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Editorial 213 doctor who commands such fees is entitled to make his own. His med- ial reputation is at stake in this biggest case of his brilliant career, and the ;ast of his rights is to arrive at his own conclusions in his own way. TT TE WANT to believe that Mr. Hays is sincere, that he means to do \\/ something bigger than earn a salary, and we intend to believe it unless forcibly prevented. We hope he has larger ideas of what lust be done for the pictures than the movie magnates who hired him ould conceive. Very probably he was hired to "fix" the censorship and he tariff. He will undoubtedly do his best to "fix" them, but perhaps a very different way than his employers were expecting. They will ave no legitimate complaint in such an event, for he will merely have given lem more than they knew how to ask. So far Mr. Hays has done much talking on the platform and through he press; with it all he has managed to say very little; and his numerous ritics incline to judge him on this utterance. If he is to say nothing nore, we must agree with the critics that his effort is futile. But we are villing to wait much longer, until his examination of this extremely com- plex problem permits him to say more—and we incline to think that his emarks will be highly significant. Two brief quotations seem to give the gist of all that Mr. Hays has aid so far: to the public he says—"Pictures must be cured at their ource"; to the producers he says—"We are partners." Both remarks |tre perfectly obvious and true, and equally transparent in purpose. The first is a shot of morphine for the censorship agitation, the second a jovial [)at-on-the-back for the men he will have to handle later. Taken together, :heir present significance is practically zero and will remain zero until Vlr. Hays adds something to each. We gladly agree that the pictures must be "cured at the source" but Are want to know how he plans to cure the source. Films have been, and ire, as good as the men behind the production. We gladly agree with the idea that Mr. Hays and the producers should be "partners," but we want to know when he is going to ask a lumber of them for their resignations. One gets only ink from an ink-bottle; for drinking purposes one uses 1 carafe. When men of quality—artistic, intellectual, spiritual—are mak- ng the pictures there will be no more talk of censorship. There are some men of this stamp already in the field but they are in the pathetic ninority. To these, and to others like them, all America will be glad to extend the sacred right of "free speech." We hope that Will Hays can io much to hasten that most desirable day. N. L. G.