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14 GENSOR'S SPECTER - STAMIPEDES STAGE Floodtide of Reform, Result|x of Daring, About to Strike Theater. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW' YORK, December 3.—Censor- ship, gaunt and puritanical, threatens the American stage. The reform forces ‘which have combined in an attack on the vile plays and revues produced In New York this season are In such full cry at this time that nothing short of a state censor is llkely to appease them. Theatrical managers have falled to heed the many warn- ing signs held up to them. They have insisted that the public wanted risque comedy and costumes as near the nude as artistic considerations would permit. The boldness of some ©f the producers has been little short of startling. But now they are In a fair way of reaping the whirlwind. Not only are the professional reformers aroused, but various church organizations which work quietly and without os- tentation, have taken a hand in the movement to clean up the state and it is not likely they will stop until the job is completed. A state censor here in New York would be the stage censor for the en- tire country because of the fact that svore than 90 per cent of theatrical yroductions nowadays &re planned and jut on in this city. The New stage has its_influe drama. A New is the halimark of dramatic quality. Lately it has been In too many instances the lalimark of indecency. ~So true s this 1hat most of the New York produc- 1ions have had to be toned down for the road. Two pieces which were not toned down recently were suppressed— cne in Philadelphla and one in_ Los Angeles. Many persons in the “busi- less” thought that nothing would shock Los Angeles, but “Getting Giertie's Garter,” after'an uninterrupted and unexpurgated run in the eastern 1:alf of the country, got the zoat of the Jome of ghe movies and the police stepped in Thomax' Power Limited. Augustus Thomas, the eminent play- wright, who a year ago was named as the Will Hays of the spoken drama, has not had the same right of censor. hip over plays that young Mr. Ha has exercised over movie productions. Jir. Thomas has been inclined to stand side and let the manasers try out #imost anything they wanted on the Jroadway “dogs.” Some of these dogs cre now about to turn around and bite them. In the extremity of the danger that confronts them the producers are clamoring today to have the citizens’ jury plan pluced in operation. They rralize that is the most liberal ele- inent in all the reform ideas which are abroad In the city. The jury idea was evelved something more than a year ago and was gencrally accepted (1 that time, both by the managers and by the officers of the Society for The Suppressio e It aso was sccepted commissioner | of Jicenses for his wuida DErmILs to vhouses to con- tinue in operation. The stage wasn't so very bad a year ago, and so the pian féll into innocuous desuetude, or something akin to that. Now the stage is about at the depths and the jury agreement has run out. The manigers want it re- stored at once and_Mr. Thomas is leading them in the hope that an ac tive jury may shut off the more furi- ous and narrow-minded of the re- form; Certainly the established wen and women are to be drawn has a liberal enough personnel. Prominent among th £ the list is Berna distinguished chairman _of the war industries board under President Wilson. It also includes Col. Tilling- L'Hommedieu Huston, until re- intly half-owner of the New York American League base ball team, a nan who believes in the doctrine’ of live and let live. Christopher Morley, crivener; Owen Davis, the play- wright; Mortimer Schiff, the banker; I'rince Pierre Troubetkoy, the artist; Will Irwin, the writer; Otto H. Kahn, iternational financier and head of the | atropoll Opera Company; these « some of the panel of 150 prom nt citizens suggested for jury duty. Manzgers Want Jury. today arve eager to at the mercy of the beg that someone protect ' the gathering storm show them, miserable sinners hey are just how they can put their | houses in order. Until this new stage arose there had been organized o pretty general demand for the bolishment of the state censorship f filmy It looks now as though 1hat molement was doomed to de- feat nnd\dlead the censorship may Le broaden\d to include every stage yroduction. Legislation to that ef- fect already (s being prepared for introduction at AL—ny. Under such « censorship the stage migat easily Jose much of its legitimate virility, hut the producers will have only themselves to blame. THRIFTON VILLAGE. THRIFTON VILLAGE, Va., Decem- her 3 (Special) —Aroused’ over the re- nort of Thomas C. Hendricks there was a movement on foot consolidate the post offices of the county into one main office, the Thrifton Improvement League at its meoting Monday evening went on rec- ord as opposed to any project that near the The m place th jury. The them from to would lessen the postal facilities of | Waterford; | Nichols, this part of the county and appoint- Mr. Kendricks as its representa. tive to confer with the authoritfes who have the matter in hand. A slgn bearing the slogan of the community, “Thrifton village, a good place to live. Tre highway at the entrance of Woodmont avenue, according to the report of the publicity committee, The meating. had under dfscussion the condition “of the raflway cross- ings at Woodmont avenue and Mackey street and reported poor pressure in the gas mains. The secretary was instructed to communicate the com- plaints to the proper authorities and request that immediate attention be glven in each case. A vote of thanks was extended the committee that so successfully man- aged_the first annual banquet of the orgatisation. The committee con- risted of S. C. Lizear, Mrs. S. H. York- dale and Mrs. Willlam B. Wright. At the next meeting of the league, to be held December 81, the annual election of officers will be held. Mrs. Catherine C. Mallon of this| plare dled Tnesday at Georgetown University Hospital after an {llness|on Wednesda: of several weeks. Services were held Friday morning at Ryan's undertak- fne mariors followed hy mass at Holy Trinity Church. Interment was at Jiount Olivet cemetery. is survived by her husband, John T. nce in granting | | i { 1 {have panel | mother, Mrs. Jennie Barber, Congress rom which the play juries of twelve | Helghts | 1 M. Baruch, | ! and ' Wr'ls avenue, had as their guests Mr. that McQuin's daughter-in-law, Mrs. furor against the| Washington and the Misses Bernice that | Loudeun county school board; G. H. has been erected on | SOtt i i i | i | Mallon, and two sons, Joseph C. Mal- Jon and John B. Mallon. | CAPITOL HEIGHTS CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., December 3 (Special).