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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27
Read This First and Then
You Can Follo,U the Story
MELLA MORELAND. most

MELLA MORELAND. most
~ famous of movie stars. hears that
IN unknotcn girl, Annette wilkins,
has fallen in lore rith Roland
WeNes. an idol ot>the screen.
Reports SAP that lVeileS is going
to put Miss wilkins into the movies
and stand sponsor for her career.
Miss Moreidnd. to Sdre annette
the suffering that she herself has
gone through because Of her love Of
WelleS, decides 10 put her ,chole cr-
perience dozen on paper so that
Annette can see phdt kind Of man
WelleS really IS.
From day to day, as time permits,
she sits dolcn aud lays bare her rery
soul for the benefit Of the unknotcn
girl.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27

blue eyes looked life sQuarely in the face
and are not afraid.
Mr.. Tucker used to tell NE to Play
it from here. with both capable.
>patuIate hands pressed 70 her diaphragm
and I'd look ut him bankly and
say But | don't know what you
mean! ! do now. I know it's the
secret OK az great actIhg' rom mere
.IeuhS . 10 pay 1t from 'he uep'hs VI you
from your very soul
\ lo' Is sald ABOUT tne technlque OF
arLLhs' uoh qH!'e KNOW "hat Is
meant. bIt thIS gesture means
despair ana that gesture means Sor
roW-ahu IL tecnn'que-l nope !
never get II: but II technique Is the
"Ft ot throWlhs EourseIl "hoIIE ana ao-
Ho'u,eH INTO tIe eiHotIon OF your scene
10 el'ihlha'e se1i-'Aeh l want H.
"\hi Hen tests were taken by ZEN
w rhyn Stanlaws, my director, for
Peter Pan, he gave me a very diff =
cult thing to do.
He said ! was to throw my head
back in delighted, spontaneous laughter,
and then sober quickly, and let the
tears come TO my eyes II wasn't so
hard after all. because for the moment
I was Peter Pan, looking through the
window at the little boy and his
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27
BETTY CONPSON
TELLS OF SEVERE
TEST FOR SCREEN
BY CONSTANCE PALMER
HnlIyunnI Calf

cd EACH-reach for the moon, and
~ if you don't get It. at least you
will have tried, and can try again :"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27

FAMILY THEATRErl4I1 \ Tn i1IHkHoSTI Mn5ks, s.
Norma Talmadge & Eugene O'Brien
in "GHOSTS OF YESTERDAY"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27

PARAMOUNT 2',9 m,&,SES : G!Isra 6AHr Ay.; =
Matt Moore and Gladys Leslie
In STRAIGHT Is THE WAY"
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To be continued tomorrow
War Yacht Used In Match Breaker

The Vcnetia, j. d. Spreckel's pleas
ur" yacht, whose funnel carries two
gold stars awarded for sinking sub
marines when the Ncnctia was in the
war as submarine chaser, has been
loaned to Metro Hs setting for some
of the scenes in The Match Breaker" "
in which Viola Dana is the star.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27
DOROTHY MACKAILL
IN u. S. 4. 30 DAYS
ACTS IN MOVIES
nOROTHY MACKAILL. the beauti-

nOROTHY MACKAILL. the beauti-
~ ful blonde who appears with Johnny
Hines in the Torchy Comedies, made
from the stories by Sewell Ford and
sponsored by Educational. was chosen
because she is considered an ideal type
of the American beauty. Yet Miss
Macleaill was never in the United States
until thirty days before she began work
in the first of these comedies, in the
autumn of 1920.
Miss Mackaill was born in Yorkshire.
England, in 1903. and from her parents
she inherited her ability as danseuse
and singer. The family moved to
London when she was child and be-
fore she was sixteen she became the
promoter of series Of dancing classes
at Newington Hall, where she attracted
much attention. However, it was in the
joy Belle revue at the London Hip
podrome that she really gained notice
and there she met Ned Wayburn, Amer
ican producer. who directed the spec
taCle and who advised her of the op-
portunity on the stage and screen in
this country.
A LMOST Immediately on her arrival
4 she joined the famous group Of
beauties who composed the Midnight
Rounders on the Century Roof, and
only few weeks later was engaged for
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Fifteen Ledger Contest Beauties
Face Movie Camera for First Time
afternoon Besrcood Nerer Be Forgotten by AspranS
but All Come Through to oistaction of Everybody


to
while the hot beat doH the roof the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-27

