Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-22
LUKE NORTH'S EPISTLE
TO THE CENSORS OF
THE WICKED PLAY

Dear Censors: think you done no.
Bile in putting pajamas on those Ve-
muses. in the wicked play at the opery
house There was a joint meeting OIL
the sewing circle and the anti-clder
association in our front parlor this
afternoon, and told them about your
good deed, and they were all real
pleased and passed a vote of thanks FOR
your brave and patriotic stand, which
they asked me to write a letter about
to the editor ard Deacon 81 Brown was
called upon for a few remarks, ana ne
sain he lxdew Mr.. Guy Eddie and Chler
Galloway and they were grand ana
pous men who wouldn't let any wicked
people from the big eastern cities come
to our town to steal away the morals
of our young people who amt used to
seeing Venuses without paJamas OF
nightgowns on. The deacon said it was
| a great triumph of virtue over nature
what you censors done, and that you
deserved the undying gratitude of every
man and woman in our town over sixty
years of age. The deacon's remarks
were warmly appauded by everyone
present in the entire assemblage.
Miss Hinckle, the chairlady of the
sewing circle, also spoke few remarks.
She said such noble men as Chief CAL
loway and Mr.. Eddie ought to have
monuments erected to their sacred
memory, and that when God made Eve
he always meant she sho wear
| "a nothing / IA than
a calico Mother Hubbard. She could
truthfully say, she said, that no one
had ever seen her figure without some
thing on.
After the meeting broke up l had to
go to the grocery store, and there L
met a great many of our prominent
fellow townsmen who were not playing
checkers as usual, but were discussing
the great moral uplift which the CEN
sors had given our town by putting
paiamas on the Venuses at the opery
house. 1t was generally conceded by
all that you had done more TO boost
our town and bring its many favorable
advantages to the attention of all really
reputable people, don't you know, than
either the ladies' bazaar or the young
gents social club.
1t gives me a great deal of very en-
ioyable pleasure to record few OF the
many tokens of appreciation for the
truly grand moral work which you CEN
sors have so heroically done to boom
orr town and let the whole world know
that we amt wicked like San Fran
cisco. OF course in the big cities like
New York or Saint Louy conditions
is different and everybody knows thaC
they will be shocked when they so
there. but when we remember the fat"
of Sodom and Gomorrah we are thank
full that we have such pure minded men
as MIR. Eddie and Chief Galloway IN
our midst to preserve us from the
snares of the big cities. We know, OF
course. that you seen your duty ana
done it manfully, even if you did get
in on free passes. 1t was terrible
ordeal for You all to go and see the
wicked play twice hand-running, and
some captious critics say that you
ought to have turned away your eyes
that first night when the Venuses didn't
have much of anything on. but If YOU
had done that you couldn't have seen
that they needed pajamas, and the
whole moral tone of our town would
have been lowered.
AS the young gents debating society
decided last night, morals is matter or
paianias, and the noble censors of our
town have splendidly proven their Mt
ness to preserve the pulchrltudlnouS
suhlimification of the decorously attired
human figure. With such truly grand
people to guard the morals of our town
we will surely grow to be great but
never a wicked city. LURE