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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20
ARTISTIC FITNESS
MISS ADAMS'S GOAL
Assigns Parts to Best Equipped
Actors Regardless of Foot
light Prominence

The nearest approach to the method that
before the war Is the system carried out
IN the Maude Adams company. In the con-
tinentRl theatres abroad the actors are COM
pelled to play the roles assigned them by
the directors II is not uncommon. there
fore, TO find the actor who had the domi-
mating role in the play given one night
enacting q small, Insignificant part In the
play given the following night
In this country the actor has always
fought this system tooth and nail. What
with the star system long runs and spe-
cinllxing in types of character portraiture.
the actors have been able virtually to
make the managers do their own bidding.
II is nothing in this country for an actor
20 decline an engagement with a coed sal
ary for the reason that he decides the role
given him to play to be unworthy Of his
talents.
Maude Adams engages her people for
their general fitness. In an actors contract
there is no stipulation OF the parts ct style
Of parts he Is to play. II is plain that he
must play the roles assigned him He
might think that on account Of his salary
he viii never be given a small role when
q less expensive player might handle It,
In this he is fooling himself
In the revival Of Quality Street few
seasons ago Angela ogden played Susan
Throssell. the part opposite that Of Miss
Adams, and fine acting role. During last
season Miss ogden had two lines In The
Little Minister" but this season she has
come into her own again with a good role
IN the last act Of "A Kiss for Cinderella"
Robert Payton Carter has a role in the
present play consisting OF six words and a
cough This capable actor had the role OF
Captain Hook the pirate chief, in Peter
Pan" prominent role in "Chantecler" and
fiat" parts in What Every Woman
Knows" and The Little Minister"
Wallace Jackson, after long alternating
between footmen and types of servants,
has at last been rewarded with a good bit"
IN "A Kiss fer Cinderella" David Tor
renee. who has had prominent roles in Miss
Adams's productions Of Joan OF Arc"
"As You Like It" and in the Barrie plays,
has the small but amusing role of the
cockney king in the ball scene of the new
play.
Ada Boshell. remembered as the garru-
TO play everything from first old woman"
TO general utility parts in the plays pre-
seRsed by Miss Adams during recent sea-
sons At present she has the role of Mrs.
Maloney and that of the Queen with the
brogue in "A Kiss for Cinderella"
How Miss Adams succeeds in doing what
no other manager has been able to accom-
plish in the assignment Of roles no one
knows, but the explanation may lie in the
fact that her associates like her and know
that she is always just in her treatment
Of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20
SAM HOUSTON'S WARS
THRILLINGLY STAGED
Film Play "The Conqueror," Entailed
Liberal Expenditure of Costly
Munitions

The forests of Cahuenga Canyon, near
Los Angeles, recently echoed and re-echoed
for two weeks to the notes Of war while
Director r. A Walsh, of the William Fox
studios was taking his battle scenes for
the productions starring William Farnum in
THE Conqueror." which will be the chief
feature at the Arcadia Theatre next week
During these fourteen days 500 horses
raced back and forth across the spacious
plains adjoining the canyon. Four hundred
and nifty Mexicans, a like number of Indian
braves and 100 men and women represent
ing settlers on the border were carried
daily to the grounds, where they went
through all the motion of fierce and priml-
time warfare.
Studious research rewarded Mr.. Walsh
with an exact knowledge of the artillery of
the stirring days Of Sam Houston. The
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20

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along" 'isnt nsh coma.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20

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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28

L. E. Fem is spending several days
in the city with home folks.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
NEGROES FATHER SHOOTS
MAN WHO KILLED SON

ThOmasVille, Dec, 2S-With a war
rant sworn out for him for the mul-
der OF Willis Lanier, Ire Sneed, q
young negro, is dangerously i'll in the
hospital here from wounds inflicted
by George Lanier, the father Of the
negro killed After shooting Willis
Lanier, for which no cause has been
discovered Sneed ran away but was
aiterWard caught by George Lanier,
VINO cut him with a knife very scr
iousiy in several places.
Tho affair occurred in tho country,
on Christmas day, on the place Of
Alex Sheperd
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
THE RED CROSS.

