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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1917)
1 is program now uae on Mondays haa l en cancelled, partly because the only c medies handled by that exchange a e sometimes suggestive or decider ly c arse, and only thrt ) more wifi be u ed. It is especially gra tifyin g to find t at the Coquille publ c are showing a p od appreciation of the Paramount I -tures which come i 1 Thursdays and caturdays, and it ve; iliea the Scenic i an’ s judgment that hia patrons will a »predate the best. Graceful Cocoa Palms. T h e cocoa palm Is one o f the moat benutlful and attractive onturul adorn ment* of many o f the public parks and private gardens lu Itrazll. often attain ing a height o f from eighty to ninety feet. The trunk Is without brunches, ami the leases, which cluster In h tuft at the top, are from fifteen to twenty feet In length. A t the base o f the leaves the nuts bung In clusters, the number varying from three to fifteen, according to the age and condition o f the tree. Occasionally cocoa palms are found which do uot beur nuts, and these attain even u greater height, their sterility seeming to augment their virility and consequent attructiveueaa. T O M . R NO C H S E sF JSsU ■ »odiatala; tsi,i. doubla a.a.t si I ,l.«rt* ba». sad fins to s s ili» 'a !U packs» • M»b *»»<«• > " fv »1 ■ »»Io» apte rk OnlarSU paskst. | (Continued from P a g e l ) CopyHeht. 1917. b y Henry Sonneboca «Se C o-, Inc. Style-Wear-Economy-$17:— this is the combination that has made Styleplus the National Clothes. Under the present condition of high prices, men are more than ever astonished that the price of Stylep lus rem ains the sam e. Astonished at the same style in the fabrics (all-wool or wool-and-silk), the same careful workmanship, the same guarantee of splendid wear and satisfaction, all at the same price, $17. The demand for Styleplus has doubled the makers’ output, thus materi ally reducing manufacturing costs. A t the outbreak of the war they bought great quantities of cloth at the then lower prices. Coupled with their scientific, concentrated method of manufacturing this one-price suit, these savings have enabled them to keep the price the same. Visit this store today and realize at once that their economy is your gain! Style plus -J-a ll-w ool fabrics -j- perfect fit -J- expert workmanship guaranteed wear Styleplus Clothes.. ( J*nct i n Cuba HENRY LORENZ fft'E LEADING OUTFITTER COQUILLE and POWERS down south, disguised as a human be ne, he would learn that his little tricks, his evasions and sophistries, fool n • out but himself. He would learn t lat the filth, the sewerage that hr i pouring on the screen inter* sts no u.u but the evil-minded, the diseased and t e c u i n ns. He would learn that his vile stuff i ruining t e movies. I f he digs d. ,*| enough he will find the gre a t “ silent v o te “ is being cast against the movies Mothers and fathers, who cannot aid w 11 not, spend the time necessary for thorough investigation and careful dis crimination, have reached or *are reach ing the conclusion that the movies are dangerous. These people have been shocked and horrified by the things tl-.rust at them on the screen. They have taken the snfe course— they have fordidden their children to go to the movies, or at least have placed restric tions on them. This “ silent v o t e " is the power hack of the demand for state censorship. Hand in hand with the filth-producer, is the exhibitor who uses the sign “ Children not adm itted." These tw o classes are the sewer- scourers who have befouled the indus try. Some Good Advice Nature Cures, the Doctor Takes the Fee | OLD NEWSPAPERS—Cheap at ll e H» raid office Our Poor Record. There is an old saying that “ Nature | The average yield o f potatoes in the cures, the doctor takes the f e e , ” but! United States is 113.4 bushels to the as everyone knows you can help Nature j acre. In Germany it is 183 bushels. very much and thereby enable it to e f- j The average yield o f wheat here is 15.0 feet a cure in much les time than is bushels. In Germany it is 32. The usually required. This is particularly yield o f oats here is 37.4. In Germany true o f colds. Chamberlain’ s Cough Remedy relieves the lungs, liquifies the it is 44. T h e yield o f barley is 29.7. In tough mucus and aids in its expectora- j Germany each acre produces thirty-six tion, allays the cough and aids Nature bushels. in restoring the system to a healthy ; But German fields did not always condition. yield such bountiful crops. Thirty-five years ago Germany raised only 110 bushels o f potatoes, ulneteen bushels of wheat, twenty-five bushels o f oats and twenty-three bushels o f barley to the acre. The German soil is poor. The German climate is unfavorable to successful agriculture. Yet by a care ful study o f the subject o f fertilization it has been possible to increase their productivity by 00 per cent.