Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1918)

How to Help *••*•*****••••***• Make the Third Liberty Loan the Victory Loan rPHE TWO Liberty Loan campaigns have demonstrated the willingness of film folks to reach down into their pockets and lend their dollars to the government. Furthermore, they have all displayed an eagerness to aid in dislodging dollars from reluctant or hesitant pockets. Fairbanks's whirlwind trip from Hollywood to New York and return swelled the total by more than a million. Marguerite Clark worked so willingly and well that the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce credited her with upward of four million. Every one of the screen stars came right to the center without waiting to be asked. The third Liberty Loan will be floated the first of March. It will undoubtedly exceed in amount any single war loan or any other loan ever offered in the history of the world. No loan of such proportions can be successfully absorbed unless the entire nation responds to the offerings, and every citizen practices of self-denial, that he may subscribe to the limit of his ability. We have pledged the honor of our country and our people to fight this war to our last dollar and our last man, if necessary. America does not break her word. The key to the situation rests in the hand of the average man, woman and child in every State in the Union. This is a preparedness story, to the end that every one of you who hasn't already bought Liberty Bonds may be in readiness to get quick action when this loan is offered. Every one of us who has already bought should buy more. Raymond Hitchcock in the Eyes For Our Navy npHE NAVY is in urgent need of binoculars, spyglasses and telescopes. An appeal made several weeks ago resulted in the receipt of over 3,000 glasses of various kinds. Many thousands more are needed. All articles should be securely tagged, giving the name and address of the donor, and forwarded by mail or express to the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, care of Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C, so that they may be acknowledged by him. Articles not suitable will be returned to the sender. Those accepted will be keyed, so that the name and address of the donor will be permanently recorded at the Navy Department. Every effort will be made to return them, with added historic interest, at the termination of the war. It is, of course, impossible to guarantee them against damage or loss. As the government cannot, under the law, accept services or material without making some payment therefor, one dollar will be paid for each article accepted, which sum will constitute the rental price, or, in the event of loss, the purchase price, of such article. ************************ Uncle Sam ****************** Do Your Bit on the farm T OUIS KON, Commissioner of Immigration and Colonization for the Province of Manitoba, has been engaged recently in Chicago in the production of a film for which he drafted the story, showing how Canada, and particularly Manitoba, went about solving the labor-shortage problem at harvest time. "Do Your Bit on the Farm" is a thousand foot reel, partly produced in Winnipeg and partly in the Rothacker studio, Chicago, appealing to city people to spend their vacations on farms. In Winnipeg, last year, one of the large department stores had a Girls' Brigade, composed of young women clerks who volunteered to go into the harvest fields from 4:30 p. m. until dark every day during the harvesting season and help stook grain. They worked in their jeans, like soldiers, and had a good time besides. Mr. Kon relates one incident to prove his assertion that women make better farmhands than men. He says a tall, strong Icelander girl walked into his office one day and demanded a real job as a farmhand. She didn't want any housework — let the men do that ; she wanted to go out into the fields, pitch hay, stook the grain, and otherwise take a man's job. She said she knew how, so when the deputy minister of agriculture wanted a farmhand, Mr. Kon recommended the young woman. She got the place and liked it, and the deputy minister relates that she was by all odds the best workman he ever had. Liberty Loan film.