The Holly chieftain., 1923-05-31

maintained by endowment, annuity, memberships
and voluntary contributions. Francis Holley is d.
rector and Anita Maris Boggs Is DEAN Its divisions
are: Educational films, research. scholarships,
councillors for the American Indians, natural re
sources lectures, conservation of public moneys"
Cooperating and allied" are the United States,
france, British empire, Canada Australia. South
Africa, Newfoundland. Argentina, Bolivia. India,
Italy, Chile, China, Spain, Japan, Mexico. Mica
ragua, Morocco, Switzerland, The Netherlands
Guatemala Dutch East Indies, Denmark. Sweden,
Costa Rca Uruguay, Peru Brazil, San Salvador
and Cuba; the American Legion, Pan-American
Union and Pan-Pacifc Union; the Motion Picture
Theater Owners of America. '
Mr.. Holley, 1t appears, although an international
benefactOr. Is also 100 per cent American. He
Is an educator and traveller is selfeducated and Is
unmarried He was born In Cook county, Illinois,
In 1868 and began life for himself at the age of
thirteen MS messenger in an engineering corps
on the Northern Pacific survey. Then he
with the Canadian Pacific engineering corps Final
ly he set up for himself civil engineer and
was also admitted to the bar in Minnesota and
Illinois, Then he Travelled for five years in Europe
and for four years In the Orient engaged In study
and research. He founded the Bureau Of CONNER
cial Economics In 1918. 9A
met Mr.. Holley by appointment in Chicago
depot. He was Returning to Washington after an
heroic operation by the Mayos at Rochester, MINI.
He was suffering but lndomitable, enduring his
pain with fortitude as an Indication Of returning
health and strength.
I'VE want national charter for the bureau
he said because 1t In effect means the official
approval of the United States government Of our
work and that will be valuable to us in some
places. We have no publicity department, ,being
unwilling to divert funds from the main purpose
AID anyway good thing advertises itself In
cidentaliy, i may say that the Judiciary commit.
tee to which the bill was referred has been polled
and found to be unanimously favorable Senator
Owen In introducing the bill. gave fair idea Of
the purpose and scope of our operations Our
pictures are going pretty much all over the world
nowadays There Is no censorship No duties are
imposed. Government transportation Is often
available" M
Senator Owen suggested that the bureau was
every day bringing the brotherhood of man little
nearer to reality" said I. 1.-THE brotherhood of
man Is large term, Suppose you give me two
or three specific instances of good accomplished
by your pictures"
Certainly" he replied 1.-THE mountaineers of
Kentucky and Tennessee are poor and uneducated
and are uniformed as to modern commercial and
Industrial methods. The bureau hus prepared films
with the purpose Of improving their economic con.
dition. These films furnished to the missions
which In turn get them into the schools These
films teach the mountaineers better methods of
agriculture and how to get bigger crops: how, to
pack what they raise; how to use the parcels post
and the G. o. d. system-in short how to raise
produce. how to market 1t and how to get the
money. In Georgia our films teach the natives
how to drain swamps and build roads, In Ans