Review of reviews and world's work . y bad and very goodto show how simply the problem could besolved by organized supervision. Any reli-gious or public-spirited organization can ob-tain from the National Board of Censors of New York City lists of pictures that havebeen approved, so that improper ones mayrigidly be boycotted. Such an arrangementin every section of the country would clearthe situation immensely. On the circulatinglibrary plan, catalogue:- could be the desirable films marked. Thu> itwould readily become apparent to both man-ufacturer and exhibitor what the better
Review of reviews and world's work . y bad and very goodto show how simply the problem could besolved by organized supervision. Any reli-gious or public-spirited organization can ob-tain from the National Board of Censors of New York City lists of pictures that havebeen approved, so that improper ones mayrigidly be boycotted. Such an arrangementin every section of the country would clearthe situation immensely. On the circulatinglibrary plan, catalogue:- could be the desirable films marked. Thu> itwould readily become apparent to both man-ufacturer and exhibitor what the better ele-ment of the public admired, and what it con-demned. The exclusion of improper books from pub-lic libraries and circulating libraries is prettyclosely attended to. Yet no group of librariesin the world have ever possessed the influenceover susceptible children, and over all mindsin the formative and impressionable Sithat the motion picture exerts to-day. It isprobably the greatest single force in shapingthe American character. c. MOVING DRAMAS-CLASSICAI WO ROMANTIC no m motion he other, from Helen Hunt Jacksons Ran l\> act this ;r the Urns, the eal were sent to the . the novelist, wi Ventura County. Cahtonua) EXPOSURES OF TRICKERY IN SCALES AND MEASURES BY FRANCIS ARNOLD COLLINS \ MOXG an astonishing proportion of** dealers, both wholesale and retail, thefamiliar units of measure have become merelyfigures of speech. Under a lax administrationof the law pounds, pints, and yards have grownmore and more elastic, limited only by theconscience of the tradesmen and the credulityof the customer. So general has this deceptionbecome, so much a matter of course, that to-daymany leading merchants and commercial ex-changes actually defend short-weighting andshort-measuring as an established trade cus-tom,- and argue, in all seriousness, that toreturn to the old standards would disorgan-ize trade. It has been found that more than two-thirdsof all the scales used in Xew York are
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