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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-14
Assets-Noy. l, 1928

This strictly Mutual Cooperative Institution in which all
the stockholders participate in the profits and dividends
There has been 422598 distributed to the stockholders
the year OF this $3687358 dividends or
profits This represents approximately an average IN
eret rate of 79o
Included this list of stockholders Mechanics Laborers
d men in all departments Doctors, Lawyers Arehitects
Qrgymen Merchants Clerks Professors Teachers, Widows
SCHOOL Children, in fact people in all walks of life
How much of these dividends did you Receive?
Any become stakeholder by paying 81 per month
IL 1t Is inconvenent pay monthly issue stock that
es one single of $70no further payments being
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
Il Story Of
Destiny

There rose before Neale now the
restless, unhappy face Of the young
Frenchman he had come to know
in Bourges. who one evening az
they sat in the park near the CO.
thedral, poured out to him in Bit
ter flood his Mortified sense Of the
closing in on him Of bonds which
he hated. which were being forged
around him by the irresistible
forces Of social tradition and fam
lily affection. Fighting heIplessly
against overwhelming odds. he was
slowly being showed into becoming
a petit fonctionnaire in Bourges
for all his life. Here, In this
hole!'' he had cried. loking around
him with wild young eyes. like a
rat in a trap. But there was his
dear mama's certainty that this
feeling was mere youth. that he
would soon settle down and be
contented in his office, and always,
always be quite close to her: there
was the relief Of the family far
and wide, now that he was safe,
safe for life in a good little position
with a nice little pension at the
end! Safe! How I Ioathe being
safev' he had cried. why wasn't
I born three hundred years ago,
80 that could have gone out with
Champla1n! Or later with Du
Chaillou?"
In spite Of all his sympathy for
the poor kid. Neale hadn't seen
then nor could he see now why
anybody need wait for a Cham
plain or q Du Chaillou to come
along. It looked as though the
boys grievance was because what
he was meant to do didn't happen
to be In fashion when he lived.
Neale couldn't see what prevented
him from getting right up on his
feet from off the bench whore
he agoninzed and marching off to
the nearest port to work his way
to Senegal, II that was where he
thought he'd have the chance to
use that latent stifled something
In him which could never live In
Bourges. OF course, 1t would give
his mother q jolt. but II she was
any kind OF a mother, shed want
her son to have what was best for
him. That was sure, II anything
was. And as for the cousins and
aunts and uncIes butting into
he'll with them! What business
was It Of theirs?
CTo He Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
By Dorothy Garfield,

"HAT was moro his sort
III you were sure you
could find something worth
fighting for! And many men
had wanted to run things
not only for the feeling Of
personal power, but to straighten
out the hopeless muddles hu.
manity was always getting itself
into He had lost the frau
thread Of his thought in maze
of speculations, comparisons, half
formulated ambitions.
But ne had always come back
to his problem. He did not hurry.
He had left the Gates Company
so that he would not need to
hurry! Sometimes he had caught
q glimpse Of the thread, lost it,
felt it between his closing fingers,
let T. clip again. And whenever
1t escaped Inn and he found him
self staring again at a jumbled
confusion with no clue to It's pat
tern, he had lit his pipe and
smoked ref1ectively. his eyes fixed
on whatever detail Of European
life CHANGED to be before them, a
stained-glass window at Chartres,
a crowded noisy cafe in Milan, the
hydraulic cranes unloading car.
goes from the Congo under the
tower Of Antwerp Cathedral. What
men had left behind them looked
from the outside like a he0ped-up
pile of heterogeneous junk, some
good and some bad, and no way
of guessing how any of 1t came
to be. But Neale hung fast to
that guess of his that there might
be some meaning for him in It
all. II he could only be patient
enough and clear-headed enough
to pick it out. He had never been
an impatient temperament but he
certainly had not Of late years
been especially clear-headed. Dur
ing this reflective pause in his
life, he felt his mind re-acquring
it's capacity to do some abstract
thinking. Released temporarily aa
he was from the necessity for
immediate activity his head slowly
cleared itself from the cloudy
fumes given off by energy auto
matically rushing into action,
blindly, planlessly. He began to
perceive that he had been car.
ried off his feet by the convic-
ton of his time that activity, any
activity at all, is aIl-sufficient, pro-
vided it is taken with speed, en-
ergy and decision. NeaIe had
acquired speed, energy and de.
cision In activity. but he'd be
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
BY Beatrice Fairfax.

