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The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29

of the tire produce the only tire on
the market that climbs out of the
ruts. Moreover, these corrugations
afford marked additional resistance
to wear and depreciation.
The organization which developed
and is now manufacturing CORDU-
ROY CORDS is composed of men of
high standing in the tire field, thor
oughly conversant with the industry
from the condition in the rubber mar
kets OF South America to the view
point and needs of the ultimate con-
sumer. They have guided this enter
prise with unfailing success, beginning
with the selection of the site for the
plant down TO the last details Of a
finely organized sales, system, domes-
tic and foreign.
Obviously, here is splendid invest
ment opportunity. The Grand Rapids
Tire & Rubber Corporation is manu-
featuring a staple commodity for
which there is billion dollar mar
ket and. a constantly growing demand.
What is more, its product has an ex-
elusive, distinctive selling appeal
the rut-climbing feature. Few COM
panies face such favorable conditions
Indeed, every element of success is
present.
The detailed. story of the company
and its prospects is well told in an in
teresting booklet called "Tire Facts.
Write to the Grand Rapids Tire &
Rubber Corporation. 315 Kelsey Office
Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and ask to have it sent to you.-Adv.
COIJPON
Gentlemen:
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The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29
DRESS CENSORSHIP AND. THE
JACKASS

Isn't it about time that the women
folks of this country put a stop to
the antics of the mountebank who
PLAYS the tin Car at Zion City, Ill?
We refer to this "Overseer" Volt
va person, grand mogul of the old
Dowie church of fanatics who are
in the majority at Zion City. Voliva,
having the votes behind him, has
made a lot of tomfool rules for the
conduit of women. One is that wo-
men must always wear their dress
sleeves down to the wrists. Another
is that the dress must run clear to
the throat. The material in women's
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29
Fourth OF July Meeting

Ia be held at u. b. Camp Ground,
two and one-haf miles north Of Car
son City. Program:
1920 a. m, singing america, In
vocation, Rev. Chas. Hull, Music by
North Star Quartette, Missionary ad-
dress by Rev. G. Fleming, returned
missionary from Africa, Music by
Pleasant View Singer.
Picnic Dinner, in charge of Mrs.
James Stonebrook.
1:30 p. m, singing Battle Hymn
of the Republic, Invocation by Rev.
E. Drummond, singing by Glen Sparks
address by Rev. z. c. Clapp, singing
by Rev. E. Adams, prayer by Rev. c.
Ludwick, address bv Rev. H. Rowland
singing by Middleton Quartette.
Come and help make this day of
real patriotism.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29
Garden Note

Plants of late celery, cabbage, and
caulifiower are commonly set during
the first two weeks in July.
A good distance for planting the
late large growing varieties of cab
bage and cauliflower is 2 1-2 by 1-2
feet.
The soil should be moist and well
prepared for planting, otherwise
transplanting from the seed bed into
the garden or field may not be spc-
cessful unless the, plants are care
fully "watered in"
White or light colored stalks Of
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29

not less than 3 1-2 or feet apart,
but YOU will find that 5 or 6 feet is
better especially for the large grow
ing varieties. n,
Chinese cabbage or 'sceSery cab
bageD is best grown as a fall crop
Seed should be sown during the lat
ter part of July so that. the crop
will mature during the cool fall
months.
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clothes must not be in the slightest
bit gauzy.
A Mrs. Sarah Johnson, who is a
perfectly respectable woman of Win
throp Harbor, Ill, stepped off the
train at Zion City the other day. Her
sleeves didn't come down TO the
wrists Her waist didn't reach up
to the middle of the throat and Vo-
liva's chief of police thought that the
dress goods might have been thicker.
So he clapped her into Jail.
This is plain outrage. Another
case of man barking back 1000 years
of the time when he had complete
censorship over the female of the
species. In our opinion Mrs. Johnson
ought to plead guilty to whatever
charge this jackass of Voliva makes
against her and then appeal from his
decision to the highest court of the
land. We think that here are plenty
of women in the United States who
will be glad to help her finance such
an appeal
incidentally, we hear that Mrs.
Johnson is tn recipient of many
letters of encouragement from her
angry sisters in Illinois. If you think
she has been martyred by the prison
cell treatmet, why not write her?
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29

The Goodrich price reduction
which took effed May and was
without reservation. II included
SIvsrtowns together with4 Good
rich Fabric tires and Goodrich Red
and Gray inner tubes.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29
WHO GETS THE CHAMPAGNE?

