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Show THE PBOVO POST A Trip to the Photo It play Studio with Mr . Griffiths COLUMBIA (Continued from Previous Issue.) REAL WEALTH MEANS WHAT NO TIME TO CRIPPLE RAILROADS Not, many feet from the exact Spot where the Collier's Weekly proves that - national defirst thought of Thrift Day originated, and with- fense would be impossible in case of war with in arms reach of a business thoroughfare where Japan with our present railroad facilities, to thousands are daily passing, are the earthly re- move an army, munitions and supplies on the mains of a man whose words of wisdom and ad- Pacific coast with limited trains, monitions for thrift are proverbial the world and limited hours. over. : The Weekly says "editorially Feb. 17 This same -- Poor Richard often! been - .The year 1916 gave our railroads 9 lift, but out as a fine example of his own teach left them still the weak sister of dnr "national pointed ings applied. Practicing what he preached, his economic household. The railroads did more life was an excellent demonstration of live an: work than ever before 'in their history and got ' more money, for it, so that, in spite of the heavlet live. iest taxes and expenses ever known, they broke There are many other prominent men of hisall records for net earnings. tory esteemed as great (because of. not alone The seamy side of the record is fewer males their fine words of help, but their actual deeds! of new track were built than in any one of the which prove the practicability of living when the hard time years that followed 193.. They did true principles of of new track per month in- - such mile a are applied as in not lay thrift. By way of example and precept, the track" hungry states as Arizona, Colorado, Iowa. thrift lesson has J)een taught, well. But, has the Missouri, NebraskaNew" Mexico, South - Dakanti Wyoming. lesson been well learned ; and has it been applied otas Texas.-Utain a practical way! The entire years increase of trackagewas - The study of thrift is well worth being taken less than one half of 1 per cent of the total now ' strictly to heart by every one. It is easily learn operated, a rate of growth which," when comed, easily applied, and the results are sure and pared with our countrys annual increase in pom almost immediate. But before applied, there is ulation, production, wealth and all the other eleand that must be ments Which call for more transportation, b required a certain seen to be both ridiculous and alarming. est -- one. The investing public has gri yen its verdiel As producers, this nation is among the highest; and the present is, perhaps, the most ad- on the situation in no uncertain terms. In 1911 leading railroads vanced and favorable period in history. There the stocks of the twenty-fiv- e were worth some and above ninety reigntf in this country almost universally for in- averaged well dustrious workers, a happy content with abund- wenty dollars more per share than the stocks ance of necessities and many luxuries of life. This of a like number of big industrial und manufac' situation is rather a passive one of fortune. turing corporations. ' stocks war the ahead, the got It is the result of favorable circumstances rather factory During an ir worth cn now are ahead and average than of tactical thrift. But the posiion is not iept dollars some more to ten market the open twenty prepared for real emergencies, as true thrift should make it. It is not tenable. The or- er share than are the like securities of the railganization is vulnerable from many standpoints. roads. Worse than that, these railroad stocks Tbe inere piercing of the shell, but a not extra- average lower now than they did , during the , . . . ordinary adversity, would shortly reveal a fata! period of 1911-1think factories investors This means that weakness. Proof of this assertion is shown by strikes, the safer buy, the stronger property. It means crop shortages, over and under productions, re- also that our economic growth is getting lopsulting in the- - suspension or stoppage of mamu sided. like a farm which had specialized in buyfncture and other business. In localities thus af- ing plows, threshers, etc., but neglected its draft . fected, the preparedness(I) of communities, yes, animals. dedefense and national national over is Moreover, often night. multitudes, swept away There are many good ways to start a thrift velopment are both impossible without the need1916 campaign for oneself and thoroughly acquire the ful steady increase of railroad facilities, and did nothing to meet this need. Economic stateshabit. Here is one : Start right in by waving aside the very first manship should make 1917 tell a better story. 