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MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. 39 There are about 50 persons and firms in the United States which mamifacture or import fihns. The number of films manufactured is about 100 per week and about 50 more jire imported. The Chairman. A total of 150? Mr. Pkingle. Yes; a total of 150. Of some of these no more than 20 or 25 copies are made; of others more than 100. The General Film Co. makes of each of their films 51 copies, but most of their ex- changes want 2 copies, so they actually make about 100. Theater men receive high salaries, and it seems to me that on such a board should be at least one practical man, who knows this business in all its particulars, and that we should avoid a narrow, technical, and un- reasonable censorship. It is probable that an efficient Federal cen- sorship would be accepted by about every State and municipality, and would greatly simplify the matter of local restriction and relieve the picture show interests of regulations from which they are now be- ginning to suffer. Mr. Crafts. We are very much obliged to you for your very courteous hearing and for such a good representation of the com mittee. Thereupon the committee adjourned. Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Tuesday^ May -5, lOlJt. The committee this day met, Hon. Dudley M. Hughes (chairman) presiding. The Chairman. The committee will please come to order. We have before us to-da}^ the bill creating a new division in the Bureau of Education, to be known as the Federal Motion Picture Commis- sion, and defining its powers and duties. There are several gentle- men here, pro and con. who wish to be heard this morning, and as we have heard from one or two gentlemen who favor the bill I presume it is in order to hear Mr. Bush. I do not know whether he is opposed to it or not, but he is in the film business, as I understand, and we shall be pleased to hear from him. STATEMENT OF MR. W, STEPHEN BUSH, MOVING PICTURE WORLD, NEW YORK CITY. Mr. Bush. I want to make it very clear at the outset that I am pot in any way actively or commercially engaged in the manufacture or distribution or exhiibition of motion pictures, and never have been, I do not represent any in'oducer, any exchange, any exhisutor; nor am I in any way, directly or indirectly, officially or unofficially, associated with a body known as the National Board of Censorship which is located in New York, and composed of delegates repre- senting a large number of civic societies interested in the public wel- fare. I come here simply as a plain American citizen interested in motion pictures, familiar with them, a close student of their values and their possibilities, and most anxious to see that all rights con- sistent with public safety should be accorded to the motion picture. I think it may be said that one well settled axiom of our law and traditions is that everv medium of expression ought to be as free