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The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

Sk" HE MONSTER" of course,
is a mystery play, and
- thriller-one of the great
brood that has grown up as re-
suit of the success of that thriller
pre-eminent. The Bat"
1t has at least one thrill to
every square inch of surface of
the Garrick stage; there is no
lack in that respect, certainly.
1t isn't a play that let's an audi
ence sit back in the seat. One
sits right up on the edge of the
seat during every moment of the
action; always something is going
to happen, and one never knows
just what.
1t has all sorts of ingenious
mechanical contrivances to add to
the thrills; Hassard Short, who,
in the new Music Box Review"
Is reported to have elevators for
everything but the audience,
could get tips from it. People
are shuffled about the stage in
the most amazing way-now you
See 'em. and now you don't. The
lighting effects are no less in
Eenious than the contraptions
Mr.. Wilbur calls into play to
produce his creepy atmosphere,
and the net effect is very wild.
indeed.
Mr.. Wilbur has not treated him
self any too well in working out
the role of the hero. who is, like
q good many mystery play heroes,
a bit thick. 1t has ben unkindly
suggested that this thickness
or dumbness. II you willis per-
haps associated with the fact that
% many newspaper men are
heroes Of mystery plays That
IL gratuitous slap at the hon.
ored profession of Journalism
which we will not consider here.
However, Mr.. Wilbur's Alvin
Bruce-one Of these newspaper
guys-is generally about two
steps behind the audience in work
ing out a solution Of the mystery
Of The Monster"
The story revolves about a mad
surgeon who lured people into his
eerfe mansion-where he is at
tended only by a dumb brute and
another mysterious character-in
order that he may indulge in his
proclivities for vivisection. When
one goes over the play in retro
spect, perhaps, he may find GER
tain faults in it, but when it is
actually being put on the boards
the thrills and chills come in such
quick succession that no one is
going to worry much about such
academic trifles as structure and
proba bility.
Frank Mccormick gives Mr..
Wilbur excellent support as the
wise-cracking bum. and Howard
Lang is the sinister Dr. Ziska.
Mile. Caubet is pretty. but she
isn't called upon for much in the
way of actinc-she is kept too
busy screaming.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Duty to Spread
DR.. COue's Cure,
Says Colleague

uIHEN one has been able to
w take advantage Of .
great benefit; when this bene.
lit II within reach Of every
one, although almost every
ono ID ignorant Of It, is It not
an urgent and absolute duty
for those who are initiated to
make It known to those around
them? For all can make their
own the amazing results Of
the Emile Coue Method"
To drive away pain Is much
but how much more Is
it 10 lead into the possession
Of q new life all those who suf-
fer? My desire. therefore,
that the teachings Of NJ. Coue
at his "seances" In the clinics
Of physicians In Paris should
not be lost 10 others, has
urged me to write them down.
Nine. Emile Leon. DIR. Goes
Collaboration In Paris.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Screen Villain on Stage.

GUSTAV SEYFFERTITZ has
left the screen temporarily
to play the title role in 1.-THE
Monster" This is the third mon-
ster they have had this season,
the other two being Wilton Lack
aye and Emmett Corrigan.
The near approach of winter
has resulted in the installation in
the lobby of the President Theater
of a new check room for coats
hats, umbrellas, and the like. 1t
is one of the most accessible check
rooms of any Washington theater.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
STEADY ADVANCES
!. IN RAILS Expected
Real Investment Buying I'm
proves Status Of Trans
portation Shares.
BROKERS ADvlsEPURcHAsE
Higher. Quotations For Entire
Board Indicated, Experts
Declare.
BROKERS ADVISE PURCHASE
BY BROADAN WALL.
Uniyersal Service.

