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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1911)
vstt y'"NVjy4 paw 'wqgr,Tay't eeiiirTIi' ., .Ntaui TiiK iHtUffffi' i- -L-1t MMlflfffftf'l y '"'" "" 1 " 1 A ' (, Arc -MTV,- -. . ''i. tt stT N l&Jt" TrTQMAS ZdisoJ 4 NK evening III tho early mimmor of 1901 I slooil, awed but keenly ox iicctant, on tho balcony of tlio Kth nology Building at the Pnn-AitK'ticati Exposition In Buffalo. By my Bldo was n Bhort, chubby man In an old suit of clothes, n nogligco ehlrt and a string tic that had como undone and was donning over his capacious chest. It was a warm owning, and vjty ho had removed his battered straw 1 I tint ti-ltlMi lin linlil 111 Ills ll'IMll Tho Elzo of tho hat was No. 8. Tho man was Thomas A. Kdlson. Ueforo us spread that dicam In frozen music, tho buildings fronting tho esplanade, mall and plnzn of tho exposition. Tho twilight was done, and tho moment had arrived for tho night birth of that dream into splendor. For tho llrst time In history architecture was to bo made alivo at night, moro living than by day. Half a million luenndescent bulbs wore hid along tho transverse lines of tho buildings. Tho current wns turned on, and they simultaneously bloomed. Knsued a Epcctaclo for which a Caesar would havo bar tered a province a joy that brought a gasp of ccstacy from every one of the millions who Gaw it. Kdlson, bare-beaded, squinted his oyea. Tho poetry missed him. The gallop of scenic history over tho vergo of a now era missed him. Tho glory of the spectacle itself missed him. Instead, ho glanced shrewdly and carefully all around on tho entrancing wonder, then cautiously into his battered straw hat and said: "I could put every filament into that hat!" Economics, mechanics those ob3osscd him. That brain, which required a N'o. S hat for cover ing, could think only of tho compressed fact that all tho space occupied by tho vibrating, en ergizing and glory-working sourco of that gigantic, epectaclo could bo replaced by about two pints of water or a quart of human brain. Edison is a raro man. In Ills speech, of which ho is as careful as of his filaments, ho pulls tho coro from a field of ideas and thrusts it nt you oa if it wore a poniard. You think about what ho Bays for a week, a month; and in years you don't forget it. All of this is leading up to a consideration of what tho wizard-sago said a few weeks ago when a select nudienco sat In his studio and watched tho first porformanco of tho klnotograph, that fabulous Instrument which is destined to repro duce plays, operas, public spectacles with tho action, tho color and tho volco intact. Tho great bid inventor was gratified onco again. Another thrill had como into his lifo. Ills latest adventure into tho unknown had pros pered, and his friends and associates clustered about him with congratulations, with questions, with assurances. For some tlmo Edison wa3 silent. IIo is grate ful that ho Is deaf. Then ho squinted from one to tho other, and said: "Deforo long you'll bo working that in an noro plano. for you'll bo ablo to pack it into a soap bubble!" A soap-bubble! Rather a fragile packing-case. Rather a small compass In which to placo a. grand opera. A curious comparison. Did Edison mean what lie said? Did ho know what ho was talking about? Ever sinco I heard that Edison said that, I havo been thinking of moving pictures in connec tion with soap-bubbles. And not always in tho way ho meant bubbles in connection with tho klnotograph. A Eoap-bubblo Is cheap. It is easy to' make If you know how. It is fragile. It is very alluring. It reflects all colors, all forms. It appeals uni versally to children. Sagos ponder over it. Poets eclobrnto It. Artists reproduce It. Conundrum. Why Is a moving picture like a Boap-bubble? First, you find them everywhere. On tho back streetB of Reno I saw tho pictures of tho bull fight at Guadalajara, Mexico. Tho Guadalojarans now look on tho moving pictures of tho prlzo fight at Reno. At Punta Arenas, tho southernmost port In tho world, I saw Chileans applaud moving pictures of tho Rowory and tho New York water front. On the Bowery I saw