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Iron And Steel.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

Prophets In U.S.A.

Prophesying is a popular pas- time now in the United

States.

President Roosevelt predicted that all American indusry would be

U.S. PROFESSOR TO PROBE MOVIES

INVESTIGATING EFFECT

ON CHILDREN

lined up under the blanket code by "TALKIES" AS A SOCIAL FORCE

Labour Day (September 4).

This was immediately followed! by a more cautious prophecy from

Boston. test showed definitely that it did, General Johnson. He

Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, not only on the night of the picture, modestly the blue-blooded 70-year-old educa-but for as long as five nights after- fixed November 16 as the culminattor whose long presidency ing date of his expected triumph.

at ward. Harvard left indelible For weeks "repeal by Christmas"

marke A general report on the studies. had been the slogan of the anti-university, is going to lend his in- Ohio State, was approved by Dr. on America's richest and oldest by Dr. W. W. Charters, also of Prohibitionists. Now, with the Ruence to making the movies social-Hibben just before his death in ac monotonous landslide in all the

the Staten against Prohibition, the minded. date has been advanced to Thanha- giving Day (November 30).

There should be some thanksgiv. Ing.

Your Daily Smile

LUCK-BUT BAD FIRST TRAMP: Had any luck) to-day, pal?”

com.

auto accident. Dr. Hibben Dr. Lowell has accepted unant-mented that the research showed mous election to be chairman of that many current Alms conflict the Motion Picture Research Coun-with the teachings and standards cil, a five-year-old 'organization for of the training of home, church, making studies of the social in-and school. They "constitute fluences of the movies. Following valid basis for apprehension about such studies the counell expects to their influence on children." Dr. make suggestions for more effective Hibben added. use of the movies as a social force. Youngsters Impressionable

The council already has produc- The studies included such inter. fed a series of reports which Dr. eating findings as these: . Of 35,961 Lowell has said "impressed me very boys and girls between 'eight and much." Dr. Lowell succeeds his 19 years ofti, each girl went to the old friend, the late President John movies 46, and each boy 57 times Grier Hibben of Princeton, in a year. Another check showed that withheading the council's work, which overy week 28,269.000 youngsters Dr. Lowell believes to be "most im-between five and 20 years old go' Dortant."

to the movies. The tremendous potential effect on youth is dei- dent.

SECOND DITTO: No, just couple of handouts and an offer work.

a

of

LIVING "PROOF "How long cap a man live out brain ?"

"Well, you'll soon be forty-twp." Behind Time

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SANDY: Here F're spent four years courting you, and note you throw me over for another fellow. ANNE: Well, he spent less time and more money, Sandy,

Research Has Wide Scope The movie researches being en- gineered by the council are in three| Other tests showed definitely parts:

that children take movies more fluence of pictures on the audience, are more real to them, and that The first is a study of the in-seriously than grownups, that they

especially on children.

their emotional reaction is some- The second will be the effect of times as much as eight times movies on "I see your husband never gets standing and world peace, and ea- ing the same picture.

International under-marked as that of grownupa watch- out at night." "So do I"

carry which prices have been arti-: ficially maintained by numerous sectional associations. Instead of me $25," being concentrated on the most

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GOOD MEMORY "Haven't you forgotten you owe} "Didn't you see me trying to hide Many proposals have been put economical and efficient plants, out-as you came along?" forward for the reorganization of put has been dispersed over # the iron and steel industry in Bri- multiplicity of producers scramb-

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A JOB FOR THEM

tain. The need for a thorough-ling for reduced orders. The "Hello, is this the Better

JAN

pecially the ideas of America The counell does not, aims at cen- which are being given people all sorship, and is the first to admit over the world by the present that some movies may have a re Hollywood output.

laxing and even beneficial effect on Third will como & study of the children. It has no idea of pre- economic, financial, legal, and adventing children from going to the ministrative aspects of the movie movies, for it is first to admit that industry with reference to whether they will go anyway. these fit or unfit it to perform ita

Nor has it any idea of demand- Busi-social duty properly.

ing that all movies be reduced to going reconstruction, which has result is the profts have been ness Bureau?"

These second two phases of the for nine-year-old children. Its work a level where they will be suitable been emphasized by more than one]

reduced to vanishing point and "'Yes."

council's study would have inquiry, has for some time been at-heavy losses have been sustained, "Well, how'd you like, to come completed under the guidance of that after the facts are disclosed, it to be is largely fact-finding, in the belief tracting the attention not only of While the lack of profits and the down and make ours a little bet-Dr. Lowell, recommendationg made, will be time enough to determine the more far-sighted leaders of the legacy of inflated capital charges ter”

and plans devised to get them what changes, if industry itself, but also of the Gov-have prevented the modernization

adopted. The first, relating to the sary. ernment. In the spring of last of equipment, leaving the industry

effects on youth, Is largely complete.} year the Tariff Advisory Com-this respect to its foreign competi- means more marriages. The storms as a whole substantially inferior in A registrar says fine weather mittee, in making its first recom-tore. For this disease there is only come afterwards. mendation for the imposition of a tariff on iron and steel imports, exalization, which may best be de- jone possible cure, namely, ration- pressed its conviction that the grant of protection "would not by

janed as systematic planning with itself suffice to place the industry in view to reducing costs. Ration la position to play its proper part than mere financial fusion or the alization thus means much more in the national economy unless it wae accompanied by a considerable suppression of competition. As ap- measure of reorganization." Last plied to the steel industry. It would autumn, when the extension of the imply not only the amalgamation

AFTERMATH.

