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First, a definite force to be utilized to contribute toward world peace I place that first because no topic is dearer to the hearts of women. We may differ on many phases of world and domestic policy. We may look to various means for the accomplishment of ideals. But concerning the will to peace there is no division among women. With every fiber of our beings we are against war; we are for peace.
When the Chancellors of the exchequers, the heads of the Treasuries, of the great nations of the earth met in Paris a few weeks ago to agree upon a formula for assisting a government and a people threatened by economic chaos, on fifty thousand screens throughout the world the grave faces of these emissaries were shown in tangible visualization. From the same fifty thousand screens the measured words of hope uttered by spokesmen of this group, unique in the world's history, carried a potent message to the hundreds of millions who today look in upon and listen to the processes of world government through the eye of the camera and the ear of the talking picture microphone.
When the Premier of Great Britain and the President of the United States sat on the banks of a fishing stream in Virginia and talked of ways and means to assure peace and to relieve tax-burdened populations ot armament's crushing weight, those conversations became real and vivid, within a very few days, to the motion picture audiences of the world.
Pictures and peace.
These and many other incidents along the road to peace have been magically vitalized in the popular mind by the motion picture. When the distinguished Premier of the Italian government speaks to his people of the legitimate aspirations of the new Italy, and the inspired faces of thousands are turned up in the sun in response to his words, that picture and that message are transported around the world on a magic carpet of celluloid. Is it possible that such close contact with the national problems and hopes of other nations can fail to arouse sympathy and understanding on the part of those who see and hear?
Thirty per cent of all the newsreel footage shown in the United States portrays the customs, amusements, pursuits and problems of nations outside the United States, and to all those other nations newsreels transport a vivid portrayal of what we do and what we think about in America. Picture, if you will, a theatre in New York City seating 6,000 patrons. One after another, Premier Mussolini, Chancellor Bruening, Prime Minister MacDonald and Premier Laval appear and each is greeted with applause. They are no longer strangers; what they represent in world affairs, in terms of disarmament, is as well known to the American motion picture audience as are the positions of our own public men. The motion picture newsreel