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The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29
POINTS ON
KEEPING WELL
DR.. FREDERICK r. GREEN
Editor of "HEALTH"
STRENGTHENING GIRL
GRADUATES
%, ISIS. Wsstern Nsrspspsr unI0n.l

TKTOMEN students at the Univer-
w sity Of California are crooked.
This is a startling statement, but 1t
is made on the authority Of the direc-
tor of physical education at that in
stitution. Not mentally or morally
crooked, but physically crooked. Ac-
cording to the records of physical ex-
aminations the girls at the University
OF California are growing up with one
shoulder higher than the other and
with stopped shoulders.
This is due to long years of carry
ing heavy books, always under the
same arm, from force Of habit; to sit
ting at their desks for hours with
stopped and rounded shoulders, until
one side Of the body is developed be-
yond the other and n shoulder,
usually the right, has a slant which
Is temporary at first, but finally be-
ome permanent. AS sailors would
say, the girls have a 'list to star
board"
Any fixed habit or long-continued
work has, in time, a definite effect on
the body. Just as the working man or
woman, always doing the same work
in the same way, will gradually require
a body change to correspond to the
occupation, 81 the student, through
years of study, unless some means
are used to prevent it, acquires a
characteristic stoop. We all know the
rounded shoulders and the contracted
chest Of the desk worker.
Peasant girls In Europe and native
women in Asia and Africa have car
ried water bottles. milk Jars, baskets
of grain and fruit, bundles Of laundry,
bales Of merchandise, and even little
brothers and sisters on their heads for
centuries. This constant balancing
and carrying Of weights has devel-
oped the muscles on both sides of the
body and has made their spines and
shoulders strong and erect. The we'll
developed figures and graceful car
riage of primitive women have been
remarked and commented on by count
less travellers and explorers.
Civilization has its disadvantages
One Of them is that the human body
is not only hampered in development,
but it is also actually distorted by
some conditions of civilized life. DR..
e. L. Bradford Of Boston, one of the
leading %orthopedic authorities in the
country, seriously recommends that
the daughters Of our best families be
taught to carry weights on their heads.
not because they have to do it for a
living but in order to give them good
figures.
What shall 1t profit a girl graduate
to win a Ph.D., If it costs her a crook
ed back and q contracted chest? If
our college women are to be the moth
ers Of better men and women, they
must have straight bodies as well as
well-trained minds.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29
The Teacher Is a Sentry-a Social Outpost in
the Realm of Ideas
BIZ SCOTT NEARING, in Modern QuarterIy.

The teacher is a sentry-an outpost in the realm of ideas. Most
men and women are too busy with the routine of industry to devote
themselves to the solution of these problems. They leave the task of
handling ideas to teachers, editors, preachers. These last are therefore
bound in a double sense-by the character of their calling and by the
trust that the masses of men place in their judgment and their con-
illusions.
If the students and teachers of history, economics, sociology and
kindred topics do not see the dangers which threaten the common man,
he will never become aware of their presence until they leap upon him.
And if the social outposts do not warn him in time, how can he prepare
to ward off the impending disasters?
Does the lookout in the foretop leave his post? Does the sentry
sleep on his beat? Can the teacher be faithless to the trust that has,
been committed to him by society?
Silence and deserion are the same thing in the teacher. The look
out who sees a rock and does not warn the helmsman is a traitor to his
ship. The sentry who hears the enemy approaching and makes no out
cry is a traitor to his comrades. The teacher who sees danger approach
ing the community and remains silent is a traitor to his science and to
his constituency.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29

Hester English was a Frenchwoman
by extraction, and she was eminent
for her fine c~hirography in the time Of
Queen Elizabeth and James |. Many
Of her performances are still extant
both in the public libraries and ii the
hands of individuals. She was thought
the most exquisite writer Of her age.
She married, at the age of forty, Bar
tholomew KelIo. a North BrIton. and
had a son. who was educated at Ux
ford and was minister at ~Speckshall
in Suffolk.-Chicago Journal
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29
Americans Built the First Airplanes Capable
of Sustained Flight

