The Washington times., 1933-07-26

ture department, and at once that
makes me wonder what sort of
''1 S"'OHS movies are available in Gresham
Ore. Gresham is considerably nearer to Hollywood
than New York or Atlanta or Boston or Chicago but
Gresham is not city with population of than
5000 Perhaps it is suburb of Portland (3O1,OOO)
or of Hllsboro G,O39) Perhaps Miss Aldrch goes
direct to headquarters and the movies where they
made. But where does Miss Aldrich the
women of whom she speaks?
Poor Wretches
! And does she speak? "The continued and hypnotic
suggestions of the have tended to break down
the modesty of women have brought the manners and
morals of the underworld to the top have popularzed
the models and modes of living of strain of society
restricted areas"
! That is what Miss Aldrich says. But that isn't all
she says. The crack about our women being now
pretty close to those who would have lived in ere
stricted areas" generation ago is good but there is
to come.
Others may say that skate thin ice, morally,
but to the W. c. T. U. the dings brought that the
movies" Mss Aldrch hates them she puts the word
in special quotation marks) "have worn us down to
the thnnest veneer of national decency. Which
means one more layer off and we'll all be in the bog
But remember that this address-i is to the w. c. T. u
"The continued representation of drinking as harm
less pastime has opened the doorway to natona! law
violation and paved the for the national conditions
and the problems relative to prohibition which we lace
today"
Best Friends
see what that means, but can't follow the logic
of the next step: Miss Aldrich called prohloltlon the
best friend the motion picture industry ever hao
suppose she means that money which would have been
spent on liquor was actually spent on move tlcKes
That brings up the point: Was the money NOT spent
on liquor and if it wasn't, why the complaint about
the movies? If prohibition prohibited and made the
movies rich what's the argument Or does MISS AID
rich think that all drinking stopped until the movies in
vented it for their own dark purposes!
On the main point, however, still have the ques-
ton: Are American mice men? Are they
going to take the accusation of dirty morals lying
down? Or they merely going to ascrlbe 1t to one
of those July excuses which comes over all public
speakers and all editors of reports to the W. c. T. U!
L expect answer The question IS, as the gram
marians used to say, rhetorical.
MYSTERIES Of MussoIini
Mussolin has recently been the center of two mys-
teries One concerns Col. w. E. Easterwood, Jr. more
than Mussoini himself. If your memory is good you
NAV recall that Colonel EasterWood, Jr enrolled MUS
soln and with fine generosity the King OF italy, INTO
the American Legion. The method IS the important
thing premier Mussolni asked for the pin wore
on nv hat and pinned it his lapel offered the
King the one had my coat and pinned 1t on ms
lapel. He said he very proud to wear It, Inc
problem is why Colonel Easterwood, jr, wears two
pins and why he didn't pin his pin Crom his hat on
Mussolns hat, the way railroad conductors SUCK your
ticket in your hatband
Mussolini himself perplexes by his desire that
good Fascists keep away from night clubs throw away
high hats, and ride motorcycles can understand Cne
first two But why obligatory to ride motorcycles?
The only reason l discover is that he wants al
italians to be photographed in newsreels going up w
per cent ncnes at full speed They make good movies
and no one seems to get hurt. But is that enough
reason for whole nation to grow