The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-10
HILBERT HUBBARD ON
 THE MOVING PICTURES
The Oracle Declares Himself a Moving
 Picture Fiend.
lFrom the New York Americana

(From the New York American.)
 Are we down-hearted? No-o-o-o !
 One reason, Terese, why am able to roll off the tasks and keep my sky piece working in double shifts is because am moving picture tiend.
 do not drink and do not smoke. but 1 spend ten cents on moving picture show whenever 1 have the chance. Sometimes 1 spend dollar and take nine kids with me.
 Between the nicotine and the nickelodeon, 1 prefer the latter.
 The moving picture show cheers, but does not inebriate.
 It lubricates the wheels of exist ence, rests, refreshes, stirs the imag- ination, brings into play new set of convolutions and costs dime.
 It never gives you that dark brown taste the day after, nor a headache and that tired feeling; nor does it make for hike to the bcoby hutch.
 For nervous prostration or ner- vous prosperity, try the moving pie lures.
 I go to see the moving pictures so as to keep from having nervous pros tration.
 If you go 10 the races you'll prob ably bet-and, anyway, you'll get excited. If you go to the theater you will have to dress for it, perhaps have a carriage and little feed af- terward. And you'll get tired out.
 But the moving pictures is Jeffer- sonian simplicity and practic a democracy. You slide in and out. and the whole thing is free from frills, fads and fussiness. You al- ways get-your moneys worth, and there are no haunting regrets as to your having made fool of yourself by spending a whole evening on bum play and knocking fve-dollar bill all to flinders.
 Another thing about moving pie lures is that the invention is one of the great educational factors of the time. It is one of the things that is helping to make this old world over into better and happier place. Up to less than a hundred years ago civilization was provincial. Only few people could travel, see and know. The many were submerged in ignorance and superstition. The sailors who went around the world were nature fakers. The stories they told us would make your hair curl. Now we are getting acquainted with the world. Quick transporta- tion, the mails, the daily American, the telegraph, the telephone, the talking machines and moving pie lures are bringing the world to our doors.
 1 once knew dear old lady, who had way of saying when you told her anything, "I want to know-I want to knowv'
 used to laugh at this, but now 1 sympathize with the sentiment. "I want to know--I want to know" In Missouri the folks ask for visual demonstration. This to me is also beautiful. Show me! l want to know!
 The moving picture satisfies our desire to know, because it shows us. The extent of knowledge which it distributes as to the ways, customs and habits of the people of the world was great and far-reaching for good. am writer of books. In these books describe what 1 have seen and the things imagine, and state some of the things which seem to me to be true. Just to the degree that 1 express truth and make men think do I benefit them.
 No criticism can be brought against moving pictures which can not be brought against books with equal truth There are good books and there are bum books written by punk parties with literary eczema, which are neither good nor bad. It is exactly so with moving pie lures.
 These pictures tell story, playing the thing out while you sit and look on.
 Good people only want to see the truthful and the worthy.