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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
ELSIE FERGUSON
COMING TO STRAND

"The Witness for the Defense" an
intense drama of a woman's love and
devotion. comes to the Strand theatre
Monday for a special three day engage
mcnt with the beautiful Elsie Fersu-
son as the star. Two years have passed
since Miss Ferguson first appeared
before the camera and in that time she
has given a number of fine portray
ais to the screen, but none of them is
the equal of the part she has in THE
Witress for the Defense" for sheer
emotional depletion and artistic han
ding.
H. e. Herbert Wyndham Standing.
her leading man in several successes
Warner Olan. one of the best known
heavies of the screen: Cora Williams
and other well known players appear
in support of the star. Miss Ferguson
is cast as Stella Derrick. a young Ting
lish woman. who goes to India for
love of her father. marries a man she
does not love for his safe, and then is
tried for her life when the man is
shot. 1t is an intense and absorbing
drama of the pre1rnt.
THE Witness for the Defense" will be
at the Strand next Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday only.
Monte NJ. Katterjohn. creator of plays
for the land of the silver screen, has
now launched forth as an independent
creator producer with his own organi-
cation filming Katterjohn plays.
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HARDING LEAVES FOR
ATLANTA CONFERENCE

Washington September 16.-(SpeciaL'
To preside over a meeting of southern
cotton growers who desire to organlze
in order to gave Europe as cotton mar
ket, w. p G. Harding, governor OF the
federal reserve boards left Tor Atiap'a
this afternoon
Governor Harding is very hopeful thai
permanent organization will be effected
Only by such organization, he said To-
day, supported by sufficient capital u
sell Europe on long credit can Europe
be preserved as a profitable market TOT
southern cotton. The difficulty in form OF
transportation and exchange rates woui''
make satisfactory business Impossible az
the present time, even If Europe MAJ
money. which it has not, to make pay
ment. in his SIMON
Mr.. Harding declared that he would &c
all that he could to further the move
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
TESTIFY AGAINST
JNCREhSEIN RATES

Washington, September 16-(Specialo
o. L. Bum of Birmingham and M. M
Caskie of Montgomery. traffic experts
testified this afternoon before the inter-
state commerce commission in it's in
yestigation of the advisability of in
creasing southern freight rates 10 per
cent. .
The commission some time ago decided
to increase rates, but withheld the ell
fe ctiveness of such increases pending pro-
tests. In Washington now are experts
from every southern state from Virginia
to Texas
AS rates were increased heavily only
few months ago, Mr.. Bum and Mr,
Cnskie declared that another increase
would be onerous They stressed the
fact. too, that the application of south
ern rate would be discriminatory agalns'
the south.
The exhibit of the Alabamians con
cerned statistics showing comparison III
rates and business between the various
sections.
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for legislation such as Senator Cham
berlain advocates.
The bill of Representative Dent, in
the meantime, grows in favor. Sena-
Or Chamberlain has been quoted as
saying that it stands a better chance
than any other measure to be enacted
into law. While it is subject to amend
ment its cardinal features are regard
ed as unusually near perfect The
Age-Herald has already published the
fact that it has been indorsed by the
Army and Navy Register. the publica-
ton regarded as reflecting the con-
sensus of army personnel opinion.
The Dent bill does not provide for
compulsory military training. 1t limits
the peace army to approximately $780,
200. 1t extends a strong arm towards
the support of the national guard or
CARNATIONS of the several states.
The editorial remarks of the Army
and Navy Register regarding the Ala
bamian's measure as reproduced in part
as follows:
The House military committee be-
gan on Wednesday it's hearings on the
several army increase and reorganiza-
ton measures, and the Senate military
committee continued its hearings on
the three bills which it has had under
consideration for several weeks. Re
ports of the sessions held in both
quarters are printed on the pages Of
this issue devoted to congressional in
formation. Special interest attaches
this week to the newest of the bills.
that introduced by Representative
Dent former chairman and now senior
minority member of the House COM
m1ttee. Mr.. Dent has come very near
to solving the problem with his measure
that proposes to make pertinent amend
ments to the national defense act of
June 8, 1916, that offers to accomplish
what is desired by Congress in man
ner most direct and simple. OF course,
the details are open to revision in ac-
cordance with congressional conclu-
sion as to organization and especially
as to strength of personnel
There may De objection to the terms
of promotion, and probably officers
above the grade of captain will feel
that they should not be overlooked in
the increase of base pay that Mr..
Dents bill now confines to the three
junior grades of the Army, and, of
course, whatever is done for the army
in that particular will have to, and
should, be done in identical assure
for the personnel of the navy and ma
rine corps. In other words, the DENT
bill Is necessarily subject to change
in it's provisions, but it furnishes the
most convenient and accessible of pro-
jects for army increase and reorganiza-
ton. 1t aims to bring the national de-
Tense act to date with provision for
new corps and increased personnel
where needed; it takes into considera
ton the needs of the service which the
experience of war has justified, and,
finally. it preserves on the statutes
the beneficial effects of the act of
1916 which is taken as the foundation
for new army legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
MARGARITA FISHER
ATT THE COLONIAL

