The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1926 Page: 7 of 8
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Interesting Story of Our
Texas State Flower by
Mrs. Lida Lee, Austin.
Former European
Military Attache
Makes Movie Epic
Wednesday and
Thursday
blossomed and soon
the mission lands.
Williams,
Ryman,
Keener,
Johnson,
Marie
Frances
George
Wanda
Esserry
Sammie
Remarkable New Retail Delivery Rec-
ord Established.
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power.
these
Dodge
its
The
the
and
legislation is going to
If nothing is done at
European
student
Saturday
The Greatest Race Horse Picture
Ever Made
Saturday, May 15
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Saturday, May 22
Bebe Daniels
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$1.20.
Bouldin Drug Store.—Adv.
Theatre
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Dodge Brothers Sales
10,000 For One Week
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Patronize Tribune advertisers.
iCOMMECEMENT
EXERCISES OF
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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FOR WORKING PEOPLE
Saturday
Ramon Navarro
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THE SPLENDID CRIME
“GREEN ARCHER”
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LEGENDS OF THE
BLUE BONNET
“THE MIDSHIPMAN”
And a Sunshine Comedy
“THE FAILURE”
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“TOO MUCH MONEY”
“KENTUCKY BRIDE”
With the Following Famous
Racers •
MAN 0’ WAR, MARVICH, THE FINN
FAIR PLAY
With this bit of admonition,
Engle closed his address.
When a mouse or snail enters a bee-
hive the honeybees will sting it tc_A
of
in
It is inter-
Two assistants of the secretary of
„ _____________ labor do nothing but sign his name to
Judge Harris then came forward to routine documents.
and
same
morning in chapel. Anyone failing to
get their awards kindly notify Mrs.
Bert English, chairman of the music
committee for the memory contest.
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WANTED TO BUY.
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FAST SPRINTER
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a determination to be the best, and
sometimes it is under great stress that
the goal is reached, but again, PUR-
POSE, with a "determination will get
you where you want to go, or in other
words, you will be the result cf your
own labor. No one is great to start
with, he strives and strives and strives,
—the result???—achievement.
Confidence in yourself is the first
requirement of success. If you think
you CAN, why YOU CAN. To the con-
trary, if you think you can’t, why
YOU WON’T, that’s all.
Success is not measured in dollars
and cents, but in the MAN. No high
position is gained without sacrifice.
death and then inclose the body in
propolis, a resinous excretion from
trees, which virtually embalms it.
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Treakwood beams which were put
in place more than 2000 years ago
have been found in almost perfect
condition in the old cave temples of
Western India.
came back. Because of the buffalo,
who shaggy herds of old thundered
across the far flung prairies, were so
fond of its succulent abundance, the
blue flower was given an Indian name
which the pale faces translated into
“buffalo clover.” It bore prodigious
quantities of fertile seed and rapidly
extended the limits of its growth.—
Brady Standard.
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famous play by Victor
Stein and Franz Lehar. which
presented on the stage by Henry
Savage.
P STOPS,
Chattering
Several carloads of Holstein
Jersey milk cows,
hogs.
Bay City, Texas.
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The incessant “cheep, cheep” of his
thousand baby chicks so annoyed a
Sand Point, Idaho ,man, that he ran
away, leaving a note asking his neigh-
bors to care for them.
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GRAZING LAND FOR LEASE.
About 5000 acres of first-class pas-
ture land for lease in southern part
of Wharton County—some timber.
Address P. O. Box 21, El Campo,
Texas. 16-4t
Director Erich von Stroheim Has
Lived in Atmosphere Shown
in “The Merry Widow.”
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milk cows. Also stock of
Write or see, Tolliver Huebner,
10-12d-14-21w
The Immortal Love Story Made Into
a Screen Masterpiece
“THE MERRY WIDOW”
With Mae viim-ay and John Gilbert
Matinee at 2:30 P. M.
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Winners in Music
Memory Contest
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The Sorbonne, oldest of
universities, now permits
dances but forbids jazz.
A sharp increase in the American
tariff virtually destroyed the straw
hat industry in Tuscany, Italy, and
threw 100,000 people out of work.
A serum to immunize individuals
against lockjaw which is regarded as
promising has been developed at the
Pasteur institute in Paris.
Boiled cocoa, corn and red peppers
constituted a favorite drink of the
Aztecs.
The dangers that wait to assail you;
But just buckle on, with the bit of a
grin,
Then take your coat off, and go to it.
