Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 27, 1922, Page 4

THE DEVRDINDAILY PIGHZER |7 0w .THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1922 “BELLE OF ALASKA” AT REX TOMORROW AND SATURDAY Chester Bennett’s big production, “Belle of Alaska,” starring Jane Nov- ek contains a shipwreck scene taken in the ocean miles away from land that has a parallel only in the nnkinx of the great liner Titanic. The gold-ship *‘Northland” leave- Seattle for the Klondike, packed. to the rails with prospectors and advent- urers, In the middle of the night off the Alaskan coast, the Northland s an iceberg. Half-dressed, undressed passengers, mostly without life belts, half dazed from sleep, engage in a mad fight for safety. Sinking slowly the steamer’s searchlight plays on the surface of the sea showing scores of passengers in the water trying to climb on a life raft. “TOL’ABLE DAVID” AT REX LAST SHOWING TONIGHT The story of David and Goliath is given a modern counterpart in the \First National attraction, ‘“Tol’able David” by Richard Barthelmess, who in one of the mose thrilling fight scenes ever depicted for the films as a mere stripling of a youth, attacks and kills a vertiable giant of _the mountains, in the performance of his duty. “Tol’able David” is being shown at the Rex ‘theatre today for the last times, Barthelmess big fight scene comes at the culmination of two-encounters with villains, father and son, who are seeking to retain the government mail sack which is entrusted to his charge, \David kills them both, but before the one dies he hurls a chnir at the boy he was wounded and has his revenge in seeing the gun drop from the boy's grasp. When Luke. anothen brother, the modern Goliath, steps onto the scene David is defenseless, with his left arm useless because of a bullet wound. Heedles of this, with the agility of a tiger he leaps upon his foe and there ensues one of the most thrilling fights imaginable. It ends when David, with almost superhuman strength, hurls his huge adversary over his back and falling in so doing he stumbles on his lost revolver “PEACOCK ALLEY” AT GRAND SUNDAY AND MONDAY “Peacock Alley” which comes to the Grand theatre for a two day run beginning Sunday is one of the most delightful pictures of the season. It is a ravishing, dazzling Mae Murray pre- sentation with all that magnificance and splendor which mark the blonde star’s offerings on the screen. It is gorgeously costumed and excellently directed, the story running smoothly to its romantic conclusions, She is supported by a notable cast headed by Monte Blue as the youth- ful, husband and this screen favorite brings to the part all that genius for which he is noted. Others in the cast were Edmund Lowe, W. J. Ferguson, Anders Randolf, William Toker, How- ard Lang, William Fredrick, M. Dur- ant and Jeffrys Lewis. “Peacock Al- ley” presented by Robert Z, Leonard, is by Edmund Goulding £rom a story by Ouida Bergee. “WHAT DO MEN WANT?” AT, GRAND THEATRE TONIGHT “What Do Men Want?” heralded as Lois Weber's greatest picture, and said to be even more soul-stirring in theme and acting than her spectac- ular success. “Where Are My Chil" dren?” is a problem of American life daily felt in millions of homes in every nook and corner of the land. Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sweethearts, brothers, sisters—every- body in every walk of life—are con- cerned in this vital, throbbing drama that unfolds in smkmg manner the things that promote hnppiness among men and real understanding among women. Lois Weber, a genius in pncturmg amazmg faults in the social conditions of this country, has stripped bare the weakness of man, and made wonder- fully clear a. women’s. conception of | what men want. “What Do Men ‘Want?” showil the Grand tonight and Friday,} story that thrills and chills and &, xceptionally broad in its appul 1t touches the “right c! in every man’and makes him think nd do the things that are really uwth while. A powerfiil: picture with| a powerful theme:is ‘this great Amgri- can drama of the hunt for happiness. E"? woman will want her man’ tol see it. “A GUILTY CONSC!ENCE" AT ELKO TODAY AND FRIDAY “A Guilty Conscience” which will be shown at the Elko theatre on to- night and Friday, has India fnr its locale. The story concerns a young civil service Englishman who in order that hig delicate wife may live in the Northern hills, agrees to accept a fever-haunted yan after his arrival in India. The preferment offered the young man by the commissioner has malice.and intrigue back of it as the commissioner has’become infatuated with the youngster’s wife and is hop- ing that the husband will be elimi- nated by the fever, It is said that this is & new, repres- sive type of role for Moreno and that the tragic sequences ‘worked about the lonely man in the fever district make an intensely interesting story. “MORAN OF LADY LETTY” AT THE ELKO SATURDAY Thirty-five persons, including staff and extras, spent five weeks in and around San Francisco, and aboard two sailing ships and a yacht, secur- ing the sea scenes for “Moran of the Lady Letty” which comes to the Elko theatre next Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This is George Melford’s latest production for Paramount and Dorothy Dalton plays the featured lead, supported by Rudolph Valen- tino. “JAN OF THE BIG SNOWS” AT REX THEATRE SUNDAY James Oliver Curwood, who has provided such well known stories for screen presentation as ‘“The Kiver's End,” “Back to God’s Country” “Flower of the North,” etc., is the author of a slendid production “Jan of the Big Snows,” which will be the feature attraction at the Rex theatre for two days starting Sunday. In “Jan of the Big Snows,” Mr. Curwood has again chosen the Ifudson Bay country as his locale and his “true to life” characters were select- ed after the usual Curwood research work far north from?® civilization's rim. Eyes That Alwayu Stare. Continental Europe- boasts of an owl of such statdre and hubit that It has been named the eagle-owl. - The bird has an eye like an eagle and a look like an owl. The owl look is em- phasized by the.fact that the eyes of this natural field-pest destroyer have never been known to move during life. They cannot be moved after death. The immovable eyeball of this giunt owl has caused two German anatomists to examine the musculature of the organ with a view toward ascertiln- fng.the why of the steady scrutiny. But the vacant stare of the wise old owl still remains a secret except to the sophisticated bird. The anatomists found the usual six mus that con- trol the movements of the eyes of ani- mals. The surmise is that from con- tinued staring and resulting non-use the muscles have become ftmetionless. The three pairs of muscles of the engle-owl's eye, all in baiapce and immovable, suggest a locomotive's driving wheel on dead center, UITS TO-DAY PRICES ON ALL SPRING & SUMMER BETTER ROADS ‘of -Roads. (Prepared by the United States Denlfl.mum of Agriculture. How the government has. em]ilu)ed federal aid funds for road building| through the bureau of publig- roads, United States Department of Agrieul-}# the various : rouds, is shown in a summary pre- pared by the department. ture, among tion covers the 135, expel months. nile. Nearly 36 per’ cent ald funds, or $75,600,: the, construction of 4,653.6 miles of hi 192,805.41 federal-aid 614,006.71. ., extent of, §2 during the period to roads,.ut a total cost of $55,704,253.78. High-grad® bituminous-macadam roads, miles were con- of which 1.323.2 Rolling .a Shell Road structed, at a total cost of $41,412- 557,88, claimed federal-aid funds to the extent of $18,046,066.17. other high type. of road—bituminous concrete—$9,209,864.32 was made avail- FEDERAL AID FOR HIGHWAYS 8um of $211,135276 Was Spent for Construction of 28,135 Miles ) th 30, I-grade concrete roads. Next in were total appropriations of $47,- funds applied to the building of 10,043.5 gravel road, at a. total cos ‘ederal-aid