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!12 The Educational Screen approval of the community. An obnoxious film, however, is a very dj ferent problem; it is uttered by too many speakers, who are all qui too far out of reach, for its suppression to be accomplished by so simi and effective a method. To gather up and eject this highly ramifi^ claimant to the right of free speech, "the producer," would be a slow pri ceeding. The full effect of the free speech would be achieved before tl speaker could be collected and silenced. Hence, censorship agitation!] The agitation may have begun among chronic reformers with an if grained talent for opposition to all things, or among semi-intellectui moralists who start many things and finish few—as has been claime< But it spread rapidly among more serious thinkers, as convincing evident accumulated. More and more ministers, teachers, social workers, civi leaders, eminent public men and women, have concluded that somethirt drastic and unusual must be done. Many cities have adopted systemati regulation. Several important states have instituted censorship law! The question has reached the floor of the United States Senate, and pre posals for Federal Censorship have been formulated. The movement hi; attained impressive dimensions and the end seems to be not yet. Small wonder that Moviedom thought it time to summon a doctor, art no more sane and hopeful selection could have been made than the dynami Will Hays. NOW that the doctor has come, he should be allowed time for th usual medical procedure. He must take off his hat and set dowi his bag; he must address a few pleasant remarks to those intereste: in the outcome of the case; then, entering the sick room, he must put tW patient in an agreeable frame of mind by a deft word or two; finally, tlj careful examination, the diagnosis, and last of all the prescription. Just how much of this program has been completed thus far, we d not know. Certainly the hat and bag have been set down. At Chautauqu before the Women's Clubs, at Boston before the educators, and almos constantly in the daily press throughout the country, many pleasant re marks have been made. Dr. Hays has entered the sick-room—he h# been to Hollywood. His preliminary words to the patient have bee deftly chosen to superinduce a willing attitude of mind. The examinatio is unquestionably under way—but the body of the patient is extensive ari it will require much time to go over it all. How far off the diagnosi may be, we do not know and we cannot expect to hear the prescriptio till that point is reached. To be sure, thousands of people in the countr could have given Dr. Hays a complete and confident diagnosis when h started from Washington. But the diagnoses do not agree, and certain!