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she will purchase stock for Florence
Shop. She will return next week.
Missionary Society Of the NJ. L,
Church,
Charles C. Robb went to Pitts.
burgh yesterday on business.
Col. w. II. Conway is leaving
tomorrow night for Washington on
business visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Hughes have
returned to their home at Mason.
town, Pa, after a visit with the lat.
ter's sister, Mrs. George c. Kitten
house, at Watson.
Mrs. Samuel Hite has returned
from Pittsburgh. where she spen!
several days.
Miss Katherine Smith, who Is a
student at West Virginia Univer.
sitN is here to spend the weekend
at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh F. Smith, on Col.
umbia street.
Mrs. Joanna Menear and son, j.
E. Menear Of Huntsville, are guests
OF Mrs. v. K. Straight at her home
on Quincy street.
R. A. Watts went to Lewisburg
yesterday on business.
Dr., and Mrs. H. G. Stoetzer re.
turned last evening from a visit
tc Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Ralph Plxler Of Morgan
town is the guest OF her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Sturm, at
their home on Wheeling street.
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Mrs, clark Taylor Hishland Ave.
lnne Methodist Episcopal Church
Mrs \. a. Httnsa kers woman,s
Club, Mrs! Roster Bnsihess and
Professional Woman's Club. Miss
Maud Hall: Y. W. G. A., Mrs. o.
3. Hutchinson; ". C. Q, o., MrS,
]. NJ Altman; William Raymond
Chapter D. A. r., Mrs. s. D.
Brady; Morgan.Morgan Chapter,
D. A. R., Mrs. ]. &. Berry: United
Daughters OF the deracy,
Mrs. Allen Russell, Quota Club.
Mrs. 4. n, Courtney: Asher Bible
Class, Mrs. W. S. Mayors; Flor.
ence Kinney Bible Glass. Mrs.
Arthur Dechman: League Of Wo.
men Voters, Mrs. C. C. Robb.
AS explained by Miss Powell,
these women of the Orient plead
for education to open the doors Of
their minds. only one in one hun.
bred Of the women OF India can.
read and only one in one thou
sand Of China. the great literary
nation, knows her letters. These
women have minds. notwithstand.
ing the teaching OF their religion
which denies minds and souls TO
women. They have proven that
they can learn and can teach and
now they plead for the opportun.
ity to prepare themselves to serve
their people.
Women have a right to the
knowledge OF the spiritual truth
which has brought Christian wo,
men development in righteousness,
freedom of faith. a personal knowl.
edge of God through Jesus Christ,
and the blessed hope Of Immor.
tality.
1.-THE women OF the East are
turning away from the teachings
which have kept them pnslayed,
Where shall they so for light and
leading?"
Tomorrow the pastors Of tho
various city churches will mako
announcements regarding the Wo.
mems Christian College Campaign
OF tho. Orient. N'''"
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PERSONALS

Mrs. W. z. Arnett, who has been
i'll at her home on Spring street,
is improving.
The Misses Lucille, Grace and
Bertha Stealey Of Chamberlain
avenue are leaving next Wednes-
day for Phoenix, Ariz.. where they
will spend the winter with their
sister, Mrs. Paul C. Baker.
Mrs. A. W. Reed and daughter,
Miss Mildred, and the Misses Vir'
ginia Nutter aud Wanda Mckinley
went to Clarksburg today for a
weekend visit.
The Misses Martha Clelland and
Leah, Gilkeson went to Philippi to-
day, where they will be the week
end guests Of Miss Ruth Eddy. vino
is q student at Broaddus College.
Miss Florence Lavender Is leaE,
Mrs. ". D. Reed has returned
from Charleston. where she attend
ed a state meeting OF the Home
ing tonight for New York, where
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TO RAISE $1,000
.FOR.EDUGATI0NOF
ORIENTAL WOMEN
Backed by Churches and Civic
Organizations, Women viii
Wage Campaign Here.


