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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09

er-in-law, Jesse L. Sager and famil,
and his sister, Mrs. Viola Beydler an,
family.
L. B. Kohn and Hubert f. Sage
returned from Gettysburg, Pa, Mon
day. They were accompanied b,
Mrs. Mary Sage-. her SON Paul ane
daughter Miss Goldie, who have
moved into the home she recently
bought from G. B. Saum at the west
end of town.
Charles, II. Shrum has moved with
his family to the home of his sister,
Mrs Ada Stoneblrner, east of Toms
Brook
W. ]. Gochenour is drilling well
for the Shenandoah Valley Egg and
Poultry Farm The cisterns they
have fail to supply sufficient water
for the thousands of chickens they
now have and they expect to increase
their flocks. therefore well is a nee
essity.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Civic League Tuesday night was
well attended. A resolution was
adopted to pay SIS, one-half of the
assessment, to the County School
Board, to be applied to the salary of
the teachers for the nine-month
school. The following program was
rendered:
Piano Solo-Miss Beatrice Belle Bey-
dler
Edith Conner
Piano Solo-Miss Francis Windle
Mildred Potts, pupils
feading-Miss Jean Shaver
Saxophone Solo-Duke L. Shaver
Reading -Miss Margaret Kohne
5ong-Girls of the school
All acquitted themselves in a credi-
table manner. The next meeting will
De the first Tuesday night of No
yember
Miss Sue Dolls condition remains
tbout the same She is still confined
o her bed
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney G. Hunt, their
laughter Miss Georgia and grandson
sidney, Jr., of Washington, who Wis
ted the family of James w. Lichliter
eturned to their homes on Monday.
ir. Hunt is prominent contractor
# Washington. Mr. Lichliter was
Employed by him for some years,
ONE six years ago.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
SHENANDOAH VALLEY LOAN
AND TRUST COMPANY
WOODSTOCK. VIRGINIA
WOODS

Put your savings in the Saving
Department of the Shenandoah Val.
ley Loan and Trust Co., Woodstock,
Va, at per cent compound inter-
ests Amounts of S1.00 and up-
wards received. The only savings
ms itutiol in the county for the ac-
emulation of the small savings OF
laboring men, women and children.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY

Located on Lantz Mill Road, one
half mile from Edinburg, Va. Good,
7-room frame house. porches, cellar,
plenty of shade and good water, five
outbuildings, shop 60 20 feet. own
-er has done splendid business but
must retire on account of health.
Ideal for chickens; splendid range to
creek. For price and terms, see
w. M. CALVERT,
Woodstock. Va.
Subscribe for the Herald. s1.5O
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
Showing the Reason for
Quality at Low Cost

The exhibit consists of 40 remarkable photo
graphs of the most interesting processes in mod
ern automobile manufacture. 1t will provide
the same interesting knowledge that you would
get by taking a trip through the plants where
Chevrolet cars are built. Each picture is accom-
panied by full description of the operation
1t illustrates 1t is an exhibit of unusual interest
and value. Bring the children.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
wANTED-CARs TO WASH

Will wash automobiles on Satur-
day. Work done satisfactorily.
JOHN SCOTT.
Woodstock, Va.
Call at Herald Office.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
FORD TRUCK FOR SALE

In good condition. Model 1924.
Bargain for quick buyer.
v. S. SHAFFER,
Sp. Aft. Maurertown, Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09
LONG TERM LOANS

Representing the Potomac
Joint Stock Loan Bank, / can
promptly make loans OF FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS (S5OO.)
and up, at @ per cent interest
on the mortization plan. The
borrower takes no stock and
assumes no joint liability. Full
information can be had by APP
plying to
PHILIP WILLIAMS,
Woodstock, Va.
6-9-tf.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09

The Shenandoah Herald. the coun-
ty paper published at the County Seat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-09

