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' President Wilson snd every mem'!
ber of the United States Government
hsveu rged the people to cheerfulness
duringk thew sr, to follow the normal
customs without waste or without
prodigality.
Every branch of the government
has used the motion picture for props
ganda since the start of the ar and
has afforded every facility, under
proper supervision to the portrayal
of the various governments on all of
thescreena of the country.
At thed irection of President Wil
son the Committee on Public Informa
tion has gone further than this and.
has inaugurated its own department |
of motion pictures, taking all of these j
employes from established film com-,
panles. ;
This committee itself will make j
pictures for showing in ther egular!
established theatres. One seven- j •
reel feature has already been com-)
pleted and shown in a few sections i
of the cuontry in advance of its gen-1
era! release.
The war and navy departments
have specifically authorized sailors
and soldiers to take part in feature j
pictures. “The Unbeliever,” a recent j
production had the cooperation of an
entire corps of U. S. Marines and, j
with the exception of n few profes- j
sionnl players, they supplied the en- ■
tire cast This was a commercial |
picture.
Soldiers of the United States Gov
ernment used in "Over the Top” and i
many other pictures. Sailors have ap !
peared in features without number.
President Wilson has never refus
ed to pose for a motion picture. Not
a week goes by in which he does not
appear in one.
Mrs. Wilson is a regular attendant
at Washington theatres. Within the
month the Associated Press has
chronicled her appcaranc at the show
ing of one of the big features.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
had many times publicly given the
motion picture theatres credit for a
great share of thew ork that is being
done toward winning the war.
Ten cents out of every dollar that
is paid in to the motion picture the
atres of thee ountry go into the Unit
ed States Treasury to fight the Hun.
In addition to that there are other
tacs on the manufacturers of thefllm.
When the Third Liberty Loan came
Secretary McAdoo called upon many
of the motion picture stars to help
in thew ork. Mary Pickford, Doug
las Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Wil
liam S. Hart, Marie Dressier, and
scores of others mado tours of var
ious sections of tho country and
raised an aggregate of millions
dollars.
When Food Conservator Hoover
wishes a special appeal to go to the
country he calls in the motion picture
men and this appeal is flashed on tho
screens of the bigger theaters.
When the Red Cross drives come j
when an impetus is needed for the
War Savings Stamps, or any other
war fund is needed, the motion pic
ture theater is aclled upon and al
ways responds.
The Government has endorsed mo
tion pictures by erecting in the var
ious training camps Liberty Theatres
where the same class, and thesame ac
tual pictures that you see at the pic
ture play arc shown. These nrc not |
only shown with the consent of the
Government, but by ita direct order.
The Government knows that no one
thing is more calculated to keep glad
the hearts of then oldiers and sailors
than the motion picture.
Gen. Pershing has called for more
motion pictures to be sent abroad. He
has asked for the kind that you are
seeing day after day at your theatre.
He arranges the leaves of absence so
ttmt themcn shsll have certain relief
.from trench life to attend-the mo
tion picture theatres behind he lines.
The Government of the United
States has endorsed them otion pic
ture in every way that is possible, in
raising money, in educating the peo
ple, and in keeping the people happy
and confident
The Government knows what it
wants. It has not hesitated to tell you
when this or that should be done. It
tells you in so msny words to go to
the motion pictures—and H sends ita
fighting men there and when they
cannot go it sends the pictures
them.
Help the government win
The war
You will help it by going
To the Motion picture
Theatre and contributing
Your part in the war and
You will bo following the
Express endorsement of the
President and every
Element of the Nation's
Government
Does the Government know better
what It wants or some individual .who
himself up as greater than Wood-
Wilson snd every one of his aids
In the war of Democracy againt Au
tocracy.
F OV ASK ME how we have done tit tin the Navyf
A great many people are asking, and we can give them
all a straight American answer Every man tin me
Navy is a student. Every man is a fighter* Every man is on
tiptoe to put the big game through for Democracy, Patriotism*
jmd Victory!! t% t
For that straight American answer, turn to page 418 Ojf
Hearst’s Magazine for June. There you will
Secretary Daniels’ signed statement on our New
Y OU owe it to yourself to read thi«
article. You owe it to yourself to know
the glorious facts about the United States
Navy. You owe it to yourself to know
that our Navy—your Navy—is already
•econd, and well on its way to being the
greatest Navy in the world. You owe
it to yourself to line up squarely with
Hearst’s Magazine. Hearst’s stands solidly
behind- the President. Hearst’s knows how
able are the men he has gathered about
him. And Hearst’s Magazine—unlike some
of the feebler magazines—realizes that these
men are doing things that will make you,
and every red-blooded American proud
—whenever you arc told the real facts 1
H EARST’S is going to give you theicSl
facts. It’<s your war just as much at
Secretary Daniels’ war or Secretary Baked*
war. Why, then, shouldn’t you know
actly what Secretary Daniels and
Baker are doing? Hearst’s Magazine<
tell you. You can find on any nev
today Daniels’ signed statement abogti
Navy. And next month, Hearst’s will,
you Secretary Baker’s own statement <
Army. Aren’t you more than ready fot
patriotic constructive policy like Hearst
Aren’t you about tired of reading
on our ablest executives written, ot
times, by men you would hesitate to pt
complete charge of a corner grocery st
T O Daniels, Baker, and the others who are m
Nation the chief figure in the world’s most m _
enterprise—Hearst’s offers the chance to fling the
in the face of the puny pessimists, petty politicians
professional faultfinders.
m
To an audience of readers of Hearst’s Magazine—a
million real Americans—patriotic, sincere, lovers of
play—Secretary Daniels addresses himself. Are you
of them? Do you dare to face the facts? Are you
to learn how good America really is?
If you don’t want to think well of your Government^
you won’t want Hearst’s. But—if you are openr
minded and really prefer to be patriotic, you won’t fall
to start the series with Secretary Daniels in June and
continue with Secretary Baker in the July
.^MAGAZINE
The Magazine With a Mission
Secretary McAdoo says: “Let no
one. who genuinely love. America
and wants to .erve fail to enltat in the
great ramy of War Saven during the
period ending June 28."
To achieve victory wo must have
two armies: On* that fighta; one that
saves. Every patriot will be a mem
ber of ont of these armies.
Every spendthrift adds to the war’s
length.
Women stenographers and typists] About 50 subsistence inspector, of
ate now being enrolled in the Naval [the Army attended a school of one
Reserve at yeoman. neck recently held at Washington,
Over 3,000 women are at work in D. C., to receive instruction in meth-
the production of gas mask, at the od. to standardize the inspection of
Long Island gas-defense plant .food.
Monthly magazines to be seat to
soldier* and sailor, should not be -L.
more than two month, old, according ”
to the port office Department, and
weekly publication, should not be '
more than three week. old.
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