By HIRAM BINGHAM, United States Senator from Connecticut
Americans built the first airplanes capable of sustained flight. Ameri-
cans were the first to learn how to fly machines heavier than air. Ameri-
cans hold more important world records than do the citizens Of any other
nation. The first plane to cross the Atlantic belonged to the United States
navy. The first planes to crcumnayigate the globe belonged to the United
States army. The most outstanding achievement in the regular daily car
riage Of mail through the air is the record made by the United States post
office. American pilots are second to none. American arplane designers
are equally at the head Of their profession. The ability of Americans to
organize difficult aviation experiments has been recognized repeatedly as a
superior quality. Nevertheless, aviation has not advanced so rapidly in
this country as we had hoped. All the leading European countries have
been willing to promote commercial aviation. We have done practically
nothing,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29
Parent Is Complainant, Prosecutor, Judge, Jury
and Executor All in One
By NJ. P. ADAMS, Mooseheart Home for onildren.

Children are often punished unjustly. A parent is the complainant,
prosecuting attorney, judge, jury and executor all in one. We would not
allow this in court, and yet it is always the way in families.
at hurts m more than you" is silly twaddle. If corporal punish
ment hurt the parent more than the child, it would not be administered.
The child knows this, and the effect on it is even worse where a person
makes this remark.
If one will examine the instances where corporal punishment was
used, one will find that it is practically never done until one loses his tenn
per. This is especially bad if the corporal punishment is followed by kiss
ing, pethng and rewards, thus showing the child that the parent believed
that the corporal punishment was not right.
Comenus wrote that striking a child is like a musician who bangs a
badly tuned instrument with his fist, instead of using his hands, eyes and
ears to reune it. A bad child is like an untuned instrument waiting for
the skilled musician or parent to come along and retune it.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29

BY HIRAM BINGHAM, United States Senator from Connecticut
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-29
To Insure Contented and Prosperous Homes in
Reclamation Projects
By 3. .. MEAD. omitted State Bureau Of Reclamaton.

a N ERRONEOUS impression seems to prevail that there has been
~ needless delay or opposition to carrying out reclamation prof.
IN ects for which appropriations have been made by the last con-
gr@m. The bureau desires to carry out the purposes of the reca-
nation act of December, 1924, and to build projects wherever a sound
economic development is assured. 1t is unwilling, however, to begin con-
sructon of any project until arrangements have been made which will
comply with the law and insure contented and prosperous homes when
those projects have been built
The situation on old projects, the Investigations of the fact finders
committee, and the hearings of the last congress make it evident that there
has been too great haste in the past in beginning construction. Failure
to settle in advance all the questions which a project presents has resulted
in controversies with irrigators which embitter the relation Of the govern
ment and water user after a lapse of 20 years.
Another reason for care is the fact that construction costs of new
projects are from two to three times what they were Is years ago and when.
all the other projects were built. It becomes a serious question, therefore,
whether the value of water in production will equal its cost and this needs
to be carefully studied. The great war has doubled the cost of improving
end equipping farms and it is necessary that settlers be informed of the
capital they will require and that conditions necessary to enable them to
make a comfortable living and repay the money invested by the govern
ment be provided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Teaches American History.