Just start in to sing, as you tackle
the thing
The best of workers get out of sorts
when the liver fails to act. They feel
languid, half-sick, “blue” and discour-
aged and think they are getting lazy.
Neglect of these symptoms might re-
sult in a sick spell, therefore the sens-
ible course is to take a dose or two of
Herbine. It is just the medicine I Ou{ best athletes are the results of
needed to purify the system and re-
store the vim and ambition of health.
Price, 60c. Sold by Bouldin Drug
Store.-—Adv. m
Just now the hills and valleys of
the central west are blue with waving
seas of blue bonnets—the State flow-
er of Texas,—the lovely things that
shift for themselves, in sunshine and
in shade, in all seasons, and in all
kinds of weather, with never a hand
nor a thought save when some per-
son passing by admires their beauty
only long enough to get out and pluck
the poor things from their stems. The
wild verbena, the golden rod, the pur-
ple thistle, the gentian, famous in his-
tory, song and story; the violet, the
daisy, the morning glory that blooms
only at night, and the eastern part of
the state the magnolia grandiflora,
the bay and the beautiful though
noxious yellow jasmine. The writer
has wondered often why it was that
the great magnolia was not chosen as
the State flower, or the golden rod,
or the modest violet. There seems to
be no good reason why these flowers,
or one of them, was not chosen or
over them, the modest blue bonnet
was selected.
Only a few weeks ago all the hills
and valleys were blanketed wtih snow.
Today they are covered with blue bon-
nets. One of the fine features of the
blue bonnet seems to be that it seeks
to hide all unsightly nlae.es and mu.no
them beautiful—seeks to cover the
unsightly rocks, gullies and rough
places along the road in billows of
blue.
The blue bonnet has a history, not
as interesting perhaps, as the thistle
or rose, or the fleur-de-lis of La Belle
France, but interesting, just the
same.
“You’ll Do It.”
Somebody said it couldn’t be done,
But he, with a chuckle ,replied
That maybe it couldn’t, but he would
be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in, with .the trace
of a grin
On his face. If he worried, he hid it.
He started to sing, as he tackled the
thing,
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
The only way to do
a thing, is to do it. Make your
dreams come true.
Some one has expressed my thoughts
in this little poem, and I give it
you:
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For the first time in Dodge Broth-
ers history retail sales by their deal-
ers in the United States and Canada _____
in a single week have exceeded 10,000 j You must play the game if you would
Remember the twelve spies sent
May 1 were 10,126. <
the corresponding week last year the
gain is 4374 or 76 per cent.
The gain is 560 over the remark-
able delivery record established last
week. (
last yar, that ending April 11, during j yOur Purpose is the dominant thing in
evening, Rev. Paul E. Engle,
spoke to the class along the lines of
“Purpose.” He told them, in brief:
Every day is, in reality, a com-
mencement with us, for every day is
a new gift of God to the world, to use
or to abuse, just as it may be done
through each
commencement
achievements,
purpose—we must go forward or*
surely go backward.
mencement to greater activities, great-
er duties, and greater responsibilities,
and we either accept them, or we shun
them.
“Where are we going, and what is
'our aim in this life of ours?”
Bracey, Don Ryan, Hughie Mack, Es-
telle Clark, Dale Fuller, George Nich-
ols and Lon Poff.
Erich von Stroheim directed “The
Merry Widow,” using his own and
Benjamin Glazer’s adaptation of the
Leon, Leo
was
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new motor cars and trucks. I win. ’ i.7^1. ZZ,,L
^The^ figures^ ^for^ the, week ending , out by Moses? All but two came back
i an inoculation of the
CAN’TS” but those two said, “Come
on, we can possess the land, the dif-
ficulties are there, but we can over-
come them.” And they did. You can
. if
That depends on how we accept the
PURPOSE of life. A ship without a
rudder just drifts about on the
stream, without any direct heading,
so we, without a goal to attain, just
drift. An “achiever” is necessarily a
“dreamer.” If we dream, then turn
over and go to sleep again, the dream
was of no avail, but the dream that is
interpreted into action, is a dream
that will have its effect on the world,
for no action of ours is lost, it is
either an influence for good, or bad.
All great men have been dreamers.
The steamship was a little canoe,
hewn out of a solid tree-trunk in the
way back yonder. The Rudder of
Purpose has developed it. The radio
was once a short message sent by
telegraph, with a “dreamer” with a
purpose in his heart. Determined
Purpose will accomplish anything.
