ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT
About The PROGRESSIVE ... and the people who make it THE Editors and the Staff of The Progressive want to take this opportunity to thank the countless subscribers who have enrolled in the "New...
...Hamilton to tell us more about this organization, and here is what he wrote: "The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, initiated in 1909 by the People's Institute to serve as an intermediary between the public and the motion picture producers, is the oldest organization of its kind...
...Much depends, in planning for the future and projecting a program of expansion and improvement, on the outcome of this special campaign ¦—so fill out your blanks and mail them in today...
...The Board believes in the freedom of the screen, and is staunchly opposed to censorship of the motion picture...
...Phil La Follette to introduce university and college students to state service...
...HORACE S. FRIES teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin...
...SEN...
...We're glad to get new subscriptions from any subscriber, of course, but what has been especially heartening thus far has been the response from the men in the armed forces...
...Fries directed the unique "in-service training" program inaugurated by former Gov...
...Its function is to review films in advance of general release, and to publish information about them to be used in a general program of motion picture appreciation and education...
...The Board issues a Weekly Bulletin of all films reviewed, a Weekly Guide to Selected Pictures, a monthly magazine on the motion picture, and many special lists and pamphlets...
...He wrote that he "enjoyed every article," but, he added, they aroused him to "such a point that...
...How wonderfully reassuring it is to know that there is someone who goes on fighting—no matter how great the odds or vicious the opposition—for the rights of the little people...
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...Beals lived in Mexico for several years, where he lectured at the University of Mexico, and he has been a special correspondent in Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Italy, Spain, Russia, Turkey, and North Africa...
...These groups consist of representatives from clubs and organizations actively interested in the social, recreational, and cultural life of their communities...
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...Through over 200 local groups, in 44 states and known as Motion Picture Councils, the work of the National Board is carried on throughout the country...
...Sometimes The Progressive makes me boil—as for instance right now I think you're too tough on Russia, but golly, what a great job you've done these past years...
...Howard wrote the widely praised book, America's Role In Asia...
...It goes into the antics of the Robber Barrons of the day, the Barbary Coast and political corruption, the anti-Chinese riots, and the early labor movement...
...and the people who make it THE Editors and the Staff of The Progressive want to take this opportunity to thank the countless subscribers who have enrolled in the "New Subscriber Campaign," and to urge those who have not yet had a chance to respond to act as soon as possible...
...He was expelled from Japan for his liberal writings and lectures 2 decades ago...
...It ends most happily," Mr...
...Sump of the letters of resnonse have warmed the cockles of our hearts...
...We asked Mr...
...One, from an author in Hollywood, was especially interesting...
...His article on atrocities in the May 7 issue kicked up a storm of reader comment...
...Continued on Page I5...
...Some readers had a vague feeling that the Board was an official or quasi-official agency, directly hooked up with the Hollywood industry which, of course, it isn't...
...Hamilton is...
...Back in 1937 Mr...
...He is co-author of Europe in Perspective, 1815 to the Present____WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE, who contributes both an article and a book review in this issue, is a professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin...
...SPEAKING of letters, we got one the other day from a Los Angeles subscriber who wanted to express his "deep appreciation for The Progressive" and also to cancel forthwith...
...It records its judgment as to the merit of all entertainment films, classifies them according to audience suitability, and issues its recommendations in a 'Weekly Guide to Selected Films.' It stresses educational or cultural values in the pictures it reviews, and seeks to extend the uses of the motion picture in instruction, general culture, and social progress...
...GEORGE AIKEN, progressive Vermont Republican, is the author of and outstanding battler for the Senate bill for the development of the St...
...In one, What Latin Americans Think of Us, to be published this month, he contributes one fourth of the material—that dealing with Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador...
...ANTHONY NETBOY is a Harvard man, as you'd guess from his review of George Santayana's book, and has done a lot of ghost writing...
...Duell, Sloan, and Pearce will bring out a Beals novel this Fall, The Bridge of Royal Delights, which deals with the champagne age in San Francisco and the bonanza times of the Comstock Lode...
...He is a staunch fighter for REA and public power, and has been in the forefront of the struggle to liberalize the Republican Party...
...Lawrence Waterway...
...Who's Who This Week HARRY PAXTON HOWARD lived and worked in the Orient for 25 years, serving as journalist and teacher in Japan and China...
...I want to get out and fight against the wrongs of society, and frankly I prefer peace (with myself...
...His third new book, not quite finished, is the story, told around actual individuals and leaders, of the various farmer movements in the U. S., from Shay's Rebellion to the dust-bowl, and particularly stressing the Patrons of Husbandry of the Grange, the Farmers' Alliance, and the Populist Party, "when a great democratic movement went down to defeat before industrialism, imperialism, and war...
...He has contributed articles to the Antioch Review and professional journals and used to be Pamphlet Editor of The Progressive...
...The author of many outstanding books and magazine articles, Mr...
...This month's profile is of Carleton Beals, one of the nation's outstanding authorities on Latin America and a topflight writer on Europe and Africa as well...
...The Board's Review Committee, which previews pictures in New York, consists of some 300 men and women, of all ages, who volunteer their services and represent a cross-section of public opinion, from as many walks of life as possible...
...Beals has been at work on 3 books during the past year...
...Many followers of James S. Hamilton's "Light On The Movies" have written for more information regarding the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, whose executive director Mr...
...Beals assures us...
...It respects the opinions of others, but believes that the public should be its own judge of its screen entertainment, since there is always legal protection to be invoked against any picture which, after it is shown, is judged to be harmful...
...A contributor to many publications on Far Eastern affairs, Mr...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 25
