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COMMERCIAL ECDNDM1E5
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If there is anything that 1 can do personally or
officially to successfully promote this work. I shall
be glad to have you advise me. ? W. G. Harding.
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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
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ICTUKES? without money find
without price ! That is the pur
pose and accomplishment of the
Bureau of Commercial Economics
of Washington, D. C. Senator
Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma
used the phrase in the last days
of the last congress in introduc
ing a bill to grant it a United
States charter to take the place
of a state charter. Then Senator
Owen went on to say any number
of nice things about the bureau,
beginning thus :
? This wonderful altruistic bureau is a great pub
lic servant. With the co-operation of many of the
leading nations of the world It has gradually put
in free circulation over GO, 000 reels of exceeding
60,000,000 feet of film, showing the cities and scen
ic beauties of many countries, their customs, their
Industries and social habits; all kinds of manu
facturing processes, vocational instruction, and all
forms of life of man, beast, birds and fishes from
all parts of the world. These reels come to the
bureau from all over the world for free distribu
tion ard go to schools, community centers, and
localities without easy access to moving-picture
theaters.
"These pictures without money and without
price are being shown all over the world by the bu
reau in every state in the United States, in every
state of Europe, in South America, in Africa, in
Asia, and the South Sea islands."
And then Senator Owen, came to the real human
interest part ? the fact that the Bureau of Com
mercial Economics is the living story of a man's
gratitude, is the result of a blind man's vow
that with the recovery of his sight he would
devote his life to the service of mankind.
He told how Francis Holley in 1893, at the age
of thirty, after great activity and success, found
himself totally blind. He was in Aix-la-Chapelle
for treatment. The German government was hold
ing in Dusseldorf its biennial (exhibitioii of the
manufactures of the empire. This exhibition was
also a vocational guide to the youth of Germany
at government expense. Mr. Holley conceived the
Idea that the exhibition would be even more of a
success If taken to the homos of the boys by means
of motion pictures. He told his idea to the then
kaiser and to the minister of education. They ap
proved and told him to go ahead. lie did so anfl
met with considerable success, despite the inade
quacy of the motion pictures of those days. Com
plete success awaited only the perfection of the
motion-picture camera and projection machine.
"The rapid development of both gave him his
Opportunity," said Senator Owen, "and ten years
ago he began to organize the Bureau of Commer
cial Economics with Miss Anita Maris Boggs,
whose high ideals, broad conception of world af
fairs, and expert economic training and organiza
tion ability have contributed to its present world
wide usefulness and influence."
Senator Owen said a lot more, but the foregoing
is enough to arouse one's interest. An altruistic
enterprise in this age of commercialism ! Pictures
without money and without price? and without
advertising in this age of publicity agents! Edu
cational and vocational pictures taken to remote
peoples who cannot go to the pictures !
More detailed information obtained elsewhere
?hows the Bureau of Commercial Economics if
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maintained by endowment, annuity, memberships
and voluntary contributions. Francis Holley is di
rector and Anita Maris Boggs is dean. Its divisions
are: "Educational films, research, scholarships,
councilors for the American Indians, natural re
sources, lectures} conservation of public moneys."
"Co-operating and allied" are the United States.
France, British empire, Canada, Australia. South
Africa, Newfoundland, Argentina. Bolivia, India,
Italy, Chile, China, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Nica
ragua, Morocco, Switzerland, The Netherlands,
Guatemala, Dutch East Indies. Denmark, Sweden,
Costa Rica, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, San Salvador
and Cuba ; the American Legion, Pan-American
Union and Pan-Pacific Union ; the Motion .Picture
Theater Owners of America.
Mr. Holley, It appears, although an international
benefactor, is also a 100 per cent American. He
Is an educator and traveler/is self-educated and is
unmarried. He was born in Cook county, Illinois,
in 18G3 and began life for himself at the age of
thirteen as a messenger in an engineering corps
on the Northern Pacific survey. Then he was
with the Canadian Pacific engineering corps. Final
ly he set up for himself as a civil engineer and
was also admitted to the bar In Minnesota and
Illinois. Then he traveled for five years In Europe
and for four years In the Orient, engaged In study
and research. He founded the Bureau of Commer
cial Economics in 1013.