NEW YORK. Dec. 25.-Although
stock market transactions are
almost entirely for professional
account all indications. point to
higher quotations for stocks and
bonds. The advance in commod.
ity prices is also expected to con.
tinue. Predictions Of 80 cent cot.
ton are made by the biggest specu.
lators.
Recent strength Of transporta-
tion shares is q source of much
qualification to investors in gen.
eral. Improvement of the COM
mon carriers is due to real invest.
ment buying. Railroad stock
prices are on an average Of 3h
points above the low level reached
on November %. last. and sha
points under the years high price
made on September IL.
SELL NEAR BOTTOM.
The fact that railroad shares
are selling SO near the years low
prices is causing big firms to ad-
wise their purchase. Seasoned div
idend payers are the favorites.
Many investors have started to
reinvest dividend and interest
money to be received January ].
Railway shares will undoubtedly
be helped marketwise by the
November and December earnings
Sfaton1antQ
provement compared with Septem.
ber and October. Brokers declare
it is difficult to arouse enthusiasm
in railroad stocks in view of the
fact that earnings are restricted
by the attitude Of the Government
which tells the common carriers
how much they can charge for
services, and what they should
pay for labor.
MARKET IN INDUSTRIAIS.
An unusually good market pre-.
walls for high class industrial pre-.
ferred stocks. The inquiry is said
TO be the best in years. Only the
highest grade shares. however, are
being taken. Two years ago pre-.
ferred stocks were in fashion. but
the demand at this time differs In
that investors are now using dis.
elimination. The inquiry for pre-.
ferred stocks is so good that a
number of companies considering
new financing will sell preferred
shares instead of bonds.
Bankers are predicting higher
bond prices The demand is un.
usually good for this time Of year
and unless there is a plethora OF
new offerings. quotations should
continue upward. Inquiry for
municipal bonds is good, and
prices show strength.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
IRENE 'B0RD0iNiT il + in N.
A PLAY FROM
FRENCH
National Offers Piquant Com
edienne in The French Doll
as Its Holiday Stage Attrac-
ton.

The French Doll" . comedy
adapted by A. 4. Thomas from the
French Of Paul Armont and Marcel
Gerbldon. was presented at the Ma
tional Theater last night.
THE CAST
Baroness Maxulier. q. "A. D'Ambricourt
A Furniture Mover. James Hunter
Rene MAsulier. Eugene Borden
Baron Masubier. .Edouard Durand
GeorEine MAEuller. Irene Bordoni
jackson. n............W william Hayes
r. wellington Wick. Harry q. Browne
Emily Morrow ow..... Mary Robinson
Philip stouxhton. Fred. Raymond, Jr.
James Allen. ....... Burton Brown
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Lunt in Pictures.

A LFRED LUNT is working be-
fore the camera. for the first
time in his life. He is playing
the lead in Backbone" which
has been adaDted for the screen
by Charles Whitaker from the
story by Clarence Burlington Kel-
land
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

<<" HE MONSTER" of course.
is a mystery play. and a
- thriller-one of the great
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

A RRAYED more charningly
"A than. ever. Irene Bordoni
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

,DROMINENT among the amusement features OF
Christmas soeek is "The French Doll" the neso
musical comedy that brings Irene Bordoni to the Ma
tional Most of as remember Miss Boroni as the
star soith Sam Bernard in "As You We're"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
LAW NOT A cURE-ALL.
Lincoln (NebD journal.


One of the chief reasons why our
postwar period OF reconstruction has
extended over so long a time is the
unsound notion we have had that laws
will solve serious economic and social
problems. We have turned to con-
gress and to our state legislatures
for remedies when as a matter of fact
the only remedy was to be found
within ourselves individually. We
have cluttered up our statutes with
laws which only made the return to
stability more complicated instead of
easier. There are now signs of a re-
volt against the passage of number
less laws and it is welcome and
hopeful sign. The watchword for our
lawmakers in the future should be
fewer laws and less hampering with
private business and individual en-
terprise. Progress is made by human
beings, not by legislation.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN IDAHO
WRITTEN FOR THE LAYMAN.

