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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-05-06
MAKING BAD
MEN GOOD
Effective Revolutionary Method
Use by the Salvation Army
in Prison Work.

During the last year The Salvation
Army has found employment and
given financial aid to $500 discharged
prisoners. The old story OF the man
VINO cannot find job because he has
done time is thing OF the past, 1or
Inc salvation Army is always willing
10 md him employment. The old tale
OF the convict who is driven back to
CRIME through poverty and friendless-
ness IS out Of date, for The Salvation
Army is daily applying its theories of
practical Christianity to the prison
problem.
III 383 prisons and reformatories
during the last year, 5000 religious
meetings were held under the auspices
OF the Salvation Army. They were at.
tended by more than 100000 prisoners
and more than $500 men and women
declared their intention of becoming
selfrespecting and useful members OF
society
Nor does The Salvation Army con.
Inc It's prison activities to conyicts
and eX-convicts. The entire family is
frequently cared for and protected by
Inc salvation Army. Food is provided
Where there is want, shelter is given
10 the homeless, and a spirit of for.
glVeness is instilled in order that the
FAMILY may be ready to welcome the
lransgressor on the day of his release.
IN connection with the work of The
salvation Army, both inside and out.
side of the prison gates. some OF the
most remarkable stories might be told
among the conversions made during
Inc last year are some of the most
notorious criminals in the United
Statesmen who were old-timers
hardened offenders who had spent the
major portion Of their adult years be-
hlnd bars. And in almost every in.
stance the conversion has been sin.
cere. Out of the scores placed on
parole to The Salvation Army from
every State and every county during
the last year, only eight per cent OF
the entire number failed to make good
the remaining ninety-two per cent re-
port regularly to The Salvation Army
once each month and are quickly be-
coming nard-working, self-respecting
men and women
Among the recent activities Of the
Prison Department of The Salvation
Army Is the Lifer's Club, an organiza-
fion composed exclusively Of the 152
men who are serving life terms in the
penal institutions of this country The
purpose of the club is to give the lifer
something to occupy his mind-some-
thing to keep him in contact with fell
low prisoners in other institutions and
with the outside world. The officers
OF the organization are lifers, the
members are lffers, and It will not be !
long befofe q magazine, edited by |
Hfers, win be circulated by The Sal. |
walton Army through svery prison in
HE United States, q : message Of
lsAser for tls Dissent and hope Tor he
1890
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-05-06

Are the plates of your battery in
sulated from each others your bat
terry insured against separator troubles
for the full life of the plates?
Or are the plates merely Separated
with the constant liability of short cir
cults and wastage of current, with bill
for putting in new separators always
hanging over YOU'D
Is it a Willard Threaded Rubber Bat
terry?
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-05-06
Wonderful Poison Gasea

Canned, solicited. poison gas, which
is claimed to be absolutely foOlproOf
and mobile, has been perfected for use
by the American soldier, according to
Popular Mechanics Magazine. That
two studies-defensive and offensive
gas research-go hand in hand al
ready has been demonstrated, for, in
addition to the development Of new
forms Of gas, army experts ut the
Edgewood (Md) arsenal, have had to
improve the gas masks to make them
effective against some d the new
gases brought into existence there. n
technical military progress, every new
weapon means q call upon the 'armoree
for a new defense. As result, this
country today has not only gases
which surpass anything used during
the World war, but a mask which, -
recent tests was worn "a hours {, day
for q week, except at mealtimA VIII
out any discomfort whatever. SntA-
ing was normal. speaking 49, 1
ana 4 kent ont n the $50 M -
~ III q N
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-05-06
What's Between Your
Battery Plates ?

