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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16
FEW CHANGES
IN 1916 RULES
Football Players Will Be Governed
by Practically Same Code
AZ Last Season.

The alterations in the football rules
which go into effect this season are
Few and not of great importance from
the point of view of the onlooker. ne
changes were made to clear up doubt
full points rather than to affect the
style Of play.
Most important Of the amendments
concerns the safety. Under the den-
nitions of that play, the man carry
ing the ball, If forced back across ms
own goal line, was guilty OF making
safety. However, another rule makes
1t incumbent pI.on the referee to dow
his whistle a. the forward point
reached by the player; that is, when
the player has ceased to advance, the
pIay is technically stopped.
hackfield man can advance, but
he cannot be pushed back. Formerly,
n quarterback, for instance, was on
his one yard line and attempting an
end run was nailed by the opposition
and rushed back across the line, ne
would have safety counted asainse
him Under the new ruling ne can
not be rushed back.
II foul committed by player de-
Tending his own goal would deprive
his rival from scoring a TOUCHDOWN,
tho offending team will be awarded
the touchdown.
Players defending the goal WIN no!
he allowed TO run into the catcher OF
the punt-out, except in an attempt %
catch or bat the ball. Formerly the
nJayers on some teams USED to
rough the catcher OF the pun.-ou.
other additions have been maoe
under the heading approved ruhngs,
defining the privileges OF piaye, ..
a free ball, and concerning the e.nics
and workmanship of the game.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16
An outworn Custom.

Council Bluffs Nonpareal One vi
the lingering relics OF oaroalisn
which seems most strongly 10
the advance OF CIVILIZATION
Here Is an nonesl r W.
mo. .a - nav pass-and pass soon. The
mo. .hat IFS all in friendliness and
fun is not sufficient. -.
7, is the remnant of custom tnal
- its existence among the nomadic
tr;hes of the Asaitic steppes, wnen
,,anners were considerably less re-
sinad than even in the present age
and while It furnished anus emen.
For the Turkcmans it isn't a cus.o"
we should call pretty a.
Recently in a small town IN sne lot
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16
REV. BUTLER
is TO ATTEND
Pastor of Bethel A. M. e. Church Will
Be Present at Most Important
UNCONVENTIONAL Conference.

The thirty-fourtn annual session OF
the Chicago Qowa ANNUALLY conference
African Methodist Episcopal church,
EN- bracing the states of Iowa, illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and the two
Dakotas, will convene in Chicago,
Wednesday, September 20. The place
of assembly will be the Institutional
church.
Rev. D. F. Butler, in charge of the
local work here, and head of the keo-
kuk district, will leave Tuesday to
attend the conference and participate
in the sessions. Rev. Butler occupies
very important place in the make
UP of the conference, being on the
education, seminary and university
and the resolutions committees.
Dr. Butler las made himself quite
conspicuous by developing plan for
the relief of the book concern of the
denomination, a general department
| that became embarrassed to the ex-
tent of s15,00000 and only recently
resulted in the resignation of the
manager.
Rev. Butler will spend Sunday and
Monday in gathering in the confer
ence claims, which at present are
about fifty collars short. Monday
night at public church meeting at
Bethel, he will report in full the work
|. of the church for the year ending
September 20.
, Sunday, insofar as altar service is
concerned, will be an important day
! in Bethel. Short talks and camp
meeting service will characterize the
: morning service, and a two table
3 rally. At night, an overflow attend
: ance is anticipated, when Rabbi
!. Gaines, 1.-The black Jew" will speak.
y Rabbi Gaines, the best informed
n negro on the black man, his world
n distribution, where he governs and is
:, governed. before the American people
will speak from the theme, "PhiliT
and the Ethiopian Eunuch" at this
d service, having the entire hour at his
I, disposal
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

The last figures obtainable on the
manufacturing industries show that
these center in Ohio, but this was
fifteen years ago. The figures last
obtainable was for 1900.
The center Of the number of farms
Ia shown to be in southern Illinois.
The improved acreage center is right
NJ the western edge of the power
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

tages Of the great power zone OF
which Keokuk is the central point.
The map will be distributed next
week throughout the entire power
zone and will be sent broadcast
through the country to show the i'm
portance of the local field in connec-
ton with manufacturing industries.
The map shows the location of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

