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jg TlWi . C TOE PRECOX STATESMAN! FRIDAY, JAXCARY 10, loao. -J I f&hofasock Star JtS' if ;l . ' O (naturally I am more than interested to I brX-. THf(.n ra X.' Vr tfe-:je- Ui . tee bow Dwm will cooceiTe him. teV& VV.rVJUr-W?i-; that A'!an Dwan t&?l-'Y&i'l ??j fln&"SP &r 14 hit formed L jr . ,-e iS?t,ri in company nd comer. baJ pot Harold MkcGhrth The ' motiet ar: rapidly finding ' thcmelve. A tren I of picture malc- . in b-cntt whhh, front all I can gather, w'll lift .photoplayt to a high ' level of art It 'teen t only yeaterdiy that a Attrfcit of "Slysteriea of the Box Cat" and other atrocious things reeled eft in the ftodios made ot de tpair of the mdviet ever doing any thing wotth hile.. Tp-Jay one can tee pittu'es that give; keen enjoy ment 1 have teen many pictures that made me wish for nothing in 'iheir pcrtriyal -sui prising, I suppose this will jeem to ?oq, for I under ttand it is quite fashionable in liter ary circles to tcoff at the movies. Xot that I-htink the moviet per fectoh, a long., long . way from it. Jor one thing,: too many of them tinderestimate the intelligence of , their audience; -too many deal in trie obvious: v,roo many atrocities are still beinor comrriitteA on; the tcreen. And; then I recall with feel- tner havtnsr eone to see a urodnction of one . of my 'books. . the picture rirbtt 4o."Vfhich I had sold to one of, The big 'companies.' The story was The Puppet Crown, a story I ', was. particular! fond of, for I liked the heroine of it about as well as ! tly . character . I- ever drew. She . Wat i stfonflr character. ;lmapln mv i feelings then When I sat ia the thea- ! tre, '.'and .watchet,my story; on the screen; . i could not -reeosmize it. Back h the studio, they had put it into a chopper and irround oot hash. That Is one thing I have against the movies mayhem- of my favorite heroine. . 4 Yes, 'and The Voice Tn The Fog. That was another high crime. IJonaJd Brian played the picture ver sion of that one of my novels. It was his firsthand hi , last picture, Latfr I saw Hmi and he said: ' "I'm through. NVvcr again I They nade -mt looir foolish. v Shake." I a creed. They made me look foolish, too. Nobody who ever read The Voice In The Fog would have recognized it on tbe screen. The too frequent thing bad hap pened. The director had not begun to -realize the possibilities of the tale. JJtd you ever notice how often, when the -movies present the drawing-room - of a wealthy man, they havetit filled with teakwood furni ture? At soon at a man becomes nch, doet he buy teakwood? We bear; much about the educa tional value of the movies. . That is true, very true. The scenery, cus toms and all of foreign countries have been ' brought right into our They tell me tW have scenario writers in California who can swipe any plot, and tinker with it to an author win not recognize it Uu fortunately. for my piece of mind, I teem to have a note for plagiarism of my work. When I went to tee a production of my The Goose Girl, I got a shock. It was wonderful. The photoplay had realized everything I had ever dreamed of in the story. That 2 sickened my interest ' in movies, me thought: "If they can do a thing, so beautifully once, why cant they do it every; time?" It showed me that tie movies are capable of conveying to an audience all the ro- theatres. Were a college to uw mo-!mantic charm that comes to the ; ,-. .v. i nt . tint modes and forru " of life puukei than by any other war. Cut there is still a great educational work that the movies have left undone. In the studios, if they would' on!y teach some of 'the stars and. graduated show girls who fill in as guests at receptions."" if thev would onlv teach them the correct use 'of the knile and iork I In. close-ups 1 Why, the educational possibilities of the movies are boundless. - . . ur ntsT iiorcx 1 nave watched, the movfes nrettv closely. So many of my books have Deen produced that I'm ever trailing the picture theatres in the hope of I enanemg upon one. 1 suppose it s a kind of morbid curtositv. a desire to rsee whether murder or merelv as- . . ... . - . tauu ana oattery has been com mitted upon the ttory. Back in 1903, I saw the first morie version of one of my ttoriet. It wat a short ttory called Rajah't Vacation. Since then. I have teen many