The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL 20. Edison, the electrical wizard who developed the motion picture projector, also invented the electric light. That electric light bulb in your home and in mine is really a miniature cosmos, symbolic of the interdependent world community in which we live today. It is difficult to understand how anyone can use an electric light and not be world-minded, when we remember that the nickel in that light bulb came from Canada, the cryolite from Greenland, the thorium from Brazil, the tin from Bolivia or the Malay Peninsula, the molybdenum from Spain, the mica and shellac from India, the potash from Chile, and the all important tungsten from our fighting ally, China. Yes, all the continents and the islands of the sea contribute essential ingredients for this daily necessity. Yet there are still a few people in private life and public station who are trying to do candle-light thinking in an electrically lighted world. An important objective then of United Nations Week is to emphasize and dramatize our dependence upon one another. You will be interested also in United Nations Week, because your favorite theatre will be playing then an appealing one-reel film titled You, John Jones, with James Cagney as John Jones, Ann Sothern as Mrs. John Jones, and little Margaret O'Brien as their five-year old daughter. This film, which I have been lucky enough to see already and which you will long remember when you see it January i4th-20th, underscores an important way in which we Americans can strengthen the United Nations. President Roosevelt recently stated that "the real test of