Facts You Did Not Know.

any, are neces-

New Field For Savant

Stage No Problem The movies have never before Dr. Lowell, last of a long line of been subjected to se careful a study Boston bluebloods, only recently regarding their social influence, It retired as president of Harvard. was never necessary to make such During his presidency he not only a study of the stage, because it revolutionized the physical aspect has been defintely shown that stage of Harvard, building and putting plays in general have little effect The government of Manchuria in operation its famous "house on young children. has announced a ten

Youngsters year pro- units," but he increased ita endow-fust don't "get them." But they' gramme for the construction of ap-ment nearly $100,000,000 and mado understand the movies, and they proximately 94,000 miles of first it the richest university in the remember what they sea there in al- most as great detail sa do adults, Now from his retirement he es the tents showed. says to direct studies that will To the task of finishing these ultimately bring the movies to a studlen of the social effects of the what they are doing to, and for, been for 24 years the presiding Teater sense of responsibility for|movies now comes the man who ha America.

genlus of America's world famous Harvard, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell

tariff was proposed for a further steel producers, which has already amount of second class and 18,000

into regional groups of the raw class highways, about the same country.

two years, the recommendation was taken place to some extent on the miles of third class, expressly qualified as "subject to North-East Coast and in South satisfactory progress being made in Wales, but also the proper

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POLICE CHIEF TOLD

TO "MOVE ON":

Talk With Ex-Cabinet Minister Disturbed.

the preparation of the scheme for ordination of the secondary in- picture objects so far away that To enable news photographers to reorganization and in putting the dustries with the primary pro-they are not seen clearly with the approved scheme into force." At ducers the end of February the National form of central organization which that cuts through haze with special What is needed is, some eye a camera has been invented

Children's Reactions Studied Committee of Iron and Steel Man-will concentrate production in the filters and uses plates sensitized made in collaboration with the factures appointed by Sir George most suitable plants, aupervise the to infra-red rays.

The original set of studies war May and his colleagues under the raising of fresh capital, and spend chairmanship of Mr. Charles Mit-it on large-scale plants specially

Fayne Fund, which is concerned chell, the chairman of Dorman, designed for a specific manufac-new flashlight it can be converted side schools.

with the informal education of By rearranging the parts of youth through all influènces-, out- Lang, adopted a draft scheme set-ture instead of allowing it to be into a telescope, candle lamp created a committee of scientists of ting up a frame work of machinery frittered away by a number of magnifying glass or burning glass high standing, and studied various The Payne Fand within which the reorganization of isolated firms. On the distributing and a first aid kit can be carried in phases of the effecta of movies on the industry could be carried out, side also a closely co-ordinated its case. This scheme was in due course sub-policy is needed, both for the for- mitted to the Chancellor of the Ex-eign and the domestic market, present circumstances to paralyse these: What sort of ideas do chil

[young people.”......

Such questions were studied as chequer, who in April wrote which will establish much more in the efforts of their more far-sight-dren get from the movies? How It happened at 5.15 p.m. at letter to Sir George May welcoming timate relations between the steeled colleagues so long as the scheme deeply are they affected emotional, a busy spot near the entrance to on behalf of the Government the producers and the steel- consuming for reconstruction remains effort made by the industry to put industries, such as its house in order, but emphasising ing and the engineering trades. such fears be realized, the ques movies inspire criminal and de-ing on the edge of the pavement.

the build: purely voluntary hasia, Bhould movies, and how often? Do the

Oly? How many children go to the a city railway station. at the same time the preliminary The proposal for a National Iron tion of statutory compulsion is loquent bondenoles? Do they The policeman on traffic duty character of the steps taken, and and Steel Corporation put forward bound sooner or later to be raised, affect children's sleep or nerves eyed them sternly once or twice, pointing out that "much still re by the National Committes pro- It will hardly be disputed that the And so on.

but they went on talking.

Finally the policeman went up to them and said: "Look, here,

DUTY IS DUTY IN SYDNEY

Sydney, N.S.W.

Two men were standing talk-

dustry can be said to" be property within which this work of ro: would be "the" voluntary and Potent Educational Facier equipped and organized. Since organization can be carried out, that date it is no secret that the but it will be effective only if the unanimous adoption by the In-out, years of studies, conducted you fellows have been here long chariot wheels have begun to tarry industry itself decides to make dustry of the scheme put forward in a series of reports which art on No one who is acquainted with use of the machinery suggested railing such a nanimous agree of the first of these for, instance and without a further word, went a most careful manner, resulted enough. It's time you moved the complexity of the problem Is

by, the National Committee; but now being published. The authorThe two men eyed each other, likely to under-estimate the dim- So far the plan only exists on pa- culties which such a scheme in. Për, and, though several months ment it must be clear that neither evitably entalls. At the same time have paned since it was formulate protection to the industry on the axe that the movies are as powerful an One of them was Mr. Aubrey

the Government, walch has given Henry James Forman, concludes away in opposite directions. there is no longer any room for rd, the industry har not doubting the general character of up its mind to set the

press understanding that it was to influence in American life as the Abbott, Federal member for the measures which are required, reconstruction

prganize self, nor the public whole costly education

system. Gwyder, and ex-Minister of the Ever since the War the Iron and ely, there i

The Investigation"

bean Crown the other, Mr. W. H steel trade has suffered from car the disti

thoro

Dr Lowell Childs, Commissioner for Police. tain well-marked defacta, most of

the now-Beuter. expansion c which can definitely be traced to man

the

Capacity during the

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