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The Washington herald., 1920-09-17
Former Pageboy to Entertain
Local Playgoers in the Farce
'*7he Girl in the Limousine >
John Arthur Jumps From
Paging Congressman. to
World of Grease Paint
And Calcium Lights.

Sixteen years ago a bright
faced boy held the enYiew posi-
tion of page in the House of
Representatives. He scurried
arQund among the desks of Con-
gTvssmcn, brought them docu-
ments and told them when they
were wanted in the lobby. The
boys name was John Arthur.
Next week the former page
is coming to Washington to
entertain local playgoers in one
of the most successful and re-
cent farces, The Girl in the
Limousine" which opens at
Polls Theater Sunday night.
Leaves Pagcshlp for Stage.
Arthur hoped from his page
ship straight into the world of
grease paint and the calcium
light.
He obtained a position with
a repertoire company andI left
Washington. His journeyings
took him to Los Angeles and
back across the continent many
times.
\ theatrical rolling stone. he
nevertheless accumulated the
moss OF experience and today
is one of the best-known lead
ing men in the country. He
Fas won unusual distinction in
the leading roles of such sue
CessfUl farCes as Fair and
Warmer" and up in Mabers
Room"
Likes Straight Parts.
Although his speciality in re-
cent years has been humorous
characterizations of frightened
young men in bOudOir predica-
ments, Arthur's training in
stock companies has stood him
in such good stead that he is
as easily adaptable to straight
dramatic acting as to comedy.
Arthur believes that the best
actors of today are those who
are striving as hard to make
their work perfect as they did
when they started out.
Once an actor begins to
think he Is one" Arthur says"
in the sense that he has learned
all there is to know about his
profession, he is on the down
ward path. Henry Irving. Jo-
seph Jefferson, Richard Mans
field and other late leaders Of
the stage were most painstak-
ing workers. even at the zenith
of their careers"
The Washington herald., 1920-09-17
More Plans Fall Campaign.

fredericksburg, Va. Sept. l6.-
Following a dinner party at Hotel
Princess Anne here with Represen-
tative r. Walton Moore. of Fairfax.
as the host. a joint meeting of the
Democratic committees of Stafford
and King George counties was held
and plans for the fall campaign
were discussed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
PROSPECTS GOOD
FOR LOWER PRICES
DAWSON BANKER GIVES REA-
SON FOR DECLINE IN HIGH
COST OF LIVING.

In review with a representative OF
this paper Mr.. R. L. Savile, president
of the Dawson National Bank, has the
following to say regarding prospects
for a lower living cost:
after FIVE years of steady increase
in living costs the peak seems finally
to have been reached and we may now
look toward to a downward tendency.
Some authorities on business condi-
tons predict that before the winter is
over we should see the average liv-
ing cost reduced at least IS per cent.
Farm products are not alone in
showing a price decline. Heavy de-
clines have already been recorded IN
the wholesale markets OF many I'M
portant commodities. 1t is only natu-
raj that the retail market will not keep
pace with the wholesale market tor
the immediate present, but before long
they will undoubtedly move in unison
"A survey of retail selling over the
entire country indicates that most re-
tail merchants are announcing lower
prices and in many instances are quot
ing prices which are actually less than
cost on some of the commodities offer
ed.
"All things considered, there is good
reason for optimism regarding. general
conditions, especially since prospects
are extremely favorable for a decided
decrease in the living cost.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
ADDRESSES NEGRO
WOMEN ON POLITICS
DIR. STOCKBRIDGE USES Elk
TRAVAGANT TERMS. URGES
THEM TO DEMAND VOTE.

