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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-08-24
ACTING POLICE LIEUTENANT.

b While Officer Fred Wells is taking
his annual vacation, officer James Nc
Namara is on day duty and acting
Lieutenant of Police.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-08-24
SPECIALS FOR THREE DAYSs

Why not buy your meats from the
market where quality is the best and
the price most reasonable?
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14
Would ThisHurt You?

If "a lower wage next week will still
BUY as much as your present wage
buys this week, has anything really
been taken arDay from you?
Sugar cost you, say, 26 cents a
pound last summer. So, when you
bought a pound of sugar last sum-
mer you plunked down &c cents.
Suppose today, you had only 10
cents as against the 26 cents you
had last summer.
You could still buy pound of
sugar.
Why? Because the cost Of sugar
has fallen from 26 to 10 cents a
pound.
You still get your pound of sugar,
although you handle LESS money.
Has anyone damaged you?
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14
Not a Reduction

If ALL prices are reduced, we
have, in effect-NO REDUCTIONS
at all.
Merely REIMBURSEMENT to a
new LEVEL.
Merely restoration of a normal,
sound and proper RELATIONSHIP
between PRICES.
We still buy as MUCH, with LESS
money.
And it's what money will BUY
not money itsef-that counts.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14
A New Relationship

ALL prices ARE coming down to
a new leUel where they will be equal
lied and bear a sound, normal and
proper relationship to one another.
Sugar is an example---an extreme
one---but nevertheless a true one.
Food costs less. Clothes cost less.
Statistics prepared by the y. S.
Department of Labor show that the
cost of living reached its peak last
summer, and that it has declined
steadily ever since.
With a new and proper relationship
between prices---such as is on the
wayne will have stability and hap
piness. Well still be able to BUY as
much. Inequalities will be wiped
out. Well merely handle less money.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14
Wages Is a Price

1t amounts to this-a reasonable
wage reduction would hurt no one if
you could still buy as much with a
less amount of money.
You COULD buy as much with
less money, if the prices Of the things
you buy are reduced.
And the prices of the things you
buy ARE being reduced.
ALL prices are being reduced.
And with these reductions in ALL
prices must come a reduction in the
price of labor.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14

Wage is a PRICE. And the wage
or PRICE-paid to labor, is being
affected in common-and proper
tionately-with all other prices.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14
Hasn't Been Suggested

Now, Of course, no one has pro-
posed a wage reduction in proper
ton to the reduction in the price Of
sugar.
And no one is going to do it!
But the point serves to illustrate
the fact that it ISN'T money, pri-
marty, that is the aim and end Of
our efforts.
What we want is WHAT MONEY
WILL BUY.
And if we still can buy the things
we are noU buying, what real differ
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14

ence does it make whether we han
die the same amount of money or not?
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-14
It's Not Wages You Want,
It's What Wages Will Buy

What do you do with money?
You spend it-sOoner or later.
Therefore the ualue of money is moi the money ITSELF
It's value to you lies in HOW MUCH your money will
If would just keep that in mind we'd forget to sh
the suggestion of Wage-reductions is made.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20
SPECIAL NOTICES :
BOARD OF EDUCATION
g OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

An examination VIII be held at the
Franklin School building, 18th and X
streets northwest. on Wednesday
March %, 1921, beginning at a. m.
and closing at 4 p. m. for the writ
ten examination, with intermission
of one-half hour at 1880 p. m. The
examination is to provide an eligible
list for leadership in the day high,
vocational and elementary schools
and will cover the following sub
jects: 1. Day High Schools-Chem-
istry, English, French, English and
American History, Med, and Mod.
European History, Latin, Mathe-
matics, Physics, Spanish, Free-hand
Drawing, Carpentry, Music, Domes-
tic Art and Domestic Science. q
Vocational Schools-Domestic Art
and Domestic Science. 8. Day Ele-
mentary Schools-F'ree-hand Draw
ing, Music and Carpentry. For fur
ther Information, apply to N. e.
WEATHERLESS, Secretary Board
of Examiners for COLO RE D
SCHOOLS. F. w. BALLOU, SUPER
INTENDENT Public Schools.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20
INVESTORS,
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.

