The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 | The Seatt le Star Published Daily by The Sigr Publishing Co. Phone Main 0600. Mew en Association Bnd Us Service, By mail, out of BEGG per month; 2 months, $1.00, @ months, $1.00; year, 6280, BY arrier, sity, S80 a month Gilmax, Nicoll & Ruthman, Special Representatives, Bac Francisco eof = Motadnock bidg.; Chicage office, Tribune bide; New Tork effies, Pacific bi Boa . Tremont bi Will Hays “Makes Magic” » Will Hays, so-called “czar of the movies,” isn’t any czar at all, we learn from an interesting series of articles on \ ness aspects of the motion picture industry that is been appearing in The Star. Mr. Hays doesn’t speak (for the movies, but only for a combination of promoters, Whom the government accuses of having established a ptrust by resorting to uhfair practices. ‘And not only is there a limit to the number of motion interests for whom Mr. Hays can speak, but he mited in what he can say. His job is clearly defined the movie barons. He is employed to make the public ink nice things about his employers, is Mr. Hays, and to bring about the great reforms in the industry he So far as the production end of the movies is Mr. Hays’ instructions are, “Hands off.” dn other words, Will Hays is paid that fabulous salary the movie barons to “make magic.” By some sort of seus pocus, he is to iyduce the public to think well of Movie, whether the movies deserve it or not. ‘For our part, we don’t believe in magic any more, The thin it surprises us most is that an old hand at pub- : ffairs like Will Hays would still believe in it, or that ap pare clever business men like the movie barons j d fall for it. | What we hoped Mr. Hays would do was to guide the les into better ways, establish a code of ordinary morals in the industry, and lead producers to @ us films of better taste, wider range of interest, and greater artistic quality. That was a great mission for ily man. rt ) nstead, we find Mr. Hays spending his great energies cing hes on better movies that don’t mean any- ing, pulling political strings to head off state censor- ip laws, and apologizing for his employers when they mpt to slip over on the public a release of the Ar- films. ‘If Mr. Hays cares to retain his influence with the pub- and if he is sincerely hoping to accomplish even in those lofty aims he enunciated when he left the fident’s cabinet to become “czar of the movies,” it is fh time he is aligning himself on the side of the few tists and producers in filmdom who are really trying their art instead of merely peddling their wares. 3 MALNUTRITION M order to prevent malnutrition in children, or at least to recognize f serious consequences havo followed, the most Important thing , Wat the child's weight! In the case of older children this can best done in school, where monthly weights of all children should be and recorded and special attention should be given to those who mot make a normal gain, by the parents, teacher or school nurse or for if there is one. It ts’ essential that every child of school ago recelve a full medical examination once a year—United States Health Service. ‘In the wilds of Mexico they hunt lions with autos, perhaps because who have stopped at hotels may be glad to learn a big one has in Pittsburg. The Age of Digging Into Things Surely a wave of archaeology is sweeping the world. the formal expeditions in King Tut’s tomb, in Pat- India and Central America, Rochester, Minn., ons are going to open a Colorado United States sen- with what they call an “exploratory” operation. there’s that Mr. Malgrane, in the state hospital at = Kansas, from whom the surgical explorers have 27 silver spoons and proceeded no farther than the e intestines. either living nor dead are proof against the explorers, en the latter get started, it seems. SHOWER BATHS shower bath has many advantages over a bathtub. The appaartus and easier to keep clean than a bathtub, with Ms fixtures. water, takes up less space, its mechanical and tonic effects better and one Is not compelled to bathe all parts of the body In the water, as in the case in a bathtub—United States Public Health ' former kaiser has a new grandson and you can congratulate the boy on his nerve. singer has broken into grand opera because she is high toned. Our