We note the following sad COM
rlaint from France. told in cable
dispatch from Paris:
"That French grape growers and
wine merchants are greatly disap-
pointed at the slow increase of wine
shipments to the United States since
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29

the war; that only 5000 more bot
ties of champagne were shipped here
during the first five months Of this
year than during the corresponding
five months last year. The dispatch
said that total shipments so far this
year to the u. S. were only $4,000
bottles, indicating that we would take
no more than 100000 bottles OF
champagne this YEAR"
Ahem! So some people in this
country have been able to get $4,000
bottles of champagne in this strict
probition year of 1921. Necessarily
those $4,000 bottles Of highly expen-
sive wine had to go through the Gus
tom service of the same government
that is supposed to enforce prohibi-
ton. Who are. the people favored?
We suppose some doctor will re-
mark that the champagne was for
sickness. But how about the mil
lions of bottles of wine that were in
storage when prohibition went into
effect? Is that all gone? And who
consumed it? Moreover, if it is still
in storage why add $4,000 to it in 5
months?
There has been a great deal said
that prohibition is for the poor man
and not for the rich man. 1t behooves
our enforcing authorities to see to
it that this law applies to everybody.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-06-29

Notice Wabasis Club Members
Formal opening of the club will
be on Sunday, July 10. Make your
reservations as early as possible
with the stewards Lloyd l.. Under
wood or Vern r. Brown. 2w
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

heart" literally. At most it can
mean nothing more than that the
roles I play are naturally and nee
essarily the kind that evoke the
largest possible measure of sym
pathy and affection from the audi
ence
But it isn't me, the real me, they
sympathize with or love. It's the
girl Of the authors lima gination, the
unreal character l try my best to
make seem real.
I've never played a part that even
family resembled myself. 1t would
be stupid of me to think of doing
such thing. 1t would make. sucn
a completely embarrassing charac-
terization. That Is the reason I
hold firmly to the opinion that no.
body in the world-outside my
family and personal friends-can
have the slightest interest in my
real individuality. 1 hold this TO
be true in the case of every actor.
Our Private Affairs.
To be ones self on the screen or
on the stage is not to act at all!
Wherefore an actor who really
wants to amount to anything in his
profession, tries always to be as
different as possible-in every role
he plays-from his real SELF,
Doing this, and in the doing es-
tablishing ones actor-self in the
affections of ones audience, makes
1t most inadvisable to destroy all
the illusions so created by delib-
erately showing ones self to be
quite a different person in real life
But altogether aside from the
matter of good judgment, there is
the natter>>of right to be consid-
cred
How much right has the public
to know about the personal side of
the men and women who furnish
their amusement? realize per-
fectly that we are all servants OF
the public-but isn't our obiiga-
tion to eur public paid when we
give to our work the best that's
in us?
/ can understand that. public
policy demands that the innermost
secrets of a statesman's life be
made public property, since the
well being of a peoples is in the
balance But for . who, at most
are unimportant purveyors of en-
tertainment for a passing hour or
so-should this barring of. our inner
selves be necessary? / think not
Public policy does not demand IL.
And from the. actors standpoint.
good taste rebels at the thought.
On the other hand, every tiny de-
longs to the public which has been
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

was the most wonderful thing
ever went through. am sure
nothing again w'I ever equal the
joy that was mine that night l
wasn't a bit afraid 1 loved it.
1t was fairyland taken bodily out
of fairy books and made real to me
for me to enter and leave. to live
to tire in a while. and then return
to the mundane sphere-only to
dream OF the gorgeous mysteries
that lived behind the footlights!
SIS . Week.
Not a whit less wonderful was
that first salary envelope, with its
crisp. new IS bills-three Of them!
SIS.
Almost as much as mother re-
ceived from her roomersi More than
she earned with her needle in the
same length of time! Why it was
nothing less than marvellous!
/ can remember now that the won
der of it all struck me chiefly be-
cause the money was real real
money to come from a land of per-
petual make-believe.
Had the salaries these players
received been as unreal as the roles
they played. as the gloriously happy.
artificial lives they led-behind the
footlights-I should have still felt
that they were to be envied above
all people. To share in their joyous
hours, and to be paid for it in ac-
tual coin of the realm-well, it was
quite too wonderful!
At first my chances came infre-
quently. For weeks at a time the
stock company's bill would include
no child's part. At such times ]
would be nearly disconsolate. But
then would come the "call'-that
beautiful. professional word that
above every other means most to
your actor-infinitely more than a
mere summons to work, a notifica-
ton that salary-drawing is to be-
gin again.
For ten years-uRtil I was Isl
worked in the theater. 1 gave tc
my work all the enthusiasm, all the
zeal which a child in love with what
ii is doing will give.
Is 1t too much to say that in this
period l learned my business, and
learned II thoroughly? 1 wonder.
In any event 1 smile often when ]
think of the many wise gentlemen
with large tortoise shell spectaeles
who sigh deeply and give vent tc
profound regrets that motion pic
lures should have recruited their
most successful stars from among
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
MARY PICKFORD TELLS OWN STORY OF RISE TO FORTUN
Mary so, aegius ..t.h The dey, ey n,eaes aeidohoed