On page three of this issue Of the
Miner will be found a contribution by
Prof Virgil r. D. Kirkham. assistant
geologist of the Idaho school of mines,
being popular Interpretation of geo
logic conditions found in northern
Idaho. The article was suggested to
Prof Kirkham upon his recent visit
to Bonner and Boundary counties, the
idea being to explain in terms under
standable by the non-technicaI read
er the theory of the formation of the
earth's crust through the slow pro-
cesses Of the countless years as re-
vealed through the patient and per-
sistent study of the geologist and al
lied scientists. The deposits of min
erals in this wonderful section Of nor
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06

thern Idaho, how they were formed,
and the many phenomena found in
the rock formations and topography
Of the country combine to make a
study of surprising interest to peo-
pie engaged in mining and dependent
upon the mining industry. To the or
binary citizens all this is a sealed
book. and yet when the mysteries are
explained in language free so far as
possible from technical terms. it be-
comes a fascinating story and opens
a wonderful field for study and con-
temptation even to those IMMERSED in
scientific lore. This was the idea Of
Prof Kirkham in preparing this brief
and simplihed discussion Of the geOi-
ogy of northern Idaho, and the Miner
is pleased to present it to its readers,
knowing that it will be found inter
estlng and of real value in solving the
problems of mineral deposition and
development
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
LICENSE MOTOR DRIVERS.
(Minneapolis Jonrnnn

To the chapter of Industrial acct
dents that has long perplexcd this ma
ton is now added a chapter of pleas
ure casualties even more grisly in the
telling. II fatalities from this cause
continue to increase at the present
rate they will far outdistance all the
hazards of machine production in the
workaday world.
Automobile accidents are increas-
ing out Of all proportion to other
forms of serious mishaps and a bright
Sunday that lures many inexperienc-
ed drivers onto the boulevards and
paved highways only increases the
and the fatality records.
When one seeks for the remedy the
problem becomes more battling. Tor
law as means Of restraint, soon
reaches its limits. 1t is difficult for
The state to be assured of the mechan-
Ieai competence Of thousands of the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
REFORM MUST PAY-REFoRMERs
(Boise staesman)

(BOise Staesman)
If one did not realize it before. the
announcement of the platform of the
new progressive party would herald
the advent of the silly season. So far
as it differs from other platforms
and they all want lower taxes. econ
omy and efficiency. enforcement of
law and so ONT is a TrOtzky gem
The proletariat is to be exempted
from taxation, its bank deposits
guaranteed by the public treasury its
utilities owned and managed by it's
politicians its legislatures and execu-
tive offices so fixed" that any willfu
minority may gum up the works of
government by recourse to some easy
method of initiative, referendum and
recall, its capitalists denuded of their
wealth in order that all the money
may be put in a common pot It may
be assumed that support is expected
from the socialists of the one time
nonpartisan league and the third in
ternationaie
In all these new reform movements
it will be noted that the question of
financial support is brought very
much to the front The professional
reformer now insists not only upon a
good paying Office. but expects big
pay for his political campaign work
lie is not for any reform movement
that has no graft in it for the work
err. Remember the "16 apiece" and
where it went?
Before we had all these reforms.
one heard little of financial aid"
Democrats and republicans. meeting
in their county conventions, passed
the hat for the few dollars necessary
to pay for the hall oh, but that
would never do for the new so-caIIed
reformer.
Trotzky himself, lifted by reform
money from his hall bed room and
cne shirt days. now has a valet
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06

drivers. although there is much to be
said for licensing the man al the
wheel as the car.
And then a too lenient punishment
administered by the courts only in
creases carelessness. A IS or SO fine
in lieu of a more severe punishment
does little or nothing to enforce the
imperative demands of safety II is
certain that neither the courts nor
public opinion are severe enough in
their attitude toward drivers with a
light sense of responsibility.
II is apparent also that automobile
fatalities must come down if pleasure
driving is not to become more dam
gerous than war. Better traffic or
der licensing of drivers. and heavier
penalties for reckless speed and dis
obedience of road rules may help to
check the slaughter.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06

