Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 139, 12 June 1922 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1922.

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OHIO FARMERS ASK TRUCK OWNERS AID

HAMILTON, Ohio, June 12. Strong opposition to levying taxation wholly upon adjoining farms to build heavy freighting roads and disapproval of wasteful road construction and main

tenance policies was voiced at the farm bureau district meeting In Hamilton Saurday. It was pointed out that heavy truck freighting lines using the hard roads end causing severe wear upon them, introduce unfair competition with railroads and traction lines in that they have a roadway maintained at no cost, to themselves, while their competitors must maintain their roadways, and In addition, pay taxes upon them as property. It was the opinion of many of the ' farmers present that heavy trucks require much heavier road construction than otherwise would be necessary, and that they cause excessive wear and expensive maintenance charges. Several delegates proposed a system

of taxation or licensing which would throw more of the maintenance upon

truck owners, a suggestion which met with approval of the whole assembly.; Motor busses and trucks were considered to be in the same class of public utilities as other important transportation systems, and should be subject to the same regulaions. Suggestions were made that they be required to assume responsibility for property and lives transported, be liable for damages to other vehicles and to the roadway. Protest Assessments Farmers present registered a vigorous protest against the method of assessing cost of hard roads against the adioiine property. In many cases,

they 6aid, assessments for hard roads had absorbed a larger sum than the

farm would pay In rents. One farmer,

Clark McGrew, southeast of Hamilton,! offered his county commissioners 10 years possession of his farm if they would agree to pay his road assessments and taxes for that period. Other cases were mentioned, of a $4,000 Investment which paid $1,425 road assessment, and of a farm on a hard road, renting for $400 a year, which had an assessment of $600 levied against it. It was stated also that many good roads have been destroyed to make room for new ones which are no better. A laugh was raised when one farmer told of a contractor who had moved a street across the city of Oxford. Tearing up an 18 inch foundation to make room for a brick paving, he had hauled the material to the other side of the city and used it in laying down another excellent paving.

Several examples of similar destruc-

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MURRAY Comedy lovers will find much to enjoy In some of the cow-boy antics that add to the excitement of "Shadows of Conscience" which Russell productions have just completed and which may be seen at the Murray theatre. The homecoming of Winnie Sherman, played by Gertrude Olmstead, Is the occasion for great rejoicing among the ranchmen, many of whom take their first and last appearance in a dress suit In the young lady's honor. "Fatty" gives the boys (and the audi

ence too) the biggest laugh of their

lives when he dons his swallow-tail

and then proceeds to drown himself

In cologne. Old scores are forgotten, and each one Is everybody's friend at

the jolly festival In the Sherman home which constitutes one of the most pop

ular scenes In "Shadows of Consci

ence". The spirit of the entire picture is "homey" and renders it an especially attractive production for the family theatre. Everything of an unwholesome nature has been eliminated so that from start to finish, this 6uper-production offers first-grade entertainment. In making it register as this sort of feature, Russell Simpson, the star, nobly assisted by Barbara Tenant, Gertrude Olmstead, Landers Stevens and W. Bradley Ward,

have contributed important character-

tion of hard roads already existing in izations.

order to allow new construction were t cited by farmers present. , Admits Waste I . That road maintenance is costing1 Ohio four times as much as it should

was acknowledged by Director r . M. Herrick of the state department of highways and public works, when he stated that his department was receiving only 25 cents worth of work for each dollar expended. He appealed for the co-operation of local organizations, and reports by them on wasteful practices followed by road gangs on state work. He stated that $9,000,000 of the $12,000,000 of state

road funds had been expended on maintenance last year, with only $3,000,000 on new construction. A few of the causes of this waste were enumerated by Mr. Herrick. The

state owned 900 trucks which ran wild '

under no regulation last year. Engines would often be left running all day. These trucks are now tabulated and operate on schedule, with drivers responsible for expenses. Road gangs also wasted time under the old system. Five men in one gang started work at 10 o'clock and quit at 3 every day, accomplishing no more than two men should have done. A gang of 11 men and foreman, with a truck and barrel of paint, was found at another place, painting 125 feet of guard rail. In many cases, county officials would have gangs put on the state payroll when there was no work to be done, in order to keep them without expense to the county. These abuses, the director said, are being remedied under the new system. He also asked for authority to use state engineers instead of county en

gineers for road surveys as many sur

veys are made at excessive expense, as well as useless surveys being made

MURRETTE

Mary Pickford madvectantly pulled

a tooth while making a scene in her new million dollar picture, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which is the feature at the Murrette theatre. As Little Lord Fauntleroy, Miss Pickford tied a string to her tooth and then attached it to the huge knob of a heavy door in the old Dorincourt Castle, the idea being to depict the pulling of the tooth for a comedy scene. Her brother Jack was directing the scene and Alfred E. Green, who is codirecting with Jack, was manipulating

the door. The action called for the slamming of the door at a given signal. A close-up of Little "Lord Faunt

leroy was to be shown in which the (

string would De seen attacnea to miss i

Pickford's tooth, then the action was to be switched to the slamming of the door. At this point, of course, it was intended to remove the string from Miss Pickford's tooth. Through a misunderstanding of the signals, Green slammed the door at the wrong moment, actually pulling Miss Pickford'o tooth. Charles Rosher was fortunately cranking the camera at the time, with the result that the scene of the well-known, home-made method of extracting teeth will be shown most vividly and realistically on the screen.

