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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

1923. 1t has served we'll for nearly two
hundred years in every financial crisis
through which the country has passed.
There are no conditions today which justify
a restoration Of the rate which prevailed
prior to 1923, when the country was new
and all values were to large degree specu-
lative. Our ancestors worried through much
more trying times than we are facing and
they managed to do it pretty well with
money at per cent. The banking com
mittee ought to have enough confidence in
our ability to do as well and to allow the
bills to sleep in its files.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17
What Do You KnOp?
QUIZ

J. What is a merino?
q Who Is General Budeny?
g. Name the capital of Louisiana
floral emblem? >o,,..
g. Name the author OF America" (My
Country, Tis OF Thee"(
G. Who Is the conductor OF the New YORK
Symphony Orchestra?
7. What Is a biped?
8. Who was the "Old Man Eloquent ,
o. What is the essential principle or the
bungalow and where did this type of
structure originate?
10. What is a binnacle2
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

Congress is n debating society. The
subjects for debate are formulated in com
mittees Committees needing technical in
formation hold meetings and hear the opin-
ions Of experts. Sometimes there are two
sets Of experts representing views dametri-
Cally opposed. Both views may be wholly
honest. And both may be prejudiced. If a
law is eventually passed that you are con
vinCed does not represent the popular will
ably acted according to their lights The
fault lies with you, Your lobby was not
sufficiently organized.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

The fact that a Hazleton, Pa. man,
seventy four years old, began to dig his
grave two days before his death is note
worthy but not particularly startling. Ma
man she makes the thought of death
commonplace to him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

A Mississippi farmer has notified tho
President that he is at present scientifically
feeding the White House Thanksgiving Day
turkey. Anybody who has ever raised tur'
keys will know that guy is an optmist:
Circumstance may knock the stufiing out Of
the bird before the summer is over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

A dispatch from Quebec says that
radio message from the schooner Viking tells
OF 1000 seals being killed in three hours.
This, however, will not bring down the price
of sealskins; the prices will probably 60
up. With killing reduced to a science, seals
are bound to get scarce, dye see?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

A recent case In Boston has demon
strated that finger prints are not only yer.
useful in bringing about the conviction OF
the guilty, but that they are invaluable IN
the matter of freeing the innocent Some
day. every birth certificate will be accom-,
panied by finger print and mans identity
will be assured for all time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

Mrs. Harding has received word from n
California Civil War veteran that he and
his wife voted for her husband and that the
lady said if her vote was not lost she would
provide him cher husband, not the Presi-
dent) with mince pies regularly through the
winter. And he is now getting the pies.
No we don't see the Importance of the item.
either; but since the news has been tele-
graphed out of Washington, perhaps 1t has
some hidden significance. Do the pies he is
getting. for instance, have the right kind
~ kickp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17
A nloaslng md satisfying inh in

pleasing and satisfying job in some
day matron at the Gloucester detention
house of the Bureau of Immigration. She
was bridesmaid at fifty weddings during the
first two weeks in February. But it isn't
the social end that ntrigucs, 1t means
something to woman to be able to super
intend the buying of trousseau and to start
girls out with the right idea of what Ameri-
90 piSn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

There is a young man in this town
college graduate, former athlete and a war
veteran, who has on five separate occasions
given his blood for TRANSMISSION to save the
lives Of others Clean blood, clean living
and life Of service! Philadelphia may be
proud of such sons
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

colored with mineral dye and favored with
coaltar by products, is sold freely to the
thirsty and called soda water. Food gathers
dust and flies on open stalls.
Through a system of municipal licensing
such as Dr.. Furbush has proposed the
health department would be enabled to aid
largely in work which the Dairy and Food
Department seems unable to do as thor
oughly as IL should be done.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

The cheerful chronicler of unimportant
wires with the story that President Hard
ing, desiring book containing information
concerning White House procedure, went
into the cellar to look for it, And there
isn't a line in the yarn to indicate the
finish Of the episode.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

Germany's plea to the League of Ma
tions that mediation proceedings be initiated
TO see that tho forcible measures taken by
the Allies are Immediately stopped should
be accompanied by proof that she has met
all the obligations Of the treaty of Versailles
and that she is extremely anxious to begin
na wing the balance of what she owes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

