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60 MOTION PICTUEE COMMISSION. GENERAL COMMITTEE. Frederick C. Howe, cliairmnn. Association for Improving Condition of Poor, Win. P. Capes. Charity Organization Society, W. Franli Persons. Children's Aid Society, Matthew P. Adams. City Club of New Yorli, Joseph M. Price. City Vigilance League, Matthew Beattie. Federation for Child Study, Mrs. Howard S. Gaus. International committee Young Men's Christian Association, Raymond P. Kaighn. Laity League of the Federation of Churches, Orrin G. Cocks. League for Political Education, Robert E. Ely. National Board Young Women's Christian Association, Mrs. G. K. Swinburne. New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Wm. Grant Brown. Public Education Association, Mrs. Miriam Sutro Price. People's Institute, Lester F. Scott. St. Bartholomew's Parish House. Rev. Charles B. Ackley. Members at large: Miss Martha Draper, Ralph Folks. Lee F. Hanmer, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Dr. Henry S. Oppenheimer, J. K. Paulding, Mrs. Jo- sephine Redding, Albert Shield, Mrs. W. Lesesne Tait. Dr. J. P. Warbasse, Maurice Wertheim. Staff: W. D. McGuire, jr., executive secretary; H. C. Mason, assistant sec- retary; W. A. Barrett, assistant secretary; Orrin G. Cocks, advisory secretary. Mr. Fess. Is Dr. Moskowitz the head of the civil-service division over there? Dr. Carter. I do not know him. Canon, do you know him? Dr. Chase. In this last campaign he Avas the adviser of Mr. Mitchel ? Mr. Powers. What per cent of any of these men are interested either directly or indirectly in the manufacture or the sale of these motion pictures? Dr. Carter. No single one; not a single member can serve who has any interest whatsoever in any moving-picture business. I mean any financial or commercial interest. Now, perhaps it would be well to read to you our statement of standards of judgment, in order that you may see upon what we base our decisions. I have shown by this that the moving-picture business has grown up marvelously since the business started some six or seven years ago. In the past year there Avas almost half a million dollars worth of reels sent to the scrap heap by our board, so that shows the need for this body. Mv. Fess. If we had a Federal board the condemnation would put them out of use by law ? Dr. Carter. Yes; but we absolutely put them out in the same way. They have never tried to use a single reel that we have thrown out, because, according to our by-laws, any manufacturer who transcends them goes out of the arrangement. Remember, he has a right of appeal. For instance, if he is not satisfied with the decision of the subcommittee he appeals to the general committee, and if he is not satisfied witli that decision then he goes to the executive committee, which is the supreme court. The Chairman. Your censorship is moral without authority save the approval of the board? Dr. Cartei?. No: it is moral with tlio authority of the manufac- turers who say that they will definitely abide by our decisions, and they liave done so for the last five or six years. Now, if that is true, what is the need of a Fe(l(M-al board which will immediately plunge the A\ hole thinof into i)olitics?