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THE OMAHA BEE.
SPANISH KING
HAILED AS GOOD
SORT BY COURT
Zeal in Athletics and Display
- Of Individuality Won Re-
spect of People for
'f ' Don Alfonso.
: Madrid, Spain. Alfonso of
Spain ii a human king. This is con
trary to precedent, for the kings of
Spain are expected to be mere soul
less automats. The secret pride of
every Spaniard is that his country
is at least 200 years behind the times
in everything; outside the world of
business. When Alfonso came to
the throne he found a conservative
court that was so far behind the age
that it was almost penned.
. It is hard to enjoy life in the mid
dle of a perpetual funeral. Alfonso
let to work and revolutionized the
court. He declared firmly that he
jvas capable of putting; on his own
clothes and abolished the office of
Heredifory Grand Pants Holder.
JVorse followed. He smoked cigar
ets at breakfast, and the Grandee
of the Table retired a broken man
to collect majolica in Minorca.
i People were scandalized, but Al
fonso made his point. He could be
dignified and regal whenever it was
heeded, but he had a right to a cer
tain amount of time off-duty, and
brf duty he was going to enjoy him-lelf.
Rather a Good Sort.
The news spread through Spain,
iud even the leading liberals (who
ire prone to propagate their prin
ciples withw bombs) admitted that
Alfonso was rather a good sort.
They also discovered that the king
himself disliked the reactionary
court party in Spanish politics
father more than they did them
selves. Alfonso was justified, for
the court party desired to restrain
his personal liberty in the shackles
of tradition. If they had secured
their way he would have had to play
his afternoon game of tennis in his
field marshal's uniform.
Alfonso being an excellent tennis
player, a fine swordsman and an ex
traordinarily keen shot, he appealed
io the people. The Spaniards are a
sport-loving nation, and the cer
tainty that the young king could
knock spots off most of their young
grandees gave them sheer delight.
They foresaw a return of the days
ot chivalry, when the kings were
fuissant knights.
An Automobile Racer,
f The practical side of . the king's
nature next'made a" deep impression.
Spain is not essentially an indus
trial country, but her engineering
work is very fine. Alfonso is keenly
interested in what may be called the
engineering side of sport motoring
awi aviation. His exploits as a
high speed motorist are famous. He
was once told by the Hispano-Sulza
Motor company that any time he
liked to give up being a king they
iad a job for him as a racing driver.
i The. real charm of the man lies
in his unaffected personality, his
graceful energy, his genuine kindli
ness and his unfailing tact. He is
an tetal king in that he is the real
king" ' that humble folk envisage.
Throughout the war he conducted
a special bureau whose mission it
was to search for wounded and miss
ing prisoners of war, and there is
many a poor family in Great Britain
and'other allied countries who cher
ish the remembrance of kindly ef
forts by King Alfonso on their be
half. So far as his personal sym
pathies in the late war were con
cerned, he was a benevolent neutral,
whiclt means that he was hated by
the Germans for being pro-ally.
Don Alfonso's career is that of a
king! who has made good in face of
aiycinds of serious obstacles.
Berlin Today Is Most
v Immoral City In World
Berlin, Germany Long before the
war broke out Berlin had estab
lished a reputation for being the
mtst immoral city in the whole
world; and judging by-the sights to
be; seen here today, the downfall of
thee'mpire, instead of being a warn
ingjo the evildoers, has had the op
posite effect. Drunkenness, immo
rality and obscenity are on the in
crease ard once staid and respecta
ble" citizens are abandoning them
selves to the basest forms of lust
fujjicss. n- theaters and music halls, for
merly catering to the respectable
public, "poses plastiqlies" are now
thjs 'chict attractions, in which cos
tumes are conspicuous by their ab
sence. The dance halls are nightly
crowded with men and women the
latjer three-parts naked while bath
ing costume balls and similar satur
nalia are attended by people who
were in prewar days looked upon as
beyond reproach.
Crime is rampant, and not a day
passes without people being held up
anil robbed in, places that formerly,
one could traverse in safety at any
hour of the night Burglaries aver
age about a thousand, weekly, and
murders are of frequent occurrence.
Woman Proved Efficiency During War and Is
Taking Place in World, Says Mrs. Pankhurst
Lectures Through England, Reminding Men and Women Not to Forget That
Premier Lloyd George Said Women's Work Won the War- Prevented Many
Strikes by Willingness and Ability to Take Men's Places Has No Use for
Short Haired Women.
Shriners Plan Gigantic
fi Convention In Portland
'fortland, Oregon. Seventy
fiv. thousand Shriners will come to
thl city next June for their annual
convention. Portland is unable at
the present moment to satisfy all de
minds for housing facilities and a
gwat problem is before the city to
know where they are going to place
75,000 visitors. A committee from
thef Shriners is already busy here
securing contracts for rooms from
hotels, private houses, clubs and
'temples. J. P. Jaeger, in charge of
thS housing of the Shriners, said:
fVVhen the Shriners come to take
possession of Portland next June
every available room in the city will
be"bccupied there will be Shriners
suspended from lampposts, clutter
ing on the limbs of trees, bordering
.1 i i : r i 1.
yllie, streets, anu Hanging iium uwm
in fvery closet."