The admission by DR.. Simons that the
Allies are not actuated by the intoxicatlon
of victory or lust for power and his reai2a
ton that the opinion of the world Is that
Germany is In the wrong and has not done
enough to requite that wrong, encourage the
hope that sooner or later Germany will see
light and will truly repent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

II you are a good citizen you are In.
terested in what your representatives ara
doing and have ideas as to what legislation
they should favor. IL you let them know
your opinions you become a lobbyist. IL
YOU Join with others in yoicing opinions you
and they become organized lobbyists. There
are good lobbyists and bad lobbyists. II is
we'll TO have this fact clear In your mind
before growing excited over what is happen.
ing In Washington and in state capitals.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

President Loeb, of the Reichstag, fear.
that If a. customs frontier dverts Rhineland
land sympathy will eventually run in the
same channel. President Loeb shares the
opinion of some other economists that the
business man is your only true interna-
tiOnalist.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

The president of the Women's Demo-
cratic Club Of New York is suing for sepa'
ration from her husband, who, she alleges
has interfered forcibly TO prevent her fr9ln
president Of the Society for the Aid Of
Mental Detectives. Who shall say that INC
contention that woman's place is the hTn'
il not well made? IL
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

So long as it is safeguarded by precedent
and common sense, there can be no objection
to short term loan but there may be room
for serious objection in the way it is to be
spent and to the men who are to do the
spending.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

When the passing of the feet to the
Pacific has made barren the social ccnters
of the Atlantic coast, mayhap society will
revive the habits of Colonial times and
make much of the captains Of our merchant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

T WOULD ask you If, under the follow
ing circumstances, you would consider
Gilbert X. Chesterton in earnest or merely
indulging in n bit of his own brand of
humOr.
He had been in Baltimore the day before
and was now meeting Washington corre-
spOndents mt the National Press Club. The
huge. genial Britisher was the center of
gOsSiping circle when diminutivc, foreign
looking somewhat shabby individual broke
through and introduced himself.
II tried to get to your reception yester-
day in Baltimore" this individual ex-
planned, 'but circumstances made it i'm
possible
Wasn't that fortunate?" replied Ches-
tcrtOn warmly.
When William Warfeld Wilson. NJ. c.,
from Chicago, was teaching school in the
little mining town of Nampa Idaho,
twenty five years ago, restaurant keeper
served a tough piece of steak to girl named
Minnie. Minnie protested and the restau-
rant man threw her out bodily. Minnie
went and got her gun, came In the back
way and began to shoot. The restaurant
man fled and she after him down the street.
When Minnie's ammunition was all gone
her victim bled freely, but was not seriously
hurt.
Minnie's feller, gambler named jim
me Turner, was forty miles away when
he heard of the fracas. lie owned the
prettiest pinto pony in Idaho and dashed
away TO Nampa. The pony carried him all
the way, but fell dead upon his arrival.
A young attorney named William II.
BOrah came down from Boise to defend
Minnie and secured her acquittal. That
night Jimmie Turner celebrated by "buying
the saloons" and dispensing free drinks to
all comcrs. Wilson committed the indiscre-
ton of declining to drink when invited by
the gambler and only the intervention of the
bartender kept him from being shot. After
ward, he and Jimmie Turner became great
friends.
80 Senator Borah and Representative
Wilson can bark back when dun moments
come on Capitol Hill to more thrilling times
in the past.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

The Georgia farmer who insists upon
paying his four cents income tax in four
quarterly installments has a sense Of bunor
more valuable than great ricEes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

The second easiest thing a man does
Is to make excuses for a woman. The first
is to blame her.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

A chickens heart is to be seen beating
in bottle in New York. We are not sur
prised. When they began to show their
ears We kind O. felt they wouldn't know
when to stop.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

Not even home run by Babe Ruth
has more value than a home run by Della.
ware shad.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

A days work seldom shows definite
progression toward ideals. Duty usually
takes on the aspect of a belt or shuttle
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

Laddie Boy has it "all over" Brgadier
General Sawyer in one respect He doesn't
have to dig up money for uniform.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17
SHORT CUTS