THE American of 1925, with all the
vast information sources OF the
printing press, the stage. the screen
and the radio at his command only
occasionally realizes that much of the
real inside" drama of Americas de-
velopment into a great republic is
unfamiliar to folks in general.
For example, it remained for such
latter-day chronicler as Emerson
Hough, author of that famous novel
and screen play, 1.-The Covered Wag-
on" to reveal the tempestuous tale of
the days when Texas, the great cattle
country, was broke in the sos If
one peruses the average American
history he will find little IL any men
ton of the fact that Texas, as a re-
gion, literally faced ruin and starva-
ton in 1867, with it's plains swarming
with cattle, but the screen, a develop
ment entirely of the twentieth CEN
fury, is now covering the ground that
American writer's and historians of
the eos completely ignored in their
insatiate determination to print only
such matter as would not offend the
most fastidious.
AS matter of fact, the real story
of the winning of the West was never
adequately revealed to the descend
ants of the men who won it until the
coming of the movie. The stage made
weak and Intellectual attempts in that
direction; but the canvas was much
too big for the stage, to begin with.
There has appeared much about the
West in our screen drama that is ex-
aggerated and untrue, of course, but
there has been a great deal more
that rings with truth, and Emerson
Hough, novelist and accidentally a
screen playwright, did mighty share
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in revealing to us the fierce, whirling
drama of the plains from the 4os on.
This is particularly true of Houghs
new cinema production, North of So"
which he wrote for popular maya
zine before 1t reached the screen.
Quite aside from its romance and its
love theme, 1t reveals a condition of
affairs that seems almost incompre
hensible to Americans Of today. 1t
shows how the almost unbelleva BILE
luxury of America. in 1925 is based
solely on the ability of America to
distribute its products from zone to
zone and put the seasons at naught.
1t shows how the Generalization of
markets and trade conditions In the
United States and the mutual dis
trust of credit after the Civil War
made the great area of Texas a ffnan
cial graveyard, with thousands Of
cattle roaming the plains in an almost
wild condition from lack of attend
ance and herding. 1t shows how the
news of a beef market far to the
north in Kansas was sufficient to
impel Texas cattle owners to drive
enormous herds thousands Of miles
to the Kansas rail heads, and 1t shows
also the crude market conditions
which left the East on short meat
rations while the West went without
buyers for its cattle.
This is just one of the countless
acts in the great American drama of
those days that, thanks to improved
methods and instruments of commu-
nication, is being impaired to a gen
Grafton of Americans whose ancestors,
living at the time, never dreamed
that such conditions existed. This is
the real miracle of the movies, in the
minds of present-day historians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Palace-"The Devils
CARGO"

A powerful story of the romantic
gold rush days of California is pic
| tured in the first of Paramount's sec
ond Famous Forty" series of photo
plays, THE Devils Cargo" which is
announced as the feature at Loew's
Palace this week, beginning this
afternoon, together with the latest
epic of hilarious burlesque for Ben
Turpin, THE Wild Goose Chaser;
the Pathe news pictures, Topics of
the Day and orchestral embellish-
ment, under the direction of Thomas
Joseph Cannon
In THE DEVILS Cargo" the cast in
cludes Wallace Berry, Pauline Stark.
William Collier, jr.; Claire Adams,
Raymond Hatton. George Cooper, Dale
Fuller, spec" O'Donneil, Emmett C.
King, John Webb Dillon and Louis H.
King. Directed by Victor Fleming. the
story is based on Charles Whittaker's
novel, 1.-THE River Boat" The daugh-
ter of a resort proprietor, at the sug-
gestion Of her father, attempts to
lure a young editor into a compro-
missing position in order to end his
usefulness to the Vigilantes. and,
while the girl succeeds in bringing
the young man into grave suspicion,
she loses her heart to him in the
process. When the Vigilantes act
the editor and the girl he loves are
both put aboard flimsy river craft
that has been chartered to dump a
lot of undesirables at some other
point Outside the Sacramento River
and in the wider reaches of San
stoker of colossal strength (Wallace
Beery) appoints himself captain, ter
rorizes the whole vessel and makes
plans to acquire the girl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Rialto-"O oh, Doctor!"

Reginald Denny, motion picture
star, and Harry Leon Wilson, fiction
list of humor and pathos, constitute
an entertaining team.
1t Is this team that will be seen
at the Rialto, beginning today, in
''Oh, Doctor!' a Universal-Jewel film
version of the story written by Will
son and published serially in a maya
zine.
Reginald Denny will be seen in
the role of young man who, since
childhood, had been coddled and
nursed For reasons vital to three
men who have loaned him money
they desire to keep him alive for
three years, when they Will have
possessed themselves of his great for
tune. Hoping to get his mind off his
health, the schemers employ beau
tiful nurse, with whom the hero falls
in love. He finds, however, that she
has no use for one who is lacking in
courage and strength, and he sets
about to accomplish daring things
A strange marriage proposal is the
result
Mary Astor Is the nurse, and others
are Otis Harlon, William Mong, Tom
Ricketts,, Lucille Ward and Mike
Donlin.
A feature of the program will be
the first appearance in Washington
of Mischa Guterson as the new must
cal director of the Rialto chestra
Guterson formerly was the leader at
Grauman's Theater, in Los Angeles,
Calf, and has recently left the Plea
dilly Theater, New York. as musical
director, to assume his position here
The overture selected is Tschaik-
owsky's "Marche Slav," and included
is an International News reel, Pris-
ma scenic, and Josephine Rochlftz
and Sylvan Lovin, in "A Miniature
Musical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Mystery Explainable.
WITHOUT in the least giving av

