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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
M|DW|NTER FROL|C AT LOCKWOOD PARK.
WatSon's Bell Hops to Play Wednesday and Thursday
 Nights This Week

Edgewood park is planning one of the biggest mid winter frolics ever attempted by an amusement enterprise. The management for the mountain resort has engaged Watsons Bell Hops, famous through out the south as purveyors of jazz music, and favorites at big college dances, for two nights this week. These famous musicians will play for two special dances at Mountain View Inn Wednesday and Thursday nights.
 When the management learned this attraction could be procured for this week it lost little time in signing them to contract for these two special nights. Arrangements were then made to decorate the in- terior of beautiful Mountain View Inn. The pretty ball room, nestling in the foothills of Shades mountain sis now ready for these two special nights If the weather is cold the huge log fires in the massive open hearths will send out a beckoning welcome to the joy seekers and dance devotees.
 With cabaret features galore. nov city dance numbers that Birming- ham has not yet heard and mum Der of selections straight from the New York music publishers. Wat son's Bell Hops will be prepared to
 entertain the hundreds of guests
 with some of the most thrilling music yet served the Birmingham dance public.
 No advance has been made in the admission price for these two special nights, and ladies will be admitted free The park management IS planning to play to capacity houses each night. Buss will meet all street cars at the end of the line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08

or screen has known in a very long time. It has been compared with Frank Baeon's playing of 'Lightnin Bill Jones' and in our opinion-we saw "Lightnin' during its colossally successful New York engagement Mir. Jefferson's artistry is infinitely greater than MT. Bacons.
 His supporting cast leaves nothing to be desired nor can single flaw be found in the rarely beautiful eX- terior and interior settings which de- light the eye in one long succession of perfect pictures. The direction the work of Ward Lascelle--is smooth and splendid, carrying one engrossed from climax to climax until when, at last "The End" is flashed upon the screen you will breathe two little sighs-as we did: one of regret that so expressing a picture has to end at all, the other of happiness at having viewed so remarkable d production.
 And you'll leave the theatre prais- ing it-we did that too-and you'll tell all your friends to see it without fail-just as were telling you now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
Harold Lloyd in Newest Comedy, Never Weaken, Heads Big Comedy
 Program at the Trianon This Week

Harold Lloyd, if he judged by his behavior in Never Weaken" places small value his 'unalienable rights of life and liberty in the pursuit of happness-for others.
 Perhaps Harold has happy time shimmying iron girder 12 stories above asphalt pavement Perhaps gives him the blues the sets day in which he does not frolic about skyscraper iron framework chalantly hungry goat tncan dump! Perhaps he has 99 times the nine lives of cat lfe less
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
7homasMeighanh "APrince
 There Was, Strand aU Week

Charles Martin, played by Mir. Meig
 han. a wealthy but dscontented young man, who falls in love with her and then poses as an assistant magazine editor in order that he may buy her stories. He buys controll- ing interest in metropolitan maga- zine so that he may publish the girls story which the magazine had pre- viously refused. His broker, who is in love with the girl. jealousiy de- nounces Martin as the man who caused her fathers ruin. The ensuing complications. however, are all cleared up in happy finish which makes the picture most pleasing.
 Other players are Charlotte Jack son. Nigel Barrie. Guy Oliver. Sylvia Ashton, Fred Huntly and Arthur Hull.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08

When a man is in love with girl. naturally he wants to do everything for her that he can. So Martin, hav- ing plenty of money set out to help the particular girl who held his fancy. He helped all right. but he almost wrecked his romance in "A Prince There Was" one of the most appealing comedy dy-dramas in several months and the attraction at the Strand theatre for all this week with Thomas Meighan as the star.
 MT. Meighan has the type of role which fits him perfectly, and critics concede him one of the best portray als that he has ever brought to the screen. Picturized from the stage success by George M. Conan, "A Prince There Was makes a strilS- ing screen offering.
 Mildred Harris is his leading wom- an and is seen in the role of young girl, who after her fathers ruin and suicide. seeks to make her way as short story writer but with poor sue cess. Her plight is discovered by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08

|ls nothing to be sneezed at Thy rate, he risks life and liberty in the pursuit of thrills and laughs in
 his newest Associated Exhibitors
 comedy, which has been aptly titled, Never Weaken" The Trianon thea Ire will present this attraction this week, beginning Monday, in the belief that 1t is Lloyd's greatest to date, Tor 1t not only contains it's full meas ure of laughs, but the biggest aggre- Eation of heart-duickening thrills
 that were ever packed into three reels.
 As an added attraction. will be pre- 3sentSd the famous farce comedy Be1ting the Game" featuring Tom
 mcYA Critics are loud In praise of I'M Nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08

