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Bellefonte, Pa., April 13, 1928.
LASKY ADVISES GIRLS
TO SHUN HOLLYWOOD LOT.
The chances of the movie-struck
girl climbing out of the extra mob to
stardom are 10,000 to 1 against her,
while she has but one chance in ten
of getting any kind of work in the
studios.
This warning was sounded by Jesse
L. Lasky, pioneer film producer and
vice-president nf Paramount studios,
one of the largest film producing
plants on the west coast, in advising
girls with ambitions for a screen ca-
reer to stay away from Hollywood.
“Do not come to Hollywood with
false dreams of success and fame,”
is Lasky’s word of friendly advice,
after years in Hollywood as a pro-
ducer, “unless you have some means
to provide your living for at last sev-
eral months or a year.”
“The girl who comes to Hollywood
does not realize that the chances are
10 to 1 against her getting any work
at all, even if she is fortunate enough
to secure a registration with the Cen-
tral Casting bureau.”
The average girl “in pictures” who
works only seven days in 100 is going
to have a problem on her hands when
it comes to paying rent and buying
her meals, Lasky points out, adding
that her chances of being invited out
to dine also are very slim.
The Central Casting bureau, which
furnishes the majority of talent to the
studios, has more than 10,000 names
on its list, Lasky emphasized.
From this anxious waiting list not
more than 700 ave “called” to the
studio for a day's work. And men
and women as well as girls are in-
cluded in the quota.
“The conclusion is obvious,” Lasky
Qevlstes with a doubtful shake of the
head.
At the Casting bureau, records
show, the women listed outnumber
three to one men registered for em-
ployment.
Added to this handicap the num-
ber of jobs waiting for men is twice
the calls for women.
“Dress women,” as they are called,
form 85 per cent of the women who
find employment through the bureau.
These must provide their own ward-
robe, which needs to be elaborate as
well as expensive.
Hollywood studios do not offer a
very encouraging prospect at present
even for the qualified actor, it was
pointed out by casting officers.
The usually well-informed theatri-
cal paper, “Variety,” made a survey
of the studios recently and found the
situation as follows:
United Artists, two companies
working where four are normal:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer two with
six normal:
First ‘National, six with eight nor-
mal:
Pathe-DeMille, five against eight
normal;
Warner Bros., five normally, now
shut down;
Universal Company, eight normal-
ly, will close shortly for month or
more;
Hal Roach studio, three comedy
companies finishing, then plans to
close for two months;
F. B. O. studio, two companies
working against six normally;
Christie studio, tw« companies will
close shortly for an indefinite period;
Tiffany-Stahl studio, six companies
normally, only two now working;
Educational studio, two companies
working against five normally;
Paramount, four companies, eight
normally;
In summing up its survey, “Vari-
ety” adds:
“Aside from the leasing studios, in-
cluding Tec-Art, California and Pov-
erty Row, there is very little doing
in production.”
“Poverty Row” is where the new-
comer, youth or girl, usually breaks
into the film arena. “Short bankroll”
producers operate in the “Poverty
Row” studios and often will employ a
pretty face rather than an experi-
enced actress.
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State Forests are Paradise for
Hunters.
During the past hunting season 46
per cent of the deer and 38 per cent
of the bear killed in Pennsylvania
were on State forests according to
firal reports compiled by the Depart-
ment of Forests and Waters.
Legitimate hunting and fishing is
encouraged on the State Forests of
Pennsylvania, and while ‘they com-
prise less than one-tenth of the total
supplied in 1927 nearly one-half the
deer and more than one-third of the
bear killed by the hunters of Penn-
sylvania.
The Moshannon Forest District in
the Clearfield county section leads all
the other State forests in the number
of deer killed, with a total of 1106.
The Delaware forest district is sec-
yond, with 753. That the Elk forest
district, comprising the counties of
Elk and Cameron, is worthy of the
name, is evidenced by the fact that
six of the eight elk killed during the
past year on the State forests were
in this district.
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Growth of Hair.
When the individual is in good
physical condition and the scalp is in
good condition, the hair should grow
from three-eighths to three-fourths
of an inch a month until it has
reached the length of 12 or 14 inches,
when its rate of growth is reduced
cnie-half, Hair grows faster in warm
weather than in cold, and during the
daytime rather than the night.
Millions of
Model T Fords
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FOR neatly twenty years, the Model T Ford led the motor
industry and it still is used by more people than any other
automobile. More than eight million Model T Fords are in
active service today—an indication of their sturdy worth,
reliability and economy.
Because of the tremendous investment which people
have in these cars and because so many of them will be
driven for two, three, and even five more years, the Ford
Motor Company will continue to make
until, as Henry Ford himself says, “the
off the road.”
For the Ford Motor Company has always believed that
its full duty consists not only in making a good automobile
at a low price, but also in keeping it running efficiently for
you as long as possible at a minimum of expense.
No matter where you live, therefore, you can still buy
Model T Ford parts with the same assurance as formerly,
knowing that they will give you the kind of service you
have a right to expect, and at the same time protect the
money you have invested in your car.
All Ford replacement parts, as you may know, are made
of the same materials and in the same way as those from
which your car was originally assembled, and are low in
price because of the established Ford policy.
So that you may get the greatest use from your Model T
Ford over the longest period of time, we suggest that you
take the car to the nearest Ford dealer and have him esti-
mate on the cost of any replacement parts which may be
necessary. You may find that a very small expenditure
will maintain the value of your car and will be the means
of giving you thousands of miles of additional service.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Detroit, Michigan
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FARMERS LOSING STEADILY.