—Forthe purpose of pay- ing the debt on the fire apparatus for the local volunteer fire department, an entertainment will be held, under “he nuspices of the ladies’ auxiliary of *ke | ® department in Odd Fellows' Hall De- cember 10. A bazaar is to be held the evenings | contents of December 4 and 5, beginning at 7 | the robbers | ers, | cellville, and Jack Potterfield, son of | LABOR BANK TO GUARD INCOMING IMMIGRANTS New York Institution Established by Several Unions Will Be Opened January 5. By the Associated Pren NEW YORK, December 3.—New ork's latest union labor bank, de- slgned to protect immigrants from | being fleeced by sharpers, will be opened January 5, It was announced. 1t wiil be known as the Interna- tional Union Bank, and the unions concerned in its formation _include the International Ladies Garment Workers, fur workers, cloth hat and | cloth cap makers and the fancy leather goods workers. Departments for those speaking Yiddish. Russian and Italian will be | maintained solely for advising the immigrants in business investments. A circular issued by the bank di- rectors states that the recent dis- closures before a legislative commit- tee that newcomers are defrauded annually of millions of dollars was one of the prime reasons for estab- lishing the institution. The circular points out that immi- grants have parted with their hard- earned savings to buy the Brook- lyn bridge and ‘choice lots” of land ! later found to bLe six feet under water. | EDMONSTON., BEDMONSTON, Md., December 3 (Speclal).—The Parent-Teacher Asso- clation will serve an ovster supber in conjunction with the bazaar to be held {n the new Odd Fellows' Hall in Hyattsville Saturday evening, De- | cember 8. The bazaar will be held at 2:30 and the oyster supper served | friom 5 to 8 p.m. The proceeds will: be used for the plano fund. There will be dancing after the supper Miss Rosella McLeod will furnish the | dance music. The prettiest young | lady present will recelve a prize. The following committees have charge of the affair: Purchasing, Mrs. | Kinjiro Matsudaira; decorating, Mrs. | Wililam 'S. Danfer (chairman), Mrs D. Hazen McLeod and Mrs. Joseph | Sulllvan; candy, Mrs. Fay (chair- man), Mrs. McGregor, Mrs. Relves, the Misses Alice Norris, Marion Eb- erle, Alice Uhrick and Mary Tarvers: bazaar, Mrs. Turner (chairman), Mrs. Angelier, Mrs. Charles Ritchie, Mrs Downiss'and Mrs. Bartoo: oyster sup- per. Mrs. Granberry (chalrman), Mrs D. Hazen McLeod, Mr Grover C. Shoomakee, Mrs. Samucl | Smith and Mrs. Pyle; waltr s, the Misses Ellen Matsudaira, Louise Tharpe, Hazel M Leod, Mary Smith Helen Hiser, Josephine Hill, Eliza- beth Webb and Roberta Webb; fce cream, the Misses Maggle M. Travers and Minnie Plansoen’ cigars and to- bacco, Mrs. Marion Page, Miss Loulse | West ‘and Miss May Sikken i Fifteen young men of Edmonston | have organized a cludo to be known | as the Red Star Order of Clansmen The officers are Naptain, secretary. | treasurer and cook. It is somewhat | of a secret order, but the members do | not maek. They hold business meet- ings each Saturday, these meetings being held in a cave which Is now un- der construction. Funds raised through the payment of dues will be used for campiag purposes next sum- | mer. Mrs. Leo Y. Love, Guy avenue, has returned home from a Washington hospital and is now convalescent Miss Rosella McLeod, Prince George street, has returned after a visit to | the Misses Leonla and Nan Simms, Alexanaria, Va. Mr. and’ Mrs. Kinjiro and ramily, Wells avenue, ed at dinner Thanksgiving, Mrs sudaira’s brother-in-law and Arnold, Mrs Matsudaira entertain- Mat- sister, { Mr. and Mrs. James M Chisholm, flnd“ their son of Washington. Mr. and_Mrs. Vail S. Canfield and ' children, Guy avenue, have moved to | Washington for the winter. They will | reside with Mrs. Canfield's sister, Mrs, Mable Pollman. They expect to Teturn in the spring Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. daughter Miss Gertrude, been visiting Mrs. Ripple and uy avenue Ripple’s | Mr. and Mrs. William $. Lanier, Gu avenue, entertained at Thanksgiving dinner Mrs. Lanier’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S | Lockhart and their children, Eugenie and Robert, of Richmond, Va Mrs. William Gillooley of Washing- ton has been visiting her sister-in- law, Mrs. William T. Page, Wells| avenue. | Mr. and Mrs. John Salzman, Prince | Georges county, have been visiting Mr. Salzman's ' brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John McDevitt of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Franke of Washington have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Silvey, Taylor avenue r. and Mrs. Charles F. Luebner, ¥ s neenue entertained at Thanks- giving dinner Mr. and Mrs. Edward .t tneir daughter Miss Eliza- Turner. B. M beth My McQuin and daughters, Alli- and children of Ken- Or. Edwin C. Barsto of son B. McQuin, sington, Md.; and Adeley Andres of Washington. Mr, and Mrs. E. McDearmon and family, Guy avenue, entertained at Thanksgiving dinner Mr. and_Mrs. Grover White and