To alleviate suffering among
4 100000 women OF Asia, caused by
ignorance OF physical laws, utter
lack Of sanitation, impure living,
incredibly early marriage and
motherhood, cruel supersdtions
which made childbirth a friEhtful
tragedy, lack Of knowledge regard.
ing the care OF children which
leads to barbarous streatment, and
intense and needless suffering from
absence of medical aid, a group Of
women representing the various
churches and organizations of the
city met in the Y. ". G. A. Build.
ing in Monroe street last night and
decided to appropriate $1,000 for
the education OF these women.
The officers Of the committee
which met last night and the repre-
sentatives OF the organizations.
supporting the movement, are:
Chairman, Mrs. n. n. c. Morrow;
secretary, Mrs. E. N. Eddy, treasur.
er, Miss Mary Powell; First Pres.
byterlan and Fleming Memorial
churches. Miss FlossIe Fleming,
First Baptist and Palatlne Baptist
churches, Mrs. Agnes Duffy; First
Methodist Episcopal and Diamond
Street Methodist Episcopal church
es, Mrs. r. NJ. Hite and Mrs. E. S.
Mccullough; BIllingsley Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Mrs. L. n. Yosti Christ
Episcopal Church, Miss Blake
Watson; Grace Lutheran Church.
Mrs. c, H. Bloom; Central Chris.
tian Church. Mrs. c. F. Ice; First
Methodist Protestant Church and
the Methodist Protestant Temple,
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Mrs. w. S. Mayors, Republican
candidate for u member Of the
board OF education In the Fairmont
Independent District. at the cleo.
ton Tuesday, has been closely as.
ISOLATED with the local schools
since the spring Of 1892, when she
taught in, the third grade Of the
schools here. She has a close &c.
quaintance with most Of the teach
ers in the city and is considered
well versed in the needs OF the
schools.
During the four years following
Mrs. Mayors first teaching exper,
fence in the FairmonL schools, she
was an instructor in the Normal
School. In 1896 she was married
and moved TO South America,
where she spent five years, re.
turning to Fairmont at the end OF
that time.
Since 1904 she has been closely
associated with the public schools
Of the city. as her four children
have all attended the grade schools
been graduated from the high
school and attended the Normal
school. She has addressed the stu.
dent body at the high school on
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various occasions, us well as
groups Of students in both the
high school and grade school, max.
ing several geographical talks on
South America. Mrs. Mayors has
also taken an active part in all
kinds OF special programs in the
school, and at tho organization OF
the Y. W. c. A. in the high school
several years ago was one of the
two women outside the school on
the advisory committee.
She has been officially connected
with the High School Parent,
Teachers Association since its or.
ganization, being the present vice.
president.
Her. elder daughter has been a
teacher in the Fairmont region for
four years, having taught one year
at Carolina, two years at Zeising
and year in Cole District IN Har.
rison County. 49,.
Mrs. Mayer is regarded as ! a
leader in civic Affairs. and her can
didacy is expected to receive
strong support from Republicans
and Democrats alike at the election
next Tuesday.
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Mrs. Lyon Hostess.

Mrs. Frank Lyon was hostess at
a chnrmingly appointed luncheon
today at the Country Club, to honor
Mrs. Louis Smith OF Charleston, the
guest CT her sister, Mrs. Brooks
Fleming. Jr., aud Mrs. George
Stcckley OF New York, who Is the
guest OF her parents at Highgate.
Covers were laid for fourteen, and
the table was prettily conferred with
fall flowers. Mrs. o. W. Watson o,
Fairmoat and New York was In
cluded In the guest list. Mrs. MOT.
gan Chambers entertained a few
friends at luncheon yesterday at
the Country Club to honor Mrs.
Stockley. Mrs. Stocklcy is leaving
tomorrow for her home in New
York.
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California Guests

Mrs. Helen Hopkins OF Selma,
Cal, arrived here yesterday for a
visit with her father NJ. v. Knight
OF liyesville, and with her sister
and brothers, Mrs. Ora Fleming,
"A. B. Knight and Charles E. knight
OF this, city. Mrs. Hopkins left here
thirty:one years ago for California.
She Will. be a guest at the wedding
anniversary celebration, Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hood Of Louisville,
which will be celebrateditomorrow.
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ELEVENEEbNINED
AT1GLI.|NG TODAY
Doctors Traoh and Orr and
Public Health Nurses
in Charge Here.

Including the eleven who Nese.
examined today, thirty.losr pscpls
in all have been examined for ii,
berculosis at the clinics Which az
held in the Falrmont state Hospitai
from $3.50 to 1880 o clock each SIT
urday morning under the auspiees
OF tho Public Health NursIHg Ser
vice Of the local chapter o. tliy
American Red Cross.
Out Of the thlrty.tour Mis- Mat
Maloney. public health nurse. n
ports that fourteen absolute ly negi'
tive cases have been found an !
that these people have been riyef
clean bills OF health. As fnr a. theit
lungs are concerned. Eleven sus
poets have bean found, eight or
whom are school children. They
were underweisht and there was,
suspicious lung trouble Sd nm ex.
cess diet Of milk. wholesome fopa
and a tonic were REQ commended and
they were asked to return month.
ly.
Five OF the thirty.four were ar
tive cases and four. VERB old casef
that are now inactive;
This morning the clinic was In
charge OF DR.. John Trach. Or.
George Trach, Doctor Orr OF Down
Miss Reulah Heiber, public haaitt
nurse, andsMiss Maloney
When ahrwering adxertih6mSnls
please say you saw Il, In The wesi
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Departmcnt ID Mod .

