The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-22
MISSISSIPPI MANS RELATIVES r OUR
 PER CENT OF TOWN
Unique Case Arises in Adjust ing Insurance of Bennie E Taylor, Crystal
 Springs

ldyluly Oiyoldi
 Springs
 Washington. March 21.-(Special) Being related to per cent of the total population of the old home town is a claim that few people, throughout the length and breadth of America, can legitimately make. but, upon investigation, 1t has been authenticslly learned that the late Bennie F. Taylor of Crystal Springs, Miss, came of a family which, ex- elusive of cousins, stands in this ratio to the 1895 residents of Crystal Springs
 Tayior's case is decidedly unique. He was soldier at Camp Beaure- gard, Miss. and died in 1918, naming in his government term insurance policy as the beneficiary, his father, who in turn died, leaving the in- surance to the next of kin. The United States Veterans bureau re- quested from the family a list of these relatives falling within the
 permitted class" and this is what resulted:
 The bureau received a list, five feet long-the longest ever filed since the creation of the bureau-contain- ing the names, ages and addresses Of nine brothers, eight sisters-in- law and step p-motker. Of this total or S4 living relatives. exclusive of cousins, 3S bear the name of Taylor; the remaining 46 include the names or Berch, Campbell, Summers, Davis, q fa,- Fender, Thornton and Manning.
 After an intimate survey of The "five-foot family tree" 1t was dis covered that 50 of the surviving family are now residents of Crystal Sprtngs--a number that in itself IS trlfte more than per cent of the entire population of the town. which according to the most recent census, is 1895.
 The oldest of the relatives is an my imagination stimulated perhaps by Jealousy, pictures you enjoying the company of some good looking actors. Am I right?
 Sometimes l think I am stin dreaming and that you are not way out there on the Pacific coast, and I am not in this old college, toiling and moiling away Then Something comes up that makes me realize that I am awake.
 T get all cold and shivery when think of you, for I am afraid, yirgie, so afraid. You know I am no Apollo and of course all those screen actors must be good-looking. It's their stock in trade.
 But, Oh Virgie. none of them could love you as I do. 1 know this better I t, and scads of girls since I came here and perhaps l may say without con ceit that they have been rather nice to me.
 Did tell you that I play tackle on the freshman football team? My size and weight helps me.
 Girls like a football uniform quite as much as any other, I think But when l am talking to the girls here always l see your face. I think ot your queer duirks of ina gination md our quaint twists of language and wonder if you are using those same little blandishments on some other man.
 The pictures you sent me I do not like. They look all posed and theat- rical. But 1 expect that is the way you are looking now.
 "Virgie. dear, please don't really get that way
 Yes, your pictures are beautiful. If l were a moving picture director or producer l would hire you at S1V0 a minute or whatever Is the exorbi- tant salary they are giving now to the best woman in the profession.
 The other night one of the fellows came in. He noticed your pictures and asked me who you were.
 IL. ture actress out in Los Angeles My, but he got excited. Wanted to know what you were playing in and all that sort of thing. By the way Vrgie, you haven't told me what picture you are playing in now Be sure and tell me in your next letter l want to make up a party of fellows and go and see it.
 l laughed. A sprprising little chuckling laugh as I thought of what had been playing in. One of the mob, l was not even sure that any scene in which l had participated would not be cut out long before the picture reached l3ddje's college town.
 And then l sighed a little as I thought how different the screen is from what everyone outside the pie ture would imagine it to be.
 Unless through the favor of Theo- dore 3tratton 1 got little part. it might be years before my name would appear upon the screen. Yet how confidently I told Naomi that 1 was going to be a great moving pie ture actress.
 My eyes strayed again to Eddie's letter.
 You will be surprised Virgie, to know that l have written college football story which the fellows seem to think is the goods. They have got me so cooked up about it that I am sending it today to The Saturday Evening Post. 1 expect l will get It back. but l am telling you this just to show you that l, too. have aspira- tions.
 "fJmade you the heroine. virgie. .
 Tt wasn't hard to put you on paper. dear And l guess did it pretty well. for everyone of the fellows have said. Say Tiny tthey call me tiny be- cause l am the big gest walloper in my class) the girl in your story is a pippin."
 Tomorrow-kitty Attends a Ball.