The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-16
THE MOVING PIC-
 TURF MACHINE
A Graphic Description of the Wonderful Effect It Has on the Present
 Progressive Age.


 Frederick Starr of the Univer- sity of Chicago recently delivered hia opinion of moving pictures. Under the caption "The World Before Your Eyes," he says:
 { have seen Niagara thunder over her gorge in the noblest frenzy ever beheld by man -I have watched a Queensland. riv- CT under the white light of an Australasian moon go whirling and swirling through strange is- lands lurking with bandicoot and kangaroo-I have watched an English railroad train draw in- to a station, take on it's passen- gers and then chug away with it's little stubby engine through tho Yorkshire Dells, past old Norman Abbeys> silhouetted a. gainst the skyline, while a clus- ten of century aged cottages loomed up in the valley be.ows through which a yokel drove his flock of Southdowns. l have been to the Orient and gazed at the Water-sellers and beggars and dervishes 1 have beheld fat old Rajahs with the price of thou sand lives bejeWeled in their monsters turbans, and the price Of a thousand deaths sown in their royal nightshirts as they lndolently swayed in golden how dahs, borne upon the backs of grunting elephants. l saw a run away horse play battledoor and Shuttlecock with the citizens and traffic of little Italian village, whose streets had not known so much commotion since the sail ing Of Columbus. I know how the Chinaman lives and I have been through the homes of the Jap anesa Il have marveled at the daring of Alpine tobogganists and admired the wonderful skill of Norwegian ski jumpers. 1 have seen armies upon the battlefield and their return in triumph. l have looked upon weird dances and outlandish frolics in every quarter of the globe, and I didn't have to leave Chicago for a mom- ent.
 No books have taught me all these wonderful things-no lec- turer has pictured them-I sim ply dropped into a moving pie ture theatre at various moments of leasure. and atlthe total cost for all the visits tof perhaps two performances of a foolish mus ical show 1 have learned more than a traveller could see at the cost of thousands of dollars and years of journey.
 Neither you nor, fully realize what the moving picture has meant to us, and what it is go- ing to mean. As children we used to dream of Journey on ma gician's carpet to the legendary lands. but we can rub our own eyes now and witness more tre- mendouS miracles than Aladdin could have by rubbing his fairy lamp. But we're so matter-of-fact that we never think of it that way. We're living at mi.e-a- second gait in the swiftest epoch of the worlds progress-in the age of incredibilities come true, We fly through the air chat with oua friends in Paris by squirt ing a little spark from a pole on one shore of the Atlantic to another pole on the other side, and So we take as a matter of course that which our great grandfathers would have declar- ed miracle.
 The talking machine has can ned the great voices and mas ter melodies of our time, but the moving-picture machine has done more-it is making for us volumes of history and action it is not only the greatest inn pulse of entertainment, but the mightiest force Of instruction We do not analyZe the fact that when we read of an English wreck we at onco see an Eng fish train before us, or when we learu of a battle that an al together different panorama is visualized than our former CT ronous impression of a hand-to- hand conflict. We are familiar with the geography of Europe; we are well acquainted with how the Frenchman dresses, in what sort of a home he livesl and from what sort~of q shop he