pictures of tho battleship fleet entering tho harbor of Punta Arenas. On an Island 2,000 miles out in 'tho Pacific Ocean tho exiled lepers of Molokal gather daily beforo tho flickering wonders of a world which before had been but vaguely in their dreams. Tho Sunday evening young peopio's class of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, looks in pity on tho trans planted and resurrected lifo of Molokal which passes beforo their oyos on tho screen. A group of travelers in tho luxurious saloon of an ocean liner study tho lifcllko pictures of tbo country for which they aro bound. Tho beg gars who line tho pathways of tho tourist implor ing backsheesh give up their pennies to sco tho living presentment of their prey bounding to them over tho ocean wavo. In Iceland excited Eskimos applaud tho hero ism of a cowboy who rescues a captured maldon from tho redskins. Half-way round the world, In Northern Russia, tearful peasants sorrow over tho pictured plight of a French lover. Tho Benguleo movos down Mowrlnghoo Road and gives up two ponnles to seo tho funeral of King Edward to seo it actually raovo. The Moro in tho alleys of Zamboanga goes without an extra shirt, that ho may view tho roceptlon ot Universal as Froth. m$ JBm , W JLLrtS ML aP COPYAGfr O Y P, cture ill OEB) -.rti ranikiL r ML V v cofYiCfr or PAf?scft ia.co iiiiuiimu; w. v V 'A L SlJLJ- ;Wrtj? -m X ictur WW.O vt-v. ec CW zLJZ 0(&r?- Anywhurc, everywhere, you find them. In tho United States you will havo to hunt n town of lebs than 2,000 inhabitants if you wish to escape the moving pictures. Fivo millions of Americans daily visit theso shows. Tho exhibitors pay $18,000,000 a year for their films. Tho public pays J57.500.000 a year to seo them.- Mr. Edison has an avcrago weekly royalty therefrom of $S,000. So It is a pretty big business, pretty thor oughly organized, quite universal in its reach, soap-bubbly In its universality. Tho child of tho poor, with a clay plpo and tho suds from tho weekly wash, can havo Just na good a tlmo as any rich young fellow with an Im ported meerschaum and tho best cnstllo. So It Is with tho moving-plcturo shows. It ro qulrcs littlo capital to run them. A long room, easily darkened, a nlno-fcet cquaro patch of whlto cloth, somo benches for tho spectators, nn oper ator nt ten dollars a week, and a rented film, now takes tho placo of a company of actors, Btago scenery, properties, lights and a proporly equipped building. And tho poor boy, gets as much valuo for his nickel as tho rich boy can get for any number of dollars. Yet, they run Into dangers that no soap-bubbles can nlluro. Flro is of tiicso tho most patent. Of tho moral dangers wo will Bpoak later. It is through tho moral noap-bubblo that wo can seo moro clearly tho moving picture's gossamer tinsel. Fire, however, Jb tho first nnd most vital dan ger. Tho Charity-Ilnzaar flro In Paris, In which so many women wero trampled to death by cow ardly men, was caused by tho fall of n spark upon somo celluloid moving-plcturo Alms which had been dropped Into a basket. In Canton COO men, Chinamen, wero burned to death In a flro in a moving-plcturo show houso. In Quito, Ecua dor, fifty men nnd women lost their IIvcb in n similar calamity. It speaks well for tho widespread and con stant vigilance of tho flro departments of tho United States that no great catastropho has yet como to tho moving-plcturo houses of this country. Lives havo not boon lost In tho moving picture shows. Lives havo been lost through tho moving plcturo shows. Whoro onco tho dlrao nnd nickel novels sug gested ways of crimo to unbalanced youth tho moving plcturo has como to mako a moro ready nnd moro potent oppcal. Tho printed word Is nover so ardent with an Impressionable mind ns tho acted word. Sovoral ways havo been thought of to lesson theso obvious ovlls. ChnrlcB Spraguo Smith, lato chief of tho People's Instltuto In Now York, thought ho had solved tho problem when ho In duced tho manufacturers of tho moving pictures to agree to n national board of censorship. Tho manufacturers, good trado diplomats, readily assented, and then saw to It that tho board of consorshlp