The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 2

: y m TL cal me thi ha thi 7! SR ATTA Re Seuss pa BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE Noted Author and Brother| of Richard Harding Davis It would seem that so stringent is | the demand for high class motion | pictures today that the good, com-)} pelling story, no matter what its | age, cannot die. To hear-o ducer making but a few productions a year painstakingly seeki the author's story justice ing the teniptation to place his film upon the market until he is satisfied that he has done the story justice is most new and agreeable. Mont! waiter month a conscien draws upor his nerves, his brain, his vitality in the creation of a good novel, be it romantic or realisti Unconsciously we feel, as we the last page of 1 piece of work that it is se in the writing the man freely gave of him- self. Which is to say that the story has soul. And then how often have we seen, ¥! I, a motion picture version of th art that made us wonder “will they ever be able to do a book properly on the ? Slap-dash here, screen?” slam-bang there, the movie makers had produced an author's story ina rere fraction of the time he had given to the writing of it—with the But it would seem today that the movie conscience has awakened. To be sure, i ‘where | good books continue to be mangled and flicker across the | recogn’ sery c, | Situal turn | in motion was, dred thousa: t story—a butchery of} stat over inevitable result. p I cation, quantity produc%on able form. an au pictures. So sed on The Author's Lament It is a satisfaction that the crudi- ties of motion picture production refining ex- ience and that men of good edu- instincts and im- agination have found their way into the studios. Y Richard Harding Davis. otion picture rights of several ot} uit passed through literary Years ago screen in un- But here and tere one discerns producers who, atiated with this killing of litera- ture, are honastly seeking to pre- ror’s characters, theme, ons and the spirit of his story. i So where a good book, “best seller” though it to reach a few hun- d persons at most, to- day through conscientious visualiza- tion of its pages, its audience will total into the million: icians tell us that there were billion admissions paid at motion picture box offices last year. For the leased the some of the studios | produced, but that did not deter its rules, production again this year. Allan in his university days, who left the campus with an engineering degree like so many of the heroes in my brother’s stories, and rise in a pro- fession other than the one for which the learned professor had_ trained him, had read “Soldiers of Fortune” in, his youth. Drifting into motion tures, Dwan vowed to. himself some day to have a producing com- pany of his own. Along with his engineering at the university he had specialized in literature and he had the ambition to visualize on the screen some day books he had read and loved. And “Soldiers of For- tune” was one such. From Engineering to Suping Accordingly Allan Dwan went to the Califo Dwan, who used to hold wrestling championships and play quarterback == only to knock around the world, | ‘GUARD OF GOLD; SUPERS IN. | | “SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE” AF cosines duce for the Maytlower Photoplay Corporation, makers of “The Miracle “Man,” and the first book Dwan planned for production was my brother rd’s oldiers of Fortyne.” He knew that it had been roduced before, but he said, “What ol it? The story was not done justice. ] am going to transfer it to the sercen as Richard Harding Davis ‘would have wanted it—with his characters and situations pre- served.” Dwan studied the characters of Richard's story—Clay, King, Mac- Williams, Stuart, young Langham aul his sisters, and the Latin Amer- icans—until be knew them _inti- mately. Then he looked around and he looked a long time for actors and SST DIAN MOB IK ACA LE! Pearl of the Antilles and to my brother always the most beautiful. The Bethlehem Steel Company had recently acquired some valuable iron mines just outside of Santiago; the president of the company was going for a tour of inspection of his: new possessions and invited Richard to ccompany him. This invitation may have been the direct cause of the suspension of my brother’s college career but it was also the indirect cause of his most successful novel, “Soldiers of Fortune.” In all of his many travels | do not believe ‘that any one of them so greatly af- fected Richard's life as did this first visit to Cuba. .At the time he was twenty years of age but he had al- ready developed a keen sense of op- servation, as well as a great love of Being, Sidetracked Heyday of Novelist on Thourly the.story of the American company, of its fight against the mountains, against the indifferent and hostile Spaniard, Ten years later, to that story I added a love story, placed the mines in an im- aginary republic in South America, and succeeded in getting the story, which was called ‘Soldiers of