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respondent.)
Hollywood.—What Price Fash
ion ?
“Women are sacrificing indivi
duality by their desire to be cor
rectly dressed," suys Max Ree,
costume creator for screen cele
brities of First National produc
tions, “when a slight variation
^from the accepted standard may
give them just that touch tluu is
needed to make distinction. It i n’t
necessary for women to become
monotonous in mode.
“Each year we notice there are
fewer ‘old ladies' than the year be
fore. We were quite surprised a.
the white-haired women who bob
bed their locks at one time. The
grandmothers in short skirts were
a revelation, and while some of
them were ridiculous in their tret
ups, still we cannot help admiring
their desire to keep in the race.
“The ‘galloping grandmas’ have
readjusted'therm elves to a prac
tical hob, thoir garments are
reaching n compromising length
between extreme youth and ex
treme age, and this is n great in
dication of mental and physical
,advancement of the feminine sex.
I The women of the world are grow
ing younger.”
A smart new novelty, the
“handkerchief dress,” jg causing
much comment among the well
dressed screen stars and players in
Hollywood. This type of gown has
been hailed as an ir.nqyaUcn in
sport frocks.
Norma Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer star, is credited with,its
introduction to film circles. The
skirt is made entirely of large silk
handkerchiefs, placed so that the
points form an uneven lu-.m line.!
The bodice represents two largo]
handkerchiefs, of gay colors, and
the sleeves are of smaller one* !
"Sport clothes, like not other
type of wearing apparel, admit of
novelty,” states Miss Shearer.
However, the smartness of a sport
outfit depends upon the tactics
employed to attract the eye. Gay
colors, wierd designs, novelty
materials and ‘different’ patterns
are chic.”
How “.lessee James,” a law
abiding man. was transformed into
a notorious desperado, will be por
trayed by Fred Thompson, west
ern star, for Paramount. Vwthovtf
in any sense condoning his out
lawry. the-true story of “Jesse
James” will be flashed upon the
silver sheet. Th'is picture wili be
the first of a series that Thompson
will make for Paramount.
Thompson recently signed a
long term contract to make pic
tures for Paramount, Announce
ment. o this effete* was mad"' from
1 New York by S. R. Kent, General
Manager of the Paramount-Fa
mous I .asky Corporation.
Production on this picture is
scheduled to start about Julv 1
and it is expected to be finished
by October 1. Lloyd Ingraham will
continue as Thompson’s director
and Frank Emmett Clifton is now
writing the "Jesse James” story.
Silver King, the star’s famous
horse, will appear in the picture
with Thompson.
Wine room towers—v/ine cellars
—^floors covered with demijohns,
jugs, vats, hogsheads and cases all
labelled with names and trade
marks, now mere memories, will
ho revived again in “The Stolen
Bridge, ’’starring Billie Dove.-v
The dead days when prohibition
was not though, of will her recalled
when the filming of the First Nat
ional picture is completed.
Designing and decorating of the
sets is now under way. A wine
cellar supposedly a part of a
grand, old Hungarian castle, is one
of the sets for the picture. Alex
ander Korda Will direct.
‘THEY SHY' TALK
mm Of ALL
MODERN FLECTIONS
Charlotte News.
One of the penalties of every
political campaign is that the pub
lic has pot to stand for the jvild
and reckless rauvings of the “they
sayers,” the fellows who go up
and down the street telling tilings
that they do not know to be true,
and reckless ravings of the “they
they are unwilling to accept per
sonal responsibility but always
evade that issue by repeating that
“they say” such-and-so io the fact,
about a candidate.
Tee gossipers are all bad.
We have never heard or laid
eyes upon one of them, whatever
their class, color, condition or pre
vious condition of servitude, who
was entitled to respect. Telling
things on people that one does not
know to be true is a terrible sin.
Telling things on them that may
unfortunately, be true, is nothing
to brag about.
The fact is, of course, under all
conditions, when one does not
know anything good to sav flboui
somebody pise, the part of wis
dom, the part of expediency, the
part of charity, the part of Chris
tianity, is to keep the mouth shut.
