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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-29
INVESTORS SERVICE

II you have an investment problem,
The Times will be glad to aid you.
Write us fully, inclosing stamped
addressed envelope for reply, and
address the Financial Editor.
Urged to Place $1,000 in OIL.
l.. X, l4th Street.-Please tell me
what you think of United States Oil
Refining Co., Weston City, Wyo.
] have $4,000 to invest and have been
urged to place it with this company.
I should like to know what you think
about it first.
ANSWERING receive many let.
tiers similar to yours from readers who
are tempted to put their money in!J
oil stocks, and 1t is never very difficult
to know what we want to say to them.
We invariably advise them to leave
such stocks alone. They are all pretty
much alike and they have been flung
IN clouds to the public for the last
five years, with no cessation.
Probably very few of them will SUI
vive, and this makes the risk a very
certain one-drilling oil wells is one of
the most uncertain of all creative in
dustries and the costs are very great.
Put your money into something that
is worth while. Buy four good rail-
road bonds in the denomination of
$50O-New York Central debenture Gs,
Pennsylvania Railroad 61zs, Illinois
Central SIS and Chicago & North
Western 61zs.
We Quote Danish 81 Per Cent Loan
Wrongly.
II. j., New York Avenue.-In an.
swers to Investors. September II.
you stated that Danish Government
81 per cent loan Of 1909 could be
be bought for about $50 per $50 kro-
ner. and yielded at this price per
cent
called up the bankers and was
advised that the bonds could not be
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-08-11
Legal Notices

Estate of ALBERT L. MORGAN
Order of Notice of Allowance of
Account
STATE OF VERMONT.
DISTRICT of ESSEX IS.
The Honorable Probate Court 70
the District aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the es-
tate of Albert L Morgan, late of Lun-
snburg, in said District, deceased,
GREETING
WHEREAS, said Court has assign
ed the 31st day of August, next for
examining and allowing the account
OF the Administrative of the estate Of
said deceased
and for a decree of the residue OF
said estate to the lawful
claimants of the same, and ordered
that public notice thereof be given to
ali persons interested in said estate
By publishing this order three weeks
successfully previous to the day as
signed, in the Essex County Herald,
q newspaper published at Brighton
in said District.
THEREFORE, you are hereby not
lied to appear at the Probate Office
in Concord in said district, at 10 o.
clock A M. on the day assigned,
then and there to contest the allow
ance of said account if you see cause,
and to establish your right as heirs,
isgatees and lawful claimants to said
residue.
Given under my hand this Bird day
Of August, 1921.
FRED A BREWER, Judge
August rs pub.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-08-11
Estate of CHARLES BRESSE


Order of Notice. Guardians Applica-
ton to Sell Real Estate
State Of Vermont, L..trirt of Es-
sex, ss.
The Honorable Probate Court for
the District Aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Charles Bresse
t. GREETING:
WHEREAS, application hath been
made in writing to this Court by the
guardian of Charles Bresse for
license to sell the real estate of said
ward, viz: small house on the south
side of Pherrings street in Island
Pend village, Brighton, Vt. represent
ing that
the sale thereof for the purpose Ct
putting the proceeds of such sale at
interest, or investing the same in
stocks or other real estate, or using
the avails thereof for the benefit of
said ward as the law directs would be
beneficial for said ward.
Whereupon, the said Court appoint
ted and assigned the 26th day of Au-
gust, 1921 lat the Probate office in Con
cord in said District, to hear and de-
eide upon said application, and or
dered that public notice thereof to be
given to all persons interested there
in, by publishing this order three
weeks successfully in the Essex Coun
ty Herald, a newspaper published at
Brighton, in said District, which cir
ulates in the neighborhood of those
persons interested therein; all which
publications shall be previous to the
time appointed for hearing.
THEREFORE,, you are hereby notified
to appear before said Court, at the time
and place assigned, then and there in
said Court to make your objections to
the granting of such license If you see
cause.
Given under my hand at Concord,
in said District, this 3rd. day of Au-
gust, 1921.
FRED A BREWER, Judge
August 25 pub.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-08-11
NOTICE

