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The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Rage for Marriage Sweeps Great Britain

n TATIST1CS for 1920 are now on the
market, and in the line of marriages.
- at least, they are very interesting
In England and Wales, for Instance nearly
100000 couples were married i'm 1920, an
increase of 20 per cent. over 1919, which
however, had broken all previous years.
For three years preceding the great war
these two countries had averaged only 2S0.-
900 marriages yearly. In 1915 and 1919
the boom I'm weddings reached 100000. hut
never more, and in 1915. as we all know,
war weddings were the order of the day
Thousands of young couples. who would
never have thought of marriage in times
of peace rushed off to a minister-' Sixty
per cent. OF those war brides, it is estimated.
are war widows; nearly 30 per cent. have
been divorced or are seeking divorce, leaving
scant 10 per cent who will (let us hope)
live happily ever afterward."
OF the 1919-1920 marriages only rough
estimate can be made as to how many are
real Never before in the history OF the
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Counts Laughing Charles Lever
Among His Own Ancestors

Lever. who counts among his ancestors
laughing Charles Lever, is, IL needs not to
be told. realst. If he sees burnt sienna
in the sky he puts burnt sienna in his pic
ture, to the horror of some of the academi-
clans. His canvas "St. Ives" exhibited at
the Gallery on the Moors this season. had in
1t the very wash of the water on which the
boats seemed to dance and courtesy He
will show you pretty pastel effects of his
work of fifteen years ago to demonstrate the
evolution of an artist
While the situation of this studio is char
acterstic of Gloucesters artist nooks the
interior of all of them is not so simple as
Levers II is possible to pass through the
narrow door of a barnlike outside into an
inside abounding in rich and costly detail,
in old draDerles ana Mand1rn costumes from
China. shawls of gorgeous color from Spain.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

world have there been so many cases of
bigamy as have obtained in the British
Isles during the last year and half. Nor
do the statistcians like to guess how many
Of the 1920 weddings are illegal. Il would
be too depressing.
"Girls and women" said leading ENGLISH
clergyman for publication recently. are
rushing into marriage without due thought
or investigation. Men are scarce say they;
'we'll take one while we cam Before the
war there was "A scarcity OF men in Eng
land Many women went to their graves
unwed in spite of beauty and charm, and
many other women went out to the colonies
to seek husband To-day. after the toll Of
war, husbands are harder to find than ever,
and the boom in marriages is all the more
surprising. The number of cases of bigamy
now in the courts shows the extent to
which women are wedding without inqurins
into the past of the bridegroom"
In his opinion. however the crest of the
boom had been passed and 1928 marriage
list will be considerably smaller.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
STER AS AN ART CENTRE HOME OF IDEALS
Summer Colony of Painters and Dramatists
Fostering Higher View of Life Most
Refreshing in Days of Materlalism

these lie the great. perhaps the only hope
of inculcating love of art in the younger
generations. already too seriously tinged
with eroticism and decadence. 1t is hoped
that these many and scattered individual
efforts may become great collective
force with broadening influence and
enlarged vision.
In 1920 the exhibitors chose by ballot their
own art jury. This year "A committee was
appointed by the management with the idea
of combining different elements and some
outside interests in the art world. This
committee consisted of Charles T. Hopkin-
son, Hobart H. Nichols, Louis Kronberg.
Charles II. Pepper Charles Grafley and
A. II. Atkins.
Deserving this latest exhibition is of
particular mention with all degrees Of praise
distributed to this artist and to that, it
can't have it here. Besides, people are more
interested in the environment of the artists
themselves. that litter of the studios"
which, has been already said, charms us
all.
And in Gloucester this charm is essen
TALLY personal. Everywhere among this
congeries of villages, along the dominant
rocks of the seashore, amidst the moors and
along the wooden wharves of the mother
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

