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232 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION
beneficence would undoubtedly hasten the advent of the educational film library for schools. However, the foundation is only one way of getting new things done — and while some are working for an endowment, others may pursue the more ordinary paths of education of the public, and cooperation of educators and manufacturers, by which educational progress has, in the main, made its way in America.
Taxation, the American Way
The American people, in its taxing capacity, is well able to take care of the expense involved in equipping schools with motion picture machines and film libraries, when once it is convinced that motion picture illustrations are desirable for educational progress. Manual training equipment, domestic science and athletic apparatus, music and playgrounds require as much expenditure as films, but the expense is now provided for by school boards as a matter of course. If the schools will buy the films, the regular producers will furnish the capital and workers. Visual education equipment should certainly rank with playground and music equipment in accrediting schools by high school and elementary school inspectors.
The various educational associations mentioned can get the films produced by merely showing a sufficient number of orders for the prints. The needed motion picture illustrations can be worked out by committees of leading educators working preferably in subjectmatter groups, and the list, when so recommended, would command the confidence of purchasing bodies,