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them were older than 18. The answers vary so much and in some cases are so unexpected, that it has not been possible to tabulate them methodically.
In this connection, Mile Jung made the following observations : The answers obtained show that a large number of children think that cinemas should be closed during the war. They ought to be closed, according to these children, because they constitute a useless expense, because a lot of the persons receiving the dole go to them, because one ought not to amuse oneself while others are fighting or weeping, because it is better to comfort those who are in trouble, because they impoverish the villages and towns, since everybody spends money at the cinema, because many men refuse the necessities of life to their families in order to go to the cinema, because they give false ideas and because they are bad for young people. Certain children regard the cinema as immoral, and accuse it of suppressing impartiality. But while some of them insist that the cinema is not sufficiently neutral, others reproach it with being too neutral.
Mile Jung made an attempt to express in figures some of the answers given by boys against the cinema during the war. She obtained the following results :
« We could dispense with them » ... 58
« A useless expense » 43
« They ought to be closed » 179
Total 280
Mile Jung found, however, that other scholars considered the cinema interesting during the war. She counted 55 favourable answers among the boys, and the arguments put forward in favour of the cinema during the war were as follows : « It is better to go there than to a cafe », « they ought to remain open because every one should be at liberty to earn his living as he wishes », « they arouse patriotism ». The argument that freedom should be allowed to the cinema is very frequent, as also is the argument that the cinema provides work for the directors and their employes.
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