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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-24

DEHIND the staging of a tremendous
- motion picture battle scene lie innumer.
able details Of executive expertness and in
some of these electricity Is depended upon for
essential results. An instance of this is in
the work of the Explosion man." To him
the use of battery, wires and detonator Is
as important as to the engineer of any
colossal public work.
In the recent filming of a battle scene in
Commodore j. Stuart Backton's Woman
hood: the Glory of .he Nation" on Staten
/ Island. the explosion man." with his trusty
little detonator. was most important fac
tor in the success of the action Herman
Rottjer, the explosion man Of Vitagraph,
staged bursting shells, gas attacks and
subterranean mines realistically with a
touch of his finger on the key. Totally in
conspicuous on the side lines of the battle
field this clear-headed expert executed ex>
plosions timed to the fraction of the second
and without the injury of a single person
among the hundreds that charged and strug-
gled across the terrain where scores of
powder caches lay scattered to await his
signal All this he managed successfully
ending with a climax of a mine explosion
at once.
Amid charging regiment small explo.
sions that left shell craters three feet deer
were staged to represent the shattering OF
shells striking the ground. In connection
with these discharges bombs were stimuli
taneously thrown into the air to explode
about 200 feet aboves ground, to simulate
shrapnel Then here and there heavier
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-24
ELUSIVE EVA AND
HER LITTLE" EGO
Miss Tanguay doesn't Care" but Gets
~ the Money Due Her

Eva Tanguay has been described as &C.
esntric, erratic, freakish, but still she is
he same popular favorite with the masses
who crowd the theatres where she appears
Persons often ask why she continues her
whrling, juggling, raving, waving style of
singing her songs. The answer is easy
Miss Tanguay does what she does on the
stage because she Is paid for it and Miss
Tanguay is the highest salaried individual
on the vaudeville stage. No other single
entertainer, man or woman. has ever re-
ceived the salary paid to Eva Tanguay If
Il were told that her weekly income in
vaudeville ran into four figures, many would
become skeptical vet it is the truth and the
famous II Don't Care" comedienne has re-
eeved on more than one occasion, a higher
salary than was ever paid to any act or
production In vaudeville.
This is not to be wondered at when it is
eansidered that Eva Tanguay Is the greatest
'6yawing card in vaudeville and holds more
bsx-ofice records thu any other artist or
Attraction in the two-a-day. She admits
that all her eccentricities, her raving antics,
her peculiar songs, her exaggerated egoism
are pure bunk comedy and folderol but
every big city in the United States, after
one or two weeks from this whirlwind of en-
sthusiasm, clamors for her year after year.
Vaudeville managers are always glad to
Welcome her back to their field.
Miss Tanguay has been appearing at the
head of her own show and has posed and
acted in motion pictures for company in
which she is personally interested, but
vaudeville Is her forte and she comes back
10 Kieths next week. more excitable than
ever, more eccentric than ever and singing
hnnier esongs than ever, but still the su-
yreme little artistic in her own peculiar
way.
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MUSICAL GLASSES
',-rRpAY, MARCH sI.