versiont of my stories, although, of course, the titles were not always th same, r.nr wai I always down as the author: nor iad I 2 1 ways told my, picture ngLis. But as I watched one play after another, it emphasized that such good produc tions were all too infrequent. The thing obsessed me; it was like unraveling a crime The evidence piled up to show that the guilt wat double. That fearful thing which is called the "requirements of our star" was distorting good stories; and the Movie Magnate, one of those persons who used to press pants an 'i who now cvlil England to ask Charles Dickens ir r.'uureray townte rcenanos for htm exclusively, tht psi-sc! was to blame. toa Me. tge' to buy more limousines and country places with Japanese gar dens nliec with Unto statuary, was making his studios turn out picture too quickly. I wondered when they would ever get on the right track. $25,000 FOB a book I The motion picturerights to most of my books had been, sold bv last winter, but there were a few left And when I think what some of those books went for. a cold chill creeps over me. 'You reriemi-r The Cpet From Crjra'.d f feT! years avo movie cu:i;i4ny bouelu he rfrhts to Mm Cat, for .bat?- Five, ten thou sand "dollars? Oh, no. for one hundred dollars I When the publishers told me they had sold the rights for that price, I had a stroke. Wlien I heard that over my bead they had . rrt con fined 'themselves to this cik act of charity, but sold four more for the same price, I almost bcaae a paralytic Twenty-five tbontsnd dollars is the price today for the morie rfch'j to aO my future work. So many of my btoks have been done in pictures that I have been asltf! it 1 wrote tbem with one eye to t:llbg he picture rights. Emphat ically, no. I never wrote a story for the movies in mv life I thick h it because I hke clean romance and action tnat mv stories have found the way to the screen.- For sfter ail the movies ar far mor democratic t!an' are I brkt And to try writing I always rtk to eutrun tl.e greA rmitty per cent, holding that high privilege. Let writers who can do it Better -than i care for the needs of out highbrow s. Nine out of every ten writers would like to have their boki done in pictures no matter what they tell you. Of course, the war did away with much of the froth and frivol in Ameri can writing and - undoubtedly force ! many authors to put red blood and punch in their stones. That will help thj movies, add something to the story supply which seems to show s.gnt -t berny quickly bought tip. There are many pood books . that would make good prctures utt tie raov'e people have paed ty. It U easy to under stand. Thy cry, for gocd stories and most of tHrtn v.';..ld not know a jrwi story if it bit thee. l)v yu know thit one of the esit:ul qualifications of the average scenario editor is that if a he be shall know nothing about ttory construction and thai it a she ne khaH be alle to tay: . "Oh. how utterly wve'r .". " viiy rai ctrr's a .r en r I have fr mind two hroks of my own A Splendid Hazard and .Th Luck Of The Irish. One company said that A Splendid Hazard had r.o motive, ine moove mat urgea on me man In the story was only to try aid restore the monarchy in France hut' place LJmself upon the throne; cu'. ct course, to the aversge tnnrie rrak-:'s almost unlimited funds behind tim w-ih tl e snderttacding that he nsake pictures !or tbera alone, Irst a tew eich year, spending at much tirne at he liktd. engaijnjg whom ever he 'iked and choosing hhnself whatever stories he llcei. That sound ed like cfsn-no tvnz.- When next they told int Pf.au a University grad nri. t'nt in h: cel'cge days he had ti.ewlitcd in literature, thaj ht had hen yrdi.it! as a civil eg;ner and 'a.t v-rked at his profession in xet-4e es before taking up pictures: eve zero. And about piy T.? I M'll-we-' Jo m- that here wis a nnn cf Of The Irisartor crvni-any n.!-!.! an.l rea.Jy act-ej and Pf culture. -The hero isnt a tt. Our I r , 0 bad Mr,Mh&w acqui.-ed a surpris to v-eai ew. ng rre. . v t..? jruy j .na,f,ry cf motion picture rt in t story's siura-.er. I t ocht i h d tcen hU African rictrrre. it beter ti t-ait a f yea befcic tryirg to d pos- of the picture rights to these booj. An undyirg faith in the mcvi old u.e tl t ir'- 11 rfr.es was t-.du-d to :-me i'. - m VJn to my asto.iishmen? from CalT fom !tt spnis on. w)rd tl.at a '.V.