To whom it may concern:
This is to notify all persons
that | have this day given my
son, Zenas McWain, his time
during the remainder of his mi
nority, and that I will not pay
any bills of his contracting after
this date.
JESS McWAIN,
Dated August d, 1921.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-08-11
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE DIS
TRICT OF VERMONT.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE DIS
TRICT OF VERMONT.
In the matter of
SAMUAL RAYMOND, Bankrupt.
In Bankruptcy, No. 1920
TO THE CREDITORS OF SAMU-
AL RAYMOND OF LUXEMBOURG,
INTHE COUNTY OF ESSEX AND
DISTRICT AFORESAID, A BANK
RUPT: ~
Notice is hereby given that on the
9Th day of August, 1921, said Samual
Raymond was duly adjudicated d
Bankrupt, and that the first meeting
of his creditors will be held at the of.
fec of the Town Clerk in Concord in
said District on the goth day of .Au-
gust, 1921, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, at which time and place
said creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint trustee, examine the
bankrupt and transact such other bust
ness as may be proper.
Dated at Orleans in said District,
this 6th day of August, 1921.
EDWIN A. COOK,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-06
pREFERREn TO BREAD

Human beings would be better off perhaps where
they less prone to buy luxures when short of the
procuring the necessares OF life. This
propensity has been marked often the fatuousness
of has been emphasized classic fable. the
it is daily exempIIfed Yet noticeable impression is
made people The explanation is probably that
human beings generally unconsciously subscribe
doctrine the world them living and there
fore they VIII collect somehow whereas for the
substantial priced satisfactions they
make sacrifices.
Acceptance 81 such a theory permits to read
with patience the that the Russian government
has bought lot Of American typewriters. paying
them with furs. America Is especially OF
urs though they satisfaction that people can
afford. But If there IS anything which Russia needs
less than typewriters it cannot be called mind
is only opinion based knowledge OF the scarcity
Of necessities Of life in Russia
AS fact what S more indispensable to the soviet
outfit than writing nachines7 tyrants viii get all
the bread they require there were but che crust left
empire would theirs. They hold life cheap
ly The great boon humanity is the decree the pro
uunoiaue no. the theoretical discussion The leaders
With ypewriters they can INCREASE the stream
to a food
Somehow the people viii get bread. But there is
no satisfaction for the Lenine gang equal that OF
telling the So the tyrants buy typewrters for
the good Of the souls Of their victims with urs that
uight better have bene fer to keep their
souls in their bodies
CHICAGO sTENoGRAPHERs take dictatlon dress
"a n knckerbockers but probably can't spell them.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-06
NOTICh.
BUSINESS CONDITIONS.

General Improvement in sentiment and a more
huoyant attitude continues in the business situation
and for the first tine years this feeling en-
Dhaszed in the reports OF railroads which gave
concrete evidence that the have turned the
corner.
In each former deficits were overcome. and
while operating expenses We're trimmed a9-
probable degree incomes reported We're substan-
TALLY better In addition there more life
the steel industry than has been noted year and
half and plants the Pittsburgh district il in
the Buffalo district. the Chicago district and
the Cleveland district resumed operation after periods
OF idleness gtng from three months to almost year
But better than these assumptions is the inquiry
future deliveries, which has grown volume that
indicates 1922 VIII be big for the steel indus
try a whole
The financial markets have marked time and FAM
cd to discount the future This condition brought
about by the absence Of public buying the exs-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-06

IN Bolivia we notice tho
MORE skirts woman wears
THE greater her social distinction
AND we fear that II any OF our
DEAR girl friends go down there
THEY wouldn't have any more
SOCIAL standing than a rabbit
WHO remembers the o. Z. girl
WHO would not receive
man caller until she had
ASKED the permission OF her par
enas.
MANY young married man
HAS discovered that eugenics wont
KEEP a wife from having cold feet.
ANY woman who has
BARRED ono OF thom knows
THAT bright men
MAKE duh husbands
AND you know that II you
ARE right half the time
YOUR batting average is way
ABOVE normal.
NO matter how homely and
HOPELESS looking man
MAY be you simply
CAN'T keep him from believing
THAT a. least two or
THREE women are stuck on him
JUDGING from the amount o.
wHIsKEY sold every day
ACROSS the lire or rather just over
Il
THERE must be a whiskey spring
AROUND there somewhere.
THE only people who take
ADVICE are those who
DON'T know what to do With
1T after they get II.
YOU may not have . pay 70 get u
IN this world but the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-06