~ACK to the city you come
from Lake and mountain
- and shore. Perhaps your
summer vacation was e glorious
experience and sends you home
to town glowing with health and
happy memories and high hopes
that the new friends you found
during the vacation weeks are
going to make the winter season
a gay and happy one. :.
Perhaps you were chained to
your desk all summer !.
Perhaps the vacation which ate
up your savings was a great dis.
appointment and you are feeling
sore and bewi1dered because that
from which you hoped so much
understanding.
Never mind! What lies be-
hind you is safely passed. II Il
was fun or work or disappoint.
ment the summer yielded, that Is
gone-and you can build on it
just as you like.
If you had a splendid vacation.
build on that foundation with
gratitude for the health-giving,
mirth-dealing, friend producing
effects of your trip.
II you worked all summer,
don't feel abused and mistreatcd.
Again the foundation stone for
your structure must be gratitude.
Though you sat at your desk and
shaved away, you have this to be
grateful for-you could work
through the broiling heat Und
long muggy days and the temp
tation OF knowing that other
folks were vacationing.
If your summer was a woeful
disappointment, you can still be
glad that now you can see the
folly Of looking to play as relax
alton and to freedom from duty
as enjoyment.
Whatever the summer yielded
you, you come again to the
autumn and Winter-tO the sea
sons of hard work and shortening
daylight hours-with the knowl-
edge that work itself Ia the great
est privilege and the truest enjoy
ment that life offers US.
However much we Grave play
times and leisure hours. nothing
80 interests US, nothing SO lifts
us above our consciousness of
aches and pains and pin pricks
and annoyances of all sorts as
does the most 0feicacious- tonic,
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

q clue? Wasn't q Just that innate
diversity which was at the root OF
. great many tragedies? Wasn't
the trouble that mon wouldn't let
themselves act ~ individuals?
Men were 90 lnopelessly tied to The
fashion Of their century. Yes.
men were fashion-ridden; they had
no call to laugh at women's con.
tinuous performance-vaudeville Of
big sleeves, tight-lacing, hobble-
skirts! Women cared about clothes
and every woman, except a few
dowds, was out to look like every
other woman, and just q little
more 50; men cared about the bust
ness OF the world, and every man
except a few freaks felt that he
ought to Guido every one else at
whatever all the men OF his time
were doing. And nobody wanted
to be q freak. But the truth was
that there were ali sorts Of men in
the world all the time-who ought
normally to do ali sorts Of differ.
emit things. But did they? No.
they didn't. No matter what you
really wanted to do with your life,
no matter what your particular
life was best suited for. human ira
dition was always inflexibly insist
ing that you try to cut your life
by the pattern considered fashion
able at the time and in the place
where you Mved-try to be an en-
peror in imperial Rome. try to be
a millionaire in twentieth century
New York. People didn't seem
able to consider even for q moment
that there must be lots Of men 80
made that they would prefer any
thing to the process Of becoming
an emperor or q millionaire.
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
ROUGH-HEWN

damned, he told himself once In q
while, IL he'd run his legs off any
longer without seeing which way
he was going.
Summing 1t Up.
AS he sat now alone on the
roof, overlooking the many, many
monuments left as token Of what
men had wanted to do with their
lives, he brought up and consid.
cred the few conclusions-the
guesses at truth--the year had
brought him. They didn't seem
to amount to much, they were
ridiculously slight as the sum.
total Of a years earnest thought,
but all this sort of thinking vas
30 new and hard for him! At
least such as they were, they
were his own thoughts-he hadn't
taken them on anybody else's
say-so; and simple and inadequate
as they seemed from the outside,
they might be the first step to-
ward understanding the truth
the truth for him.
To begin with, he hadn't in the
least found out what men wanted
or why they wanted it-all his
classification had been like press.
ing wild flowers and sticking them
In a herbaium with the right Latin
name tackled ONT cleared up
some Of the clutter, perhaps, but
1t left you mighty far from un.
derstanding life. All that he had
learned from his classification
was that mon wanted a lot Of con.
Trajectory things, and what one
man would sell his soul to get
would break another ones heart to
have. Well. wasn't that, perhaps
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
A Delightful Romance With
an Unusual Heroine
A Charming Serial of Love and Adyen-
ture in the Picturesque Day Of the
Beginnings Of the AstOrs and
Vanderbilt Fortunes.

