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SOME WOMEN HAVE FIVE-FIGURE INCOME j Moving -Picture Industry Bring* To Light A Few Of Them?Very Few From the New York Herald. One hundred thousand dollars a year! Not a mean salary for a man, even be he a wizard in his Hne. Still more remarkable it seems for a wo man to be drawing such pay, yet a few at least are getting that amount' and they are becomnig legion whose] stipend runs into five figures. In fact, woman having proved her met tle by invading the business world, is proving her merits by pushing to the very front in the realm of the highest salaried workers. t-f arm. r'noni was a favorite of fortune it is Anita Loos, who writes! "scripts" of Constance Talmadge.J She may have been bom with a sil ver spoon in her mouth or even a golden one, since each year $100, 000 pours into her own personal treasury. Her story Teads like a ro mance. Born to the stage she got a ten year's start over her contempo-j raries?such women as Gertrude A/therton, STraor Glyn, Zoe Akins and men like Sir James M. Barrie, W. Chambers, Sir Gilbert Parker and the rest of the celebraties who are or have been in California study ing the technique of the motion pic ture business from the inside?and sue maae tne most ui it. She came naturally by her liter-j ary as well as her theatrical talent, for her father was not only an actor and a manager of stock companeis, but an editor, also. She played a part on the stage as soon as she could walk, and here'paved the way to the success, she has scored in her present work. Blazes Trail in Wall Street Miss May Hull is an index and fil ing specialist in Wall street who not only inaugurated the work but built it up until she is now making $10,000 a year and during the war income went even higher. She in stalls her system into offices of business men, lawyers, bankers and mercantile concerns. She reorganiz es and rearranges correspondence - files clippings, records statistics*, re ports pamphlets, date files and busi ness libraries and then puts in skill ed girls to carry the work on. Miss Hull is the pioneer in her line. She established in 1910 the first school of filng and indexing in the country. Capitalized Curiosity As P. T. Barnum, the g|eat Am erican showman, achieved success by capitalizing human credulty, so Helen Woodward a young New York girl, became a power in the advertis ing world by capitalizing curiosity. She saw a fortune by taking into ac count the inquisitiveness which is an innate quality in American makeup, so when a big publishing company decide to put a new edition of Mark Twain on the market and Miss Wood ward got the advertising contract through the company with which she is connected she conceived the idea of baffling the mind of the reading puoiic to gei, m? wurns u new audience. The works of the great humorist had already gone through scores of editions, had been printed in many languages but as an active selling proposition was for the moment a back number. To win attention, to ' revive the old love and gain the, new?the countless thousands of boys and giTls of this generation? meant strategy, but of a perfectly legitimate kind. Miss Woodward flashed the tale of Huck Finn before the public eye, illuminating her sketch with the high lights of the story, but cutting j it short at its almost exciting junc ture. It was all over then but the shouting. The men to whom Huck Finn had been a childhood idol were ken for the book which brought back such happy days. The younger gen-: eration felt an uncontrollable desire to know all the story. Everyone J wanted a set of Mark Twain so that the first ?ear the royaties increased, to something like $60,000. Last year! they reached $75,000. A $25,000 Ad Women Beatrice Hastings, young, butj very businesslike holds a three-fold | job on the largest dry goods trade' paper in America and is known as the $25,000 ad Woman.' She didn't work up to that from the ribbon counter, either, but jumped right into the dry goods commercial world without knowing a consignment of fifty gross when she saw one. 