Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1938 — Page 13

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~ From Indiana —Ernie Pyle

Various Restrictions Make the Serial of Today a Far Cry ‘From

+a Famous 'Perils of Pauline.’

J00D, ‘March 10.—Many of you £ eaFberis who read this will have a vivid memory of .the old movie serial days, when the names of Ruth Roland and Pearl Whit- rang ‘round the world. ~ ~~ And even you young squirts surely have heard ‘rom the old folks about the “Perils of Pauline,”

and how we moviegoers used to leave the Nickelodeon every Friday night quaking over the fate of Ruth

or Pearl, who had just been:shoved’

into a buzz-saw, tied to the track before a speeding train, tossed off a: 300-foot trestle, or thrown into a well. : x But you don’t see those things any more. There is no modern version of Ruth Roland or Pearl White. Today the serial ladies are quite delicate, and the rough banditti do nothing worse than scowl at them. The passing of this phase of life - makes me very sad. But it’s part of Mr. Pyle the new order of things. It is progress. If is no longer proper to blow un a lady with dynamite. I don’t know why. Only Vill Hays knows, and he’s out of town. Yet despite this new nicey-niceness, the serial seems ‘0 be coming back. Hollywood is putting out about [5 a year, they seldom lose money. “There’s one runnin- on Broadway now. called “The Lone Ranger.”

Mavis I'm wrong, but I believe it is the first Yme

a seria’ ever has cracked Broadway.

“I had a talk with the boys in Republic’ ‘Studios 10w they “make their serials nowadays, and

he things they're not allowed to do. For one thing, you .can do hardly anything to the heroine beyond making a face at her, You can’t

~ kick her, you can’t kidnap her, you can’t poison her,

you cert shoot her, you can’t even knock out a

‘couple of teeth

You can. show a woman in. great peril, but you

idassn’t make it gruesome. It has to be. subtle, roundabout. And being subtle for an audience of children

isn’t 8. ways the easiest thing in the world.

2 Children of '38 Are Too Wise Yet the kids have got awfully wise, the movie peo-

say. - When we were: kids, we could see the hero thrown into the Grand Canyon in the last reel, and then a! the start of next week's installment he’d land tike a -at and get up without a scratch. If they did that nc vadays all the kids would go “pphhhoooeeyy!” in loud voices. right there in the theater. That’s what he mcie men say. I as ced the movie people why the time wasn’t ripe to crea: 2 another Ruth Roland or Pearl White. Well, it seem: that the time is ripe. But some think it can be don. and some think it can’t. It would take two or three 3 ars to build up a daredevil girl in the public

. .eye, an’. everybody seems afraid to gamble.

Personally I think the public. would eat up another Ruth F oland. And I know the girl to do it, too. It’s Zoe De 1 Lantis, the “Pirate Girl” of San Francisco's 1939 E yosition. She, sn’t afraid of anything in the world, and she’s strong =nd healthy and beautiful. In case gny producer i= smart enough to follow this tip, remember T'want my 10 per cent. If the thing Reips, just forget I'mentioned it.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ~ Bouquets Made Up of 5000 Roses Bab De Net. Seem: Qut of Place in Texas.

CM RILLO, Tex, Wednesday. —What shall I tell you about Mother-In-Law’s Day in Amarillo? We Fi ve in an open car along the line of the parade

and ths wind was sufficiently high to ca me to & end of

our 26-block drive. However, peopie along the side-

walk cid not seem to netice it at all. I was told that Amarillo has some 50,000 inhabitants, hut at least 100,000 persons lined the streets today. It it not just a Texas celebration. New Mexico, Colors “0, Oklahoma and even Kansas are represented here. Three of the Governors, attired in cowboy costume, -ode at the head of the parade. Aft-r my drive I returned to the reviewing stand and w-s presented with a bouquet of red roses which had t- be lifted by a derrick into place below the review ng stand. It was a gorgeous sight and suited this country well, for out here everybody asks you how you like the wide open spaces. Things have a right ‘0 be bigger here than anywhere else and, iL -ly enough, large things do" not look out of place, sven when they are bouquets made up of 5000 roses. The floats in the parade were remarkable, colorfil and picturesque. Th- thing which impresses me most is the people. The gf rls have a great deal of beauty and the men are a ‘ine upstanding lot.

