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The Washington times., 1922-10-01

Copyright. 1s,3. by Ilys TolstoyD
- WAS once asked by a young
man. "why don't you shave
u your whiskers7" I replied
with another question. "why do
you shave yoursf" The young
man was amazed. He never
thought that his question was
foolish but he rather believed
mine to be so. "Why?" he said
because everybody does it."
Have you any other reason" I
asked. mo. I don't think So"
Leaving aside the question OF
whether We shall shave or not
shave, let us see whether "be-
cause everybody does IT, is n
good reason or not. In other
words, does the standardization OF
humanity improve It. or not? In
some instances the standard IA
cilitates life. in industry Il Is es-
sential, but not 30 in shaping
human beings. Look around you,
see the great diversity of nature!
Not only every tree, but even
every leaf. every flower. every
blade Of grass has Its own indi-
vidual shape and color. This is
the beauty OF nature. How much
greater should be the beauty of
mankind, in which every indi-
vidual has his own intellect, his
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
Kleptomania Wins
Freedom for Thief

WESTFTELD, Mass, Sept. 80.
A PLEA Of kleptomania, which
causes him to steal automo.
biles without knowing II. won
Wallace F. Toole, son OF wealthy
Holyoke paper official. exemption
from a Jail sentence for the larceny
Of a limousine.
The plea was made by Charles
Brooks, prominent Springfield at
torney. who explained that twice
previously the ex.veteran has taken
cars The young man has a mental
alteration, the attorney claimed.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
BY KARL H. Won wIEGAND.

Universal Service.
BERLIN. Sept. 80.
WHETHER It is preferable to
be . vendor Of newspapers on
the streets Of Berlin or . professor
in German university at present
is being personally tested by Prof.
George Strelisker, Of this city.
He finds for the newsdealer.
Passersby on the fashionable
Kurfuerstendamm recently, IL at
all observing, have noticed some
thing unusually distinguished in
the accents with which the cry,
1.-The dollar going upr' saluted
their ears. and something unusual
in the bearing Of the tall man in
horn.rimmed spectacles who sold
them their daily paper.
Prof. Strelisker tells of occa.
sional looks of wondering vecog-
milton from old-tlme acQuatntanCeS,
followed by the cut direct.
However, there were compensa.
tons. Kindly old ladies, for in.
stance, who would hand out
marks with a gentle Perhaps you
have known better days"
When no found himself with 257
marks clear profit at the end of the
day there was a good dinner to be
bought and something to be put
away. As a professor ibis had
been impossible. While lecturing
as professor and writing books
the 257 marks would not pay for
his writing paper and the stenog.
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wonder how IL is that the presi-
dent Of q women's club in Ari.
zona used the same words and the
same expressions that hear from
a Presbyterian minister in New
England and wonder how and
why the people manage to hide
their real personality behind the
stencil.
Because everybody does It,"
In every city I meet newspaper
reporters. Somehow they manage
to always ask me the same ques-
tions. as II they were typewriter
to their minds. How long have
you been in this country" What
do you think Of our city7" The
answer to the first Is easy. no:
so with the second. am sup.
posed to say that this particular
town 10 the most beautiful city
ever saw because everybody does
say ~ but II I do not say so. the
reporter looks amazed and some.
times even offended as II we were
discussing himself, not the town.
But still he Is a good fellow. In
his report he corrects my lack of.
courtesy and will make me say
what everybody In my position is
supposed to say.
Another impression that strikes
strange eyes in this country is the
fear Of and even slavery before
public opinion. came here the
first time from Russia when my
country was still under the rule
of the car. l came to the Land
Of the Free. and what was my
disillusionment when in this
country l felt myself moro en-
shaved by the fear Of public
opinion than did under Russian
autocraoy. Many concessions had
to make in order to comply with
the public opinion Of the people
and many things did I do and am
I now doing for tho sole reason
that Everybody must DO It,"
My father once met on one Of
the main streets Of Moscow a man
who impressed him greatly. He
was dressed in such q peculiar
way that 1t was impossible not to
notice him. II was a combination
Of remnants of wealth and poverty,
summer and winter clothes, city
and country style.
II met a wonderful Individual"
he told us when he came home.
"A man who does not care what
people think Of him." Somehow,
when he told US this, I felt a kind
Of esteem for this man because he
had no fear Of public opinion.
BY this do not mean to advise
my reader to walk on the Fifth
avenue Of New York with an
Indian feather head covering and
clad In Turkish trousers and
Eskimo fur boots. no, not exactly
that, but I wish to say that people
are as II afraid to manifest In
dlviduality' div afraid not to be like
This makes them dull and often
kills the best side OF a person and
also OF life. Let us preserve in.
dividuslity and let US educate our
youth as individuals. and not az
soulless automatons.
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The Poor Mans Friend
Second Hand Revolvers
and
Knives For Sale Cheap.
Looks as IL the boss Of this
establishment expects another
war.
Down near the navy yard there's
an old colored man who does a
thriving express business. Perhaps
the following sign which hangs
above his door has something to do
with his success:
Furniture Moved
with Care and Pianos.
On Seventh street northwest tha
following invitation Is displayed in
the windows Of grocery:
Do You Like Good Things To Eat'
II So,
Sec B R., the Fat Grocer.
Down near the Union Station a
thrifty Chinaman has this sign
painted on his window:
Jim Lee-Laundry.
Over the door leading to this
rooms over the laundry is another
sign. which reads
Sam notwithstanding.
Both are In the cleaning business,
but Sam denies there Is any rela-
tionship.
The manager Of a small dry
goods store, situated on Seventh
street northwest for ten years, has
caught the bargain sale craze. Last
week he put the following sign in
his window:
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LONDON. Sept. 80.