One of the largest hotels in the
city has contracted with the Shrin
ers for the use of 387 rooms. Shriners-
from the following cities have
already placed their orders fo hous
ing quarters: Rochester, Calgary,
F?gina, Dallas. Tulsa, Muskogee,
Minneapolis. Milwaukee, Spokane,
St.-Joseph, Shreveport, Kansas City,
Fitsburgh, Springfield, Seattle, Ta
coma, Detroit, St. Paul, Fort Worth,
Philadelphia and Honolulu.
By HELEN H. HOFFMAN.
rnivenal Serrloa Staff Correspondent.
New York, Mrs. Emme
line Parikhurst, militant suffragist,
has resumed her battle irt the inter
est of justice for women. This time,
however, it is not suffrage for the
English woman, for she has that,
at least that is to say, 7,000,000 of
them have the vote.
Mrs. Pankhurst has been lecturing
through Great Britain to the work
ing women, the women who, Lloyd
George said, helped to win the war,
and she has been admonishing them
to stand for their rights in the in
dustrial world; and not to be inti
midated by the many radical forces
directed against industry today.
Mrs. Pankhurst, who recently ar
rived in this country, is going to tell
the women of this country the strug
gle the English women have had
and how they are standing, together
today, all classes of them, for the
progress and improvement of their
kind.
Learned Lessons of War.
"War tauirht the women of Eng
land many valuable lessons," said
Mrs. Pankhurst to a Universal Serv
ice representative. "The common
cause of war welded them into a
new and powerful understanding of
each other. Class distinctions and
snobbery among women disappeared
in the stress of war. Since the end
ing of war I have seen no sugges
tion of their return to English life.
"Women of all classes, working
shoulder to shoulder, turning out 90
per cent of the shells and an equally
large proportion of other war sup
plies, could not in this close asso
ciation fail to glimpse a vision of the
other's life, her ambitions, her strug
gles, misery and sorrows.
Labor Distrusted Woman.
"Labor frowned on women going
into industry on so large a scale in
the early days of the war, when
women insisted upon doing this
work so that men might be relieved
to take their places at the front,"
said Mrs. Pankhurst. "In fact, the
labor unions looked upon this step
with such distrust that, before wom
en were employed in any large num
bers, the unions first gained a prom
ise from the minister of munitions
that vomcn would" be retained in
this work only so Jong as the men
workers were absent in France.
"Thousands of women have, of
course, been thrown out of work
since the armistice was signed. But
that they should be discriminated
against by the labor unions is some
thing that these women, scores of
them highly skilled and most satis
factory to their employers, are giv
ing their attention to today. , In
fact, not only they but their more
fortunate sisters who were employed
with them in the big government
plants during the war.
"Will Get Their Rights."
"These women workers represent
a great, sane, conservative element
of English life today. They will get
their rights, they will find a way
out of their difficulties, but they are
not threatening bloodshed or an
overturn of the government to
achieve their aims.
"There is considerable serious dis
cussion among a large group of our
women today; that is the wealthier
classes, regarding the opening up
of large industries for the manufac
ture of articles essential to the home
and women and children, and the
employment of women labor only.
"I think it is quite likely that some
such sort of factories will be es
tablished in the near future. The
war developed not only thousands
of highly skilled women, but won
derful women organizers and super
intendents of big government plants.
Women are most efficient today,
and women of wealth, who worked
in shops with the women of industry,
realize this, and they know they can
be depended upon to carry out suc
cessfully any work they undertake.
Confidence in Own Brains.
"Yes, women have learned to
have great confidence in the ability
and brains of women," said Mrs.
Pankhurst. "And because of this
we shall no doubt see some great
changes in industry, for women have
learned after many bitter experi
ences that, after all, they must look
out for themselves.
"This new kinship of spirit among
all classes of women has revealed it
self in more ways than one. For ex
ample, in the widespread adoption
of little children, we see the prac
tical application of this new sister
ship in the world," said Mrs. Pank
hurst. The' ''Short-Haired Woman."
"The majority of our women are
standing 'ogether for the common
purpose which war brought them to
gether to serve. Of course, I pre
sunie we shall always have the
short-haired woman and the long
hairerd man, and all the things they
represent in the body politic. But
they are in a small minority. The
theories they expound of urging
that such people as themselves, with
no experience in the industrial world,
shall be in command, are looked
upon by our women as not only
ridiculous, but of absolutely no prac
tical value to society.
Toil Not, Nor Spin.
"The short-haired woman with
such theories, for that is all she
does possess, is about as useless to
human society as the parasite wo
man of wealth and the vampire.
