Universal Weekly (1917-1934)

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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY LETS GRAB (No. 182. Straight-from-the-Shoulder Talk by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.) IHE Universal Company could shut down all of its studios for a few weeks this summer, avoid an expenditure of SOMETHING OVER A MIL ' LION DOLLARS and still have plenty of negatives on hand to release its regular program and all of its special features without a break. We now have such a huge reserve supply of high-class pictures on hand that we could stop everything in the line of producing and not fall behind our schedules. BUT WEm NOT GOING TO DO IT! Uncle Sam wants us to keep things humming. He doesn't want us to WASTE anything, but he wants us to SPEND NORMALLY. The Universal is going him one better by spending even a LITTLE MORE than normally. But we won't waste a cent. Outside of the fact that this is practical patriotism which every business concern in the country should practice, it is MIGHTY GOOD BUSINESS. It will keep thousands of people at work and thus it will encourage regular and normal living, and regular and normal spending of all kinds. And there's nothing better for the whole nation right now than a continuation of normal spending.