| Show MS EVILS OF improperly SELECTED I 1 OVING PICTURES prof Howard Driggs of the university or Utah sin speaking aking at the tabernacle aels L city recently called for a cleaner lot of stuff at nt moving picture shows here is part he said but I 1 wish to call your attention iod today to a waste which is far greater thin than the material waste the waste or of human life human energy all other wastes are insignificant compared with the waste of human souls the problem of doing away with all these things that curse curs ethis this country devolves upon the waste of time it seema to me loi loitering bering and m wasted ate of time is the mother of nil all evil and if we tati tari direct our boys boya and girls to seek to improve their time the problem will ben beneares be nearer a 1 solution we have always boasted in utah that the boys boya and girls are the best crop and the thing I 1 wish to bring forth is ii that the things that creep in among us unconsciously are the things which threaten to hurt while we ve would give our lives to check the ravages of physical diseases there are diseases that strike tho tha soul and these soul di diseases teases must be checked iffe would bring up anarino an army of stalwart women to rule this nation and the time when these soul disca wes ses creedin cre epin is ia in leisure moments Th the thing ething we must learn is ia that the blind of youth is like a mountain stream and tf it youl you do not make its channel lor for it it will form its own rh channel annel the problem which confronts people today is ia to turri turn the leisure moments to bet ter hd advantage vantage wa va have turned the pleasure side gide of our childrens lives over to people who make mak money by it we have lost lest hundreds of our best beat boys boya in this state and other states too because e we did them the proper sort brt of armus amusement ement The Mormon people have taken an attitude in this matter of pleasure but we have forgotten it seems to me some odthe of the cardial principles we can see to it that the thel moving picture shows the athera athers resorts and other places of amusement are run on ahagh level people everywhere are rising up against 6 bamo mc picture shows and our children should not be compelled to see picture shows unless they are of a high standard we pan can help our children by providing libraries ani and good home we yet have anch to do we still have our problems and w we e must wake up to these before fore it Is too late there tere is ia no doubt but that the alarm expressed by mr driggs is felt by many thousands of fathers and mothers besides avast a wast of means and a lesson lesion ln in the wrong use of money is ia the fact that many of the sons and daughters of this fair state are being started on on a downward course by this class of amusement because bec proper cara carain in style of pictures is ia not given by tho the management of the moving pic Pc shows hows the whole ape koenn ma to be something to excite the passionate de 9 blics acs of the young and the result Is ia 1 inevitable |
