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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10
JAPANESE-GERMAN
PACT MYTH, CLAIM
United States Does Not Know of the
Treaty Mentioned by RedS-Can't
Be Sent to Senate.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-There is
no proof of a secret japanese German
treaty, negotiated last October, relating
to the mutual rights of these nations III
Russia, according to officials here. The
treaty which the President is called
upon to transmit to the senate under a
resolution offered by Senator Lodge, Re-
publican leader, is a myth so far as the
United States government is aware, al
though there have been persistent re-
ports of its existence.
Investigation here shows that despite
the frequency of these reports and de.
spite announcements by Bolshevik au-
thorities that such treaty exists, nc
responsible official of the entente gov
ernments or of the United States gov
ernment has ever seen the treaty text
The japanese government firmly denies
the existence of the reported pact and
this denial, it is said, has never beer
refuted by the production of proofs by
/ the Bolsheviki.
The fact that the Bolsheviki undoubt
| edly did find copies of genuine secret
| treaties when they took over the Russian
archives gives semblance of color t.
| the reports, but officials point out tina
| the Japanese German pact rs reported
| to have beennegotiated as late as Octo
| Der of last year and that consequent,
| there was no reason for its being trans
mitted to a hostile Bolshevik govern
ment in Russia even admitting the trutl
of its existence.
! The impression in official circles her
is that some individual japanese belong
ing to the pro German japanese ele
ment in Japan may have sought to ne
] gotiate such a treaty, and may ever
have come in contact with German
agents at Stockholm.
/ But it is doubtful that the govern
ment of Japan has eognizahce of tn
plan or approved of it. Anyway if tn
! Lodge resolution is passed it will b
answered by the statement that TIL
United States government knows of n
such treaty as the President is Gale
upon to communicate to the senate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

APPEALS TO UNITED
STATES AND ENGLAND
The Cession of Shantung to Japan Is
Unjust, Unwise and Dangerous to Flu
ture Peace-Threatens Political Sta
bility and Economic Interest.

WASHINGTON, July l0.-Advices
were received in Washington yesterday
stating that the Picking Anglo-American
association has unanimously adopted res
olution denouncing in forcible terms the /,
settlement of the Shantung question at
This association is the strongest and |
most representative body of foreigners
in North China, including in its large
membership diplomatists, government ad-
visers, journalists business men, and fl
nanclers as well as missionaries and teach
ers of all creeds and denominations
The appeal of the association, which
is a strong manifesto, is directed to the
British and United States governments.
1t is pointed out that the Shantung de-
clsion is not only unjust, but Is highly
unwise and dangerous to the peace of
the world and the establishment of po-
litical stability in the Far East, and that
1t raises "a most serious hindrance TO
the development of the economic inter
ests of China anG other countries
| The text of the resolution is as follows:
while recognizing that a supreme at
tempt is being made to set up new in
ternational order in which secret treaties,
| political aggression, and the settlement of
international disputes by war shall have
no place. and approaching that these
/ lofty aims can only be achieved by over
| coming difficulties of which we III China
have not a full knowledge, this assoeia-
ton learns with keenest disappointment
and deepest sympathy with the Chinese
| people, the decision of the peace confer
ence to transfer to Japan the former Ger
man rights in Shantung
/ '.Ne express our solemn conviction that
| this decision will create conditions that
must inevitably bring about extreme dis
cord between the Chinese people and
Japan, and raise a most serious hindrance
| to the development of the economic in
terests OF China and other countries \
settlement which perpetnates the condi-
tons created by Germany's aggression
in Shantung in 1898, conditions that led
to similar action on the part of other
states that were contributing causes Ia
the disorders in North China in 1900
and that made inevitable the Russo-Jap
anese war. cannot make for peace in the
Far East, for political stability in China
itself, nor fer development OF trade and
commerce equally open to ALL
Further evil consequences of condi
tions which are not only subversive o
the principle of national self-determina
ton, but also denial of the policy o
the Open Door and of the principle o
equality of opportunity, will be great,
acccnuated if Japan, near neighbor, BIZ
now substituted for Germany, whose cen
ter of political and economic activitie
, was on the other side of the globe.
Therefore. we, the members of the
Picking Anglo-American association re
solve that representations be made t.
the British and American governments
urging that the states taking part in til,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10
At s O'clock

Senator Johnson appears in Burlington un-
der the auspices of the League for the Pres
ervatiOn of American independence.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10
PENNSYLVANIA KISS WORTH $500
Merchant Who Stole One from En-
ployee Must Paw.

