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2‘ ”.COME 1924
"R’lli'l‘ A WELCOME IT WILL
. 5-. THOSE ATTENDING THE ’
PS. i o L CE THEATRE -
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‘.\5 it \ll‘s' EVE, BEGINNING AT 11:45
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MIRTH MELODY *7
Rm six .aci Keith Show with s. novelty stur-
«:.~mg all stars in sppropristo numbers.
TIMES TODAY AND TOHORROW
i,.. l'u-ning Shown st 6:30 Ind Ida)
i i .\('is of Keith Vaudeville
andfi ‘
H g . ii’ilAN in “THE GRUB STAKE”
l. L N n x '1' w r: n K
m a \l'liEVlLLE PROGRAM FOR THE
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W E EK-—BRAND NEW PRO-
..icnl ON THURSDAY
Y. NEW YEAR'S DAY -—- WEDNESDAY
FiiTH HEADLINE VAUDEVILLE
and
ilw ornihy Dalton in “Lawful Larceny”
tr. il'lf‘SdfiY. with thres complete shows on Tues.
IULWIltlSOIl in “Millions to Burn."
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'l‘ OMORROW -— SATURDAY
THE SUPER FEATURE
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I‘.’ E X T M 0 N D A Y
we most notable pictures of 1923!
l' \I:.\.\l()l,‘ST PRESENTS
Zane Grey’s
‘l‘ii THE LAST MAN”
NEW YEAR‘S DAY
mummy. Thursday and Friday
' "TUBE THAT WILL STAETLE YOU 1
* * expose to which the author didn’t dare
sign his name.
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i uiieen Moore, Milton Sills,
Elliot Dexter
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time show for the Palace next Mon-
day night to give an appropriate
welcome to the New Your. Be-
ginning with an entire '- .zk‘s vaude-
tille bill on Monday on which day
pictures and vaudeville will be pre-
scntcd on the regular Thursday and
Friday schedule. there will be a
frolic and gnmbol at the Politic be-
ginning at 11:45 Mondsy night.
Six stellar Keith vnudevillc acts
will figure in this enteriunment 1 'id
in. special ntterplece that will present
all of the celebrities in being or-
rnnged. .,
During the balance of the week
the Keith show that drew atrocity
houses to the Pulsce yesterday will
continue.
Noll Shipment is appear-fig in
”The Grub Stake" u n (suture cin-
ems ottruction. Because of the
length of the picture the first show
tomorrow night will stun at 6:30.
U. S. Asks Honduras
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W'A‘SHINGTON. Dec. :8.—'rhe
stste depsrtrncnt has taken I. hand
in the disturbed situation growing
out or the presidentisi csmpoign in
Honduras to the extent of express-
ing to the Control Americsn repubo
ilcs its hope that tho concord re-
cently negotiated here will not be
disrupted and interming Bondursn
oilicisls that the United aisles re-
cards with disavor uny mompt by
a government to perpetuto itself
except by constitutions! W
Instructions to scounlnt the Pro.
sident and other respondbis atheists
of Hondurul with the; Antone-n gov-
ernment's views '01-. dispatched *0
Minister Ionics st Tunemips.
The dopertmcnt silo sent summary
at these instructions to its repre—
unman- in the other tout/control
motions republics—with u remind-t
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'sidcnt Nicholas Murray Butlcr of
SOUTH 1‘0me
Irons? AND
(Courtesy or United
“MASTERS "of M]: . ' ”
The greatest sea picture eyer screen-ed
A stirring m of a boy’s life in mum’s-mes rm! :9
EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION 3.
“Rolling Down the Rio” s. ‘l
Aotusl scenes ot-the United mutiny Wars
rouonow
sates Navy Dept.) f
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Yrogrun for Biotin universal-y observance on next week his-3.- ;
plea-d today. lute-h special announcement in W‘s my:
WEEK
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SIARY 311':me SOPRANO.