of them all, the busy artist. re or
she (and she is more numerous) is every
where To chase them to their lairs is more
difficult. They live and paint in the oldest
out of the way corners. Old barns, old
sheds Abandoned cottages, nesting in hid
den corners at the summit of some rocky
wynd or perched on a rock, bush embowered
at the base Of an ancient garden on the edge
of the harbor, needs patience and
quick sense of locality to track down these
places which by all sorts of ingenious de
vices have been rendered fit for living and
painting on.
No general terms describe But come
along to the studio of Haley Lever, and
what you see there must serve as descrip
ton of the others you haven't time or pa
tence to hunt out
What you come to first if you have been
rightly directed. is a simple wooden cottage
of the ordinary village type on the ordinary
village street. You pass down rough track
to the one side and. still descending between
thick bushes of juniper and clematis, the lat
ter just beginning i'm this northern air to
flower. and turning through a sort of door
cut out Of the foliage, you find yourself in a
small garden containing some three or four
old trees. rustic seat, grass plot about
the size of ordinary dining room table, a
sun dial on an antique looking fragment of
broken column--and all this hemmed in by
ascending beds of gorgeous marigold and
dahlia, surrounded by artificial rock work
AT the lower extremity Of this garden
filling the whole space from wall to wall and
occupying as much space as must have been
equal to half the original enclosure, stands
cottage the existence of which from the
street could never have been suspected. 1t
has windows and a glass door opening on
the garden and skylight i'm the roof. And
from this room. the studio, the artist and
his wife come forth to greet You.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Gallery on the Moors Scene of Noteworthy
Exhibitions Yearly-Plans Being Made for
Theatre Near By to Meet Demands

There was the canvas of the former the
fellow who paints only what he Sees and
who sees only what is commonplace and
the canvas of the idealist whose trees and
waves and rocks not the trees and waves
and rocks common mortals see There was,
to be specific (and offensve), the zinc like
green water of Jonas Lie and the mys-
terious moont water of Hobart Nichols.
Which is right-the dull unimaginative
picture-the real as ordinary folk see it or
the ideal which the modern artist says is
the real distilled and sublimated in the
alembic of his mind? Both styles were TO
be had in this small exhibition, and the
spectator had no reason to be discontented
He might choose for himself without try
ing to answer a question which never will
be answered for art is the Sphinx, and to
question her is destruction
The people who are trying to make an art
centre of Gloucester go to work in cleverer
way a more direct way, without starting on
tempting by-paths of useless art discussion.
THE art exhibitions" they say, "are not
ned for Gloucester alone, nor for the bene-
tit of the artist alone. We delighted
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Old Fishing Port Fiourishing
As Home for the Drama

In the struggle between materialism and
dealism to the ranks of the latter which
are thin hear that Gloucester has
brought reinforcement. Long mecca of
modern art. the old fishing port. willy-nilly,
has become one also of literature and the
drama-and particularly the latter. 1t has
a hourshing community dramatic school.
with dancing attachments and all three are
correlated or focused in the Gallery the
Moors. This is a pretty specimen of Gothic
designed by Crane of Boston and built by
private enterprise. Here have been held
since it opened six years ago exhibitions OF
paintings, and here have been given in the
same number of successive summers groups
Of plays by the Community Actors some
simple. others pretentious, but all presented
with careful rehearsing and an open vision
Of the dignity OF the work
In truth the work in it's several branches
has outgrown its housing. The community
school of acting, under direction of Miss
Florence Cunningham, is carried in a
big old building on a wharf i'm the inner
harbor of Gloucester. but this offers no
fitting place for the display of results, and
when the young actors are ready to show
the public what they do they must go
up to the Gallery on the Moors These
exhibitions in painting and drama SO over
lap that IL is usually impossible for the
actors to gain the benefit of dress re-
hearsal before a public performance.
The plan Is now to erect another build
ing on land adjourning the gallery for the
theatre proper, and to do this by means OF
a business corporation which shah acquire
us FUNDS by the sale of stock The founders
To whose generosity the Gallery on the
Moors Is due offer to throw in the necessary
land as part of the holding on which stock
will be issued.
Just before the exhibition Of this year the
management of the Gallery on the Moors
submitted brief explanation of the work
al the preceding five summers and of the
arm and ideal striven for
The general plan of the gallery work Is
primarily art. In the catacysm of war
and the unavoidable downward swing OF
the great pendulum of world forces from
rising civilization to impending material
ism, II is believed that the individual
effort. however small II is. manifested in
art galleries and exhibitions, love Of pic
lures. small theatres. peoples pageants
fused into life by community spirt--n
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

summer weather Gloucester painters repeat
on their canvas a smooth, seductive ocean,
while storm and destruction fall into stage
properties of the sea dramatist
Then the clouds suddenly gather. thunders
crash. hghtnings flash, an angry ocean as
saults the headlands, great trees are torn
up-here are new pictures for Waugh and
Lie and Lever, for all the artists who have
been painting when the Boats Come In
The Ginny Fleet" and thousand other
peaceful and familiar Gloucester scenes.
The artists are asked to paint these also,
and 1t is well for us they are so.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