DEITY has just finished "At the
ID End of the World,' in which she
was directed by Penrhyn Stanlaws. the
artist whom Mr.. Lasky has made a
director. Her next picture, also to be
directed by Mr. Stanlaws, will be Clyde
Fnch's The Woman in the Case, ,"
Her voice is one you would l0v" to
hear. soft, distinct, living-and I hope
some day you will hear it on the stage
Miss COmpson hopes so, too. I should
like to sec her under Mr. Belasco's
tutelagc.
Her success is the result Of six years
hard work. She came from little,
far Western town TO Los Angeles and
comedies Times for her and her
mother were often very hard,
OF course it. is generally known that
she made her first big hit in The
Miracle Man" under the direction of
the late George Loane Tucker. He
took her direct from Christie two reel
comedies. realizing the depths and
heights which were hers, and gave her
the training which has made her a
star.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
WAR PRISONERS,

The report has been industriously circulated by
persons who have been active in the promotion of 4
movement for the release of persons imprisoned i'll
this country for ~offcnses against the government
during the war period that all the European gov
ernncnts had some time ago released their war
prisoners, and that the United States was the only
country participating i'll the World war which still
sheld in" confinement persons convicted Of sedition
Sand similar offenses. ~ &a+
/; An Investigation instituted by President Hard
ling, preparatory to the consideration in detail of
the cases of American war prisoners, reveals that
this statement is entirely false. Not only have the
4 European governments not released their war pris-
oners in general, but not one of them has done SO.
All persons confined because of conviction after
proper trial for offenses against anti-sedition and
i similar. laws have either completed the service of
their terms Of Imprisonment or are still imprisoned
The only persons charged with such ofenses who
.sbeena brought to trial, and who were being held
!. fnerely on suspicion or as a precautionary measure.
when the war ended, there were many persons
whose attitude had been doubtful and who for rea-
sons of national Safety had been placed in confne-
rnent or under surveillance, but against whom
specific charges had not been made; or if charges
had been made, these had not yet been tried. Such
persons have been released.
,N In the United States there are no persons held
ssby the federal government under this form of de-
ention. Gases which were pending: have been dis
@posedeof EITHER by the onvictio11@of-tlre suspect or
by his release, and in the matter of Imprisonment
of actual conviction of war offenders, the United
States is in the same position as that of the major
European governments.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
HISTORY AND THE PRESENT

In a paper read before the Fortnightly club
last week DR.. Perkins, of the University of North
Dakota, read numerous letters which he had copied
from the originals in the British museum relating
:lish statesman who lived some 200 years ago. The
reading was accompanied by illuminating exposi-
tory comment. +
The purpose was to present as accurate a pic
ture as possible of some of the conditions which pre-
vailed at that period and in, that countryside in
character written to or by one of the most active
and Influential men Of his day there was placed be-
fore those who listened to the reading a bit of real
life taken bodily from a past generation.
Volumes might be written about the revela-
tons given in these letters, as illustrating various
points in politics, sociology and morals. One
feature which stands out with remarkable clearness
is that of the unity and continuity Of life, and the
manner in (which the Activities Of the present are
linked up with those Of the past.
Instead of it being; a fact that we have no con-
Germ with the doings Of the men OF two hundred
or two thousand years ago, all the information
which we obtain relating to the lives of our. prede.
cessors demonstrated that: their experiences have a
very real and lively interest for us, for they were, in
the main just such people as we ourselves are, were
actuated by similar motives, and. when propel
allowance is made for the differences in their
environment, they conducted themselves much as
the people Of today comport themselves.
The ancients speculated on the problems of the
universe, and some of the means by which they
undertook the solution !of~those problems resemble
strikingly the means which we employ today. In
only a few things may the people Of any generation
be considered pioneers, and quite often we, who
deem ourselves. endowed with speculative wisdom
would be withdrawn from acts of folly if we should
study the experiences of men who lived long ago
who made experiments similar to those which we
make. and whose experiments sometimes ended dis
astrouslv. T.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
FoCH in NORTH DAKOTA.

