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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
COMMON SENSE AND
THE FILM MENACE
In Ladies' Home journal for April

sors ban cigarettes for male or fe.
male. Contrary, Kentucky and NORTH
Carolina censors.
Imagine what would have happened
to Pilgrims Progress, Robinson Crusoe
Lorna Doone, Uncle Toms Cabin, Van.
ity Fair, Huckleberry Finn and the
Scarlet Letter If forty-eight sets OF
censors had read copy on the orig
inal manuscripts and cut and shipped
and expunged at will in order to prove
to the taxpaying public that they were
earning their salaries. Yankee Doo-
die and the star Spangled Banner
could never have survived the inqui-
sition of SO many clashirg minds OF
the degree Of intelligence usually found
among our small officeholders.
The distribution Of films is an in
terstate business. We can never have
good pictures unless they have wide
distribution. The cost of exhibiting
film to forty-efght groups of state
censors and changing that film to suit
the peculiar laws Of each state, and
, on top of the peculiar laws the per-
sonal prejudices and opinions OF each
little board that interprets the laws,
is an appalling charge to add to an
already crushing overhead.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Mary
land, the city Of Chicago and Canada
have passed censorship laws and have
been operating their censorships for
some time back. If there has been
any noticeable betterment of pictures
under these censorships, we have been
unable to obtain any evidence of the
fact-either hearsay or direct visual
evidence.
You cannot legislate better films.
You cannot legislate better books, bet
ter magazines better works of art, bet
ter thoughts, better impulses. Every
state and community has existing po-
lice powers to close any show place
where anything provably vicious is
being exhibited. Legislation that is
abstract and interpretive is the short
cut, negative way to betterment that
appeals chiefly to job hunters and
snapshot reformers.>
Tho positive method, the sane
method, the sure-result method is to
boost the good pictures. If you will
organize your boost intensively for
good pictures. If you will organize
your boost intensively for good photo
plays and utterly ignore the bad ones
unless it is a police matter-the
''thunders of silence" will take care of
their extinction.
Apologists for the demoralizing form
of the film drama seek to persuade
us that the sex motif was injected to
meet popular demand. This is the
usual cheap camouflage of the oppor-
tunist and sensationalist. Popular de-
mand must always be guessed at in
the first instance. 1t has never yet
sent heralds out to clamor for what it
wanted. The sex motif proba bly, dates
back to the Java ape man and his
genus. 1t Is the most elemental Of all
interest motives for mankind. You
will find it in the best that are and
literature has produced and you will
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15

: The movies are bad. The movies ere
vile. The movies are demoralizing
The movies are indecent. The movies
are unfit and unclean. So the COM
plants pour in, the great bulk of them
from women. Yet Il is for women that
tho modern photoplay is made. Pro-
duoers admit and protest that they
have womanhood more or less exclu-
sively In view when they fabricate
what is being projected on the screen
nowadays in the majority of motion
picture show places.
Feminine patrons of the movies are
very largely in the majority. In most
families the women lead the way. The
men trail along and hope they may see
Charlie Chaplin or Mutt and jeff or
Doug" Fairbanks, when his acrobatics
are not too unbelievable. The men are
also interested IN the news pictures
and hope against that some worth
while long reel feature may be shown
Infrequently they are rewarded. More
often they must sit through a night
mare serial. a sickening bathing girl
frolic, a hectic drama In which human
nature is inverted, perverted and con-
torted to degree that must cause the
low-grade predetermined to wonder
why they have not been invited into
the inner councils Of the celluloid
barons.
And woman is to blame for 1t all!
She Is the causation. Primarily the
pictures are made for her. She has
been analysed by the studio psycholo-
gists. Her reactions have been indexed
and charted. She has peaks and val
legs OF enthusiasm-mostly peaks. She
IS the low popular taste that this enor-
nous new industry is influenced by in
its choice of themes and their execu-
ton.
Such is the indictment. There are
innumerable counts in tho bill. 1t is
a sufficiently plausible arraignment to
demand vigorous action on the defen-
sive. Womens organizations through
out America should stir themselves to
do something. They cannot use their
new power and prestige to better ad-
vantage than to effect a cure of the
evil that has brought tho photoplay
down to its present level
This comment, naturally, applies to
levels. Better pictures are being made
every year, but the average registers
rather a decline than an elevation.
II women are 10 exert pressure to
raise the average so that they may
feel contented to allow whatever in
fluence the films have upon the rising
generation full sway, the time for them
to study the problem dispassionately
and from tho common sense premise is
now. Silly crusades will do more harm
than good: they die of their own re-
actions. The passage Of a hodgepodge
of conflicting state-censorship laws is
being widely urged as cure-all. More
political Jobs. More taxes to pay sal
aries TO busy censors chosen from
among faithful in the party vineyard.
Confusion. Obfuscation. Rhode Island
censors rule bobbed hair immoral.
Contrary, Arizona censors. Iowa CEN
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
POLISH WOMEN ARE
AGAINST LEAGUE
Assert They Will Fight If Army Is Sent
to Police Disputed Ter.
ritory.

