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The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
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70 REFUGE IN BANKRUPTCY
In OIden Times Severe Penalties Were Meted Out to Men Unable to
 Pay Their Debts.

A curious custom was prevalent in France during the sixteenth and sey= enteenth centuries. Anyone who found fl necessary to liduidate his affairs was obliged to wear green eap--a humility to himself and d warning te others.
 Those who made hobby of getting rid of their indebtedness =by way of the bankruptcy court should at all costs steer clear of China Bank ruptcies are almost unknown in that country, as they entail immediate eX- ecution.
 \ similar drastic punishment used to he meted out to delinquent in Japan
 To come nearer home, one need only go back to q little before the Act of Union to find that debtors in Scot land were obliged 10 wear garments of diverse colors, a suit of gray and yellow being the most common.
 Tn Siam Il man unable to meet his liabilities was put in chains and com pelled to work as q slave for his cred Har. Should he escape. his wife, chil- dren. father or other relative were seized in his stead.
 At one time baHkrupts were eonsid- cred criminal offenders even in Eng land. As matter of fact. certain cases of fraudulent bankruptcy have incurred the death penalty in this country. Any concealment of books or the secreting of property by a debtor was so punished. Under this law man called John Perrot was hanged in 17G1.-London Tit-Bits-
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
Maneuverinn Out.

Mrs. Tungsmith-D l hear you re fer to me, your wife. as nothing but talking machine?
 Her Husband never said it. Why, if you were a mere talking machine you'd taik only when wished you to
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
curtaIled

"It k possible to have too much of il good hing. remarked the PafIof Phil esoRher
 Yes agreed the mere man. the dog with the shortest tail runs the least danger of having tin eahs tied to it.3Eife.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
NESTING RELIEF I FROM LUMBAGO
|loan's Linilaent has the
 l punch that relieves rheumatic twinges

2 This warmth-giving, congestion- ecattoring circulation-stinulating rem sdv benetrdteS 7Vithom rubbing right to fbe aching spot and brings quick re- fef. surely, cleanly A wonderful help for external pains, sprains, strains, stiff ness. headaches, lumbago, bruises i Get your bottle today-eosts little, means much. Ask your druggist for
 ;t by nanre. Keep it handy for the
 Whole family. The big bottle is econ n,av 35c. 70c, $1.40.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
Made Easy Work of 1t.

Are you children in bed?" mother called from below.
 "Yes. mother
 Well must say il didn't take you long 10 say your prayers
 We divided them up and each took a section and said them all at once"
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
A Word Grenade.
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FNeITed ptapftIor=IIPAI
 Al writer-What K it.?
 "Neyer use the word .verve, again in m advertisement Here in this mornings issue you have q statement that our sales force is fHll of verve.' and the eonfoanded printer has got it nerve '-Philadrlphia Ledger.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31

There Is nothing more satisfactory after a day of hard work than a line full of snowy white clothes. For such results use Red Cross Ball Blue.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
Still So Ske ptlcal?

"The airplanes dash across the At- lantie k the wonder of today. eb- serves Il contemporary.
 It is even more than that. Ii k the wonder of each day.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31

1 WAS reading in a
 newspaper about lr Pieree's Favor. ite Prescription and
 l saw that 1 could
 order one of Dr.. Pierce's= books, the Common Sense Medical Adviser, from him, so 1 did and l found my complaint was Wo- +-LI.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
Women Who Suffer

Jackson, Miss. My trouble was feminine weakness. suffered misery at times and was weak most all of the time.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
catty.

catty. MilGred-I think I'll have my beauty nap HOW. Maud Well, take good, long sleep, dear
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31

of the approximate 10000 Japanese in the Philippines 2,G00 are said to be merchants,
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31
Good Job of Palntinn.