Marshal Foch has been the recipient of many
oonors since his arrival in the United States, and
his experiences have been varied. But it is doubt
full if any episode during his entire visit will remain
more clearly in his mind than that at Bismarck,
where, in addition to the honors of a military nature
conferred on him, and the tributes paid to him by
the assembled citizens, he was made an honorary
chief of an Indian nation, and smoked the pipe Of
peace with one Of the old warriors of the Sioux
tribe.
In that meeting there were. brought together
in an interesting and impressive way the most con-
|spicuous representative of modern military science
and the representative Of the aborigines Of the
American continent. The modern soldier has ac-
quired, organized and used all that twentieth, cen
fury science can give to perfect the art of warfare.
while the Indian chief is removed but a very Short
step from the status of the primitive man who in
habited America when the western world was first
visited by explorers from beyond the seas.
The theme of the conversation of these two
men, each speaking in a tongue unknown to the
other, was not war, but peace. Each voiced the
universal human longing for peace, and the cere-
mony in which they participated symbolized that
longing and the expectation of it's fulfllment:
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29

ITO city ii, the United States would be safe9fron1
raids from the air by means of these flying or float
ing monsters. For the first time in the life. Of the
american nation, Americans would live in constant
.dition would be substantially tliat@of every other
nation in the world. Hence, it is peculiarly 5ap-
%propriate that the United States which, has never
yet passed through such experiences should take
the lead in a movement which IS intended to pre-
vent them forever. r. this movement now inaugu-
rated, proves unsuccessful, our safety is gone, and
We may live in expectation of our finest cities being
destroyed, our Industries wrecked. and of the fair
face OF our country being disfgured- by the awful
havoc of war. This we have never known, and a
supreme effort must be made TO, create conditions
which will make it impossible for us, and its rcpc.
tition impossible for all others.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
WHAT DO YOU.THINK.
OF MAIN STREET?

; Is it a true picture of life in q
small town In the northwest?
Are the people 1t describes real
people?
The Herald wants to know what
its readers think Of Sinclair Lewis
story and Is going to offer $40 in
prizes to find ont.
HOW TO WIN A PRIZE
Read. the story rs it appears
from day to day in the Evening
Herald When the last installn1ent
appears write q letter to the MAIN
Street Editor" Grand Forks Her
aid, telling whether or not you
think the story gives a true pic
turc Of life In. Gopher Prairie"
and just why you have formed the
opinions you express.
To the writer who gives the best
reason for whatever opinion he or
she has formed. we will. give a
prize of $10.< For the second best
letter We will give a prize of s..
and for the next seven. best letters
prizes OF 81 each.
No letter ahonh be more than
$50 words in length. {
The story is snch that you can
begin it any time, and get. a good
idea Of the picture 1t paints.
Here's a chance to win "a little
spending money just for writing u
short letter. - :
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
RURAL FIRE PROTECTION,

A writer in one, of the magazines describes a
method which is employed quite successfully in a
certain" district in Massachusetts to provide better
fire protection than is usually provided in a rural
district. .Insthat locality, the farmers have organ
lied themselves into a sort of mutual fire protec-
ton association, and have purchased a number Of
smafr"cheinical eNtinguis1ers, enough to supply one
to each farm home. The farmer receiving this
agrees to keep it in a convenient place and to pro-
tect it from freezing. Representatives of the asso-
citation make an annual inspection tour and deter
mine the condition OF the extinguishers: recharging
them il necessary, and replacing those which may
have suffered accidental discharge. When a fire
occurs, a general alarm is sounded by means of the
rural telephone. and not only does the farmer upon
Whose farm the fire breaks out use his own extin-
guishcr, but all his n%eighbors from a considerable
distance likewise respond with their cxtinguishcrs
and the result is something not quite equal to a
wcll-organizcd city fire cxtinguis,er, but something
very far superior to that which commonly exists in
a rural community. 1t is possible that something
in this line might be employed to advantage even i'll
the west where our farm homes arc much more
widely separated than they arc in the east, and
where OF course fire would have a chance to get a
better Roadway before outside assistance would be
available. Perhaps the main feature 81 the scheme
would be the possession by the individual of a
quick and effective means for dcaling2Wnh a fire
right at its inception while it is small and therefore
easily handled. e.,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
WORSE AND MORE OF TT