i've only my orders to carry
out"
Stand UP to 'em. Patricia,
darlin'g' cried q voice from the
crowd. "sure and we're all wild
ye-''
But now. from inside the house,
John o'Day came out. He was
an old man. lie had the look Of
a fanatic; bate was in his shoulder.
ing eyes. But he was gentle
as he put his hand upon Patricia's
shoulder.
Its no use. Patricia, darling"
he said. They've taken every
thing else--sure they might as
well have the shell of a house we
live in with the rest"
''I'll never
She famed into a vehement
protest. TIT her father turned
to the sheriff. Dignity and per-
feet courtesy were in hts manner
He would rot handy words with
one who was, after all, helpless
to do other than he was doing.
go on about your business and
your duty lie said. Patricia
you will do nothing to inter.
fere"
She swallowed a sob. But
there was nothing for her to do
but to obey. ever since she could
remember her fathers word had
been law IN his own household.
Misfortune and adversely might
have brought him low, but neither
Of his children had ever dreamed
Of questioning anything he or
dered them to do: 80
The sheriff ana his deputies
went IN: John O'Day. following
them, faced The sheriff as he
might have stood to receive his
guests in mansion. The sheriff.
a little. abaahed. conscious of
something that was beyond his
reach. handed rin an official pa
per; o'Day waved it aside.
Proceed. SIR he said. II have
no need TO 7ead-1 do not ques-
ton your authority"
Suddenly Patricia could stand
II. no longer. She flung herself
toward the sheriff.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
MORE THAN EIGHT
MILLION PACKAGES
OF BLACK AND WHITE
ARE SOLD YEARLY
Sale Each Year Growing
By Leaps and Bounds
Is of Tremendous I'm
portance to Women.

Although placed on sale only q few
years ago. such complexion necessities
as Black and White Cleansing. and
Peroxide Cream, as well as many Others
are now outselling most of the older and
bettcr known articles, and for no other
reason than their unusual merit. uniform
quality and popular low prices.
Many druggists and dealers who sell
toilet articles say that they have never
seen the equal OF Black and White
Beauty Creations for solving the skin
and complexion problem for old as we'll
az young women who had never before
been able to find the right method of
caring for their skin.
A few years ago Black and White
Beauty Creations were unknown, Today
they are selling at the rate of more
than twenty thousand packages a day
for every one of the S65 days IN the
year. or a total of more than. eight
million packages q year.
From the biggest stores in the large
cities to the smallest CROSSROADS country
store miles away from even, q railroad,
Black and White Beauty Creations art
being sold In ever-inoreasing quantities
with the result that the manufacturers
have been forced to move into larger
quarters three different times during
the last four years. Even the present
plants which occupy a total floor space
Of los, 900 square feet, are taxed to tull
capacity In the effort to keep up with
orders received every day from all parts
OF the country.
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

The sheriff glanced at the no.
tice. 1t was in order. John
o'Day. Acknowledgements execu-
tion-yes, all the forms were
there. To be dispossessed forth
witla-and the magistrates sigma
ture. AS firm a warrant ~
though King George himself had
affixed his royal signatureI No
more delay; an ugly business;
BEST to get It over. For the
sheriff knew that even though
the crowd, should 1t attack MIN,
you'd live to rue its hardihood,
his own broken head would hurt
him none the less should delay
serve to rouse the peasants to
interference with the law.
Calling to his men to follow
ne strobe in. He made no pause
It the door; why knock for ad-
tnittance at home Of such DC.
saulterr az these O'Days? He
lung the door open: went in.
And. in a minute later out he
eane. tuunbling heller skeltef
with his men, fleeing before
'ury in flying skirts. who brand
shed a poker and cried Out
treats as she pursued them.
"out with you-with no more
nanners than to be storming In
mon ! house Of sickness she
cried. '.Out--and begone!?
In the yard the sheriff gath
cred his courage. Here, after
all. was but one small girl to be
faced. A. yixen-a very wildcat
but not so terrible.
A Dire Warning.
then" he said. buster
ing, .it'n go hard with all Of ye
if We interfere with US in doing
our plain duty"
+. She brandished her poker again.
!. Have you 40 sense of decency
at allYs shegcried. '.Raising such
a clatter and q clamor and my
poor little brother lying there In
side with his death Upon him.?
!. The sheriff smiled YEARLY. He
was used to such pleas; used to
6enunciations. ~
"It's not my win that's to be
done here" he said more gently.
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

might do. They milled about 4
little group that moved with d
clear and evil purpose; the kings
sheriff and his men, badged Of
office by their high hats.
A SuIlen Crowd. :
Sullen was the crowd: suIlen
and quiet. It was helpless. It
might have overwhelmed the
sheriff and his Imen--but to wl1a=
end? Were not the barracks. a
scant half-dozen miles away, full
Of redcoats? All the power Of
England stood behind the sheriff.
They could only stand and watch.
those Irish men and women. as
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
SECRETS OF HEALTH
AND SUCCESS
DO YOU KNOW WHO HANDLES YOUR FOOD?

