Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-02
IL COMERCIO, Lima. The Cham
Der of Senators of the Republic
of Uruguay has passed resolu-
II ton which 1t Is eminently befit-

III COMERCIO, Lima-The Cham
Der of Senators Of the Republic
of Uruguay has passed resolu-
IL ton which 1t Is eminently befit-
ting our National Legislature
should emulate. The cited enactmentS
followed the motion adopted by the
latest convention of the League of Ma
lions that all members of the League
should start vigorous action against an
alarming and almost universal recru-
dence OF pornography. Article I OF
the new Uruguayan act provides nne
of from / to 800 pesos or an equivalent
prison sentence for any one who publicly
offends social morality and decency by
discourses, recitations, songs or lectures
construed as obscene; for any one who
offers, gives, sells, exhibits, publishes,
distributes or expresses, in any form,
language or place, writings, pictures,
engravings, postcards, paintings, pho
tographs, photographic disks or cylin-
ders; or makes, sell or exhibits en-
blems images or objects, either obscene
in themselves or contrary to good NOR
ais. Article II provides that:
For the second offense in any of the
above particulars, fines Of from 500 to
1000 pesos or a prison term equivalent
will be imposed"
Article III of this new Uruguayan
provision enacts that the producer or
exhibitor of any theatrical or cinemato-
graphic spectacle containing either Sa
lacious scenes or dialogue, or anything
likely to pervert the morals of the pub
lie, upon conviction will be fined from
600 to 1000 pesos or imprisoned for a
term corresponding to the pecuniary
penalty.
Article " prohibits the exhibition of
any cinematographi or theatrical per-
Torrance depicting vice and immortality,
even when such productions are dis
guised as educational or monitory propa-
ganda and advertised as beneficial to
the public morals. Such abuses of the
screen and stage require an equally dras-
tic encouragement in Peru.
Taught TO Pass
Cars Quickly; Brakes Good.
The Evening Times, Glasgow.-A
woman who was fined IS at Kingston
Police Court for travelling at SIS miles an
hour stated that she was taught to pass
cars quickly. II have some awfully
good brakes" she added.
Father Has Right
To Select ChiId's Language.
LIE Soir, Brussels-The Federation of
Walloon Societies of Brussels is concern
ing itself with the matter of the Ian
guages employed in the capital. In the
course of a meeting held recently, 1t was
resolved to solicit signatures TO petit
ton embodying the following privileges:
That in Brussels the father of the
family shall have the absolute right,
without the least restraint and without
any controlling factors, of deciding in
which language his child shall receive its
primary education.
That, likewise, when it comes to the
choice of a second language, that cleo
ton shall also be untrammeled, instead
Of such second language being Flemish
as constitutionally ordered for children
whose mother tongue is French.
In that which concerns the language
used in judicial affairs, the federation
thinks 1t advisable to continue the bilin-
quail system and not an individualistic.
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Women Smoke
Less in Belgium Since War.
Irish Independent, Dublin.-Our cor
respondent at Ostend writes that re-
action against war license is noticeable
| in Belgium, where all the liberties al
lowed during the occupation are being
| gradually removed one by one. Women
smoked in public, without being accom-
| panied by a near male relative, just
after the arrnistice; now they do not
smoke at all, as rule. Clothes for
women would suit the ideas Of Musso-
| lini, and this reactionary measure has
been precipitated by the Italo-Belgian
! marriage. Belgian women of fashion,
wondering how they would look in a
fnantilla such as worn by the Princess
Marie on certain occasions, have dis