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MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. 59 is valued at 4 cents per foot. The sale value to manufacturers of film kept off the American market by reason of destruction was $463,638. They consented that we should absolutely destroy that amount, because they were willing to put themselves under our cen- sorship. The Chairman. Now, that censorship is an agreement between you and the manufacturers? Dr. Carter. And also the local exhibitors, and it has not been broken since the thing was started five years ago. Mr. Powers. I believe you said there are 135 members on the board, did you not? Dr. Carter. Yes, sir. Mr. Powers. Divided into 8 subdivisions? Dr. Carter. Yes, sir. Mr. Powers. Now, who appoints all these people; how long do they serve; and where do they get their authority ? Dr. Carter. Here is the list of officers. First of all there is a governing board, a general committee. Kemember, they first get their authority from the People's Institute. Mr. Frederic C. Howe is the chairman of the committee which appoints the subdivisions, which serve only three months each, unless they are reappointed. I go down once a week as an individual member to attend the various sub- committees of which I may happen to be a member. The other sub- committees are meeting at'the same time, holding morning and after- noon sessions every day in the week. We have 135 members, and we are a great deal more careful than it would be possible for 5 people, selected here by any Federal action, to be. Mr. Fess. I was going to ask you. Rev. Carter, if your work is so effective as it seems to be what is the need of this national move- ment here ? Dr. Carter. The Federal movement? Mr. Fess. Yes. Dr. Carter. That is just the question. I am glad you are drawing my fire. I do not believe it is necessary, because the work is being done in New York better than any five political appointees could possibly do it: and. brethreii^or gentlemen; you see my ministerial bias—I think I can show it by this very list which I will read to you, in which, however, my name does not appear. It is better also by reason of the fact that there is individual responsibility and there is no financial emolument. That is not intended to cast any aspersions on an officer drawing a salary, but it is saying that if a man's bread and butter is concerned in tliis thing, if he can get what the world calls a rake-off, even though he may be a man of integrity, he will be approached and tempted in a thousand different ways, and it is barely possible that his integrity might be shaken. Mr. Powers. Now, the 135 members of this board act purely from philanthropic and moral uplift motives? Dr. Carter. Absolutely. Mr. Powers. And they receive no compensation ? Dr. Caritsr. Save for the four secretaries. The following compose the general committee, the members at large, and the staff.