WILMA, May 14-The Polish women
of Wilma have taken up cudgels
against the league Of nations. They
shouldered arms last summer and
fought Bolshevik soldiers in defense
of the city and they assert they will
fight again if the league should at
tempt to send an International army to
police the disputed territory in event
of plebiscite.
Wilma, at present, is occupied by
General Lucien Zeligowski, and some
10000 Polish soldiers, while represen-
tatives Of Poland and Lithuania, with
the league of nations as mediator,
have been comforting with the view to
determine the fate Of the Wilma dis
trict, which is called Central Lithuania
by General Zeligowski and his ad-
herentS.
The leagues military commission of
control, which since last fall has been
endeavoring to settle the controversy
between Poland and Lithuania, until
recently made its headquarters in VIII
ma. The control commission has never
been popular in Wilma. BY a recent de-
cision which denied women the right of
franchise, should a plebiscite be held
the commission came into greater dis
favor than ever, especially among the
women.
The commission members contend
that the birth records sof Central
Lithuania are so incomplete that the
voting of women would only compli-
cate matters.
1t was in consequence Of this de-
cision, and to manifest their disap-
prevail, that a crowd of women attack
ed the commissions chairman, Colonel
Chardigny, and spattered his French
uniform with eggs, some of which were
not exactly fresh. few days after
this incident, the commission removed
| its headquarters from Wilma to Kovno,
| which is the seat of government Of the
| republic Of Lithuania.
Eight of the women We're arrested
by the local police authorities, but no
| date has been set for the trial.
A petition signed by thousands of
Wilma women has been sent to the
| league of nations asking for the re-
moval Of Colonel Chardigny as head
of the military commission of control.
The Lithuanians contend for the
wilma district on the grounds that Vii
ma was the capital of the ancient state
of Lithuania. They claim it also under
terms of treaty of peace with the
| Soviets signed in Moscow last summer.
| The Wilma Poles contend that the
majority of the population Of the Vii
ma district is Polish, and that as less
than three per cent of the population
of about 100000 are Lithuanians, the
state of Lithuania has no just claim
to the land under dispute.
| Vilna's streets are daily filled with
Zeligowski soldiers, all of whom wear
the Polish uniform. Many of the Off
GERS have adopted the Zeligowski Cen
trail Lithuania insignia which is worn
on the collar together with the Polish
| white eagle. The Polish colors are to
be seen everywhere in the business
section Of wilma on holidays, and In
most of the stores and restaurants
there are pictures of Joseph Pils,,dski,
Poland's chief of state.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
Didn't Know His Brother

"My brother got so bad with stom-
ach and liver trouble that when I saw
him after a year didn't know him
He was emaciated and yellow as a
pumpkin and was often in great pain.
He couldn't have lived long the way
he was going. Doctors and medicine
gave him no relief. I picked UP a little
booklet on Mayr's Wonderful Remedy,
which he said described his case per-
fectly. The first dose of it gave him
great relief and in a month he was
good as ever" 1t is a simple, harm
less preparation that removes the ca
tarrhal mucus from the intestinal
tract and allays the Inflammation
which causes practically all stomach
liver and intestinal ailments, including
appendicitis. One dose will convince OF
money refunded.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
AFRICAN GIRLS ARE TO
STUDY DRESSMAKlNG

LONDON. May 14.-Severa1 native
African girls have come to London to
study dressmaking. They say the girls
in Africa who wish to be gowned fash
ionably have to wait too long for con-
signments of feminine wearing apparel
to arrive from Europe. Hence they
are preparing themselves to meet the
need for modistes In Africa.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
Richard Memorial Church

