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The Washington times., 1927-06-25
ABOUT DELANEY
AND A NATTY
UNIFORM

Emulating a traffic policeman
mas its advantages sometimes.
For instance, it Melted Charles
Delaney. screen actor, free cups
OF coffee, free smokes and Other
prerogatiyes that do not fall to
the average man. II he'd been
found out-he might have been
arrested for inpersonating an
OFFICER, too-but as 1t was the
other traffic policeman welcomed
him with open arms.
Delaney plays California State
traffic policeman in Metro-Gold.
wyu-Mayer's Frisco Sally Levy"
which comes to loves Palace
tomorrow for q weeks engage.
ment with Sally O'Neil in the
leading. role. During the famous
Pasadena Rose Tournament he
donned his uniform and escorted
Sally OsNeil in the float repre-
senting the studio, and which took
second prize at the affair.
After the parade, he dropped
into a restaurant and had a cup
of coffee. The proprietor refused
to charge him for it--and handed
him cigar.
On the street the Pasadena 20.
lice hailed him.
How many of the State police
did they send down from Sacra.
mentor" he was asked, ''and how
do you State boys like our traffic
SYSTEM" He bluffed his way
through the questions and made
q hasty getaway.
Delaney plays State policeman
In the story, laid in San Fran.
cisco. where State police patrol
outlying roads, hence his appear.
ance in southern California was
hailed as a novelty by the county
police of Los Angeles.
The new picture, directed by
William Beaudine as his first
under his new Metro-G oldwn,
Mayer contract, is a lifting ro-
nance of Jewish-Irish families in
San Francisco. Miss O'Neil and
Delaney play the principal roles:
others in the cast are Tenen
Holtz, Kate Price, Helen Levine,
Leon Holmes, Turner Savage, and
others of note.
The Washington times., 1927-06-25
Clean Plays Liked

Reports from the play bookers
who handle play releases for stock
companies indicate a wavering of
the pendulum of popular taste
toward thu more modest com.
edies and drama. The recent on.
slaught by the authorities on oh.
scene plays on Broadway has seen
a reflection in other cities in the
popularity Of cleaner plays. The
success here at the National OF
two revivals, "PolIyanna" and
"Peg o. Ny Heart" indicates a
support of this fhanrV
The Washington times., 1927-06-25

she dances-which ID abundant for
every day-but takes herself once
or twice daily, sometimes even
more often, to q capable masaeuse
TO be pounded and banged around
and generally limbered up and kept
in condition.
Il use this method" says Van
nessi, because It is the easiest
way to keep In trim. So much
easier than giving up things / like
to eat, or getting up early In the
morning and exercising violently.
So FAR 1t has sufficed. However,
Y ever began to gain more weight
than my nnasseuse could take care
OF, ia rather give up all food and
exercise every minute"
The Washington times., 1927-06-25
Blue Gets Cast

Several additions were made
this week TO the cast of "The
Bush Lacquer" Monte Blues
next starring picture now In pro-
duction at the Warner Studio.
William Demarest, Richard
Tucker and Bud Marshall were
signed to work In this baseball
story under the direction OF
Howard Bretherton. Leila Hyams
Is the leading woman and CLYDE
Cook has the principal comedy
part.
The Washington times., 1927-06-25

Observation-Disclosures stills
will be the star at Crandall's
Metropolitan Theater next week
IN First Nationals production of
Framed" directed bv Charles J.
Braban. The supplementary fea-
lures win include a new comedy
release. the latest compilation of
the specially assembled Metro
The Washington times., 1927-06-25

Mayors new Jewish-Irish 70.
nance playing Loew's Palace
Theater this week.
HoItz. as the tailor, had to press
pants and repair coats in the
tailor shop scenes. He succeeded
after practicing for q week IA
the studio tailoring shop.
The Washington times., 1927-06-25
Clever Mr.. HoItz!

