Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 11, 1920, Page 4

Lawson Butt and gydney Ainsworth e|in interpreting company. A comedy is also on the program. “MY LADY’S GARTER Do you know how the Order of th Garter, the highest decoration which can be bestowed upon an Epglish- man, started. It was at & court ball given in honor of King Edward IIL The Countess of Salisbury, a reign- ing beauty of the day, was present, and during the ceremonies she gasped REX THEATRE TODAY Harry Carey fans, who are numb- ered here by the thousands, will have an opportunity to see this popular Universal star in m?' screen madat:r- ent to see her jeweled |piece, “Marked Men,” announced for :r?:rbal;::sgsmugon the floor of the|the Rex theatre today. The story hall. The crowd of nobles and ladies|was written by Peter B. Kyne, one of saw :also and started to smile. But | America’s favorite novelists, unde{ not King Edward. Bending over the name of “The Three Godfathers, gracefully he picked up the garter for the Saturday ‘Evenlng Post,., and placed it around his own leg, and The scenes of “Marked Men’ are thus, though unwittingly at the time, |laid in the great American west started the famous order. v How this famous original garter role of Cheyenne .Har!-y. is serving a was stolen by a motogious thief called |term in the penitentiary, with twdy “The Haws' 'an ‘the criminal |pals, who have been convicted 83 was finally captu er a thrilling |train robbers on -circumstantial evi series of adventures forms the plot of “My Lady’s Garter,” Maurice Tour- neur’s Paramount Artcraft produc- tion, which will be shown at the Elko theatre last times tomight. Wynd- settlement and falls in love with the ham Standing, Sylvia Breamer, and Mojave Lily, a girl in a dance hall, Holmes E. Herbert are in the cast. | who urges him to go straight. Out of A Mack Sennett cemedy is also on|loyalty to his pals, who risked their the program. lives for him in the jail delivery, he guards their horses while they exe- AFRICAN ATMOSPHERE cuted a bank robbery. With two of Romance and adventure in the far- them he flees to the desert, where famed diamond fields of South Africa they find a newly born babe in a —that’s the theme of Robert War- wrecked prairie schooner. The dying wick’s new picture. It's called “Thou mother asks the three men to be the Art the Man,” showing at the Elko 'boy’s guardians. Burdened with the tomorrow and Thursday. infant, they continue across the You'll admire the hero, a stalwart blinding sands. The other bandits young soldier of fortune, who goes to succumb to thirst and exhaustion, Jall falsely accused in order to shield but Harry reaches a mining settle- the girl he loves. And® when he ment with the baby. Cheyenne finds comes out—! Well, you'll want to redemption and wins the girl he loves see the picture to discover the excit- ing things tlmtt happen. : " “THE RIVERS END” . . The African atmosphere is remark- AT REX THURSDAY ably true-to-life. Yawll see it as al rThere is a strange tale of Oriental torrid land of hot-blooded men and|;,ysticism in “Thegiver's Bnd,” that ‘women, unscrupulous diamond smug-|wi)) both startle and fascinate. This glers, and a few cleanhearted folks|picture, from the: book by James like Myles Cathorpe and the girl|Qjjver Curwood, ahthor of “Back to for whom he went through fire. God’s Country,” will'be shown at the Pretty Lois Wilson is .Ehe leading [Rex theatre on Thursday. woman. J. M. Dumont, “The Dope Shan Tung, the Chinese, is a prince dn “The Miraele Man,” Sylvia Ash-lj; gisguise. Driven from his own ‘ton, and other favorites are in the country by political factions, he set- <ast, tles in ’Nortrvest Canada on the edge g of civilization, where he keeps an CONTRASTED MORAL VALUES |opium den and traffics in vice. If Basil King’s novel, “The Street| And Shan Tung, because of his Called Straight,” which has been con-|wealth s a power in the community. verted into a beautiful motion picture|He falls in love with a MDeautiful at the Goldwyn studios under the|white girl and demands that she mar- Eminent Authors banmer, exalts one|ry him. She loaths him and is horri- moral principle above all others, it|field. Yet he holds a strange spell 18 that a good name 98 more to bejover her and she apparently is power- desired than great riches. The