Learn how quality is attained with modern
production methods! This week we are maxi
ing special Photographic exhibit illustrating
the precision methods by which quality is
achieved in the manufacture of the modern
motor car.
Evening star., 1925-09-19

to seek means Of getting rich quickly
know, likewise, that great many
people are unwilling to seek or to take
advice about their financial affairs.
Many a small savings fund relied
upon for emergencies or possible
home buying has been swept up by
these swindlers. Worse than that,
people have mortsaged their homes
TO raise money to invest in these gilt.
a load of debt which they must bear
for years.
1t is difficult to catch these scoun-
drels. They are slick in their methods.
They shrewdly keep just enough
within the law in their pledges and
promises to make prosecution difficult
OF success when they are caught. Oc-
casionally fraud is exposed and pro-
claimed. but the damage has been
done, large sums have been squan-
dered in futile investments, with no
chance of recovering the capital.
The surest safeguard against such
swindles is TO seek advice from re-
sponsible person before investing.
OF course. mistakes in Judgment are
constantly being made by the most
honest company promoters and or
sanizers. There are misfortunes in
business, reverses to sound concerns,
which cause losses. But the fraudulent
or a dubious concern can be detected
in advance of investment by an ex-
perienced person, whose advice may
be sought.
Ii all who are solicited TO buy Sc
curities would ask the opinion of re
liza BILE business men or bankers before
purchasing the billion-dollar loss
through fraud which this country
now suffers annually would be re
duced to small change.
Evening star., 1925-09-19
Movie Education.

A motion picture producer the other
day announced that he would donate
SIS 900 a year TO found and maintain
movie" chair in an American uni
versity. He made no choice of in
stitution but offered the endowment
to the first big school to claim it. Up
TO date no educational institution has
made a bid for the fund. Nor on
the other hand has any leader in the
cinema business offered cooperation
in this project for the development OF
the movie art. 1t is stated that the
wouId-be benefactor will wait a little
while and then will specifically tender
his gift to one OF the big colleges.
The question arises in this con.
nection whether there is any need of
a course OF instruction in motion
picture work, literary or technical.
Or, rather, whether the need is felt in
the educational institutions. A large
part OF the public, however, does feel
that there is need OF educational
work among those who are today en-
gased in writing and producing
motion pictures. Inasmuch as it is
extremely doubtful whether profes-
sional scenario writer's and directors
would go to school at Columbia,
Yale, Harvard. Princeton or George
Wa shing g.on, the thought occurs that
perhaps the real need u Z new In.
Evening star., 1925-09-19

stitution or rather a sort OF travelling
movie college.
What the motion picture business
today really needs is better product.
a higher standard of film fiction, more
significant narratives and less Of the
claptrap of the screen traditions. The
people are hungry for good motion
pictures, and will support them. But
they are not getting them in the
proper proportion for balanced en-.
| tertainment ration. The same old tale
IS being told over and over again, with
variations, with the customary so.
| called thrills, the hairbreadth escapes,
the perilous adventures, the mob
! scenes, pursuits, staring close-ups,
and as George Bernard Shaw recently
| said in London. "impertinent lists of
| everybody employed in the film from
the star actress to the press agents
office boy"
Film makers declare that they are
giving the public what it wants. The
public. having acquired the movie
! habit, continues to go with little dis
crimination, but an increasing sense
of boredom The shrewder producer,
are realizing this state Of mind on
! the part Of the cash customers and
are doing better work, but many of
them are r,leteiy forgetting that
, after all it is the satisfied patron who
, in the end insures success.
Enormous sums of money are spent
In production Of motion pictures, far
too much. indeed in proportion to the
artistic value Of the product. 1t has
| been remarked that the public Is no
longer being beguiled by announce
ments Of the millions spent in making
| single film. and that returns at the
box Office are often greater for the
simpler film stories than for the over.
elaborated spectacles that tax the re.
sources Of the movie treasures.
An educational work along these
lines, among the producers. writer's
and actors, would be worth while.
! worth indeed more than the extremely
modest sum which has been proposed
| by one who. it must be suspected. In
! merely buying a little publicity.
Evening star., 1925-09-19
The Unattainable.

Bill Bifins yearned to satisfy
The men who criticize.
When he resolved that he would trv
To make a name and rise
They said he was too young as vet.
A few years onward rolled
And then with courteous regret
They said he was too old.
He once was slender as the limb
That grows upon a tree:
Then broad outlines came to him,
Quite comforting to see.
Approval stin he fails to win:
His friends assure him that
While once he may have been too thin
At present he's too fat.
He eats too much or not enough:
He's over-sad or gay
His language is a bit too rough
Or too ornate, they say.
No wonder that his frame Of mind
Grows steadily more glum.
How can he ever hope to find
The happy mediumf
Evening star., 1925-09-19
Billion-Dollar Frauds.