WASHINGTON, Pa, July 10-The
price of kiss was fixed at $500 by
Judge J. A. McIlvain when he sen
fenced Israel Schalet, merchant of
Benteyville, convicted last week of
simple assault upon Helen Check, a
young girl who worked in his store.
Schalet, the testimony showed, made
advances to the girl by kissing her. She
resented his Familiarity and subsequent
~ a prosecution was brought against
Schalet and the jury found him guilty.
Schalet must pay the fine of $500 and
the costs or spend three months in jail
Counsel for Schalet asked for parole.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

The orifice on the whales ear is scarce
~ perceptible, yet it is said that the
whales hearing is so acute that shin
crossing its track half mile distant vii
cause it to dive instantly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

The population of India speak about
40 different languages, and are divided
up into 43 distinct nationalities. II
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

On water alone horse can live %
days, but he will last only FIVE days eat
ing solid food without drinking
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

peace conference devise and carry through
a just settlement which will not endan-
ger the safety of China and the peace OF
the world"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

Something good for something done,
makes you and him onc--a brotherhood
| of two.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-10

In proportion to its size fly walks Is
times faster than a man can run.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Making People
Laugh Is Serious
York, Says Name

There are two kinds Of people, those
who think cartoons are funny and
those who do not.
Some people will be convulsed over
the social aspirations of the rivals of
the Jones's; others think that couple
of strange looking children putting a
tack on papa's chair Is just the fun
NEST drawing on earth. AS for US, we
never could get up much enthusiasm
over some June bugs with shoes and
hats on capering about under an ap-
pie tree, and we always thought that
1T was an awful waste of good ma
terial to present Mutt and Jeff and
Bobby Bumps and such-like on the
screen
And then we stayed for the cartoon
at the Rivoli one Sunday and thought
1t was the funniest thing we ever had
listened to. We use that word "listen"
sdvlsedly, as all will know who have
sat through comedy st the Rivol.
named Max Name VINO has the soul
of Beethoven and the humor of Mark
Twain. The cartoons, as presented on
the screen, seemed dull old things to
him just as they did to US, so he set
about improving them.
He had at hand a number of musical
instruments which will make queer
sounds like man being kicked, for
instance, or trembling with fright or
laughing. Name experimental with
these and every one was delighted. He
made the funny little slhouettes live
and breathe, and then he became am
bilious. He added to his collection of
instruments, and those he could not
purchase he made.
If you never have seen Rivoli COM
edy go and see one and listen to the
orchestral effects. Name puts on all
of these comedies himself. We were 20
delighted with them that we wanted to
see the little drummer boy" at close
range and find out if he had a sense of
humor or if those effects just hap
pened. And, as ever, this professional
humorist is serious and hard working,
just like +. P. A. or Irwin Cobb. Moth
ing that he does just happens.
Hugo Riesenfeld invited us both to
lunch with him at Rector's one day last
week, and we talked it over. And
Name told us that he tried each effect
again and again until he felt that it
would get over.
Sometimes I work all night over a
picture, and in the cold, gray dawn
fall exhausted, exclaiming: There,
think that is quite funnyl'" And then
Mr. Manne told US of O. scheme which
he has to fit cartoon around his musi-
cal effects. 1t has already been ap-
proved by Bud Fisher. and, further
more, 1T has received our sanction. As
u. b. 5. used TO say, "It's bear"
II. L.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Lucy Cotton i'm
Max MARGIN Film

