Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-07
call Lakes Attitude Not Yet o.
folaIIy Announced Pending
Mayors Return.
PRIEST. HAMMOND'S ATTITUDE.
r,o Members OF the Board of Edu-
cation ON Record Against the
Exhibition Here.

WIN the local authorities, the agita-
,t., against the exhibition Of the John
,,,.Ieffries prize fight pictures, which
IA. spread throughout the country has
"a, taken much effect Mayor John
Rransford attended the fight and
,hsn he returns, it is possible that no
uill be able TO give an expert opinion
n, tse mill As the matter now stands,
II Will be left TO Mayor Bransford'
cbief u Police Sam a. Barlow thinks
tbst the agitation is a joke, and none
~ me other city officials who could
h reached cared 10 express an opinion,
declaring that Mayor Bransford would
he In a position to know whether tho
nictures would be degrading or not.
In the past two days fOrty-one i'm
ror,ant cities in the United States
nave taken action 10 bar the pictures
an account Of arousing race prejudice,
nd because of the degrading and Inn
soral Influence such exhibitions have.
me governors Of hree-fourths of the
soutbern states have declared their in
,sntion Of prohibiting the exhibition OF
me- pictures The agitation has spread
INTO india and South Africa, and the
,stures will not be allowed In those
largely black and such things cause
riots.
orders have already been sent Tor
Aims OF the fight by a local film eX-
Shange house. but il viii probably be
come time before they are received.
M Aims viii no doubt be exhibited In
be 10 cent moving picture theaters.
which are now principally patrpnlzed
By young boys and girls and children.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
James A. Hammond president Of the
board Of education. declared emphatic
ally that he was against the exhibition
On the pictures. "Thc sport itself Is
degrading and brutal and / do not be-
lleve that II Is a good thing TO have
the pictures shown TO the public
Arnold G. Giauque, another member
o. the board Of education, Is also OPP
posed TO the exhibition OF the prize
aght pictures Il am not in sympathy
With that class OF sport and ] think
that Il ought to be prevented For this
reason ! believe the pictures ought To
Be barred"
Several other members OF the board
q education were called upon for an
opinion but they did not care 20 he
Interviewed because they had not given
ne natter any thought.
CHIEF BARLOw's VIEWS.
1t strikes me as a Joke" was the
Comment Of chief Of Police Barlow
tbs morning in reference 10 the coun-
lrJ.Elde agitation against the display
q The moving pictures OF the Jeffrles-
Johnson fight
4 can't see what damage can result
from the exhibition Of these pictures
There was certainly no damage done In
the fight itself, unless 1t was to the
p0cketbOoks OF lot Of the fans, and
a. any OF the moving picture shows
today you can see blood and thunder
rln that Is as bad II not worse than
the fight.
4 can hardly figure out what the
agitation against the pictures Is about.
Unless perhaps II is an advertising
dodge You know II you warn against
show the house viii be packed, anc
maybe that Is the scheme. / can see
10 reason however why the pictures
should be prohibited"