They toil not, neither do they spin.
"Women proved themselves dur
ing the war on more than one oc
casion. For instance, early last
year," said . Mrs. Pankhurst, "men
workers at Clyde threatened to
strike and tie up the work there.
Women came forward and said:
'Well, if they quit, we will take over
their work The men did not quit.
Demonstrate Ability.
"Women gained an advantage
these past few years," continued
Mrs. Pankhurst. "For all the first
time they were permitted to work
and demonstrate what they could do.
They did demonstrate this to every
body's satisfaction. They earned
good wages, better money than they
had ever dreamed of earning, and
they spent it on articles of comfort
such as they- had never before en
joyed, This raised their standard of
Hving. They are ambitious today to
go ahead. There should be work for
every woman who desires to work,
and I am sure this will be possible
for the women of England very
shortly, for their work is necessary
for national prosperity.
"They ussd to tell us," said the
world renowned suffrage leader,
who dramatized 'votes for women'
and introduced the subject to every
nook and corner of the globe, "that
suffrage would ruin the home. The
labor unions predicted that women
going into industry by the thou
sands would ruin industry., They;
maintained the same high-grade
work done by men, and they de
manded and received wages that did
not undermine the standard of com
pensation set by men."
Adventures of Tang Sung and His Disciples
A Divine Robe.
Tang Sung, an imperial monk of
the Tang dynsty, proceeded on his
journey to the west with one of his
disciples, Monkey. As the journey
took many days, they had to bring
their trunks and baggage along with
them. They -traveled the whole day
and at night they reached a mon
astery in which they . intended to J
spend tne nignt.
In that monastery was an old
monk who was more than 27Q years
old. When Tang Sung and Monkey
knocked at the door he let them in
and gave them welcome. Having
each been introduced, the conversa
tion began.
At last the old monk said, "Well,
Tang Sung, do you bring any re
markable thing?"
Without waiting for Tang Sung
to answer, the Monkey said, "Yes,
yes, a robe "
Tang Sung said, "A robe only;
what's the price of it, you fool?"
The old monk said, "Ha, ha! If
your robe is precious, then we al
ready have lots of them. Where
are my disciples? Go and fetch all
of the robes." They took out far
more than 700 robes, just wanting
to shbw off.
The Monkey without saying any
thing went to his trunk and took out
his master's robe. Instantly the
whole room was filled with a glori
ous light which shone forth from
this robe.
When the old monk saw it he ex
claimed, "A divine robe I A divine
robe!" '
Tang Sung was very angry with
the Monkey showing his precious
garment, for he knew quite well
what would happen next.
Tang Sung wanted to put it back
again, but the monk said, "Oh, you
god, just let me keep it for this
night so I may see it clearer in the
dawn." He was so persistent that
finally Tang Sung had to lend it to
him. .
When the old monk got to his
bedroom he wept, and would not be
comforted. Then came all of his
favorite disciples and asked him the
reason. He said that he loved the
magic robe and he wanted to keep
it for life, but could only possess
it for the one night. Many sugges
tions were given, but the last one
was considered the best which was
to burn Tang Sung and his disciple,
the Monkey, to death.
When they were piling the wood
and hay around the house in which
Tang Sung was staying, the Mon
key was awakened. He peeped out
and saw the danger. He changed
himself into a bee and flew out.
Then he rode on the clouds and as
cended to heaven.
There he asked for a cover which
could protect anything from being
burned when put under it. The re
quest was granted and he took it
and went down to his place. With
it he covered his master and their
baggage. Then he went to the roof.
There he sat and made a wind
which- soon carried the fire sparks
to the main building where all the
monks lived. ,
When the fire grew very furious,
it wakened a witch of the Black
Wind mountain nearby. As he was
a friend of that old monk, he
wanted to go over and help him in
putting the fire out. But when he
arrived,' he at once perceived the
divine robe in a room. He got
around the fire secretly, took the
robe, and went back to his cave.
At dawn everything was burnt
down and the fire extinguished.
The Monkey went to seek for the
robe but he couldn't find it. He
wakened his master who was still
in dreamland. When the little
monks saw that both of them were
well, they got frightened. They
thought that they were gods so thej'
all worshipped them.
Soon the news was sent to the
old monk, who became so fright
ened that he knew not what to do.
He thought that although his house
was burned down he still could not
have the robe. "Alasl" said he, "I
wanted to kill others, but now it
comes back to me." He struck his
head against a pillar and died.
In the meantime the Monkey was
questioning those little monks. They
told them all about the story. The
Monkey used all of his powers in
searching, questioning and. thinking,
but he could not find out where the
robe was. Then he asked them if
there were any witches or bad gods
living near the place. They said
that 20 miles from their temple was
a Black Witch living on the Black
Wind Mountain. As soon as the
Monkey heard of that, he went in
stantly to find him.
Three Men Talking.
