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7 CASTLE ROCK SHOWS PRINTING COST IS UP T I'S CIVIC AID me JiroinL Newspaper Material Is Made Much Dearer by War. Ladies' Commercial Club !m- i . portant Factor in Town's Flourishing Condition. rap INKS UP 3000 PER CENT THE 3IORNIXO OREGONIAN. MONDAY,' APRIL .1. 1916. Mojm?lCTumNm& j .law- Will G FINE BUILDINGS GO UP Business In Generpl Is Good, Says Addison Bennett O.-W. R. & X. Party Slakes Stop While Farmer Smith Lectures. BT ADDISON BENNETT. CASTLE ROCK, Wash.. April 2. (Special.) I wish the various women's organizations of a civic or business nature in Oregon and Washington could come to this charming- little city of Castle Rock and sit at the feet of the l,adies' Commercial Club of this place. It would prove an inspiration and a blessing, for in all of the Northwest there is not a more forceful civic or ganization than this. It is a sort of axiom here that if you want to accomplish any civic- good you must get the women to shoulder the responsibility, to get behind it. as it were, and push it to completion. The fine paved streets, the splendid city fountain, the bridges and sidewalks, the domestic economy equipment in the school, these, and many other things, these women have either accomplished or greatly furthered. Now they are at work raising funds for the erection of public sheds for the use of-the farmers who drive into town in wet weather to do their trading. I wish I had the space to go more deeply into the subject, but I can only add the names of the president and secretary and say that any city or town would be fortunate to have a club formed along the same lines provided, and do not for get the proviso, women of as good busi ness ability can be got to head the list of membership. The president is Mrs. .1. A. Peabody, and the secretary is Mrs. C H. Dahlman. Aside from their work in other di rections, these women see that the po litical pool is kept pure, and to that end one of their number is city treasurer, another is city clerk, and their presi dent is -a member of the city council. Payday lifts Spirits. This day marked the first payday for the logging crews for many months hereabouts, and consequently the spirit of the citizens is nearly up to par. For many, many months there has contin ued that dearth of operations in the lodging camps, shingle and sawmills, but now the financial clouds are lift ing, in fact have lifted, and the future looks rosy indeed. One of the first things noticed upon entering town is a fine brick building just drawing to completion. This is the creamery of P. S. Dykeman. He has operated a creamery here for sev eral years with great success for him self and great satisfaction to his pat rons and the community at large. Now he has outgrown the old plant and has erected a new one, which will be as modern as any plant of the kind in Western Washington. The Castle Rock people are very proud .of their school, and think they have about the most efficient super intendent in the state. His name is Professor J. K. Kalmbaugh. This is his fifth year here and he has given perfect satisfaction to both pupils and public. There is but one school in town, a joint-district affair, having about 45 pupils; but there is another building of one room just across the river. For Castle Rock is on the west siae of the Cowlitz and here is a great teel bridge with what is said to be the longest span in the West. Another thing that attracted my at tention upon reaching the town was the fine residence of Dr. O. K. Wolf, which is just drawing to comDletion. Theer are mighty few towns of this size where there is any building going on, o a couple of fine structures in coarse of erection, as there are here, attract attention. Lumber Industry Busy. There are two large shingle mills now running adjacent to town, and one box and lumber factory in the town There are many shingle and sawmills near here, and seven logging camps in the adjacent timber. Castle Rock has a boat service every day to and from Portland, and also the up-river points on the Cowlitz. There are a great many fine resi dences here, and an unusual number ot well-kept lawns. Also brick busi ness buildings far above the average for cities of 1500 or thereabouts, which is about the present population here. There is but one bank here, but that is a strong one, having