Perhaps at its door must be laid the responsibility for many an jun-balanced household budget, and not infrequently for providing the initial impulse to crime. In the ultimate analysis, however, is not this the fault rather of the human imagination, than of the moving picture? Is it not a quality it shares with the novel, and the spoken drama, as imaginative representations of the actual world? Have all great novels, and all great plays, resulted only in better and nobler living, and have they "never, by ministering to a weak weak imagination, been the unwitting agency of gross Jiving, if not of. crime? Have King Lear wnd_ Macbeth, and the masterpieces of Scphocies and /Sschylus, never had a harmful effect on immature minds, and persons whose imaginations knew not the strong curb of sanity? Statistics here are impossible, but it would be a miracle if these results had not occasionally come to pass.
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Yet reform in the moving picture industry is imperatively needed, and it seems to be coming under the leadership of Mr, Will H. Hays, head of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Mr. Hays has some clear ideas on the kind of reforms needed, and he recently outlined his reform programme before the delegates of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at Chautauqua. "There is one place, and one place
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