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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-01
CLOTHING MAKERS
GRANT IICa6|
Strike Avcrted BY ManttsActu
Association Voting More PAyy'
Aggresating $4,000. 900 n YesR.

New York, Nov. 30.---Confron1~
by the danger of strike or the ~
900 makers Of mems clothing IN n
York in one of the most pronta
season in the history of the ca
biggest industry. the American Gle
ing Manufacturers Association W.
to its $4,000 workers a wage incre4
estimated at from s2,500,000 70 In
600. 600 a year.
This marks the third wage increAS
granted in 1915 by the association. a.
total of the extra pay being placed
at IS, 100000. A statement issued III
the association said that the increa44I
was given '1n order to meet the iJas
creased cost of living" 81
The Mems Garment workefd
Union. the Amalgamated Clotlin
Workers of America. several week.
ago served notice on the manufacturing
ers that IL. by December 1. the works
ers had not received a wage incroA1
of So a week and a decrease in work.
ing hours of from fifty to forty-ei1hE
that there would be called a strike
of $4,000 garment workers.
The action OF the manufacturers
association was taken in the hope TIT
the extra pay to the workers wou3M
kill any determination they mi944
have to strike. The increase was maA&
effective In the week Of December III
so that if the workers strike th11k
will get none of the extra pay vot94
last night. s8A
Cement Company Advance WaGo
Easton, Pa, Nov, 30.--The All~M
Portland Cement Company announ&4
a general advance of over 10 per O.
in wages to it's 1900 employees. T14
increase is the third In less thnn
year, and makes the total advance 1QG
the year between 80 and IS per col1l
bonus in July and December to o1
ployes who remain continuously ~
its employ. Salaried employees Of 2
company will receive a liberal p4&
centAge OF their years earnings ri
December 1. The company exp1A1M
the increases are made to help mel
the high cost of living.
Birmingham. Ala, Nov. 30.-0AnS
eral wage increases announced by IN
Alabama Coal Operators Associative
will affect 5000 miners in this StAk67
The immediate effect is to incre4M
the payrolls about $4,000 a month";
Every operating company in the an
trirt narticiuateg
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salts Thoroughly f-ressed. 2Ses Cleaned
and presaed. sa0c: secured. zoe,
French cleaned. 81. A WANT a. CO
ison 7eSx.
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'Tho Progressive Railway OF the
Gnuth -

Trains leave daily 3 A. NJ, Norlina
local; 1850 P. NJ, sleepers Atlanta
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Jacksonville, Tampa and st. PeterS-
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A. NJ. 1890 A. NJ. $50 r. M.
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NOTICE.
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THE TITLE GUARANTY q
SURETY COMPANY,

Of Scranton, Penn, which discon-
tinusd writing business in Virginia in
November. 1919. has made aDplica-
ton to withdraw q portion OF the
bonds dspostted with the treasurer OF
Virginia Anyone having claim
against the above company 10 request
Cd 70 notify the
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ANCE,
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in order that . sufhciant amount may
Be retained on deposit to cover such
| claim
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Dry Pine and Oak wood. Coal of Best
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coal and wood Prompt service
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27
For Ways That Are Dark and Tricks
That Are Vain There Is Nothing to
Surbass the Charley Chablins and
the Mary PickfordS of the Orient.
Movies in China? Well,
We Should Remark.
Bv GEORGE S. KAUFMAN.
Bv GEORGE S. KAUFMAN.