pic-|less to cope with his will. ture is s story of contrasted moral| She appeals to an officer of the values, in which no crude villain in-|Royal Mounted to help her free her- trudes to depict in a physical way the|self, from his influence but she wit power of an evil temptation. Quitelholds some secret from him, evident- the contrary, ‘“The Street Called)ly fearing to reveal it. Straight,” whith is to be seen at the]. - The Chinese is getting more and dence. pal, on ‘the out side, the three make their escape. Harry wanders to a rough mining Grand theatre tonight and Thurs-|more of a‘ hold on ‘her when the} ay. may. be called a story without |officer of police visits the den on villain—unless his name is Fate— [Shan Tung’s command. And Shan for all the characters are so intent|Tung openly demands that he be a where Harry Carey, in his favorite| With the help of a fourth’] upon acting squarely with each oth- er that they are willing to forsake their own happiness rather than be untrue to their given word. “The Street Called Straight’’ is an all-star productirn. Including such prominent plavers as Naomi Chil- ders, Milton.8ills, Charley Clary, W. WISTORY TOID IN.OLD LETTERS Bt Jews of the 15th Century Alone Had Trading Posts in North- - west Africa. INTERESTING DISCOVERY MADE Africa Loomed Larger In the Middle Ages Than Modern Historians Have Realized—Jews Forced Out of Spain. Washington.—“Lava preserved the ‘secrets of .Roman civilization in Pom- peii i tombs protected the records of ancient Egypt's culture; and now there i{s prospect that some long neglected letters may reveal one of the mest fascinating chapters in the historle trail of the Jewish people, and jncidentally show that Africa loomed larger in the middle ages than modern historians bave realized.” With this introduction the National Geographic society in a hulletin makes the first announcement in this country of a remarkable documentary discov- ery made hy Charles de la Ronclere. Yibrarian of the National library in France. - “Hitherto,” says the librarian, Africa has figured not at all in medieval his- tory. It still was a ‘dark continent’ when Stanley and Livingstone pene- trated it less than a century ago. Yet it would seem the Jews of the fifteenth century had trading posts in north- west Africa and carrfed on a vast commerce with the natives from the ‘S8ahara to the Atlantic and from Al geria ‘to the Niger. Medieval Natives of Africa. “These native peoples, who finally resisted the inroads of Christian, Jew -and Mohammedan, possessed sources Some - {ribes lived in rock salt houses. Actual “~history'in one case parallels the legend- of wealth in grain and gold. .ary ‘account of the defense of Troy. ‘Primitivé religions and strange cus- ‘toms flourished in common with a civ slisation: advanced enough to take ac- curate census of cities. party to the deliverancé of the white girl to him. s But the officer is not the craven, Shan Tung thought. “There is a ter- rible battle in the opium den which is finally set afire and-burned. ' What hanpens to this officer;and the white girl is sonjnethlng you will want to see. Timbuktn and Touat. Timbuktu was the Chicago of the - West African plains, and Touat the center of the camel caravan traffic ‘that exchanged |'the wheat and barley of Egypt for the powdered gold of Timbuktu and the percious salt from, Teghazza. “All the places visltéd by Malfante were so well known.to the:Jews of his time that theéy were listed in a Catalan atlas prépared three-quarters of a cen- tury earlier by Charles V, according to M. Ronciere. But shortly after Mal- fante’s visit the Jews were driven out of Spain, and since the Jews were the only ones in Europe who knew qt the Nigeria country, and apparently per- mitted no Christians to enter there ex- cept Malfante, the Jewish knowledge was lost to Europe. Not until Dr. Gerhard Rohlfs hégan his explorations in Algeria and Morocco in 1860 did the rest of the world form a contact with the extensive regions of Malfante's travels, 3 “Landing at a point west of Algiers, Malfante worked his way south to Touat, which Rohlfs believed himself to have heen the first European to visit. Yet Malfante dated his first let- ter from there four centuries earlier. An African Commercial Center. “Tou't was. an ‘oasis, containing from 150.to 200 villages, which togeth- «- formed a vast commercial center. Each had a chief. .