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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
Sothern Distributes Gifts.

The people who helped e. II. Soth-
ern make his three film plays at the
Vitagraph studio are considering
themselves among the lucky people
Of the earth these days. When Mr..
Sothern had finished his MIN work
ne visited the studio one afternoon
and distributed among the actors,
actresses, and attaches number OF
very pretty souvenirs of his first
and what he says will be his last
aim experience.
To Fred Thomson, the director,
who used to be here at the Columbia
Theater, he presented a heavy Tiff
fanny hand-wrought gold ring with a
blood stone signet setting. Eddie
Cassell. the property man; and
Charles Davis. camera man. also re-
ceived heavy gold signet rings. Each
OF the rings was engraved with the
following inscription, I'm Remem-
brance OF Vitagraph Days. From e.
II. S."
Mr.. sothern posed for his final
scene in IAN Enemy OF the King" on
Saturday, September Is.
Little Bobby Connolly. OF the Vita
phi Players. who will soon be seen
In the Barney Bernard feature film.
"a Prince In a Pawnshop," is the
subject of a novel now on the book
stands. entitled Sonny JIM" the
part which Bobby played in a num-
Der OF pictures for the Vitagraph.
The illustrations throughout are
pictures from his films and form a
most attractive addition to the book.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
EAT LESS MEAT
AND TAKE SALTS
IF KIDNEYS HURT
Says a tablespoonful of Salts
flushes Kidneys, stopping
Backache.
Meat forms Uric Acid, which
excites Kidneys and
Weakens Bladder.

Eating meat regularly eventually pro-
duces kidney trouble In some form or
other. says a well-known authority, be-
cause the uric acid in meat excites the
kidneys. they become overworked; get
sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts OF
distress, particularly backache and mis-
cry In the kidney region; rheumatic
twinges, severe headaches. acid stom-
ach, constipation, torpid liver, sleepless-
ness. bladder and urinary irritation.
The moment your back hurts or kid
neys aren't acting right. or II bladder
bothers you, get about four ounces OF
lad Salts from any good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonful In a glass of water
before breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid
OF grapes and lemon juice. combined
with lithia, and has ben used for genera
tions to flush clogged kidneys and slim
ulate them to normal activity; also to
neutralize the acids in the urine so II
no longer irritates. thus ending bladder
disorders.
JadN Salts cannot injure any one;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which millions OF men and
women take now and then to keep the
kidneys and urinary organs clean. thus
avoiding serious kidney disease.-Advt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
Anybody Can Be a Picture
Maker, One Of Them Tells
The Times.
MUST HAVE CHARMED LIFE
And Working knowledge Of
Aeronautics, Aero b a tios,
? Animal Training, Etc.

An anxious reader OF The Times
wants to know what are the qualifi-
cations required for camera man
in the motion picture business!
, According TO all the information
available II would be a much simpler
task to state what things are not
required in a camera man. OF all
the jobs In the. motion picture In
dustry, the least attractive, II would
seem to the average comfortably
liked layman. Is that OF camera man.
A well-known writer on motion pic
ture subjects has recently reviewed
some OF the hazards OF picture maxi
ing from the camera mans point OF
view In the Saturday Evening Post in
very Interesting manner.
II Tie Times correspondent
hasn't the copies Of that publica-
ton at hand here are a few things
that were stated offhand by one
OF the Selig camera men who was
asked to state the specifications of
his job for the benefit OF this par
ticular Inquirer:
Almost anyone can become a
camera man, providing one has a
camera, some film. luck. and super
abundance of nerve. One should
also Just naturally like animals, for
80 iioh 80 AiVtuVhtAJ NoiVN
upon to Aim lions, tigers, bears.
leopards, and other pets. and they
should always be treated in the
most humane manner possible.
As to Education.
"a we'll grounded education In
aeronautics Is also necessary, for on
many occasions the camera man will
be urged to take pictures from an
airship, or O balloon.
"Other essentials necessary to the
makeup of a simon-pure camera
man are knowledge OF swimming,
boxing, sprinting. wrestling. and
ducking and lodging.
Its very easy to become a
camera man II you once know how.
One pleasureable experience Is to
place your camera and have a troop
OF horsemen charge at you, just
swerving to miss the tripod by a
fraction of an inch.
"You are supposed to stand your
ground and keep turning the crank
In the complete knowledge that one
Of the galloping horses might not
swerve in time.
:'However, the real for sure cam
era man Is not supposed to think OF
such little details. Get the pic
ture," Is the slogan. and nine times
out of ten, the camera man gets II.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
ADDRESSES COUNTY
ON RIGHTS OF RACE

