EAVES DROPPING IS MADE TO PAY The Dictograph Finds New Place in World of Business "I don't care for this guy Wallace Reid," says Bill to Mamie as they pass through the foyer after the last lingering kiss and soothing "fade out" have marked the end of the movie romance. "I think he's a dear," returns Mamie. In an office on the second floor, separated from Bill and Mamie by a lot of thick walls, sits the man ager of the theater, listening for just such remarks as those made by Bill atid Mamie. And when he hears this particular conversational pas sage he mentally jots down the no tation: "Show making- good with the women." Which means that the week's show will be a winner, because it's the women's choice that controls the attendance at the mo tion picture houses. What a mere man thinks of the. picture is a mat ter of little passing consequence to the manager. But how does he overhear the re marks made by Bill and Mamie and the many other movie fans, when he is removed from them by a floor or so and several walls that smother sound like a wet blanket does a flame? That is the latest secret of the movie theater, and it enables the manager to get a line on how his show is "getting over." It permits him to overhear valuable criticism and suggestion that may mean sev eral hundred dollars to him that week. Secrets in a Receiver If one could peer into the manag er's office he would get a hint of the secret in the receiver that the man ager holds to his ear. It looks just like an ordinary telephone receiver —but it isn't. The receiver and the little switchboard on the manager's desk enable hinj to overhear what is being said in almost every part of the theater. It is one of the latest applications of the dictograph. A Chicago motion picture house is said to have been the flrst to try the dictograph. It was an instantaneous success. When Frank L. Newman built the Newman Theater here he installed a dictograph apparatus and according to Milton H. Feld, man ager, the device has been of inesti mable value in registering opinions of the audiences. Just to see how the dictograph op erates, let one drop into a manager's office and take the receiver for a little while. There comes a lull in the orches tra's playing; it is the end of the picture. A feminine voice is heard speaking. "That love scene is just too sweet." "Yes, but who would want to kiss with a hedge fence between them? Why doesn't he climb over?" comes the highly practical masculine an swer. Another switch is opened and the listener thereby connected with an other part of the theater. A masculine voice now is over heard. It is that of "the man who knows," that chap who is present in every movie audience and who ex plains how it is done and what is going to take place next. "The speed of the film is regu lated by " but what is the use of listening to an old acquaintance whom we've heard many a time— much to our distress. So another switch is opened. "It is too warm in here," remarks a feminine voice. There is a criti cism the manager needs to hear. The dictograph has proved its worth. The manager hurries out to see that some of the heat is shut off. "Did you see that woman's coat? Isn't it positively ridiculous?" speaks up a feminine voice. Interesting, but of no value to the management in the way of helpful criticism. "I wish they would show another Charles Hay picture. I like the bashful way he makes love and he can do so many funny things," says j another feminine voice. The man- j agement mentally notes that Charles | Ray is a good drawing card with the ; women. He will watch out for the J next picture featuring the timid Mr. i Hay. Get Criticism and Praise So the conversation runs. There ; is much in it that is valueless to the , listener in the manager's office— j things about motor cars, plumbing, the high cost of living, the relative beauty of brown and blue eyes and j other subjects of great consequence j to the speakers, but of no importance j to the man running the show. But interspersed in between these re- I marks will be bits of illuminating j criticism and praise, with here and i there a hint as to how the show can | be improved. One manager says he j has obtained at least one valuable I suggestion at every night perform- I ance. Perhaps several remarks will j be anent the music. If that is fav- I orable, the music will be repeated j the next night. A singing feature j was retained an extra week at the j Newman just because of the dicto- j graph. A certain type of picture ] went into permanent disfavor for a | similar reason. The dictograph at the Newman Is j connected with eighteen different sections of the theater. The micro phones. or sound detecting appara tus. is cleverly concealed so that no- j body in the audience would suspect | their presence. And, for the com fort of those in that audience, it may be said that the dictograph doesn't register worth a hang when the'or chestra is playing. It is only in the lulls in music or during intermis sions when the is passing out that it performs its helpful I work. So George and Hortense may feel free to indulge in those delightful ! little personal chats that lovers en- j joy, but don't care to have over- i heard —if they watch the orchestra. ' PERSHING ASKS FOR SMALLER U. S. ARMY [Continued from First Page.] tary training was essential to pre paredness. MnkcN Better Citizens "Military training makes better cit izens," he declared. "Its benefits should be extended to all our young men. Through service it increases their physique, it