight are among
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nent members of Our Dumb Friends
League, of which Lord Lonsdale is
president and from which the Blue
Cross Society sprang, Mrs. Turnbull
has been prominent in organizing a big
charity fete, held at the botanic gar
dens, in it's interests, not to mention
other stunts of similar kind, such
as attending meetings in connection
with almost every conceivable feature
of war organization. also lecturing on
various subjects which she has made
her own, including nutrition and
economy in cookery. Her own cooks,
one might mention, have to go through
a mill that discourages nine out of ten
of them and makes the tenth into a
sure treasure.
Mrs. Turnbull has been married for
fourteen years and has three children.
boy of thirteen, now at Harrow and
wishing he were at the front. and two
little girls. both exceedingly attractive.
A photograph of the younger of them
was one of Queen Mary's Christmas
cards last year.
Previous to her marriage Mrs. Turn
bull was well known on the stage, first
in New York and later in London, as
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Whether they are going to be sufficient
to justify the policy that has been
adopted seems to depend on whether
the enterprise is to be considered who'll
ly and solely commercial one, or
whether 1t is to be taken as something
bigger and broader both in the world
sense and in the strategic sense
The first year ends with the tolls ex
ceeding 100000 per month, and with
the revenues greater than the operat-
ing expenses. Eliminating any interest
on the investment of s400,000,000 and
making no allowance for depreciation
of plant, as in private enterprises, the
returns therefore are satisfactory.
With the increase of commerce that
will come with the restoration of world
peace, and with continued efficiency in
the operation of the canal, it is fair to
assume that future years. as measured
by the first year of the canals opera
ton, will afford little something in
the way of dividend to the United
States.
Other aspects of the operation of
the canal during the first year I'M
doubtedly will afford satisfaction to the
American people. Natives of the isthmus
may be disappointed that Panama has
not yet become a world warehouse,
but that is not of especial concern to
the United States. With total cargo
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so to England came. accompanied
by my mother, from whom, l may tell
you, have never been separated since.
not even during the two years that
spent in Australia. l was the first
American girl to make a serious APP
pearance on the London stage-long
before Fay Davis, who is generally
looked upon as the pioneer-and | made
good quite soon. ] first studied with
the famous Sarah Thorne, who gave
special matinee of The Joker for me.
AS a result of it l got two offers of en-
ga gements-one from George Alexan-
der. The signature of the other letter
couldn't read, so l paid hardly any
attention to it. Later it proved to have
been from Forbes Robertson.
Il appeared with Alexander in Oscar
Wilde's famous play. The Importance
Of Being Earnest and understudied
Irene Vanbrugh. Wilde was pleased
with my work and told me that he had
arranged with Alexander that I should
play the leading part in a Florentine
play which he had just finished and for
which Alexander had already paid him
$1,000. Just then, however, came
Wilde's disgrace, and l never got the
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American city which has been progress
sive enough to encourage the project.
Some years ago the Peruvian govern
ment subsidized and ultimately took
over a steamship line to ply between
Panama and west coast ports. Twin
screw steamers with passenger and
fast freight facilities were built in
Europe and put into service. Since the
opening of the canal the Peruvian
government has sought to utilize this
steamship line for through communi-
cation with the ports of the United
States. 1t has had difficulty in getting
sufficient freight guaranteed for return
cargoes. but it finally decided to take
some chances, and one of it's steamers,
the Mantaro, was dispatched to Balti-
more with a cargo of nitrates. The
distance between Ca1lao and Baltimore
is a fraction under $500 miles
Chile, which has a very efficient sub
sidzed merchant marine, is ready to
extend that service to the American
ports whenever return cargoes can be
assured. The whole question of taking
the full benefit of the canal on the part
of American manufacturers and eX-
porters is in their showing enough en-
terprise to assure return cargoes.
The first year of the canal, in addition
to the actual volume of traffic which it
discloses, sheds light on many ques-
lions that were raised during it's con-
struction. 1t is clear that the tolls are
not too heavy for world traffic to bear.
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chance he promised me. The play has
never been produced. / wonder what
has become of it?
Later she played with Wilson Barrett
in The Sign of the Cross and with
Charles Hawtrey in The Mummy" and
created a record by herself producing
and appearing in what was virtually
the first sketch ever done by West
End actress at n London music hall.
The American girl herself went to
Australia and played there successfully
for a couple of years. She was a great
success socially. it seems. going. as she
put it, from one government house to
another" And then she came back to
England, and, after some more acting
in distinguished company, got married.
This in 1901.
Since then, as a playwright, Mrs.
Turnbull has made quite a name for
herself One of her first pieces writ
ten with Nora Vynne and called, NO
toriety." was accepted by Charles Haw-
trey. who paid $1,000 down for it and
then, having had bad luck in the mean
time, had to postpone production SO
long that the play got out of date. The
London, in 1904, and had a pleasing re-
ception, though no one concerned made
a fortune out of it. Later His Lord
ships Cure" was produced. first in
johannesburg and afterward at spe-
cial matinee in London.