The adoption Of an address to the
country on lynchings. lin crowism.'
segregation and race prescription in all
forms. closed the two-day session OF the
National Colored Citizenship Rights
Congress, here last night.
The call for the meeting Of the con-
gress was issued by the National Equal
Rights League, which holds It's ninth
annual meeting here today.
The officers of the congress are:
Marion F. Sydes, Rhode Island. presi-
dent; G. Harold Stepteau. District OF
Columbia. vice president; James f..
Churchman, New Jersey, recording sec
rotary; William Marley. Kentucky, cor
responding secretary; the Rev. r. 8.
johnson, Virginia. chaplain; Thomas
Walker, District OF Columbia. treas
geant-at-arms.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
TODAYS BEST FILMS.

Garden, 423 Ninth street-Helen
Holmes In Manager Of the b. and
A" (MutuaD.
Strand. Ninth and d streets-R. %.
Warner and Enid Marley in Shell
43" (Triangle).
Casino, Seventh and r streets-Iil-
Ian Walker In Hester OF the
Mountain"
Circle, 2lO5 Pennsylvania avenue
Anita Stewart In "The Suspect"
Vitagraph).
Masonic Auditorium. Thirteenth street
and New York avenue-Edna May
in salvation Joan" CvitagraphJ.
Penn, Gardens, Twenty-first street
and Pennsylvania avenue = Hazel
Dawn and owen Moore In "Under
Cover" Famous Players).
Washington. Eighteenth and Cali
fornia streets-Myrtle Gonzales in
"The Secret OF the Swamp"
Loew's Columbia, Twelfth and r
streets-Blanche Sweet and Theo-
dore Roberts in THE Storm"
Uasky).
Cosmos. Pennsylvania avenue, be-
tween Ninth and Tenth streets-C.
Aubrey Smith and Eleanor Wood
], Locke's serial story in The
Times.
Leader. Ninth between r and F
streets-Fannie Ward in Each
Pearl Tear" Lasky).
Crandal's Ninth and Z streets
Naleska Suratt in THE Straight
Way" Cox Film Company
Savoy. Fourteenth street and New
York aYenue-Douglas Fairbanks in
1.-THE Half Breed" (Triangle).
| Apollo, 624 II street northeast-Wil-
liam Farnum In THE Sign OF the
Cross" Famous f'iayers).
Avenue Grand, 645 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast-William 8. Hart in
''The Apostle of Vengeance" CTri-
angle).
Home. Twelfth and c streets north
east-Robert Edeson In big Jim
| Clarity" (Pathe). So.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
ASKS IMPROVEMENTS
Citizens Association Urges Com
missioners to Act.

Recommending to the Commission
ers the widening. Strengthening and
matchmaking of Wisconsin avenue
from Massachusetts avenue to the
District line. and asking the better
grading and paving of other streets
In the vicinity. the Cathedral Heights
Citizens Association held its first
meeting Of the year in the parish hall
OF st. Adams Church last night.
Most of the business meeting was
provements.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-06
Woman Is Shot While
Hanging Clothes in Yard

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j., Oct. s.-one
OF three revolver bullets fired by an I'M
known assailant imbedded itself In the
leg of Mrs. Charles Forsting. Of this
city. who Is in the City Hospital a
nervous wreck.
Mrs. Forsting was hanging clothes in
the back yard when shot. Detectives
have failed to find any motive or the
slightest clue to the assailant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27