A deputy attorney general of New
York State, after studying facts and
evidence obtained by the Bureau Of
Frauds at Albany, declares that stock
frauds in New York during the past
year enriched swindlers by more than
shoo.00o,000. II is estimated that
about half of the losses sustained by
investors throughout the country
have been in that State. the total ma
less securities thus being in one year
$1,000 .oo0, 900.
4 billion dollars a year lost through
fraud. The pity of it is that most Of
this money comes from people Of
small means, tempted by prospects Of
rapid and large profits. They are in
experienced in business, and are easy
victims for the promoters of fraudu-
lent stocks. The agents of these stock
schemes work in all parts of the
country, with attractive printing to
bait their gulls. In some cases the
corporations exist only on paper In
some instances they are genuinely Or
ganized, with honest dupes ostensbly
in charge. Some Of these companies
pretend to own valuable properties
which are actually possessed by
nthers. Wonderful inventions that
are to revolutionize industry are
claimed likewise. Or possibly the
scheme is to exploit agricultural or
paineral lands in remote regions Of the
world, where vague concessions"
have been obtained.
There is, indeed, no end 10 the wiles
and schemes Of the stock swindlers
who are taking a billion dollars
year from the American people. They
are themselves, or they employ, good
salesmsn. They can make brass look
liks Eead. They know that the disposi.
tiar Il tAa eemparatively poor man
Evening star., 1925-09-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

from Herbert's "Sweethearts." The
radio was bringing 1T in" in great
style.
Yes, reception was great.
At every rest in the music | could
hear Willie and Johnny and Mary
and Susie screa ming over there at
the Capitol
| Hey, Jimmie!" came through as
| the band began the dainty Cricket
on the Hearth number from the
musical comedy.
far-distant point.
"Whee-ee." shrieked Mary. prob
ably block from the microphone.
And the cricket on the hearth
Goes chirp--
Chirp-
Chirp.'
So the band played the music: but
here Is the way Land thousands OF
other listeners-heard it:
And the cricket on the hearth
Goes chirp-"
Hey, Jim niece"
"Chirp-"
Hoo 10000, Mary"
"Chirp."
| -aa-aaa.
Whether or not this is an improve
ment on Victor Herbert ! leave for
future ages to decide.
At another point. in the playing
Of Rubinstein's "kamennoi-Oatro
tRocky Island, | believe it is trans
lated). came Il solemn, church like
melody. which the band played with
rather long rests between the vari-
Gus phrases. allowing n clarinet OF
some such instrument to do a ca
denza.
To me--and To those thousands oi
other listeners-each cadenza was
merely a slight musical aCcompani
ment TO children's voices, in some
such recitative as the following:
| "Whee-ow -ow -ow,"
Jimmie. if you don't hush | will
take you home. Hush
Hush. yerself."
Il told you, now. Jimmie-fll take
you home. now
Jaw. whee-oo 90 -ow-ow.
The band played through the mex
phrase. the mass of instruments
drowning out the happy children
playing tag" hither and yon through
the spectators. Then came another
silence, broken only by the winding
clarinet and:
I'm going TO take YOU home. Jim
mie. if YOU don't stop. Do YOU hesi
me-"
"Aw. how could | help hearin' va
Stop that tickling me. stop it, aw
| ee-ee-ah-a h oo-oo-o -oW-ow-ow,'
"All right. let's 20 home. then.
"Aw, no. Nav, I'll listen. honest
will"
"All right. then, Wen stay"
"Hoo-oo. Mary, You're it.,
| This sort of thing at band concerts
| throughout Washington annoNs not
only those who go TO listen, but the
players themselves.
The children. being allowed to dc
| as they please at home. with no par
ticular restraint. naturally do as they
please in the parks. And listening tC
music quietly is not natural tC
healthy children.
Admitted.
We don't blame the kids 1T all. We
| place the blame squarelv on the par
ents. and suggest that they somehow
| manage to keep the children away
from all band concerts.
Maybe they could tell them that
| they can cause more ANNOYANCE
| by screaming and playing high-sp
around some hospital grounds. or ur
| in the next block, where old Mrs
| Smith is seriously i'll.
Remember. parents, if YOU do not
do this your child is going to grow
up to be that greatest of all bores-
the man who coughs continuously
during a recital.
Evening star., 1925-09-19
Congressional Income Taxes.