Mds story begins ufth the daysof her mothers ttdo0ehood
DO without doddi"
problem thoagh to- Until now'
problems 1ophy had dTthiu the experience of MIS-
Charlotte of ceo-do Irish fomy Toronto Hnnessy
object affections er recent school
What, indeed they do ufthoaa thew doddyh
Mary Gladys Smieuen then aged oond DC to1er of
Ma years of oy
greater ibortane intensely practical and helpful and fertile
credtivcly imaginative -'s...
Whavcr hd9bend housr black the future the mother knev that
GLADYS aOHd cheerful ocorkcr " cH that
For the other drenLOe only and Jack Just learning
olean only and trO"b and 'oHd mean nothing
for long time
The father had ambitions Young Engshmon
Bnfdi. An athlete
ability oUeoIng health and SPIRITS he refused
seriously accident ~ resulted his death nntH
Hoeud bound across Lake Ontario nod been o"g about Nth
his brother officers jumping deck As he cleared obstacle
against oOvrhongng The force
knocked him for fru minutes
dali in his head but dismissed
aeh1s of nd several dos each
dav the pain erv Vrse
oy physician The medical promptly and gd9ey o9erode his
and his duties pne the
Bafdio-bomrd
frantic q suddenly shocked INTO realisation of the
specialists at the BEDSIDE OF the dying
to aVui anything 1t aS too late exc"
for examination.
With death of her father Ma'y takes up her 0f" story
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so generous to me. There is notn-
ing 1 am not ready to tell about
my work-and 1t is a tale not too
poor IN detail, inasmuch as since !
was almost all I've known has
been work. That Mary Pickfo=1
belongs to the public--and about
her / am glad to tell all there is 70
be told
loved my work-everything
connected with it.
hope to be believed when I say
don't place too much Importance
on the fact-although there is tes-
timony in abundance to prove 1t is
fact-that l made good in those
early roles, pleasing critics and au-
diences and management alike.
The standards of acting demand
ed of a stock company in Toronto
are not so high as to make sue
cess there cause for conceit.
But making good did have at
least two valuable consequences
1t helped the family purse more
and more, and ii gave me the self
confidence so necessary for your
actor-if he is to surmount the
hard periods of idleness all too
frequent in this most uncertain of
all the professions.
Whether because the shrewd
manager decided l had acquired a
following and that it was good
business to have me in the cast as
often as possible, or whether II
was Just chance. the fact remains
that presently there were few bills
In which there was not a part for
me.
By the end of the first year ]
was seldom idle. But finally !
chance came for Lottie and Jack
also, That made me very happy,
for / had little difficulty in per-
suading the manager to let my sis
ter and brother prove that act
ing was an Unborn trait with mY
family!
BY this time l had passed beyond
that first stage of childish ingenu-
business regarding the weekly pay
envelope. 1 had discovered thai
acting was a profession and thai
the actor was an artist worthy OF
his hire.
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teers Johnny, his fathers son.
Gee, 1 hope they got good fight
in this picture-or something-"
Take the children, mother, and
enjoy yourselves" says father.
burying himself in the evening
paper.
Does Not Deceive Herself.
And there II is. The next day.
and for weeks to come-until an
other of my pictures is shown in
that town. hold no place at all in
the concerns of this family. Why
should 1? After all. Il is very won
derful, of course, TO have proof
come to you every day that your
work is appreciated and that char
acterizations you have tried hard to
make effective have been favorably
accepted-but ] should be very
stupid and frighdully conceited II
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