Mr. Charles White of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown, Charles street, visited their son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burns, Alexandria, Va. 1 LEESBURG. i LEESBURG, Va., December 3 (Spe- | clal)—Those from Loudoun county | attending the educational conference | at Richmond this week are O. L. Em erick. division superintendent; Miss Pearl Coffey and Mrs. Marianna Me- Gee, rural supervisors; C. J. Ford i and Dr. C. E. Brown. members of | Virts, representing Milltown Commu- | nity ‘League, and Mrs. Gulick, repre- senting Lenah Community League. The teachers in attendance are N. C. | Starke, Ashburn: B. A. Brann, Flor- | ence Fray. Round Hill; C. D, Rainey, | J. 8. Simpson, Gladys Lucketts; —Gladys _Grove, Brooklyn: C. W. Hudson, Unison- | Bloomfield; Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Sand- | Sarah Cox, Susie Trussel and! Constance Welsh, Lincoln: Janle | Garthright, Woodburn; Myrtle Pig- | Siléott _Springs; ~ Elizabeth Thomas. Lllen Metzger and Bianche | Anderson, Leesburg; M. B. Costello, Mount Gap; Evelyn' Adams, Purcells ville, and Elizabeth Robinson, Ar- lington. | The report of the Loudoun Valley Cow Testing Association for month of October has just been made ublic: number of cows tested dur- ng the month, 583; number of herds, 19; best individual cow record, milk, 1,058 pounds; butterfat, 69.8 pounds: owned by W. L. Simpson, Purcellville, Va. For the best herd record, aver- age milk, 629 pounds; butterfat, 30.4 pounds; owned by L. Clark Hoge of | Leesburg, Va. But six unprofitable cows were sold during the month. Miss Marguerite J. Hirst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Hirst of Pur- che Mr .and Mrs. H. T. Potterfield, were married in the presence of a few friends and relatives in Warrenton at high noon. Rev. | Charles Herndon performed the cere- mony There were no_attendants. Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs, Potterfleld left for a wedding tour, and Mrs. Mallon | upon their return will reside in Lov- ettsville, where the groom is engaged | in business. BRENTWOOD. BRENTWOOD, Md., December 3 (Bpecial)—Robbers _broke into Max | Hoffman's store Wednesday night. Aroused by the crash of broken glass, | Mr. Rocker, a nearby resident, rushed to the scene and frightened two un- identified men away by several pistol | hots. The timely arrival of Mr. Rocker prevented any further loss than the of the show window, though succeeded in ' making | o'clock, by the Baptist Church. There [aWay with practically everything in will be a fine display of handiwork | the window. and other attractions, Capitol Helghts' handsome new bridge at 6lst street and Chewton avenue will be opened Saturday, De- The mayor and councll meet next Wednesday at the office of Mr. Meyers. Announcement of a new health officer is expected to be made at that meet- cember 15, 1t is hoped. In connection§ing. THE PACKER WOULD END U.S. BLOG MUDDLE' T. E. Wilson Says if Cliques Were in Business They Would Be Under Fire. Special Dispatch to The Star, CHICAGO, December 3.—What does the head of a big Industrial or busi- ness firm think—in business terms— of the so-called bloc muddle that confronts the Sixty-eighth Congress, which convenes Monday? That question was asked by the correspondent today of Thomas E. Wilson, president and actual direct- ing force of one of the four biggest food-producing concerns in the world. His answer was brief: “Better application of business prin- ciples, a more conscentious exercise of the franchise, particularly by the many thousands who loll back and let George do the voting, elimination of the professional politician as much as is humanly possible, and perhaps only a single but longer term of service for legislators. That ought to help a lot.” Systems, Not Persons. Mr. Wilson nphasized that any eriticlsm he would make would ap- Ply more to present systems and long- established customs than to individ- uals speeifically, Washington dispatches say that there are something like elght or ten different bloes in the coming Con- kress,” continued Mr. Wilson, “and that they are all puiling and hauling this way, that way and both ways. Now the United States government is about the biggest business tion any one knows of. Of course, it | would be Impossible to run the busi- ness of the government exactly on Luiiness lines, but certainly more business system could be injected. “What would I or any other busi- ness man do if as many cliques de- veloped in my busine tion there are blocs in Mr. Wilson stuck out a pugnacious jaw that is not so pugnaciously notlceable when he is smiling. “I would take the situation by the neck and do it quickly,” “was his an- “wer. “Any other business man with Se at all would do the same And. in spite of the fact that t different in govern- nt, the voters of this country have means of taking the situation or the individual by the neck and chang- ini things for the better.” Country's Condition Better. Mr. Wiison said he he spoke for others as well timself when he said that after all the very worst had been said and ite of the mixed situation the country was far bet- than any one thought s possible twenty months ago iness men. certalnly those in the and middle west, he added, be there is too much of a tonalism in Cong that weak spot. as the others, in his he more easily solved with the injection of the newer and better repective of the milllons of woman rs into the coming campaign The one-term idea is more or less of a +thinking ont loud” proposition, i1 Mr. Wilson. but he believes that t ia worthy of the deepest consid- eration. CHERRYDALE. CHERRYDALE, V: December (Special).