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182 The Educational Screen ranks with other profit-seeking enter- prises. Churches, in these smaller communities, can be the most active agents in introducing the motion pic- ture, and by such a course can per- manently and securely guide the de- velopment of the art. Cooperating with the school and with recognized social agencies, the fully educational and recreative values in the movie can be normally developed from the start and permanently preserved in only wholesome forms. Churches which learn this lesson have the option of institutionalizing the motion picture under either their own immediate auspices or else of co- operating with general social agencies, or with commercial agencies under strict community regulation, who as- sume responsibility for the mechanical features of the art. Churches gen- erally are failing, or are falling short of complete success, in the former alternative, largely because the me- chanical art is too much for them. In- sipid, blunderingly manipulated movies are an impious imposition upon any community, and churches frustrate the very purposes of their existence by in- dulging in them. Motion picture art is an art. Only those who train for it and artfully apply themselves to it can hope to succeed. A pious inten- tion will not redeem even churchel from the inevitable effects of blundering and messy handling i reels. At least a few churches succeed the movie art. They observe its cai ons, invest the necessary capital, ai sense the popular soul. The othei alternative lies wide open befon churches which do not care to assum< direct responsibility for manipulating the reels: any and all can enter int< sympathetic relations with those whom} the community holds responsible fol mechanical efficiency. No church call successfully and permanently resist- the movie industry, but any church' can successfully censor its commun- ity's motion pictures, if it has tha fundamental human sympathies to enable it to enter profoundly into the soul life of the people. Parents do not want their children fed on intellectual and spiritual slop. The normal child reacts against that kind of stuff. Any*, church can have its community, and 1 not less these employed in the movie; industry, solidly behind it which understands what the movie is forj which appreciates its epoch-making significance in modern life, and which maintains vision of the perennially regenerative values which this bene- ficial art embodies.