Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 4

#A GUILTY CONSCIENCE” AT ELKO THEATRE TONIGHT “A Guilty Conscience” which will be shown at the Elko theatre on to- night last time, has India for its locale. ; The story concerns'a young civil service Englishman who in order that his delicate wife may live in the Northern hills, agrees to accept a fever-haunted post after his arrival in Indi lerment offered the young mgn by the commissioner has malice'and intrigtie back of it as the carmissioner has become infatuated with the yo ter’s wife and is hop- ing that the E\isbmd'will be elimi- nated by the fever. It is said that this is a 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. “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 striking manner the things that promote happiness among men and real understanding among women. Lois Weber, a genius in picturing amazing faults in the so¢ial 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?” showing at the Grand tonight last time, is a story that thrills and chills and teach- es. Exceptionally broad in its might; appeal, it touches the “right chord” in every man and makes him think nd do the things that are really worth while. A powerful picture with & powerful theme is this great Ameri- can drama of the hunt for happiness. Every woman will want her man to see it, “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. COULDN'T RIDE THAT “RHINO" East Indian Paid With His Life for Foolish Attempt to Use Animal as Horse. The beast referred to in the Bible as a “unicorn” 1s almost undoubtedly the singie-horned rhinoceros of south- ern Asin, which, needless to say, 18 a very formidable benst. At Calcuttn there {s a famous zoo, which, specializing in Asiatic animals, %eeps on exhibition a number of rhinos of this species. The other day a native who had never before seen a rhinoceros visited the zoo, and, over- come with amazement, was suddenly inspired with an ambition to ride the biggest one, which at the moment lay peacefully dozing in his pen. He pro- cceded thereupon to climb the Iroa fence desplte the protests af other persons who sought “to restrain him and who Woked in vain for a guard or keeper :lo prevent the crazy actior. 9nce over the fence he boldly strad- dled the huge animal and looked around for admiration, But the rhin- oceros, amazed and Indignant, leaped up with surprising agility, threw, the man off, Impaled him with his horn and threw him thirty feet into the alr and then lay down upon him. Guards, gummoned to the scene, killed the beast with explosive bullets. The man Wi dragged ont of the pen, still breathing, but ke died a few hours later. Very Painful Dentistry. Dwight Crittenden claims the dis- tinction of being tke first white man to have a tooth drawn by one of the colored doctors of the Afrlcan Trans- vaal. The father of this well-known actor was a mining engineer in Kim- berley. While a boy in South Africa shooting pains indicated that a molar must be extracted, and as Dwight Crit- [ bride, ‘tenden’s father's mines were situated far from medical ald, one of the med- fdeine men was summoned, and after ‘performing a fantastlc war dance to ‘the-tom-tom;“rhis yentleman extractéd ‘the offending molar with the aid of a palriof engineer's pincers. An anes- thetic was administered in the form of native incense, but Dwight contends that :it only served to intensify the iagony. Appropriate, What? The Church at Work, published by the National Council of the Episcopal church, tells of a resourceful ive or- ganist who was called upon suddenly to furnish the' music for a ission wedding ceremony at Hankow, China. The bridegroom had recently become & Christian. Following the custom, he sent a beautiful sedan chair and a brass band to escort the bride to his home, where the ceremony was to be performed. Something delayed the She ig supported by a notable cast ed by Monte Blue as the youth- fulhusband ‘and this screen favorite brings ta'the, part all that genius for which hes noted. Others in the cast were Edmund Lowe, W. J. Ferguson, Anders Randolf, Wiliiam Toker, How- ard Lang, William Rredrick, M. Dur- ant and Jeffrys Lewis. *Peacock Al- ley” presen by Robert Z., Leonar is by Edmund Goulding from a story by Ouida Bergee.j™ 59 / “BELLE OF ALASKA” AT REX TONIGHT AND SATURDAY Chester ‘Bennett’s big n’rJduction. “Belle of Alaska,” starring Jane Nov- ak contains a shipwreck scene taken in the ocean miles away from land that has a parallel only in the sinking of the great liner Titanic. The gold-ship *‘Northland” leaves 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 strikes 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. 