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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-05

on that definition. He thought Creole
meant octoroon.
For fifteen years the people Of the
theatre and the people who 80 to theatres
have known me By only one name
Bonita" took II when | was fifteen
years old, making my debut in vaudeville
in st. Louis, because II meant beautiful"
and beauty was my only assct-bcauty
Of face and figure and voice.
That was in the days OF burlcsque
shows and Coon songs" Musical comedy
was in It's infancy. Revucs hadn't been
invented Jazz hadn't been born Rag
time was the new music Of the hour, coon
songs were tho cream Of raRtime, and
girl shows with "coon shoutcr" stars were
TO the tired business men Of 1905 what
the big rcyues are to the 7. b NJ. to-day.
became coon shoutcr" went big.
Tho newspapers called pc "thc prettiest
girl in tights" Tho managers billed me
as Bonita, Belle of Burlesque." They
showed contracts at me. When | was
eighteen ! reached Broadway a star
Mortimer NJ Thicsc, the leading girly-
girly show producer of his day. put on the
most elaborate burosquo | suppose tho
world has ever seen. "Wine, Woman and
Song opened at the old Dewey Theatre
with an all-star cast that included Lew
Hcarn, Alex Carr Charles Raymond,
Nettie Clayton and Orvillo Harold now
in grand opera. And Bonita's name led
all the rest
We were n riot. Changed from the
Dewey 10 the New Circle Theatre (now
Loew's Circle Theatre). for four weeks
run, We ran a solid year. Alex Carr did
impersonations of David Warfield. Orville
Harold sang to me from n box. | i'm
personated Lillian Russell, sang, danced,
frolickod-and turned down supper invl-
tations from new millionaire every
night.
That is not exaggeratlon. Look up the
faded files of newspapers. You will see
where Bonita quecned II in New York two
years; where Bonita packed them in at
Detroit, stood them up at Milwaukee, and
knocked 'em dead" in Chicago. And
then, you will find, the clippings suddenly
ceased.
We were stranded. II was in the Mid
die West. "Wine Woman and Song" was
still a hit But our earnings went to other
enterprises, and the other enterprises went
broke. company of a hundred men and
women were thousand miles from Broad
way without carfare back. So paid the
carfare. | paid it out OF my own Purse
because was "a good Fellow"
| had been "a good fellow" before.
What got | didn't keep, What didn't
lend gave away. And gave away once
too often. | was as broke as the rest
when we returned later to Broadway.
What hadn't given away | had
thrown away. We had been away a
year, Broadway soon forgets.
knew what II meant to make the
rounds of the booking offices, whin-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-05

nue., spending the last Of my savings. |
have tried to get other work to do because
| hate the stage. But there is no other
work that ] know. If don't beat Broad
way, life viii beat me / have no choice.
II had it all to do over again, the only
place would ever see the footlights would
be from out in front. | would marry.
would be a wife and mother, above all
things A cottage built for two, with
washing dishes and all that goes with it,
would be enough for Bonita.
But Fate wiled It otherwise. Fate gave
me one trade-tho theatre And must
follow that trade to the end. am only
thirty. In ten years have made my life
over twice. ] can make It again-and
again. And this time | will make it to
last
Yet | am not so sure of that. For I
regret nothing of what has gone before.
If there are thousand who say, "She is
a fool; she had the money and spent it,"
there is girl in the Adirondacks who is
beating a grimmcr fight than mine with
the monthly check | shall never fail to
send her; there is n chap doing well on
Broadway who can thank Bonita he is not
still IN the charity ward at Bellevue; there
are others for whom Bonita's heart ruled
Bonita's head, When | think of them,
also think, IF | was a fool, | am glad of
1t! Who has right to squawk about my
l'ns and downs if | don't?"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-05

NHHJ 7 hlunt gwen AWAY I had
thrown away. We had been away a
year, Broadway soon forgets
knew what Il meant to make the
rounds of the booking offices, whin-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01
PLAIN FACTS SHOW
PROSPERITY RETURNING.
Building Increases, Unemployment
Decreases, According to Uncle
Sans Figures.