What she accomplshes is, to be sure.
various. That variety was seen to perfec-
ton in the recent Gallery on the Moors eX-
hibition. 1t was a small but comprehen-
sive exhibition, everything in which was
Gloucester yet Gloucester as she is seen
through different eyes. In it as almost
everywhere the ancient war between realism
and dealsn went on unchecked
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

when a picture is sold. but consider
quite as great a benefit is conferred on the
purchaser as on the artist.
"Our theatre, too, is not held for the in
dividual actor alone, but for the public as
we'll. We believe that we are entering an
era of materialfsm and that to oppose IL
we must all strive individually and collec-
lively to work for the development of art"
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

But the painters, although they pervade
the peninsula, are not by any means the
whole of it. The inspiration they afford is
but one facet, and there are as many others
as a diamonds.
Some quality of this strong Atlantic air
that blows across recumbent Mother Ann
induces even the most Indifferent to give
himself heart and soul. to the work he has
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

begun, and make up his mind to succeed
in it.
One has only to talk to the students who
come to Gloucester in great numbers-stu-
dents of art predominating-to realize that
Nature here, whatever she may be in New
port and Aiken, is not mere vulgar cook
providing meat for the body, but a subtle
chemist yielding precious ambition for the
mind.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
BAD BREATH
nr. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove If

Or. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sub
siitute for ealomcl. act Gently on the
bowels and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath find
quick relief through DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets. The pleasant. sugar-coate1
tablets are taken for bad breath by
all who know them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act gen
tly but firmly on the bowels and liver
stimulating them to natural action
clearing the blood and gently purifying
tie entire system. They do that which
dangerous calomel does without any
Of the bad after effects.
All the benefits OF nasty, sickening.
gripping cathartics are derived from
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets without
gripping, painor any disagreeable effects
DR.. +. M. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years OF prac-
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint. with the
attendant bad breath.
Olive Tablets are purely = vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil. you
VII know them by their olive color
rake one or two every night for wcek
and Iute the effect.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
ODDS AND ENDS OF NEWS TAKEN
FROM ALL POINTS OF ". VIRGINIA n

church, of Huntington and NJ G.
Johnson. of Barboursville.
Three round boxing bouts are be
ing introduced as features of the
vaudeville show at the Hippodrome
in Fairmont-an innovation for that
city.
Many West Virginia women plan
to attend the annual convention of
the National League OF Women Vo.
tiers at Cleveland. Ohio. on April
11-16
NJ. ]. Abdary, a prominent young
Syrian OF Wheeling. has announced
his intention Of returning to Syria
May 20 where he will visit his par
ents for six months.
A Kiwanis club was organized at
Wellsburg with S. Il. Caldwell as
president, o. J. Hayes as vice,presi
dent. w B. Taylor as treasurer, and
Hazlett NJ. Rodgers as trustee. The
club will meet every Tuesday noon.
A new city administration as
sumes full charge of affairs at
Moundsville this week.
The Clarksburg Automobile Club
has been organized with 532 mem
hers and with Bridgeport. Shinnston
and salem all in Harrison county
yet to be heard from.
The West Virginia section OF the
American college fer surgery will
hold its first annual session at
Wheeling April 1919.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06

IL. f. Flesher. superintendent Of
the Industrial School for Boys at
Trunytown, can present some strong
arguments in favor OF open air life
as conducive to good health. The
life that the boys at that institu
ton live is particularly healthy or
else the courts only send lads in
the finest physical trim to that
school.
Railroad fuel contracts are not so
attractive to coal operators in the
Fairmont region as they have been
in the vast and it is said that rail
roads are closing contracts in some
Instances at figures above instead
of below the market
Fayetteville is declared by trav
ling man to be the worst town in
Vest Virginia to eat and Grafton to
. the worst town" to sleep.
The Fairmont kiwanis club is
torking up picnic which is ex
pectcd to bring together members
OF that club in all parts OF North.
ern West Virginia.
The Right to Strike Does Not In.
here in Occupations Vital to the
Public Welfare was the subject OF
debate at MorrisIIaryey college
and the negative won. The Judges
were G. W Campbell mayor of
Huntington, Rev. John s Jenkins,
pastor of the jefferson Memorial
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
STATE REMISS TO
VICkSBURG DEAD
Former Senator White Pleads
For Memorial.

