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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
UNITED STATES TIRES
BIG SELLERS ABROAD

American tires are keeping step in
popularity in foreign lands with
American automobiles Last year the
United States Tire Company sent it's
product to forty countries scattered
throughout the world. The removal
of shipping restrictions is expected to
result in adding twenty-five or thirty
countries to the list during the cur
rent year.
A few days ago an Iceland automo-
bile dealer paid visit to the New
York office Of the United States III
Company and ordered full tire equip
ment for fifty cars. He said that this
brand of tire was regarded as the
quality brand in his country.
Turning to the southern hemisphere,
it is noted that a recent issue of LA
Nacion." the leading newspaper Of
Santiago Chill, carried half-page ar
ticle telling of the wonderful perform
ance of a Scripbs-Booth car in test
run of 1889 kilometers over the noun
tain roads of that country.
At the conclusion of the run the
driver remarked, Il must mention that
during the entire run from Conception
| to Coquimbo--a distance of ABOUT
200 miles-we had only one pune
| ture. The tires were United States
! Royal Cords and we think it our duty
to speak of their quality"
While this approval for the popular
American tire is being given in the
Far South and distant North. unusual
testimonials are given from the trop-
les, where long tire life is generally
regarded as impossible because of
high temperatures. One United States
tire in Manila has already given 1890
miles on heavy garage car Another
went 10000 miles without being TAX
en- off the wheel. A Royal Cord gave
14.1O0 miles under most severe condi-
tions of road and weather The larg-
est transportation company in the
Philippines states that 1900 miles is
the average mileage with United
States fabric tires.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
nOIIRIE TREAD TIRES

Ship us by prepaid eXpress or par
eel post an old worn out, blown out,
or rim cut tire, regardless OF con-
dition. We will ship you in ex-
change a good PUNCTURE PROOF
DOUBLE TREAD TIRE at following
prices. 3ox3 81; 3o-3 1-2 So; 32x
IL 50; 31x4 $40; 32x4 $1,000;
S3x4 SLOTS: 34x4 $11; 35x4 .1-2 $19.
Send money order or check with order
for size wanted. We ship same hour
received.
DOUBLE TREAD TIRE CO.
Macon, Georgia.
sos First ST. Opposite City Hall
4-17-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
GONZALES APPOINTMENT
NO LONGER PROTESTED

Washington, Sept. 10.-Opposition
to the nomination of William +. Con
zales of Columbia, S. c., to be am
bassador to Peru virtually endeded
tday when the Senate Foreign Rela'
lions Committee unanimously ordered
a favorable report on the appointment
and recommended Senate conlirma-
ton.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
Perfect Health Is Yours
If the Blood Is Kept Pure

opening. A few bottles Of 5. S. s.
the great vegetable blood medi-
cine, will revitalizc your blood and
give you new strength and a
healthy, vigorous vitality. Every
one needs it just now to keep the
system in perfect condition. Go
to your drug store and get bottle
to-day, and if you need any medi-
cal advice, you can obtain it with
out cost by writing to Medical Di-
rector, Swift Specific Co., 10 Swift
Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
Almost Evefy Human Ailment
Is Directly Traceable to Ian
uurities in the Blood.

You should pay particular heed
TO any indication that your blood
supply is becoming sluggish, or
that there is a lessening in its
strong and vital force,
BY keeping your blood cleansed
your system more easily wards OF
disease that is ever present, watt
ing to attack wherever there is an
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
Rheumatism.

is completely washed out of the system by
tho celebrated Shivar Mineral Water. Pos
lively guaranteed by money,back offer
Tastes fine; costs a iriAe. Delivered any
where by our Cordele Agents, HearA Gro
cery Co. Phone them.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10

Superintendent Will Webb of the
local water works has improved from
his long illness to such an extent
that he is 10 return to his office for
short hours today.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-10
MIR. A. ]. Hall of Oaktield was here
gto business today

