THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY. AUGUST 5, 1919.
PEOPLE AGAIN WARNED
ABOUT HIDING GLORY
HELD NO SINECURE
Visiting Automobile Man Re
veals Unheralded Drive.
Enormous Mouthful for Uncle
Sam; Says w: T. Ellis.
COMMERCE CHAMBER. ACTS
LAND OF UNDYING HATES
Senator Shafrotn Pleads for TTnity
of Action In Securing Ievel
opment of Resources.
From John F. Shafroth, who for
merly represented Colorado in congress,
first for several terms in the house
and later in the senate, members of
the Portland Chamber of Commerce
yesterday heard an appeal for co-operation
between the western states in
securing development of natural re
sources. Within the borders of his own state,
according? to the United States geolog
ical survey, there is enough coal to
supply the world for 300 years, he as
serted; but it is tied up in federal re
serves and lies undeveloped. With that
situation he compared the undeveloped
water power of Oregon, estimated at
several million horsepower, each horse
power unit of which represents $1160
of natural resource that is not util
ized. Referring to efforts to secure the en
actment of a measure to bring devel
opment of latent resources, harness
rivers, open coal mines and stimulate
settlement of lands, be said that but
for a filibuster against the bill before
the last consress by Senator LaKollette
of Wisconsin it would have become
law. It was up for final passage near
the end of the session, when t ho tac
tics of the opposition defeated the
work of western senators extending
over a long period of time.
Anto Man Speaks.
Senator Shafroth spoke briefly at the
weekly luncheon of the members' fo
rum, telling of the work of the fed
eral war minerals relief committee, of
which he is the chairman and which is
holding hearings in the northwest this
week. His comment upon the import
ance of securing development of latent
resources was received with enthusiasm
and his talk was frequently punctu
ated with applause.
F. W. A. Vesper, president of the Na
tional Automobile Iealers' association,
held the close attention of the business
men with an address, in which he re
viewed the growth of the automobile
"industry to a foremost placte in Ameri
" can manufactures. Mr. Vesper is a
- gifted speaker, with rare mastery of
language, and whose wide experience
in travel makes his appreciation of
Portland and criticism of a lack of
local appreciation of special interest.
lf it is not a sacrilege to say it
here," said he, "1 want to tell you that
right in the city of Portland is an au
tomobile drive that surpasses In value
to Portland the Columbia river high
way. It is your beautiful Fairmount
boulevard. There is not another such
drive in any city of which I have any
knowledge, and yet it was with diffi
culty that the street-leading to it was
located.
Drive Now Hidden
"It should be designated with .such
markings that any stranger could
easily find the way, and Portland peo
ple should see to it that every stranger
who comes here is taken to get that
'magnificent view of the whole city, and
of the beautiful valley that lies beyond.
Should it ever be my privilege to select
a home site in Portland, that is where
the choice would be."
Charles F. Berg, chairman of the
Members Forum, at the conclusion of
llr. Vesper's talk, called attention to
other recent comment to the effect that
'Portland is too modest of its attrac
tions and suggested .that a committee
be organ i zed consisting of the presi
dent of each of the civic organizations,
to meet weekly and devise methods for
awakening citizens to a higher appre
ciation of local attractions. C. C. Chap
man moved that the forum request the
executive officers of the clubs to act
in the capacity suggested, and it was
adopted unau imously.
A. K. Jackson. John Dougall and Guy
Haines were appointed by Chairman
Berg to act as a committee for the
"forum to see the initial presentation of
"In the Land of the Setting Sun," a
moving picture story of Oregon pio
neer days featuring the Whitman mas
sacre, to be shown to invited guests at
the Majestic theater at 11 o'clock to
night. The committee is to report back
-to the forum next Monday, when rec
ommendations will be made to the di
rectors of the chamber as to its approval
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CRATER LAKE IS ALLURING
6932 Persons Visit Resort So Far
This Season, Says Report.
VF.nWRP, Or., An 4. (Specials
Trye CratPr Lake tourist season con
tinues to break all records and if the
'present ratio of p.'iin over the attend
.ance of other years keeps up it is esti
mated that the total att.end.anoe of
visitors at the lake this season will
number at least 20,000. ' La.st month
'923 persons visited the lake, which is
1364 more than were attracted to this
great nature wonder in July last year.
