Show BAPTISTS BlAME DIVORCE ON FILMS J J I ais and Intemperance S rr r. r a I so As Assailed sal 1 C CI d I 5 1 WASHINGTON TON May Hay 17 Mo Moving ing pictures s x laws and intemperance are the numerous divorces In the the St States tes by the committee committee of t p 1 1 and social service In I Its ts the southern Baptist convert conven- conven 1 lion tion to today of a uniform m code code of n arriage and divorce laws laws' S was was r recommended as as a a. rem remedy y rom government stati statistics tics on cn th the number of divorces obtained annually In the country the report In 1916 when the last fig fig- tires ures were wre were gathered there thero were divorces As Asa a s a primary cause of ot this sadI sad I condition the report denounces the picture motions ture as now noSY produced de declaring de- de claring that t nearly every film put on ithe the sc screen n contains somewhere some Bome evil suggestion Many lIany of the films are based on the eternal triangle and the suggestion of disregard if not an open breach of the marital relation The National Board of was organized by and Is maintained in the interests 5 f the producers of ot motion pictures pictures- the report charges S The Is to make every picture Just as bad as possible within police control and nd public toleration says saya port 1 I T r P rt reco recommends among among other ther publishing of ot th the tha marriage bans f format forat at le least st thirty days before the Can be celebrated physical examination tion of each Ach party p by a phy- phy and the establishment of a uniform uni- uni form form code which which which-ad a nearly as s possible boul dome coma oms to the basis of Bible teaching concerning the ground of di divorce divorce di- di vorce with the the right of marriage and that in all other cases when aben di divorces be granted it be without the right of ot remarriage S |