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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-11

in tho Xicgfcld Folics her salary was
$500 a week. ana as the star Of sally"
in which she has scored her biggest tri.
umph she is probably getting nh even
larger sum. Her suite ut The new Hotel
Ambassador is one Of the most luxurious
IN the world.
lack Picliord, brother OF Mary pichford
and screen star in his own right, also
earns sums OF money that would make the
average successful business man turn
green With envy.
Neither financial nor personal complcn
tions stand in the WAY OF the rumnrci
match The bar across tho gateway TO this
nov romHucc Is 4 contract signed by Miss
Miller and held by her determined man
ager, Flo XicEfcld
Miss Miller recently signed an agree.
ment not To- marry for four years. and
that agreement, Zio@feid says. must lie
observed. On Che other hand. attorneys
FOR the beauty and others who have inter
icsted themselves in her prcdicament say
that such contract never will be held
legal. ANY agreement not to marry. III"
legal lights say. il an agreement made
against pHhiic policy" and would be 50
held by he courts
bacE OF this romance. in which Cupid
may furnish the comedy by swapping his
fingers in the face o! the solemn courts
- w - ~ iii'Hh p''SH'ht iiNE'ultS
which have occurred in theatrical circles
In recent wears
The career Of olive Thomas. deceased
wife of jack Pickfnrd courtcd favoritc of
broadway ana toast OF the smart set was
like Il highly cplcrcd tragic romance bv
Victor HUGO or Eugene Sue
One afternoon In 1919. when Florcn2
Iiegfcd, leading conuoisseur OF feminine
beauty, was rrcnaring to put on the first Of
his famous 'FOllics,' IN CiChtcen-ycarOiu
girl appeared az his office and ,imiGv
proffered letter OF introduction grom Il
noted artist
The caller was Olive Eiain Duffy VINO
had come 20 New York II short time pre-.
vious to make her way after brief OK
uercnce as a S3-a-wcck salesg;rl in n
Pittsburgh department. store.
Tile Pittsburgh beatty asked for Job
and got il a "iliss New York" in The FIRST
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-11
Olive Thomas,
Wife Of
Jack Pickford,
Who Took
Poison in a
Paris Hotel.

ut once for Cumberland, Maryland. The
town near which the tragedy had occurred
fof more than week aftcrward she did
not appear on the stage Then she re
joined her company and finished the sea-
son, but night after night when she went
from the stage to her dressing room she
would passively sit or stand, tears rolling
down her cheeks. while the colorcd maid
VINO mad been her faithful attendant for
seven years changed her costume and led
her out to the wings again.
Since Frank Carriers death Miss Miller
has been active in many charitable anc
welfare enterprises, which she has en-
dowed in his name as a lasting tribute [.
his memory
:, Except for the one tragedy of Frank
carriers death. LIE has been gay and mar.
vcllous for this dainty little dancer. who
mas had and still has the whole world at
her feet. All her life she has known the
stage and played q part on II. Her father
and mother with her two sisters and her
self. were known in vaudeville as the
Columbians, and travelled all over tho
world
Marilyn Miller is 100 per cent Ameri-
cam having been born i'm Louisville, Ky.
but when she made her first stage appear
hncc-at tho age of fve-the Columbians
were In England. and the town constable
came to the theatre and said: "It's an out.
rage that mere baby like this should be
made to dance. We will not allow it, You
must not Let her appear on the stage again
until she is at least sixteen"
The baby's heart Was almost broken.
she did so love to dance iii that fluffy skirt
in fact. she refused - ne consoled unle IS
she could wear that bee.autiful skirt So
each night she accompanied the family to
the theatre, was dressed in her ballet cos
tune. and then, in the top of big theatre
trunk she would fall asleep--a tired,
broken-hearted little Columbine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
swat No a wild Runner.

Elmer Gibson. Sheriff-elect has
been the victim of a W Id and false
story circulated during the last few
days. starting apparently in nothing
more than a baseless rumor. The
story was TO the effect that both Mr.
Gibson and Sheriff jeff Bartell had
been arrested by federal officers on
liquor selling charges, and had been
taken to Tacoma. The story was alb
so 'utely without foundation and OF
so wild a character as hardly to war
rant denial had It not been that II had
circulated so widely.-Hoquiam Wash
ingtonlan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
Ends Stubborn Coughs
in q Hurry
Fop real eRectiyenes% this cid
home made remedy las no eqfaI.
EaaiIY and cheaply prepared.

