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of that state shows that 35 per cent of
those attending are under fifteen years
of age.
THE public school and the moving pic
ture show declares Mr.. Fulk, seem to
be the only truly democratic institutions
in the United States. Children and adults
of all classes sit side by side in the dim
light of the moving picture theater.
The consular reports collected by the
bureau of manufactures emphasize the
business aspects of the moving picture
show abroad. rather than the moral and
educational phases. on which the bureau
of education specializes. In a number
of countries the consular agents an
nounce that the American film is the
most popular. the favorite character gen.
orally being the cowboy OF the wild west.
Among the countries in which American
films find favor are England. Japan,
China, Straits Settlements. Turkey, Mex
leo. India, Australia, Samoa and the Fiji
and Tonga Islands.
From Trebizond, Turkey. Vice Consul
Montesanto writes: The moving picture
company receives IT'S films from Constan-
tinople and occasionally from Saloniki, at
a cost of 8 or centimes 1.l6 to l.54
cents a meter for each performance. For
American films the company would be
willing to pay more because they enjoy
a great popularity and are always re-
ceived with enthusiasm by the people.
who are very fond of subjects like de-
tective stories. cowboy and Indian life
etc, and they appreciate the clearness
of American films" The prices of seats
at the Trebizond Theater are higher than
in this country. running 10, ID and 20
cents, while the charge for boxes seating
four to six persons is fIom so cents TO
81. Mr.. Montesanto also notes that each
twenty-cent ticket carries "a stamp duty
OF - cents for the benefS of the Hedjaz
railroad. Music is furnished in the Trebi-
zond Theater by a mechanical piano
made in Indiana
Mr.. Montesanto adds that there are
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terioriated with use. This deterioration.
together with the keen rivalry for the
newest product, makes difference OF -
per cent between the price for the first
run and that for the second; the rental
is Is per cent still less for the third run,
and so on down as the film is more usea
and becomes more generally known. II
is said to be quite the usual thing IN
England for a film to go out on It's ses-
enth run at a rental OF 30 per cent less
than it brought its first time out, While
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7~HE invasion of American NOV
ing pictures into foreign coun-
tries all over the world, to-
Sether with the moral and ed
ucational effects of the film
snow itself In this country, form the sub
1ects OF separately conducted but inter-
related discussions by two different bu-
reaus of the United States government
The United States bureau of education
VIII shortly issue document taking UP
The Effect on Education and Morals
OF the Moving Picture Shows" by Jo-
seph r. Fulk, superintendent of schools
in Seward. Neb., while the bureau of
manufactures has just made a compila-
ton OF special consular reports on the
moving picture situation abroad
In summarizing his conclusions Mr.
Fuik notes that the moving picture show
wields a tremendous moral influence
which is not generally understood or con-
sidered and adds that this influence will
increase. While the character of the
films and the general influence OF the
show have improved greatly in the
last three years. at the same time there
is stu much room for improvement.
bere are important possibilities in
the educational film." says Mr. Fulk
Out at present the public motion picture
has very little. II any, educational value
The people want to be thrilled and
amused, not instructed"
-
As evidence of-the educational possibili-
ties In the movie" Mr.. Fuik shows that
the American people spend about one
fourth as much time with the films as is
spent in the public schools by children
from fifteen to eighteen years of age.
and he adds that at least % per cent of
those who attend are children. As for
Nebraska, a careful investigation of the
attendance in thirty-six towns and cities
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!, Err since that
far-famed 1st of
May-When our
o W n 4 d m ir a |
Dewey, steaming
with his ca ger lit
I e S q u a d + o n
through the tropic
night of the orient
and fitting like a
sheeted ghost past
the sentinel forts
OF Corregidor, stole
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a film that goes out only six times rs
estimated to net the middleman from
100 to 80 per cent profit. In typical
English city the gross weekly receipts
for an average moving picture house
run about S430, of which $50 goes for
the rental of films alone. With the mid
dleman eliminated this rental could be
cut in two. ard the result is that the
moving picture house managers consider
him a most unWelcome factor in the sit
uation.
