To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Why hasn't Board of Censors?
Shanghai a Today, at tiffin time, while shopping at Sincere's I noticed a Chinese buying o cigarette case at the smokes counter. It was done in highly coloured enamel and showed a practically nude figure of a woman. There was quite a variety of them, some plain on the outside with nude figures pictured on the inside of the cover. Of course the figures were of white women, Across the street, at Wing On's, they are showing a line of calendars and. colored posters that are highly obnoxious. The subjects are always white women.
Everyone knows that the motion pictures shown in the cheap theatres which cater to the Chinese are a disgrace and a menace to the standing of the foreign community.
"One person's complaint to the manager of the department stores or the theatres would be disregarded but backed by the authority of an organization, would carry weight.
The Women's Clubs could organize such a Board of Censorship on their own initiative and each member could appoint herself a committee of one to report such cases as the above. They owe it to themselves, I am, etc.,
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