Motion Picture News (Oct 1914-Jan 1915)

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DEC 29 1914 ©ci,6327084 O " When You See It In ' The News ' It's NEWS" HAS THE aUALITY CIRCULATION OF THE TRADE "The Exhibitors" Medium of Communication " TEL. 7650 BRYANT TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY WEST FORTY-SECOND STREET NEW YORK CITY Volume X DECEMBER 26, 1914 Number 25 A League Built For Business LAST week a meeting of the national executive committee of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America was held in New York City. There were present Messrs. Pearce, Jeup, Corey, Brylawski and Wilson. These men came from California, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and Washington. They paid their own expenses to and in and from New York. They left their businesses for a week or more and day after day they gathered early and sat late in session. * * * ■"THEY worked hard, seriously, conscientiously, with but one end constantly in mind, — the welfare of the Exhibitors' League. And that means the welfare of every exhibitor in this country. No politics were discussed. They talked business — these men, just plain business. They are plain business men. ^ ^ I WAS invited to attend one of the committee's confer* ences, and I would like to say this, in all earnestness: that if every exhibitor in the country had been in my place, had talked with these men, listened to their plans, sensed their one-minded determination and sound judgment — then every exhibitor in the United States would be a member of the Exhibitors' League. Moreover, he would give this committee his absolute confidence and unqualified support. * * * ""THEY are honest, able men, with so sincere a belief in •'• the necessity of organization that they make heavy personal sacrifices in its behalf. They are out for a business administration — the first the League has ever had or could hope for. They are going to give the League a business administration, and there will result from their efforts an organization of such downright business value to the individual member that no exhibitor can afford to remain outside of it. ganization and already this work is going on with a new vim and in a businesslike way. * * * ■"THIS issue of Motion Picture News carries a call to the exhibitors of New York State to "get together." The idea is an excellent one. It is a striking evidence of the new business policy of the national League and the new state League about to be. The call is made to all the exhibitors of the state, regardless of their affiliations with any association. They are asked to forget politics, personalities, constitutions and bylaws and get together on purely a basis of business welfare. President Pearce will ask for the resignation of present League officers. He will throw the meeting into an open discussion of those serious problems now menacing the exhibiting business in the Empire State. Business committees, headed by business men, will be formed to tackle these problems immediately — and a business organization will be effected. ^ ^ ^ ■"THERE is every practical reason why every exhibitor •'■ in the state should heed this call. There is no reason to keep an exhibitor away except an utterly selfish one. Again, there is every reason why every exhibitor in the District of Columbia should act upon the forceful and dignified call for a mass meeting of exhibitors in the national capital. To quote from this excellent appeal : "Reckless competition among ourselves, together with the unwise policy of attempting to stand alone against combinations in other branches of the business with which we are compelled to deal, have worked great harm. "Your money is invested and good business judgment dictates that you use every honorable means to protect it. "We must unite to protect that interest." Similar businesslike calls have been sent out by Oklahoma and Minnesota. Read them in this issue. * * * TT is their intention to have a permanent office which shall be a bureau of information and of helpful activity. Data will be collected and made accessible to members which will not only direct them in their main problems of management, but be of direct and profitable assistance to them in the conduct of their daily business. In other words, the very kind of business help the exhibitor has wanted, never had and does not now have. The committee realizes the necessity of ^'olid state or ^Copyright, 1914, by Exhibitors' Times, Inc.) D IG, broad things were done at the recent meeting of the League's national executive committee. Motion Picture News will have the pleasure shortly of announcing them and supporting them. In the meantime there need not be — there must not be — the slightest doubt in any exhibitor's mind of the utter honesty and the substantial ability of President Pearce and his associates, nor of the fact that at least we are going to have a business League. William A. Johnston.