The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-18
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

| game where we are all sitting on one side of the table" he said. Tt was fine thing to be in the cabinet, but really believe I have a much greater opportunity here for public service. I'm thinking not only of helping bet ter to entertain and instruct the flf- teen or twenty millions of people who sec the pictures every day now, but I am thinking, too of the millions Of children who do not see them yet, but will be getting their most power full impressions from them within very few years
 And the children will be getting those impressions not only from amusement films. but from sduca- tional films ln their schools, for I think that within a very short time there will not be a school in the coun- try without it's protector and It's screen and its reels depicting things that can better be taught by vision. by direct appeal to the eye, than from i dull books. Isn't 1t 8 wonderful pub lice service to prepare the way for such a eondition?"
 1 And, speaking of politics" they tell a good story on Mir. Hays back l wonder in Indiana, which has to do with his early beginnings" in poli- ties.
 It seems that there were 0 couple ! of factions of republicans in that state. each with powerful leaders The factions could not agree. And so tor at least this version of tho yarn Is generally accepted) Will Hays invited them to a conference tn certain l hotel room whereupon hs made this announcement:
 | "The door to this room Is locked and i tfa la a nd Al arc going to stay right here until 1 you agree" a
 And they did agree-though eorne
 of them could have picked Bill Hayes i up and dropped him out the window and because of their agreement, which previously had seemed impossible, Indiana was carried for Hughes. and
 the little lawyer from the little town
 of Sullivan became the. state leader, and next the national chairman.
 And so--but this has no reference to i any present plans of Mir. Hays. In
 fact I didn't think to ask him of the | truth of tho yarn until long after I had left him. Maybe It's just . yarn.
 Umpire Calls Game
 had overstayed my tlma-oh. heaps and heaps-and began to
 think of the schedule by which Bill | Hays of the movies lives-and all
 those people Tout there" In the recep-
 ton rooms who were waiting for mo to leave-and I knew If I didn't go soon Ia be handed a rain chSek.-
 or something, 30 I had to say good
 by to this nice. midwesterner--poii-
 tician, reoonteur. practical business
 man. 1awyer--and now president and
 director general of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Ameri-
 ca. Inc, and in saying 'au revoir" it
 occurred to me that if was bet
 ting" person and had money to put
 on anything or anybody. I'd put 1t on 'Ball Hays of tho Movies" for ! veri- l ly believe he Is going to '.get away
 with the big job he has tackled and
 be one of tho greatest factors in the growth of the motion picture industry commercially. morally and artisti- l tcaliy, that we've over had.
 P. S.--"Bill Hays of tho Movies"
 is the first t150,oo0 a year man I'd ever interviewed, or even spoken to, | or seen: and I was that ~stuck up." Geel it's a wonder my typewriter 1 hadn't made dollar marks all the way through this story, because that's | what's liable to happen to 6 news
 paper person who once ia 6 lifetime
 interviews s150.oss \ year man. imaginet