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Vol. IX, No. 5.
Shylock Agrees to the Loan. From the Kleine-Eclipse Feature, "Shylock.'
towns and as well, is using his moving picture machine in his church on Sunday.
He stated that he considered he was doing the right thing in attending this meeting in spite of the fact that it was taking place upon Sunday. He felt that he could not sit idly by, and take up the intolerable burden which the provincial government had strapped upon his shoulders. He thought it was time the moving picture men got up and exerted their power.
The moving picture show, he said, was a mighty lever for good. He showed moving pictures and showed good pictures and provided clean, healthy and educative entertainment to a number of young people. He also used his machine as a stereopticon in his Sunday sermons. People who had never come to his church before because they were not able to understand the language but now they were taught the story of the gospel by a more powerful force than language, that of vision. In this way the moving picture machine was of immense value.
F. G. Bailey of Humboldt stated that he had come to Humboldt some time ago when moving pictures were not understood and it took him a year to educate the people of that district up to believing in moving pictures. Now they would have nothing but moving pictures.
Aid. M. A. Maclnnes spoke on behalf of the city and took as his subject the moving picture show as a source of amusement to the general public. He devoted some time to the question as to whether it was correct to meet on Sunday and decided that in a case of emergency like this, it was proper. There was no doubt, he said,
but that the moving picture was shortly to become one of the strongest factors in the educational life of the city.
T. M. Fraser spoke on behalf of the press, drawing attention to the fact that there were many complaints that the flicker of the pictures was very injurious to the eyes. He characterized the tax of the provincial government as actuated by its need of money.
N. Menasse of Edmonton, the owner of the finest motion picture theater in Western Canada, represented the sister province of Alberta. He said that the strength of Samson lay in the exhibitors' hands. "Make of yourself a personality and your business an honorable business" was the tenor of his address.
W. L. McBride of Prince Albert boasted of being one of the first motion picture pioneers in this country. He had operated a machine in Prince Albert fourteen years ago. In his opinion the ideal of the new organization should be better houses and better pictures.
Rev. Mr. Thompson closed the meeting with an allusion to the Jesse James methods of the local provincial government and the benediction.
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