The stage As Found 1t.
Twas in the world of the theater
say . word right here and now.
And 1 speak from experience.
There are many worse places
than the stage and many worse
environments than actor folk create.
was in the world of the theatre
for 10 solid years In that time l
played many parts in many COM
panies under the worst possible
kind of conditions But in all that
time 1 never heard a word spoken.
never saw an act committed, never
was conscious of an unspoken
thought-that would have been out
Of place in the best home on earth.
To the stage I owe much OF my
inherent faith In human nature.
To the men and women who were
so unfailingly kind and considerate
even to those men who were
chronically profane (but who fore
bore to swear in my hearing) and
to those women who. to make
easier the pain of realization of
ouasi-faIIure, had turned to smok-
ing and drinking (but who never
smoked nor drank in my presence)
to these gentle actor folk l am
and ever shall be grateful
For they all, without prearrange-
ment. without perhaps conscious IN
tention, conspired together In a
common purpose to make my girl
hood as clean and good and opti-
mistic as a girls can be- Wherever
they are at this moment-God bless
them all!
A Visit to the Manager.
Mother took me to the manager
herself. He was kind to me, and
promised TO give me a chance the
very first time he put on q play
that called for a child actress. OF
course I was exquisitely thrilled at
the idea of going on the stage.
With other children OF my own
age I had "acted"-in neighbors'
Earrets with bent pins the ad-
mission fee
OF course! What child hasn't!
But I had loved it more than
much. Although, so far as we have
ever been able to discover. there
never was an actor before in any
branch Of our family-it seemed as
II 1 must have inherited from some
unsuspected source a real passion
for the theater. Now that really
truly manager had promised
should play in a really. truly play
l was on airi
That first performance stands out
indelibly in my mind even now. II
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world owes Iand paysD great trib-
ute
The Real Woman.
She told me many things ans 7
appreciated and understood No.
viewpoint. He would be a very
stupid man indeed who failed to an
rreciat" and understand anythin-
she said. And vet
HOW rs one 10 tell the story Of
Mary fiCkford-h0wcver scrupp-
l"usIy one may try 10 remember al
ways that the tale must be con-
hneu 10 her reel, not real person.
ality-and hanish from ones nina
the thousand and one warm. hS-
man. fascinating. maCnifcenflv
simple qualities that 60 10 make
her the best thing given us TO
know woman"
How can ] ever begin nv tasE
restricted az she would have me re-
strict IL to 2 consideration Of bcr
professional career-and hope rher.
will be IN the telling Of the tale
any part Of the truth ] know aboyt
her? And such truths, They are
too inspiring and clean to be denied
expression,
After Her Divorce.
I saw her ono day shortly after
her return to Los Angeles from the
little town in Nevada where she
had won her freedom from her firs.
husband.
The local newspapers were fun OF
the divorce, rejecting the whole
worlds morbid interest. Reporters
by the score, in person and over
the telephone, were clamoring for
statement. When she received
me in the seclusion Of her little
bungalow / found her in the rags
and dowdy makeup Of the heroine
OF Hop o Me Thumb" later to he
renamed ''Suds"
(The worlds exhibitors were i'm
patiently awaiting completion Of
this release" The play must co
on. The hummer can indulge n
no such luxury as a respite so long
as the camera is in working ord ertD
For all the world she seemed like
some poor performing little dog,
very tired and very hurt from
many urdeserved beatinEs. And 20
was for sparing her that day.
We could go on with the inter,-ie W
later. But she would not have
it So
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
Noted American Screen Star
Gives Record of Career from
The Days of Her Childhood.
Story Starts With Death of Father, Leaving
Family Poor, and Little Girls Efforts to
Help Mother Support Other Children.
MARY'S OWN STORY.
(Copyright, is2l.)

writer made
Nx/ do she did
w roomers-bu a boarding house! And that's
VIII his writer said.
But We never had boardes
/ can't much difference between and
boarder but when that article appeared know made mother very
angry upset suppose there is difference when
o think about
any event. did time take
boarders.
the of the local stock
He fancy and had encouraged recte
pieces mother and told her he
would give job in the theatre 1t
my mother didn't object
Thank heaven for good that
thanked heaven
which abundany gted-but
especially showed itself right then most
mothers enlightened days and less
would object strenuous the idea OF their
the
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
nv HAYDEN TALBOT.

