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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-06-27

|, cuencias de cue eventualmente Sc re-
husaran 4 Ia firma! iFive Dios.
| cue les coStaria gran trabajo no ha-
Ger ell papel de e. Coco 81 nosotros
| compartamoS como ninos. Sn en-
barge. NADIA mas facil Tue hacerles
comprender a los boches que los a
liados no Sc nallan dispueStoS a tomar
a la broma este asunto. Una vez
tomada en- cuenta la e~ventualicad de
IN rehusamiento a firmar, no que
da mas que deducir friamente, para
! instruction de Alemania, consecuen-
cias ciertas, ineluctables.
La opinion ~francesa, en- este pun
to. Sc halla muy firme; por mas que
no Sc le permita manifestarse con to-
da la claridad que fuera de desear-
Sc, sin embargo, Sc We claramente que
los franceses no Sc e]ncuentran dis
| puestos a dejarse buffer" por los
| boches disfrazados de sociaiistas, des-
| pues de haberies daGo e. mate a los
mismos individuos cuando usaban Ia
librea imperial. Los preparatlvos
! militares no descansan. en- este mo-
mento. V seria muy sencillo decirleS
a nuestros enemigos los boches:
Isl rechazais las condolences pro-
puestas. la palabra Sc lie cedera de
nuevo al Mariscal F'och. va los CO
mandantes de los diferentes ejercitos
de ocupacion han celeorado frecuen-
ties conferencias despues del viaje de-
mcstrativo del Generalisimo. Las
operaciones que seguiran sin tardan-
"a a rehusamiento eStan ~decididas.
FL publico frances espera no solamen-
, te un estrechamientc del bloqueo, ST.
no tambien un avance Immediate de
las tropas aliadas en- Alemania Y has
IA los bombardeos aereos mas energi-
COS de los que no Sc veran libres las
grandes ciudades dSl centric nj Ell
mismo Berlin. Es evidente que, en-
este case, los aliadoS no Sc aten-
dram 8 las condolences p~ropuestas. La
necesidad, siempre 'afirnaada por
iFrancia, de asegurar las mayores
garantias contra una vuelta ofensi-
va de los barbaros. quedara estable-
cida. de esa manera, aun a los olos
tde los que no tienen Ell espirltu for
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ACTUALIDADES EXTRANJERAS
LA GUERRA

mado por Ia experienced secular de
nuestra historic. Y entonceS icon-
sentirian los aliados u en- tratar
con ell gobierno berlines como repre-
sentante de toda la Alemania o Sc
rian obligadoS por las circumstances
a tratar separadamente con los dife-
renteS gobiernoS cuyos intereses y
tendencias no son identicos a los de
Prusia?'
Este es, habra que c~onvenir en-
clio. TN razonamiento mucho mas dig
no de tomarse en- consideration que
eli u consiste en- decir!es a los ALA
dos: "Sois muy duroS; no firmare-
mos V os dejaremos ante I'M Alema-
MIA bolshevikista." En- TODD case,
un lenguaje energico es ell que Sc
necesita hablarles a los boches 81 es
que queremos ganar la "segunda que
ira. la guerra moral sobre Ia exc
cradle mentalidad ~germanica.
5Conoceis la circular dirigida, en-
mario ultimo, de Munich, al colegio
de Moers. localiGad que Sc halla situa-
da en- la ribera izquierda del Rim?
Ccntiene IN llamaniento la juven-
tud aleniana para la "salvacion del
espiritu aleman en- Alsacia,' Y ne aqui
la traduccion de algunos de sus pa
rrafos:
"iJuventud alemana, conserva ell
espiritu aleman de Ia Alsaciai mo
es verdad que haya habido alguna
injusticia en- 1871. Ell pueblo de Al
sacia era aleman; 10 fue siempre des-
de hacia mas de cincuenta amos. Sc
cometi0 una injusticia en- 1914 GUAM
do Francia, avida de poder, rompio
la paz que deberia ponerie fin a la
gran guerra de religion alemana Y,
despues de veinticinco amos de san
gre vertida, prolcngo la guerra hasta
treinta amos a fin de tomar n
parte de la Alsacia. (He ALI como
continual Alemania escribiendo Ia
Historia.l Francia ha hecho seis que
rras de conquista para separar de Ia
gran patria aiemana algunos viejos
territories alemanes que llegaban
hasta Ell Mosa ' ell Rodano' Y que
habian sido transformados por una
lpobiaeion de cepa alenana en- una re-
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Aboga n%uevarnente por la union, ante Ell
inminente peligro en- que estd nuestra na=
cionalidad, Ell ST. Jose de Ia Luz Cadena