funds to the 2 2. were applied he construction of 6,864, miles of graded and drained in able through federal aid. went toward the construction of 7 niles of roadway, at a total cost of $23,445,374.88. Toward the construction of brick roads, of which 444.6 miles were built, federal aid was available to the ex- and toward the cost of 2,605.5 miles of sand-clay roads government contributed $10,405,172.10. The total cost of sand- 2,226,362.66. tent of $6,925,482. the federal clay roads was $22 MONEY WASTED ON HIGHWAYS No Excuse for Community to Be With- out Good Roads or to Permit Them to Deteriorate. With modern road building and there longer any excuse for a community to nor is there any reason why it should allow mil- lions of dollars spent in building roads to be wasted, because of improper Jt is a matter which concerns us all, town und'éountry péople alike, maintenance machinery, be without good roads, care, The tabula- liture of $211 31 of federal-aid funds from the beginning of the work when it was authorized by congress up to Novem- ber 1, 1921, a period of four years four That sum was applied to ward the construction of 28,135 miles The total cost was $496, The average cost was $17,- Yeing betfer.able to make a “better 1i érntm souety In short, the purpost per])emahon of our democracy on a, nomtic content than would otherwise Céitainit is that a larger numbe tion &s the complexity of political an cal problems of a century ago were fi The amount of information and the types of le federal- went into BITS OF - JUVENILE WISDOM Brief Extracts Purported to Have Been Taken From Essays of New York School. Children. miles of of $104,- The king of a government which does everything he says is an abso- lute monkey. Polygamy is having more wives than you support. There are three kinds of races, black, white, and the shades In be- tween, There are three vowels, I. O. U. A sextunt Is a man who buries you at sea. People used to write with feathers which were cajied non de plumes. Julius Caeswr was one of the brides of Mareh, Savages gre people who don’t know what wrof is until missionaries show thew, A preb/storic animal is a funny kind of animal that is dead, A nfmad is a person who never gets mad. Cofumbus -knew ‘the world was rourd because he made an egg stand up. Ghosts which you see ure no such thing. The study of geogmphy is import- ant, because if it wasn’t for geog- raphy we wouldn’t' Know where we lived.—New York Mail. PICTURE" HUNG" BY “SPOOKS" "Rejected Porirait A‘bpllr‘ Mysterious- ly on Walls of*'Salon in Big New York Hotel. A ‘pliendmenon, 'as startling and mysterious to the oflicers and directors | of the Society of Independent Artists as were the recent ghostly manifesta- tions in Antigonish to the MacDonalds and_Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, wus revealed at the artists’ exhibition on the top floor of the Waldorf. The New York splrlt nailed a re- Jected drawing to a wall, and above it ham:mered four tacks in a card which told that the picture was the work of Mrs. kmma Mabel Field of Chlcngo. and was called “Impressionistic Pek- sonality Portrait -of . Miss Edith Ben- nett.” “Spooks or no spooks,” said A. S. Baylinson, a director and secretary of the society, “that picture has got te come down. No one gave Mrs. Field, permission to have it exhibited, and our walls aren't open for spirits.” A special delivery letter from the artist to Mr. Baylinson, arrived a few days later. “I am starting for home new,” her letter says, “and will be under way before this letter Is malled. And 1 beg to inform you that I have left the mat- ter entirely in the hands of my guide, who has assured me that my poor little picture will be exhibited there whether you wish it or not—New York Times. Loulsiana; For an- That sum .5 is no —_— For Ladies and Misses Are Cut For a %zck = leanup EVERY SUIT IN OUR STOCK IS INCLUDED IN THIS SALE—AND EVERY ONE ARE BARGAINS! The Bazaar S I mean that. month I gaveBig Autos to H“ldu