Life — October 3, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN tative in London should of all things, just now, be a man in harmony with the purposes of our President. ARDINAL FARLEY, as a Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, stood for much that the average Amer- ican non-Catholic regards with humor, apprehension or displeasure, according to his make-up. Cardinals, as dinals, are regarded somewhat jeal- ously here. Nevertheless, of the three that lately we had, only one has much disturbed observing minds, and that one was not Cardinal Farley. Of him a vast deal has been said since he died, as we have noticed, not a He was and, so fa cross word in all the remarks. seldom, if ever, in the office of this paper, and knowledge of him comes entirely by reading and hearsay, lt he seems to have been a gentle and pious man, whose main concern was to do good. There was our rarely any complaint about him. He was not bumptious, nor over eager for advertisement, nor un- duly elated in being a certified prince in active official operation in a certified republic. There may be various princes knocking about in this country, and many more, possibly, about to take refuge here, but the Roman Catholic Cardinals are the only ones who work 485 at their employments under the f tection of our flag. The late Cardinal's war record was admirable, He approved and ported our country’s participation in the effort to rescue civilization and help sup- from the German I in every way he could, and efficiently, to the He had a truly great funeral. Perhaps it would be unkind to say he deserved it, for the more spiritually minded a man is, the less he will covet a huge parade about his burial, But princes of the Church have to put up win war. with such funerals as are administed to them, and no one should think less of Cardinal Farley with so much pomp, for being buried of the dr is that some of them are such liars. wbacks to the movies. What they present they give with an You actually sec what happens, and it takes n hold on the mind than what is merely told you. So much the more immense emphasis harder reason that what purports to be true should be true; true to character in true to fact in situations. Much too often the pictures lic. In some great spectacles characters and historical situations are grossly mis- represented. An illustration appears in what the papers say about the Fox Film Corporation's absurd caricature of the Battle of San Juan Hill, in which, they tell us, Colonel Roosevelt is represented as rescued by Lieutenant John J. Pershing of the Tenth Negro Cavalry There was no such rescue. Accord- ing to the newspaper stories, the scena- tio man admitted that he invented it and put it in to make the show more interesting. He secmed entirely una ware that the fabricated war film, mis dealing with real people and events, was any more culpable than if it had been fabricated out of whole cloth about fictitious personages. The government, or somebody should open a class in ethics for the picture people, and require of them, before they get a license, a certificate that they understand their obligation to make their pictures tell the truth, people, real comicbooks.com