Or just an ordinary battery with or
binary separators that carbonize, pune
ture, warp and crack, that sooner orlater
have to be replaced at your expense?
Willard Threaded Rubber Battery
insulation that outlasts the plates
more miles of uninterrupted service
per dollar.
The list of cars and trucks below is
arranged alphabetically for your con-
venience.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-05-06
incredible NameA

Speaking Of 'burdensomer nameA
Stray Stories tells Of one Arthur Pep.
per u liverpool. England. who be-
slowed upon his infant daughter .
name that comprised every letter in
the alphabek running from Anna to
Petty zenA
It seems surprising that the names
Of Dicken6' characters, odd though
they were, should b found in real life !;
FOR Il was from life that many Of
them were takeh Some. as Il known,
were copied from tho names Of signe
over business. places: but that was not
the novelist's only source Of selection.
John Forster, his biographer, found
among his papers 4 carefully. drawn
list Of names With tho sources from
which he obtA3ned them. some oe the
names are TO s1t4ASagant for any.
thing but fsality. FOLLY stick, nm
1IarfoS,1 Geoe14 11nsaaa vgI1aion
ylNos 1et ~ -
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
MAY 2a, 1921
Amusement Calendar
\ DAILY FEATURE.

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
Hodge P0dge

Curious fans have also asked: ''If the popular star has paid in full how can he be Owen Moorec?"
 The screen is supposed to reflect real life and still it has only one 'Di- vorce of Convenience"
 
 What Could be Sweeter?" is the apt title of a photoplay picturing de tails >~ the sugar industry.
 Snappy Flashes at Photoplays. '"The Way of a Woman is to have her way
 Wet Gold' sounds like a bootleg ging harvest
 Conway Tearle will soon be seen in ''Ye Shall Pay
 You will find "The World and his Wife at the movies
 Which would you choose: "Beauty or BrainS?"; 'sHandcuffs or KiSseS?" :; Shame sham Skirts and '-Hunch are long plays with short ti- ties.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28

{: Speaking of Questionnaires.
 What is the silent drama? Screen plays with sub-titles
 What is a subtitle?
 Words to be read aloud.
 Why is it the silent drama?
 Because the audience does all the talking
 zena Keefe finished another pie : ture with Conway TearIe a few days ago.
 Harold Lewis has stopped making : two-ree1 comedies and is all ready to :? bust loose with his first three-reeber.
 Film fans practice the Edison method in their eagerness to learn i about the stars The quizzfcal bent : of the average fan leads to such /. foolish questions as: What does ! Wallace Reid ?" of home is woman's s sphere what is Martha Mansfield 2 !! 4%Whose belt does Fatty Arbuckle ?" i: and is "Geraldine Farrar drawing !: nearer ?''
 President and Mrs. Harding wit messed a private showing of ''The ! Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at : the I Street residence of MT. and Mrs. i Edward B. Mclean in Washington : recently Among the few other guests beside President and Mrs. Harding were Attorney General and Mrs. : Daugherty.
 Pauline Frederick is to return to : the stage again next season under ! the management of A H. Woods. Miss ; Fred erick, we understand is to re- l marry Willard Mack, from whom she ! was divorced
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28

\ Night Blooming Rose went into the movies across the street, And crowded by a fat lady into the middle seat. She was the rose of the West End, and sat on the end seat. She was as fat as a tub, and everyone stepped on her feet.
 JOHN SANTEPPE,
 1S5 High street
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
End Seat Pest''
 Disliked The Best!

Tonights the night for the closing up of the End Seat Lady Pig" Pest Verse contest. Send in yours now. There's plenty of time yet, and you get a good chance of winning the two tickets to Polls or the Plaza theaters. Write now what you think of the fat lady who Is on the end and makes everybody squeeze by her. Write in blank or regular verse or in limerick style, not more than ten lines. Times up at midnight tonight
 A Song.
 Tell me of in merry jingles,
 Piggies Hfe's a pleasant dream: When she goes to see the pictures That are thrown upon the screen Now that she enjoys the crowdinS And the walking on her feet, Granting this, she finds great pleasure Clinging to the best end seat
 A MOVIE FAN.
 Address withheld.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
M The Theatres
PLEASURE BEACH.

