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MARY nrr PECK The Real Censorship of Demand May Create for the Little Foksa SPca
%%:%T%%:% Screen Drama Which Will Be Worth While
By MARY GRAY PECK.

who SAID he would like to wipe
the movies of the earth and he
Was carried away 10y his emo
tiuns ut making Il speech to the Drama
League. The rest of the race welcome
thai more or less.
c~heapacss Is what started the
movies on their triumphant career.
They hogan at the bottom, and 1t Ia
still only in the largest cities hat you
can part with more than Is cents ad-
mission, while a dime Is the popular
fee.
AS long as Il movie ticket stays
around the price OF a drink or a bag
Of tobacco the saloon and the toba eco
trust will have IA worse enemy than
tho w, &, 7. L. or the Anti-CiRarette
League to fight. For here In a clear
ease o( evolution. In the case Of q
drink or smoke We have the primor-
dial call Of the body for exhilaration.
In the case of the movie the call Is
translated into the ueX higher terms.
l. offers the same s~uper-dread-
nought feeling to the emotions through
the mental avenue that the drink does
through the physical, The movies are
not refined away from the primitive,
They attract the child, the burglar, the
hangman. the Car and the cannibal.
They attract, also. our most special
lied, and since he liked detective
stories. doubtless they would have at
tracted Charles Darwin.
Everybody comedies that a cheap
amusement which Is In line with ma
lures tendency away from absorption
with the physical appctites II a neces-
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AIMS Little of the AmsriCan-Nutual
Company had a somewhat similar eN-
p%-rjsnce, although part NJ il was not
dorr Intentionally. Under no d.-cc.
ton of ,'rihk Sorzage. u g!utton for
reaiiSn. .liss Little was 10 slide down
the SIDE of a Gin some sevent, feet
high on horseback to escape a band ~.
Indians IN pursuit. The ride called for
. skilled nq~ues'r.erre. unflinching
courage and a sur footed horse. II
was impossible to rehelrse the scene
because the director knew tina, after
having gone throusa II oncc neither
Miss Lite nor The horse could he per-
suadcd to repeat tho acton.
This scene was to he the big thrill
IN the pirturc. Much are was taken
~ preparing Il. Three camera men
we've stationed t. catch the slide from
tire" different angles, thus !nsu-ins
a good picture from at least one OF the
machines,
Careful distractions had lccn given
tho actress and sho started on the slide.
\, first tho horse hesititAd. but urged
on he bra"sd his farcfcst and pre-
na"'d - r,a II the bottom N safety.
Everything moved swiftly. the camera
mon ground their machines and
tho director shouted cemen.
throH.l his meRsphone. But about
twenty feet from the bottom the hors..
caught MS loot IN A rork assure. Stun
hisd and hurled Mss Lite over his
head. She few through the air head.
tirsi, landing in a clnmp OF mesquite
bushes more than ten yards away.
Spectators rushed to her side, en-
pe,t!1g 20 find her either dead or ssri-
q prslv injured. b,tt aside from the shoe,
aud a rumber Of scratches she escaped
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mcnt of tho board Is that engaged ~
gaining popuia. support for q picture
drama for children. II eN realize that
this X "a question which the public
must solve, and they are bending every
energy to interest women in il. Al
ready womeu's Cluns and civic organ
izatluns in many places are cooperate
ins with theatr" MANAGERS in pro~tst-
Ing ch.ldren's programmes.
The movement is spreading, and il
should not he long before tn" mauu-
lecturers are justified in putting out
a circuit Of chlldrcn's plays. It was
To hasten this sane ana happy sulu-
rion of a troublesome problem that
he General Federation of Women's
clubs arranged for the New York hi
ounial convention u JOINT session of
the cIviCs, education and drama ON
mitiocs, at winch thorc should he "A
public discussion Of vhildr.n'S pro-
Granmts versus Government censor
, ship. Tine three committees are
strongly backing the rhiidgcn's pro-