The importance Of Keokuk which
lies in the center of the farm and
food production areas of the United
States and in the line of march of the
scenters Of population and manufac-
ture, is shown in map which has
been compiled by the industrial de-
partment of the Mississippi River
Power company to show the advan-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

population and its advance westward
are clearly marked on the map. Ae
symbols are marked from the United
States census figues and are accurate.
The last census In 1910 showed the
center to be in central Indiana and
moving westward. 1t Is almost
straight line from the last symbol to
the power zone.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

zone. and is in Missouri. The center
OF the cereal district is shown to be
practically at Keokuk. The center
of farm values is in Missouri, but
only short distance from the Iowa
line. The center of corn products is
in the power zone in Illinois and the
wheat center is in western Iowa.
Oats centers III eastern Iowa along
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

the river and the center OF gross farm
incomes is in the power zone.
The map is a very comprehensive
one, and will give prospective indus
trial plants an idea of just how i'm
portant the power zone is in its loca-
ton in the very heart Of things. 1t Is
in the line OF progress in every field
and Keokuk at the center of this zone
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

power zone where 5000 horse power
in the center of the United States is
being produced by the power plant
located in the Mississippi river at
keokuk. The power zone is depicted
by shaded lines and covers the area
on the map covered by the cables and
high tension wires of the company.
Symbols showing the center of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

One of the first American locomo-
tlves was built by the West Point On.
" foundry for the South Carolina
railroad, which was opened in 1880.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16

Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune: The
states prize optimist lives at Marshall
town. "A real estate dealer over 20
years of age has just taken a ten-year
lease on his office.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

thin and very sharp faced Young man greeted
US We said we would like to see Mi Speider
How much do you want to see him?" he
asked
We repled that we did not understand
Il mean Row much money did YOU pay him Ia
get Won places as movie actresses.?"
This was the first time we lad ever heard the
term movies" | do not know whether the thin
voung man coined the phrase or rot but he was
clever enough to have done It, or most anything
else | believe
This man Spelder is n fraud YOU know" he
said 'He has collected n lot OF money from
girls by promising to send their pictures around
to the producers and get them jobs"
If was n sad blow of course and don't know
whether it hit orr vanity or or money sense
the harder, both were hurt deeply We talked
10 the Young man = long time. a., said nothing
could lie done because the spider" was gone
and could not he found We tod him ali about
ourselves our homes and amhit ,oas and about
Myra losing her job, and | think Wa even ex-
nlafned about the unclaimed lngerie because
the young man was so sympathetic and asked
so many questions in a manner that you felt
We talked to him half an hour and he told
us he was a reporter, and that he wnnted to
make a big SUNDAY story with our pictures
We were frightened big fools as we were. we
did not want the fact published we begged
him not to put us in The paper and he said.
IAN right. there's a lot more"
And while We were talking "A girl with very
evident chemical hair came in. She wept when
he broke the news to her but chirked up when
he suggested putting her STORY and her pic
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

