PA'JC KCUR
THE CAPITAL JUUKNAL, SALEM, OREGON
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1925
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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.
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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.
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worshops Here prove mat mem."
and physical efficiency are seri
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"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. That is
the reason that "Cousin Jane"
lias a momentousness beyond ex
terral measurements, nnd n sig
nificance that irocs deeper than
alitor and t"nrs.
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