The literature and art depart
ment Of the Woman's Club will
meet at s O'Clock Monday eve
ming at the Y. w. G. A. Building.
The subject for discussion will
be the Beginnings Of Modern
Women as Portrayed in the Nov
els of. Meredith, Moore, Butler
and Gissing." Prof. Walter R.
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Legion Dance November 0.

Legion Dance November 0.
In order to have music by Bar
rett's "old Gold and Blue" ten
piece orchestra OF Morgantown
the annual Armistice Day dance
of Falrmont Post No. II Of the
American Legion will be held
next Thursday night in the
, Masonic Temple, instead Of on the
date previously announced. The
committee in charge of the dance
is composed OF C. Clyde McDon-
old, Floyd Stewart apd Orvlll
Nay, and invitations to the affair
will be mailed this week.
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To Terra Alta

Mrs. Charles Miller and son Billy
Of Terra Alta, who were the guess
OF DR.. and Mrs. Claude H. King at
their home on Falrmont avenue. re-
turned today TO their home. They
came here for the Homer concert
on Thursday. Miss Eleanor Mi.
Ter, daughter OF Mrs. Miller, who is
a student at West Virginia Univei'
sity, Spent yesterday here with her
mother and returned last evening
to Morgantown.
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Halloween I Party.

Mr., and Mrs. Ralph Metz enter
tertained with a Halloween party
last evening. The evening was spent
with games and music and refresh
ments we're served. Those present
were DR.. and Mrs. F. D. Watson.
Professor and Mrs. ]. B. Morrison,
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To Entertain club.

Miss Lucille shain will be hos
tess to the Wednesday Bridge
Club next Wednesday ut the
Country Club.
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To the East.

Mrs. Harry b. Clark is leaving
tomorrow for q visit to Baltimore
and New York and will also visit
with her sister, Mrs. James H.
Baker, who is now a resident OF
Worcester, Mass.
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For Bride

Mrs. Ray Sturm was hostess
last evening at her. home on Maple
avenue at a shower OF attractive
appointments 10 honor Mrs. Her.
schel NJ. Hill, formerly Miss Per5-
is Young Of Clarksburg. The bride
was showered with number of
pretty gifts, and the guests In
cluded few intimate friends Of
the hostess and honor guest.
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harry md two sons Brooks ond
Charles. M. and Mrs cIyie HnsaS
and son Russell, hlr. ana Afrs Jhhh
Mays and two sons. Carl and Jack,
Nj and Mrs. Carl Brown and
daughter Betty. Mr. and Mrs. James
DaugheTty, Miss June Dilts. MiS1
Winfred Dilts and Miss Alta Ray
Hayden Of Pennsylvania. {
Dance Invitations.
Invitations for the Thanksgiving
dance to be staged at the Fairmont
Hotel on Wednesday evening, No.
yembeF 20, have been issued and
read as follows:
The Fairmont
takes pleasure in inviting
................
to a Dinner Dance
Thanksgiving Eve
November twenty+ninth. nineteen
hundred twenty-five
Dinner seven o'clock
Dancing eight.thirty to one
DluHeF anu uduce, Blk dollars per
couple ~
Reservations must be made By
Tuesday morning, November 2S, t
has been announced.
Announcements Issued.
Announcements have been issued
as follows:
Mrs. Elizabeth Hart
announces the marriage OF her
daughter
Lucille
Mr.. William Donald Clark
on Monday, the thirtieth OF October
Fairmont, West Virginia.
At home
after November fifteenth
Fairmont, West Virginia.
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Mrs. Harry Heintzelman Is
leaving tomorrow for Philadelphia
where she will be the guest OF a
school friend, Miss Grace Purnell.
Mrs. HeintZelman will also visit
in New York City,
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To Philadelphia.

Miss Martha Raymond is LEAF.
Ing for Philadelphia, where she will
visit her sister, Mrs. John NJ. Wolfe.
She will also visit in New York be.
fore returning here.
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Win Pcnnants.