Gerald Bacon announces that he has
signed Lucy Cotton for his first pro-
duction, screen version Of Max Mar
Gins play, Substitute Prisoner.p re-
titled "Sunup," which will be started
next week at the Bacon -Backer studio.
1t was previously announced that Mr..
Bacon had titled the Marcin play "At
Sunrise" but it was learned that q
stage play is now under production by
Smith q Golden bearing the same
title. In Difference to Messrs Smith
d Golden Mr.. Bacon has changed the
title to "Sunup"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

discretion, and yet It must be adver-
tised as the most daring" picture ever
produced: it endeavors to exalt us with
a solemn requiem and divert us with
comic relief, just as friend of ours.
wishing to produce "Macbeth," said he
thought brighter and prettier scenery
might do lot toward Tightening it up.
Consequently we see only scraps Of
anything and joggle about instead Of
going forward there is no cumula-
tive interest whatever. for just as you
are giving yourself up to one emotion
you are snached out of it and bounced
into another
No account of Neilan picture would
be complete without mention Of its
photography, particularly of those
lovely long shots with their curiously
classic elegance and grace. in which
we do not know his (nor his camera
man's) equal. We think no director
mas keener sense of beauty: the
groups that line the Belgian roads are
like the groupings of beautiful frezs
and all out of doors abounds in light.
cloudy light, light flushed with noon
time but never murky nor merely
dulled as every other out-of-door pho
tography we know of-except, perhaps.
Tourner ENTHUSIASTICALLY is.
We do not know if it is because Il is
so various as we'll as so fine that we
can never get enough Of Mary Alden's
acting; when Matt Moore has pre-
sented Nol as pleasant and manly
fellow he has done all that a long. but
none too thankful, part permits. The
plums Of the pudding fall to Wesley
Barry is the Kansas urchin, and if anv-
body could make them digestiblc he
could. The moment when he is pitched ID
out OF the fleeing motor and left
among the Germans has in its ACTING
the real soul of a little boy in such q
plight. Let us now slight all the rest
Of an admirably chosen cast to noint
10 the hameless young man who, wher
the heroine asks, "Why do those Ger.
mans look at me SO ?" leans against the
side CT her car and outlooks the Ger.
mans, look for look. We don't think
that young man is going to be name
less long, and we want it on recorf
that we said so.
About Blanche Sweet, we really are
AFRAID to say what we think. In s
world where nothing perfect is" We
might be offering proof that she ddn'
exist. Besides, as most Of that sam.
words poetry seems to have beer
written about her, it Will do as vel
as any review Of ours.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
What Rupert Hughes THINKS
OF ''7he objectionable Sin -

action is slowed down to ne-eighth
the normal would be a wonderful way
of showing people how she cries. 1t
isn't a matter of simply making the
tears come, but she is absolutely CON
vulsed with grief when she cries 1t
is very interesting. should like to
know how she does i'll"
And We smiled at Major Hughes's
naivete Just as though any man ever
could hope to know how she does it
or why There are at least ifty-seven
different reasons, and one of them is
when you stay at tea so late that you
haven't time to put on your new gown
to wear to the Griffith opening.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

The L. Z. Waterman Company has
bought out the entire house for to-
morrow evenings performance Of
Trials of Faith" at the Harris The
atre, and will distribute the tickets
among its employees. The manage
ment also announces that the seats for
the evening performance of Nav 23
have been bought by the Rotary Club.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
By Virginia Tracy