-iTor v-a ' tf Th' Luck Of The I''.t. In:re1rt-'e wiih the hero", a FluTberl Who sai the director? They, told me his name was Allan Dwan. tnd I remembered a reeert T'c tare I had seen of Ms. At the time it had imrresr-1 me th.tt l-.re was a man who had ben ?:ven a pvir story and aked to make s picture of it : and in some miraculou way. h had H.ire it. rrea'irnr a thing of beatrv; re rmc in the Afriran oVsrrf and north ct-9t and doiz!r-it all tn California! Mv And wl-.; :.ey told me that Allan Dwar- 1-a made some of the test known surt but that he felt the ttar system was wrong and that the ttory, the s-ithor shou'd be the star, plus the director's conception of hit ttiry, I said : "Here tt one man who ti on tne right track." . sxczrrs or "izst fntxtS" -ITe is buyv now out ' m California making my The Leek Of The Irih and I ?m fager to see if. Here it where I fess vp someh:n?. , Some authors write rtfroi-n?!'e!y. I did it tut once Tlut w T-e I--'k Of The Iri'!i. The you"v flf.nrr. in that story u a drawing rf Vf-' I am ard &c I iike 'A Gt crrt. he is rrv 'av.rire ih; '.? r r4 lit lui ru!jrr. -frrm Where do writers get their ideas for stories? One day tome jtars ago I was in a cinema theatre in Paris. The morie I watched was entirely unusual and French. All of the characters that rK saw was their feet baby shoes, jewelled sliprers, pumps, bregsn riding boots, high heeled hoes. From the positions and movements of their feet it was conveyed what their owners were doing. The audience played tbe . picture with its imagination. From :bat 1 got the idea of a young Irish Americao, a p umber, working ia a show be!ow the level of the sidewalk. Every day above his workbench he saw hun- Jrit of passing feet and one day be fell, fn love with a very neat and very sensible looking pair of feet Then, inheriting a f ortene - f rem an out- , rageously wealth relative, fee bought birr.irlf an trairfu-the-worki trip ticket, rud ivet ih)C ftrt he loved, oo the s'taaier. ar . Incw. You see. a frw years bfie I lad made a trrp aiJvwi twe wW ; hence that idea. - Ey. i..t h. to get a "best seUi plot? Tiy it romance, lovable charae ters, . c-!r. action, Sometimes they ask sic : "Why don't you write realis tic novels?" What -for? The ninety per cent go to the movie theatres and would rather tee stirring, clean, ro mance titan "problems" and tnrat. Air other point here Dwan and I irre on is that and on Oie "happy etidicjc." There it no particu!ar art m hivLijc a man blowout his brains at tbe rlr.j of a ttory or in havipg a descrte, w;l reading a love Imer irons fcr hvfI.j-J wrHten !urir.g -heir Uel Arrc? icaiu are har?y rZ hi' truni-J. Ami by tb w r3. Mnik chinne- t3ca r-. jSe Ls.ati ri-r t"t r"r-!.mf . l!e is Xc V--'-: A'1'ICM. ?rii-.'T rj' V rT I t. ViWl-.JlJ f o n-fr-s. ! DORMITORY FOR INDIAN SCHOOL IS RECOMMENDED Commercial Club Committee 'Investigates Needs of In ;' stitution ;: :T $70,000 HALL NEEDED - . 7- : Oregon Delegation in Con gress Sent Wire Telling , j Request " A new dormitory to. cost $70,000 and to provide accommodations for 200 students is recommended for the Indian school at Chemawa in a tele gram sent to the Oregon delegation In congress yesterday by a committee of the. Commercial club- The com mittee composed of T. E. McCroskey, E. S. Tillinghast and R. O. Snelling, was named at the open forum meet ing of the Commercial club Wednes day night to Investigate the needs of the schooL , School Visited. - 1 iv ' The committee visited tbe Institu tion yesterday and investigated Us needs and held conference with liar wood Hall, superintendent at the tehool. The recommendation to Washington followed. The recommendation affirms the heeds ot the institution as set forth in a report of Mr. Hall to AVashing- ton. . I BILLS IN LEGISLATURE TODAY 1 "ONE WEEK OF UFE" PAULINE FREDERICK MdryticturStar TrTITH PAUUNE FREDERICK ';.":; -'. J And CORINNE BARKER Former Salem Girl YE LIBERTY ; Fourteen bills were introduced In the house yesterday. They are as follows: - H. 15. 