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mm The Educational Screen beards, and what clothes they wore. There were their graves, and in then the treasures buried with the dead. There were the public baths, the market places, the public squares, the city walls, even the toys oi the children. For making the picture of the early life of Ab- raham, the city in which he was born was rebuilt in all its details, the temple, the canal which ran through the city, the school, th market place with its booths fillei with merchandise, and the privaf homes with all their furnishing) Could Abraham visit this city, a constructed for the portrayal of hi life history upon the screen, h would feel by no means a strange there. Such are the pictures whicl are being produced by Sacr© Films. Ear-gate Over Against Eye-gate J. E. McAfee University of Oklahoma THE race is on between the radio and the movie. Which will prove a more potent so- cial force? Is the ear a more effec- tive organ of culture than the eye? Of course that latter question is ridiculous. The Apostle Paul, some time ago, ruled it out of court. Are not both members of the one body? Shall the ear say to the eye, I have no need of thee? Or shall the eye make itself similarly ridic- ulous? But the race, this rivalry in beneficence, is interesting, never- theless. The radio is vastly and marvel- ously relieving the isolation of many a frontier, and bringing cul- ture within the reach of those who have always heretofore been more or less destitute. But it will be in- teresting to discover whether it will not tend to create a new kind of isolation. To be sure, the lone farmer, on his dirt road, miles fron town, can use the radio in a silen fellowship with the multitude tuned to the city broadcasting sta tion. That is, he can listen to wha they also hear. But he is still th< lonely farmer, far out on the dir road. Will the radio leave hirr content to remain there? There is, we believe, little dangei that he will desert the movie, onct he has built his hard surfaced high way and has felt the appeal of the screen. The "unscreened" may fine a temporary satisfaction in listen ing in on the radio current. Trans mitters may, indeed, become al most as prevalent as receivers, ancj the lone farmer may learn to tail- back. Thus the social current wil be vastly widened and deepened social bonds will be enormoush strengthened; the most isolated ir;