'-5ruRDAY, MARCH ~.
v,rital Of Indian ragas. Rattan Devi.
...ssStrnan Hall. Afternoon:
ssrcsrt. Philadelphia Orchestra. wag-
Corogram: overture, "The Flying Dutch
~ y, nrelide. "Lohengrin"; overture and
n4...hsre music, "Tannhaeuser" two pre-
aThe Meistersinger'; "Siegfred"
nos.. rrelude and ''Love-Death." Tristan
~ ,.oide," Academy. Night.
sv,ss.wat,on rehearsal Apollo Orchestra
~ North Broad. Morning.
pS.ehborhood concert. settlement Music
xfsoi ais Queen street. Afternoon.
s;oNpAY, MARCH e6.
hss,tai Giovanni Cianciarulo. violinist.
vItherspoon. Night.
snrsDAY, MARCH s7.
.'~n,s Walkure," with Gadski, Kurt, Mat
..ssuer and Urlus.. Metropolitan. Night.
~rnyEsDAY, MARCH as.
Mini recital, Ethel Altemus. pianist, and
A.,nur Hadley cellist. Witherspoon. Night.
pscital. Viola Fenton Bidlack. soprano;
svs~sce Flood, baritone; Florence Haenle,
eoi,nist. Auspices of Cantaves Chorus.
nrrheus Club rooms. Evening.
srURsDAY, MARCH 80.
usch st. Matthew Passion music, played
=. .philadelphia Orchestra with distinguished
ss,e,sts and chorus. Academy. Night.
frustrated musical talk, Mrs. Charles C.
n.,iinsl Witherspoon. Afternoon.
fYacture, Passion Music, Philip II. Goepp.
r.Iisre of Music, Temple University, Six
sSsnth and SAMSON. IL a. m.
concert, Hahn Orchestra. Night.
yRrDAY. MARCH so.
pach Passion Music Academy. After
noon. -
AfrURDAY, MARCH 81.
IIi.Englsh song recital. Charles Aiken,
amor Trovato Male Quartet. Apollo Glee
c1ub. Orpheus Club rooms, 1920 Chest
mt street. Evening. Public invited.
VUESDAY, APRIL 5.
Recital, Louis Sobelman, violinst. with
wpoon. Night
TUESDAY, APRIL 10.
Recital, Evan williams, tenor. Academy
Night.
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL II.
. Recital. John Mccormack. Metropolitan
xight.
aATURDAY, APRIL II.
Recital, Paderewski. Academy. After.
soon
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opening Of the Kiel Canal, in Germany, and
those at the coronation of King Edward
in London. He was also in charge Of the
celebration OF the peace proclamation of
President Daz. in Mexico, at the Castle Of
Chapultepec. where Mr.. Rottjer was quar-
tered for three months in preparation for
the display, one feature of which was
Niagara Falls of fire, 1000 feet long. He
was directly in the pay of the Mexican
Government during his work there. He has
been six years with Vitagraph and handled
delicate explosive stunts such as the blow
ing up of a railroad engine in THE Jug
gernaut," and all kinds 'of fire scenes in
various big pictures. At the Staten Island
battle he employed 1000 pounds of explo-
siyes for the various effects
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-24
GOVERNORS TO CONFER
Western Executives Asked to Assemble
at Boise. Idaho

BOISE, Idaho. March "a. Governor
Moses Alexander has telegraphed to Gov
ernor Ernest Lister, of Washington, .presi-
dent of the Western Conference of Gov
ernors, suggesting an early meeting of the
members in the conference to talk prepared
ness
Governor Alexander invited the Governors
to meet at Boise. He said In his message
to Governor Lister he considered the ma
ton is in state of war with Germany
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"THE GOLDEN LEGEND"
WILL BE GIVEN HERE
Strawbridge e. Clothier Chorus to Sing
Sullivan Work

The strawbrdge q Clothier Chorus will
sing The Golden Legend" cantata by
Sir Arthur Sullivan. at the annual spring
concert Of this organization, to be given In
the Metropolitan Opera House on Wednes-
day evening, April rs.
The chorus famed for its achievements
in light and grand opera and oratorio work.
has been augmented by H. J. Tily. the di-
rector who is assiduously engaged In pre-
pairing for the event. Rehearsals have been
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-24

Here we see the
cause and effect of
a big battle scene in
"Womanhood," the
preparedness film
spectacle at the
Chestnut Street
Opera House.
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with the plan of the producer, with varying
pauses between each flash.
Mr.. Rottier. before joining the Vitagraph
forces, was twenty-five years with Pain
and is a pyrotechnician of wide renown.
He has handled the details Of some notable
pyrotechnical events, such as those at the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20

"Colds always settled on my
kidneys, causing me much pain
and annoyance. My back ached
and l felt tired and unfit for work
The kidney secretions were unnat-
ural and filled with sediment. My
whole body was stiff and painful
but Doan's Kidney Pills always
cured attacks of the trouble"
Six Years Later Mr.. Farrar said:
II cheerfully confirm my form
er endorsement. 1 use Doan's
Kidney Pills occasionally for
backache or other kidney troubles
and they always act as represent
ed"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Dom
simply ask for kidney remedy-ge
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same tina
Mr.. Farrar has twice publicly recon
mended. Foster ilburn Co., Props.
Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20
CORROBOR ALTON