--Philadel phia Ledger. MONEY-SAVING MAGAZINE OFFERS You Save Nearly Half by The Pocket Stage. It may fairly be claimed that human ity lias within the past hundred yeurs found a way i f currying a theater in its pocket, and so long as humanity re mains what it is it will delight in tak ing out Its pocket stage and watching the antics o f the actors, who. are so like itself and yet so much more inter esting. Perhaps that is. after all, the best answer to the question. “ What Is a novel?" It Is, or ought to be. a pocket stage. Scenery, light, shade, the actors themselves, are made o f words and nothing but words, more or less c lev erly put together.—F. Marlou C raw ford. Ordering With Your Paper OUR PAPER Is Included with Each Combination for Annual Subscrip tion at the Price Quoted Crow* and Crop*. The biological survey o f the depart ment o f agriculture has Investigated the relation o f crows to man. The es sential conclusions are that crows are about equally beneficial and injurious and that they are not so wary and sa gacious as not to need legal protection. Lack o f this, while not endangering the species, will |>ermit farmers to pro tect their crops or other property when ever necessary. NEW, RENEWAL OR EXTENSION SUBSCRIPTIONS ACCEPTED C h ib O ffe r No. 1 TODAT’S MAGAZINE 1 («idi pattvrn) I OUR PAPER and all Ihm WOMAN’S WORLD - f on* r w 11-75 FARM « HOME - - J C lu b O ffe r N o. 3 M c C a l l ’ s m a g a z in e ì («idi pallern) I OUR PAPER and all Ihre- BOrS MAGAZINE - - f an. ,aar 51.95 WOMAN'S WORLD • J C lu b O ffe r N o. S MODERN PRISCILLA - Ì OUR PAPER TODAY'S MAGAZINE I and all three (with pattern [ on* year 12.15 WOMANS WORLD - J C lu b O ffe r N o. 2 THE HOUSEWIFE - - 0 UR PAPER WOMAN'S WORLD - [• and all Ih r« RELIABLE POULTRY JOURNAL ■ » I * » »> 8S C lu b O ffe r N o. 4 W orie Still to Come. Henderson — What makes you so blue? Sanderson My w ife ’s bread's a failure. Henderson —Is that nil? San derson All? No; something worse is coming Henders :i - What? Sander son—A week's ordeal o f bread pud ding.— Puck. LADIES' WORLD • OUR PAPER TODAYS MAGAZINE and al Ihre («id i palimi) f a n jmr $2.05 WOMAN’S WORLD -J C lu b O ffe r N o. 0 METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE •1 OUR PAPER PEOPLE'S RONE JOURNAL • and all three . one year |2.2S WOMAN’S WORLD FREE P A TTE R N S . The M av Manton or McCall Pattern to which each •ubacribar to Today's or McCall's is entitled, may bs selected within \o days from the receipt of tost copy of Today's or McCall's. Order by postal direct 1 Then M.i Sent W illi« to Bed. •*Pa, what is a filibuster?" " \ filibuster is an attempt to talk a plan o f action to death, my hoy.*' ' 1 sec. You married Into one, didn't you, pa?" Detroit Free Pres* s a n s . SACK « s i c a c o r s a . , cmmsoc . usuraia REFORM FROM THE INSIDE Mr. Griffith’ s idea o f “ reform from the in side" is excellent. It is funda mental. No reform can be genuine or perma nent unless it comes “ from the in side." People cannot be legislated away from evil. Legislation may increase condi tions to restrain the vicious or to bol ster up the weak, but real, lasting changes for the better can come only when a m ajority o f the class affected want the improved conditions There can be no question as to the prevailing sentiment in the motion pic ture industry. The demand for good, clean pictures vastly outweighs the de mand fo r the vampire and sex-lure sew erage that threatens the life o f the industry. The picture business is today largely PUBLISHING PICTURES SHOULD BE REGU- in the hands o f serious, responsible, de . LATED AS ALL OTHER PUBLISH cent men who have made large invest ING IS REGULATED ments and want to do all in their power The overwhelm ing majority o f men to protect these investments. These who create pictures know that only men know that their only hope o f per clean