tence OF professional trading. Underlying this con-
dition quiet accumulation OF high grade stocks and
bonds which points steadily strength the
technical condition III the market which ultimately
VIII build foundation strong that a big upward
movement will ensue from natural causes simply be-
cause Of this underlying strength
The last few weeks n barter and trade have shown
larger buying Of and winter commodities.
while buying spring delivery IS heavier than in
two years.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-06

CHANCES are that you'll have TO
PAY something to get out
ONE Of natures oversights
WAS in failing TO
MAKE bloodhounds az efficient
IN their line
As rum hounds are In theirs.
CHILDREN often prove
GREAT appointments 70 parent
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-06

CHICAGO sTENoCRAPHERs take dictation dress
/ IN knickerbockers but probably can't spell them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-01

she did ten years or more ago on the
stage, and which is being played in
stock here this week.
Magazine readers know "Cappy
Ricks' pretty well. They are also ac-
quainted with Peter B. Kyne's charac-
ter Of Matt Peasley." who has n prom
inent role in the screen version of the
story which comes to the Stanley thiS
week, with Thomas Mcighan MS the
lead. The picture is one of those salty
dramas that actors, directors and cam
era men hate SO to produce, and the fans
love so to see. Agnes Ayres. now a star
in her own right, is the leading lady.
''The Woman in His House," which
comes to the Palace, has n cracker
jnck cast anyway. 1t sounds like one
Of Arthur Wing Pinero's plays, but
isn't. Gareth Hughes, Mildred Harris
Chaplin, Thomas Holding and Ram.
eey Wallace nll appear. The unusual
feature of the picture Is that it was
made straight from the directors
mind There was no continuity used.
and the sub titles were all written and
put in after the picture was done. This
is real innovation. Watch for 1t.
With all due respect to the other fea-
IL
toria had about the best show to offer.
Lionel Barrymore, who has shown the
screen its greatest example Of repressed
action in THE Copperhead." appears in
"Jim the Penman." that old stage melo
Of clever crook and his final redemp-
tlon. Lionel is playing up in Boston
now in a play called THE Claw" and
he may come to Philadelphia. He has
not always been fortunate In his screen
materials, but he has always been the
artist and the great actor no matter
quite family affair, with Barrymore's
wife, Doris Rankin, and his nephew,
Arthur Rankin, in the cast. Has any
body noticed-speaking Of Barrymore
that Brother John has done a picture,
originally titled "The Lotus Eaters"
which seems to have been lost in the
shuttle?
Passing Thru with personable
Douglas MacI .ean is at the Regent, and
Everything for Sale" with May Nc
Avoy, at the Capitol. They are the
only other first showings. The first is
light comedy, the second drama giving
Miss McAvoy far different role than
that of Grizel in Sentimental Tommy
According to Fred G. Nixon Nird-
lingcr, the Fifty second street picture
houses and others under his manage
ment have been favorably affected by the
passing of daylight saving. Mr.. Nird-
linger attributes the increased crowds to
this rather than the natural return of
vacation crowds and the resumption of
the regular fall season. In fact. Mr..
Nirdlingcr calls daylight saving n
wartime necessity which should be done
away with. but there are likely to be
good many who disagree.
The Ambassador, Baltimore avenue
between Fifty fifth and Fifty. sixth
streets, opens tonight with THE Blot,
Lois Weber production. instead of
mo Woman Knows" with Mabel
Julienne Scott. The latter picture will
be shown beginning next Thursday.
Blot" because the chief character is n
school teacher, and her struggles and
trials form the plot. Underpayment is
hit, too,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-01