NICHdFu WSnnOTTdI NhUFCh
Cor. K and Jackson-sts.
Rev. J. L. White, pastor
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. j. S
Bowman, superintendent
Preaching at II o'clock, a. M, and
1880, p. m.
Epworth league at GAS p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening at o'clock.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
Gadsden Street Methodist Church

Gadsden Street Methodist Church.
Corner Gadsden street sand Ninth
Ave. w. P. Burt, D. D.. pastor. Resi-
dence 908 E. Jackson street
Sunday School 9:45 m.
Public worship II a. M and p. m
Epworth League 8 p. m.
The evening hour will be devoted to
worship in music and song.
A delightful musical program has
been arranged under the direction of
Mrs. J. T. Perry and MIS-. E. NJ.
Schornherst.
Womans. Missionary Society De-
votional meeting) Tuesday, p. M
Prayer meeting Wednesday p. m.
The public Is cordially invited to all
the services OF this church.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
First Methodist Church,

F1rSt WethodISt CnuFch.
I. W. ChallSer, pastor.
Sunday school $50 a. NJ, J. W. An
drews, superintendent
Preaching at 11:00 a. m, and 500
p. m.
Senior League at 700 .. M, in lee
ture hall
Junior League at 700 o. M, in S.
S. room.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at SOC
D. m.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
Church of Christ

Church of Christ
Jackson and Alcaniz SITS.
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m
Preaching and communion, II a. M
Subject, Handling Alright the Word
of God"
Evening services, 1880. Subject
''Who Gave Us the Bible"
+ Everybody is welcome to every SER
vice of this church.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
CHURCHES
First Presbyterian Church.

FIRST F9SSbytOEIdH N
Sunday School 1880 a. m.
Morning service 11:00 .. m.
Junior and Wee Folks Mission Bano
will meet at the church at 4:0o p. M;
the subject will be Japan"
Christian Endeavor Society 700 pm
There win be no evening service.
Mid-week prayer meeting. Wednes-
day. $500 p. M
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15

Christ Church.
At the head Of PalafoX street.
Rev. Hendree Harrison, rector.
Whitsunday.
Holy Communion 1880 a. m.
Church School $50 a. m.
Holy Communion HOO a. m.
Other days services:
Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-
week, Holy Communion 1000 a. m.
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, En-
Der days.
On Wednesday and Saturday Litany
at 10000 a. M On Friday, Litany at
500 p. m.
Come an worship with us.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
The First UniversaIiss Church.

AT the morning service of the UNI
versalist church the pastor, Rev. AL
bert c. White. will preach on the sub
ject, "Our Mothers" In He evening at
7:45 a sermon on the knowledge of
the Scriptures" will be given. Sunday
School at 10 o'clock a. m. These not
worshipping elsewhere, are cordially
invited to worship with us.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
St. Katharine's Episcopal Church.

Corner 6th-ave and E-Cervantes-st.
John c. Skottowe, rector. Rectory
5O2 E-Cervantes- Phone 1898.
Sunday May 18th. (Whitsunday.)
Holy Communion 700 a. m.
Litany 1920 a. m.
Holy Communion and sermon II am.
Evening prayer and sermon 1880
p. m.
The Rev. III. Harrison, rector Of
Christ Church will preach at the 1880
p. m. service.
Sunday School $50 a. m.
Friday Litany and address 1880 p. M
Daily celebration Holy Communion
a. m. Wednesday Mems Club will
meet at rectory p. m.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
3. Y. p. u. To Have Services at East
Hill Baptist Church.