Fortune.” Making A Trve Story Fiction Exactly how or when Richard de- veloped the “love story” I do not know, but when the actual writing of the novel began it is certain that he turned to Santiago for not only his color, but for many of his characters. Valencia of the: novel is the town} of Santiago and “the great cliffs that guard the harbor of Olancho’s capital” are the same cliffs from which the Bethlehem Steel Com- pany has extracted much ‘valuable ore. For the counterparts in real life of the people in the book my brother drew rather heavily from the colony at Santiago, but Clay and King and the Langham family were purely characters of his imagination. “Kirkpatrick, the engineer who was the original of the character ot MacWilliams, died at the mines and was buried there. La Cruz, which overlooks the harbor of Santiago, is the house that was built for the president of the company and which, from the reign of Thurston to that of Charles M. Schwab, has been his official residence. In the novel I call this place the Palms, and it is there that much of the action of the story takes place.” General Mendoza, the villain of the novel was an acquaintance of Richard's but cin real life [ under- stand was only a petty-grafting old for Authors~ ~«. Screen Dawning { Richard Harding Davis Coming, into j. His Own.. Villa Bandits for Supers port of her was refreshing. Robert Clay was unconsciously Dick Davis himself as he would have tried to do--Captain Stuart was the English officer that Davis has met the world over, or closcr still, he was the better side of such men which the attractive wholesomeness of Davis would draw out. Alice) and King were the half-spoiled New Yorkers as he knew them at the dinner parties. Now that Allan Dwan has photo- graphed the pages of my brother's book, people can see the things that he saw. They can sce also that, there is an impassable gulf between the Latin American and the North \American—something that Richard saw more than twenty years ago. When one’ thinks of Mexico, of ‘the outrages upon American property there, one may recall that in “Soldiers of Fortune” Richard accurately foreshadowed this by projecting. the Latin American character on the pages of his novel. Also, what a strange coincidence there is betweén the attempts to levy graft ‘by military force upon the mining company as described in his book, and in the holding up of American mines and_ plantations by armed forces in Mexico today. Oddly enough, in Dwan’s production of Richard’s story he engaged five members of Villa’s “Guard of Gold” to portray types of whom’ ‘my brother wrote a score of years age. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE ff away to make it-slip. He was remonstrating with the gun and swearing at it exactly as though it were human, and as Langham ran toward him he thiew it away and caught up another from. the, i ic GOVERNOR SUSPENDS CIVIL RIGHTS IN ORDER TO TAKE OVER MINES {Continued From Page One) pected that any steps were to be taken to call men into the service to enforce the governor’s mar- tial law proclamation. Andrew Miller, counsel for the Washburn Lignite Coal com- pany, who was prominent in the conference held. recently be- tween the operators and the miners, was aboard the same train. Operators represented in Bismarck had no knowledge, they said, of any counter move to meet the martial law procla- mation. NO EXCUS N “f can see no excuse in the present situation in North Dakota for the de- clarvati partial law,” said a pr te member of the suprem court this mornin: “Tt seems to me thatsin his effort curry popularity with’ the labor unions the governor is gding altogether too far, He is blund- There is Wo situation in kota today which wa pension of civil liberties, CANNOT SUSPEND WRIT Legal authorities contend that /the governor hus no power to suspend the of habeas corpr nd that with writ in operation martial law is not effective. Tt is recalled that Presi dent Linco at the outbreak of the Civil war attempted toe suspend the writ of habeas corpus in a Virgini case, and that the supreme court of the United States in overruling the president held that such action was 3 ative and not an executive or a 1 function, > » Tong as the writ of habeas co: is in operation, the | governor could not arrest belligerent — miner and cast them into a bull pen or t them by court al and or North Di them shot at dawn, for the ‘reason that so long as this writ is in force the il courts have a right to step in and demand posse: n of the body of any citizen whose civil liberties are | being trifled: with under martial Ja CANNOT OPERATE MIN “Even tho the gove decla myrtial Jaw, suspend the’ writ of ha- beas corpus, und’ make North Dakota an’armed camp. T cannot see under what authority Mr. Frazier hopes. to fdr the benefit of the state,” said Bismarck lawyer today. “Tf the striking miners were rioting and en- gaged in destroying property; or if there was fighting. and bloodshed, the governor then could, under martial law, ‘take charge of these properties for their ‘protection but I am at a loss to understand how, when no ‘insur- rection exists, how the governor claims Champion of Mathers s the sus- ') he said: confiscate private property adn operate | ergo the ex stories only to und perience which habitu aythor—meaning to wri I of his story veats past m ght to exert this anthe 1 for a yeal emergency.” the His reser ANNOUNC | Governor I Tue: it | the as numounced at 4 evening that he lad not j) < plans for the ti auicotaa atnd ! ah fe mites Of eta _ + |pateh received here today from W, D.