Studonts Finishing Dormitory

Yesterday afternoon, I met a young homesteading couple at the Government homestead at Ropesville. Then we drove around Tech College, where they have an interesting National Youth Administration project. Here the boys are finishing a dormitory. They put three hours work a day on it in return for several hours of instruction in different things in which they are interested. A voung man, who looked after us in the hotel, told us he had been going through college there ever since 1932. He worked a while and then he went to coliége until his money gave out and he had to work again. The hotel management is kind and lets these boys work on and off. The head of the college, Dr. Enapp, told me that practically none of his

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studer‘s finish without dropping out now and then

for work periods. Our Eastern universities might

find this a little confusing, but I am not sure that

it isn’: & very good thing for the “boys. re —————

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Security for b

Unemployed to Become Eligible for Payments April 1

~ (First of Two Articles) ] OHN DOE: is going to lose his job on April L He can’t’ find another because the seasonal slump in his: trade—say,’ coal mining—has caused a general lay-

off in the industry.

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. 4 He worked for the Blank Mining Go.. a large concern,

for many years.

During the three days after April 1,

Mr. Doe will have earned at least $10.

So he—or someone like him—will become casé ‘No. 1 under the Indiana Unemployment’ Compensation Law, which ‘becomes effective April 1. Mr. Doe, and: thousands like him, employed by companies which have had eight or more workers on their payrolls for at least 20 consecutive weeks or which voluntarily have “elected to become subject to the law, will begin to draw on the pool of $26,000,000 that has been built up during the two years before payments under the

law begin.

But before 1 cent can be drawn from that fund, Mr. Doe must take certain steps to secure his benefits. First he will have to get a Separation Report from \the Blank Mining Co. at the time he loses his job. The report will show the reason for his unemployment and will list his wage record for the period immediately precediflg the time he lost his job. ” ® 2 T= he will have to go to the office or special . registration point of the Indiana State Employment Service serving the Blank Mining Co. There he will register for new employment and make application for benefits. At the office he will be asked to present his Separation Report and social security account number card. = Location of the Focisifa. tion office will be listed in the Blank Mining Co.'s offices. . Assuming no jéb can be found for him, after a waiting period of two weeks, he will become eligible to receive his first unemployment compensation benefit. Under certain other circumstances the length of this waiting period would vary. For example, if a worker has partial employ-

Georgia’ s Amiable Rep. Vinson Has Task|®

ment--that is, employment yielding wages’ less than the worker's

weekly benefit sum—he must ‘wait

four weeks before benefits begin. Benefits do not start until after one week of total unemployment and two weeks of partial employment. The law requires additional weeks of waiting. if the worker left his job voluntarily “without good cause, if’ he was discharged for misconduct while ‘working, if he failed to apply for or accept suitable work offered him or if

he failed to return to his custom-

ary self-employment, if any. The amount Mr. Doe will receive will depend ‘on his average

earnings. During 1937 Mr. Doe's

earnings have been’ reported to the State Unemployment Compensation Division by the Blank Mining Co. (The weekly benefit amount for an eligible employee who loses his job in April, May or June of 1938 will be 4 per cent of his earnings in his highest calendar quarter in 1937. The weekly benefit amount cannot be more than $15). : 2 x. 8 HUS, since Mr. Doe earned the $375 maximum during a three-month period in 1937, he will be eligible to receive the maximum allowed by law, $15 a week. This compensation will continue for ‘15 weeks, the maximum. He has the right to draw his maximum weekly benefit until he gets 16 per cent of his- total earnings from Jan. 1, 1937, to the

" day he lost his job.

Mr. Doe, however, may find a job that pays him $5 a day for one day a week during that period. That amount is deducted from his weekly: benefit.