ATLANTA, Ga.-A meeting OF the
Colored Women's Republican Club
held in the Big Bethel A. M. r
church Friday night before the state
and national elections was addressed
by DR.. H. E. Stockbridge, formerly
editor of the Southern Ruralist, a
prominent northern republican who
has lived in the south for a number
of wears, and the father of Basil
Stockbridge, who with Trammell Scott
He'd the fight of the American Legion
against Thomas E Watson and Thos
w. Hardwick in the recent democratic
primaries.
Complimentary to Introducer.
DIR. Stockbridge was introduced by
very intelligent young negresS by
the name of Butler, who took occa-
sion to say some very pleasant things
about him. Acknowledging her fiat
tering introduction, DIR. Stockbridge
smiled and said:
Ladies and gentlemen, am pleas
ed indeed to have the honor-of ad-
dressing you this evening, but frank
ness compels me to admit that | am
glad nv wife is not here, for if she
had heard the very beautiful things
said about me by this charming young
lady she would hound me the balance
of my life"
Some of the good old-fashioned
washerwomen who decorated the
fringes of the audience turned almost
white at the extravaganza OF the doc
tors acknowledgement OF Miss But
ler's" introduction.
Proceeding with his speech DIR.
Stockbridge strongly advised the ne
gro women, practically all OF whom
are registered on the Fulton county
registration list, to present themselves
at their respective voting precincts on
election day and demand the rig Int to
cast their ballots as enfranchiSed citl-
zens.
"You will probably be denied your
rights by the small politicians in
charge Of the polls" said DIR. Stock
bridge, but it is supremacy important
that you go to the polls, nevertheless,
and assert your right to cast your bal
lots. whether you succeed i'll entorc-
ing that right or not. The attorney
general of Georgia, who by the consti-
tuition is the legal adviser of the gov
ernor. has written an opinion, and on
that YOU are entitled to vote.
Urged to Go to Polls.
IF you are denied the right to vote,
as you probably will be, the question
will be attended to later, in the proper
way. What I wish to impress upon
you now, is the Importance OF going
to the polls and demanding the right
to vote"
DR.. Stockbridge's address was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause, and
at the close of the meeting he was
showered with congratulations. Before
leaving the church DIR Stockbridge
paused long enough to shake hands
very cordially with Miss Butler" a
muiatto sufragette wearing hornz
trimmed glasses. She told him that he
had brought the ladies" a great deal
of information as we'll as inspiration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

MARION, Ohio.-Old DR.. George
T. Harding, father of the candidate,
entered the campaign the day before
the election by buttonholing the chair
man of the democratic county COM
mittee, Probate Judge w s.. SPen-
Ger. in front of Selby & Markets cigar
store, across from the court house
The doctor began the discussion, by
putting his little black pill satchel on
the sidewalk and demanding to know
why the Judge had circulated a story
that his mother was negress.
The judge is tall and thin, about
fifty wears of age, and one OF his knees
is stiff There was fire in the blue
eyes of DR.. Harding and his white
moustache fairly bristled. Judge Spen-
Ger Immediately disavowed all connee-
tion with the SANDER story. DIR. Hard
ing asked him if he would make an
affidavit that he had never repeated
the story. The judge agreed.
Then from behind the knot OF oilers
that had surrounded the pair came
Herman Trey, husky farm hand, VINO
works for Dick Crissinger, former
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
FARMERS ON STRIKE;
REFUSE TO SELL WHEAT
FEDERAL AID WAS REFUSED,
AND FARMERS DECIDED TO
KEEP 1T OFF MARKET.

The first strike of wheat growers in
the history of the country has been
called by officials of the National
Wheat Growers Association, with
headquarters in Wichita, Kan, and
with membership, it is said, of more
than 10000 farmers. "The strike" has
been called to force the price of wheat
up to So bushel.
When the second agricultural con-
ference adjourned in Washington the
delegates left for their homes to assist
in organizing the country wide "hold
the crops off the markets" movement,
designed to force not only higher
prices for wheat but higher prices for
cotton and other agricultural products.
"Time Now For Action"
Hold your cotton and wheat" was
the parting advice of Charles S. Bar
rett, of Georgia, chairman of the meet
ing and president of the National
Farmers Union. "The time for action
has come Since the government has
failed us, we now ask that govern
ment officials stop talking price de-
cline and give us chance to help our
selves"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
HARDJNG,S OLD FATHER MAKES
HDGE ABJTJRE ANCESTRYLLBEL
Old Eves Flash Fire as He Indignantly Hats Politician on
The Street of Marion Farm Hand Slaps Race
OF ALLEGED Defanaer, Signed Affidavit.

democratic candidate for congress and
close friend OF Senator Harding. Trey
declared he had heard Judge Spencer
repeat the negro blood story.
you're a liar" said the judge.
With one hand calloused from con,
tact with plow handles Trey graspedi
Spencer by the lapel of his coat, and
with the equally calloused palm OF the
other he smacked the face OF the Pro-
bate judge of Marion county.
"Hit him again. called a woman
who was trying to elbow her way into
the foreground of this scene. She was
Mrs. V. f. Dombaugh, wife OF dem
ocrat and daughter OF Superior Court
Judge R. E. Davis. There was talk OF
tar ard feathers, but DR.. Harding
brushed all this aside, and he and
Spencer crossed to the court house,
where Spencer made an affidavit deny
ing that he had circulated the story.
Irey went back to the farm.
Then the old doctor went out,
climbed into his rickety old phaeton,
clucked to his bay mare and drove out
TO the home of "W. c." on Mount
Vernon avenue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
REBUILDING FRANCE
is A HUGE TASK
EXPERTS BUSILY AT WORK
DESTROYING UNEMPLOYED
SHELLS. DEAD UNBURIED.