SSHVN~N7EVNVVN SNN v ~ ' ' ' " ~
You'll never know how quickly a bad
cough can be conquered, until you try
this famous old home made remedy.
Anyone who has ceughed all day and
all night, will say that the immediate
relief given is almost like magic. "
takes but moment to prepare, and
really there is nothing better for coughs.
Into a pint bottle, put 2h ounces OF
Pinex; then add plain graduated sugar
syrup to make a full pint. Or YOU can
use clarified molasses, honey. or corn
syrup, instead of sugar syrup. Either
way. the full pint saves about two
thirds OF the money usually spent for
cough preparations, and gives you moro
positive, effective remedy IL keeps per.
tectly, and tastes Decentralization
Ike it.
You can feel this take hold instantly,
soothing and healing the membranes in
MI the air passages. 1t promptly loosens
n dry, tight cough, and soon YOU viii
notice the phlegm thin ont and then
disappear altogether A days use will
usually break up an ordinary throat or
chest cold and it is also splendid for
bronchitis, Group, hoarseness, and bron'
chial asthma.
Pirex is a most valuable concentrated
compound OF genuine Norway pine ex-
tract, the most reliable remedy fol
throat and chest ailments.
To avoid disappointment, ask youl
druggist for "2M ounces OF PineX" with
directions and don't accent anything
else. Guaranteed to give absolute salts
faction or money refunded The P.uel
Co.. TT. Wayne, Ind.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
William Of wYksham.

AS necessary Gdlvnct ard accae
sorry TO Winchester school, william Of
Wykeham founded New college 40
0xford. and the publication Of tp
charter Of foundation Of the latter -
tablshment bears the date of Novem
Der 90. 1870 Wykeham. to this day
is one Of the most popular character
IN English history. and his biograph,
is indeed a large part OF lt.-Chlcasc
journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
Dear,e, Have Your

Deare, have you seen
The tulips and the pansies,
Side by side
In the Boston Public Gardens?
The tulips lean
Like giddy dancers at their ease
The pansies hide
Like blossom PEEK ngese
Whose mistresses are standing
On their heads, gaudy silken skirts
aloft
Dearle surely you have seen
The pansies and the tulips
Batiking in the Boston Public Gar
deus,
N. Y. Evening Post.
No, Dearie, we haven't, but never
again will We miss seeing them Batik
in the Gardens.
Ought to Sc Good Place to Con
gregate.
The society W Il meet with Mrs
Arthur Beers Wednesday afternoon
-Whately item.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
Twentv.mile jump.

With the material at hand 1t Is
for man to make 40 cleo
trio spark which will Jump an open
Ing of more Than a few inches hut
Il Is sihted that Gnsh NJ Lightning
represents 40 nmch power that Il fire.
quently MAKES D jarw % % miles 'i-rr
one cloud On arof'ier or 'ro.f IL ci3u'
~ fhe -. -ft
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
picked u In the DAYS News.

Died-In Pasadena Calf, Mary
wife OF Arthur Clapp-Bosten Herald
third degree OF the Knights Of Cclum
bus yesterday beverly Times.
Charles Crosby, who escaped from
tail Tuesday, was arrested in Boston
and given an addit onal sentence OF
three months,-Beyerly Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
RECENT GAS ATTACKS
Clippings and oIher Debris Frem the
Snort Column Of the
6rattleboro Reformer
A Successful Arrangement

A terrific racket in the barn Of A.
Johnson announced that a milk thief
had met his Waterloo at the business
end CT farm mule. Johnson put the
mule in the stall of COW, which the
thief had been milking for several
nights. When the farmer reached the
barn Wednesday ght, shotgun In
hand he found battered milk pail,
a wrecked milking stool, hat. but NO
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
snr. u.rA ola rreta

Yew trees grow tO great agt
Those n, TorutWn's abbey Yorkshire.
England. we're old IN 1892 California
mas trees thousands Of years old IN
the Mariposa grove ard 5aohab trees
In Africa sre over fwnr centuries old
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
Entertaining Father.

Mrs. Laura Sotz had two hogs
butchered last Tuesday her father
from Cleveland being there for 10
days or more Western Reserve Dem
ocrat
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
Epltaph.

