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PARTONN PARTONEW PARTON PARTONTsJEW NEW N TsJEW EW YORKJust YORK-Just YORK Just YORK -Just Just - Just a year agoWill ago agoWill > 1 Will H Hays noted a possibly possiblyregrettable possiblyregrettable possiblyregrettable regrettable tendency of the mOVIes mOVIestoward moviestoward moviestoward toward escapism This led tosuggcstlOns toBilly to tosuggestions , suggestions suggcstlOns tha that thatA t Blly Billy thatBilly , Hays Nowsuggestions Now he ne was sucA sue suc sueA A Matter of cumbing cumbmg curnbing to thc the thcFact theFact theFact Fact Eudemonzstverbal Eudemonistverbal Eudemonist encbant- encbant enchant- enchant encbantments enchantments - - ments of the theHollywood theHollywood Hollywood Intelligentsia intelligentsla That Tbat all allblew allblew aUblew blew over but here is Mr Hays Haystoday Haystoday Haystoday today frankly proclaiming himself a . aeudemonist aeudemonist eudemomst eudemonist Our somewhat con conservatIve conservative conservative servatIve dictionary is a bit vague vagueabout vagueabout vagueabout about It it , , but in m his rough outlInes outlinesa a eudemonist eudemomst seems to be one who whobel whobel whobel bel eves in faIrIeSIn fairiesIn fairies fairiesIn In his annual report as pr president presidentof Ident , , , of the Motion Picture Producers &Distributors Distributors & DistrIbutors of America Mr Hays HayscItes Hayscites Hayscites cItes with satisfaction the record recordbox recordbox recordbox box office ofilce success of Snow WhIte WhIteand Whiteand Whiteand and the Seven Dwarfs and is hap hap- happy happy happy - - py that there are still a number of ofeudemomsts ofeudemonists ofeudemonists eudemomsts eudemonists left m 111 in the world worldTbere worldThere worldThere Tbere There is no disparaging dlsparagmg or InVIdIOUS InVIdIOUSreference invidiousreference invidiousreference reference to non eudemonists eudemomsts but but butsince , , SInce Mr Hays also reports wIth wIthgratIficatIon withgratification withgratification gratIficatIon that there are noIsms noisms no noisms isms and no social socml significancein sIgnIficancem sIgnIficance m in Snow White it is perhaps a afaIr afair afair faIr inference mference that such black wItch wItchcry witchery witchery cry ery is the dramatic antithesisPracticing antithesis antithesisPracticing Practicing Practcmg ! law in Sullivan SullivanInd SullivanInd SulUvanInd Ind , the homespun sagacIous sagacIousMr sagaciousMr sagaciousMr Mr Hays was no rising- rising rlswg risingyoungcndemonist - young youngcudemonist youngeudemonist youngcndemonist cudemonist eudemonist That came later He Hewas Hewas Hewas was however a rising rlslDg rasing young youngRepubhcan youngRepublican youngRepublican Repubhcan Republican politician and a aPresbyterIan aPresbyterian aPresbyterian PresbyterIan elder , , one of the thed.ettest thedeftest thedeftest d.ettest dettest deftest . Inner-circle Inner circle lnner-cJrcIe lnner cJrcIe - - technicians techniciansof of the Indiana party tourna tourna- tournaments tournaments tournaments . - - ments where professional stand standards standards standards ards and scoring scormg are high That Thatled Thatled Thatled led him inevitably mevltably to what whatstatesmen whatstatesmen whatstatesmen statesmen of his earlier day dayused dayused dayused used to call political pohheal prefer preferment preferment preferment ment and as postmaster gcn gen gcneral genera gencral eral era ! in President Harding s scab scabinet scabinet cab cabinet met ho he exercised e\erClsed e erClsed " \ : pohtlcal political pohtlcalpower politicalpower politicalpower power of wide range and pene pcne- pcne pene- pcnetratIon penetration penetration - - tration trationFor For seventeen years now he has hasheaded hasheaded hasheaded headed the moving movmg picture industryAround industry mdustry industrytr rA Around A round of eIght tr- tr tri eight'Czar eightCzar ' . Czar - i ' , Is i Out r\ r \ * , gilents silents v . when whenPrefers whenPrefers hen henPrefers Prefers 'Bdl Bdl 'Bll Bll Bill ' , ' he left his bls cabAs cab cabAs cabAs As His Hs , Handlemet Handle met P0511 post and andnow andnow andnow now about 28compames 28companies 28 28companies companies compames putting puttmg out highly hlghly vo voclferous vociferous vociferous clferous ciferous films-no films no films - - no wonder he be beleeves beheves 11 leeves eves in an fairies He doesn t like to tobe tobe tobe be called czar preferring preferrmg just justplain jus jusplain justplain t tr plain Bill Ball it If there is any call for foran fo foan foran r an informal mformal salutation Hearmg Hearing HearmghIm Hearinghim Hearinghim hIm wind up in an address or even evenin evenin 111 in casual talk one could