Evening star., 1928-11-28
RIFT IS DEVELOPED
IN MOVIE COUNCIL
Six Woman Members Walk
Out and Majority Decides
on Regulatory Program.

After six women walked out last night
IN protest against the manner in which
the meeting was conducted, the % re-
manning delegates to the sixth conven-
ton of the Federal Motion Picture
Council of America, which met in the
Mayflower Hotel, resolved that the
moving picture industry should be
placed under control of a Federal regu-
iatory board, to originate in the Depart
ment of Commerce.
The six woman dissenterS. represent
ing organizations of national promin-
ence, left the meeting when Canon
William S. Chase of New York, general
secretary, made it clear that they would
not be expected to take the floor dur
ing the open forum meeting unless they
spoke in behalf of the councils project,
the enactment by Congress Of bill to
create a Federal board of control for
the movies.
Several Of the women said they had
been told they were mot wanted" at
the meeting.
Mrs. Owens Leads PrOteSters.
The leader of the protesters was Mrs.
Charles T. Owens, Pennsylvania State
chairman of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, who said she had
been sent to the convention to guard
being brought into the meeting in any
way which might give rise to an i'm
preston that the D. A. R. favored
Government regulation Of films.
The women who walked out of the
meeting with her were Mrs Clara K.
Hefiebower. representing the League of
American Pen Women; Mrs. c. Fuller
Winters of the American Federation of
Industrial Women; Mrs. Robert E.
saI4a IAa InlA l1o
International Society of Catholic
Alumnae; Mrs. David H. Ross of the
National Photoplay Indorsers and Mrs.
E. L. Grossnan, representing the Cleve-
land Federation of Women'S Clubs.
Mr.. Chase requested Mrs. Owens to
snow her delegate card before he grant,
ed her the floor.
Speaks Against Legislation.
Mrs. Owens declared her organization
did not support proposed legislation
that would establish Government super
vision.
This is a form of bureaucracy"
she said, which the Daughters have
been on record as opposed to-
During the forum discussion Mrs.
Harriet Hawley Locher of Washington,
representing the General Federation
of WomenS Clubs, made a statement
that could have been interpreted as
a criticism of the council She said her
organization had spent six years in
exhibiting selected movies for children,
adding: Your organization has been
in existence five years and has done
nothing
Two years ago you refused to let
me speak at this meeting" she con-
cluded
During the day there were discussions
Of the effect of certain types of motion
pictures, it being asserted the cinema
might in some instances cause juvenile
delinquency. crime among older per-
sons and might also be cause of war,
Thompson Suggests Treaty.
Huston Thompson, former member
of the Federal Trade Commission, said
that irritating nationals of other coun-
tries by motion pictures constituted "a
very grave cause Of war" He proposed
a treaty to deal with the international
aspects of motion pictures to be shown
abroad.
Censorship found another friend in
Miss Maud Aldrich of the w. C. T. U.
of Oregon, who said it was the, best
thing done thus far in the cause of
Wholesome pictures.
Prof Harmon B. Stephens of the
University of Tennessee told of the
harmful effects of what he termed
immoral motion pictures.
Motion pictures appeal to the men
tally immature he said, land because
of that We have great duty to per-
FORM
The council at the final executive
session agreed to sponsor a meeting to
formulate legislative program to pro-
vide Federal supervision Of pictures.
Princeton students, one in every five
In the university. earned in a year in