Mrs. Frank Teuber who has been
severely i'll for some weeks, is slight
ly improved and many friends hope
for her a rapid recovery.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

more money writing novels and
stories, and selling motion picture
rights. They wouldn't sacrifice
time and energy to the movies.
And if they did, they would only
make trouble with actors and
directors.
So went three novels of his into
screen dramatization.
Authors to The Rescue.
Actually what did the authors
say2
Basil King: 81 once thought
that nothing could induce me to
write for the screen directly. Mr..
Beach's work has made me feel
that cooperation with the screen is
highly desirable. l intend to give
my best to the motion picture"
Mary Roberts Rinehart: II be-
lieve thoroughly in the moving pic
ture, present and future. 1t is the
most democratic of the arts-a new
art composed of new cooperative
effort of author, director and actor"
Producers have been after prac-
tically everything that Leroy Scott
has written, but as he writes, 81 have
tried to hold out until the motion
picture was adequate for presenta-
ton. ] felt that the only way in
which it could be adequate was to
have supervision by the author of
the story selected by production"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

duties, but as yet has not been
assigned. He finds the work inter
esting he says and is anxious to get
back into the harness.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

track or bridge gives way or a
company is reorganized.
The movie exists and grows be-
cause it caters to the human desire
10 get somewhere just as railroads
cater to the same need. People
want to get out of themselves, so
they go to the movies.
The movie and the newspaper are
alike in catering to the curiosity of
their public who want information
and entertainment.
Now then, to those who want to
know what the crimes of producers
of motion pictures have been, there
is this to say.
So great was the demand for films
that they made pictures faster than
they could make good pictures. Some
directors were forced to direct two
and three pictures at once. The see
mario writers were asked to write a
new story every week and then
some.
Novelty was the main idea in pic
lures. Startle the movie fans. Give
them spectacles, train wrecks, trick
pictures. Keep them guessing. Give
them the hunt and the villain still
pursuing her. Keep the movie fans
excited. Give them sex plays full of
clinches and kisses. And make it
snappy.
That was the first phase of photo
plays.
Then they exploited personalities
as stars. They thought they could
make star of anybody with a little
advertising. They found directly that
even the most popular actors failed
10 draw if the stories were not in
teresting.
They discovered the story value in
pictures.
Then they bought novels and plays
right and left, still crowding pro-
duction and forcing the stories to fit
the size, shape and disposition of the
leading players.
For various novels of the Eminent
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
Nakedness Doesn't Win Nickels Any More
I. Vampires Cease to Thrill Fans of Picture
q Palaces So Best American Authors Re-
y spond to Public Demand for Clean Plays
and Better Photodramas

long story and making this use
Of it:
First publish it serially in a
magazine.
Second, print it in book form for
many editions.
Third. dramatize the story for the
speaking stage.
Fourth, picturize the story for
the motion picture.
Talk about the packers getting all
there is to a pig except his squeal,
these eminent authors surely are
realizing on their imaginative and
story telling gifts. No one grudges
them their success in the least
Everybody is saying that it is abou,
time for the author to get such rec
ogn'tion.
With great strides the cinema has
covered the gap that usually yawns
between business and art. 1t is I'm
der 20 years old, and has caught up
with the theater in many ways. 1t
has perfected the mechanical
processes and given acting high
place. 1t is just beginning to do as
much for the story
In 1908 this was the highest
praise possible. "The demand for
legitimate picture drama is growing.
The film companies are developing
their own plays, paying experts in
pantomime to invent plots and
scenes which will show up we'll in
moving pictures. A considerable
class Of expert pantomiinic actors
depend entirely upon the film COM
panies for their living. They re-
ceive all the way from SIS to $40 4
week for their services. Then. too
the story writer comes in for
share of the profits of the new pre-
fession. A good story suitable for
motion picture production may sell
from S. to $50 or even more"
Four years later, it was written:
Some of the highest paid OF the
principal players in motion picture
companies get about $500 a week.
while the daily rate of pay is S.
wher they get some one to work
by the day. Last year there
was placed on the market in Amer
lea 234,000,000 feet of films, shown
in $4,000 theaters, valued at $50
100000"
Fortunes Made and Lost.
That was seven years ago in the
history of what is now the fifth in
dustry in America. Fortunes have
been made and lost. Stars have
smiled and vanished. Villains have
pursued countless women of viz
tue, and comic heroes have WINGED
before thousands of oncomirg, pies.
A few years ago the step was
taken from short scatterbrained
films to the long photoplay story,
telling a sustained story for two
hours or more. 1t was a great step
forward in the process of educating
wider public to the enjoyment Of
dramatic art.
Just as a new epoch begins now
with the entrance of eminent au-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