\Travelers became th> guests cZ these chiefs, and Mal- fantc reported their protection su- Vperlor to that in states like Tiemcen and Tunis. One of these towns was Tamentit. now a decayed, . village, whose people still recall-the Jewlsh epoch. Arabian invaders: earlier had robbed the Jews, who were masters of the Sauhara and whose empiré ex- tended south to the Niger.: Tamentit, Malfante wrote, sheltered both Jews and Mohammedans, who lived in har- mony. “Pushing o ktu; Malfante's - | host wag t| a captain of desert ind an‘of great wealth and possessed of trade information concerning all of North Africa. From him Malfante learned of such flour- ishing places as Teghazza, famous for its salt mines and unique for its 'architecture. The houses were made 'of rock salt. Malfante noted that it . {mever rained there or the houses would 'have melted away. . -| “To the south of the Mohammedan kingdom were many statés inhabited solely by savages. One of these tribes worshiped a mirror, believing that. in THE AIDJI DAILY PIONEER UNITED AMERICANS Ry Wauan C. DEMING, Kditor Stockman and Karmer. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Because of the unsettied condition of affairs through- out the cqyntry, the growing unrest among lahoring classes, the activitv.of radicals. particularly. from foreign lands, and the private. proper possible, conditions whici sional_hearings and official inv sposition in certain quarters to attack overthrow the government, if 1 disclosed by congres. tions, a nation-wide movement is in progress to bring all good American citizens together upcu the proposition to uphold the gov- ern to r t mationa and promote i prox I€is proposed mpnd the constitution, to preserve property rights, and state laws, to stabilize husiness m ol reconstruction [ to izatfon called the United Americans,.tu be established in every’ state and to cooperate with = national organ fzation of the same name: and same object. This movement is not against anyohe or anything except elements which are destructive of American ideuls. but it is distinctiy for the American gov- ernment. the American constitution, ana the Amer Every American citizen, native borw or naturalize ship. an fag. is etigible to member 1t4s hoped we can soon register fifty million 100 per ceat Americans who will be known both by the lives they lead, and the little bronze button on the lape! of the coat. Let's go. FATHERS, MOTHERS, CHILDREN. PLOYERS OF LABOR--ALL WORKMEN, AND BEM- LOYAL AMERICANS—-will you not devote five minutes to-day, to an earnest study of sume of the grest truths of our National:lifef JAPANIS READY | T0 TAKE STAND FOR NEW 030ER Dr. J. H. Scott Predicts Great Future Under Leadersbip. of Young Christians. * - — 7 To Dumb Forgetfulness a Prey. Greenfield, Ind.— Caleb Moncrief, farmer, has always denied that he is absent-minded, but he has a taxi bill a8 proof to the contrary. After com- pleting his business here, Moncrief drove home, forgetting he had taken his wife to town with him. She fol- lowed in a taxi. Woman Lands the Job. Paw Paw,-W. Va.—After five men had been tried out as truant officers and proved failures, the board of edu- cation has selected a woman, and she s filling the bill successfully, MILLIONS FOR NEW SCHOOLS.|* Baptists to Spend Huge Sum to Give Christian Training te Young Men and Women ef Japas. - — Religious . leaders in Baptist Foreign Mission’ Sddfety who i preparing to return to Japan after d yoar's. furlough.., For twenty-seven yoars Dr. Scott has been in the Flaw- ery Kingdom and it is partly on his recommendation that the Baptists bave decided to spend a miillon and a half dollars theré between now and April 1024, "- Over $200,000 will be invested In the Mabie Memorial School at Yokohama, while $400,000 will go to the Christia® college at the same place. Practically every dollar of the appropriation for Japan will be used for educational pur- poses except $90,000 set apart for ff- teen church buildings. , In the present cabinet, largely made up of progressives, Dr. Scott sees the final overthrow of autocracy and mill- tarism. Old policies are giving way 18 the face of the moderf ideas of the young men and womef of . Japan, many of whom are