A visitor in some parts of France
TODAY would scarcely believe that the
war has ended, for French experts are
busy daily blowing up old shells, both
German and French, which have been
brought in by peasants clearing their
land in preparation for fall blowing.
There are millions of the shells, and
the number of unexploded shells found
would make it seem that every other
projectile fired was a "dud."
The shells have been cleared from
the fields, near the highway, so far as
surface indications go, but others will
appear from time to time, and perhaps
now and then will explode, blowing
farmers and their teams to DEATH Ex-
plosive experts say that a "dud' will
not cease to be dangerous during the
first seven years of its interment, and
that its possibilities of peril may last
much longer.
Dead Still Unburied.
Nor are the "duds" the only grim
mementos of the war still found on the
battlehelds. Here lie hidden, but still
unburied, some of the brave soldiers
of France. Some time they will be
nOHOTdDly CdItu lOi, Dul INV - any
has no money for energy to search
infinitely for them and give them de-
cent burial. OF course the greater por-
ton of the great, grim task has been
accomplished. All sectors in which
Americans were engaged have been
well searched by American officials.
After territory has been cleared OF
shells, bodies and barbed wire much
remains to be'done. The land must be
-leveled. If it was extensively trench
ed it is very difficult to put in shape
for return to cultivation, for the
trenching was eccentric in many in
stances.
The vast industrial plants are gone,
which further halts the work of re-
Mobilization. 1t has been officially stat
ed that, in one region, AS out OF ia
industrial plants were destroyed.
But France is hard at work. Recent
figures show that 145,000,000 cubic
yards of trenches have been filled and
1877, 100000 million square yards of ut
terly obstructed land cleared of barbed
wire. Yet the problem, declare re-
Mobilization experts, merely has been
approached so far.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
SAYS WARM FALL
DUE TO PLANETS
ALIGNMENT OF CELESTIAL
BODIES CONCERNS ASTRON-
OMY WRITER.

YOUNGSTOWN, N. Y.-That the
old mother earth may be facing one
of those glacial experiences such as
she underwent thousands of years ago
is seriously mentioned as a possibility
by John H. Chase of this city, whose
articles on astronomy have gained him
wide attention. Mr.. Chase views the
almost unexampled warm weather OF
the present autumn as a probable con-
sequence of the rare alignment recent
ly undergone by certain planets.
Forerunner of Glaciers.
If his theory is correct he regards
the phenomena as forerurner OF a
glacial slide which apparently would
wipe out Australia and part OF Africa S
surface and effect marked change IN
the climate of this continent.
ut is possible we are now expert
encing the first effect of the remark
able planetary alignment which oc-
CURED last winter" said Mr.. chase,
discussing the subject.
IF you recall the planets Jupiter,
Uranus, Mars and Saturn were all IN
direct lire with the earth for the first
time in many centuries. The com
bined pull OF these great DodieS' II
was predicted by many astronomers
was certain to affect the earth's orbit
probably in the way Of lengthenlng
and fattening the eclipse.
Longer Northern Summers.
"1f that occurred we would expect
longer summers in the northern heml-
sphere and shorter ones IN the south
ern hemisphere and more important
than this is the likelihood that gia-
cier may form covering all OF Aus
tralia and part of Africa.
"Just such fattening and stretch
ing of the earth's shape thousands OF
wears ago caused glacier to creep
over North America as far as South
Leetonia, twenty miles south OF
Youngstown"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
SHOE PRICES ARE
TAKING A TUMBLE
HIDES DRUG ON MARKET, AND
CUTS PREDICTED. SOON BE
BACK TO 1914 LEVEL.