61 Jackson county delega tion; fixing salaries of county offi cers of Jackson county. H, B. 62 Roads and Highways: Authorizing state highway commis sioner to repair damaged highways by force account or otherwise and declaring an emergency. H. H. 63 Joint Ways and Means: Appropriating $600 for portrait of late Governor WIthycombe. i'H. B. 64 Joint Ways and Means Granting additional appropriation of $8500 to public service commis sion. . '7: iH B. 65 Gallagher: Increasing salary of state engineer from" $3000 to $4500 and declaring an emergen cy, (..' H. B. 66 Roards and highways: Increasing state highway revolving fond from $30,000 to $75,000. II. B. 67 Graham and Bean: Ap propriating $50,000 for completing and furnishing women's buiiding at University of Oregon. " H. B. 68 Corporation committee: Extending corporate existence of pri vate corporations! s. . H. B. 69 Kubll: Providing an nual tax of LOG mills for support and maintenance of University of Ore gon, Oregon Agricultural college and Oregon state normal school. - H. B. 70 Wright: Designating certain roads In Sherman county as state highways. H. B 71 Weeks: Relating to load and weight capacity of motor trucks. l; B. 72 McFarland; Substitute for II. B. 35; relating to angling In Willamette rprer: II. p. 73 Dennis: Relating to ca pacity and load of motor trucks. 1L B. 74 Roads and highways: Relating to" matching of federal funds for road purposes. - Bills withdrawn In the house yes terday were: II. B. 33. Brunaugh; relating to payment and rate of interest. ' H. B.' 58. Brunaugh: relative to granting of pardons. Senate. S. B. 42, by Thomas Increasing salaries of Jackson county officials. 8. B. 43,' by Pierce, Orton and Eb erhard Increasing salary ' of state superintendent of schools from $3000 to $4500 annually. 7 S. B. 44, by Patterson Fixing levy of six-tenths, of one mill for Ore gon Agricultural college. S. B. 45. by Ritmer and Shanks Providing that". discharged service men may record discharge paper with county clerks without charge. S. B. 46, by Porter Increasing the indemnity, to $2 5 for some class es of slaughtered cattle. PAVING PLANT MEASURE FAILS Bill Would Authorize High way Commission to Make Cement The pavlne plant bill introduced by Scheubel and ardently defended by him on the floor of the house was killed yesterday when It failed, to re ceive a majority of the representa tives. . Tbe affirmative votes num bered 26. The bill provided that the highway commission be authorized to pur chase paving plants and manufacture cement for highway purposes. . Mr. Scheubel contended that the system has worked successfully in California and that a financial sav ing has been effected by its use there Smith of Baker declared that state operation has usually proved costly. Dennis took issue ' with him on the point but he was not in favor of the bill, . Whitman team was probably tbe de- elding feature in winning tbe game. as the Bearcats had the push and the punch, but there was a slight in dication of individual playing on their part. There, was a good turn out of sympathizers for each team. The seating capacity of the lower floor was all used and the balcony was well filled. ' The Whitman qnlntet was compos ed of efficient and experienced men who worked in unison and success ful aggressiveness and bad it a Ilttte over the Willamette five for team work, but' for spirit the Willamette team was remarkable, every man on the team stuck to his position' and battled until the very last second, when they knew they were defeated.. Gillette played a . good game, at all points of the floor and etill covered his position as guard well- Jackson was another one of tbe Willamette aces. He played a clean and forceful game despite a tew ex amples of his very own. Stars for Whitman were the same as on the previous night. Dement with eight baskets and Rich with his speed was what kept up the good morale of the Whitman team. Leon Faber ot Portland was ref eree of the game and Tate and Spen cer alseo of Portland were the time keepers of the game for Whitman and Willamette respectively. Federal Land bank of Spokane, Wash., and A."W. Hendrick, vice president, of the- California, Joint stock bank, San Francisco, will be present, . . HOUSE PASSES NUMEROUS BILLS Hughes Measure Provides for Administering Oaths by Assessors 1 FLOR DE The Cigar Supreme At the price rLOR de. MELBA is better, bigger and more pleasing than any mild Havana cigar: Comma om nc OthckSius Seucros muz 1 1 Dirrtnuir Puck Ak vour 4elr lor vuir favnrtt i It your 6aWr cant supply you, write us! I. LEWIS CIGAR MFC CO. Newark. X Urjftt