The following tabulated statement
taken from the official records and
furnished by Will i. teel shows the
Crater Lake travel ending July 31 for
the past three years: 1S17, 530 auto
mobiles and 2411 visitors; 191S, S93
automobiles and 4."6S visitors; 1919
v1914 a ii t onTtVii i pe and visitors.
E.IR1.E WILLIAMS, WHO IS APPEARtXG IV
THIS PEOPLES.
THE HOREXS REST AX
TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
Star Alice Joyce "The Cambric
Mask."
liberty Wallace Reid, "The Love
Burglar."
Peoples Earle Williams, "The
Hornets' Nest."
Majestic Alice Brady, "The Red
Head."
Sunset William S. Hart, "The
Narrow Trail."
Columbia Lillian Gish, "True
Heart Susie."
Circle Bessie Barriscale, "Rose
of the Kancho."
Globe Charles Ray, "His Own
Home Town."
THERE is always a distinctive finish
to a criminal picture in which
t'.irla tlili;,ma Vi o a lAadlncr Tinrt
So It is with "The nornet's Nest,'
which will be at the Peoples until Sat
urday.
The film is filled with intense situa
tions. The star,' portraying the char
acter of a man who has been ruined by
the deceptions of humanity, yet has not of roles
seating capacity of 1000, was bought.
The firm is contemplating the purchase
of a theater in Spokane.
Screen Gossip.
Marion Davies, the celebrated picture
star and international beauty, is estab
lishing a record for finishing pictures
and or pictures that are "finished."
This busy and amazingly youthful
star1 she is not yet 21 years old has
headed her own organization IS
months and in that time there have
been some big pictures to her credit:
"The Belle of New York," "Getting
Mary Married," "The Burden of Proof."
"Runaway Romany," "The Dark Star"
and "April Kolly." She is now posing
in "The Cinema Murder," . after the
book by E. Phillips oppenheim. under
the direction of George 1. Baker. "The
Dark Star" will be released as a Cos
mopolitan production and presented at
the Rivoli theater. New York, some
time this month.
-In this run of successes Miss Davies
has manifested a versatility only sec
ond to her vitality and she has shown
herself clearly a factor to be reckoned
with, as, easily she stepped in and out
divergent as- a Salvation
The Fsmccs Eeautifler
H;ive you trictl it yet? Thousands
leverywhtre art usincr it. It is a won
derful tonic tor the skin, defies hot
summer sun ana causes wrinkles, tan.
freckles, callow tkin. blackheads, sun
Fpots, rouithrtss. ruddiness to quickly
disappear. It brinprs rosea to cheeks
-ami makes anyone look 10 years
j oimeer. 5 i ves a y out hf ul complexion
and "a skin you love to touch." A sin
trie application proves it. See la r ire
announcement siHn to appear in this
paper. Ask your druggUi about iu
Adv.
Doctors Recommend
4 Bon-Opto for the Eyes
Physicians and eye specialists pre
scribe Bon-Opto as a safe home remedy
in the treatment of eye troubles and to
etrenathen eyesight- Sold under money
refund guarantee by all druggists.
lost faith in the world, wins admiration
from the first flash by little acts of
kindness and his affection for children.
Mr. Wiliams plays the part of Asche
Colvin, who when ruined through the
treachery of a woman, assumes another
name and leads a life of seclusion.
Into his life comes a dangerous crook,
'"The Hornet," with whom he forms a
close friendship.
In another part of the city a young
heiress is held in check by her uncle
guardian. The only way that she can
force him to make an accounting is by
finding her cousin. In his youth the
cousin was forced to resort to forgery
because of the penuriousness of the
uncle and in disgrace fled from the
house.
The girl plans to seek aid of some
chivalrous youth ehe may meet upon
the street. She lays her plans caref--and
sets out in search of her knight.
It so happens that Colvin is attracted
to the same portion of the city tht day
and Muriel is attracted to him. and
seeks his aid in locating her cousin.