Government compiled statistics
show that a marked revival of build
ing has been in progress for the last
year, building permits being two or
three hundred per cent more numer-
Gus than in the period of great de-
preston. Combined dwellings and
stores have been the most popular
new buildings, double dwellings next,
with apartments a close third, single
dwellings fourth, and purely busi-
ness structures last in comparative
figures of erection.
New Jersey cannot find enough
hands for ler building jobs, Michigan
reports more opportunities than auto
mobile mechanics, and Minnesota and
other northwest sections are asking
for farming help.
General BUSINESS conditions through
out the country as reflected in reports
made to the Department of Labor En-
ployment Service show plainly in the
fact that in 65 cities where studies
were made in April showed 40 in
which more workers were given places
on pay rclls, and only 25 III which
employment decreased.
"Despite q few disquieting indus
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01
WOMEN INTERESTED IN
TOWNER- R-STERLING BILL.
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Helping Education in the
United States.

Washington, June Mrs. Edward
Franklin White, chairman of legisla-
tion of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs and assistant attorney
general of Indiana, calls attention to
the fact that the United States Gov
e,rment now spends four times as
much per head on cattle, horses, sheep
and hogs of the country as it spends
per capita on its school children, and
that the women of the General Feder-
alton feel that the children should
at least be on a par with fish, hens
and hogs.
They are much concerned over the
critical situation OF the Towner-Ster-
ling bill which provides for depart
ment of education with secretary
in the cabinet and for federal aid to
the states in the promotion Of educa-
ton, including the training of teach
ers, the teaching of adults, vocational
training, and assisting in payment Of
teachers salaries.
Some twenty amendments offered
to this bill in the last congress have
been incorporated in the new bill in
troduced in the sixty-seventh con-
gress. 1t rests now in the committee
on the reorganization of departments,
where it is being considered with an
other bill for a department of public
welfare, in which education will have
only part. The women of the fed
Grafton feel that it should not be sub
ordinated to other departments and
should be dignifed by separate place
in the cabinet, as is done in other
countries, with a trained educator at
the head.
Mrs. White asks all club women to
write at once to Hon. Walter F.
Brown, Winder Building, Bureau of
Efficiency, 18th Street \. W., Wash
ington. D. c., chairman Of the COM
mittee on reorganization of depart
mentS, concerning their stand or the
bill.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01

The fish law goes into affect today,
June /, and the season for taking
fish from the streams in this county
in any manner whatsoever until Au-
gust 1, is closed. In other words the
fishing season is closed from this day
until August l and it will be vio-
lation of the law, punishable by fine
and imprisonment, to take fish from
the streams or lakes in this county
during this closed season. 1t IS hoped
that every lover of the sport and al
so those who are inclined to take
fish indiScriminately will refrain
from violating this law. 1t has been
in force now for several years and
has proved to be very good one for
the protection and propagation OF
fish. But whether it is or is
not a good law the fact remains
that it IS a law, duly enacted and
placed unon the statute books of the
state and so long as it remains there
without modification or annullment
it should be obeyed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01
MASONIC TEMPLE FOR
BEAUTIFUL CAPITAL SITE
Order Plans Magnificent Building on
Nine-acre Tract in North
west Washington.

In the very heart of the most eX-
elusive and beautiful residential sec
ton of northwest Washington, D. c.,
lies the "Dean tract" of land, nine
acres in extent, covered with magnifi-
cent trees, and the most coveted and
eagerly desired piece of land in all
the District of Columbia. 1t was re-
Gently purchased by The Women's
Foundation to preserve it from real
estate aggression.
Now the tract has been sold to the
Masonic fraternity of the District,
which will erect upon it a temple to
cost one or more million dollars. The
land was purchased for considera-
tion understood to be 100000, and is
amply large enough to permit the
erection of several temples should
such be found desirable.
Civic authorities are loud in their
praise of The Women's Foundation,
which declined to permit the beautiful
park to be cut up into building lots
or disposed Of to anyone for any pur-
pose whatsoever until a pledge was
made to preserve for the city the ma
jority Of the magnificent trees which
grow upon the land.
When the plans as made are real
lied, the Nations Capital will have
something seldom or never seen in
fraternal buildings-a great temple
adequately and completely surrounded
by broad lawns and wooded areas.
Some of the most magnificent build
ings in the world are in America, it
is pointed out, and among the most
beautiful are several with no fore
ground or background, the wonderful
Pennsylvania Railroad station in New
York city, the Woolworth Building,
and the City Hall in Philadelphia be-
ing cases in point.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01
WASHINGTON COMMENT.