For some reason we find it an ex-
ceptionally uncongenial task to reg
ister disappointment in "The Unpar-
donable Sin" Perhaps this is because
anything that restores Blanche Sweet
10 US has already earned our gratitude;
perhaps we suspect our own imagina-
ton as a we. blanket, already too sod
den with five years of deluge in blood
and atrocities, in rape and counter rape,
ever to take fire again. Then have We
any right to ask that a picture shall
ne greater than the book from which
the picture is taken?
Vet that is exactly what any pict-
ure dealing with scattered individual
motions gathering together into one
Immense and supreme motion has got
10 be-an intensified, drama tized, high
selief projection of the story's theme,
rs spirit, the story and something
more happy thought for the author
contemplating 2 scenario of "War and
Peace" To grapple thus with the
tory of the invasion OF Belgium was
indeed the task for giant; it came
.S- be too much for Rupert Hughes and
F.. has proved too much for Marshall
eilan.
Taking all this into account, we still
believe that we have reasonable case
against the picture in that it partakes
lavishly Of the books faults and scarce
lv at all OF its often extraordinary
rrtues. For instance:
1t will be remembered that the novel
opens with the household of old Mrs.
Windsor and her son, Noll-the Ameri-
can son of a German American mother
VINO live in a mid Western town.
These two are for the first time trife
it is so bitter against the Germans
and believes SO easily the vile stories
told of them in Belgium. With his
mother in mind, Noll begins even to
quarrel in public in Germany's de
fence; why must his country take sides
so violently in European quarrel?
1t hasn't got anything TO do with Amer
ica, anyhow. Then one October even
ing-oh, such an American evening in
such an American small town street,
before his so mddle-class American
porch, with his mother sitting rock
ing on it! there drops to earth q
faiuting girl. She is carried into Noll's
house, where every medical aid and ex-
pertinent fail to wake her; she is in a
trance OF suspended animation, brought
on by some vital shock; ahe has been
literally scared out of her wits. There
She continues to lie in the much shak-
en- household of the good Windsors, a
mystery in a. commonplace life. herself
all elegance and beauty; a little sleep
ing princess, who fires the slow fancy
OF rather stolid youth to that pitch
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

Blanche Sweet in 1.-THE objectionable
Sin" Is seen at the Broadway.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

Broken Blossoms" the new Griffith
picture, is being shown at George NJ
Cohan's Theatre
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

ally good-looking suit in Love Assur-
ance.'
What sort of goods is rhat?" asked
some one.
English sun CLOTH he returned. Il
wear it because like the shade"
A certain attractive house in Laurel
Canyon. Los Angeles. is being put into
apple pie order and holiday attire. Ruth
stonehouse has wired her friends in
Hollywood that she is about to return
10 the land Of sunshine after wear
spent in New York when she was work
ing on THE Master Mystery"
Under the supervision Of Harry Levy
the Universal Industrial Department
has completed delightful domestic
comedy drama entted "straigh.
Goods This production is one Of the
clevercst bits Of farce mixed with
moments when the action reaches the
dramatic
Henry 3. Warmers first motion piet-
ure production since joining the forces
of Jesse y. Hampton i'm California Will
be released some Time in June. The
picture is The Nan Who Turned
White written by i. McGrew Willis.
and prepared for screening by George
Elwood jerks. Jesse D. Hampton per
sonaliy directed this play, which is a
story Of life in Arabia.
The Petal on the Current, ,hs
Fannie Hurst Cosmopolitan novelette,.
in which Nary MacLaren viii star. !.
being directed by Tod Browning. Miss
MacLaren's leading man viii be Robert
Anderson, who first rose to prominence
as Monsieur Cuckoo in the Griffith pro-
duction, *Hearts Of the World Fritzie
Ridgeway, and Ina Claire are in sup
port Of the star
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
.Shud0aus on The Screen

Doris Kenyon has a namesake in
Calcutta. Her name is Doris Kenyon
VernueX
Please explain what all this when
B. c. w. D." means. 1t seems a bit
confusing,
Eugene O'Brien's first starring vebi-
Gle for Selznick bears the perfect title,
The Perfect Lover
Alice Joyce wrote the sketch which
Joyce and Lewis are presenting at the
Palace. Half Of the team IS Alice's
brother.
Charles Ray is learning TO play the
piano and to be prizeAghter He
has to do both i'll his next picture. He
is in training with Colleen Moore and
Al Kauffmann
GLADDEN. James, who enjoyed such
pronounced success opposite Alice
Joyce in "The Third Degree has been
engaged to play in new Harry Morey
picture now under production
Elliott Dexter is to be starred under
the Famous Players Lasky banner. Mr.
DeXter's contract covers a period of
years. His first picture will be The
Admirable Crichton," the first play of
Sir James NJ. Barrie to reach the
screen.
Glare Briggs, our own cartoonist.
with the assistance of his movie troupe,
established a record for Victory Note
sales in front of the Aeolan Building
on Forty y-second Street last week, when
S25,000 worth of Victory Notes were
sold to the admiring populace.
Bryant Washburn wears an unusu-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
New Films at the Theatres