Christians, educated in the Christian colleges that have sprung-up in Japan within the last fifty years, he says. “We owe to this progressive antl- | militaristic perty our strongest moral support, and every assistance to the mission effort in Japan will be a direct contribution to the cause of peace and basten the coming of the day when the military spirit and the autocratic pol- icy will be no more,” said Dr. Scott. “Japan will lead the Far East in com- merce, Industry and invention as well as in education and art” he added, “but there Is a still greater mission for Japan and that is as a leader I the principles of -truth, ;liberty and righteousness, ° Not many years 2g0° she was in ‘the grip of & despotie; feudal system. She had_ a cruel caste system under which the man of lower, caste bad no tmore rights than a dog. That bas been done away with. Her people once had no religious rights and her women once were mere chattels. Wonderful reforms have been accom- plished but: none - more - than the granting of religicus freedom to the people and the recognition of women as equals with men.” ° According 'to Dr. Seott, Japan:bas been unable to bulld schools fast enough. Ninety-seven per cent of the children of school age are being edw- cated. Industrial schools have opened and yearly turn out hundreds of grad- uates. In Osaka more than 2,000 girls were graduated last year. ; Americans and Economy. Americans are economical. only im the use of economy. If that is am anomaly or a paradox, make the most of it—Brooklyn Eagle. German Planes Fell to 1,700. At the signing of the armistice the total of German bombing and scouting | _sirplanes had fallen to 1,700, while ELKO WEDT & THUR. ROBERT WARWICK ‘With LOIS WILSON “THOU ART THE MAN™ A Paramount-Artcraft Picture Laid in the dia- mond . fields of Africa. Adventure land of the world’s soldiers of fortune! ‘A romance of smuggled gems, of ‘woman’s lure and folly, of heartless false imprisonment and of a heman’s sacrifice for a love that triumphs. LK " WED. & THUR. oo ccomplisin this by a new orgap- | TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1920 PLAN FOR CUTTING ASPHALT —— Method Shown in fllustrations is Time and Labor Saver—Wire Cuts Theough Material. ARSI, Asphalt is usually shipped in tin barrels. The metal is stripped off and the asphalt rolled up to the stopping board; the wire shown, attached to the winding drum, is passed over and around the asphalt to a piece of pipe under and ahead of the stop board. When the drum is turned it tightens up on the wire and causes it to cut through the. asphalt. Kerosene Is poured ou the wire to make it pass thtough the asphalt easily. The barrel shape is first cut In bhalf, then each half is cut into quarters A-Loose end of-wire fastened 1o pipe 45phait with cover, ing stripped off Cutting Asphait Taken From Barrel With a Wire Drawn Through it With & Windlass. which a man can handle eastly. In warm weather asphalt is soft, there- fore it cannot be cut or broken with an ax or other tool, so this machine 1s a time and labor saver.—George O. Peck, in Popular Science Monthly. USES TELEGRAPH " TO GET STENO Well trained office assistants are not “picked up’> every- where. When big firms need capable help, they wire or “long distance” Dakota Busi- ‘ness College, Fargo, N. D. Recently the Dakota Con- struction & Engineering Co. of Valley City wired for an effi- cient bookkeeper-steno. Miss- R. Gregerson was sent. A phone message from the James River National Bank, James- town, resulted in placing A.-P. McDonell in their’ Edmunds branch. = e o aoaan . “Follow" ‘the $ncce$$ful.” Enter summer school now. Write F. L. 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In “The River’s End” we offer the first photoplay from the studio of Marshall Neilan, formerly one of the highest salaried directors in the world. For his first . offering Mr. Neilan has-secured James Oliver Curwood’s great story of the Canadian Northwest, “The River’s End,” considered by many the.author’s most popular work. Quite naturally, Marshall Neilan has spared nothing in cost of cast and production to make his first personally produced and directed effort as fine as possible. You'll like it God’s Country You may therefore expect a real treat in this great big story of - - Plan to come | Defective