and great grandmothers laced themselves literally to the point of suffocation. Women swooned constantly, largely from lack of breath, and more

than once, we are told, death followed j

some sudden exertion undertaken by a tightly encased woman. At this time the genteel waist was 13 inches, which narrow circumference the ladies secured by tying their corset lace3 to a bedpost and then walking away thus producing heavy pressure. The Shifting Waistline This tight lacing continued even though the feminine figure underwent another severe change about the period of the Spanish-American war when the straight front and bias hip form corset became popular. The effect of this innovation was to lengthen the apparent waistline. According to an enthusiastic account of the

time, all belts then rounded over the

hips and ended in a point in front, giving to even the stoutest womeif a

degree of slenderness. . On the other j hand, this style was just as highly and plausibly rocommended for slen

der women. The chief charm of such a cor,et, its champions declared, was

that it forced an erect carriage, for it was manifestly impossible to slouch or relax in It. This type of corset probably aroused a greater storm of protest from tho medical profession than any of its

predecessors. One who raised an outraged voice against it declared that it was responsible for many cases of floating kidney among women. Another predicted that it would result In a preliminary deformed race of women, and pointed out that already the female figure of the moment was taking on a curious, unnftural twist, likely to be emphasized and increased. Still another called eloquently for the

abolition of all corsets forever. His plea was just a decade too soon. Ten years later, the feminine reac-

FINDS RADIO MUSIC GOOD WAY TO LULL CHICKS TO SLUMBER OTTAWA, Ohio, June 12. Chicks lulled to sleep by radio and made stronger, healthier and better! John T. Thomas, proprietor of the Columbus Grove Hatcheries, says he has had six months of favorable experiments along that line. Thomas installed a radio to help relieve the long winter evenings, when he was forced to remain at the plant, to turn eggs and watch the brooder. He soon found, he declared, that the little chickens seemed to like the noise of the radio. Now he is planning to Install one of the largest radio sets in Putnam

county.

BEST SHORT STORY WRITERS PLAGE AGE OF HEROINES AT 28

the heroines were on the average four to five years older than In the stories written by men."

tion against tight and heavy corsets; 1 a 1 r a 1 . i 14. XI J. J. 3 '

COMPLETING RAISING OF GREAT "Y" FUND (By Associated Press) BUFFALO, June 12. Without publicity or public appeal, the raising of a

fund of $4,000,000 to provide for trie

retirement of veteran Y. M. C. A. executives throughout North America is

nearing completion, it was announced here today by A. H. Whitford, local Y. M. C. A. secretary and chairman of the fund committee. It had been originally planned to close the campaign on Jan. 1, 1923, but indications are that the fund will have been fully subscribed within the next two weeks. Secretaries will have the privilege

of retiring at the age of f0, but may

started in, with the result. that today continue u mey u

retanes are uroviueu lor uuu

plan. Canada, Cuba and Brazil nave made contributions to the fund and association secretaries there will share

corsets are practically unknown among the flapper population. Persons who claim to know say that the

nnrnr!5at(a prn is n nw rtpfinit.plv here! i

that the young women of today, never, in benefits. cllV. having worn them, probably never T cf"j;r Foundation subwill. But in view of all the corset's scribed 1.0W.OOO to . the .retirement

WOT,l,r Mttnrv this .nTiplnsinti lUia, conaiuuueu uu tuc iaisiu6 ui u.o

sources. Iew

are faint signs that it is returning to York .state led I with , contnbutiona of

favor not because physicians now aP.i.--". f""sla,1 "1 rf iV oaa prove of it, but because the Parisian Ohio .third The bulk or the first $2 000 -

designers do. uu" " 77

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, June 12. "Old maids" need hang their heads no longer. The ideal age for a heroine of moving picture romance or of love stories genarally is today 28 years, an age that only a few years ago was regard

ed by the general public as fixing a woman definitely in the ranks of con

firmed spinterhood. This 13 the conclusion made from a careful study of the 27,000 love stories which the lay public, amateurs from all walks of life, wrote for the- scenario contest conducted by The Chicago Daily News. Representing not what scenario and magazine editors or writers guess the public's choice to be, these manuscripts were first hand information on the actual tastes of the people

who buy books and who atend moving picture exhibitions. "Striking unity among the nationally scattered contestants upon the sub

ject of the heroine's age is among the first things to be noted by the judges," said James Shryock, director of the contest today, announcing the facts as brought out by competition. "It is too general to be accidental and represents undoubtedly, a countrywide change in ideals. Few in 'Teens

