Show considering the mo movies vies state senator chez of ogden has introduced a bill providing for a strict censorship of moving pictures under this bill the state superintend ten dent of public instruction ia is made chief censor with assi assistants stauts ably also connected with the schools in every place where pictures are shown there Is being shown entirely entire lv too great a disposition to regulate the lives of the people in every dire tion by self constituted regulators and the movies are made a special ob eject of attack by a number of self styled reformative agents so tar far as the ordinary movie tan fan can see there is but little it if any fault to be found with the pictures exhibited and many of the regular attendants have as much brains as good an all aduca tion as much true refinement ant an 1 a good morals as have those who are continually agitating forms of cn that would be intolerable alike to the owners and patrons of the houses the proprietors auener ener ally are respectable and have no de sire to corrupt either the pit p amic M taste or morals and the patron patrow could and would resent buch such an at tempt we me already have laws lams punching hIng the display of indecent or ob cene pictures and any citizen could swear wear to a complaint charging the offense without doub doubt there are many in n every audience who would do so should such an exhibition be attempt led the movies are arving an ving one of the greatest educative forces that ever existed true na no all f the pictures are of an educational char acter nor does anyone but a bauni bal bat or hunter deprived of all other forms of food use an exclusively meat diet there are pictures de signed to entertain others purely to amuse the bill Is varied as are the tastes of the patrons but none are inAe indecent cent considered from the every day viewpoint the people indicate by their pat conage the class of pictures they like and the managers provide them why this continuous continue us aglia tion by a set of impracticable theor ests who simply imagine they have a special mission to regulate the lives habits manners and morals of the community 9 logan journal |