Attention is called by the Spokane
Spokesman-Review to the fact that
with a population of only 100000,
little Swiss republic has a non-miili-
taristic system of national defense
that commands the respect and ad-
miration of the world. If men,
aced by invasion, (the Swiss constitu-
ton prohibits wars of aggression) this
miniature nation can call 100000
trained men to the colors in two days,
and in a week 100000 more.
The SpokesmanReview then pre-
sents brief, but complete description
of the Swiss system that was pre-
scented in an address by DIR. Henry
Ferguson and which has since been
published in pamphlet form by DIR.
Drury, rector of st. Paul's school for
boys at Concord, n. H. Doctor Fer
guson's explanation of the Swiss sys-
tenn follows:
$50 many illusions are made to this
excellent system that it is we'll to I'M
derstand explicitly what the system
is. 1t is as simple as it is admirable,
combining the earliest training with
the rudiments of elementary compul-
sorry education. and keeping the adult
citizen in readiness for service with
out serious burden.
Every schoolboy is taught that his
country has q claim upon his services
in her defense, and is carefully trained
ny dlnieblC SASIClsCes dppIOFSu Ol ana
directed by the government, that fit
him to use his growing strength to the
greatest advantage.
Athletic Training; No Military Drill.
These exercises are not of the ma
ture of a military drill, but furnish q
progressive training, beginning when
the boys are quite young and continue
ing thru their school life. They not
only lead to a symmetrical and care
fni dAValnn nf the individuals h1gf
also accustom the children to the
common action. under skilled direc-
ton, fitting them to fall in readily
with the later technical military in
struction when the time shall come
for it.
THE great value of this training
of the children by the government is
that it co-ordinates the school with the
subsequent camps of instruction, SO
that all public energies are directed to
a common advantage.
when the boys become young men,
rifle shooting is most carefully encour-
aged and clubs, societies and associa-
useful accomplishment. Prizes are Of
fered by the federal government, by
the various cantons corresponding to
our state governments), by the munich
palities and the communes, and the
young Swiss is taught, as our own
ancestors were in Colonial days, to
shoot straight, to speak the truth, and
to keep his body under subsection.
Young Men Become Recruits at 90.
Once in every year the men of 20
years of age are called upon by their
several cantons to meet in a central
place in each canton, and take a series
of tests with the object of ascertaining
whether they are physically and
mentally able to serve their country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27

Apparently everybody in Germany
is not entirely satisfied that the Eu-
ropean war will end and peace terms
will be made with Germany and her
allies in complete and undisputed con-
troll of the newly established and at
least temporarily famous thru rail-
road service between Berlin and Con-
Etantinople- At any rate. private
capitalists. or promoters in Berlin who
are already interested in an interna-
tional airship corporation. are making
tentative plans to establish after the
war an aerial post service between the
capital of Germany and the capital of
Turkey. and IL it should prove success
ful. an aerial passenger line. The
route of this air line would extend
from Berlin to Carlsbad, continuing to
Vienna via Budweis, and from there
to Budapest and thence on to Con-
Etantinopls over Sofia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
BACK FROM SEA AND SKY.

Vacation is over, says Golfers. and
it goes on: Numberless seashore and
mountain resorts have surrendered
their summer populations: camps and
country houses have given the city
back its own. Routine is to begin
again. And now, AFTER our rest, we
take up our work like children at
play. If we have been in quiet con-
tact with natural things and natural
.eople, if we have made new and
better friends, if we have realized in
nature new beauties OF harmony. if we
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
The Table.

Quick Dreamed Potatoes-Creamed
potatoes need not be considered fussy
to prepare if you will follow this
method: Cut potatoes in cubes
small pieces. When thoroughly done.
but not mushy. drain and to them add
one good tablespoon of butter (Which
will readily melt in the hot potatoes);
mix well, then sprinkle heaping tea
spoon flour over them and stir gently.
The flour will blend with the buttered
potatoes perfectly without Jumps; now
add milk (cold) and put all on the
fire, stirring until it thickens suffi-
GENTLY, then season and you will have
as good and smooth creamed potatoes
as ever We're. 1t is so much quicker
and easier than making the creamy
part separately
Apple Surprise-Four apples, one
cup chopped English walnuts, one
cup brown sugar. two tablespoons
butter. Slice apples. mix with nuts.
turn in buttered baking dish, add one
fourth cup of water. Bake in oven
until apples are done. Serve with
whipped cream.
Ham Sandwiches-One-ha pound
cold boiled ham, one tablespoon olive
oil. one tablespoon lemon juice, cay
enne or mustard. Chop fine the ham
season with oil, lemon juice, a little
cayenne or mustard and rub thru a
sieve. Butter bread the loaf be-
fore cutting and spread the ham be-
tween the slices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
EVENING STORY
Well Begun Is Half Done.


