The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-29
T0MAKE MOVIES
LIKE PARADISE.
That Is the Plan of the Rev.
FeStuS Foster.
All Smoking To Be Eliminated
From the Films.
SCREENS TO Re SO PURIFIED
That the Sunday School May
Go Out of Business.
He viii Remove Everything
That Is Suggestive of Evil.

Dreams of the State Temperance
Union and anti-cigarette crusaders
are to come true. The Kansas movie
shows are to be all they ought to be.
They will be so far advanced and on
such a high moral plane that mothers
will be tempted to rear their children
in motion picture houses away from
the horrid, debased, degrading spec
tacles of every day life. The Reverend
Festus Foster is to launch another
cleanup and picture house owners
may as well prepare for the worst
There will be no smoking in the
movies.
The Reverend Festus-Festering is
the word applied by number of To-
peka club women-has decreed a new
day in the Kansas movie game. He
proposes to delete several hundred
feet of reel showing Lille, the SOU
brette, with abbreviated skirts and
smoking a cork tipped cigarette. Mike
Hooligan, the pride of the boilermak-
ers union. will suddenly drop out of
the picture when the reel shows Mike
on the job with a cold chisel and his
pipe. The Rev 'fend Mr.. Foster will
also remove from the screen the pic
lures of the villain with stosie and
an evil and designing eye for women.
Yep, the movies are to be purified.
In a Topeka theater this week, Mr..
Foster is said to have issued his de-
I
smoking in the movies.
Il have been thinking about this
matter for a long time and have de-
cided to take the stand" the preacher
movie censor told a theater manager
so far as I am concerned or can con-
! troll the situation there will be no
smoking in the pictures shown in Kan
sas. They are evil and suggestive and
not proper teaching for the boys and
girls of our state
Places of Refuge.
SO Kansas mothers who want their
boys and girls to have the proper
home training will remove them en-
| tirely from evil worldly influences by
| taking them to the movie shows. on
| the streets and in the homes there is
no ban on smoking. But the Rev. MI.
Foster will provide place where
! pure minded men and women and
children may spend an afternoon of
| peace and solace and comfort. He
| proposes to purify the screen drama
until all the immoral, suggestive, inn
| proper or questionable things of life
are removed.
Some months ago the Rev. Mr.. Fos-
| ter sought to eliminate from the
screen all scenes of drinking. The
| plan was never a complete success, so
| far as the Judgment of paid patrons
| of the movies was concerned. Then
! the Rev. Mr.. Foster killed the Geral-
dine Farrar Carmen picture be-
cause the famous opera star kissed
| too long. One of Edna Mays French
dramas came under the ak as welded
| by the Rev. Mr.. Foster and Edna is
said to have wept bitter tears. On
several occasions w. D. Ross. state
censor and Mr.. Foster have urged a
complete ban on Charlie Chaplin pic
| lures. They were stopped by the state
appeal board.
Now there is to be a new and. great
er reform than all others. Mr.. Eos
ter will clamp the lid on the smoking
/ in the movies. At least he has de-
| c1ared he will try