The deduction applies only to the maximum weekly amount of benefit Mr. Doe may draw.: He will still have. the right, if totally or partially unemployed, to continue to draw compensation until he has received 16 per cent of his earnings from Jan. 1, 1937,: to :the day he lost his job. ho In effect, Mr. Doe, who is earning $5 a week that is “being deducted from his weekly benefit check, insjead of receiv-

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ing $15 a week for 15 weeks, will receive-$10 a week for 22%: weeks. . 8 8 J T no: time will he have:to pay part of hig wages into the reserve or pool accounts from which compensation is paid. ' Employees’ paid into the fund during.the. first three months of 1937, but the Legislature then discontinued this requirement and the fund now is maintained ‘by employers only. During the time of employment, however, there will’ be a: deduc-

tion from Mr. Doe’s pay check for .

payment of the Federal Social Se-

curity Tax that goes into the fund for old-age insurance. The employer, likewise, continues: to con-

tribute to this fund.

* Total cost of administering the unemployment - compensation act,

is borne by the Federal Govern- -

ment. All payments into.the funds are earmarked by. benefits only. Generally, the routine described

"in the case of: the typical. coal - miner, is the ‘procedure worked

out to be followed in all employment covered by:the law. J ® 2 GRICULTURAL, governmental ‘and charitable institution employees are not

covered by. unemployment come pensation. Other exemptions, in-

Of Pushing Navy Bill Through House

Times Special ASHINGTON, March 10— After the tax bill is disposed of the House will' hear a lot. about the Navy in a rounded, slurring, middle-Georgia accent that has lost nothing ‘in 23 years’ contact with Washington's babel of tongues. The big fight: will open over the Administration’s billion-dollar naval program. And in Congress the word Navy is synonymotus with Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), chairman. for seven years of the House Naval Affairs. Committee. Upon his ample

shoulders falls the job of pushing the new bill through the House. Debate is likely to be sharp, for the big-navy program does not sit well in some quarters. But nobody is likely to get very angry with Carl Vinson. : Amiability is one of his chief assets. Dean of the Georgia delegation in the House, he is an effective political negotiator who has a way of getting things done. His bargaining talents rank high in Congress. So does his knowledge of

‘| the Navy, acquired in more than

20° years’ membership .on the Naval Affairs Committee. It was Mr. Vinson who piloted through the House in 1934 the socalled “treaty navy” bill, which authorized 125 new. cruisers, destroyers, submarines and other war vessels. That was his first big job.

Side Glances—By

E was born on a farm in middle Georgia. The closest body of water was the ‘Oconee River, no great shakes as a river. He now lives in -Milledgeville, first oapital of Georgia, in a Congressional district which covers alot of farm country and one city, Macon. _

While Macon is not intimately concerned about the Navy, one way or other, it is glad to see its Congressman hobnobbing with admirals, taking - cruises on battleships and frequently appearing in newspaper pictures on the White House steps. Like his. predecessors as chairman, the Georgian co-operates closely with the admirals. Because of his powerful position, the admirals also co-operate “with him. = Occasionally he may be heard talking somewhat roughly over the phone to the sea dogs down at the Navy Department, but by and large they find him sympathetic to their aspirations for naval expansion.

Unlike some of his predecessors, | m

however, Mr. Vinson is ready to give |

the peace societies a hearing. His conduct of the hearings on the pending bill generally was praised as fair, Opponents of the measure were given three weeks compared with two for its advocates. Nevertheless, the bill remains in the form that the Administration and the Navy Department wants. That is, with one exception, and this reveals a personal predilection, the measure: authorizes a dirigible

Clark

of 3,000,000 cubic feet, which the Administration does not want. Despite disastrous = experiences with lighter-than-air craft, Mr. Vinson remains a champion of the dirigible. He got one named for Macon; it was lost on the Pacific Coast. : 2 2 8 AR. VINSON has come up ' through the route usual to many House members. He won a law degree at Mercer University in Macon after Georgia Military College: at Milledgeville.. He served : as County Prosecutor, as judge and in the Georgia Legislature, where he was speaker pro- tem. of. the General Assembly. He came to: the House in 1915. > His most successful political exploit ‘was his defeat of the famous Tom Watson, longtime power ‘in Georgia politics. Mr. Watson, who served first in the House and then in the Senate, fought Rep. Vinson

for his support of the Wilson war

"He's a persistent fellow. The story is told of a chairman of the House ttee on Naval Ap-