NUUu JUD OT TdTHFTHy. "What do you think 8f her complex ion?e T think she puts | en remark ably we'll
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31

Have patience, sanib," he said. "Time does not press TOW. IL is we'll that you should know ;y1 before you go aboard The ship is to saii at once then?"
 "Yes," said Walen.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31

the covenant until the special treaties have been dis posed of. holding the covenant open as a club. the United States.
 There is another thing in connection with the special treaties to which we have previously called attention indicating somewhat further the superior importance which the French attach to them. The language of the treaty with the United States and that of the treaty with Great Britain identical to the obligation of the two countries to come the assistance of France if it should be attacked by Germany. Great Britain may do so but the United States must do
 Why this distinction was made has not been ex- pained but it probably because the United States could directly bring assistance while Great Britain whose hold upon it's colonies become looser year by year could only employ persuasion to induce them enter such a
 They would doubt hasten nobly as they did to the assistance of the mother country if she attacked again but they might not with so great alacrity fly to the aid of another
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31

Silversand-the 21st. My Darling Joan: Going straight on from my last let 1 ter: Mrs. Kymbal got back her self possession after a moments struggle and continued
 Capt. Wallis-he was Lieutenant i then-was sent to a convalescent hos pifal near my home in England after 1 the battle of Vimy Ridge. He had been terribly wounded and was a long time getting strong. My house had long been a gathering place for sick officers, for we had lovely big grounds and a river
 T cannot tell when 1t first same to me that he was my world, my life my one interest on earth except my little boy. But let me ask you, Miss Varick, do you regard marriage as q sacrament--a sacred thing? Or hays you the feling that it is merely man made institution for the protection e. soc.ety?"
 Her sudden question disconcerted me.
 T suppose law and convention are rccessary-'
 "Oh, of course, of course" impa- tiently. But isn't love higher and stronger than law and convention! Can we love where and how we ar told to love? Does being married to a man compel your love2 Noi It some times kills it. If love doesn't exist between you, isn't 1t wicked, positively degrading, to keep on with it? Isn't lit love only that makes marriage right"
 Yes, I believe that
 And if another beautiful world, outside your marriage opened before you, containing all you had ever longed for, would it not be right to enter that world2"
 1 T suppose it might-if it didn't de- stroy the happiness of someone else. It's so hard to know what is right and what is merely selfish"
 Selfish! Why, was ready to give everything, my devotion, my service, my whole life to Eric Wallis. I could have made him perfectly happy"
 Mrs. Kymbal-tell me this; did he Hove you?"
 Her lips parted and she put her hand to her throat looking far off into the years, into England, into an environment vastly different from that in which she now was, and again l pitied her with all my heart
 T think sol thought so." she an swered slowly almost in a whisper We used to be so happy together talking of our lives that were past and of what our life together could be ir the future"
 tOh, Joan, this made me winceD
 My boy adored him." she went on And that gave me deeper faith in him than ever. We planned all sorts oi things for him when the time should come that existing conditions were done with and we should have the right to build a new world for our. selves"
 And your-your husband? What O
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31

attributed the success of Hampton's picture solely to the popularity of his authors names Everybody seemed to see at once that the million or so people who have read some authors stories in one of our large American magazines and had liked them would ,aaturally want to see tie same stories on the screen. So the author became the rage--or. to be absolutely correctl the successful author, with a loud ern- phasis on the adjective. Companies began to pay fabulous sums for the now the widest kind of scramble is taking place among all the producers to capture .cussessful authors and sign them up before their competitors get them
 According to one moving authority, in few months there won't be one successful author left who isn't under contract.
 While Hampton was the man who first introduced the successful author into the moving picture business, 1t IS the Eminent Authors Corporation. two months old, which has startled the in dustry into action. Hampton could al ways be regarded as an outsider, an experimenter and visionary, but Samuel Goldwyn is supposed to be an oldtiner If he makes q success of it. no one can longer deny that the author
 is capable of making good as pro- dncer. Already there is new cordial ! ity toward the author who ventures to offer few suggestions on the screening of his work, and in some in | stances. he has even been called up lon the telephone and consulted.
 Meantime, the eminent authors are nuietly going about their work of revo-
 mtionizing movie methods. Gertrude ! fullerton is out on the Pacific Coast supervising the production of her novel. The Perch of the Devil" and Basil King is working on the filming of his
 Street Called Straight" In the east tha public is being educated to look | for the author and not for the star. l Whether or not movies will from now on lose their peculiar identity and be- come a literary sideline still remains | to be tseen, of course. One movie au thority seems 10 think that the pres ent mania for authors is merely a pas sing phase, which makes very clever talking point in selling new pictures After a time, he says, the authors win get tired of it. They'll find it is easier to receive their money outright for their stories than to work for months
 on picture then see 1t fail, especially
 on a royalty basis.
 1The Eminent Authors, understand are working on that basis. and 1t only | stands to reason that it spite of theiI
 most earnest efforts they will have
 to endure a certain percentage of fail ures. We all do."
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31
The Power of the Packers

