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RKO Pictures was a media giant. RKO operated theatres, produced movies, and owned the RKO Radio Network. Innovation was a primary emphasis for the success of this Mass Marketer of entertainment. Adding RADIO to the names of Keith and Orpheum Theatres, emphasized the distribution of programs and films, such as King Kong. “National release was April 10, 1933. RKO was nearly bankrupt by this time and the cash proceeds from King Kong literally saved the studio from destruction at the eleventh hour.” Ownership did not guarantee control, and the controllers *tuned* them out. The strategy of exploiting Mediocre Monopoly “by licensing spinoff rights” to popular movie productions, such as King Kong. Two major owners of Theatres owned multiple media outlets in several cities— across The United States. Are we to allow a Gorilla like *King Kong, to seize Multiple Media Venues? Do we fight a “Kong* Glomerate,” or Lose our Freedom? “Net Neutrality” Neuters Internet Network providers— With an AXE! ( See “Fairness” ) Minority Ownership has been encouraged, as a means of achieving diversity and competition. Speaking as the “Homely Homilies man,” I offer this Moralistic Elucidation: A picturesque friend told me that he had given a table saw to a mutual friend of ours. This was after he had used the tool, inherited from his Grandfather, to modify his house for his Photography Studio and film processing. Two or three years later, he wanted to build a studio for his wife, to teach music lessons. He went to get the table saw from our friend. After the saw was carried out and loaded into his car, the friend reminded him to return the saw, by this remark: “Remember who Owns this saw!” This was not very tactful, considering that the person who was “Borrowing” the saw, had given it to him. Stephen smiled, and explained: “It is not important Who Owns it. Who Gets To Use It, is What counts! ” Orpheum Theatres merged with Keith Theatres to create a Collosal Combination to control Entertainment, Out in our vast country. Mae West and W.C.Fields performed in their Theatres. Except when political panderers Proscribed her amazing perfomance in Detroit. Your conscientious concern for Popular Acclaim— Implies your Ratification of Mae West’s acquiescence of the assistance of Clarence Darrow. A gentleman told me about an event in Detroit, which he personally observed. Mae West was hired to perform in a theatre, in that city. The City Council obtained an injunction to prohibit her from introducing Moral Turpitude into the environs of their Virtuous City. Obstreporous Lady that she was, Mae West hired Clarence Darrow to champion her “Free Speech rights.” “Pro Bono,” it wasn’t. He was paid to unfetter her frivolity in this Bastille of proscribed performances. She stars in a movie which has a courtroom scene. The Judge looks at her, and sternly asks: “Young Lady, Are you Showing Contempt for this Court?” Mae West snidely replies: “Yer Honor, I was Tryin’ my best Not to show it.” Minorities Control the Use of Theatres, transmitters, Radio and Television Broadcasting facilities by voting with their Dollars and Feet. They can Tune Out those Mediocre Media Giants. The Sovereignty of Consumers is Supreme: Penny Ante Voting The best Government that money can buy: Ac-Cent-You-ate** The Positive, E-liminate the Negative: (Temptation for Elected Leaders), Latch on to the affirmative, Don't Mess with Mister In-Between: (Lobbyists, and Ladies). The Harlem Corner illustrates “Central Planning”. Private owners are in business just to make money. Rosa Parks’ money: good as white people’s money. Which is Best? Ownership and Rights, or Government Planning. Henry Clews wrote about my Hero! in his book: TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS — IN WALL STREET. Page 355 Chapter XXXV. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT. William H. Vanderbilt was not much of a speculator in the Wall Street sense of the term. He was more of an investor than a speculator, and his investments had always a healthy effect upon the market. Page 358 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT. After the death of his father the executive powers of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, in the management of the vast railroad interests bequeathed to him, were called into active play. The great strike of 1877 among the railroad employees threatened to paralyze business all over the country, and came pretty near causing a social revolution. In this emergency a cool head and prudent judgement were valuable attributes to a railroad manager. Mr. Vanderbilt proved that he possessed both in more than an ordinary degree. Just prior to encountering the knotty problem of the strike he had been highly instrumental in bringing about suspension of hostilities in the freight war, and the course which he advised led to an arrangement that produced harmony among the trunk lines for a considerable period. As a consequence of the rate war the railroad companies were obliged to cut down the wages of their employees, and this was the chief element in causing the strike. There were 12,000 men in the employ of the New York Central and Harlem. Their wages had been reduced Ten per cent. and they had threatened to annihilate the Grand Central Depot. Instead of making application to have the militia called out, as had been done in Pennsylvania, Mr. Vanderbilt— although a man possessed of far more than ordinary courage— with keen foresight proposed a kindly compromise with his employes. He telegraphed from Saratoga to his head officials an order to distribute $100,000 among his striking employes and promising them a restoration of the ten per cent. reduction as soon as business improved to a point justifying such an advance. This prompt and prudent action had the desired effect, and the consequence was that while there was a small insurrection in Pittsburgh, and bloody war to the knife, at great cost to Allegheny County, calmness reigned in the prominent railroad circles of New York, and the taxpayers escaped