Iiterminable folds of gauze
For those whom we shall never see,
Remember, when your fingers pause,
That every drop Of blood to stain
This whiteness, falls for you and me,
Part of the price that keeps us free
To serve our own, that keeps us clean
From shame that other women know
o, Saviors we have never seen,
Forgive us that we are so slow.
God-if that blood should drop n vain,
And we have let our moment go!
Amelia Josephine Burr.
X
THOUGHTS FOR TODAY.
! Love takes the hardness out Of duty.
The Christian who stops with duty,
and does not attain love, misses much.
Elk
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28

Paul Grimsley has returned home
after a visit to relatives at Valdosta
and Abel.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
THIEVES TOOK AWAY
GROCERYNEAN'S SAFE

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. Evidently
deciding it would be unwise to blow a
safe in d downtown .grovery store
which they burglarized yesterday
morning, the thieves took it out and
loaded it on a motor truck and hauled
ii away Whether they have got into
ii yet is not known. but when they do,
and if they do, they win find the muni-
Hcent sum Of $3.50 to reimburse them
for their troubles and expense -.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28

L. E. Fem is spending several days
in the city with home folks.
X
Paul Grimsley has returned home
after a visit to relatives at Valdosta
and Abel
| Mrs Marshall, Of Ashburn, is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs E. NJ. Pope.
Terrell Frasuer is spending a few
days with relatives in Americas.
x
Miss Sarah Hightower, of Amerii
Gus, is the guest fMiss Laura Frasuer
Mrs. A. c. Frasuer spent Wednesday
with relatives in Americas.
x
Mrs. Sam Slade and little son are
Twisting relatives in Vienna.
X
Mrs H. J. Rape has been quite sick
this week at the Commercial Hotel.
DR.. J. G. Patten spent Christmas in
Abbeville with relatives.
X
Miss Sara Myers was the guest yes
terday of Miss Fredrica Boatright
en- route to her home at Thomasville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie Greer, and
children, Murray and Gladys, of At
more, Ala, are visiting relatives in
the city.
Werner Jordan passed through the
city yesterday from Columbus ell
route to Fl. Screven where he is now
stationed.
Miss Mary Rape spent Christmas in
Abbeville the guest Of Miss Belle Pat
ten
One CT The oddities of Madrid is a
newspape- rr.11cd with ink contain
ing phosphorus SO that the paper can
be read in the dark.
XXX
It is calculated that the average
speed at which a golf ball leaves the
tee is 800 miles an hour-about five
time that Of an express train.
X X
Roosevelt Walker and uncle, w. P
Roosevelt, of Macon, are spending the
holidays with Rev. John Moore
Walker in this city.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
DESTROY ELEVEN
GERMAN PLANES

ROME, Dee, 27.-El ---cn Austrc Ger
man airoplanes have been brought
down by the British-Italian forces in
the big aerial battle which developed
when the Teutons made an unsucc cess
full attempt to bomb Treviso, sixteen
miles north of Enice, it was announced
by the war office today
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
DEPUTY WARDEN
KILLED BY ALIEN
'CoUNTERFElTER USED IRON Dor
ON DR.. BROCK.

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 27.-Dr. James
R. Brock, OF Trenton, Ga, deputy war
den Of theFederal Penitentiary, was
killed by prisoner named Popoff,
who used an iron bar The only rea-
son Popoff gave for his attack was
st was personal matter" Popoff is
said to be an alien enemy and was
sentenced to five years for counter
feiting from the northern district of
Ohio,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
INsTAi! OFFICERS

The installation of officers Of Tallu-
lah Atkins Chapter NO. "a, order Of
the Eastern Star will take place Fri
day night at the Masonic hail. a
business meeting will be held prompt
ly at 1880 and the installation about
S:15 Any near friends Or members
of families will be welcomed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
n n X
WAR COM MAND MENTS
FOR WOMEN.

