\(^ ege il M \\ ,^1 , .-i!i vT "'•■'■ -U]'}:. >ecretary MOLINA il and allege State for Carolina, leading Courses sssion be- 10. Those lid apply For eata- onnation Ksboro, ?s. c. lege 1 ol )Dd roilna. enter- italog. In Music ideal, luipped. [II term )10, reslderii. rv' A ds of Isarne )I’D, , & for to.. Tfie State Dispatch. I 5v ’ lliiSU 'S, says: lai^ vilie Recently the News had some- ,, hnt to say about a sermon in -. iiicii I represented as scor- ' ‘r T.he moving picture and vaude- shov.'s of Burlington. I do net deny that I had some plain r’.^infrs to say about these shows, ivit k is bardly exact to say that '"'‘•scored’’ them. 1 did what is to e\‘t'!‘v thinking mind more ef fectual' than scoring. I stated ^acts-'facts evident and eonclu- 5]V0» ' 1 write because the editorial coniTi’.ent may be misleading. It cavs either too much or too little, f Wording as one construes, the Saningof “scoring” or ‘‘going f'ter” the shows. Some reader ^.■oiiid say the preacher is a crank -'oY denouncing innocent amuse ment. Oihers would think he v;i5hes merely to say something sensational. I ask the reader, as ] asked my hearers, to form each ois own eonciusion in the light of the following facts. I spoke of moving picture shows jn e'fcneral. Why discuss them at n::'; Why advertise the business bv preacliing on it? Such ques- tions iTiany are disposed to ask. the - iuestions imply a general ignorance of the gigantic propor- tIoi!S assumed all at once by the moving- picture business. It is a fiev; ’Dusiness. It has grown up almo?i in a night. So sudden and so iiiarvelous has been its devel opment that few people ever -=>us- peci wliat a large place moving piciures have in world affairs. The Literary Digest of July 30th, contained the statement that ■‘within almost a single round of seasons the picture show has be come an immense enterprise, a v.'orid-wide amusement, a univer sal imluence;” and that, in spite jf world-wide criticism and de nunciation, “it has forged ahead into international popularity’’ and ihai "in this country alone prob ably two and a quarter millions of people visit these shows daily.” Biirlington illustratates the world ■.vide interest in this business. No oiher enterprise has so conspicu oj.i aad persistent advertising. Nothii':g else in our city is exert- ;r,:r a more potent influence on the rising generation. Since the Rtr.c- !)rize tight, and the vigor ous piotest raised all over the ’.voi id pgainst moving pictures of thai incident, says the Literary r%''es*, moving pictures have been ‘easily the most discussed 01 any form of popular amuse- rjent ” The press and the pulpit over all the earth today are tak ing serious notice of this business. Now what 1 shall proceed to say will be mainly from recent editorials in reputable journals. These quotations are worthy to carry greater weight than any^ thi>ig I can say. I am frank to concede that there are good Things even on the vaudeville stag'e. Much more cheerfully do I concede that a large per cent of the moving pictures ^ven in al most every show are instructive and wholesome. But I deplore the admixture of the evil kind. More and more the press is in clining to the following conclu sions as to these shows. L They are mjurious physic ally. Here are statements from editorials that recently appeared ;n joiUTials of high rank: “Tak ing them altogether we are be ginning to believe that moving ]>:cture shows are injurious. Children who habitually attend thiem are said by their teachers to be dull, sleepy and nervous at ‘H'booi; and oculists say that the r.'ioving jfictures ^re a terriffic strain upon the eyes,” “Physi cians, TOO, v,-arn us that many of tne places where such shows are -ven aro distinctly unsanitary, threatening tuberculosis from the I 're^ence of dirt, spectrum and show, is coarse and talk of the There is che are fond ihere is much that - which the mpi’e' serious journals degrading in the i of the country, both secular and vaudeville stage. ^ religious, incline more and niore ■P wit which the boys widely to adopt. It is to be rc- of imitatihg, and gretted that one of the greatest which dulls the capa ity for real; means of entertainment and edu- humor.^ Children lose their in-1 cation ever known to the world;— terest in simple and healthful | the moving picture show—seems forms of amusement. They are | destined to be converted into an constantly craving the sensation-1 agency of evil. Some towns have al. It is just because this social ;seen fit, through the W. C. T. U. influence of the cheap show is |or the mother’s meeting, to es^ destroying in many boys and girls i tablish a censorship of these their capacity for future efRcien- ^ shows, and to protest against the cy as men and women that the I introduction of any objectionable problem has bii'come serious. ” j pictures or other features. A ju- The thoughtful parent will notice! dicious censorship seems desir- that the boy that goes regularly | able. to the moving picture show loses | Again it is clear that I have gradually his interest in his book?, jdone no “seoring” of local shows, the Sunday school lesson, or the 11 have stated general facts, and sermon. It is partly because the | that largely in the form of quota- show is forming in him the babit | tions from leading editorials. I of looking for light fun and en-1 have done so with the belief that tertainment. Thinking becomes I moving pictures ha ve come to a burden. I stay; that they are destined to 3. These shows are hurtful j exert a yet greater influence morally. I will grant that much ! nationally and locally, and that in them teaches a good moral les-: it is a matter of immense impor- son. But more and more they! tance that public sentiment re- are tending to the opposite result. 