the burden that might otherwise have been put upon their shoulders, and the demoralizing effects of violence and bloodshed were prevented. Page 359 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT. Over 11,500 of the 12,000 men returned to work, thus showing their gratitude to Mr. Vanderbilt and faith in his promise, which was afterwards duly fulfilled. The policy of Wm. H., in the management of his great railroad system, unlike that of his father, was entirely pacific in its character. He was disposed to settle all misunderstandings by reason and arbitration, and had no inclination for fighting and conquest, after the manner of the Commodore. Although a very close calculator in business matters, a habit to which he adhered even to the precision of striking out superfluous items which should not have been charged in his lunch bill, Mr. Vanderbilt was in many respects generous to a fault. He compromised the suit with his brother, “Young Corneel,” allowing him the interest on $1,000,000, whereas his father had only left him the interest on $200,000, with a forfeiture clause in the event of “Corneel,” contesting the will. Wm. H. also made a present of $500,000 in United States bonds to each of his sisters, out of his own private fortune. A good story is related in connection with the distribution of this handsome gift. Mr. Vanderbilt, it is said, went around one evening in his carriage, taking the bonds with him and dispensing them to the fortunate recipients from his own hands. One of his brothers-in-law having observed by the evening papers that the bond market had declined a point or two on that day, said, “William, these bonds fall $150 short of the $500,000, according to the closing prices of this day’s market.” “All right,” replied Mr. Vanderbilt, with assumed gravity, “I will give you a check for the balance,” and he wrote and signed it on the spot. It is related that another brother-in-law followed him to the door, and said, “If there is to be anything more in this line I hope we shall not be forgotten.” It is said that these remarkable instances of ingratitude, instead of irritating him, as they would have in the case of an ordinary individual, only served to arouse his risible faculties and that he regarded the exhibitions of human weakness as a good joke. Page 369 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT. That hasty expression, “The public be damned,” which Mr. Vanderbilt used in an interview with a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, has received wide circulation, various comment and hostile criticism. Although the expression is literally correct, the public at first, and many of them to this day, received a wrong impression in regard to the spirit in which it was applied. Page 370 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT. It was represented as if Mr. Vanderbilt was a tyrannical monopolist, who defied public opinion. A true and simple relation of the interview is a sufficient answer to this. The subject was the fast mail train to Chicago. Mr. Vanderbilt was thinking of taking this train off, because it did not pay, and did not appear to him therefore to be a necessity, and he did not propose to run trains as a philanthropist. As part of the interview which relates to this point has become so widely historic, I think it will bear reproduction here, literally: “Why are you going to stop this fast mail train?” asked the reporter. “Because it doesn’t pay,” replied Mr. Vanderbilt; “I can’t run a train as far as this permanently at a loss.” “But the public find it very convenient and useful. You ought to accommodate them,” rejoined the reporter. “The public,” said Mr. Vanderbilt; “How do you know, or how can I know that they want it? If they want it why don’t they patronize it and make it pay? That’s the only test I have as to whether a thing is wanted or not. Does it pay? If it doesn’t pay I suppose it isn’t wanted.” “Are you working,” persisted the reporter, “for the public or for your stockholders?” “The public be damned!” exclaimed Mr. Vanderbilt; “I am working for my stockholders. If the public want the train why don’t they support it.” This, I think, was a very proper answer from a business standpoint, and the expression, when placed in its real connection in the interview, does not imply any slur upon the public. It simply intimates that he was urging a thing on the public which it did not want and practically refused. The “cuss” word might have been left out, but the crushing reply to the reporter would not have been so emphatic, and that obtrusive representative of public opinion might have gone away unsquelched. As it was, however, he and his editor exhibited considerable ingenuity in making the best misrepresentation possible out of the words of Mr. Vanderbilt, thus giving them a thousand times wider circulation than the journal in which they were first printed, and affording that paper a big advertisement. This is the correct account of that world-renowned expression, “The public be damned,” “The capitalists,” “are not supreme, they are steersmen only, bound to obey unconditionally the captain’s orders. The captain is the consumer.” Profit Signals make it “possible to apply a method of reckoning and computation” to guide each person in social relations. Eleemosynary proclivities, and Selfish, personal gain, are harmonized to provide the most urgently desired benefits to others. Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth, By Ludwig von Mises, originally published in 1920. MAYDAY!! Mae Daigh Made A Meta-date in Dayton, with a Maya (maybe?) as Maid “A”. Reminiscences of Reconstruction. Scopes trial, Free-lunch. Should we adopt Perfect Government? stopbigmedia.com De Ploy: By passel a’ byrinth Legislation. Man’s Natural Instinct Free State Project PorcFest 2007. Isonomia.US LandGrab.US Eminent Domain - Condemnation: reduces Private Property to a priviledge, and creates Nomads. Chattanooga-chews Why do we Drive on the Opposite Side of the Road? (from Britain). In-Jean-uous — Fastep FREE Volity! *Abe & Don: ALL hopeful? (or— HOKE?)*