rrammc movement, cooperating with
, Tie National Board of Review along
that line,
The rhildrcn's programme IS scus.-
hle, kind To everybody. natural r,
The thoughtful it Is inevitable. For II
is patent to everybody that the movies
in the four States which have state
censorship could not he told frOa.
those in any other State If the Off
rial stamp we're cut off.
Refined mothers in the four state,
3 ~ inst a. reluctant -, 1nt tl,,, l3ttl.
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II is inevitable that an art so uni
versal In it's appeal, so accessible to
the least we'll to do. 80 close to life,
u develop In n course parallel with
democracy. Already it is one OF the
great social forces, and there is no
limit ia what 1t may become II it is
let grow naturally, as it has hitherto.
To those who disapprove of some
Of the features OF the movies, who
want them TO 10 'cduca !ional,"
moral 'non-sensational.' in short
something to which the refined mother
can conscientiously send her little girl
once a month. let 1t be said n all
g%entleness that moving pictures were
not designed exclusively for little girls
or even little boys. No art Is juvenile.
All arts are educational and moral in
direct proportion to their contact with
normal life.
Motion drama In prominently the
art OF common manhood and woman
hood, with all the defects and all the
greatness Of common crowds, 1t per-
SCENTS the kind Of comedy refined
mothers don't like, Its romance Is
the loves Of the hero OF tw~enty-three
ttI WV uSl'tiC W i"Vi's' No '"S''N
IL the kind sacred to melodrama from
the days OF Sophocles to the "Fard
We celebrate"
1t has these characteristics because
the people who support II like slap
stick comedy, young lovers, primitive
tragedy. They have a right to Ike
them too. since the worlds greatest
plays vM'e written on just such
themes. Objections to the movies boi
down to the manifest absurdity t'Na
the scenarios are not all written by
Arlstophaneses. Sh~akespeares, Goethe!
and then expurgated by POLITICAL,
appointed censors!
What Is To he done about these OBJ
jections? Is there 10 way TO satisfS
the perfectly good objection Of tn
mother 10 having her children see pic
turc plays meant for the adult multi
tudes? Certainly there Is. provided
| she In willing to come part way across
some debatable ground with coopera'
ton In her soul. The solution of th'
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The director, argues that the ruullo
has become tired al TAXED dangc"S aCI
'%mechanicAl fcaty The max. ordinary
sceues a1Tca: hazardous. rh" desire
for realism may lee al right for the
public and the director, Ia; !, Ia hard
on the performers.
= Patrons &c the pictures are -
familiar with scenes depicting rough
riding. desrents "f mountain sides oh
,shorsAbaCk and leaps flom cliffs il!
(which the rider falls clear Of the
mount and ~ other WAYS tiirtS with
death that ,hey never stop TO tn MS
Of the rta. danger incurred l'y those
actors who dare - mach 70: the silent
drama. Df course there are certain
pictures in which the danger : faxed.
But those pictures are almost equally
balanced h. the Kind which dtp.ctS u
.yNl tauccr encountered 10 accomplish
sthc desired result.
when | tir-i began To- lamp of
moving trails,' .aid Helen tio,mes.
when asked for hor impressions ot bare
devilliug N tn, films y muat c"rte-s
7 was somewhat til.d. bat now / take
4, as something vii ch must be lone
Ito complete tho picture.
In unc =! ily@ in which I worked
about six months aro went through
the action with my heart IN I'm mouth
and 10Y q moment at least .!t He
quitting II Wa 'a'''ou" p'N'u'e i"
which ! was to drive q BIC ctlC.ac
.across a bridge wh.ch was to he blown
up as the engine vtachci the middle.
~ "A torpedo % the track about twenty
fcrt from tho spot where the dA M =
n'i'c 'h"'sc "aS paced 10 W'e'N 'h'
or'1Ee was % &c wv NV MS",i I
u'o rom Tue eau |" IN" river '"'i'i
tne engine ~r'a'h'd tlc """"'h ''ls ''
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How the Daredevils of the Movies
Answer the Demand of the
Directors for Realism