The Herald has commented from time to time
on the incapaeity of the lnanagementNof the Home
Builders association. and in a recent article on this
subject the excess of cost Of buildings constructed
by the association over the original estimates was
placed roughly at about 40 per cent. More recent
at Bismarck reveals the fact that this
estimate is entirely too low. 1t appears that, in
some cases the excess reaches dangerously close
to 100 per cent. The evidence of incapacity and
general Encouragement, therefore, becomes all the
more striking.
On the factssasp presented it is difficult to see
how the prospective@oWiiers of these homes can be
held for the dditional@caost Those who have made
binding contracts are presumably required to pay
according to the letter oftheir contracts, but where
contracts have not yet been completed, there is no
reason in law or morals why a man should pay
5000 for a building which the state had agreed to
build for him for $4,000, and chances are, therefore,
that many Of these contracts will be thrown up and
the property abandoned, to be disposed of at what
ever it will bring. The prospect now is that the
shortage which ION the books at the last Of this
month appearedst to be 81 900 and some odd dollars
will reach, about 100000 dollars, and the tax peyers
of the state will have this sum added to the cost Of
their experience with a Non-partisan League admin
a~istration..
The facts in this matter are not generalitics.
The Herald presents tables showing the original
estimate on a house, on the strength OF. which this
proposed wre authorized the state to 90. ahead.
andS1n a1other colur1nSiss given the actual cost so
far as now ascertained Of the same building.
The legal aspects Of the case are to.be ,inyes-
Itigated, but even if it should prove possible, which
seems unlikely, to compel all the individuals affected
to complete and carry out their contracts on the
basis. of this excessive cost, there seems to be no
good reason why this should be insisted on. II
the individual was given an estimate which was
represented as being complete and fairly accurate,
and there is reason to believe that he expected his
house 70 be completed At least measurably within
1.-The terms Of that estimate, he ought mot to be pen,
allied even If that is legally possible, for TIE
plumbers and perhaps worse than bluflders Of the
state administration Somebody must pay this
difference aaaItgnssk be paid either ~ the individual
home ownkrs 1r6y the taxpayers of the state, and
\ ii either case money is being paid out fof nothing.
1But the sfate ard - taxa&.H~. pAs4 ~ nex~4xed
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29
THE NEXT WAR.

1t is dcvoutly to be hoped that there will be no
next war. OF little local conflicts VIC may expect
many from time to time. just as even in the most
highly organized and orderly society, there occur
occasionally cases Of assault and battery. But that
the world shall again, be involxedHlza gigantic war
in which nearly all the mporfantgration partici-
pate is ulthinkablc. TO-
it is however OF some interest to the people of
the United States to speculate on what another
great war might mean to them. This nation was
peculiarly fortunate in being separated by the width
Of an ocean from the Old World during the period
OF its formation and early development. That phys
zeal fact tended. to separate us as we'll from the
rivalries, and complications Of national existence in
EUROPE Little by little as means of .conmunica-
st1al have been developed. we have been brought
into closer contact with theSrestsof the world, and
now our relations with other nations are Of the
most intimate character, and affect our lives at all
points and at all times. Our physical remoteness
from the scene of conflict in the late war meant a
great deal to us. IT delayed our entry into the war,
and it kept US from experiencing many Of the hor-
rors TO which the people Of other nations were sub.
Jected. That immunity is bound to disappear, and
if there should be another world war in which the
United States was al participant we should nottbe
able to live securely5a at home while viewing a con
hict carried on upon the soil Of another land. Such
conflicts there would be of course, but i've here in
the United States would experience some of the
agonies that were experienced BY our neighbors
across the seas 4 few years ago. Neither the At
lantic nor the Pacific would be an effective bar
rier against the onslaught Of invading hosts. TIL
great armies might not be landed on our soil, nor
already been t~rayersed BY airplanes in the space 81
Il few hours. III has been crossed BY means 81 4
dirigible, and should such another conflict occur sc
should be invaded from the Ait BY means. Of air
planes and dirigibllcs carrying thc ~clerIents Of de-
costs approximately The pfk aAfss ilfhsn car, !
Adirigiblc, the price of small submarine. These
aaeines could Re constructed by the fhousands and
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29