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RKO Pictures was a media giant.
RKO operated theatres, produced movies, and owned the RKO Radio Network. Innovation was a primary emphasis for the success of this Mass Marketer of entertainment. Adding RADIO to the names of Keith and Orpheum Theatres, emphasized the distribution of programs and films, such as King Kong. “National release was April 10, 1933. RKO was nearly bankrupt by this time and the cash proceeds from King Kong literally saved the studio from destruction at the eleventh hour.” Ownership did not guarantee control, and the controllers tuned them out. The strategy of exploiting Mediocre Monopoly “by licensing spinoff rights” to popular movie productions, such as King Kong.

Two major owners of Theatres owned multiple media outlets in several cities— across The United States. Are we to allow a Gorilla like King Kong, to seize Multiple Media Venues? Do we fight a “Kong Glomerate,” or Lose our Freedom?

“Net Neutrality” Neuters Internet Network providers— With an AXE! ( See “Fairness” )

  Minority Ownership has been encouraged, as a means of achieving diversity and competition. Speaking as the “Homely Homilies man,” I  offer this Moralistic Elucidation: A picturesque friend told me that he had given a table saw to a mutual friend of  ours. This was after he had used the tool, inherited from his Grandfather, to modify his house for his Photography Studio and film processing. Two or three years later, he wanted to build a studio for his wife, to teach music lessons. He went to get the table saw from our friend. After the saw was carried out and loaded into his car, the friend reminded him to return the saw, by this remark: “Remember who Owns this saw!” This was not very tactful, considering that the person who was “Borrowing” the saw, had given  it  to him.
  Stephen smiled, and explained:
“It is not important Who  Owns it.
Who  Gets To  Use It, is  What counts! ”
  Orpheum Theatres merged with Keith Theatres to create a Collosal Combination to control Entertainment, Out in our vast country. Mae West and W.C.Fields performed in their Theatres. Except when political panderers Proscribed her amazing perfomance in Detroit.
Your conscientious concern for Popular Acclaim— Implies your Ratification of Mae West’s acquiescence of the assistance of Clarence Darrow. A gentleman told me about an event in Detroit, which he personally observed. Mae West was hired to perform in a theatre, in that city. The City Council obtained an injunction to prohibit her from introducing Moral Turpitude into the environs of their Virtuous City.
Obstreporous Lady that she was, Mae West hired Clarence Darrow to  champion her “Free Speech  rights.” “Pro Bono,” it wasn’t. He  was paid to unfetter her frivolity in this Bastille of proscribed performances. She  stars in a movie which  has a courtroom scene. The  Judge looks at her, and sternly asks: “Young Lady, Are you Showing Contempt for this Court?” Mae West snidely replies: “Yer Honor, I was Tryin’  my best Not  to show it.”
  Minorities Control the Use of Theatres, transmitters, Radio and Television Broadcasting facilities by voting with their Dollars and Feet. They can Tune Out those Mediocre Media Giants.

