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June 25. 1921
EXHIBITORS HERALD
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It's Time for Reformers and Politicians to Stop Exploiting the Taxpayer
Exploitation of the taxpayer is but one of the many evils resulting from the meddlesome activities of the reformer.
However, it is one of the most detrimental to the prosperity and progress of the country.
Levy ing of useless taxes burdens not only some specific enterprise but also the great mass of people. It is a curse because it inflicts a hardship upon people who already are shouldering too great a load.
Excessive taxation is the work of both reformers and politicians. Creating of regulatory boards is an obsession of the reformer. The politician smiles at this for it gives him more political patronage. But the situation is serious from the viewpoint of the citizens, for they must pay the salaries of members of these boards.
The reformer never broaches the
The entertainment value of motion pictures is seriously impaired by the indiscriminate and inexpert cutting of censors.
Countless eliminations are ordered by censor boards which lessen the entertainment value of pictures yet in no way improve their moral tone. PUBLIC RIGHTS LEAGUE.
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This is copy for slide No. 8. Each week there will be printed in this space a brief message of information and argument aimed to inform the public correctly concerning the issues involved in the campaign for the freedom of the motion picture.
subject of taxation. It would defeat his purpose. Therefore, it behooves someone to correctly inform the public
The exhibitor has the screen, the greatest medium for molding public opinion. The tax question vitally interests the theatre man. He is serving both himself and the public, therefore, by devoting his screen to this movement.
Excessive taxation and regulatory boards are a detriment to the economic welfare of the country. Read what Huston Thompson, chairman cf the federal trade commission, has to say on this question:
"I believe most heartily in the masculinity and upstandingness of the American business man. He does not need to hand over his initiative to his government; to be instructed in advance as to what he
can or cannot do. The government must not be called in to act as his legal guardian."
Mr. Thompson is a business man, not a reformer. He is one of the majority, not the minority. He knows what is beneficial and what is harmful to business.
The theatre is a business in the hands of business men. To prosper it must not be instructed in advance as to what it can or cannot do.
If the people are properly educated along these lines, common sense will win out. The reformer will be defeated. Taxation will not be excessive. If you are not as a member of the PUBLIC RIGHTS LEAGUE endeavoring to unify the thought of the public in a defense cf your business you are not doing your duty.
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