deposits ex ceeding $1-00.000. J. A. Byerly, a Port land man, is president, and G. I Buland cashier. It occupies one of the hand somest and most complete banking roiima of any financial institution I know of in anv city twice the size of Castle Rock. The people here are just ly proud of their bank. Mr. Buehler is interested in many enterprises here abouts, particularly in timber and lum ber industries. He is aluso half owner of the railroad that runs up to Silver Lake. Him . fsJSffit i j - 4 i " ' JL - ' A "': ! ' Publishers Maintain High Standard While Prices Soar Powder Makers Buying Bags Needed in Paper Manufacture. MAE MARSH, IN THE TITLE ROLE OK "HOODOO AXX" AT THE COLUMBIA THEATER. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. The Unpardonable Fickford Sin." Heilig "The Melting Pot "The Gamblers." Columbia "Hoodoo Ann," Village Blacksmith." Majestic "Undine." Peoples "Audrey," "The God dess." Sunset "Hypocrites." Circle "Charlie Chaplin." 'The Peoples. Mary Johnston's celebrated novel, "Audrey," which is appearing in film form at the Peoples Theater, gives Pauline Frederick a role new for her that of an unsophisticated girl of the woods. If there be any question in the public mind as to her position as one of the really big actresses of the screen, a careful study of Miss Fred erick's "Audry," with her mastery of restraint in expressing powerful emo tions, will convince. This ability. coupled with the natural appeal of the .character, as well as Miss Frederick's beauty, captures the spectator at once. This romantic story, dealing with the life of a nameless child, rescued from the Indians, mistreated as a young girl, and finally becoming the wife of a powerful English nobleman, is one which holds the attention un flagging. Add to such dramatic scenes as a duel, a denouncement of the girl from the pulpit and her flight and rescue from a mob, a wealth of allur ing scenery from the South, and the picture is complete. A sleepy river, with giant, moss-covered trees re flected in the water, and luxuriant, semi-tropical undergrowth roundabout, needs only Miss Frederick, attired in Audrey's tatter garb, rowing a skiff, to make the whole a perfect picture. Audrey, hiding in a. cave following the killing -of her parents by Indians, is found by young Haward and placed in care of a schoolmaster and his wife. The girl is mistreated and becomes a drudge. Haward, now a Lord, returns to America, relieves her plight, but arouses suspicion in the minds of the scandal-mongers. When he takes Audrey to a ball a charge is made against his relations with the girl and a duel results. A townspeople rise against Audrey following a denounce ment from the pulpit, and she is saved from being thrown into the river by Haward. who claims her as his in tended wife. "The Goddess." which ends next week, is being presented in three reels. This feature stars Anita Stewart and Earle Williams. adults, much depends upon their state of mind. The story of "Undine," which abounds in splendid backgrounds and photo graphic effects secured among the in lets and grottos of the Santa Barbara Islands, off the coast of Southern Cali fornia, is uniolded through the read ing of the fairy tale to a child. The effect is enhanced by frequent flashes back to the modern living-room and its inmates, when the child suggests that she, and then her parents, plays va rious roles in the tale. Undine, one of the nymphs, offends by an alliance with a mortal, and her child i3 condemned to live among mor tals. She grows to maidenhood, falls in love with a knight, but is reclaimed by the queen of the nymphs. This, in brief, is the story. The chief beauty of the play lies in the feats of swim ming, diving and posing of Ida Sehnall, one of the world s leading feminine athletes, and her group of nymphs. "Childhood's Happy Days," a i Sidney Drew comedy, and the Majestic-Pathe Weekly, with the Portland foremen's examination one of the features, con clude the bill. There are many causes for falling hair. Indigestion in children generates diseases that are incompatible with a healthy growth of hair. Sedentary hab its, poor circulation, nervous condi tions, loss of sleep, headaches, fevers, general debility, etc., all lessen the nu trition. Even the dressing ofttimes causes loss of hair. The hair needs ven tilation, air, sunlight and frequent sh a