Mrs. w. D. Reed has returned
from Charleston, where she at
tended the state meeting of the
Home Missionary Society OF the
NJ. E. Church. The local society,
OF which Mrs. Reed is president,
won two pennants, one for hav-
ing the largest membership OF any
society in the state organization
and the other for making the
highest record for money making,
the society having raised $4,000
for missions during the year. Mrs.
Reed was accompanied to
Charleston by Miss Blanche Ken
nison, of this city, who spoke at
the meeting concerning the Engle
Settlement House.
Mrs. Reed was made president
of the board Of managers of the
state organization.
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Mrs. Legg6tt Of Catawba received
u delightful surprise Thursday
night when n large number Of their
friends called on them and show
cred them with ,innumergble pack.
ages. baskets and sacks of provis-
ions.
After being thanked by tho Rev.
erenu Mr.. Leggett a pleasant So
cial hour was spent and those
present were Mr.. and Mrs W. F..
Kcrby, Mr.. and Mrs. George Sum-
mers, Mr.. and Mrs. e. G. Jolliff,
Mrs. r. E. Harden and daughter,
Mrs. Daisy Starn and daughter
Mrs. Della Summers and daugh.
ter, Mrs. ]. F. Stewart, Mrs. c..
'Hovater, Mrs Myrtle Swisher
Mrs. Hattie Zinc, Mrs. Floyd
Michaels, Mrs. T. W.. Malone
Mrs. Writ Haun, Mrs. Charlie
Clelland. Mrs. Gertrude Haun,
Miss orga Hanes, Miss Beatrice
Hickman. Miss Jettie Swisher,
Miss Mary Swishor, Miss Alice
Towns. Miss Emma Swisher, Miss
Hazel Terrell, T. w. Malone, B.
NJ. Summers. Elias Summers, Earl
Clelland. F. D. Swisher ].
Swisher, Harley Summers, Frank
Summers, Lake Swisbnr, Tom
Haun, S. W. harden. Edward
llIaun. Ortnanl Summers Albert
Long, Wayne Powell. John LauS.
head, Clint Laughed and Clyde
Starn.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Homer shriver, Mr..
and Mrs. Charson Stewart, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Curtis. Mr.. and
Mrs. Donley Miner. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerm Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. Bal.
ney Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Main, Mr.. and Mrs. Spitznogal
and Mrs. Ray Hennen. Also: til }
Misses Lena Allen. Cora Henner,
Cecile Kennedy, Ella Kennedy,
May Gibbons and Eva Dye and the
Messrs. Widen Spitznogal, Jim
Berdine, Martin Lea Villars, Dexter
Arnett and Ray Hennen.
Oout.of.town guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. 0key Grim Of Warrington aud
Mrs. Bob Robb of Steubenville.
-
Surprise Party.
Jack Dilts was the honor guest
at Halloween party of attractive
appointments Thursday evening at
his home on Virginia avenue. The
affair was arranged by Mrs. Dilts,
Bridge and five hundred were tho
diversions Of the evening, and de.
licious refreshments were served
The guests present were Mrs. ClyAG
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Miss Nellie NJ. scanlon OF New
Zealand, who addressed the
Woman's Club and. the Business
and Professional Women's Club at
the Billlngsley Memorial NJ. E.
Church, South, last night, was
taken for a drive over the city
and vicinity yesterday through the
courtesy Of Mrs. c. E. Hutchin-
son. Mrs. Hutchinson, Mrs.
Joseph Roster, president of the
Woman's Club, Miss Dorcas
Prichard, president Of the Bush
ness and Professional Women's
Club, and the Misses Anna r.
Murphy and Elizabeth H. Stone,
local newspaper women, composed
the party that accompanied Miss
Scanlon on the trip.
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Returnlng Tomorrow

Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson
Colborn and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Dechman are returning tomorrow
from an extended stay in New
York and other eastern cities.
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For Dance