Here lies the remains Of Maria Sea
vet
Who had a case Of scarlet fever.
Her robe is VIII to,
Her husbands blue,
But Marias glad that she's got
through,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22

The class in anatomy will be inter
ested in the case, reported in the
Wichita (Kan) Eagle of young lady
the first row at the Palace Theatre
in that city who lost her equil brium,
slid from her seat and landed In the
organ pit ION her own initiative. -
Springfield Union. gltr --,
But how much better to land on her
own than on that of someone else.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
A Serious Acc dent

The brushes on the Selby cars at
p. m. are getting to be something fear
full. Last night woman was so
jostled that one of her ears became
uncovered. st, Paul News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22

Sir How wished, when was try
ing to make out my income tax
blank, that | could do as Isaac Dunno
Of Newburg might and merely sign on
the dotted line--l. Dunno d. U b.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
thief. Journal,
hoot Monl

In some places in Arkansas, it Is
said, a man may 80 at night and boot
like an Owl, and with an hour a
quart CT moonshIne will be left at the
pace where he hooted, Kansas City
Sta.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
rn cure a coId In enc pay

Take Groves LAXATIVE BROMl
QUININE tabiets The genuine bears
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22

Ezra has just been wondering what
sort OF mash Durum wheat would
make
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
What's In a Manner

Lyle Stocking, D. U. r. conductor,
was held up at a. M. this morning
and robbed of $54 in cash.-Detro.t
Mich, News,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-22
---FoR SALE

Best quality milk lie per quart NJ
he house: lac delivered; also wanted.
licking by the hour or job or will de-
Ner fol- stores t
ARTHUR PRATT
ford st. Tel. I31-w.
Local Dairy
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER D, 1921
GENTLE CONSPIRACY A SUCCESS.

TEAT Deawareans interested intensely 10 the thrift
Il plan OF the Farmers Bank OF Wilmington and The
Evening journal eyidented fully by the rush for
pocket savings banks and afty-cent checks today
Even before the business offices Of The Evening journal
where the distribution is being made, open, there
crowd outside Following the opening OF the doors
there steady rush which II required several clerks
to handle Each mail also brought OF letters which
opened savings accounts
The plan devised by the Farmers Bank Of Wilmington
and The Evening Journal gentle conspiracy which has
three major aims IN view;
First-To benefit our community by making its people
thrifty
Sccond-To make thousands OF friends for the
Farmers Bank and 70 increase its business
Ihird-Fo popuarize The Evening Journal and to
strengthen materially its position the leading the most
influential and the most human and purposefu newspaper
published in Delaware.
All those aims are worthy. They commend themselves
20 the public When everything has been said and done
will be found mat thousands OF persons have savings
which they doubtless would not have had had
not been for this gentle conspiracy.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22

cause OF their consderate attitude toward them.
Those and boys who have passed through the nor
rors Of heartess submarine and aerial warfare she'll
shock gas shrapnel trench life and advances and re-
treats In No Mans Land and on the Seven seas aso aie
hard at work overcoming obstacles and rehtting them
selves mentally and physically to resume respectable and
sef-sustaning places in civil life.
In this they have the sympathetic and practical aid Of
the Federal Government OF President Hulhen, Business
Administrator wilkinson and other officials OF the col
ege In addition they also enjoy that priceless possess
sion OF the respect and good wishes OF the community IN
which they stationed That respect and tnose soou
wishes should be reflected toward them in all sections OF
or state Each Deawarean has it within his power to
make life brighter and better for these men and boys
who rsked all and gave much for the welfare OF those
who remained at home and found security behind the hrst
lines OF defense
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22

responsibility, both collective and in
dividual BY customs duties and
taxes levied on the industries the
Government revenues might be
heavily increased over those derived
from their State operation, he
argues. He contrasts the return
from the Governments monopoly OF
the tobacco trade in France with the
British Governments revenue from
taxes and customs duties levied on
the same business in private hands.
Last year the net return to the
French Government from its tobacco
monopoly was S7O.O00,O0O francs
From import duties on tobacco and
internal taxation on the trade the
British Government in the same
period collected f60,O00.000. AT
normal exchange this would be l.
50O,000,0OO francs. NJ. Levy says:
Let us restrict the Govern
ment to its true attributes. Ma
tional defencei foreign affairs,
the administration Of justice,
public works beyond municipal
resources, and public instruc-
ton without pretending to as
sumo complete monopoly OF the
same-here is a field large
enough to engage the activities
of ministers and parliaments.
Everywhere else let us permit
the country to do its own bust
ness and let us replace func-
tionaries with free men respon-
sible for their enterprises"
In other words. more business IT
government and less government In
business" as President Harding pu
IT, Il is a maxim which the wars
bitter experience has demonstrated
TO be sound. The socialists govern
ment ownership obsession stin lin.
gers in spots. In the end, like al
other decisions. It must go.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
LAW WE'LL MAY RE EXTENDED

