The Forrest City times., 1911-04-28

Anywhere. everywhere, you find them In the United States you will have to hunt town of less than 2,00o inhabitants if you wish to escape the moving pictures.
 Five millions Of Americans daily visit these shows.
 The exhibitors pay s1s.oOo 900 year for their films. The public pays s575oo,000 year to see them.
 MT Edison has an average weekly royalty therefrom of ss 900.
 So II is a pretty big business pretty thor oughly organized quite universal in it's reach soap bubbly in it's universality
 The child of the poor, with clay pipe and the studs from the weekly wash can have just as good a time any rich young fellow with an iu- ported meerschaum and the best castle
 So 1t is with the moving picture shows It re- quires little capital to them. \ long room easily darkened. nine-feet square patch of white cloth, some benches for the spectators, an oper- ator at ten dollars week, and a rented film now takes the place of a company of actors stage scenery properties lights and a properly equipped building. And the poor boy gets as much value for his nickel the rich boy can get for any number of dollars
 Yet they run into dangers that no capabilities can allure Fire is of these the most patent. Of the moral dangers will speak later It Is through the moral soap-bubble that we can see more clearly the moving pictures gossamer tinsel
 Fire, however. is the first and most vital dan- SOt. hf tHdIily -bdLaaT Ire m HarlS, Tn Wnlc1 so many women were tramped to death by cow ardly men caused by the fall of a spark upon some celluoid moying-pcture films which had been dropped into a basket In Canton 600 men Chinamen. were burned to death in a fire in moYing-pcture show house In Quito Eeua- dor. fifty men and women lost their lives in similar calamity
 It speaks well for the widespread and con- stant vigilance of the fire departments of the United States that no great catastrophe has yet come to the moving picture houses of this country.
 Lives have not been lost in the moving picture shows. Lives have been lost through the moving. picture shows
 Where the dime and nickel novels sug- gested ways of crime to unbalanced youth the moving picture has come to make a more ready and potent appeal. The printed word is never ardent with impressionable mind as the acted word
 Several ways have been thought of to lessen these obvious evils Charles Sprague Smith late chief of the Peoples Institute in New York thought he had solved the problem when he in- duced the manufacturers of the moving pictures to agree to national board of censorship
 The manufacturers. good trade diplomats. readily assented, and then saw to it that the board of censorship should be advisory and not antagonistic. The result is that many pictures that create havoc among youthful minds when shown the public screens get by the na- tonal board of censorship
 No. This bubble that Edison has oosed upon will play itself out just far the instincts of the whole people of this country will permit; no farther. sooner.
 One night I went 10 prize fight. Only were present. The casual observer might have said they all tough men. After the fight a was erected in the ring and nouncer said. An exclusive film will now be shown to the members of this club.
 The picture proved to be of French manufac- ture and portrayed vile situation in dive. Instantly misses and storm of execration burst from the audience. The running of the film was stopped and the pictare removed before it was all shown Grim silence greeted the removal of the canvas. He sr @f .a H8 ss
 The crowd that elogied in the action of the