" HE past week has seemed
to me q very black one, but
- perhaps I have not been in
places where things can be seen
in cheerful perspective. A
wise and reflective man wrote a
day or two ago: London has
not been so depressed since the
dark days Of 1918. But Lon.
don is not on holiday. and those
who had to stay in the cities
in August are apt TO take a
rather grim view OF life" Pos
sibly the outlook is different from
Deauville or from lively Margate.
but from my standpoint war
clouds appear to be hanging over
much Of the immense area be-
tween the Atlantic and the Hima-
layas.
They are not new war clouds
rising up suddenly across blue
sky. They are not like the
clouds Of 1914. when men could
still march forth eagerly to the
sound of bugle and drum, and
when war still brought ennobling
moments. They are clouds pour
ing forth from the embers OF
terrible unfinished wars into a
sky which has never cleared.
They make men and women fear
tho swift appearance. not Of
ordered warfare, but OF that mud.
died and chaotic strife which Is
far worse. They may mean war
in the streets rather than in the
trenches, not in our own land,
but in countries upon whose re-
turn to permanent peace our
own recovery may depend
THE NAME OF WAR.
mention Ireland first. not
because the organized brigan-
dage and murder in ireland de-
serve the name Of war. but rather
because what is happening over
there in the South is affecting
the whole world. Wild and un.
balanced and debased people in
many lands are learning from
ireland how easy 1t is for mere
handfuls to hold up and to prey
upon an entire nation in any
weakly-governed country; and
there is no really strong govern
ment in the world today. not one.
These gags Of mad Fenian
hobbledehoys who loot and raw
ish and slay and burn are being
watched intently both in East
and West and by all the degen-
crates who would choose the
life Of the wolf IL they saw the
chance. Ireland is proving
afresh. in the words Of Froude,
that murder when the spirit Of
It has gone abroad becomes a
passion; and man grows more
ferocious than a beast OF prey"
What matters most now is not
the failure Of .self-government In
southern Ireland, but the infec-
tiousness Of her example, as
those who have lately been in
the Near and Middle East can
testify.
There are war clouds in Mesopo.
tamia, where we are about to try
the absurd experiment of bomb
ing deserts and swamps from the
air instead Of relying on infantry
garrisons. Sir Percy Cox, our
high commissioner at Bagdad,
chose an alien Arab ruler, King"
Feisal, and at the end Of q year
finds himself flouted by his own
nominee and his courtiers. The
system Of an elected assembly and
a cabinet" has failed, because It
is quite unsuitable for semi.
nomadic peoples, and meanwhile
all the inhabitants Of Mesopo-
tamia unite In repudiating the
British mandate. These tendencies
will assuredly lead to another ris.
ing. We shall never be at the
end OF military operations in
Mesopotamia until we withdraw
from that useless country alto.
gether.
In Asia Minor the Greeks and
the Turks are again at death grips.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE
All Around the Town
BY HARRY sHREvE.