Margarita Fisher, one Of the most YER
satile actress the screen has known.
whose repertoire ranges from the roll
tensity of woman aroused. is the star at
the Colonial theatre today in her latest
success 1.-The Tiger Lily" drama Of
love and jealousy.
Miss Fisher possesses the type of
beauty that fits her admirably for the
role of the Italian-Amercan girl she
portrays with such sympathy of depic-
ton in 1.-THE Tiger Lily" Her flashing
eyes and turbulent black hair fit per-
eectlv with the picturesque costume of
the girl of the wayside inn.
The star has the role of an Italian
girl born in America and helping her
uncle Luigi in his little restaurant,
where the sons of sunny southern Eu-
rope are wont to gather. Giovanni. OF
the black heart comes to America seek
ing vengeance on the woman-who had
lifted his brother
His turbulent nature gets him into diff
ficultes and fight in the cafe brings
to Carmina, the girl. an acquaintance
ship with David Remington. a wealthy
Young American. The girls Striking
beauty attracts him and acquaintance
ship soon turns to love.
But his family objects to his mating
with a girl whose family are innkeepers
and whose antecedents do not measure
up to their ideas. Of caste. But he in
sists. on his stand, and when Luigi sells
Carmina to Giovanni David rescues the
Tiger Lily" and brings her to his home
His mother talks to the girl and ex'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
BILLIE BURKE
PLEASING BIG CROWDS

When is a widow not widow, is a
question that troubled the natives of
little New England village when Betty
Taradine came to live among them,
and Betty's escapades form the basis
| for the rollicking screen farce, The
Misleading Widow" which concludes
! its engagement at the Strand theatre
| today
Billie Burke is the widow, and one
| more fascinating and demure than the
| famous comedienne is hard to imagine.
and her characterization of Betty Tara
| dine in this. her latest Paramount sue
cess, has added hundreds of admirers
| to- her already large host.
| Miss Burke won fame on the stage
as coincidence before she transplant
| ed her talents to the screen, and hers
was the art that found the camera a
| friendly medium. In 1.-The Misleading
| Widow sheds said to have one of the
| best roles of her career. and praise
| from those who have seen the picture
| during it's stay here has been practical
| ly unanimous.
, Betty Taradine is a widow because
her husband deserted her years before
the story begins on account of her ex-
| travagance. But her widowhood ism
I the only thing that makes the tongues
| of the gossips wag. She and her I'M
married companion, Penelope, are taxi
| ing care of Colonel Preedy, wound ed
| during the war.
| But gossip doesn't worry Betty for
her funds are exhausted and she sees
no way of changing things, until She
| has the brilliant idea of announcing
her husbands death in order to col
| lect his insurance. She puts her
scheme to the test. and then the hus-
| band turns up. He keeps her secret.
| but stalls in love with her, and this
| leads to complications which are
Strengthened out in corking climax.
1.-THE Misleading Widow" will be shown
| today only.
| Dorothy Dalton. the greatest emo
| tiona, actress on the screen, comes
! Thursday in her latest success, tine
/ Market of Souls"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
LYRIC BILL
AGAIN PLEASES

