The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
4HECKLING"
 IN NEW YORK Custom Is New in This
 Country. THE NEW DIVORCE CAUSE Little Esquimau1 Wants to Raise
 Trouble. New York May at Length Establish A Theatrical Censorship--women win Get Even With the
 sphinx.
BY LoNGAcRE.

New York June 6-.Heckling" pro- mises to become one of New York's popular summer diversions. A month ago heckling was unknown: now 1t is in fair way to supercede Mara thon races in general favor. Briefly the new sport somewhat resembles bull batting and is popular form of the fine art of cross-examination. The object of the game is to put query after query to the heckled one and then to deny the truth of all answer> The re- suit does not count. The new pastime was inaugurated by District Attorney Jerome who allowed himself to De heckled by 1,700 persons recently, who at public meeting fired every con- ceiyabie question at him from those dealing with his personal habits to those having to do with his conduct of ofice and his beliefs as to future life. For the first time on record public officer gave public accounting of his stewardship and though the ac- counting may not have amounted to much. since some one of the 1,T00 heclxlers insisted that Mir. Jerome. was not telling the truth during the whole evening, persons interested in political reforms hope that this unique ac- counting marks the dawn of an era of real political responsibility to the peo- pie. Unfortunately. however heckling has wrought dire results in other fields Only two days after Mir. Jerome inau- gurated the new pastime man brought suif for divorce on the ground that his wife heckle him, specifying that she had asked him an average of 4s1 foolish questions every day for a month. Likewise a policeman res signed from his position busy Broad way corner, giving as his reason for so doing that the crowds in search for information heckled him to an un- bearable extent. So at present 1t seems to be a question as to whether new diversion.
 Trouble is Brewing.
 The only reason that this city fs not being bombarded by a foreign war fleet just now Is due to the fact that Greenland, where the Esquimaux live, doesn't happen to have navy. If 1t had the harbor would shortly be filled with warships enjoying themselves by taking pot shots at the Singer build- ing and the Metropolitan tower. Wis., ionary as such an event may seem to the uninitiated. 1t is nevertheless the expression of race feeling on the part of the entire Esquifnaux population consisting of one small Greenland named Meme Wallace. Meme was brought to this city some twelve years ago by Commander Peary, on his re. turn from one of his efforts to dis- power the North Pole. With him were his father ana mother who subsequent. Iy died of consumption. Meme, sur- vfvang, first went to school and then obtained aEnployulant in the9 NEetfUpoa-i nan Museum. Believing his father had been buried in the regular man ner Meme was somewhat surprised to find his body on exhibition there. All his attempts to obtain possession of it, however, failed and Meme had to leave The next development in the history of this young man was his employment at the Hotel Astor. whose proprietor heartily sympathized with him and aided him in many ways. Last week, however. Meme vanished and after a long search was finally located in Canada. in a futile attempt to reach his native country. On his return to New York he intimated that certain powerful influences were at work to keep him from reaching Greenland, since if he ever did so, the story of his treatment in this country would make the Arctic island an extremely unhealthy place for Mr., Peary. It seems likely, however, that this cause of near internationaI com plications will shortly return to the land of his fathers, since a movement is under way to raise the money nec- essary to enable him to do so.
 Father Knickerbocker seems likely
 
 book and establish a theatrical cen sorship. London has had a censor for years, and certain recent Broadway shows of questionable morals, together with the success of the censorship of moving picture entertainments, which has been tried in this city during the past few weeks has stirred up a de- mand for some means of regulating theatrical offerings. A movement is also on foot to make the supervision of picture entertainments national in its scope. As a matter of fact the New York moving picture censorship actually covers the larger part of the country in the regulation of new sub Jects produced by the camera. By arrangement with the Motion Picture Patents Company. the combination of film manufacturers which controls over ninety percent of all moving pie lures at present, the local board of censors, which is made up of represen- tatives of the Church Society, the Peo- ple's. Institute, the Society for the. Prevention of Crime and other civic bodies, now passes upon all pictures issued by the association and none of the managers of this class of entertain ments who use films made by any of the members of the combination are allowed to exhibit any new views that have not received the approval of the board of censors. There are still some films of European make that do not