broad ens their view of life, and it is dem ocratic. With universal service established, be continued, the military establish ment could be made up first of a small party of regulars—"sufficient for expeditionary forces, which may be called out to sustain our obliga tions on the American continent," and to garrison outlying possessions which would be backed up by a force in training, and behind that a citi zens' review. Draw* Lessons General Pershing discussed in de tail the army reorganization bills pending before Congress. "In our experience in France," he said, "It became evident that a trans port corps to include all classes of FRIDAY EVENING, personnel, rail, water, and highway, should be maintained. "The experience with the air ser vice makes it certain that this will be an element of increasing importance in warfare. America should not be allowed to lag behind other countries. Consolidate Forces "It migh be well to consolidate air forces, military, naval and commer cial, under a single head as an as sistance to progress." The general aTso urged retention of a tank corps. He also said the nurse corps deserved recognition, and he praised its service during the war. "It is, necessary in time of war that the decision as to organization of corps and service be left to the President," he said, "and I believe the authority should be left to him in time of peace." Too Many Officers I Provisions of the Senate bill. Gen eral Pershing said, created "too many [general officers." "Our traditions call for fewer men of these ranks," he said. "Now as to the general staff provisions, it seems to me that under them line officers ! might suiter in the matter of promo [ tion. "Our general staff has never func [ tioned us such. Few officers have been trained for it. So at the begin ning of the war it was found neces sary to create one from the ground up." "We came out of the war with gen eral staff experience, and with train ed officers. There should now be no opposition in its retention. "Some provision should be made by which the President could get rid at any time of an inefficient man who happened to become a bureau chief." Says Labor Section cf the Peace Treaty Was Not Understood Washington, Oct. 31.—Formally opening the fight on the labor sec tion of the Peace Treaty, Senator LaFollette, Republican, Wisconsin, moved in the Senate late yesterday to strike out the entire section which provides for establishment of an international labor organization. Senator Penrose. Republican, Pennsylvania, suggested that the Peace Conference agreed to the la bor section without understanding it, and declared if it were under stood now, every trade union in the United States would condemn it. No vote is expected before next week. Several other Senators ex pect to put up a stubborn fight for the LaFollette motion though they concede there is little hope of its adoption. BALLOTS RKADY Ballots and election supplies will be sent to the county district to-mor row and to the city districts on Monday, the county commissioners announced to-day. A few applica tions for registration have been filed already and it is believed more will be received to-morrow. 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Clemenceau-Jacqu maire will visit the United States this autumn, leaving Franco Octob 25th. The author of a number of successful works on social and w problems, she will deliver a series of lectures in New York anxl other citl on French home life. Wilson to Announce Soon That He Will Not Be in Field For Third Term Washington, Oct. 21.—Announce ment from the White House that Woodrow Wilson will not be a can didate to succeed himself as Presi dent of the United States may be expected at any moment. The Pres ident, according to one who is so close to him that his words have the force of authority, has made up his mind that the time has arrived to speak out frankly on the question of a third term, that William Gibbs I McAdoo. A. Mitchell Palmer, Jose- ! phus Daniels, Newton D. Baker. Gov ernor Cox, of Indiana; Atlee Pome- j rene, Franklin D. .Roosevelt and j others who are taking themselves seriously as candidates for the Dem ocratic nomination may have a chance to get their booms going be fore the session of the Democratic national committee in this city on January* 7. Three factors have caused the President's decision. In the order of i their weight in shaping his determi nation these are: His illness and the slowness and uncertainty of his con valescence, realization that his veto of the prohibition enforcement act will alienate from him the support of the strong dry states of the Mid dle West, a sudden antagonism to him in the ranks of organized labor for his emphatic warning to the miners that the government will meet the threatened strike with arm ed force. DISPUTE OP CHURCH I'ROI'KRTV IS HEARD Attorneys engaged in the equity suit brought by officers of the Holy Communion Evangelical Lutheran Church, against the pastor, the Rev. John Henry Miller and others of the congregation, spent most of the morn ing ,in Courtroom No. 1, before Pres ident Judge Oeorge Kunkel, agreeing upon points raised in the bill and answbr which had been filed some weeks ago. The principal questions raised in the proceedings are that the minister had no right to withdraw fro m the Evangelical Lutheran Ministeriuin and at the present time has no right to the church property in State j street. These contentions are denied | by the pastor, who with the others named as defendants have William M. Hargest, William* Hain and E. M. Hershey, as counsel. William H. Earnest and S. S. Rupp represent the plaintiffs. KENNEDY'S Saturday Prices SATURDAY, MarlrA+ Qf SATURDAY, November 1 lUdllLUl O U November 1 Lux Borax Life-Buoy Johnson's Allen's Tiz Foot Calocide 1-lb. 