Retail shoe prices are due for a
slump similar to the recent crash in
sugar, according to Frank B. McClain,
federal fair price commissioner. A rap
id decline in the market prices of calf
skins and hides is given as the imme-
date cause of the predicted down
ward trend of shoe prices. He said
that green hides, which sold year
ago at IS cents a pound, are now 60
ing begging at nine cents a pound,
while calf skins that sold for $l.lO a
pound a year ago are now drug on
the market at 20 cents pound He
foresees that shoe prices will soon
reach the 1914 level
The 25-cent hair cut and 15-cent
shave have made their appearance in
barber shops in Los Angeles, Cal. and
are rapidly spreading to other cities
on the Pacific coast. Flour has dropped
from $3.50 to $1.00 a barrel in the
mills at Minneapolis, Mimi, during the
last few days and further drops are
predicted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
RUNS HIS HEART
ON HIGH OR LOW

BALTIMORE, Md.-A man
who runs his heart at will on either
high or low gear has been given
Johns Hopkins Medical School spe-
cialists startling exhibitions OF his
powers. The results astound even
the experts, who say it is the first
case of its kind to be recorded be-
yond dispute by instruments.
The man regulates the speed of
his heart beats solely by will, fore
ing it to hit up or slow down. He
does this without stimulating pas
sions, or making any muscular eff
fort.
On one occasion the subjects
heart registered 108 beats minute.
At a word from the experts he in
creased the speed to l31, holding it
at that rate for seventeen minutes
before dropping to III.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
BANKERS WILL NOT
FINANCE COTTON
For the Purpose of Curtailing Acre
age in 1921 Will Restrict Loans
To Cotton Planters.

- MEMPHIS, TENT h cotton
planter must supply his own finances
for planting the 1921 cotton crop il
plans of bankers made public here to-
day are carried out.
SLocal bankers say that banks
throughout the south will decline to
finance cotton planting next year. The
triple reason for restricting cotton
loans will be:
/. To make all effort to reduce cot
ton acreage by so per cent.
D. To force the farmer to diversity
his crops.
3. To indicate such reduction in
the 1921 cotton crop that spinners
will be forced to pay fair price for
cotton on hand from the 1919 and
1920 crops.
Bankers let it be known here today
that money will be loaned for other
crops than cotton, but that little fl
nancia1 assistance ~ill be given either
famer or factor for cotton growing.
tain its schedules, claiming a united
total deficit OF $120,000000, calculated
at the normal rate OF exchange.
Another interesting phase OF the
situation is that some railroad officials
here suggest that the United States
be called on to pay four-hfths OF the
deficit and Great Britain one-fifth, on
the theory that it was the sudden con-
centration of the United States forces
which disrupted the French railroad
service, the deficits not being marked
until the spring OF 1918.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

WASHINGTON, D. Glow COM
munists themselves regard commun-
ism was exemplified in cable recely-
ed today by the state department tell
ing of the designs for the memorial
intended to symbolic the way in
which the soviet government func-
tons.
The model of this monument was
exhibited at the Peoples Festival IN
Moscow, and according to eye wit
nesses the following description is &C
curate: =,
The model was designed to illustrate
the soviet form OF government, and
the design was made by the painter
Tatlin. It represented a building that
will be $50 feet high and will consist
OF four revolving floors.
The first floor is in the form OF a
cube. and shows the location OF the
legislative branch This floor will make
one complete revolution a year; =,
The second floor is pyramid with
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
FRANCE WANTS j. S.
MILLIONS FOR RAIL Loss
ENORMOUS SUMS CLAIMED AS
DEFICITS OF THE ROADS
DUE TO WAR USES.
DIPLOMACY is INVOLVED
Britain Said to Be Back of Raid on
Washington's Big Gold Reserve.
Plans Are Said to Have Already
Been Submitted by French Roads.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Unable to
get the United States to assume direct
responsibility for the allied war debts,
efforts are well under way here by
which the French hope to obtain from
the United States government, through
diplomatic channels, several hundred
million dollars claimed by the French
government as the deficit in the French
railroad budgets during the period the
lines were congested with the allies
war traffic, says Paris special to the
New York Herald.
The Herald's correspondent was in
formed by reliable authority that the
French railroads have already sub
mitted the plan to representative OF
the British government, which retus-
ed to admit its responsibility for the
deficit but which suggested that the
United States gold reserve was suffl-
Gent to pay off the French losses, II
it could be reached.
Vague Rumors of Claims.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
United States army when it lett
France, carried With 1t receipt IN Iull
for all obligations, the French rail
roads are pleading that the sums rep
resented in that receipt do not include
such vague, understandable accounts
as the budgetary deficits, which could
not be computed before the American
army returned home.
Temporary bitches occurred IN the
appeal for the United States to shout
der this heavy burden, which, Incl
dentally, was generally supposed to be
chargeable to Germany. Finally the
heads of the French railroads decided
that an assault on the United States
treasury and the Bank of England
would more likely produce results than
would waiting for German reparations.
Figuring Out Deficits.
According to information the state
railways deficit has reached total OF
nearly 00,000,000 the Nord railways
S80,000,000; the Est lines $60,000;000
with the Paris, Lyons and Mediter-
ranean, the Orleans and the Midi,
which did not enter on as large &
scale as the other French railroads ii
the military transport traffic but which
lost traffic because it failed to main
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
GIANT MEMORIAL TO SHOW
HOW RED RULE FUNCTIONS
Quaint Structure VIII Be $50 Feet High and Consist OF
-Four Revolving Floors, With Garages, Picture ShoWS
and Other Modern CorUenienceS tor Employees.

