CENSORING THE MOVIES
Some time ago a bill was introduced
in Congress by Representative Dudley
M. Hughes of Georgia, the object of
Which was to create a new division of
the Bureau of Education to be known
as the Federal Moving Picture Com
mission and defining its powers and
duties. Nothing was done with the
bill, but it is said that it will be one
of the first resolutions on the calandar
when Congress reconvenes.
The purpose of this bill is to regu
late by a Federal commission the prin
cipal amusement agency and what is
rapidly coming to be one of the chief
educational agencies of the people of
the United States. The committee on
education, to which the bill was re
ferred, unanimously recommended
that it pass, and in the report sub
mitted stated in part as follows:
“The necessity for regulation of mo
tion pictures is apparant. It has been
acknowledged by a large majority of
the film-manufacturers by their vol
untary submission of their films to un
official boards for approval. That the
public demands this regulation is dem
onstrated by the scrupulous regularity
with which the producers exhibit such
approval at the end of each picture.
“The vicious picture brings the
larger return to exhibitor and pro
ducer, because it gets the money of
the regular customer and the sensa
tion seekr also. This state of affairs
constitutes t temptation hard to re
sist, and, in fact, the production of
vicious pictures is constantly increas
ing, just because they are more prof
itable. If the industry is to endure,
if decent people are to stay in the bus
iness, this cancer must be cut out. A
federal regulatory commission should
prove a fearless surgeon, and \.ve
therefore favor such a commission.
“This statement of conditions is
made in the brief filed with the com
mittee by the legal representatives of
four of th ten manufacturers who
produce 90 per cent of the motion pic
tures in the United States, and by the
legal representatives of one of the
largst distributors of motion pictures
in this country.”
Thebill provides for the appoint
ment by the President of five com
missioners, and a supplementary force
of deputy commissioners to be ap
pointed by the commission. The com
mission is required to license each
film intended for interstate commence
unless it finds that such film, or a
part thereof, is obscene, indecent, im
moral, inhuman, or is a reproduction
of an actual bull fight or prize fight,
or is of such character that its ex
hibition would tend to corrupt morals
or incite crime. The bill was framed
for protection and especially the
children, against vicious and immoral
pictures.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN, MR. VOTER
When one is in the newspaper busi
ness a great deal can be found out
about the inner workings of things,
and especially of things political. At
this time much political advertising
matter is being printed in all news
papers and when one paper does not
seem to get its share, it is in order to
find out the reason why. The Moni
tor lived and flourished long before
the inception of this campaign and ex
pects to live long afterv It’s exist
ence does not depend upon political
advertising. We have more adver
tising and a better line of advertising
than any weekly in the city on Om
aha. We get results and that is what
the advertiser is looking for.
But we discovered this week why
it is the Colored weeklies of Omaha
are slighted. It teems to be an idea
with political candidates that the i
Colored voter of Douglas county is
controlled by a certain element and
that it will be delivered bodily at the
polls election day. It is about time
that somebody wakes up to the situ
ation. No one man or clique of men
control the Colored vote and never
will. The failures of every factional
meetng held in Omaha among the
Colored people should be evidence of
that. Colored voters are doing their
own thinking and ow-n voting and the
sooner the politicians tumble to the
facts the better off for them.
The Colored newspapers of the city
want a fair share of political adver
tising. That is all they ask. They
are not getting it, because certain men -
think that the Colored voter doesn’t |
need political reading matter. Maybe
they honestly believe it, but we guess
we will have something to say about
it election day. What do you say,
Mr. Colored Voter?
LEST WE BE FORGOTTEN |
Last August Guy Singleton resigned
his position as clerk in the Recorder
of Deeds office to resume his position
at the Willow Springs Distillery. At
that time the Recorder of Deeds prom
ised to place a Colored man in the
vacancy September first. Last week
a representative called and Mr. Pierce
said that the matter would not be
taken up until after the election.
We hope that competent young men
seeking such a position would file their
application for the vacancy at once.
The position belongs to a Colored
man and it is up to us to see that a
Colored man is appointed. There will
be no possibility of the matter es
caping us, because The Monitor ex
pects to keep a close watch upon that
office. We believe that Mr. Pierce
will keep his word, but we make men
tion of the matter for the reason that
we mean to keep a closer and stricter
watch in the matter of political pat
ronage so that the race may know
who are their friends and who are
not.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Does Monitor advertising pay?
Here is what two of our advertisers
told us this week.
“I can trace over thirty dollars
worth of sales last month directly to
my ad in The Monitor. It is a dandy
little business getter,”—McQuillan,
The House that Jack Built.
“The Monitor brings me more busi
ness than any form of advertising I
carry. I have lots of Colored trade
and it is good trade. Most of them
come in and tell me at once that they
have seen my ad in The Monitor. I
gave you my ad when the paper first
started and you are going to keep it.”
—Bonoff, N. Y. Sample Store.
Keep up the good work, readers,
and we will keep up our end.
NO ONE WAS AFRAID OF HAITI
Haiti did not behave as badly to us
as Mexico behaved; but Mr. Wilson
interevened, fought the Haitiens,
shedding their blood and the blood of
our troops, took possession aid now
has our armed forces in control of
Haiti and directing its government.
His course of action in Haiti can be
defended only if his course of action
in Mexico is unqualifiedly condemned; ,
for such action was far more needed 1
in Mexico than in Haiti. But there i
was a difference in the two cases; and \
to Mr. Wilson it was a vital differ- '
ence. Haiti was weaker than Mexico. .
No one was afraid of Haiti.—From ]
the speech of Colonel Roosevelt feliv- !
ered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of 1
Charls E. Hughes,
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