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October, 1923
The MuviK and Manners
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not utilize the film as an educational factor and equip themselves for its regular use under their auspices.
This solution should not, however, lift the burden of responsibility from any community to redeem its commercial motion picture theater. Usually the managers will welcome any sympathetic and serious assistance they may gain from citizen boards or committees in redeeming their places from the ill fame into which neglect has brought them. As a rule, they do not themselves know how to meet the social issues of their art. They consider their work done when they have mastered the mechanics of their business.
Booth Tarkington, in a recent interview, has recorded his conviction that the movie actors have committed their most serious crime against society not in lowering morals or cultivating diseased ethical tastes among the young; he laments most the degeneration of the popular esthetic nature through the glaring and blase exhibitions on the movie screen.
Similarly, the serious indictment against the commercialized movie is the neglectful ])olicy of managers which has allowed their
places to become the centers of rowdyism. If parents do not feel a responsibility for accompanying their children, especially the small squirming, scuffling youngsters, a selfrespecting community will adopt measures or see that the city management shall adopt measures to preserve the community's selfrespect in the maintenance of order. A vigorous campaign of popular education will be necessary to overcome the depraved habits which have already been formed. Schools, by introducing positive programs for the use of films under their own direction, can go far towards this needed community redemption. They must pay for their neglect, in any case, since corrupted manners are inevitably reflected in school discipline, no matter under what auspices the mischief is done.
Here is a powerful educational instrument which the constituted institutions of education have been tragically slow to take over. They are paying big for their neglect. The community is suffering in every fibre and filament. ''Manners maketh man." The movies are turning out a grotesque product in many communities.
Americanization Through Educational Motion
Pictures
Stephen F. Pullis, Industrial Secretary, Y. M. C. A., Passaic, N. J.
FOR the past three years the Young Men's Christian Association of Passaic, N. J., has had as a part of its Industrial and Americanization program, the projection of educational films, secured through our Motion Picture Bureau, International Committee, New York City. These programs are kept going throughout the entire year, reaching ninety to one hundred thousand people, of all ages and nationalities. We have found the opportunity to bring these pictures into industries, foreign
born clubs and churches, public schools and out-of-door summer shows.
On more than one occasion motion pictures have gained us the admission into an industry where no other parts of our program appealed at that time and from which the services of the Association have expanded and will continue to expand in reaching the industrial worker.
The use of motion pictures before foreign-born clubs and churches has been one which, without a question, has increased the