should bo advisory and not antagonistic. Tho result Is that many pictures that crcato havoc among youthful minds when shown on tho public screens "got by" the na tional board of censorship. No. This bubblo that Edison has loosed upon us will play itself out Just so far as tho instincts of tho wholo pcoplo of this country will permit; no farther, no sooner. One night I went to a prlzo flght. Only men wero present. Tho casual observer might havo said they wero nW tough men. After tho flght a canvas was oroctcd in tho ring and an nn nouncer said, "An cxcluslvo fllm will now bo shown to tho members of this club." Tho plcturo proved to bo of French mnnufnc turo nnd portrnyed a vllo situation In a dlvo. Instantly hisses nnd a storm of execration burst from tho nudienco. Tho running of tho fllm was Btopped and tho plcturo removed beforo It was all shown. Grim sllenco grcoted tho removal of tho canvas. Tho crowd that gloried In the action of tho as UJ'- I' U H m?m It - SS rlzo ring would not endure any pl lured sexual depravity. To me that was a vvoudoiful revela tion of Anglo-Saxon psychology. Thus It will always be In our theater, whether tho admission pilco be live renin or two dollars. American uudieurca want action; they want thrills; they want deperato ( mirage nnd wild heroism; but they want it all clean. They want tho good to triumph, tho guilty to bo punished, and wrong to ho avenged. A Parisian manufacturer offered $200,000 for tho right to mako moving pictures of tho Oher ammcrgnu Passion Play. Ills offer wan refused Ho went back to his studio, engaged a company of very Bklllful actors, rehearsed them carefully and reproduced tho Passion Play, almost as well as it was originally done, nnd tho cost was about n twentieth of what ho offered for tho original. This manufacturer had nn ojo on a now Held for tho moving picture. Whllo his Imltntlon will, perhaps, find n comparatively small markot, it cannot hopo to roach tho class that would havo purchased a guaranteed reproduction of tho Obcrammcrgnu play; viz., tho churches. For tho churches havo not yet como utterly un der tho nwny of tho moving picture, desplto tho fact that tho Congregational and Presbyterian churches of Redlnnds, California, showed moving pictures nil last summer In their outdoor pavi lion. Yet tho moving plcturo manufacturers aro do voting n lot of tlmo nnd money to religious sub jects. "Joseph Going Into Egypt," "Tho Repulso of Herod," "Jophtlrnh's Daughter, "The Relief of Jericho," and "Tho Wisdom of Solomon" nro a few of tho subjects of moving-plcturo plays founded on Biblical accounts. Whilo tho moving pictures aro battering at tho doors of tho churches they havo already par tially scaled tho walls of tho school-houses. Out of every seven subjects passed by tho National Board of Censorship, ono Ib classed ns "peda gogical." In tho catalogues of tho manufacturers ono finds films that show lessons In "agriculture, aeronautics, anlmnl life, bacteriology, biography, biology, botnny, entomology, ethnology, fisheries, geography, history, Industry, kindergarten stud ies, mining nnd metallurgy, microscopy, mili tary and naval lifo. natural history, ornithology, pathology, plsclculturo, religion, travel and zoology." It looks llko tho cataloguo of an, educational publishing houso. Yet It Is only tho list of Alms that may bo nnd nro ordered by "tho trado." Subjects under those lists nro shown daily In tho 7.C00 theaters that exhibit moving pictures In this country. They form cntcrtnlnment, not Instruc tion. Thoy hnvo put tho ntoroopticon out of buHinosB, not tho schoolmnster. For tho public schools havo no moro surren dered to tho now nnd plnusiblo Invnder than hnvo tho churches, Why? Why not teach children history by showing them scenes from tho lives of grcnt men, pagoantB from tho grcnt moments thnt nro duly nnd laboriously rocorded in tho books. Why not sit nnd watch Georgo Wnshlngton cross tho Deln waro on tho moving plcturo Bheot. Instead of having to puzzle your head ovor tho dry print thnt records It on unllvened page? Why not learn about tho growth of flowers pleasantly, by watching n plcturo instend of having