(By Norma Selby.)
What you need, Bob Wilson, is
home life, with regular meals and ir-
regular pleasures and irritations."
$50 YOU advise matrimony as a
means of removing your bachelor
brothers mental and physical faults ?"
mot necessarily matrimony Bob.
for. Betty and I will be more than glad
to have you share our home life for
awhile. Shut up this bachelor apart
ment with all its literary lore and
come home with me for a month.
You're getting as set in your ways as
if you were 20 instead of 35." George
looked earnestly at his brother.
your candor reminds me that fam
lily life offers special field for I'M
flattering frankness"
''Well, who doesn't need an occa-
sional dose of plain facts about him
self" asked George bluntly. Pm
giving you a dose now, but l promise
it will be the last if you'll come home
with me for a month. Betty said for
me to bring you and she'd make you
as comfortable and allow you to be
as quiet as you could wish to be-"
That's awfully good of Betty" SAID
Robert IF there were more girls
like Betty perhaps I wouldn't have
become a sort of recluse at 35."
"Of course there's only one Betty"
pay enough attention to the girls you
know to see their possibilities"
81 pay too much attention, perhaps.
but my literary work has caused me
to study them as representatives of a
type rather than to be interested in
them as individuals"
quick step on the stairway was
followed by a rap on Roberts door
and a moment later there entered Dr.
Edgar, a tall man of 40 with slight
stoop that seemed to have resulted
from his habit of getting his search
ing dark eyes close to a patients race
in sympathetic scrutiny.
you're doing fine," said the doc
tor after asking Robert few ques-
tions THE only thing you need now
is a good jolt that will keep you from
settling back again into the same old
rut."
Fine. doctor" said George. I've
Just been urging him to go home with
me for a month. Our house at Hill
Crest is big and airy and my wife
could make any man on earth con-
tented there"
minute and take him along" said the
doctor, and, turning to Bob, he added
Il couldn't prescribe anything better.
And you We nothing to say about it
you're just 70 go, but leave all your
unfinished literary work at home"
once ROBERT nau let 30 VI MS olu
life he set about making the most of
his new surroundings. The first week
he spent much of his time on Hill
Crest's sunny porch reading or mus
ing, or gazing at the autumn colors
on the wooded hills nearby BY the
second week he was able to walk to
the nearest hill. Betty was more than
fulfilling her husbands promises for
her Robert was lazily content with
the quiet home life that left him so
much leisure for reading, but one
morning at breakfast the maid hand
ed Betty a night letter containing
news that was anything but welcome
to her brother-in-law-
Dear me. George" exclaimed
Betty, her brown eyes Frightening
with pleasure. Leone Gray wires
that she wants to stop for a little visit
with us on her way to Boston for an
other year in her art work"
.'F'ine." said George cordially.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
JAYMAWEER JOTS

The Lenora News has started a
biggest sweet potato contest with
this item: Sam Hauser brought in a
sweet potato Tuesday that weighed
three pounds. Who can beat it?
AS the Americas Greeting points
out. the time that has been spent in
swatting the fly for the past six
months can now be devoted to car
rying in the coal and carrying out the
ashes.
If Mr.. Kee. of New York Valley,
Woodson county, applied the simpli-
fled, spelling rules to his name, he
would be among the most prominent
of the candidates for the first prize
in the Kansas short-name contest.
1t is said notes the Americas Greet
ing, that fashion has decreed that
womens skirts will be worn longer
this winter. But, adds the Greeting,
some women complain now that they
have worn their skirt so long that
everybody knows they are wearing a
1915 model.
Blaming this or that human frailty
or physical popularity on heredity
has been 2 favorite outdoor and in
door sport for centuries, in fact, ever
since the human race has been on the
job and it's individual units sufficient
ly wise to pass the blame buck
But Henry Behrens, of Atchison,
varies the monotony by giving this in
terview to the Atchison Globe: II at
tribute my badness to the fact that
when / was a small boy l was so good
my mother was always patting me on
the head"
Here's a pat on the back from the
Phillips County Post that appears to
be deserved and some comment that is
straight to the mark: William Fister,
that big rancher out on route two,
was in the county Hub a few hours
last Saturday afternoon and among
the many chores he had on the string
was a call at this office and the plac-
ing of an order for some stationery
When a farmer comes to town and
leaves ar. der with the printer for
letter heads and envelopes you can
just bet your old hat that farmer is a
man who looks after his p's and q's
every jump in the road and is not only
a farmer of some means. but a bust
ness man as well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
HAS AN ARMY
OF 100000 TRAINED SOLDIERS
And the Soss Are Intensely and Devoted to the
Pursuits of Peace