rnpooiner. GRIP-AND NEURASTHENIA There is a form of neurasthenia that follows the grip. Doctors call it "post grippal" neurasthenia. One of the foremost medical authorities of New York city in a lecture in the interna tional clinics, said : "Broadly speaking, every victim of tha grip will suffer from post-grippal neurasthenia also. Lowering of ner vous tone with increased irritability is the most striking effect of the disease, languor of mind and body, disturbed, fitful sleep and vague pains in the head and elsewhere. The treatment calla for rest and a tonic. ' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, a non-alcoholic tonic, are particularly suited for building up the blood and etrengthen jng the nerves after an attack of the frnp. The rich, red blood expels the ingering germs from the system and transforms despondent grip victims in to cheerful, healthy, happy men and women. If yon have had the grip get a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills now from the nearest drug store and begin the treatment at once. On request we will send yon a free pamphlet, "Building Up the Blood," which contains a chapter on the grip. Address the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, JS. Y, v l'ickford. "The Unpardonable Sin," a World feature, which, with a little padding, would provide sufficient plot and ac tion for two f ive-reelers, opened a four-day engagement a.t the Pickford Theater yesterday. This thriller.-which serves as a. starring vehicle for Hol brook Bllnn, unquestionably one of the ablest actors of filmdom. is at once a good entertainment and a sermon. Old John Barleycorn, sadly battered from recent maulings, comes in for sundry indictments, for the "unpardon able sin" is drinking, and the theme of the story deals with, the disastrous results of drink. Few of the "come-backs" from the drink habit have been so victimized by the "demon rum" as in Holbrook Bllnn, or Walter Norman, in his present photodrama. First he loses his self respect and the girl to whom he was engaged; then, after a climb up the ladder to success, he falls prey to drink, loses another- wife-to-be, sinks lower than ever in the social scale, and finally, after another struggle up the path, he is charged with murder and condemned to die. A plot of this kind, bulwarked by splendid acting and 'good photography, cannot fail to be good entertainment. i The "Sis Hopkins" comedies were in augurated with Rose Melville in "She Came. She Saw, She Conquered." Sis, the girl of the country and the pig tails, aspires to become an artist's model in the city. However, the artist declared he was not a cartoonist, and home she went. Columbia. "Hoodoo Ann," the sort of play that brings laughter crowding in the wake of tear3, serves to reintroduce Mae Marsh, the little sister of "The Birth of a Nation," as a screen star. This Columbia-exhibited Triangle feature divides honors on the programme with "The Village Blacksmith," a Keystoner of the old type, crammed full of slap stick laughs, with Hank Mann, Ed Kennedy and Polly Moran as the chief mirth conjurers. Miss Marsh, as the little orphan, brow-beaten by the orphanage officials, shunned by her fellows and wearing the bad-luck sign on her escutcheon if an asylum kiddie could have such a thing makes an appealing figure as the girl whose mission in life seems to be that of smiling. After many vicissitudes Ann rescues the orphanage pet from the burning structure, and through this act of heroism finds a home. She falls in love with Robert Harron, the boy next door, who is to be a world-famous cartoonist, becomes a near-murderess from careless han dling of an "unloaded" revolver she wields in imitation of her motion pic ture heroine, and finally is wedded to Harron. Thus the hoodoo is supposed to be lifted, despite the prophetic words of a. negress: "You'll be hoodooed all your life until . you're married, and after that, chile, you won't need any hoodoo to make trouble." The intro duction of a "wild and woolly West" screen melodrama. a "mysterious stranger" who is mysterious to the end. and the wedding of the bashfuls, afford much amusement. "The Village Blacksmith," who is Kennedy, ex-prizefighter, becomes the object of attention from a young so ciety girl. His dinner-performance kills her love. However, that's a small part of the farce or, perhaps, parody for