"The movies suffer more from centers than almost any other enterprise, That Is because the men who' make the movies are cowards and won't fight back. I will admit that the censors make a fight dificult, since they usually advance to battle behind a screen of women and children. You hear a lot about the children' who have been ruined by Indecent pictures. This is bunk. Most censorship centres on the love zcenes a picture. and love scenes bore children to death. As for the alleged Vad effects of the gangster pictures, {most of our lads stil! would outher be cowboys—and Edward Robinson in his best days was never half os Popular as Tom Mix.
"Just as the family is the basis of our civilization; ft 1 also the basis of censorship. A nation composed of Jdecent, self-respecting families—and, most of them are—doesn't need to be told by a self-appointed minority! what Is good for it and what isnt The people are in a much better pos!- tion to decide that for themselves, und. what Is more important, they decide it—censorship or no censorship. Censorship merely makes it more dimeult for the public to exercise it's own judgment. The rervecentres of the picture' industry are the neighbourhood theatres in the home communities. These theatres depend for their patronage on pleas-the families in these communities 1 And any manager who would make ft'a polley to run pictures that outraged the fathers and mothers of these families would soon find himself on the financial rocks. That Is real eensorship—the only kind that ever Works of ever will work."
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