The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-18
RELIGIOUS ISSUES ARE RAISED IN REPUBLICAN
 CAMPAIGN FILM STORY
From The New York World.

u4t1Oual committee within the next
 week, according to present plans, through the instrumentality of a nov ing picture based on scenario written by Hal Reid and produced by MT. Reid, assisted by Everett Colby, for mer Progressive state senator of New Jersey and now an active member of the Republican national campaign ! committee.
 The filmA will be turned over to the Republican national committee today by Mir. Reid, and, if present plans are ' not charged, will be distributed throughout the country by the na- tional committee. the picturefo be dis played under the auspices of. ,or by ar v engagement with, the various Republi- can, state committees.
 In addition to bringing 9 religious issue into the campaign the picture, 0f which MT. Reid is very proud, and $ which MT! Colby asserts is "a corker,' z constitutes an attack upon the tPresi- i dent of the United States, unique in conception and amazing in its devel- opment.
 One of the chief scenes of thisf pfo- 2 toplay' shows q group. of Catholic nuns 1eeinG in terror frqrn band of vfl- n ltstas before conwent in Mexico. They arc owertaAen, seized rby the Mex3can bandits and draggedeinto the tnefGrowth. screaming and protest ' Ing.
 A Blow ats the President. N Insta ntly there's is flashed on the Locyeen a picture showing President stWponr0w Wilson lat his desk in Wash ingtfr, shis head resting on his arm. .4 rhis istbat one of the so-called This \ torfcal s<senes" which MT. Reid,s pho- X toplay shows, There ere many others. !. fhs historieal accuracy,of which might N 6e quest1oped It 1A in this scen., ], However, tl}at the religious, question is broueht pvominently to the fore, tthough in a subtle manner
 < That this .k not mere accident or a si itAse of over s1sa1 on the part of the V y|hoto-p2aywr1eht would seem to be {; e1eariy indfcateM by anothert anpaign {1nc3dent oA the@ last week. s The HukheS Alliance. a subsidiary ! to the Republi can Nahonal Commit \ t64 having ofnces In the same build z sangsas thescOmnlittee at 511 Fifth ave- ss.nne, has es its honorary chairman V Mrs. Thecd0rei Roosevelt, Jr. Miss !; Alice aCarpender is the, chairman. and z, amodg the women yconnected with z the orEznazattbn are Mrs William R. q Wulcox, Mss 4enne Morgan, Mrs eElon H H Hooker, Mrs. E. 'Tfffany Dyer and ,. Mrs. James sB ReynOlds The nusi- 2 ciAns 4-grorp chairman is Mrs Noble N Mcconnell
 Wrote About 4.Atrocities-"
 There has como into possession of Z The World circulsr letter sent out from the A11ianc.A Headquarters last V Monday, signed t,y Mrs Mcconnell z It is ,addresseh -Ddar Madame and 4. reads in part. [ ADo you know svgI.at the election of Charles Evans Hngiles means to this \ country7 It means first of all, pro- tection Sto our, people particularly in T Mexico Stop to think a minute of \ the rhorrors perpetrated there, while v MT. W51Hon dses the watchful wait ing act. the dlnlomatic letter, act and ~ Ill the other disgusting acts, while we I nit helpless and aprsalled at the atroci- ties taking place there- tg 'ssAnd when ycaIs think of sthe out rages committed fin the comvents- no matter What spour belief is-your S blood must run cold at thel thought T of what those wonaen whose lives are N dedicated to Almighty God suffered I and are suffering. One cannot think
 of this phase of itrvfthort being ut- D ter1y dfsguAedt witht the present ad- Y rninistrafions g, T
 5 Just a few days hAefore this letter was sent out. possibly when it was being prepared Reid and his band of | movie" actors. some, of them mem ' bers of the National SGuard of this state. were staaung the --horrors'' that
 rmake the. blood run cold. Mrs. Reid Z taking the prfncapal part. But the
 staging was not done in Mexico; ii \ was done at Sheepshead Bay. One o1
 The Worlds infoemants says: "The residents of the immediate locality were mortified bytthe scene when the
 soldiers dragged Tthe nuns into the
 thicket. disrobings and otherwise as- saulting them"
 Compsny Dropped Reid Reid is proud of his accomplish < nent. Nearly all the information The
 World has obtained regarding the Y film was obtained from Reid himself 7 MT. Colby acknowledged that he had
 been aiding in the direction and ap-
 proved the parts of the film he had seen It was he ,wh0 explained hoy,
 this distribution, was to be accom-
 plished through the various Republi-
 can state organizations.
 In addition, The, World has learned
 that the Universal Film Manufactur-
 ing Corporation, because of the pie " lure, found it advisable to dispense
 with the further services of MT. Reid
 and that the executive vice president Y of the concern, Robert H. Cocharane
 politely declined to witness the first
 run of the film.
 
 It was also learned that some ot
 Mir. Reid's friends, when told of his
 new photopiay expressed themselves
 in substance as follows; T do not believe that I have ever
 1isteped to anything that shows such
 real rettenness in politics as this idea
 of the Republican National Commit
 tee"
 < Tt is the most disgusting thing ] e ever listened to-"
 "It constitutes series of deliberate
 and studied insults to the nations
 chief executive"
 T1ilnkse It Powerful Weapon.
 ~9 call 1t 'Watchful Waiting,'' said z Reid at his new office, in 1900 Broad. way. when asked about the picture by
 reporter for The World. T think 1t will go a long way toward beating
 Nr. Wilson.
 First show Villa peering through J the bushes. Then there is a sub- -1f zsl-- xI.,.