a crooked lawyer, crooked guar dian, plots, near-murders and other exciting incidents are crammed into the two reels. Majestic. "Undine," the aquatic phantasy which affords such an excellent opportunity for a study of the "human form di vine," is the early-week offering at the Majestic Theater. Ida Sehnall and a bevy of nymphs and mermaids, ap parently garbed as unconventionally as one's conception of the apparel of the denizens of the deep, are the chief figures in the not-too-faithful inter pretation of the old German fairy tale of that name. The production is one which will delight all children, for it is entirely without offense. As to Screen Gossip. Just three weeks after he had walked into W. N. Selig's office in Chicago and laid down $150,000 for the Selfg produc tion of Rex Beach's novel, "The Ne'er-Do-Well," this same young man turned the tables again by closing a deal with the Vitagraph - Lubin-Selig - Ks sany, Inc. (V-I-S-E). in which Mr. Selig is a component factor. The deal is said to involve over $350,000. and V-L-S-E takes over the production for the entire United States, the same ter ritory which was formerly held by Sol Lesser. It is said Mr. Lesser started in the motion picture business when he was 17 years old, and that his capi tal consisted of $30 and six Junk reels of film. The Pallas Pictures players are still talking about their experiences in the San Bernardinos when they were snowed in recently during the produc tion of "Davy Crockett." "Dusty" P'ar nume was required to carry Page Peters up a steep grade, and between Peters' 185 pounds and the rarified at mosphere it was just all he could do to make the top. Putting all his energy in his last heave "Dusty" reached the top with a cry of triumph.' And then the atmosphere became extremely warm. The camera .man had realized too late that "he had run out of film before "Dusty" had made half of his journey. Dora Rogers, Keystone's black-eyed French beauty (yes, she is really French, despite the screen name), looks her brunette best in the part she has opposite Joe Jackson in "Gypsy Joe." She is cast as a gypsy girl, and needed no makeup to look the part, but she wears a many-hued costume that makes one long for colors on the screen. NEW YORK, March 26. One could scarcely be blamed for jumping at con clusions and saying "some distracted housewife has lost her shopping list, upon finding on the sidewalk a scrap of paper on which was scribbled "blan kets felt, glycerin, rubber blanket, pa per and ink, muslin." Nevertheless the finder might be altogether wrong per haps the shopping list belonged to the boss buyer for the mechanical depart ment of a newspaper. Most newspaper readers may wonder what blankets. muslin, felt, rubber sheets and other items that are handy things to have about the house have to do with the mechanical end of a news nsner. but just at this time the buyer who dropped his shopping list has more serious things to wonder aoouL as ine cost of the articles listed and other items too many to mention continues to climb day by day he is devoting what little time he has for subjective exer cises to wondering when the boosting of newspaper expenses is going to stop. Ink Jump 3000 Per Cent. Kv since the momentous August of 1914especially during the past six months the skyrocketing of the prices of necessities around a newspaper plant has gone on with a beauty ot consistency which arouses absolutely no enthusiasm among publishers throughout the coun try who have to foot the bills. Products essential to the publication of news papers have jumped in price all the way from 10 to 15 to 3000 and more per cent. War. directly or indirectly, is given as the reason for the enormous in crease in the publisher's bills. And as war seems likely to continue for some time, so too the market sykrocketing promises to go to heights even beyond the present astounding prices. Nowa days it is next to impossible to obtain market quotations for even so short a time ahead as "next week." Bay In Qnantltiea. It should be rememtered also that concrete instances of the high cost of publishing given here are the lowest prices obtainable, because the publisher buys in large bulk. Ho cannot cut in quantity in fact, war and rumors of more war mean the printing of papers far in excess of the output of normal times, which is one. merely one, item of