There on three rocks sat three
neonle: ii blaelc man an old man
rand white man, talking; the Monkey
hid himselt behind one rock and
listened to them. He heard one of
them say that he had stolen a divine
robe in which he wanted to cele
brate his birthday. When the Mon
key heard that he jumped out from
his hiding place and gave a heavy
stroke with his iron rod.
The white one was killed and be
came a white serpent who was then
chopped to pieces. The Monkey
went after the Black Witch and they
had a combat. Neither of them was
defeated, but when night came they
went to their places. The ;xt day
they fought again, but by noon the
black Witch could not so on. so he
ran to his own cave and shut the
door tight. The Monkey had fo re
turn to his master, who was long
ing to see him come back with the
robe. The Monkey told him that
he was going to get his robe back
for him. So Tang Sung, was pa
He went over the next dav. On
his way he met a boy carrying an
invitation. He killed the boy and
saw that the invitation was sent to
the old monk whd had committed
suicide. It was asking him to come
to his cave to attend his birthday
party on the following day. So the
Monkey disguised himself -just like
the old monk and went to the cave.
Came Too Early.
The Black Witch was surprised to
sec him coming so early. The
Monkey told him that he was just
on his way to see him when he met
his servant. When they were talk
ing, the Black Witch's messenger
came in and told him of the thing
which the Monkey had done. They
had to fight again. As they were
fighting, . they unconsciously went
out of the cave. At length the
Black Witch ran away.
The Monkey finally saw that he
could not do anything to him him
self, so he went to the God of
Mercy and asked for aid. A helper
was assigned to him. When they
were quite near the cave, they, saw
a boy walking toward the cave with
a trace in his hand. The Monkey
killed the boy. The God of Mercy
rebuked him, but he said that he
had to do it or else he had no plan.
On the bottom of the trace was
the name of the owner, and in the
trace there were two sacred pills.
The God of Mercy ate one pill and
changed himself to the one who sent
these gifts.. The Monkey' changed
to the pill eaten by God of Mercy.
The God of Mercy went to the cave,
after presenting to Black Witch the
larger, he ate the smaller one. The
minute Black Witch ate of the pill,
he fell down. He was soon caught
tnd commanded to return the robe.
They all returned to their old forms.
Monkey went away with his master's
robe.
MISS WONG TSIEN YI.
DOPE FIENDS IN
NEW YORK GROW
SINGE DRY LAW
, II.
Statistics Show Crimes From
Drug Addicts Have Almost
Doubled Since Prohibition
Went Into Effect
Nev York. Since the be
ginning of the Great Drought July
1 crim; in New York City has in
creased Eiarminclv and the number
of drurj addicts arrested has almost
quadrupled, more than offsetting the
big drop in the number of arrests for
intoxication. This was ascertained
from figures obtained today from
the New York City statistical bu
reau, i
Health Commissioner Roval S.
Copeland, ridiculing the 'notion that
prohibition of alcohol without the
most rigid restriction of the drug
trade can be effective for public
good, declared in an interview to
day that So rapid has been the in
crease in the consumption of drugs,
such as morphine, heroin, cocaine
and opium that drug; addicts, despite
all the police and health department
operatives can do, now number be
tween 100.000 and 200,000 in this city
alone, and the number is daily grow
ing larger.
International Control.
The only way to check the increas
ing consumption of drugs through
out the United States and especially
in this city the mecca of drug sell
ers is to bring about international
control of the drug situation and
then put the drug business under the
strictest national supervision, said
Dr. Copeland.
"I have not the least doubt that
since alcohol has been prohibited
many habitual drinkers have turned
to drugs as easier and even cheaper
to obtain," said the health commis
sioner. "So long as it is possible for
American manufacturers to prepare
the derivitives of opium, ship them
to foreign countries and then have
them smuggled back within our bor
ders, the drug evil will persist. So
long as the bootlegger is permitted
to operate and he can easily dodge
the police, as drugs are easy to hide,
just so long will there be addic
tion."
Fourfold Increase.
"Certainly drunkenness has fallen
off in New York since prohibition."
said Charles W. Strong, head of the
statistical bureau, but look at the
increase in the arrests for drug ad
diction and for felonies, will you. In
April. May and June, 1919, the three
months prior to prohibition, there
were 4,775 arrests for felonies that
is, murders, grand larcenies, burglar
ies, assaults, arson cases, etc. For
the three months since July 1 there
have been 5,02.5 arrests for felonies
an increase of about 600 cases.
"Arrests for drug addictions for the
four months following prohibition
total 474 cases. For the correspond
ing months, July, August, September
and October in 1918, there were but
about 120 arrests, almost a four-fold
increase for 1919. Figures are not yet
compiled for November, but last
month bids fair to outstrip them all
in the number of arrests for drug
addiction and for the possession of
drugs."
