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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1925)
PA'JC KCUR THE CAPITAL JUUKNAL, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1925 Caoital-A Journal Sulem, Oregon An Shdoiicndont Newspaper Published iOvery Afternoon Bxcept Sunday at J 30 8. Commorclnl Street. Telephona 81; Nowb 83 UtiOKUhl PUTNAM, fcldftor nnd Publisher dcond chna mall matter at Salem. Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier 10 cents a week. 46 cent a month. $5 a year In advance. By mall, tn Marion and Polk counties, one month 60 cents, 3 montha si 25. 6 months 12.25. 1 year S4.00. Elsowhere 50 cents a month. $6 a year In advance. i l l. I, l,i:SKI VMtl: ASSOU1ATKU I'KICSS SKKVK IG The Associated Press fa exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it ora not otherwise credited In this paper and al?o locnl news published herein. "Without or with offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it Goes." bvron. Movie Monopoly As a result of four years investigation, extending into every section of the country, the Federal Trade Commis sion is expected to issue an order directing producers and distributors to divest themselves forthwith of all theater in terests, thus smashing the trust. The investigation shows that the $1,500,000,000 motion picture business, fourth among the industries of the country, is virtually under control of one man, Adolph Zulcor, who through ownership of theaters, of film producers, and of distributors has established a virtual monopoly by "unfair methods of competition." Zukor it is alleged, dominates the "Big Three" the Famous Players-Lasky corporation, of which he is president, which has control of Paramount Pictures, and numerous smaller producing companies; the Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or ganized by his partner Marcus Loew, and the First National. He owns or controls groups of theaters in key cities and the government alleges, through coercive methods controls the films seen daily by 20,000,000 people, paying over a billion dollars yearly. His methods have been of the ruth less, rule or ruin type and the exhibitor is forced to take poor films to get good ones and pay all the traffic will bear. It is charged that Zukor has a "practical monopoly" of leading stars and comedians, that by virtue of various mer gers he became the greatest producer of feature pictures, and that his rise was brought about through a "complete program of extension," a "progressive program of acquisi tion" by purchase or otherwise and "complete harmony, unity and concert of action." Many of the government's charges are denied by Zukor's attorneys, but there has been a frenzied effort to "clean house" since the inquiry began, such as separation of theater interests from production by placing them under other man agement, but retaining possession. The probe, together with an investigation by the department of justice has been in progress since 1921. Zukor came to America as a penniless Hungarian immi grant when he was 16 years of age. He is now 51. His first job was as a sweeper in a New York fur store. Four years later he embarked in the fur business in Chicago. Nine years later in 1903, he started a penny arcade in New York with Marcus Loew, and upon the invention of movie pictures, turned his "nickolodeon" into a theater and entered the business on a large scale. Oil Marie, don't you realize what a mistake you are making?" he asked tenderly. "You weron t meant to work; like this. You ought to have every luxury, the sort of life to which you're accus tomed," 'I was brought to live that sort of life," she told him. "But aftor I married Hilly, I didn't have any thing; 'my father practically dis owned me, and we had only what Hilly earned, which was barely enough to get along on, I did all the work, even the washing. I'm used to hard work. There isn't any harder work in the world than the work the woman at home does. who can't afford to have servants. t didn't mind It; I loved Billy so much that I'd have done anything In the world for him. After he made his money of course, things were different. We could go hack Into the world I'd left when I mar ried him. But I can work as hard again as I used to. Only it's not the same now, of course working Just for myself is different than working for Billy was." Sho looked away from him then again, into the firelight as if she cuuld make the vision of those old happy days arise once more In the dancing flames. Randall took both hor hands In his, "No matter how you feel now, I'm not going to lot you