TIE war commandments for the wo-
men Of America were proposed last
night by the womens committee of the
Council of National Defense, of which
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw is chairman,
with suggestions that they be made
the basis for New Years resolution.
Here is the new dialogue:
do not chatter. Keep to yourself
the news you hear.
DO not listen to alarmists or slack.
ers.
BE moderate in your spending
neither lavish in gifts nor sordid in
your economics.
Encourage national industries,
avoiding important ones.
DO not look upon the departure for
the front Of those dear to you as an
abandonment. Be with them constant
ly in thought as they are with you,
particularly in the hour of danger.
10 Lot cohlpldLl VI the ulIHcultles,
annoyances and privations caused by
the war
Multiply your activities in your
home as well as outside.
Exhibit day by day and hour by
hour the same courage a man shows
upon the field of battle
No matter how long the struggle
may last await victory with strength
and patience.
"If you are stricken in your dearest
affections bear your sorrow nohly that
your tears may be worthy Of The hero
whose death you mourn"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-28
SIX O'CLOCK DINNER

Miss Lillian Cannon was hostess
on Wednesday evening entertaining
with a lovely six o'clock dinner. The
prettily appointed table had as a cen
trail decoration crystal vase of red
carnations, Guests included five
charming school girls who are home
for the holidays: Misses Ruth Ed
wards, Bula Bivins, Fredrica Boat
right, Evelyn Roebuck and Ruth
Wilkes. Later in the evening the
following young men called Messrs
William Webster, Carl Cannon, Paul
Wilkes, Gladstone Fleming, Joe Wal
tiers, jim Ward and Homer Bartee.
British Red Cross work is not cost
ing more than $25 minute.
Every twenty-ninth person in the
United States is the owner of an auto
mobile.
The new warehouse which the navy
is building at the New York Navy YARD
will have 16 acres of floor space.
Jack Binns who leaped into fame as
a wireless hero a few years ago, is
now lieutenant in a Canadian instruc
ton camp.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
More Ways for Missoula
Women to Help Win War

meal, one cup graham flour, tAo cups
sour milk, three -fourths cup molasses,
one teaspoon salt one and one -half
teaspoons soda, onc-half cup raisins
or desired).
Combine. Steam three hours. then
remove covers and dry in the oven tn
brown the top. Bread may also be
made in a double boiler.
Whole Wheat or Rye.
One cup whole wheat or rye. one
cup white flour half teaspoon salt. half
teaspoon soda. one tablespoon sugar.
one teaspoon melted fat. Sour milk to
make drop batter about one cup.
Graham Mullins.
one one fourth cups graham flour.
one cup white flour half cup sour
milk, third cup molasses. three fourths
teaspoon soda. one teaspoon salt
Mix and slit dry ingredients, add
milk to moIasses and combine mix
lures.
In any of the above recipes one cup
sweet milk and four teaspoons baking
powder may be substituted for the sour
milk and soda.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
Says 100000 Coolies Are
Aiding Allies in Europe

Des Moines, Iowa.-People do not
realize the work the English are doing
in the world war;. declares DR.. }. T.
Priestley, who has returned from a
three months tour of the east with his
wife and two srandsons James and
Joseph Priestley.
On the. Empress of Russia, on which
the Priestley party returned to Ameri-
ca from Japan, the English had on
board $500 picked Chinese coolies who
were being shipped to the front.
These coolies, Dr. Priestley said,
were perfect types Of manhood, regu-
lar giants. and will be used for trans
portation and carrier purposes in the
trenches. He says that the English
already have transported 200. 900 coolies
to the war front. Four of the men can
carry 500 pounds all day long at trot
The men are landed at Vancouver,
shipped overland to the Atlantic coast,
and then to the war front.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02


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Over slumbers keep;
Rock me to Sleep mothsr--seek n Q
No doubt IN
anything
shore and
to that grooming lullaby.
Even indeed who cannot recall
and caused the childish
thinks of It
Well
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cradle be a
classical
Nod without rocking and without
motor
mothers
permitted to interfere with their
baby
infant maids
lulabes
to disturb
An American specialist
Of the
Tutonc
he
nnexible
on Of nothers tenderness
higher than in homes said this
tonal child
It.
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hence win
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sentmental-yes; but what the to
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02