'The Three Musketeers." Arliss in
''Disraeli," Mary pickford in Little
Lord Fauntelroy" and the unfinished
1.-TWO Orphans" OF Griffith. They will
come to the soon to- be- opened Aldine.
Then there nre Forever" the re-
christened "Petcr Ibbetson," Fool
Paradise" De Miles production of
Leonard Marrick's story, THE Laurcls
and the Lady; "Thc Golem," that
weird European play which has been
so long on Broadway; Justice with
William Faversham. Won Stroheim's
Foolish Wives" dozen or so features
from Fox, all of them verging on the
"melo" class Rex Ingram's Conquer
Grandet" of Balzac, and scores more.
some Of them not so pretentious, but
all worth runs Of two or three weeks.
Indeed, Il ,coptd hardly seem fair to
say that there are not enough pictures
worthy Of long runs, but rather thu.
Phtlddelphidns-either because Of their
oOn action or because they are un'uckv
have failed to see those pictures.
"Over the Hill" was a revelation in
New York. Nobody-not even those
who produced the picture--had the
least expectation or hope of the run
that was finally extraordinarily one
solid year on broadway. 1t has most
of the elements of popularity, and,
above all else, heart interest Perhaps
It will upset the dope, and lInger on at
the Stanton for many weeks.
It is always a delight TO welcome
back to the screen somebody who was
really an honor to. it, and who held
the love and ad-
Marguerite Contamination Of young
Back on Screen and old. Watch
the crowds at the
Arcadia this week who turn out to see
Marguerite Clark who chose domestic
happiness to screen fame or stage fame,
and retired at the height of her >popu-
larity. Scrambled Wives" may be
pretty wild farce-it was on the stage
but it will have the Clark personality
anyway. incidentally, there are many
who are still hoping against almost as
surcd fact that Marguerite may be
given the Peter Pan assignment. For
Marguerite is Peter Pan in her eterani
youth. Scrambled Wives" by the
way, is bit like Baby Mine" which
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-01

Maybe It is because the fans here
won't stand for pictures running more
than a week. Then. n"oin maybe those
same fans haven't had the chance. One
Sunday recentlv the theatrical pages
OF New York paper showed five films
on Indefinite runs in legitimate houses,
two more pictures in runs rnnging from
three to five weeks at picture houses
and another phOtoplay entering on It's
seventh or eighth week at big Broad
way film palace.
Boston has Mt the present time three
feature phOtOplays at big time
houses for long runs. and other pictures
playlng for two or three weeks at reg
ular movie houses. The same thing
applies to the other big cities. Now
kt's get down to the situation here.
'The Four Horscmen Of the Apoca-
lvpse" Is near the end of rnn of more
than two months at the Garrick. They
charged SO for top price there and got
away with 1t. In fact. they could get
away with it for month or so more
II other bookings didn't conflict. And
all that in VIGOROUSLY bad theatrical
season.
But, except for that picture. we look
in vain for runs of more than the
regular week. To be sure, the Stanley
broke house rule
"Anatol" Should to let The Affairs
Hare Continued IF Anatol" stay one
extra week, but that
same picture. on It's merits. should have
stayed twice two weeks or more than
that.
Last spring the Forrest had short
and disastrous picture season. but the
pictures chosen were. for the most part,
not Of feature Caiber. The Chestnut
Street, sticking almost entirely to
Griffith, always did we'll. The Academy
Of Music did fairly we'll with rip
Vnn Winkle." which was hardly of
major rank either.
The Stanton. then. is the first of the
regular picture houses TO make the
jump. They will run Fox pictures
almost entirely and their plan IS to
follow "Over the Hill" with "a Com
necticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court. and '"Thc Queen of Sheba."
The extent Of the runs will depend on
the public reception Of the plan.
There really doesn't seem to be any
shortage of feature pictures. worthy Of
extended runs. First to the mind come
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-01
"BABY MINE" AT ORPHEUM
Stock Players Produce Margaret
Mayo's Noted Farce