conciliacion; por medic de la union
nacional; no mas derramamiento de
sangre hermana, Senores revoluclona-
rios. no mas intransigencias senores
que formais ell gobicrno actual de Me-
xico, recordad que nuesvras divisiones
intestinas fueron causa de la perdida
| de gran parte de nuestro territorio;
mas 5como llegar a esa so.uclon por
medic de la union n%acional. Ante el
peligro de la Patria no debe haber
felicistas, zapatistas, villistas, nj ca
rrancistas. Debemos ser todos mexica-
nos. Ante todas nuestras ambiciones,
no debe haber mas que n sola, la
felicidad de la Patria; ante todos nues
tros ideales. Y principles, no debe ma
Der mas que uno solo, la unidad ma
cional.
Compatriotas: la Patria necesita Ia
union de sus hijos, no para acabarla
de destruir, sino para ~salvarla de Ia
ruina, Y Ia desolacion. para evitarle
mayores bochornos, vergiienzas y hui
millaciones. iDespues de ser testigos
de successes tan dolorosos, seguiremos
fomentando odios, divisiones Y renco-
res, tan solo para satisfacer mesqui-
nos ~intereses? No, mil veces no;
mas, 81 acaso no logro ser dido Y So
10 encuentro corazones insensibles,
me quedara al menos Ia inmensa sa-
distraction de haber cumplido con un
deber hablando con toda sinceridad.
MAS como llegar a hechos practi-
cos para realizar la gran necesldad de
la pacificacion de nuestro Pals? Fun
dando agrupaciones en- esta Republi-
ca, en- communication con otras Ell el
nuestro, con ell exclusive objeto de lie
varle, no la destruction. Ia ruina, Y la
miseria, sino la paz, la union Y Ia
conciliacion. Siendo va bastante extern
sa la ~presente, vuelvo a insistir an
te listed senior director sobre 10 que
en- otra OCCASION lie hice referencia, V
es 10 siguiente: Una intensa labor
en- la prensa, en- pro de la pacifica-
cion de nuestra Pa$ria sera ell pri-
mer paso effective para lograr el de-
SEQ que todos anhelamos,' ell cual es
la Paz, la union Y la concordia, fue-
ra de este solo contribuiremos a Ia
ruina total de csc Pals digno de me-
jor suerte.
JOSE DE LA LUZ CADENA.
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Ell Paso, Texas JUNO 20 de 1919.
Senior
ignacio E. LoZano,
Director de LA Pensa,"
San Antonio, Texas.
| Estimado senior:
Por segunda vez me dirijo a La
Prensa," en- vista de los ultimos aeon
tecimientos en- la vecina ciudad, Y CO.
mo IN deber de p~atriotismo. Creo no
tendra Inconvenience en lnsertar esta
carta, anticipando a listed las debidas
gracias por su bencvolencia, me es
grato suscribirme de listed,
Su Alto. S. S.
Jose de Ia La CddeoG.
Nueve amos hace que nuestra que
rida Patria, es devastada por la lucha
patricida que Ia desangra, que la de-
bilita, que la debate en- convulsiones
de agonia, mas no habiamos llegado
q los doloroSos successes que actualmen-
tie nos conmueven, Y que tuvieron prin
cipio en- VeracruZ en- 1914 como un
p~recedente de vergiienza Y de igno-
| NINA, en- araS de IA funesta pastor
| politica.
/ Es ahora Ciudad Juarez a quien to-
ca pasar por las horcas caudlnas de
la vergiienza ~nacional, por la mlsma
passion politica. Ante hechoS tan YER
gonzosos, ante successes tan humillan-
ties. que ponen de relieve nuestra MI
seria moral. la impasibilIdad es un cri-
men. V la indiferencia IN delito de le-
sa Patria.
Ahora ben. como prevenir los
grandes males que nos amenazan?
Como ccnjurar el peligro que
amenaza la i~ntegridad Macdonald.
;ES possible que el ciego ~partidaris-
mo. por hombres que no son la Pa
tria, sea mas poderoso que ell no
bic Y grandioso sentimiento de nues-
ira nacionalidad?... No, Y quien es-
to afirme no merece el nombre de
mexicano: por estas considerations
que creo nos haran pensar sacramento
en- el porvenir de nuestra Patria, ha-
60 un solemne llamamicnto a todos
nuestros compatriotas, a tooos los que
aun %conservan en- su corazon ell fue-
90 sagrado del verdadero patriotlsmo,
a los que luchan en- e. campo de oa-
ITALIA. a los que forman la administra-
cion actual de nueStro Pals, a to-
dos los meXicanoS sin distinction de
partidos, a los intelectuales en- gene
| raj. V a listed senior director en- par
t~icular, para llevar a efecto por to-
dos los medios l~icitos, la pacificacion
nacional p~oniendo fin q esa lucha es-
teril. por Ia cual han venido todas
! nueStras desgracias, todas nuestras
lvergiienzas, Y todas nuestras humilla-
clones.
Que cese esa lucha patricida, que
Iconsumiendo nuestras energIas, esta
debilitando a gran prisa el ORGANISING
n~acional; que Sc d~epongan los odios
de partido, que venga esd anhelada
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| gion floreciente cubierta de mieSes Y
de vinedos. Bismarck les puso ter
mino a los ataques repetidos de Fran
cia G hiZo que Sc lie deyolviera al pue.
bio aleman una parte del territorio
| aleman cue ha5ia sido robado. No
hubo pueS ninguna ~injusticia Ell 1871,
sino un restablecimiento del antique
orden aleman despues de IN perio-
do de guerras Y de incendios mas que
secular Nevada a cabo por Ia poll
tica lie conquista de los franceses.'
Los signatarios de este documento
son: 80 p~rofesores de la Universidad
de Erlangon; la Union de los estu-
diantes alemanes de esta Universe
dad; 10 profesores de Ia Universidad
&c Tubingue: so profesores de la Uni
versidad de koenigsberg; la Union
de los estudianteS alemanes de esta
Universidad; 10 profesores de Ia es-
cuela superior de Stuttgart; AZ pro-
fesores de la escuela de tecnica supe-
rior de Hanovre; ell rector de la es-
cuela superior de Aix-la-Chapelle; s
profesores de la escuela superior de
Dantzig; ell Comite de los ~estudian-
ties de esta escuela; 10 que da un to-
tai de mas de $50 profesores de las
escuelas superiores. jQue diferencia
hay entire este documento V el famo-
so manifesto de los intelectuales a
;lemanes de 1914? Como 10 dice la
Gazette de Bruxelles', 'de IN SOLO
golpe, Ia verdadera mentalidad de la
Alemania vencida pero avida de des-
quite Sc ~revela, Y 81 esta gran pala-
bra ''desquite" no Sc pronuncia aun,
cada Erase, por 10 nenoS. la llama a
los labios de los profesores y de los
eS%tudiantes."
He ALI en- que punto nos hallamos
de esta segunda guerra de Ia que
nuestro excelente colega ell New
York Globe" aprecia tan justamente
Ia importancia tragica. No ganare-
mos esta guerra moral mostrandonos
buenos hacia los boches; por el con-
trario mientras mas parezcamos va
cilar en- aplicarle en- TODD su rigor
la ley del ~vencedor. mas persistira
ella en- ST insoportable inso!encia. Y
81 Sc lie permite esta insolencia a Ale
mania, Ell mundo civil;zado tendfa
oportunidad de lamentar mas tarde
ell haber quedado a la defensiva al
principle de la guerra moral que lie
declara ahora Ia barbarie germanica.
No les hagamos a los boches ell no
nor de discutir sus absurdas amena-
zas. Digamosles unicamente que, 81
no q%uieren firmar la paz de Versailles
tendran que firmar despues Ia paz de
Berlin. Conprenderan bien, Y, sin
que haya necesidad de entrar en- nue.
vas platicas con ellos, sc e~ncaminaran
tranquilamente, con la resignation de
Ia fiera amaestrada, hacia la fecha
fatal del % de JUNO de 1919.
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ACCIDENTE