There are of course definite and
irkscme limitations to the celluloid
art--many of our greatest writings
cannot be translated into any other
form--but to the author with a NOV
ing, living story which is capable of
INSTALLATION, it offers a field as
wide or wider than the printed
page"
Ten million American 60 to the
movies every day. We are picture
mad and the rest of the world is not
far behind us. This whirling globe
of ours is tangled up in the celluloid
like dancing darby in the serpen-
tine paper of a carnival"
The Great Appeal to Authors.
The philosophy of his subject, Mr.
Beach tackles in this way: Super
ior creative work is dependent upon
compelling inspiration, an undivid-
ed interest, and happy enthus-
iasm. Could anything stimulate
more inspiration, arouse more inter
est, awake more enthusiasm in
writer than a worldwide audience,
daily growing III size and advanc
ing in intelligence"
A forward looking group these
Eminent Authors are, embarking
upon a voyage of discovery in
motion pictures. They are seeing
a new route to the public mind as
Columbus sought new route to
India. Whether they discovered
new land or not, it is certain that
their stories are being reborn and
vitalized in the living reality of the
screen.
And who knows what may hap
pen in an art or a business that
whirls along at rate too fast for
.1,o nxra "a fnfln.r2
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
NICKEL ODEONS DEAD--LONG LIVE PHOTODRAMA!

They Who Write Novels Embark on Great
Voyage of Discovery of the Screen as New
Medium for Telling Their Best Tales to
Largest Audience in History Of World
picture Mad"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
Woman Says She Was Victim
Of Slick Confidence Man

Mrs. Emma Comstamp, clerk in
the Federal Bakery, 1910 Harvey
street, reported to the police that
she was the victim of a confidence
man who asked her to change a $40
bill Friday afternoon.
The stranger used the old trick
of first showing the bill he wished
changed, and while the young wom-
an was getting the change for him,
he gave her an empty envelope in
which she had seen the currency.
Mrs. Comstamp stated that the man
was so we'll dressed and of such
pleasing appearance, that he dis
armed any suspicion as to his in
tentions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

The reputation of Gertrude
Anterior as Americas foremost
woman novelist is international. 1t
seemed least likely that of all of this
famous group of writer's she would
be enthusiastic about motion pic
lures. But it was Miss Anterior
who was one of the first to cross
the continent from New York to
Culver City to cooperate in the pro-
duction of the pictures from her
novel, perch of the Devil"
Rupert Hughes also has just
completed the journey in behalf of
his picture, "The Cup of Fury" from
the latest novel. "a great revolu-
tionary step has been taken in the
motion picture domain, writes
Major Hughes. "The author has
at last been given the franchise. L.
carries with it heavy responsible
ity, but the opportunity is glorious.
In the making of newer and finer
type of motion pictureGouverneur
Morris also pledges his co-opera-
ton.
And yet, despite this activity,
that speaks louder than any words,
there are authors who reject the
motion picture as an instrument of
expression. The argument runs
that most of his skill and training
go for nothing. Only the bare
plot and few title texts are wanted
from him.
THE artistry of his style, the felic-
ity of his apt construction" says the
critic, "his subtlety and thorough
ness of observation and compre-
hension and sympathy, the illumi-
mating quality of his analysis of
motive and character, even the fun
damental skillful development of
that bare plot, all these and more are
of no value in that field. are not
wanted because they must be ex-
pressed in words, and they are what
make him an author"
To such criticism Rex Beach
replies as president of the Authors
League and president of Eminent
Authors, that we must give writer's
a chance before we decide. They are
not to be blamed for the errors
that have been made heretofore in
Experimentation.
"To the writer who deals exclu
sively in verbiage," remarks Rex
Beach, " the screen offers even less
satisfaction as a medium of express
sion than does the stage or the page.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