That business should not profit at
the expense of the health of little
children is a universal belief. That
child labor is expensive to the nation,
an offsnSe against decency, undesired
by those who put the welfare of the
race and their country above imme-
date monetary profit, is undenied.
But there are worse things than
child labor; things which could wreck
these United States much quicker even
than the exploiting of many little
children.
One of these is the overthrowing of
those foundation stones upon which
this nation is built; let there be no
foundation and the superstructure will
crumble. Let there be no nation, and
children here will be as are the chill
dren of Russia-starved, helpless,
dead by thousands.
The supreme court of the United
States has just ruled that the 1919
child labor law was unconstitutional.
Doubtless the explorers of children
rejoiced. But there are many who
love children who have not criticized
the decision, just as there have been
many who are heart and soul for
prohibition who believe the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead Act
have done more harm than good. Ad-
mittedly, the 1919 child labor law
would have stopped child labor. But
it would also open the doors to the
federal government taking over all
rights not reserved to and by the
states, a thing expressly forbidden
in the fundamental law of our land.
Let Us, by all means, do away with
child labor. But let us do it by
aroused public sentiment, by state leg
islation, by education, by willingness
to follow Him who would have little
children suffered to come unto Him,
not by tampering with the strength Of
the country where children are most
free, where children have most oppor-
tunity, where children are best pro-
tected.
Let us thank God for supreme
court which can think of the country
as whole, even before it thinks of
exploited children.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01

Mr.. G. B. Marvin, formerly superin-
tendent of the Sumter Light and
Water plant has recently accepted a
position here with the kingStree
Electric Light and Ice Co. He will
have charge of the lines and trans
mission. He is very competent man
and expects to move his family here
as soon as he can locate a residence.
Mr.. Marin is an expert pump man
and we e informed that it is the
present in ention of the company to
install elect tical pumps at the towns
pumping station for the purpose Of
pumping water and he will have
charge of this work also. Mr.. F. B.
Adams, general manager of the light
ing and ice plant says he has very
competent force in charge night and
day and that everything is moving
along smoothly. The County Record
is gratifed to learn that this COM
pany has a brighter prospect. We
want to see every home and every
business in Kingstree electrically
equipped by the end of the present
year.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01

trial features" said Director General
Jones of the Department of Labor,
America is surely righting herself.
April recorded an upward movement,
with industrial lines broadening out,
which will show increased activity in
succeeding months.
The increase in the number of men
employed by l,42S firms which report
to the department was 74-10O of per
cent. in the month. New York show
ed a decrease in employment Of 7-lO
of per cent. and Chicago of 5.5
per cent.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01

"What is the matter with the
church," asked many devout church
goers, ministers, church authorities
and serious minded laymen.
There are thousand answers. One
of them is brought forcibly to mind
when the proceedings OF gathering
of certain church are read and it is
found that emphasis is being placed
upon the necessity for ministers
strictly to maintain the moral law"
by refusing to marry one who has
been divorced for any other reason
than infdelity.
That, brethren Of the church, is one
of the things the matter with it; the
refusal to recognize that the human
mind demands equity in its religion as
we'll as its civic law.
Marriage, a sacrament in the church,
is made with mutual promises to love,
to honor, to cherish, to be faithful.
"But," says the church, eff you break
one of these you may be free of mar
riage bonds, but if you keep that one
and break all the rest, bound you must
be-" A man may beat his wife, get
drunk on homemade hooch and stay
out all night, go to prison for felony,
be cruel to his children, bring disgrace
upon his family. "Never mind all
that" says the church, "stay married"
But man may be all that is good
and kind and upright and honorable
and temperate in every other way;
if he is once unfaithful. then, says the
church divorce by all means!
The innate sense Of justice with
which we are all born protects against
the idea that a helpless woman must
stay bound to a brute who maltreats
her and his children, merely because
his lapse do not run toward the "other
woman The law recognizes extreme
cruelty, desertion, and felonies as just
causes for divorce in most states;
when the church as whole does also
there will be less reason for it to ask,
"What is the matter that men vener-
ate me less each year,"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01
THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1922