China, but the audiences never derived
their full measure of enjoyment from
the proceedings because they too fire.
ouently failed to understand them. The
printed portions of the films were trans
lated into Chinese, of course, but the
human motives could not be. There
sprang up a demand for the Chinese
photoplay, and Mr.. Brodsky saw that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27

When motion pictures became the craze
a few houses sprang up in Shanghai
and Hong Kong and some of the other
slightly cosmopolitan Chinese cities.
They showed European pictures, with
an occasional American subject, and
drew their audiences largely from the
resident foreigners. Brodsky, having an
intimate knowledge of the country, con-
ceived the idea of carrying the pictures
to the great cities of the interior-cities
of uncounted millions. His first house,
established in one Of the great unpro-
nounceable cities, contained little more
than four walls. To this day there are
no seating accommodations for the null
titude in the Chinese movie houseS-the
Interborough would find it delightful
country. A few of the patrician Chinese
buy seats and pay handsomely for them
(S1.5O, in most cases) the common peo-
pie stand on the great floors, wedged
tightly against one another. Many OF
the Brodsky theatres take care Of $4,000
persons in this manner; the smallest of
them holds 5000. If there were seats,
explains Mr.. Brodsky, he could never
get his audiences out. They would sit
down and stay there, until driven out by
hunger.
When he opened his first theatre Mr..
Brodsky made up a choice programme
composed of one of those French wrong
apartment mix-ups and a bronco-bust-
ing Western melodrama. He opened his
theatre but nobody came. They didn't
know they were expected to come. In
fact, they didn't know anything about it
at all. So Mr. Brodsky started out to
round up his first audience. He got it
by paying it to attend-surely pro-
cedure unique in the annals of showdom.
One at a time, he interviewed Cinnamon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27

he would have to satisfy it. Then and
there was founded the Chinese Cinema
Company.
Mr.. Brodsky is the only American
connected with this enterprise. The con-
sulting committee, for example, is made
up of such sterling Cinnamon as Kim
Louey O'Hoy, Ma Vat Chiu, Fong Flu
Gam and the like. At their two studios
they are turning out a picture week
these days, and these make the rounds
of their eighty theatres. One of their
films is almost certain to reach this
country within another year. 1t is "The
Empress of bowers" and is in twelve
reels. The government loaned huge
segment of the Chinese army for use in
this film-60,000 men.
At the Shanghai studio, which is the
larger, Mr.. Brodsky and his associates
maintain stock company of three hun
dred actors. At all events, they are &C
tors to as great an extent as the Chinese
ever can be actors. Mr.. Brodsky picked
them up where he could find them, for
he knew that they would be no harder
to train than any others. Their trouble
is a lack of imagination. Take the gen.
ial soul stretched out on the ground in
one of the accompanying stills-the one
who is having his leg pulled. Before he
could be persuaded to exhibit such OBJ
vious signals of distress it was found
necessary to administer a sound beating,
whereupon he cried.
IF want a man to laugh and be
glad" explained Mr.. Brodsky, 81 have to
take him out and show him good time.
| give him fine meal, with plenty to
drink, and then march him right to
work. That is about the only way | can
get comedy scene.
Thus, when it is desired to show
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27

and paid them to go to see his show. He
gave them what they asked-one tsien,
two or ten. He didn't care great deal,
because he knew that they would pay
back the money on future occasions as
soon as they found out what was go
ing on.
In this manner several dozen theatres
were put on their feet, in cities all over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27
Iausso,ze co0eqy. A1s cIA0ee cA~' 1

