Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-08
Three Men Must Pass Upon All
Movie Pictures Before They
are Shown i'm Kansas.
HARD WORK TO JUDGE FILMS
OFFICIALS Must Sit From Morning to
Night Watching the Reeis-De
Not Always Agree.

The state censors of moving pic
lures have no easy job by any means.
Moving pictures, as a rule, are very
entertaining, but with the censors it
Is case of too much of a good thing.
To sit from morning till night and
sometimes far into the night, con-
stantly looking at pictures, is very
firesome task.
All pictures shown in Kansas are
first passed upon by the censors. 1t
takes three of them to do the work.
Usually they have three shows" go
ing on at the same time. Most of
the pictures go under the scrutiny of
but one censor. Occasionally, how
ever, all three censors sit on a pic
ture. In such cases they usually dis
agree and the board of appeals, COM
posed of the governor, attorney gen
eral and secretary of state. is called
in
In a general way the censors have
some rules or standards to go by, but
many pictures run SO close to the Dor
der line that it makes it difficult to
Judge them. For instance, one censor
may pass picture that would not be
approved by another censor. This has
happened frequently. Recently one
censor prohibited picture that was
approved the day before by another
censor.
1t all depends upon the viewpoint,
and the censors, like other people, oc
casionaIly differ in viewpoints. In
fact, a censor sometimes differs with
himself. One day when he is feeling
just right he approves a picture that
he would condemn the next day. AS
rule, the censors try to cut out en-
tirely all vulgar drinking scenes,
shorten Asonl kisses and eliminate
suicides
One movie manager pasted togeth-
er strips eliminated from various pic
lures by the censors. For the edifi-
cation of the appeal board the other
:. day he ran that reel through the ma
chine. 1t was a conglomeratiOn OF
suggestive scenes and showed that the
censors have earned all they have re-
csived in salary.
Howat Heads Miners-Alexander
Howat was elected president of Dis
trict No. Ia, United Mine Workers of
America, recently. Unofficial returns
Indicate that he will have a large ma
jority over Fred Stanton of Mulberry
his only opponent. Robert Gilmour
apparently was elected international
board member.
Motor Car Turned Over-Mrs. Oscar
Haubursin of Caney was killed at 6
O'Clock the other afternoon when the
Haubursin motor car turned over, on
q steep hit two miles west of Coz
feyville.
Complete a Kansas Line--The first
car of the A kansas Valley InteruI ban
system, which has been built between
Wichita and Hutchinson, arrived at
Hutchinson recently, bearing the Off
cials of the electric road.
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School Near Ottawa Burned.-Fire
caused by an overheated furnace de-
stroyed the Greenwood district school.
a Broom building, ten miles southwest
of Ottawa, recently. Most of the stu
dents were practicing in rural church
nearby for Christmas program when
the fire broke out at recess.
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New Gas suppiy.-Gas produced in
Franklin county is to be used by the
Kansas Natural Gas Company. Ar
cred J. Diescher of Bartlesville. Ok. an
operator in the local fields. to handle
gas coming from "a string of wells in
the Rantoul and Peoria fields, which
are situated in the eastern part OF this
county The construction of a six-inch
pipe line from the Kansas Natural line
at the edge of OTTAWA into the local
fields have been completed. Engineers
are at work and the first shipment of
pipe and other material for the line ar
rived recently. Dieseher and several
other operators have been busy drill
ing for oil and gas for several months.
Cctogenarian Dead.-Mrs- Elizabeth
Miller. sc years old. died at her home
in PittsbGrg recently. She was the
widow of David S. Miller. a Kansas
pioneer. who died there year ago.
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New Postnasters Named-Rodney
Torrey. La Cross, Alexander Niern
berger. Ellis: J. c. McConnaughay
Harmed: J. E. Leach, Randolph. Fred
erick c. Herdman. Leroy
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Girl injured In Runa~zy.-Proba51e
fetal injuries were sustained by Miss
Shirley Page of Everest. when she was
thrown from a buggy during run
away She suffered concussScn of the
brain Two other young women with
her jumped and escaped injury