Intensive study in pants-press-
ing was the education Of Tenen
Holtz, once leading man for NazI.
nova and Bertha Kalich. in pre-
pairing for his role in Frisco
Sally Levy" Metro.Goldwyn.
The Washington times., 1927-06-25
Comedy Find"

Franklin Pangborn, one Of the
comedy finds" of last year, has
been added to the supporting cast
Of The Rush Hour" Marie Pre-.
vost's newest starring picture,
which 3. Mason Hopper is direct
ing at the Metropolitan Studio.
The Washington times., 1927-06-25
CHESAPEAKE BEACH
ONE HOUR 70 THr sFAsnner

ONE HOUR 10 TIE SEAsHORE
BATHING, DANCING-ALL
ADJUSTMENTS
Round Trlp-:Adults. soc; ChIIdren's 2Sc
Trains leave District Line STATEN;
Saturdays-l0, y 80, $50, S:2S, 6. 9.
Sundays-s:3o, 80, 1850, 2:S0, 1:&S, 4
Other DaSs-iO. Use. also. SEQ. I.
FrsauSat Trains ROturnIns.
The Washington times., 1927-06-25
"Peg" Ran Long

In Burns Nantes Year Book
"Peg o. My Heart" is listed as
one of rs plays enjoying the long.
est runs on Broadway. Peg"
ran for 692 performances.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
FARM VALUES SHRINK 10 TO 2ORo

While record-breaking profits have been ooost-
ing the property of industrial capitalists to un-
heard of heights, while the wealth Of these multi
millionaires has been swollen by an orgy of stock
dividends, deflation has brought the value OF the
American farmers capital down 300 to level
whose real worth is 10 to 2o9o below prewar. Ihls
is the significance of the U. S. department OF ag-
rculture's report that farm real estate values on
March l, 1926, averaged 300 lower than on March
l, 1925, and that they are still shrinking.
The slump in farm values, according to the re-
port has hit the grain and livestock states OF the
middle west hardest. There have also been severe
declines in several mountain states and in certain
cotton states. Here is solid economic foundation
for the spread of radicalism among the farmers
of these sections.
at is estimated" says the report, chat the av-
erage value of farm real estate per acre in the
United States on March 1, 1926, was $76.47, COM
pared with S1O7.89 on March 1, 1920" The depre-
citation of the farmers capital in Iowa, Montana
and South Carolina amounts to approximately 40
&c, in Georgia 47@o Comparing the real value of
the farmers land today with the pre-war value
the report says:
"In relation the dollar, now worth in purchasing
power but 2-3 of its pre-war worth, farm real
estate was really worth in 1926 from 10 to 2090
less than before the war; although in terms of
current dollars is from one-fourth to one
third higher. The general price level as indicated
by the average of wholesale commodity prices has
for the last 4 years flucutated with relatively
narrow limits about 500 above pre-war, but land
values in 1926 were only $50 above and still
easing off,
The department estimates that in the IL
months ended March Is, 1913 farms out of every
thousand changed ownership because the farmer
went bankrupt The figure covers foreclosures
for mortgages, defaults of contracts bankruptcies
and transfers to avoid foreclosures but not forced
sales for taxes. The numbers of farms per 900
changing hands on this account are given for
various states as Massachusetts, 40; New York
1913; Virginia, 1873; California, 142 Washington
81 Georgia, 22.3; Wisconsin, 22.4; Oklahoma, PAL
Minnesota, 268; Iowa. 269; Nevada 300; Idaho
1916; North Dakota, 1853; ARIZONA, 48.1; South
Dakota, $685. Montana, COS.
The figures for the country as a whole means
that in a single year than 100000 farmers
lost their farms because they went broke If we
include the forced sales on account of delinquent
taxes averaging Al per 1000 farms, the number
Of farmers losing their farms on account of bank
ruptcy mounts to 10000. Such forced sales il
the Dakotas and Montana ran from so to 10 Of
all farms
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
KEEP YOUR EYE ON MEXICO
By VIM. BOUCK