Approximately 1000 persons were given a pleasant surpris. during the preliminary inspection of Brid geportS s latest attraction, Pleasure Beach, which opened for the first time today since its reconstruction. Not a single expression of disappointment was dict of approval was given every one of the features
 Everything is built on a. large scale and at least three of the attractions are the largest in operation anywhere in the world. One of these is the giant roller coaster which has run ming length of $500 feet. The coaster is equipped with the last word in slightest danger of accident despite the high speed attained by the spa cious cars The dance Asn comes housed in building that is unique ia construction and architecture. Here two orchestras were kept busy play ing alternately for dancing.
 Conspicuous by it's absence is the presence of games of chance There is not one on the island nor will there be during the season. No exorbitant prices vii be asked at any of the con cessiCns and the faker with cheap or tawdry attractions is stritly taboo
 Invitations have been sent broad cast throughout the state for the offi- cia1 opening on Monday when many additional attra ctions will be open. The island will be in full operation tomorrow and those who care to go will be made welcome.
 PLAZA.
 Irwin Willat's superb production, Partners of the Tide'' from Joseph G. Lincoln's great story of the sea is the feature picture at the Plaza thea tre starting tomorrow night. MT. Willat is the creator of "Behind the Door, the picture that is still talked about in Bridgeport 'though it is many months since it played here. As a special added attraction Larry Semon in his latest hundred thousand dollar comedy 'tThe Suitor'' will provide a thousand laughs or more for tomor- rows entertainment. There are two shows given Sunday evenings at six and eight respectively.
 EMPIRE
 Someone in the House. a screen version of the famous stage play whose story of a polished society crook and jeyel robbery made it a Broadway success, was shown yeSter- day at the Empire thetere. with an all-star cast The film version of this mystery drama is a Metro special production. and is packed with thrills and full of action.
 It is the story of Jim Burke, known as 'sThe Danver," who by his Suave manners ingrates himself among the social elect. He becomes friendly with a young society man and through him gains entre into the set which he is planning to rob.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
POLLS.


 There is a continuous show today at Po1is with conhnu ous interest compelling entertainment from l to II. Eva Shirley and Company in Songs of the Moment serve a re- past half jazz and half classical, thus giving the offering that variety which lends zest. Norwood and Hall, the added attraction, have d talking act that's differe nt-and funny. Leila Shw and Company offer an interest ing sketch while the rest of the bill is O. k.
 Romance" the feature picture attraction in which Doris Keane is starring. is pleasing everybody be- cause of it's mellow love story.
 Sunday night Babe Ruth in ''Headin' Home" makes his cinema bow to Bridgeporters. Babe needs no i1tr uction-his mighty south paw has engraved his short and sim pie noniker on the hearts of all his countrymen.
 The twin feature in Sunday nights big double feature show will be the English romantic society drama, 'fThe Can of Youth" This highly inter esting tale will be a fitting and artistic complement to the homely story of plain folks told in t'Headin' Home" There will be other picture entertainment besides the forever popular Pathe News.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
WEST END

WEST END.
 Heritage written by Willard Mack, famous playwright. is the fea.- ture picture today. Matty Roubert the great boy actor, is featured. with a. fine supporting cast ''Fighting g Fate" final episode, will also be shown
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28

Charley Ray is the favorite movie star of Governor Henry Allen of Kan SaS
 Bessie Loves next picture will be Penny of Tophill Trair' Wheeler Oakman is her leading man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16
JAZZ DANCE MUSIC HARMFUL
Savannah Press.)

