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CITY NEWS-DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1922.
WILL H. HAYS AT MINNEAPOLIS
Attends Contention of Minnesota Exhibitors——Takes all before him in
Enthusiasm, Confidence and Fellowship—Everybody solid for the big
things to be accomplished for the industry—Hays personality and
pursuaviseness can be seen in his speech reproduced in full.
There baa been some qutry as to
jut what this new effort which the
industry is making at this time is all
about. It is simply that these men
who make and distribute pictures
hare associated themselves to. do
jointly these things in which they are
group which llfud it# Und
even homicide were common inci-
dents in the opening: of yesterday's
oil fields and in the mighty struggle
for supremacy of the railroads of
the country. It is strongly euepected
too, that commerce wee horn ip. pir-
acy, end we know that organised so-
ciety itself was born ih the Utile
such association two great objectives
—and I quote verbatim from the for.
mal articles of the association, which
havo been filed in the office of the
secretary of state at Albany, N. Y.
1‘Estsbllshing and maintaining the
highest moral and artistic standard
in motion picture production, and
“Developing the educational as
well as the entertainment value and
the general usefulness of the motion
picture.”
This is not a vague gentlemen’s
agreement; it is the'legal statement
of a legal purpose by a legally or-
ganized body. Of course, it creates
no super-court autocratically to pass
upon pictures not to do many of the
other things which have been sug-
gested. The purposes of the associa-
tion are stated in its articles and I
respectfully submit to you that no ar-
ticles of association breathing a
more important message could well
be found.
My ows connection with the mat-
ter is simply to serve as the execu
tive head of this association to help
carry out these purposes. It was
first suggested to me on December
8th last year, but a committee which
came to Washington for the purpose.
I have never known why thpy came
to me. The suggestion merited care-
ful consideration. This I gave it for
several weeks, and on being convinc-
ed of the earnestness ana integrity
of determination of the producers
and distributers to carry out these
purposes and the reasonable possibil-
ity of large plans snd successful con-
summation,.! decided to do it. ___
Yoa will pardon the personal ref-
erence if I suggest that it was rath-
er a serious thing for me personally
to make this change in my whole
coarse in life. I did not undertake
Him task lightly. I rather thought I
had done my bit in politics and pub-
lic life, rather wanted soon to get in-
to private life, and whan this cr.me to
me out ot u clear sky, it seemed to
give that opening and yet afford an
opportunity for servicer—and I am
going to give everything that is in
me for this period to that service.
Have No Great Program of Reform
We have no greet "program of re-
form,” and 1 do not in any sense
come into the industry "new
broom" attitude. I am a tenderfoot
in the motion picture business. I
have said that what I did not know
about it would fill the Encyclopedia
Brittanicp, but 1 am learning some-
thing every day and doing the very
best I can to be of service in helping
develop the plans and execute the
purposes, moving in the direction of
our great objectives. One thing I do
know, and that is the honest ,-arpose
involved in the undertaking, and that
is the one vitally essential thing now.
The motion picture is essentially,
of course, an amusement. It is the
principal amusement of the great ma-
jority of our people and the solo
amusements of millions and millions
—and as such its importance is meas-
ured only by the imperative neces-
sity of entertainment for our people.
In the United States, in all the big
cities and in all those maple-shaded
towns and villages which comprise
America, there are perhaps 15,000
motion picture seats. Taking into
account at least two performances a
day and applying the collected stat-
istics, we estimate that within every
twenty-four hours between Maine
and California, from ten to twenty
million men, women and children
come to look for an hour or two on
the motion picture screen. They come
with no other preoccupation; notout
of duty nor out of solicitation, but
just in that mood of* reception and
relaxation, in that state of mind and
emotion which a master psychologist,
a great teacher, would 1vunt them to
come, having the skill and having the
desire to make the strongest possible
impression upon them. Obviously it
is true that the influence of the mo-
tion picture on our national life is
ipdeed absolutely limitless—its influ-
ence on our taste, its influence on
our conduct, its influence on our
youth, and its consequent immeasur-
able influence on our future and its
integrity must be protected just as
we protect the integrity of our
churches, and its quality developed
just as we develop the quality of our
schools.
The men who have pioneered in
this industry have already accom-
plished wonderful things. It has been
like an Arabian Nights story. There
is little wonder that these crowded
years have been in some respects a
chaos. The development of this in-
dustry is analogous to the develop-
ment of no other. When keen men
Haw the commercial possibilities in it
they set out in feverish haste on the
world-old quest of gold, just as the.