3 “JAN OF THE BIG SNOWS" AT REX THEATRE SUNDAY James Oliver Curwood, who has provided such well known stories for screen presentation as “The River'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 Hudson Bay country as his locale and his “true to life” characters were iselect- ed after the usual Curwood research work far north from - civilization’s rim. Larry Semon ip his new onc, “The Bell Hop,” id also on the program |' Sunday and Monday. “MORAN OF LADY LETTY” AT THE ELKO SATURDAY Thirty-five persons, including staff and -extras, spent five weeks in an around San Francisco, and aboard two sailing ships and a yacht, secur- ing the sca 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 fgatured lead, supported by Rudolph 'Valen- tino. © 7 7 s ———— . and the impatient young man hirried down to the “mission house, where it was decided to have the wedding on the spot. A meeting was in progress in the c'hurn:h[ 80 it was || impossible to haveithe brass band play. - Whereupon one’ Elsle Li wnas commandeered to play the wedding magreh, There was no sheet music on hand, and Elsie was not equal to the task of playing Mendelssohn from memory., She was strong, however, on one good old march tune, and ac- cordingly the wedding party were dum- founded and amused a few minutes Inter when the bride and bridegroom marched bllthely forward to the altar to the tune of “Onward, Christinn Soldlers, Marching as to War.” GROWN FROM STOLEN SEEDS Rubber Trees Still Standing in Equa- torial Forest Have Had Remark- able Adventures. When the value of rubber was first being exploited, British interests made an expedition to Brazil with the view of securing specimens and acclimatiz- ing the rubber plants to the lands of Indin. The Brazilians, appreciating the value of thelr monopoly, refused to allow the export of seeds or plants, but by some underhand methods 70,000 seeds were secured and smuggled out of the countr Rubber seeds are perishable, and lest they should spoil on the'way to Ceylon they were taken the shorter distance—to London. On landing In Loudon, the guardian of the sceds drove in a hansom cab to Kew gardens. It was the midale of the night when ‘he arrived there, but the seeds were planted at once. One in ten germinated, and a year Jater 1,500 of the plants were sent in minfature hothouses to Ceylon. A Dbotanieal garden was opened for. their reception at a' little place called) t Heneratgodn in the equatorial forest} .phtting it, these préachér-propasan- There the survivors stand today! You | look at.these large.ald.trees. with a sort of wonder when you think of, th adventurés they went ‘thedtigh’ Tn” the early days, and that fromy their. prog-i eny the great rubbet industr of the, ast has sprung up.s T i India Rubbgty .\ ¢ Few artlcles seem more strangely named .than” [ndia” rubber. T gets the “rubber” from the first use to which it was put—that of -erasing pencil marks by rybbing. Nor should it be assoclated with India. The tree was first mentioned by an explorer among the Mexican Indians, three centuries or more ngo, and the first account of the substance occurs in connection with Columbus' visit to Haiti on his gecond voyage. Most of our present tmportatior -cutnes [row razil, DENBY'S WARNING BASED ON FAETS PROPAGANDISTS OF- SOVIETISM, COMMUNISM AND ANARCHY ., ARE TRULY DANGEROUS. GOVERNMENT ON THE ALERT Bureau of Investigation of Départment of ‘Justice Asks More ‘Maney, and Every Traitor and Agent of Destruic- t;np Objects. 4 By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.