This piece, in which chrysanthemum
culture figures prominently, was writ
ten by its American author in collabor-
alton with "Dolf Wyllard," the author
ess of The Story of Eden" and SO
many other stories of South African
life Mrs. Turnbull is rather proud of
this, as it represents the only occasion
on which Miss "Wyllard' has consented
to collaborate with any one. The spe
cial matinee of this play was given by
Mrs Turnbull for the benefit of spe-
cial fund that was being raised by
Prince Francis of Teck for the Middle
sex Hospital, and SO successful was it
that she was promptly made a life
governor of that institution. 1t will
not be surprising in the least IL His
Lordship's Cure" makes hit when pres
sented regularly here. and meanwhile
it's energetic author, this time in col
la boration with Ronald Macdonald, son
of a famous father. is hard at work on
a new play. Its theme is exceptionally
interesting, being concerned with con-
ditions in England as they are likely
to be after the war.
Copyright, 1915, by Curtis Brownl
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Elliott Page She told about her
dramatic career as she sat at tea in
her garden, with a white Australian
cockatoo, which she brought back from
that country and which is a gifted con-
versationalist, screaming impolite moth
ings over her head.
MY father, who owned a good deal
of real estate in the western states as
we'll on 5th avenue and other parts
of New York, was one of the victims
of the first black Friday there" Mrs.
Turnbull said, land it was necessary
for me to find some kind of employ
ment, so / decided on the stage. l had
luck from the start and made my first
with E. H. Sothern at the
New York Lyceum in The Dancing
Girl by Henry Arthur Jones. After
that was with Elsie De Wolfe for two
years and then / decided to come to
England. having a godfather here in
the person of the late Viscount Parker,
who was one of my fathers best
friends. BY the way, I must tell you
that he drank the health and happiness
of his little goddaughter' at Cherborne
Castle on the night of my christening
day
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accompanied by representatives of the
war office and "a movie man. and had
the pictures made under her own su-
pervision. The writer was honored
this week with a private view of the
resulting film, which plays" for a bit
over quarter of an hour. 1t shows.
first, a major and two orderlies motor
ing up to a farmhouse door. One sees
them talking with the farmer, and,
eventually. buying rick. after care
fully testing the hay therein. Then we
see the baling machines at work. We
watch the putting in of the fingers"
which determine the size of the bales.
and witness the wiring of the latter
and the attachment of the war Office
label. Finally. we see field some
where in France" and the bales of hay
arriving for the delectation of an army
of hungry steeds.
At present Mrs Turnbulls' film is
awaiting the 30. K" of a distinguished
parsonage at the war office, upon re-
ceiving. which it will be placed at the
disposal of cinema proprietors every
where, who will be asked. to show 1t as
a patriotic duty. There will be official
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The matter in which the war Office want
ed Mrs. Turnbulrs help was one of hay.
The British army in the field needs a lot
of baled hay. some 10000 tons day, and.
until comparatively recently. the art and
science of making hay into bales was but
dimly comprehended in this country and
hardly practiced at all. 1t is said, in fact,
that when the war began there were ex-
actly two hay-baling machines to be
found between John o Groats in the north
and Lands End in the south. There are
considerably more of them at present. and
what the British war office wants to do
now is to demonstrate effectively how the
baling OF hay Is done. In response to an
appeal for volunteer hay balers it has
got some 5000, and wants still more. and
recently conceived the idea of getting
them by means Of a movies film.
That is where Mrs. Turnbull comes in.
Among many other things she is a clever
playwright She made the dramatization
Df Frank Norris novel, THE Pit that
was used over here under the title Of '"rhe
Wheat King" and another piece of hers,
sHis Lordship's Cure" which already has
done well in South Africa and on tour
OF late, in connection with the war work,
an common with most other society women.
Mrs. Turnbuli has gone in for f1lm-writ-
ing. too. ------'----'
Some time ago she wrote and pro-
nuced quite a striking moving picture
play. This-was in connection with the
so-called Blue Cross Society. which
looks after the horses wounded in bat
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E. TURNBUM.
Who is ed to help the war
picturen Inn to

tie, just as the Red Cross Society looks
after the men. Lady Smith Dorrien,
wife of the British general, is presi-
dent of the Blue Cross Society, of
whose council Mrs Turnbull is a mem
Der. Her film. which was called Saved
by the Blue Cross was success. 1t
is now being exhibited in Australia and
New Zealand. 1t depicts the adven-
lures of a steed from the time he is
Communicated to that when, wounded
on the battlefield. he is taken in charge
by the Blue Cross men. It was so
graphic a demonstration of Blue Cross
methods that it occurred to Maj. Smith
of the Army Service Corps that Its
American author probably could do as
effective one to illustrate the process
of hay baling.
Mrs. Turnbull. although busy with in
numerable other things. rolled up her
sleeves a bit higher and took on the
new job Having sketched out her
scenario she went forth into the
country districts in her. own motor car,