Twisted Proverbs French Ferguson, seeker of original sources, writes fom Montana that the old saying, “Feed a cold and fe a fever” originally was “Feed a cold and START fever.” Also, the meaningless expression, “The goose n high,” originally was “The goose HONKS high.” Call again, Ferguson. Much of our history and many our generally accepted notions are as distorted as some our old sayings. i in a vice fight at San Diego divulge that Los Angeles sports there to buy their liquor, quite numerously, And none of them have on the place,” yet. Porch swing and bicycle makers hope gasoline does go to a dollar, When Steel Prices Climb prices climb up. It’s good news for jobbers, for ‘imereases the inventory value of their warehouse Like finding the money. The gain will, to some ent, cancel the losses that the jobbers swallowed when y had to “write off” depreciated values after the war collapsed. What's happening in steel is, happening in other in- -dustries. ‘Alas, the goat, as usual, is the ultimate consumer, the ‘in family head. He also took his losses during de- ression. But he hasn’t warehouse stocks to help him er those losses. An exception is the home that’s in- ing in value. And now Indiana's attorney general declares that the license to Rodolph is ph ‘alerting and Winnie Hudnut was issued in violation of law. It must be something awful to go staggering thru life not knowing whether one ‘is married or not. Ab last Dempsey will figh t. But it took a lot to make him mad, 14 Cents From Every Dollar Taxes take 14 cents out of each $1 earned in America ‘in 1922, the national industrial conference board reports. That's over twice as big a percentage as before the war, _A terrible burden, of course. It’s partly the penalty war. Liberty bonds paid for the war. Now we're be- ing to pay for the Liberty bonds. THE BOLL WEEVIL ‘The progeny of a single puir of the boll weevil in a season may exceed 0,000 individuals, It adapts itself to climatic conditions to the extent the egg stage alone In November may oceupy as much time as all Immature stages together in duly or August. All these factors com. fo make it one of the most difficult insects to control—United ics Department of Agricudture, Dear Avridge Mann A while ago I read your roast of pessimist and climate here ts pretty bad once, I notice, you, yournelf, the time you raved of “Winter Do you remember, Avridge fall, when summer hung aroun all? The weils ran dry it then You never r and all November near! id a single word you say, we really haven't an same, your poem surely had kicked about old Winter sitting Grritge Yomn LETTER EROM V RIDGE MANN we wh who say, “The yet they seem to stay, But implied the self-aame thing sitting In the lap of Spring.” Mann, the sunny days last 4 so late and wouldn't go at shed for rain, but didn't get y went before tt rained again. about the arid spell; and, 29 y right to yell. But all the the human ring-—when you In the lap of Spring! LAUREL BLOOM, Beattle, | | What Route for North Highway? 1g y: ; : ; ‘ ee |, ‘itor The Star | feature in its taver, Mr. Wilson, of| , Dr Lee De Forest and his motion picture camera with phonofilm attachment, which | Where will the Pacific bighway/the state highway commlasion, was|t8 shown in upper chamber (with door thrown back) where | gor What route ts the most feas| correct in his statement that 10th) waves are photographed along with the |ible? At the present wo twolave. N. EB. has tho finest approach photographed the visual. | roads leading north to Everett and|to one of the finost roads in the | acting as main arteries. It is found) state, Tourists coming in will have| BY EDWARD THIERRY if it | to add another to take care | the whole city lald out before them NEW YORK, March 24.