By HAYDEN TALBOT.
MISS Pickf6ed is a real girl.
The speaker, one OF the oePal1 =
mental heads of the vast ousIiiess -
organization whose sole reason 10,
being is the WORLDWIDE appeSt OF
a slim Of a girl to tens OF miiiloHs
Of cinema patrons, was concleaIhS
his appraisal of his employer-MarS
Pickford.
unwittinEly, perhaps, he epito-
mized the most striking character
Istic of the little screen idol. For
above everything else that is just
what Mary Pickford is-a real girl
To those whose acquaintance in
cludes actor folk will appreciate
-he significance Of this statement
by recalling the trait common 70
almost all mummers, a seemingly
ineradicable tendency to act at all
times, to live unreal roles in real
life. In such as these the mark OF
the actor is as plain to see as the
Cderifsrous aura enveloping the
fishmonger however far moved
from his market stall.
Not so Mary Pickford.
Yet. perversely enough, the little
girl with the deep blue eyes ana
wistful, serious manner is strongly
opposed TO letting her world Of
worshippers know her as she is. As
Tess of the Storm Country, as
"Pollyanna," as the pathetic hero
inc of Daddy Long Legs-as
screen artist and nothing else
would Mary Pickford be known.
often as she narrated her story
to me, a faint smile overspread her
features. In the twinkle in her
eyes was just the suggestion of the
mischievous heart of her. At these
moments; / glimpsed the Celt in
her-the Celt that kept alive laugh
ter in the heart of this 27-year-old
girl-in spite Of % years of the
hardest kind Of work
No printers ink in all the world
can do justice to this wonder wo-
man. To use IL is as incongruous
as would be the use of blacksmith &
tools on a Swiss watch. The fines,
vellum, an old-world quill pen
these the adequate equipment-ano
then the grace Of Byron. the
poetry of a Burns. the sentiment OF
a Barrie. the fitting mental quail
fications for him who would linn
the likeness OF the girl to whom a
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

the ranks of amateurs with no
knowledge of the world of the
spoken drama!
Unquestionably not a few men
and women without experience In
the spoken drama have reached i'm
portant places in the silent drama
As the new art grows in richness
and more and more proves its right
to exist as a distinct and separate
thing-undoubtedl there will be
many new luminaries whose expe-
rience will be confined exclusively
to portrayals of roles before the
camera.
But for the life of me I cannot
see why this should be held against
the art. And now at least it is not
true that motion pictures include
only actors to whom the spoken
drama is a sealed book.
UptiIted Scorn Of Movies.
realize the prejudice that exists
against motion pictures-compared
with the spoken drama. One would
have to be deaf and blind not to
realize it.
For ten years 1, myself, looked
upon the movies" with all the up
tilted-nose scorn which only ignor-
ance can excuse.
In those days, of course, motion
picture theaters were of the cheap.
pesp-show type. The pictures them
selves were absurd crudities. But
the fact remains that in those very
same days was learning-as
Gladys Mary Smith--all the rudI-
ments of acting which subsequently
were to enable. me to win my pres
ent position in the film world-as
Mary Pickford.
| The Real Me.
But it isn't l. the real l. the pub
| lie cares about. 1t isn't to see me
they pay their money at the box
office. 1 know it isn't.
| Would you like to know what
really happens any aight in any
home in any town where a picture
of mine is being shown?
Well, after supper mother tells
father that she is taking the chill
dren to a picture show and asks il
he would like to come along.
whats the picture?" asks
father.
"A Mary Pickford picture"
mother says. Mrs. Morrison saw
it last night and says it's good"
| Not for me-" says father. Mary
Pickford bores me to death-just q
bunch of curls and no brains. !
don't like that kind of stuff. I like
a man'st story with something 10
it."
| How can you say such awful
things. daddy" protests 10-year-
old Ruth, daughter of the house
| 1 think Mary Pickford's 'dorable"
Sometimes she's good" volun-
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
Herald Starts Inspiring
Story of Mary Pickford
From Stage Girl to Star
Exclusive Autobiography of Filmdom's Most
Famous Character to Appear Daily in
Washington's Brightest Newspaper.

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The next installment OF
Mary's story will be found
in tomorrow's Herald