Under the Southern cross in South America . nced andfilms permitted which would be tabooed in any city or town in theUnited States. It is a pity there is no Board of Censors to regulatethe representations put before the common people in this it is, the pictures shown for the most part are subversive ofmorals which, instead of being thus weakened are in much need ofstrengthening, for the tide of morality is at a low ebb in the Argen-tine capital. As has been said, the Catholic Church has lost its gripon the people, the clergy do not show a good example, and as aconsequence there is n
Under the Southern cross in South America . nced andfilms permitted which would be tabooed in any city or town in theUnited States. It is a pity there is no Board of Censors to regulatethe representations put before the common people in this it is, the pictures shown for the most part are subversive ofmorals which, instead of being thus weakened are in much need ofstrengthening, for the tide of morality is at a low ebb in the Argen-tine capital. As has been said, the Catholic Church has lost its gripon the people, the clergy do not show a good example, and as aconsequence there is no restraining influence to keep them in thestraight and narrow path, so they stray away led by their own pas-sions, and the Moving Pictures are pushing them farther on thedown grade. As may be expected there are many newspapers in Buenos best one, and one of the best in the world, is La Prensa, whichhas its stately three-million dollar home on the Avenida de Prensa. signifying the Press, is a newspaper of which any coun-. PICTURESQUE FOUNTAIN, BUENOS AIRES
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