the top cut off, and will contain the
executive departments. These depart
ments will make one complete revolu-
ton a month.
The third floor is a.cylinder, repre-
senting the information divisions,
propaganda, etc. This floor revolves
daily.
The fourth floor and top floor is a
hemisphere. 1t will house radio sta
tons and other scientific apparatus. 1t
is not stated whether this floor re-
wolves.
The basement of this remarkable
edifice will be equipped with garages
presumably for the cars of the en-
ployes on the revolving floors above(,
motion picture shows and other mod
ern convenienees. Underneath all OF
this will be the cellars, which presum--
ably will be employed as prisons and
dungeons.
The mechanism producing the revo-
buttons is a secret.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
WILL HAVE SWEETS
FOR THE FIRST TIME

Many European children, born
during the lean war years, will en-
joy the taste of sweets next Christ
mas for the first time in their lives,
as a result of price declines in this
country.
Because of lower costs the Amer
lean Relief Association has an
nounced that it could add two and
one-ffth pounds of sugar and one
Mound of cocoa to all ten packages
a.. with Hoover food drafts,
y = being on sale in
5000 Ds- { The change
became effecrv~ l.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
REPUBLICAN WOMAN
WINS IN OKLAHOMA

OKLOHAMA CITY, Okla
Miss Alice Robertson, who came to
the old Indian Territory behind an
OK cart as child more than sixty
years ago with/her missionary faith
err to teach the Indian the gospel
of the white man, has clearly
defeated w. w. Hastings, one of
Oklahoma's oldest democratic con-
gressmen, as the representative of
the second district. Miss Robertson,
republican, on a compilation of the
returns led Hastings by vote of
24,027 to 23,793.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
|olands Women Soldiers
Foodless on Long March
''er Battle Suffering From Hunger
And Lack of Water.

"AKSAW.-A Polish woman SOL
VINO took part in driving back the
s"e'il from Warsaw, writing to a
80" newspaper, says she went ten
without taking off her clothes and
ktsoL mequently the members of her
4 b" au.ent went five or six days with
H. "Sasiihg opportunity to take down
nan maF' During one march, in keep
p n'e with the retreating red forces,
mr. "o ~ were on the go fourteen
III Nd, Thirteen of which were without
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
Kidnap Cashier and Take
Him 10 Scene of Robbery

TOLEDO, Olive bandits today
forced the cashier at the bank at Al
verdton, O., in Williams county, to
get out of bed, unlock the safe and
turn over 500 in cash and several
thousand in liberty bonds. They gave
first aid to his wife, who tainted when
they forced entrance to the cashiers
home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
UNUSUAL PREcAUTIoN.

Australian aborigines tie the hands
of their dead so that they may not
work their way out of the grave.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-08-27
U. S. WARNS POLAND
Ordered to Keep Army Within
It's Border.
Washington Tells Warsaw Govern.
ment to Check Prrs0it o. Fleeing
Red Forces.

Washington. Aug. o4.--Polan has
been caufiened by the Anericat gov
ernment not TO permit her armies IN
their present counieroffensive agaiIs'
the RUSSIAN holsbeviki TO advance he
yond fhe photographic boundaries of
Poland. Informal representations on
the subject. II was stated officially,
have been made 10 The Polish govern
nienr ihrougIi the American charge at
Warsaw
I.Heerae Aag. 2t.-~s ssftele MiGirtef
Lloyd George OF 6 sat Britnln and
Premier Gioiltti of Italy have adopted
proposals 70 be submitted to France
for action to secure Poland free and
unrestricted use of Danzlg and tis
communications In accordance with
the Versailles treaty 1t vas an
nounced officially here.