Incidentally he learns that Muriels
uncle holds papers that would vindicate
him.
The same night "The Hornet" visits
the uncle's home and blows the safe.
He removes the papers end jewelry.
Colvin learns that The Hornet is in
reality Muriel' cousin and joint heir.
The Hornet loses his loot through the
treachery of a confederate, who sells
them back to the owner. It becomes
necessary to rob the safe again.
Colvin agrees to impersonate The
Hornet and draw the police whi le the
latter goes straight ani enters a deal
with his uncle. The uncle ifi unaware
the man's identity.
The scheme involves Muriel, and the
parties concerned rely upon her strat
egy to secure entrance to the house.
She is also intrusted with the task of
dra- ing her uncle away from the
library. She succeeds, but her uncle
becomes euspicious and reaches he
library in time to find Colvin, The
Hornet and a confederate opening the
safe.
An intensely dramatic situation fol
lows. It is a battle of wits and love,
louring a struggle the unclj is acci
dentally killed, and two lives that had
been wrecked are salvaged. The man
of chivalry become Muriel's knight for
life.
An International weekly and a com
edy accompany tne feature "Im.
TACOMA PLAYHOUSE IS SOLD
Jensen & Von Herberjr Purchase
Moving Picture Property
Announcement has just been made
of the sale of the Victory theater in
Tacoma to C. S. Jensen and J. ii. Von
Herberg. owners of the Liberty and
Columbia in Portlana. The show house
was sold them by Edwin F. James,
formerly proprietor of the Majestic in
this city. Extensive alterations are to
be made in the building, according to
A. A. Bruce, who has just gone from
Portland to act as manager of the
property.
The Victory makes the eighth link in
the chain of theaters now owned by
Jensen & Von Herberg which in
cludes the Coliseum, Liberty. Strand
and Mission in Seattle ; Columbia and.
Liberty in Portland and the Rialto in
Butte, Mont. For months it had been
known that they desired to enter the
motion picture business in Tacoma, but
were unable to obtain a suitable site
on which to build. Opportunity at
last appeared and the Victory, with, a
Army girl, a gypsy "roaming the ways
of the world," a coy debutante, a grief
wracked woman and a detective.
The tendency of motion picture pro
ducing concerns to connect with the
best writers of the country for stories
for scenarios for their stars is grow
ing. L.ast week Tarkington Baker, gen
eral manager of the Universal Film
company, appealed to the Authors'
League of America, which numbers in
its membership the leading writers of
the country, for four stories for scena
rios for Dorothy Fhillips.
The price offered was $100,000, or
$25,000 a story, either especially writ
ten around Dorothy Phillips or some
story that had already been published
and enjoyed wide circulation and
which is adapted to the abilities of this
star.
"This is in no sense in the nature of
a contest," he said. "We want stories
that will be in keeping with the im
portance already achieved by Miss
Phillips and that will be both new and
big in basic ideas. We offer the au
thors of America $100,000 for four such
stories.
Madame Rosita Marstini, familiar to
every fan as the arch-villainess of
countless big productions, enjoys an
accomplishment possessed by few peo
ple in America, in that she speaks flu
ently and reads the old orthodox He
brew tongue. In Margarita Fisher's
next "Flying A" release, "The Tiger
Lily," Madame Marstini plays the role
of a former Italian peasant girl, ele
vated by her marriage to the pinnacla
of wealth and social prestige.
Silver ornaments?
Wherever you find Kathleen Clifford,
stage and screen star, there you find
ornaments in shining silver.
To begin with, the dressing table, the
writing table and. most wonderful of
all, the collection of curios in silver
upon a Chippendale of odd design in
her roomst command attention. Here
are found the faces of her friends en
cased in silver frames, a silver shoe,
replica of her own, the gift of an ad
miring jeweler; a silver cigarette case,
once owned by Sir Henry Irving; .sil
ver candlesticks; all of which are at
once the joy of the little mistress and
the bane in the existence of her maid.
For the price of shining silverware is
eternal vigilance.