LIVE. GOING LOCAL Or
iGANIZATION REQUIRES AD-
OPTIONAL CAPITAL AT
ONCE IN AMOUNTS FROM
500 UP. CONTRACTS ON
HAND SHOWING 250o CLEAR
PROFITS. A REAL OPPOR-
TUNITY TO JOIN IN MERI-
TORIOUS, CL AN-C Ut,
PROFITABLE ENTERPRISE.
IN FACT, A CHANCE Sell
DOM OFFERED TO GET IN
ON THE GROUND FLOOR.
FOR PARTICULARS, AD-
DRESS BOX Ass, TINES OF
FICE.
$1,000 BUYS fine grocery business in
cluding stock and fixtures: place to work
up a big business; rent reasonable. Phone
OWNER. Col. 1872.
wANTED-Trustworth competent man.
with $4,000 cash and up. by well-known
manufacturing company, to establish and
permanent distributing business In
Washington; $3.50 a month and expenses
and share of profits extra: safe invest
ment; staple line; high class opening; good
for $1,000 a year or better, with big fu-
ture. ]. WILLIAMS. 1909 Goddard bldg,
GROCERY store for sale at a sacrifice in
price; good business and no credit books
owner leaving town Franklin 7ss.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20

ALTERATIONS hands. good
salary and permanent position
to experienced coat hands.
Apply THE LOUVRE. Ills F
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20

day; long job; open shop. Apply 2o$ X.
!. ave. y. w, Monday 1880 O'clock.
WANTAD-Patent attorney to assist Ia
patent department of q radio engineering
corporation located near Boston; position
offers good opportunity for young man OF
suitable qualifications Address BOX zS3
Times office. stating salary expected.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20

BICYCLES; $50 new Columbia, to
be sacrificed $50 each. These
bicycles were bought from the Gov
ernment and sell for $55. EDGAR
BAUM, S12 5th st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20

TAILOR, to work on lady's
suits, highest wages to ex-
perienced man. Apply THE
LOUVRE, Ills F st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20
TELEPHONE OPERATING
OFFERS
$500 Per Week to start
Eleven Hundred Dollars

WAITED eIperienced help on mems pa aats
N st. N. W.. ard floor.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20

SUITS-25 Unclaimed, for sale;
also so pair pants at $1.75.
Call 227 G st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1921-03-20
AUTOMOBILES FOX SALE
ATTENTION, AUTOMOBILE

Buy altered gasoline for your automobiles
and get away from the annoying troubles
of dirty gasoline. We haul and filter all
the gasoline we sell at our station Also
have visible pumps that show the quantity
and quality Of gasoline you buy. Remem-
ber. IL is lust as important to see the grade
Of gasoline you buy as the kind of oil you
use in your motor. Buy your gasoline at
Capitol Gasoline Station. where you will
always get pure filtered gasoline, with all
the service you want.
Free air and distilied water for your bat
teries.
CAPITOL GASOLINE STATION,
LIST and Maryland ave. s. W. Foot of
Capitol Grounds.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

or whatever he undertakes A glow
GENES into his face, however, when he
mentions Louis Calvert, who saw. him
in "The Merchant of Venice" and
thereupon inscribed copy of his Art
of Acting to Leonard Nude, the best
Lorenzo ever saw
There is this to Mr.. Nudes side
OF the question: He practiced what he
preached and played in Shakespearean
repertoire companies in England and
Ireland for three years before he
played modern drama at all. He played
four or five parts night and stage
managed as well on his Irish tour.
After three seasons Mr.. Nude
joined the original production of "Hin-
die Wakes" Later he continued in ex-
cursions into Shakespeare in this coun-
try as the Bassanio of three recent
Portias, Laurette Taylor. Adrienne
Morrison and Edith Wynne Matthison.
What he really wants to do now is to
bring back to his acting of his old
roles the lighter touch his more recent
comedy experience has lent him.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