ame man began shooting" the
scene while the gallant hero with a
stout rope lassoed her. II required all
his strength to drag her from the
sands which were engulfng her. When
on solid ground again Miss Swaync
with a tremulous voice said:
Il suppose On the screen that will
look easy. but ! don't care to try Il
over again"
Wide publicity was once given to a
stunt picture In which a trained aero
bat jumped a horse from a hilltop into
a chasm, infiic,ing injuries upon him
self and the animal and getting into
trouble with the humane society m
Gals This man was not a regular
member Of the picture company. but
was engaged at a big price to perform
thr daring act.
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Hurdling space in an auto.

An experience which took consider
able courage was undergone 10y Anita
k!nC. the l.asky star, in the picture
entitled The Race The picture was
designed IN depict a |cross-country
Journey from san Francisco to New
York. At one point N order 30 escape
from her pursuers Miss King was
| obi ..ed to take a daring jump in the
machine over a Chas!n.
ln order to eliminate as much danger
as possible the scene was carefully
staged beforehand, that is, everything
was simplifled. \ slopinC platform
was erected at the place where the
leap was Ia lie made and We'll re-
enforced. Across the ditch soiuo thirty
or forty feet away a pile OF hrus
wood had been placed To break the fan
as the car lanied
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Reckless Courage Must Be a Par
of the Equipment of Film
Star of To-day

Down a sloping piece Of ground =
preaching the jumping off place Miss
King came with lightning speed i'm
her little machine and took the lean
while the cameras clicked. She lsnded
without serious mishap IN the pile Of
brush and beyond n severe shaking IN
and a few bruises was none the worse
for her experience.
ITS the butts and IFS connected with
such stunts as these" she remarked
later. that make the dangers under
zone really greater than they seem to
he. II something had gone wrons
there might have been "a very different
story to tell, But-and here the hlr,
in-1 suppose it's all IN Tia
days work. so I have nothing to com
pain Of" she concluded with a laugh.
The dangers have also to he faced H.,
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runaway auv as it cleared the hrst
line Of breakers. found herself up to
her knees in the surf. laughed gayly
and then wadcd ashore.
The hard hearted writer
had next provided that Miss Burke in
her role Of Gloria should wanIcr o
for hours in the dense jungle of the
Florida Everglades. When that Lucille
frock came out of its bath In the
Atlantic II might have been possible to
salvage at least a part of II with care,
but after Miss Burke a tramped
through half a mile or so of sword
grass and PUSHES in the Everglades
the rents. long rips and ragged tears
50 damaged it that Lucille herself
couldn't have recognized 1t. hut a
triumph of realism had been obtained.
so VINO cares?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-04

|HE qua .ntost bit of municipal
advertising ever received at
the New York Public LIBRARY.
which gets circulars u
posters from all over the world. =
now on exhibition in the documents
division. in room 22S. 1t is q humorous
chart Of the London theatres executed
by Macdonald GIN for the Under
ground Railway Company of iondon
and printed by the Westminster Pres.
The scheme Of the chart is that or
old fashioned maps. At first glance
the heholder secs nothing hat a COM
piica,ed tumble of buildings DOVE" In
black, with yellow squares for lighted
window pancs and roofs in dtrh blue,
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NE way of earning a living is by

~ NE way OF earning n living - ny
jumping from one speeding
~ train to another; by riding
motorcycles off open draw
bridges; BY running peilmell over
moving freight trains. only to clutch
an overhead cable and to hang sus-
pended in midair: by graphing with
an Infatuated man in the cab Of an
onrushng locomotive. and In n hun
dred ways risking life and limb. THIS
ts what scores of motion picture
actresses and actors do every day with
hardly the wink of on eyelash in the
performance Of the stunts.
II Is all in answer to the cry for
realism in the movies which has re-
Gently been raised by directors.
> Realism is now a watchword. Above
ali the productions must he realistic.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
WILSON MAY TALK
 TO SUFFRAGISTS
Asks Atlantic City Date Be Kept For Him.

Although he has not formally accept cd the invitation of the National WO- man Suffrage association to address it's convention ill Atlantic City. Sept. 8, President Wilson has asked Mrs. Car rie Chapman Catt, national president of the association. to hold the date open for him that he may have more opportunity to arrange his affairs So as to make it possible for him to attend. The convention will be held Sept. 6 to 10 in NiXon's theater. The headQuar- ters of the convention will he at the Marlborough Blenheim.
 Mrs. Catt and her associates in the national association believe that Hl- though President Wilson has not given his indorsement to the Susan B. An thony amendment he will be rersuad- cd to support the proposed federal amendment.
 Aside from the fact that they may have the honor of entertaining the president at the convention and. as they are hoping, hearing from his lips his indorsement of the amendment, the executive body of the association is planning to send out queStionnaireS to all candidates for congress quiZzing them as to their views on the suffrage question.
 Pennsylvania has already been can vassed, and sixteen of the nineteen candidates have promised to do all in their power to obtain favorable action on the amendment if elected. Tho three who did not answer yes asked for more time to consider the question.
 The three questionnaires contained the following:
 Are you in favor of woman suf- frage?
 'If elected, will you vote in congress to submit to the states a federal amendment to enfranchise the women of this country?
 "If appointed on committee ill whose jurisdiction such an amendment should fall will you do all in your power to expedite the passage of such a measure?"
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
CANAAN VALLEY