filthy milk cans. filthy separa-
tors, filthy packing, were common
stories.
And each story OF this sort, in
each city in which the scene was
located, had it's sequel in typhoid
fever, scarlet fever, ptomaine poi.
soning and intestinal infections,
especially among children.
Let 1t be remembered that
every article of food may be
made germ carrier and that the
contamination may come either
through the air or from handling.
How many of you have ever
taken the pains to inspect the
shops from which you get your
food supplies?
In the United States army all
food handlers are inspected un-
der very strict regulation. Every
person, military or civilian, who
is engaged in preparing and serv-
ing food ar in handling dishes
either at table or in the kitchen,
is regularly and closely in
spected.
The inspection is really q VERY
complete health examination con-
Quoted by the surgeon. It en-
braces analyses Of secretions.
examinations OF the throat and
lungs to determine the presence
or absence Of conditions that
would cause cough. and all other
procedures necessary to deter
mine the existence OF absence OF
communicable disease.
II these precautions are found
necessary for the protection of
soldiers they are equally impor.
tant for you and me and the rest
Of the civilian population. 1t may
not be possible to carry them out
in civil life as vigorously as in
the army. But you individually
can do much to impress you
food supplies that you are alive
TO the subject. You can also do
much to stimulate sanitary in.
spection Of groceries, bakeries.
butcher shops and markets
through your municipal health
department.
But 1t Is your personal attention
that counts most.
Tomorrow: How to Have a
.WeH-BaIanced Diet.)
(Copwight. 1929. King Features
Syndicate. Tnc.)
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
By Charles A. L. Reed.
M. D.,
Former President Of the American
Medical Association.

Former President Of the American
Medical Association.
W on. especially il you live in
. city, get your food from
- many sources after it has
passed through many hands.
Hove you stopped to think Of the
possible significance of this fact?
Take butter. for instance. If 1t
e. made on a farm, Is it a clean
EArm7 It Is made In a creamery,
10 1t q clean creamery? Has 1t
been properly packed and care
fully transported? Has it been
exposed to contamination by dust
and germs of the air or by other
dirt and other germs from human
hands.
The same questions may be
asked with the same point about
practically every other food prod
uct that goes upon your table.
A few years ago the medical
profession started and carried out
Q great reform movement about
this particular product-butter,
and, Of course, milk.
Filthy stables for the cows,
dlthy food. filthy-handed mixers,
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

This Story Will Be Shown Soon in
Motion Pictures, Starring Marion
Davies at One of the Largest
Theaters in the Capital.

, spair. and cupped his mouth with
one hand.
Later" he said. "IIl meet you
at the Pleasure Gardens in Ho-
boken after get away-Iu not
be later than eight o'clock!'
Larry Delavan had slumped into
his chair. Who could blame him?
That morning fortune had smiled
upon him. He had believed him.
self the heir to a great estate
The world had been at his feet.
And now-he was beggar! For
this pittance that was left to him
he must play guardian to a boy
he had never seen-and q boy,
moreover, who had taken from
him all that for years he had re-
garded as his own!
"Come!" said Irving. "Come,
Larry. my friend! That stands
- friendship good fellowship!
Come to the Pleasure Gardens
now-they brew a punch there
strong enough to drown the deep
est disappointment
Brevoort slapped him on the
back.
"Irving's right, Larry he said.
|It's a bad run Of the cards
but, man, the luck must turn!
| Up with you-face it with q
smile! Bad luck was never made
better yet by a long face! Show
fortune she can't rule you, come
she fair or come she foul!'
Larry sprang up. He held out
hand to each Of them.
You're right" he said. damn
wills and Irish nephews, but
they can't spoil good punch, no
matter what they do! I'm with
you-Reilley. see to the house.
III be back-when I come back!"
Famine and black poverty
stalked side by side in Ireland in
those days. Fresh still were the
memories OF the red days of '9s;
green still were the graves that
British muskets had filled. There
was tragic meaning in the Groom.
ing Of the Wearing of the
Green" And happy was the Irish
lad who had the. silver in his
pocket to carry him across the
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
in
Be in the Capital

broad Atlantic to the new land Of
liberty that lay beyond the setting
sun.
Yet, though tho blight might
lie upon the potato and the peo-
pie starve, though poverty like
death itself might be abroad,
debts must be paid-or the law
take its course. Behind the land:
lord stood all the power Of the
British crown. resolute to see that
he should have his own.
AS bright a sun as shone upon
the house in which, in Bowling
Green, Richard O'Day had lived
and prospered, and, in the end,
died, looked down upon a mean,
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
EVERYDAY MISTAKES
In Speaking