—" of the tncreased t much the same as a birdseye View| movies, perfocted by Dr. Le ent | ‘The North Trunk on the west and| would be est, ¢ oxperim aid. At 1 hea the new Victory Way on the eastare| Another feature which must not) man ane" eae ciiravel can asad Pape the present arteries be overlooked ts th means 4) pvolutionts phony. oF weap, Ay 98 | _ This gives to 10th ave N. E. the/ straight, due north and th route The public doe ae tha’ nen | 2 EN most logical location, thus making aj with no turns and no cartines to| tors to talk in f nan” be save. | 5 fot | middle artery, not « centrally Jo-|croas, except at EB, 40th at., in place) mp) want pantomime in movie atone Joated, but three-quarters of a mile|of six crossings and two bad right-| ana they Will alw it. What | per only shorter than any other route. For| angle turns now on the North Trunk| my now in hos to dk es lane each 100 feet cut off, a saving of| rout Deas ‘tha: maven! ae Geaerare, witl secsrda, an fax ba Yolo! $4,000 to the taxpayer—or a total of} Build It where it belongs—regard: | ¢,, ‘ per jpors snk Sate fe aria: tne $686,400 }leas of polities and “pulls” —~and 4 educa’ present-day motion pic The approach to the elty from the| make 10th ave. N, E. the new loca js, «de Teata teak Photoptaya am tt north over 10th ave. N. E. is another | tion TAXPAYER. | 10° taliee 1 Tay, was made by |baps mnight be improved Ni h J b f M M | Dr. De Forest, in an nterview with Lge reading of aitees | ed N. E. A. service, at the first demon-| Where they occur, or | Ig t 0 or ount en ration of his visual-v film to be | ¥ r sentences | Editor The Star goes, and the world wags on aes th thts hes wor four voice] ott \» Periodically a spasm of economy] In my judgment there's room for|i4 has been working abroad on the | kripping on, but certainly jand retrenchment passes over this}much Improvement. But from an “phonofilm,” wh he will show be- {not by cc sation on |community, But Just as soon aa the| economic standpoint Tam only goin) tne Now York Electrical soctety |the part of the ct hitns | thrills subside, we fall back Into the|to submit one, Instead of hiring aM) 100. in March. and publicly at a| Plays must be written to fit the tupor from which we emorged,| officer with a natty uniform and &) neoaaway theater in April or May phonofilm, but the phonofilm will not with the sult that nothing ‘bene-| prancing charger at a t expense fs be thrust ruinc upon the panto | fictal In evolved, Just now it Is the|to ride up and down the different ne: seat annot be im-| vime of 5 merging of city and county and | avenues, an eye single to auto-| Proved by adding the voice,” he oy - f Im are | port depar over which 1 infringements, why not let Ractiaberl subbed banay Paget ' | taken o by an lwritten and discussed, and the ing the beat | Or® sie rit’ tn marke Gadi |S ra, a }drop It. We criticize the police de 1 and see ‘ . Pr Aol a npilow bs nage tered a “voice | parte for its laxity and seemingly nopolize al = /eiedgapeaty age drama of the | 00%” 12 which ™ on have | tmposat to catch up with and were placed hae ona tema! failure un. | Beem translated int tric ¢ urrents arrest the holdup men who night {t would do the work. Be hate ps . save ¢ ae dreion: and then light a. en oe | Jadd to the terrors of our citizens.|with the rvision of the patrol-| ® DON t to fit Juction is by # projection or, no long as the footpads do | man. car should % z machine voice at ay their hands on us, we go our| remain " er the time honofiim, with | tachment, which a the light totally ttot % that | Lat these m ed police sleep during on the same n d waves, such fations pamible. | th ride the suburbs at the picture Muni fied produced ata hatte ue hereA 6 too| night on in of more Import-| C8! and yooal sounds are reproduced rn Jer the ; : 7 oe to me, than arresting | Perfectly synchronized. However. ; | long sai . < will not affect the und fs phot ed on the edge with it, » © back | autom Probal A wever,| | p m asa“ en the| the police, like ourselves, are follow. | tomime, exe ‘ s of the film at distance a i ros | automo! n leaves his carding the road of least rentatance, a oe eitions pee Pialrpardidl sez akivie ther @ sbi ee f ney Pier Pai | | “going to do,” have hurt this city. | i ee on the dash that different, and the how! that goes up could be heard for blocks, and many |in the world. of the words would have to be de | apective. ‘d, with the requent | you call at the station, that's ted | Thus it by our board of censors. Quotes a Spokane View or Tho Star: Sometimes those} a little farther away can seo thing*) than breaking even with 10 and §-| a litt rer than those of us wholcent fares. The system is loning| get to look at things so close that|about $4,000 daily, and the Seattle we do not get the proper per-| banks announce that they will not I think it would be of real interest