People who entertain the idea that nearly everything is faked or camou- flaged in motion pictures, should take q good look at the country store in Beating the Game" starring Tom Moore
 As Victor Schertinger, director of the picture explained:
 Tt would cost more to fake this stock than to buy the real goods. You soc. we have all the standard brands of canned stuffs. flour. rice, soaps. etc.--even. as is generally seen in typical country stores-a small line of hardware and dry goods"
 The director picked up a rosy apple from a nearby barrel and munched 1t while directing a scene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
SOVIET REPUBLIC HEAD
 POPULAR WITH FOREIGN
By Associated Press

Moscow, January 7.-President Kalenine of the soviet republic IS very popular with foreigners in Mos COW. He is of peasant birth. was formerly a metal worker in Petro- grad and maintains the little farm in the Tver government, where he was born. Each day he sets aside an hour or more to receive peasants. workers or others who desire to discuss gov ernmental matters, and is the popu- liar Jason between the government and the public.
 Mir. Kalenine is generally called the Peasant President"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08

" Rip Van Wrinkle is as fine production as this reviewer has ever seen. In it Is embodied everything that makes for screen entertainment of the very highest order and we can not too enthusiastically recommend it to anyone in search of delightful afternoon or evening"" declares one critic.
 Mention must be made first of all of the remarkable work done by Thomas Jefferson in the title role. His portrayal of Rip is as perfect a bit of characteracting as either stage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
n ., WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME
 ALCAZAR
 HON ZL/E. 6 NlED.

fee on hot summer day in Buenos Aires you know that the "pampero' and welcome drop in temperature are coming.
 The "alguacif' is a South American insect which resembles the North American "darning needle" and the word in Spanish also means "consta ble." He lives up to his name by watching the rise of the prairie storms known as pamperos that sweep down on Buenos Aires from the pampas. and when he sees one coming flies into the city 100000 strong to warn the inhabitants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
RIP VAN TWINKLE NOW COMES TO THE SCREEN IN GREAT PHOTOPLAY TO BE SHOWN MONDAY AT RIALTO

Rip Wrinkle" Washington Irving's great classic, has the and the production will be presented for the first time Birmingham at the Riato theatre this week beginning Monday.
 Thomas Jefferson plays the part of Rip, role made famous by father Joseph Jefferson the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
HISTOLOGY INSTITUTE FORMED

London. January IA society has just been founded for the scientific extermination of vermtn. It was christened the Institute of Applied Pestology. Alfred E. Moore. it's chairman. believes 1t will accomplish work of international importance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
ALQUAClLES WARN
 OF COMING PAMPERO

By Associated Press Buenos Aires, January 7.-when flock of "alguaciles" fly into your of
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
A Child's Story of
American Literature
By ALGERNON TASSIN and ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE.
Two Names md

note which he struck i'm few of his lyrics
was startlingly new. There was great
poet in England who also struck it in
the same year, and his songs were more
lasting i'm their new beauty than those OF
Freneau This was Robert Burns. But if
the freshness of Freneau's songs has not
lasted so well, this is no rea' = why we
should not admit that one was just as
original and Independent as the other in
trying to talk simply and unaffectedly
while all around him were speaking in an
absurdly lofty manner. The fact that Burns
and Freneau both began TO do so at the
same time and independently of each other
is very interesting. 1t showed something
the epic writers and most of the magazines
were fiercely refusing to see. That Ameri-
can and British literature could not pos
sibly be two radically different things.
Each would be modified by its own cir
cumstances, but both must be the ex-
preston of the English-speaking race
F'reneau did something no one had ever
done in America before He wrote in
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

this is why although he lived well on in
to the nineteenth century, we place him
in the Revolutionary period. His best
pieces are few in number but they are
the only ones of the satire period in
which we feel the hand of a born artist.
If you should read them to-day, you might
not think they deserved such great praise.
They seem pretty, simple little lyrics. just
a bit old-fashoned perhaps. Yet when
they were written they were startlingly
new-fashioned.
1t is the misfortune of people who Gre
ate new things that these are soon bettered
by people who come after them to whom
they have shown the way. Take the steam
engine. for instance. That was one of
mankind's greatest inventions; yet if you
should put the first steam engine by the
side of a modern locomotive, you would
laugh at it. But it was the first steam
engine rather than the last which is the
great creative work Naturally. we can
not go on travelling by the first steam
engine simply because it was the first, and
no more can we admire with eyes that have
long grown used to simplicity and natural
ness the first simple and natural songs
that were written in our long ago But ii
is not fair is it. to blame or to praise any
thing quite apart from its own~time and
circumstances The creative artist has
greatly the advantage of the inventor
His work does not so soon become merely
historical. But though the work of the
greatest artists may keep fresh hundreds
of years, with all of them, we may guess.
comes at last the day when people must
make certain allowances for it because
of the time il was done We can be sure
that even Shakespeare to-day would not
write in all ways as he did then.
With Freneau. The simple and human
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

