Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-29
movie CENSORSHIP
'OOES NOT MEASURE
UP TO STANDARDS


CHICAGO, May 2S.--Not single
movie" censorship net has been pass.
cd by thirteen middl.western states,
Il II shown In a poli just completed.
IN spite of all the agitation for thu
passage 81 such measures an the part
II civic and legislative bodies.
weller at such legislation has been
proposed. Scmc has merely been In.
ucduroh, Some has naaecd one mouse,
Some have even gait,n favorable
haring In the Committee rcun ~ one
house after having succ' safully run
the guunlct III omnsi,lnn IN the other.
lIut always something has lnterfered
To- prevent It's enactment into Inv.
A typ. al chsc ~ that 1T Missouri.
\ bill 10 create u board ~ censorship
consisting ~ three members. one a
womnn, az n salary ni 81. 900 yearly
u0ch, was passpd, after story debate.
~ the lowcr house nt the lns, lcgisln.
tive session. For somc rcnson ~ other
the hin WIS la;. IN leaving the house.
The senate committee tonk It's fun ten
DAYS. ~ entitled by inv. In drtermlninr
upon n. The result WAS that despite
the strenuous efforts III IT. frienhn a.
get the hill on the calendar. /, died Nv
III. committee room. This nil pruvid'
I'd Ter a Tee ~ s. tn he levied an the
aim manufactures for zach 900 feet
ri Him ccnsortd, Had II passed. N,
normal circulation IT films IN Missouri
would have heen ut down hy nppruxi
matoly 20 per cent. i,s sponsors say.
Indiana, Minnesota aud North ia
ko,a all considered hills for cr.atinf
censorship hoaids a, their last lcgis
a,lvo sessions. and the senate IN the
ease of hath Indiana and Minnesota klil
al hills the house had passed.
In south nakuta. perhaps the hitter
-, flrhi of an Occurred. \ I'm pro.
Vltling for the creation nf commits
s,on consisting ot three members pas.
d IN the hnusc when Il reached the
senate an amcadnrni was ,ackcd an
niaklng !, compulsory that all llnis and
al advertising matter hc submitted u
Vt hast twu members az the commls.
SION. whoso decision In an eases would
q al,uluu AMI final In this amend.
n,nt the hUhisr refused ~ oon,tr. nn
the ground that ,Nisi,nco m inard
So cmpoworcd would ,akc away frm
he nes 'le thv rlrh, - r.f'r"ndum The
Nnetc refused a. re,rac, It's amend.
n,n, with th- result that the hill
raised into limbo.
In oklahoma no attempt was made
create hazard vt ccnsorshin. hut a
~ pr hihi,ing the "cxplcl,atioi, oi
Immoral and outlaw regulations" IN
he screen attained a majority IN tho
senate during the last session. u fail
al IN the house There H.. In this
state. h,wvvcr. an "inforinal" commit.
'ce comoos,d e ministers. huh women
md civic Workers which u usually con
suited lefmc film h exhibited hear.
ing with any weight on religion racial.
NJ criminal issues,
similar ic the Oklahoma measure
VAS TINT In wisconuin which aimed 10
ylvc coairol nj ilin exhibitions Ia no
~ 'ifl,aily en- atcd aEeacy hut merely
- define imvtciWr screen exhibitions
- coming hInl,J ~ within the scepe
~ the General act covering the dss mi
nation at ohsUens. Immoral or liccnti
NUS pic,ures Ancthcr hill however In
uoduc,d ~ tn" same sesSlun. attempt
cd t. establish the regulation ccnsnr
ship bourd. through part NJ the func'
,lon Il the state Industrial commission.
The iirs, hill passed the senate, hu,
due ,o the pressure " other legislation
hus va, come u? On the house calendar
a Varlan, IN Sich hills was tina, pro.
v0srd In Nchrasla creatlnr hazard ~
three members mo, moro than two ~