to The Star's great circle of readers to read the attached sensible} editorial from Spokesman Ite view. Ce our wild-qyed. dreaming ticlans, with thor promived pledges of what they are the ly pe | Altho I am a wage earner, I would be willing to “vote ‘er straight” any time any successful business| men make the civic sacrifice to run} for office and be lampooned by there] self-serving, office-grabbing poll-| ticians HERBERT KOSTNER, | Mercer Island. THE CLIPPING | It has taken only two, weeks’ trial] of the faro on Seattle's mu-| nictpally street railway sys: tem to refute the ridiculous promines of the cheap politicians who worked| thelr way Into office by fooling & majority of the voters Into a beliet| that a B-cent fare would be profit-| b-cent owned Notoriety and Editor ‘The Star | Tam glad to see that you deplore, and, inferentially at least, oppone the modern custom of commercializing all incidents of notoriety, cheap, shameful, !mmoral, vile and what! not | After all this custom {9 largely the | fault, if fault there be, of the people} as a whole, As one of your corre-| spondents recently sald, “Let those| who wish to, go to hear Mrs, Still- n, and those who do not, y way.” Quite In the end you} it is entirely a matter of per- sonal preferment. This preference, of is determined by one’s fundamental character, by his pro dominating men tendencies, Wo who decry the movement to have Mrs, Stillman appear upon a lecture platform do not do so entire. ly upon the basis of immerality or of any comparison or contrast between) Mrs. Stillman and Roscoe Arbuckle. | Our is based more upon the fact that the effort to turn tn. savory episodes into money-produo- ing activities depends entirely upon #0 course bimonthly bulletin of the Was! specialist in aplculture. ‘Thru bulletin, free of charge, by fillin mailing it to the experiment stat allup, Wash, Gontlemen: Please send mi Bulletin, Vol. X,, No, 6, dated My name 18... ssseeeedeecrens My address ts, LETTERS SLDITOR | | | quite WANT TO KEEP BEES? Expert advice to beginners is contained in an article in the latest Washington experiment station, written by B. A. Slocum, extension a State’ college, readers of The Star may obtain a copy of this fern Washington Experiment Station, Mlease print name and address legibly) RPP Patera an long as they can get by with It.) there won't be need of a change. Agitation is the best ammunition Let's keep it up until we can right some of our wrongs. AN OBSERVER. ‘ able on a system that was little more cash the warrants of the monthly payroll on March 17 Thee politicians, who fooled Se- attle voters once, are now trying to! fool them again. As one of them phranos it, “Seattle's citizens are en titled to the 6-cent fare, but the 6 cent fare never pay for the sys. tem,” So he fs proposing that the defictt of $4,000 a day be thrown on the taxpayers, who are already over burdened and gasping in distress. Seattle's voters have done many | foolish things. nemi-| calism and unsound theories, extend ing all the way from the waterfront to some membera of the faculty out at the state university. ‘That vides the opportunity for loose-think ing and reckless politicians, and it Ip conceivable that they may again conyin A majority of the voters that a combination of 6-cent fares and still heavier taxes on in dustry and enterprise would help Se attle and its wage earners. Mrs, Stillman the notoriety the episodes. acquiréd because of The theory is that the | Istand” and “The Chri | trenches at night? | acoustic effects as can be success- fully brought out.” Dr. De Forest exhibited sample filma, showing dancers and an or- | graphed, but the repre re the same distance apart in the | nization. Movies Lack Feeling, Maurice Tourneur Doesn’t Consider Glyn}! Depth of Says Expert and Wright Novels Represent Art BY TED LE BERTHON LOS ANGEL March “There is very little depth of human feeling in present-day motion tures,” began Maurice Tourneur, dl rector of "The Blue Bird,” “Treasure fan. Frenchman The tall, bawk-like It is a foolish city| strode across hin office, turned his in some ways—shot thru with radi-| yes despairingly toward he von, bis arma uplifted, his fists clenched “I don't know what you mean when you say ‘art It is meaning pro-| less,” he said. “When I say ple tures have