Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 5, 1920, Page 4

FINAL SHOWING OF “EVANGELINE” TODAY The last showing in the engage- ., ment of “Evangeline,” the William 3 motion picture version of .. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s great poem, will be gfven tonight at the ./Grand Theatre. This picture has at- ‘tracted much attention because of the extreme beauty of its scenes and it unswerving fidelity to the original poem-as well as because of the work of Miss Miriam Cooper in the title role. . It is seldom that a motion picture 80 expuisite in story and treatment is presented to the public, and Mr. Fox is to be congratulated on his latest contribution to -the oDetterment of screen entertainment. ‘‘Evangeline” in this direction is revelation. “SMASHING BARRIERS” ~ -. CHAPTERS 10-12. TOMORROW _With two afternoon shows, begin- ning at 2:30 and a special matinee at 4:16 for children. Chapters 10, 1 and 12 of the great outdoor serial story, “Smashing Barriers,” will be shown at the Grand theatre. OWEN MOORE POPULAR TYFE OF SCREEN COMEDIAN There are as many types of comedi- ans as there are ways of cooking eggs. Their name is Legion. From the. Englishy music hall type, whose trademark is a red nose and & pair of trousers, all the way thru the list which includes circus clowns, slap-stick artists, unaggregated char- acter types, etc., until we reach the top=—those aristocrats of comedy, the 1ight comedian. Prominent among these is found Owen Moore who is scheduled to appear as a star in the latest Selmick picture, ‘“Soomer or Later”, which comes to the Rex the- atre today. Mr. Moore, who needs no introduc- tion to the American public, is of the very highest type of comedy players. A veritable Beau Brummel in sartor- 1ial effects, he secures his laughs by methods which are the delight of the spectator and the despair of his imi- tators. In “Sooner or ater” Owen Moore is surrounded by an excention- ally fine cast with Sena Owen as leading lady. The story, by Leis Alan Browne, deals with the adventures that befall Patrick Murphy when he tries to help out his friend Robert Ellis, whose * mew bride has left him. Like all well- intentioned folks, Patrick stirs up a veritable hornet’s nest when he mixes Farmer Can Make Much Improvement by Dragging Highway in Front of His Property. Every farmer should feel his de- ‘pendence upon.good roads. Whether {or not one lives on s public highway “ihe should take an interest in the nearest one to his farm or thé road bhe must use to market his farm, or- chard and garden products. There are many times when a day’s work can be spared on the road. Aft- er heavy rains the road may need cer- talp repairs or jmprovements when ~the overseer is not ready to call out the hands. Why not individual farm- ers donate a day’s work on the road at such time? By keeping a road drag and drag- ging the roud along one’s land after heavy rains the rond may be greatly “The Above Is a Cut of Seager Wheel- . er's Plank Drag. It is of the Type ‘. for. Good Road Maintenance. The Cut Shows Fully the Method of n Construction. improved. It iIs an easy matter to have an agreement so each farmer will’ drag the road in front of his farm. This would majntdin the road till the regular hands could be called eut at stated intervals or till the com- missioner could make the necessary repairs. The time has come when we must consider the roads an asset, indis- pensable to the well-being of the farmer and his family. This being true, is it not every man’s duty to do ~"all he can to keep the roads in good condition? The individual as well as the county is responsible. ; How Fool Reveals Character. /. A'fool may be known by six things: . ‘Anger, without spéech; speech, with- ‘out profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends—Arabian Proverb. famous for h and off the scresn. He enacts the role of a high-minded son of the plains, known familiarly as Quarter Apache,” who is determined to wipe out a gang of rustlers who have been preying on the country for many years. ' in- with' this domestic tangle and in the end, like all innocent bystanders, he'is the target for shots not orig- inally intended for him. there is a girl in the case, whom he annexes for his own thus being re- paid for all the uncomfortable but amusing experiences he has been through. ENID