, termediary they found a combination
willing to tackle the proposition on
certain terms. These terms provided
that the prospective purchasers
would undertake the development Of
the mine and buy it at a stated price
more than 5000, OOO-within a given
time, if it met expectations; that dur
ing the life of the option stated
royalty on all ores shipped would be
paid the vendors with the under.
standing that such royalty payments
would apply on the purchase price.
The deal was finally consummated-
and the royalties on ore and concen-
trates shipped paid for the mine. The
purchasing company now is making
money hand -over-fist and it is safe
to say that it would take several mil
lions of dollars to purchase control
today
Other deals of a similar nature
have recently been made and others.
to our knowledge, are obtainable
Very few owners of meritorious pro-
perties today demand large cash pay
ments to bind bargains; they are
eady and willing to do business on
terms Many of them can
show large tOnnages of ore out of
which they have never been able to
make penny, for reasons previously
stated. They are without means to
further develop and equip their mines
and they are willing to do the right
Thing with investors who are capable
If getting results and who are willing
% take up and continue the work
rom the point where the old owners
ave been compelled to quit
1t is along these lines where the
opportunities of the mining investor
lie today-and they are numerous.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06

nonpartisan league both in the per-
sonnet of it's leaders and the princi-
pies for which it stands. Its sponsors
lin Idaho are H. f. Samuels, a former
resident Of this city. now residing in
Bonner county, and late nonpartisan
league candidate for governor Of the
state; Frank Johnesse. mining engin-
eer and promoter of Boise: and Dow
Dunning a varicolored political ora
Gle of Owyhee county. The reform
ers have filed their platform. which
of course provides for economy and
efficiency in government; all parties
tax the profteer, which from their
standpoint probably means any thrift
ty and well -to-do citizen; they are
going to exempt small city homes and
farm Improvements from taxation
and they are going to guarantee bank
depositors against loss. Under their
progressive rule we are to have not
only the direct primary. but also the
initiative and referendum Then to
make the platform thoroughly social
istic, these progressives demand state
ownership of public utilities, and
state loan system to help the farmers
who were feeced by the nonpartisan
league.
Sounds very much like the old
Townley dope when he was gathering
in the farmers at SIC per But the in
telligent taxpayer will naturally ask
how come the economy in government
with all these new systems TO be in
augurated, guarantees to be made,
primary elections and special cleo
tions without number under the ben
ehcent referendum and recall. But
it is not likely that any considerable
number of Idaho people will take this
new bait especially so soon after be-
ing hooked by the nonpartisan league
under the same socialistic represen-
tations.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
WHAT eoMPERs WANTS.

Ft Wayne Qnd) News Sentinel
The executive council of the Amer
/ lean Federation of Labor has decided
to incorporate in its annual report a
splenetic attack on the United States
supreme court, this to be written by
Samuel Gompers, an Englishman by
birth and rearing and an Englishman
in sympathy today The United
States supreme court is a body of the
highest intelligence and of unim-
peachable integrity. which simply in
terprets the laws of the people. yet
because it boldly enunciated the Am
erican principle that all men being
equals before the law are amenable
to law, it is to be excoriated and de-
nounced. What Gompers wants and
demands is special privilege. He de-
mands that the organization which he
represents be exempt from the opera
ton of law and he would have all the
laws affecting its activities waived
and abrogated. And he has induced
his executive council to sanction and
uphold this insanely selfish conten-
ton. If the United States govern
ment is to continue as an entity. it
will have to strange all such class
privilege notions, and Mr. Gompers
must realize this. But realizing it
and guiding his actions by it are two
different propositions. Gompers has
for the federal laws only as
they can be used to forward his own
which at times are exceed /
ngly sinister
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
Stone Age in B. c.