—The Inauguration ~ of mbership drive and the filling of eral vacancies in the staff of of- flcers was the princinal business he- fore the meeting of Cherrydale Lod No 879, Loval Order of Moose, held Tuesday cvening at Firemen's Hall ew officers appointed by Director F. W, Crown were John Shaw as orator, Thomas Leigh as Sergeant-at-arms. Joseph S. Reif as inner guard and Charles A. Luge as outer guard The membership drive will be con- Aucted by three teams, designated as Purity, Aid and Progress, all of the words of which when combined form the slogan of the order, and will run over a period of ninety days. The teams are constituted as follows Purity, T. F. Horner, captain; Thomas Leigh, lleutenant; John Wolfe, Robert Sherman. C. Vermillion, jr; J. D. Shaw and B, F. Lusby. Afd, John A. captaln: Clifton Reld, lleu- D. Hastings, Charles Luge, James ilo andf R. phrey. Prog Richard Letgh. cantain; R. D. M:Pherson, licu- tenant; E.J. Matroni, J. H. Brown, F. W. Crown, Wallace Mauck and J V. Giovianazzo Banquet for Winners. To stimulate Interest among the team members ft was decided that the team having secured the largest number of members at the close of the drive will be banqueted at the expense of the other two teams, while the captain of any team bringing In twenty-five or more members will be presented with either a gold watch or ring bearing the emblem of the order. The next meeting of the Junior Or- der of American Mechanics is an nounced for this evening at Firemen's all. 3 John W. Hu Cherrydale Lodge, No. 42, A. F. and | A. M., will meet in regular session Thursday evening at Firemen's Hall, at which time the M. M. degree will | be conferred. A plea for strict enforcement of the Volstead act and the laws in regard to the sale of clgarettes to minors is contained in resolutions adopted by the Cherrydale League of Women Voters at a meeting held Monday evening in the school auditorfum. The meeting also discussed at length the equal rights bill, child labor and di- vorce laws. At the next meeting, it was announced, the league will have as its principal topic for discussion { “The Advisability of Uniform Divorce Laws,” and the members were re- quested to fully inform themselves on this question in the meantime.” 10-HOUR WORKING DAY " GAINS RUHR SUPPORT u,,!l!niuns Show Signs of Dropping | Fight to Keep 8-Hour Sched- ule Effective. By the Assoclated Press. DUESSELDORF, December 3.— Large numbers of workmen in sev- eral of the Ruhr factories have con- tracted to work ten hours a day, and | some of the unions are abandoning their hitherto uncompromising sup- | port of the eight-hour day, leaving | the workers free to do as they choose. The German metal workers' unfons, however, decided yesterday to fight | to_the last for the eight-hour day. The French authorities here an- nounced today that contracts by the octupation regime with the Ruhr in- dustrialists are continuing to be signed under the same terms as those | recently | of the group agreement brought about and that 65 per cent of the Ruhr mines are now in con- tractual relatiis with the Franco- Belgian economic authorities. ASKS NEW YORK PRIMARY. NEW YORK, December B. Murtha, organizer of the Hiram Johnson for President Club, an- nounced yesterday he had sent to H. Edmund Machold, speaker of the New York state assembly, a letter asking his support in giving New York a preferential presidentfal primary law, ““The enactment of a preferential primary law by the legislature will revitalize " the "republican party in New York! Mr. Murtha said. “Give the people the primary, then we can place the name of Johnson and any other candidates for the nomination before the republicans of New York." EVEENING STAR, WASHINGTON, proposi- ! belleved thet | as.for | opinion. 3.—Arthur | D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1923. iScientists Make Both Rock and Minerals Like Mother Nature’s in Day Steel ‘Bombs’ Aid Magic Feat of Transmutation. in BY HAROLD K. Synthetic minerals, to be followed in a few months by synthetic rocks —man-made reproductions of mother earth’s finest workmanship manufac- tured in less than a milllonth of the estimmated time required by nature herself. These are the latest won- ders of modern sclence. They are the fruits of years of pa- tient research and laborious hours in the laboratory; of hazardous experi- ments with powerful machines capa- ble of exerting pressure of 200,000 pounds to the square inch—all car- ried to their present stage of success at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington To manufacture minerals and rocks, science is simply duplicating nature’s processes, but is accomplish ing the same results on a much smaller scale, of course, in a single { working day.” Nature took bewilder- ing ages and smelted her wonders in the vast forges of the earth: sclence is fabricating its coples in a few highly polishcd and innocent looking little steel “bombs.” = Duplication of Mineralx. the minerals thus far at the geophysical are the silic of lime, alumi- {na and magnesia. For example, alum- inum silicate, one of the components of porcelain; caleium ortho-silicate, which is an important element in Portland cement; quartz, the natu- {ral product of which is now being |used for the manufacture of erys- | tal beads; cristobalite and tridymite. which have exactly the same chem- fcal components as quartz, but are {totally different in appearance, | jadeite, an import ituent popular in commercial Jew- PHILIPS. I du- | o and statu Soon the bure plans to conduet experiments that will result in the manufacture of kranite, exactly the same rock that is used for building purposcs and tombstones. It simply RiF Do the next step forward in the Taboratory s series of experiments. { Having duplicated ature in the { manufacture of minerals, it will now | combine these minerals to genuine | rocks, the most important materials | forming _granite being quartz, feld- spar and mica. Heat and Pressure Used. Mother earth manufactured her min- d rocks, sclence has learned, of extreme heat and extreme | | erals I by mea | pressure. used at the First the materi {tained in the mine {are poured into a pure platinum, sealed by solid gold. is then sealed and this contain the “bomb.’ Thie “homb’” is made of the finest steel obtainable. Its aperture is small and its walls extreme.y thick in compari- son, all making it standing the terrifice tests it is about to undergo. A small electric furnace, made of the same, although impure, constituents of rubies, is placed in the “bomb” and the apparatus sealed. Then it is ready for the ordeal of sear- ing heat and gigantic pressures. Both are applied sgradually, the heat sometimes being permitted to register as high as 2,500 degrees laborato to be c ‘experiment made of wiich s - opposite end er placed geophysical Known und. tube Fahrenheit and the pressure as much as 60,000 pounds to the square inch. Gradually the gauges cresp up, and up and up. Suddenly thev relax and the pressure drops. ‘The watchful attendants know mething” has happened inside the bomb and the heat and pressure are quickly turned off. When the platinum container is cut open the mineral particles or rocks, whichever the case might be, are tound inside. Coples Often Purer. Not only are these materials the replicas of nature's own products, labora- | and | of | That is about the oniy process | capable of with- ! Instead of Ages|,.. x | uxing the same kind, but in many instances purer—com- | pietely free from the discoloring im- purities that are found in the natural originals. For instance, the jadeite | made at the geophysl laboratory of the Carnegie Institution is light yellow in color. Natural jade is green. The green coloring. however, is supplied by an impurity, d the ynthetic jade readily could be made the same shade by including the im- purity in its constituents. | Science has gone nature one bet- | |ter in its experiments. It has dis- jcovered that by injecting more water | {into the rocks it can make them sus- ceptible to bending—gelatin like. If! siill more water i3 forced into them under heat and pressure they are quite readily reduced to liquid— liquid rock, in fact. But when the uninitfated to the laboratory such ugh hy. about cisitor eves in . the quite 1 ay iarkable iigh pres disproved some old theories. The [first is" that water cannot be com- pressed. Science has discovered that Water can not only be compressed. but that under a pressure of 130,000 pounds to the square inch it freezes into a cake of ice 80 thickly con- densed that it sinks like & rock in sure have also | |in” that respect. Lower: The million-ton press at the geophysical Iaboratory of the Ca e Institution of Washington, that ix used for making synthetic minerals and rocks. Here it in xeen exerting a pressure of 200,000 pounds to the square inch in a steel “bomb,” the smaller cylinder at the bottom. Upper: The croax scction of a thin Iayer of rock, magnified more than forty times, The figurex that resemble the work of than a masterplece of nature represent the mother earth manufactured the rock. B, futurixt artist mere ifferent minerals with which studying these materials and then bi heir own roeks, water. Mercury, too—tiie “‘unfreez- able” mineral uged in thermometers— can be frozen under 170,009 pounds to the square inch Nature’s Work Cheaper. Science has yet to learn, however, to licate the wonders of nature at the ame cost before it can compete with her in the commercial world. Mother Earth can do her work so vastiy cheaper than man that there is no comparison For_instance, if you were determined to have a synthetic d | tombstone, science could probably make you a_ granite one—but it would cost something like a billion dollars. For- tunes spent in research work and past experiments must, of course, be figured in *cost production.” " The important fact, however, is that man can now make granite. Of far greater laborator seisme ulted i mine accy 3 rious kinds peed with value for the present contributions to the oy sel being able the flexibility f rocks and, the which earth- € quake Thus, by tming the earthquake wave at different stations it is_now possible for the experts to say with assurance of accuracy just what kind of rocks lie buried far be- yond the reach of man in the respective areas. passage of an - CULPEPER. CULPEPER, Va., December 3 (Spe- clal).—Mrs. George Scott Shackleford iscued invitations for the mar- B e of her duughter, Margaret Wil- son_ Shackelford, to Frank Stringfel- Tow Walker of Woodberry Forest, Madison county. The ceremony will take place Wednesday evening, De- cember 5, in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church_in,Orange and will be fol- lowed by a reception at Greenock. The bride-to-be _is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Shackelford and the late Judge George S. Shackelford and & lineal descendant of Thomas Jeffer- son. R. A. Graves, a well known or- chardist of the Syria section, has the Qistinction of winning almost every i prize given on apples at the recent | Orange county falr, having taken | firsts for the best box of Winesaps, | for the finest basket of Winesaps and | for the best barrel of the same va- | rlety. He also won_first prize for ! the best barrel of York Imperials, | best barrel of Albemarle Pippins and Ben Davis, and seconds on the best | | { | | plate of Fallowater and several other' varieties. e holarstip to the University of Virginia is_being offered by Paul Goodloe MeIntire of Charlottesville %o the most capable boy in the grad- uating classes of the eight accredited high schools of Albemarle county. { The exact basis of the competition by which the ablest graduate will be | 8¥termined will be worked out by the | school authorities, with the assist- ance of the department of psychology of the university. An interesting historical program | was given at the meeting of the Cul- | poper Mirute Men Chapter, Daugh- i he American Revolution, held Mrs. W. W. { ters of t Monday at_the home of | Chelf on East street. Gen. Lafayette, together with an