Stay at home lovers of balmy airs con.
tinue to ask, "Why Is Palm Beach?'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17

1t must be admitted that the March
lion hasn't had ghost of show so far.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-17
nHERE arc thousands in PhiIadelnhin

THERE are thousands in PHILADELPHIA
l. who believe in the same sort of rubbish.
Old residents In the neghborhood may yet
recall the case of George W. Kelpin. a well.
known painter of this city, who died in the
full belief that he had been bewitched.
1t was a quarter of a century ago. lie
lived at the time at 526 North Fifth street
His wife consulted a Negress, Mrs.
Weeks, in Camden, oodoo doctress, who pre-
scribed mackerel poultices for his feet and
an onion poultice for his head
Kelpin insisted that he was bewitched
and the hallucination prevailed until he
starved to death.
Inspector Miles O'Reilly, famous New
York policeman, got possession Of great
collection of love charms, love powders,
miracle cards and philters for maids and
bachelors from Brooklyn witch doctress.
Her name was Madam" Jones, of 23G
Bergen street.
She kept record of her dupes and her
prescriptions. She was very rich.
Her cash book for a brief period showed
receipts Of nearly $4,000.
The remarkable thing is that in this COM
monwealth these charlatans pursue their
vocation unmolested.
In Massachusetts, $50 years ago they
burned them.
Pennsylvania ought at least jail them for
n while
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08

500 cures Malaria, ChiIls and
Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds and Ia
tirippe, or money refunded. 13-2Ot
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
ANOTHER TORCHY|
COMEDY TUESDAY
New Series of Mirthful Films Are
Growing I'm Popularity Here;
Cast Is Excellent.

That there is really something new
under the sun is claimed by Educa
tlonal in presenting Growing Tor
ehy," latest of the two-reel comedies
made from the stories by Sewell
Ford and starring Johnny Hines
which comes to Dixie Theatre Tues
day.
There are no less than fifty-five
different type" actors who appear
in the 1000 feet of film, practically
one by one, which means that there
is new face on the screen about
four times minute. This is held
to be a record in ION again, off
again SO far as pictures are con-
eerned.
Action of the picture takes place
in a dentists office and in a corner
drug store and the whole cast, with
the exception of Torchy, Wee, Auntie
and the latter's sutton represent
typical New York types. One critic
wrote that a Torchy comedy was
the next best thing to trip to New
York since they showed so many
places of interest around the Zig
city, but this one avoids the scenic
appeal and pictures the people them
selves.
With the story confined to prao-
tically two interiors the average
person would conclude that the pic
ture was fairly cheap to make, but
as matter of fact it is said to have
been one of the most expensive of
the entire series since legitimate
actors of prominence were engaged
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
HUCK FINN HERE
FOR 2 DAY RUN
Regular Boy Has Role of Mark
Twain's Boy Hero i'm New
Screen Version.