Forty-niners did when the word
came from Sutter’s hilt, that sent
them around Cape Horn and overland
across the desert, mountain and
plain, undaunted by peril, hardship
or savage. Picture pioneers set out
to dig gold just as men went to get
it in Alaska when-the Klondike flash-
ed its golden invitation to the spirit
of adventure.
Nor do we forget, as a matter of
history, that while the pioneer in any
business is always a romantic figure,
his conduct fresuently does not meas-
ure up to the best boarding school
standard. Force and trickery and
be able to show the results of our ef-
forts
While asking for your aid sad co-
operation, I would like to ask, too,
that you judge Us by out actual per-
degree will recede all demands for since the advent of pictures the
censorship. i whole, regardless df age, can go to
of course, for political censorship will1 *
of course, for political casorship will 80... ... ..
not do what is hoped for it in the last I Much has been done with the mo-
analysis. Now and then some one tion picture already aa an instrument
might ask: “If the motion picture 0f education, but the surface has
produce™ really mean to make better been ^r^hed. Certainly the
pictures, why do they object to pol. educators of the country are awak-
w« toC%nhrJ^tion wM wri^ I 10 , .
when human nature was formed; at Pofhlem which faces us it to
least, that part of human nature | OTP**
**g*b^r L?d*r—*** i^t™s^U?uli*nl^U^d col 1 aalU the pe*W of the w.rid - to
Srtefly odf ^e^ord~UbertrMW*rB V>d suitable films for churches ^ng understanding got paly between
Mast r^.r^nTsTWr. •“» organisations - some -------------
‘ ” . plan which wilt aware the active co-
• ?h*.Inot °k* operation of theatre owners and pub*
jwts to political censorship for one ^ leaders, which will safeguard
strument that I know of can do then*.
In the first place, it can and will
fill a neeettity—the necessity for en-
tertainment.
In the second place, it can and
will instruct—which is indeed a most
precious power.
In the third place—and hare I may
ha pardoned if my enthusiasm carries
into what to some of you may seem
______• mere vision—in the third place, the
co-operation | motion picture can do more than any
‘ other oxistisg ageney, I believe, to
Sraaft
sun and gian hut between nation
and nation, than which no creator
thing can bo done.
clad clan which knew no law but vio-
lence and no purpose but the defense
of its own cave.
It is a far cry from many phases
of the development of those indus-
tries to the development of this, but
there is not entire absence of analo-
gy. There has been competition of
the fiercest kind, of course. There
has been no time for adequate reflec-
tion. The mere physical and mechan-
ical expansion of the early yean has
been so rapid and so great that there
You are probably aware that this
country furnishes the large percent
of the motion pictures to the whole
world. Our. association has deter
mined—sad ws ere taking definite
steps in this direction—that the fils
which ahsll go from this count:
“ "*** th>t «“«*"<“* Hon*Sfctu^ StaLsd iSSfthftbTt and I am Constrained to refer tothe ‘unities and the life of America. I
ESSt'Br.s STisSttS
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there, make no mistake about that.
matter ** Ri°vht°?.e wr association tosome 8,'o66"teach- New, immediate understandings with
andgm«i k^w from era w«*o were there representing a many of tiie foreign countries have
and men know right from member8hi of more 115><?oo, to be worked out to protect us
can be made __.u. j_____j e’ no-nin.t t.h» avnlnif.
wrong,
abroad of
mat-
is
can
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it, will be permanent and certain.
Now, this is not n one-sided mat-
ter. Ws must consider these motion
picture programs with that patience
and tolerance which result from a , - .
recollection qf the habits and cut- the point whece
toms whenever a nsw thipg comes.
Every new industry, every new sci-
ence or art, makes mistakes and is
criticised. All of them have had to
remedy their faults of early days.