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fine last night, sittin beside sister on the
parlor sofa with your arm
Jimmy, be quiet, the girl screamed,
blushing scarlet
".Weil. he did look fine, said Jimmy.
He had his arm
Jimmy, will you be still?' exclaimed
the mother.
"'Why?' whined the lad. He did have
his arm
James, said the father, go straight
upstairs to bedr
'.The boy rose. He began TO cry. As
he left the room he said:
II don't know what's the matter with
you folks. / was only going to say he
had his army uniform on-and he had
tool"
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of other countries, especially as regards
comedy and magic.
AS in Japan, the moving picture situa-
ton in China and throughout the far
east generally IS controlled by a great
French house. often to the extent that 1t
has virtual monopoly of the market.
Writing from the Straits Settlements.
Vice Consul General d. Milton Gigart of
Singapjore says that this concern stocks
about $3.50, 600 feet of films and receives
5000 to 5000 feet OF new films each week.
Notwithstanding that this company
makes films in vast quantities, it does not
shut out its rivals from the theaters It
controls, but instead it buys the COM
concern is a large customer of the Ameri-
can manufactured:
AS an instance Of the way in which the
middleman increases the cost Of living"
for the moving picture theater In Eng
land, q consul in that country writes that
the British system OF film distribution
has doubled the price Of the pictures to
the Snowman within the last year or SO.
although the manufacturers quotations
to the jobber have remained stationary.
1t seems that films are imported by the
manufacturers agents in London. by
whom they are exhibited to the managers
of the theaters. Some weeks before the
release date they are bought by hlm-
renting firms at an average price Of I'D
g cents) q foot. These renting firms then
offer them at auction to the playhouse
managers at various prices per week
rental. So keen has the competition at
these auctions become that the house
managers have doubled the prices on
themselves by bidding against each other
within little more than twelvemonth.
while the auctioneer is still paying the
same price to the maker as in years
previous.
1t Is estimated that the life of film
is i've to six weeks running. OF course.
they are run much longer. although de-
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m upon the Spanish feet, iylng sHusiy
in fancied security at Cavite and, RAIN
ing down upon it with his fat bombshelis,
destroyed before breakfast that Hispanian
power in the far east that the Dons has
devoted nearly four centuries to build
ing up-the Philippines have been. to
American eyes. a vertiable goal of ro-
nance. Manila has stood before the
youth Of New England and the south
alike, city OF enchantment ald the
Moro-infested southern group has been
to them what the far west, with its red
Indians. was to the youth of genera
t1on ago romantic literature has
sprung up. weaving about the islands
the halos OF the Arabian Nights.
But 1t has not generally occurred to
the unima ginative American that to the
young Filipino America, which seems so
commonplace and matter-of-fact to its
own people, has appeared as land filled
itself with enchanted possibilities. The
American has looked upon the Filipino
as a race to be exploited; he never dream
ed that the Filipino would look upon the
plain, base-ball-craZy American as man
interesting to study. Least OF all. did 1t
occur to this same base ball American
that, to the Filipino, who. for genera
tions had been held in leash intellectually
by the Sryaniards, his own land seemed a
veritable land of promise in the oppor-
tunities afforded him for acquiring an
education of a breadth and potentiality
such as he had never had a chaSce of
acquiring before.
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MANUEL l.. QUEZON, Delegate.

MANUEL l.. QUEZON, Delegate.
TN u S U A L Advantages
~ Along E ducati onal
Lines Cause Them to Prefer
Washington to Other Cities
Profession of Law the
Most Popular-Talks With
the Students About Their
Work-All Looking Eagerly
Forward to independence
for the Philippines-Their
Life in the City.
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This city of big government buildings
and fat government coptracts and thou
sands Of government clerks offers 20 the
education seeking Filipino opportunities
far beyond those presented to him by
any otSer city in the nation. Here are
all the essentials for the learning he so
ardently desires. That he has discovered
this fact and is making good use of it,
is made clear from this that he is COM
ing to Washington in increasing num-
bers year by year to get that much-de-
sired education, and that he says he in
tends hereafter to come in numbers much
moro rapidly increasing
While Washington is but sparseIy
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Japan, too, buys largely of American
film makers. or the eighty-three moving
picture halls now running In Japan, forty
two are owned by large French concern,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21

the hour around the world. No Monroe
tons of state stop its soldiers Of sac
ritice at the boundaries Of any country:
for it marches under every flag and Its
army is Of all nations as its purposes
are universal.