Rev. A. G. Odom, Jr., pastor of the
East Hill Baptist church left Wednes-
day for Chattanooga, Tenn, where he
will attend the Southern Baptist con-
ventton, which is in session there at
present. Services will be held as usual
Sunday morning, the teaching service
opening at 1890 o'clock, preceded by
the teachers prayer meeting at 9:45
o'clock. At the preaching hour, Mr.. A.
S. Edwards will deliver an address on
a subject of his own choosing. This
will be OF especial interest to the
young people Of the church.
At the evening hour, the Junior and
Senior B. Y. P. U. members have
charge Of the services. The services
will open promptly at 1880. Miss Lii
lie B. Condition will be leader for the
evening and the young people will rem
der the following pregnant:
Song-'Loyalty."
Prayer.
Bible Quiz.
Special Selection-"Tell Me the DID,
Old Story" II Love to Tell the Story"
Junior Sword Drill.
Song. 1 r
Scripture Reading.
Prayer.
Talk, what a 3. Y. P. U. Is and It's
Relation to the Church."-John Penn.
Recitation-T. G. Edwards. ~
Talk, "The Junior B. Y. p. U. and
It's Work. Miss Vera Hendrix.
Special Selection.
Recitation-Elfzab beth Scott.
Talk, "rhe Meaning and Purpose Of
All B. Y. P. U. Work."-Miss Eliz-
abeth Penn.
Secretary's Report.
Hymn No. 1873.
Benediction.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
First Baptist Church.

The Bible school of the church is a
growing activity. 1t offers graded
class work, adapted to all ages, and
weekly programs of inspirational and
spiritual value. Its sessions begin at
$50 a. M, Lee mcdonnell, superin-
tendent. ~
The services of public worship be-
gin at II a. m. and 8 p. M, with a
simple order of song and sermon.
These services are designed to be de-
votiona1 and practically helpful. The
morning sermon subject will be: Eli
nancing the Kingdom The evening
message will have for it's subject: 'Is
Man Worth More Than Sheep"
Three live young peoples organiza-
tions hold their meetings every Sunday
evening at 80 o'clock. The Junior
and Senior unions meet in the assem-
bly, rooms on the basement floor, and
the Macdonnel union meets in the
church audience room.
Lunch is served for the officers and
teachers of the Sunday school and
other organization leaders. every
"Wednesday evening at $50 o'clock in
the church kitchen, followed by the
workers council and teachers training
class.
A mid-week meeting is held every
Wednesday evening at o'clock. which
is for devotion and discussion of meth
DDS. 1t is a prayerful and practical
hour for the entire church.
Open doors. free pews and a warm
welcome to all meetings.
Lutheran Church.
% W. Wright street.
Sunday School 900 a. m.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
st. Johns Episcopal Mission.
Warrinqton.

Sunday May 18th (Whitsunday.)
Holy Communion and Sermon s:s
a. m.
Sunday School $50 a. m.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15
First Church Of Christ, scienti.

First Church of Christ, Scientist.
10 West Belmont street.
Regular services:
Sunday morning at IL a. m.
Wednesday evening p. m.
Subject Sunday May 18th, "Morta1s
and Immortals."
Reading room and free lending Ii
brary (same address) are open every
week day Except Wednesday, from
to p. m.
All are cordially invited.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-15

Lutheran Church.
% W. Wright street.
Sunday School 900 a. m.
English service 1880 p. M, by Rev.
VIM. Wedig, of Pasca gouIa, Miss.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-20

NwL Sohe 10 that in moment.
,hin hna5 want tn say to you now Is
~,.t ~s, said Peter, planting his barbs
Nun tne cooness Of matador batting
,.N. u% oull. Some men go wrong be-
Muse Suse they've tecn badly advised, some
ssuuse Ssee they can't think straight, Others
vsGause s;ssase they'd rather go wrong than
Ea!' Some of you Reds believe in
al you preach, that the world can
n. made made over and all the money and
~, ~ land divided up in new deal. You
M MMu aont. You don't believe in any
SosI wong except getting living without
sst sst'nhg for it-and trying to make hon.
AMI AMI meh DO the same. You, jacob, are
Wy Wy tool-a cowardly fool at that
sso sO hides behind the coat tails of II
~ stronger than you"
oHHook-a here, Mister"
An,.t .tes, Flynn's your master. but he
an, nine, And he isn't the master Of
tsud.nsn G man on this job while I'm superin-
|S,tAw wen see about that said Flynn
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-07
STATE LIQUOR
 COMMISSIONER
 HAS PROBLEMS

