The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-11
Getty Would Put Film Lid on a
Little Tighter.
Senate Bill in Today To Bar
Outlaw Pictures From State.
ELEVEN OTHER NEW ONES, TOO
Four of Them Are Measures AZ
fecting Insurance Companies.
Sparks, Cherokee, Wants Blank
Lines OF Primary Ballots.

A weapon no less 1OrmiQaD Die imam
an axe will be placed in the hands of
the Kansas motion picture board of
reviews for use on unruIy film manu-
facturers, agents and exhibitors, if the
legislature passes a bill introduced in
the senate today by Getty of Wyan-
dotte. The proposed measure would
bar from the state the films of manu-
facturers who do not live up to the
| rulings of the board.
The bill is regarded as a direct slap
at what are known in the trade YER
nacular as outlaw pictures-pictures
not bearing the full stamp of approval
of the state censorship board The
Getty proposal would make it strictly
compulsory that films and posters
bear the boards approval. It also
would give airy agent or member of
the board the right to enter any thea
| ter or place where moving pictures are
being shown to investigate whether or
not the censorship orders were being
| carried out Present laws, according
to Getty, give the censorship board
power to exact penalty against only
exhibitors and agents of pictures. His
| measure would check responsibility
| directly to the door of the manufac-
| turers.
Pats En- on Back.
Gettys measure, incidentally, pats
by proposing that the chairman's sal
airy be raised to $4,000 a year other
members would receive $4,000.
| In addition to the Getty bill, eleven
proposed measures were introduced in
| the senate this morning. A bill by
Schoch of Shawnee would allow local
registrars a fee of rs cents for each
birth or death certificate filed. In
cities of the first class the city would
pay the fee, and in other cities the
| money would come out of the general
revenue funds of the county The
state registrar would have the power
to pass upon the fee claims.
More Insurance Bills In.
Popular sport INDUCED in by both
the house and senate in regulating in
| surance companies was not forgotten
| in the senate today. Thompson OF
| Hutchinson threw four new insurance
| measures into the hopper. One of the
Thompson bills would compel life in
surance companies to give policy
| holders thirty days notice in writing
before cancelling policies because OF
nonpayment of premiums The policy.
holder would then be given thirty day:
grace in which to pay up ~. I
More Pay for District Judges. rr
/ A bill introduced by Senator Plumb
| OF Emporia seeks to raise the saIarie.
of district court judges to $4,000 &
year. Plumb's measure was intro
duced at noon along with Gettys mo
ton picture bill.
A bill by Sparks of Cherokee, intro
duced just after the senate was called
TO order this morning, would probihi
names of candidates other than thos,
approved by the secretary of state, tn,
county and city clerks from beins
printed on the primary ballot TIL,
use of blank lines would be discon
tinued unless there be no nomination
or declaration papers filed for the of
flee in question. In order for a can
didate to get his name on the genera
ballot in such a case it would be re
CURED that he receive 5 per cent o
the votes cast by his party in his pre-
cinct, county, city. ward or district 70
secretary of state
Whitney of Agra introduced a bill
which would compel railroads t
weigh coal at points of origin. an
would prohibit collection of transpor
tation charges on coal not delivered.
Other measures thrown in the hop
per included Senator Kimbalrs pa
ternity measure affecting childre
born out of wedlock: a bill wilic
: would compel railroads to build cat
: tie guards on farms at the request o
: the owner, and a measure giving stat
> aid in combating insects harmful t
the apiary, horticultural and agricul
I tUral industries