pictures will pay. T hry demon manent success is in developing and strate their knowledge by making none but clean pictures (note, please, the statistics to which we have referred in a previous paragraph). There is no basic difference between the publishing o f printed words and printed pictures and the publishing o f pictm *s in motion. Both sets o f o p e r ation consist o f entertaining and edu cating the public by setting forth news, views, facts, stories. W e hear nothing o f censorship o f the press and y e t decent publishers face constantly the problem o f competition with filth. Everyone who reads these lines can recall scandalous, sensational newspa pers that sprung up suddenly, flour ished for a time and disappeared as quickly as they came; or magazines that reached popularity through the j sex-lure channel; or books that go t into demand because o f their naughtiness or vileness. These things prosper—or apparently prosper— for a period, then they fade away and w e hear no more o f them. The decent newspapers, the high class magazines and the standard books holding “ fam ily trad e.” The nickels move steadily forward. For every and dimes o f women and children form thousand copies o f filth sheets or sew the backbone o f this hulf-billion dollar erage books published in a year, ten industry. Women and children abhor million clean, wholesome periodicals or smut and suggestiveness. Ask one books are circulated. hundred theatre owners i f this is not The ninety-nine per cent in the pic the case, and ninety-nine o f them will ture industry know that cleanness and answer “ ves,” and assure you em decency are the only things that pay phatically that objectionable pictures eventually and this g re a t m ajority is have worked a most serious injury to determined to drive the filth purveyor the business by driving decent people out o f the industry. A ll that they ask away from picture houses. o f the public is that the men who pub The publishers o f pictures are mov lish pictures in motion receive the same ing s w iftly and effectively. The lead treatment that is given to the men who ing producers, distributors and exhib publish words. I f the publishers o f itors, working through a special com newspapers, magazines and books do mittee in the National Association, led not need censorship— and certainly they by David W ark Griffith, have pledged do not need censorship— then there is themselves to aid in the prosecution, no need for censorship o f the publishers under the criminal laws, o f e ve ry pro- o f pictures in motion. ducei o f indecent or obscene pictures in BBS KCENT statistics show that the number of women bank depositors is steadily increas- ing. It is a healthy sign of business condi- tions. There was a time when the number of women depositors was practically nil. With the advent in the business world of so many women it was assured that the number of female depositors would show an increase. Women are inclined to be more thrifty than men. T h rift and banking go hand in hand. Many women in this community have bunk accounts. To those who have not this appeal is made. Open a bank account today. Once having opened it, add to it. Watch it grow. You’ll like the experience. I f t ] I D J I X tflii WE’ L L BE G LAD TO E X P L A IN OUB B A N K IN G SYSTEM . tmumnj F a rm e rs and M e rc h a n ts B a n k H O TE L A t the Scenic Thursday “ Don’ t think too much o f your own methods. Watch other people’ s ways and learn from them .” This is good advice, especially when bilious or con stipated. You w ill find many people who use Chamberlain’ s Tablets for these ailments with the best results, and will do well to follow their example. _______ I would prefer red revolution to a gen eral condition o f this kind? And yet that is the situation threatening the picture industry in many states teday. W e do not need new laws. W e need to use nothing more than the police power as it exists in relation to the balance o f the publishing business. We need to educate the public that publish ing pictures in motion can be regulated by existing means just as well as pub lishing pictures and words in type. THE POLICE POWER IS SUFFICIENT The simple truth is that the police power o f cities and states is abundant to regulate publishing— no m atter what form the publication may take, the ex isting power is abundant to safeguard the