En- la ~esquira de las Gales de Me-
dina Y Lake View, ocurri0 Ia tarde de
aver IN a~ccidente que consisti6 Ell el
choquc que suf-ieron dos autom6vi-
les r~,aneiados por nexicano Y me
ricano. No huho desgracias pesona-
les cue lamentar, pero los dos carros
quedaron bastantc averiados Y EOS dos
conductores ingresaron a la carcel.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-09

ephone rang snd a crisp voice
said: This is Sam Spedon. heard
that you were looking for data for
a story about the origin of the mo-
ton picture, and there is nothing I
like better than talking about it. II
you will come to my Office I shall be
delighted to tell you everything YOU
want to know"
"Do YOU" we asked TREMENDOUSLY.
do you know what was the first
picture ever shown"
Yes, I've got it all down here.
When will you be over?"
Right away we answered, and
rushed out and grabbed one of those
nice tin taxis that take you ten
feet for 20 cents, and flew over to
ol6 Fifth Avenue as fast as the
traffic and the traffic cops would
allow.
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gong away to the opera then all
the servants got out the wine and
danced until the master and mis-
tress came home and found them.
This ran for sixty feet
SO, after listening 20 all Mr.. Ca
pellani had to tell, we went home,
determined to put on record the fact
that Lumiere had made the first pic
ture and had called it "Johnny Psays
Trick on the Gardener" for all
though the subject did not exactly
appeal to our romantic nature, still
it seemed to be the best we could do
Neither could we determine the ex.
act date, SO we decided to be mys.
terious and let its origin be set down
with artistic vagueness, rather than
bold accuracy.
And then the next morning the tel
New-York tribune., 1919-11-09