ere crit- wr?"*' '1jne corrections can be made fh~f ^e jointfy strfdy the duman d*for against the exploitation abroa
. .. . • t^SinfUJ out^thrUhesr'ltanda^ of Pedagogic picture wd that we would stolen films. ’And in all these
act to disseminate the printed word ?“*» we nignest standards oi art, t to them all our facilities tew, our own state depertmer
in any form among the humbler peo^^te and ■£* »cWeved g aid° £ . co-operating splendidly.^
pie, who were supposed to remain in the duty of **, suggested that a committee be ap-j I blow you are in sympathy with
the niche of life in which God plac- . . • , pointed by their association, made up all of these things, and again I say
ed them. The bicycle and ‘hen the I reiterate, it cannot be done in a 0f the very beat educators in the to you that those within the industry
automobile were pronounced “agen- moment, and it cannot be done ai a country; that they meet with the on whom the first duty lies, do not
cies of the devil. Riding on rail- practical matter witiiout the aid and great producers and find ways to use minimize the responsibilities, nor
roads was so evil that the use of support of the public, and that sup- our facilities; that the aid us and would they shirk it. With your help
achoolhousea for even a discussion of port I know you will give. | we aid them in the study of the or those like you we can accomplish
the question was prohibited with] And with the raising of the moral whole problem of the use of the mo- the purposes of this association. I
proclamations that such things as and artistic standard comes with tion picture as a direct pedagogic in- believe that any job in this life
railroads are impossibilities and rank greater ease the development of the strument; that we together find the which really ought to be done is do-
mfidelity. If God had designed that educational value of the motion pic- means of making the classroom pic- able.
His intelligent creatures should trav-i ture. You are not unmindful of the tures which would be scientifically, | laduitrv Accnts Public’s Challmm
el at the frightful speed of 15 miles great educational value of the enter- psychologically and pedagogically | i promise you that this agency for
per hour by steam, He would clwr y tainment picture as such. It must sound; that thereby we would not on-'the distribution ofinformSonand
faave foretold it through Hu. Holy be the purpose of the industry to ly be able to take care of the demand thought, this w«cy for the am^
propheta” (from letter signed by strive continually to make presents- which now obtains, but also the great ment of the ^iow and for tbefol
•chooi board of Lancaster, O.hio to tioiia historically correct and give au-1 demapd which it imminent and which evitable incukation of standarda °n
fir' W. Force, of Gillman, In 18$«). I thentic portrayals of costumes, cub- will certainly come and which must ttints- in art and conduct. I uromise
,waa not time, and there has not been I Telegraph and telephone were crit- 'wr®nk- ^**e corrections can
the hood to consider adequately the icised. It was regarded
moral and educational responsibilities
inherent in this great new thing.
But those days are over. At the
end of this period of incredibly com-
pressed physical and artistic develop-
ment the pioneers have caught their
second breath. They find themselves
the responsible leaders and custod-
ians of one of the greatest industries
iin the world, with limitless commer-
cial possibilities and perhaps more in-
come than all the public utilities in
the country combined. The business
is seeking and finding a firm anchor
in the same strong rules which gov-
ern banking and manufacturing.
Sober business men, with vision clar-
ified, old rivals, now seeing the
common things, know better than
anyone else that the future of the
business, as well as the future of so-
ciety, demandB better pictures. Mil-
lions and millions are invested by
theatre owners in theatres. There is
an investment in real estate, studios,
equipment snd properties of over
$500,000,000, with probably -60,000,-
000 paid in salaries, >200,000,000
spent annually in production and
nearly three quarters ot a billion paid
annually for admissions, with an an-
nual turnover in the business of over
-1,000,000,000.
And those in the business find
themselves not only the leaders qnd
custodians of this enormous industry;
but they also find themselves the re-
sponsible leaden and custodians of
an instrument and means of immeas-
urable influence in education and
morals.
I wonder if you realize what
means for the general good that ry Watterson, and by other heroic this work. They realize its import-1 ite contribution to the
these men who pioneered m this m- f> Tures m the long pull for finer and ancei and the industry is eager to forces of the world and th<> general
Medical nn declared bath tubs a tomes, and habits. That will be""dime.: be met, an/ mrt by'^he’^rofoeK akflf e*n<^vor
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giua taxed bathtubs $20 a year. semUntartainment. It must be that committee will meet with them, and terest in their entertainment.
„ All of these thinys you know. The -the motion picture is a dis* it cannot again be mid, as I think it
press has arrived at its great posi- tinct contribution to visual instruc- has beep suggested, that the produc-
tion because of stability as tha fruit tion. The quick way to the brain is cm do not went to fnrnish education-
qf six centuries of development, through the eye. Scientific tests, al pictures. The producers want to
From the Guttenberg Bible to the which hawfe been made seam to indi-i serve America. They know there is
newspaper^ and magazine of today is cateethe value of the motion picture no more ^important and lasting serv-
invention amf development. Whatj In mv oDinion there will be a aeries aid in the actml^ducatfnTthe vouth
development.
pictures adopted soon by
_ , -, , -. , ■ « « '**■ ■»«. education Just as now icr*. »*««.. « wm.uv m<w ouxxcabiui _
rrakhn did; what was done by Hor- iM 0f text books are adopted. They, Boston for our association, we did,factor in the country’s future.
