Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-21

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 The cry of the times is for men who can say something and sit down.
 A talker needs terminal facilities as much as Q railroad. And it seems to me that the won derful work being done by the Tour Minute Men is largely due to this linn itation of language. The man who conceived this idea and carried it out should rank in int portance with General Pershing Gen eral Hais, Or any other Dig officer among the allies.
 It is vital that the masses o7 the ,, country should know in tabloid what is going on.
 In the newspapers trey get the long 1 details
 The Four Minute Men boil the facts all down and cut columns to lines. The public has no time to read each |. page in newspaper. but it mover 1 misses the four minutes ir a movie. The Four Minute Men are the news I and the editorial pages combined. They deal both i'll news ard in prin- l cin'es.
 They appeal to the head. the hesrt and the hand.
 They ktndle patriotism. inspire loyal
 
 They preach econora-:. and +aacy
 man, woman, and. child how eacil car l help. 1 With everybody helping, the dayeot 1 peace looms just over the horizon Nnthing can conauer 2 united neo- pie whose guiding inspiration is Lib l erty.
 A movie aud:enco, taken the ce'.atry through. is highly representative of what Lincoln called the Common Peop'e-rerhap more so than any l other gathering of any other kind
 It differs. from political audience in that. while suca an audienca as senhles 1a-~eiv because of curiosity a. movie atlSicoca gathers to be enter tainefl and instructed. It is not preiudiced in advance It just wants to see. and heer ecme- thing it never saw or heard before. It nays. rnenev fn 500 and hea~. and thus is 8 value placed On what it gets | in return
 The collective reird ;s i, ? rAcent:~e l mood. and four. r,irutos of ti-,elv talk | moving pictures. is 8 welcome rest for the eyes and q welcome opportunity i for the ears.
 The, Four Minute Men. are :worlSinr in r~acticotlv evei--' nitv and towr whore. there. is 2 n,ovie theatre. i They are Jaoat re, --l,a krov i1ne
 to use tre Fneelish la7c,,a r-e for ths
 -urnose of sa,..rg eo-,ething rathcl
 thnn of using it merely to make. z
 The ~~e under tFe es-or+ion Of dis
 t-'ct oN=re-v. ~te 'r t-,rn, arc cor.
 +'-nii-d h., e+~4a o4.-;~--ae- Al s~o T're~ted f~.r-, ti,e na+ir,-9 tseoat' rrllo--o-s ;n r-ass;ne-tnn wIer,
 tNe r>- -r',i-4- is Ir-d~- t'7e noo-~ ~a-,r,,
 of Director William McCornicl
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 . Tho ov~er .za4io- is 9s co-r -1e-a ans : rnrfae'nd a hit ef 1,rn1su r,oci1i-ery 9,
 's takirr .nert n the great war. <; It euppIns au the state a-d dis.ric | --ancfaes with the verbal e-n-,-snitio, ; 'o use in the fcpr- -1ai-vte sneeches a the. movies. and in tl,e rneth.,6s Q 'r'aininv it's r-~7 i~ as .e-art a-H pre ! -ise- as Henry yerd'~ or Pastersor'e or in nayton who makes cnsh registers The tonics chosen for discussion
 usually rin throuef1 t7ro vea'-s.
 Each topic is timely and big wit
 importance. dovetailing in with na :. tional movements by other organize
 liens.
 Thus. when the drives for I ibert
 soans are on. the Four Minute Me
 hour out their appeals to the Connmo
 People to become purchasers of Uncl
 Sa1n's paper
 Just how many dollars have Howe
 into the treasury because of the fin
 work of these tabloid orators wi
 never be known, but the sum tots
 must have been. prodigious. These men have changed the view
 point of unnumbered pacificts: hay stopped waste in thousands of homes have started countless fingers knit ting have made it plain that all V l, are fighting for are liberty and peace have influenced men without numbe to go recruiting stations and enlist have taught that economy is patriot ism and that waste is near to treaso Their messages have echoed and rs . echoed clear across the continent. The most beautiful part of the wor
 is this: a Il The men get no pay for the iuvalu , able help they are giving the govern Tnent.
 : It is all labor of love. Their tervice is given free, and son;