Subcommi propriations who made: his commit-

teemen swear: one day that they would not see Carl Vinson. It seems that after the Committee would act

contrary to what Mr. Vinsoit want- |. ed on naval ‘matters, he would -go

around and see the members and. induce them to reverse their action. He still works that way, ane suc-

cessfully.

domestic, ~

graduation from

clude casual Tabor: or persons employed .by family owned enter-

° prises. ‘Some available eehiinater Andi= cate there will be more than 4000 persohs receiving an average of * 20,000 checks per month for com-

plete coverage by’ unemployment compensation. Those who will receive partial compensation (as in the case of ‘Mr. Doe who worked one day a

week) are expected to total 3500

a month, drawing an average of 10,000 checks. Estimates based ‘upon experi- ? ence with. a. similar law in Wisconsin which/has been in operation for more .than a year, set the average benefit check ‘at $8.75 for complete. unemployment and $3.50 for partial joblessness. Thus, while the fund is increasing at an average of $2,000,000 a month, the maximum. estimated drain on the resources for benefits would be - $210,000, . of which $35,000 would be paid in partial and $175,000 in total unemployment benefits. ” ® fF ANY of the 750,000 eligibles . covered in Indiana never - will have occasion to draw upon the funds, officials state. Others y Will find jobs before. the maxi- ( mum benefit Payments have been made. Eventually, employers ‘who : offer their workers continuous ‘émployment will be permitted to stop payments. in their reserve funds. Provisions: for cessation of contributions has been made on a sliding scale beginning in . 1939. The employer need no longer pay into the fund if his réserve equals 17 per cent of his anxual payroll for the preceding year. - In order that the worker will not be penalized if.an employer fails to accumulate sufficient funds to meet benefits: charged agaist him, only five-sixths of

* compensation against his payroll under: Title .9

wn 0b for Unemployment Compensation.

the total contribution is’ credited

to .the individual company’s re-

‘serve. account. | The other six goes into a pool account. whi ~ serves as a backlog in the event the ‘individual ‘account can. not bear the charges. . “Authors of the law claim bene-. fits will accrue to both employer and employee. Purposely, benefits were set at levels that assure more income than ' would come’ through relief or public works employment. 8.8 T ‘the same time, payments are ‘considerably lower. than the / individual would get in private employment, the purpose being to create, a desire on the. part of -the Tecipien to find a job. For ‘the employer there is an. incentive ‘to keep employment at steady levels. Building up reserves through retaining employees. will: permit the employer to cease paying into the fund. At the same

time he is allowed to deduct’ 90°

per cent of the unemployment. charges made of the Federal Security Act. The act grants exemption to those employers who are supporting a state unemployment compensation pool. In addition to" those workers covered by the law are thousands of others. who will receive bene-" fits because their employers. yols

untarily‘made contributions | to the :

compensation fund. To date more than 500 concerns: which for various reasons were exempt from setting aside funds to comply with the mandatory compensation law, have applied for coverage. . This group, which is increasing, may withdraw its contributions at the beginning of any calendar year. But until then;their emplovees are entitled to the same protection as those who work for organizations that must be cov-' ered ‘by the law.

’| ‘his tenants knew: about it.

| up ang decide what répairs should be made. . as not, the day after that, a spring wagon loaded with

their building.

}e main staircase.

Jane Jordan—

HE Federal Gavertunent shoul

public assistance burden providing for the needy aged and blind. and

dependent children of Indiana under the Welfare Act during 937 than it did in 1936, according to

State Public Welfare ‘Department

records. State welfare officials attribute the Federal increase to the fact the Federal. program was not fully operative ‘in Indiana during the first months of 1936. The figures show that, of the almost 10% million dollars expended under the Welfare Act in 1937, almost five million’ or 45.1 per cent was contributed - by. the Federal

Government. In 1936 Federal funds

2 Jasper—By Frank Owen

dered ‘a heavier part of the total

U.S. Welfare Contributions To Indiana Up in 1937

provided only 39.8 per cent of the

The counties’ share of tHe costs of the 1937 program dropped to only 21.2 per cent of the total. In 1936 the counties bore 24.9 per cent of the costs. The ' State Government provided $3,520,610, or 33.7 per cent, of the 1937 welfare load. The State's 1936 e amounted to 35.3 per cent. The number receiving monthly welfare checks has grown from 41,768 in December, 1936, to 69,537 in December, 1937, yet the proportionate share of payments being met by county faxes hus been reduced. Payrients to the aged have been increased from a $14.31 average to a $16 average for the State. within a

| year.