| jileir operator by the state ie des} © 5 - Se Washburn, Mimeapolis, one of the; jared, however. that he experted this) 7 South Dakota to Give Boys and SSS leading lignite cout operators in North | ee fo’ have Deen gual as Girls Square Deal | Paxots auto. is sistas state today eens at states that he understood — Attorney | poate a id, tha a OW By P. G. HOLDEN loueral Palmer is preparing to take! i of a mining ction im connection with the North} at T no Whieb assochites AL CG. Townley of the Nove! pa rleague are intereste | sud wh pected to act as genera’ qu jof the state coal mines, had not y jed Bisma up to that hour | “LE have had no reports of a iturning to work,” said the {SL have received a number of reporis from uviners’ locals advising thet they | will not return to work.” i | ly in the afternoon Governer | iFrazicr advised the press that Presi-} ral of jdent Lewis’ withdr: vrder would not itfect the North D. tuation, insofar as f o the mines by the si yeoncerned, unless the mine fagreed by 6 o'clock Tuesday e {the time limit specified in the gov-} pruor’s proclamation, to rety tor work ; “What will you do if, after the s! { has taken over the mines, the miner: } refuse fo return to work,"the} governor was asked. | irance.” replied Mr. “that the men will return 10 Fr [worl lon taken to indicate thet th igovernor will grant the demands of the United Mine Workers, as present- jed by Henry Drennan of Billings, istrict. which are that the mine, ea sixty per cent, i Iv es and “that increa shall he applied te the miners’ pay.! but shall be deducted i the samey tuner as dues, initiation fees and as. | jsessmments are now collected by the! |ditferent- companies, and shall he for- | urded to the secretary-treasurer of | District No, 2 which is the Moun. | | tana-Dakota’ ¢ It is understood | that such inc ix to be used by | ja ‘ ithe miners zation in paying | Strike benefits. ! That Mr. zier regards the de- | mands of President Drennan as fair; jand just is indicated by the governor” | | proclamation of yesterday. in which | “The United ine Work- | ers made certain proposals which un- | der the circumstances in ‘this — erisis | appetred. reasonable to me.” ; LIGNITE IS MUNE | The railway commission has been | jadvised by Washington that. lignite | coal mined within the state for con- snmiption in North Dakota is immune | |from diversion or confiscation, Very | little lignite. however, has moyed -for | the last three; days... Non-union mines! such a8 the Beulah Coal Co,, of Ben- | lah, are operating at full capacity and | producing record tonnages, but @ at eept in sch instances as that at Will-; iston. where the city took over the mines and reopened them with inde- | pendent crews, production has been at a standstill since last Saturday. when Tenens strike order went into cf- ect,” Ender Frazier's original plan coal tsited hy the state would be sold only fe individual consumers, . Industrial and public utility plants apparenfly jwere net considered when Frazier * ly fell to an gs he in one's} varlets, rested the tip of his chair upon seeing the picture, sup-|on Dwan, for press a groan, and as the garbled] fortunately the blade unreeled before possessed of ¢ dismissed from his mind and |actresses to portray them. He en- , sed for a job. They put him io| gaged no stars: he did not want any |adventure, and he at once fell under ny brother, | work asa “super.” In his first scene |stars...He sought persons who|the thrall of the tropics, a. thrall he was supposed to be dead, lying|!ooked the parts as my brother | Which lasted throughout his lifetime. ‘ round. ‘This would ualized them and who were will-|And although in aiter years he often -| been quite easy but the leading m to. lose their own mentality i ted Central and South Aimerica | Sp: sword inh having slain 1 i i my brother of the lovely islands of y remained cl mself sank h jown mentality my brother's i mentality. The result is that he has | Was j yond the old town that |brought “Soldiers of Fortune” to the | he first saw “the moon! en as my drother would have /the water into a rippl “atmosphere.” fl sharp and about an ir penetrated D neh, but rather t ladder ot | sty ing a revolution. r of “Weimer, the United States Con- ntiago. It] sul a drawn from our consul at that time, ‘ht turning | Reimer, and Burk peared J have heard numerous sug- aniard and quite incapable of lead- The counterpart at Valencia,” was no doubt the filibuster fs well known General Melville ing horsehait op to be