Booth organized the Salvation army.
His success is another confederation OF
the truth that great things grow from
small beginnings and that the need
is the seed of accom- plishment Preach
ing from soap boxes in the slums Of
English cities, gathering a group o.
listeners where he might. like new
John the Baptist he told the story
Of the great sa crifice and urged the
legion. And out of his labors grew
the organization which circles the earth
teaching primitive religion to primitive
people in a primitive way and seeking
out the poor ard the widow and the
fatherless to do good unto them ma
terially as spiritually. Booth under
and assisted as we'll as the soul. He
learned that his appeal must be such
as would be attractive and under
standable by those to whom it was
made. And from the wandering Meth
ody" speaking from his soap box,
studying the conditions of the sub
merged and unsaved ard forgotten
evolved the most directly helpful re-
ligious institution OF the time.
The drum and the flag, the ta-nbour-
inc and the stridenI song raised on the
street corner are only incidents. Be
hind these are a social service the
most effective and wide spread Of any
organized effort OF that character.
There are ineb-iates' homes, orphans
homes. shelters for women who have
have not, farm colonies bringing out
of the Sums to opportunity thousands
Of deserving "a antilles. maternity homes,
nursing hrtgades and a combined Sa
maritanism which handles millions and
handles them honestly and to the best
advantage. The SalvationisrS meet
convicts at the gates OF the prisons
asking little OF the past but pointing
always to the future. It's missions are
beacon lights along the streets where
derelicts drift in darkness. In fifty
nine countries the Salvation Army has
its outposts on the frontiers OF vice
and poverty and hopelessness.
Nerxes with his millions Of spear
men. Alexander with his ConqueTing
cohorts and Caesar with his legions
never held a 1.-THE OF the power or
conquered territory so vast as the old
man who died yesterday commander
Of the Salvation Army,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21
WHY PREJUDICE.
TDes NoineS News,

The warden of the state penitentiary
Of Nevada sat with his head IN MS
hands. He was puzzled. The law
called upon him to execute murderer.
Andriji Mirkovich. in few days, ana
allowed the condemned to choose be-
tween shooting and hanging.
Mirkovich chose shootins-and no
man could be found willing to stand up
before a defenseless man and Kill him.
So the warden could not carry out the
sentence He would not do the kill
ing himself He was trying to find
man with soul so scared that he was
ready to do this thing for money. And
then he would. Of course, let the soul
scared one go free among the people!
The evening papers came to the
warden and gave the news that seven
men had been killed by the warden OF
Sing Sing. New York, that day The
law provided for these killings too.
The seven were murderers. But the
warden at Sing Sing sent thru their
bodies a current Of electricity which
burned up the nerves, stopped the
hearts. and liberated the souls OF the
rnurderers The warden of Sing Sing
is not reDorted as being at all en-
barrassed by this seven-fold slaughter
Yet. in all proha bility. he. too, would
refuse to be one of five men to stand
before prisoner and shoot bullet
into him.
Seemingly. 1t is not the killing which
revolts men. but the sight Of it. Per-
raps that Is why employers kill en-
gloves so cheerfully by bad labor con-
ditiors They 60 not see their victims
blood.
There is hope in thu Reno incident.
The time is coming when capital pun
ishment Will be abandoned for lack OF
a supply OF men degraded enough TO
take an office which carries with
it the duty OF become an exc
cuticner. There viii he no supply
Of lcgalized murderers. People Will
see that ii is just as bad to shoot peo-
PIE with electricity out of sight, as
with bullets in plain view And the
horr!d rites of "5ustice" will slip into
the past with canniSalism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21
VINO CALLS FOR A NEW STATE TICKE17

There will be division in the bull
moose committee meeting at Des
Moines. Some committeeman are anx-
ious to place a full ticket in the field.
