Visual Education (Jan-Dec 1922)

is the controlling company in the educational field. Stuttgart. Various motion-picture houses in Stuttgart have combined in a reform movement and are making a concerted attack on cheap German films which are sensational in the extreme. Educational and instructional pictures are shown part of each week for the purpose of raising the standards of the picture-going public. In spite of monetary losses and some discouraging circumstances at the outset, these theaters are persisting in their effort to put the moving picture on a higher basis. It is said that one company alone has expended over twelve million marks in its educational uplift department. Illinois Streator. The taxpayers of this city have been made acquainted with the overcrowded condition of the township high school through the medium of films designed to open their eyes and their pocketbooks to the crying needs of the school children. Scenes of the beautiful lawn and of boys wending their way schoolward with reluctant feet, are followed by views of the children in the assembly hall where 550 pupils are crowded into a place where 300 could be comfortably seated. The children appear young for their grades and undersized — which, it is said, may be a blessing in disguise since two such students can occupy one full-sized bench! Surely the exhibition of such a film will hasten the necessary building plans. Indiana Dyer and Schererville. The tentative selection of the section of Lincoln Highway in Lake County, between these two towns, as the locale for its "object lesson" has been emphasized by the recent securing of a considerable footage of motion pictures depicting the present undesirable appearance of the old road. The primary purpose of this film is to stimu VISUAL ACTIVITIES late a wider public interest in more adequate highway specifications. Under the personal direction of A. F. Dement, vice-president and secretary of the Lincoln Highway Association, scenes were selected which showed traffic in this section, the restricted width of the present road, the inadequate nature of the existing construction, the dangerous and weedchoked ditches on either side of the right of way, and many other features. Later these scenes will be used in contrast with the appearance of the finally completed ideal section, should arrangements ultimately be made for its construction in Lake County. "What they have and what they should have" will then be placed before the taxpayers. Logansport. The Rev. C. "Wellington Holmes, pastor of the Universalist Church, has inaugurated a winter program of motion-picture shows, supplanting the regular Sunday evening preaching services. This program will be continued until the latter part of March. Iowa i !] "\ Indianola. Simpson College gives a program of educational pictures at the chapel every Saturday evening. Industrial films, travelogs and scenics are planned more especially for the students, but the public is invited and no admission charge is made. Kansas 4 W] ' | Topeka. "Let your conscience be your guide," was the final consensus of opinion regarding the use of motion pictures in churches, after a prolonged and heated discussion by the Topeka Ministerial Union on December 5. In order to "stop beating about the bush and bring the aimless discussion to a point," the Rev. C. F. Mathews of the First Baptist Church introduced a motion recommending that the churches approve motion pictures in the church. His motion aroused a storm of criticism, several of the clergymen threatening to with 103 ts-leea^fear \& VJULQ 0U THIS ISSUE: Playing the Health Game