The New York herald., 1921-02-13
MOTION PICTURES
TOAD EDUCATION
IN PARIS SCHOOLS
Municipal Council Votes to
Establish Library for
Films Produced.
WANT NATIONAL MUSEUM
Detective Chief Calls Morals
Of Punch and Judy Worse
Than Movies.

Special Gable 10 THE New YoRK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. bv THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Feb. 12.
The first extensive effort to place
motion pictures on an equality with
text books In French schools COM
menced In the Paris Municipal Council
this week, when a credit equivalent to
SIS, 900 was asked to organize a "cine-
matheque," or library. wherein will be
kept one Of each Of the educational
films produced here. A speciai COM
mission will be charged with the or
ganization of cinematic education in
the lower grades In the French schools,
but which will be extended to the high
schools as soon as funds are available
for that purpose.
The movement Is receiving the widest
commendation by the entire French
press, which is advocating the establish
ment Of a national museum wherein will
be stored at least one reel OF every film
either produced in this country or I'M
ported into France.
Think how wonderful II would be to
have our descendants In future genera
tions view the inspiring scenes OF the
battles of the Somme and the Victory
Parade which followed the armistice"
says the Opinion. What greater aid to
patriotism would be possible than reel
showing the solemn ceremonies con-
nected with the transferring of Gam
betta's heart to the Pantheon, or the
removal of the body OF the unknown SOL
dier to his last resting place beneath
the Arch Of Triumph? II we do not take
advantage of this opportunity, we Will
be as guilty as were our fathers who
failed to keep Photographic records OF
all that happened In the early days of
Photographic art"
The latest advice to mothers who do
not wish their children TO develop into
burglars and murderers is 10 keep them
away from Punch and Judy shows,
whose morals are worse than anything
the movies ever devised. This Is the
belief OF Director Goron OF the Paris
detective staff, who has come to the
rescue Of the cinema. pointing out that
in the movies the culprits Invariably are
punished by powerful heroes. while In
Punch and Judy shows the activities Of
the grotesque dolls consist chiefly or
knocking down policemen, daring the
devil and beating the life out OF others
and these actions meet only with doubt
ful punishment CURING d CoHiAiSb VIZ"
an alligator. :.
NJ. Goron blames tie crime wave in all
allied countries on the training in the
use OF firearms given during the war
and the spirit of Incidence developed
by the life in the trenches. Further
more. he adds. nothing was more natu-
raj than for the children who were al
lowed TO roam the streets while their
mothers made munitions, to follow the
line of least resistance.
This condition is augmented by the In
crease in the foreign population or Paris,
hundreds OF whom are wanted by the
police OF their own countries. The des-
perate careers of these people are making
Paris one OF the most unsafe cities In
the world and the police are being called
upon to take stronger methods In deal
ing with crimes by children and for
elgners IL the next generation Is not to
solve a more. difficult social problem.