The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-23


which they are bound. In Iceland, ex-
cited Eskimos applaud the heroism Of
an American cowboy who rescues a
maiden from the redskins. Half way
round the world, in northern Russia,
fearful peasants sorrow over the pic
tured flight of forlorn French lover
In the catalogues of motion picture
now prepared and ready Tor such q
university department suggested
under general department titles We fnd
the following: Applied science. agri-
culture. fine arts. history, literary re-
Ihgious, military, sports, travel and
natural science There exists films
showing the story of the silk worm,'
the life OF Abraham Lincoln. the pro-
cess of making steel and tour OF
Palestine. While the health crusades
against tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
malaria, impure milk, the pest of flies
land unhygicnic housing conditions are
lall equipped with film-stories to aid
Them. There is scarcely an industry
whose processes have not been record
led nor a corner of the globe whose
scenic charms have not been populariz-
ed through this agency. Bacterial ac-
tion, sanitation, first aid to the in
Iiured. basket ball games and campus
contests, the productions of such lit
, erary classics as Shakespeare, Ger
!. vantes. Dickens, Dante, Thackery
). have all been prepared by the camera
6 man and the film manufacturer and as
q vet the movement is in its swaddling
n clothes.
d Frederick X Starr of Chicago uni
versity thus expresses himself: Il
: have seen the Niagara thunder over
d her gorge III the noblest frenzy ever
"a beheld by man; have watched
-. Queensland river under the White light
10 of an Australian moon so whirling and
70 swirling through strange islands nrk-
ing with bandicoot and kangaroo;
nj have watched an English railroad train
20 draw into a station, take on passen-
10 gers. and then chug away with its
n. stubby little engine through Yorkshire
te Dells, past old Norman Abbeys silhou-
all letted against the skyline, while clus-
w tier of century-aged cottages loomed
no lup in the valley below, through which
yokel drove a flock of Southdowns;
n. l have beheld fat old Raiahs with tie.
RS price of thousand lives beaeweled ~
,st their monster turbans and tae price
mr.. of a thousand deaths sewn IN their
be royal nghtshirts as they indolently
Ter swayed in golden howdahs, bourn up
ent on the backs of grunting elephants; {
,ur saw a runaway horse play battletl0or
ne. and shuttleeock with the citizens and
traffic of little Italian village, whose
,al- streets had not known such cofnmo-
of ton since the sailing of Columbfss
ON know how the Chinaman lives and
ich have been through the homes of the
the Japanese; have maryeled at the daF
,eir ling of the Alpine tobogganists and ID
mired the wonderful skin OF the Nor
Of wegian Ski jumpers; have see.
SEES armies upon the battlefield and thel
in. return in triumph ! have looked upoi
pc. weird dances and outlandish frolics II
our eyery quarter of the globe and | didn'
the have to leave Chlcago LOT momenl
lich No books taught me all these wonder
blie full things; no lecturer has pictures
hall them to me; ! simply drop into th'
fer moving picture theatre at xarlou
ight moments of leisure Ihus the PR
and fessor is amused while being educated
max. and he is only one out of many.
heir An ordinary reel can be used fiy
hundred times before it is useless an
the can be used in five hundred differer
ruct public school and neighborhoods.
most boy can manage the lantern whio
nd each neighborhood could with benef
, de- Entertainment procure
4 in Pupils would find diversion, instru
tain. ton and training in the preparation
and of scenes to be photographed Ge
k of Igraphy lessons would become "jC
,dow rides" Trips could be afforded ol
r en- Icitizens covering every interestir
eeIs' nook and corner of our state from Il
them Iwilds of the Kiamiehi mountains to Il
fertile plains of the west; every
le of Idustry on top of the earth and Il
giant mining districts under the eartn--ti
nat soil, the vegetation, the cities, the u
le to touched resources of our state =;
,rstv could be flashed before our eyes in
,alue. course of films such as universl
the department, devoted 70 this wolk coa
those easily secure ana aistfionts q us.
d un. movement is coming, Why sheaaa =
10 by Oklahoma take the lead in this I.
scope versity extension movement as ;
: and has in other modern reforms for t
this happiness ana welfare OF hef cit'zen
n. be Sweden has already endowed mt
ehool ling picture theatre for presenting b