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Show PUBLIC ASKED TO HELP KEEP MOVIES CLEAN Judge Us By Performances, Not Promises, Will Hays Requests PITTSBURG. Pa.. May 26 A plen for the public to stand behind and help the motion picture producers in their efforts to maintain a clean moral tone In film production was voiced here today by Will H Hays, director Of the motion picture producers and distributors of America, to an audi-ehi audi-ehi - at Carnegie institute He declared he was entlrolv convinced of the sin cerity of the larger producers and distributors dis-tributors In the organization and he . pledged his hoarcrs the best efforts jof his association I While asking for your aid and co- 1 operation," he said. "I would like to ask you, too, that you Judge us by our actual performances, rather than by any promises we make "e are building this Industr) for years to I come for generations, and the results re-sults we are confident will be certain ,and permanent." He stated $800.0110. "no a year is paid In movie admissions and that the producing Industry alone represents an Investment of $500 000.000, employing employ-ing 50,000 persons at annual salaries totaling $60,000,000 |