BENNETT VERSATILE The last few pictures made by £nid Bennett have demonstrated the pret- ty star's versatility. In ‘“What Ev- ery. Woman Learns” she was a society woman. “In Stepping Out’ 'she play- ed the hard-working wife of a young | penny-proud clerk. “The False Road,” showing at the Elko theatre tonight and Thursday, casts her as a pretty girl-crook, member of a New York gang of “slick articles.” She goes to Sing Sing to meet her sweetheart, who has, just been’ released,: after serving a two year term, and is amaz- ed when he tells her that he intends to go straight. After some exciting adventuresshe too sees the light, and they are made happy together. Lloyd Hughes plays the leading male role. Fred Niblo directed the picture, which is a Thomas H. Ince prouction for Paramount Artcraft re- lease. P TOM MIX IS COMING IN A NEW SENSATION The lure of the western plains, peopled with men and women whose | daring thrills and inspires; such-is the spirit that, according to those who have viewed surges through the Fox production, “Desert Love,” scheduled for the Rex theatre Friday. S The story is etched against a back- ground of Arizona’s desert and wild- erness, and the characters—alike the hero and the villain—are such as know no compromise with ture. Fight is theirEldo: 3 or na~ The lead is taken. by Tom Mix, daredévil stunts on “One -The girl whose charms captivate the heart and imagination of Tom |’ Mix in “Desert Love” is played by Francelia Billington. The delightful Eva Novak fills an exacting role in the new play. Others in the cast are Lester Cuneo, Charles K. French and Jack Curtis. The direction is by Jac-| ques Jaccard. . ———————————————————ree e ee——————————————— 'KEEP ROADS IN GOOD REPAIR| GOOD ROADS INDISPENSABLE Highway ‘Improvement Is a Business Proposition With Farmer and City Dweller. When it takes four horses to pull | an empty wagon to town and wheat is going off in price each day; when the | mail carrier gives up in despair, and |- the children caunot get to school, the farmer cannot help wondering how much this condition is costing him each day. Figure as he may, he cannot get away ffom the fact that good roads are indispensable to agricultural pros- perity. The city dweller is alike concerned. The farm on a good road has scores of possibilities for the development of its resources to every one open to the farm on a poor road. Increased ex- penditures—greater buying powers. In the early days of poverty many 3 county bonded itself for hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure rail- roads to promote agricultural develop- ment. Three-fourths of all the freight the raflroads haul must sooner or later move over the public highways, ‘and every ton so moved is costing at an average rate of 23 cents per mile. Verily, road improvement is a busi- ness proposition—a matter of dollars and cents. . BETTER SCHOOL ADVANTAGES Average of School Year Is 180 Days in Five States Having Best Road Systems. Good roads make it possible to have better school advantages. In the five states of the Union which bave the best system of public highways the average length of school year is 180 days. In the five states that bave gliven. the least attention to road im- provements : the school year is less than half that long. REX-Friday Thrills Await You! Seé the Dynamic Dare- devil of the Screen TOM * Presented by =_ WILLIAM FOX in Desert Love A Wonder Tafe of the We_st Ot course|, the picture, |’ o of the oldest of- the state, t dates back 110 when the congregation met In a As a'rule- Miss ‘Whittier morning servige and Miss ‘charge of the evening meet- v Both were graduated from:the Gor- ,don Bible College in Boston; and both worked for a number of years after~ ward under the direction of the Ameri- can Baptist Missionary Soclety: They have served the out 6f thé way- settle- ments in the far north Aroostook County and other sections of Maine, where. the people depend e col- porteur for their gospel teaching, They have filled two pastorates of five years' each, one at Owl's Head and the other at Jay, where they are at present sta- tioned. : . Will the woman pastor-sdive the problem of the shortage of ministers? :Miss Whittier says she will. A woman gifted with the power of .oratory, trained in @ high class'theological in- BAPTIST WOMEN TO AID- SISTERS IN FAR EAST Realizing that “Civilization rises no bigher than the level of its woman- hood,” women of the New World Movement of Northern Baptists have pledged $180,000 for improvements, ex- tensions In equipment, and additional operating expenses for eight colleges d schools In India, China ang Japan. | 1s sum will provide for moré doctors and teachers to be sent to the Far East during the coming year. The largest item of this sum is $50,- 000 for Ginling College, at Nanking, China. Christian College for Women at Mad- ras, India. One of the great objectives of the .