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MORNING OREGONIAW. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1916." THE oiti 1 ftnm lOTTTCl o r-i o r. .... n 0 j I, 1 . w lWfcm Three Days Beginning Today HNUILil.la1 w Jlll? 1 111' 11 MfiM 111 11 1 iinr r --' - li : 1 1 i ,nr-mr rOaOEIOI?Oi ?OJ?PJr-r 1 tLrm IfibGi I VALESKA SUM nou w ' f TODAY'S FILM FEATCRES. Pickford "The Yellow Passport" Peoples "The Immigrant." Columbia "D'Artagnan,' "His Hereafter." ' Majestic "Hazel Kirke." Heilig "The Ne'er-Do-"Well." National "Hop. the Devil's Brew." Sunset "The Lure of Heart's Desire." Circle "Fatty Arbuckle." FEDERAL, censorship of motion pic tures, which seemed destined to be foisted upon the film industry following- a so-called split in the ranks of the movie men, has apparently re tired for 1916. Representatives Hughes, father of the bill, is reported as an nouncing the abandonment of the ef fort to obtain its passage during the present session of Congress. Federal censorship is not a new propaganda. In fact, agitation for a National board to supervise the prod uct of filmdom has been carried on for several years. People who are always keenly interested in the other fellow's business naturally had their attention directed to censorship when the film men trotted out their "National board of censorship." The query was: "If a National censorship board for the motion-picture people, why not one for the public?" The fight against censorship does not mean that the men who are interested In motion pictures producers, dis tributors and exhibitors are opposed to regulation. They welcome wise reg ulation, but oppose the term "censor ship" as un-American and undemo cratic i Famous for Serials. ' Pearl White, who has been chosen as the star for the new Pathe serial, 'The Iron Claw." enjoys the distinction of having starred in more serial3 than any other player before the public. Miss White became known throughout the world in connection with "The Perils of Pauline" and "Elaine." She has for several years been one of the three or four of the best-known stars in the 'business, practically all of which time she has been identified with the Pathe pictures. In fact. "The Perils of Pauline" may be said to have been her first great chance and the starting point of her fame. She was born in Missouri and broke into things theatrical by the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" route, that great nursery of histrionic talent. For several years she was connected with various road shows, and then obtained an engage ment with a circus. For two or three years she worked under "the big top" and then went back to the stage, where ahe has been ever since, playing with some of the best and some of the worst companies in existence, as she ex presses it. "Xe'er-Do-IVcir at Heilig. ' "The Ne'er-Do-Well," which has been establishing a new Heilig motion-picture record for attendance this week, will continue until Saturday night as the attraction at the Heilig. This plc turization of Rex Beach's famous story of Old Panama is proving just as popular in Portland as it has in Cali fornia cities, and promises to outdraw its Beach predecessor, "The Spoilers." The Beach-Selig feature, presenting Kathlyn Williams and Wheeler Oak man in the leading roles, is a story of a New Yorker, son of a wealthy man, who is thrown on his own resources in Panama. His regeneration, through the love of two women, an intriguing diplomat and a Spanish maiden, forms the theme of the remarkable produc tion. . - Hazel Kirke" at Majestic. With a splendid cast, including Pearl White. Bruce JIcRae, Creighton Hale and William Riley Hatch, "Hazel Kirke," one of the masterpieces of the rural drama, will be presented on the screen at the Majestic Theater today. This old standby of the American GET RID OF SCROFULA 7 TAKE S. S. S. Fifty Years' Use Proves S. S. S. Will Relieve Stubborn Cases. 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Get it at your drug- lf8vouaneed special advice write the .., t-( m n hv iht lAte Steele Mac Knve' has endured for 30 years, its powerful appeal which so endeared it m th nnhlir hnvin? been faithfully transplanted to the screen. Pearl White, the heroine of the Gold Rooster offering, has an opportunity for seri ous expression which has been denied liar in ho msl while her suDDOrt com prises many of the prominent figures of the silent drama. - Dumas' Immortals at Columbia. D'Artagnan and the Three Mus keteers, swashbuckling-day heroes im mortalized by Dumas, will be present ed in all their glory of silks, velvets and clashing swords at the Columbia Theater today in "D'Artagnan," with Orrin Johnson in the title role. To this offering of the days of heroic France will be added "His Hereafter," a Mack Sennett Ktystoner, with Charles Mur ray and Louise Fazenda as the head liners. The story of "D'Artagnan" deals largely with the expedition of the young firebrand to England to obtain for his