The enormous losses which the
farmers of the country have suffered
during the last seven years, both in
depreciated farm land values and in
lower prices for their crops, are re-
flected in an official bulletin just is-
sued by the Department of Agricul-
ture. The bulletin is based on a farm
real estate survey made for the fiscal
year 1926-27 by the Department’s
Bureau of Agricultural economics.
The losses which the farmers have
sustained have been especially severe
in the Corn and Cotton belts. The sur-
vey shows that during the fiscal year
1926-27, there was an average decline
in the whole country, while in some
sections of the Corn and Cotton belts,
the decline reached 10 per cent. The
4 per cent average decline made a
total decline from 1920 of 30 per cent.
Translated into dollars, this was a de-
cline of $18,900,000,000 from the val-
uation of $63,000,000,000,000 placed
on the value of farm lands in 1920,
the last year of the Wilson Democrat-
ic administration.
But two reasons can be assigned for
this enormous loss to the farmers.
One is the deflation policy for which
the Republican 1920 convention de-
clared, and which the Harding admin-
istration put into effect as one of its
earliest acts.
The other is the prohibitive tariff
policy of the Coolidge Administration
which has closed many foreign mar-
kets to American farm products and
which has forced the farmer to sell
what he did sell at world prices while
he bought his supplies in a protected
market at inflated prices.
One of the most startling disclos-
ures made in the Department of Ag-
riculture bulletin referred to is that
“in constant dollars of the purchasing
power of 1912-13-14, farm real estate
values on March 1, 1927, were really
worth 20 per cent less than they were
15 years before.”
Another startling disclosure is that
while farm lands have been depreciat-
ing and prices of farm products have
been falling, the farmer’s taxes have
been going up by leaps and bounds.
The bulletin shows that where the
farmer’s taxes were 155 per cent of
his pre-war taxes in 1920, the last
year under Wilson, in 1925 and 1926,
he paid taxes 251 per cent of pre-
war. In other words, from 1921 to
1926, when his land value was de-
preciating 30 per cent, his taxes in-
creased 98 per cent.
The bulletin also reports that the
net cash returns of 15,000 representa-
tive farmers reporting to the Depart-
ment declined 13 per cent during the
year 1926-27. During the same year
the outflow of farm population to the
cities was 1,020,000 persons.
The bulletin notes the fact that dur-
ing the year for which the survey
was made, 131,000 farms were dis-
posed of at “forced sales and related
defaults,” ad that 40,000 were sold
at administrators’ and executors’
sales, a total of 171,000 farms sold
“under the hammer.” Allowing five
persons as the average number in
were 855,000 men, women and chil-
drem-dispossessed of their farm homes
during one year. There were 163,-
060 other . farms sold at voluntary
‘| ‘sales, and many of these were made
by farmers because their farms were
no longer profitable and they were
unable on them to properly support
their families and educate their chil-
! dren.
In addition, the bulletin notes that
“reports are current of syndicates be-
ing formed for the purpose of buy-
ing up foreclosed and other distress
farms in the corn belt and holding
them for a rise in value.” This means,
of course, that these syndicates are
taking advantage of the distress to
buy up farms which the owners are
forced to sell and either operate them
by tenant farming or sell them at a
profit whenever values increase. The
speculator gains what the farmer los-
es.
Another very startling situation re-
vealed by this bulletin is that in no
fewer than nine States, land values
had declined by 1926-27 to a point
where the buildings thereon, the farm
home, barn, garage, corn crib, ete.,
was greater than the value of the
farm lands themselves. Depreciation
‘in farm lands was smallest in New
England, 1-3 per cent, and greatest
in the north central States, ranging
from 26.2 to 32.4 per cent. In the
southern States, the depreciation
ranged ‘from’ 21.2 to 32.3 per cent.
Horses, Killed, Serve as Food.
Rockford, Ill.—Wild horses from
far western plains and infirm horses
from near western farms were shipped
to this State at the rate of 100 a day
during the last year to be converted
into food consumption by Germans and
Frenchmen in the old country and by
lions, tigers and dogs in this.
Within the year more than 40,000
horses were slaughtered at the Chap-
pel Bros.’ abattoir here, the only in-
stitution of its kind in the United
States.
The bulk of the equine meat packed
by the Rockford firm is shipped to
Frence and Germany. Circuses, zoo-
logical gardens and dog kennels pro-
vide a domestic market.
The plant was built shortly after
the World war and has grown rapidly.
The owners were in the A. E. F. and
conceived the idea of slaughtering
houses in this country for |
abroad when they learned the Euro-
pean market was undersupplied.
An average of $2 per head is paid
for old horses. Lame and blind ani-
mals from rural communities often
bring as high as $10.
Efforts of a horse-loving cowboy
to dynamite the Chappel abattoir,
attracted considerable attention last
year. He objected to the slaughter-
ing of horses and was arrested after
an unsuccessful attempt to destroy
the plant.
Recently he escaped from the pen-
itentiary for the criminal insane at
Chester, Ill, where he was confined.
He returned to Rockford and again
was forestalled in an attempt to blow
up the establishment.
A high barbed wire fence has been
built around the abbatoir and strang-
ers are forbidden to enter the place,
each of these farm families, here .
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you have received from the company, as a
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