~ 9TH "plebeian" and "aristocrat" of
X letters was Philip Freneau. For
the newspapers he wrote so many
patriotic ballads and satires that he was
called the Poet of the American Revolution.
After the war, himself an editor of news
papers, he attacked so savagely the papers
and the parties which had different views
from himself that Washington called him
that rascal Freneau." But his vigorous
"plebeian' writing had nothing about it
to keep it fresh after the occasion for
it was over. 1t is by his books of poetry
that he still lives for us and these he
published himself on his own printing
press in his own back yard. Possibly,
we might not have had them otherwise.
If man can publish his own books, he
does not have to waste sixteen years, as
did Jane Austen, one of the greatest
English novelists of this same time, for
some one to find out they are worth
publishing.
They belong to his earlier years and
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

graceful. romantic way of the simple
beauties of nature he saw around him.
He had been a sailor and he wrote of the
sea also. And here he did something no
body in England had ever done before
He may be said to be the first English
speaking poet who wrote of the sea ex-
cept as good place to fight naval battles
on. But his chief new subject was some
thing nobody could write about except an
American. He wrote of the Indians. not
about their savagery and cruelty, as some
of the first settlers might have written.
but about the pathos of their fate and the
legends of a fast disappearing race.
First in all of these ways he was first
in another Several American writer's had
been praised in England, but he was the
first to be borrowed from. Not only did
Walter Scott say that one of his songs
was the finest of its kind in the language,
but he and another English poet liked
one of Freneau's lines so well that they
used it in poems as their own. Both their
praise and their cribbng seem small
matters now, but to an American very
touchy about its suspicion of literary in
feriority they seemed very big then. If
only the people who were trying to make
an American literature-those epic writer's
and those magazines-had realized what
il was that England saw TO praise i'm
Freneaui 1t was not his deliberately
patriotic verse. hard slashing and aggres-
sive; it was when he wrote simply of the
simple things he saw and felt. Above ALL
it was when he was not initiating anybody
else.
II
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Continued on FoEcqoinO Page. .s
The New York herald., 1922-11-26
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The truly American thing. the amazing
outcrop of magazines which we described
The New York herald., 1922-11-26

'TH "plebeian" and "aristocrat" ol
letters was Philip Freneau. Fol-
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12
MENTAL POWER

Until recently, people have satisfied
themselves, generally. that the mind
is something which could not be estab-
ished upon a scientific basis. How
ever, modern methods have developed
a science of the mind, quit as truly as
sciences have been developed in other
fields. Because our schools and col
leges are slow to put to practical use
this knowledge. is no reason why we
as individuals should not reap individ-
ual benefit from this knowledge.
When a sufficient number of us
have done this thing, we will be en-
abled TO revolutionize our educational
system.
Meanwhile, inasmuch as this system
of science is comparatively new. it is
going to keep us busy. as individuals,
trying to understand and apply the
principles set forth.
In the study of abstract scientific
principles, we must take into consider
alton that there are forces in existence
which we cannot see or hear or feel or
smell or taste. You never have seen
the force called gravitation. You me-
yer have seen the energy called cleo
tricity, You never have seen til pow
er called magnetism. None of these
things, in themselves, are visible, any
more than is the mind. Yet we see or
feel the results and reactions of these
forces every day Of our lives.
+ We know that they exist and we are
learning how to harness them and to
use them. By the use of certain know
ledge concerning the mind, we are en-
abled to develop that mental energy
and to control it TO our advantage
Claude William Chamberlain in August
Nautilus.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

of varying environments; but the
growth Of knowledge now supplies the
possibility Of a training to be enjoyed
that enables the most desirable char
acter to be developed.
Character is not fixed, unchange-
able. impulse-deternined attitude, dis
position or bent of conduct; it can be
modified by a process of induced ac-
ton that by persistent stimuli can be
made habitual and enduring. Good
habits can replace bad habits; agree
ableness can remove contentlousness;
self-confidence eliminates distrust; and
cheerfulness dispels gloom Desirable
traits Of character can intelligently be
determined upon and deliberately cul-
.tivated and established. Misconcep-
tons, erroneous opinions, false teach
ings of every description can be dis
'carded. and a true understanding can
be gained for the solution Of every
problem confronting mankind.
Jesus of Nezareth charged the scribes
and pharasees cf his time with the
crime of having taken away the keys
Of knowledge" from the people, and
the despoilers of humanity to-day are
guilty of the same great wrong. They
are depriving or withholding from the
people the keys Of knowledge; for in
possession Of these keys the people
would be in a. position to govern them
selves, to live right individually. and
in every relation Of human intercourse,
and doctors, lawyers and other social
ed professionals would be no longer
required.
Mems mentality, intellect. conscious
ness, is intended to be the arbiter. UNI
pire or Judge over all the impulses of
his propensities, his instructive life,
proposed action; but when his mind is
deliberately stunted and crippled in
its capacity Of discrimination, misin-
formed or uniformed, he is unable to
properly control himself with relation
to himself or the people he comes IN
contact with. Responsibility and ac-
ccuntability can be imputed in human
society only where ability of self-con-
troll has been adequately taught, de-
veIoped and acquired Nature outside
of mankind holds man strictly account
able for every violation of natural law
and it is for this reason alone, if for
no other, that man must learn to use
his mind to avoid harming himself and
refrain from inflicting harm upon his
fellows.
Mental science teaches man to know
himself end the world in which he
lives. 1t teaches him to live, act and
think in such way as to be master of
his fate. Is it worth while?
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