Tie failure OF West Virginia to
appropriately commemorate the
lives Of 1916 members OF the Fourth
West Virginia Infantry, who are
buried at the Vicksburg (Miss) ma
tional military park, was emphasiz
ed before the finance committee OF
the house Monday night by former
Senator Sol White. who has long
been identified with public affairs in
this state, having first come 20 the
legislature as a house member 30
years ago. lie made a strong APP
peal for action, which would rectity
this rogrettable omission.
The = A. r. organization i'll West
Virginia has been urging such &C
ton for some time, and a letter
from W. 6. Grafton Of Wheeling
the present state commander was
read at the meeting.
The West Virginians. who sacti-
feed their lives al Nichs3uIg Un
May 10. 1863, should have aa4 the
states attention long before this
Senator White pointed out The
survivors are rapidly passing away
and one was buried, Sunday, leaving
only two survivors in kanawha
county.
The bill blouse Bill No. 206) au-
thorizes the governor to appoint a
commission to be called the "Vicks
burg Military Park Commission tc
consist OF three members. all OF
whom shall be veterans of the Civil
War and one or more members of
the Fourth West Virginia Infantry.
and veterans who served in the
siege OF Vicksburg.
The bill provides that the men,
bers shall serve without pay and
with no expense, excepting neces-
sary travelling expenses and clerk
hire.
The bill calls for an appropria-
ton OF $4,000, or 80 much of that
amount as may be necessary TO
erect monument and markers
within the Vicksburg National Mil
itary Park, to designate the posi-
ton occupied in the campaign and
siege OF Vicksburg by the Fourth
West Virginia Infantry Regiment.
The commission is empowered by
the bill to determine the design and
location Of the monument and mark.
ers.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
REDUCE GROSS DEBT
DURING PAST MONTH
Only About $4,000 900, 900
Now Due.

The nations gross debt was re
Aueed s71, 5SO,33o in March, accord
sng 10 the treasury statement. which
showed the total debt to be $23,-
.esO, 397. or the total Federal oblisa-
Cons outstanding $2,75l.S41,ooo rep
Fesents short-term treasury certiti-
Gates OF indebtedness, several hun
dred millions of which Secretary
Mellon has said will be retired dur
ing April.
An analysis of the tyeasurys ifs
cal affairs for the last year reveals
little change in the amount Of GER
tificates of Indebtedness Of the float
ing debt. The gross debt, however
which consists largely Of Liberty
bonds and Victory notes. has shown
steady decrease. Certificates Of in
debtedness outstanding March 81.
1920. totaled $2.667. 100000, less than
31OO,000,000 below the present tita,
OF such securities.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
PRESIDENT HAS
No PEACE POLICY
Nothing Definite So Far Has
Been Announced.

Washington, April 6 Whatever
may be the expectation Of Republi-
can senators, who want an early DE-
claration of peace with Germany, it
has been made known authoritative
~ that President Harding had not
thrown the influence of his admin
stration behind the movement but
was inclined to look with disapprov-
al on any prospect to precipitate ac-
ton. 1t was revealed that the presi-
dent had not in fact committed him
self to any definite program for the
restoration of peace, though he was
said to be leaning more and more to
Il belief that the Versailles covenant
cannot In any practical way be usci
now as Il basis for his association OF
nations.
He Is 6anvassing the situation
carefully in the light of information
and advice which has come to him
since his Inauguration and although
a part of his program may be decid-
ed upon soon 1t probably will be
many weeks before it is revealed in
entirety.
AT dinner here Monday night
some of the senator's most promin-
ent in foreign relations, are under.
stood to have informed NJ. Viviani.
the former French premier. who is
visiting here. that his government
need not hope that a peace deelara-
ton would be long delayed. They
plan to bring the measure quickly
into the program of the special ses-
sion and they express unhounded
confidence that it will be adopted
quickly
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
MEXICO PROMISES
TO PUNISH GUILTY
(sy international News Service. }