ac- count of his visit to Culpeper and en-| tertainment here in 1825, was read by Miss Kate Flint Perry. An original fetter written by Maj. John Roberts {of the Continental Army in 1780 to | his father, living then in Culpeper, | | was read by Mrs. J. J. Roberts, who | also read an account of the last days | of Bettie Washington Lewis, which Were spent with relatives in Cul- per county. P the marriage of Miss_Virginta Mansfield Boxley to\N. De Witt Farrar, which took place last week in the Presbyterian Church of Orange, Mrs. Willlam _Clive Boxley, the mother of the bride, was matron of honor. There were a number of |other attendants, and Mr. Angus {Nichols of the University of Vir- | ginia was best man. A reception | followed at Red Bud, the Boxley home near Orange. Many Hunting Licenses. Six hundred and seventeen hunting licenses were issued in the county clerk’s office for hunting in Culpeper county, eighty-elght for hunting in 1 A sketch of ! under the head of ‘“non-resident,” which brings this years complete list of licenses far aheada of that of any previous vear. Cards have been recelved announc- ing the marriage of Miss Anna Vir- ginia Utz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Ufz, to Robert Eimo Ryan, which took place on November 14 in Baltimore, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan will make their home in Washington. As A. C. Richards, who lives near yria, was returning from Orange with ' seven persons. including his wife and family, in his car, he rounded Lyne's hill in the dark and at a rather high rate of speed, when the car took the drop of tiwenty feet over a culvert head on. The car was almost completely demol- ished and all of the party was badly shaken up and bruised, but no one seriously injured. The compiete dispersal sale of the Holstein herd at Milford Farm, near Somerset, was attended by dairymen and breeders from many parts of this state and from North Carolina, and on several occasions there was spirited bidding between buvers from the sister states. Clothilde Soldene de Jasper topped the sale at $265, and several others brought prices al- most as good. The ~Thomasville Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville, N. C., secured four head, and R. Lee | Graves, a Culpeper dairyman, five | head of these pure bred cows. A large polecat, which was slaugh- | tering fowls at a rapid rate, was | found In the hen house of Mr. W. V. { Bowers, near Madison Run, on Sat- | urday night, and was killed by him land " his helper, James Mcintire. { Fourteen hens had been killed by the cat, which was of large size. State Senator N. B. Early was acci- dentally shot by his young son when the two were gunning for birds. The uena-l tor was concealed from the younger hunter by some underbrush and re-| ceived almost the full charge of the gun in his neck and shoulders, without | serlous injury, however. —_— ENDS LIFE IN COURT. German Had Just Been Sentenced to Penitentiary. BREMEN, December 3.—Upon hear- ing himaelt ~sentenced to _twenty months in the penitentlary for re- icefving stolen property, the manager of a cotton company shot hmself dead before the court. He was one of a number of per- sons upon whom sentences were pro- nounced in connection with a big cotton robbery case. In all thirty- five persons were involved. WOODMONT MEETING. The Woodmont Citizens' Associa- tion will meet Tuesday evening, De- comber 4, in the schoolhouse. An in- vitation Is extended to every citizen. ‘The alm of this organization is to en- courage and promote the general ad- the state, and a number of others yancement of the community, BALLSTON. BALLSTON, Va., December 3 (Spe- clal)—Miss Ruth Cathcart, who 1% home from Jenkintown, Pa., for the Thanksgiving vacation, was given an old-fashioned surprise party Wednes- day evening, when eighteen of her friends came in unannounced, with masks and robes. Music, dancing and games kept the voung people busy till midnight 3 The young people of Mount Olivet Church’ Soclety presented the “Wom- anless Wedding" at the First Church, Washington, Tuesday evening. and repeated the entertainment Friday evening in Mount Olivet M. P. Church They were greeted with good audi- ences at both entertainments. Don R. Cble is the newly appolnted agent for the mail route. The Ladies' Aid Society of Central M. E. Church held a successful meet- ing Wednesday with Mrs. Norman Bladen of Ballston avenue. Thanksgiving services were held if | Mount Olivet M. P. Church, and an earnest sermon was preached by Rev. C. A. Yorke. : Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Small, who have been in St, Petersburg, Fla., for the past two months, have returned to their former home near this town, M. David Dubb, who has carried on a successful grocery business here for a number of vears, has sold his store to his brother, Henry Dubb of Baltimore, who will continue the business. Messrs. White, Heacock and Echols were in Warrenton, Va., this week hunting. The regular meeting of the Ballston Citizens' Association, which was to have been held Tuesday, was post. poned_till the evening of December 1L The scavenger service is the question to be discussed, and a full attendance of voters is requested. MISS MACBETH HAS TWO OPERA ROLES IN DAY By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, December 3.—Miss Flog- ence Macbeth, colorature soprano wit) the Chicago Clvic Opera, Saturday did what historians at the _Auditorium Theater sald was without precedent, at least, in recent years. he sang an important role in the production of two different operas. Forgetting this afternoon that she is an American girl, she became for a few hours the daughter of an admiral in the days when Vasco De Gama, an cxplorer, was winning renown in Portu- gal, and tonight, laying aside the after- noon's role in Meyerbeer's opera, “L'Africana,” she became Gilda, the daughter of Rigoletto, the hunchback jester at the menage of the Duke of Mantua, in Verdl's opera, “Rigoletto.” “It is rather difficult,” was Miss Mac- beth’s comment on her- achievement, “but, after all, there would have been difficultles In changing the schedule.” a pressure of | experiments | waves pass through each kind. | JAPANESE PRIMA DONNA DIVORCED BY HUSBAND lura Declares Noted Physi- clan and She Agreed to Marital Break. By the Amociated Press. DES MOINES, Iows, December 3.