1.-The recruits are then sent to train
ing camps, where they receive from
so to 80 days instruction. according to
the branch of the service they are
thought qualified to enter.
After this, for IL years. from the
age of 81 to 80. the recruit is called
out for IL days in the year to refresh
his training, and then he is transferred
from the elite to the landwehr or first
reserve. He serves in this for 1 2 years
longer, being called into the field only
in alternate years, and then for IL
days.
Then he passes into the landsturm,
or second reserve, until at 4S his period
; of service is completed. The govern
ment keeps in existence the head or
the ordnance department. the general
staff, and the corps of instructors
needed for the organization.
Each soldier is given his uniform
and his rifle. for the care of which he
is responsible. Cavalry soldiers have
also their horses. With these in hand
mobilization is immediate.
1.-The system has not, indeed, been
tested by war, but on occasions when
mobilization was necessary to preserve
the country's neutrality, as in 1870
and at the beginning of the present
European war it has worked well. and
the tiny country is loyalty and vigor-
ously defended by her own citizen SOL
diers
Officers are made thru merit, and
are given special courses, and re-
tanned in active service for longer
periods. The law permits no soldier
to decline promotion with its added
responsibilities in either the commits
stoned or commissioned grades.
Every soldier is insured against
sickness. accident or death, by the
government, while under instruction,
or while engaged in any military
duty"
High Ideals Before Swiss Youth.
1.-The great merit of the SYSTEM" DIR.
Ferguson then adds, lies in the very
general extent of the training, with
the minimum of interruption to the
the men who are trained. and, above
all, in the ideal, which is constantly
| held up before every normal Swiss
boy, that the defense of his country
| is matter of his own Immediate con-
Germ, that his country needs and
claims, not only his love and devotion
and his pride, but also his personal
! bodily service
The Spokesman-Rev then points
out that it can be readily seen that
the great law of compensation enters
| in. THE nation requires service and
devotion" as the SpokesmanReview
| says, but 1t gives rugged benefits in
return-improved physique, knowl-
edge of the laws of health, invigorat-
ed health, discipline and greater self
control, intensified powers of concen-
tration and attention, alertness and
quickened mental and physical action
These are foundation qualities that
make for individual efficiency and
success. When they are lacking or
deteriorated in the manhood of a
country, that nation is on the down
grade"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27

forced to do SO by composition with
other child employers-and would
soon call himself to the attention of
a public that has already clearly
signified its objection to the existence
of child labor.
THE federal child labor law was
framed by the best constitutional law
yers in the country; it was then passed
by congress that had given it close
attention; and We of the National
Child Labor committee believe that,
whether the next president be Mr.. Will
son or Mr. Hughes, the child labor
law can and will be enforced in ac-
cordance with the will of the American
people,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


ltTom the chicago News.
Build your hopes high-then stand
from under.
To the man outside every love looks
like a first love.
A quiet wedding may be but the
calm before the storm.
Pawnbrokers may possibly see the
silver lining of your cloud.
Necessity is the mother of inven-
ton; promotion is the stepfather.
When ambition craw1s in at the
window contentment flies out at the
door.
No matter how hungry a man may
Je, single taste OF defeat satisfies
him.
Many a man on the road to fortune
doesn't know at what station to get
off
When compared with the patience
of a mother, all other brands of pa
thence are counterfeit.
1t would take seventeen guardian
angels AMI half a dozen policemen to
keep some men out of trouble.
The wise man always looks before
he leaps-then instead of leaping into
the fire he stays in the frying pan.
The man who marries for beauty
always has to dig up some other ex-
cuse if he would keep on loving her
in after years.