public. Further, the facts are that the police power has been so trained that it oper ates effectively against the publication o f vile books, magazines and newspa pers— and in some places it operates effectively against the publication o f vile motion pictures. N otably in N ew York City the present commissioner o f licenses, George Bell, is said to have exercised this power to good purpose. In comparing censorship and the police power, we must remember that censor ship permits no appeal to the courts or so restricts appeal as to render it prac tically impossible or ineffective. This condition is so monstrously un-Am eri can that it is unthinkable. Our fo r e fathers fought and died that they —and w e —might have the righ t o f trial by jury and the right o f appeal from lower courts to higher courts. Our whole outlook on life is based on these prin ciples but censorship o f motion pictures sweeps aside these fundamentals and delivers us bound and gagged to pett / autocrats. Ask your business and professional friends their opinion o f a system that would prevent appeal from the decision o f a poli e magistrate or a judge o f a lower civil or a probate court. Ask them how long they would tolerate a condition that placed them on trial for a misdemeanor or a crime without the right to summon a ju ry; or what would they do in a civil suit in which a small judge had decided against them, and refused an appe.u to higher court? Is it extravagant to say that Americana ■ntnmn B A X T E R Under New Management Having leased this well-equipped hotel, I propose to conduct it in such a manner as to merit pat ronage and give satisfaction to the traveling public. CHARLES BAXTFR, Proprietor Form aldehyde Government Experiment Station tests have proven that the Formaldehyde treatment is one of the best that can be given grain and potatoes before planting to prevent smut blight etc. Squirrel Poison For the speedy destruction of Gophers, Squirrels, Mice and Crows, Save Money by Buying Your Garden Seed in Bulk Knowlton’s Drug Store the United States. The above is g iv n as expressing the sentiments o f the b etter class and the great m ajority o f men connected with the motion picture industry. The man ager o f the Scenic wishes to express his entire agreem ent with the opinions expressed, except perhaps with the conclusiou that the picture producers themselves are so little to blame. The decent producers should long ago have awakened to the fact that the produc tion o f nasty pictures w.iuld ruin the industry i f allowed to go unchecked. It is g ra tify in g to see that they have been awakened at last by the club o f censorship, and that they now see that their only salvation is to put the pro ducer o f dirty pictures out o f business. W h atever may be true in the larger cities,he has been convinced from the start that clean pictures only would build up a stable business in this town. He has cancelled m than one service because he found that it carried an oc casional picture that was off color, and his constant endeavor has been to find picture service that could be depended upon to never carry a story that was not fit to he presented to a mixed fam ily audience o f clean-minded people. He thinks that he has m et with very good success, an d js esptcially pleased at the line o f pictures that he now has coming. The Paramount service o f two programs a week is not only o f the very best in every other v ay but it is invariably clean and unobjectionable. The same can be said o f the Trian gle service, which has been used here, ard which w ill again be put on once a week in a short time. The serials that are now running never contain an ob jec tionable scene or suggestion. The Gen eral Film Co. program is always clean. USE THIS PAPER AS A GUIDE! > o o c o o o o o o o o o o o o o tx > o o o o o < q W H EN Y O U H A V E A W A N T T O FILL T U R N to the advertising columns of the Herald and see what sugges tions they have to offer. Before you start on a shopping trip as certain what the stores are showing. Look at the advertising from time to time for new ideas. It pays to patronize advertisers because they must back up their advertising or it will not be profitable. No manufacturer or merchai t can afford to spend money advertising a lie. Printed promises are the light to square dealing. M O O $^> O O O O O O O 0 O PO O O O O O O < READ THE ADS IN THE H ERALD %