WITHOUT in the least giving away
any studio secrets, it may be
said that a little old German chemist
Is the man responsible for that al
most weirdly uncanny effect of seeing
something where there's nothing to
be seen in Douglas Fairbanks motion
picture sentation, 1.-THE Thief of Bag
dad, which Is entering its third week
at Loew's Columbia Theater.
This strange screen illusion comes
in the scene of The Cloak of In
visibility" The scene was handled in
such way that the audience is
shown an Invisible" man moving
hither and thither through a crowd
Of people.
In this scene Mr.. Fairbanks wanted
to show to the spectators a some
thing pushing it's way through q
great crowd, something not jostling
and elbowing persons out of the way,
but just sort of melting through
them. So he asked one of his tech
meal staff about it, and the little old
German chemist asked for two or
three days to think 1t over At the
end of the second day he went back
to his chief with the idea of a whirl-
wind that moves about, here and
there and anywhere, and is accom-
plished by chemistry, plus a little
electricity.
THE audience actually sees me
throw the cloak of invisibility about
my shoulders" says Mr.. Fairbanks,
in discussing this much discussed
phase Of his film masterpiece. 1.-THE
audience actually sees me disappear,
and then this chemically devised
whirlwind Is seen dancing through
the mob at the palace, pushing this
way and that, advancing and retreat
ing, solid substance melting before it,
and finally it is seen to emerge
carrying the princess"
And the cloak of invisibility isn't
the only astounding feature in this
film that has been drawing capacity
throngs everywhere it has been
shown. There are the magic carpet,
the winged horse, the magic army
that springs from nowhere by the
thousands, the dragon and the valley
of monsters-and other things too
numerous and too startling to men,
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Filnograms

Ter, in which she will play opposite
Betty Bronson.
Five features are scheduled for
February release by Metro-GoIdwyn
Robert Z. Leonards Cheaper to
Marry from the play by Samuel
Shipman, will be released February
2; Jackie Googans THE Rag Man"
by Willard Mack, follows, February
16; Never the Twain Shall Meet
from the novel by Peter e. kyne,
with Anita Stewart and Bert Lytell:
A1onta Bells Lady of the Night"
from an original Adola Rogers St.
Johns story, with Norma Shearer OPP
posite Malcolm McGregor, and Hugo
Ballin's Tho Prairie Wife" from Ar
thur Stringer's story, with Dorothy
Devore and Herbert Rawlinson, the
last three to be released February %.
Flora Finch, the famous comedi-
enno, who was starred with the late
John Bunny a decade or more ago,
in the William De Miles production
of Men and Women" will have the
part of Kate, a newly rich cousin
from Kansas who goes to New York
to look over the town and then
buy it.
Ben Alexander. 12-year- film
star, is making his first visit TO New
| York, and with his mother, is stop
| ping at the Hotel Alonquin. Ben
will remain in New York six weeks,
during which time he plans to take
| in all the sights from the Statue of
Liberty and the Aquarium TO the
Woolworth tower and Bronx Park.
Lew Cody has been plucked from
the villain type of portrayal by Eli
nor Glyn, who thinks she has dis
cerned heroic possibilities in his per
sonality, and will cast him for tho
leading male role in Man and Maid
One of Stephen McKenna's novels
is to be filmed by Warner Brothers
under the working title, Thou Shalt
Not" McKenna is one Of the most
popular writer's Of the modern school,
his Sonia and "Vindication" being
perhaps best known.
William Ricciardi, stage and
screen comedian, will be seen in Hail
and Farewell" starring Barbara La
Mari and Conway Tearle, directed by
Phil Rosen. Ricciardi is also g. play
wright and author of Papa joe
which ran at the Princess Theater
last season and in which he himself
played for several months at the Cort
| Theater, London.
Immediately upon completing THE
Social Exile" adapted from DE
classe," Corinne Griffith will start
work on The National Anthem"
based on the play by J. Hartley
Manners.
Warner Brothers have bought
why Girls Go Back Home" a maya
zine story, which will be a sequel
to why Girls Leave Home" an
earlier Warner film.
Milton SilIs is having a three-week
rest in Bermuda. When he returns
he will don the uniform Of a New
York policeman, in which role he ap-
pears in the screen version Of Ger
aid Beaumonts The Making of
O'Malley.''
Doris Kenyon is in the Adirondacks
enjoying Winter sports. She is due
in Florida shortly to play a fea-
tured role in THE Half Way Girl"
story of the tropics.
Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, di-
rector of the public service and edu-
cational department of the Crandall
| Continued on Fourth Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Metropolitan "Inez From
HOLLYWOOD