A large crowd was assembled last
night at the Baptist Church to wit-
ness the graduation of the grammar
grades into the high school. To add
beauty to the exercises, the church
was decorated in the school colors,
and with, the dainty girls in their gay
colored frocks, the boys manly in
their “Longies,” the whole was in-
spiring to the grown-ups, as well as
to the class.
The program started about on time,
and went forward without a hitch to
the very end. Miss Huebner played
the processional as the class filed in
and were seated. They were accom-
panied by the grade teachers,
president of the school board,
the speakers of the evening, who took
their places on the platform. The
children who were on the program
acquitted themselves with honor to
the class and to their instructors, and
entertained the audience as well.
Villa Mae Morehead and Gordon Bagg
were exceptionally pleasing in their
piano numbers, and Laverne Secrest
gave the salutatory in a very earnest
welcome. Alice Blair recited “The
March of the .Workers” very nicely as
her valedictory. Mrs. Stinnett is al-
ways a favorite number on any pro-
gram, and her song, “Longing For
You,” was sweetly given, accompanied
by Mrs. Wadsworth on the piano."
Superintendent Whisenhunt then in
just as few words as were neces-
(9) the. speaker a£ the
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Gulf Team on Tour
(Austin Aemrcian)
Richard Gusman came to Memorial
Stadium yesterday afternoon with the
Southwestern University track team
for a dual meet with the Longhorns,
and broke the conference record in
the 440-yard dash, making the dis-
tance in 50.2 seconds. It was not
only a conference record, but was the
best time ever made on the track by
a collegiate amateur. The only per-
son who ever exceeded it on the track
Was Adrian Paulen, the “flying
Dutchman” from Holland.
The point total of the dual meet
was, Southwestern 24, Texaig 92.
The Pirates also won the mile relay
event. To Gusman the Marauders owe
most of the honor for this accom-
plishment algo. He was anchor man,
receiving the baton from his third
shift man a couple of strides behind
his Texas opponent, and away they
sprinted, the Longhorn and the Pirate
running a “nip-and-tuck” race around
the track on that last quarter. The
same couple of strides separated them
until they passed the curve and
started upon the straightaway finish.
Then the marvelous stamina and en-
durance of Gusman began to tell its
story. Inch by inch the Texan was
being overtaken. Fifty paces from
the tape they were shoulder to shoul-
der. Suddenly Gusman burst into a
spring which was startling in its ef-
fect, dashing ahead of the sturdy
Longhorn runner in rythmatic strides,
and sprinting across the tape at least
two paces ahead of his opponent.
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The new treatment for torn flesh,
cuts, wounds, sores or lacerations
that is doing such wonderful work in
flesh healing is the Borozone liquid
and powder combination treatment.
The liquid Borozone is a powerful
antiseptic that purifies the wound of
all poisons and infectious germs,
While the Borozone powder is the
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Price (liquid) 30c, 60c and
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The following are the names of
those who won perfect score pins and
blue ribbons as first and second
prizes offered by the Parent-Teachers’
Association of Bay City, and the
bronze and silver medals offered by
the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music:
Perfect Scores.
Frances, McClure, Shirley Callaway,
Mike Tucker, Travis Anderson, Henry
Hughes, Woodrow Noster, Sammie Lee
Baker, Edna May
Hatchett, Leola
Baker, Juanita
Schoultz, Raymon
Reba Robertson, Bernice Catchings,
Freddy Gest, Geraldine Livengood,
June Beaks, Bobby Wilkenson, Mar-
jorie Hensley, Marguerite Alexander,
Ruby Baker, Milton Bess, Alma Farth-
ing, Alma Tolleson, Terese Lewis,
Alma Queene Chapman, Herman Luna,
Patty Glenn, Phyllis Glenn, Susanna
Helmecke, Margaret Britt, Maurine
Thompson, Doris Taylor, Lester Cal-
loway, Mary Marshall McClure, Jewell
Rice, Lotus Brannon, Ione Stinnett,
Mary Beth Jackson.
Blue Ribbons.