lA4pndanl Cigar factory in the World. Interesting Report Made by Secretary Bohrnstedt WHITMAN AGAIN BEATS BEARCATS Basketball Team From Walla Walla Shows Superiority in Team Work The Whitman college basketball team of Walla Walla won the second game from) tbe Willamette "Bear cats" with a score of : 39 to 23 on the Salem armory floor last night. Despite tbe wide difference In the score the game was fast and inter esting. Tbe efficient teamwork of the At the annual meetings of the . r"' t 7 Unrtlxnllnr.1 S, XT. . t , 1 i ln IeSChUt va a-av4 & WS, 111OaillO lailUllttl Farm Loan associations held at Sa lem and Corvallis Tuesday. A. C. Bohrnstedt. secretary-treasurer, and the managing head of these associa tions, reported fine progress 'for the year, and gave the following items of Interest: r, Amount of loans closed and out standing, $515,325.00. Amount of loans approved by the Federal Land bank In process of clos ing. $127,650.00. Amount of loans approved and awaiting action of the Federal Land bank. $20,150.00. . Amount of loans closed during the year. $334,225.60: aPst due installments of principal and Interest, none. , Capital stock subscribed, $33,156 .25. . v ' : Capital stock paid In. $25,766.25. Total membership, 203. It will therefore be seen that there has already been brought f o the farm ers tributary to this section by the Farm Loan organizations ' managed by Mr. Bohrnstedt over a half mil lion of dollars and that 203 farmers have been benefited. Mr. Bohrn stedt also represents the Joint Stock Land Bank of California, and al though the appointment was made only last month, applications aggre gating $75,000 have been sent in. This bank Is also a part of the feder al system. The officers and directors of the two associations were continued without change. At the state meeting of the Na tional Farm Loan associations, to be held at the Commercial club rooms January 27 and 2$. It Is expected that D..G. O'Shea, president of the House bill So. 15, Introduced by Hughes of Marion, passed the hpue yesterday. It provides for the ad ministering of oaths by county as sessors and deputy asaesaors. Other house bills passing were: No. 19 Fixing the salaries of dep uty labor commissioners at $15'i0 annually Instead of $5 a day. No. 42 Giving fish ani game commission authority top urchase land for came farms. No. 25 Requiring individuals and firms to secure licence for practicing dentistry. No. 28 Creating office tt r-ounty meat and herd Inspector in Coos county. No. 30 Providing Increases In sal aries for Malheur county offlc'a!. No. 32 Fixing salary ot district attorney of Deschutes county. ."SO. J9 Kstab ishfnir coitnlv fair es county. No. 13 Providing for acquisition, ownership and control of pronerty by incorporated cities and towns within or without their corporate limits. o- 5 Providing for payment of Interest by state on irrigation and drainage district bonds. o- 41 Providing imprisonment as punlshmen for killing mountain sheep. goatR. elk. mooae and caribou. Seuate bills pasred in the house yenterday were: Nj. 4 Amending act creating court of domestic relations to vali date law. No. Permitting. organization vf drainage districts. . N'n- 7 Permitting stabIMhr.i-nt of kindergartens in several Umatilla county schools. ' No. 10 Granting powers to muni cipal corporations known as "ports." have endorsed jthe Thrift Week .cam paign. . ..... . .-A number of firms are planning for special publicity during - the week. The Cherry City Bakery will place a label in each loaf of. bread calling attention to Oregon Products week and the National Thrift cam-: paign. Letters , have been sent out to all the ministers of the elty re spectfully requesting tbem to' pay some attention to thrift In tbelr ser mons next Sunday. During thrift week Jannary 17 to 24 great emphasis will be placed up on -the Importance of savings. "Savings Is the test." said a mem ber, of the committee, "not only of Industry and commerce but of tbe In dividual engaged in Industry and commerce. Saving does not mean something laid aside without effort from generous profits or a liberal surplus. It means self-denial. It means giving np something desired, sometimes even something' needed In order to Increase the store ot sav ings." . Meaning Told. "Saving means industry, applica tion, thrift, guarding against