Probe Death of Three Sisters
After Eating Cheap Candy
Stamford, Connecticut. Fol
lowing the death of Ruth Paulson,
daughter of Air. and Mrs. Herman
Paulson, of No. 154 Washington
street, subsequent to the death of
her two sisters, aged 6 and 8 years,
respectively, Coroner Phelan has or
dered an autopsy to determine the
cause of the death of the three
girls.
All ate some cheap candy pur
chased a,t a neighborhood store, and
their deaths followed symptoms of
poisoning.
NEW INDUSTRY
SPRINGS UP IN
U. S. AFTER WAR
i i
Glycerin, Formerly Imported
in Great Quantities, Is
Now Being Exported
to Europe. '
W a s h i u k t o n. That another
new industry has sprung up in the
United States as a direct result of
the world war and a commodity of
which this country formerly import
ed , from 20,000.000 to 40,000,000
pounds annually has not only dwin
dled to practically nothing, but made
possible the exportation of 21,000,000
pounds in 1918 and 13,000,000 pounds
thus far in 1919.
This widely used commodity is
glycerin, the trade of which in this
country has been completely revolu
tionized since the war, as the above
statistics gathered by the Depart
ment of Commerce show.
The world production of crude
glycerin prior to the war has been
stated to be about 40,000 tons per
annum, 14,000 of which were from
soap manufacturers and 26,000 tons
from sterin manufacture, of which
Eneland produced 5,500 tons, France
3,500 toiis, the United States 3,000
tons and Germany 2,000 from soap
making. From the manufacture of
stearic acid the United States and
Germany produced 3,000 tons each,
France 6,000 tons, Holland, Austria
and Russia 2,000 each, with smaller
amounts in other countries.
Imports Were Big.
The magnitude and value of this
import trade to this country of glyc
erin are evident from the total re
ceipts in the period of 1884 to 1919,
amounting to 725,599,035 pounds, of
the aggregate value of $65,620,376.
From 1884 to 1910 France led as a
supplier of glycerin to the United
States, with the exception of the
year 1900, when the United King
dom sent a slightly larger quantity.
England ranked first in 1911, 1912,
1913 and 1915; France again in 1914
and in 1916, and in 1917 imports of
glycerin from these countries ceased
to be resumed with shipments ag
gregating only 102,655 pounds from
ii IT..', .1 tr t . inm
uie united A.ingaom in yiy.
MAY START MEN
CLIMBING TREES
"Easy on the Monkey Stuff,
Doctor" Says a Writer
Many Dangers in
the Plan.
By HOWELL EVANS.
fpwlal Corrtwpondent International Nm
Service and London Dally Eprm.
London, Et .land. Not content
with dabbling in monkey glands,
Dr. Voronoff now claims to remove
wrinkles. Good for the doctor! All
the' same, I don't quite like his
monkey-gland-live-forever business.
It appears that all that is neces
sary is to produce a monkey, cut
something out of him a gland, I
think it is cajled stick it into your
self, and there you are live for
ever! I 'don't know whether you give
the monkey anything in exchange
for his gland, such as a gouty toe,
or anything like that. But it does
seem fair that he should have some
thing. Go Out on Flu.
It is not made quite clear how
long the gland cure has to work
before it gives you back your
youth. It would be rather sicken
ing if, just after you had been gland
ed and told you must lay up for
six months, you went out in an
attack of the flu, which, of course,
would be good money and a good
gland wasted, with no chance of
your relatives getting the money
back.
But I suppose you would have to
take the risks if you wanted to
drop back from 71 to 24. I give
those ages as speculative; for I
don't know how faf the gland would
pop you back on the path of years.
There should, I think, be glands of
graded strength. It would be rather
awkward if grandpa of 82, who had
been in seclusion for some time
(while the gland was at work), were
suddenly to nip out through the
French windows on to the tennis
lawn, and bag the prettiest girl a
partner for the afternoon. These
o'd boys know how to treat women,
and all the sweet seventeens would
be after 82, who could play such a
rattling good game of tennis.
Filmland Real Eldorado of Decade
Corey, War Correspondent
Tells of Real ' Money Made
By Overnight Movie Stars
Taxicab Driver "Type"
Now Getting $400 Weekly
Changed Plays Near
ly Paralyze Authors.
This is to be an article about the
motion . picture industry in the
United Sttaes.
There! The text has been read.
The target, so to speak, has beer,
pinned on the wall. A park has been
provided in which I can mobilizt
my ideas, because I know that only
by an effort can I keep my mind
on the real subject of this writing.
The moment the pressure is relaxed
I shall begih to talk about money.
And I shall deal in enormous fig
ures. Ten hours after I began the
work of inquiry I had a stub of soft
pencil and was writing huge sums
on the tablecloth. There is an in
toxication, a glamor, a sort of nec
romancy about the business. A
million becomes domesticated, and
you can pet it. Smaller sums are
kept in the barn.
The money is real, too. Or most
of the money is real. Only the con
ditions seem absurd and romantic.
