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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1919.

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By McManus

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Naval Medical Corps Men Are Decorated

U.S. MAY-LEARN ECONOMIC PLANS FROM FRENCHMEN

Older Nation Has Struggled With Crises for Many Years, Says Times Expert. i. Four causes nave Deen assigned for the increased costs of all food products, says Walter Durant, in writing in the New York Times. "Three of them arise from the effects of the war on the food supply, from its production right along the 'line to the purchase by the ultimate consumer. The fourth cause is entirely an extraneous one, independent of food but also due to the war, and in the opinion of most French economists, is chiefly responsible. It is the unprecedented inflation of currency. Whereas in 190G the floating quantity of paper raony in Fiance amounted to 7,500,000,000 francs and 12.000.000,000 in 1314, it is now 40,000,000,000. According to economists one should not Bay that food is twice as dear, but rather that money is twice as cheap. They reckon that currency depreciation accounts for fully fifty per cent of the apparent rise in French food

prices, which have quadrupled during die rapidly by obviating the necessity

tne rive years or the war. I he remaining fifty per cent increase is due, first, to the huge diminution of food production in Western Europe owing to the lack of labor, which combined to bring about the world shortage. A second cause is the deterioration and reduction of transportation by sea and land. A third is profiteering. The bad effects of all three are aggravated and augmented by high wages due in the first instance to the demon of cu-rency inflation, which 13 at work in every stage in the game. French Have Learned by Experience. In French history there have been too many unsuccessful attempts to

dispose of this trouble maker by arti

lines, but it is bound to take time. There are two immediate improvements. The first is a mutual agreement between the workers and masters to postpone all strikes, say for a period of six months. The majority of French workers have come to the realization that striks for better wage3 and shorter hours do not get them out of the vicious circle of higher operating expenses and higher prices. Some, however,.are still unenlightened and today there are serious traffic tieups as a result of strikes at principal French Atlantic ports. Railroad men here declare that in the present down at the heel condition of rolling stock and roadbeds, one single day's tieup takes ten days to straighten out. How much worse when as now the greater part of incoming merchandise is cumbering the wharfs or blocking the freight yards in western ports. "It will take us six months to get the traffic 6tream running properly again." said the director of one of the principal French railroads a few days ago, "even if there are no mote strikes. No one outside of the railroad business can Imagine how difficult it is to unravel a bad tangle like this unless (and this i3 the second improvement suggested) the government will return for a stated period to mobilization conditions that is, to running every train In the country at the same rate of speed. France carried out her enormous mobizilation program without a hitch by abolishing almost all civilian railroad traffic for a whole fortnight and running all trains at a uniform speed of thirty kilometers an hour. If that system is repeater now it would cause a certain in-

j convenience to passengers, out u

would straighten out the freight mud-

dealer along the line took advantage of it to increase it Illegitimately for his own benefit. If the ultimate consumer ever objected he was easily satisfied with the explanation: 'C'est la guerre. Haven't you seen that wholesale prices have been augmented?' "The only remedy I can see for this is a wide publication of average prices right along the scale from producer or importer to retailer, with a fair allotment of profit to each, so that the consumer can protect himself." This is exactly what Minister Noulens aims to do with a daily publication of price lists allowing a profit of 15 percent only. But as he points out, the final benefit therefrom rests with the consumer himself he must decline to buy when the retail prices exceed those of the lists. In this direction there is an interesting experiment being tried in the Eighteenth City Ward in the shape of a consumers' league to compel retailers to mark prices on all foodstuffs according to law, and where they are too high to bring peaceful persuasion to bear for their reduction. The league only began operations yesterday, and met with great success, prices being reduced from 10 to 50 percent in many cases. Co-operative and municipal food stores have also accomplished useful work in the sjame direction, but they are limited in extent, and their success depends on good management. It is hoped that Mr. Noulens' lists will enable every one to insist on fair dealing and reduce profiteering to neg

ligible proportions.

