The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
They Produce the Most Human and
Realistic Creations In Color and
Tone-Recosnize Faces
and Places.
SWITCHBOARD COMPLEX
Pictures and Words of Many Years
Ago are Easily Brought Before
Eyes in Memory Film
Device.

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far and away ahead of any yet made
by man, wonderful as these are
writes Erasmus Wilson in the Pitts
| burgh Gazette-Times.
| The human machine produces more
realistic pictures, truer to life, natur
al in color and tone, SO that you have
no difficulty in recognizing faces anC
! places.
One special point OF the voices OIL
those pictures is producing pictures
in natural colors, or even in repro
ducing song and word to correspond
with the action, yet there will be
1 something lacking, something that
leaves the scene incomplete, no mat
ter how true they may be to life
| which something is life.
Scenes that we have lived can
never be reproduced so well that
| they will be just as good as those
recorded on the memory film.
| Indeed, what is more wonderful
| than memory? And how complex
the switchboard on which we call up
the pictures or words or songs de-
sired, and they are there on the in.
slant, although recorded years and
years ago.
And yet this mechanism is no more
wonderful than many others that go
to make up the material universe and
connect it with the spiritual.
We may well call the power God
which conceived and wrough, but the
material universe, even though we
can neither define nor comprehend
it. But what of the spiritual uni
verse. or universes beyond?
AS We Grow Old.
After one has passed the noon
mark OF life and is gliding into the
afternoon, the forenoon, and partlcu-
larly the morning, shines with ever
increasing brightness as we see them
reflected from the mirror of memory
And is it not well that it is so, for
how else would we, or could we, en-
joy the real pleasure there Is in child
hood and youth?
The child enjoys life in way, but
even the most favored feel them
selves greatly wronged and abused,
even by the best OF parents. They
cannot understand that the refusal to
grant their every request is for their
good, nor that compelling them to do
ant is the best for them.
This understanding comes with ex-
perience later in life; and as the
afternoon shadows begin to lengthen,
the angle of reflection becomes more
and more favorable for observations
and we begin to realize that the
things we thought altogether wrong
were altogether right.
The Dust of Age.
Is it any wonder, therefore, that
whatever tends to brighten the mir
ror of memory and to bring out the
shadows of the past more clearly is
most acceptably enjoyable.
Many of the pleasant scenes in
early life are dimmed or hidden by
the dust of passing days and years,
but this is easily brushed away-so
easily that the mention Of name,
line from a song, reference to the
old school house, or to the old swim
ming hole, clears the mirror so that
it shows in keenest, yet softest, out
line the most heartsome and enjoy
able scenes OF life.
And that is just what the repro
duction of old songs and favorite
poems and pieces is doing for many.
very many readers. Some Of these
are so grateful that they write to
say so. while many others express
their friendly feeling by sending
copies to childhood friends.
Some there are who say this isn't
news. It may not be to the young.
sters, but to others, many others, it
is the best news-better than tales
OF horror. suffering, deeds Of shame,
records OF crime.
Are not tt kse entitled to the news
that is best news to them? Sure!