Chinese family at dinner, an ordinary
motion picture dinner will not do. There
must be regular food. And five minutes
later. if it is discovered that there
wasn't any film in the machine, there
must be another dinner served if the
director wants a retake.
The Chinese films, most of them, are
bound up with the traditions and the
fetishes that are China. Ancestor wor-
ship, of course, plays prominent part
in many of them. The Chinese super
stitions, also, are constantly getting in
the way of the pictures, and many and
horrible are the threats that have to be
resorted to in order to persuade actors
to perform the prescribed stunts. One
performer, for example, refused fatty
to be photographed in a coffin, citing the
highest religious authorities on the
question and declining to put himself in
line for the visitations Of the evil one.
AS a method of persuasion he was over
powered, placed in the coffin and made
to stay there for thirty-six hours, with
the additional promise that he would be
kept there forever if he refused to listen
to reason. Thereupon the scene was
taken. These little incidents, however,
render movie making in China a some
what uncertain profession:
'The Unfortunate Boy" scene from
which is reproduced below, contains
enough melodrama to be an American
movie. Stripped of its Chinese motiva-
ton, in fact, it might be shown in any
New York film emporium, and probably
will Lo Sing PAX was happily married,
and possessed of son. Along came Ng
Chung Wun, who fell in love with Los
wife. So he murdered Lo. and married
the wife. He fears, however, that Los
son will learn the story of his fathers
murder when he grows up, and obtain
revenge by exterminating the murderer.
Therefore he decided that it would be
safer for him if the boy did not grow
up, and kills him. THAT, of course, is
what was unfortunate for the boy.)
Having got the Chinese audience inter-
ested by a couple of murders, the story
proceeds to work itself out. In China,
although the government holds re-
straining hand over certain features of
the films, there is no real censorship.
Murder and other things may be freely
shown upon the screen.
In his Shanghai company Mr. Brodsky
has a comedian who is infinitely more
humorous than the celebrated Mr.. Chap
lin Cor so he is regarded in China) and it
may be that ne will be seen in this coun-
try before very long. After all, by way
of winding up with snappy exit speech,
there is an excellent reason why Chinese
actors should DE better than those of any
other country:
Because they never forget their
queues!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27
N RET HARTE, I believe, furnished
II the first great example of how
bard Il iS m qet ANYTHING out

ID the first great example OF how
hard it is to get anything out
of a Chinaman. Ii Hung Chang, more
recently. acquired fame for the queries
that he propounded in an endeavor to
keep others from questioning him. The
novs Of the Chinese invention of gun
nowder was kept under cover for a
cornle Of centuries or more. And any
one who has mislaid the ticket and tried
20 oct three collars and shirt out OF
hook knows that stubborn taciturnity
is the Chinaman's most marked charac-
teristic. 1t is bred in the bone.
Come to think of it, there is no reason
in the world why the motion picture
business should not flourish in CHINA as
elsewhere. And there is no reason III
the world why the Chinese should not
make their own pictures, if they don't
happen to like the European and Ameri-
can kinds. But it is bit of a shock,
nevertheless, to learn that the Chinese
have been focking to their movie houses
for half a dozen years, that they nave
been making their own pictures for five
wears, and, in short, that the business Is
highly organized and flourishing. For
all Of those things are true.
They leaked out, these facts, during
the recent visit to these parts OF one
BENJAMIN Brodsky. They did not really
leak out they had to be pried out. Mr.
Brodsky, although not an Oriental mas
lived among the Chinese so long that
he has absorbed full share of the great
national taciturnity. Mr.. Brodsky, 1t de-
veloped. is the Marcus LOew OF CHINA
As head of the China Cinema Company
Limited. he enjoys practically monop-
DIV of the business in the land OF the
Celestials. He controls eighty moving
picture theatres, scattered from Peklng
to Kong-Tchang, and from Canton to
Tyng-Choo. And he maintains July
equipped studios in Shanghai and IN
Hong Kong, where he employs hundreds
of persons in the manufacture Oh
Chinese motion pictures. Something
about this industry in China is herewith
set down in type for the first time.
Benjamin Brodsky was not an Ameri-
can movie man who carried the business
to China. On the contrary, he did not
know a great deal more about pictures
than the several million other residents
of China. In China he spent all but his
earliest years, and in the course OF the
process he mastered no less than 1our
of the fearsome Chinese dialects. To
learn one of them is life job, and even
Mr.. Brodsky admits that four is enough
To-day his English is strongly tinctured
with Chinese. He is mandarin, as well
as the possessor of sundry other Chinese
honors, and when he appends his various
insignia he may go anywhere in the
Kingdom Cor republic) without fear.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29
Homestead Notice
L. =. Land ONCE, Ia,
Cruces, n. NJ. Aug 49,
1916.