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adapted for this vivaciou-3

MURRAY Out in Hollywood, California, some of the motion picture directors have added fresh fuel to that old fire of battle between the blondes and the brunettes of the fair sex. by starting the question, "Which is the more capable to deep feeling, and therefore of portraying more forcibly the greatest emotions the blondes or the brunette type of woman?" Some insist that the greatest emotional actresses have been blondes and portrayed their great characters

as such. Others maintain that thov1

have been ladies of raven locks and F.mlnsinit CflSP SnSTiPCt

of the story of Dorothy Dalton's new Paramount picture, "Hard Boiled," which is seen at the Murrette Theatre today. This picture was directed by Victor L. Shertzinger under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince. Miss Dalton, as the prima donna, dees some of the finest acting of her career. She is ably supported by a fine cast including "Smiling Billy" Mason as leading man. The country town types are well presented and the manner in which the clever girl outwits the shrewd and rascally old deacon will prove highly edifying to the public.

Sailor Searches Brotker Thought To Be In City

midnight eyes, and have shown the

great emotional parts of history and remance accordingly. There has always been great perplexity as to whether Lady Macbeth, should be played, light, dark or medium, to give the appropriate complexion accompaniment of her intense feelings. So the fight rages. Incidentally the one actress showing in town who can throw light on thi3 great question is Miss Madlaino Traverse, who is known far and wide

Kills Himself hi Leap

Bv Assoriated Press) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 7. Charles McGwire, suspected of having knowledge cf those responsible for the dynamiting of the home of Oscar Lawler last Sunday and who was being questioned late last night by Thomas Lee Woolwine, district attorney, in the

for her forceful emotional work. She 1(aped (rom "lhe eleventh floor of the is appearing at the Murray theatre Hall f Records t0 tbe pavement and m the Wilham I-ox photoplay, wog killecJ "R-9 of thf West" in which, as the iicGwire denied any knowledge of mother ready to lay down her lite tor the affair but u.hen Mr. Woolwine left love cf her child, and to sacrifice hap- j his fii f a momeut Ue leaped p-.ness to sav- the honor of the man tha

Herbert Lee Lawson, a discharged sailor who has traveled all over the world, came to Richmond this week in search of his twin brother, Herbert Clyde Lawson,' whom he has not seen since infancy, and whom he had forgotten existed. He learned recently that his brother had been adopted by a Richmond family. Inquiries here have so far availed him of no further information regarding his brother.

(Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. Award of the distinguished service cross to pharmacist's mate Charles W. Batemen, of, Eunice, La., and of the distinguished service medal to Edmo E. Merkle, Hattiesburg. Miss., and Vincent A. Nolan, Seattle, Wash., both of the naval medical corps, waa announced today by the navy department. Bateraan was decorated for extraordinary heroism in action while in service with the marines at BeHeau Wood and Merkel and Nalon for service with the marines during the operations around Blano Mont Ridge. It was also announced that the French government had awarded the croix de guerre to the following officers and enlisted men of the navy medical corps who served with ths marines at Belleau wod and Blane Mont ridge: Lieut. Preston A. McLendon, Lieut. William F. Gilmer and Pames C. Edwards, of Banner, Miss.; Spencer J.

Lewis, St. Joseph, Mo.; Charles H. Whltacre, Cassville. N. .; Lancelet K. Bassley, Troy. N. C.;. Roger Q. Morten, Davis, Okla., and Ruford C. Thompson, Gough, Ga.

It is claimed that one of the new emergency brakes for automobiles can be applied with the pressure of a finger.