'How do women get in the game ' LESS COTTON WAS ? CONSUMED IN APJUL THAN LAST YEAR Figures Were 408,882 Compared With 566,914 During April OfL*?t Year. Washington, May 15.?Cotton consumed during April amounted to 408,882 bales of lint and 48,096 bales of linters, compared with 566,-j 914 of lint and 30,397 of lintrs inj April a year ago, the censjas bureau j announced today. Cotton on hand April 30, it con-! suming establishments was 1,316,- j 018 bales of lint and 212,815 of lint | ers, as compared with 1,811,527 of f lint and 288,842 of linters a year ' ago and in public storage and at com j presses 5,028,631 bales of lint and 302,408 of linters, compared with' 2?978,158 of lint and 395,158 of! Knters a year ago. Imports during April were 18,731 compared "with 9,357 in April last year. Exports during April were 319, 933 bales of lint, and 4,748 bales of linters compared with 546,125 of lint and 6,158 of linters in April a year ago. . ^Cotton spindles active during April numbered 32,535,725 compar ed with 34,358,668 in April last , year. jj Statistics for cotton growing jj states were: ,1 Consumed during April, 248,653 | bales, compared with 316,787 in J April last year. | On hand April 30, in consuming jj establishments 598,023 bales as com pared with 969,824 bales a year ago, jj and in public storage and at com-lj presses 4,548,849 bales compared!] Wlin.2,000,220 a y?r?r agu. Cotton spindles active during April numbered 14,834,394, compar-l ed with 15,505,395 in April . lastj year. j , The Vatican library contains more} than 220,000 volumes and 30,000 j manuscripts. Mrs. Hastings was asked. ;| "With me it was a case of ij wanting a big job and money," sheij replied quite frankly. "I took stock, j of my talent and determined to sell I j myself," she said, using a technical jj term of advertisers. " I am a uni- j? versity graduate and was once very', literary and theroetical to the point j! of sentimentality. 1 werked in so- J J cal service lines and literary ones!' till I found that there s no money in 11 those. I have been a dependent wife'I and housekeeper, although, I am a j | suffragst and feminist. When I de-jj termined to make a big living I tookjj stock of myself to see how efficient and well prepared I was. Literature and college degrees and experience in philanthropy do not prepare one for the hard tussle to obtain big ad vertising contracts or to be worth thousands of dollars to employers. "Dry goods naturally interested me and I picked the biggest trad? pa askedjmy experience, I admitted. I haxfifoYie, but declared that I was determined to learn the game and be gin right there. Consequently they took a chance on me and started me pretty near the bottom. In time I knew considerable about dry goods and women's clothes and was doing fashion articles. But I well knew that there is little money anywhere) for writers. It is the solicitors who j per yid went after bring in cash. ' j "So I went out after ads and like j | all wise solicitors I took care of my 'accounts' through the year not be ing content merely to have landed the contract and get the money leav ing the client to struggle on a alone and possible become disgruntled. A satisfied customer come again, whe ther to a corner grocery store or to: a magazine." ! Rising From $12 a Week Four years ago Mrs. I. V. Brew-| ster took a position with a talking; machine company as a sales clerk ati $12 a week. Last year her income | reached the $10,000 mark and this year she expects a larger amount. Personality and service account for her achievement. I In addition to one importance snej attaches to a pleasng personality j Mrs. Brewster stresses the idea ofij service not only by giving it herself |f but by instilling the thought in her j - sales force, for she is now the mana-iB if ger, with a very unusual personnel:; selected primarily because of indi-:? vidual intelligence and culture. She J nicked trirls of rood home training I fc.' her staff SCIENTIST BRINGS MESSAGE OF HOPE New York, May 12.?A message of hope and fortitude for those af flicted -with cancer was brought to America today by Madame ^ Marie Currie, discoverer of radium and the world's foremost woman scient ist. She arrived on the Olympic with her two daughters to receive from President Harding in behalf of the women of the United States one gramme of radium, which she said was desired for use in cancer re search. ?Asked if radium was actual I ly a cure Madame Currie replied: "Yes, it is. That is, if it is ap-i plied properly." The distinguished scientist who had received the Nobel prize, and is the first of her sex to occupy a chair as professor at the Sorbonne, was greeted at he pier by represerf tatives of the Marie Curie radium i fund and leading scientific organi-! zations. More than 100 .women and men from Polish sections of New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh, car rying flags and flowers, gathered to honor ner. Customs officials extended to the aiaiiUiUiuaizn^^ I MID ! RI j [j These reduc [ I in stock for son: i j Goods, Clothing, I j all description for | LOOK! READ DRY ?OC tliewuuu U1CUU13 ai, 15c Mountain Shirting at Yd. wide Bleaching 10 yd: 25c yd. wide heavy Sea Is 25c yard wide Percale . . 