Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-04-12

OMN&E A&3ks Nes M410AA8 - 4 go Fl 81 $1,000
0'Grady. the following local item
was published d day Or two ago IN 2
leading daily of the metropolis:
Mrs.. Ellen A. O'Grady, Deputy Po-
lice Commissioners of New York, has
announced that she had ordered q
crusade Of women detectives against
Dropristors Of moving picture thea
ters displaying such suggestive, Inn
moral and 6lthy films az she OBJ
served On tour of movie houses yes
terday
The cIergE. educators. judges and
welfare workers declared MRS.
O'Graay, might as well lock up the
churches, shut the books and close
the courts ii they are going 70 porinat
the Hlthy motion pictures that are be-
lng shown in New York and through
out the country.
The above news OF Women Dep
,sty Commissioners work comes as g
beam Of daylight ID those who have
waited Tor the morning Il seems
that old New York is awake and We
do hope crusade Of women detect
ives will be able to ferret out and
show up the crime that q practiced
ON the world of young people Cant
every city have wide awake wo-
man commissioner who will be on q
still hunt for the yelled. very slightly
yelled, inquiry bractIced on the righ-
eous mind of youth, the most beapti-
faii thing lii the whole world of beau
.tiful things Ii this righteous mind Of
I child, and one brought up IN the
atmosphere of purity can retain this
transparency OF character on into
old age. It Is quite pathetic 70 hear
IN neurasthentc children and young
peoule: children who cant sleep for
nervousness are as abnormal and uI1-
natural as d bird that cant sing, or
8 tulip that does not lift It's chaliee Tor
ita morning dip of dew II is per
eectly possible To rear child ~ hap-
PLY healthgul In mind and BODY that
81 Iatcr life no unwise suggestion Of
iii Of any kind can over turn its se-
rene and confident soul. It Will come
naturally and beautifully into OH The
phases or physical life that await Il
and reach that splendid poise kind
illness and dignity that Is really the
charm and abiding grandeur Of the
soul ON ali Yicissitudes Of life But
Fl unwise guardians OF youth think
mat children must have amusement
81 any price, must 60 to movies, most
81 which are films suggestive. Inn
moral and fllthy. as Mrs. 0Grady
sienOminates them, how can they come
into adult life with right sense Of
nroportion. Nothing shows the over
turned bOnaaverse, as the French say.
conditions Of life today more than the
fact that the long suffering right
minded public will stand for freakish,
foolish fashion Ia clothing and filthy
nictures paraded before the tender
ilnaginations Of our young people
Nothing has been more diverted
from its original purpose aa the stage,
ii waa intended to be, and should pc,
one of the very finest mediums Of In
-struction, II especially IN its pure
form NESTS the needs Of our present
strenuous life, when so many have no
time for reading. and no task, and
where d vast number Of hard workers
are TOO tired mnd the mind and eyes
too weary ID read at night. There is
no are 40 which people are not helped
by good clean healthsul play or pic
ture; that the appetite for such is
keen ii shown when what Is termed
an old fashioned play will draw 2
crowded house.
There has bee nnothing suggested
Tor the old turned ap side down world
as the wholesale work planned by this
woman Deputy Commissioners Of New
york. Can't ali 81 our women work
ers stop all the things that engaged
them Id war time end concentrate
energy on the great questions agi-
tating the universe at present, cit
lsenship az women, and clean whole
some aHausement and instruction Tor
alI the n@ople. Let Us cease 10 hear
of neurasthenic or psarient young
peopie. Cod maie no disease or III
ness. Ii Is entirely mans product /;
NE need ID be 4 race 50 clean ~
mind aud body that disease atrcphies,
drops o.. IL We could see = genera
ton brought up with right thought Of
God. we could have right here . new
heaven. and new earth. Teach 3
child he IS Of divine. and not deyiliah
origia, and he win measure up to his
divinity. This Il Il truth 50 manifest,
that with such wrong thought and
seaching els has been imposed upon
the race. man IL stu feeling after
God, only feelings Lei ns be 0pttuais
tac enough to believe that shfs Is
she century of the world when he may
happily and Him
anna a HILL.