If the arguments of the witnesses who being brought before the senate committee against the Kendrick- Kenyon legislation the regulation of the packers were reduced to a logical conclusion should have government regulation of anything. We would revert to the old condition when any priv ate individual had right to do as he pleased with whatever belonged to him. regardless of the effect of his action upon his neighbors society in general.
 The other day objection offered to the control of the refrigerator nes prac- tically all the refrigerator being pos session of the packers and really being by any possible competition of the packers. The wit declared that it would be reasonable to plo. pose to deprive the packers ownership of their delivery wagons and trucks
 There is a vast difference between refrigerator and trucks. The latter alike available to all to those who wish to enter into competition with packers. But the ownership and unlimited control by the packers of the refrigerator lines well the stock yards may be. if that has not already been done exercised to exclude all possible compe- tition
 We may grant for the sake of argument that the packers have generously refrained selfishly exercising their but it is undeniabe that they possess that power and without control could shut out all competitions that they could if they desired prescribe the prices of their products could also fix the price of live stock. If they not done so it has not been because they could do so it is because they have submerged all human greed and selfishness.
 We will grant again for the sake of argument, that they have done so. but what assurance can we have that such reign of altrusm and unsefshness will be continued by the large packers?
 The power they possess to oppress the people is too great to be allowed to remain undisturbed even though they claim, it has never been exercised. A beneficent despotsm is bad thing for its suc- may not be beneficent.
 But there has been ample evidence that in the operations of the packers there has not been sub mergence of seshness and greed that if the packers their uncontrolled power they have been held some- what restraint by the agitation for definite con of them by the government such as is proposed in the pending legislation
 There is disposition to oppress the packers deprive them of their property their rights or to prevent them from operating profit It is recognized that such great organization is sary the preparation and distribution of food to the country. We cannot. if would go back to old conditions; the country is too big and too populous now
 The legislation is not primarily intended to estab- fish competition with the packers not primarily in the interest of the independents It is only ln~ tended so to arrange things that there shall be perpetual check against greed the oppression of the people
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31
Rents and Sanitation

We have just received a long letter from health seeker who has for time resided in Phoenix complaining of two things, One of them is the lack of proper sanitation and the other is of excessive rentals Neither complaint is groundess
 It is undoubtedly true that in some parts of the town there is neglect of sanitation fact which we think may be attributed lack of sufficient ma chnery for large and such rapidly growing town as Phoenix.
 There il- smelling alleys and wherever there is bad smell caused by decaying vegetable or ani- nal matter there is unhealthful condition
 That rents high. and too high. must be ad- mitted. Phoenix has been building rapidly in spite of the high prices materials but the building has not kept pace with the demand for houses Many property owners have eagerly taken advantage of this situation and charged the most outrageous rentals for houses Some of them have been not only greedy but have stopped dishonesty have dis regarded verbal agreements and sometimes written ones. Much of the business in justices courts at the present time of disputes between Iand- lords and tenants the former trying get rid of the latter that they may rent their property at higher figures.
 Some property who not naturally hoggish have yielded the temptation which the op portunity has presented and charging much more than reasonable just rental Yet at the same time they are loud in their denunciation of other profteers The policy is a ort-sighted one and will not rebound the reputation of Phoenix.
 Rents, of course. are higher every where than they formerly were. for not only have they higher basis in the cost of building materials, but also the housing problem has become We think though that there is no justification for the figures which many of the property Of Phoenix have placed before their tenants.
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31
The Work Day