to patently dissect tho flower nnd then pieco it together ngaln under tho Instruction of a bolnny toxt book? Such pictures can bo and nro constantly shown. Do thoy not mean tho revolution of pedagogy? Not long ago tho Now York Bonrd of Education nppolntod n commltteo to Investigate this cub Ject, nnd find out If It wero fenslblo to Install moving-plcturo machines in tho vnrlous schools of tho city. Suporlntendont Mnxwcll was on tho commltteo. I saw him n fow days nfter tho ex hibition. Ho was not vory enthusiastic about tho pic tures. "A method will never bo doviscd thnt will savo nny human being tho labor of learning," ho said. "Wo lenrn only by taking thought, nnd that Is work, hard work. You cannot Insert learning hypodormlcnlly. You cannot Bwnllow It In tab loid form. Thero Is but ono way to tako it, nnd that It tho oldest way known. You will find after all of theso wlll-o'-tho-wlsps havo vanished that it will bo tho nowost way, too." Which throws tho moving plcturo right back whoro It belongs Jn tho thenter. It can havo no pcrmnncnt plnco In tho church. It enn havo no ronl place In tho school, though It may be auxll lary to either, or both. OF 1 Railway Postal Service First Op erated in Missouri. William A. Davis, Defore the War, Postmaster at St. Joseph, Devised System Now In Vogue for Dis tributing Mall En Route. Rt Joseph, Mi). Progress ill tho earning and dlxtiihutlou of l'tilto.1 States malls ban been remarkablo in ihH count rv In Urn last fifty enrn. A half e-'iituiy ago, the llrst railroad went of the MlHsNrilppl river, from Hannibal to St. Joxeph, Mo., was constructed, and on this road the railway mall serv ice of the country had IN origin and Inception Thi'ii. onlv tho mails for thu whole wcHtorn count r cv.mu In bulk on fr. Ight mid piiKsen;i r tnilii'i to bo llHtrltuited in ton Intn ami carried to many destinations b courier, by buck hoard, horseback and stago lines, thu only methods In those In h. It remained for William A. Davis, postmaster at St. Joseph from 1 sr.fi to IStil, to Invent and Inaugurate tho great Hntcm now In vogue llefoio this time tho malls, all mixed ami in bulk, were carried to some central dis tributing point. Independence, Mo., was one of these and St. Joseph later was another. When the railroad was built the tiHc all came to the SI Jo seph olllce, hi dlstt Uniting tho entire oM'ilaml mall. The Idea occurred to Mr. Davis that these malls could be distributed whllo In tianslt. It seeuicd (o hlui In every way possible and desirable. So ho wrote to the people In Washington for autherlty to lit up somo cars on tho llauiillial 'i St. Joseph railroad to try out the experiment. The authority came ami Mr. Davis went to tho rail way headquarters at llauiillial and mi I eiintended the arrangement of sev eral way cars with pigeon hole.j. doors, windows and other conveniences and IMPORTANT THAT PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GREAT KIDNEY REMEDY Tim testimonial I nm to give you come Unsolicited. 1 have been suffering from lumb.igo for ten jcarn nnd ot times wns unable to stand erect. A Mr. Dean of this city, iaw me in my condition tbent over) nd inquired tlio came. I told him that I hod tho lumbago, llo replied, "If you c,cb what 1 tell je.u to, joti nrcd not have it." 1 iniJ I would tiiUo mi tiling for caie. Ifa aid, "You Ret two bottle of Dr. Kil mer's Swamp Hoot ond lal.e it, nnd if ib does tint fix jou O. K. I will piy for tli tiicdiciiio tnvsilf." 1 did to nnd nm a well man. Per live innnlhn 1 havo been as well rouM bo. Iliforo 1 took otir .Swamp Hoot was in ronsl.int pain tiny nnd night. Thu may look lil.o dvmtiing, but It rcini to mo iiiont important that tho pubho bhmiiil bo made familiar with this treatment nB it in tho only one I know wliieh U nn iil"rhito cure. I own a gtcab deal to Dr. Kiltuer'n Swamp-Hoot, nnd am mioui that olIirrN Mliulcd n.1 I was ihoiild know nnd taliu advantage, of it. I loping that this tcutmioiiijl may bo of benefit to fomo one, 1 nm J. A. HOWLAN'I), 1731 Humboldt .St. Denver, Col. Btato of Colorado ) City nnd County of Denver J ' Personally appeared beforo inc, a Notary Pubho in mid for tho