The Sovereignty of Consumers is Supreme:
Penny Ante Voting
The best Government that money can buy:
Ac-Cent-You-ate The Positive,
E-liminate the Negative: (Temptation for Elected Leaders),
Latch on to the affirmative,
Don't Mess with Mister In-Between: (Lobbyists,  and  Ladies).

The Harlem Corner illustrates “Central Planning”.

Private owners are in business just to make money.
Rosa Parks’ money: good as white people’s money.
Which is Best? Ownership and Rights,
or Government Planning.

Henry Clews wrote about my Hero! in his book: TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS — IN WALL STREET.

Page 355 Chapter XXXV.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.

William H. Vanderbilt was not much of a speculator in the Wall Street sense of the term. He was more of an investor than a speculator, and his investments had always a healthy effect upon the market.

Page 358 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.

After the death of his father the executive powers of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, in the management of the vast railroad interests bequeathed to him, were called into active play. The great strike of 1877 among the railroad employees threatened to paralyze business all over the country, and came pretty near causing a social revolution. In this emergency a cool head and prudent judgement were valuable attributes to a railroad manager. Mr. Vanderbilt proved that he possessed both in more than an ordinary degree. Just prior to encountering the knotty problem of the strike he had been highly instrumental in bringing about suspension of hostilities in the freight war, and the course which he advised led to an arrangement that produced harmony among the trunk lines for a considerable period. As a consequence of the rate war the railroad companies were obliged to cut down the wages of their employees, and this was the chief element in causing the strike. There were 12,000 men in the employ of the New York Central and Harlem. Their wages had been reduced Ten per cent. and they had threatened to annihilate the Grand Central Depot. Instead of making application to have the militia called out, as had been done in Pennsylvania, Mr. Vanderbilt— although a man possessed of far more than ordinary courage— with keen foresight proposed a kindly compromise with his employes. He telegraphed from Saratoga to his head officials an order to distribute $100,000 among his striking employes and promising them a restoration of the ten per cent. reduction as soon as business improved to a point justifying such an advance. This prompt and prudent action had the desired effect, and the consequence was that while there was a small insurrection in Pittsburgh, and bloody war to the knife, at great cost to Allegheny County, calmness reigned in the prominent railroad circles of New York, and the taxpayers escaped the burden that might otherwise have been put upon their shoulders, and the demoralizing effects of violence and bloodshed were prevented.

Page 359 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.

Over 11,500 of the 12,000 men returned to work, thus showing their gratitude to Mr. Vanderbilt and faith in his promise, which was afterwards duly fulfilled. The policy of Wm. H., in the management of his great railroad system, unlike that of his father, was entirely pacific in its character. He was disposed to settle all misunderstandings by reason and arbitration, and had no inclination for fighting and conquest, after the manner of the Commodore. Although a very close calculator in business matters, a habit to which he adhered even to the precision of striking out superfluous items which should not have been charged in his lunch bill, Mr. Vanderbilt was in many respects generous to a fault. He compromised the suit with his brother, “Young Corneel,” allowing him the interest on $1,000,000, whereas his father had only left him the interest on $200,000, with a forfeiture clause in the event of “Corneel,” contesting the will. Wm. H. also made a present of $500,000 in United States bonds to each of his sisters, out of his own private fortune. A good story is related in connection with the distribution of this handsome gift. Mr. Vanderbilt, it is said, went around one evening in his carriage, taking the bonds with him and dispensing them to the fortunate recipients from his own hands. One of his brothers-in-law having observed by the evening papers that the bond market had declined a point or two on that day, said, “William, these bonds fall $150 short of the $500,000, according to the closing prices of this day’s market.”
“All right,” replied Mr. Vanderbilt, with assumed gravity, “I will give you a check for the balance,” and he wrote and signed it on the spot. It is related that another brother-in-law followed him to the door, and said, “If there is to be anything more in this line I hope we shall not be forgotten.” It is said that these remarkable instances of ingratitude, instead of irritating him, as they would have in the case of an ordinary individual, only served to arouse his risible faculties and that he regarded the exhibitions of human weakness as a good joke.