~ o YOU believe in sgnsi If So take look at those in
the windows Of some of the small business places
- scattered over Washington the next time You
wandering about town.
They are funny, and they original They display
splendid disregard for grammar and masterpieces of
composition For instance read the following, which is
painted on side of secondhand store Eighth street
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On October I. We viii Begin To
Sell Our Stock.
Which causes one to wonder
what he has been selling for the
past ten years.
A small grocery on II street
northeast has this in his window:
All Kinds OF First Class Good
Things To Eat and Drink
Including
Grass Seed-Lawn M0wers-Hoes
and Rakes.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
By LOVAT FRASER---
(Well-Knoun Authority On Intern

InteTndIOndI
Watch the War COudsGVe Issues Arising From the Atlantic to the
HmaayasSys the British Government Docs Not Possess the Full
Confidence of the British People, who Doubt Stand ON German Repa
raions-Beleves French Right i'm Thinking Germany Cam Pay
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LONDON, Sept. 80.

boANboGN1 oSpls oV'
A N incident was reported in
"A the papers recently. in
"A which one gentleman made
a violent bodily attack on another
gentleman because he-had been ad-
dressed as a Mister instead of an
Esquire. or rather as an Esq,
which sounds like some queer sort
Of animal such as an Eft. 1t Is
characteristic of the chaos into
which the whole matter has fallen,
but we practically leave out the
word squire" which is the only
important part of the title. 1t
seems a silly thing to fight about:
but / would not pronounce too
positively without knowing more
Of the human nature involved.
On the whole. deplore the vio-
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
By COUNT TOLSTOY---

1Son OF the Fdn10us KHssIdn PhI0s0pheFJ
Friendly Criticism is More Helpful Than eryWe Tell the Tn
Those We Love Us Preserve individuality and Let Us Ed
Our Youth as individuals and Not as SouleSs AutOmatOnS"
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HERE'S THE ANSWER.

That proposition was not accept
Cd. The Republicans present dis
puted II and asked by what process
Of reasoning he made that conf
dent prediction.
"On the theory" he answered,
shat history always repeats itself
"a doctrine which nobody disputed
when I propounded 1t a few min.
utes ago" He went on after this
fashion:
"Tn 1889 Congress enacted the
Mckinley tariff law, Shortly there.
after. prices OF everything sold in
the retail stores went up and there
was much comment and not little
resentment. Women shoppers for
the first time made themselves felt.
They rushed into print with dc.
nunciations Of the Mckinley tariff
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A wonderful group of better dresses-plain,
heavily beaded and embroidered. Excellent
quality Canton crepe, crepe Romaine georgette
and combinations. A dress for the most crit
ical.
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raffetas, crepe knit, sport dresses, Canton
,repes and crepe back satins in many new
smart styles. There are beaded, embroidered,
plain and lace trimmed models in all colors.
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Marvellous dresses in this group shown in Can
ton crepe taffeta, crepe de chine, crepe knit
and many smart combinations. Every dcsir-
able color represented.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-02

Dresses of fine quality materials, suitable for
wear now and later. A great variety of styles
and co1ors from which to make your selection.
Don't overlook this great group.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-02

Extra fine quality Canton crepe, taffeta, drap-
pella, crepe knit and smart combinations. All
new models made to sell and worth $50 to
S1975. Dresses for any occasion in this group.
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In this collection you will find garments worth
twice the sale price. New dresses in the sea-
sons most wanted colors styles and materials.
glance will convince you of their value.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-16