wartime increase in expenses that the thoughtless and uninformed overlook when uttering the fallacy so often heard, "the newspapers want war." And the publisher does not cut in quality of material. Before the war. to begin with, the important item of tons upon tons of metal used by the linotyping and stere otyping departments in a great metro politan daily newspaper plant, the met al which is a composition of lead, tin and antimony, cost SM cents a pound. A week ago today it cost 12 cents during the forenoon. In the afternoon the cost was 13 cents. A few days later last week it was boosted to 13 'i cents a pound. And so the kiting goes on, the increase in cost alone amounting to thousands of dollars a year. The va'rious editions of newspapers cannot, to use a shop expression, bo "put to bed" without blankets any more than humans can. And the newspaper presses must have the blankets in Sum mer as well as Winter rubber blan kets that are wrapped around the press rollers first, felt blankets wound around on top of the rubber blankets and clean muslin bandaging covering rubber and felt, this padding being necessary di rectly under the fast-moving paper if clean-cut printing is to obtain. Also quantities of the ordinary Army blan kets must be bought to cut into given sizes for the steretotypers' use. Rubber Blanketn Advance. The increase in the cost of muslin, which the newspapers buy by the pound, has been comparatively slight only about half a cent a pound more since the ante-bellum days of 1914. The rubber and heavy felt blanketing, how ever, has been jumped at least 15 per cent. The cost of the Army blankets has gone up 20 per cent, the quality of the Army blankets at the same time Kgoing down. Press rollers, which are made large ly of glue, glycerin and molasses, have gone up, so manufacturers notified the consumers last week, 18 per ce.nt. Gly cerin and the quality used in newspa per plants is not the pure white gly cerin one buys in drug stores,' but a ?ualit'y less refined has taken a flying eap from an ante-bellum price of 19 cents a pound to 54 cents. No pulp is coming to paper manufac turers. Mills that not so long ago were selling by the tons are now filling or ders for pounds. Rags, which are be ing bought up by the powder manufac turers eagerly and are needed also by paper manufacturers in a cleaned and more or less sterilized form, are a ne cessity in the mechanical departments of newspapers. . The price of rags has Jumped just 100 per cent, or from 3 cents a pound to 6 cents. Writing paper is an important ite-m in a publisher's paper bill and it is worth noting that this item has gone up 25 per cent. 94 to $50 Pound Is Rise. But it is when the consumer of any thing having to do with dyes or any other department of the chemical sec tion of printing and photographic re production goes out with his shopping list that his hair turns gray. Metol. which the art department of - a paper cannot get along without, cost ?4 a pound before the war. Now it costs $50 a pound. Increases of 1000 or 3000 per cent and more loom up all over the chemical section of the printing plant. As an ink manufacturer explained a day or two ago, the acids and dyes and everything else used in the colored inks especially have exploded from 300 to 3000 per cent in a Jiffy, once the im ports from Germany had been blocked. Blues that cost 58 cents before the war now cost $14 and $15 a pound, with In creases In yellows also all the way up to 3000 per cent. And, what is more of moment, the manufacturerers of inks fear that prospects of filling de mands in the future look doubtful. Ink Double In Price. Inks for Sunday lithograph sections have more than doubled in price, with an increase on every quotation for in taglio section inks going on steadily. Even the common black inks are affect ed because the rubber manufacturers are corraling as much of the carbon as they can and using it in place of zinc and lead, a detail whicn will account for the preponderance of rubber, goods having a black cast, which shoppers soon , will find on the market in place of the white cast rubber they've been accustomed to see in the shops. Type founders have increased! prices 20 per cent, and no let-up in the boost ing is in sight. Gum arable, necessary in the making of matrices in printing plants, has Jumped 100 per cent. And wrapping