The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-27
IMMORTALITY OF
MOTHER GOOSE
r additional Children's
Book Filled With Sug-
gestiveness
CENSORED RHY N { S
Result Of Applying Movie
Censor Rules to Favorite
Rhymes of Childhood

"soldom I'm my experience de-
cl.res cecil T.. DoMille, "have l been
more deeply shocked than by an
occurrence recently, arising from an
Incident i'm my own home when |
lad occasion to punish one of my
children for stealing some candy.
After had administered the neces-
s4-y rpbuko the child, through her
frHrs went on to say that she had
ncsu inspired to commit the act
frnu ideas inculcated by Mother
Goose and brought mo an edition
az tHa nursery classic published. I
ann rrioycd to say, in the home Of
rr4duiou and rcfinemont-Boston.
asho turned to the page whcrcon
are told the malcfaCtiOns OF that
rcprtucuslblc creature, Tom, the
miners SON. whose theft OF pig
has been rcCitcd with gusto, no
duubc. by thousands OF children for
90 century or moro.
with Mrs DcMillc / went
through the pages of the volume,
auplyng the rules OF censorship as
they are applied for motion pic
lures and at each verse was grieved
10 discover that we had been nursing
phor is not too mixed. Here we had
been handing our children a book
which was seemingly innocent, but
which had laid the foundation OF
misconduct 1t had been suggesting
ideas to the youthful mind which
could hardly Gail TO prove dcleteri-
Gus Hardly verse escaped the
censoring pencils We We're as
founded and could hardly believe
that we had been so blind or that
the world had overlooked this source
of OWL. which had it's roots i'm the
very basis Of home life--tho nursery
Try Hand al Censorship.
with the publication of certain
rlarDg examples, it seems to us, the
eyes nj tho consors who have turned
their attention exclusively to motion
pictures should be opened TO the
possibilities Of far more iniquitous
material for their critical cNamina-
ton and which has not hitherto
been considered
with the welfare Of our children
at heart Mrs DeMillc and | took
Il upon ourselves TO censor the cur
ront edition of this highly danger
Gus literature.
we we're literally aGhast at the
mass OF salaCious material Ia he
lNuUu III inns niue NOiuillf. us
honesty immortality cruelty, brutal
fly, bigamy and "A dozen other equal
" grave qualities were brazenlv ox-
plotted in these verses. And to think
that millions Of children have been
menaccd by this kind Of literature
at most impressionistic age!
Animated by the same spirit OF
dlsintorcsted morality that has
always been the backb bone Of censor
ship. We proceeded to alter the well
known lines of the Mother Goose
rhymes TO meet what we conceived
to he the accepted standard of CEN
sorship morals as we know II In
connection with the photoplay
How the Thing Worked.
For the benefit Of other parents,
we beg to submit the following
somewhat modified examples Of
certain verses in the dreadful book.
While IL is true that these changes
NOT inircquCutly mar the symmetry
and rhythm and the results do not
always result in oven approximate
sense we feel perfectly justified in
our efforts
In tho following outline. we have
taken the best known Of these ter
rlhlH verses and have suggested
changes and eliminations after tho
plan adopted by the motion picture
censorship organizations:
Tho first Of these in tho original
roads as follows:
Little boy blue. come blow YOUR
horn.
Tho Sleeps in the meadow, the cows
In the corn;
Nhat is this the way you mind your
sheep.
tndcr the haycock fast asleep?'
Eliminate reference TO COW do
Nro'lng corn i'm Wow of acute food
shortage i'm Europe.
ta, fc, n, 70. FUN!
smell the blood of an English
man.
10 ne live or be he dead,
" grind his bones to make my
bread
''ut scene showing smelling Of
human mood and also that indicat-
lh- grinding Of human bones 10
mako bread. Eliminate speCific
reference to an Englshman. which
, may he construed as pro-German or
pro-IrishD
H1a, baa, black sheep. have you
any wool?
l's marry have !. three bags fun.
'h' Tor my master, and one for
my dame,
ana one for the little boy that
- lvos in the lane
80 mango word dame 10 read
Sing \ song Of sixpcncc. a bag
fun Of rye.
Folr and twenty bIackbirds baked
in a pie,
""on Tho pie was opened the
A., birds began to sing.
ana wasn't this dainty dish to
set before the king?
INC king was in the parlor,
counting out his money,
inc queen was I'm the kitchen
ri eating bread and honey;
"o mad was in the garden.
~ hanging out tho clothes:
mere came a little blackbird and
. nipt off her nose
l., 'pmlt reference to living birds
o'lhE baked in n pic on cruelty
a,e."nos Cut scene of bird biting
VII girls nosc)
o, ,,., wives on the Market.
"Hen | was little boy, | lived
by myself,
"" an the bread and cheese
IN, got ! put upon shelf;
"' rats and mice, they made
such "A strife