Others. with better judgment and more
understanding Of the feeling in this
state among prosressives will fight the
move. The more judgmatical and far
seeing attribute most Of the agitation
lor full ticket to the anxiety of in
Sividuals who desire 10 be candidates
md need the ticket to realize their
ambition
That is mainly the size OF II. IN the
early organization Of any new party it
falls heir to disappointed office seek
ers and also to some persons whose
lack of judgment and brains and in
stability of character have denied them
place in the councils of other parties.
That is the main reason why they are
among the first to Join new movements
and why they begin Immediately to
make themselves embarra sstng 10 the
movement to which they happen to ad-
here. II the roll OF those in the new
party who desire to place a full ticket
in the field could be called these would
be in majority, for there is no such
insistence among the Roosevelt voters
On tho contrary.
1t is common to hear progressive
republicans say, IT am going to vote
for Teddy" Most Iowa progressives
have concluded to DO that. It is al
most as common to hear progressive
republicans say IF they put up county
and state tickets will no, vote for
Roosevelt" II the bull moose com
mittee desires to lose Roosevelt votes
and make TAFT votes out Of Roosevelt
votes It will recornra end a state ticket
That is precisely what the Tat ele-
ment in Iowa depends upon and the
reason OF standpat urgency as al
dressed to the new party.
1t would be a pity to turn over the
Roosevelt opportunity IN Iowa to
few agitators and seekers of candida
cies, to be disstpated and dttched.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21
Topics of the Times

Perhaps r. is the humidity in the
political atmosphere which is respon-
sioie for the seeming lassitude Of Iowa
congressman.
a couple Of cannon for a courthouse
lawn,
4 poztofhce for Tom" or Bill" or
"Jawn."
A pack Of garden seeds, a smile and
shake"
Were once enough to make a cam
paign on.
Fred Meyers, the Denison postnas-
ter, has resigned. Now let US hear no
more that a pos I.nas-er never resigns.
Meyers has established a record and
precedent.
Hilles had Eaugen in for a confer
ence. Wonder what the Fourth district
congress told him.
The L y. G. camp at Iowa Falls
breaks up today and the heroes face
homeward The girls will find it duh
for several weeks
Steve Bashor, who was talked Of as
a democratic candidate for governor,
will stump for the third party Mr..
Beshor is a good speaker and has had
a lot OF experience stuuping for the
different parties he has been in.
It is predicted that the Clinton coun-
ty Investigation may sho" a half mil
lion of county funds wasted and worse
than wasted. Imagine running a pri-
vate business under a system such as
most Of our public business is con-
ducted.
Senator Penrose now threatens to
tell some things on the campaign fund
OF 1904. Turn her loose senator. And
while you are before the pu bic give
the inside facts regarding Archibald S
$4,000 contribution to Penrose.
One Of the yet unanswered pertinent
questions is, How does bull moose
eel?-Sioux City Journal.
He feels bully" of course.
Governor Johnson. it is said, is to be
the candidate of the bull moosers in
1915 But never mind about that
There's trouble enough in 1912 to hold
US for awhile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21

liquor traffic Is sufficiently poIiced.
that It should be handled within Ger.
tain prescribed hours. 81 i
Restrictions are thrown about the
sale OF liquor by the present mulct
law, which controls 1t better than
any law that Iowa has ever had. Sa-
looms can be established only where
the sentiment is very strongly in
favor Of it. There 10 undoubtedly an
injustice in some Of the methods
when liquor petition comes up. but
it would be better to abolish these
methods than to tamper with the
law. The mulct law simply means
that Iowa will tolerate the saloon
under certain severe restrictions. II
the law is changed SO that saloon
can be opened in every cross roads,
it Is very certain that the people OF
Iowa will vote the liquor traffic out
Of business altogether.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21
KENYON IS THE REPUBu CAN NOMINEE,

Senator Kenyon is the republican
nominee for United States senator and
as such announc es in a political letter
that he is republican and is going to
support the republican ticket II this
is going to be an embarrassment to
other republicans running for the leg
islature Mr.. Kenyon is willing to with
draw. He thinks that the system"
by which Taft was nominated was
crooked and he knows that the gang
which worked the system is crooked,
but he believes tina. there is We,
chance for progresssves to reform the
republican party and being the partys
nominee he can see no occasion just
now for leaving that party. Few Of his
progressive friends want him to leave
II II the present crisis, as it would in
can candidate for senator. But, NJ.