dier of fortun ton. nee the novel first ap- The men of i ing outside of . ons as to the oyiginals of the, n characters but [ think a h from an appreciation of brother by A s Thomas, ein. it ested that ntost close at Langhans ea. those ‘of the enemy “ep face that he wax kept comtnually winking snd dodging, as though he were being taken by.a 4 ‘flashlight photograph, Whiea he fred ke aimed } where the 1oass was thickest, so that he might not sce what his bullet did, but ae remembered ividaa oe 387 eurdoor an not so established NG OE Richard Hardin&§ Davis the highest !and spoil the scene Dwan liked to have s t and gilding tte dark green! go} and to shout} fectly still; and then 3 * | feaves of the 7 with a bo: hone, “That home. Tt was the sort « Richard isilver.” As the guest of tl isn’t of my brother I i Richard story over {dent of the Y | But toda i would have done enty years a lt has lived be-|my brother saw much besides the} he would see his wo: 1 After t Dwan rose rapidly and the peo tare res uty of the waving d the} to the screen w ecame ector of the backg: i {stars you and J al-|re- 4. | To quote his word ve read his “Soldiers | ways in the bac :/ when he min: from the e It would seem to he| that idea to have a p com-| in -calleg voung and eager, and at Ba Cruz! of the new era of picture | nany of h and to anoore boat e Casa cl Presidente. ¢ h is upon us that inj books he The. dav came fast z royal palms above the h, brother’: to pro IC go. from Thurston. Tt ipense of the state. In the conclusion jexisting with) relation to the national Iguard, it is not believed that a new) jregiment could be formed ‘in: time to ive the state, TAKE ACTION | -A dis- PALMER TO Minneapolis, Minn.,, Noy. Campaign for Better es Spates j a | Schools i AL. DEMAND} 12.—Original | nt increase in} tive day week | ators by mine ule conference | led for Friday in Washington at) is the inspiration behind a state-wide dtive for | pRUSENT ORICL better country sehools in South Dakota. (FO REESENS ORIGE Educators, not only in inefi uct eer: 3 a Piece tore y Springfield, 1 Americ but in other countries, intensely interested’in the rotation plan. demand of a ‘The rotation plan not only vitalizes the teaching of agriculture, but it | wages, a ps the teaching of arithmetic, spelling, language and all other subjects. | will be pr seek It not only vitalizes teaching, but it work r vitalizes the school itself. And it not | ¢ | only vitalizes the school, but it vital- | the instance of Secretary of Labor} izes the whole community. ‘This is | Wilson according to Prank Parring-| the vet of its success, . | ton, chairman of the scale comnnittee | ‘The South Dakota campaign for {of Miners who came here today en- better country schools is under the di one tosthe uaena ay rection of State Superinte | Ki cpeerindiyae perintendent of |y, W, W.’s Murder Four Mem- Public Instruction Fred L. Shaw, in co-operation with Governor Norbeck, | bers of American Legien in Armistice Day Parade E rotation plan of vita ¢ the teaching of agriculture is revolution: ‘ + izing teaching in the rural schools of Missouri, It has been adopted | Bakoe eoulveluintton. j in Okkithoma. It | ty pe hour day sented to op in the joint the Commercial Clubs of the state, the | county superintendents and others. It | began October 27 and will continue | until November 15, About 100 speak- | i ers will take part and between 1,800 | at 8:30 the guardsmen were posted on | and 2,000 meetings will be held, every the main streets of the city and were, county in the state being covered. The | guarding all the roads leading into campaign slogan is: “An equal educa. | Centralia. S i tional opportunity for all.” ‘| COMMUNIST HALL WRECKED For generations the country school ; Oakland, Calif., Nov. 12.—A crowd; has been shamefully neglected, yet | of citizens entered the headquarters | nothing is more. vital to the future of the communist party in. Loring | welfare of America than is the edu- | hall late last night and wrecked the; cation of our children—that real edu- interior of the place. Large quan-} cation that will train them for the du: | tities of radical literature, red flags | ties of life. \ : and furniture were burned in the} Superintendent Shaw is a man of streets by the mob | vision—a man of action. He believes WILL DEPORT: WOBBLIES | _ Fred L. Shaw, Superintendent of that South Dakota should ‘have better Portland, Ore... Noy, 12.