Score one for Eramett J. Flynn. di
rector of Mary Miles Minter. He talked'
San Francisco's chief of police into de
tailing three of the bay city's finest to
serve as guardians of the Minter com
pany during their recent invasion of
Chinatown to film some scenes for
"Yvonne From Paris." The officers
were instructed to devote their time
exclusively to watching over Miss Min
ter and her associate players while
they worked in the uncanny quarter of
the infamous "Barbary coast. At one
time some Chinamen rebelled against
the intrusion and refused to open a
door into a hallway Flynn wanted to
use. When words failed to., persuade
the stubborn orientals, the blue coats
forcibly pried open the door.
A modern theater, seating almost
1200, is soon to be constructed at Uni
versal City, Cal., according to an
nouncement from the New York offices.
The building will cost about $30,000
and is to be arranged so that its in
terior and exterior can be converted on
a day's notice to suit any type of ar
chitecture required. It will bo used
whenever theater scenes are desired.
Intrigues, Religions and Political,
Make Near East Hardest Spot
on Earth to Control.
, BY WILLIAM T. ELIS.
Special Correspondent to the Herald.
(Copyright by the New York Herald Com
puny. All rights reserved.
"SOMEWHERE EAST OF SUEZ."
All reports from America and Paris and
regions nearer indicate that the United
States has agreed to accept a league of
nations mandate for Armenia at least.
Those of us who know from expert
ence the scene of this new adventure
in Internationalism take It more seri
ously, apparently, than the home folk,
who are not disturbed by any definite
knowledge of the facts of the local sit
uation. Many Americans in the near
east with whom I have talked have
expressed the wish that our country
could have escaped taking on what' is
probably the most vexatious of all the
tasks to be assumed by mandatory
powers. We want America to put her
back under a fair share of the world's
load, but there are half a dozen as
signments that would have been more
welcome than Armenia.
Carving: Out a Country.
Consider what is involved. Take first
the territory. Armenia claims, and
seems likely to receive, a vast expanse
or what was once the center of the
Ottoman empire. - It stretches from
east of Mount Aaarat or even from
the Caspian sea itself, by some claims
westward to a point beyond Trebizond
on tne uiaci sea. Thence it sweeps
down through the heart of Asia Minor
to Messina, on the Mediterranean, the
seaport of Tarmis, the Apostle Paul's
home city. Gathering to itself the head
of the "Great sea," as the classics call
it. this new Armenia's southeastern
boundary line runs from Alexandretta,
across the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,
into the Caucasus mountains, until it
nears or approaches the Persian bor
der. As to population, nobody knows with
anything like exactness what it is. One
thing Is sure. The majority of the in
habitants are not Armenians far from
it. Turks quote figures to show that
there are less than 10 per cent of Ar
menians in the district outlined. To this
the Armenians hotly make reply that
their number has been diminished by
massacres and that it ill befits the Turk
to tax them with their fewness. That
seems a poser until the reply is made
that all statistics which were ever com
piled fail to show that the Armenians
at any time had a majority of the pop
ulation even in any considerable sec
tion of the designated region.
To this the Armenians retort that
after the Turks and other Moslems
have moved out, as they should do,
and Armenians from all the world have
moved in, there will be an Armenian
majority! That transfer of population
is to be supervised by Uncle Sam
who will wish himself back in the
Argonne forest before it is over. One
Armenian leader naively told tne that,
even if the Armenians of the world do
not have population enough to spread
out over the new Armenia, America
can take care of it for them until a
new generation or two of Armenians
has multiplied.
Armenians and Jrvra.
Altogether, it seems, there may be
about two or two and a half million
Armenians in the world, assuming that
about a million died during the atroci
ties. How many of these will move to
the new Armenia is as problematical
as to the number of Jews who will emi
grate to Palestine.
There is an interesting comparison
between these two peoples. Both have
been for centuries without a national
life of their own. They have had no
soil over which they could fly a flag.
Both have been sorely persecuted. Botn
put forth their claims on sentimental
grounds. All the Jews, who number
12,000,000, ask of the peace conference
is little Palestine, which could be hid
den in the huge new Armenia demanded
by the two and a half million Ar
menians! Here in the near east the feeling is
unanimous among Americans and Euro
peans tnat Armenia is asking too much.
