THURSDAY. March 28 AT THE GEM THEATRE, nothing AGA11ST the 1 YCbNG MAN ¿X 7€.-»v - mat Hr u AS MO ’• .SEV if ? c-oo-i ¡.^:ro '...cap Goldwyn Pictures present . ■ . lzr a MAE MARSH in Tuesday The Cinderella Man Mch- 26 Otix'er Msrorco'sfa motis Sta yc Succi rr by Edward Childs Carpenter - L J FOR LIBERTY.” "la. - - —. -■* T * a mBH “THE CINDERELLA MAN Five reel William Fox Photoplay, featuring Gladys Brcckwelland “THE RETREAT of the GERMANS at ARRAS.” Adult' 20c MAE MARSH, the Quaint Star of the Screen will appear in her third Goldwyn Picture »♦ Taken from Oliver Morosco’s stage success by Edward Child Carpenter. GEM THEATRE. TUESDAY NIGHT, March 26th Children 10c. Adults 20c Children 10c MORAL OF U.S. ARMÏ. slandered troop, deci, lare that, out of wh en the postal truck came in; thousands of men admitted to the The orderly fishes one out tor Jim; confessional, only three f Dr. Jack Olson, of Tillamook, >ave confess* he takes it without a grin. ed to sins of any magnit ude. A cor- And then, as he opens the envelope— Sends Some Valuable Infor­ respondent of an int ernati joaiiy- eeyow! How that man did yelk mation from France. known daily- newspaper, w hose bus:* “A letter from James J. Junior, boys! ness it is to get facts ar id to report the youngster has learned to spell!" Dr. Jack Olson, who is First Lieut, them accurately, add, this. So nothin* would do but the bunch of with the 164th ATnbulance Co., sta­ * "I was in the only tow n of any size -as had to read the letter through; tioned in a evacuation Hospital in the whole area occupied b' the •■somewhere over there," sends the troops referred to on the ight when ’ I was all writ out by that kid of his, and a mighty- smart kid too. following interesting article and they were first paid _ off oi'.' in „. France. The poem: . majority of these in er* received from For it isn't every six year old at school as can take a prize. | two to three months pay, ling in Like the boy wrote J im as he had To the fathers and mothers, sisters some cases $100 or more. streets done) and y< 1 O and brothers, wives, sweethearts and , " ‘■re crow ded w SOr -g op eyes! friends of the men in the American I everything in sight, from candy and Expeditionary Forces: i chocolate to clothing, but—it s the a Well, Jim had a mighty good Kew We hear that you have been regaled solute truth—1 did not > a - -g.e Year's; he stood the squad a treat, with some alarming stories about us {drunken soldier, while the provost I And now, tead o’ turning out sloppy of the A. E. F. and our conduct here guard records show the smallest num- he’s ¿¡v-a s trim and neat; in France. In fact, some of those | ber of arrests. Since then I have seen lieutenant passed th stories haw been relayed to us. and it ¡a good deal of the troops referred »1 if Jim keeps on that way they weren’t so far from the truth hc •as ’North-Eastern,' as a result o aria* li ripes on his _ w might be inclined to _ get really ____ mad. I which 1 can unhesitatingly state tha more pav. But know ing the authors of some of I*1 *be troops training in the United Dor. them—for some of the hysterical I States con conduct themselves stripe has really been over here—our they’re doin^ uvoiy. r.g in- Finally, the commanding first inclination is to laugh. But, after all, it's no laughing mat­ thi> same body oi nun—and our co sever ter to be talked about behind our manding officers und to 1 tally coir backs in such a reckless and irrespon­ critics and aJ proper • sible way by reckless and irresponsi­ petent on ble people, though no doubt some of way oi “I nei them have the best intentions in the world and think that they, and they the I’m :r letters. : .c ,o goo«l a alone, can save us. (They have prob­ !have an ke him; ably told you that, and asked you to ! As to conditions in gene ay be a g: Allied and neui ot military ooserve contribute money to their w orthy cause, haven't they?) What hurts have exprt* cd themselves as asto earin’ irom ’em most, however, is the thought that, fished at the remarkably good Leba he joy oi life though we know you are loyal to us •or of this army of yours. The wor and have the firmest of faith in us, does move. Armies no longer live 1. perhaps these dire tales may have forage, loot and pillage; but even at “For Liberty” at Gem Theatre. ------ o---- caused you anxiety, may even have ¡that, this pay-as-you-go, behave-as- A new U illiam Fox photoplay is brought you to believe that perhaps, I you go American Army has been a ar.n,unctd for next Thursday, March after all, we had become a bit neglect­ Irevelaton to our European allies. Take it all in all, these American 4S at the Gem Theatre. It is called ful of our trus’ and that, so believ­ ing, you might have been sorely, and ' Expeditionary Forces constitute an For Liberty” and it deals w ith events entirely unduly, distressed in spirit. I army which is in every way a worthy of today. Gladys Brockwell is the star and Be assured that these sensational successor to the first army of liberty, stories are nothing but myths. Abso­ whose commander was George W ash­ that in :t*elf insures a brilliant per­ lutely nothing else. And we have the ington. it is proud of its heritage, formance, for it is declared that in facts to prove that they arc. Listen: proud of you people at borne who are spite of all the fine work this star has The percentage of venereal disease supporting it and w ho are backing it done, her performance in the new in this army of yours is three-tenths ! with your labor, your money, your play which is to appear here shows oi one per cent.