l.. :. Land ONCE, La
Cruces, n. NJ, Aug 49,
1916.
Notice Is Hereby Given, that Albert
Ambrose, Of Columbus, n. NJ. who.
IN july. 10, 1913, made Homestead
Entry No. Osj6O. for y. :. +.
n. :. W. !, See. I, r. - $, r. ,
W., and on Sept. II, 1918, made add
tional Homestead Entry No. OllSls
for Lots / and ,, $. n. +. /, Ste
ton 4, Township - s., Range 8 w
n. NJ. =. Meridian, has filed notice
Of intention to make final three-year
proof to establish claim 20 III,
land above described, before W. G.
Hoover, L. S. Commissioner, at Co.
lumbus, NJ M, on the It'll day of
October, 1916
Claimant names as witnesses
John Stearly, Edmond Fulton, Fryd
Darrow and Louis J. Peach, all of
Columbus, N. NJ.
JOHN L. BURNSIDE,
Registrar
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The President says be- has uo inter
est in any political party except as
m instrument OF achievement" II
that's Il. then how did he happen Ia
select such n poor instrument ms the
Democratic party?
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HOnestead Motto.

U. s. Land ONCE at Las Cruces.
N. NJ, August IL, 1916
Notice is hereby given that Estelle
7. Robertson, of Walnut Wells, n. NJ
who, on MSrch'2l, 1918, made hone.
stead entry 0S222, for w. 4 8. W. I:
n. +. . $. w. I; S. f. I n. W. I Sec.
ton 70, Township 81 S., Range 10 w.
aad on July 8, 1914, made addition.
homestead entry, No. O9sO3, for T.. ! >.
F. 1; 5. +. ! n. +. I; S. w. I N. T.. !.
Section 10, Township - s., Range u
W. N. NJ. p. Meridian, has hled notir,
OF intention 10 make final three year
proof, TO establish claim 10 the land
above described, before NJ. L. MASSEY
I :. Commissioners, al Walnut Wells,
n. NJ, on the 2nd day of October 1914
Claimant names as witnesses:
j. +, Stidham, w. G. Massey, J a..
Deaton and II. L. Keith all of Walnut
Wells, N. NJ.
JOHN l.. BURNSIDE,
Regisirar
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Hughes says he would like six
months 10 investigate the AdminIstra
ton. hut the Administrations figures
he's doing vera Well rs ~. is.
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Families living in rural districts
where mail service has been curtuurd
viii b" Interested iu knowing that
Postmaster General BurleSun has sent
Secretary McAdoo % check for $500.
noo. representing surplus postal rev.
ruurS
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29
WILSON ADMITS nc
PRECIPITATED WAR

70 WAN
When hF. Wilson forasts him.
SELF he admits that We have
been al war; for example, on
May n, 1914, In an address over
the dead marines at the navy
yard In Brooklyn, ne said that
the marines had been engaged
In "a war Of service" A war
Of service TO whom or 10 what7
Certainly not 10 the United
States; o 10 Mexico; nor TO
humanity at large. Was II to
Mr.. Wllson7-From the speech
Of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, de.
iiVered a. Lewiston, Maine. In
behalf Of Charles e. Hughes.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

"lu AN fairness. asks the Boston
Transcript. shouldn't the expense ~
financing CHrrauzu be horne 10y The
Democratic campaign committees"
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29
Political lettings.