In this number of The County Rec
ord will be found the announcement
of two OF our we'll known and de-
servedly popular citizens for office.
One for the legislature, the other
for the state senate, MeSsrs William
R. Scott and William Willis Boddie
respectively. We believe that with the
wide and successful business eXper-
ience of each of these gentlemen, they
will, if elected, render valuable and
efficient service to their county and
state.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-01
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

l have contract covering all cross
ties placed on right of way for sale
to S. A. l.. Railway Co., between West
Andrews and Trio, S. c. Will per-
sonally be on tie yard at Earles each
day, and will buy all ties that are
acceptable TO the 5. A. L. Railway Co.
r. Z. CAMLIN,
1-tp. EarleS, s. c.
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Typewriter Supplies.

Users of Typewriters will find a
full stock of ribbons, corbon paper,
second sheets and typewriters paper
at The County Record Office. If.
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oy,Wanted

Somewhere in this town is one
boy who is a "go-getter" spirit,
full of grit and ambition, and
absolutely honest. We want that
boy. He will be the only boy
agent in this town for the ia
NOUS MOVIE WEEKLY MAGA-
ZINE. He will work after
school and other spare time.
His pay will be what he makes
it; besides fine prizes and free
Movie Tickets. When he makes
good, he will be promoted. If
you are between Ia and 19 years
old, determined to make good"
and truly think you are the boy
for this job, then apply by let
ter to MIR. E. l.. Gilbert, "Per-
sonal," 3rd floor 119 West 10th
Street, New York City. Give
full details of any past selling
experience; your age; parents
full name and business; your
school grade and at least two
references. It.
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Foreign Adveltisins Representahve
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-03

breadas', cuando don BARGE SOFIA
ba la vera de un dormitar regocijan-
te bajo la espada damoclana del jo-
cundo Moncho Reyes. cuando los de
la "Guardia Vieja" Sc preocupaban
por la gran crisis que invadfa al pre-
supuesto insular, sin ell cual Ia vida
para ellos es un martirio, Tizol, Tho
lito. cl simpatico Tizolito, uno de los
mas intensos criminalistas de nuestra
fnsula, le da Ell el suelo a todos los
polfticos y resuelye de dos palabras
la gran crisis que todos traia confu-
sos y preocupadOs.
Yo, tuve ell gran placer de escuchar-
le; una resolution de una crisis, So
bre todo de una crisis economical. no
puede dejarse asf de n mano, y debe
ser vista p0r todos aquellos que de-
ben mirar por los intercses de su pua-
bio, aunQue hayau nacidO lejOs de 6l
A mi, francamente las conferenciaS
ne seducen: Yer el esfuerZo de un
hombre que desea convencer a su au-
ditorio, constituye de por ST, una gran
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-03

Los que ignorando nuestros recur-
SOS intelectuales nos calumnian, la
mandonos "impreparados para el GO
bierno propio', cometen una injusti-
cia de las mas grandes que concebir-
Sc pueden, bajo ell dombito de nuestro
flamante cielo.
/ Cuando la Europa ensangrentada y
el Norte frfo v despiadado, y ell Asia
taciturna Y bella Sc hunden en- mil
peligros para resolver sus crisis eco
n6micas, nosotros, es decir nuestros eco
nomistas, las resuelyen facilmente,
con una conferencia, Q 10 sumo, con
un libro. Por algo tenemos cuatro-
cientos yentid6s amos de civilization,
que va los querrfan para 81 los habi-
tantes de la America del Norte, y que
muy bien les scrvirfan para haber po-
dido hacer unos cuantos millones mas
de salchichas, 81 Il los moradores de
Chicago nos referimos.
NIientras ell bolcheviquito Iglesias
Sc derretfa uscando una soluci0n pa
IA darle de conner a sus masas 'ham-
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-03
@ DEL, WTWgR PAUSADO
UNA CONEERlENClA RE-
SU(SAW(G UNA CRISIS