Lewis Matchett, Charles Cobb, Jeff
Mangum, Cecil Nolan, Hattie Bell
Hatchett, Mildred Morehead, Lucile
Carr, Dorothy Baker, Ruth Tollison,
Isabelle Horn, Lucile Sansing, Ken-
neth Gordon, Ruth Rice, Maybelle
Meyer, Louis Steves, Humphry Han-
cock, Harry Ellis, Billie Moore, Edna
Wood, Johnnie Nolan, Martha Jane
DeLano, Terressie Sutton, Bruce
Freeman, Cleatis O’Rear, George
Keene, Sterling Roig, Seldon Brough-
ton, Juanita Vandiver, Albert Wads-
worth, Marguerite Harris, Vivian
Gann, Marvin Moore, Mary Jean Cobb,
Eugene Ruse, Velma Hale, Frances
Hale, Stella Johnson, Jessie Poole,
Jean Poole, Marie Rice, Loretta Hen-
derson, Hudson Castleton,
Clements, Evelyn McNabb,
Isaacs, Sutherland Creech, Kathleen
Gann, Mildred Luna, Virginia Wilken-
son, Edward Gaudet, George Edward
Serrill.
Miss Maurine Thompson—Silver
medal of National Bureau of Music.
Miss Doris Taylor—Bronze medal.
Miss Tenie Holmes’ room won the
picture of Beethoven presented by the
Wednesday Harmony Club, while the
records presented by Mrs. Turner,
Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Carleton went
to the pupils in Miss Sweeney’s, Mrs.
Pierce’s and ---- rooms.
Owing to a delay in getting out the
blue ribbons as second scores, these
were not presented the night of the
The Tribune has been requested to
announce that the Texas Gulf Sulphur
Co.’s baseball club will play the El
Campo team at El Campo on Sunday,
May 16, and the Freeport team at
Freeport on Sunday, May 23.
Gulf has a splendid team and the
games they are playing are more than
worth seeing.
which 6644 units were sold, the in-
crease is 3482 or 52.4 ner cent.
In addition to delivering
10,126 new cars and trucks
Brothers dealers report $>766 new
signed orders for future delivery re-
ceived during the week ending Maj 1.
Shipments of new vehicles to deal-
ers during the week were ‘’600, or
1526 less than actual retail deliveries.
There were in dealers hands on May
1 according to their weekly reports
a total of approximately 2<’,C> 0 new
motor ears and trucks against, which
which these dealers held over 17.000
signed orders.
Richard busman
Smashes C o nference
Record in 440; Four
Other High Marks Are
Broken in Sensational
Contest.
Somebody scoffed: “O, you’ll never do
that;
At least no one ever has done it.”
But he tok off his coat, and he took
off his hat,
And the first thing we knew, he’d be-
gun it,
With the lift of his chin, and the bit of
a grin
Without any doubting or quibbling,
He started to sing, as he tackled the
. thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it
“can’t be done,”
There are thousands who prophesy
failure;
There are thousands to point out to
you ,one by one,
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IT DRIVES OUT WORMS
The surest sign of worms in chil-
dren is paleness, lack of interest in
play, fretfulness , variable appetite,
picking at the nose and sudden start-
ing in sleep. When these symptoms
appear it is time to give White’s
Cream Vermifuge. A few doses drives
out the worms and puts the little one
on the road to health again. White’s
Cream Vermifuge has a record of
fifty years of successful use. Price,
35c. Sold by Bouldin Drug Store.—
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individual choice,—-a
to either greater
or to retrograde of
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It is a com-
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rids them of all blood-sucking
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sites. Its formula is sulphur and other
ingredients known remedies for improving"
the appetite, purifying the blood, toning; A
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of chicks, old fowls and turkeys, any kind .
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Its cost is very small—a one dollar bot-< A
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The manufacturers are anxious for all!
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using; 60 days if your flock has not im-
proved in health, produced more eggs—eggs
that hatch stronger and thriftier youngi
, chicks—come back to your dealer—he is
authorized to ref u nd vour money.'
present the “degrees.”
He did it in a most happy style. He
likened the school diplomas to the
steps of a house. The first step is
the grammar school diploma, the sec- _
ond step, he called the high school
diploma, and the third represents the
degree from the college. All the
way through his talk Mr. Harris made
it very practical to the young folks
about to be graduated into the high
school work. His words were well
chosen and very happily delivered.
And then he delivered “the goods.”
As each name was called, the gradu-
ate came forward with a happy smile,
and accepted the seal of approval the
teachers had put on the work done in
the grades by the children. The fol-j
lowing boys and girls received their'
grammar school diplomas, and it was
all over: .
JuMior Anderson, Gordon Baggs,'
Alice Blair, Bert Carr, Katherine Cobb,
Carl Gann, filugene Gordon, Vernon
Fisher, G. P. Hardy, Alice May Har-
ris, Jack Head, Trixie Isaac, Kather-
ine Klein, Ted Mangum, Dick Mal-
lard, B. F. Mock, W. A. Moore, Villa
Mae Morehead, Geraldine McCay, Beal
McKelvy, Manford Noster, Nantie
Pier, Sam Fowell, Bertha Robinson,
Delmir Shaw, Brooksey • S’mith, Leno-
ra Stephens, Laverne Secrest, Arley
Williams, Neils Thompson.