—the smallest percen­ (hopes and your prayers, proud of the her in a different and greater light. This story tells oi the conditions tage on record of any army, or any Government that sped it on its way- civil population, in the world's history . overseas. proud of the c*sc for that immediately preceeded the war It is a sober army, and a well-behaved which it is fighting—the greatest m Berlin, and oi the terror and alarm one. The statistics in the possession cause which any army was ever call­ that came when the declaration was of the Judge Advocate General’s de­ ed upon to champion. It would rather made. It is, however, a story of me partment prove that there have been, rot under the soil of France than to hie of a brlliant woman who goes in proportion, fewer cases of drunk- do anything that would cast discredit through all the ordeals that beset ness, fewer breaches of military dis­ on the homes it left, w hich w ould im- American women who were in Ger­ cipline among its members than has I pugn in any the good name of the many at the time, and who is true to been the case with anT army w v. hose ____ ' 8reat people from whom it was re­ her country and to her love. The love elvrrr -t predominates and survives cruited. records have been preserved. Bear all this in mind, good people war and tribulation. 'For Liberty is Now, to speak of specific instance. A certain self-constituted "board of back in God's country, u you hear a story of a w oman's hie that is won­ morals” is quoted in a dispatch from any more stories about us made up derful an inspirirg It is set in the inter.- the United States to the effect that out of the same whole cloth, If by midst o: war, and this makes it such 1,046 men from the "northeastern any chance any- of you should hesitate sely real to us who knew that Slates” were locked up in the guard to believe us. w rite to our command­ conditions prevailed, be* who oc’.» truth. house following their first pay day, ers, or chaplains, our doctor*—any­ have a glimmering of the real lay is body in authority. They will back us It is understood that the p for drunkenness. that is the story; here are the facts. to the limit— and we, for our part, quite new m its treatment of th ■k pues- bcaut* Since the troops referred to as will guarantee to come home to you tions with which it deals, and is I clean in body, exalted in mind and ifully set and finely cast. coming from the “north-eastern states" came to France, the total num­ heart, and with the record behind us ber of their men locked up in the of a man s sire job manfully done. Death of Mrs. C. M. Alien. ------ □------ guard house for all offenses—not for Jim* drunkenness alone, mind you—has Cynthia Mason Alien was born ’x been exactly 134 to date. In other Honest, but Jim »as the sorest man y, 1848. at ¿tod on. X. Y. words, the seif-constituted champions in ail o’ Comp ny G; March 1A »&7A »he was married to of soberiety generously multiplied by You could sing ana tell stones the Xeison Allen, who died in 1901, at eight the number of men imprisoned whole right long, but never a cuss Stocton, X. Y. Mrs. Alien leaves three for all offenses—including as it does gave he. children to mourn her absence, Gkr.n these punshed for infractions of rules, You couM feed him turkey st Christ­ Allen and Clair Alic... both of V insubordination and the like—and pas­ mas time—and Tony the cook s no sylvania, and Mrs. Arthur Beals, oi sed the enlarged figures on to you as slouch— this place. rep-esenting the number of men lock­ I Bat Jim woa!dn‘t join in "Three In ¡tris Mrs. Alien was convert* 1 ed up for drunkenness alone! No won­ cheers tor the cook.’’ Gosh, but he and united with the baptist Church der you were scared—as they prob­ i__ a a roue?. in which church she remained until ably intended you should be. coming to Tillamook, when >. joined Just to refute them again, here is a the Methodist Church. was done, quotation from the report of a Protes­ r Mrs. Allen was a great m chin with the ter-. Chaplain on active service with ■i-a-gun; these sinie maligned troops from the cd him to hold s r nertr,-eastern states.” Bear in mind, : vou asked tor too. that this particular chaplain has 5 March 1 ®*en in the army but a short time, and tn jercs. « {heretore brings a fresh ard impartial Judgment to bear on the problem*, 1 This i n what he says: I Abo 3 1 tae re “In Pcrfortnirg my priestly func- I CA Fa’mei tier, s it has been my privilege to trav- Vf a r ' el cor idcrably among the troop«, and bur * pl.-; ases me immensely to be able to hing." state at I find moral conditions A id the lUO't tisfactory. The military au- To the tho’iti - are rigilent in removing II. J I hereby tetr, pt d itions. We have a clean arn-y; et-ea and I am honestly convinced that the K men i- France are in less danger mor­ cket ally 1 in they would be in service in their own country.” *T men in France are in less con finger morally than they would be in itrvic' in men their VW>1 own WU.IH/. country.” That • -• *s* c -se is worth repetition. Ponder °n that, dear people at home. Rt spectra!’y. Her $ something more. The Catho- H. V. Alky. I* ch¿pUin attached to these tame An engine that wrings from gas more power than was ever taken out of gas before—through its Hot-Spot” and “Ram’s-Horn” Manifold—Chalmers devices (A Tests of exhaust vapors have shown weaknesses in many engines. By such tests you can always tell how good an engine is. In the great Chalmers engine so very little in the way of unused or unburned gas comes out of the exhaust as to be almost negligible. The gas is used up —all of it —in the Chalmers. ——----------- -——— The moment it passes from the throat of the carburetor it strikes the now noted “Hot-Spot” where it is heated and “cracked-up” and then rushed on to the combustion cham­ bers via the “Ram’s-Horn” Manifold. When the spark touches it off there is translated a power such as a gas engine has never known; all the brute force imaginable, yet tamed down into a softness that is as smooth as deep water. Once you play with it with your right foot you will be amazed at the thrill it’ll give you. A.. ;:r~' 1 b TOWN CAM LANDALTMT LtMOt'PVl I TAMtNGI* UMOCMNK LANDAULTT TOVUNC SCDAN ■ • • S.’WS CAAJUOLXT. PPAXia-NGta - fin TOWN CAJU PPAXMNCtR IM DCTKOIT StUlCT TO CHANOS WITHOIT XOTKI Dealer, D. L. 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