Metro company just now, but YOU had better
address them AT the New York Office OF the com
peny for they may leave any day for the East
after the picture is finished. Metro, l47s Broad
way, New York. Marguerite Clark receives her
rail at the Famous Players studio. 12s West
flfly-sixth street, New York.
E, rARS-John Bowers is the lover in T1ulda
> from Holland. playing opposite Mary Pick
lord.
~ URIoTs-Waiac Reid is % and he has no
u children Earle FoNe is about the same
age, but is not married. Sign your name next
time,
nj ELLIE THOMPSON-Creighto Hale is now
~ with the Frank Powell prods. Inc Times
building. New York. Richard Travers is with
the Essanay Company, iSSS Argyle street. Chi
cago. III. He is married.
M L. X. G.-Alma Reubens played the part
wi. OF Teresa in The Halfbreed, opposite
Douglas Fairbanks Alfred Nosburgh played
with Vivian Rich in Tangled Skins, produced
by the American Film Company.
W.-The music that accompanies Gloria's
l.. Romance is specially arranged by a noted
composer for episode It is released
The score of this music cannot be purchased
at music stores, IL frequently happens that
only few bars of certain airs are played III
harmony with certain OF the serial as
they flashed the screen.
II .. We are as pleased ms Punch when
l.. some one tells us that he or she likes the
movie page. and the variety OF questions an.
swered is what makes the answers column in
teresting. The Crisis is finished. but has not
been released yet. Your favorite actor has
never admitted that he Is married but II Ia
generally known in the profession that he is
and has children although cannot say how
many.
M ILLY-Dougas Macean is with the World
AVA Film Corporation, 1870 West Forty sixth
street, New York He is 25 and is not mar
ried He has played in AS Ye Sow. The Man
Who Found Himself The Boss, Loves Crucible
and The Boomerang. all World features.
M E-Haven't you noticed lately that we are
lVls having more pictures OF actors on the
page? But we cannot eliminate actresses alto
gether because they really make the layout
attractive. you know. Marguerite Courtott
address 10 now Famous Players. 1873 West
Fifty sixth street, New York. Kathlyn Will
ams. Selig Polyscope Company Los Angeles
Cal. Helen Holmes. Signal Film Corpora ton
Los Angeles. Ruth Roland. Balboa Studio. Long
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17
Breaking Into the Movies
>~~~~~~~cBy A. H. GiebLer,~o~~~o~~o~~~~~~o~-~~~~~~
BY A. H. Giebler


do not want to indulge in self pity, but, look
ing back now, can find almost much to weep
as to laugh about over US two foolish girls
Myra and ! were country bred We had come
from the same middle Western town Il year be-
fore, because there nothing there for us to
do, and because the great city appealed to us.
In New York We found our level very quickly
With training, no business education. We
came to be just two Of the vast horde that is
classified roughly as working girls Myra was
and 10 cent store girl despised among sales
ladies' and was a laundry help.
We did not have the advantages of the shop
girls who in contact with the better class
of people, whose manners they could initiate and
whose clothes they could copy with cheaper
materials We decidedly low caste among
the workers
The few we knew could not afford to
spend money us. and we had none of our
own to spend and because were clean and
decent. God bless you BOTH just Myra' s
mother told to be when she kissed us good
by the station platform at Wilton Springs,
took automobile rides with passing &C
quaintances and ate in no high priced restau-
rants with men whom knew would be
ashamed TO introduce to their sisters or
mothers. any of their fine friends, as did
many of cur coworkers in pursuit of the good
times that the everlasting burden of
speech at the places whore we worked.
We Just hocked together. Myra and l. and
made the best of drab lives. II was this
condition, this unsophstication, that made so
credulous and anxious to do something that
would raise above station.
We decided that Myra would not look for
work, but would stay at home in the room and
sponge and press and rebutton and generally
fix clothes, which | think referred to as
our wardrobes, a term caught from the "Spi-
der" l mortgaeed half of my next weeks sal
airy to buy six waists and some lingerie which
Myra just would refer to as underclothes, II
spite OF all my nagging at her-things that hac
been left unclaimed at the laundry.
The spot Broadway where the building
stood that housed Mr.. speder and our hopes
was magnet to us.
on our evening walks our feet always toed II
that direction, and passed and repassed the
place and looked up till we both had "cricks'
in necks. At the end of a week we coulc
stand II longer.
Wen just drop in and talk things over
Myra said.
We got to the office door as breathless and II
as big state of tremble IL we had climbed
all the way to the tenth floor instead of COMING
up on the elevator.
The office was open, and the web and bal
Were there. but no Speider. very tall. yer.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