run i way from me again," he eaid. And I hope that I can make you love me." If I do love you," Marie told him frankly, "It won't be because you make me do It, but because I can't help it. It doesn't seem to mo now that I could ever care for anyone else as I have for Bill', or even as I still do. I've wondered, of course. If when he and Jenny are nnrried It won't make a difference in the way I feel. If It does " If it does, I pray that your love will turn to mo," he said, gravely. I shall always love you, Mario, and I cannot Imagine any greater Joy In this world than to have you Evangelistic Harmony What a shining example of brotherly love and Christian toleration the various camps of revivalists set. Having suc cessfully pulled off their own revival with the erudite Billy Sunday, the Portland committee in charge is lustily protest ing another revival by a rival evangelist, Dr. Price, who con verts by healing. It has suddenly discovered the tabernacle a fire menace and declares the proposed gospel meetings would stir up such a stale of religious frenzy as to become a public nuisance. The Sunday committee, composed of three pastors, ad mitted before the city council that the fire extinguishers on hand during the Sunday revival were useless and a bluff, confessed that the city ordinances were violated when the people were allowed to crowd into the aisles and that the building was a fire-trap throughout the Sunday meetings. The council awakened to the menace, ordered the building torn down.' No explanation is forthcoming, however, as to why Billy Sunday and his committee were permitted for seven weeks to endanger the lives of his congregations in a fire-trap in violation of statutes, or why the council waited until Sunday had left the 'country and another evangelist invaded it, before it was deemed necessary to enforce the laws. If it is per missible for Billy Sunday to violate laws, why draw the line at Doc Price? Is it a council's province to pass upon the kind of religion that must be preached to secure permission to violate law? Dr. Price and his methods are objectionable to the Sun day committee, so they want them suppressed. But Billy Sunday and his methods are equally objectionable to another large proportion of the public. If one is suppressed on the grounds of being a nuisance, why wasn't the other? Is Billy Sunday to be given a monopoly on revivals.in the metropolis? Haven't the souls that Billy consigned to hell the right to salvation by another route? CECOND WIVEC By VIOLET DARE J "AT PAWNING A clock struck the hour,, and as If Its notes had been a signal, sho turned to Hob Itundall again, her answer ready. Marie sat for a moment longer, looking Into Hob Randall's eyes. Ho repeated his question. "Were you afraid I'd caro too much for you, or that you wouldn't care enough for me 7" ho asked. "Afraid of both," sho answered "You sco, I flttll euro for my hus band, though I've tried not to. 1)1 vorcing htm hasn't made the slight est difference. I was only seven teen when we eloped, but I adored him, and my feeling for him hadn't changed. I realise, though, that when he made n success of his In vention and vre didn't need to atruggle any long for money enough to live on, ho began chnnge. Prosperity and the llfo. wo led after that made a differ ence in him. I've told myself that he if n't the man I fell tn love with, nnd staved for those five years, but It doesn't seem to mattor, I love him still "And so you're determined to go through life alone, not giving your self a chance to care for someone else?' "That Isn't exactly true. I didn't tell you where I was going to lho after I loft the hotel because I well, I did fear that you'd care too much for me. And I've been afraid that I'd rare so much for you that I wouid find It ntmost too hard to go on with the life I'd decided on. You see, I don't want to have Hilly supporting me, now we'ro not mar ried any longer. He's sottlod enough on me so tbnt I can live luxuriously on It, but somehow 1 Just can't tnko it. "I want to support myself. And m going to do that, I can't piny aruund with you nnd have the won derful time you outlined down hero at Caroline's. It might be differ ent If I knew better how to earn my own living, but Just now it takes nil my time and strength working days at Mrs. UiMraVa. and trying to study shorthand nt night so that I can get a better position later." care for mo." I lie had risen as they talked, and I came to stand beside her; now 1 bent down and slightly kissed her' hair. Impulsively alio lifted one hand and gently touched his cheek. He straightened up