A jump from the serious to the highly
fnrcical is being made by the Orphcum
players who will present Margaret
Mayo's old success. Baby Nine" be.
ginning Monday night.
Ruth Robinson, Dwight Meade and
the other stock players will all have
congchinl roles in this hilarious tale OF
the mix-up in babies. which results
when a wife tries to adopt one baby
without her husband knowing it. Clean,
but continuous fun is provided from that
beginning to the final scene when there
are so many babies that neither hus-
band nor wife nor any other person on
the stage knows what to do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-01
MOVIEGRAMS OF THE WEEK
What Is the Matter VH the LongRun Phooplay in Philade
phia?-Stanton Reopens With "Ouer the HHr'

n,HE opening special, Theatre
tonight which
aJou Phi,adcIphid and he Iono
almost alone
in
A casunlu would to to that fact I
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-13
TYPHUS FIGHT
PLAN SLAID
Ships Must Be Fumigated After
Every Voyage from In
fected Ports.
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK. Feb. 12.-Strict en-
forcement of precautionary measures
providing for periodical fumigatiOn OF
all ships conveying immigrants to the
port of New York, was the latest de
velopment today in the fight being
vvtged by federar and municipal au-
thorities to prevent the spread of ty-
phus in this country. The regulations
prescribe that ships transporting i'm
migrants must be fumigated after
each voyage when sailing from the
following ports:
All ports in Asia, including the
Straits settlements, Japan, the Phil
ippines and the Malay archipelago.
All ports in Africa, including the
Azores. Canary Islands, Cape Verde
Islands and Madeira. All ports in
South America except vessels from
Dutch, French and British Guiana.
All Mediterranean ports including
Constantinople and Trieste.
Ships plying between New York and
the following ports on the Gulf OF
Mexico:
Vera Cruz, TampicO, New Orleans,
Pensacola, Galveston, Beaimont, Sa-
bine, Orange, Nechez and Port Ar
thur
Vessels from all ports in Mexico ex-
cept Vera Cruz and Tampioo: Mica
ragua, Costa tRica and Colombia must
be fumgated once every four months,
All ships, irrespective of these reg
ulations must be fumigated once every
six months for the destruction of rats.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-13
ENGLISH union
MAKES APPEAL
Winston Spencer Churchill
Pleads for Understanding at
Reading Dinner.
IDEALS ARE p r AIS E ID
Churchill Believes Peace Will
Remain if Common Aims
Are Understood.
(5y Associates Press,

LONDON, Feb. PA plea for max
ing the dominant note in Anglo
American relations, one of friendship
and understanding rather than of
sensational and Inaccurate represen-
-tation was made tonight by. Winston
Spencer Churchill, the newly appoint
ed secretary for the colonies, and Earl
Reading, viceroy of India, at fare
well dinner to Lord Reading by the
English speaking union.
The guests included Mrs. John W.
Davis, representing the American am
bassador, who was absent owing to
indisposition; Sir Hamar Greenwood.
chief secretary for Ireland: Sir Alfred
Mond and the Archbishop of Canter-
bury
Both Mr.. Churchill and Lord Read
ing in their speeches alluded to COOP
GRAFTON between Great Britain and
the United States in the last war and
the need of preserving through long
years of peace what had been gained
at such cost and peril The vicerov
said 1t was essential that the two ma
tons understand each other because
misunderstanding bred suspicion and
suspicion bred mistrust but With a
common understanding of each others
ideals and aim, Anglo American unity
was guaranteed for all time.
Lord Reading gave what he de-
elared to be the first public utterance
concerning one wartime evidence OF
American fsiendship to England say
ing that at a moment during the war
when silver was unavailable and Eng
land urgently needed it to cover ru-
pees in India the American congress
passed legislation opening the treas
ury reserves and silver was forwarded
to India.
80 far as / know" he added.
America has since made no claim re-
ga&ling the matter"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-13
FORDNEY TARIFF
COMES UP MONDAY
(ey Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-The Ford
ney emergency tariff bill was placed
in parliamentary position by the SEN
ate tonight for resumption of debate
on Monday and leaders in charge an
nounced that they expected it's final
disposition by Wednesday.
After having been shunted aside for
several days to permit passage of ap-
preparation bills, the tariff measure
tonight was made the order of busi-
ness upon reconvening of the senate
on Monday.
There was no arrangement or un-
derstanding regarding a final vote but
those in charge said that they hoped
TO have the bill disposed of in time for
resumption of work on appropriation
bills next Thursday.