Sign your name. but give title to use in
column. Address al queries to Photopay
Editor care Of this paper
(sEACE-As soon as Grace Cunard and Fran
"a els Ford finished Peg o the Ring they
started another serial, which is called My
Lady Rallies, and the FIRST chapters viii no
doubt soon be released. Ray Ford is not
lated Francis Ford.
Z l., F-ciloHas Romance has twenty chap
IL. ters. Lillian Lorraine is not playing in
PICTURES at present and her last appearance was
iii Can a Wife Forgive? William Gourtleigh
Jr., was last in Famous Players produce
lions. Mrs Ford is not actress. There are
ndrd some that she is married to a nonprofcs-
sional and some that she is not married She
herself is not telling. There are several lat
est" serials, among them Liberty Beatrice Fair
fax, The Crimson stain Mystery, Tire Yellow
Menace. and number OF new ones are released
every month.
r THl.L OSBORNE Ruth Roland and Frank
Il Mayo may both he addressed The Balboa
studios. Long Beach, cal and Crane Wilbur at
the Horsley studios. Los Angeles. Cal Miss
Roland is IS and Frank Mayo is 80
~ lilly B.-Harold Lockwood and May Allison
Is are making picture in California for the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

chemical hair we had seen at the Spiders
Office the day before. Her companion, a very
small. blackeyed girl said she circus per-
former and that she had nurt her ankle by fall
ing from horses back and trying to get
moving picture work to do.
The girl with the chemical hair told the circus
girl that We too, had been victims of the Spi-
der
"Oh, don't tell that" Myra begged we may
get work here, and we don't want everybody
laughing at u.s."
They will not laugh at you," the circus girl
said. They will be sorry and want to help you
when they know. Theatrical and show people
the kindest folks in the world"
She then told she had been extra for a
month. and had worked in four pictures, a total
OF twelve days work, at S. day.
That looked pretty good to us. and We said so.
you come back here Friday she told us.
They will cast big picture that day. and
will about 100 people You'll have to be
here. though. Don't wait to be sent for"
We decided that II could not get away Fri
day Myra would 60 There numbering
shifting that night; only hope-the hope
that springs afresh in the hearts of youth a,
the least bit OF encouragement.
ITO be continued)
Copyright. 1916. by A. H. Gicbler,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17
ANSWERS TO MOVIE FANS

Beach, Cal Theda Bara, Fox Film Company.
$50 West Forty-sixth street. New York
while swimming In the surf the California
coast His death Is lamented very much by all
picture lovers. Victor Moore was "Pifnes.'
the clown, and wouldn't he be tickied to know
that you think he's great" Florence Dagmar
wao the girl. Mary Pickfords latest play 10
Hulda from Holland. and the before that
was Poor Little Peppina.
NXFoRD, NEB.-You will have to be your
" judge to who is the prettiest actor
actress in the movies Our choice might not
be- yours, you know. Charles Chaplin and
Mary Pickford are the two highest priced play
ers. Lottie and Mary Pickford both mar
ried, but the other ten you name are not. There
are perhaps as many as fifty reliable producing
companies making pictures. but each plant may
have from Ave TO a dozen stock companies of
actors always at work. Some OF these stock
companies produce only comedies, others serials,
and stl others only dramas etc. 1t would be
impossible to give you the exact number of
play ers but there several thousands. Don't
lie alarmed. we will not advise you to send your
little daughter TO dramatic school, especially
she must be very young If you, her mother.
arc not out Of your teens yet. When she gets
cider YOU will have TO take her where there are
studios If you want her to become screen
actress
G. H.-G. NJ Anderson. or Broncho Billy
y. as he was known the screen, is not
playing in pictures at present. The last news
We heard Of him that he was building a
new theater in Chicago, which he will probably
oren IN the fan. lie is not connected with the
Essanay any more.
TULSA. oK.-The only way to get pictures Is
to write to the players direct
d W. M.-You are ambitious, to say the least
M and 1t is worthy ambition at that Keen
on trying with your photoplays and IL you do
not succeed at first you will be learning and
gaining experience, and when you do really strike
something that will please the producing COM
panies you will be on a fair way to success
AS to becoming an actor and director. you
would have TO go where there are studios OF
course. All directors have been actors at one
time, but they do not all write their own PLAYS
although many of them claim they do COM
bnation OF writer actor and director in one
person is very rare Henry B. Walthall ana
Mary Pickford, perhaps the two greatest film
players today, never write their own plays nor
do they direct them. David w. Griffith premier
director. never acts writes his own plays
Hector Turnbull of the leading photo
playwrghts in the country. neither acts In nor
directs his plays. 1t is really hard to excel IL
more than one thing.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