Horlick's the Original Malted Milk Avoid Imitations &Substitutes

The Theatres

for sidetracking freight trains. I'll

guarantee that in a month we would hear no more of perishable goods wasting en route or consignments going astray, or any of the thousand and one other mishaps that now make my life a burden and contribute to the increase of prices." Profiteering Wholesale and Retail. Whether this plan be as successful as with mobilization or not, it certainly is a fact that dealers, both large and small, in foodstuffs claim they are forced to make a higher percentage of profit than usual on what they sell because of the abnormal percentage of loss on perishable commodities from transports tion delays. It is a sad fact

she loves, she is said to give one of hir most vivid revelations of a woman's heart. Miss Traverse throws judgment on the side of the brunettes she has black hair and dark brown eyes.

MURRETTE Corinne Melrose, beautiful and ac

complished, but unfortunate to be 1 stranded in a small town, when her show goes on the rocks, put her beauty and wit to good account recently, when she succeeded in entangl-! ing Deacon Simpson so that he was j forced to act like a white man in re- j gard to his mortgage on the little i

The dead man, who was assistant chief engineer for the Los Angeles Beard of Public Utilities, was connected in litigation over a will recently in which Mr. Lawler represented the opposing faction and which was decided in favor of Mr. Lawler's clients.

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Last Times Today

adge Kennedy

WASHINGTON. Madge Kennedy o.-t her dignity during the filming of a scene in her rew Goldwyn picture, Through the Wrong Door,' to be seen at the Washington Theatre, last times today. Madge Kennedy, with the a'id of a

ladder, fo;;id a place on a secure J home of Aunt Tiny Colvin.

Dougn: and then the bear was told I This incident forms the central idea J

to go to it. He did. And he didn't.

stop going. Not content with ' , . m,mmtlM,nm .. . , ..,.,. . .m ,, m , ,, the part expected of him, he eluded i ''I'tf everyone and kept on climbing. Then J U

tne tnrills began: i

his four-footed

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ficial means from confiscation of for-i that insurance rates on perishable

i a chance to

tunes to a tax on capital, and the arbitrary calling in of paper with the resultant financial panic for economists to surest anything but a normal and gradual remedy. Professor Gido of the Institute Economique declares that nothing can be done save to gradually reduce the floating debt by repayment and that this is only possible when the natural revenue exceeds expenditures. Very much the reverse is the case in France today, F.o that half of the cause for high cost of living must persist until the return of prosperity permits the country to get back to a cash basis. As regards the three causes which contribute the other half of the increase, the situation is more hopeful. As far as western Europe is concerned demobilization will bring production back around normal in a year or two, and even in the east with the

stuffs are so high as to warrant the belief that losses are abnormal. But much of the profiteering has no such justification and contrary to the general notion it is more flagrant in the case of small retailers than with big men who have more to risk and over whom control is far easier. One of the latter buys half a million francs worth of goods and sells them weeks later for 600,000. The profit is sensational and would cause an outcry if it got in the papers. But it is only 20 percent, whereas street vendors buy a barrow-load of fish or tomatoes for 50 francs at the Halles and sell it for 100 every day. The greatest French economist, the lae Professor Leroy-Beaulieu, once

laid his finger on the true cause

owner caught up with j i

lKirse before hp had

overtake Mis KVnnpHx- I

How a young and beautiful wife ! loses her husband and then wins him back again is delightfully portrayed i by Constance Talmadge in her latest! Select Picture, "Happiness a la Mode,-' j in which Lewis J. Solznick presents her on Friday and Saturday at the ' Washington. j Barbara Townsend was ambitious to I make a success of married life. She realized that to try and pen up a hus-; band and jealously watch his every' action would be fatal to her aspiration. So stronglv was she im-j pressed with this idea that she did ; not realize, that she was giving him j too much freedom. So when he came 1 to her one day and asked for a divorce! it was a painful shock to her. He had j

mistaken her attitude for a lack of I

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profiteering which is now rampant in

France from the wholesaler to the retailer.