0'"0 0 over indulgence that is presented. And, as confronted by, others, discard, one by one, all those t SURFACE JUST SCRATCHED . things unnecessary to one hundred per cent ef Investors are finding in Utah a wonderlanl ficiency in living.1 When considered in this light, it is neither of treasure" only awaiting capital for its uncovbard nor irksome. It doesnt mean nor is it re- ering. The great mountains of Utah with their store houses of treasure have been only scratched quired to be penurious, stingy or miserly, or ti livMining men have only just begun to find- that give up anything really neceasary to correct of low grade copper ore are not uning. live well and right, but give up those mountains common in Utah, that billions of tons of coal arj things which, past that point, seem extravagant, awaiting the pick of the miner, that there are over indulgent, over luxurious, Poor Richard-- says: Buy what thou hast vast quantities of lead," silver, gold and' zine in need of, and ere- long thou shalt sell thy neces- every mining district in the state, and that raNo one need say what these needless dium in commercial quantities is found depositsities. in parts of Utah." With conservative legislathings are. Ones own, best judgment, if honestly ed tion, low taxes and a helpful spirit of followed, will be a sure guide. j toward industry on the 'part of public offi tion few a and Remember this, profit by it, only Utah is destined to become one of the great days, maybe hours, perhaps minutes, and there cials, will be a surplus of money for which there will es states in the Union. . appear no immediate use.' This is the very first j time the in a short of In of other how thrift. mnch words, production; result and reward powers be am- - projfit surplus there is in work when the items will such holds a to who purpose person azed at how little is really necessary for complete paid out the expenses-Hi- re induced to ' simple his with larger normal demands. and happy living, as compared self-econo- h self-analy- sis r an-hon- for-tifie- 3. . ,,. - 1 1 - - co-ope- ra ( J Mr. Griffiths was once an actor. He has a fine voice. It carries like a fiugie call, and without apparent ef Tort he can make himself heard at a remarkable distance. The thief, or thieves undoubtedly heard him, but they kept the cups. He Is 'the soul and very incarnation of patience an Important factor in ,his success. Once he had. a battle scene In The Birth of a Nation fully rehearsed and ready to .shoot the next morning. At the appointed time all hands urge oq thfe location. Just as the movements were to begin, one playing an important part, found the wrong hat. There was nothing to do but send a man on a motorcycle eighteen miles to get the right hat while 30,000 people waited. ' Did Griffith rave, swear and tear 'his hair after the manner of the usual t stage or movie director, who always meets' a trying situation by giving an ' exhibition - of. temporary insanity, called "temperament ? sometimes too No he is bir a man. All he did waa to phone dlrections for everybody to star where - they were until further orders and then hurst - Into v song. In his youth he had ambitions he wanted to be an actor, he wanted to write plays and he wanted to, sing in grand opera and studied the mas ters. It is wonderful to what effective uBo 'dperatfe music may be pot In a trying situation by Griffiths, who always sihgs when he is In the greatest quandary. , He seems to- maintain his mental poise In this" wav. The deeper the hole he W in, th louder he will sing. The depth of his perplexities can usually be gauge' d1 by the volume of his tone. But music Is not always the sgn of a troubledspirit In him. After a long and hard day's work directing in the studio or on a location, when his actors are tired out t and ready to drop in their tracks, he will star singing a ballad, as fresh as when : he- began work tn the morning. a of a be picture part directing u5y ; 3 Saturday Matinee Only GEORGE KLEINE Presents The Greatest Photoplay of the Age: THE.LAST'bA YS OF POMPEII? M lr T Saturday Night House Peters and Myrtle Sledman tn- of 3 Wcment Thai Happiness A 8DFEJnR 6JWRT -- A ... , - FJOTAMOUNT- COMEDY