But it is about those who have
a fine time of it going around
spreading rumors that we are
speaking at this time, the gossip
mongers, the fellows who have
great delight, especially during a
political campaign, to stop you on
the street and ask you if you have
heard so-and-so about Rome candi
date.
Pin him down as to the veracity
of his remarks and he will exclaim
at once and with considerable emo
tion that he, personally, docs not
know that which is telling to be
true, but “they say’’ it is, and off
lie shoots it.
Practically every time the re
marks thus made are bald-faced
lies, with no suggestion of tnlth,
utterly without foundation, but thpy
make fine campaign fodder and
provender for the beasts of the
gutter, and such as this is an im
nerntive in an election. The scan
da'izers must be seiwed.
Whether what they are telling is
<he truth or pot is totally imma
terial, if otjy the ends for which
it may be designed ire accomplish
ed.
The “they-say” spreaders are
cut aiming to hurt somchod.v and
for the want of something detri
mental to say that they can rely
upon as being the truth, they get
the rumors going and to the winds J
they fly.
You can drop a remark on In
dependence Square about a can
didate this afternoon at six o’clock,
if such a remark happens to be
hurtful and damaging enough, by
bed-time it will just about have
covered the city, flying from one
lip to the other of the gang that
goes about fully armed and equip
ped with the “they says.”
We are thinking of nothing in
particular, but of a great deal in
general, along this line and how
that for 25 years in this commun
ity, nnd of course, in this respect,
this community is not peculiar or
unique, this sort of disreputable
chatter has been flowing down the
gutters to the harm of p*en of
splendid reputation, stuff merely
designed to prejudice and belittle
them in the estimation of good
people and to influence volet” for
or against novae man who in be
ing acclaimed with partisan and
prejudicial heat. ■
In the present campaign, the
ihirg is np more notorious than
usual, probably hardly as much so,
and yet we have the same old rot
to contend with;' the whisperers
are going up and down the land
seeking; whom they may devour;
rumors are whizzing over the heads
of the populace in dazzling fash
ion and the assassins with their
sabres cleverly concealed are out
to do the most possible damage to
fellow citizens against whom they
know nothing except what is clean
and honorable and of good repute,
but against whom, nevertheless, fog
mischievous purposes they send
their shafts of putrid scandal.
Financial Mon Watching Mort
gagor Wrifh Mur.- f'°“c To
Make Loans Safe.
(By Robert W. Ginsberg. IN’S
Staff Correspondent.)
Indianapolis.—Indiana bankers
are scrutinizing land mortgages
with extreme care this spring, fol
lowing the closing, sale or consoli
dation of more than 18 institutions
since the first of the year, large
ly the result of depreciation in
farm land values.
Twelve of the banks were closed
outright. In almost » every in
stance it was the same story—farm
loans greatly in excess of actual
cash value. One institution con
solidated with its competitor be
fore the crash came. and the
others were purchased by the
strong banks in the communities
to avoid the inevitable.
In the fact of these failures,
Luther F. Symons, state bank ex
aminer, is optimistic.
Symons admits the end is not
yet. In fact, he rather expects ad
ditional failures among some of
the state’s financial institutions.
He says it is a weeding out pro
cess, and banks organized several
years ago that should never have
been brought into existence will be
eliminated.
The bonk examiner believes
there is a definite ratio that should
be maintained between population
and the number of institutions in
a given community.
Although he refused to set a
rule of thumb, Symons pointed
out the ratio between banks atid
population in the east averages
one institution to every 10,000 in
habitants. In this state, the exam
iner said, the ratio is 1 to 2,500.
A large number of the smaller
banks in Indiana were organized
in the period of prosperity during
and after the war, Symons said.
These institutions made money
while farm crops were high ami
land values inflated.
But farm land values have
dropped a great deal in the last
few years. In the last two or three
seasons the Indiana farmers have
had poor crops. In addition, crop
prices dropped.