The past year or so the Coolidge-Kellogg bunch
at Washington have been very attentive to Mexico
its oil that their bosses want-and no doubt
would have made some occasion to start trouble
down there before this had not Mexico been gov
eFned by very Progressive and very able men,
Forseeing that the United States would even
tually try to rush in an army and grab the oil
country for Rockefeller and other such legalized
bandits of the public domains of the. u S., Gales
president of Mexico and his advisers, put in force
an old provision of their constitution on the ques-
ton of taxation of churches and church schools.
This aroused the church in Mexico to vehement
protests at once, and their people in this country
took up the fight so that for months our country
has divided on the Mexican question The Cath
olics generally fighting Mexico and the Protest
ants generally standing for the Mexican govern
ment in the struggle.
While this is at its height, the Mexican admin
istration enforces the land act, which makes the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21

oil companies pay a royalty to Mexico on all oil
taken out of the ground-a good and just law.
At once the oil companies hollered for interven-
ton to keep them from paying honest taxes to
Mexico But lo the presidents hands are tied
If he does take up the cudgels for the oil mag
mates. as he would doubt like to do, he has the
whole Ku Klux and protestant bunch in the Unit
ed States on his back They shout Glands off, !"
and he is damned if he does and damned if he
don't because the K. C. and Catholics generally
want him to do so.
Now, behold, Providence has opened a way!
Down in Nicaragua an impostor grabbed the gov
eminent, started killing and robbing progressive
people, and the progressives organized and are
about to drive him into the ocean, But here was
the God-given opportunity: Mexico had recognized
the progressive government as they were the
rightful party who had the elections and were en-
titled to govern the country
So here a great chance Kellogg thinks
maybe everything is not lost. He sends cruiser
after cruiser down into the waters of struggling
Nicaragua "to protect American lives" he says
But that's bunk.
No. listen folks, watch close. If they dare you
will see another Maine. Some ship will be blown
up that's easy to procure. Immediately there is z
hue and cry: Down with Mexico they blew UT
} the (Maine)" and you and our boys and every sor
dick of US will be down and take the oil land.
for Rockefeller. Keep your eyes on Mexico!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press

BY LELAND OLDS, Federated Press
Frank acknowledgment that United States ma
rines are in Nicaragua as soldiers of the Ameri-
capitalist empire is coming with startling rap
idity Secretary Kellogg's small-boy attempt to
lie out of it only got him in deeper and the big
financiers in New York apparently decided to
brazen it out Pres. Coolidge is merely their
mouthpiece.
"Since we in this thing" said the Chicago
Journal of Commerce JAM 10, 1--WE may as well go
ahead But it is the part of sanity to recognize
that we have Numbered and that we are now by
bold action and OVERLOAD words attempting to re-
trieve our blunder"
That's version which ought to provoke dis
cussion in schools of capitalist morality 1t
was published just few hours before Coolidge
sent his Nicaraguan message to congress-
Pres. COolidges words to the white house cor
respondents Friday" says the journal, amounted
TO an open avowal of intervention. Two weeks
ago he was flatly declaring that we were in Mic
aragua for the sole purpose of protecting Ameri-
can life and property Now he admits that we are
definitely intervening; that we are in Nicaragua
In order to have the sort of Nicaraguan govern
ment we want"
The journal believes that such frankness wins
more respect than the hypocrisy of the last few
weeks 1t wants this frankness extended to an
explanation of how America got into the Nicara-
qua mess in the first place
Coolidge answered within a few hours The
essence OF his answer is in few paragraphs hid
den IN message which reads like petty law
yer's brief for the defendant. He says: "For many
years numerous Americans have been living in
Nicaragua developing its industries and carving
on business At the present time there are large
investments in lumber mining, coffee growing,
banana culture, shipping and also in general
mercantile and other collateral business There
is no question that if the revolution continues
American investments and business interests will
be very seriously affected, if not destroyed
The proprietary rights of the United States in
The Nicaragua canal route" he adds, with the
necessary implications growing out of it affect
ing the Panama canal, together with the obliga-
ton flowing from the investments of all classes
of our citizens in Nicaragua, places us in posi-
ton of peculiar responsibility"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21