If you can imagine a gigantic Monte
Carlo in -which all the 'players are
constantly winning and in which, by
some upheaval of. natural law, the
house is winning, too, ybu.can get
an idea of the motion picture busi
ness as it seems to one who looks
ron from the outside. Perhaps the
gambling simile is not a good one.
Think, then. of a farmer whose crops
grow passionately through sun and
frost and rain and dry weather and
are always sold for increasing prices.
Think of a perpetual bull market.
Think of mines from which you take
the raw gold with a spoon. Think
of buckets full of diamonds
Before I get down to the real tell
ing of this story, it may be well to
offer presumptive evidence that I am
sane. When the reader reads that
four persons in the moving picture
business are each being paid sala
ries approximating $1,250,000; that
actresses unknown to the stage
spend $50,000 for .dresses in a sea
son; -that an attractive title has
been thought worth $5,000; that one
of the great stars thinks $10,000 a
fair price for an idea around which
he can build a comedy; that a
chain of theaters was recently cap
italized at $15,000,000
Well, the reader is apt to suspect
that there is something wrong some
where. But these things, and more,
are true. The explanation is that
there arc 14,000 moving picture
theaters in the United States. Really,
there are about. 17,000 according to
fairly reliable estimates, but many
of these are "store shows" which
can hardly be classed as theaters.
It is a conservative estimate to say
that the film theaters will average
700 seats each, and one of the most
unexcitable distributors told me
that each theater will be filled twice
a day for 325 days in the year.
Very well, then. Fourteen thou
sand theaters of 700 seats filled
twice daily for 325 days gives a
total of 6,370,000,000 paid admis
sions annually. Every ticket of ad
mission was sold for 10 cents. If
only 10 cents were paid for each
seat, the total would be the im
pressive sum of $637,000,000.
Such figures explain film pros
perity. More people go to see mo
tion pictures than are interested in
any other form of sport or amuse
ment. Think of it! Base ball, tennis,
golf, catboating, s all dwindle into
insignificance when compared to
6,000,000,000 paid admissions.
No wonder that 10 film theaters
are being built for one of the other
sort, and that they are usually hand
somer and more commodious. Five
hundred thousand persona are em-
ployed directly or indirectly in the
motion-picture industry. Fifty thou
sand work on the western coast in
the production end alone. One mil
lion dollars is spent weekly in pro
ductions. But the totals of today
are infantile compared to what the
motion-picture men believe will be
the sum tomorrow.
A few years ago the 'film sought
chiefly to register motion. Then it
responded to the urge of magnifi
cence. A gaping public became ac
quainted with huge temples and
prehistoric cities of plaster.
So great was the return from a
genuinely successful production
when the foreign rentals were in
cluded that the director! lost all
caution. Money was expended in
the most reckless fashion. One pro
ducer had canals dug near New York
for filming the Venetian scene. The
idea was an excellent one, and the
canals would have fooled the grand
father of all the gondoliers except
that it happened to be wintertime,
and the night before the picture was
to have been taken, the canals were
frozen over. Companies were carted
all over the country. Expensive prop
erties were purchased. One man
bought the entire contents of a
bankrupt restaurant, from the fish
sturliei to tapestries.
If the original idea proved worth
less, the directors were given carte
blanche to keep m'ulling away be
fore the camera until some market
able thing was produced. Sometimes
the result bore not the slightest re
semblance to the raw material fur
nished the master of ceremonies
One hears the most astounding
things and discovers that they are
true. A pretty girl worked on a
Los Angeles "lot" for $10 a day
as an extra woman. A studio need
ed a woman to do a particular bit,
and found that she filmed well. So
it was decided to. make her a star.
Her contract called for $150 weekly
for the first six months, rising to
$500 at the end of the second year.
After the second picture she ed
manded $300 at once and $1,000
weekly at the year's end.
A "type" hired a taxicab to hurry
him to the lot on which a picture
was being "shot." Ordinarily types
ride on street cars, for the best of
them are rarely paid more than $15
a day. The United States senatorial
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type can be had in quantities at $10
for the day's work. But this type
was late and feared to lose his job.
A bawling manager met him at the
door.
"You you " began the manager.
Then his eye fell upon the chauffeur.
"You're just the type I want'l" he
shouted. "Come with me!"
Eventually the chauffeur consent
ed to run his cab back to the garage
and walk on in a scene as a type of
something or other. He was not a
bit flustered about it. It had been
carefully explained to him that he
need neither think or act The direc
tor does all that for the movie peo
ple. He tells each when to enter,
what to do, how to do it and where.
In order that the characters should
not forget his instructions, he re
peats them through a megaphone
during the process of a scene.
The chauffeur filmed well. There
fore he is now being paid $400 week
ly, though his heart is said to be
with his taxicab. A bartender made
a few dollars one day shaking up
cdtktails before the camera. Hi
features came out with cameo clear
ness, and he followed the director's
orders with the careful obedience of
a good child. That made him a film
star. Now he can depend on an in
come of $15,000 a year.
