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MOVING PICTURE WORLD
April 2, 1921
A VVord To Our Pleaders
THE ninth anniversary of the death of Mr. J. P. Chalmers, founder of the Moving Picture World, offers a suitable occasion for a retrospective view of the progress of the paper which he planned and the early growth of which he watched with jealous care.
Actuated by the highest motives, and with an unusual vision of the possibilities of the moving picture, the foundation policy of the Moving Picture World was intended to secure for the moving picture, and all interested in its production and exhibition, such results as would redound to the credit of all responsible for proper presentation to an enlightened public.
Four-square to all, independent in that it should always be free from partisan control, yet the ready servant of all, without favoritism and without prejudice, the pages of the Moving Picture World have ever fulfilled the founder's principles.
Edited by men of the highest type, especially those strong in the knowledge of the trade requirements, and, with a reviewing staff selected as at once capable in judgment and fair in criticism, together with the prestige of strong moral purposes, the Moving Picture World stands today, proud in the assurance that those to whom fell the great responsibility of carrying out the high ideals and standards to which it was dedicated, have in no means fallen short of their task.
With such a history the future of the Moving Picture World cannot fail to render still greater service to its patrons and to the industry, and still further fulfill the high ideals required by the times, and to which it is dedicated.