Savannah PreSs.)
THE wife of a Princeton college
professor doesn't object to dane
ing, but she warns young girls to
beware of the dance when the music
is furnished by a jazz band. The
lady who sounds this note of alarm
is Mrs. Augusta Trowbridge, and she
has just talked to a group of Welles-
ley college girls to advise them to
be on their guard against jazz music,
lack of chaperons and all night
dances. There were l 800 girls who
heard the lecture and she threw in
for their benefit a suggestion that
lip-sticking and cheek-rouging were
not the very best things for a girl
to do.
But Mrs. Trowbridge puts most of
the blame for the evils of dancing
on the jazz orchestra. She is quot
ed as saying the syncopated beat, the
yell of the saxophone, the whir of
the drums, the shrek of the negro
leader, drives the dancers to mad
frenzy.
Dresses with backs which allow no
decent place for a mans hand were
originated for those Of low caste;
then they were copied by ladies.
Smoking leads to drinking, she
said. The children of the girls and
boys of this generation will not be
fit to live because of this heritage.
She also attacked the "vulgarity
and revolving badness of petting par
ties which follow the college prom
and excitement. And she, believes
the root of all this evil is the jazz
music and the insane desire to be
going. A desire to be popular is an
other reason she gives.
If we could eliminate the word
unpopular from our language for a
while, she declared, wrong social
conditions would be changed. ManN
mothers allow smoking and drink
ing and all night dances with no
discreet chaperons for fear of max
ing their daughters unpopular.
Athletics are asked to abstain from
these extreme dances during train
ing periods because Of the bad physi-
cal effects. The harm is more for
the girls, Mrs. Trowbridge held.
The speaker advocated as rene
dies the elimination of the frenzied
Jazz music, that girls stop extreme
dances among themselves while at
college, that the program dance with
no cutting-in be used, that girls re-
turn to their chaperons after each
dance, and that there be no between
dance automobile rides.
This is the initial talk of this
character before the students of
Wellesley, which is the first college
to open its doors for the discussion
of social conditions to the student
body. 1t looks to Us like a good
beginning.
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ings would honestly try to put more
into life for others instead of striv-
ing to set SO much out of it for
themselves.
Our JOY made US very tender of
those who had sorrows to bear. Dear
Martha's miseries became our own;
Jimmy-boy's long sickness took on a
serious side we had never before sus-
pected; we discussed the ACCESSIBILITY
of telling our dread to his wife.
AS for Ann-Well-I wonder why
it is that whenever I am perfectly
happy, Ann Lorimer always snatch
es my orange?
Whatever were my preoccupa-
tons, Ann and Van were always on
the fringe of my consciousness, and
AIMS imprudenccs were forever IL
ritating me.
jim Lorimer was not getting we'll
His relatives had to face the truth.
Only his wife ignored it. jim was
able to ride up the great drive to
his fathers house, and he could walk
the short distance between his bunga-
low and Bob's, but he had no
strength and no desire to do more
1t was a gay winter, and the sec
ond season of AIMS extraordinary
social success. Jimmy-boy was pleas
ed to have his friends show his wife
so much attention and he encourag-
ed Ann to accept all of her invita-
tons. He was perfectly willing to
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16
WHAT "CHEAPNEss" MEANS.
Manufactures Record.)


&. A cheap coat makes a cheap
man." said President Harrison
many years ago, when he stated a
great truth which the world needs
to learn.
Cheap labor cheapens the moral,
spiritual and physical powers of the
undergrad man or woman, and in the
end is the costIiest labor A cheap
coat breeds ill-wiIl and lessons
mans self-respect; a good garment
helps the inward as we'll as the out
ward man.
Cheapness finds it's most fertile
field in India, where wages run from
three to fifteen cents a day and
where indescribable poverty and suf-
fering are everywhere in evidence;
in China. where poverty is so great
that millions starve; in Africa and
in Japan. But America has blessed
the world by high wages, for by in
Producing high-wage schedules here
it has gradually lifted up wages
throughout the world There are,
however, some narrow, shriveled,
money-mad souls or others, falsely
trained in economies, who believe in
low wages, in poverty for the far
mer and the labOrer, and in the
cheap coat and the cheap man. They
cannot comprehend that 'cheapness'
is cheapness of soul in themselves,
and they measure humanity only by
what they can make their dollar buy
of other peoples labor and products.
High wages. full salaries, high
prices for farm products are a thous-
and times better than low wages,
low salaries and low prices for farm
products.
Some bankers and some business
men view things from a different
standpoint. They measure everything
by the dollar mark, and that is why
they praise the breakdown of prices.
The only true and honest way ia
to measure by manhood and the in
flucncc of high prices on the uplift-
ing of manhood and WomanhoOd, the
bettcrment of homes, imuroved
school facilities and enlarged COM
forts for women and children. We
have highest testimony that Heaven
can give that the laborcr is worthy
Of his hire, but in these days, as in
the past, power of the old fetish of
"chcapness" is worshipcd and is be-
ing invoked to break down the prices
Of the farmers products and thus the
wages of the laboring man. The
souls of all men ought to be open
to the light of Divine truth and to
the teachings of history that a cheap
coat makes a cheap man, that low
wakes mean poverty and anarchism,
that low prices of farm products
mean. an ultimate famine in them,
and that cheapness is one of the
Devils most efficient tools for work
ing damnation to soul and body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16
(,,G,IExxii<>r1z q : Bride