CHIMPANZEE lonesome: lake: chmedy 7 , 1 ATanday March 5 Matinee1 4 p m. Ttheljoixep ti 1 -- -i Story of a Girl Spy? ' A ( H-- - Harold Lockwood und May Allison - Pidgin Island Adapted. From Harold MacGrath w ee Great Navel are employed, In which-thousa- nds working under a tremendous mental Tuesday March 6 pressure and yet, he will pause between. scenes and warble strains, ot g.Vnd opera as If 'his only vocation. in hfe were singing to the multitude or he" wll start to josh those Jesse L. Lasky - about him. f. While N directing one of the bis battle scenes In Intolerance in ths very midst of excitement in those battle Beenes with thousands ot ' Presents , Fanny Ward one of to -- ina laugh ana Great way t next Instant he telephones or attack here, more a spirited dering more 'smoke there, another scaling tower pushed against the walls of Babylon and more action along the whole line. Sometimes In the twilight, after a hard day. of directing, with his staff and some of his stars about him he will throw, out tats arms with an expression of delight and converse on subjects entirely foreign to their work, quoting lines of poetry and He prose which fit the occasion. some of rehearsals the directed hs tire location' with his assistants at when the tall for lunch comes, he of his stars to best advantage in Cal- a pace Utah kept them on the nuu It ways taka for coffee. This is hi jthls romantic twilight, which, insee tte chief stimulant. He seldom drink; ifornia is moBt appealing In its- quiet was a oommon ' Bight beauty. During the taking of some of Chief" rushing about at the top wtoe er beer and prefers a glaas his open air scenes he has sometimes speed, ef his squar"beel an toe milk above all beverages.. He new noticed a little child, and though It gait;, giving orefers here and there, smokes while directing. While on thr may have been dirty and to tatters, wlthi three or four men puffing at hts outside locations he wears a ltd he would take It up in his arms and Ueeha' The harder they would try to straw - hat punctured with nur talk to it. plaint He Is a marvel to physical staying kem np with, him the faster he would hole, and a pair of orange tint?' bro ly, ef them seemed to glasses. powers. When he waa layfcg out the walk. Not "anther "Intolgreat Babylonian scene to were being used as The ( - suspect they erance," he would walk ever the en- makers by the great director, who. link to Si wanted a little exercise and grinned -cumstai seemed heard he time himself within every ' It sheds puff at his elbow. iy : rep The diversion tab really loves is ' merits 0 dancing. He believes dancing the couple most ascient and beneficial of all between physical exercises. "Node the fight' It give ing. people of the world, he once reports sald.-the- y ere dsj3cerl.UTerr.9ne.of can terr them.' All the conquests have been, It takes won by dancing people, and all 'the ' have ogplzed been great achievements t that if ; wrought by nations who dance. rade the The perfect physical condition he bi vould trealways enjoys accounts for the border ai mendous energy he displays on ail ley.- occasions, backed by .4 dynamo of s TUESDAY brain which seems never to tire un- -, cnly pron der any circumstances. mag March 6 infli He also has the ability to do sevhere, wh eral things at once. He has been ALICE BRADY nlito e seen gt one time reading ' letter, Then api holding a conversation 'and listening in kEAlRTlAWr showed th a singing rehearsal. "At another Caming to Princess soon In to tire Uext A WOMAN ALONE - he was noticed eating his lunch, dic-- Devils Pay Day. rJ- - t February tating to his stenographer, talking Scene from "The Devil's Pay Day.,fr Francis X. Coming finance, it to his property man and watching a turlng Leah Baird, which eomee Ing the "e Bushman.- -' e rehearsal r dancing .priestesses j. Princess this week. goverhtnen In "Intolerance." . ' - -PaPers she After a hard' varktn POST WANT warning, ranzas pro he men; turned his assistants, .with yeled above the din, The t make a living. was at a battery" of Betty to t. e Rescue A Gripping Story of the California Mines fe f l ee J Pev r . I - Next Week - Saturday March 3 V Devils - MONDAY . IKS March 5 y Featuring ' r LEAH BAIRD -- I Wonderful Features, 15c Matinee Daily 4 p. m. 5c & 10c The Pay-Da- 1 - Mary McLaren in MYSTERIOUS MRSr M Produced by the 'Smalleys who gave us Where Are My Children, etc Ilypo-,crites,Shoe- t.awrrUI . -- 4 H. of-th- If1 munitions might cut |