Jehn Milton did in Uxo fight.Up jfltte-'dIm“tionPpfcta^ta«lSted" soon'll
S?“k_ jSe. __boards of education just as now_ser-j_ When I made this suggestion at'worthy of its value aa a most potent
The industry accepts the challenge
in the demand of the American youth
that its pictures shall give the right
kind of entertainment apd instruc-
tion . • ,
We accept the challenge in the
... .. - , . - , ------ righteous demand of the American
aid in the actual educating the youth mother that the entertainment and
of the country by this means. | amusement of that youth shall bo
dustry, who had the vision industry,
initiative and nerve, if you will, to
make this thing what it is in 20 years
—I wonder if you realize what it
means that these men have united to
make it their business to do every-
thing in their power to establish and
maintain “the highest possible moral
and artistic standard of the motion
picture?”
better service and for constitutional, help. Up to the present time it has usefulness of the industry. That atifl,
protection of freedom of the press not been easy for produce™ to meet'of course, is uppermost in our minds,
from the aggressions of official con- the requirements of the educational but talking to you aa business men, I
trol—all those things must be done fold. ------------■-------- * ----- .... >
in this industry here and now.
pedagogic value of motion pictures shall be de>
. #nd uged^
Nothing can be taken from the time the demand for strictly inatruc-
past. The men Who first took up,tfonal classroom films has been very
this .new thing are still alive. The j-small. Films are costly, and upless
pioneers of our institution are tile's single film can be used over and
men who are still in the business.! over it cannot be made without great
I wonder, too, if you realize, ybo We are at this moment in the very, loss. If educational films are to be
and all those who have at heart the I midst of achieving a set of high1 produced accurately and in sufficient
general welfare—I wonder if you standards in our relations to each I numbers, better methods of distribu-
realize just what their action means,
to the youth of this country?
Duty To Youth Above All Elto
I approach this subject not merely
from the viewpoint of men who have
millions of dollars invested in the
business, but from the viewpoint of
fathers and mothers who have mil-
lions of children invested in the bus-
iness. Ten to twenty million people
a day see motion pictures. Millions
of these are children, ahd they go
with the same open mind. About
everything else, perhaps, is our duty
to the youth in the situation. I do
not have t^say that this industry
must have toward that sacred thing,
the mind of a child, toward that
clean, virgin thing, that unmarked
slate, the same sense of responsibil-
ity, same care about the impressions
made upon it, that the best clergy-
can or mist inspired teacher of
youth would have.
I tell you, a movement earnestly
and sincerely inaugurated and car-
ried on to establish and maintain the
highest possible moral and artistic
standard of motion picture produc-
develop
other and to the public and in our
responsibilities to the world. The
difficulties are being worked out,
and ao great an agency for food will
the motion picture soon become, if
sincere efforts count ami sincere co-
operation is given by thinking Ameri-
cans of the type represented by this
audience—that before long the crit-
icism will die away and the present
critics will be sounding the praise of
this new art, based always on its
demonstrated integrity, quality and
usefulness.
Public Mutt Support Good Picture*
In another way, indeed, it is not a
one-sided matter. It has been said
repeatedly that certain objectionable
pictures which have been made are
the class of pictures which the pub-|
‘ tions
We accept our full responsibility.
It is a service and “service is the an-
________________ _ prerae commitment of life.” It is a
field. There an several reasons.for hope I may say and I feel sure the! service which needs the very best
this. In the first place, until this educators of the country will not from all, and I have great faith in ite
'' ‘ * ’ ' mind my saying, that with this great; fulfillments.
development will come vast business! Now' in conclusion and thinking for
possibilities in the production of the a moment of the whole general situa-
educational films as well as the vast tion, we must, indeed, all of us, look
welfare possibilities. Where there to the future in America with great
is now a field of 16,000 theatres, hope.
there is a new untouched fiqld of “Prosperity Ahead; Go and Moot It”
260,000 schools, with continual use' The fact is, of course, that there
and the .necessary replacements. This is beaded the greatest, era of expan-
is an example of the immeasurable tion and prosperity the world has
future business possibilities in the in-
dustry.
