The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-11

I Henry Reuterdahl. Former Secretary
of War Garrison, Major General Wood,
| Major General Scott, and other emf
nent men, all of whose material is
edited by Frederick Palmer, the great
est of war correspondents, an author
ity on the question. and of whom 1t
has been said, "he has seen more war
than any other American citizen"
These Photographs have visualiZed
thought. They have brought to the
screen the gross inadequacy of our
army, in the departments of the cav
airy, infantry, gunnery and its other
particulars, and have constructiyely
compared it with what it should be
under adequate conditions. if the gov
eminent had carried out unhampered
at any time the stated requirements
of the officers who were DESTROYS for
years of bringing the army and navy
to standard as high numerically as
it stands efficiently.
INSTALLATION of thought. may 1t be
explained, is the first real attempt
| made through the medium of the
screen to have people think. The
photo dramatic theatre, since it's very
inception, has been the peoples best
| possession. 1t has given them history,
manners, travel and drama, but the
| chief function for years was to furnish
| amusement. The majority thought of
| IL in no other way. The new method
of stimulating thought is entirely up
| to- date The theory of schooling the
| young, the principle upon which the
successful kindergartens are operated
| chat teaching should be in such pleas
ant form that the pupil does not realize
that he Is being given a dose Of knowl-
edge-he thinks 1t Is all play. just
something to delight him for the mo-
ment) Is what is being accomplished
/ in the INSTALLATION of the thoughts Of
the great thinkers on the subject OF
preparedness. through these Para
mount Photographs.
Visualized impressions are valuable.
Forcible speech will make a deeper
impression than written words. SO
yisualized thoughts are more potent
than speech. They make people think,
and think of vital things; they are be-
coming a virtual motion picture uni
versity.
Is there then any wonderment in the
minds of the American Iayman why
the motion picture screen should have
been brought into play for the foster
ing Of the campaign for our prepared
ness for defence? Is it to be wondered
1T lllil the country y greatest JleH nave
come forward and told on the screen,
not merely their words but their words
first and then their thoughts visualized
in pictures, their vital ideas on pre-
paredness.
AS a concrete example of the method
of the utilization of the screen for the
visualizing the thoughts on prepared
ness, take for instance the fact that
Mr.. Palmer states on the screen I'VE
should prepare. Because. we should
protect our ideals and no sooner is
the word ideals flashed upon the
| screen there appears upon the screen,
the Capitol building at Washington;
Immediately following with the words
because we should protect our homes"
and then there comes to the eye, an
ideal home of the average laymen.
/ Then the thought comes the words so
we could protect our neighbors", fol-
lowing which is the Installation of a
terribly slaughtered residential section
in Belgium. Thus every phase of the
thoughts are visualized, and visualized
SO wildly that the impression is by