OF the fiat skins of similar hens. You
would expect the living creature to
achleve at once certain degree Of in
visibility. Thayer made precisely this
test, only to prove that "a more strik-
ing demonstration of the powerlessness
of mere similar colors to conceal could
hardly be devised" What, then, ac-
counts for the fact-familiar to pener-
ations Of men but unexplained until
Thayer hit upon the secret--that many
Of the denizens of the animal kingdom
remain, under the right conditions, in
distinguishable from their environ
ment? 1t is not simply that the pat
terms on their coats, both as regards
line and color, are adjusted to the ma
ture of their surroundings; 1t is that
these patterns are vitalized as kind
of protection by the play of light and
shade. animals" we are told in the
book cited above, "are painted by ma
ture darkest on those parts which tend
to be most lighted by the sky's light,
and vice versa" and the net result is
that "the two effects cancel each other"
The point is extremely difficult to set
forth without the aid of diagrams and
such aids, but we may, perhaps, clear
it up little by adding that while the
model of a bird painted green all over
and placed against a green background
would be unqualitiedly conspicuous, the
countershading of the same model, ac-
ccrding to nature, would cause it to
melt into the background. Where this
process among the actual living crea-
lures becomes enchanting is in the ar
tistic subtlety with which costume, pat
tern and shading are developed. 1t is
as though nature painted a picture
upon the dress of bird or beast, a pic
ture reproducing the general character
Of the scene in which it lives-always
assuming life in the bird or beast, the
maintenance of normal position.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

large rs life, that is getting ready to do
the same stunt that you saw the deer
do, only even more msgically. You
must, anyway, come in the next warm
weather and see the worlds of beauti-
full wonders that all summer long lagt
year showed every one here" He
wanted sorely to get Colonel Roosevelt
to visit him, T. r. was a stout critic
of the Flaw" and Thayer's arguments
could not move. him. On the occasion
when had a chance to talk with him
about it he was still increduious. This
always seemed to me one of the gray
est of losses to the subject, Met face
to face for long and candid talks
Thayer and Roosevelt would inevitably
have got together on the great central
principle. 1t was simply caprice of
fate that kept them apart. All the
time the stars in their courses wer.
lighting the artists battle. Science
more and more accepted his ideas, and
he, for his part, lost no opportunity
to extend their scope. The Titanic
disaster stimulated him to observations
on icebergs, which he sent me for pub
lication as of the highest Importance
"How many more years Of CHANGING it
at sea-" he asked, before the world
realizes its deadly error in the uni
versal notion that bergs at night are
visible because they are white? 1t is
precisely when they are purest white
that they are at night invisible" When
the war came he saw new possibilities
in the principle of shading and coun-
ter shading he had discovered.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Boy Scouts See Themselves
I'm Kineto Review

Boy Scouts who go TO the movies will
recall that last summer the news reel
pictures all carried snatches of scenes
at their "jamboree" in England. There
were no complete and connected pic
torial stories, however. There is now
available such complete story. 1t
has been published as Kineto Re.
view by the Kineto Company of Amer
lea. The title Of it is "Boy Scouts of
America" with a subtitle explaining
that it treats of the delegation to the
international "jamboree." The pic
ture has been viewed by the officials Of
the Boy Scouts, including Chief Scout
Executive James E. West, and has been
granted their official Endorsement.
The American Boy Scouts in the pic
ture are the 301 who were chosen BY
contest among the '4oo, 900 Boy Scouts
of America. They represent 101 cities
in thirty-two states.
The Kineto Review tells the COM
plete story Of their stay in England,
from the time they disembarked from
the U. S. A. troopship Pocahontas
until they said their fareweus to Eng
land and left for France.
Besides the 3o1 picked Boy Scouts a
number of Important Americans and
Englishmen appear in the picture,
notably General Sir Robert Baden
Powell.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
The Naturalist
Some Notes ON the History of
SsThayer's Law