Just to show that congressman are
not immune to income tax publicity
any more than they are to income tax
payment, an inquisitive analyst of the
records has worked out a statement
of the entire congressional contribu-
ton to the upkeep OF the Government.
1t is found that their payments range
in the House Of Representatives from
nothing, which is the case with five,
to s1s3,41S, and in the Senate from
nothing, there being only one non
taxpaying Senator, TO s181,164. The
total of the ongressional tax pay
ments is something over million dol
lars.
This publication of the tax pay
ments of the individual members Of
the national legislature brings
souarely home to the lawmakers the
absurdity of giving publicity to such
details. 1t does nobody any good
whatever. 1t certainly does not in.
crease the chances of the Government
making a full collection of all the
taxes due. 1t does not enable anybody
to step forward with proof of incom-
plete returning by members of the ma
tional community.
The fact is that the taxpublicity
law is merely a sop to public curiosity.
1t is of no practical value, and it
should be repealed. Perhaps the ex-
position Of con gressional payments
will cause a change Of mind on the
part of some members of House and
Senate who now hold that publicity
is helpful and desirable.
Evening star., 1925-09-19
Five Miles a Minute.

A racing plane built for the Govern
ment to enter in the national air
races at Mineola next month was yes
terday flown at the rate of 302 miles
an hour. This flight was for short
distance and was started with a
swooping dive, which gave it tre-
mendous initial momentum. 1t was
the fastest speed ever attained by
man in controlled movement. Whether
il could be maintained over a con-
siderable distance is doubtful But the
achievement itself is extra ordinary.
The pace attained was at the rate OF
more than ) miles minute. If g.
plane could be flown at that rate con-
tinuously it could. leaving New York
at Q o'clock in the morning. reach
San Francisco between and o'clock
that same afternoon. At that pace
transatlantic flight would be possible
within a single span of daylight.
That this was no mere fluke of the
plane in the most favorable condition
is indicate by the fact that in two
trips over the fifty-kilometer trial
course, one against the wind and one
III the opposite direction, the same
pilot, in the same machine, avera ged
268.2 miles an hour.
Yesterdays extraordinary record is
unofficial, and. therefore, will not
stand as an accepted mark Of fastest
flying But it is clear that a plane
has been evolved which is capable of
unprecedented speed, and at the COM
ing meet, when official records will
prevail, some new achievements will
be established.
Evening star., 1925-09-19

Q. Why is an. electric ironing ma
chine called a mangle?-E. s. g.
A. The name 'mangle" is derived
from the Greek "manganor," mea ming
a war engine, which was originally
used for throwing stones in defendine
Notifications. The primitive type ~
mangle resembled this engine of war
in many respects, hence its name.
The early mangles consisted of \
wooden chest or table weighed with
stones which pressed it down on two
cylinders. 1t was operated by hand by
means of a wheel and pinion.
Q. How fast must person receive
and send TO get a radio operator g
| license?-E. G.
a. To pass the Government exam
| nations for first st-class commercial
radio operators license it is necessarv
! to qualify in both transmitting and
| receiving the international Morse
code a a speed of 90 words per min
| ute. An amateur is required to send
at speed of II words per minute.
Q. How do hunters of seals in Alas.
kan waters know what seals they
may Kill and what ones they may not
| kill?-F. B. i.
A. Under the law passed by Con
| gress in 1912 reserve of 5 900 3-year-
| old male seals is required, but this
! number Is not now required adequate
! to supply the future needs of the
| herd In the Pribilof Islands. During
| the season of 1925, therefore. a,350
| 3-year-old seals were reserved from
killing. They are marked by shearin
the fur from the tops of the heads
/ Q. About how fast should person
| lose weight while reducing?-D X.
A. The Public Health Service saws
| that In effecting reduction of weight
care should be taken that such reduc.
! tions are not effected too rapidly. A
! loss of from l TO 112 pounds per week
is satisfactory and from 10 months
| should be taken for d reduction Of
! 70 pounds. This gives the tissues An
! opportunity to readjust themselves
! properly.
O. What is sea coal and for what
! purpose Is it used?-S. u. R.
! A. Sea coal is merely coal dug from
| the earth; formerly so-called to dis
| tinguish it from charcoal because it
was brought TO London by sea
THE Government is speRdiHq your
/ money TO find out ho3C to do things
| The Star, through its WdShiaqton IN
! formation bureau, is ready TO ten goH
! tch0t the Government has fouHd oUt
| There is Information drdIdbIe on
! practically eUery subject affecting the
| daily life Of the american citizen. Err
| pertS Of the highest order are deUot-
| ing their entire time and energy to
! this great acorh Of promoting thr
! public 1renGre. What do you Irdnt f."
! kHoc? What questions eau the bn-
| rcdu dHStcer for you? This service Is
! free. Just iHcloSe a 2-ceHt STAMP to
! corer the return postage. Address
| The Star Information Bureau Fred
! eric j. HGSkin, director. TUenty- frSt
! dHd c streets northUesty
Evening star., 1925-09-19
No Poles at All.