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A ore VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson I= always been a sucker for ped-

Toor ‘own

By Anton Scherrer it Not Even John Herron's Neighbors “Knew & Whole Lot About Him Until The Day His Will Was Probated.

VEN more surprising than the will made by Stephen D. Tomlinson was the one left by John Herron. ' This is the time to tell about it, because 36 years ago today the John Herron Art Institute opened its doors

to the public. John Herron lived ‘at’ 330 College Ave. between

‘Irwin St. and Lincoln Ave. Believe iit or not, that's

what 14th and 15th Sts. used to be called. He owned

the house he lived in and a couple’ of properties in the northeast part of town, but nobody except, maybe, The only reason they knew about it was

2 “because Mr. Herron always turned

up in person to’collect his rents. Mr. Herron was mighty particu-

lar about his collections. For ex-.

ample, if he rented a. house Yor $800 a year he made it a point to collect $66.67 one month, and $66.66 the next. ' He gypped himself out of 2 cents every year doing it that’ way, but he stuck lo it. : ‘Said it was the only honest way to treat his .enants.

There’s a legend, too, that when: a ‘tenant turned

Mr. Scherrer

up, with a kick that the roof was leaking or somee

thing, the very next day Mr. Herron would show And like

old lumber would: drive up, and a: 60-year-old man

| carrying: a tool ‘box would jump out and go to work,

Sure, it' was Mr, Herron himself. In the spring of 1895 Mr. Herron went to Calle

. fornia for his health. Nobody, not even his neighe

bors, knew that he was sick. He was like that—never

‘told: anybody his business. In April there was a fire in his room.

His niece tried to save him, but it was too late. He died the next day. Outside of a little item tucked away on the inside of the paper, there wasn’t a mention of it around here. A ‘month later, however, Mr. Herron’s name was all over the front page. That was the day they probated his will. It was the biggest surprise Indianapolis ever had. After distributing $8000 in small sums and charities, Mr. Herron bequeathed the ree mainder of his estate to the Art Association of Indie anapolis, a homeless organization at the time.

Mr. Stanton Is Not Talking When they dug into it, they discovered that the

‘remainder of his estate amounted to a quarter of a

million dollars or so. More surprised. than anyhody was the Art Association itself; because nobody in that

.organization had ever heard of Mr. Herron, let alone

know him. To this day nobody knows what moved

Mr. Herron to do it. It is generally believed, however, that A. P. Stanton, Mr. Herron's lawyer, had some

thing to do with it. Mr. Stanton lives to tell the tale,

but he’s not saying anything.

“Well, after a lot of litigation (44 suits were filed to

-break the will). the Art -Association finally got the

money. It took ‘seven years, though, before they had It was a grand day, that March 10, .1902, when they opened the doors to the public. I remember exactly how it looked. The prize picture, “The Kiss of the. Siren,” Bung on the landing of the

“When it was bought 1 cated an awful stir around: here. Some people Even went so far as to say that a saloon was the o place fit to show it. You don’t see the picture ore because they keep

- it in the cellar most of the time. The last I heard of

it was a couple of years ago when the Wawasee Inn people wanted to buy it; to put back of the bar up there. As far as I know, the deal fell through.

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Persons Who Expect Too Much In

Marriage Often Have the Failures. EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl in my late 20s and would like fo have your. answers to a few

: questions. Do you think all married people step out,

or just part? If a wife says her husband steps out when he does not, will he do.so in time if she keeps telling him that he does? If a woman steps out on her husband has she a right to. say.anything to another woman who does the same? What is the cause of married people doing things like this? Are they tired of each other or did they never love in the first place? JUST WONDERING.