understand understandhow understandhow understandhow how he could be a eudemonist eudemomst as ashe ashe ashe he Invokes the founding foundmg fathers or orthe o othe orthe r the palladium palladlum of our hbertIes liberties hbertIesagaInst libertiesagainst libertiesagainst agaInst this or that that , , but he usually usuallycoppers usuallycoppers usuallycoppers coppers such oratorical bets with a aremark aremark aremark remark like this And after all It Itprobably itprobably itprobably probably wouldn t work Thus Tbus he heIS h his heis e IS revealed as what might be called calleda a pragmatic eudemonist eudemomst . . In his county seat to-a-a to a town - - beInherited he heinherited heinherited inherited his father s land-taw land taw land-law law landtawbusmess landlawbusiness land-lawbusiness land lawbusiness - - busmess business A fragile man witha Wltha Wlth with a slight Imp limp ( and outstandwg outstanding outstandwgears outstandingears outstandingears ears he has the mannerisms maunerfsms ot of otthe ofthe ofthe the country lawyer , and he wins winsover winsover winsover over opposition oppos1ton ! , as he used to towin towin towin win luries juries , with a winsome and anddlsarmi anddisarming anddisarming dlsarmi disarming g smile smUe He is at times timesa a euphemist as well as a eu cu eudemonlstinslstlng cudemonistinsisting eudemonlst demonlst-inslstlng demonlst inslstlng demonist-insisting demonist insisting - - insisting , for in instance instance Instance stance , that censorship is mere mere- merely merely merely - - ly self seu regulation " Several Severalyears Severalyears Severalyears years ago he was worrying worrymg be- be because because be because - - cause the movies were & , going oing ' ma.sochist masochist . ' Sullivan Indiana Is still stall st l home borne homebase bornebase homebase base tor for Mr Hays and he is the thetown thetown thetown town s favonte favorIte son in m spite of IDS has IDSphIlologIcal hisphilological hasphilological phIlologIcal flare fiare upIT up . IT WOULD be fine tine if we had a acash acash 1 cash register which would rmg ring rmgup ringup ringup up a true prophecy when it was wasturned wasturned wasturned turned in About a year and a halfago half hal ! ago George GeorgeMessersmith GeorgeMessersmth Messersmth Messersmith MessersmthMessersmith MessersmithMessersmith ? , Messersmith Messersmlth.Called MessersmlthCalled . . Called Hitler's Hitlers HItler ' ' ' . assistant secreMoves secreMoves sacre secre sacreMoves Moves Earlytary Early tary ot of statetormer stateformer state former tormer consulgeneral consul consulgeneral consulgeneral general at Berlin called Adolf IDt Hit IDtler Hitler Hitler ler s next moves as clearly and ac accurately accurately accurately curately as a spieler tor for an old fash fashioned fashToned fashioned ioned Toned barn dance He turned in to tothe tothe tothe the state department a precise state state- statement statement statement - - ment of what der cler fuehrer had on onhIs onhis onhis hIs mind now fully vabdated valIdated and andcertIfied andcertified andcertified certIfied Naturally it got little attentlOn attention at attention tention tentlOn because it 11 was obviously In IncredIble incredible incredible credIble The Nazis can t say it was a aprejudiced aprejudiced aprejudiced prejudiced opinion oplnJon When Hitler Hitlerwas Hitlerwas Hitlerwas was emerging Mr Messersmith Messersmiththought Messersmiththought Messersmltlithought thought evolution evolubon would fGllow follow fGllowrevolution followrevolution followrevolution revolution ' and everything everythingwould everythingwould everythingwould would work out nicely He Hechanged Hechanged Hechanged changed his miad mind When Dr DrAlbert DrAlbert DrAlbert Albert Einstein suffered suiJered certain certainindignities certainindignities certainIndignities indignities in & , getting ettlng his pass passport passport passport port Mr Messersmlth MessersmIth was un- un an- an - unjustly anjustly un unjustly - justly accused aceu.ed aceued . of responslbll1ty responsibility responslbll1tyThis responsibilityThis responsibilityThis This was all straightened out outand outand outand and President Roosevelt upped uppedhIm uppedhim uppcdhim hIm as minister to AustriaHe Austria AustriaHe He returned to his present post in inJuly ( inJuly n nJuly July 1938 He was tor for 14 years yearssuperintendent yearssuperintendent yearssuperintendent superintendent of the Delaware Delawareschools Delawareschools Delawareschools schools before entering the consular consularserVIce consularservice consularservice serVIce Consol Canso Consoi ! tin dJ An ) ' en l'd ld ed Hewn News New , Feature Features FeaturesWNU featureWNU * . 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