Evening journal., 1905-12-18
MUST SHOW BILLS
UNDER THE BAN
5. P. c. c. Committee Says
They Are DemOraIizing and
PerniCiOuS
PRAYS FOR SOME RELIEF

The Committee on Publication Of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty TO
children today entered its protest against
the further DETACHMENT of the streets by
the bills which, in many sections meet
the eye. ia the following public letter:
ON the ground of bad taste, these dis
plays are worthy of condemnation. 1t Is
not, however, on this ground that your
committee desires to be heard. AS
corrupter of children and youth-as
poisoner Of mind and morals-these haunt-
ing pictures are disgrace to our CONF
munity. We need not recite the titles of
these plays. In themselves. they are sug-
gestive of everything that aims at the
overthrow OF stability i'm society, because
they lower that standard of morals
which makes society coherent They de-
base the mind, by creating in the mind Of
our young people a craving for unhealthy
excitement and contempt for those
things which are pure and lovely and of
good report"
They are demoralizing and pernicious
in their tendency. for they famnlarize the
young with matters which are not the
pride, but. rather the disgrace of any
people. practising or condoning them.
object to Posters.
Never were these posters more numer-
Gus than now. Never We're agents less re-
strained by considerations of municipal
pride or civic righteousness II you doubt
the existence of these facts, stand where
you can see young people before bill
boards IN certain sections of this city.
With eyes and mouth agape. youthful
spectators are taking ia through the eye
gate, into the mind, glaring and gross pic
lures Of domestic infelclty-snares ana
pitfalls for the unwary- occupations that
are criminal-hazardous undertakings
that serve no good end-and suggestions
that. in picture form, create inradicablc
Impressions.
Exploit Vice.
"Why should ony one section of our
city be made the theatre for the cxploita-
tion Of vice and crimes Why should not
young people from Tatnail street east ai-
most TO the christiana. although we have
seen specimens of this pernicious craft as
far west as Madison street-why should
not AN young people have the same OPP
portuniy-so far as the municipality can
furnish it-of Witnessing what is noble
instead OF ignoble-of what is pure in
stead of what is unclean?
III theatrical performances. not flag
rantly vicious. can not be suppressed
although we tisnk they can-we protest
against placarding the all too common Of
fenscs against domestic and social life
against the pictured expression of those
insidlous foes against civic and national
greatness.
Let me relate a fact A young girl who
had imbibed and imbibed the spirit OF
these unwholesome pictures. found oecu-
patton i'm a home in which concord
reignod. Great was her surprise and
openly expressed too. that chickering's and
auarrels were not found there. Greater
still was her surprise that for eight years
in that home. husband and wife had lived
together i'm love and unity. That is not
the way things happen at --.' she re-
marked Saturated with false standards.
finding wrong more picturesque than
right. she is only one OF many hundreds
who are receiving an education from just
such pictures as we hope TO see sup
pressed Signed:
Mrs. Benjamin Niclds,
Miss Laura James,
Mrs Clement B. Smyth.
Mrs. Willard Hall Porter.
Mrs. T. A. Kittinger,
Mrs. J. Frank Ball, Chairman.