1 garding the busineiss shall he The Western Christian Advocate, j wholesome, of Cincinnati, some months ago ! S. L. Morgan. declared on the testimony of the ■ ' Hazelwood and family S t hil ‘ 4 f' who have been with a party on a court OT Cmcmnati that juvmile ■ ^ i.- _ delinquency has increased alarm- ingly in that city-50per cent he would estimate—since the multi-! • plication of the cheap moving ' “ ?t”sa^“%’eiXTa;^Te-|Big Preminffl Offers Given ries of pictures to which the pro-' prietor directed our specific at* tention as being particularly high' We want you to represent class. But they showed aban-! PHSICAL CULTURE in your doned women, apartments in a i City and vicinity. Never before house of ill repute, gamblers at; was such an opportunity offercid their games, the suicide of a pros-1 our agents to secure sabscriptioiis titute, the hold-up of highway-j as we have to offer at the present men, and so on. And all of this i time. Five to fifteen dollars a the exhibitor claimed was day is being earned by many of teaching a high moral lesson! j our agents offering our attractive Through this means boys and ; premiums W'ith subscriptions to girls become familiarized with ■ PHYSICAL CULTURE. jMake the Best county of last Away Free. Norfolk By Winston Waluut C. Madison every form of vice and violence. Juvenile criminals have repeated ly confessed that they received their first suggestions of robbery, house-breaking, safe-cracking, etc, from w'hat they had seen on ■ the screens. “Not only are the^e pictures themselves depraving, but for in nocent boys and girls to be drawn ; into the associations Hkely to be; found in such places, and to be : out on the streets during the ^ Lv night hours, is not conducive to i their best moral- development, | There are all sorts of danger and I “layodan temptations in that direction.” i Ly'. M’rt’uv^le Again, Mr. E. H. Chandler in | Ar Roanoke the Journal of Education says:’’ “With rare exception the ordina-: poanoke ry program of moving picture J lv! m rt’nv’lle shows includes some representa-! Lv. Mayodan tion of burglary or thieving, some ; suggestion of the . fiiritations of j J'maston ’ husband or wife, and somethitig i Xr! Charlotte grotesque, with preferences for representations of satanic magic. The public instinct for represen tations of what is criminal is very strong, and will be catered to by commercial managers.” In proof of the last statement we need on ly to note that since the recent disgraceful prize fight, the mu nicipal authorities in almost eve ry country in the world have found it necessary to prohibit the showing of pictures of the fight. Depraved taste everywhere clam ors for such pictures and the mov ing picture men everywhere ca ter more or less to the depraved taste. The most competent crit ics everywhere are agreed that no moving picture show does bus iness long without presenting pictures that are not fit for the I forbear to mention the indeli cate—nay, often profane and vul gar—language, and the coarse and indecent exposure of the per- MAY 15, 1910. No. 22 No. 24 11:00 a. m. 2:40 p. m. 7:10 a. m. 3:15 p. ni. 7;i')l a. n:i 3:43 p. m. 8:28 a, m 3:46 p. m. 8:27 s.. «}. 4:4* p. m. 9:26 a. ni. 7-00 p. m. 11.-45 a, ni No. 21. No, 23. 9:15 a. m. •5:00p. ni.' 11:40 a. m. 7:30p. m. 12:52 p. m. 8:22 p. Ill 12:.55 p. D3. 8,-26 p. m. 1:27 p. m. 8:52p. m. 2:10 p. m. 9:30p. ui. o:50 p. in, T ’ ^ :‘0' ■■I ve .'list read a letter from hitive in a Southern city. He y "1 attended moving pict- "'nows until I learned, that 'i'nans regarded them as one nemobt frequent causes of with The eyes,” Head- “I am told that Germany ^'-'■fbidden moving pictures as - injurious to the eyes.” 1 •01 Know that the last state- ’ is true. 1'riGse siiows are injurious Of course many pict- yiv- instructive, and there- to the mind in so far ■ -ty lire instructive. But >-s_aisothe other side. See- ■ -'-oany what is sensation- •• \fiting., or what is merely ■ . away both the rel- ■ CH|)acity to enjoy ’■■■ -n ',\ hile. One who i o'-iU-.riy to see jnoving i 'he vaudeville will • • s*' !■ to listen to a seri- ; '■•i' t^'vcud a iho.ig'it- i .iot.ivirai or Educa- •■■■ the effects of - and vaudeville son which is an acknowledged feature of the vaudeville stage. 4. These shows are ruinous re- j ligiously. I shall touch this but i lightly in a secular newspaper. I j speak with the full knowledge | that some churches in all their! branches of work, make valuable | use of moving pictures. 1 know j the moving picture business is i not necessarily hurtful. It could I be made one of the world’s great- i est blessings. But it is signifi-1 cant that, new as the business is, i almost everywhere the religious; press and the pulpit are begin-1 ning to deplore the manifest re-: suit of frequent atten dance upon | moving picture shows. In addi- = tion to all other bad results, is is | being noticed that regular attend-: ants at the shows become indif-1 I ferent attendants at the church i I services. 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