Of Interest to Sank Centre Readers
For months Sank Centre citizens
have seen in these columns enthusi.
astic praise of Doan's Kidney Pills, by
residents of this locality.
Would these prominent people re-
commend remedy that had not prov
en- reliable.
Would they confirm their statement
after years had elapsed if personal
experience had not shown the remedy
to be worthy of endorsement
The following statement should
carry conviction to the mind of every
Sank Centre reader.
C. E. Farrar, PA Main street, N,
Alexandria, Mimi, says:
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of the work, they are out of luck. The
DRY will not hold person back if one
gets the operating. He is between the
fifteen and twenty in operating, if
am mistaken.
When a person gets on the ship
they will get the experience and two
weeks on ship will do more good than
two months at school. That is what
some cf the instructors say.
Just about time for my watch so
will have to quit. Best of wishes and
greetings to all whom I know.
Your "Ham" operator,
ri
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20
NEWSPAPER PLANT DAMAGE

NEWSPAPER PLANT DAMAGED
The office of the Park Region Echo
a newspaper of Alexandria, was en-
tered by enraged sitizens last Wednes-
day night and badly damaged. The
deed was done presumably, because
the editor, Carl A. Void, it is alleged,
has been disloyal to the United
States. Since the declaration Of war
upon Germany, it is said, the Alexan-
dria citizens have been up in arms
over Wold's attitude. The linotype
was smashed, the press badly damag-
ed and the letter files we're taken
from the place. There is no clue to
the parties who did the act.
FOR RENT-Good stock and grain
farm near Sank Centre. Inquire at the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20

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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-07-04
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

County of Abbeville.
Probate Court.
Citation for Letters of Adrninistra.
By ]. F. MILLER, Esq, Judge of
Whereas, Mary Valentine Adams,
hath made suit to me, to grant her
Letters of Administration of the
Estate and effects of Martha Valen-
tine Adams, late of Abbeville Coun-
ty, deceased.
These are therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kind
red and creditors of the said Martha
Valentine, deceased, that they be
and appear before me, in the Court
of Probate, to be held at Abbeville
Court House, on Thursday, July the
9Th, 1917. after publication hereof,
at II o'clock in the forenoon, to
show cause, if any they have, why
the said Administration should not
Given under my hand and seal OF
the Court, this 21st day of June, in
the wear of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen, ard In
the 141st year of American &nde'
pendence.
Published on the 9th day Of June
1917, in The Press and Banner anc
on the Court House door for the
time required by law:
J. F. MILLER,
6-e7-2, Judge of Probate.
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ALLIES ALL
Tune Dixie.

Tune Dixie.
Come let US haste to join our
brothers.
Belgians, British, French and others,
Allies all, hear their call, haste away,
let us go!
Hark! all the worlds appealing to US;
Cries from over seas pursue us,
Haste away, don't delay, let US 60,
freedom calls!
Chorus:
Let us live and die for freedom;
Hurrah, hurrah! in foreign lands
Well take our stand
To help the world to Freedom,
away! away!
Our President has called US,
Away, away, to help the world to
Freedom!
Italians, Russians, Poles, Roumanians
Indians, Japanese, Serbs and Syrians
Allies all, hear their call, haste away
let us 60,
All these, besides the crushed A.rmen-
ians,
We must join against barbarians;
Don't delay, haste away, let us 60,
Freedom calls.
Words by Mrs. A. H. Christensen.
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IF We Would Be Saved From a S to
rs Year War Our Country Must
Be Fully Aroused.

