The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-01-29

visit the theater and act in whatever
manner they saw fit to remedy this
condition. One young man made a
very pertinent and we think to the
point remark when he stated that when
the manager of the theater secured a
really good film the people of Valley
City did not patronize it 50 that when
he did get picture that was a little
on the ragged edge of decency the
theater was filled to overf1owing. This
speaks in no uncertain terms of the
wrong attitude the people of Valley
City are taking themselves in this
moving picture matter and they should
bring themselves standing up with
Jerk while they pause and consider
whittier are we drifting. We confess
that we have seen pictures at the the
ater that are not the kind that should
be tolerated for minute and we are
in favor of rigid censorship to see that
they are not repeated. There is moth
ing wrong in going to picture show
to see a really good film and really
good films can be shown. We want to
90 on record as being against the un-
American procedure of boycott as pro-
posed last night or against hitting a
man over the head and putting hin,
out of business as some other speaker
said last night instead Of carrying the
truth to the proprietor and asking him
to remedy the matter in decent man
ner. Pile driving tactics get you no
Mace, while moral suasion very often
pets the desired result. We do not be-
lieve in applying the knockout blow
to any man without first being given
chance to defend himself. We are IN
hearty accord with the spirit Of last
nights meeting and believe that the
sooner the censorship OF moving pic
ture theaters is put in action the bet
ter it will be for all concerned. The
films being sent out all over the coun-
trv by the film syndicates are immoral
and indecent in many cases and should
never be allowed to be shown on any
screen in public, especially where the
audinces Of today are made up OF the
Young. Let's get at the root OF these
things in a calm and reasonable man
ner and 20 to the fountain head flrst
and give him a chance to remedy the
matter before we inaugurate boy
colt or knock him over the head to
mt him down and out. And while we
are talking on this subject let us point
out to the women Of Valley City-we
are going to talk plainly. Valley City
is no different than all the other cltles
of the land. And in speaking OF the
women Of Valley City we do not want
to be understood as CHASING all the
women of Valley City under this head
there are many, many, pure, good
women here whom we know voice
these sentiments of ours. We are
speaking in a general term and IT the
coat fits any of them they are entirely
at liberty to wear it. But we notice
MANY extreme cases of dress right
here in Valley City that the movies
have nothing on when it comes down
to suggestion and thoughts that are
not the best and purest. Fashions now
adays are trekking toward the sensa-
tional and inmoral-if you Will allow
US to speak more plainly, that are IN
many instances just as loud and just
as dangerous as the moving pictures.
When you see women dressing in such
manner that they expose half their
person and sometimes more than half
their person by wearing practically no
clothes at all the public should realize
that the moving picture is not the only
avenue wherein vice and immortality
is running wild. The tendency of the
age among fashion makers is to APP
peal apparently to the passions, and
the women of the land-speakihg IN
general terms-seem to make especial
delight in catering to the passions OF
mankind in every way they possibly
can. The extremely low cut dress, the
abbreviated skirt, the almost dressless
condition of many women especially
during the warm months of the year,
on sunshiny day furnishes those
who are looking for such things sights
that have the movies beat mile
when it comes to creating suggestion
that arouses passion that tends to cor
rupt the morals of the young and old,
too, if you please. And the worst of
it is that the women of the land
generally speaking-want these things
many women whose home training
and environments should make them
do different but it does not seem to
help. Talk about boycotting the NOV
ing plCtOtc S4AO"~"Ay AOC AOJ\Soo e''S
ridiculous fast fashions that are Sc
much in vogue these days and which
the women of the land seem to break
their necks over in a mad rush to get
as soon as these fashions come out.
Do not overlook the beam that is in
thine own eye, is the seriptural IN
junction that is handed down to US,
but somehow or other we forget this
beam that is bothering our own eye.
While we are cleaning house on the
movies let US clean house on the fash
ion sheet and other attendant evils
that infest us at this time. We are
speaking plain because the meeting
last night has given US this opportun-
ity. We are in hearty accord with the
spirit of that meeting last night but
we want the matter got at in the right
spirit without the boycott attachment
or sledge hammer blow or a knockout
put in vogue. We know that not very
long ago one of the best films that
has ever been screened was secured
by our local theater manager and the
attendance was so small. that he lost
lot of money. It cost him $500 to
get it, The following days some
Tohter nictures carving not any too