Washington, April 5-Mexico has
informed the United States that the
fullest vigor Of tie law" will be
used TO saie guard Americans and to
punish those who are guilty of the
recent murder Of two Americans in
The Tampico district, according TO 4
dispatch to the State Department To-
day fro Charge d Affairs summer
lin, of the American embassy at
Mexico City
Charge Summerlin stated that tho
Mexican government has addressed
4 formal note to the United States
in reply to the representations made
Ivy this government with regard to
the alleged murder of three Ameri
cans in Mexico during recent weel
The note, which gives assurance -.
a desire to protect Americans AZ
punish those who commit crmes n.
inst Americans, will he forwardc
here bV mail
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
MR.. HARPER
BREAKS ARM

Deputy Sheriff L. e. Harper was
painfully injured Tuesday evening
when he slipped and fell while
walking along North Queen street,
near the Strand Theatre, fracturing
his right arm. Officer Harper threw
out that arm TO protect himself as
ha fell and 1t was broken at the
wrist. DR.. A. B. Eagle and Dr. James
Duf, reduced the fracture at the
Kings Daughters hospital
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
UNCLE SAM AS A VICTIM.

Uncle Sam has been a victim OF
the crime wave during the past year.
All over the country his mail trains
have been held UP and there is ne
way of getting at correct amour
lost. However. in an article in Tn
Star. Sunday. April
an account OF mail robberes Is tolt
Don't miss this unusual article. o.
der your copy of The Star today
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
SPECIALISTS HERE.

Asronomy Specialist T. X. Dodd,
of Morgantown, is in the county to-
day with County Agent Degen on of
fetal business. They will attend a
community meeting at Spring Mills
tonight.
Horticulture Specialists y. J. Cid
dinss and f. c. Sherwood specialists
in plant disease. both from Morgan
town, are scheduled to spend a day
here later in the week on official
business
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
ATTENDING CONFERENCE.

J. J. Porter. vice-president and
manager of the Security Cement and
Lime Co.. Hagerstown. left Tor Cleve-
hnd. where he will attend meet
ing of the Conservation Committee
OF the Portland Cement Association
being held there From Cleveland
Mr.. Porter will so to Chicago anS
visit the cement plants or the mid.
dlewest, stopping at Cincinnati for
several days 10 visit his parents Be,
fore returning east.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
AT
FIRST CHURCH

Congressman NJ. Q. Mclaughlin,
preventative from Nebraska, will
he at the First [. B. Church neXt
sunday and will deliver an address
TO the Mems class at $50 and Will
preach at II o'clock.
Mr.. Mclaughlin is an ordained
minister in the L. B. Church and
was president OF York College, at
York. Neb. for a number OF years
before elected to a seat in Con.
gresS.
He will motor up from Washing
ton in time to meet the class. \
big class Is expected TO greet him.
The general public IS invited
attend the Mems class as well as
the IL o'clock service.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
$40. 900 IN PURSES.

Purses aggregating $4,000 for the
Grand Circuit races at Charter Oak
Park. Hartford. Conn, September s
to 9, were announced by the Con.
necticut Fair Association The
gNeater Charter Oak Stakes. with a
purse of $4,000 will attract the
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
DID NOT "DESERT"
MOUNTAIN FIRE

Mr.. G. e, Speights. who lives two
miles south Of Hodgesville stated TO
the Journal today that Ire did not
desert the fire that made such
Roadway over the mountain Monday
night He said he fought it until
midnight when it was practically out
so far as danger was concerned.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-06
MANS
HORSE WINS

Mr.. c. 4. Gerling, Of this city, was
considerably enriched in purse and
finance because of his Sammy Kelly
. capturing one of the long shots at
1.-The Bowie, Md, race track Monday
afternoon. The odds against this
horse were $500 to $1.00, and Buddy
Ensor kept up his good work by pi-
loting Sammy ahead of the bunch in
the second event. He was the first
fayorite TO come down in front