l have noted the outdoor nature Of
Thayer's boyhood. All his life long he
was a lover of the woods and their in
habitants. His convictions as to the
boundaries which are set for science.
glanced at in one of the letters already
quoted, never kept him from being a
scientist himself. 1t began, unconscious
ly, l imagine, in those early days in
which he painted portraits of dogs and
other animals. He gave that occupa-
tion up, but he went on studying beasts
and birds more and more as he retired
to what was to prove his permanent
home at Monadnock, N. H. Presently
there flowed from those studies an
epoch-making discovery, the discovery
OF what has come to be known as
"Thayer's law" 1t is the law of pro-
tective coloration, that strange princi-
pie in nature which gives to some at
least of the creatures of the wild q
safeguard without which they would be
Handicapped in the struggle for exist
ence. Thayer first announced it to
the world in The AUX, our American
journal of ornithology, in April, 1896.
From time to time he made supple
mentary communications on the SUBJ
Ject, and in 1909, under the title of
Concealing Coloration in the Animal
Kingdom, full exposition Of his ideas
was published. Gerald Thayer, his son.
wrote the text summarizing the matter
and produced some Of the most bril-
liant OF the illustrations. The book
was momentous as a contribution to
the science Of the naturalist. It's fame
has since been greatly heightened by
the fact that by the application of
"Thayer's law" the art of camouflage
was brought into the great war.
This law established by the painter
is not easily stated in bald terms. it
is best approached through a moments
consideration of what naturalists pre-
viously believed to be the secret of
protective oloration-namely the es-
tahlishment of an identity Of color be-
tween given object and it's back
ground. Thus. you would say, roughly,
that bird Or butterfly not readily dis
covered in a tree or bush "looked
like" the web of twigs and LEAKAGE
against which it had paused because it
possessed kindred colors and markings.
Much hinges upon that because"
Take, for example, a Plymouth Rock
hen and place it against background
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Mudie Tells Young Actors
To Play Shakespeare First

Leonard Nude, who shows his flair
for comedy in that gay Theater Guild
production, "Mr. PIN Passes By" has
theory about the playing of Shake
speare that startles those who hold the
bard "holiest of holies." Mr.. Nude,
with no disrespect for Shakespeare, be-
lieves that he is not an aloof goal, but
a prerequisite to appearance in mod
ern drama.
"Turn young actor loose on "Ham-
let 'As You Like It, Julius C@sar,'
any one of them, and you can't hurt
Shakespeare, but you do help your man.
You will find that he watches his grace
of body, his diction, his voice, his meth
cd Of thinking out part as he never
would in any play written nowadays.
1t is just as necessary for me to con-
troll my voice as Brian Strange in
Mr.. Pim' and get food tone as when
played Bassanio opposite the golden
voice Of Edith Wynne Matthison's
Portia. 1t is just as necessary that
appear with an easy walk, good car
riage and whatever grace / can in this
light modern comedy as when I played
Orlando, Romeo and Marc Antony,
But I'll wager anything you like that
no manager could put me or any other
actor on in play like PIN and drill
into me what Shakespeare taught me.
Shakespeare Should Not
Induce Mannerisms
"There isn't chance to be slovenly
in ShakespeaYean drama. One must
know to the last inch his control of
speech and action. And one must study
and think out his part and work
scenes over and over for himself, so
that he can get the obscurer parts
across to the audience. And if you
can get Shakespeare across you can
get anything across. You should carry
away from such experience knowledge
of your own power and limitations,
poise, dignity, good diction and sense
of beauty and rhythm that cannot be
lost. Don't hold me up as an example,
but I think I gained more my first
years than the average young actor
who starts, if that is possible, on
Broadway.
1--WE been argued with a good deal
because people say that young actor
comes away from Shakespearean roper
toire mouthing all his lines, sustain
ing his voice to no end, and trying
to drip liquid notes on every word.
All l can say is that ne has gone about
Shakespeare the wrong way. Shake
speare should be acted as naturally as
'Liliom,' for instance, with as varied
manner, rhythm and emphasis. After
all, Louis Calvert's advice, to take a
scene from Shakespeare, translate il
into modern slang and talk it just as
modern person in such a situation
would talk it, until one is inside the
heart of such a person, and only then
to swing back into the old lines, is the
best advice l know Of"
His Practice Agrees
With His Preaching
Mr.. Nude puts his whole soul into
his argument just as he does into his
enjoyment OF golf, or his role In SPIN
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
BY Royal Cortissoz