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Flies in the Ointment
Mrs. Lee’s Story.
Some time ago, Mrs. Lida Lee,
Austin, gave the following story
regard to the blue bonnet,
esting:
Blue Bonnets, which grow in pro-
fusion in Texas, were brought from
Jerusalem by Spanish missionaries to
the Southwest. The Texas Folklore
society presents the suggestion as but
one of the legends purporting to show
how these popular flowers came into
the Lone Star State.
The missionaries, Mrs. Lee’s ac-
count says, planted the seeds in the
mission gardens where they grew and
spread beyond
Another version by Mrs. Mattie Aus-
tin Hatcher of the University of
Texas, who had it from a woman
from Mexico City: Prayers of the
priests and pleadings of the people
brought no relief from a pestilence
which ravaged the land of the Aztecs.
At length the god to whom they pray-
ed proclaimed that a living sacrifice
of some sinless human being must be
made to atone for the wickedness of
the people. An Aztec maiden offered
herself. When she went up to the
altar on the hillside, her little bonnet
fell unnoticed from her head and the
morning the ground around the altar
was covered with flowers in the pat-
tern and color of her bonnet, each
splashed with the hue of her spilt
blood. The pestilence passed and
now the Mexicans call the flower “el
conejo”—cotton tail rabbit—but in
Texas it is the blue bonnet.
Mrs. Bruce Reid furnished another
lengend of Indian origin which she
got from the late Jack Mitchell, whose
people, she said, lived for 50 years
among the Indians of the piney woods
and cross timbers of Texas.
A great flood and a greater drouth
was followed by a bitter winter which
enveloped the land in a sheet of ice.
All game was dead or gone; the In-
dians were not only starving but a
disease had broken out among them.
It was clear that the Great Spirit had
turned his face away. Day and night
the medicine men chanted incanta-
tions, danced to the music of their
sacred tomtoms and mutilated their
bodies for a promise from the angered
spirit. At last the Great Spirit spoke.
In penance for wrong-doing, which
had brought evils upon the tribe,
there must be burned an offering of
its most valuable possession, and the
ashes of this offering must be scat-
tered to the four winds.
Among those who sat in discreet si-
lence beyond the ring of anxious war-
riors gathered around the camp fire,
was a maiden too young for the heavy
burdens of womanhood.. In the folds
of her scanty garments she clasped
a figure fashioned into the likeness of
a papoose, with long braids of horse-
hair and painted to resemble her kind
with the juice of various berries. She
had robed it in a skirt, mantle and
high head dress of blue jay feathers.
She would almost have died before
she would have parted with it. All
night she pondered the question of
sacrificing it. At last she arose from
the side of her sleeping mother, seized
a bit of smouldering wood from the
tepee fire, and slipped out of the
tepee, praying that her offering might
be accepted, built a fire of twigs and
grasses and thrust her beloved pa-
poose into the flames. The ashes she
scooped up and scattered to the east
and the west, and the north and the
south. As she extinguished the rem-
nants of the fire and patted the earth
smooth again, she felt something soft
beneath her hand. Believing it a
finals,^ but will be presented Friday .sign for which she had prayed, she
would have seized it, but found it
rooted to the ground. The next morn-
ing around the spot where she had
burned the image of the papoose, as
far as the ashes had traveled in the
early spring night breeze, there was
a blanket of such blue flowers as had
never before enriched the landscape.
When the chief of the medicine men
had heard the story and had seen for
himself the expanse of flowers, he
called the tribe together and pro-
claimed that the command of the
Great Spirit had been obeyed.
At once the verdure reappeared;
gaily colored wild flowers covered the
open spaces and the four footed things
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EARLY SYMPTOMS—Nervousness,
stomach trouble, despondency, short-
ness of breath, burning feet, con-
stipation, brown or rough skin,
tingling sensations, smothering
spells, diarrhoea, loss of sleep, loss
of weight, dizziness or swimming in
head, general weakness with loss of
energy.
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have any of them VO! MAY HAVE
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Immediately upon signing with the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio to di-
rect “The Merry Widow,” which is
coming to the Grand on Monday, Erich
von Stroheim secluded himself “some-
where in Southern California” to
write the adaptation and continuity of
the film version of the famous stage
play. Von Stroheif left town, giving
no address, with co-adapter and scen-
arist Benjamin Glazer, his assistant,
Edward Sowders, two stenographers
and a mass of research data.
