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MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. Committee on Education, House or Eepkesentativks, V/ashington, Friday, May 8, 1914- The committee met at 8 o'clock p. m., Hon. Dudley M. Hughes (chairman) presiding. The Chairman. The committee will come to order. The com- mittee Avill be glad to hear from Mr. Seligsberg. Mr. Seligsberg. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, the argument which we propose to make this evening \n\\ be in three parts, b^ Dr. Howe, of the People's Institute; by Mr. Schechter, who is attorney for the Universal Film Manufacturing Co., and by my- self, as attorney for the Mutual Film Corporation. I think, in vie^ of his great knowledge of the subject and his absolute disinterested- ness, as far as any financial interest in the industry is concerned, that we had better commence our argument by presenting to the committee Dr. Howe. The Chairman. The committee will be glad to hear from Dr. Howe. STATEMENT OF DR. FREDERIC C. HOWE, DIRECTOR OF THE PEO- PLE'S INSTITUTE. Dr. Howe. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am the director of the People's Institute of New York, which is a voluntary organization which conducts work in Cooper Union, and which maintains a peo- ple's church on Sunday evenings. I ])resume it is the largest congre- gation in New York on Sunday evening before which leading minis- ters of this country aiid from abroad appear. In addition to that we conduct weeknight meetings. The People's Institute is in the nature ■jt a people's university in the sense that its original object was to promote the universalization of higher education. It bitterly became verv much in.terested in recreation—the leisure time of a great city. About five years ago, Mr. Charles Sprague Smith, professor at Columbia College, becauie interested in the motion-])ictuiv show, and after considerable study of that subject, along with yiv. John Collier, who is one of the leading recreational experts in this country, the National Board of Censorship was formulated. I W(mld like to de- scribe in some little detail, if that has not already been done, just what the National Board of Censorship is and how it functionates. Before doing that, I think I should say that I am tiie chairman of the National Board of Censorship—chairman of its general commit- tee. I presinne I occupy that office ex officio as director of the Peo- ple's Institute, for u'.y predecessor was the Rev. Dr. Thomas Slicer, G.3