That is the oriental way. The humor
of the situation arises from the prob
ability that, instead of having to bar
gain and come down in her terms, as
she expected, Armenia will get ail
she asks.
Americans express concern because
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lights and personals of filmdom that are in September's 130 pages of
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the artificial situation that Is being
created spells trouble for the country
that is to accept the responsibiliies of
mandatory. Suppose the Armenians
carry out the threats that are openly
made by the indiscreet ones, that they
will execute reprisals upon the Mos
lems. Will America men hang Arme
nians, and call down the maledictions
of a pro-Armenian world upon her
head? How is she to insure Justice
and liberty to the officially subordinate
but numerically superior Mohammedan
population?
At the rock bottom of the American
idea of "government lies the principle of
the separation of church and state. All
creeds look alike to Uncle Sam. Out
here that idea is almost unthinkable.
The equality of all religioni before the
law is not the programme of the am
bitious Armenian, who means to see
that, Islam is given a dose of the same,
medicine that she has so long been ad
ministering to Christians.
Issues like this are not abstract or
academic in this part of the world.
They are ordinarily argued with knife
and gur. Everybody is armed. So the
Moslems in new Armenia, a preponder
ating population, will not express
themselves by writing to the editor, or
at thj ballot box, but. after the good
old fashion of 14 centuries past. How
big an army must the United States
have to. keep in Armenia to discourage
this ancient usage?
lncle Sam and Old Intrigues
As at present partitioned, the regions
about the eastern Mediterranean are a
welter of racial, political and religious I
jealousies and antagonisms. Armenia
will be 1 iterally surrounded by insati
able rivals, small and large.
Inside of the new Armenia there
will be a dozen or more little peoples,
each as nroud and implacable as the
Armenians themselves, and with a his- '
tory going as far back Into antiquity.
The western world has never heard of
these strange racial survivals in the
center of Asia Minor, where the life is
in all points more suggestive of cen
turies long past than of the present.
Now what is a simple and sincere
straightforward westerner like Uncle
Sam to do in such a case? Is he, too,
as the responsible power in this inter
national mare's nest, to meet intrigue
with intrigue, guile with guile, alliance
with alliance, espionage with counter
espionage?
Consider concessions, for example.
There are unmeasured privileges to be
given or sold or hired within the con
fines of new Armenia mining rights,
oil rights, water rights, transportation
rights, public works construction ahd
output monopolies, as of licorice root,
wfeich comes chiefly from this part of
the world.
Who are to get these? Are they to be
reserved for bona fide Armenian citizens
of the new nation? Or are they a per
quisite of the mandatory nation? Or
will they go to the highest bidder or
shrewdest manipulator, whatever his
nationality? What is to become of the
proceeds? Incidentally, are the expenses
of the execution of a mandatory to be
borne by the nation served, or by the
mandatory power?
That trail of interrogation points lead
one far. Who are to be the real rulers
of the land? Is the final authority with
the mandatory or with Armenia? It will
be no Sunday school picnic for Ameri
cans either to be over or under the Ar
menian politicians. Are the occidentals
in official positions to receive the same
salaries as the natives, or more? That
is a ticklish point hereabouts. Will there
develop a ruling caste of American of
ficials, responsible to the league of na
tions, perhaps, but not to the local con
stituency ?
But stay; If I continue to reveal the
difficulties America will face in accept
iny a mandate for Armenia I shall be
suspected of being a Little American.
Whereas I sincerely, though regret
fully, hold the position that the United
States really should accept certain
mandates under the league of nations;
although I am unconvinced that It was
quite kind of our allies to wish upon us
in our simplicity the very most diffi
cult mandate of all. The fact that I
have perhaps written more in behalf
of the suffering Armenians, and from
first-hand travel, than any other Amer
ican does not blind me to the perils
which their political pretensions in
volve for the nation that undertakes
to become responsible for the new Ar
menia, I still am for America first.
Yakima Elks to Initiate 125.
YAKIMA. Wash., Aug. A. (Special.)
The local lodge of fcllks will initiate
a class of 125 candidates August 19.
It was the former plan to Initiate this
class at the convention, to be held this
month
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