Washington. OPP Provocatior
of the Mexican nation and govern
ment is the latest step taken by
Pres. Coolidge and secretary of state
kellogg in their program of seizure
Of Nicaragua in order to set up and
maintain there a regime hostile to the
Mexican liberal government.
Following the cabinet meeting of
Jan. 7 kellogg told the press that
"There is no doubt that Mexico sent
these military stores to the Sacasa
forces" When asked whether Mex
leans had not equal right with Amer
leans, under international law, to ship
arms to whatever political group in
Nicaragua they chose, kellogg replied
that "Under ordinary circumstances,
yes; but under existing conditions it
would be a most unfriendly act"
=
kellogg attacked Sen. Borah, who
issued statement saying that if the
United States were going to inter
vene at all in Nicaragua it should
send arms to Sacasa, who is the con-
stitutional president, and not to Diaz,
who is a rebel even though kellogg
has recognized him. Borah charged
that Diaz is maintained in office only
by force of foreign arms"
Coolidge through his mythical
spokesman, repeated to the press his
claim that he is simply protecting
American lives and property in Mic
aragua.
Sen. Wheeler, offering in the senate
the newspaper accounts of how Asst.
Sec'y Olds tried to persuade the press
associations to carry a charge-un-
supported by any evidence-that
Mexico's government is spreading
bolshevism throughout Central Amer
lea with the intention of threatening
the American position on the Pana-
ma Canal Zone, demanded that Kel-
log prove the story false or resign.
Wheeler urged that correspondents
of the Associated Press, the United
Press and the International News
Service, who were pledged to secrecy
by Odds, be SUMMONED before the SEN
ate foreign relations committee.
1t is reported that while the Asso-
ciated Press man, who published the
inspired article as Olds suggested
would refuse to talk, one of the other
men would tell the facts.
=
The facts that senators on the for.
eign relations committee linked the
Mexican with the Nicaraguan crisis
indicates that the administration!
pretense that Mexico is spreading boil
shevism in Central America is to b.
examined when Kellogg testifies
Kellogg has gone forward with hi
program of military seizure of Mica
ragua without once disclaiming belle
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
FARMERS MUST BUY WITH THIN
DOLLARS

The thinnest dollar handed out in 1926 went to
the cotton producer, according to a Sears-Roebuck
agricultural foundation survey of the purchasing
power of farm products. The price paid the cot
ton farmers fell far short of the prewar purchas-
ing power of bales of cotton compared with other
goods. Other farmers who received their 1926
reward in deprecated dollars include the produc-
ers of corn, hay, cotton and wheat
The wholesale prices of non-agricultural goods
averaged about $3.50 above prewar during 1926
while the general level of prices was about. 500
over prewar Where the farmer paid for goods
on a retail basis they cost him at least 1919 more
than in 1913. But if he counted on cotton to pay
his bills he was out of luck for the 1926 price per
bale was actually go below prewar. The founda-
ton reckons that his dollar worth only 6172c.
The following table shows the prices received
by farmers for their principal 1926 products using
the 19O9-1914 average as 1000, and the purchas-
ing power of these products compared with pre-
war;
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
WASHINGTON WEEKLY LETTER
STRIKE CLOUDS GATHER OVER Southeast ROADS

cd, and undeniably powerful. Traf-
fic is heavy. Stoppages are ruinous
to business. In the territory beyond
the Mississippi rail labor negotiations
are more abrupt, issues more sharp
" defined, and disputes lead to set
Element or conflict with full appre-
citation by each side of the motives
and power of the other. But in the
old South the brotherhoods are less
fully established, management is
more individual and autocratic, and
there is a historical contempt for
manual labor's status in discussion.
Only in recent years have a large
proportion of the colored men in train
service been supplanted by white
men who are eligible to membership
in the unions. And in the South the
best-unionized rail system, the South
ern, has a separate agreement with
the brotherhoods which does not ex-
pire until March.
If the rail managers of the coun-
try want to break down the working
rules, and if they have consulted as
between regional groups on strategy,
they must have picked the Southeast
for the fight. They face, however,
the fact that Union railroad men In
the South fight with reckless devo-
ton to their cause which seldom
knows when to quit. They face also
| the fact that the non-nion coal fields
of the South are now at the peak OF
prosperity, which will be interrupted
by any stoppage of train service or
the main lines involved in this dis
pute. If there is to be a coal strike
in the unionized fields at the north
due to refusal of the northern oper-
ators to pay the union scale, the
southern coal operations would be de-
prived of huge super-profits if they
could not ship coal during the price
boosting weeks before the miners &C.
tually stopped work, and during the
coal strikes continuance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
By LAURENCE TODD. F.P.

