p. 16 | America’s Love of Pleasure by L. E. F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 23.

America’s Love of Pleasure

By L. E. F.

THERE are now 350 producing companies in the moving picture business, 17,127 moving picture exhibitions, at least twenty star actors on a contract of $1,000 a week, one actress who is receiving $200,000 a year, and a comedian whose net receipts are $600,000 a year. As high as $100,000 is spent on a single production. More than $350,000,000 is spent annually in the moving picture theaters of the United States.

Such are a few of the evidences of the appalling grip that pleasure has upon America, and the price the devotees will pay for their favorite pastimes and dissipations.

In the "last days," the inhabitants of earth will have this undeniable characteristic,—"lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." 2 Tim. 3: 1-5. L. E. F.