city nnd county of tlio State of Colorado, .1. A. IIovvl.uul, known to nm n3 tho person whoso narnn U rubietibed to tho nbovo Rtatcmcut nnd npon lni oath declines that it is a tru and correct btntcment. DANlHh II. DKAPKU, Notary Public . Ullrrl rv. Kiutr r. rl.tliiailnn. N. Y. Trove What Swamp-Root Will Do Tor Yon Solid to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, N. Y., for a nnrnpla bottle. It will eonvmco anyone. You will nlso rccciva a booklet of vnluablo information, telling all about the kidneys nnd bladder. When writing, bo euro nnd mention tlili paper. Tor enla at nil (Inn; stores, l'lico fifty cents and one-dollar. THESE MONEY DURNER3. ' i rn f fell William A. Davis. the Initial run with a cnrload of mall was mado from Hannibal to St. Joueph in record time, tho malls properly dla trlbutcd nnd ready for tho overland Btagss, courlorH, etc. Tho first trial was so satisfactory that other cars wero brought into re quisition and hoou a most remarkable, clinngo for tho better was mado In tho receipt nnd distribution of malls. Tlio great railway mail borvlco lind boon Inaugurated! Tlio problem of forwarding overland malls without delay was solved, nnd Mr. Davis was soon mado n special agent of the department nnd given full cltnrgo of the branch of tho service which ho had originated. William A. Davis, Inventor of tho railway mall service, was born in Dar ren County, Kentucky, In September, ISO!). In early youth ho went to Vir ginia, whoro ho entered tho postal service, at Richmond and other places, and with his career In St. Joseph ho had been In tho postal service about tlfty years. Tho llrst car for tho distribution of tho nnalls was an old-tlmo "way" car, lilted up with pigeon holes. Kxtra windows wero arranged nnd tho "dis tributors" used candles to assist in lighting tho cars. Mr. Davis mado a tripon tho flrht car as far as Palmyra, Mo.,' and then left tho work with nn ns Blatant whllo ho returned to Hannibal for tho bocond car. Thero aro ninny old railroaders yot allvo who roniom bcr tho first mall cars. GEESE ON THE STAGE REBEL Object to Understudy for Singer In Hallo Performance of Humper- dlnck's "Konlgsklnder." Berlin. An nmuslng Incident oc curred this week nt n performance of Humpordlnck's "Konlgsklnder" at tho Hallo opera house. hive gceso nro employed for tho Hallo production in contrast to tho papier tuncho variety which ludulgo In mako bollovo cackles nt Ilorlln. Tho prima donnn who regularly sings tho part of tho gooso maid was taken 111 suddenly nnd It became necessary to obtain nn understudy. When tlio lat ter, however, wont on the stngo tho gceso rebelled against tho intrusion of n stranger. They becamo so enraged they threntoned to do tho slngor bod ily Injury. The conductor of tho orchestra had to stop tho porforiiianco until tho geoso could bo quelled. They refused to subside until tho familiar figures of ho wood chopper nnd tho broom mak- r camo upon tho scono. , -sri Miss llondsen Stocks (at Monto Can lo) What luck yesterday? Miss Ulllyuiuj I won twenty thou sand or lost twenty thousand, I forget which. "ECZEMA ITCHED SO I COULDN'T STAND IT." "I suffered with eczema on my neck for about six months, beginning by littlo pimples breaking out. I kept scratching till tho blood camo. It kept getting worse, I couldn't nlcop nights nny moro. It kept Itching for about a month, thon I went to a doc tor nnd got somo liquid to tako. It Boomed na If I was going to get bet ter. Tho Itching Btopped for about threo days, but when It started again wa3 oven worso than beforo. Tho oc ccmn ltchod so badly I couldn't stand It nny moro. I wont to a doctor and ho gave mo somo mcdlclno, but It didn't do nny good. Wo havo been having Cutlcura Remedies In the houso, so I dccldod to try them. I bad been using Cutlcura Soap, so I got mo a box of Cutlcuru Ointment, and washed oft tho effected part with Cutlcura Soap threo times a day, and then put tho Cutlcura Ointment on. Tho first day I put it on, It rcllovod , mo of Itching so I could slcop all that night. It took about a woek, then I could seo tho scab como off. 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