Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-09-26
Latest Pronouncement of the
State Movie Board.
ORDER IS FAR REACHING
Aim Is to Make Picture Theaters
Places Where Most Innocent Boy
and Girl Can Be Taken
Without Harm.
Special Columbus Correspondent.

Lne latest pTOnOunCeuleHJ VI
the Ohio moving picture cen
sors. 1t Is a sequel to the |
first censor order which declared that |
no horror" pictures could be shown
after the new censor law went into
effect on Nov. 4. 1t may mean the |
virtual elimination of pistols and |
knives, murder scenes, suicides, !
deathbed struggles, brutality portray |
ais and all other things that shock |
delicate sensibilities and leave an
unpleasing impression on the mind.
The new order is far reaching in the |
extreme. 1t is to be literally inter (!
preted, according to the movie" cen
sors. Any film calculated to make the
most delicate spectator shudder must
be eliminated. Lines are to be sharp
Iy and distinctly drawn. Many more
pictures will be included than were
embraced by the first order against
horror" films. For example, the rep
resentation of disgusting barroom
scene might not be a horror picture,
but it would be cut out Immediately
by the "no-shudder" rule.
The results are expected to be
whole types of melodramas now
shown in the movies" that will have
to be wholly revised or taken outside
Of Ohio. The censors say that the
general public has no idea of the ex-
tent to which the censorship is to be
exercised against undesirable films.
1--WE want to make the moving pic
ture theaters places where the most
innocent boy or girl can be taken
without the slightest possibility Of
harm," said one of the censors Sun
day in explaining the censorship point
of view. This is said to be in perfect
accord with the wishes of the gov
ernor and the industrial commission.
Chief Justices Salary $1,000.
Hugh l.. Nichols of Batavia, the
newly appointed chief justice of the
Ohio supreme court, will receive
$1,000 year for his services, and he
is already on duty. His appointment
Is effective until Jan. 1, 1915, and if he
wants to retain his place after that he
will have to win in the fall election of
1914 For next year chief justice
will be elected for a term of six
years, and the present appointment is
only to fill the new chief justiceship
until the people shall have had their
say. Senator w. A. Greenlund of
Cleveland who succeeds by appoint
meut to the lieutenant governorship,
from which MIR. Nichols retires, will
get $1,500 year, but his only duties
viii be to preside over the Ohio
senate.
$2,o2a,7o7.e3 From Corporations.
There are 1852 domestic corpora
tions in Ohio, and the tax or fee they
are called upon to pay to the state
this year aggregates $2,O2S, 107 SO
State Treasurer Brennan is calling at
tention to the requirement that this
tax must be paid into the state treas
ury by not later than the first day OF
October. After that date u penalty ot
Is per cent is added. So far only
$500 of the amount due has been paid
Probably during the coming week re
mittances will be received in lar
amounts. The largest contributors
usually wait until the eleventh houl
before making their payments. The
domestic corporation tax law is one
of the principal revenue producers o
the state. 1t provides for an assess
ment of three-twentieths Of l per cen
Of the capital stock of all Ohio corpc
rations. Last year, at the close 0
business, Treasurer Brennan wa
Obliged to certify 1911 corporations a
delinquent, the taxes they owe,
amounting to $41497625, to whicl
penalties amounting to $62,246.36 wer
added. The original notices of tn
amount of tax due are mailed by tn
treasurer six weeks in advance of tn
time they should be paid. Nineteenth
of the corporations that failed to pa
in time last year were delinquent bt
cause of an oversight and not becaus
OF desire to evade the law.
viii Investigate Other Systems.
Before the Ohio state civil servic
commission makes rules for the sy
TEN of competitive examination fc
state employees, it will fully invest
~ gate the civil service systems of a
other states, according to Samuel
Hoskins, president of the commission
Mr.. Hoskins says that owing to th
many difficulties in the way, the cor
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Holds Old Certificates Project.
Admitting there is question as
the constitutionality of the new Chi
labor law, Attorney General Hogan
an opinion to State Factory Inspectt
Kearns and to Senator Greenlund, a
thor of the bill, said that mino
holding school certificates should n
be prosecuted for violation of the la
although they are under the age pr
scribed by the new law. The old &c
tificates protect them. he contend
Tha new law puts the age limit I