Tickets ........................
On Sale at the Alfred
MESSIAH
-—-— Presented B!
THE PEOPLE’S CHORUS
1138. F. J. MORRISON, Director.
Assisted By
SIARGUERITE “'ARNCKE. COWLTO, FORMERLY CIHCAGO i
OPERA (‘0.
JOHN FINNEGAN, TENOR. ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL.
NEW KORE CITY.
FRED PA'ITON. MESSIAE. BARITONE
REGENT THEATRE
Friday, December 28th, at 8:15 P. M.
BOX omen opens Due. 26 .
ORATORIO
METROPOLITAN OPERA DO.
. _ . . . . 82.50. 82.00. 81.50, 81.00
Fox Piano Company.
DECRIES U. S.
POVERTY IN
EDUCATION
Nicholas Murray But-
ler of Columbia De-
clares Zang'will Flat-i
tered America
PIHLADELI‘HIA. llm‘. 3§.~l’l‘c-
i‘olumbiu University yesterday ile-
livcrcd an address on: “Truth and
Illusion as to Education." speaking
before the Stale Education Associa—
tion of Music. In part Dr. Butler
said:
"Ihere are two widely different
methods of approaching the larger
p. ohlcms of our common interest.
The one is the conventional method
of exultntion and exhortntion. “'v
Americans are the greatest people in
the world: our wealth far out-run.“i
that of any other nation: our popu—:
lation grows by leaps and bounds:I
our schools have no equal: our popu-l
lnr magazines circulate by the hun-l
drcd thousand; compared to us inl
general the. rest of the world. biilll‘
past and present, is so far beneath;
us that we are quite alone on our:
lofty commence. the highest and tin—
cst produce of an almost perfect
civilization. This sort of thing has
been going on in the I'nitcd States
since the days of'lilr. Jefferson Brick
and Blrdofredum Sawin. It rarely
falls to provoke uprozlriuus applause.
whether it is spoken from the plat-
form or the pulpit or is printed in
the press. It is just the sort of thing
which has caused the sardonic to
smile and thc Judiciuus to “owe.
Sobcr Scll' rumination.
"The other mode of approach is
that of sober self-examination and
criticism and of truth telling. It is
this method which I choose to [Olhw
in the present instance.
“Speaking not long ago in the city
of New York. Israel Znngn’ill paid Us
the compliment of saying that we
Americnns are the best half-educated
people in the world. My impression
is that he put the fraction rather
high. If we measure our education
by the expenditure of moneys. public
and private. upon schools of every
type and sort. then plainly these
amounts are enormous. 1f me mens-
urc our education by the number of
pupils under formal instruction for
some port of each year. the numbers
me certainly agreeably large. If .we
mcr'urc our education by the splen-
(i’ - of the school buildings which o:
Etidifve'Te’énEc’l-eited' in a7 thous-
and communities scattered through-
out ihe land. and by the excellence
of their equipment, then assuredly
the impression is most flattering.
Truth Not Flattering.
If, on the rmer hnnd. we seek for
these our-er evidences of education
which are msrked by correctness and
precision in the use of the mother
tongue. by refined and gentleman
manners which'are the expressions
of fixed habits of thought and ‘nc—
tion'; by the power and habit of
reflection and the .use of scientific
method in the approach of new
problems of public and personal im-
port. or by the power of intellectual
and moral growth. then it may well
be doubted whether the results are
quite so fluttering.