—Immediate Public Instruction of South Dako- country schools,:that the country. boy | proceedings toward deportation of sal! ta, Who Has Started a Great and girl should-have as good an oppor j aliens among. the men arrested last; Movement. tunity for an education as the city boy | night on a raid by the police! at T. W. h and girl. “TW. headquarters will be-taken accord- In inaugurating this campaign Superintendent Shaw has started some| ing to an amouncement made today (hing that promises. to spread to other states, -|by Barnett Goldstein, acting United ‘he people are heing aroused as never before to the need of better country | States attorney general : schools, ‘Chey are being made to realize that the country boy and girl have not a (Continued, From Page Onze) been given a square deal. : HOUSE PLACES ITS) BRAND ON TREASON | The campaign promises to put life into the country schools of South Dakota. It promises to put life into whole communities, into whole counties, It promises to place South Dakota in the front ‘rank in education among the States of the Union. Rett ene TE COTO me sa dent, Lewis |sent it has, no armed “and uniformel terra Eton: ua work the mines. | force of any description, The North af ‘A. Sedans seta | Dakota National guard ceased to exist | le governor has constitutional and | April Ts wl ciuttitory authority ‘for. the amobiuz-|ft APTb2 10h when Washington, © Nov. 12.—Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee socialist, was de- nied his seat'in the-house, by. sn over- whelming ‘vote, the house holding he was ineligible for membership *because of his open opposition to war. wade his appeal to! P: it, was ‘muster-|to 1, representative Voight, republi- can, Wisconsin, being the only mem- ing as State militia of ull able-bodied (2 Avril, 1917, when it was mustered i 2 0 men i BS hg in f fale, into federal seryice. ‘The guard. regi- nee to Rapport the Wigeonsin, sosiatee tween the ages, of eighteen and 45|ment.was split into: many units dur- toll-eall ing le ae Yeurs, 6xceph such as may -}ing thé world’s war. and. upon the re-)* “Arbee ening Woececee tes Berger! ed by the laws of the Tilted of this state. North Dakot + militia ‘for years, © no Fe ee ctaite ial the house declared that the seat was | as guardsmen.” “ |. 4f “the governor should require an presumiibly were rampant when he), Pe f ‘anula, {found it necessary: to place North Da-| >: “Por Infatits and Children ; “2 Drops” After the Movie ranties, it willibe necessary for him Rh ea sgt a a our Drea fo ereate “a state militia “ahd to arm’ | we were told that taxes would not be {day and he brings us in the following The vote to unseat Berger, was. 309 || 1919 after the birth of this new day with all its blessings that have been handed down to posterity Mr. Stack | will pay in taxes $1461.00. HARD COAL ney, democrat, who contested Berger’s election did not receive a plurality in the election last year. Without a rec- ord vote, ‘the house also directed Speaker Gillett to notify the Wiscon- sin governor of the vacancy in the state . del&gation so that a special cti y oa choose a : ppaaS re called tb, choke 8 tor baseburners and self-feeders. = mae +Nortz Lumber Co. Phone 77. LEAGUE CHICKENS | 2t RETURN TO ROOST = = DON’T PUT OFF Valley City, Nov. 12.—Last spring It’s the neglected cold, cough, tender throat or tonsils, that debilitate and leave the body disposed to serious germ diseases.’ SCOTT’S EMULSION should be taken at the firstsign of lowered resistance, cold ox cough. The energizing virtues of Scott's bring essential ‘nourishment and helpto the weakened system, Give Scott’s a trial. ) .Bcott & Bowne, Bloomficld, Nerdy ..19-U high or at least not much higher than last year. We were solemnly advised to take some calomel and sulphate of magnesium to clear our vision, as we were told we were prejudiced. We knew that we were telling the truth ‘because you cannot put on two or three hundred thousand dollars more | of salary to pay to employes as well) as all the added expenses of putting over these vagaries that the league has saddled on the people. Somebody has to pay the freight, or taxes, and it is the people—the leaders who are putting this over are the ones who do not’ pay the taxes so it is easy for them to prescribe calomel and high Laxes. . Our good friend Frank Stack went up to see how his taxes were Satur- repor In 1918 he paid-in ‘taxes $481.00. In Higher Telephone Rates ‘Throughout the Country The telephone industry thas ‘been affected by ‘the same conditions which caused higher prices in every other business. : The increased expenses the telephone companies s have had to:meet has necessitated an atlvance in telephone rates throughout the country. The cost of furnishing telephone service. depends i on’ the ‘cost of producing: it. The telephone com- panies everywhere are paying: empleyees higher wages and paying more for materials than formerly. Prices are on a permanently higher Jevel and we must of necessity adjust our business to meet this new condition. - North Dakota Independent _ Telephone Company hay had|they were mustered into civil Jifevand | ‘i Zi At pre-/did) not, resume. their’ former , status vacant, holding that Joseph P. Car. , [armed force fo:suppress the riots and A. TO R | A disorders and open rebellion — which FA: i i FAT. ness, Soreness, . : tion.Itchingand Burning | kota under.martinl law,.and to sus- EVES cs the Eyes or dao pend ali civil:rights aud. constitutional) or Ye +5 for Murine when your E ti pris i Marine ye Reruedy Co. Chicago aiid uniform” eee Sanne 7 > (fe a I. | i Be i ut os 4 hi & Dl Be f { Pi k ie 1 i j } . Mme a a q : . ie i i eile « ‘