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But things are improving in> this re spect. 1 have recently had letters from two mothers living in widely Separated parts of tire United States, one of whom is bringing up her little girl and the other her little boy in a knowledge of the "ordinances of the heavens," and both of them tell planets from stars, understand the phases of the moon and know the principal constellations and the great stars that htve separate names. Those children when they have grown up will thank their mothers for an ed ucation that will give them distinc tion as well as pleasure during all their lives. Now, for answers to the three questions asked above: 'D —The sun is a star. Why should your friend think that a star must necessarily be enormously distant from the earth like the one he refers to (Alpha Centaury), which is four light years away? The sun instead of being four light years away is at a distance of about tiB,oooth of one light year; in. other /Words, while it takes a wave of light four years to come from u%H66enifwypupcntfwyp to come to us from Al)>ha Centauri it takes a similar wave only about 8 minutes and 2 seconds to come front the sun. This shows that the distance of' Alpha Centuuri as it is actually seen ; as great as the distance of the sun, i and since the two are somewhere near ! equal in actual luminosity while the j intensity >f light varies inversely as j the square of the distance. Alpha Cen- ! tauri appears to our eyes to be only ! one 62,600,000,000 th as bright as the ; sun, although if, as might have been i the case, we were as near to that star ! as we are to the sun it would appear j as bright as the sun now does to us, i while, on the other hand, the sun j would twinkle afar in the sky with a brilliance about equal to that of j AlphaCentaui i .as it is actually seen j from the earth. Unless you fix firmly ! in your mind the fact that the sun is j a star you will always find yourself J astray in matters of astronomy. j (2). Mercdry, Venus, Mars, etc., look like stars, although they are not stars, but planets, because they are so far from us that our unassist cl eyes cannot see any details of their surfaces .pr even their outlines. Be ing many millions of miles away. Dental Preparations Pebeco Tooth paste 34c S. S. White Tooth Paste 17c Albodon Tooth Paste 17c Lyon's Tooth Paste 17c Euthymol Tooth Paste 16c Forham's Tooth Paste 39c Kal Pheno Tooth Paste 18c Lily's Tooth Paste 17c-34c Sozodent Tooth Paste or Powder. .21c Colgate's Tooth Paste 25c Senreco Tooth Paste 22c Perfecto Tooth Paste (Hygienic). .19c Zylano Tooth Paste 43c Kalpheno Tooth Powder 18c Sheffield Tooth Paste 19c Pyorrocide 73c they are virtually mere points to our eyes, but Illuminated by the sun. and, therefore, visible as dots of light. The resemblance of their light to starlight is due to the fact that it really Is the reflected light of a star (the sun), and that, owing to dis tance, their surfaces are contracted to round points, as explained above. From the moon, however, owing to its much greater nearness, the earth would appear not like a star, but like a moon, about fourteen times laiger than the moon appears to us. When seen as a star, from Mars, for instance, ,the earth would probably show a distinctive color, as Mars does to our eyes. CLAIM STRIKK LOST Chicago, Oct. 31-t—Additional mills were operating at the South Chicago steel plants to-day afid the statement of F. A. Newton, general superin tendent of the Illinois Steel Com pany's mills, that the strike of steel workers, now In its sixth week, was broken so far as that place was con cerned was added to statements of Gary, Ind., steel mill operators and strike leaders that the strike there was lost. From the remainder of the Chicago district no reports of changes in the industrial situation were received. Army intelligence officers at Gary to-day continued investigating three supposedly incendiary fires, in con nection with which three men have been arested. TO HOLI) MASQUERADE The Women's Benefit Association of Maccabees, No. 288, will hold a Halloween masquerade dance this evening at 8.30 in Fackler's Hall. Re freshments will be for sale in the hall. E§ In order to further advertise our office and the ! ||pP lp^ WBV i high-grade work we do, we are making this ex- ' If you are suffering with poor sight, headaches, i do not fail to take advantage of this remarkably | It. M. Hevcrllnc, formerly at tached I'v Central Optical Unit. Our scientific eye examina tion (no drops used) guaranteed Aluminico Frame, fitted with lftrgc, flat, spherical IgQ lenses. 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Ames, assistant to the Attorney Gen eral in charge of antitrust suits and the enforcement of the food and fuel control law, has gone to In dianapolis to take active charge of the government's tight aguinst the illegal coal strike. EVOLUTION [From the St. Louis Times.] I won't work. I would work. I will work. I was woozy. I will wash I want water. Special Attention to Children's Kyes Kling, Heverling, Rogers Grndiintr und RoKlxtrrrd under the LtWfl of IVnuMylvnnln. 302 Market Street Over Cluster's Jewelry Store Hours: 9 A. M., to 8 P. 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