eff Germany by some brilliant
stroke or favoring accident should
destroy the British fleet or overthrow
the forces of the Allies on the west
tern front, the result would be ma
tional death, and quick national death
for this greatest of all the worlds
republics"
The foregoing statement was made
by Mr.. Pomeroy Burton, an Amer,
can by birth, now editor of the Lon,
don Daily Mail, before the Rotary
Convention, held in Atlanta last
week. The truth of Mr.. Burton's
statement is known to all intelligent
people in this country who have
cared to study the subject.
No man of average intelligence
can possibly look into the situation
carefully without realizing that every
word made in the statement we have
quoted is literally true. Until the
people of this country fully, under
stand that situation we shall not be
aroused to the fearful danger that
%confronts us. 1t is because the Man:
ufacturers Record has for the last
two years known the truth so clear
ly stated by MI. Burton that we
have increasingly sought to awaken
our country to this danger. Presi.
dent Wilson knows these facts, anc
every member of his Cabinet knows
them, and there is not an officer OF
the army and the navy who does moi
fully realize them. The officers OF
the army and the navy have under
stood this situation clearly. and since
the beginning of the European wal
they have been pleading with gu:
people to awaken to this reality. MIR
Burton predicted that unless thi:
country becomes fully aroused anC
organizes quickly, and on an enor'
nous scale, the war will last from
five to twenty-five years.
We have contented ourselves II
the belief that Great Britain anc
France could not be destroyed, anc
that the English fleet would save US
but we know now only too we'll thai
there is no assurance that the English
fleet can do this, and no assurance
that England and France can con
tinue to bear the terrific burden
which they have carried. This is oul
war. There never was a war in oul
history more thoroughly and wholly
our war than in the one in which we
are now engaged.
In discssing some phases of the
war situation Mr.. Burton stated facts
which should be more generally un'
dersood:
I maintain that this situation de-
mands far more than ever "complete
frankness with the people"-it de-
mands nationwide campaign of in
formation deliberately designed tt
bring the people quickly to a thor,
ough understanding of all phases OF
the war, of why we r in it, of the
kind of enemy we r fighting. Of
the urgent necessity for the whole
people of the United States to joir
with their very hearts and souls in
the stupendous task which lies imme'
diately ahead. The war program
which this task embraces cannot be
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describe from a public platform, but
all of them serving to show the peo-
ple here what they might expect in
the event of a German invasion of
the United States; what sort of enc
nv. in fact, it is that we are fighting;
EXPOSING the fendish deviltry which
caused thousands of poisoned candies
filled with typhus germs, to be drop
ned from German a%eroplanes Tor
Rumanian children to pick up and
eat: the tragic story of how the
Queens little boy, her youngest,
picked up one of these poison-laden
sweets in her garden ,ate it, sickened
almost at once, lowered between life
and death for weeks, and finally died
in her arms, this story being written
by the Queens W pen and sent TO
a lady who has recently returned to
New York and who has the letter
with her now; the shocking story OF
how brutal German soldiers forced
gentle and refined Rumanian women
to disrobe in public, and then drove
them in groups through the streets
the story of Rumania's pitiable plight
today, with disease raging uncheck-
ed for lack of surgeons, physicians
and medical supplies; the blood
curdling details of scores OF subma-
rina sinkings where non-combatants
victims were ruthlessly shot down,
or, when they escaped that horrible
fate, were cast adrift without food
or water, in small boats on the high
seas. to die one after the other from
madness and from thirst; and, in a
different category, the thrilling sto-
ries of those combats IN the air Wnlcn
are taking place every day oyer the
fighting lines in France, stories OF
courage and daring the like OF which
have never been equaled in the wild
est realms of fiction; the countless
istories of noble heroism, of human
sacrifice and suffering for a great
cause, which show in their true light
the details of modern warfare, SO
persistently concealed and so urgent
lfy needed to stir the peoples pulse
and to make them feel and realize
the truth and the full truth about
this gigantic struggle between Nigh,
and Right on the n side and Might
alone on the other.
Reverse this policy of secrecy, let
the people at home have these and
other true pictures of the war as ii
really is, and l firmly believe the
response would be electrical--the
people of the United States woulc
rouse as one maj to their task, fired
with patriotic fervor born of a full
and true understanding of what this
war e to them and their future
of the individual obligations it I'M
poses upon those at home as well as
upon those who r constantly fac
ing death in the firing line for the
sake of those at home.
And this, it seems to me, is Of
paramount Importance In view o.
circumstances which exist today
clearly indicating that, as this coun'
try organizes for war quickly OF
slowly, well or badly, earnestly OF
haltingly-so will the end of the wal
be soon or long in coming.
Marion Mcdonald of Atlanta, wa:
~ E.. IL. To-, Joo& C,,rdoyY
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made effective without the full CO.
operation OF the people. The CO.
operation cannot be expected until
the people have been aroused to a
full and complete understanding. OF
the war, of what it means to them
and their future, and of the obllga-
lions and responsibilities which de-
volve upon them if it is to be within
the next two years.
I would like to repeat with the ut
most emphasis what I had the prlvll-
eye of stating recently to the Mer-
chants Association of New York,
that it is absolutely essential for
those who are shaping the general
war program, without further delay
to organize and project, under Gov
eminent direction, a great and Tar
reaching campaign of information
designed to make the people under
sand this war. 1t should be made to
reach the eyes and the hearts and the
full understanding of the people by
freely using the advertising and the
news columns of every useful publ
cation in the United States, and by
using the movies, the billboards, the
postofices, the public buildings, the
railway stations and the public con,
yeyances, as. was done in the great
publicity campaigns which were sue
cessfully used to arouse the people
of England to a full sense of their
danger and their responsibilities at
a critical period of the war. In ad,
dition to this, the schoolrooms, the
lecture halls, the churches, the libra
ries, the city halls, the public squares
all the meeting places of the peo-
pie i'm every State of the Union
should resound with the voices OF
Americas greatest and most force
full speakers, telling the people the
full truth, the basic facts, about this
war.
President Wilson has made an ex'
cellent start in this direction by
pointing out to the people of the
! United States, in his Flag Day ad'
dress, that they have embarked upon
the gravest enterprise in American
history, that the task is one which
will call for great self-sacrifce, anc
making clear to them why this is so
Is it too much to hope that the Presi
QenC 5 Rag LAY SpeSSh 10 ehS Ivy
runner of a systematic and far-reach.
ing campaign to make clear to al
the people the full meaning of the
war If, coupled with this urgently
needed campaign, there could be &C
complished a radical revision of the
French and English censorship rules
permitting a much freer flow of al
kinds of wal facts and war develop
ments from the fighting areas thar
is possible under existing conditions
the effect, I feel sure, would be enor:
mously beneficial to the whole allied
cause.
For instance, would it not be the
height of wisdom to reverse the pol
icy which, even yet, conceals from
the world the full truth about the
incredible atrocities in Belgium
atrocities which, if possible, have
been outdone in Rumania, and which
up to now have not been publicly
disclosed; adopting a. new policy
which would release to the whole
world the story of appalling barbara
ties perpetrated by the German:
there-many of them too horrible tt
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S H GUERRY E II