Huckleberry Finn has reached the
seize Mark Twain's immortal boy
hero Is the leading figure in an
elaborate motion picture version of
his adventures, which will be shown
at the Dixie Theatre for two days,
commencing Monday next.
The cinema 'Huckleberry Finn" is
declared to follow the text of the
,riginal faithfully, taking up the
story when Huck and Tom Sawyer
discover the robbers treasure in the
cave and following the adventures
Il Huck through the efforts OF
Widow Douglas to reform him to his
Induction by his no-account father
md subsequent encounters with the
loken-down actors, the Duke" and
the king" AS far as possible, the
nimitable flavor of Mark Twain has
oeen retained and ii is said to be
production of which the great
,umorist, were he living, would sure
y approve.
The role of Huck Finn is in the
apable hands of Lewis Sargent, q
10Y actor of unusual talent Gordon
griffith plays Tom Sawyer and the
ther performers In the large cast
ire said to be thoroughly competent.
william d. Taylor, who also directed
HE two previous Mark Twain pic
lures, Tom Sawyer" and "Huck and
rom," handled the screening. This
$ a Paramount Aircraft picture that
40 admirer of the works of Samuel
Clemens can afford to miss.
Were Huckleberry Finn in the
,iesh today he would probably APP
prove OF the youngster who imper-
,onates him in the screen version of
he immortal adventures of Mark
Twain's boy hero. The cinema Huck
Finn is in real life Lewis Sargent,
whose past career resembles in pany
aspects that of Huck himself. Young
sargent is fifteen years old, freckle
.aced and red-headed, and he has
been acting in pictures for three
years.
He was one of family of eleven
children. His parents were not well
)tf and Lewis went to work helpinS
lis older brothers collecting rags and
,ottles almost as soon as he donned
short pants. A year at this ami he
mad enough saved up to buy a lawn
nower, with which he went into bust
ness on his own hook, trimming the
neighbors' lawns. He abandoned
dis Tor the more lucrative and ex-
citing game OF selling papers on the
streets of Los Angeles. The day
when he went to the Lasky studio
md secured a job as an extra" at
4 dollar a day was the luckiest in
ais life, as it started him on his
film career. His work with Lila
Lee in '"The Heart of Youth"
brought him forward as the logical
hoice for the role of Huck in the
Paramount Aircraft version of
Huckleberry Finn" which will
muse patrons of the Dixie Theatre
for two days, commencing Monday
sapxty Is
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Blanche Sweet On
Screen Here July IS
Pretty Star i'm Leading Role n
"The Girl I'm the Web At
Dixie Saturday.

Blanche Sweet, who Is The Cir
in the Web" al the Dixie Theatre
neyt Saturday, July 16, is accused
of SO many crimes that, in self de
Tense, she has to turn sleuth and
catch the criminals.
Miss Sweet plays the role of social
secretary to Mrs. Samuel Van Zile
Janney. She is accused of stealing
Mrs. Janney's jewels. kidnapping her
granddaughter and alternating the af-
fections of the child's father who
las quarreled with his wife.
There were slews of detectives
working on the case, but ii was
Blanche Sweet who caught the thief
and aided in rescuing the child.
After her name is cleared THE
Girl in the Web" says yes to her
hero, enacted by Nigel Barre. Others
in the cast are Christine Mayo, Adele
harrington, Thomas jefferson. Hay
ward and Peaches Jackson.
A Sweet Mystery .,s,.-. --s.-4-ss- -, s,
Blanche Sweet will entertain at the
Dixie Theatre Saturday, July 16 i'll
The Girl in the Web" a story OF
love and mystery. 1t is said to be
very unlike anything Miss Sweet has
Previously done, but gives her every
opportunity to display her wonderful
range of emotions.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
ETHEL CLAYTON
ON NEXT FRIDAY
Popular Actress Appears at Dixie In
Leading Feminine Role of
Young Mrs. winthrop"


We are used to hearing of the
favorite hobbies of our stars of the
screen. Generally their best liked
fads are aeroplaning, golfing, tennis,
or something of that sort. Ethel
Clayton, who is coming to the Dixie
Theatre on Friday. July Is. in her
rev picture. Young Mrs Winthrop,
| Is different. She is a most domestic
person, and the first thing that
strikes ones eyes when visiting her
attractive new home at Hollywood is
her enormous collection of books.
Book cases line all the walls of her
| library and her coy den. The vol
umes aggregate nearly ten thousand
and range in kind from Chaueer's
| Canterbury Tales" to the modern
works of Bernard Shaw and Wells.
81 have a peculiar failing for
books" said Miss Clayton recently.
81 cannot pass bookstall without
buying something. Not that | am a
'high-brow' or an indoor sort of per-
son. enjoy outdoor sports, par
ticularly motoring, thoroughly. But
on a long winter evening ! like moth
ing better than to curl up in a big
chair before the open fireplace and
read new book from my collec-
ton
Miss Clayton is a young wife in
Young Mrs Winthrop" and is said
to offer one of the most attractive,
emotional portrayals of her career;
Harrison Ford is the leading man.
The picture which is a Paramount
Aircraft, was directed by Walter Ed
wards
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08

Miss Novella Crutchfield spent tho
weekend in jackson.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
HAROLD LLOYD
ON WEDNESDAY