Washington (FP)- Twenty-Five
thousand members of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen and the
Order of Railway Conductors, en-
ployed on all class l railroads in the
southeastern region except the
Southern Railway, are completing a
strike vote. 1t is indicated that this
vote is almost unanimous, or at least
is overwhelmingly in favor of au-
thorizing strike in case the execu-
tives of the two brotherhoods shall
be unable to secure a satisfactory ad-
justment of the pending wage de-
mands.
Efforts of the U. S. Board of Med
diation, created under the Watson
Parker law, have failed to bulge
either side. The unions began by
asking that the wage scale be re-
vised to give an increase of about 81
day. The management led by the
"hard boiled" Louisville & Nashville
and the Atlantic Coast Line, refused
to discuss wages unless rules were
also thrown into debate. AS the rules
| are ndIlOldA1y uI4lOIIn dIlu do IllC
roads in eastern territory have re-
Gently granted wage increase with
out insisting upon changes in work
ing rules, the brotherhoods' repre-
sentatives have declined to talk of
modification of the rules. The dead
lock grimly declared by the managers
led to the taking of the ballot on
authorization of stoppage of work
For certain reasons this refusal OF
managers in the territory south OF
the Potomac and the Ohio and east
of the Mississippi to abide by rules
that are accepted by roads north OF
the Potomac and the Ohio is signifi-
cant of possible industrial war. The
history of rail labor negotiations il
Eastern territory is one of peace
The brotherhoods are old-established
conservative in statement and meth
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
PASSAIC FRAME-UP
VICTIM GOES INSANE

One of the II textile strikers held
IN New Jersey jails on allegedlv
"trumped-up" charges of bombing
has gone temporarily insane, reports
Hollace Ransdell, secretary Of the de-
Tense committee formed by the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union and the
international Labor Defense. The
man is Paul Kovac, who had three
ribs broken in police beatings, saws
Miss Ransdell, and is now in need of
medical attention and good food. His
life can be saved if $4,000 can be
raised for his bail, she declares. Ko-
vac has a wife and three small chill
dren. Miss Ransdell asks that Lib
erty Bonds be lent for bail, since the
bonding company in these cases has
refused ordinary notes. Return of
bonds is guaranteed by the joint
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
Orpheum Put on Good Picture
Sunday, "The VOIga BOatrnan .
Depicts Russian Scenes and Actions With Good Plot With
out AntBoshevistic Propaganda AS Is Usually Found In
Such Pictures-Not Commonplace Picture

American-made moving pictures
are exceedingly easy to classify.
There are the vulgarly sumptuous
films, designed to transport the pie
bian beholder into the intimate con-
facts of wealth on a vacation. There
are the sex adventure plots, always
more provoking in the bill boards
than in the actuality. These and
other types are so common as to Gre
ate among informed people an aver
sion to the screen drama in general.
One gladly notes a departure from
the dreary commonplace in "The Vol
ga Boaman," exhibited Sunday and
Monday last in the local theater. 1t
is rarely that movie producer dares
to deal with a socially doubtful sub
geet until it has so far passed into
history as to raise no eyebrows
among the elect. Yet in this very
hour, while Secretary Kellogg is
busily standing aghast at the "Red
Spectre in Mexico, De Miles fair
and sympathetic portrayal of the
russian Revolution is going the
rounds of American picture houses,
undOing the labors of the State de-
partment and its angry chief.
Bogey-men live long, if we'll fed.
Poor RObespierre has hardly yet be-
come human in the school histories.
Napoleon was a monster for a gen
Grafton after his death. Everything
that is now said of Lenine was said
of Washington in the best circles oil
Britain. "Republicanism" was breath
ed with the same angry shudder that
now attaches to the word "Commun-
ism on the lips of a patriotic prune
peddler.
There are no bogey-men in 1.-THE
Nolga Boatman" but merely two con-
tending social orders, their protogo-
nlsts become formidably tall by pas
sion and heroic effort and the rank
and file on each side convincingly
human in the mass. Revolution is
reduced to its simplest terms-reac-
ton against long-suffering of in
equality-and the two sides fight it
out. Reprisal and cruelty appear in
the smoke as justice, and there rs
the endless waste of war. The love-