TIME president Of the Amalsamated Clothing Workers
Il OF America has just returned from tour Of Europe
including Russia.
He says that ~ not for immigration reStrio-
ons the whole Of Europe would start for these shores
tomorrow"
The statement rs undoubtedly true. The people from
the poyertysiricken nations Of the Old World look upon
America land OF golden opportunity. Were they 70
come here they would Ak standard OF living far below
that 10 which the American workman is accustomed and
completely demoralize our labor market
Fortunately the Republicans in Congress have put on
the statute books law that effectively protects the
American wage-earner from such nundation, and
other law soon viii be enacted that Offers additional pro
lection from the products Of that cheap foreign labor
when they are imported into markets.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
THE ROAD TO NoRMALCY

From tho Chicago Tribune.
One million idle men have found
work in the United States in the last
month. according to Government re-
ports prepared for the permanent
committee on unemployment. 2 I'm
employment now involves only APP
proximately 10000 workers, ac-
cording to the same authority. That
Is good news for America. II proves
the optimism recently expressed by
national leaders Of business and
finance to be based upon facts rather
than upon hopes.
The very discrepancy which can
be found in the figures compared
with those OF a month or two ago is
optimistic At the height of unem-
ployment. some authorities esti-
mated that as many as 5.50O.0 900
men were out OF work in this coun-
try. Figures more carefully pre-
pared for the recent unemployment
conference in Washington reduced
that total to 100000. That indi-
Gates that we imagined the situation
10 be worse than It was. But still
II we admit 1000, 900 have got Jobs
and that that leaves only 100000
unemployed, It would seem that we
are now Understanding the unem.
ployed OF two months ago by az
great a margin as we then overesti
mated them. That Is optimism, bu
Il is constructive optimism.
II 100000 more men are now a
work than were at work two month
ago, Il is because there is create
demand for their services and tn
commodities which they produce
II we are overestimating the i'm
provement. It shows a rise in bust
ness confidence which will opeI
more mills and factories. develoI
more public works and private pro
duction, and increase purchasing
power to support this confidence
That Ia what we need
II indicates a sterilization OF
wages, an adjustment to a new ieve
OF costs. and a willingness 20 give a
days work for a days pay and 1000
pounds for ton Of commodities
which will work together for sound
prosperity. We are not yet out oi
I the slough OF depression. and We
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
DIR. IRVINE NJ. FILM.

VVTaLAfNGToNHAHS were shocked profoundly this
w morning by the news that Dr. Irvine NJ Finn OF
No. sos Delaware avenue had been found in bed
his home.
Dr. Finn had been for many years Of the most
prominent and popular homeopathic physicians not only
In Wilmington but also on the entire Delmarvia PENN
sua
lie was man OF admitted professional skin and de-
voted intensely to the science OF healing The high ethica
standards which ruled his life keeping with his
professional attanments He had served president
The Homeopathic Medical Society OF our State and the
Peninsula He was lecturer the faculty OF the
Homeopathic Hospital and oh LEI OF the genealogical
department Of that institution As Lember OF the New
Castle County Homeopathic Society be also ranked high
AS member Of the Masonic fraternity and OF Grace NJ o.
Church he distinguished himself by bis earnesness OF
thought and constructive action.
Mrs. Finn and the other surviving relatives Of the DE-
cedent have the profound sympathy OF our community
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
YOUR POWER.

