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his footsteps and start the biggest campaign of all — the one with the highest stake in the moral life of the next generation? A. Jymson Harman, of The Evening News, it is true, shows signs of uneasiness about sex films. Will he not hit out boldly in defence of morality?
A. E. Baughan, of The News-Chronicle; Ewart Hodgson, of The Daily Express; P. L. Mannock, of The Daily Herald; R. J. Whitley, of The Daily Mirror; Paul Holt, of The Daily Sketch; Eric Dunstan, of The Star; and Ernest Betts of The Evening Standard — are they all content without protest, to allow the film industry to sink into the slough of indecency and degradation and to drag with it the morals of those upon whom rests the future of civilization? They, who at present are silent save for an occasional faint protest, can do more than any other outside force to kill this evil. How long will their silence last?
It will demand courage, not only on the critics' part but on that of the papers as well, to take up the fight. The big film producers and nearly all cinemas are regular advertisers and naturally will not feel inclined to advertise in newspapers which attack them, perhaps on the very same page. But one determined stand and the need for attack will have passed. Producers do not make indecent films because they prefer them to other kinds (although the lives some of them lead may suggest it), but because they amass big profits. They have only to be shown that the public is quite as willing to see clean and healthy films as indecent ones, and they will change their policy at once. And back would come the advertising in larger volume than ever.
The matter is serious enough for the critics to get together and decide upon some policy in the treatment of films which are obviously harmful. When they do so it will be the sign that at long last those in closest touch with the film industry are awakening to their responsibilities.
Finally, there is the film trade Press, and the three ' weeklies ' catering for cinema-goers. At present, almost without exception, they are merely echoes of Hollywood,