I met Mr. Holley by appointment In a Chicago
depot. He was returning to Washington after an
heroic operation by the Mayos at Rochester, Minn.
He was suffering, but Indomitable, enduring his
pain with fortitude as an Indication of returning
health and strength.
"We want a national charter for the bureau,"
he said, "because it in effect means the official
approval of the United States government of our
work ind that will be valuable to us in some
places. We have no publicity department, being
unwilling to divert funds from the main purpose.
And anyway a good tiling advertises itself. In
cidentally, I may say that Yhe 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 a fair Idea of
the purpose and scope of our operations. * Our
pictyres are going pretty much all over the world
nowadays. There is no censorship. No duties are
imposed. Government transportation is often
available." *
"Senator Owen suggested that the bureau was
every day bringing the brotherhood of man a little
nearer to reality," said I.* "The brotherhood of
man is a large term. Suppose you give me two
or three specific instances of good accomplished
by your pictures."
"Certainly," he replied. "The mountaineers of
Kentucky and Tennessee are poor and uneducated
and aro uninformed as to modern commercial and
industrial methods. The bureau has prepared films
with the purpose of improving their economic con
dition. These films are 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 C. O. D. system ? in short, how to raise
produce, how to market it and how to get the
money. In Georgia our films teach the natives
how to drain swamps and build roads. In Auj
!
tralia our pictures have to do largely with agricul
ture and cattle and sheep. In the leper colony
on Molokni in the Hawaiian islands the films are
principally for entertainment. And so on. All of
our pictures have informative value in that it is
useful in several ways for people to learn how
other people live. Sanitation and decent living
and honest craftsmanship are worth while the
world over. The language of pictures is one thut
all peoples can understand. A phonograph and an
amplifier help the interest.
"Sometimes it Is necessary to use indirect meth
ods to get results. For example, we sent films
showing the approved methods of fighting tubercu
losis^irp among the Eskimos. They would not admit
that there was tuberculosis among them. So we
had to withdraw the films. Later we sent up pic
tures showing other peoples? even in the tropics
? fighting the dread disease, whereupon the Es
kimos took notice and applied the lessons to thera
selyes. Through Dr. Grenfell of Newfoundland
these pictures went through the Arctic circle clear
to the MacKenzie river. ,
"India furnished a striking example of what can
be done by pictures. From Cashmir came $125
in small coins and a cry for help. It appeared
that 71 per cent of the babies were dying within
six mouths of birth because of the ignorance of
the mothers. Miss Boggs used her own money and
had films quickly prepared and sent. The result
was that in 14 months the infant mortality was re
duced from 71 per cent to f>G per cent."
Mr. Holley evidently has a sincere admiration
for t lie talents and activities of the bureau's dean,
Miss Boggs. It transpired in our conversation that
she has means and accepts no salary. It was ap
parent that he took solid comfort in the fact thai!
she had fifty years of life ahead of her in which
to carry on the work of the bureau. Asked for
details about the young woman, he said, "Look
her up in 'Who's Who'; she has more activities
than I can keep track of."
* Anita Uarda Jlarts Boggs, according to "Who's
Who," is indeed a young woman of activities. She
was born in Philadelphia in 1888. She is A. B.
(Bryn Mawr, 1010) and A. M. (University of Penn
sylvania, 1011). She was a founder in 1013 of the
bureau and was a special collaborator with the
United States Bureau of Education 1915-19. She
is the educational representative in the United
States of Canada, Australia, Argentine, France,
Great Britain, Japan and Bolivia. She is associ
ate director of the department of public service
of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America.
She is councilor for the American Ihdians; Fellow
of the American Geographical society; member of
the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. And finally she is the editor of Vision,
a quarterly.
The transportation of the bureau's films to the
ends of the earth and the showing of the pictures
would make a story in themselves. The films go
every Imaginable way from pack train to bullock
cart, from dog sled to motor truck ? incidentally
the artist has taken liberty with the truck photo
graph and has put on the screen the picture of a
crow that will be shown at the evening perform
ance. On the Yenisei river in Mongolia the sail of a
vessel serves as a screen. In Siberia a screen is
stretched between telegraph poles. - Some way op
other the films go everywhere; some way or other
they are shown wherever they go.