The stone age existed in British
Columbia up until as late as a cen
fury ago according to prominent ar
cheologists who have been exploring
old community sites. mounds and
graves along the coast and in the in
terror Stone and bone tools were in
common use when white explorers
visited the north Pacific, although
copper and iron were found almost
everywhere. Stone hammers and
axes discovered are almost Identical
with the tools of the neolithic man
found in Europe. Old shell mounds
on the Fraser and Thompson rivers
reveal many things formerly used by
man of the stone age.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
NoNPARTlSAN LEAGUE UNDER
A NEW NAME.

Parties may come and parties may
60 but new third party is always
with us. The greenbackers popu-
lists, silver republicans, and others of
less prominence all had their innings
and failed to hit the ball The last to
undertake the political reformation Of
the country was the nonpartisan lea
que. Born in North Dakota of social
list parentage its offsprings soon in
vaded other western states. including
Idaho. and through a union with all
elements OF lawlessness and disloyal-
ty. coupled with outright theft, it
threatened at one time to gain con-
troll of the state government The
conviction of its leader of sedition,
and the exposition of its radical So
cialistic principles and revolutionary
purposes, resulted in wholly discred-
iting the organization. Repudiated
in the place of its birth, the nonpar-
tisan league rapidly disintegrated, the
great body of its membership, we'll
meaning but misled by visionary
promises of relief from real or mag
mary wrongs. returning TO the parties
of their former afhliation. 4
But the seed of the nonpartisan /
league is not dead even in Idaho, as
evidenced by the filing of a petition
for a new party in this state a few
days ago. It will be known as the
party, and while it is sup
posed to be a part of national or
ganization. so far as the Idaho branch
is concerned it bears the brand of the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-06
Mining Investment Opportunities
(salt Lake Mining Review

There never has been and there
probably never will again be such
golden opportunities for legitimate
investment in metal mining undertake
ings as exist right now This declar-
alton is made in all candor and with
out Interior motive in any sense. The
only reason for making such a strong
and unqualified statement is because
of the fact that it is impossible to
witness the trend of events from day
to day as they come rolling in to this
business and geographic center of
the western metal mining region and
reach any other conclusion.
Boom period has followed boom
period in the metal mining camps of
the western states and mining lex
elements" and "stampedes" have
arisen and fell with almost as much
regularity as the rise and fall of the
tides of the oceans Since the days
of the ArgOnauts, since the palmy
days of the Comstock, many rich mi
ming districts have been discovered
and thousands of profitable mining
enterprises have been established.
And as a result of it all thousands of
propositions of merit have been
wrecked through one cause and an
other Many have failed through lack
of management. others through lack
of proper financing, many more
through ignorance of geology and
while hundreds and
thousands of propositions of more or
less merit went to the wall as re-
suit of dishonest promotion and stock |
iobbing schemes. Paradoxical as it !
may seem, these are the conditions |
which have laid the foundation stone |
Of success for the mining investor of |
Loday-he is to become the beneficiary
IF the blunders, mistakes, ineficien-
ties and appropriateness of those who
nave gone before; he is to reap the
benefit Of discoveries already made
Ind he is also to reap the great ad-
'antage Of securing partially devel-
ped mines in which most of the So
allied dead work. has been done and
n the rehabilitation of which. and in
making it profitable. he can attain his {
nd at slight if any. chance of failure '
nd at small risk or outlay financially. {
Improved methods of mining and e
Milling ores, better transportation ia q
ilities, better smelling rates and the '
radually advancing prices of metals. (
ow make it possible for the metal c
lining investor to take hold of prop 7
5itions which. under old conditions Il
nd methods could not be operated at
profit and make them. pay hand
'mely AS an illustration of how it
done: n
About eighteen months ago a num- Ii
sr of men who had been operating in O
old district of Utah for twenty f
'ars or more decided to sell out and C,
We somebody with capital a chance b.
make a real mine out of their hold g,
gs. They had mined considerable h
e and believed the property had fc
eat possibilities. Through an in ii