—It did not take Secre- tary Denby's recent warning to the men.of the navy to guard themselves “ashore and afloat from the preaching of sovietism, communism and anarchy” to let students of the situation in Washington know that the United States *Is alive with propagandists .bent on the destruction of decent gov- ‘ernment. Of course, it is known that ‘well-meaning people will say this is unbased alarm, but nevertheless it is :the truth, and men here know'it. In one of the current appropriation ibills there is a request for ar addition- ‘al sum of money for the use of the bu- reau of investigation of the Depart- 'ment of Justice. Every representative United States is using his influence to prevent the granting of the money. Within an hour of this writing it has been said to me-that the bellef of some people that" there is pernicious .activity on the,. part of the radicals, and that watchfulness and action are needed to offset it, is “bunk.” The word quoted is the word that was used. The writer knows otherwise. He had something to do with the looking after matters of this kind during the war and he; knows what is going on today. Some of the propaganda is not at all subtle. It is possible to get evidence of it in the open at the social gather- |ings in the city of Washington. ‘have here parlor Reds in numbers. Need for Watchfulness. Some persons have gone so far as to say that we ought to have no intelli- gence service In the army and navy of today, because the United States government should not engage in the |work of looking after the actlvities of d |{American citizens. Uncle Sam does|: ‘not care a whit what the ordinary Amerfcan citizen does, so long as he keeps within the law. The man, how- ever, who preaches destruction—and this man’s name Is multitude—needs {looking after if the people are going to retain what they.bave of sane govern- iment, Men here who know what Is going ‘on_do not blame the Department of Justice in the least for asking for ad- |ditional funds to check the active {propagandists in behalf of anarchy, |sovietism and communism, or What- ‘ever you choose to call it. Over in {New York city there is a bunch/of so- called intellectuals who .write stuft {which feeds the imagination of those who read it. Most of the writers were slackers during the war and those of them who did not have to serve be- cause of age, or dependents, wrote ieverything they could to injure the .capise of their country, taking care, ‘however, to keep just within the limit lof the law. They did not like Jail any ibetter than they liked their country's servigp. | i Intellectuals Who Are Dangerous. = The officials of the Ameri¢an admin- istration are alive to this situation. There Is today in the United States an active group of propagaudists in be- Ihalf of communism. These men, in the !main, are fanatics and are willing to ‘go to any extreme, even one which in- ‘volves imminent - personal danger to ‘themselves, ‘to carry on their work. {The Americans who help them are a difterent type. They get a certaln flat- tery for their “intellectualities,” from .what théy write and from what they say, but not one of them is willing, as are the foreign agents, to endanger itheir heads® or their skins throngh lovert acts. -They are none the:less \dangerous, however, for they preach |destruction, even if the preaching is done in parlors and their sermons are printed on the soft-tinted paper of the (feminists. { There is an attempt today by these {persons to plend that nothing should !be done to Interfere with freedom of 'speech, or freedom of writing. Of ‘course the United Statés government does not want to interfere with any- thing of this kind if it is proper, but when the stuff makes for the destruc- tion of our institutions it’ seems to 'Washington officials it is necessary to continue to be watchful and doing. They are still at it, and Af one can get. pardon from his :readers for so @ists and parlor Bolsheyists are a rot- ifen bunch, tAwortliy ‘of -any Amerlcan consideration, and n,m)l%hl be added fhat the intellectuality of which they ke voast; Is they dntellectuality of ‘@rivel. - €ongress Is not immune from the Infipepces of the unspeakables. It fay be it will deny the Departmént of Justice' the -additiopid:stwoney asked. Certainyit is, that every man and wom- anp and e\‘ery‘org:\\ulmtlcu in this coun- gfy which wished us il ‘In war, and which wishes us il in pence, is endeavoring to do thelr best to prevent Uncle Sam from securing the means to protect himself and his in- stitutions. When He Was “Pete” Russell. santo Domingo has been sqme- ng of u source of anxiety and rplesity to the United States gov- ament for a long time. This coun- We|. {Dominican’ republic by an envoy ex- traordinary aud minister plenipotenti- .