The vaudeville bill at the Lyric again
pleased large audiences yesterday and
will be repeated again today.
Lillian Herlein, famous musical COM
edy star, heads the bill with her won
derful voice, and Swor and WestbroolS,
black and tan comedians: jackson and
Russell in "Once a Thief" Hawthorne
and Cook. eccentric comedians and the
Three Lordons, sensational flying gym
nasts, together with the news pictures,
make UP a bill that is guaranteed to
please the most fastidious.
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"Over There has nothing on Birming-
ham for bombs to explode Unexpectedly.
Yesterday I walked into an office hunt
ing for more business" about two min
utes behind the office collector. The
tense situation" that developed was "as
whisper" however to the one coming
to the collector the next time I see him.
AS Hasimura Togo says: Life are COM
pletely hard"
1t is said that when new male baby
makes it's appearance anywhere within
the confines of the literary state of In
diana it's first lisping words are either
where's the show?' or Whats the
route?" Possibly since the war this has
been changed to Where do we go from
here?'' but at that it's no joke.
The land of the Wabash and Tippeca-
noe, the home of Harrison, James Whit
comb Riley and Gen. Lew Wallace, the
winter quarters of Wallace egenbeck
and Gre TRY Brothers, produces on an
average at least one Snowman every
minute, 80 I was not surprised yester-
day to find the following in my mail box
from Birmingham lady:
rs Mack Sennett native of Indiana
and what age IS ne "!
RepIy-To the best of my knowledge
Mr.. Sennett is not a native of Indiana,
although, come to think of 1T, u cannot
understand how he escaped. He is still
young man, on the right side of 40,
and is very successful actor. but never
has time to act any more. The growth
of the business of making laughs has
turned him into a big executive. The
Sennett studio in Los Angeles is z young
city.
Among other things it includes a plan
ing mill, zoo that any city park would
be glad to have, big art department,
a wardrobe department that employs
more dressmakers than theVaverage IA
nous modiste, lumber yards, young
forest and a big automobile repair
garage
Mr. Sennett is said to rival Ziegfeld
in his ability to judge beauty, and every
department of his mammoth plant is
said to know his personal touch. His
birthplace l will find out and let you
know at later date
Jesse L. Lasly first vice president of
the Famous Players-Lasky corporation,
in charge of productions. has announced
the acquisition of another great source
of play material in an arrangement just
closed with oliver Morosco, the noted
producer OF the legitimate stage.
Under this contract the producers Of
Paramount Aircraft pictures obtain an
option on plays produced by Mr.. Moros-
co in the past and on all plays which hi
| will produce in the future for term OF
years.
The jefferson will doubt be crowd
| ed tonight to hear the address of Ser
geant York, the war hero, credited wit,
| the greatest individual heroism of the
world war. He has refused to go on the
stage or in pictures. but q lecturng for
| the purpose of founding school OF
schools for the children of his mountain
home section of Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
NEW BILL AT LOEW'S
BEST OF SEASON

The entire bill at Loew's continues to
please the patrons of this popular
theatre. The Bullet-Proof Lady and
Jack Reddy each are entitled to first
place on the bill.
Ronaldo and Ward. in their rura.
comedy sketch; Lannigan and Woods.
clever black face omedians. and NADIA
line Traverse in THE Splendid Sim
Fox picture. rounds out what is per-
haps one of the best balanced bills
of the season
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
BIRMINGHAM'S
BATHING GIRLS