no feeling in them that I respond to, I mean art, but I don’t like novels by Elinor Glyn and Har old Bell Wright, and business men, little children and chambermaids weep bitter tears over them.” Tourneur continued: “Did you see some of the war pic | tures produced right here In Holly wood, with the beautifully lighted Well, did you also neo some of the actual trench night scenes sent over from Europe? financlal worth of an occurrence in| No! in direct ratio to ita shocking hide. ousn The case of Mra, Stillman's is no exception. Her appearance as a lec turer {a not because of necessity, nelther {# it because of an already established reputation aa a lecturer} of worth. Somebody intends to har-| vest dollars on tho Infidelity of a} wifo or husband, with little, if any,| care for or dependence upon the! ability of Mrs. SUllman as a speaker. | To the writer, personally, this growing, and already firmly estab-| lished, tendency to commercialize! any and all conspicuous events ts a} deplorable and demoralizing in-| fluence. Immediately after the death of Wallace Reld, his wife! |turned his death {nto a financial} deal, Recall the recent articles pur porting to be from Bob Savage, al notable scion of ono of our "best | families” turning his rotten relations | with chorus girly into gain, Did} the money worth of elther of the hington State college's Wostern Special arrangement with the ® out the following coupon and on. ea copy of your Bi-Monthly March, teeBee | tho }the wrong time, Young man, you should have seen difference! The. Hollywood scenes had all the ugliness of arti ficial beauty; the actual scenes had all the beauty of grim, ugly, real life and death! Ve are still making movies I{ke the old photographers who used the! above depend upon ability as a writer? I believe not. In the one it depended upon something sensational and horrifying, in the other upon something putrid most cases the people directly con cerned are less to blame than the newspaper men and human ghouls who persuade them to thelr course for their own aggrandizement Babe Ruth has an established and well-earned reputation as a ball play er. Were the opportunity to present itnelf, I would gladly pay to see him in action, But were ho to ap- pear in Seattle vaudeville, I would not pay to see him, knowing that he and tho theater owners depend for Examine the Editor Tho Star; For the past few days tho news- papers havo said many words In re- gards to auto accidents, True, all ac- cldents are very serious, but one in particular has brought out sugges- tions for lawa requiring drivers to pass examinations mentally and physically, This ts all should have been done long ago, But some papers have gone o far os to state that anyone with a limb amputated and now wearing arti ficial limbs should not be allowed ‘to drive a car, This, however, should be left to the examination board, T had the misfortune of losing one of my limba, caused by an able-bodied man ualng his undeveloped, brain at God knows there in enough in a cripple's way at present to keep him down without passing a Jaw #o that all who wear artificial limbs cannot drive cars, J agree with the papers that no caso one should drive unless he fs quali pic In} well and | ; stiff neck-brace and told us to look slammed his fist down violently on his desk ‘A director should work like a kodak amateur, who wanders about don't know he and snaps people who | they're Being “Wo must learn to cate wing, in unconscious movemen “The greatest motion pictures will said the snapped be made en t pinyers are caught by camera at a time when they are totally unaware of it, hav been tricked into some activity which the director wished to film "Pictures are too beautiful, in the popular conception of beauty; and this sort of beauty ts not helpful to |drama, If ‘beauty’ does not belong, | to hell with itt | “The story's the thing, and the |nudience should never be conscious of the background—which must biend with the story, “In a motion picture the basic ory {s partially distorted by the continuity writer, Then the cast of | players is usually far from ideal, as only certain players are available at |any given time, Then the story can love more in the photographing and laboratory work, and will ultimately ¢ spolled further by fast projection. ‘om