Writing to the photoplay editor of
the Boston Herald, an enthusiastic
feminine fan, unburdened her senti-
mnnts regarding screen comedy in
general and Harold Lloyd in par
hcular. She wrote:
IF I am unfortunate enough to
arrive in the middle of the feature
picture and l must willy-nilly sit
through Charles Chaplin or a
Mack Sennett comedy in order to see
The decent play ] came to see, ]
squirm, / suffer mental fortunes. !
shut my eyes when the chase is on.
In fact, I lett my seat the other
day and took solace in nay news
paper while ! waited for the feature
picture. And yet there are those
who can laugh at such banalities
"a comedian l enjoy very much,
and who has happily graduated from
siapstick, is Harold Lloyd. He keeps
you guessing all the time and he is
original enough to be really funny.
love Mildred Davis, too; she enters
into his sport with so much, enthu-
siasm and camaraderie. Didn't you
enjoy Haunted Spooks" and High
and Dizzy'?"
This is only one of the many ex-
pressions of pleasure over the Lloyd
comedies that reach Harold Lloyd
and his producer, Hal f. Roach,
and their distributor, Pathe. 1t is
the sort of approval that convinces
them they haEe found the true
comedy spirit of the silent drama,
Number, Please" the new Harold
Lloyd comedy at the Dixie Theatre
Wednesday, July 13, exemplifies their
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08

veau richie, ever screened.
The Foresters have so recently
risen from obscurity to riches that
Mother Forester wishes to hitch their
social reins to a foreign nobleman
through the marriage of her daugh-
ter Vivian, with the popular belief
that title is the solution of all
smart set supremacy.
Her carefully laid plans, in spite
of every safeguard, come to naught
and her social aspirations tumble to
earth amidst the amused, unsympa-
thetic jeers of the social world.
Then Daughter takes the shaping of
destiny into her own hands and
brings the story to satisfactory
close.
Conway Tearle is the star in this
picture, and the direction was under
Hobart Henley, Martha Mansfield
plays opposite Mr.. Tearle, and the
supporting cast includes such well
known players as Ida Darling, Jack
Mclean, Huntley Gordon and others.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08

for each role and weeks were spent
in selecting just the types wanted.
even for the mere hits. Problem
dramas now playing on Broadway,
musical comedies. farces and vaude-
vile are represented in the east. In
addition there are a couple of black
face roles for which the interpre-
ters did not have to resort to make.
up.
Johnny Hines uses no casting
director. He has spent the greater
portion of his life on the musical
comedy stage in New York, seldom
going on tour and there is probably
no one who has a wider acquaint-
ance among the players. Further
than that they are all always anx-
ious to work in his company way
the result that the roster of the
players that have appeared in the
ten comedies to date would be a very
generous representation of the legi
innate productions OF the year.
Hines leading woman, Dorothy
Leeds. is one oil the prominent mem
bers of the cast of "Hitchy Koo"
Miss Novella Crutchfield spent the
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
Dodson'. Liver Tone
Instead Of Calomel


Calomel is quicksilver. 1t attacks
the bones and paralyzes the liver. Your
dealer sells, each bottle of pleasant,
harmless sDodson's Liver Tone under
an ironclad, money-back guarantee that
1t will regulate the liver, stomach and
bowels better than calomel, without
sickening or salivating you-l5 million
bottles sold.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
fiabituai Constipation Cured
In IA to II DAYS

.LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially
prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxativefo Habitual
Constipation. Il relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for, IA to 81 days
to induce regular action. 1t Stimulates and
Regulates. Very Pleasant TO Take. Coo
ger bottle.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08

We are proud of the confidence
doctors, druggists and the public
Lave In 666 Chill and Fever Tonic.
13-2Ot
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
To Cure a Cold In One Day

Take LAXATIVE BR0M0 QuINENE CTabletsl Il
stops the Cough and Headache and works on the
Cold. Nv. GROVES signature on each box. SOC.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-07-08
CONWAY TEARLE
"SOCIETY SNOBS'

Society Snobs", the latest SELF
nick picture which comes to the
Dixie Theatre for one day run
next Thursday, July IA, is said to
be one of the frankest exposures of
society as represented by the nou-