Show FANS FANS' DECLARED 1 1 BEST CENSORS Public Opinion Will Control Contro Filfus Films Cincinnati V j Bishop Says V DETROIT Aug 9 P A ff A A statement by Archbishop John John T. T. T of ot the he archdiocese of oX Cincinnati stressed the he advantages of public of-public public opinion over over censorship in regulation of ot motion pictures Archbishop is chair chair- man nan of the bishops bishop's committee on mo me r tion picture reform His statement I giving jiving the stand of ot the Catholic Catholia bishops on the subject of ot the purposes f fot of ot the Legion of ot Decency appears in inthe In the current Issue of o the American Ecclesiastical Ecclesiastical Ec Ec- Review It says l Public opinion must now be be t aroused and sustained everywhere V aa 33 the strongest barrier against the Immoral Immoral Im- Im moral cinema Public opinion if it governed gOt coy t P by good sense and relentless in its opposition to the evil motion picture has ha many advantages over censorship that may be politically controlled or corrupted or may become be be- come utterly indifferent to the common corn com com V mon weal Even though the producer producers are fully determined not to give the public public pub pub- lic lie another opportunity to be aroused about the salacious picture and even assuming that they are taking every measure that no such pictures pictures' shall be produced henceforth some time must elapse before all the pictures already produced salacious in whole or in part can be withdrawn |