Show TIIE THE rower VF OF suggestion whether it Vs from a bill board a a motion picture or from the spoken word the power ot of suggestion Is a mighty factor and sooner or later it will influence the individual who receives the impress ot of it A tragedy occurred in a neighboring city this week as a result ot oi the power of suggestion two little boys boy had seen a bandit stunt worked in a motion picture and having been influenced by that force they essayed to give a practical demonstration of the emotions that had been stirred within them As a result one of the boys is dead and the other is heart broken and that wound will never heal tor for as long as life lasts the picture at 0 the tragedy will he be fixed in the mind of the boy who saw it all not kot so long since the power ot of suggestion as furnished by a motion picture also impelled three little brothers to enact a scene which might have ended in ili a tragedy had it proceeded to completion the two elder brothers fastened a rope aro around und the neck 0 of their little brother and then taking he fie other end ot at the rope in their hands they climbed to the top of the garage and were about to pull up their little brother in a real banging scene when the father came along and stopped the show the boys were all ignorant of the serious consequences consequence es that would follow the carrying out of their purr pose they had seen the the screen and had all been tired fired by a desire to act it out and were berea about out to do that when providence iri the person of the father ot at the boys intervened and a baby life in all probability was saved one more example ot of what effect the power 0 ot f suggestion made by motion pictures has A of boys caught a little companion on the street one evening and taking him down to the U I 1 C railroad track lashed him to an electric light pole and left him standing there until pretty well into the night when the lad was discovered discover d and released after having the wits nearly frightened out of him here is another A group ot of hoys boys bound a little companion so that he could neither wiggle a hand nor a toot foot arid and then deposited him in the middle ot of the family corn patch the bandits tor for that was the kind ot of play being enacted roamed about over the lot and an d finally picked api upi their hapless victim carried him to an old box de posited him in the bottom ot at it then heaped a pile of 0 old clothes chairs and other things on top ot at him the youthful victims father was watching the play from a secluded p place lace and when he saw the linal final act and could hear the muffled screams of 0 the child he be decided that it was time to move calling tile the bandits to him he asked where the other boy was and receiving only smiles and with the mu led cries of the imprisoned boy coming distinctly to the cars of all of 0 themi them he demanded that the victim be rei released eased from his perilous position which h was done and then the good man gave the boys a lesson on oil what might have resulted had he not been present and secured tho the Felca ot the little e fellow who was smothering under the load of clothing in the bottom ot of the deep box all AH the above examples illustrate what power motion pictures have on the minds of the young and they furnish a striking illustration of the necessity tor for proper pictures doubtless the managers ot of picture hou houses ses give their patrons what they want and it Is also recognized that the biggest nights at the picture shows are those when some lurid and fantastical antas serial is being shown but the public could bo be educated to want a better class of pictured and for the sake of I 1 the he boys and girls that education ought to begin immediately there la Is altogether too much ot of the improbable and immoral side of life being portrayed on the screen today and the scenario la Is so cl cleverly everli written that the hero is always made to do a the most desperate deeds and because of the inherent nature in all mankind it Is little wonder that the small boy becomes enamored of these screen daredevils dare devils so that lie he Is impelled to try some of at the stun 19 in ili real life A community censorship of all moving pictures shown is the only solution of the problem that has been found to work out successfully but even that cannot be demonstrated until it is given a tri trial fl it is pretty hard to bring about reforms until public sentiment demand thern them arid and the examples quoted above are given ghen gh en in the hope that the public will be stirred to a sense of the necessity of doing something to correct the evil that is at present existing along the line mentioned |