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PREPAREDNESS.IHudson Maxim's book Defenseless America’' has been made the basis of a remarkable preparedness campaign to be waxed partially through the motion picture theatres. Facts set forth in the book have been used by Commodore J. Stuart Blacton as the basis for a wonderful feature film called The Battle Cry of Peace. in which nineteen film stars, headed by Oiarlcs ‘Richman, 25,000 • National Guardsmen; H00 member* of the G. A. K.: 5,000 horses. 8,000 supernu* marics, Admiral George Dewey, Mai.-Gen. Leonard Wood. Dr. Lyman Abbott and the inventor-author Hudson Maxim, take part. Running simultaneously at the Vitaurapli theatre. New York; the Majestic theatre. Boston and the Olympic theatre, Chicago, to packed houses twice a day, the film has caused a sensation not yet equal led in the movies'* and on a par to that which would be caused by the bombardment of New York, which the film vividly portrays. The author of the film takes issue with the “peace at any price advocates, headed by William Jennings Bryan It Is -frank plea for peace through preparedness. The horror* of war are brought before the vision in the pictures which show a foreign foe on American soil, the explosion of bomb* in Times Square, New York, mid the destruction of fortifications and coast defenses by means of submiiines, Zeppelins, aeroplanes and seaplanes Prominent persons all over the country have endorsed the movement and newspapers are assisting with reams of publicity as a means to obtain an action on the matter at the next session of Congress.toshlt;LotuiweVIICYLahohaafiatill«pIfaOMhiL
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The Caldwell Tribune
Caldwell, Idaho, US
Fri, Oct 29, 1915
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