Show ait I 1 r 4 e I 1 u z f 6 ov y X g AIM ak e 41 4 01 A y A 17 W 0 VADE altruistic al WORK T r the BUREAU tir commercial E CD N E I 1 MI R I 1 L ea 1 C bwy att all V CW 1 if there is adyth ng tl at I 1 can do personally or officially to successfully promote this work I 1 shall be glad to have you advise me W G harding adiv by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN without money and without price pricel that Is the pur pose and accomplishment of the bureau of commercial economics of washington D 0 senator robert L oven oien of oklahoma used the phrase in the last days of the last congress in Intro luc lue ing a bill to grant it a united states charter to bale ake the place of a state charter then senator oin owen en an went ent on to say any nuat er et of nice things about the bureau beginning I 1 tl us it is wonderful altru lAtIc bureau Is a great pub lie servant with tl e co operation of many of the leading nations of tl e world it has gradually put in free circulation over oner GO reels of exceeding 60 feet of film filin sho vin the cities and seen ie ic beal beat ties of many countries their customs their industries and social habits all I 1 ands of manu fracturing fac turing processes vocational instruction tion and all I 1 forms of life of man beast birds and fishes from all parts of the world these reels come to the bureau from all over oner the world for free dis tribu tion and go to schools community centers and localities without easy access to moving moning picture theaters these pictures without money and without price are being shown ill all over the world by the bu reau in evera state in the united states in en every ery state of europe in south america in africa in asia and the south sea islands and then senator 0 ven N en came to the real h iman interest part the fact that the bareau bureau of corn mercial economics Is ti tie e living ing story of a mans inin s gratitude Is the result of a blind mans man 9 vow that with the recovery of his sight ie I 1 e would devote his life to the service of mankind he ile told how frai els cis holley in 1803 1893 it at the age of thirty after great arti activity vity and success toun fount 1 himself totally blind he ile was in aix la to chapelle for treatment the german government no was hold ing in dusseldorf Dissel Diss eldorf dort its biennial exhibition of the manufactures of the empire this chib tion was also a vocational guide to the youth of germany at government expense mr ur holley cone conceived elied the idea that the exhibition would be even een more of a success if taken talen to the homes of the boes by means meins of motion pictures he ile told his I 1 lea to the then kaiser and to the minister of deduc education tl ti e ev ap proved and told him to go ahead lie ile did so on ani I 1 met with considerable c access despite the ina le of the motion pictures of tl ose days dabs corn success awalter only tie perfection of tie motion picture camera and projection machine the rapid development of both gave gine h hm in his opportunity said senator owen and ten vears bears i go he began to organize the bureau of cora corn ner cial clot comics with miss anita marls marts broggs whose high ideals broad conception of bior word d af of fairs and expert economic training and org aniza tion at biliti I 1 lave ave conti lb to its present vv worl or I 1 wide usefulness and influence senator owen said a lot more but the foregoing t Is enough to arouse ones interest an altruistic enterprise in this age of commercialism I 1 pictures aitho it money and without price and without adverta ing in this age of publicity agents I 1 L lu ill cattonar cat lonal and vocational pictures tal tat en ell to remote peoples who cannot go to the pictures more detailed information 1 drained I tallied shows the bureau of commercial economics Is w p maintained by endowment annuity memberships and voluntary contributions francis holley Is dl oll rector and anita marls marts boggs Is dean its divisions are educational films research scholarships councilors for the american Ame in indians natural re sources lectures conservation of public moneys cooperating 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 ragaa morocco ind the netherlands guatemala dutch east indies denmark sweden costa pica plea uruguay peru brazil san salvador and cuba the american legion pan american union and pan pacific union the motion picture theater 0 owners 1 ners of america mr holley it appeals appears although an international benefactor bene fictor Is also a per cent american he Is an educator and traveler is self educated and la Is he ile NN was as born in coob cool county illinois in 1863 and began life for I 1 itself self at the age of thirteen as a messenger in an engineering corps on the northern poe survey then he was with the canadian P pacific engineering corps final ly he set up for himself as t civil engineer and was nias also admitted to the bar in minnesota and illinois tt TI en he be traNe traveled led for five years in europe and foi for four veirs in tl e orient engaged in study and research he founded the bureau of commer etal economics in 1013 I 1 met mr air holle by appointment in n a chicago depot he was returning to wash agton after an heroic operation bv by the manos at rochester minn he was nas suffering but indomitable enduring his pain with inith fortitude as an indication of returning I 1 balth and streng tl