TEARS come to the eyes OF Marshal Foch and for ten
minutes he forgets that he is at a banquet in Bos-
ton as he talks to war veteran blinded in both eyes
It IS an admirable sdelisht the humane character
OF the great Frenchman who was entrusted with the
hyes OF 100000 soldiers.
The blinded veteran is Lieutenant Guy Erwin
Like Foch, you pity him FOR his loss Of sight
Yet Erwin is studying International law At Harvard.
task that rs extremely difficult even 10 those with ner-
feet sight It inspiring instance OF what man can
accomplish despite any handicap he keeps bis lighting
spirit alive.
Ben Welch. the comedian, went blind year ago. DID
be become dscouraged-give up the hight? No
In the presence OF witnesses including the Mayor Of
Providence r. l., WEIGH burned his insurance disability
policy mat would have paid him $4,000 10 lump or SIS
a week for the rest OF his life
Now WEIGH IS travelling about the country, headniDs
IN vaudeville the old days He even refuses to carry
& cane.
stage Sitting on bench, the famous comedian rorges
mat he blind and cheers his audience with rapidre
Of jests.
Blindness would make most OF US down-hearted But
WEIGH says that II has only made him more anxious TO
cheer up Others
Life" says he, sis too short to quit working
me cases Of Ben WEIGH and Lieutenant Erwin should
change The whole attitude OF any man who has he
come discouraged by obstacles
me great men OF history became great almost entirely
because OF the obstacles they overcame
me most popular printed stories involve some form Of
eonsi-desperate chances disheartening odds seemingly
lnsumountable barriers
me popularity Of such stories proves that in every
son there is the instructive desire ana ire h,,,, -
come obstacles '''" 70 over
a., p ulseouFased Keep your fighting spirit You
e,n overcome anything II you so will obstscles ora
IN ~ s0ur pam to develop powers they are
big things Na'nins you TO handle
sAssiesns 90 not have TO go to Boston Or 70 .o.
o'ner place to see men who have been torn go 70 any
N sae World War Down at Newark there 4 Rebab,,
the University OF Delaware "on win
me men who compose that rehabilitation INIT A.. a.,
fellows They respect themselves and the peone !, -,
community in which the misfortunes OF war have Dis.
hem; and In return they respected and looked nm
by all with whom they are thrown in contact The chi
ersn Of the community especially fond OF them bs
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
State OaUnerShipS Collapse
(From the New York Herald.)

The socialistic dream OF govern
ment ownership and operation OF
basic industries and public utilities
has come. In for some hard knocks OF
late. Even in France. long welded
by tradition 70 this form OF pater-
nalism, a movement looking TO the
divorce Of the Government from
business is under way.
In an article in the Revue des
Deux Mondes one Of Frances high
est economic authorities Raphael
Georges Levy, urges that the Gov
eminent divest itself as speedily as
possible of all the varied forms OF
business activity In which 1t is en-
gagged. This applies not merely to
the industries forced under govern
ment control by war exigencies but
TO every form of governmental busi-
ness which infringes on the natural
field OF individual enterprise.
Large groups OF railroads, includ-
ing those recently acquired with
Alsace-Lorraine, are now operated
by the French Government M.
Levy would have every mile OF them
udHdtu over 10 private management 1
Likewise he would have the tobacco
business and the match trade. Gov
eminent monopolies for many years,
released for private exploitation.
He also would have the Govern
ment get out OF the telegraph and
telephone business, in which. as COM
pared with the success achieved by
private management in the United
States, 1t has cut anything but a
brilliant figure
M. Levy has no faith in govern
ment capacity for business and so
declares. In his opinion govern
ment assumption of business func-
tions invariably means overloaded
payrolls. relaxed individual effort
waste. extravaganza and minimlzed
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1921-11-22
With the Photographers

double headed nail being manufactured that should
be Of advantage especially forms for concrete and other
temporary wood structures OF the compound head the
lower or holding part is much larger than a common
nail head making it possible 10 draw the boards together
very tightly. The upper part Of the head is always
posed furnishes easy Of extracting the nail
Popular Mechanics Magazine
any sportsman or naturalist clearly state the dis
ngushing character Of the usual cries OF the British
species Of wild gray geese? From what I can Gather
pary from my experenoel the note OF the gray lag
goose is the harshes and nasal resembling that
OF the domestic goose might be expected The
me bean somewhat similar but softer and more
belhke The chief cries OF the pink footed GOOSE ac-
ooraing to friend OF much experience sharp kee-
WICK and rather metallic "ha-ha-ha" while the note
ul the white fronted goose highly pitched and
more musical than those OF the other threeLetter in the