let Van take care of Ann if the oc-
casion required an escort. Ann
Lorimer was having the time of her
life.
Daddy Lorimer has always called
Van " lady-killer''- strange, old
fashioned term! - suppose jim
considered Van quite safe because he
never had been known to interfere
with the matrimonial affairs of his
personal friends. He thought Van
never would.
Certainly l didn't wish to interfere
with Ann Lorimer's filtration, but
| could see that she was getting too
conspicuous. People soon would be-
gin to gossip about her.
Ann had only herself to blame.
She played up to Van whenever she
had a chance. The more Van saw
of Martha Palmor's spun gold Golf
fure, the more openly he admired
her and Ann, observing, played her
ingenue tricks to the limit as when
she kicked off her oxfords in a
crowded room
Plainly, Ann was jealous-but not
of her splendid husband!
Ann is manufacturing a divorce
as fast as she canr said I to Bob.
My husband looked very severe,
almost as if it were all my fault, for
a divorce in the Lorimer family is
unthinkable-from the standpoint of
the Lorimenr men.
Ann might shortly be a widow! I
dared not whisper my horrid fear to
Bob, but in consequence of it, long
ed above all things to keep dear
Jimmy boy from doubling the wis
dom of his marriage. If jim lived,
he could work out his own domestic
difficulties like other people. But if
he were doomed to die, he must new
er guess that the pretty girl he had
married was less innocent and less
favorable than he had pictured her.
Cam is creating scandal - all
she needs is timew l remarked to
Bob. But perversity is her middle
name, so there's no sense in trying
to keep her away from Vanw
"Then perhaps you'd better try to
take Van away from her." drawled
Bob with an indescribable minor
twang in his voice.
81 could do itp' I replied defiantly.
used to fancy that Bob is the
most, masterful man in the world and
I liked to be ruled by him, but late
ly | have discovered that Bob is a
wee bit neurotic, though he is none
the less adorable when he is nice
However, a neurotic is invariably a
tyrant. My husbands tyranny I can
endure when he tempers it with de-
votion, but When he criticises me I'M
justly or implies that l am not the
very pattern of perfect wife, I get
stubborn. Therefore | boosted bit,
just to tease him, when l said:
"Of course I could snatch Vas
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16

from Ann. And I could spoil his
new game with Martha - if | want
ed to!w
Thus, once more, l planted fast
growing weed in my garden Of
Eden! Immediately, I realized my
error, and l flew to Bob and hug
ged him hard, and kissed by pet
swirl of hair on the crown of his
head, and pressed my cheek against
him and realized that Bob was sui
len, in spite of my coquetry, and
that l wasn't even cracking the
tough shell Of his mood!
Better flirt with Van, them"
Bob returned to his newspaper.
maybe I willr' Silence envelop-
ed US both like a fog. Finally I
had to break it myself. 1 changed
the subject:
Ann has sold her song"
"What? You mean that fool jazz,
You Can't Live In Love Town ALI
the Timer"
"Ann's picture is on the cover"
| added placidly.
For the love O. Mike! Why didn't
you tell me before? The Lorimer
name on the song sold it! Our name
on a jazz DANCE! Don't tell soul
I'll see if l can buy it up,-take it
away from the publishers"
The point is, my dear, that Ann
ayers she never could have done this
wondrous thing except for Van! Not
that he inspired her, | gather, but
he helped her to market the product
of her genius"
Bob's growI was not ineligible.
can now Van is going to help Ann
write a play" / announced.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16

Am Breaks Into James Happiness.
" ideal love is attainable in sew
en- eXistences, Bob and l discov.
cred it after ourlastlong quarrel. We
knew, at last, cloves double heart
beat-the finding of oneself and the
Forgetting of oneself in another"
| spent my walking hours plan
ming how to please my beloved, and
my darling husband seemed bent
upon making amends to me for some
of the wretchedness l had lately en-
durcd. l could sec that this world
would be a Paradise if human be-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING.
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS

But many, having eyes, prefer not to
see this truth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-16

A 24-story office building in Fort
Worth, Tex, is said to be the tall
est in the South.