But it cannot be denied that our people have always risen to the dignity of these great architectural projects.
Once the population understand they are dealing with the same type of idea on a grander scale, they will follow to the end.

We are not proposing an economic revolution, or that human nature be suddenly altered.

If California can remain in the World's Fair state of mind for four or five years, and finally achieve such a splendid result, all the states can undertake a similar project conjointly, and because of the momentum of a nation moving together, remain in that mind for the length of the life of a man.
Here we have this great instrument, the motion picture, the fourth largest industry in the United States, attended daily by ten million people, and in ten days by a hundred million, capable of interpreting the largest conceivable ideas that come within the range of the plastic arts, and those ideas have not been supplied.

It is still the plaything of newly rich vaudeville managers.

The nation goes daily, through intrinsic interest in the device, and is dosed with such continued stories as the Adventures of Kathlyn, What Happened to Mary, and the Million Dollar Mystery, stretched on through reel after reel, week after week.