Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-05
Observation-Disclosures.
Comment and Criticism

declared against Inc censorship q
motion pictures, there will be little
sympathy felt in trade union rank
tor the Dill TOR Federal censorship Of
movies introduced in Congress By
Representative Upshaw OF Georgia.
There are many bad pictules--bad
from the STANDPOINT that IL Is wicked
aas.e OF the time of thoughtful OF
cultured persons to 90 to see them.
laete are some that are bad from the
viewpoint Of good taste. From the
moral point there Is geographical
phase that enters.
There are Pufitans in every locality
eager to seize the reins Of censorship.
The country has long outgrown the
immortality of Puritans and needs no
more of that sort of thing.
There are different views of things
in Skowhegan, Schenectady, Sheboy-
gan and Schiedeck. Naturally there
would be, widely spread as Maine and
California, New York and Michigan.
Censorship presupposes a morality
and wisdom that in reality is presump-
tiousness and hypocrisy.
Sophocles said it: Thing not that
thy word and thine alone must be
right"
Those that think Red leopards
change their spots are invited to read
the following from an address to eA-
ecutiye committee of the Communist
lnternationale, by Gregory Zinovieif,
its chairman:
In our struggle against imperial
ism it is necessary to create new full
crums. not only in China, where we
have succeeded, but in South America,
where imperialism Expresses a whole
serie sof small nations. Here we can
succeed in modifying not only the
workers, but wide strata of the peas
antry.
Our methods may undergo some
changes, but not on the proetarian
revolution itself, which is our basic
and single objective. History makes
the dictatorship of the prOletariat the
order of the day.
1t is to the point in this connection
to recall that the official Communist
instructions for work in the United
States this year are that the Workers
Party (Communist) in America Is 10
center its efforts on the campaign to
secure American recognition. Senator
Boiah has said he intended to reopen
mis- drive to bring about recognition.
The Ward bread interests, who are
promoting the new two-bilion-dollar
food merger, are an example of the
anti-union attitude of some large
American employers. Their growth
has meant the growth of non-union
labor in the baking trade and their
new venture will be giant anti-union
bread and food products trust.
The Ward interests typify the attl-
tude of similar concerns toward char
ity. The charter of the new company
permits it to establish hospitals and
old folks homes for its employees. A
strange provision is included through
which the company permits itself,
though does not bind itself, to give
money after it pays per cent on a
billion dollars worth of stock for the
health of children and the welfare in
general of Americans. American
mon0polists often proceed in the same
way, though less formally. They be-
come enormously wealthy from the
sale of commodity to the American
Deople and the payment of low wages.
Their aim is the highest profit possible
and they let little stand in the way
They oppose trade unions and provide
hospitals and the like for their EN-
ploys when sick. Then out of the
money that they have made they re-
turn large sums to the people in some
form OF aims, such as building
Libraries endowing museums and uni
versities, and establishing research in
stitutes.
Commissioner of immigration Henry
II. Curran proved his ability to think
clearly and sanely in a statement In
which he made plea for Qualification
Of the provisions of the immigration
law under which it was attempted t.
exclude the Countess of Cathcart
The following from his statement is
worth reading:
Amid all the dust that hsa been
kicked up by the Cathcart case, the
thing that stands out most clearly is
| the need Tor correcting the curious
kinks that exist in the law itself.
think Congress should do this with
out delay. From an administrative
point of view we shall be in a tumble
until it is done.
ITO put the remedy in a nutshell, |
would wipe out altogether the phrase
felony or other crime OF misdemeanol
involving moral turpitude, and insert
in its place list Of the specific Of
lenses which may bar a visitor or inn
! migrant from coming into our coun-
try. Then we shall know where we
stand. Ii we would exclude fer muir
der or theft or adultery, why not say
So To leave it all to moral turpi-
| tude' is about as clear as mud
Just exactly what is moral turpi-
tude" Does anybody know? You
can make your own choice, from nun
der all the way down to u glass of
beer. Opinions differ
Nor does it help to speak of Eel.
ony or other crime or misdemeanor.
For what is a crime in one part of
the world is a virtue in another
Head-hunting is murder in Engane
and America, but in the South Sea
Islands, it is the national sport, like
baseball on cricket. Adultery is moi
generally crime abroad. In our ONT
| United States il is crime in Somt
States, but not in others. Just WHERE
do we get in this sort of fog? What
We need is a list of definite olfenses
drawn up and enacted by Congress"
Impossible TO Stop En-