Among local young peopleiwho
were in Morgantown yesterday for
the Pan Hellenic dance were the
Misses Mary Moulds Hurst, Paul
Inc Jamlson, Mary Hartley Greer,
Louise Burns. Caroline Cumpston,
Frances McCray, Julia White,
William Fortney, Jean BIlllngslea,
Mary, Roush, Ruby Hess, Lucille
Lough and Jessie Church.
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Mrs. John Gordon Smyth will
arrive here next week from Jen-
ktns, KY, and will reside in her
property on the Country Clua
road. She will be accompanied
here by her sister, Mrs. Frances E.
Nichols, who has been in Jenkins
and who will reside with her. Mr..
and Mrs. Roger Kingsland, who
occupied the Smyth home. have
moved to HERSHEY Place, the gum
mer home of Mr.. and Mrs. A
Brooks Fleming, Jr., on the coun-
try Club road.
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Barnes, head of the English de-
partment Of the Normal School,
will talk on the subject, and the
program promises to be interest
ing.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Larney P. Carr,
OF Atlanta. Ca, who have spent
the past several weeks at their
Main street apartment. having
come here from their summer
home at Mt. Lake Park, are leav-
ing TOMORROW week for Baltimore,
where they will visit the. formers
brother, DR.. Logan Carr. and MIRA.
Carr, who are residing there.
Doctor and Mrs. Carr will spend
several weeks later in the season
at Atlanta and will go with Mr..
and Mrs. Larney Carr to Florida
for the winter.
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Have Returned

Mr.. and Mrs. William Price
Craighill. whose marriage was an
event Of last Saturday at Kable-
town, W. Va. arrived here yester.
day and are residing in the Yost
Flats on Falrmont avenue. Mr..
Crnighill has been located here
for some time and is q son OF Mrs.
Eleanor Craighill Perry and tho
late Taylor Perry and grandson
Of the late Cen. William Pricu
Craighill, U. s. A. His bride is a
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Logan
B. Shut and was Miss May Duff
field Shut. The wedding was a
brilliant home event and was fol-
lowed by,a wedding supper served
at the brides home.
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When ahrwering sdyertiasnenl,.
please say you saw 4, IN The 5Wasi
Vtrgtnian. 49,, .
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u GAL sQgIAlI {. IS

mems Club were present for the
melting last evening,
Twenty.eight new members were
taken into the club last evening
and twenty.four other names were
read for the first time and will be
taken into the club at the second
reading.
The literature and art depart
ment will meet Monday evening
at 8 o'clock at the ~. w. c. A.,
and Prof. Walter Barnes will talk
on the Beginnings Of Modern
Women as Portrayed in the
Novels Of Meredith, Moore, Butler
and Gissing."
."a
Have Returned
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks s. Hutch
inson have returned from Pits
burgh whore they attended the
marriage Of Miss Florence. Meyrs
Of Pittsburgh and Clovis Parker,
which was brilliant society event
of the week. Mrs. Hutchinson at.
tended Miss Meyrs at her mar.
riage,
The New York herald., 1922-07-03
PARIS SUICIDE WIDOW
OF A BALTIMORE MAN
Police Said Mrs. Elizabeth
Kohn Was Wife of a NetD
Yorker.

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK IIEnALp.
Copyright, 1899. bp THE NEW YosK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Paris. July 9.
The Mrs Elizabeth Kohn who COM
mitted suicide here last week was not,
as the police here stated. the wife of q
New York broker. They are not certain
now as to her identity, but say that she
arrived at the Hotel Prince Albert early
in March. declaring that her home was
in Baltimore. but that she had been
travelling in Australia and South Africa.
She registered In a bold hand as Mrs.
Elizabeth Sterling Kohn.
At the end of two weeks she was un.
able to pay her BILL but when she was
ordered to leave her baggage, mes
senger arrived from the Hotel Majestic
with the necessary cash.
A dispatch from Baltimore. Md. last
week to THE NEW YORK HERALD quoted
Mrs. Florence Sefnmes as saying the
Mrs. Kohn who committed suicide in
Paris was her sister. Mrs. Elizabeth
Kohn, widow of Leo Kohn of Baltimore,
a theatrical agent.
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SHAW CALLS HIMSELF
MOST REASONABLE MAN
Author Also Careless About
Money, He Admits.

George Bernard Sraw admits ne is
tie most reasonable man alive and is
careless about money. in a letter to
Lawrence Langner of the Theater Guild,
which produced his Back to Methusc-
lah'' this last season. The author thinks
highly Of the guild and says he will
g!vo Il first call on his other plays. His
letter follows:
"My dear Langner:
ives. your letter of the 18th correct
ly summarized our understanding. ex-
cept that though ] have stood out for
a minimum payment OF $4,000. win, lose
OF draw. l never asked For an advance
or have been n hurry for a contract.
Cf course / have no objection to either.
but wish to affirm that 1t is the guild
and not the author that gets these at
tscls OF nerves.
"I am not to dee, with the plays In
New York without giving the guild a
lCok In unless | yield TO an overwheln-
ing impulse to treat them shabbily and
lose my reputation for icing the most
reasonable man now living. Faithfully,
&C. BERNARD SHAW"