Objection by the Commission of
Fine Arts to the style and. indeed, to
the emplacement of the side trolley
poles on Connecticut avenue extended,
in substitution for the center poles
which are regarded as a menace to
life in that thoroughfare, brings
sharply to consideration the wisdom
Of clearing such important arteries of
the Capital altogether of all overhead
electric conductors.
1t is obvious that eventually the un.
derground method of electric conduc-
tion for the operation of street cars
must be extended beyond the present
limit of the overhead system, perhaps
10 the boundaries of the District. The
suburbs of Washington are rapidly
developing, have become already prac-
tically urban in their condition. The
main streets through them, now oc-
cupied by car tracks, are densely filled
with traffic. The few open spaces
on the sides are speedily being used
for buildings.
To maintain an arbitrary boundary
Tor the underground system that lies
well within the area of close habita-
tlon is TO reduce the prohibition of
the overhead-wire method, which is
the chief characteristic of the Capi-
tails rapid transit equipment, to an
absurdity. Originally that prohibition
applied to what were then styled the
city limits which on the north coin
cIoed with Florida avenue. Then step
by step as the suburban movement
advanced the overhead trolley lines"
were moved farther out, ultimately to
considerable distances. In the case of
he line which occupies Connecticut
avenue beyond Rock Creek the pillow
pit" where the change occurs from
underground to overhead, remained
on the city" side of the creek. Mean.
while remarkable development oc-
Cured on that thorou ghfare, and the
truly ridiculous situation arose that a
system of electric transmission that
was banned within the technically ur-
Dan area for reasons of public safety
was allowed to remain throughout an
equally urban area, where it was quite
as serious a menace.
1t will cost large sum of money
to transform this and other sub
urban" branches Of the city's track.
transportation system from the over
head to the underground method. Per.
haps such work cannot possibly be
undertaken at once. But the time has
surely come for the enactment Of a
law which puts a period to the main
tenance Of the overhead wires any,
where within the District, FIVE or
seven years hence, for example.
Merger of the two traction systems
is contemplated. A survey is now IN
progress to determine the financial
prospect and the trend of transport,
with such d merger in contemplation.
Permissive legislation has already
been enacted. Doubtless the most di-
rect way to effect the future elimina-
ton OF the ugly and unsafe trolley
poles, whether central OF lateral.
would be TO amend that act to stipu-
late that either in the event of q
merger or in any case all overhead
traction wires must be removed with
in a specified time. If surface-track
traction is to continue in Washington
il should be on the underground wire
basis throughout the District
Evening star., 1925-09-19
Big Sum OH Stamps.

In other branches Of the Government
Innovations have been made which
will bear dividends of economy for
many years to come. From the Bu-
reau OF Engraving and Printing, the
Governments money and stamp rae
tory. where also are engraved Federal
securities, comes this word, for in
stance:
The plan to print all postage
stamps on intaglio wet rotary press
es has been initiated. The reduction
which it Is expected to effect by this
plan in the production cost of postage
stamps will result in an annual saw
ing to the Post Office Department OF
SoS5 ,000.'
And from the same bureau comes
the following:
The sizing of currency with solu-
ton of glue. alum and water has
been re.esta bIshed. Two-thirds of the
number OF sizing machines required
have been installed and the additional
number required will have been in
stalled by the end of the first quar-
ter of the fiscal year 1926 (September
80. next).
''The extended life of sized cur
rency has been estimated to be as
much as 20 per cent longer than un-
sized currency and on that basis the
net saving to the Government In pro-
duction, including paper because of
the smaller quantity of notes required,
might reach $975.000 annually. Owing
to the large amount Of uns1zed cur
rency- in circulation which must he
replaced. the savings referred to will
not perhaps, be realized until three
or four years from the date this siz-
ing operation is completely estab-
lished."
Thus, while under the spur of econ
omy the dollar bill may not go further,
| it will last longer, at least in physi-
cal way.
Architect Saves a Million.
Another saving, figured at more
than 81, 900, 900, was reported from the