Cites Association’* Work.
You will not be unmindful, I am
sure, of the things which in a small
| pumbers, better methods of distribu-
tion must be worked out.
Again, there has been difficulty in
the past because those who produced
the films were not trained educators,
and therefore were pot able to pro-
duce pedagogically sound films, while
at the same time, tne educators ,_________„______^ ...______
whose advice has been available have i way have already been accomplished,
too often been unable to adapt them-1 possibly in connection with the ac-
selves to the peculiar demands of i tion taken by the association to date,
such as orders by the produce™ to
the studios as to productions now be.
ing made; the hopeful conference
with the exhibitors, bringing closer
screen production. Befoife great pro-
gress can be made there . must be
some method worked out to bring to-
gether the men and women who are
versed in the psychology of educa-
tion with the men and womep who
are skilled ih the methods and mech-
anics of picture production.
Hitt Church and School Competition
Further, it may
I veloped by the schools and churches
One way for you to help ut make and believed unfair by the exhibitors,
good picture* it very eaty. and that The fact is, the exhibitors of the
it to tupport the good pictures. If! country approve and favor educa-
one were to start a vegetarian hc*“’ "—’ ’ ■ ”■
and day by day a large number
spei
ever seen. The only question has
been when it was goipg to start. Well,
in spite of all the winds that are blow-
ing, in spite of all the strikes, it has
started. I have had and have now
full appreciation of the difficulties,
but I nave no use for commercial
alackers. We have not been in a per-
iod of hard times coming; we have
been in a period of soft times going.
Prosperity is right ahead of us and
it is time to go out and meet it. I
co-operation and confidence, and the cIy continually for the common sense
splendid help from them, without ‘ °* cour“*e. confidence and co-oper-
which this effort would entirely foil; f£*on- Let us ,By not throw
the conference in June with the rep-1-.. . . ...
resentatives of more than 60 nation-! Ther.e “re enough things
ally organized movements for better ,wron? !n this county to keep us from
things, and their promise of co-op- ?0,n* to .?leeP’ ftnd ,f the effort to
eration—all to the end that we may '“Prove the human conditions ever
develop constructive ways and means becomes unnecessary then hfe ynU
~ - - be very tame, indeed. With 110,-
for the effective application of sym-
pathetic interest.
Nor will you be unmindful of the
great good which has been done
000,000 of the most aggresife indi-
viduals in the world engaed in one
grand race, it is inevitable that there
tlon 1S.aJaU!e':_\taU8e ^ ! most enthusiastic of vegetarian,
would experience substantial diffi-
culty in putting over a bill of fare
consisting of asparagus.
I am not suggesting an alibi for
the motion picture business, for the
motion picture business is going thru
• ! country approve and favor educa- great good which has been done by I should be some crowdinc Never for
hotel tional films for classroom work. They .this industry. Evil pictures have been i l^t that whatever is deffeient in gov
sr of have not looked with favor on the produced, yea-but the incalculable!
or schdmv without
a capital C. And again I say, I am
going to give all I have to this cause.
It commands the sympathetic help
and co-operation of you and every
well wisher of better things in this
nation, and I know full well that help
will come just as fast as you are ac-
quainted with our purposes and we
prove our deserts.
So certain is this a matter of the
immediate concern of everyone that
earnestly ask and hope to receive
the advice and co-operation of the
public.
Too much must not be expected
too soon, either in the raising of the
.Standards or in the development of
the educational value. There can be
no overnight miracle, but preferred
attention is being given to the pur-
poses of the association right now in
the pictures which are now being
charge therefor, and have objected j for virtue, honesty, ambition, pa
to the non-theatrical use of the thea- triotism, hope, love of country and
trical or amusement film.
This is natural. The theatre own-
er pays national and state tax on his
theatre, a license fee, an extra insur-
ance premium and other special lev-
ies in order to run his business and
on the highway which leads to bet- provide for the essential amusement
ter picture! I am only emphasizing and it was obviously unfair to him
that this is not a one-man job, nor to create a competition to draw the
the job qf one group; it is the raul-' same audience with or without charge
titude’s job, and in doing it there is into places which have no such bur-
work for all One of the largest pro- dens.
dueers has told me that in his opinion In developing fully the value of ed-
the outstanding financial successes ucational films, which are semi-edu-
in the past 18 months have been clean cational and semi-entertaining the
pictures. I may aot know thorough-, fundamental rights of the exhibitor
ly the picture business, but I do know and his value and importance in the
thoroughly the American public and situation must always be considered.