important exception of Russia things . JT . " i o . . I that when an import dutv of sav 20

are looking Drigliter. bimiiarlv m re

ppect to transportation. Hero, too. the release of ships and railroads from the transport of war material to say nothing of the elimination of mines, fubmarines and traffic interference by enemy shell fire will improve conditions just as the release of men from fighting will improve production. In both cases the improvement can be artificially hastened by use of labor saving machinery, better methods and better seed or stock as regards food froduction, and by international cooperation and closer working to schedule, more and newer ships, freight cars, locomotives and automobile trucks. France is working hard along these

cents per hundred pound is placed on

coffee, the retail price to the consum-!

er will jump 2 or 3 cents per pound? That is, that the four or five persons through whose hands that hundred pounds of coffee passes from importer to consumer will divide the extra benefit of 200 cents or more. They argue correctly that the consumer's psychology will lead him to accept an apparently trifling increase from 75 to 7S or SO cents a pound just because he has heard there is a new duty of 20 cents to be paid somewhere. Profits Were Too Large. "The war has had just that effect again and again. Each time the wholesale price marie a legitimate advance

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01 interest in him and "another woman"

was the result. Nevertheless. Barbara was proud and she k.ivp him his divorce, but she didn't give him up. This action was merely the first stop in her grand plan to in him back, which forms a very clever storv, ad-

as a result of war conditions every

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New Bill and Picture Today and Last Half Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sunday MAD ALINE TRAVERSE 4 Keith Big-Time Acts Now Playing

-In

"Through the

Wrong Door

Adventure! Mystery!! Romance!! All stood on the threshold as Isabelie Carter opened the wrong door and stood face to face with a man on the verge of suicide, whom 6he THOUGHT to be the beloved uncle she had never met. If the man was not her uncle, who was he and why did she recoil in tenor? Tha solution comes only after a series of remarkable incidents that carry the girl and the man out into the Gredt West, where Cupid settled the affair amid the most surprising circumstances. See MADGE KENNEDY in "THROUGH THE WRONG DOOR." ALSO SHOWING PATHE NEWS AND COMEDY

Friday and Saturday CONSTANCE TALMADGE in "HAPPINESS A LA MODE"

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Woods, Young and Phillips Comedy. Singing and "Nuttisms" Great Comedy Act. FRANCIS AND HUME Classy Singing and Talking Act. Miss Francis is a Richmond girl.

CHESTER AND ELGTA Sensational Acrobats.

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PICKARB'S SEALS 0WinR 10 the tremendous hit kS&S&k 'cored by the srnls. this act will

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THEATRE

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?Sv'!Ml THE KEITH CIRCUIT have been

uted to play THE MURRAY,

Richmond, Ind.

"Better Come Early"

TohIciM

Last opportunity of seeing how movies are made in full view of the au-

ROSE OF THE WEST William ox production

iience,

final

scene

comedy wild west picture will be made. If you

weren't there last

night,

ask your neighbors how

they laughed.

A scream from start to

finish.

THE SENSATION OF THE MOVIES AND VAUDEVILLE

Jri

ow ivjLovies

Are Made" AT THE WASHINGTON THEATRE Today and Tomorrow In full view of the audience. See the director' selecting his cast; camerman ''shooting" scenes. Cast being rehearsd and movies made. Full set of studio lights being operated on the stage. Tonight a comedy wild west scene will be made. Thursday afternoon, children's matinee; a child play and impersonations by children of their favorite film stars. Thursday night Reception scene. See Richmond's future Pickfords, Chaplins, Fairbanks in a local movie Anyone can take part; kindly leave your name at Box Office.

MURK

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Friday and Saturday

THOX1 H.INCE

yY FOOTSTR&W FOOT

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He said he could never love her because she was a "play actress." To thi3 country "rube" the stage was the devil's paradise. Certainly he loves her before the picture is over! It wouldn't be a picture unless he did. But the chain of circumstances that makes him change his mind is what makes this one of the "gol-darndest" best pictures Charles Ray has ever made. ALSO A COMEDY "TRIAL BY JURY" Last Times Today DOROTHY DALTON in "HARD BOILED"