Holt’s argument seemed sound. The capital required was not much; enough to pay the rent of the hall which we had to hire once in two weeks anyway and the price of installing the plant which was only a matter of a few hundred dollars. But the most attractive feature was the opportunity this would give us to select films that would serve our ends--picture plays of the landing of the Pilgrims, Indian fights and what not to say nothing of purely educational features on plant growing, proper sanitation and so on. Then the negative side was also worth something--the chance to cut out the plays that might have an unwholesome tendency. The more I thought of this the better the idea seemed, so that I offered to advance the necessary capital without interest to be paid back out of the profits--if any there were. We put the matter before the club at the next semi-monthly meeting and the idea received enthusiastic endorsement, as it naturally might be expected to do when it promised amusement, a possible profit and no risk. Whereupon we closed with Moulton and opened negotiations with a leading film house for the lease of a machine. Holt undertook the business management of the enterprise and nothing could have suited him better. He was a born publicity man. “I’m going to make the neighboring towns pay most of the running expenses,” he declared. “How?” I inquired. “You wait and see.” I waited and did see. He ran two shows a week--one on Wednesday which he called Pioneer Club night, and one on Saturday evening. The films for both were identical but for the Wednesday night show he charged members of the Pioneer Club only five cents’ admission with the result that they filled every available seat in the hall. The Saturday night show cost ten cents and being a repetition of the first naturally didn’t attract but a few of the members. But he plastered the neighboring towns within a radius of ten miles with green handbills that again filled his hall. He let himself loose on these and had as much fun as a schoolboy out of his attempts to whet curiosity. We held our semi-monthly meetings on two of the four Wednesday nights and on this occasion had one or more of the films as a free entertainment following the business meeting. It was in connection with this that we also inaugurated our pioneer talks.