Authors they offered as high as $l0,-
600 apiece, and when they got them,
used only the title and name of the
author. Mary Roberts Rinehart and
Gertrude Atherton and Rupert
Hughes admit that they sold the mo-
ton picture rights, stihed conscience
and stayed away from the theaters
where their photoplays were shown.
Enter Rex Beach-Pioneer Author.
Not so Rex Beach. He is the pio-
neer author in motion pictures, the
great adventurer in the silent drama.
He had trained himself in the Klon-
dixie region to endure wintry blasts
and the cold shoulder. The same
symptoms in the movie studios did
not frighten him in the least. He
may have set his jaw little more
firmly but he was bound to succeed,
and he did
Novels of Rex Beach were among
the first American stories secured
by producers of the screen. Like
other eminent authors, Rex Beach
eolu tllC llSHto diu Sdlu llOlIlHS, ulu
nothing. He tried to visit the
director during the Shooting" but
was misdirected by the directors.
Then he went into production with
the Gcldwyn organization, labored
over the scenario scripts of his
stories, saw the director and gave
him his suggestions, helped select
the actors, choose locations for
scenes, edited and cut the completed
film. What he accomplished in this
way is evident i'll such pictures as,
THE Girl from Outside" ''The
Brand" and THE Crimson Gar
dena." The public liked them so
we'll that Samuel Goldwyn and Rex
Beach said, Let's have a group of
eminent authors in pictures"
The question then was, Will
established writer's give their brains
and time to motion picture produc-
ton?
Various producers laughed out
loud. The authors were making
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
Red Cross Meeting
Monday to Make Up
Slate for Election

At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Omaha chapter, Amer
lean Red Cross, the following men,
bers were appointed nominating
committee to meet Monday, Sep
TENDER %, at 2 o'clock, at chapter
headquarters in the court house:
R. S. Wilcox, ]. w. Gamble, M. C.
Peters, Joseph Hayden, Gould Dietz,
]. H. Beveridge. Leo Rosentlra1, Mrs,
c. M. Wilhelm, Mrs. Arthur Mullen.
Mrs. J. c. Dahlman.
The meeting will select 68 names
from which "a will be elected as d.
rectors for the Omaha chapter for
the ensuing year.
The election will be held Wednes-
day, October %, in the office of the
election commissioner of Douglas
county, and will be open to all men,
beers of the chapter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21

thors into screen production, so a
new epoch began with the feature
film. 1t did many things.
1t cost more money than the
rental of three or four of the ordi-
nary single reel dramas.
1t forced the movie theater pro-
prietor to raise his prices or in
crease his seating capacity.
He did both, at the same time de-
handing more and better pictures.
He made his theaters more at
tractive, more comfortable.
He. put in pipe organs, orchestras
and frequently gives better musical
programs than was customary in
regular theaters.
He put an end to the careless, art
less and pointless film plays. He
could not fill his theaters with peo-
pie to see them.
Better Stories for Better Theaters.
He had to have better stories,
we'll told and well photographed,
and he said the best writers tell the
best stories, give me photoplays
that live up to the books from which
the stories are taken. Give me the
best of the best authors, | want to
cash in on them. Make over the
most popular plays for the screen.
That is what is being done today
in motion pictures.
This is the answer to the croak-
ers who said that the movies were
a passing fad, that the industry was
colossus lettering to fall 1t has
been rather wobbly on its feet, and
many producers have seen fortunes
slip through their fingers, but the
crimes of individuals cannot per-
manently affect the industry and
the art.
You might as we'll say that news
papers were no good because they
distort news as the movies distort
stories. Or you might as we'll say
that railroads were futile because
now and then train runs off the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
Mystery of "Lost Vehicle"
Is Solved bV Police