paper, used in the circulation departments by the tons, costs twice as much as it did before the war, with wrapping rope of sisal from Yucatan Y ur Heart! The first installment of "The Iron Claw," published yesterday in The Sunday Oregonian "gripped the hearts" of our readers. And it was but a mild promise of what is to come. ': Each succeeding installment of this story excels in action and thrills the one preceding it. Most authors take a few situations and build a book around them. Arthur Stringer in his "Iron Claw" has put enough material to build a dozen books into every one of the stories. You folks who are anxiously waiting for next Sunday's install ment won't be disappointed. Its fire and vigor and interest will liberally exceed your fondest expectations. Watch Next Sunday' 's Oregonian for the Second Story of .-.' 66TLTQ 1MN QLAW" By Arthur Stringer Author of "The Wire Tappers," "The Silver Poppy," "The Shadow," "The Hand of Peril," Etc., Etc Pathe Pictures of the First Episode of "The Iron Claw" Now Being Shown at BROADWAY VAT ALDER ) One Week Starting Today v Dates of Release of the Pictures at the Following Theaters Will Be Announced Later: r Rnrnnlde Theater Inion-Avflioe Theater. Broadway Theater ;ay Theater Derby Theater Alhambra Theater l'owell Valley Theater. .Jewel Theater I'oat KxchanKC-. ... Star Theater Star Theater MaJeKtlo Theater. . . , Star Theater Majestic Theater Melt Theater ........ Dreamland Theater. PORTLAND . . . . 2!K Burnnide Street Victoria Theater A.fS Alberta street 53 Union Ave. N. Portsmouth Theater 813 Lombard Ave. 7 Kat Broadway n"y"ldeI',h,rat',r Be!,mont aa,h s- . . . 8o5 Mu-.8..pp. Ave. I,'mp?PcerTph,e-rter"!?T: : : : ::.v.v::.v:28l?c"dA7--V Kenton ;em Theater 47 Klrnt Street .1369Vz Hawthorne Ave. Inla Theater 1613 Kant 13th St., Sell wood 7032 Powell Itoad .Multnomah Theater St. John . Astoria. Orefton Kmma Theater .Fayette. Idaho . . .F"ort Stevens, Oreeon Blljch Theater Salem, Oresron , , .Korest firove, Oreeon Ieople's Theater. Enterprise, OreRM . . .McMinnrllle, Oreiton Baker Theater IVewberfC, Oregon Hillshoro, Oreiron brand Theater Camas, Washington , . . .Oregon City, Oregon Orand Theater Centralia, Washington Koseburg. Oregon Iyrle Theater Raymond, Washington . . . .Springfield. Oregon IT. S. A. Theater Vancouver. Washington Ontario, Oregon Teter'8 Theater Vreka, California and jute wrapping ropes and twines from Calcutta now selling at an in crease almost as great. RURAL CREDITS PROMISED Alierdcen Bank AVI 11 Accommodate Farmers at 6 Per Cent. ABERDEEN, Wash.. April 2. (Spe cial.) A system of farm loans, the pur pose of which is the development of the dairying industry in Grays' Harbor County, will be inaugurated in this county by W. J. Patterson, manager of the Hayes & Hayes Bank. The new farm-loan system is to help the small farmer improve the quality of his stock and to cut operating expenses by build ing silos. The loan system will help plans to make Grays Harbor County a big- dairying district by giving farmers an opportunity to borrow at 6 per cent for the purpose specified. Mr. Patterson has agreed to set aside $5000 to $10,000 for loans to farmers who want the money to build silos or to buy a high-grade bull. No mort gage will be taken on the farmers' holdings.- TJailroad Builder Due Soon. ROSEBT7RG. Or., April 2. (Special.) S. A. Kendall, of Pittsburg, tele graphed his Roseburg representative today that he would reach Roseburg April 10 for the purpose of entering Into a contract with the city with ref erence to constructing . the proposed Roseburg & Eastern Railroad. The former contract executed by the city in favor of Mr. Kendall was declared to be invalid by the Oregon Supreme Court. to trust to nature instead of to art for your complexion. Be sure that every bit of powder and rouge is removed before you retire at night. Take it off with cold cream first and' then wash your face well with soap and water. Rut it is much better The Great Popularity Nortonia DINNERS have ac quired can readily be traced to the peculiar excellence of its cui sine, service, moder ate prices. The recollection of a DANCE at the NORTONIA lingers long. Enjoy them regularly and often. Play It Safe When building a home i necessary to KNOW that materials used are as sp fied, and that workman is of the best. 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