But she is reminded that dramatic abil.
ity is not necessary, or at least can be
speedily developed for she reads of big
town beauty contest guaranteeing the win
ner five weeks engagement at Hollywood
at $500 week. To be fair to the press
agents and the interviewers, the best OF
them also tell the other side-the hard
work, the sacrifice the step by step climb
whereby the finest actresses of the films,
like those of the stage, have reached the
height.
But to the typical screen struck girl, the
spoiled darling Of the small town, this
means little She has been told of her
beauty so often that she believes it, and
probably 1t is true-in bonneville. She
has yet to learn of facts like this:
Nine delectable women pose successfully
before a motion picture camera, under the
pitiless glare of mercury vapor lights To
the unframed eye--yes, and to the trained
eye, too-the nine may look exactly alike.
Not mark, not a line to distinguish one
from the others
The test films are developed and taken
to the projection room. There chemistry
tells its grievous truths. Closeups Of the
nine women are thrown on the screen.
Four of the nine appear to be Ethfopians.
-Four are ordinary looking, neither attrac-
tive nor ugly, the kind that would pass un-
noticed. The ninth--one woman of the
nine-is the handsome creature that she
seemed to the human eye.
AS explained to me in Hollywood, this
surprising variation is due to the quality
OF the skin. Some skins reflect too much
light, some absorb too much; occasionally
one has just the right actinic value II 1t
isn't right there is nothing woman can
do to change It, She may be another Helen,
but the screen will tell her she's fright.
The proportion Of good motion picture
compilations is much smaller than one out
of nine, that figure having been chosen at
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-16

o aa ,oroe,v without Justlncatlon at
nooon+ In the pioneer days - away
back eight or nine years ago-the MOVIES
were arum-scarum. Companies or actors
"on location" used to smash shrubbery and
scatter milk bottles and lunch boxes over
fine estates they borrowed for camera pur'
poses. Nowadays discipline is enforced
and the studio management sends along
a special cleanup squad to remove any
debris. If accidentally damage is done the
producer pays for it promptly. The owner
of perhaps the finest show place in Holly
wood now let's the actors In. charging a
small fee, which goes to his gardener.
Also Thought Bad Tenants.
But No Longer So Now
Similarly the movie people early &C
uuired the reputation of being undesirable
tenants. Landlords complained that they
gave noisy parties at night and massacred
the furniture. One OF the biggest landlords
told me, however, that the boisterous
minority which did this had gradually been
weeded out and that some Of his best ten.
ants were actors and directors. He said
there was no longer any excuse for the
newspaper advertisement that appeared not
long ago, "No children, no dogs, no movies"
My personal testimony is that for several
nights l rode and walked through the resi-
Dental as well as the business parts of
Hollywood with ears attuned to noise Of
any wave length and heard nothing but the
metallic click of eucalyptus leaves as the
trade wind set brother against brother.
On one Of these trips tall and amiable
stranger walked up beside me.
Sure feels lonesome" he said. II live
up the hill few blocks. Looking for any
one in particular"
"No," said. II was looking for orgies"
He laughed.
They're all doing that. Couple of nights
ago two tourists came up to me and asked
II they could get in on some Of these wild
parties they'd been reading about.
"'Orgies?' says I. That's it. orgies,
SAYS one of the tourists.
"
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-16
CHAPTER III.

-HE city of Los Angeles and all the
surrounding towns are full of beau
tiful girls toiling at homely occu-
pations. The visitor sees them waiting
at table in restaurants, ladling macaroni
in cafeterias, behind the counters of de-
partment stores, selling cigars and news
papers in open air shops and bobbing
through the doors of factories. 1t is an
exhibition of personal comeliness not
wholly to be accounted for by the rich
endowment bestowed by nature on the
daughters o. California.
The visitor makes inquiry and the an
swer he gets is this:
$50 you've noticed all these picture
faces? Why, they're the girls who came out
here to be Mary Pickfords. They were the
bellies Of their own home towns. Nice
girls, most of them, and good looking
enough as you can see. But they mistook
good looks and ambition for talent, and
now they're lucky to have $25 in their pay
envelopes ON Saturday night. It's quite a
story. Look into it"
So the stranger looks into 1t and finds
All over the country are girls eager to
be motion picture stars. Such girl has
perhaps won prize in beauty contest.
Her friends have assured her that she looks
like Mary Pickford, Corinne Griffith, Enid
Bennett, Mary Miles Minter, Gloria Swan
son, Anita Stewart or some other celluloid
princess. A new way of doing her hair,
penciled lift of the eyebrow add to the
fancied resemblance Like as not the girl
makes a hit with the local public as the
frolicsome ingenue of amateur theatricals
1t dawns upon her that she is an actress
as we'll as the fortunate possessor Of the
type of beauty for which wide the screen
magazines) the producers are searching
the world with pockets full Of gold.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-16

