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102 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE other Christian country, unless it be Germany and Russia? Finally, Canon Chase repeats a transparent error when he says that the volunteer members of the National Board of Censorship are not free in their decisions, because their expenses JOHN COLLIER and the salaries of secretaries are paid by the film manufacturers, so that they censor unconsciously for their friends, the film-makers. If the volunteers of the National Board of Censorship are this kind of people, why does Canon Chase call them "high-minded"? As this whole question ought to be one of fact rather than opinion, I may be excused for ^taking space in the matter of facts. But underlying Canon Chases argument is a real condition, ^and it seems to me that President Dyer does not do full jus- tice to this underlying condition, for it is true that the programs of films are not what they should be, whether from the standpoint of the adult audience or of the child audience. They are not morally what they should be. This is no reason for legal censorship, any more than the hunger of the Paris populace was a rea- son for giving them cake. But if Ave hunted we might find some other way to reach a real condition and a real evil. What I refer to is the fact that the same film goes everywhere, to all kind of audiences, and to young people and old, and that America is practically without children's Motion Picture theaters. The man- ufacturer is helpless to make his picture what it should be, for he is bound to violate either the child- nature or the adult inter- ests, and the censor, be he voluntary or legal, is at the mercy of this very con- dition. The manufacturer is compelled to make films, and the censor is compelled to censor them for an imaginary genus homo who represents an average of the qualities of babes and octagenarians, immigrants and Americans, cultured and ignorant, black and white. In every other de- partment of art, literature and life,the commodity is adapted to the man, the neighborhood and the class of people who are going to consume it. The highbrow can read Epictetus, and the ordinary man can read Theodore Roosevelt; the child ean read Ander-