the germ-idea to sult about 95 per cent is lost } Jattendance upon his reputation as a ball player, not as an actor, and his probably | performance would most | flat. And so in closing I again assert as my personal belief that Mrs, Still- man is appearing before the public, he his a message or has Intellectual talent to bo rather ise present a mesaage, but because she hag acquired notoriety thru the ex posure of some one’s moral de pravity and somebody is grasping tho opportunity to garner shekels from this notoriety, ~ J.T, SULLIVAN, 610 Maynard Building, City, Driver’s Head j fled, but I do not agree with it when {it wants such laws as it has asked for. 1 have driven a car for the an accldent. Last Sunday I passed six cars broken up on my way to Kirkland, and strange to say, all had Able-bodied drivers, How do you ex- plain that? “Here is one way to stop a lot of it, and that’s when you are in a hurry start $0 minutes sooner then don’t try to go around every car on the road, My #uggeston fs, evamine heads instead of their feet JEM LOVELI 7T70 N, Tard at, thelr THE GREAT NERVE BUILDER HEAMOTONE Makes red blood quickly. For child- ron and adults, $1 and $2 bottles, Recommended wold by BAWTELL DRUG CO. Adk for lat of JOYNER REMEDIES the end-re- | past eight years and haye not had | New Postmaster Makes No} carriecp mon scr w AS form the t of the depar vocal ame film upon which in the lower chamber is TELLS HOW HE WILL RUN JOB a nd cal sound mus the opening of SPRING brings NEW PROS PERITY. MARCH your dollars to our BANK and, with reg- watch ‘ S- ular recruits, the procession grow ! You will find this the BANK to BANK on. 100L, P. Promises, However C 220, in the apditorium. A group of songs will be given b % BY HARRY HUNT yrard Lang. Mrs. Henry Landes LINGTC March 24.—Per I talk on “C; unity Problems.” es, not promises, must form) aie s for the public's Judgment| TRINITY PARISH CHURCH, dministration of the postoffice | Pighth and es ev. Williams nt under {ts new chief,|H. B rector Holy cororauntons Harry 8. New. |8 a. m; Sunday school, 945 a. mj; New into a job, | Idea “itt over to admi: postoffice d way to the best of my abl t make a success of It, »ducing devices | public will find it out. “If 1 make a failure of It, | projection machine, causing synchro-| public will soon make me find It ot “So far as I know, I am taking the department at a time when it is functioning in good shape.” “How about the recommendation of Postmaster General Work, made jin retiring, other appointees be taken from civil service and political patronage selection 6 to the all the ie department on a business basis?” asked. “Not a word |answered, apparently sensing a lead subject of patronage gener- 2 political circles it has been cur- ted that New’s appointment | was a direct move by the president | into of which tical knowledge. “I'm not mak- ing o squared away for his bons job as 239,000 | emplo: of business in | new ot postal organization the world “y am going | have only a with only er the affairs of t 1g « busin one the ons- rtm: the} the that postmasters and and | handled directly by} not a word!” New] the office a man who would use it to strengthen the admin- | istration’s political organization for | battle of 1924. But on all ap- proaches to that subject the, new | postmas answer. “Not a word!" | | ror. leas. hair ter Rald heads, attention! Take off the old toupee and ex- |amine your dome in the family mir- This human billiard ball, P, D. Brewster, of East Orange, N, J., of- |fers to det no human deing is as | Oper | bald as he ts. > Brewster ventor of Rast Orange, N months ago he lock laboratory to perfect his pastel color | motion picture process, when he went in He perfected color motion pic- ture photography, but he can’t find | out what chemical extinguished his BALD HEADS, ATTENTION ! } gerreral had but one engineer and in- J, Some d himself in his is an He had hair He came out hair- 4 DR. WO CHINHSH DOCTOR Nature Chinese Herbs i Remedies Hee Wo Chinese 208 Jamen St, Reatt Medicine Oo, Cor, 2nd in 2105 |morning prayer and sermon, 1 promise,” |; New said as he|P- ™. evening prayer and sermon, PUGET SOUND STEAMER SCHEDULES SAVE MONEY Travel by Steamer TACOMA pm 45c¢ 25" 80c VICTORIA, E . mC. 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