The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
MOVIES ARE GREETED
MONDAY BY CHILDREN
FROM RURAL SCHOOLS

Amid shouts of delight from the
boys and squeals of excitement from
the girls, five reels of pictures on
farm subjects were shown in the
Chamber of Commerce rooms to the
rural school children attending the
Richmond short course Monday after
noon. The titles of the reels were
"Cherryland," "Tractor Farming
sheep" Fool Things We Do on the
Farm" and Milk"
About a hundred boys and girls
were present, and all stayed through
out the whole showing, maintaining
the best order possible for young
folks in their good spirits, according
to Rev. Charles Woodman. who had
The meeting in his charge.
Enjoys Movies.
The audience thoroughly enjoyed
the movies" reported Rev Wood
man, vociferously cheering many por-
tons of the reels, which depicted ia
miliar situations, and laughed heartily
over the comedy reel" Fool Things
We Do on the Farm" as they tecog-
MED some fool trick especially ap-
plcable 10 their own experience.
The adventures Of a careless farmer
with various pieces of baling wire, and
the difficulties caused by discovering
unexpected wire in troublesome
places. was one theme of the latter
reel. Another incident which caused
much delight to the audience was the
carelessness shown by a farmer. when
he left a gate open, the consequent
invasion of the clover field by the
cows, and the farmers breathless pur-
Arouse interest
The first reels excited much won
der and intense interest when the
boys and girls saw the unfamiliar and
vast orchard from which the filling OF
the cherry pie was produced and when
they viewed the use of large modern
machinery. but it is probable the last
two inspired the most amusement.
Following the reel described bove
one was shown teaching the food val
ue of milk, and this had a personal
as we'll as educational appeal. A baby
in the role of consumer as an in
PRODUCTION, then the production OF
milk was the order of presenting the
subject.
The raw material for making milk
the machine (the cow, and the ap-
paratus for extracting the finished
product and delivering it to the con
sumner were the principal points OF
the picture, and the scenes showing
the different breeds of dairy cattle
tall of which the audience could
name), the milking, and modern
dairy plant with cooling coils and bot
Ting machine, received liberal ap-
plauSe and comment from the chill
dren.
During an intermission an informa
census was taken which showed that
most of those attending were honest
to-goodness' farm boys and girls.
How many of you are from outside
of Richmond?" was the first question
which caused a multitude of hands to
go up.
well" commented the interrogation,
'it looks as though the Richmond boys
and girls are out of luck. You must
all be from out Of town and they didn't
get a chance to come" This surmise,
however, was violently disputed by the
waving hands of half a dozen who as
serted that they were Richmond citi-
ZenS.
Live On Farms
Fuftner questions 6llclteQ the TACT
that a large proportion of those pres
ent were actually living on farms, that
they were from Boston, Centerville,
Fountain City, Webster and other
points more distant and as widely
separated and that about one-fourth
had previously engaged in some form
of club work such as corn, pig, poultry,
garden or canning clubs, while a still
larger number announced their inten-
tion of entering such work this spring
if they should be given the oppor-
tunity.
The comments Of the children were
the best recommendation that the
movie show could have had. Il want to
go home. but | don't want to miss any
of this, was the remark of one girl
before the close. This is lots better
than reading about those things out
of books" said a ten year old to her
intimate girl friend, elciting the
slangy. but expressive response, You
betcha"