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Show CLERGY ANGERED : BY JUDGE'S TALK Lindsey of Denver Tells Opin-1 ion of Movies and Breaks Up Meeting DENVER. Colo., Feb. 8. Charges' 'iiit Jurlce Ben n. Lindsey of the Juvenile Ju-venile court had Insulted one of the l:y 1 clergymen In a defense of the 1 Isunday movies In an address before, them ind a statement from one nf , 'the rhlnlatera th:it the judfc souKht I to go to Jail on a recent contempt Charge abruptly ended a meeting iMondav of the Denver Ministerial al-; Hani and resulted in a public apM-i logy by Judge Lindsey. JUDGE is QUESTION! D The meeting was railed for the dls- j Icussjon of movie censorship snd re-1 .' peal of the Sunday closing law for Lflsatrafl and other amusements. Bar-1 eral theatrlc.il managgra had preceded preced-ed Judge Lindsey After the Judge concluded he proposed to answer luestlons. "Judgo, wou'd you say that if a chi)d spent two hours In a picture show on Sunday thtit he would not, be tempted to crime before entering th thnw or after it was over?" a clertryrmn nuked "I have been on the bench for twenty-one years- twenty-one years, ves sir," replied Judge Lindsey, "and I am here today to tell you ministers tbs.1 never have 1 lmd half a dozen hoys come before me for delinquency caused directly or Indirectly from motion mo-tion pictures. I have had twice that many cases of children who have been attending church and Sunday school Just before they committed their of-fi of-fi nses, 1 have known of the most heinous form of offenses to be committed com-mitted right on tho church floor." ill H UMl N kXGERED-Chairman kXGERED-Chairman L. C Hills sprang to his feet. "We have given you the cour-1 tesy of the floor, Jim'-h- Lindsay, njid 1 ) ou have insulted us. Von were not Invited here tg Insult the ministry." h said. Ite Robert T Caldwell, pastor of I elontvlew Presbyterian church, rose: "If there Is a newspaper reporter present," he said. "I want to go On record as saying that l'hilip YanCise, (district attorney) was absolutely right when he said Judge Lindsey oucht (0 go to Jail.' Some one moved to adjourn and the meet i:g nded. In his st.-itemeiit, tonight Judge Lindsey laid that it was never "my iiit.iitit.u to say there wag "more crime I found in the churches than In tho movies." " He admitted the statement state-ment regarding Sunday movies. 1 M l REMARKS. "1 was then .asked a question," the '.statement continues "I was limited In both my discussion and answer, since tlu watch was being kept on I ma What 1 tried to s.-y was that In I my twentj years oi ejcperlence in the juvenile rourt, 1 did not recall a half j dozen cages Of crime among children that could he directly traced to the I Influence! of a picture at a movie. 1 1 then said thut I had known of cases righl in the church or Sunday school where certain evil happened, for cx-1 cx-1 ample that boys had robb. d the col- lecilon liox Hut 1 illd not mean to ivi a tiling that I never dreamed or I Intended to say, I. e- that there is more crime, found in th cliurches than In the movlea "If the effeel Of my remarks was to Justify such a conclusion, it was nol intended and I opolOgiae to the I chairman If such hai been the cf-I cf-I feet." |