The sHouston Post reasons that DO
was easier for It's own beloved De
mocrucy TO endorse the Presidents
Mexican policy than to define TO-.
While he was about it senator
James Hamilton Lewis also might
have explained that the Rome that
was too proud to fight" died a rather
disastrous death.
"Iu AN fairness. asks the Boston
Transcript. Shouldn't the expense ~
financing CHrrauza be borne 10y The
Democratic campaign committee
Democrats really haven't ANY uh.
lection 10 big appropriations for army
and navy and internal improvements
They expect the Republicans fo rustic
the revenue % foot the bills for he
mex four years
Hughes says he would like six
months 10 investigate the Administers
ton. hut the Administration figures
he's doing very Well rs 10 rs.
Yes, abd the same puIIri-s that have
nlled Judge Hughes and others with
~ deep sense NJ shame nnye sent
many other Americans e" their graves.
The President has .huuurd his mind
about sending more rruup, "a he hor,
der thus running true fo FORM.
When Tom Taggurt talks rcunumy
10 them. II is time The Democrats
stopped their extravaganza.
The Hughes smile is ~leglunlng 10
attract favorable attention.
President Eutertuius Five pruvr-,
Eiyes -He0dline Oul-r, he simply
Hmusrs.
Democrat, papers Guide Hughes be-
cause he sayf hr b. 100 per cent q
candidate" The Wilson papers nat.
urnlly prefer O. 6fty hft, candidate.
The President says he has uo inter
est in q political party except as
M instrument of achievement" n
that's 10. then how did he happen Ia
select such n poor Instrument ms the
Democratic party?
Carranzu isn't % candidate Tor Presl.
dent OF the United States. hut he dld
more for American preparedness In
three weeks than Woodrow Wilson did
IN three years.
Another thing You never hear ~
since the Democrats reduced the cost
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Mr. Gardner should uut quote what
Mr. Wilson said while president ~
Princeton. His u@ttcranccs are outlaw.
pd 10y himself 10 seven days.
That man Hughes T. cuusIng the
Democratic newspapers an endless
amount of worry. Apparently they
viii never he satisfied until he turns
the management Of his campaign over
20 them,
Mr.. Hughes speeches are giving
poor satisfaction 10 the Democratic
press, which proves they are very
good speeches. indeed.
Secretary Baker Is developing an
agility IN changing his mind that must
endrar him ro his d]Iscuycrer.
Mr.. Wilson'S Administration must
confess Itself incompetent in n re-.
spect or the other. II either has ap
propriairi for an unnreded navy or
10 has neglected q needed navy. II
'NH Nfl''l IN ihull 10 SUIT user, IN
u respect or the other II must he
wrong
- believe In efficiency iu politics
Just as much a. ln anything else
saws Mr. Hughes. Efficiency II an
excellent wutch-word and It's use m
! the campaign Is merely O forerunuer
Of It's use Ia the White House when
he gets there.
First they said that Hughes wal nm
Iceberg. now they ARE saying that he
Is q mud singer. lie cannot possibly
he both and as II matter Of fact. Is
neither. The Democrats must feel n
h mighty had way when they cry
out mud and treason"
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Mr. Gardner should uut quote what
Mr. Wilson said while president ~
Princeton. His u]ttcruucrs are outlaw.
I'd 10y himself 10 seven days.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

While he was about it senator
James Hamilton Lewis also might
have explained that the Rome that
was Too proud 70 fight died IL rather
disastrous death.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Democrats really haven't ans nh
lection 10 big appropriations Tor army
and navy and Internal improvements
They expect the Republicans tu rustic
the r@yrnue 20 foot the bills for he
next four years.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

The slloustUu Post reasons that DO
was easier for It's own beloved De
mocrucy TO endorse The Presidents
Mexican policy than tu define TO-.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Mr. Hughes speeches are giving
poor satisfaction 10 the Democratic
press, which proves they are very
good speeches, indeed.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Another thing you never hear ~
since the Democrats reduced the cost
u living IL the bakers dozen"
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-29

Secretary Baker Is developing an
agility In changing his mind that must
eudeHr him ru his d]lscuyerer.
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Carranzn isn't u candidate Tor Presl
dent Of the United States. hut he dld
more for American preparedness In
three weeks than Woodrow Wilson did
IN three years.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-04-22
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