Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

men are the best men to work for, and that American life is the best kind of a life to live in a clean, honest, and wholesome way. The following talk goes with Slide ISo. 7 of the first lecture on "The Sanctity of Property"' and it will do every honest American and every would-be American much good to hear it and ponder over it: Lincoln's W.\rning Abraham Lincoln is our best loved American. His intellect was solid sunshine, and his heart was full of love for slaves and the poor. Lincoln was a man of genius. God gave him a vision of the future. One day he heard that a mob had looted buildings in New York, and he became alarmed. In that hour, Lincoln called before his mind all of the American people. He told them plainly that "no state is safe that does not assure security to the property of its citizens." He saw that the home was our first American institution. Lincoln knew that it was the love of the family that inspired in men invention, industry and thrift. In his desire to safeguard his wife and children, in the event of death, the husband and father toiled tirelessly to build a liouse and grow money against the words of warn- .\thens. and fe that does ty to the citizens.'" iiis garden, and save a little future. How solemn these ing after Palmyra and \pres,—"no state is sa not assure securi property of its And these talks to accom- pany the tenth and eleventh slides of the first study em- phasize facts and truths which lukt warm American-, parlor bolshevists, .;j and radicals of all shades of red from baby pink to deepest scarlet should take to heart be- fore they go too far on their mad plunge into the unknown: 10th Slide. Trotsky. THE Bolshevist No city, country or re- public can be safe that en- dures traitors like Trotsky. That malignant and apostate Jew named Braunstein, has changed his name to "Trot- sky." He is typical of many aliens in New York. He looked toward the riches of the Llnited States as rats look toward the cheese, as burglars look toward the door of a sleeping house- holder. They have no stake in the republic. They are furious with anger, because Daniel Webster in his address before the supreme court obtained the desision that "Christianity is a part of the com- mon law of our land." Our language is not their language. Our heroes are not their heroes. They get their livelihood in this republic. Ihey have their own foreign language newspapers, organize con- spiracies to keep the Bible out of the public school, utterly refuse to play the business game in the American way with the result that there is a tide of indignation rising in this country like the advance of a majestic storm. These men who are secretly traitors to this country, and who are sharpening their knives to stab the republic in the back, will be swept out of the national house like cockroaches, mice and vermin. The people of this republic have reached the stale of mind where they will no longer permit any Trotsky to repeat his advice to his followers in New York,—"Throw down your spade, buy a gun and be rich before dark." 11th Slide. Founders of the Republic Guar.\nteed Security to Property The founders of the republic were men like Washington, Franklin and Hamilton. They were not only giants of i)hysical strength, but giants of intellect. At the ver> beginning they saw that civilization was based upon first, security of life, and second, security of prop- ■ ■ ii''Mn|Mi Ji ■ h ■ ■ ■ ■ (i'«;C p'm • ■ ■ ■ »■•••'tSs'ft * « ■ ■ .■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ' ■ !■■' Copyright by Ne-.vell Dwight Hills '"PHESE Jhree slides, which form part of Dr. Hillis* notable series of ten lectures to bring about a "Better -\merica," apply in pictorial story form the theme "Ignorant Men Fail." At the left —Man reads of the great value of fresh water pearls. In the center— Going home, he finds that his child has broken with a hammer the white object discovered in the clam shell. At the right—In taking the broken pieces of pearl to an expert he was told that it was the most beautiful fresh water pearl the expert had ever seen, and had his child not broken it the gem would have been worth thousands of dollars. erty. They knew that the Bible said. "Thou shalt not kill," to saf< .uard man's life. They knew the Bible said, ""Thou shalt not steal, to safeguard mans property. Therefore, they based our governmeD upon the sanctity of life and the security of property. To go with Slide I\o. 22 of "Sancity of Property" lectur are these words: "Look at this steel mill near Pittsburgh .\nd now look at this mob assembled to loot that mill.' Then comes Slide No. 23, "The Mob and the Revolutionar; Leader," with this illuminating explanation of the frac tional part which labor plays in the production of stee nd which it is hoped many thousands of laboring mei throughout the country will see and appreciate: It is at this point that the I. W, W. claims that since labor pu its hand into a ton of steel, the steel rail belongs to the workman just as the fish pole belonged to the boy that made it. But thi difference is right here. That boy and that boy alone made thi pole and the whistle, but this steel worker was only one of sevei in a series who made the steel rail. First was the explorer, wh< found the iron ore in Michigan; second, the manufacturer win bored the ore and developed the mine; third, the man who risket liis savings and built a little railway to carry the ore to Duluth fourth, the group of men who built the barge to carry the ort to Buffalo; fifth, the man who built the furnace to produce th< jiig iron; sixth, the man who risked a fortune on a steel furnace; and seventh, this foreign workman. I. W. W., who rolled the hoi steel into a rail for the road. It is silly for this man to say. "Laboi produced this steel. It is ours." The essence of a thousand revo lutions is in this stupid and hypocritical lie that muscle men oht the rail, because they madt it. More than six-sevenths of that steel rail belongs to the six men of ability who brought the rude iron ore from Michigan, on and on llirough the steel furnace ready for the last workers' hands. The Hillis picture lee tures are offered for ren tal on a basis of S50 for the ten, payable ini two payments of S25 each. They are being used all over the coun trv: most of the slides were specially made by the \ ictor ."Vnimato graph Company, Davenport, Iowa, Manv were specially" osed and all are artis- tically colored under the supervision of Hostetler, famous for his similar work in the movies. A partial list of the subjects covered by a few of the lectures follows to indicate the type of educational enter- tainment which is being offered. First Study: The Sanctity of Property, as the Logical Inference from the Sanctity of Life. Second Study: How Ability Can Increase the Worker's Wage and the Country's Wealth. Third Study: The Loyal Classes WTio Build the State and the Enemies \^Tio Undermine It. Fourth Study: \^Tiy There Is No Excuse for Poverty in Our Country. Fifth Study: How Bolshevism Ruined Russia. Sixth Study: Karl Marx's Socialism. Seventh Study: \^1iat Our Fathers Paid. Eighth Study: The Republic the Golden Mean. Ninth Study: Gains of the Last Century. Tenth Studv: America of Tomorrow. 22