Minn,, and Irene Fenske, Gaylord, them umlr;n my e thelr eription plan. They T have glven away over 100 automol Hudson Super Six and a_$1,298 Oakland people Who want autos of their own, SEND IN YOUR NAME - No expericnco or skill necessary. - No money. Just a little spare time Visiting among your friends and neighbors dves it. No easler way—no better opportun- ity. But,.you will never know how ensy and simple it Is until T send you tun particulars. You are in no way Gbll: gated, v - In a Democracy EducationIsin Aim g Public and Not Private Benefit By PRESIDENT DAVID KINLEY, University of Illinois. You Want An Auto—I Have Them In.a democracy education is in aim a public and not a private benefit. | ::'The purpose of public education is nog to_train the boy or girl to be able 'to- miike a Better living for his own benefit, but to train him so that by iving, anq by, being ibetter able to dis- charge the duties of citizenship, he will be g mm‘é fitimember of ‘a demo- e’of yubho'edumtlon is to-insure the higher ghade of intelligence and eco- tbe possible: r of citizens must recéivé’ higher edu« - d economic life increages. The politi- ewer and simpler than those of today. trained intelligence necessary to form judgments on: questions of national and international poliey hefore ‘the people of this country today is greater than we needed a century ago. Today no citizen is preperly fitted to cast a voterif his education is limited by that of the old-fashioned little red schoolhouse. ; Fo_rtunateiy, < newspapers, periodicals and books furnish most of us with an’education beyond that of our formal schooling. PECULIAR FORM OF SEA FOOD Ghianchetti, Offspring of the' Sardine, Greatly Relished Along Parts of the Italian Coast, The Italigns”along the 'Itallan:Ri- viera are passionately attached to a form of sen food known as ghian- chetti. Ghianchetti, Kenneth. L. Rob- erts e\ph.um in Lho Snmrdny Evening Post, are the oftspring of the sardine. They are about one inch in length, and their bodies are about as robust 'and’ shapely ‘as an ordinary plece of, string. They are transparent and their eyes are black and dissipated looking; and when the Italians pile them in baskets and trays they have the appearance of lemon jelly full of tiyspecks—the flyspecks being the ey The approved method of pre- paring ghianchetti is to roll them into a ball or a fritter, fry them in olive oll aud eat until either. the ghian. chetti or the eater is exhausted. Every good Italian, however, finds it | hard to resist them in their raw state, A fishérwoman walking along with a tray of. ghianchetti on her head usual- ly keeps reaching up in an absent- minded manner, removing half a hand- ful of the little fish from the tray, and tossing them abstractedly into her 1 mouth, a dozen or two at a time. When the ghianchetti season. is:at its height, in February. no'two ghianchetti fish- | ermen can get into an argument with | %% | each:: other. without . spraying -each nther with: ghianchetti - fragments emotion. i Eleusinian Mysterfes. The .Eleusinian. Mysteries; were .an- nual secret religious ceremonies which were-instituted in Athens more thin 1,000 years before Christ. It is un- known who was responsible for. their institution, but it'is generally believed _that they were in honor of Demeter, ‘the goddess of the harvest, and that thelr effect was an esceedingly gocd one. Great secrecy was observed, death being the penalty imposed on anyone who revealed the nature . of the rites. They were afterward’ brought to Rome where they endured for about 15 centuries, and were abolished by Theodosius in 389 A, D. Cicero has declared in his writings that the Mysteries tended to promote civiliza- tion. Their laws were to honor.par- ents, to honor the gods with. the fryits animals with - cruelty. THE RICH HEALTHFUL JUICES Brewed From BULGARIAN BLOOD TEA TONIC that can be used—Why. not freshen and tone the. tired blood. Vigorous, peppery men and .women are the world winners. of .this