dies. Max Linder was the first one
to be successful in comedies; the
first star in France. Max Linder's
first picture was called The
Skaters First Day at the Rink, and
the title was nearly as long as the
picture itself. Pathe saw at once
what could be done with pictures.
1t was question Of technicality to
put more film into the camera and
to pass it out again. Edison's
camera was the first to do this
correctly"
"Who invented motion pictures?"
he was asked, and answered: IL doubt
if any one knows. The idea is so old.
At first they had gyroscope like a
round box. We used to put figures
ln it and turn it around and they
appeared to be moving. The Lu-
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an important InterUie,c

Sam Spedon is deliberate. He
smiled genially and acted as though
t was an everyday occurrence tor
a young woman in an imported hat
1--WE insist on the hat, because it cost
US all that we are going to get for
this story) to invade his premises
and demand the name of the first
motion picture ever made.
Of course he could not know or
appreciate our anxiety. He seated
himself in swivel chair opposite
our uncomfortable one, and placing
the tips Of his fingers together he
said:
SIN 1877 Muybridge made the
first motion pictures.'
"In 1877" we exclaimed. "Whv.
there weren't any motion pictures
then. There couldn't have been!"
Not motion pictures as we know
them. but they did have a certain
KIND of action. Muybridge took
horses running by placing twenty
four cameras in row and swapping
them on each camera as they passed.
When these pictures were passed
through = slide, they appeared to be
moving''
"But this picture didn't have anv
name, did it," we asked.
mo, of course not; it was only
to show the action of animals. And
ten years later a man named lie
Prince did the same thing, only he
took sixteen pictures on one mega
tive and, showed them in a camera
with sixteen lenses. They, too, ap-
peared to be moving. There was
at that time also zoctrope. which
was only toy, but it had pictures
inside which moved when you
turned it around. 1t was the same
principle as the present day motion
picture, but no one had been t1ls
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niore brothers were the first to put
1t In shape to commercializc it, ] am
nearly sure.
"The first Pathe pictures, and the
most interesting to my mind, were
The chase pictures-pursnlt pictures
We cali them. Of course, they had
no tit,e-they needed none-and the
real picture will come when we are
able again TO make pictures without
titles"
Here we do not agree with Mr..
Capellani at all. We love brilliant
lines, whether they are spoken on
the stage or flashed to us on the sill
YER sheet.
81 still have the first picture
ever made. 1t was called When the
Cat Is Out the Mice Will Dance
First, it showed Mr.. and Mrs. Blank
New-York tribune., 1919-11-09

> to make a camera to successfully
project the pictures on the screen
until Edison did it.
Il think Pathe perfected one about
the same time, and then every one
had ideas on the subject and every
one jumped in and made cameras,
with the result that there were moth
ing but lawsuits for the next few
years, while the motion picture in
dustry Was at a standstill. Finally,
they compromised by allowing each
claimant to use all of the good points
in the others invention, and the mo-
ton picture industry began to move
again.
"In 1898 or 1894 Alexander Black
showed Miss Jerry and Capital
Courtship,' and called them moving
pictures; only they didn't move very
fast. Charles X. Harris did the
same thing in his illustrated songs.
and he claims that it was Just
Break the News TO Mother that
suggested the idea Of having stories
told on the screen"
"But these We're not real motion
pictures. You do know the name
of the first picture, don't you?" we
asked, feverishly.
Mr. Spedon considered. yes" he
said, slowly, II think 1 do. 1t was
called The Ocean Wave The May
Irwin Kiss was shown about the
same time. They ran about fifty
feet. Another old one / remember
at this time was called The History
Of Sandwich
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The First Closeup

