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Show 3 AVY CENSORS ITS MOVIES : AFTER CONGRESSMEN CHARGE : SOME IMMORAL ONES SHOWN . : : Ms 1 1MS CHIEF OIYKKSIOX J ON I'.S. HATTI.KSIIIl'S ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 U. 3) Movies outrank all other mm of . entertainment In the J ivy. J According to n statistical eom- 14 irlson presented to the House aval appropriations sub-coin- N Itteo by Admiral Shoemaker, ' ilef of the Bureau of Navlgti- J ition! movies contribute 4(1 J r cent of the "recreation, con- C nlment, .amusement, and coin- M Tt of the enlisted personnel." C Athletics ranked next, contri- N ltlng 26. IT per cent; libraries, N i.59 per cent, and all other fac- J irs, 16.18 per cent. J The tabulation was based up- E l reports' of connnanding offi- S ts of ships stationed Ihrough- H it the world. N , ?ASniNGTON, Feb. 3 (V. P.) lug to the criticisms of informed igressmen. the Navy bus insti- Hi a rigid censorship of motion I :urcs shown on board vessels of J fleet to eliminate "filthy" and , a mioral" dramas and sex plays. Youhle started when n number representatives, including lteps. L. French, Rep., Idaho, chairman ' the House naval appropriation 1 i-commlttee, Tuber. Hep., N. Y " vler, Dem., Ala., and Hardy, Rep. J lo., visited the fleet during the a cific maneuvers last summer. a They attended the nightly shows jard their respective vessels and return to Washington protested 5 ainst the type of . "jot" that was I oping iuto the otherwise gixnl pro- iiiesiiou (f enlerlninnienls and motion mo-tion pictures came up, and I was iulereslcil in finding thai Ihe reaction reac-tion of all four members was identical. iden-tical. In other words, what Mr. Tnhor has Just said Is re-echoed 1 think, by the other members of the committee. "Numerous pictures that were put on the screen were, of course, educational educa-tional and instructive. Numerous pictures were put on, however, that were Immoral; that were calculated to pull down rather than to lift up any body who watched them; and other pictures that possibly ixissos-sed ixissos-sed l0 per cent of good, possessed a gob of rot that was unworthy." The Navy Department's reply was thatNit. takes the entire output of four large concerns, in order to get cheap rates, obtaining good and laid, and that despite care some of the l)ild ones are displayed. "The system is to have them all go to the United States Navy Motion Mo-tion ricture Exchange (In New York)." explained Admiral Shoemaker, Shoe-maker, "where they are run over and censored. In spite of this some of them apparently did get through that were bad. but the present system sys-tem is that as soon as any piotur) comes to their attention about which they are doubtful, they send it on to Washington and it is run over a second time. "If there is any doubt about It, we turn it down. I have recently turned down four or five myself sex plays, things thnt were not good for young people at sea to think about. Such productions as the Follies,- for example, would be very trying aboard ship. So we wiped those out, and are endeavoring to iras. When the navel nppropria-m nppropria-m bill came before French's com- Ittee with an item for $120,000 r pictures next year, the question is thoroughly thrashed out. "I used to be very friendly, to is appropriation but after I made e trip with the fleet to Honolulu, became very much disgusted with e type of movies that were being it on," said Taber. "I did not asider them, in general, as educa-ifial, educa-ifial, instructive, or entertaining, ley were mostly filthy." "The four members of the sub-mmlttee," sub-mmlttee," said French, describing ir experiences, "made the trip to a Hawaiian Islands and were up-different up-different ships most of the time. " one of our conferences there, the meet the wishes of everybody that there should be only decent pictures pic-tures shown." The National Board of Censorship Censor-ship passes on all these pictures, Shoemaker admitted, but French interjected in-terjected that "it must have been asleep at the time these particular pictures were passed.'' The navy maintains a world-wide circuit, for distributing its pictures, which requires three years to encircle. en-circle. All vessels, naval stations at the lonely islands of Samoa, and Guam in the Pacific, the West Indies, In-dies, in China, and at Constantinople Constanti-nople ultimately receive all the pictures, pic-tures, and according to naval officials, offic-ials, the movies contribute highly to maintenance of morale. |