— Mme. Takani Mtura, Japanese prima donna, announced here she had re- ceived word that her husband, Dr. | Masataro Mtura, noted Japanese | physiclan, had been granted @& |divorce from her in the courts of | Tokio, Japan. Mme. Mtura is here | with an opera company, to sing in | the title role of “Madame Butterfly,” tonight. The divorce, she sald today, |was_the result of a mutual agree- ment between herself and her hus- band, who is one of Japan's most noted physicians, a postgraduate of Yale University, holder of a pro- | fessorship in Tokio University and internationally famous as an experi- menter with vitamines. Talking through an interpreter, she explained that because she {s fol- { lowing her art in the western world {and her husband is kept at home j with experiments and scientific study, |they ~agreed some months ago,| {through several interchanges of let- | ters, that a separation was advise | abie. A | _Dr. Miura, his former wife said, h’] They had no | | about forty’ years old. children, They were married eight | |years ago, following Mme. Miura's | | graduation from a Japanese music| | conservatory. ! BERLIN SEES SLIM HOPE FROM HUGHES Philadelphia Speech Shows ' U. S. to Stay Aloof, View | of Junker Press. i | i By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 3. — Secretary Hughes' Philadelphia speech, Cuhl("i‘ here in brief form, draws a terse: critfeism from the conservative and | Junker organs, which querulously com- plain that the utterances of thel American cabinet chief provide no| concrete help for Germany in her present sorry plight The conservative says Mr. Hughes' viously intended as Is regrettable that *“ mains under the influence of Zr:nch | propaganda_and fails to recognize that mnot France but Germany Is threatened and needs security for the future. Tages statement Zeltung | is ob-| but it | igton re- Hits Polneare View. i “If what Poincare understands by security becomes a reality, namely, | the complete and permanent subicc- | tion of Germany under America’s toleration,” the newspaper adds, “ail good wishes for Germany's prosperity amount to naught.” saye the speech was the “Wil- sonian type.” and the monarchist Reichsbote exclaime bitterly: “Amer- fcan statesmen are fond of making high-flown speeches, but when ‘hey come to deal with Poincare's tyranny and oppression of a defenseless peo- ple they shrug their shoulders and say that Europe is none of their business, notwithstanding the fact that America by its participation in the war plunged central Europe into misery." The Vossische Zeitung, the only other commentator, declares the speech is the starting peint of a_new Ameri- can peace policy for Europe, and emphasizes the imporiance of the fact {that France and Great Britian have | been d he recognition of the | neces: piying new methods | n solution of the repartion problem. of The Boersen Zeitung tion of Secretary Hughes' speech is that it shows “clearly the United States is keeping a watchfu. interest- ed attitude, America’s solicitude, says the paper, ‘remains as before, mainly concerned ' with military armaments. If | the race for armaments is not halted, then the United States “will simply interpreta- | jto catch their breath and The Pan-German Duetsche Zeitung | Sees Watchful Policy. |r e e CRUZE GETS TOP SALARY IN MOVIES Former Star Has Five-Year Contract at $6,000 a Week Directing. Special Dispatch to The Star, LOS ANGELES, December 3.—~Who draws the biggest salary In the movies? Not such a hard question to an- swoer, perhaps, but for the wild stories of the press agents, who dream In German marks and write the result down in doliars, and whose lightest achievement is the making overnight of millionaires of even the child stars Now that the movies have paused the big producers are bitterly railing at higt salaries. which, they declare, must come down, the truth about ealaries in the movies, and whether or not they are extravagant or well earned, takes on new interest. Who, then, does draw the biggest salary in the movies? Even the bes informed film fan might never guecs and the information may bring i appolntment 1o some of the Stur wo shipers. The real inside information, ined from those who actually know that James Cruze the director, is he highest straight salaried long m contract individual directly en- ged in the making of pictures to- daa, He draws §6,000 a week, under a five-year contruct which has about four-and-a-half years to run Thriil In Taken Off. Dosen't sound &o startling after ading about a $1,000 x Jackic Coogan and er 300,000 for baby Goofy, t was never as en Munchausen but a s Lning Baroi 4 10t of money wien yo hat Jimmy Cruze gets his in cash and not in conversa- tion, There may protit mor be others who stand to a vear through inter- est in productions, like De Mille, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Harold Lioyd, but th so stand to take a loss. and the g4 is not Iways a good one authentic re- port. But woman ther or child cording to the i n Step up to the turday and draw and know that the be on tap week aft to_come. There is quite a Jimmy Cruze's big s contract. But it was big winning, out as w Carlo, an the same money is ot n another the movies, sharks, window out 36,000 e amo man, wi ev, cl. it w week for ye rs story ry behin und swee a sudd for which Hollywood i1 advertised as Mont the greatec part wit s invention i fixing reckl return 0Old-Time Movie Star. Cruze is an old-timer 1 Breaking in right