The First Closeup
SIn 1896 Joseph jefferson did
Rip Van Winkle' before a Biograph
camera. Here he appeared in one
closeup, surely the first on record.
And Marshall ?. Wilder and Anna
Held used to make pictures of this
sort, too. No scenarios were re
qulred and no titles were used. TIE
pictures were too short for that.
The fact that they moved at all was
sufficient. 1t was like the dog walk
ing on his hind legs. People marvel,
not because he can 90 it so well.
but because he can do it al all.
And then one day We received
scenario; it was the first one ever
written by an outsider I have ii
here"
"Oh, do let us have it, we begged.
ut will be such novelty" for we
had visions of an imposing looking
manuscript, yellow with age
Instead, Mr.. Spedon took out a
letter. Here it is: Dear Sir: Why
don't you make picture about a bad
little boy, who does things to all the
nelghbors, so they come and COM
plain to his fathe, and make him
promise to spank him. The boy had
stick Of dynamite III his pocket
and when the father spanked him
the dynamite exploded and ali the
people were blown TO atoms. Hope
you can usc this
"The author Of that got So for
his scenario. We did use it,"
We wish it were as simple as that
now. We might write one.
When we talked TO Mr. Naultv.
Of the Famous Players, he told us
great many things that Sam
Spedon verified later. Mr.. Naultv
was one of the people who had
suggested Mr.. Spedon in the first
place
Il believe that The May IRWIN
Kiss was the first picture, anyway
it was the first one ever saw.
and it set style in motion Die
lures. Now no photodrama is com
plete without one But for some
reason people seemed to prefer
The Great Train Robbery. There
were more prints made of this
than any other picture ever sold.
And I helped to make it. 1t was
great sport. Another popular
picture was The Life of A Fire
man l remember how crude this
was, and yet how splendid we all
Thought it.
"One scene showed the fremea
awakened by the bell, jumping into
their clothes and sliding down the
pole. The next day we went back
tc finish taking the picture and the
hrernen were mostly away. So we
called on the clerks in the office
and pressed them into service.
They had no suits, so they appeared
manning the trucks in their shirt
sleeves, or any way they happened
to be. And when the picture was
run off it looked as though the
firemen had changed their costumes
between the time they slid down
the pole and the time .hey were
seen leaping on the trucks. but
no one minded in the least. They
moved, and moved fast-that was
enough.
After this the pictures began to
get better. There was The Moon
sinners and The Little Lost Child
and 'Melia's Trip to the Moon and
Stolen by the Gyps:es.
"And didn't any Of these picturc5
have titles?" we asked, for we
wished to know apc ut the evolu-
ton Of the title quite as much cs
about the evolution of the picture.
Every few" answered Mr..
Naulty, "and they were never CON
New-York tribune., 1919-11-09
nile. SO to Albert Capellani we

smile. SO to Albert Capellani we
went.
Mr. Capellani is almost certain
that the first motion pictures we're
made in France, though he himself
has been making pictures only about
sixteen years: He said:
"The first picture that I can re-
member was made by Lumiere. 1t
showed boy walking in the garden
and putting his foot on a hose. The
gardener wondered why the water
had stopped running and stopped
down to look in the hose, when the
boy took his foot off the hose. This
was hailed as great achievement" "
Later, when we talked to Herbert
Miles, be told us that his Lumiere
picture was the first one he ever
had seen, too. 1t was shown at
Keith's Theater in Union Square
However, we are still backing "The
May Irwin Kiss"
Mr.. Capellani told us that the
carly pictures were made in a cellar
Of the Grand Cafe, Paris. In
America, here, we had higher as
pirations, for Sam Spedon told us
+hat our early pictures were made
on the roof of the Morton Build
ing at 116 Nassau Street.
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Faster the Better

''In those early days people were
satisfied" he said "if they saw
things move, the faster the better
We never had any stories, nor
plots. We would gather at the
studio, two or three of us, and
would say well, we have to make
o picture to-day And then we
would get a table and couple of
kitchen chairs and a dog, if possible,
and start in to be funny.
"Finally the time came when /
made the first two-reel picture
1t was called 'L'Assommoir' At
that time. remember that I
considered America very far be-
hind in the picture game, but one
day picture came from America
called The Haunted House. How
it was made no one could under
stand, for the objects moved of
their own accord. Pathe offered
prizes to any one who could solve
the mystery, but we never did
learn.
S "However, at that time I had an
idea Of my own. found that by
moving the objects little at time
and taking hundreds of pictures of
them, and then running them off
fast, it appeared as though the
objects were moving of their own
volition.
"Then we began to make come
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GOSSIP OF THE STREET
NOVEL SUGGESTIONS
FOR FINANCING EUROPE
Most Essential Qualification Is Need of Educating Small In
uestor in Purchase of Foreign Securities

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this through interview few
appeal
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as collateral
to
by necessity
fnancers in this city who disagree with the plan dispute the
that they look the prospect dscowagng.
questioned appeal
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