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LESSON FOR JUNE 3
JEREMIAH,' THE PROPHET OF
COURAGE
' T pqsON TEXT-Jeremiah 35:1-18.
rm den TEXT? Watch ye, stand fast
ta^he Mtt quit you like men. be stronS.
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TJUNWRheTOPIC-The Story of the
B&hTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
-Jeremiah, the CoUrage^ufn\^ toPIC
young people AND adult topic
?Jeremiah s Service^. Hie Nation.
Teremlah was one of the last proph
ets of Judah. He saw, the nation go
into the Babylonian Captivity and Je
rusalem destroyed, after which he
went into E?I>t. ' Ifc was a lonely
misunderstood and unpopular P>"l"e'
He was most bitterly hated and p<r
seeuted His own countrymen turoed
against him. M was placed in stocks
and then thrown into a horrible dun
geon from which he narrowly escaped
with. his life. The .earlier should give
a little sketch of his life.
lowing is suggested:
1. His Call (1:2-10).
2. His Commission (1 :11-19).
3. His Sympathetic Heart (4:19).
'4 His Great Sorrows (10:15-23).
5! The Divine Power Which Urged
Him Forward and Sustained Him
(10:7-0).
Because he was called upon to
prophesy against his own nation and
flt the command of God urged them to
surrender to the Babylonians, he "as
regarded as a traitor guilty of treas
against his own nation.
1 The Rechabites' Test (vv. 1-* )?
In the days of .Teholakim. the Lord
charged Jeremiah to bring the Recha
bites into the house of the Lord and
test them regarding the dnnkipg
wine This* he did in a place where
the people might heboid them, the a m
being to teach Judah by example
The father of the Rechabites had
given command that they should rot
drink wine. Their filial obedience
nut to shame the children- of .Turlah
for their lack of obedience. Jonadab.
the father of the 'Rechabites, was only
a man but the one whose commands
Judah disregarded was the Almighty
nod, their Creator and Savior. It is
God's plan that every man be tested.
Being a free agent, he can have char
acter only through testing.
II. The Filial Loyalty of the Rec
habites (vv. 6-11).
Though they were out of their o^n
country in the midst of a foreign peo
ple they refused to drink wine, de
claring that they had been true to the
Instructions of Jonadab all their ll\es.
It Is a fine thing when children re
member their fathers and render
obedience to their commands.
III. The Loyalty of the Rechabites
In Contrast With the Disloyalty of
Judah (vv. 12-16).
1. The Appeal (vv. 13, 14). He
made the appeal on the basis of the
filial loyalty of the Rechabites. He
also reminded them that he had
spoken to them in person, rising up
early to do so.
2. The Ministry of the Prophets
(vv. 15, 16). When the people failed
to rehder obedience to God. he sent
to them thre prophets, who pleaded
with them to amend, their ways by
turning away from their idols. Mat
thew Henry indicates the points of
contrast somewhat as follows: (1)
The Rechabites were obedient to one
who was but a man; tl?e Jews dis
obeyed the infinite and eternal God.
(2) Jonadab was dead and could not
know of their disloyalty or correct
them for It. God is all-knowing and
lives forever and will punish for dis
obedience. (3) The Rechabites were
never reminded of their obligations,
but God sen* His prophets to speak
to His people. (4) Jonadab left the
charge but no estate to support the
charge, but (jod gave the people a
goodly land and prospered them in It.
(5) God never assigned His peoples
task as hard as Jonadab's, but God's
people disobeyed Him while the
Rechabites obeyed their father.
IV. Judgment Upon the Jews for
Disobedience (v. 17).
God declared that He would bring
judgment upon them according to
what He had said. Judgment is laid
upon those who disobey and rebel
against God.
V. Reward of the Rechabites for
Their Loyalty (vv. 18, 10).
Because they had been true to the
commands of Jonadab, they should
always have a representative before
God. God has such a regard fdr filial
obedience that lie lets no act go un
rewarded.
Be Sure of Happiness.
Before we passionately desire any
thing which another enjoys, we should
examine as to the happiness of Its pos
sessor. ? Rochefoucauld.
History.
History Is little more than the regis
ter of the crimes, follies and misfor
tunes of mankind. ? Gibbon.
Great Secrets.
The great secrets of being courted
are to shun others and to seem delight
ed with yourself. ? Bulwer.
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