queen jewels in the possession of the Duke of Buckingham. How our hero wins his way to England and back again in time to . avert a catastrophe is pictured in a produc tion which is praised highly through out the country. Valcska Suratt t Peoples. "The Immigrant." introducing Valeska Suratt as a Paramount player and pre senting such favorites as Theodore Roberts and Thomas Meighan in her supporting cast, will be the feature offering at the People's Theater, com mencing today and . continuing until Saturday night Miss Suratt, perhaps best known as a vaudeville headliner with the power to draw capacity houses, has a splendid opportunity to display her artistic talents. First she appears as the sim ple immigrant, thrust into an environ ment entirely foreign to her early life, and later depicts the butterfly, thor oughly in harmony with her new world. Theodore Roberts, one of the screen's greatest character actors, is the vil lain, with the handsome Thomas Meighan cast in the role of hero. "Yellow Passport" at Pickford. - Clara Kimball Young, the beautiful movie star who is corralling more publicity space than any other star at this time million - dollar company named after her, divorce suit, aliena tiAnf.orfMHnTifi suit etc will not conclude her Pickford engagement in "The Xellow passport unm oaturuay night. The Russian film. In which Mrs. Vniinir Hnon nm n snlendid emotional acting, has proved such a box-office attraction that Manager tnnsi an nounced yesterday that he would give other Portlanders . an opportunity to witness the feature. Screen Gossip. "Hop, the Devil's Brew," the feature involving the opium-smuggling traffic on the Pacific Coast, will be continued throughout the week at the National. Lois Weber, who wrote the scenario and directed the picture, is presented with her husband, Phillips Smalley, as co-star. Edmund Breese will be presented for the' rest of the week at the Sunset in "The" Lure of Heart's Desire," another production based on a popular Service poem. "Heart's Jjesire is a. luivu.. mine, gold is the lure, wnne a. a-cw York girl enters into the play. In con- .1 i,y, ihA fentiire. C. E. Couche has arranged window displays at local bookstores and consirucieu a. 1 ; .. o mioinrr uPTifi at the Wash- I rJini vi. ..-. ington-street entrance to the Sunset. For one scene in "The Yellow Pass nort" the director engaged several hun dred "types" from the New Tiork Ghetto. The scene is a massacre oi Jews by a troop of Cossacks, and many of the extra people had lived through such scenes before leaving Russia. . Virginia Pearson, who recently joined the William Fox forces, will Bhortly begin work on her first feature under the Fox banner. She will appear as a modern Cleopatra in what is considered one of the most virile screen stories ever written. A change in forthcoming Triangle releases has shifted "Hell's Hinges, in which W. S. Hart slarjs, to Febru ary 20, which probably means its Port land screening February 27. "Don Quixote,'" De Wolfe Hopper's vehicle, will be released February 27, and Billie Burke's "Peggy" on March 6. The latest screen star to sign a con tract with William Fox to appear in feature pictures is Alma Hanlon, daughter of George Hanlon, of the world famous family of acrobats, who will be remembered in America espe cially for their production of such pop ular stage successes as "Fantasma," "Superba" and "La "Voyage en Suisse." Miss Hanlon was born in New York City April 30, 1894, and is the young- . v. .. nf o fomllv who. for nine generations, have appeared before the public eitner on me biubo mnu circus. Sidney Drew, who is producing one reel comedies on the Metro programme gave Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, his niece and nephew, their first engagements on the stage. Kathlyn Williams, leading woman In "The Ne'er-Do-Well," the pi.'ured Rex Beach story, has been with Selig for six years, first appearing almost ex 1 olusively in animal pictures. One of the Most Talked-of and Most Famous Women of the American Stage in I Sp TT 0 ' oUno if . 'fTx -vlitlliil-fl ......rt,! t v - t , -;- ; .-..-..uA imnifumnimiiifmm a. -. ; -: .. j nmniAi WICITC CPUfini inw IIIIKIL of the city maKing xne services 01 Iirril.llll .llilllllll 1 u a uuyn .1 1 nnru 1 1 HI hllliw www 1m M A LASKY-PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION A play that opens in Russia, ending in Arizona and f illed with thrilling;, dramatic action from beginning to end. It tells the story of a young and very pretty Russian peasant girl, "Masha," whose voyage to America was beset with all the dangers, trials and temptations that the big city and modern civilization have in store for the unsophisticated. Insulted, wronged and sick at heart, she at last found true love and happiness with the one man who had fought for and helped her in the many crises of her life. in lOnU nUo nil SUPPORTING MISS SURATT ARE THEODORE ROBERTS, THOMAS MEIGHAN AND OTHERS OF THE LASKY FAVORITES. Also a Bray Cartoon Comedy entitled "The Police Dog on the Wire" and "A Clever Collie's Comeback." A SHOW YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS. jvi iflnfl TJ I t't I ' 1 " ' " ' ' r3QC!0! JOrJOl - "Mini jftnoi HllTSOJIAH ASSESSOR SUGGESTS CHANGES TO CONVENTION. sidewalks in the entire northwest part of the city making the services of an engineer necessary. Mr. Berry, who is an old-time resident of Centralis, will receive $4.50 a day, but his compen sation is not to exceed $90 a month. John Ward Lewis, County Engineer, also applied for the office. Amendment Subjecting Cities and I BANKERS NAME DELEGATES Towns to State Budget and Lim itations Is Proposed.