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Moving Picture
WORLD
Founded in ltyOJ by J. P. Chalmers
Watch Your Step
AS convention time nears, the statements of the candidates — and their friends — pour into the editorial desk with greater frequency. And, we are sorry to say, with an increasing note of acidity.
Nothing serious yet, we'll admit. No blasting charges hurled, nor dire threats made. But the partisan note is growing keener. There is no telling what a hectic Chicago week MIGHT produce.
And a warning can do no harm.
Watch your step, boys!
Don't let the heat of battle ignite the organization. Stick to the ISSUES, avoid the personalities.
The organization is above all else ; in everything that is said and done, place the organization before all else.
And Chicago in 1923 will have marked a glorious chapter in exhibitor organization history.
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SYDNEY COHEN and his aides have nursed national exhibitor organization through severe trials.
In surviving the bitterness and carnage of last year's gathering at Washington, a miracle of administrative politics has been accomplished. No impartial observer of that period of stress and storm can fail to wax enthusiastic over the picture that Chicago presents.
Slurring personalities filled the air at Washington; bitter-enders seemed impossible to reconcile; the days were overcast with the darkness that too often in the past had presaged the disruption of theatre owner unity .
And through it all the M. P. T. O. A. has come.
With a few scars, perhaps, but with real vigor, strength, and spirit.
To us, because of what Washington threatened, the development of the past twelve months has marked the greatest period in exhibitor organization. Outshadowing, in its significance, the wonder
ful building job accomplished by Sydney Cohen and his little band of workers three and four years ago.
For the first time national exhibitor organization breasted the stormy wave of dissension — and CAME THROUGH.
Don't undo that good work. Don't even endanger it. Bend backwards in refraining from the personalities and innuendos that stain.
IT is admitted that the organization and method of operation of the M. P. T. O. A. do not approach perfection by any means. There is room for herculean labor at Chicago. The drafting of a democratic and representative constitution and by-laws; the devising of businesslike and permanent means of financing; the expansion of public welfare work; the creation of plans to meet such problems as the music tax, arbitration, etc., these are all a task that will call for the best brains and the most sincere effort the membership boasts.
But they are labors that demand COOL heads. Hands unstained with the mud of personalities, eyes unblurred by partisan venom.
If Chicago brings forth the solution of these problems — or even long strides towards that end — Chicago will have been the dawn of a glorious day in the organization's annals.
LET'S have our politics in Chicago. Let's have our rivalries.
But keep the ISSUES above the men; keep the ORGANIZATION above the personalities.
A word of warning perhaps unnecessary— but offered humbly and with all sincerity and faith in exhibitor organization.