The journalist's defence of his
head-lines and of his display of
news is that he is only giving the
people what they want. It be is
right‘und he be. a strong econo-
wic interest in not being wrong—
then certainly this bit of popular
colt-revolution is not altogether com-
m For seventy years the no.-
snrni nuances have had a steadily,
W putt in all programs of
Rudy“ every kind. These sciences
rest upon rigorous methods or ex-
icationul system is the best in the
t und inferences. and their-j
dance of the results and the in-
fluence of scientific methods of any
kind. Great waves of unreasoning
feeling swccp from time to time
over our people and. burst into storms‘
that are sometimes comic. sometimes i
pathetic. sometimes tragic. Fancy
if you can, what the future historian
“ill say of an American Legislature
which. forty years after the death of
Charles Darwin. soimniy considers a
proposed statute to prohibit the
teaching of tho established facts of
organic: evolution in tux-supported
Schools. Probably those who speak
and vote in favor of such a. darken—
ing measure would be among the
iirst to assail the. Congregation of
the Index {or their l‘J‘hqu of culileo.
Fancy. if you can. what the future
historian will say of the people of
the state of Oregon who, one hun~
drcd and thirty-live years after the
adoption of the Constitution 0: the
United States with its Bill of Rights.
enact by popular vote a statute
which makes elementary education
11 government monopoly.
Education Only Begun.
"Samuel Adams and Benjamin
Franklin and Patrick Henry and
Thomas Jefferson turn in their;
graves on learning this news. ihere'
Ilt‘t'd he no surprise.
"It would be tedious and disheart-
ening to multiply illustrations. Over
against the illusion that our edu-
worlil I would put the truth that its
grant task lies still before it. Over:
against the illusion that we Amer-i
icons on: Well educated and welll
disciplined people I would put the
truth that, in France. in Italy and
in Uri-(Lt Britain there are vast
populations with a background of
knowledge and of culture of which
“‘0 as yet know very little.
“In particular, it is vital if the
American school system is to sur-
vive that the federal government
ku-P its hands off the schools.
Imaglnv. if you can. our diverse and
diversified population. scenery-drove!-
a Vast territory, living under widely
varying social and economic condi-
tions, nil brought to heel in their;
schools. as the people of Prussial
once were, by the authority and the
edicts of a. central office at the
national capital. Most of us no doubt
shudder at such 'a prospect, but
there appear to be some #126 View it
without misgiving. For myself, 1-
ns marking the beginning of the end
of the America which our tethern'
knew. and of that American uchdol
system in which our generation has
1110:: brolught up. I should look upon
evt once that w E '
can people hile the Amer-lg
joined in defeating the German ar-
mies on the field of battle. the ruling
war upon free people had con
quered
the American mind. There are no
that the Prussian ideal of ram
. o
efficiency is superior zed,
and freedom of initiative in as at
possible emphasis. '
WHY nu'r LAME BACK?
That morning lumen
coo—these
sharp pains when bending or lifting;
make work a. burden Van ‘tes‘t
possible. d, an"
lowing this Norwalk roll ’
umple. ' deal. .‘ 0‘
should regard any such development ‘
nobly and honorably. '
.LchLmsefi‘U-Lkme 7 WE me.
doubt those who sincerely believe.
to the ol 5
American ideal of per-emu libert:
,fields of. endeavor as possible From
'such an opinion I disoe‘ at with all~
Don't be handicapped b "
a. bad back—look toqour kidneys?"
lou will make no mistake by fol—q
M
We have two hundred Men’s and Boys’ Oven-coats:
, three hundred Women’s and Girl’s Coats waiting to be
u:
taken away.
These coats are no good unless they are on some-
one’s back. ' '
They are pining away for‘the want of fresh air—we
have consulted every one of these coats and it was unan-
:uuously decided that unless we cut the price and give '
thepe’ople a‘chance to buy. them, they Will positively re-
fuse icing on the racks any longer and be
everxmorning. .
' I soiwe‘have decided in order to make peace in this
18.158! coat. family, 103291;? pgcg ,nnslswerwfllsut%ufil * *7 i
7" 7’ 7' f 7" 7' 7 ’i'. fi;go;uid ’; ;
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. We want. every man, fwoman, boy and girl in need
of scout to come in and Select one at a saving from '35 to
$10 on cochcoat.
, Theweather prophet predicts coldweather. . .
' . Whiting you all a Happy-New Year.
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