Warnings Pennsylvanians last week
scored such an unequivocal hit as a
special added attraction at CrandalI S
Metropolitan Theater that they are
being held over for second and
final week, beginning this afternoon,
in an entirely new program.
The film attraction will be First
Nationals production of "1nez FROM
Hollywood" screen adaptation of
the story by Adela Rogers ST. John
and featuring Anna Q. Nilsson, with
Lewis S. Stone and Mary Aston. Dur
ing one brief studio luncheon scene
the action is participated in by Wal
lace Berry. Ben Lyon, Ford Sterling,
Lloyd Hughes and Antonio Moreno.
1t concerns the experiences OF a
famous movie vamp who, on the
screen, had all men at her feet, but
in private life was called upon to
make the greatest sacrifice love can
ask to assure the happiness of her
younger sister. Miss Nilsson is cast
as the siren of silent drama, Mr.. Stone
as the principal male character and
Miss Astor as the sister,
The auxiliary attractions Will in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01

After a morning shower, gradually
made cold, Baby Peggy takes some
breathing exercise. This Is followed
by a breakfast OF cornflakes and a
soft boiled egg. When working,
Baby Peggy is on the set made up
tby her dad) at 8, A breathing
spell occurs at H. when she drinks
an egg shake. One o'clock ends the
working day.
After light lunch followed by a
nap, Peggy and her 7-year-old
sister, Louise. spend the afternoon
hours with their dolls and tea sets
and story books. and many a romp
with Tarzan, the beautiful police
dog.
With all her fame little Peggy is
totally unspoiled. She is wonderfully
obedient, and It was this trait that
ultimately placed her among the
stars of the screen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
A Surprise Enfamille.

olive BROOK, the English actor,
~ who recently came to these
shores from London. went on a loca-
ton trip to Laguna Beach with the
"Enticement" company, of which he
was member.
Mrs. Brook, petite English girl
who was formerly on the stage
wanted to go along. but it was Mr.
Brooks first location trip in this
country, and he was, not sure about
hotel accommodations at the beach
so he advised against it.
A day or so later the casting di-
rector approached Mr.. Brook and
told him with a smile that he be-
lieved Brook would be interested in
knowing he had just signed a pretty
English girl to do bits" with them
while on location. .--
Brook expressed polite interest, but
was amazed later to find Mrs. Brook
makeup box in hand, waiting with
other members of the company.
The stars wife had applied for
work under her stage name and had
been accepted. The casting director
didn't know her and Brook never i'm
agined she wanted to go so badly. :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01
Disputes Hamlet.

THE old wheeze, THE plays the
thing" does not apply to pic
lures. is the opinion of John Grif-
fifth Wray.
Rather it is the story telling"
Wray asserts. MANY think that the
play and the story are synonymous,
but they are mistaken.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were
not so great as plays, but rather as
he told them. His construction made
them literature.
When picture producers buy a
book they buy a story. Then, from
that story they must build the form
and construction of a film drama.
Sometimes the story is easily adapted
to the screen. Sometimes not. That
explains why so many great books
do not make smashing screen plays.
Either they are not screen material
or the producer fails to build prop
erly from the story"
Wray referred to the fact that
there are but 81 fundamental plots,
and that every story contains one, or
a part of one, of these plots.