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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
BRITISH MOVIES
DOOMED, SAYS
NAGNATE
Sir Oswald StolI Asserts
American Films Are
Favored
BY HARRY r. FLORY.
international News Service.

| LONDON, Aug. "a British film
production cannot got on under the
present deplorabIe conditions. british
films are shut out by the exhibitor
! kept off the screen by the over
whelming forces in favor of the
films.
THE British Empire will soon be
completely Americanized simply be-
cause we are allowing British life
and ideas to be gratuitously wiped
off the screen"
Explains Deficit.
That's the way Sir Oswald Stoll
explained to directors of his COM
pany the more than 100000 annual
deficit in the financial statement
of the StoIl Picture Productions,
Limited, probably the largest of
British film producing companies.
"The picture technique of Amer
lea is not superior to British tech
nique.' he declared. "It appears
to be so only because America can
afford to make 211 900 feet of
negative to extract from it 10000
feet to place on exhibition. The re-
sources of 10000 theaters and the
prosperity Of the people throughout
the United States enable the entire
cost of I'll 200 feet, or sixteen
times the length of negative actual
ly shown, to be recovered in Amer
lea
Asks Government Aid.
Unless British pictures can get
their costs back in the home mar
ket by a Government scheme, or
private scheme, willingly supported
by the exhibitors, it seems to me
the British film industry is doomed.
given to the industry in America
by the support of the American
Government. the capital invested in
the different branches of the in
dustry in the United States now APP
proaches 81 900, 900, 600. But in
1917, instead of helping the British
industry, our government sent to-
America to request the services of
D. w. Griffith in photographing a
drama of the war zone for Dropa
Ganda purposes.
Films Not Marketed
Such happenings show how the
American industry has been given
every chance to succeed, and the
British. until quite recently, no
chance"
The years operating deficit, Sir
Oswld said was chiefly due to the
fact that the picture companies
held huge stocks of films. the full
entertainment value of which had
not been realized because exhibit
tors showed Il preference for for
eign films He pleaded for govern
m5nt aid for the British film in
dustry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
s DEATH.
HAL IS MUSIC
PROGRAM
Alexander Mourns Colonel Who
Was to Have Led Choir
For WcAP

ALEXANDRIA. Aug. 24.-This
city's community night program,
which was to have been broadcast
through station WCAP tonight be-
tween the hours of tbs and $50
has been Cancelled on account of the
death of Colonel Kenneth w. og
den, who was stricken with paraly-
sis. last night while driving his car
in Washington, and died shortly
after being rushed to Emergency
Hospital.
A special meeting of the city
council and the Chamber of Com
merce was called this morning by
City Manager Paul Morton, and it
was decided that "as a tribute OF
respect to Mr.. Ogden" the entire
program wiuld be called off.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
MOSCOW T D D D
NOW FLOODS
STREETS
Thousands of PeddIers Selling
1t Now, Where Once
Throngs Starved
BY international News Service.