To see the crowds gathered round the
box office at the Strand yesterday was
to wonder why all the excitement, but
after one had taken in the show and
discovered that in addition to the CON-
edy bill offered with Billie Burke as the
headliner, that the Strand was also Of
ferng Birmingham's bathing beauties
from the swimming contest recently held
at West Lake. then one understood why
the crowds.
You can see them today, but you will
| have to hurry to get seat as this bis
show has caught on with the crowds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
WILSON MAY SUGGEST
PROFIT SHARING PLAN

Washington, September 16.-(SpeciaD
It is said that President Wilson in the
October conference between capital and
labor, will advocate a system by means
of which labor will share in profits
earned by corporations.
The President has said that there
shall be a new basis of wages and
that there can be no political democracy
until there is industrial democracy. He
has given no other hint as to his
programme.
But the report that he will insist
on a profit sharing programme is APP
narentlv well founded.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
ON THE SCREEN

Strand-Binie Burke in The Mis-
leading Widow
Colonial-Margarita Fisher in THE
Tiger Lily"
Alcazar-Dorothy Phillips in THE
Heart of Humanity
Trianon-Louise Glaum in Sahara"
Rialto-Bessie Barriscale in Jose
lyns Wife"
Princess-Special feature.
Oden One-Al Jennings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
Bevens Terminal Manager

BY Associated Press
New Orleans September 16.-Charles T.
Bevens of New Orleans has been APP
pointed terminal manager here of the
United States railroad administration,
it was officially announced late today.
He succeeds E. A. Kelly. who died Sep
TENDER 6. Mr.. Bevens was secretary Of
New Orleans committee on service for
three years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
COUCH /! ANOTHER
RHEUMATIC TWINGE''
Get busy and relieve those pains with
that handy bottle of
Sluan's Liniment

VTYHAT Sloan's does. it does thoroughly
wv -penetrates without rubbing to the
~ assaulted part and promptly relieves
all manner Of external pains and
aches. You'll find it clean and non-skin-
staining. Keep it handy for sciatica. lum-
bapo. neuralgia, over-exerted muscles. stiff
Joints, pains, bruises. stains. sprains, bad
weather after-effects.
For ss years Sloan's Linment has helped
thousands the world over. You won't be an
exception 1t is unequaled in producing re.
suits.
All drugpists-S5c 70c., $1.40.
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DENT WILL SPEAK
IN SEVENTH DISTRICT

Washington, September 16-(Speclalj
Representative Dent of Montgomery lei
for short visit to his district tonight
While in Alabama Mr.. Dent will deliver
an address in Cullman in behalf OF l.. b
Painey, democratic nominee of the Sew
enth district to succeed the late Repre-
sentative Burnett
General r. f. Steiner adjutant general
of Alabama, is a prominent visitor 10
Washington today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
GIRLS! USE LEMONS
FOR sUNBuRN, TAN
Try It! Make this lemon lotion
to whiten your tanned or
freckled skin.

Squeeze the juice OF two lemons INTO q
bottle containing three ounces of Orchard
White; shake well. and you have . quarter
pint Of the best freckle. sunburn and tan
lotion, and complexion whitener. at very.
very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any drug
store or toilet counter will supply three
ounces of Orchard White for few cents.
Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into
the face neck. arms and hands and see how
quickly the freckles. sunburn. windburn and
tan disappear and how clear. soft and white
the skin becomes. Yes, it is harmless.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
AT THE THEATRES

Jefferson--Sergt. Alvin G. York, lee
ture.
Observation-Disclosures players in
What Happened to Mary"
Lyric-Keith vaudeville.
Loews Bijou-Loew's vaudeville and
feature pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
Joint Picnic at East Lake

birmingham Lodge 757. A. F. and a.
NJ. and Birmingham Chapter 11S. Or
der of Eastern Star. will have Joint
picnic at East Lake park beginning to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and
continuing until midnight.
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plains how they feel about the mar
riage, so the Tiger Lily is going to
leave David for his own good And
then comes a thrilling climax in which
true love triumphs.
THE Tiger Lily will be at the Co
lonial Wednesday and Thursday.
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For the Good of
the Community