the truth to say I'm a miner. Mon'ans'
Death Valley, Mexico and all points pe-
tween. I had a little hard luck oo"n u
Sonora and came up here to take whiri
at new game. No, miss. can't trusn-
fully say I'm an actor. I'm what they cali
an extra. When | work / get SlO DAY
because they figure I'm what they call q
good rough and ready type. Some gets 70.
some $3.50, according to how they look and
what they have to do. had two days work
last week; so far this week none Figuring
on getting into the movies?"
The girl mods her head The miner sur
veys her gravely, seems about to say some
thing, but ends with, well. good luck:
some gets away with it, and turns away.
We can't spend much time following this
girls adventures, for there are other
phases of Hollywood to report upon. She
enters through the door into a narrow pas
sage. At the other end she sees sunlight.
But 1t is the sunlight of forbidden coun-
try--the lot" the inside of the studio en-.
closure. Half way to the alluring sunlight
stands barrier, a low gate, and beside a
gate the keeper thereof
Nothing that has been written or said
about the perfection with which the studio
gatekeeper plays his part is exaggerated.
You get by or you don't. II you belong in
the lot you reach 1t; If you are not on the
list of the elect Of the lord of the lot you
stay outside.
Persons who have not been In Holly
wood, but have tried to pass the stage
doorkeeper of New York theater may
picture stage doorkeeper seven times
sterner and more bored looking, and that
is the gatekeeper of Hollywood. But Just
before she reaches him the girl sees door
at the left of the tunnel-like passageway.
That lets her into a small, square room
against whose walls are hard wooden
benches. Half dozen men and women
are sitting there. They strike the girl as
decidedly frowsy-the whole lot of them.
For their part, they look the newcomer up
and down in frank appraisal.
Never Sees a Stranger
And Ignores Introductions
Between this room aud a smaller one
adjoining an open window has been cut in
the partition. A young man is sitting by
this window In the smaller room. The girl
asks for the casting director. The man
tells her the casting director never sees
strangers unless they come with cards or
letters from his friends, and often not even
then. He is too busy She doesn't know
any of his friends.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-16

random for the purpose of illustration.
And, of &C urse, possession Of the blooming
cheek, the cameo profile ana The sparkling
eve does not mean that the fortunate lady
can ever be an actI IS.
The ambition of our small town belle
eventually carries her off to Los Angeles
Sometimes her mother, dissuasion having
failed, accompanies her, Sometimes she is
blessed with relative in southern Cali
fornia, to whose home she can go. Often
she Is q runaway, dreaming of the day
when her obdurate guardians will jump out
Of their seats at the movie show when
they see her starring in her first big re-
lease. Going home they will find a
check from her to lift the mortgage on the
old place and perforce will nod their heads
and say, "Well, 1t looks as If Theodosia
done the right thing after ALL"
What Girl Faces
Withour Friends There
Somehow the girl reaches Los Angeles
The chances are that as she looks around
the station she sees no friendly face. We'll
fare work for the motion picture girls is
scarcely begun. There Is no agent Of the
Travellers Aid Society to meet the stranger
and guide her Alright. Two Methodist
deaconnesses attempt the task but what
can they do, with trains arriving at fire.
quent intervals from the north, east and
south, and the steamships sluicing their
passengers UP to the city from San Pedro?
II the girl has made little inquiry in
advance she knows she can go to the Y. w.
c. A., the w. C. T. U. or the Salvation
Army or one Of the women's clubs and at
least be directed to boarding house. Let
us assume she is sophisticated enough to
do that. Let us even assume that she is so
lucky as to get into the Studio Club IN
Hollywood. This is under the supervision
of the national board of the Y. W. G. A,
and the direction of Miss Marian Hunter
and is doing on small scale a splendid
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