abruptly and went over to one of the long win dows, to draw the curtains and let in the dawn. The eastern sky was glowing with rose color; against it one of the bridges seemed to swing airly, Its great girders looking frail as cobwebs in the thin nlr. Marie went to stand besldo Bob, her arm thrust through his. They stood there, looking Into the dawn, their thoughts welded together in that long, quiet mo ment by the great love that he bore for her and by the honest affec tion sho had for him. He hoped no more deeply than sho did that that affection would deepen Into love. Marie told herself that her life with Hilly was finished, and that life with Hob Randall could he a big, wonderful thing, could bring happiness to others as well as to themselves. No doctor was more famous for his work among tho poor, for his experiments that worked, toward new cures for suf fering humanity. To live with him ot help him In his own work what a privilege. And standing thoro facing the glowing East, Marie breathed -a little prayer, that she might give to him the love which Billy had discarded so thoughtlessly. Tomorrow A Now Turn of Affairs. BULGARIANS STUDY GERMAN Sofia, Bulgaria. Study of tho Germany language will be obliga tory in Bulgarian' primary and grammar schools during tho com ing year. This has been an nounced in a governmental decree by the nulrwrinn premier. Home Again from Arctic ; r V K. , 1 f-Cj lfVW t?r Kiut A-4sk v. ... ; "" CAW XX3M"ArD MBCMIMAM Cant. Donald MacMillan, at the wheel of the Bowdoin, wore his Eskimo clothes as he steered the schooner down the New England coast on his way to New York. EFFICIENCY FOUND TO LAG INHOT WEATHER lTrlvnn RciftnCB haft COOie IP lho aid of tho man who doea not want to work In hot weather. Ex periments carried out by me wear I...... ,iir ,.mr,,, fh 16. 000 chil dren In its orphenage BChools ami worshops Here prove mat mem." and physical efficiency are seri ously lowered wben the tempera ture rises ahove 7-1 degrqes. OFFERS BIG PRIZE FOR FLIER ACROSS OGEAN u-nsiiini-lnn. D. C While there are several trophies In America ot tered for outstanding events in an officials of the National Aeronautic association here know of only ono cash prize now open to competent. This is tho $25,000 prize- offered by Itay mond Ortclg ot New York, and open lo aviators crossing the Al- I.nt.nnn Pnl-ta Rlinrna or tllC shores ot Franco and New York on a non-stop flight, in eitner ui-rection. "Cousin Jane (A Review by VVuricn Spencer.) "Cousin Jane" may come as eoniothlns of a surprise to those- who never saw anything in Ilarrv Leon Wilson book except funny story. You will laugh a good deal over "Cousin Jane," but you cannot dismiss with the mere word "funny" this unique modern novel ot a spell-bound maiden who breaks her own enchantment. When littlo Jane, raised as an heiress of a fortune now no more Is first brought to the remoti slceplus mining town and lo T'jdtuoitd's Kolly," the oiu'0 grand mansion built by hor pioneer ;rnnd father In the fliwh sixties, :ita thinks the old house wlnka at her Willi a wicked, unfriendly leer, tier beautiful Cousin Sarah bitter ly calls it a Hup It Is not until yeurs after Saruh's escape from I he trap that Jnno realizes what sho meant and senses hor own captiv ity. In these yeara of growing up, Jano hoe been the mail, but de voted housekeeper fur her two atrango man cousins. Sarah's es cape was effected by a filching of the silver knobs from the many doors ot '"l'ednion'a Folly," And to Jane, too, comes an inspiration which at last wins her gress into the gay world from which the iiiouuialus have shut her away since she was ten. Jane's -sortie into that world la tho climax of a story which Is remarkable through out for its dellcsto probing Into character and 111; play of the au thor's fanciful humor. Few places In fie; ion ore ns real .is ' Tcdmon's Folly." with lis dlm mii.g glories and rcnished Import ance. Few persons In lifo seem any more living beings than the cousins, Jnue and Sarah, and the Tctlmon brothers to say nothing iif such delectables as Scth Ilarker, Cius I'edfcrn nnd Mnurine Slater. Wilson's people nro always veins of richest oro. 13"t In rare char acterization, something nioro Is added In this new book. To read "Couein Jane" is an adventure of tile heart. "Inside of us that's wlic-ro the biggest things take place," Marcy tells Jane. Such nil emotional upheaval is Jane's when she makes her fin al choice of col. '-sacrifice. And after you have fin'shed her story vou will find thai a big thing has taken place inside of you. 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