Wrong.
Perhaps" pronounced "nrsna.H
Right.
Perhaps" pronounced ''rOr-
haps," accent on "haps."
Wrong.
Soma folks can't SEQ what's
before their nose"
Right.
Some folks can't see what's
before their nosea." "A nose" IN
hardly shared by two or more
persons.
Wrong.
II amt seen him recent"
Right.
Il haven't seen him recently"
The present perfect tensa Of
'Ses" II ''have seen" The word
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

matched cottage in the Irish
street. Outside the village street
was thick In mud; pigs wailowed
in it; children daubed themselves
with it. Within, boy lay sick;
an old man sat and scowIed; u
girl sang as she stirred the por.
ridge that was cooking over !:
peat fire.
Down the muddy street there
came a motley gathering. Peas
ants there were; women In bare
feet, their short skirts gathered
up: boys and young girls; scowI-
ing men. who carried blaclxthorn
shillelaghs and held them close.
as II they feared the mischief they
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
By Rida Johnson Young,
Whose Plays Have Won A High
Place Among American
Playwrights.

Little Old New York;" from
tie Broadway success of that
mans, By RidG Johnson Young,
has been created into s1perlG-
tue motion picture By COsmo.
politGn Productions - Direction
Of Sidney Olcott-AdGpted By
LWther Reed.
6LoWLY Astor folded the win,
put it back into its. en-
velope and restored that. IN
turn, to its place among his other
papers. Larry sat stu, too over.
come to speak. Halleck, scowled;
4revoort got up and walked up
"a down the room.
WELL" said Irving. 'I, for one,
hope this young O'Day win not
- found! The moneys yours by
right. Larry"
Astor turned upon him griniy.
"a man may do as he will with
his own. Mr.. Irving" he said. "Ic
Patrick O'Day is not found it vii:
not be for lack of trying. I shall
send word to my London agent
by the next packet of mine that
sails"
Yet, even as he spoke so stern
y, his eyes rested upon Larry
with something of sympathy.
Never mind. my boy he said.
SYou have it in you to do great
things for yourself No one left
me money-and yet I have not
done so badly"
Never worry about him, Mr..
AstOr," said Brevoort. Wen help
him to forget his troubles-eh,
boys?"
Astor turned to him with q
6rown, but said nothing. Then,
picking up his papers, he called
20 Halleck to follow him, and
went out. Halleck made to fol.
low him: i1esitated; turned, at the
door. with a. comic gesture of de
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

modifying have seen" must be
an adverb-''recently."
Wrong.
1T won't hurt none to try"
Right.
''It won't hurt to try
The doubles negatives won't"
and "none" destroy each other,
and make the sense 1T will hurt
to try"
Wrong.
"The man wRG attacked by
two robbers"
Right.
''The man was attacked by two
robbers"
The past partlciple Of attack
10 attacked"
(COpyrtght, ls9a, by International
Feature SaEyicas Inc.1
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
NOW VACATIONS OVER
LET'S TO WORK
AN ARTICLE THAT SPELLS COMMON SENSE

the most honest relaxation life
offers: Work.
And so-whatever your vaca-
ton was-or wasn't-return 70
the office and factory and store
and courts and libraries and
schoolrooms with the glorious con-
seriousness that work is a privi-
lege and a panacea, a way to
forget both trivial enjoyment and
disappointed hopes.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Washington times., 1923-10-09

the notice was tackled up against
the rotting fence post. They had
seen such notices put up before:
would see them many time
again. They could only pray that
their turn would not come, that.
somehow, by pinching and by
ecraping, they could go on get
ting the rent together. Il
Now the old man who sat with
in and scowled heard the commo-
ton and came out. The sick 10y,
tossing on his bed heard, and
cried out, ENORMOUSLY, to know
what was arniss. And the girl
heard, as. though sudden pain
had stricken her.
The Washington times., 1923-10-09
This Day in Our History

THIS is the anniversary of the death, in 1872, of Will
liam II. Seward, Lincons Secretary of State. Sew
ard at first moderated the ability of the Great Emanc
pator but became of his staunchest admirers