$100,000,000 campaign . of the’ New. World Movement, which: begins Aprll 25 and ends May 2, will_be to provide greater. educational-opportuni-. ties for women, as in the Far East few have been permitted to” attend schools. « These Pastors Look forw More » . Women to Fill Vacant Pulpits The smallest is for ‘Uniop, \J stitution, nnd’ willing to make the com- bjned sacrifices of not only a preach- er's wife, but a preacher himself, should be allowed to fill a pulpit, she declares. . _According to Miss Whittler, the woman preacher has come to stay. It is her opinion that very soon a large percentage of clergymen of all Protes- tant denominations will be women. The Baptists and the Congregational- ists are among. the first denominations to admit women to the ministry. “Will women pastors be content to work on salaries that average less than $700 a year, as men preachers have been doing for years?” is another ques- tion Miss Whittier answered. S She sald they decidedly would not. “All over the country,” she sald, “people are realizing more and more the injustice that has been done to the minigters. The time has come, I be- lleve, when pastors are to. receive their Just due. The country pastor’s salary’ should not merely be raised=—it should be doubled® He receives less than an ordinary day laborer and depends to an humiliating extent upon the charity of his congregation. No, women who enter the ministry will not be so pa- tient, Pm sure. Conditions in America today do not warrant the practice of such self-denial.” Miss Whittier is one of the leaders in Maine of the New World Movement of Northern Baptists. .That state has been asked to raise a quota of $2,060,- :000. - The amount didn’t stagger the pastor of Jay. ‘ 5 . “Will your congregation be able te come across with their apportion- ‘'ment?” she was asked. “Ceftainly, there's no doubt about 1t she sald. B e B VACATION SCHOOLS HELP CHURCH AMERICANIZATION During late sprinz blizzards instruc tors were being trained to meet prob- lems of the hundreds of daily vacation Bible schools conducted by the New ‘World Movement of Northern Baptists, Combining Americanization, industrial training and-Bible study, the Northern Bsptists in recent. years have found this feature of growing importance. Special stress is to be 1aid on religious education in the $100,000,000 campaign of the New World Movement. Bap- tists in Chicago last summer maintain- ed 38 such schools, while in New York there were 18, numbering 8,000 stu- dents and including no less than 20 na- tionalities. . State training <onferences are to be held In seven cities in the nert few weeks, and subsequent meetings will .finflnu until the schools open in July. READ THE PIONEER WANT ADS ‘GRAND-TONIGHT Shows at 7:30 and 9:00 ... . Admission 16c and 30c Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Immortal Story of Acadia; Beiutifully and Artistically “EVANGELINE” * Starring MIRIAM COOPER and an All-Star Cast A beautiful story beautifully told, that should ap- peal to every person, young-and old. Tomorrow Chapters 10-11-12 “SMASHING BARRIERS “A LOONEY HONEYMOON” LAST TIMES—TONIGHT Matinees at 2:30-4:16 Kerasoun i1i Asia, Minor is the home of the cherry tree. When the Roman general’ Lucullus, after a victorlous campalgn in Asia Minor, carried home the shoots of a new tree he named it the Kerasoun tree. was shortened to “Karass” then to “Cerise” and finally the Anglo-Saxon tongue involved the word “cherry.” “You haven't explained how you happened to have these chickens in your possession,” sald a magistrate sternly to the prisoner. “I'se trying to think, yer worship. Give me time,” replied the prisoner. “I will. Fourteen |~ days!” ~Cherry Tree’s Home. Later the name plies. Upholstering. Ready Acqulescence. 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