Page 369 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.

That hasty expression, “The public be damned,” which Mr. Vanderbilt used in an interview with a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, has received wide circulation, various comment and hostile criticism. Although the expression is literally correct, the public at first, and many of them to this day, received a wrong impression in regard to the spirit in which it was applied.
Page 370 WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.

It  was represented as if Mr. Vanderbilt was a tyrannical monopolist, who defied public opinion. A  true and simple relation of the interview is  a sufficient answer to this. The subject was the fast mail  train to  Chicago. Mr. Vanderbilt was thinking of taking this train off, because it did not pay, and did not appear to him therefore to be a necessity, and  he did not propose to  run trains as  a philanthropist. As part of the interview which  relates to this point has  become so  widely historic, I  think it  will bear reproduction here, literally:

“Why are you going to stop this fast mail train?” asked the reporter.

“Because it doesn’t pay,” replied Mr. Vanderbilt; “I  can’t run a train as far as this permanently at  a loss.”
“But the public find it very convenient and useful. You  ought to accommodate them,” rejoined  the reporter.

“The  public,” said Mr. Vanderbilt; “How  do you know, or how  can I  know that they  want it? If  they want it why don’t they patronize it and make it pay? That’s  the only test I have as to whether a thing is wanted or  not. Does  it pay? If it doesn’t pay   I  suppose it  isn’t wanted.”

“Are you working,” persisted the reporter, “for  the public or for  your  stockholders?”

“The public be  damned!” exclaimed Mr. Vanderbilt; “I  am working for my stockholders. If  the public want the train why  don’t they support it.”

This, I think, was a very proper answer from a business standpoint, and the expression, when placed in its real connection in the interview, does not imply any slur upon the public. It  simply intimates that he was urging a thing on the public which it did not want and practically refused. The “cuss” word might have been left out, but the crushing reply to the reporter would not have been so emphatic, and that obtrusive representative of public opinion might have gone away unsquelched. As it was, however, he and his editor exhibited considerable ingenuity in making the best misrepresentation possible out of the words of Mr. Vanderbilt, thus giving them a thousand times wider circulation than the journal in which they were first printed, and affording that paper a big advertisement. This is the correct account of that world-renowned expression, “The public be damned,”

“The capitalists,” “are not supreme, they are steersmen only, bound to obey unconditionally the captain’s orders. The captain is the consumer.”

Profit Signals make it “possible to apply a method of reckoning and computation” to guide each person in social relations. Eleemosynary proclivities, and Selfish, personal gain, are harmonized to provide the most urgently desired benefits to others.

Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth,
By Ludwig von Mises, originally published in 1920.

MAYDAY!! Mae Daigh
Made A Meta-date in Dayton,
with a Maya (maybe?) as Maid “A”.

Reminiscences of Reconstruction.

Scopes trial, Free-lunch.

Should we adopt Perfect Government?
stopbigmedia.com

De Ploy: By passel a’ byrinth Legislation.

Man’s Natural Instinct

Free State Project PorcFest 2007.

Isonomia.US

LandGrab.US
Eminent Domain - Condemnation:
reduces Private Property to a priviledge,
and creates Nomads.

Chattanooga-chews

Why do we Drive on the
Opposite Side of the Road? (from Britain).

In-Jean-uous — Fastep FREE Volity!

Abe & Don: ALL hopeful?
(or— HOKE?)