| ary of long .and tried experience, (William W. Russell. 3 I Now, this introduction is written be- icnuse one wants to tell some stories 1 'nbout this servant of Uncle Sam, who ds a grave diplomat, but with a light lin his eye that neither gravity nor Iplace can extinguish. He was not al- ‘ways a grave one burdened with the ‘uffairs of state. Once nupon a time he was “Pete” Russell, midshipman at the United. States Naval academy, ‘Willlam was,. changed into “Pete” the minute he reported .at Annapolis in ithe years long gone by, but truth com- Ipels the statement . that neither the jofficlal archives. nor.the cadets’ rec- ords disclose the reason for turning iWililnm into Pete. Suffice it to know ‘that the middies would have it that iway and that 'way it went. . William W. Russell's memory is icherished at the Naval academy. His name is held in remembrance so strongly that no midshipman named Russell who has entered the academy |n the nearly, forty -years that have '\élnpsed since our Dominican envoy left there, has escaped the nickname {of “Pete” ! Not long ago I had dinner with a graduate of Annapolis who had known William W. Russell in his “Pete” days tat the atademy. Russell had a way iwith him and the middies and the au- ithorities were ot long in finding it |jout. Pete had difficulty in restraining .fh(mself on occasion, as witness: - iToo Much:Sermon and Solo for Pete. of every radical organization in the || One Sunday at Annapolis the chap- lain preached long and droningly. The listening middies were tired out with Ithe heat of the day and the burden of ithe sermon, which lasted an hour. The isermon over, a soloist.in the choir, un- \deterred and undismayed by the length ‘of the chaplain’s discourse, started in ito sing “Sun of My Soul.” He went :through the first line untrippingly and !then struck into the second. “It is not 'night,” he sang. 7en he repeated, “It ‘is not night,” and repeated it again after the manner ot soloists who don't ‘know when the listeners have had iencugh, and, having a hold, are loath ito let go. ° § Under the straln of the thing Pete vsu-md up, whistled melodiously but wery loudly. the tune accompanying the third and fourth lines of the first :stanza of “Sun of My Soul,” and then ‘before the bewildered und shocked of- ificers could put in an interference, he icalmly commanded the soloist to get a2 move on him., They grabbéd Pete cut from the Imidale pew ‘seat and ‘marched him «down the afsle under guard. When ithe corps was dismissed and was jmarching back ‘to barracks Pete was oing n the opposite direction hedded ‘mr the prison ~hip: Santee, with his ibooks and hig:-blanket swung over his 'shoulder. i As he passed:.the marching middies e & theard loudly, soliloquizing, with head . “Poor: Pete, poor Pete, breakers, {rlght under poor P’ete’s bow.” His Boxing Skeleton. Once upon a time Pete' set to work :during his.idle kours and constructed a skeleton more fearfully and wonder- fully mnde than any man. Pete knew the peculiarities of a certain inspect- itering a midshipman’s room to see it all was well and orderly, to pull the door back with a sudden Jerk and to look behind it for traces of sweepings, Pete finished his skeleton and by the exercise of pothing less than devilish ingenuity ‘'he’succeeded in so adjust- ing it that when the door was given n sharp, quick jerk. the thing would drive its fist straight into the eye of the man who did the jerking. He went to recitation the morning that the skeleton had been put up, and left his roommate, who didn't know that the skeléton behind the :door was in exist- ence, to suffer any consequence that might come. The inspecting officer came and gave the door a jerk and was promptly poked in the eye by the