In transposing “The Merry Widow”
to screen material, von Stroheim
dealt with familiar subjects. The not-
ed continental director has lived in
the courts of Europe, and shortly be-
fore he came to this country he was
a military attache at Cettinje, the
capital of Montenegro, the locale of
the first part of the tale. The rest
of the story of the opera transpires
in Paris.
He is familiar with the gay life of
the continent, as exemplified by “The
Merry Widow.” All the glamour, ro-
mance. and picturesqueness of the
original has been augumented with
the marvelous von Stroheim touch, a
recognized ability to depict the racy
flavor, brilliancy and smart splendor
of continental life among the gayest
sets. Von Stroheim has taken the
charming and sparkling romance of
the original “The Merry Widow” and •
’ R with increased dramatic :
“The Merry Widow” presents one of
the most significant and interesting
combinations effected for the screen.
The title suggests picturesque ro-
mance, and in the hands of a man of
the genius of von Stroheim, all
rich possibilities are realized,
title role, in which Miss Murray is
co-starred .furnishes this piquant ac-
tress with the best role of her career,
and enables her to imbue “The Merry
Widow” with the charm and vivacity
it needs.
John Gilbert plays
Prince Danilo with all the zest and
fire the part calls for. The brillisrP 1
supporting cast includes Roy D’Arcy,
Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett,
Tully Marshall, Count Conti, Sidney
(From the National Farm News,
Washington.)
i Although congress has been in ses-
sion for more than four months, not
a single law has been passed for the
relief of American agriculture and_________
Monday and Tuesday
ised, in black and white, at their 1924 1
conventions that they would i
help in every Co cliupol
the doom overhanging basic in-1
ausiry. !
Someone has said that political plat-
forms are erected solely to get into
fifiice on and then to be forgotten or
cast into the “junk” heap. This may
have teen true in the past, but that
sort of thing won’t go in the year
1926 unless the National Farm News
is being “kidded” by thousands of
farmers who are making known their
“displeasure and disgust” at the way
things are running on Capitol Hill.
It’s all pretty nice to deliver strong
speeches on the floor of congress, as-
sailing the “interests” and proclaim-
ing great “love” for the tillers of the
soil, but that is worth no more than
tinkling cymbals nor sounding brass
to the man who has extremely bur-
densome debts to meet. What he
wants is ACTION and not so many
kind WORDS. The farmers of Amer-
ica are not knocking on the back door
of the Capitol asking for charity;
through their chosen representatives
they are standing at the front door
demanding their rights and they in-
tend to get them or know the reason
why. Furthermore, they are not go-
ing to be satisfied with “trick” legis-
lation intended* to quiet their nerves
until after election day and then ex-
plode and show its utter worthless-
ness. They are suffering from high
freight rates and a great deal of their
hard earnings are being shunted into
the pockets of the railroad barons.
They are hit by these exorbitant rates
when they ship their products
they are’ struck again by the
destroyer of their earnings when they ’ a
buy farm machinery or dry goods and ’
groceries for their families. They are ;
tired of being human footballs to be j
kicked hither and yonder for the fi- i
nancial benefit of somebody else. ■
Congress can greatly relive this sit-
uation if it wants to. The very last
congress passed a resolution direct-
ing the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission to reduce freight rates on ag-
ricultural products, but thus far noth-
ing has been done about it. WHY?
Is anyone “weak-minded” enough to
believe that any other American in-
dustry gets this kind of treatment?
NO, SIR! Farming is the largest and
most important industry we have in
this country, and thus far it has re-
ceived the least consideration at the
hands of congress. Income taxes (
have been reduced to relieve the
wealthy bankers, but no relief is of-
fered the farmer. For five years past
the farmers have had no incomes sub-
ject to income tax because of condi-
tions over which they have no control.
They have patiently waited and la-
bored, hoping for the best, but their
patience is now threadbare and no
fair-minded man can blame them. If
congress is wise, it will not close its
present session until proper relief leg-
islation is enacted, unless the most of
its members are desirous of being left
home after the next elction. No “rip-
roarin’ ” speches couched in “honey-
ed” words and glittering promises are
going to sway the American farmers
this year. They are checking up on
their senators and representatives
and refuse to be fooled any longer.
Nothing short of real ^straightforward
farm relief
satisfy them,
this session, it is safe to assume that
there are a number of “political” flies
in the ointment.
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