Bishop W. A. Query will make his
annual visit to his congregation of
the Trinity church this week and
will hold services on Thursday night
at $3.50 o'clock. Every one is cor
daily invited to come.
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For Sale

The Lawson place,
containing 81 IA acres,
Just 2 miles from the
center of the city of Ab-
beville. A good dwell
ing, two tenant houses,
large barn a N d good
stables. A good pasture
and fine farming land.
500 acres land about
10 miles from Able
vile. Good tenant hous-
es and we'll improved.
Can give good terms.
Price S7500.O 90
1853 acres about two
miles from city limits of
|Abbeville, IS to- 80
a cres in cultivation:
Abundance of o O d
and plenty saw timber,
1.-TWO running streams on
It h e plantation. Lies
well. Price $4,000 per
acre.
128 acres about IL
mile outside city limits
Abbeville, three
horse farm open on the
a e, fine pasture,
plenty wood and water.
Price $45.00 per acre.
| I have quite a lot of
farming lands and city
property listed with me
flor sale. Come to see
me, I feel sure I can
please you if you wish
Ito buy any kind Of real
estate.
ROBT. S. LINK.
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Marion Mcdonald of Atlanta, was
over for the day last Sunday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-19
COMMERCE BUREAU
CHIEF IS DISMISSED

Washington, July 18.-Dr. Edward
E. Plat, chief of the commerce de-
partment's bureau of foreign and do
lnestic commerce, resigned at the re-
quest of Secretary Redfeld. No rea.
son was announced, but it is known
wide differences have existed between
Mr.. Redfeld and his assistant over the
administration of the export control
clause Of the espionage act.
AS chief of the bureau Dr. Pratt was
in active charge of operation of the
governments control OF exports which
went into effect Sunday morning. He
had just organized and started work.
ing division of export licenses with
G. A. Richards, New York exporter,
at it's head.
Secretary Redfield declined to dis
cuss the reasons for DR.. Pratt's dis
missal. All that he would say was
contained in this brief statement:
"While Dr. Pratt has many excel
lent qualities and much ability it was
deemed wise for administrative rea-
sons and for the good Of the service
that change be made. There will be
no other readjustments in the SERVICE -