bony hand of Pete’s skeleton. The officer instantly marched Pete's room-mate to the Santee, where he was locked up. In three hours the room-mate heard some shufiling steps outside his prison door. Looking out he saw Pete’ with his books and his bianket coming to share his durunce. “What's the matter, Pete?” he asked, “Nothing,” said Pete, “only I forgot to take that infernal skeleton down." rfhe room-mate was released. e ' ‘What's in-a Name? A young man, age twelve, came puf- fing into the-Irvington branch library the other day, nll eagerness and youth- ful vigor. “Do you have the ‘Red Stenmer? he inquired of the librarian seatdd at the desk. e “vrhe Red Steamer? she asked: him. “Are Steamer? " < “Why, yos.’} he told her. : “I got It here for,my §ister a week ago.” The librarian stepped over to the shelves andfeappeared, after a time, with a book. ¢ " “\Was this the one your sister had? she inquiredt of him. e “Oh, .yes!! That's It.” he- smiled; gratefully up;,at-her. . But the book: which the young man bore trium: phantly ‘honie ‘tuckéd safely under his arm was entitled “The Rubaiygt.”— Indianapolis News. ‘Advantage of Size. “I envy that fat man,” remarked AMr, Meekton. “Why?” “His wife can’t make him wash thei dishes. He’s too big to stand in kitchenette.,” — ~ DALY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS itry, however, | Is represented in ‘the § ‘and, the officars in command he a3 | | iwell down In counterfeit abjectness:! ling officer whose habit it was on en- |g ‘you sure it was the ‘Red | ‘They Blushed. .+« Smith tried to board a crowded bus, but the conductor waved him back; an- nouncing. grufily - that there’ were nt vacant seats. N “Be a sport and let me on,” Smith sald. “My sweetheart’s on board.” #Oh, well, in that case—" sald the conductor, with a smile, and Smith scrambled on. * Just inside the door an elderly man was sitting beside a very pretty girl. He rose and waved his hand.joward the.-vacant seat-with.a, snile and.a look that said: “Here's your rplace! The girl looked- up-as Smith seated himself beside. her/4Hd 'btl blushed ivividiy.:» ¥ou see theyhhadrhever deen -each’ iothen ‘befores~New! i*irk' Mail o peey: g pard I L C LR FRARE YU RETT Circus :Tent .Stakes Driuen.by Power, “TPhe " datowobile triick? g 1argely superseded the Hoise as’i’eans'ot transportytion Tor ™ tle. itjnerant cir- cus. It has' Mrkb '}'&e‘gxfil@ the use- Yessmess of the former sledgéswinging sKkiil of the'éanvasman. "7, Now the stakes for 'the tents are not driven by hand, but.by a truck built especially for that purpose. It carrles the stakes and’ the tent poles and is equipped with a. miniature piledriver of the modern automatic type, operated by a belt, from the truck’s engine. = All the canvasmen have to do is to hold ‘the stakes un- der the hammer of -the driver untfl they are started-into. the ground.— Exchange. | MEATDEPT.. - PHONE 928 Speciale for Saturday .30c .28¢ .25¢ .18¢’ +23¢ .15¢ Chickens, per Ib...... Pork Chops, perlb. ... 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A shining story of true love outlined in new gold against the vermillion velvet back- ground of Parisian and New York night life. SUNDAY MATINEE. & NIGHT GRAND | | T What was date of Gold discovery in Alaska? Where? _ What pert in Alaska became famous in 18977 : When did Circle City develop? ' s Name'of Boat to bring lucky forty back? Where did it land? Who was:6irst man to discover Gold? How fit- is Eldorado from mouth of Yukon? 1 ONOOA R o= Dawson City? What gieat motion pic- ture illusrtates these great events of 18972 “PAY DIRT” MATINEES During the run of “BELLE OF ALASKA,” a real Klon- dike prospector of the days of 1899 will pay off with ev- Jery ticket purchased. Every bag will contain a coin and the lucky prospectcrs'may be . cenriched by a trip to the 'REX! All kiddies will be allowed to patiicipate’ in the mad Gold Rush of 1922—the same as the prospectors of 1899 did, it “in those days. . MUTT & JEFF S REX - TODAY & SAT. ALASKA A Heart and Action Dramaof the Roaring Yukon Supported by NOAH BEERY AND J.FRANK GLENDON I Chester Bennett Production FOX NEWS AL ST. JOHN COMEDY Mat. 2:30—7:10-9:00 Prices 10c-25¢ T [ T TR ]