Mrs. E. J. Donalds is visiting rela- tives in Great Burlington.
 Miss Jessie Donalds is entertaining company from Canaan.
 Miss Horner, of Buffalo, is visiting her sister at Fl. Rockwell's.
 Stiles Stevens, of Hampden. was in the Valley, Saturday with his new Buick.
 Harry Anderson entertained several of his young friends Thursday after. noon, it being his birthday.
 MT. and Mrs. E. J. Kimmerhen and daughter and Miss Lyda Meier, of Bridgeport, spent last week at +. H. Langdon's.
 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gordon, of Chapinville, were recent guests of MT. and Mrs. Robert Roger.
 MT and Mrs. F. H. Landon are spending the week at the shore.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
PRIVATE YARDS ID
 BUILD BIG SHIPS
Secretary Daniels to Ask Bids
 For DrGddTaughts.

To hasten completion of the battle ships provided for in the naval bill awaiting the presidents signature Sec retary Daniels will ask for bids from private yards as well as from the navy yards as soon as possible.
 Tt is my desire to give the four Dreadnaughts to private yards said the secretary. -Four battleshipS are building or have been nearly completed in government yards, and I want these four battleships built in private yards because of the desire of the govern ment to have them built as speedily as possible.
 Just as soon as the president signs the navy bill l will ask for bids both from private yards and the navy yards. I estimate that within three months after the awards are made the battle ships will be building"
 Does this mean that you have re- varsed your policy as to equipping the navy yards as authorized in the bill? ?'' he was asked.
 "No; not at all," he replied. ''I have authority to spend the money for equip ping the yards for battleship building. and if I find that the private yards submit bids exceeding the limit of cost I will be forced to equip the yards and build the battleships in government yards. l do not want to do this be- cause of the delay it will occasion"
 Secretary Daniels said he intended to equip government yards to build the battle cruisers, and by the time they are equipped the plans for the cruisers will be ready.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
CORNWALL HOLLOW

Mrs. Benjamin Sedgwick accom- panied by her children are spending several weeks at their old home here.
 MT. Gustafson has harvested his oat crop and it IS one of the finest pieces in this section.
 A dealer in old bones from Torring- ton was through the Hollow the first of the week.
 W. Nj. Hurlburt's men and teams have finished J. B. Bradford's having.
 Mrs. Henry Cass has been entertain. ing out of town friends at her pleasant home on West side.
 A frost was reported in the Hollow on the morning of August II.
 R. Hurlburt, who has been spending some time at w. M. Hurlburt's, has returned to Semour.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
MEXICO STATES TAXED.
Municipal Assessments to Pay Sol
 diers' Expenses.

Gen. Carranza has decreed an as sessment of 50 per cent on all taxes paid to municipal and state officials in addition to the tax previously collected by the federal government.
 The federal government. 1t was ex- plained, has been at great expense in maintaining troops for the pacifica- tion of the country. Previously the state governments maintained their own troops. The additional tax was levied on municipalities and states to meet these expenses of pacifcation
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
BIG DROP IN FOOD EXPORTS.
Breadstuff Shipments Fell Of $142,-
 100000 In Last Year.