2 nn =» i : Answer—All married people do not step out by

any manner of means. It is simply that those who

do get themselves much talked about, whereas those who do not escape notice. . It is very unwise for a woman to accuse her hus band of stepping out whether he is innocent or guilty. If he is innocent it is entirely possible, though not. inevitable, that her continuous suggestions will put the idea into his head. If he is going to get all the blame he feels that he might as well have some of the fun, too.

Even when a husband is guilty, nagging won't cure him. In fact the element of revenge is so

strong in many cases of infidelity that the wife's un- — = 8

happiness may be just the result her husband wished to achieve. -Besides the more: she nags the more justified he feels in his conduct. Many husbands de= liberately incite their wives to a quarrel in -order is furnish themselves with an excuse for philanderng. You would think that a person who yields to temptation himself would feel very charitable toward

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dlers and tramps. Although 1 know it isn’t good business of good 1 | sense I give small change to knights ‘1of the road and buy blunt needles, bad thread, lace doilies, furniture polish, vanilla extract and comb cleaners’ from the traveling: dispensers of ‘Such wares. Lately there have been definite signs of a cure ror my weakness. {I've been so badgered by goodlooking, fast-talking boys who are getting through college by selling magazine subscriptions: that it has put me out of sorts with the human | race. : During the first few years we had 1 | these plagues, my heart was touched ‘| by the thought of all thése youngsters desperately bent pon getting ; wisdom. . | Lately, however, I've decided some ‘of them who have here are | not like what 1 want my own: kids to tum out to be. Suddenly several of these lads have acquired ‘the mannerisms of minor . racketeers. They have become ‘supersalesmen with a vengeance. The. last one, here yesterday, as- | sured me he was having a splendid time. “I'm Setting Toney I for hess

“{ | States a oc he - a | galety. “It's a pretty slick racket.” | G “And the public pays” I said. = | | “Yes,” he agreed. “But. that's the {public's hard duck =F oceurs-to me’ that. ft. may also ie hard luck of some: eolleges,

others who do. the same thing. Sometimes he does. A more common reaction is to condemn :others. for faults which we find in ourselves. ‘The beloved self escapes condemnation while -assuaging its uneasy conscience by punishing the same deed in another. It is as if we said, “That is really a very sinful thing to do... but ‘my case is different. »

There are too many causes of infidelity in mare riage to list here. In general it is safe ‘to say that people expect too much of marriage. A girl mare ries her Prince C only to find that he is an ordinary self-seeking human: being. Instead of adjusting herself - to: the. reality she takes up the search fdr another Prince. A man marries his ideal only to find that the ideal existed in his own head and not in the girl’s. nature. He can’t stand the dise appointment of finding himself wed to a self-cene tered girl who is far from an angel and ‘takes up the search for his nonexistent ideal all over again. JANE JORDAN.

: Put. .your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, he wil | < answer your questions in this column aly. i

Wa ter O Kee Bess EW YORK, March 10.—Ex-President Hoover met Hitler the other day, and it just goes to show how lonesome a Republican can get these days when you consider that Herbert even was willing to have a chat with Adolf.

Naw Books Today

Public Library Presents—

EH chatty gossip of the theater and its people vith which Daniel Frohman amused his readers in “Daniel Frohman Presents,” is - continued in ENCORE (Furman). Here are chapters on the lives of grat actors, producers, and dramatists of the past, -necdotes of the theater, a bit about the early theatr ol life of Broadway, something concerning the tials of a manager, and even a short discourse

- upon hat ail important c of artistic life jou grament. Garrick, Kean and Mrs. Sidd Forrest, Booth, s a IS. ons a tread the the hoards in the des they made imagain chapter there leaps

1ds. ws of the theater and ts glamorous history

will walcome ENCORE, redolent of atmosphere from its title page to the final curtain. [4 x # FJ » AY, I could make a better. picture Shan. that! S it et ke the book a al” familiar words of ie

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JRES: : KPPT SOTATE THEM (Johnson). Mr. Kiesling ex“plain: that the novel, the stage play, and the screen play, although closely related, are three different mehum: of expression, each demanding a different of writing, He sketches the history of moving

After listening to Adolf probably he will be very glad to ust bask io thei peace. and: quiet of .the G. O. P. headquarters.

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