MOSCOW, Aug. 24.-Once starv-
ing Moscow is today city of food.
1t litera 'ly chokes the streets.
A hungry man getting off a
street tar can buy anything from
a picked apple to full-groWn
meal before reaching the sidewalk.
Peddiers carry line Of quick
GlncE calculated to have fed q
province in the days of the famine.
Sandwiches of a size to suit Il
gian. are the largest article Of
street diet.
Rolls as big IS a loaf of breai
are split down the middle, half i
pound of cheese, ham or sausage
inserted, and fifty or sixty stacked
in a wash basket.
Cucumbers, fresh, picked AMI
preserved, are to the Russians as
rice to the Chinese
Fried cakes, with filling Of
chopped meat, served hot from the
depths Of a basket. are q popular
delicacy.
Long strings of dried fish, most
ly sturgeon from the Volga, help
the color scheme with sepia tone.
In the fruit stands heaps of cher
modestssvanguard Of the guam
.ities which flood the market ut
the height OF the season.
They are now expensive fifty
cents pound
But not 50 expensive az the
oranges, which Muscovites buy
without protest at fifteen or twenty
cents apiece.
Where the money comes from In
on.s of the mysteries of the ancient
capital.
Peanuts are cheap, but Russians
eat them raw.
Hickey .pokey ice cream Is an old
time favorite.
Cake peddIers push a brisk trade
in competition with candy statesmen.
All sorts of macaroons are es-
teemed highly-t these. too, OF gigan-
tic size Almond cakes average the
size of a plate.
None Of the fancy food, however,
EQUALS In impressive amplitude the
Moscow bread.
They bake 1t in 1oaves two feet
long, foot wide and eighteen
inches deep, with variation in
loaves the shape of wheel asout
large enough to take a Ford tire
The bakers hack it off two or
three pounds to the whack. They
haul it around the city in lumber
trucks. wide open to the air.
The new economic policy watered
a crop of street statesmen which
has grown too fast for the police
force. There Is no prohibition now
of this sort of private trading, but
peddlers are suppose to take out
licenses.
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Births, Marriages, Deaths
Phone Notices t. Main 900, Obituary Desk
Mas HnRAcE MEsTCOTT

Funeral services for Mrs. Horace
w. Westcott, fifty-nine years old,
who died yesterday at York Harbor,
Maine, will be held Wednesday at
$40 o'clock in Trinity Church, York
Harbor. Mrs. Westcott, who was
the wife of the prominent local real
estate dealer, had been III about 2
YEAR and had been taken TO YORK
Harbor in an effort to prolong her
life.
she was accompanied by Mr..
Westeott, DR.. John III. Lynos, well.
known surgeon. and staff Or
nurses. Her condition however, be.
came steadily worse, despite all that
medical science could accomplish,
and her life was despaired of sever.
al days before her death. Mrs.
Westcott had lived In Washington
nearly all her life and was prom.
inent in Capital society. She was
secretary Of the Children's Hospital
Board. and secretary Of the Diet
Kitchen organization. Her Wash.
ington residence was at 1870 SIX
tenth street northwest. She i sur
viyed By her husband and her
mother, Mrs. Terry s. Rogers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
\. c. PROPOSES
BAT TLEF|ELD
MEMORIAL
Old North State Plans Park
On Scene of First Revo-
Iutionary Fight
By r.. HI. FISHER
international News Service.

WILMINGTON. N. c., Aug. "a
Moore's Creek battle-ground. eigh-
teen miles north of here, which was
the site of the first battle IN the
Revolutionary War, will be convert
ed into a national park, dedicated
to the American public forever II
bill which Congressman Alternately.
of the Third Congressional District,
plans to introduce in the next Con-
gress Is accepted into law
The first battle of the Ravolu-
tionary War, was fought on this
historic thirty-acre plot. February
81, 1875. antedating Concord Ivy
nearly two months. 1t was Fere
that Private John Grady fell at
the first round Of firing and thus
became the first patriot martyr for
American Independence.
Congressman Alternately introduc-
ed a similar bill at the last meet
ing of Congress and his recon-
nendation was referred to the his
torical section of the War Depart
ment, which has asked that he sub
nit a brief of the battle and its
results, setting forth his reasons
into a national park Mr.. Aber-
nathy has prepared his reasons,
which are as follows:
State Reasons
81. Tangible trophies acquired by
the Patriotic army in Moore's Creek
battle included 1900 rifles, $50 guns
and shothags. $50 swords and dirks,
two medicine chests direct from
England, one valued at 800 pounds
sterling; 13 wagons. box of johann
mes and English guineas amounting
to $4,000 pounds sterling, and $50
common soldiers.
"2. The battle frustrated the
Kings expectations of enltStir@ aid
from the Highland settlers. broke
the morale of the Royalists and
thinned their ranks. dispersed their
clan and taught Toryism a potent
lesson,
"3. The union of the Poyalists
with the English forces was pre-
vented and the planned invasion Of
the State given it's death blow,
-. The success of the battle
came at the psychological moment
duce an ardor for fighting. give
triots and resulted in large en-
listments.
IS. Moore's Creek Battle was the
first victory gained by the Ameri-
can Army in the War If tha$ Revo-
luton.
IS. 1t gave impetus in North
Carolina to the cause Of Indapen.
dence and utterance of is prici.
pies"
Plan Ceremony
The brief has been drawn by
Mr. Alternately and will be pre-
scented to the proper officials, The
bill will be reintroduced at th@ mex.
session of Congress, and it is hoped
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
MARRIAGES LICENSES