New Films at the Theatres
At the Rivoli Theatre Dorothy Gish
will have an opportunity to display her
talent as comedienne in her latest
Paramount picture, "Ill Get Him Yet"
Richard Barthelmess is the leading
man.
A feature of the programme will be
the ballet arranged by Adolf Bolm. In
its Italian setting of the eighteenth
century, designed by John Wenger. it
suggests the carnival in Venice. The
dancers will be Margaret Leeraqs, Ed
win Strawbridge and Gaird Lesley.
The music is the third in the series of
Liszt's "Caprice Valses" based on a
theme from Lucia di Lammern oor."
A comedy. a Prizma of Glacier Park.
and the Rivoli Pictorial will complete
the bill. The musical programme will
consist of Suppe's "Pique Dame" over
ture. James Harrod will sing Kreis-
ler's "The Old Refrain"
Ethel Clayton in "The Woman Next
Door" will be shown at the Strand
Theatre. 1t is an adaptation Of Car
olyn Wells's novel "Vicky Van"
"1tasco Makes Her Bow is the title of
new Chester-Outing travel scenic A
new "Analysis of Motion" subject will
also be shown, as will. comedy, the
Strand Topical Review. edited by Di-
rector Plunkett, and Topics Of the
Day" The vocalists for the week are
Redfern Hollinshead, the popular Cana
dian tenor, and the Strand Ladies'
Quartette. Ralph H. Brigham and
Herbert Sisson will render selections
on the grand pipe organ and the SYM
phony Orchestra will play excerpts
from 'The Fortune Teller" Carl
Edouarde and Alois Reiser will con-
duct.
Broken Blossoms" the new Griffith
picture, is being shown at George NJ
Cohans Theatre
Pauline Frederick in Zone Week Of
Life" will be seen at the Rialto. The
play has been arranged for the screen
by Willard Mack. In the company are
Thomas Holding, Sydney Ainsworth
and Corinne Barker
A Sunshine comedy, "The Bell Hops
Secret" the Rialto Magazine and q
scenic Of Norway will supplement the
feature.
Hugo Riesenfeld has prepared an at
tractlve musical programme for the
+, Rialto. 1t will include Tschaikows S
Romeo and Juliet" overture, a violin
cello by Leonard Van Dyke, who will
play Peppers "Tarantella," and the
trio from William Tell" sung by Mar
tin Brefel, Edouard Albano and Eman.
uel List.
Blanche Sweet in 1.-THE objectionable
Sin" Is seen at the Broadway.
The features scheduled for this
week at Loews New York Theatre
and Roof will be Geraldine Farrar in
The Stronger Vow" on Monday; ].
Warren Kerrigan in "The Best Man."
on Tuesday; Maxine Elliott in "The
Eternal Magdalene," on Wednesday;
Tom Mix in "The Coming of the Law
on Thursday; Mary MacLaren in "The
Implanted Woman" and Margarita
Fisher in Charge 1t to Me-" on Fri
day; zena Keefe in "The Amateur
Widow" on Saturday and Hale Hamil
ton in "Full of Pep on Sunday.
The L.. Z. Waterman Company has
bought out the entire house for to-
morrow evenings performance. of
Trials of Faith" at the Harris The
atre, and will distribute the tickets
among Its employees. The manage
ment also announces that the seats for
the evening performance of Nav 23
have been bought by the Rotary Club.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-02
OLD FALLACY EXPLODED.

1T is harmful to drink water with
our meals has been the rule handed
down from one generation to another,
but Philip r, Hawk, author of What
We Eat and What Happens to IT," has
entirely exploded this old tallacy. De
string to know just what would happen
TO a mar who drank freely OF water
With meals Mr.. hawk Y Il was
denghteu when one Of my college assoc
clates volunteered to be the goat for
our tirSt water test. And the terrible
results which were forecast for us by
popular and professional opinion was
not Forthcoming. In fact, the man
gained N weight, his food digested OK.
~ceptonally well, and he was In fine
physical condition at the end OF Mis-
two weeks ride on u scientific water
wagon In his book, what We Ear
and What Happens to It." published Nv
the Harpers, Mr.. Hawk has given tho
results OF hts experiments during the
made WI