Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-28
If 1t Is Bring 1t to the Evening
STAR Editorial Rooms and
Get a Dollar Bill.
WILL POLICE
ENFORCE MOVING
PICTURE LAW
Continued from First page.)

Laban Dennis, of The Public Welfare
Committee. of Essex County. appeared
before the license committee of the
Common Council last night, notifying
the alderman of the violations, as told
in the Evening STAR.
The men, in words hat We're by no
means uncertain, asked that the con
mittee see that the laws are obeyed,
and that the people of Newark be as
sured that their children are safe from
contamination in the cheaper theatres.
Mr.. Gascoyne's Appeal.
." know of several places to which
children who were under 16 years of
age and unaccompanied by older per-
sons have been admitted" said Mr..
Gascoyne. I'VE are not here to COM
plain of any specific theatres, but to
ask you to lay down the law to all of
the proprietors and then, If there are
future violations of the law we will
give Details"
After referring to the prevalence OF
juvenile crimes due to the lure of the
moving picture he continued: II would
suggest that in each theatre there be
placed a copy of the law or a sign stat
ing that those under 16 cannot be adj
mitted without adult escort. [ would
also suggest that each motion picture
theatre be required to employ a ma
iron, as it is a fact that many of the
young girls pass to the front of the
theatre, meet young men of vicious
morals and their subsequent conduct is
not fit to speak of here nor to. publish
in the press"
Mr.. Gascoyne had said practically the
same thing to a reporter for the Eve
ming STAR last week.
Charles A. MacCall, supervisor of at
tendance of the Board of Education,
said that he fully realized that the
law is being violated, for 1T has been
tacitly admitted by the managers them
selves. il speaking of the sending OF
a notice to one of the managers he told
of the manager saying, Sorry ] got
that notice Friday; | lost SIS on Sat
urday; / wish that you had sent il
Monday"
Mary Places Visited.
Our committee has beer investigat-
ing picture shows for the past two
months and has found many things
which are in violation of the law and
, Objectionable said DR.. Dennis, "anc
OF the twenty-seven places visited
minors were found in seventeen with
out escort. We found the light, venti-
lation and bill boards Objectionable and
we charge the proprietors with con.
nivance in having a man in their EN-
ploy to collect the children's money
and pass them into the shows.
Hundreds of mothers have com
planned that the shows are demoraliz
ing their children, who are getting tn
chronic moving picture habit. There
have been found by our agents the
aires in which there were eight adults
and over sixty children, ranging in ag'
from 3 to 10 years. and when the police
man on that beat was appealed to h
stated that he had never heard of tn
minor law. l ask the cooperation o
the moral and social well-being of oul
shows by enforcement of the law TO
the moral and social well being of gu
culture citizens"
After several others mad spoken alonl
the same lines and the deputy in
spectors of the department had told o
heir work Alderman Smith, chairman
of the license committee, assured tn
delegates that the matter would re
reive the serious attention of the com
mittee and tina he would cooperat
With them In every way possible.