Joseph Edward Lewis. n. ana Jean
nette Ray Thomasson, 49, The Rever-
end q. w Havel.
Robert Charles Gallagher. Is, and
Margaret E. Hartman Is. both Of
HyattsvilIe, Md The Reverend II F.
Downs.
Robert j.. Haggarty. 80, Of Detroit.
Mich. and Marion N. Burkss %, Of
Jessups Md. The Reverend j. Brooks.
Walter Al Barnes 21 and Nesbitt
Winn 10. The Reverend w. p. Jarvis.
Isaac W. Washington, 81, and Emma
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24

tion will be taken at Washington
before February 81 next year.
by Mr.. Alternately that definite ac-
vict DRY will be observed with elabor-
when the 150th anniversary of the
victory will be observed with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
In 1857, simple bloWnstone
monument was erected on the bat
tlefield to commemorate the victory.
There is another monument to
Mary Slocumb, heroine of the bet
tie and one of the most heroic
women of the Revolution. LsI
by the vision of dream of 4 bloody
body wrapped in her husbands
cloak, this woman rode all night TO
the scene of the fray. There she
ministered to, the wounded, al
though not knowing the fate IF her
husband. Captain Ezekiel SloCumb,
who had been hotly 1Nursuing the
fleeing Royalists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
BIRTHS

George II. and Othetta Il. james. girl.
Elmer r. and Elizabeth Wilmington.
girl
George III ana Jennie 81 Ashton.
girl.
Robert b. and Eunice Berberich. girl.
Joseph HI and Elizabeth ~ Reid
Joseph b. and Ellen G. Williams, boy.
william and Mary +. Beverley. girl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
WILL DISCUSS
INCOME TAX
ABOLITION
Arlington Citizens Group to
Consider Effects OF
Virginia Levy

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Aug. "a.
Abolition of the income tax in
the State of Virginia will be the
principal subject of discussion at
the meeting of the Arlington Cftl-
Gems Association in the schoolhouse
tomorrow night, President III. c.
Corbett announced today.
Build good roads and abolish
the abominable income tax and
Virginia need not worry about its
own citizens leaving for Florida
and taking money out of the
State,'' said Doctor Corbett.
"Citizens are being taxed to
death. Why an owner of a Ford
car pays $500 for a tag and in
addition pays personal property
tax, and if fortunate enough to
have sufficient income he is taxed
for having it. Let there be some
reform along these lines, not SO
much planning. and Virginia will
develop as she should"
Representative civic leaders OF
Arlington and Fairfax counties ANA
Alexandria City will meet at 4:3e
o'clock this afternoon in an effort
to decide whether the proposed
Washington-Coug belt line
railway will be of sufficient advan-
tage to warrant its establishment.
or will interfere with the regional
deS elopment proposed by the Ar.
lington County Civic Federation.
The meeting will be held in Room
c. II ir1xr frsR1
Cloyd Byars, chairman of the sub
committee of the Greater Arlington
county committee, said today that
there lis considerable opposition
throughout Arlington county to
building this line. The committee
hopes to report on the project az
the meeting Of the Civic Federation
September 1.
Arlington county has one of the
LARGEST criminal dockets in its his
tory, said Commonwealth Attorney
William G. Cloth today. With the
next term of the circuit court not
convening until the second Monday
in October there are now between
forty and fifty indictments, mostly
for violation of the prohibition
laws, but some for automobile
L4clbcs highway = OObS4y oAAA @AAu1-
inal assault.
Arrangements vFill be made st a
meeting of the Ladies Aid of Balls
tor fire department tomorrow TO
serve luncheon at the experimental:
farm Tuesday, September i. The
committee viii also determine Balls
tons part in the convention to be
he'd September 3, and 5 by the
Arlington and Fairfax Volunteer
Firemenss Association.
Among the subjects to be dis
cussed at the meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Lyon Park
Citizens Association in the Com
munity Center House, tomorrow
night at s o'clock, will be the build
ing of two-story business structures
which is being proposed along Fort
avenue 1t is understood consld-
cradle opposition to the building is
being raised by the residents in
that they were assured that Fort
avenue would not be used for a
business section.
Charged with Illegal possession
and transporting, Rome Baton and
Edward Henson were held yeste.-
day for the action of the grand
jury by Police Judge Harry r.
Thomas.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
SEEK MISSING BALLOTS IN
CONTESTED ELECTION