HCET BUSY" is the caption Of an ar
ticle appearing recently in west
ern newspaper.
1t appeared during period of intensl-
fled unrest brought about by high cost OF
necessities and peremptory demands for
increases in wages.
While Birmingham is not presently
threatened with a strike, and so far as
surface conditions indicate, there is moth
ing of an alarming nature here, yet there
is more or less unrest in the Birmingham
industrial district
Looking facts square in the face is good
at any time, and especially now when the
declaration of world peace may be ex-
pected at not far distant date.
The article referred to is quoted:
''The matter with this feverish world of
ours is that the flour barrel is uncomfort-
ably low after five-year orgie of de-
structiveness. We've got to refill it, and
this cannot be done by talk. We must get
to work, all of US. We must work with
the brain and the hand to make up for the
worlds losses.
"The spirit of service and supreme sac
rifice that saved the world from defeat
on the battlefield must be employed to
save it from the effects of five years Of
destruction The new Americanism that
was born of the war must show the way
to rehabilitation.
''There must be that spirit of unity in
the minds of the American people that
prevailed during the war period.
'There must be increased production.
We cannot make up the awful losses in
Cured by us and all the other nations
without it. We have shorter hours and
higher wages. Very good; but what we
learned in the furnace of the war regard
ing saving through general public sacri-
flee we must apply to peace time.
Industrial strikes and lockouts in this
crisis mean suicide. They destroy both
labor and investment and the innocent by
stander They accentuate the evil we are
all called on to combat We need more
work, an deverybody at work if we are to
reduce the high cost of living and get the
boat back to an even keel"
Which, literally interpreted, means
that shorter hours of work and higher pay
or any pay will not bring about the lower
prices so much desired for the things
needed by the people.
Strikes and lockouts block the wheels
of industry, cut off production and unless
checked will end in want and suffering by
the masses.
Power is wonderful thing when exer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
To Drive Out Malaria and Build en-
the System

Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTE
LESS chill TONIC. You know what you
are taking. as the formula is printed on
every label. showing It is Quinine and
Iron in tasteless form. The Quinine
drives out the malarie. the Iron builds up
the system 60 cents.
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SAYS DRUGGISTS MUST
REFORM THEMSELVES

washington, September 16.-(Special)
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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-16

A week of prayer will be observed at the Catholic Church, Juneau from January 18th to January 25th. Un. der the name of Church Unity Octave" an annual crusade of prayer between Jan. 18th. and 25th was started in 1908 by the Anglican Society of the Atonement at Gray moor, N. Y Many Catholics at once endorsed the practice of the Church Unity Octave. Less than two years from the first observance of the Oc- tave came the reception into the Catholic Church of the Society of the Atonement and along with it of "The Lamp" the publication of the Society.
 The Corporate submission of the Benedictine Monks of Caldey and the Benedictine nuns of Milford Ha ven, South Wales, in the Winter of 1913, has been attributed as due in a measure to their faithful observ- Through the seal of the Fathers of the Atonement and the encourage ment of many Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals, the practice spread rapidly in dioceses and religious communities in the United States, Canada, England and Belgium. Fi- nally the Sovereign Pontiff Benedict XIV. two years ago extended it's ob- servance to the Universal Church, appointing the special form of pray CT to be used
 The week of prayer for the re- union of Christendom has been adopt. ed by the joint commissions of the Anglican communions, in the United States, Canada and England. who, in
 turn have officially invited all the
 other commissions formed among the Orthodox Christians of Russia and the various Protestant Denominations | in preparation for a World Confer
 ence on Faith and Order, to unite with them in the same observance This is the first time that anything
 like this has happened since the Protestants of every name actually agreed upon a given period of time
 in which with one consent they will
 unite in praying for Unity and ac-