A freckle-faced kid appeared in
one picture recently in a type part.
He was supposed to be just a kid
just hanging around. But he was
self-possessed, engaging, impudent
and had a really extraordinary equip
ment of freckles. His weekly salary
is now about equivalent to the
monthly sum paid his father as cash
ier of a small town bank.
These salaries are paid because
they are subject to the operation of
the inexorable law of supply and
demand. One would think that the
woods would be full of actors wha
can act perfectly well before a cam
era. But the effort of the perform
er is far from being purely mechani
cal a mere reaction to megaphoned
demands. If he is called upon to
register grief or love or happiness
he must register exactly, or the
screen knows him no more.
Up to this time not a great deal
of attention has been paid to the
rights of the author. It is true that
glycerin as it continued to import
Cuba had long been a shipper of
glycerin to this country and sent
steadily increasing quantities each
year from 1914 to 1918, but ship
ments declined somewhat in 1919.
In July. 1919, the United States
imported 418,253 pounds of glycerin,
vp hied at $45,061, or an average
! "e of 10.8 cents a pound, contrast
ed with 233,680 pounds valued at
$109,564, or 46.9 cents a pound in
July, 1918. For the eight months,
January-August, 1919, imports of
glycerin into the United States to
talled 1,219,715 pounds, valued at
$184,830, or 15.1 cents a pound,
against 1,080,520 pounds, valued at
$472,019, or 43.7 cents a pound, in
the corresponding period of the cal
endar year 1918.
Themeridous expansion in the re
covery of crude glycerin began to
take place in the United States since
the war began. Glycerin made in
this country was exported to 54
countries during the fiscal year 1918,
91 per cent of its eoinsr to Eurone.
The bulk of the 21,045,991 pounds ex
ported in that year went to allied
countries, Italy taking 18,886,974
pounds, Canada 1.436,922, England
214,953, France 100.940 oounds and
japan 8U,yi7 pounds.
Used for Explosives.
While the production of glycerin
is not confined to any one section
of the country, exports for the fiscal
year 1918 cleared chiefly from the
ports of Baltimore and New York
79 per cent of the total quantity
shipped to all countries passing
through the Maryland district and
13 per cent through New York. Of
the 20,700,165 pounds of glycerin ex
ported during the six months ended
June. 1919, 1,277,828 pounds, valued
at $323,464, were shipped through
the customs district of New York;
488,918 pounds, worth $107,891, from
San Francisco; 769,993 pounds, in
voiced at $406,941, through Wash
ington, and smaller amounts
through other districts.
The close of the war released for
industrial purposes glycerin former
ly used in the manufacture of high
explosives. By far the largest ap
plication of glycerin is for the man
ufacture of nitroglycerin. Glycerin
is also employed extensively for fill
ing hydraulic jacks, gas meters and
tubes liable to be exposed to great
cold and in the manufacture of toi
let soaps, inks, waterproof papers,
preservatives for food products and
in the treatment of wine,- beer and
vinegar. The bulk of distilled glyc
erin is employed in the manufacture
of dynamite and other high explo
sives. Ten-Prong Buck Is Killed
By Hunter In New Jersey
Hammonton, N. J. The
monarch of the swamps, the first of
the open deer hunting season, fell
before the prowess of a band of
14 Hammonton deer hunters, led by
Pete Ranere, a crack deer slayer,
when a big 10-prong buck fell be
fore the guns of the party. It
weighed 280 pounds. Another fine
specimen, an eight-prong buck, also
was brought in, the combined weight
being over 500 pounds.
Ranere says his party will bring
in two a dav for the rest of the
week, that he has them already
"tagged" in the Weymouth swamp
Hundreds of hunters are still in the
swamps, many from Philadelphia
and New York.
never agree, and secondly because w. . ... S1. Ha..
there is no form of organization A " "7 . 1 "'V ' j
copious enough to take in all who " t i- "v""s "e
write for the pictures. But pro- i "orf 'he. Indl.a mound.riong the
ducers plight combine groups of au-i Lrawfish, r'v.er Wisconsin tells of
thors. That has been done. j a remarkable degree of civilization
The .'mom-fan fnrf ..nriot-lvlno- th',9 wmiTi pieyaiiea among ine aoon-
i i ; i j III U1IJ IVjlVlli
With thf rtnthralr nf thp war Ti
United States had to seek otir Grandpa ought to be put back to
sources tor a Eoodiv oart ot such : '-u "u lulu,t''
large sums have been paid for the
picture rights to well-known plays
and stories, but the money was real
ly paid for the advertising the prop
erties had received. The picture peo
ple for the most part had a singular
indifference to the feelings of an
author. Time after time an author
parted .with the picture rights in ail
good humor, only to learn that an
autocratic director differed with
him as to the manner in which the
story should be treated. All direc
tors believe firmly in the virtues of
a happy ending. It is thought to
have a most benevolent effect upon
the box office.