The Senate elections committee to-
day asked election officials in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, to make a thorough
search for the ballots in two pre-
cencts which are missing in the
Steck-Brookhart contested senatorial
election case.
With the recount complete i'm six
ty-fOur counties, Daniel Steck, Dem
ocrat, today had lead Of 1895
votes over Senator Smith w. Brook
hart. The, figures were Steck, 254,-
1853; Brookhart, 245, 903. A total Of
1884 votes has been challenged, of
which 4,538 were case for Brookhart
and / ,416 for Steck.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24

veys same property to Mary NJ. shan
non. $40 (114
lot 33-Wm. j. Father and VIM. II.
Walker. surviving trustee, to Joseph
A Donovan, $10,9 C23)
North of Elder st, west of 18th st.
NV; north of Juniper ST.. west of 18th
st. NV. Holly ST., between 18th and
14th SITS NV; north of Juniper st.,
west of Alaska ave NV, square PITS,
lots and 8; square 2774, lots l to
10; square PITS. lots IA, Is, 16. IS, and
10; square 1858. lots / to IL, 49, IA, 16
to 80, 40 to 46--Sixteenth Street
Heights Land Co.. Inc, to Henry l..
and Lewis 7. Breninger. $40. U46)
North of Taylor St, east of 18th st.
ne, square $500, lot Middaugh &
shannon, Inc. to Jesse r. Andersone
ct ux., Virginia M, $40. (149)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
IDA Il. cORLEY

Funeral services Tor MIS-. Ida e.
Corley, seventy-three years old,
who died Thursday in Hartford,
Conn, will be held tomorrow at
the chapel of Joseph GaWler's Sons
at III o'clock. Mr. Corley was vis-
fting her son, Foss #. Corley. in
Hartford, at the fine of her death.
She was the widow OF Joseph IL.
sCor1ey She Is survived by her
sons, Doctor Carl G.. CorIey, of this
city: Foss r.. Corley, Of Hartford;
n. T.. Corley. Of Smyrna. Del,
Jesse T. Corley. Of Los Angeles.
Cal. and Annes FL. Corley, Of VII.
Jamestown, Mass.
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RESSIE =. GOUIlD

Funeral services Tor Miss Bessie
". Gould, who died yesterday al
her residence, 1929 Oregon avenue
northwest, after long illness, Will
be held at Bethel Chapel, Va; to-
morrow at q p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-24
MRS. Lucy 3 BEEF MAN

Final rites for Mrs. Lucy BeeI-
man, who died Friday, were held
yesterday at her residence, 3S u
street northwest. The Reverend
Hugh Stevenson, pastor Of the Sec
ond Baptist Church. officiated. In
terment viii take place in Plymouth.
nEfo
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FLORISTS
matsr. y. rhs Rsyerena ]. 4. Mar.

