The Topeka state journal., 1921-03-10

sex stun In the MOVIES?
The Answers.
Noel Wood, motorcar dealer: with
more efforts at depicting good books
as they are written and less effort to
scandalize every plot, the present day
movies would be more effective"
James Hayes, florist: 1.-The proof is
in the fact that the better class of pic
lures these days are the films that
dodge the problem issues and bring out
the higher ideals of common everyday
life..'
T. D. williams, probation officer:
"Yes, but find that the Bill Hart kind
OF pictures are more detrimental TO the
morals of young boys than the sex
stuff, What we need most is more
clean sports and athletics"
w. L. Kemper, 1909 Monroe street:
IF the constructors of movie themes
would base them upon enlightenment
and fact, rather than the mushy stuff
I believe the higher classes would at
tend the movies even more than they
now do
Capt. W. P. MacLean, superintendent
of the Boys Industrial school: yes.
I can't say that the movies have been
the main contributing cause TO the de-
linquency Of any of the boys at the
school, but I know that I have seen
some things in the movies whic"
Senator Dick Howard. Arkansas
| CITY: Eyes. There's too much sex
stuff and not enough Bill Hart.
Senator A. L. Brooke. jefferson
| county: Eyes, there is too much evil
of all sorts permitted on the screens.
We need a stricter censorship.
Al stout. superintendent of city
| schools: More interesting than what
have to say on the subject Is what
| movie man in New York said to me
The man is with one of the big motion
picture corporations and is interested
| in the success of the business. he
said: If we don't clean up our movies
they'll go as whisky has gone nay
| ofinion is that the majority of moving
pictures are not good. They can be
Wonderful. Some of them are plalr
nasty. In lecture Henry van Dyk'
gave at the educational convention We
attended in Atlantic City he touched
upon this problem. He said: 'Wha
we need are not stricter statutes ant
i DEGREES, but more moral sense which
is not subject to sleeping sickness.
Miss Helen Stagg. office secretary
Provident Association: Eyes, thinl
. there's too much of such stuff in tn
movies. / think there is room Tor al
: educational presentation CT the SUD
ject. but there is nothing educationa
; about the majority of modern MOVIES.
Principal r. r. Cook. Topeka higl
| school,: Eyes, I do. But the movies
will not be improved until the public
, demands improvement. l suppose mo
ton picture censorS feel that II SCI
stuff is eliminated then practically al
moving pictures will be eliminated"
Susan B. Guild, Dean of Women a
Washburn college-"I certainly do.
seems to me that nationwide NOV
of women to stop the sex-stuff woult
certainly be profitable to the country
Furthermore I think the board o
, censors should have been located il
Topeka instead of Kansas City Alth'
| there are women on the Kansas board
, they do not have much to say OF
| whether or not the pictures shoult
| pass Personally, 1 seldom go to ;
movie. They are too sensual, as gen
[ eral rule, for my particular taste"
Il Lynn d. Smith, washburn law stu
dent-"Oh,S it doesn't bother me-
: Wilbur Stanfield, city commissions
, Tive seen some shows that I would
MT want my daughter to see-and alst
!. some that I didn't care particular!
about being seen at
A. D. Gray. assistant treasurer
Santa Fe offices: Decidedly"
Arthur Guette1, Palace Clothing
: company: I'm some cases. d.
! think, however, that the so callet
'Puritans' are raising a lot NOR,
, rumpus about it than need be. The,
, only make it worse by their kicking.
;
Johnny Jenkins. Jenkins Music
company: mo, L don't think there il
too much-not If they draw a moral
. think the younger generation should
be educated to these problems. Yol
can't hide it from them. forever"