Arizona republican., 1915-04-04
CLUB NOTES

quest that this board was made ! National Board. It was organized 1 in 1909 to benefit New York City 1 only and its report from which I quote, is from october 1st. 1911. to 1 October 1st. 1912. During that year i four million nine hundred and nine teen thousand feet of films were eliminated. This was a very small portion of the pictures examined and q marked improvement was caused by this elimination and the daily audience increased from three and One-half million to seven mil lion. today's daily audience. This means an increase of profits of oae hundred per cent to the picture man. 1 This board does not attempt b 1 be responsible for historical or geo 1 graphically accuracy, but only cen- sors from a moral standpoint. er- deavoring also to eliminate that which is repulsive and in bad taste. It seems to me that if the pictures are to be educational. and so many of them are so intended, the cer-
 sorship should evtend to the a eur acy of such pictures. These statis-
 ties 1 have given are from the all-
 nual report of this board and I re fer further to their remarks in snHl-
 ming up their report. They say, 1 There will be no finally satisfactory solution of the problem of picture shows until graded motion picture theaters come into existence adapt
 ed to audiences of different socia! classes and to adults on the one hand and children on the other
 They also add. The national board canot relieve any city of it's local
 responsibility. In every community there are great undeveloped possibil- =
 ties for good and evil which should no more be neglected than if they
 were resources of natural wealth or
 treacherous pitfalls for moral con ttamination.
 In the Outlook of July, 1913, is an
 article telling how theaters were
 made more suitable for the one mil
 lion children of New York City Nno
 come daily under their influence.
 The Children's Moving Picture Lea
 que was founded in New York Ci.-
 about two years ago and it prom ises to become world wide in it's ad-
 vocates. Mrs. Laura Cogsweli was
 chosen president of the society and the executive board were Bishop
 David Greer, Cardinal Farley. Rab
 bi Mendes and former United States
 District Attorney, James l.. Bennett President Wilson lent his sanction to
 the idea by becoming one of it's hoI-
 Orary presidents. X national com mittee composed of citizens from tthe south and west is cooperating , 1 with this league. P. J. Besosa a
 prominent citizen of San Juan Port Rico journeyed to New York City :: inspect the leagues exhibits and tc f. get ideas that would aid him in h.
 troducing the delights of the movies ; to the dusky little West Indians. The I plan of this league is to arrange win l one or more theater managers tC | buy up the seats in the house every
 Saturday from nine to one o'clock I during schooltime and the same hour, other days through vacation, thest
 seats to be given gratuitously to children of all classes and creeds A salaried matron presides at eacf l theater, thus chaperoning the ch;l- dren. A committee of inspection ex- ercises great care in the selection of the pictures and does not allow any saddening, malicious nor sug-
 gestive pictures to be shown. Many of them are educational, but some are, and l think should be, simpi, IT 1 ie n- the best tonics in tine world. LaGl | Aberdeen has taken up the work ii London and Madam Sarah Bernhard has promised to look after the int ar ests of the Paris children.
 There seems to be no lack of earn est men and women ill the large cities of the world who are inter esting themselves in this work anJ we trust that there may be the same zeal manifested here in Phoenix fo the welfare of our boys and girls vi The Graphlet a little hook pub lished in Boston, by the Massachr aetts State Federation of Woman clubs tells of the Investigations mad ithere by the Society for the Proven ton of Cruelty to Children" Thi society found that although ninety eight percent of our pictures arr censored by the national board, ye it is not adequate for the protec
 ton of the public in general and c our children in particular. and tha
 this censorship does not relieve an,
 community from investigating an. attempting to improve it's own mo
 tion pictures.
 III h Minneapolis the drama depart ment of General Federati of Wo
 mems clubs has taken mp the worl and they earnestly advise that
 committee be appointed in each clul
 to investigate local conditions ant
 to try and work with the mana ger to attain the desired clean and in teresting pictures, and I do not doub the possibility of our gaining tn
 desired end in some of the ways W,
 nave here indicated, but it mus
 be done by the hearty co-operatiol
 of all. We must by our patronag
 show the picture managers that M
 want the best class of pictures.
 ul Under the direction of Mrs. J. Fl lott Walker. the chorus of the Wo
 mans club will give the cantata
 The Golden Valley, Tuesday after
 noon, the soloist being Mrs. Arthu
 Gibbons Hulett. soprano, Mrs. R. W Tafel Mrs. Ancil Martin, mezZo so
 pranos and Mrs H. J. Jessop con
 tralto. Mrs. Thomas Mathers an