New Britain herald., 1916-05-20


 The reason for this scarcity of labor is the enormous amount of work being done by the munitions manu- featuring plants in Hartford, Water bury, New Haven and Bridgeport. The biggest factories in the world are located there, money is fairly pour ing in and in order to keep abreast with business and increase the golden shower the manufacturers are constantly enlarging their factories and offering inducements in the man. ner of increased pay. Scores of men have left New Britain within the past year to work at these various mu- n1t1ons plants, and therefore good labor is scarce.
 Just as soon as warm weather comes to stay the flies will begin to show signs of life, slowly and slug g1shly at first, but as the warmth in- creases so will their activity until in a few weeks they will be buzzing about, carrying just as many germs as ever. Now is the time to wage the most effective swat the fy' cam pa1gn. When the flies are fewer it is easier to kill them and each fly killed now means several hundred less flies a month from now for that species of insect multiplies very rapidly. If all the good housewives would swat every fly she sees as soon as it shows itself in the house it would be a big step in the right di- rection.
 In this same connections; now is the time to begin a mosquito campaign as well. Old tin cans filled with hu hn every bit of swampy or marshy ground should be treated with a little kerosene. The oil kills the mosquito eggs and prevents further incubation One mosquito egg killed now will pre- vent hundred of annoying and poison- GUS bites during the months to come
 Recent agitation of the school board to have motion pictures cen- sored before presenting them to the lccal public is causing no end of comment and the casual observer finds that the majority of opinion is. that while admittedly a federal cen SOrship would be an admirable thing. municipal censorship for New Britain would be impractical and would be nothing but farce. strik- irg medium between the reaction ists and standpatters on the question, io is agreed that occasionally there is a picture show that might have a, deterrent effect on child. But in the first place, let the child's parents censor that child's act Tn the second place impress on the theater managers by police supervision the necessity of showing only high grade films. It is said that the three pic ture houses here show upwards of fifty reels of films each day. Who is there, or what committee is there who would consent to watch and cen- sor fifty reels of pictures day in and day out? No one would do it gra- t1tuously and to have it done at all would necessitate the considerable expense of hiring several censors at a substantial salary Also it would be difficult to find several willing people who would be qualified to sit in Judgment. Public opinion here in dicates that locally the project of having a censor is by no means prac- teal.
 Not so with a national board, how ever. Films are stamped "passed by the national board of censors," but in reality that means nothing The
 
 legal right to permit or restrain any film. The government, only insofar as indecent and obscene pictures which could come within their crini- nal jurisdiction are concerned, have riothing to do with the movies. In- quiry has elicited the information that when the movie rage began several years ago, the various big film manufacturers and projecting machine makers formed the Moving Picture Patents company. This was q combine to control the trade and increase revenue. Controlling the ne- cessities, it was necessary for a thea ter man to buy rights from this com bine and in addition to that he had tC purchase license to show pie lures. Then it was that the national board of censorship was created. Thinking to gain public approval and likewise get favorable free adver- Using many prominent educators and welfare workers were invited to sit in judgment on pictures. They soon tired of this however. until if is said that today the national board is somewhat of a myth. But as a whole moving picture producers While ever trying to put over 9, thrill or a sensation, regard their high standard too much to take too many chances with objectionable pictures. Admittedly, real reed national censor ship would be ideal, but New Britain board of censorship-it is hard to see where it would be even possible, let alone practical.
 "l have no flowers, but I lav my heart, the heart of an old soldier. on the grave of the Apostle of Peace" Such was the significant statement