As one result of the managerial
attitude, some authors preferred to
forego the money to be gained by
selling screen rights. Others sold
the rights and carefully avoided see
ing the pictured results. They knew
their ugly heroine in a story in
which the whole point was that the
heroine was ugly would swish
through in a Paquin gown, and lan
guidly lift a perfect arm against a
background of velvet to call atten
tion to a classic profile. Also, au
thors were nofalways treated with
loving care by the producers. There
is an historic instance of one au
thor who wound up $40,000 out of
pocket. He does not know precisely
how.
But the combination of big stars
was followed by a combination of
little stars, and so producers were
set a-thinking. It was obvious that
authors could not combine of them
selves, first because authors could
"In the center
iof some of the higher mounds," says
grouping of authors is that the pro-
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tiuvvia nave luiiiv lij in. i U3I VIl I ,, ... r , ,
that the story is important, almost, j tn reP"', -e '?una cemon'"
In this they are follow-
as the star.
ing the example of the .legitimate
stage. Not many years ago emphasis
was placed upon the name of the
star in theatrical advertising. To
day far more is placed upon the ex
cellence of the story. One of the
most successful of the picture mag
poles imbedded in stone and cement
made of gravel and clay. In a few
of th-.'se mounds we have found
store hatchets, arrow heads and
c e 1 1 o s ( !)" In one of the mounds,
the writer goes on to say, "we
found an ear ornament that was fam
ous anion? the Eskimos." We have
nates holds that the star is l.ecom- "spicion that the latter was not
iT inrrpnintrlv .mminnrtant. I"" ornament at all. but a mandolin
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jan ornament at all, but a 1
j pick. Cartoons Magazine.
What About Women.
Give all the old fellows their
youth again, with their knowledge
of the world, and where would the
real youngsters be? Out in the
road, trying to get run over, for
there , would not be a penny or an
opening for fhem anywhere. The
old ones would scoop in everything
good that was going.
And this is a very delicate mat
terwhat about the women?
My dear young girls, you'd be
ruined for life!
Imagine a wise old thing of 73,
who, perhaps, had been twice mar
ried, set loose among men again,
with the vitality of 251 Her ac
cumulated knowledge of men and
the acquired tact and wisdom of
years would get her 14 proposals,
in spite of white hair, in the first
week of rejuvenation. And the
pretty young things who had got no
further in life than the first ball and
perhaps a hand-hold in the cinema
would be in the Black Forest of
oblivion, weeping . their eyes out
wth jealousy and envy.
An A.crobatic Pastor.
But it would be rather startling if,
on the first Sunday after an opera
tion and cure, one saw an aged rec
tor spring from the pulpit to the
electrolier, there to hang with one
hand, gibbering and, perhaps well,
you know what monkeys arel
Of course, I shouldn't mind going
back a few years myself, but that's
quite a different thing.
And as lots of people will think
like that, I dare say the professor .
will have some support.
Briton Gives Tips On How
To Earn $50,000 a Year
London, England. C. F. Higham,
member of Paliament, gives the fol
lowing tips on how to make your
self worth $50,000 a year:
Most healthy men and women
were potential earners of $50,000
a year. But they waited for op
portunity to knock at the door.
Be careful of your personal ap
pearance. Dress simply and well.
Many a man lias missed his chance
by having a dirty collar,
If you are out of a job and have
only $50 in the world, spend it on
dress.
Don't envy successful men. Copy
them.
Give up any idea of an 8-hour day.
Love your work, and think of it
day and night.
Make mistakes.
Dvelop capacity to inspire others. ;
Take advice.
Look prosperous act "prosper
ous," be an optimist. Pessimists
never get far.
Never break your word. The busi
ness world is ever on the lookout
for reliable men. ,
There are three types of business
men and women one, the largest,
work for wages; the second for sal
aries, and the third make income.
Aged Farmer Prepares for
Death; Designs Tombstone
Akron, Colorado. Fredrich
Jesse, farmer, of this olace, is as
sured of an appropriate monument
over his grave, and incidentally con
siders that he is taking a slap at
Old H. C. L. Though 78 years of
age, Jesse is hale and hearty. He
has his grave selected in a local
cemetery and a tombstone he de
signed himself has just been finished
and in readiness to be set over the
grave upon his reath.
"When in life prepare for death,"
is Jesse's pet phrase. "The price of
granite is' soaring rapidly."
The monument is made of dark
granite with a white base. On the
front are his name and date of birth
with a Bibical quotation in German
and a blank space for the date of
death.
"When I die I know everything
will be all right," says Jesse. "It's
such a blessing."
Of French invention is a porta
ble airplane hangar, made of bal
loon material and inflated by a mo
tor driven air pump until it form
r substantial reW