Exports of foodstuffs. cotton and oil from the United States during the ifs, cal year just ended did not equal those of the previous years Statistics of the department of commerce show shipments of those commodities totaled S1 ,2S9, ,735.326, decrease of $5S.4OO,O from 1915.
 Breadstuffs showed the greatest loss with $142,7oO,0OO, he largest falling off being in wheat exports, which de- clinet $11s,OOO,OOO. Oats exports were s9, 9,GO0,OO0 less than last year, corn $8,9OO,OOO and flour $8OOO,OOO less.
 Meat and dairy products exports in, creased $54, ,9OO,OOO over 1915. Bacon gained $41 100000 ham and shoulders $11, ,8OO,O0O pickled pork $S,OOO,OOO and fresh beef $7,OOO.OOO Gasoline and naphtha exports increased SIT 100000, lubricating oil $9,OOO,OOO, fuel oil S5. 100000 and oleo oil $3.2OO.OOO.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
HUNTSVILLE

MT. and Mrs. Olin Pendleton, of Hartford, are at Mir. Pendleton's home for a few days.
 Mrs Edward Houston. of Lime Rock, spent Tuesday with her parents.
 Mrs. George Heaphy and Miss Sarah Dickinson were in Canaan one day last week.
 Carpenters of Canaan are busy re. pairing the place known as the flakes place recently purchased by out of town parties.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
MITCHELL AVERTS
 NEW'CAR STRIKE
Forces New York Railways Go,
 to Reinstdte Men. .
FLYING TRIP ENDS TROUBLE
Mayor Pushes From Plattsbure Army Camp, Calls Union Leaders and Rail way Heads to Conference, Announces Victory and Starts Back to Resume Military Training.

Military Training.
 New York city has been saved from another traction strike. this time to in clude the subway and elevated lines, by the quick work of Mayor John Pur- roy Mitchell.
 Warned of the imminence of a tie-up that would affect 100000 people, the mayor hurried back from the Platts- burg army camp. where he is a stu dent; heard the stories of both sides separately then induced them to talk their difficulties over without him and in an hour announced they had reached an agreement
 The result is victory for the men, who won all their demands. These in- cluded the reinstatement of fourteen motormen and conductors on the New York Railways company who were re- fused reinstatement because they had been convicted of violence during the strike of two weeks ago.
 The Mayors Statement.
 Mayor Mitchell issued the following statement:
 
 the entire day-first with representatives of the men, then with President Shonts MT. Hedley and MT. Quackenbush of the New York Railways company; then again with MT. Fridiger and MT. Fitzgerald and MT. Frayne and others representing the men. The upshot of the conference is that it is agreed
 First.-At the personal request of the mayor the New York Railways company will reinstate in their former positions the men held and convicted of offenses com mitted in connection with the strike.
 Second.-The discharge of the twenty eight men accused of stealing fares, of the two men accused of insubordination of the two men accused of drunkenness and the two men accused of failing to re- port will be submitted to arbitration to determine whether or not these cases were in fact discharges for the causes narled or for activities in the strike or in con- nection with the union. The above cases submitted to arbitration having arisen during the strike or immediately there after to be considered in class by themselves and not to be taken as prece- dents in dealing with similar cases here after
 Conference Ended 1t.
 The end of the difficulty which threat ened to tie up every green car" in the city and to extend to the subways and elevated systems of the Interborough came suddenly. It was brought about at a joint conference between Presi- dent Theodore Shonts, Vice President and General Manager Frank Hedley and James L. Quackenbush, represent ing the directors, and William B. Fitz- gerald, P. J. !O'Brien, Hugh Frayne and Louis Fridiger, representing the men.
 This conference was arranged by the mayor after he had talked with the two sides separately.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-24
ITS SURPRISING
That so Many Canaan People Fail
 to Recognize Kidney Weakness.

That so Many Canaan People Fail to Recognize Kidney Weakness.
 Are you bad back victim
 Suffer twlngs; headaches, dizzy spells?
 Go to bed tired-get up tired?
 It's surprising how few suspect the kidneys.
 It's surprising how few know what to do.
 Kidney trouble needs kidney treat. ment.
 Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kid. neys only.
 Have convinced Canaan people of their merit.
 Here's Canaan case; Canaan testi. mony.
 Kidney sufferers hereabouts should read it.
 s. Drumm, Main St., Canaan, says:
 My back and kidneys caused me a great deal of trouble. The kidney secretions were irregular in passage, causing me much annoyance and I suffered from pains through my back and sides. Doan's Kidney Pills, pro. cured at R. T. Farnum 6 Go. .'s Drug Store, drove away the pains and regu. lated the passages of the kidney secre. tions."
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't sim. ply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that MT. Drumm had. Foster. Milburn Co.,. Props. Buffalo, N. Y.