age. Just try Bulgarian Blood Tea today. Get it from your druggnst l This car is yours.1'don't s¢ll dutos. T give them awdy, Last Aurelia, Towa: Mrs, T. A. Larso: La Porte, T Aiane Tonow thom.. never a1 eyes on: inn. day 1 gave them thelcars, ‘Théy answered my ad and I sent them eatned the cars by calling on less than 100 of’ biles. You can be next. I have a $1,94§ to give away to two ambitious, energetic P. L] ¥ gi M. KNOX, Contest Manager, Dept. The St. Paul Dally News. I want one of the automobiles to be Tell me how to get it. iven away, v Name . [ _State ‘whenever they. begin ito slitiels 'with |8 of the earth, and not to. treat dumb‘ make one of the very best SPRING |2 PLEASANT VALLEY Phflhp Mc(‘lelhn spent Saturday evening at the A. M. Ripple home. Mr, and Mrs. S. . Randall and daughter Lucile visited at A. A. Ran- |dall’s Sunday" afternoon. Principal A. M. Ripple 4nd C. E. Coffin' drove to the'J. A. Bye home Monday evening on matters pertain- ing to school business. Miss Ruth DeLong was a dinner guest at the McClellan home Sunday: . Martha Islaid Lake -Schmidy Su\'\duy after- Mc(‘ldl < oql Nou. < /The" In h ;chuul sheld classes on Saturdaf-to make up for one of the days lost when” A, M. Ripple was sigk last month. Joseph; Foster, who has been out of ‘school on account of poor health, has been reviewing History and Arith- metic;” pkeparing tor the Spring ex- aminatigns - the latter part of May. He works two or three mghts of each week with the princ Miss Nina Cook, Miss Ruth DeLong and Fred Ollom visited A. M. Ripple and. family one night last week. While there they worked a few prob- lems in-algebra. Norman Gardner. is'back on the bus Antonio EL TONIGHT nd evi ne is glad to see again glai h He has been gone for five Lhorf weeks, i Alice Henderson ‘who_stays at’ the N. L.. Knox home while attending school, - visited her parents over Sunday. With one excedtion every pupil had perfect attendance last week. noon. — How She Helped Mamma. teacher .at a certain private schdol strives -to Instill filial devotion in her pupils. - Recently she asked her elass in what way they had been help- ing~ their ‘parents. Various answers were giveh of a more or less to-be- expected nature, till she reached a little girl who had been casting rather contemptuous glances at the hum- dArum reports. When her turn came the eyes of the others were fixed on her as she lives in an opulent home that boasts a staff of servants. “Well, Gracle,” the - tencher asked, “what have you been doing to help mamma?” “Qh, lots,” was the scornful response of Gracle, “but mostly I go to the v club and get cigarettes for San Frapcisco Argonaut. A .. HeFaced Death to Save His Wife Then one day he read the Bible story of David and Beth Sheba and the truth dawned upon him. He had little strength left; but he used that to save his life and defeat his enemy. Moreno <IN “A Guilty Conscience’ INTERNATIONAL NEWS and A COMEDY KO FRIDAY REX Last =gy chard Here’s THE Big Event! Dick Barthelmess, now a star R..in his own right, heading his own company,. makes his first picture: ‘Angd’ ‘what' a pictire—an_ epic of mountain mothers and moun- *‘tain’ men! And of a boy who leaps to manhood in lifes greatest test! ONE OF THE THREE BIG- GEST DRAMAS OF THE YEAR—AND ~'THAT'S THE PLAIN, UNVARNIS H ED TRUTH! 10c & —F RIDAY and ‘A Bl ‘to the REX! “JAN OF THE LARRY. SEMON’S' new § Plctu.res Inc. Plclure' St JANE NOVAK in—“Belle of Alaska” 7 “PAY DIRT” MATINEES During the run of “BELLE OF ALASKA” a real Klon- ' dike prospector of the days of 1899 will pay off with every ticket purchased. Every bag will contain a coin and the lucky prospectors may be enriched byj a trip All kiddies will be allowed to participate in the mad Gold Rush of 1922—the same as the prospectors of 1899 did, in those days, —STARTING SUNDAY— James Oliver Curwood’s SAPAPARASSANN Times Tonight j’:mu Bart helmess hducahonal Comedy, in two 'p““_ . “STEP THIS WAY” Fox News ; REX ORCHESTRA 25¢ SATURDAY— BIG SNOWS” e—“THE BELL HOP"