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Petitioner's Exhibit No. 254. 2495
combine; what they are to do and how they can overcome the difficulties now besetting them. At present we have no means of knowing. All we can say is, have patience. You may go out of business on March 1 (the time limit set), or you may not. There is a trite saying that "He urfio laughs last laughs long" and the last laugh is not yet laughed. On other pages we have given the opinions of the press, and ask our readers to peruse those, and if they can glean any comfort from them, it is their's. One way out of the difficulty is for those renters who stand to lose their all to join with a concern already in the combine and act as agent or sub-office until such time as the strain is made less tense.
We feel sorry for those renters who were so shortsighted as to refuse, till too late, to join the United Film Association. We urged them, by voice and peu in these columns, to get in line, but, "Qui Bono" you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink; and now they must pay $5,000 and wait one year for admittance. Who's to blame?
Who is left out?
The manufacturing firms not in the above combine are, in America : American Biograph, New York ; Baker Manufacturing Company, Chicago; Payne Company, Rochester; Goodfellow Manufacturing Company, Detroit; O. T. Crawford Company, St. Louis; Penn Manufacturing Company, Pennsylvania, and Cameraphone Company, New York. Abroad, with American representatives: Urban Eclipse Company, London; Warwick Trading Company, London; Carlo Rossi, Italy; Gaumont Company, Paris, and Theo. Pathe, Paris — represented by Kleine Optical Company. Society Italian Cines, Rome; Williamson & Co., London — represented by Chas. Dressier Company. Cricks & Sharp, London; Sheffield Photo Company, Sheffield; General Cinematograph Company, London; Hepworth & Co., London — represented by Williams, Brown & Earle. In addition to these, there are two or three firms who import films, Swedish, Danish, German and Norwegian firms.
It was stated at the convention that Geo. Eastman had signed an agreement not to supply any of the above firms with film. We did not see the agreement, nor could we learn of anyone who had.
Our advice to our readers is : Do not be unnecessarilv