- -KTMnAs l,ano.na In tha TI T" P H f? Tl t taX laws of the state were suggested to the state convention of County Asses sors at Salem yesterday by Henry li.. Keed, Assessor or muiunimnu Mp. Reed summarized his proposed amendments as. follows: All existing budget and limitation laws should be simplified and codified, and so far as practicable made of gen eral application. The latitude 01 21 per ucul .c. budget estimates now allowed tax- 1 : 1 : ,. di,ai)IiI ha rpHllf-cH to 9 levying uwuio " ' -- per cent, and the law made applicable only to administration, operation and maintenance. The base of tax limitations should be the expenditures oX the expiring fiscal year, ana not ine jev iimuo the beginning of the year. t-,...i .h.i,!, Vi. out tn nntllftl re- quiremcnts, regardless of . limitations allowed by law. i?...n.jjn,nr emprntnnip!) and cap ital jDUtlay should be provided for out side of the limitation. Levies should be reported in aonara and cents and not in mills and tenths of a mill. i j Cities and towns should be subjected by constitutional amendment to the state budget and tax limitation laws. Debt limitation is as necessary as , nHn,tnn KtATia nhmilri be taken to establish them where either or both are now Jacking. LIQUOR OFFENDERS FINED Woman Is Assessed $100 and Slan Gets Off With $75. Mrs. Katherine Brown, arrested in a raid at 123 Twelfth street Tuesday evening by Lieutenant Harms and Patrolmen Martin, Powell, Schum and Russell, was convicted of violating the prohibition law and fined $100 in Municipal Court yesterday afternoon. Although the woman did not plead guilty, the facts as evidenced were freely admitted. Her companions, Nellie Steele and Hazel Moore, who were taken at the same time on vagrancy charges, were released. Thomas Perisich, who tampered with the prohibition law at 356 North Six teenth street, was also found guilty as charged and fined $75. CITY FASCINES ARE BURNED Park Department Unwittingly De stroys Engineering Supplies. There was much weeping and wail ing and gnashing of teeth in Chap man Square yesterday when an auto truck of the Municipal Department of Public Works under Commissioner Dieck backed Tip at the square to load up a series of fascines made of brush woven .together with wire for use in stopping dirt slides, and found that a truck of the Park Bureau had Just left with the affairs for the crematory. A force of the works department spent all of Tuesday weaving, the fascines, but neglected to inform the park attendants. Centralia Names City Engineer. CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 16. (Spe cial.) After being without a City Engineer for several months, the City Commission yesterday appointed Caleb Berry to the position, the contem plated improvement of laying cement State Credit Conference to Be Held at Salem March 9. The Oregon State Bankers' Associa tion has named, five delegates to rep resent it at the state credit conference which will be held in Salem March 9 to consider plans for legislation to pro vide for the state guarantee of irri gation and drainage bonds and the es tablishment of a system of rural credits. The personnel of the delegation fol lows: J. M. Poorman, of Woodburn; E. C. Apperson, of McMinnville; P. E. Snodgrass, of Eugene; N. A. Hoffard, of Woodburn, and J. L. Hartman, of Portland. L. K. Hodges has been appointed to represent The Oregonian". There re main but a few more delegations to be appointed by various participating or ganizations, and- the personnel of the conference probably will be completed before March 1. REFERENDUM BALLOTS OUT Chamber to Vote on Seamen's Act on Next Monday. n.H.i. aUa -r.ATar,A HTY1 ff t h ft National Chamber of Commerce on the seamen s act have Deen issuea in ) ., 1 nt tha lhnTTlhpr Of COm- C1ICI.I(U liuil'". J . vut; v. merce News of the Portland body to its members, and tne voies oi m mc"'"" should be turned in to the bureau of trade and commerce before 5 P. M. Monday. A debate on the recommendations or the National Chamber's committee that provisions be made which will repeal practically all the objectionable fea tures of the present seamen's act will be held before the members' council on next Monday. H E. Pennell, chairman of the com mittee on navigation of the bureau of trade and . commerce, will talk on the affirmative and W. S. U'Ren will talk on the negative of the question. HIGHWAY PICTURES LAUDED Chicago Manufacturer Comments on Oregon's Enterprise. Business men who saw the Columbia River Highway pictures when they were exhibited in Washington. D. C., last week, were favorably impressed with them. This fact is demonstrated In a letter received yesterday by E. C. Griffin, general agent in Portland for the Chi cago & Northwestern Railway, from E W. McCullough. of Chicago, secre tary and general manager of the Na tional Implement and Vehicle Associa tion who was one of the gues.ts invited to the exhibition of the Berger-Jones pictures. , "The pictures were fine and their ex hibition shows true Western enter prise," writes Mr. McCullough. Kelso Orders Fire Escapes. KELSO, Wash.. Feb. 16. (Special.) Th Kelso City Council at its ses sion last evening ordered suitable fire escapes installed at the Lee & Grim Hall, which is used as a meeting hall by lodges and organizations. The owners are willing to install fire es capes, but were not aware that tbe law required them. Mayor C. O. Tal bert also appointed his committees for the year. The semi-annual report of City Treasurer Bashor was accepted, as was his bond for $2500. STATE EDUCATIONAL REPRESENT ATIVE XjRGES GARDEN WORK. Industrial Worlt Club Is Being Or ganized In Portland Prizes and Rewards Offered am Incentive. N. C. Maris, of the State Department of Education, is passing the week in this city organizing Industrial Club work, in connection with the home ir. tiio Mtv schools. W. H. Dunham, supervisor of school Sardens is conducting Mr. mans schools. .... Schools are being visited as rapidly as possible, and the work is explained to the pupils with the aid of illus trated lantern slides. These slides illustrate the work carried on at tne state and county fairs, such as exh ta ils of boys' and girls' work and also boys' and girls' camps at the State Many prizes, such as free trips to the boys' and girls' Summer school at Cor vallis. and also trips to the State Fair, are given as an incentive for the chil dren to go into this work. Different branches of work are of fered to the children, such as potato growing corn growing, vegetable gar dening, dairy herd record-keeping, sed grain proaucuon, nun feivv.i., ing, canning and preserving and sew ing. Of these poultry raising, vege table gardening and pig feeding are the projects that the children are showing the most interest in. The vegetable gardening project will be merely a continuation of the home garden, and will require very little extra work for the children. The size of the garden required, which is 10 square rods, will tend to eliminate a good many children from this contest, but it is thought that in the outlying districts very little trouble will be experienced by the children in obtain ing the size of ground necessary. PASSENGER AGENTS MEET Special Coast and Eastern Kates Will Be Decided Upon. Rates for the Rose Festival in Port land in June and for the Knights Templar convention in Los Angeles in May will be fixed at the meeting of the North Pacific Coast Passenger As sociation in Portland today. It is probable that "back-East" ex cursion rates also will be the subject of discussion. It is generally under stood that the usual schedule will pre vail on this business $72.50 for the round trip to Chicago from the North west and $6H to Missouri River points. Sale dates, it is predicted, will bo from June 1 tft September 30, inclusive. A. D. Charlton, assistant nencrul pns senger agent of tlio Northern Pacific, will preside ut today's meeting. In tlm rooms of the Transportation Club in the Multnomah Hotel. LICENSE CASE APPEALED Postal Telegraph Company Takes Issue to Supreme Court. Notice was received yesterday by City Attorney LaRocho that the l'ostl Telegraph Company has appealed lo the United States Supremo Court from the decision of the United States Dis trict Court in which tho vulldity of the ordinance imposing a lue.ns.i against the company is upheld. The city has been trying for years to collect the licenso, but the company has fought against It on the ground that tlio city cannot force payment. Spokane Man Arrested. LA GRAND 10, Or., Feb. 16. (Spe cial.) Wearing the nuit hn in alleged to have procured heru through falco representation via a bogus hiulit draft, W. ('. lOvans, siving Spokane hh In former home, was brought bark today from Tendleton, where ho was hitch! ed In the same scheme ho execute. 1 hero Saturday. His hearing dato has not been set. &fe Y E L L O A P R IS A PHOTO-PLAY PRE-EMINENT It pictures, with startling fidelity and real ism, the grim symbolism of the Saffron Emblem of Shame. The Supreme Screen Sensation Featuring The Actress Who Is the Adored Idol of Millions Clara Kimball Young Come Today (ONLY 3 MORE DAYS Come Today f r 1 ' 1 X5he F Phone Main 3452 Washington at Park St. i'l'IT1" mi'Miiill .Mill few lit jspeciiic v. a""'"!