I know that its manhood and woman-1 Our whole program of bettering con-
hood are sound and will support clean ditions in the industry cannot poasi-
„„„ „C1„, pictures. And the Americanl pnbic'bly proceed without the co-operation
made Every day there is opportun-; j8 the .rea‘ cen8or {°T motion Pic: I the exhibitor. The exhibitor owns
ity in the studios to take that action I ture^ just as it is for the press and the acreen; it is his theatre and the
efforts of the producer and distribu-
tor succeed only as the exhibitor co-
operates. It is his effort as much as
the producer’s. And while we want
to develop as fully as possible the
educational film, we must and do rec-
ognize, and you must recogpize, and
the public must demand that the
rights of the exhibitor must be pro-
tected.
To reflect on the possiblities of the
at the place, and the only place where
effective action can be taken. Re-
sponsibility for these pictures now
being made by the members of our
association cannot be avoided. They
will be the proof either of our hon-
esty of purpose or our failure. They
.will be the proftf either of our ability
to correct evils ourselves or of our
inability to run our own business.
The members of this association, act-
ing on that definite knowledge, are
doing everything in their power at
this moment to live up to their pro-
fessions, and the pictures will 90on
the pulpit.
May I refer a minute to this ques-
tion of censorship, which is an inci-
dent in the matter? The public of
this coqntry, of course, is against cen-
sorship fundamentally—against cen-
sorship of press, against censorship
<>f pulpit and against censorship of
pictures. But just as certainly, my
. riends, is this country against wrong
doing—and the demand for censor-
ship will fail when the season for
the demand is removed. As we move
toward the consummation of the ob-
jects of our association, just in like
the United States but the people, the
home, to audiences speaking 20 dif-
ferent languages, but all understand-
ing the universal language of pic-
tures. There may be 50 different
languages spoken in this country, but
the picture of mother is the same in
every language. It has brought to
narrow lives a knowledge of the wide,
wide world; it has clothed the.empty
existence of far-off hamlets with joy;
it has been the benefactor of un-
counted millions. It is the poor man’s
pleasure. Grand opera is for the
well-to-do, but pictures are for rich
and poor alike and their appeal is
universal. And do not forget that as
we serve the leisure hours of the
masses with right diversions, so do
we rivet the girders of society.
I believe and I become more and
more convinced every time I have an
opportunity to step aside for a mom-
ent and look at this industry from
th uotaide rathr than from within,
I believe that is is the greatest indus-
try in the world today, because it
has more opportunities for acom-
plishment than any other industry in
the world today.
Three Fold Instrument for Good
I have come to visualize this great
new thing as my attachment to it be-
comes deeper—I have come to visu-
alize it as a great, unbelievably,
modern picture in education is to re- j great three-fold instrument for good
great that one’s school dayc were | —three-fold, mark you, three-fold. It
spent before this great invention; but can do three great things, and it will
there is consolation in the fact that do these three tilings as no other in-
constitutional fathers saw to it that
there never could be, and now it is
up to these same people to take care
of the United States. No genius ever
has invented a self-starter for any
form of government and no genius
ever can.
Of-course, we are the most for-
tunate people on earth. We used to
hear this so much that it ceased to
make any impression on us, but now,
we need no pophet to toll us it is
true. There is no laborer in Ameri-
ca that is not better off thap the
cast-off royalty of a dozen dead king-
doms, while to the common mass of
Europeans every day in the United
States looks like Sunday.
Ah, it is a great country! No ex-
igency, however serious, will present
tol this nation an unsurraountable
crisis. Every problem is solvable.
Readjustment demands the best there
is in us as a nation, mentally and
spiritually. We shall adhere to the
true, clear thing and never abandon
our hight ideals. This nation is a
success; it is still the hope of the
world; it must be made a yet greater
place for the sons of men.
A clear, colorless liquir that will
hea lwounds, cuts, sores and galls is
the latest and best production of
medical science. Ask for Liquid
oBrozone, it is a marvel in flesh-heal-
ing remedies. Price, 80c, 60c and
$1.20. Sold by Gregory Drug
, 10-i
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Blackburn, Verna. Elk City News-Democrat (Elk City, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1922, newspaper, October 5, 1922; Elk City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497373/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.