"Few of the heroines are in their j

'teens, only a handful, are in tneir very early twenties, the great majority are around 27 and 2S, the authors seeming to regard thi3 age as wom

an's best and woman as more beauti-j ful. intelligent, poised and attractive!

there than previously. The judges de

clared that the age of the heroine hadj

been advancing sieaany since xne 1870's when a girl of '6 or 17 was regarded as romantically perfect "The judges explain this by citing woman's entrance into industry, politics, education and by pointing ou that woman today refuses to grow old and takes better and more intelligent care of her beauty than she did in early periods. In the stories written

by women, 60 per cent of the total.

Trade unions, as known In America, are illegal in Japan. Nevertheless, the workers combine after a fashion and strikes are becoming increasingly

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The Case of the Corset By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

NEW YORK, June 12. The feminine corset which heretofore has always been subjected to the hardest criticism and ridicule, is now suddenly being endorsed by prominent physicians. It is, they say, a necessity to every woman, and should not be discarded. Throughout the centuries women

have worn this curious appliance in one form or another, in spite of persistent jibes and protests from the masculine sex, because each changing fashion demanded it. Now for the first time in many long years the cor

set is practically out of style, and the

tide of professional criticism is turning unexpectedly in its favor.

Dr. Royal S. Copeland, health com

missioner of New York City, says that

he cannot urge too strongly upon to men the advisability of wearing cor

sets. He declares that they have worn them for so many hundreds of years that they have come to need them, and many serious disorders are apt to result from their abandonment. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the famous Vi

enna surgeon, who spent last winter in New York, also adds his recommendation of the corset. "Every woman should wear a corset." he says. "It not only braces vital organs that need bracing, but it is a preventive of spinal troubles." Of course, Dr. Lorenz does not advocate a return to the old waspwaisted high corsets which cramp the body and prevent free movement of the muscles. He believes that the ali

en state funds to provide employment j important consideration is that the

for county workers.

GRANT ONE OF TWO

SUITS AT GREENVILLE GREENVILLE, Ohio, June 12. Two divorce cases were up for hearing by Judge Teegarden Saturday.

Alice Pullen was granted a divorce

from Albert Pullen on the grounds of j WOMAN ANDTWO CHI LDREN

exT-reme crueii). i v ,.. ATa Tsahol

CALIFORNIA EX-GOBLIN TO FACE LOS ANGELES CHARGE ATLANTA, Ga., June 12. William S. Coburn, former grand goblin of the Ku Klux Klan in California, will return to Los Angeles to face the indictment returned against him after a raid at Inglewood, a suburb, it was announced here last night by E. Y.

Clark, imperial wizard pro tem.

Secondary Roads

The state system of primary roads will be finished next year, said Mr. Herrick, after which state farm bureau, Grange and other civic organization officials will be called into consultation to plan a system of secondary roads. Through Ohio's old system of requiring the state department to build roads in co-operation with local officials, the sections of the state with the most influence have secured the roads, 6aid Director Herrick. No definite system connecting the different parts of ths state was possible, and no three stretches of hard road in the state formed any part of a system of quick communication. The new policy does allow a systematic construction. Construction is extraordin a r i 1 y cheap at present, the speaker intimated, stating that irresponsible concerns are bidding on roads now at lower prices than are safe. The aver

age price of hard road construction on contracts let this year is $28,000 a mile with only two contracts above $50,000 a mile.

Stowaways recently discovered in German steamer which had been acquired by an American line, proved to be German ex-engineers of that very ship, and repaired a defect In the engines during the voyage.

TRACY'S For Better Coffee

corset snouia in every instance be a perfect fit, perhaps even modeled

after casts made from the person who

is to wear it

Yet it is doubtful if Dr. Lorenz's advice will make much of an impression upon the rising generation of young women, as long as the corset remains

out of style. Just as their great grandmothers insisted that they were healthy and comfortable with 13-inch waists even while they swooned, so the modern prom girls are prepared to risk the gravest anatomical injuries rather than be stigmatized as "Old Ironsides" at the college dances. Fashions vs. Health The corset controversy has raged continuously from the very earliest times, and always fashion has prevailed over health. The date of the first appearance of the corset Is not known, but among the art works discovered in the ruins of one of the mysterious forest cities of South America, whose history is lost in re

mote antiquity, there is a bas-relief

representing a iemaie ugure wmcn

shows unmistakably that a contrivance similar to the modern corset was

then in use. This consisted of a complicated and elaborate waist bandage,

which by a system of circular and

transverse folding and looping con

fined the waist from just below the hips as firmly and compactly as the

most unyielding corset of modern times. Some authorities give the Germans the credit for inventing the first European corset and possibly introducing it into Rome. At any rate it is known that the early German women and the fine Roman ladies wore much the same type of restricting bandages. That the corset was found ridiculous even in the somewhat ridiculous Middle Ages is shown by a sketch dated 1043, found in the British Museum, which cartoons not only th?