35c Dress Ginghams at . 05c 32 inch Dress Ginghai 25c 40-inch Fancy Voiles 25c Crepe in all ciolors at 40c Poplin at .$1.00 yd. wide Silk Stripe 35c yard wide Brown Lin (?5c Fancy-Voiles at .$i.(Hi White Organdy at 50c White Organdy at . . 75c White Organdy at . . S5c Table Damask at . . . 50c Nainsook at 55c heavy 220 weight Den 5-4 Table Oil Cloth at . . Bed Ticking from .$1.25v\ll Wool Serge at nfi \ll Wool Seree at . K .$2.00 Silk Mescaline in all fj $2.00 Taffeta in all colors 1 $2.00 Crepe de Chine and j colors at m $3.00 Bed Spreads at . . . { $3.50 and $4.00 Bed Spre 1 $5.00 Colored Bed Spreac j LADIES' AND Ml $3.50 Ladies Dresses, at . 2 $2.00 Ladies' Dresses at . 1 $1.25 Misses' Dresses at , 1 $1.50 Misses' Dresses at J $2.50 Misses' Dresses at ] CLOT 2 $26.00 Men's Suits at . . 1 $35.00 Men's Suits at . , I $40.00 and $45.00 Men's Suits at Siiifs in nil sizes fr< !] We have the bigg anc BOJUGF in f Abbeville, S. C. visitor the courtesies usually re served for diplomats, thus eliminat ing' all possible inconvenience. Until Madame Currie sails for Europe, January 25, her visit will be markod by daily activity. On sent the eramme of radium. BEER REPUDIATED BY TWO PHYSICIANS Washington, Hay 14.?Beer was repudiated as a medicine today by two members of the medical profes sion testifying before the house judiciary committee in the heJiring on Chairman Volstead's bill to stop i leaks in the dry law. Not only did the doctors assert that they never had prescribed beer, both said that in long practices nei ther ever had 9een it used in that way. The physicians, Dr. Howard A. Kelly, a surgeon of John Hopkins hospital,and Dr. James M. H. Row j land, professor at the University of J Maryland, declared they knew of no , diseases; for which beer was a cura tive. Both expressed "humiliation"; that the <juestion had been put up to the medical profession, as was done by several previous witnesses. -SEASC DU< * t tions are not on gooi le time, but honafidf * ? it *<n? 1 Hats, Millinery ana every member of the ! COME AND B! GOODS 15c per yd. 8c per yd. 5 to customer at . 10c yd. land at 10c per yd. 19c per yd. 19c per yd. ms at 26c per yd. at 171 -2c per yd 19c per yd. 25c per yd. Shirting at . . 75c per yd en at 25c per yd. 50c per yd. . 65c per yd. 25c per yd. 40c per yd. 50c per yd. 25c per yd. im at 25c per yd. 35c per yd. ... 10c to 39c per yard. 85c per yd. $1.75 per yd. colors at . . $1.50 per yd at $1.50 per yd. Georgette in all $1.50 per yd. $2.00 each ads at $2.50 each Is at $3.00 each ISSES' DRESSES $2.50 each $1.50 each 85c each 98c each $2.00 each HING $14.00 each $20.00 each and Young Men's $25 00 each )m .... $3.50 to $12.50 jest stock on hand n< 1 NEW GOODS AR IT RIGHT, anc ?OLI Fill illOimU QTj u i?i ij uuiji Plumbing PH0NE and Heating 255 REASONABLE < PRICES Calvert Building Viena Street Ralph Turner mmmmrn ds that have been ; offerings in Dry Ready-to-Wear of ; family. v E CONVINCED MEN'S ODD PANTS $12.00 Men's Odd Coats at $6.75 $4.00 Men's odd Pants at $2.50 pair $5.00 Men's odd Pants ai $3.50 pair $6.00 and $7.50 odd Pants at $4.00 pair $8.00 and $9.00 Men's odd Pants at . . . $6.50 pair $2.00 Men's Overalls at * $1.39 pair -$2.50 Men's Overalls at $1.75 pair $1.25 Men's Work Shirts at 75c each $1.50 Men's Work Shirts at $1.00 each $2.00 Men's Work Shirts, at $1.00 each Men's and Boys' dress Shirts from $1.00 to $2.00 Men's and Boys' Summer Underwear from f No Goods Charged at these Prices. t)UC 10 3?1.UV per garment SHOES .$2.50 Men's Work Shoes at $2.00 .$3.00 Men's Work Shoes at $2.50 $3.50 Men's Work Shoes, at $3.00 ^ ? j MEN'S AND LADIES' OXFORDS [ \ $8.50 Men's Beacon Oxfords at $5.50 pair r I $10.00 Men's Beacon Oxfords at $6.50 pair -I $5.00 Men's Oxfords at $3.98 pair } j $5.00 Ladies' Oxfords in black, tan and pat- 1| ent leather v $3.50 pair El $3.50 Ladies' Oxfords at $2.50 pair fW Ladies' and Misses' Oxfords White Canvas from $1.75 to $2.50 Men's, Ladies and Children's Tennis Ox fords at $1.00 pair Jg, LADIES' AND MEN'S UMBRELLAS AT A BIG REDUCTIONS $7.5^3 Men's Jefferson Hats at $5.00 each ! $5.00 Men's Jefferson Hats at $3.50 each | $3.50 Men's Jefferson Hats at $2.50 each i J Children's Hats from 50c to 75c > } Men's and Boys' Caps from 50s to $1.50 E ! T oHipc' flnH Hats fpnm .... $1.00 to S3.00 Q? Men's 25c Socks at 10c pair Men's 50c Sock's at 25c pair Men's $4.00 Silk Socks at 50c pair Ladies' Hose from ^Oc to $1.00 pair 3w that we have had for some time, E ARRIVING DAILY. I to be SOLD RIGHT! AKOFF, 11 i I ? I ft