Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-02-25
mo successive comedies.

mo suggestively salacious titles or advertising
Ottawa had at least one sample this week Of picture that
little cutting would have improved about 100 per entWoud nave
taken out OF the rough stuff class and elevated high plane
The Objectionable parts might have gotten by some celsorS but
the picture lost nothing by intelligent cutting and would
have been made entirely mobeconabe thereby OF course the
plea is made that the producers give the public what they demand
but the most intelligent recognize that the producers who have
hold the public and whose pictures are always III demand are
those who keep them clean. '
The Photo Play lIdga9iuc of the leading publications OF
the craft gives the ancensorshp side Of the argument IN an ed
,ora as follows:
- T..... WHEN SLAVE BECOMES MASTER ..
There is an legend concerning slave in great house
who rendered extraordinary services the other slaves were unable or
unwilling perform lie cleaned the dIches OF he'r "ea:s
waters matched the roofs against the winter rains with infinite
labor the from the fields that they could be titled
and made that the grown there might be taken to mar
ket His profoundly grateful made HIM freedman ana APP
pointed him Of all his goods and business But the former
Slave insoen and emportant, beat and killed his esWme
equals qarreed his and appropriated his wife There
upon the master upon his egocazed beneaCor and slew HIM
But his household had been destroyed dspursed his working
adjustment had fallen chaos and his last state was worse than
his first. ,r,,,D,n,,
The United States has such slave. His name is REFORM
Let no one beite the great work REFORM has done in
America The regulation pratcaI business the correction
OF public corruption and the abolition OF the licensed " traffic
are for which this country to be grateful
but has ceased He aspres to he ant
Massachusetts desires to regulate the height OF women
by law Washington besieged with men who wish to illegal
z all forms Of Sunday conveyance h9opay censorship bills
npend in forty and national censorship contemplated
The lav has passed any of Blue Laws impose al
nyaryng uniform Sabbath emascuate honest and
alton fetter social intercourse and ste the arts.
after puranisn England the license and decadence
Of the Restoration. Ae any OF tanaclNm IN America
quickly aterwoud social revolution approNnatng, for
the time at least Anarchy and Bolsheyism
The argument DID, old that appear, periodically
whenever any reform suggested that affects the pocketook The
last paragraph particularly has been worked death 1t eab
GRATED on to the fullest when national prohibition frs
seriously agtaed have bone dry amendment which com
paratve few people would have changed Notwithstanding h
difficulty of its enforcement, which condition improving daily
Most people will agree with Charles A. Mcmahon Of tn
National Catholic Welfare council, who says:
"Aoton picture reform does itself with blue laws
red laws but with the great white law OF public deCency
AS Catholics, duty to insist that the exhibition
motion pictures be surrounded with proper moral Standards on
or Sunday the other days OF the week. We do ad
Ydtate the prohibition of all moving pictures Sunday Catholic
are taught regard Sunday holiday the disciple OF the chuc
does not insist that day of gloom dedicated to the blues
wherein recreation reasonable entertainment
lowed to
at significant that many producers and managers hay
advertised themselves fayorng general house cleaning tn
industry.
The best censorship that OF the hOmcot tt
There for letting
loose any and all kinds of pictures than there would be
paw no attention whatever to their reading associates
The movie much a fixture in national life that Il
public right demand and insist that the productions be Ike
up to highest standard morally well as phoographcay