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Excerpt from The Motion Picture in a World at War: Twentieth Anniversary Report to the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc Relaxation is one of the indispensable elements of public health at a time when human energies are taxed to the utmost, and nerves are strained to the breaking point. In a statement on March 10, 1942, made in response to numerous letters of inquiry concerning the place of recreation during war time, the President said: It is, of course, obvious that the war effort is the primary task of everybody in the nation. All other activities must be considered secondary. Such recreation may come by participation in or attend ance at various sports, motion pictures, music, the drama, picnics, etc. All of them have a necessary and beneficial part in promoting an over-all efficiency by relieving the strains of war and work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.