North Dakota is the fourth state 10
speak its mind. The old, seeming POI
litical fixtures are being removed. SEN
ator McCumber, for "a years a staIwart
has been defeated by former Governor
Lynn ]. Frazier. A new era in politics
is dawning and the Old Guard should
reyamp some Of its archaic philosophy.
Other states will be heard from in the
November elections many showing re-
versal of form from that Of two years
ago.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

A stop can be put to more war max
ing when the cause, of wor is under
stood and eliminated. Greed in the
hearts of men and Iegalized by sta
tute and governmentally supported
methods for its indulgence at the ex-
pense Of exploited people both at home
and in foreign nations, is the origin
and basis Of all war. By outlaying and
Furnishing every kind of swindling and
exploitation as crime. both domestic
and international peace can be secur-
ed.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12
Just as You Look at Il

''The Accomplishments Of this Con-
gress Rank Among the Great in His
tory" read headline in the Silver
City Enterprise.
OF course, the Enterprise accidental
" omitted the word 'tragedies" it
undoubtedly meant to say The Accom-
plishments Of this Congress Rank
Among the Great TRAGEDIES in His
sory.-Silver City Independent.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

You have to believe thing can be
done before you can develop the con-
fidence and self-reliance to make the
demonstration. The golden age will
came as fast as people go to work and
establish it.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12
Arkansas Social Note

c. E. Franks of near Western. sat
with US about two hours last Sunday
the most of the time at our dining
table.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

A girl may come TO the throne Of
Monaco made vacant by the death of
Prince Albert. Monaco, the gambling
Mecca of Europe, may lose the distinc-
ton Of being the greatest place of
chance if Paris richest man, with other
men, is permitted to erect the palace
of Chance" in Paris. Americans are
the expected customers. as Americans
like to lose money In fact. American
are so used to losing money that the
Paris gentleman have every right to
hope that business will be good.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

Airplane travel in France is reaching
the dignity of limousine touring. Com
Portable cabs, storage holds for lug
gage, roomy seats with splendid, un-
interrupted view Of the scenery below
and cheap = is the news that arrives
by pictures. With the helicopter's per-
lection aerial navigation soon promises
to be made as safe as travel by land or
water, and much faster.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12
Meanderings
BY RObert.K. Williams, d. c.. Ph. &C.

Dick" a big Newfoundland dog.
belongs to Jacob Silyerman, over in
Pennsylvania. Jacob was former resi-
dent Of Russia and an unnaturalized
American. Dick" is kind and gentle
and loved by the children, of whom he
is very fond. But the law is stronger
than love. But the law has decreed
the death of Dick" because he be-
longs to an ALLEN" ''They say cam
not give him away. he must be killed.
He must be killed. 1t hurts me here, .
walls Jacob. Funny lawsI
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

1t is boldly said that the kidnapping
of A. Bruce Bielaski, and lot of others
in Mexico, Yves engineered" in Wall
Street, that oil interests wer back of
the affair. Strange coincidence, Mex
lean petroleum advanced well over the
200 mark the farther the Victims
got into the inter or of that bleak re-
gion. When Wall Street talks, thrones
and embryonic republics totter and
Will Obregon go the way2
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-06-14
Library Of Southern Literature

Oglethorpe University, of Atlanta,
Ga. has undertaken great and
patriotic work%o. the South. Mr..
]. T. Lupton, of Chattanooga, mas
given over SIPS .0G0 and the finest
fire proof library in the South mas
just been completed.
The University. which is non-sec-
tartan, aims to put i'll this building
a complete library OF southern ut
erature, books manuscripts and lit
erarv remains of southern authors,
so the future historian and BIZ
ographer may find there the ma
terial he wants.
Mr.. H. Z. Hartman, of Atlanta,
himself a well known writer, has
given his services free, to collect
this library. The understanding is
so laudable that every one should
help. Send whatever you can. in
the way of books, old southern
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letters and pictures. Each item
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