restricting corset but also the trail

ing draperies of the period worn so! long that they needed knotting to bej

kept from the ground. The heavy steel corsets of the time of Catherine de Medici, and 'the hinged steel box

with the depending rod or bar of steel over which the long peaked bodice of the dress was adjusted, affected by Queen Elizabeth, also produced much sardonic amusement and denunciation. Never in all these years has public opinion triumphed over the dictates of fashion. Corset styles have changed not because thoy were injurious or

grotesque in appearance, but because some world leader of fashion, in the old days usually a queen, decided to change the lines of her figure. Twice before corsets have been abolished, or at lea3t reduced to small proportions, not as a concession to health or comfort but because style demanded it. The first occasion was in the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, Spain, and Iitaly when a

drastic change occurred in the standards of feminine beauty. Slim waists and narrow shoulders were suddenly passeand the Venus of Milo with her 28-inch waist became the popular model. This vogue is evident in a drawing by Adrian Boise of a rich Dutch lady about the year 1630, in which it is apparent that the feminine figure of those days was little restricted by any artificial device. The second period followed the French Revolution when at the beginning of the nineteenth century the costume of the Empire was evolved. This was built on Grecian lines and required no corser except a band passing below the bust and kept in place by shoulder straps.- It was doubtless

too comfortable a style to last, for it soon vanished and was succeeded by a period of exaggerated tight lacing. Here in America our grandmothers

Judge Teegarden refused to grant a divorce to Mina Ballard from William Ballard on the grounds of gross neglect of duty. Candidate for Congress William D. Brumbaugh, of this city, filed a petition Friday afternoon with the Darke county board of elections as a candidate for congress from the Fourth congressional district, subject to the decision of the Democratic primary to be held Aug. 8. New Cases Common Pleas Case No. 22920 Rufus Moore, ex

ecutor of the estate of Mary Moore, vs. Ivan Richards et al. Money and foreclosure of mortgage. John J. Foos et al vs. Frank Lytle. Error, transcript from docket of C. A. Albright, Twin township. T. J. Beam vs. Clyde Sutton and

James B. Sutton. Cognovit note; amount claimed, $613.75. Probate Court William R. Smith, administrator of the estate of Maria Smith, deceased, filed a petition to sell government bonds. '

Vigo and her two sons, aged 6 and 7 years, were recovering in a hospital here last night from injuries received when they fell or jumped from a Rock Island train near Maple Hill, 185 miles west of here. Mrs. Vigo refused to make any explanation, hospital authorities say.

Richmond TODAY WM. RUSSELL in "SMILING RIVER" Also CLYDE COOK in "SAILOR"

Annual St. John's Picnic To Be at Wernle Home The annual picnic of the Sunday school of St John's Lutehran church will be held at the Wernle Orphans'

Home on the Fourth of July, says an announcement Monday. A program will be given in which the children of the orphanage will participate. Recreational features will be provided, ending with a display of fireworks in the evening.

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"BETTER COME EARLY" Pipe Organ Concert Orchestra BIG TIME BILL Mon., Tues., Wed. Four Jacks and a Queen Four clever young men and and a beautiful, talented girl in "A Merry Gambol of Class and Melody." Elaborate stage settings. A bigtime feature. Grace Doro "Ten Fingers and a Baby Grand." This young lady was the hit of the bill at the Palace, Cincinnati, last week.

Kelsh and Wilma A man and a woman team in "Vocal Variety." A big hit last night.

The Bimbos "Comedy Novelty Entertainers." Comedy bumps,

table falls, singing and talking. Great comedy hit. "SHADOWS OF CONSCIENCE" Five-reel feature of heartinterest. Coming Thursday Melody Garden; Tyler and Crolins; Jack Reddy, and Worden Brothers,

Murrette "Where the Stars Twinkle First"

Today, Tues. and Wed.

Mary Pickford

"Little Lord Fauntleroy

A child's heart in pawn! A mother's heart in suspense! A proud man's heart chastened! This picture has been endorsed as one of the finest pieces of screen art because it is positively the sweetest, cleanest and entertaining production of the year. A picture for the family of the type that loves something better.

Coming Thursday The Glorious Fool Admission Evening Adults 35 cents Children 15 cents Matinee Adults 25 cents Children ........... 15 cents