resoluci0n de voluntad, digna lie to-
dos los premios de los Apprentices to-
dos.
Y, francamente, Tizolito nos ha re-
suelto la crisis. Antes de su confe
rencia, vefamos por nuestras GALES
a los empleados insulares Y municipal
les, miranda para el suelO, preOcupa-
dos bajO In idea de que la ubre de la
gran vaca iba malograrse, iba a que
dar agotada ante ell peso formidable
de los grandes sueldos de los grandes
empleados del Pipol of Porto Rico.
Aver, fue el aver. Hoy es ell hoy.
Y hoy, 'vemos aquellos que aver iban
preocupados, satis1echOs, regOcijadOs,
frescos afeitados, caminar por las
Gales Y hasta por las plazas. muy
orondos muy orgullosos de los ia
lentos economistas del gran TiZolito
del immense Tizolito, que de una pa
labra, nos tumba una crisis Y pOne dc
nuevo a andar la gran maquina dc
nuestras interioridades econ0micas.
Mas es el case, que somos un pue
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-03

regiones donde Sc dedican eXclusiva-
mente al cultivo de Ia caiia, especial
mente, es donde es mas crftica la po-
Sici6n de los pequeiios agricultores,
pues en- estas zOnas las centraleS tie
nen controlados todOs los terrenos,
los cualeS dedican la Siembra de ca
ma, este obliga los agricultOres
mas pobres arrendar sus pequefas
fincas Y recurrir las centrales a ira
bajar como jornaleros para conseguir
la manutenci0n de sus familias. Don
de es mas notable este estado de CO.
sas, es en- ell distrito de Fajardo.
La cosecha de cafe promote ser
abundante en- pocos sitios de Ia Is
la, tales como EN- San German. en- los
sitios altos. Ponce, Maricao, Adjun-
tas Y Carolina.
En- los otros puntos de la Isla sc
perdieron las florecidas de mayo jul
Mo, por 10 tanto, la pr0Xima cosecha
sera escasa.
En- algrnos siti0s como Ell San Sc
bastian, los agricultoreS menos pudier
tes han vendido la cosecha en- flor
por estar en- urgente necesidad de di
: nero, no tener otras fuentes de don
de sacarlo Este hecho demuestrs
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-07-03

bio muy NAL agradecido. Ninguno de
esos que hoy duermen conffados, gra-
cias la leonferencia de Tizolito, min
guno de ellos, Sc levanta sugerir el
levantamiento de un mOnumentO al
gran puertorriquefio, al inteligente le-
trado, que hacienda mas de 10 que de-
be hacer, nos ha resuelto una crisis,
que estaba crisando todo el mundo.
A mi me consta, que Tizolito ha esta-
do muchos alios estudiandO, para dar
frente al problema ecOn6mico, ven
cerlo en- lucha cruenta, Ell que las ar
mas eran todas, 81 tOdas servfan para
veneer.
Y, un pueblo que asf paga a sus
hombres de crisis, es un pueblo que
bien merece que Sc derrote el presu-
puesto, que Sc haga una ley para vi
vir sin sueldos sin camarOnes, para
que entonces luche por q mismo, fren-
tie frente los arduos problemas de
la vida, desde los escafioS pOpulareS
de una plaza plblica o desde los pun
tos culminantes de una l latina.
Somos un pueblo feliz: no tememOs
a las grandes cI;sis, llamense tJtas
ecoll6micas o monchistas o b0lchevi-
uuistas. ,Tenemos oradOres de talla
escritores de vuelo, pensadores de al,
turas V dormitantes de bajuras. ca
; PAGES de rendir a los pies de su inven'
to. todas las crisis habidas Y por ha
Der sobre el plano inclinado de la vi
da. Los pobres colonos de Centrales
estaran llevandose 10 que vulgarmen