ti we want nant a al at charter for the bureau he said because it in effect means the off official leial approval of the united states government of our NN wor or and that will be N callable a table to us in some places e I 1 lave ave no publicity department being unwilling to divert dinert funds from the main purpose and alvn anyway aay a gool thing advertises itself in I 1 kiy say that the judiciary commit tee to aich the bill was referred has been polled and found to be unanimously favorable senator owen in introducing the I 1 ill gave gane a fair idea of the purpose and scope of our operations our pictures are going pretty much all over tl tie e world orld no i adap there Is no pens iship no duties are in posed CON s transportation is often available Serin tor ON aen en suggested tl ti at the bureau was every day bringing the br brot otherl heri of man a little nearer to reality said I 1 the brotherhood of man is a I 1 ree term suppose you give me two or three specific instances of good accomplished by your pictures certani ly I 1 te e replied the mountaineers of kentuck y and tennessee are poor and uneducated an 1 ire uninformed as to modern commercial and industrial knetl the bureau has prepared films with the puri purl ose of Imp improving roNIng their economic con these films are furnished to the missions which in turn ht get them into the schools tl TI ese films teach the mountaineers better methods of agriculture and ho bo i to get bigger crops I 1 ow to vack lack what they raise how bow to use the parcels post an I 1 the C 0 O D system in short how to raise produce how to market it and how bow to get the money in georgia our films teach the natives bow how to drain swamps and build roads in aua aus J our pictures have to do largely with agrical ture and cattle and sheep in the leper colony on Tol okal in the HaN hawaiian Nallan islands the films are principally for entertainment and so on all of our pictures have hane informative value in that it Is useful in several for people to learn how bow other people live sanitation and decent living and honest craftsmanship are worth while the world over the language of pictures Is one that all peoples can understand A phonograph and an amplifier I 1 elp the interest sometimes it Is necessary to use indirect meth to get results for example e we sent a ams ins showing the approved metho Is of fighting losis up among the eskimos they NN would not ad nit that there NN was is tuberculosis among them so we had to withdraw the films flims later we sent up pic pie tures lures sho showing iNing other peoples even enen in the tropics the dread disease whereupon where iNhere uron the Es kimos took notice and applied the lessons to them seli selves es through dr grenfell of lin ign I 1 these pictures went through the arctic circle clear to tl ti e Mac mackenzie benzle river india furnished a ing example of in what bat can be done by pictures from cashmir camp 12 in small coins and a cry for help it appeared tl at 71 per cent of the babies bibles ni were ere cl daving ing within six moi mot of birth because of tt e ignorance of the moti moil ers miss boggs used her 0 in money and had films quid quiet lv iv prepared and sent the result was that in 14 months the int mortality was reduced from 71 per cent to 50 56 per cent mr air holley eNi evidently dently has a sincere admiration tor for tl e talents and activities of the bureau s dean miss boggs it transpired in our conversation that thit she I 1 as qs means t nd accepts no salary it was vias apparent that he took solid co anfort in the fact tl at she h had hid id fifty years nears of life ahead of her in NA wl I 1 let to carry on tl tie e NN work ork of the bureau askel for details about the young v on an he said L ol 01 her up in who s IN ahn ho she has more activities than I 1 can keep track of anita giarda ll iran marts maris boggs according to who it nv ho is indeed a voi ng aman v man of accia activities tiles she was born in philadelphia in WS 1818 she Is A P bryn mais r 1910 an ania I 1 A NI university erdity of penn sylvania 1911 she ni was a s a fo inder in 1913 of ta tie e bireau and was anas a special coll bollal orator with inith the united states bureau burean of education 1915 19 ste sl e Is the education il it representative in the unite I 1 states state of cana la a australia argentine france great britain lapan tarin und ind bolivia sl e Is asmoel ate director of tie department of put lie ser servie oce of the motion picture theater 0 anners f Atner america ici she Is councilor for the american ii it diang tell dell v of tl it e american cengr geographical member f the american association for tl ti e A ivance nent ent of science and finally she is the editor of N islon a quarterly the transportation of the bureau s films to the ends of the earth and the sho n ng of tl 11 e pictures voul I 1 make a story in them themselves sehl the films fco go every enery imaginable anav from pick train to hillock cart cirt from franr do dog sled to motor truck the artist has taken talen with the truck pi pt to graph and I 1 as Is put on the screen tl e picture of a crow that will be aboin at it the evelln perform ance once on the river in 11 ii nolin ollor the sail of it vessel serves as a screen in siberia a screen Is stretched between telegraph poles pole some way or other the films go eNerT everywhere bere some way or other they are shown wherever reNer they go |