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THE SOIL OF THE EARTH] 263
Allied industry. The clan sat quiet in America, carrying on the business. When we entered, they gave their sons to our armies, their treasure to our war-chest. As our government, somewhat tardily, organized its own foreign propaganda, it incorporated the film into the general plan. William A. Brady became temporarily chaperon and dictator of the moving picture in its relations with the war. Just before Germany broke, our official films were ready. Thenceforth until the sudden end, all American programmes going abroad carried twenty-five per cent, of propaganda pictures.
The war drew to its victorious end. Zukor had worked like a truck horse and thought like a dynamo for six years, during which he had led a minor business into the state of a major American industry. Both the war and the necessities of the job had denied him those leisurely jaunts through Europe by which habitually he restores his forces. In all that period, he had taken no real vacation. Again, his nerve ends cried out with fatigue; the itching irritation of his skin was becoming chronic. The specialists advised a long rest. That was impossible to Zukor; but he could change his way of living. With his own large sanity, he decided to drop the life of Manhattan with its exciting dazzle, its cloying allurement.
, In a bend behind the palisades of the Hudson he found an estate of three hundred acres with a substantial stone house. Here he established himself. When he made this