There are not only few ways to
save wheat. sugar. flats and other foods
needed to feed the soldiers in Europe.
This Is evident from the additional list
of recipes prepared by Clara Bush.
county food demonstration.
Missoula housewives who use the
recipes instead of those demanding
more wheat and sugar will have the
satisfaction of knowing that they are
doing a great deal to help win the war.
Bread.
General proportions:
Muffins-One measure of liquid to
about two measures of flour. Biscuit
one measure of liquid and two and
two thirds measure of flour.
General directions for mixing:
/. Mix and sift dry ingredients.
2. Measure and mix together liq-
uid ingredients.
3. Combine liquid and dry ingre-
dents.
Bake Immediately in hot pans in
hot oven.
For sweet milk use two level tea
spoons of baking powder to one cup Of
iiour When no eggs are used. IL eggs
are used less will be required. For
sour milk use one half teaspoon of
soda to one cup of sour milk. If fat is
used work It into the dry ingredients
or add 1t melted last with as little
stirring as possible.
Mothers Mullins.
Half cup oatmeal, half cup graham
flour. half cup corn meal or rye flour.
half cup white flour, one cup sour
milk, half teaspoon soda, tablespoons
molasses, half teaspoon salt.
Soak the oatmeal and corn meal sew
eral hours in the sour milk. Add mo-
lasses, dry ingredients sifted and ia,
(melted) last
Boston Brown Bread.
One cup rye flour. one, cup corr
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
Both Young and Old
Forget Other Duties
to Play Their Part

Mary" was heard no more. but instead
came the request:
May l go over and knit with the
girls across the street."
Such was the spirit with which Mis-
soula answered the call Of the Red
Cross for aid in supplying the soldiers
with those comforts Il = Uncle Sam
failed to provide for.
n Boys Catch Spirit.
One day during the middle Of the
summer three little boys, all under
ten years Of age, could be seen sitting
In the shade of a maple tree on the
south side. A casual observer would
have noticed nothing unusual but a
closer view would have revealed the
startling spectacle of seeing three rosy
checked boys-knitting.
Only IA few days before. those same
little chaps would have been found in
the back yard playing pirate. or some
thing of similar nature. but on that
day they were knitting. and knitting
with all the seriousness of their moth
ers and sisters.
At first. the idea seemed ludicrous.
Some We're prone to remark that 1t was
only fanciful idea that appealed to
tho youths for the moment and that
soon they would go back to their old
sports.
But they did not go back to their
games. At least not long enough to en-
tirely neglect their knitting. Instead
the idea began to spread and soon other
boys in the neighborhood began to
plead with their mothers for knitting
needles and for someone to teach them
how to knit
When the school opened for the year,
the teachers were fired with the enthu-
siam with which the little chaps were
endeavoring to do their part in the
world war and knitting clubs were
formed among the small boys. Nearly
every grade school in the city at the
present time has one or more clubs of
this nature and the boys knit with the
same enthusiasm as they play their
games.
So Missoula has established a rank
ing position among the cities that are
doing their bit in y BIZ way. Knitting
needles click night and day and every
day hundreds Of yards Of yarn are
transformed into material of some kind
for the soldiers
When the women meet on the street
there is a conspicuous absence of the
usual greeting about the weather and
health: instead we hear:
How do you do? How Is your knit
ting?"
Grandmother has no need to say
now that things are not as they were
when she was girl. Instead. she
beams over her double spectacles and
smiles to herself with the thought the
women of today are playing their part
In the war in a big way.
And when the boys go ''over the top"
for that great charge across mo Mans
Land" and into the trenches of the
Hun. where the common enemy of
mankind will be wiped out forever, the
hearts of those boys will he kept warm
by the sweater or muffler that was
made for them by the mothers and
wives and sisters who are knitting
around the home fires that will ever be
kept burning until those boys come
back again.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
Small Boys Of City Join in
Making Sweaters for the
Soldiers at Front.