One of the arguments in favor of the eight-hour day embraces the statement that through long period one could accomplish more in eight hours than he could in ten, and that he could do work in ten hours than he could in twelve. We believe both these statements to be It pays to overwork man than it does to overwork horse. There is somewhere line which marks the difference between an unprofitabe long day and unprofitabe short day That line seems to be the eight hour day, effecting the division of the 24-hour day three equal parts-s for labor; for rest and for recrea ton
 Some have unfortunately regarded the change from the 2 and the 10-hour days to the shour oay. mot as adoption of reasonable work day but snere step toward irredueible minimum-to be fol- lowed shortly by the 6-hour day Some of the I. W. sws see in the not long distance the 4-hour day, pointing to an ultimate hour day when shall lfve in a world of work and all play.
 AS we have said we believe eight hours is long enough for any man to work longer day is detrimental to the average worker the long run. unprofitable to the employer. But there is point at which the day may be shortened that production is reduced and society suffers.
 It was pointed out recently by Lloyd-George in a public address that such point had been reached and passed by English workmen.
 The end or the war I0und EnglandS greatest need to be increased production not only to lower the cost of living but to enable the country to resume its place as an exporting nation. that will certainly sink into the position of a third power It can no longer support navy which has made Great Britain the mistress of the and be- side would have no use for such navy.
 The premier said that production had not been Increased by shorter hours but on contrary had been further reduced. He saw nothing but disaster ahead if the industrial program of the radical ele ment was carried out.
 It is admitted, that once we have secured control of the profiteers the necessary thing be done to restore normal or reasonable cost of living is to increase production. That cannot be done by show Of less efficiency or by setting two men or a man and half at the task which one man can accom- plish efficiently That would mean a decreased or unincreased production. high prices would still pre- vail and the workman with all the rest of us would pay the bill The workman would have nothing to show for his new condition but couple of hours of unemployment a period of idleness for which he would have to pay His two hours of idleness might furnish jobs for in the short hour day and he would be assisting in paying their wages
 We will suppose that the situation could be re- duced this: that all the world required the rservices of all the workers capable of working for Acertain number of hours every day to enable the sworId to live in comfort. If then it was decreed Sthat all over the world two hours should be taken from the work day there would necessarily be dis Ecomfort and suffering
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31
Authors On The
 Screen
By FREDERIC J. HAskIN

NEW YORK, Aug 19.-The recent formation of corporation of authors to supervice the screening of their own novels is the greatest sensation that the movie industry has yet produced. It was amazing enough when our Sec retary of the Theasury went into the moving picture business. but that Rex Beach and Mary Roberts Rhinenart and several other well known novelists should attempt to produce their own pictures is regarded as nothing less than epoch making.
 The new enterprise bears the name of the Eminent Authors Pictures Cor poration, the eminent authors being Gouverneur Morris, Rex Beach, Basil King. Rupert Hughes, Leroy Scott, Gertrude Atherton and Mary Roberts Rhinehart. The president is Rex Beach and the chief stockholder is Samuel Goldwyn, we1i-known picture producer. The chief object of the or ganization, as annaunced by the mem bers, is to improve the standard of screen versions. This is to be done by permitting each author to supervise the production of his own work. The writing of the continuity. or the scena- IlllAS Ol HIS StbFyy VIII bS uHacF HIS direction; he will choose the player for each part. and he will select the place where the picture is to be made in order to secure the proper local color. In photographing MT. Beach's story, "The Silver Horde" for example. the company will be sent to the northern Pacific coast, where pictures may be obtained of the great salmon canner ies.
 ] Only authors are to be featured by the new corporation. The stars may be mentioned on the screen, Of course, but it will be in small print It is to be thoroughly understood that the story and not the star is the important consideration, which is something 1 startlingly new in the movie business l Heretofore. stories have always been selected to suit the personalities of va rious stars; now for the first tim stars are to be selected to suit the
 characters in various stories.
 In the past, and to a great extent 1T the present, it has been the custom oi
 the movie producer to buy story
 outright from its author, and then turr
 1t over to his scenario department tt be put into true movie form. UsuallJ Ifh{s prFness was referred to as whip 1: pz IF 1e story into shape and, al
 ae z Hughes points out. 1t was ire 50 unusually whipped tha
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31

The allies stIil love Eolchak but not with the dent paseion that thrilled them when he making good
Arizona republican., 1919-08-31

him ?" l gasped.
 She shrugged her thin shoulders.
 He didn't care. He cared only for business"
 But he would have wanted his boy?"
 "Yes. That is why I planned to go away-to come here. My boy is with friends in New York. You see, it was all so unsettled when Capt. Wallis finally left England and went back to the war l plunged again into work. He was in the turmoil Of active serv- ice. He had no chance to come to me before he was sent home. While the war was on, we each were taken up with the immediate work in hand. When it ended so abruptly, misery seized me and a horrible disgust for my old life. I had to end it. l felt he would understand. As soon as could get away, I came. Oh, Miss varick, try to understand me. Don't | you see my position ?"
 She implored me with her sorrow full eyes. And with leaden heart an swered truthfully.
 "Yes. You have the greater claim. see if now"
 And thus. Joan. ends the chapter. Unless-unless HE has a different story. Aren't there two sides to every l DOROTHY.