And the mother OF the stage, knowing that
each successive stop took her farther away
from her baby Mt home. was never able to put
her heart and spirit into nor work. Many
stage mother has stepped nighty before tho
foctghts with q smile on her face and the gay
words of the play her lips when her aching
and breaking heart thousand miles away
story is told i'm the greenrooms of theaters
OF the actress, a comedienne, who went through
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

~ WV way the exclusive high
way of actors and
tresses and were we not going to be of that
select profession soon the producers looked
at our pictures and sent us a contract to sign?
We passed hundreds of shop girls and pitied
the poor things. Tho, were not booked for fame,
as We Kept on past Times Square to
the cross street that led us to our Eighth avenue
neighborhood loath TO leave the delectable thor
oug1fare that We both felt would be pressed
most regularly by little feet from now on.
We each had comm1tation book, good for
weeks supply Of food at the restaurant.
would otherwise have been short rations, as
the remnant of the chicken feed left over from
pay day was small l often wonder why the
Spider let get away with that so cents
He probably did not it, It was his for the
asking, for neither Of us would have objected to
a little more thorough shaking down than we
got, full we of enthusiasm and so deep
vanity.
We consumed a total of 10 cents worth Of
food. feast for us at the noon hour, and TO top
of each had piece of apple pm la mode In
fact. the only eNtrayagant impulse did not
obey that day was to quit our jobs, We talked
1t over and decided that we had better wait for
at least week. That unnecessary in Myra' $
case, however because she had taken the morn
ing off without leave and found herself dis
charged when she reported for work a / o'clock.
lnlS leIt me 10 provide CAKES ana ale Tor the
two of us for long, lean season that ensued.
] will pass over the painful particulars of the
unmasking of the Spider as lightly possible
and would mention 1t with even less detail but
for the fact that an incident connected with our
discovery of him as whited sepulcher had
much to do with things that followed.
The next day we went to the dingiest photo
graph studio in New York and posed for the
pictures before the dingiest photographer in the
world.
There were three other girls there for the
same purpose, and learned that one of then
had paid only IS for her fling at fame. This
made us a little uneasy, but hope is hard to kill
we were so strong for what wanted that
we would not allow any doubts to assail us.
On the days that followed planned and
talked and burned the midnight gas of stern
and heretofore feared. rooming house landlady
with impunity.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

a five-act play and convulsed her audience with
the droery of her work. and when the last act
went out and smiled in acknowledge
mcnt of the thundeeons applause then stepped
hacE I'm TIC wings ana tainted, and when Sc
WAS carried to her dressing room a, telegram
was found hidden away in TIE bosom of the say
dress size wore which read. Your baby is
dying"
The woman had received the message as the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

show started She knew 1t was impossible to
go back half way across the continent and she
had abandoned herself to her art in an effort to
smother her grief.
TIE movies have changed all this for tire play
ers Who have adopted the And the NOV
ing picture Stage mother who keeps on at her
work can have her baby near her at almost any
hour Of the day.
Most of the players who have children live
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

kept her away from her chosen profession, and
those of them who did keep were always
miserable at being separated from the little
ones at home.
The stage mother who did keep in her
work forced to leave her babies with rela
tves if she fortunate enough to rave
them, otherwise with paid nurses, or establish
a sort Of travelling nursery and drag the little
with them all the country
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

near the studios where they are employed and
many OF the studios have nurseries and play
rooms for the children of the players. The little
ones are reared in the atmosphere
other children. and their parents are not stran-
gers TO them, the case when the mother
and father only got to them at the close of
the season. OF all the blessings studio life has
given TO the people Of the stage, motherhood ia
the greatest.