The golden age in American paint
;ne, foreshadowed nearly hundred
years ago, when George Inness was
horn in Newburgh in 1925. came to
something like maturity in the 70s.
y wss at about that time that Inness,
w,nslow Homer, Wyant, Homer Martin
and John La Fargo arrived at the
r,;nt where their Importance as a
creup was more generally recognized.
Tsen and through the two following
aseades they and certain of their
;uniors absolutely dominated the scene.
By kind of divine right La Fargo
taok the rank of "old master" in it.
Re gave to the period its noblest monu-
meut in painting, the sublime "Ascen-
SION which belongs to the church of
that name in New York. This was the
age Of Saint Gaudens in sculpture, of
MeKim in architecture, and the latter's
uartner, Stanford White, had. too, a
good deal to do with it. He was the
inspiring comrade of men like Dewing,
Bunce and Sargent. They made the
memorable pictures for which he de-
signed frames that were in themselves
rarks of art. 1t was our great period
Of creative personalities.
Shining among them all, remark
sbIe spirit and remarkable painter,
was Abbott H. Thayer, who died on
May 90 at his home in New Hampshire.
We have never had any one more orig
insl in character, richer in imaginative
genius. He was naturalist as we'll as
an artist, master of truth as we'll as
Of beauty, equally searching and elo-
ouent in the Interpretation of land
scspe and in the delineation of the
figure. On principles discovered by
him the art of camoufage was devel-
oped in the great war and he is thus
doubly to be reckoned benefactor of
mis- time. To dwell upon his career is
TO dwell upon some of the most pre-
eious elements in the history of Amer
lean art,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05

The New York School of Fine and
Applied Art is offering summer profes-
sional courses for teachers and profess
sional workers along practical lines,
beginning July 5.
Prominent among the courses offered
era Landscape architecture. interior
decoration, house planning, poster and
commercial advertising design, costume
design, stage design, industrial design,
life and practical illustration.
The life, illustration and poster ad-
vertising classes are to apply the
"Hambidge research" in composition.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-05
Fair Women
Spirifualized Conceptions of
Their Beauty

The foregoing observations do much
TO explain the nominally restricted
range of Thayer's art. In the list of
his works--not strikingly voluminous---
such titles as Winged Figure" "The
Virgin" "Caritas," "Diana," "Young
Woman" point to the celebration of
one theme, womanhood endowed with
beauty. Only as his Imagination plays
about this theme he gives to it in each
picture really new investiture. The
figure is generally youthful, but even
so 1t is freighted with implications 60
ing deeper than anything in the wonted
experience Of youth. There are women
on Thayer's canvases who with their
maidenly bloom have also the heroic
dignity of the Roman matron of legend.
Their charm is drawn, as l have indi-
Gated, from Olympian sources. Yet it
is one of their finest traits that they
stand with their feet Enthusiastically on
the solid earth. They are profoundly
human presences. 1t is by character,
by qualities of the soul, that they tri-
umph, not through any dramatic or
other significance derived from q spe-
officially pictorial ingenuity. Once
Ihayer painted a mural decoration, the
iunette symbolizing the city of Flor
ence as protectress of the arts, which
was erected in the Walker Gallery, at
Bowdoin College. There are five fig
ures in the composition and, as a COM
position, it is we'll put together. But
the decorative quality of the thing is
not the secret of its spell; that lies in
the central winged figure, in the divine
creature of the painters imagination.
he was not q great inventive designer.
lie was just the consummate interpre-
ter of grand ideal Of form.
He was too impatient of material is
sues ever to become merely adroit
craftsman. Thayer was, technically, a
man OF superb passages and of careless
ones. He would paint head with the
supreme authority of an old master. an
arm with the same imperial skill, or a
drapery, and then he would brush in a
part of his background as though he
were in hurry to get through There
are parts of some of his finest things
which look unfinished. But they are
never the essential parts. The beauty
which he iset out to express is always
there. If the reader has any doubts
about Thayer's technique let him go to
the Metropolitan Museum and, after
studying the glorious young Woman" !"
turn to the "Monadnock," which is also
in the Hearn collection. This is one of
the greatest landscapes ever painted in
America or anywhere else. The fore
ground is roughly generalized, on a
principle which Corot used before
Thayer, but which few modernartists
have appreciated at it's full value. The
great mass and the shining crown of the
mountain are defined with equal deli
cacy, precision and grandeur. Only a
technician profoundly versed in his mys-
terry could with such piercing truth have
interpreted SO monumental subject.
The masterpiece is characteristic Of
Thayer. 1t is original. No other of
our landscape painters, and the groun
is an impressive one, could have set
down a more personal impression of
nature. And none could have exercised
a more powerful sweep of the brush.