at th there best kr holding movies the Mary years and he ca as a director. little over a year ago Cruz with the Famous Jlayers-Lasky poration to make pl given direction of Wagon.” He was not BT sed with the material, but Fra Woods, t real godfather of & the movies, saw Cruze's great oppo d told him to go out, cu If off from the studio and mak a real piciure back cast of no great iture, went. Wher k a pas taries on a secre swood saw a_private smiar pictures that world of the romanc, of Mexico. They said that 500,000 American dollars were on _deposit and would be made payable to Cruze for his work: Cruze informed 3 would and_opportu: se Lasky that he throw over its expressed desire for a peaceful, just solution of all differences, and revert to a ruthless policy of | power.” | In Washington, too, it adds, the foremost question is, who has the | most warships and airplanes, and how In event of war America’s s curity and victory may be assured SPEECH LIKED IN ROME. Hughes Premises Said to Be Ac- cepted by Italy. ROME, December 3.—Commenting on the speech of Secretary of State Hughes, made in Philadelphia Friday, the Glornale d'ltalia says: “America has spoken. All the premises laid out by Mr. Hughes find complete, spontaneous adhesion on | our part. “A catastrophe in Germany seems near,” {t adds, “with effects which will 'be fearful to contemplate. Ger- many has a right to live, but her | conquerors also have a right to in- | demnity for their damages. It be- comes more evident that intervention by the United States cannot be post- roned longer. The United States sent a_ formidable, valorous army to France, but it can be said without ingratitude that, more than its cour- ageous soldlers, the Stars and Stripes, raised before the adversaries. pro duced their defeat by its irresistible moral force.” —_— HOLMAN HEADS TEACHERS IN SCIENTIFIC BRANCHES ’Centnl Association Holds Closing Meeting at Indianapolis With Election of Officers. Ry the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., December 3.— Clarence L. Holman of the faculty of the Wallter High School, Chicago, was elected president of the Centrai Association of Mathematics and Sclence Teachers at the closing ses- sion of the twenty-third annual con- vention here. The convention next vear will be held at the Crane Junior llege, Chicago. e, CMmcess’ elected included: T D. Kelsey, Cleveland High School, St. Louis, vice president; W. G. Gingery, Shortridge High School, Indlanapolis, treasurer, and Katherine Ulrich, Oak Park High School, Chicago, secretary. More than 600 high school teachers from western New York to Iowa at- tended the sessions here. KILLS WOMAN, WOUNDS BABY AND SHOOTS SELF Slayer Had Followed Her All Day, She Told Friends Be- fore Death. PITTSBURGH, December 3.—Burst- ing into the home of Martin Born, at Rankin, a suburb, Peter Zamara shot and killed Mrs, Barbara Guston, twen- ty-six, slightly wounded Josephine Born, four, and turned the weapon upon him- self ‘after a struggle with Born, a shot entering his abdomen, according to a report made to the police. Mrs. Gus- ton had taken refuge in the Rorn home after having been followed all afternoon by Zemara, she is said to have told the Born family before the shooting. Her young sonm, Joseph Guston, witnessed the shooting and the mother’s last act was an attempt to clasp the child to her breast. Ze- mara was taken to a hospital where his condition was sald to be critical. | Blackwell {are alleged had this off C deration. alaries me: produ makes movie cutting down pose Cruz tures a year—a high means $100.000 fc for each a for $100,000 cd that he can And yet all the b Woods ™ include Cruze contract is of the Famous ganlzation today. WORLD-WIDE SWINDLES LAID TO KENTUCKIAN Arrest in New York for $30,000 Florida Confidence Two Years Ago. By the Associated ¥ NEW YORK, December 3.—Alleged by postal authorities to be a member of a group of confide e men, whose operations have extended all over the world, R. L. Blackwell of Louisville, K was arrested here. The ar- rest was made on an indictment re- turned against Blackwell in Jackson- ville, Fla. charging him with using the mai in 1 to defraud H. N. Snyder of $30,000 in Miami, Fla. Florida tourists and wealthy per- sons residing temporarily in that state are alleged to have been de- frauded of $£1.000.000 during 1921 .by and his confederates, whe to have operated f: promotion deals and racehorse game: The police td Kent Marshall of Los Angel alif.,, who was recently arraigned here on a charge of swindling Frank Reiss out of $16,000, at Miami, Fla., was a mem- ber of the band Blackwell and other members of the group are alleged not only to have used the malls to defraud, but to have swindled tourists in Miami by posing as “personal representatives’ of prominent men of finance and gaining their confidence. Police sald Blackwell was _also known as Ray L. Brooks and R. V Balley and fhat twenty vears ago h was known in Williamson, W. Va., as Sidney L. Harris. TRIPS OVER CAT, LOSES MIND, WINS DAMAGES Woman Awarded $4,604 in Suit. Confined to Asylum as Re- sult of Accident. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 3.—Trip- ping over a cat caused a woman to fall downstalire and become Insane as a re- gult, it was alleged here in a case before Compensation Referee Herman H. Mattmann, who made an award of $4,604 in favor of the woman, Miss Mary MacEwin, now confined to an asylum. Miss MacEwen was emploved as chocolate coater by a Philadelphia firm In May she tripped over a cat and feli downstairs at her employer's place of business. Evidence was introduced to the effect that she suffered injuries to her epine and her head at the base of the brain. Referee Mattmann ruled to- day that the condition which led to her being committed to the asylum was due to the shock of the accident. 8. practical men, agree that the the greatest asset Players-Lasky or- Game stock