LANSING, Mich, Feb. (by Asso- ciated Press) Two hundred barrels of alcohol, more than 100000 quarts
 bottled in bond whisky, gin, cor dials and other liquors, stored away by the state constitute problem for Fred L. Woodwork, state food and drug commissioner.
 The intoxicants have been seized by state authorities since Michigan became dry May 1, 1918. The more than 100000 bottle are piled like cordwood in the basement of a build ing here and about them are grouped the 200 barrels of alcohol. The base ment where the state liquor store is kept is harder to break into than Jackson prison is to break cut of. There are bars over the cellor win dows and great locks on the doors.
 More than 200 different kinds of whisky are represented in the 10O,- 900 or more quart bottles piled about the cellar.
 About twenty stills a day, ranging in size from the kind that are lifted by means of derricks to those that may be carried easily by one man, are received at the building and stored away in the dark recesses of the basement.
 MT. Woodwork has a collection of ingenious articles used by bootleggers to smuggle whisky rom one city to another large enough to start small museum. There are about 400 hot water bottles, violin case conceal ing tank to carry a gallon, milk cans with compartments for milk and other compartments for whisky, and dozens of other articles that in their time served the purposes of whisky smugglers.
 MT. Woodwork has asked the in- ternal revenue officials at Washing ton to sell the confiscated whisky to private firms that use liquor for medicinal purposes, the proceeds to be turned into state channels.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-07
USE WIRELESS FOR
 RAILROAD BUSINESS

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 2 (by As. sociated Press) of rail- road business by wireless soon will be reality in the south, according to announcement here by Telegraph Superintendent R. R. Hobbs of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. The company has purchased wireless ont fits and will install them at Louis- Ville, New Orleans, Pensacola and Mobile for the general message ser vice of the company.
 Train dispatching by wireless, how ever, MT. Hobbs said, is not practic. able at this time. There sometimes are as many as 25 trains with the same number running on the lines of the company at the same time and as wireless messages can be heard all over the country confusion would he created. The wireless will be merely supplementary to the regular wires.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-07
BOND SAILORS ID COMPILE
 ROUND TRIP

GALVESTON, Tex, Feb. (by As sociated Press).-So many Europeans have taken advantage of an alleged loophole in the American Seamen's Act, local steamship agents assert, that number of foreign steamship op- ators are adopting the precaution of bonding their sailors to complete round trips voyages to America.
 The local agents declare that de- serters from vessels flying foreign flags are beyond the reach of the Unit ed States immigration authorities. If the sailor, upon being taken into GUS tody by those authorities, states that he intends to sail on the first avail able ship" the immigration officers have no alternative under the pro- visions of the Seamen's Act, but to free him. Then, although an at, tempt is made to keep the sailor un- der surveillance, the deserter fre- duently manages to make good his es- cape to some interior city.
 
 By taking advantage of this breach in the governmental wall designed to keep out undesirable5, local steam ship agents declare, riffraff from Rus sia, Germany and many other coun- tries of Europe in which economic pressure rests heavily upon the peo- ple's shoulders, finds comparatively little difficulty in getting into the United States.
 Several months ago, acting upon Moscow advices to the effect that the Soviet government intended to send twenty-five thousand missionaries and agitators to the United States" immigration authorities here received strict orders to be on the lookout for any of these undesirables.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-07
EMPRESS PRESENTS
 ROARING COMEDY
 AS FEATURE TONIGHT

"Old Lady 31," a comedy of sun beams and moonbeams, of youth and old age, of romance and enduring love, is booked tonight at the Elm press. The story is a homely one, with a novel twist.
 Toward the sunset of his and Az gie's life, Abe found he had lost his little nest egg and must give up the snug cottage their home for many years. There was no place for Angie but the Old Ladies Home. Their pending separation was the bit. terest part of it all.
 Abe solved the dilemma by himself entering the institution as "Old Lady 31"; but he found the proportion of one man to thirty women, was, as he expressed it, "a kinda belittlin' ra. tio'" Veteran sea captain though he was, the tempestuous depths of fem mine nature appalled, him.
 An so he ran away.
 The characters in "Old Lady 31" are the kind of people you love. The play ranks as classic of the theater, and 1t is no less a classic of the screen. It has been called the rain bow comedy" of the season, with its indetinable, appealing quality, its heart interest and its sheer delight.
 Emma Dunn, who made a tremen. dous artistic success of Angie when the play was presented on the New York stage, portrays her again on the screen. Rich in human nature, with no end of absurd though undeniably natural comedy, and filled through. out with the wistfulness of love in old age, this comedy drama ranks high among the best pictures of the season--a picture you can't afford to miss.
 A Pathe News, a topical and one of those clever cartoon comedies complete fine program.