The result, according ' to
Symons was inevitable. Farmers
sought to have their loans ex
tended. Their lands no longer bore
a high cash value and additional
extensions and additions to al
ready over-mortgaged farms were
impossible.
The weaker institutions began
to totter. One by one they began
closing their doors—and the end
is not yet, Symons says.
But the weeding out process is
a healthy indication, Symons be
lieves. To date the losses to stock
holders have, been comnaratively
small. To a great extent the in
stitutions are being liouidated with
a deficit for stockholders only.
The condition resulting—leav
ing the field open to ihe stronger
i institutions—will'bo beneficial to
| everyone concerned, S y m o n s
j thinks.
| The bank examiner is not the
i only one in the state offices that
j feels the same way. David H.
I Jennings.. state securities eotnmis
j rioner. lias expressed himself
i quite frankly to the writer in' dis
cussing the hanking situation,
i Symons is Efiolutely right in
his belief,” Jennings said. ‘There
are too many small, weak banks in
this state today. We would be
much better off if these little in
, stitutions were closed."
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(Bv International News Service.)
Dupree, S. D.—The Indian de
nartmeni i- confronted by a pecul
iar cape ir. settling up Indian in
heritance on the Cheyenne river
Sioux Indian rtMvvntion and one
that is puzzling Judge Gorman. ex
aminer of inheritance and which
is 1 olieved to be without parallel
in be history of Indian inheiitnnc
e.
About 85 year, :uro an Ind'an
widower livin'' in (his nart of the
country took his small daughter
to Sioux Falls, S. D., and placed
her in an orphanage. Later the
the child was adopted by white
people who took her into (heir fam
ily and raised her as one of their
own children. They, moved from
the state taking the child with
them, and until "several years ago
the matter was a closed incident as
far as the Indian department was
concerned.
1'ind Missing Ile.r.
Then ati attempt was made to 1
settle the Dog Eagle estate and
the tribal rolls disclosed that one
of the heirs was missing and her J
whereabouts was unknown.
Judge Gorman commenced an
investigation and recently located,
the missing heir living in Canada,,1
ar.d whose name is now Russell.!
Approximately $3,000 in casii is
held by the denartmert to her
credit, in addition to the interest
in heirship lands. A department!
agent was stent to see her, hut when
the nature of his business was dis
closed she positively refused to j
sign the papers as an Indian, and 1
declined the money and other husi
l of s interest's if she had to accept,
no those terms.
Estate Held l')).
It; the meantime -or Minting of the 1,1
bog Eagle estate is hel l up in- |
d-finitely, unless the heir recon- 1
! siders her refusal to attach her
[signature to the papers in the
case.
When the Indians were allotted j
prior to the opening of th« Chey
er.ne reservation, to settlement, J
Mrs; Russell war, allittcd a piece J
of good agricultural land in one of f!
the best farming sections of the j
reservation. Eventually, it is as- U
sumed, considering her refusal to
j accept monies and a share of the i]
inheritance that belongs to h«r, L
the land will revert to the tribe
LONDON-PARIS AIRPLANES jj
TO HAVE BUFFET LUNCHES
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(By International News Service.)
London.—To add to the comfort I
of passengers travelling by air
between London and Paris, buffets
are to be installed on three \
of the biggest Imperial Airway
machines operating between the
two cities.
The planes will have a waiter on [;
board, and the twenty passengers
will be able to obt.tn anything •
'hey desire in the way of light re
freshments and sandwiches from'1
the buffet, ' - , i
The cream shipping station at 5
Peachland in Anson county is new
selling about $800 worth of cream 1
each month for the farmer natrons. I
end some Indian will pick up
■ aluable allotment.
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cked on the OLD KINGS MOUNTAIN road, tying in the city limits of
Shelby, having electric lights and water on /.be property. It is ideal for the
home-seeker or for the investor. This property is only a few minutes
drive from the hub-center of Shelby. All lots are on high elevated kind,
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