waters. III The reverend ]. II. Mar.
Wa Walter p. Carter rs. and Matiida
q. Bowies, -. The Reverend q II.
Carl Cooper rs. and Nettie Embrey.
.af. both Oh FALMOUTH. Va. The Rev
Harry 5. Davis, 90. Of Frostburg,
Savage. Nd The Reverend .. w.
ALBERT victory Cameron. ~ Of Rai-
tfrnore. Md. and Ina Viola Putnam.
II, of Hume, VA. The Reverend II. ?.
Joseph Brocato 21. and Dorothy
Louise Gray. IFS, of Hyattsviile, Nd.
The Reverend HE Hennig.
Francis ". Davis. 2a and Della Mae
Carter 90 The Reverend Al j. Oida.
ernest Norman sanford g. and
Rebeeea Mcpherson Neff, 28 The
Reverend w. s. Abernethy.
DEATHS
Lucy r. BeeIman, 7s years. Homeo-
Elizabeth Clancy IS years, sibley
Emory winfield. a years, Freedmen's
STANLEY Branaon. IS years, Fresdman's
Hospital
James II. Mack. s5 years. 4ls Fourth
street northwest.
Jacob Il. Garner, a years Ga1iinger
H0spitaIs
Alice u Franklin, ; days, 1850 Church
northwenE
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Charged with Illegal possession
and transporting, Rome Baton and
Edward Henson were held yeste.
day for the action of the grand
jury by Police Judge Harry r.
Thomas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-29
On Mexican
immigration

r IN spite Of the desire of railroads, sugar
beet men, cotton growers and other big
employers for cheap and patient labor, it is
lean immigration is far from am unmixed
blessing.
Mexicans are now here to the number of
100000 and are pouring over the border at
a rate OF 10000 a year, forming the biggest
item of our national immigration total. That
they are not being assimilated is shown by
prison records, housing and health reports and
a general wall from social workers of every
city at all near the border.
The Mexican government realizes the stu
alton is an unhappy one. Mexico needs her ma
tionals for her own restoration. Moreover it
cannot but feel humiliation over the ~realiza-
ton that its citizens are wanted here for the
toughest sort of unskilled toll. The Mexican
consular Offices are kept busy with complaints
over the treatment of Mexican workers, manE
of whom become helots of labor, Ishmaelites
and outcasts in the most degrading camps of
the west.
How stop the flood? Not, to be sure, by
the sort of diplomacy that has characterized
our recent dealings with Mexico, or our i'm
migration dealings with Japan.
Americans, says DR.. David Starr Jordan,
have the best hearts and the worst manners
OF any race in the world. Fortunately a way is
at hand for dealing with our Mexican neigh
bors in both a kind and courteous manner. The
organized labor movement of both republics
are getting together with the hope that. some
gentleman s agreement may result under which
Mexico would halt the flood at the source.
Here is a real sign-post of progress. If
self-restraint can be imposed by a nation on it's
own restless nationals, a new era is indeed up-
on u.s. How much better, and possibly how
much more effective, would such a method be
than exclusion laws, quota regulations and
Keep Out signs along the border!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-29
"A Sermon for Today
BY Re-. John r. Gum

Text: Forgetting the things
which are behind. Phil. 1913.
i-1 HERE are things behind
which will hinder us, If we
- allow ourselves to be con-
tinually looking back to them, There
are the sins Of the past. Let them
be forgotten. We must not let an
act of the long ago poison u
present living. Let the dead past
bury it's dead. II we have sought
and obtained divine forgiveness and
made all PREPARATION possible, let us
consider those evil things Of the past
as the acts of some n elsa
weaker self that is now dead and not
the self that lives today.
A great editor once said, THE true
secret of editing. is to know what to
put In the waste basket" And so
one secret of fine and better living,
is to forget the old discordant
thoughts, depressing memories, mean
ambitions, false standards, low ideals,
unholy living and bad acts which be-
long to the dead and forgiven past.
The past is under the blood. The
cross covers our lives. Therefore.
forgetting the things behind, let us
press on. keeping a vigilant watch
against the dangers OF the present