Carol Miltordjjsaa Minnesota sirl, grad
neapoiis: goes to chisaso'fes d Year, and
returns to st. Pail to work in a library.
After being there three years she meets
Dr. VIII kennicott, of Gopher Prairie,
and they are married.
through college, inc her library work,
Sarol has ambitions to live in a smaller
community, where she might spread the
Prairie is the usual small town, she
finds. and the residents Of the village
90 not quite approve of her. nor favor
ner ideas for changes in the town.
Carol quarrels with DR.. Kennicott be-
he does not give her a regular al
!owance for the household. He tells her
frankly tina she feels herself superior
to his -Village@friends. and is soaring
them away with her ideas.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29

In this instance, y in = good many
others, To pay for the blunders which
their public ssivsnts have made. This
IL one y the burdens which the tax
payer must pear for not attending
more intetltge rtlysto his own business.
s,This ~ but oneout ~ many instances
in which TAI burdens which Will bulk
very aisayiiy must b met and from
witch seme yery nnlutary laAessons may
Dc Aarns6, Is
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r xv.

: That December she wa in love
with her husband. 49,, {
She romanticized herself not as a
great reformer but rs the wife Of a
country physician. The realities OF
the doctors household were colored
by her pride.
Late at night, a step on the wooden
porch, heard through her confusion OF
sleep; the storm-door opened; fumb-
ling v the inner door-panels; the
buzz of the electric bell. Kennicot,
mutterings'Gol darn it," but patient
~ creeping out of bed, remembering
to draw the covers up to keep her
warm, feeling for slippers and bath
robe, dumping downstairs, . 81
From below. ha f-heard in her
drowsir1ess, a colloquy in the pidg1n-
German OF the farmers who have for
gotten the Old Country language with
out learning the new:
Hello, Barney, was whilst dug"
:Morgen, doctor. Die Frau list ia
awful sick. All night she been hav:
ing an awful pain I'M d. belly"
How iong she been this way? VIE
lang, Ell 2"
II dunno, maybe two days
why didn't you come for me yes.
teriay. instead Of waking me up out
Of a sound sleep3 Here it is two
l NASSNs ~ op1k - " h"a
Nun aber. / know it, but she go1
soch q lot. worse last evening". J
fought maybe all dc time it go away
but it got a lot worse"
ANY fever? :"
well, ia, I t'ink she got fever"
Which side is the pain on?"
"Huh?""s
"Das schmertz---die Weh-whict
side is it on? Here?"
sCn n& T{yh$ hoNnit icD r .
ANY rigidity there?"
HUH"
rs it rigid-stin-I mean, does tn.
~bellJsfeel hard to the fingers3"
I dunno. She ain't said yet"
What she been eating?"
we'll. l t'ink about vot We alwi.
eat, maybe corn beef and cabbas.
and sausage, und 80 weiter. Doc, sis
WENT INNER, al the time she holleI
Well, all right. but you call mt
earlier. next time. Look here. Bar,
ney. you better install a'phone-tele.
phone haben. Some OF you Dutch,
men will be dying one Of these day
before you can fetch the doctor"
The door closing. Barney's wager
the wheels silent in the snow.. bu'
the wagon-body rafting. kennicot
clicking. the receivcr-hook to rous,
LIE Il8uS SpuOHScUpS IoIOIs SlNltt& {
number. waiting, cursdng mildly, wait
ing again and at last growing, "Hello
Gus, this is the doctor. Say, ut. sent
me up q team. Guess SHOWS to.
thick for a machine. Going eigh;
miles south, All right. Huh? TIL,
hell. Il will. Don't o go back t.
sleep. { Huh? Well, that's all riEh
now; you didn't wait 10 very. darI
long. All right, Gus; shoot her along
By!y
His step on the stairs; his quie
moving about the frigid 0 whit
ne ~, e,ss so;xh nv = sns ~ msah :;
be asleep; she Was too exquisitei.
drowsy to break the. charm by speak
ing On q slip OF paper laid on til,
bureau-she could hear the pencil
grinding against the marble siab-h,
wrote his destination He, went out
hungry. chilly, pnprotesting; and she
before she fell asleep again. love.
him for his stnrdiness, and saw til,
-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-29

She encountered Guy Pollock at the
drug store. He looked at her ~
though he had a right to: he spoke
few days"
No. I've been out iii the country
with VIII several He so---