The great army of knitters of tht
United States has been modified an6
the mammoth task of preparing sweat
ers. mufflers and other wearing ap.
parel for the soldiers who are going tt
take up the fight in the trenches OF
western Europe has begun in earnest
Already the Red Cross headquarters In
Washington have been piled high with
supplies for tile soldiers and many
boxes have beea shipped across the At.
Iantic for those men who have arrived
on French sol.
When the t,all for volunteers in this
knitting army was issued Missoula
vomen werj among the first to re-
spond. It wasn't struggling few that
appeared at the Red Cross headquar-
ters, but instead the women as a
whole offered their services as knitters
for the soldiers.
Tattina needles were dropped and
the croclette work was left unfinished
Just as the farmers answered the call
to arms In the days of the revolution by
leaving their plows in the unfinished
furroW. Conscription was not necessary
to enlist the women of the city. The Red
Cross head committee was kept busy
getting yarn to supply those who Of
fered their services.
Bridge clubs were forgotten and
women who had never held knitting
needle in their hands before set to
work diligently to learn the simple
stitches necessary to make mufflers
and wristlets.
Grandmothers, who had attracted lit
tie attention as they whiled away the
long hours of the day by knitting in
front of the fire. Immediately found
themselves the center of attraction and
soon they became instructors for the
younger women. Knitting no longer
was considered a pastime for old
ladies but = pecessary occupation for
every Woman who wished to do her bit
In thiS war.
or course. In many cases there was
a brother or husband who had Joined
the colors and had written home saying
that sweaters were very much in de-
mand. This was a stimulus in many
cases. but there were also many Mis-
soula women who had no relatives in
the army but who caught the spirit of
patriotism and felt It their duty to knit
because some soldiers without mother
or sister or wife would be feeling the
cold blast blowing across mo Mans
Land"
But the call for every woman to do
her bit by knitting was not heard by
the women alone-To, indeed-for 1t
was only a short time when the little
girls Of Missoula discovered that they
too, could fight the battle of democracy
as we'll as daddy and big brother. 1t
was then only a matter of time before
the little fingers were clicking the
knitting needles with as much rapidity
rs mother
Dolls were cast aside and making
mud pies and playing house soon be-
came events of the past.
Mother, may, 30 over to play with
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
Holding Cotton in South
for 60 Cents Per Pound

Greenwood, Miss-Two bales of cot
ton known as improved Weber" and
the seed from them have been sold by
c. r. Mitchell OF North Greenwood
for s727.l5. One bale. which weighed
S42 pounds. brought AZ cents pound
and $5l.50 for the seed. a total OF $685.
Sc. The other bale weighed sos pounds
and brought SO cents pound and
$5289 for the seed. a total Of $367.49.
For one lot OF more than 800 bales
stored here the owner has refused SO
cents a pound. He says he will not
sell until he can get so cents.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
$75 in Pennies and Dimes
Settle for Lawyers Fec

Buffalo. \. "a counsel fee of s75
was paid the other day to the lawyers
representing Mrs. Yvette Montgomery
In her recently settled separation ac-
ton.
The husband, Daniel Montgomery of
l5s Exchange street. was relieved
through the settlement OF the case
from paying the temporary alimony
ordered by the court, but the counsel
fee had to be paid. so Montgomery APP
peared at the lawyers office with "A
bundle containing 1000 pennies. 900
nickels. 141 dimes. and some paper
money, satisfying their claims.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
Home Spirit
Families Join on Thanks
giving for 10th Time.

The enduring friendships and so
cial traditions OF the New Eng
land states find their counterpart
in Missoula as in few other west
ern cities. Where the residents
move in and out with the restless
ness that characterizcs the west,
friendships are made and then for
gotten or kept alive by means of
letters and pictures.
In Missoula. the home spirit
rules. People come upon one call
or another. like the location and
remain. Last Thursday, the groups
gathered about THANKSGIVING din
ner tables, were in several in
stances neighbors of long stand
ing. The families of Clarence Il.
Prescott and Frank Mcllaffic ate
turkey together, this year, for the
twentieth consecutive season. The
dinner has been served in various
houses, Mrs. Prescott and Mrs.
McHatfie taking turns as host
esses. One year. the dinner was
served in the county jail, Mr..
Prescott being at that time sheriff
of Missoula county.
a similar instance or established
custom was the gathering of the
families of IL. G. Myers and
Charles Hartman about a turkey"
table at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Myers on Woodford street. 1t was
lust II years ago that Mr.. and
Mrs. Hartman were married at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Myers, and
the anniversary has been cele-
bratcd by the two families each
year since that date, with but one
exception.