waste fulness, avoiding Idleness, standing on your own feet, working out your own problems, seeing always that there Is some difference, no matter how little It may be, between what you earn or get and what you spend. "Saving brings confidence and strength and steadiness. The hope of the republic rests with those who are putting by systematically some thing out of what they earn. Try to earn more or to get more. If you will, but meantime avoid the econ omic blunder ot placing yourself wbere you cannot save or of having to live tor a time on wbat you al ready have saved.' ' ' Thrift in industry day will be ob served Thursday, January 22nd. On that day emphasis will be placed up on tbe Identical Interests of employer and employee. CITY PREPARES FOR THRIFT WEEK Schools. Churches. Business Men and Others Join Movement The public schools, the Salem Min isterial association. Salem Women's club, bankers. Insurance men. ral estate men. manufacturers and the general business Interest of the city j.Fonr Stores Entered by Thieves at Mount Angel Four stores at Mt. Angel were en tered Wednesday night by thieves and numeronn articles of value were taken, according to. Deputy Sheriff Oscar Bower who returned from Mt. Angel yesterday afternoon, where he was investigating the robberies. He say not arrests were made. - The Gooch drug store experienced the heaviest loss. According to the proprietor. lnverNayy of tbe missing article waa not completed when Deputy Bower was there, but the loss was in the neighborhood of $200 or $300. Including 13 kodaks and a rai uable toilet set. The store was. en tered through an open skylight. Barr's Jewelry story was entered through a rear window and all pa pers were gone thrcnigh and about $5 In change was missing. The candy shop belonging to Tho mas La I a was entered through Hie bark window and some small change taken. Kvldence showed that someone bad tried to entr the Scbmalts ware house but did not succeed. The office of the Mt. Angel cream ery was ransacked. The company WHO SHOULD WEAR GLASSES This Is a Problem That Con fonts Us All Whether y are young ' or old. rich or poor, the .Question of "who .a a a snouia wear glasses" is one that touches yon ery closely They. who "refuse to be bored' "by learning anything about their .eyea. simply because their vision seems to do gooa. are taking tne most serious, risk with their most precious facul ty. No one can afford to lose good vision but it often Is lost aolalv bv teason of that neglect which arise irora laca or appreciation of the Im portance ot care of the eyes. Those Who cannot see elearlr need no warning to tak care of their aye. uui me-numan eye ia a long suffer ing servant, which never tries to SToid work which it can aceomnllOi. even by extreme difficulty, and hence n is very apt to create a false im pression of greater power than it really possesses. These people have bad vision with out realizing it, they can see clearty. but do not understand what a terri ble strain tbe eyea are having to achieve this desirable result. This condition Is called Eye-strain, and It results In severe headaches and nerve troubles. You may get your sight In a sim ilar fashion! Yon .cannot .prove whether you do or not unless you have your eyea scientifically tested. The only evidence you have of eye defects may- be la the form ot head ache. We can tell 7 yon scientifically whether your eyes need help or not. W can ascertain whether yonr vi- bion is gooa or bad la the sense of how It is obtained, whether at cost ui uuuue euon or not. The method of Sight-Testing em ployed by ns is a thoroughly scientif ic process by which the exact condi tion of the eyes can be established, aad corrective clAaaea. if mu..n- lean be furnished. Your optical de lects of vision can. la this way. be nuj correciea. If your eyes need attention eoe Dr. L. Hall Wilson. Eyesight. Specialist. 210-211 U. 8. National Bank' band ing. '.. V safe which wat left open was gone through but nothing of valuer as In It. IX DISGCIXE At the too an Irishman and Scotchman were studying a tebra They were argalng aboat wbat kind of an animal it was. The Scotch man said It was a tebra. while the Irishman persisted that It waa noL it?" said the Scotchman. . "Ill tell yo." said Pat; -"It's a de?.kt? w,lh ta football Jersey on." Unidentified. 1 1