Kenyon says. he will not hesitate TO
leave the republican party when the
day comes that the agents Of special
privilege irrevocabIy control 1t. Just
now Mr.. Kenyon does not propose to
be driven out OF the republican party
by the bosses but proposes to remain
in the republican party and fight
there for the progressive policies Of
that party"
Kenyon. Ike all the other repubn-
can nominees who accepted their nom
fnation before the split came il the
party, .s strictly up against it AItho
a progressive he cant Join the third
party without resigning as a 7epub,i-
can candidate and he has done Just as
Rooseve!t's rlght-hand man Senator
Borah did. he has held fast to that
which ha has under his feet
There Is large question among pro-
gresstves as to the wisdom OF third
party movement at this time. Cum
Minis and Bristow doubted it and La
Toilette is fighting It. Having spent
their lifetime within the republican
party they hope to accomplish the por-
greSs1ye reformation of that party but
the progressives who have been nom
mated for office by the republican
party are compelled to stick to the
party which nominated them Or re-
sign as candidates and it is not the
desire Of even the majority of Bull
Moose enthusiasts that these men
leave the old ship just now The facts
are that political common sense ought
to make it clear that it is nothing but
embarrassment and first aid to the
democrats to be smoking these pro
gressiye republican candidates out at
the present time. II the repu blican
vote is to be split asunder on local
candidates their democratic opponents
viii be elected and it has been the
hope of the majority Of progressives
that the republican vote could be held
together on all state and local candi-
dates
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-21
THE PURPOSE OF ARREST.
Cnae Natives T'rib,,pel

Ives NOulGS lTlDuliSj.
How many of our readers stop to ask
themselves the real purpose Of raiding
the beer camp north Of the city.
Was it merely to get lot of fictiti-
Gus names published in the newspapers.
TO fine the young people amounts which
il paid at ell. will be paid by hard
working parents or others who can III
afford the expense. or to fill the jail
for few days as badge Of disgrace
at public cost?
The first purpose was. OF course, to
protect the public against the disgrace
full orgies Of the beer camps.
But beyond that the real purpose
should be to make contributors to their
own and the public welfare out OF q
lot Of young people who are in the way
of not only eating up their own sub
stance, but depicting the substance Of
the community.
There can be no other explanation.
1t costs the community to maintain
a sheriff, county attorney. courts. The
community can not afford to 90 to such
expense merely to shame somebody OK
put a badge Of disgrace on him.
The whole theory should be that be-
yond protecting itself, the community
should interfere with the liberties OF
those who are creating the disturb
ance for the purpose Of making them
do involuhtarily what they have re-
fused to do voluntarily, pay their own
way and help to pay the way Of those
dependent upon them.
To send the girls caught in the beer
camp to Jail is to give them thru
ticket to hell.
To have an industrial farm on which
they can be given an indeterminate
sentence to steady employment suited
to their years and capacities, and put
in the way Of becoming helpers and
self-respected citizens, is not only
public economy, but the mark OF q
Christian civilization.
Iowa is behind other states In this
matter OF an affirmative attitude
towards the derelict. We shut them up
at our own cost, and their own great
loss Of gelf-respect. Minnesota con-
fines them at profit to the state and
turns them out good citizens.
The coming legislature should revo-
lutionize our whole penal system and
make employment. such normal and
| healthy activity OF mind and body AZ
will work for physical and moral re-
generation. under conditions favorable
to both the prisoner and the state, the
| basss OF all arrests.
Our present system IL merely sur
v1val OF the stocks, where people were
set up on the public highway to he
| pelted with mud by the mischefvoue
passer by. We even today occasionally
expose the prisoner with . ban and
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