The mystery of the 'Iost vehicle, :"
as reported to the police, was
solved Saturday afternoon when
Miss Alma Krebs, Selma Terrace
apartments, Park avenue and Leav-
enworth streets, called at the Cen
trail station for her "yaller critter,'
newly purchased automobile
which she left obstructing the side
walk near Seventeenth and Far
nam streets.
Police couldn't be bothered with
the obstruction and the car was
hauled to the station. 1t was not
until Miss Krebs reported the
theft" of her car that she was in
formed of the offense. An explana-
ton and pretty smile to the desk
sergeant won for her the return Of
her car.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
GEORGE INGERSOLL.


Funny things have happened in
motion pictures, both in films and
lin the theatrical world. No use
telling you about the funny things
ia the films. You have seen them
often enough.
Take the theaters themselves. 1t
twas nickel madness to 60 to them
I'M ell Is years ago. Many of them
were holes in the walls, worse than
cheap saloons.
Now they call the theaters pic
lure palaces. They have taken the
place of saloons as place to go and
| be refreshed. They are sometimes
as a menace to the regular
thcater and spoken drama. But are
they?
Regular theatrical producers were
once inclined to disregard the NOV
lies. They were a fad, and people
would soon tire of them.
But the movies chased the popu-
lar-priced melodramas out of the
cheap theaters. Where did they go?
Why the stories went into the films
land so did the stock actors and stock
directors. They knew melodramas
BY heart. They made up the stories
! tor movies as they went along. No
body paid money for stories in those
Idays. No established writers and
none of the theatrical producers paid
any attention to the biographs or
|cinematographs or Microscopes, as
|they were called.
How different it is today Seven
|of the most popular writers in Amer
lea have gone into eminent authors
|picturcs to put their novels into pho
|todramas. The great theatrical films
|of the Shuberts, A. H. Woods and
The Selwyns have combined with the
|Goldwyn organization to put their
[plays on the screen.
Today is certainly a promising
|dAy for motion pictures. The day
Nj the vampire is over and the day
|0f the story is here.
Clean Pictures "Have the Call"
Nakedness doesn't win a nickel
khy more. Clean pictures have the
|eall. Laughter and tears in
!ood clean picture with heart kicks
Rre what the public wants.
At the same time that prohibition
has increased receipts Of motion pic
lure thearers over 80 per cent, the
fecision Of writers like Rex Beach,
Rupert Hughes, Basil King, to take
bart in the screen production of
kheir novels will bring to the. thea
ut the reading public. Such
writer's, and Mary Roberts Rinehart,
Gertrude Atherton, Leroy Scott and
Souverneur Morris command
large magazine and book public.
Their contribution to the silent
dfama will be tremendously inter
listing.
oh, the Money Authors Make!
They must be getting big money
Aese daysl Think of writing one
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-21
Omaha School Girls Win
Canning Contest at Fair

Mary Haney. Anna May Boland
and Ruby Crippen, Omaha school
girls, won second place as a team
in the canning club contest at the
interstate fair at Sioux City.
These girls won in the Omaha
city contest a few weeks ago and
competed at the Nebraska state
fair. where they won the honors
that entitled them to enter the in
terstate contest.
Miss Haney also won prize at
Sioux City for exhibiting the best
set of IL jars of fruit.