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Show FILMS RIDICULE CLERGY, CHARGE ! Churchmen Assert Movies ( ' Take This Means to Fight Censorship DBS MOINES Mnv ! 4. Waving a letter iruin William ' Bill' Hart, two-1 vim motion picture star, in the" facel of S00 Presbyterian commissioners ofl the 134th genera asscmhlv here Tuea-dnv Tuea-dnv afternoon, the Rev. Quetav Brlegj It , of Paaadena, rhurgred that film m-taraati m-taraati are rldlcullpg Protestant pas-' ut In theli plctun-s in retaliation fori th. ( eim..r-hlp campaign beinn roi.- l .iiicted against them by Protestant de-1 nominations. r ROBBING ST 1GE (H) ii II ts letter was In replv to onol from the California intor prote.-tinj? ' ixalnxt a picture, in Which a pastor is portrajed as robbing a stage coach in I r ir complete the construction of a small church. The 1 crltn hero ofl 'tu.lios. who is Urn-, ii ihf jiulh u I ol th scenario in question, replied to: the crltlolsm that he admires "s man I lir.iv enoug-h to jfo ahead with his: ffo.ni work althoiiRh it involves rohliln0 ' la stage coach " loiter In the picture the pastor ta I r.-uifrht b a os and Hart eaves him! I from hanging nnlv by futtlnp the rope with a trell-dlreoted shot from his; trusty pistol. 1 "Show me a film which ridicules or Insults n Catholic privt or a Jewish rabbi in thl manner," shouted D. BrieRleiv Their Insults are aimed at us." Twice Bri-jk'lcb's speaking time was extended by vote of the general J ass mblv. ' EIJNOR .i N S HTOR1 The attack on motion pictures, madt by the committee on temperanoe and moral welfare In Its report earlier In the day. pave only a hint of the slorii which burst when lr. Briej?leb of flu i Bub-commlctee on movies, took tin ! platform. The California moral cru-ji Siider described a jt-t--i from h plctur now showing in I " Midnes. in whl-h1 a worn. m stopping to pick something! from the ground, $ bitten on the! brehst by a viper. The hero, undaunted undaunt-ed by convention, le.irs off her bodice iind sucks the poison from 1 1 i wound. I "Why. if the motion picture man's It Intentions ure so moral, did the direp-M tor not have the viper bite tin- worn-,' i m on the wrist." asked Er. Brlegleb. Boycott of theatres showing objection-! ible films, and national censorship at ' I the point of production based upon 'i t rederal law, were urged by th reaqH i ulion adopted. I |