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226 MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. The Chairman. We would like to have that as soon as possible. Mr. ScHECHTER. I will try to have it ready just as soon as possible, but I hope you will allow me three weeks within which to compile that brief. Mr. Abercrombie. I think you ought to be able to get your brief up in less time than that, and, Mr. Chairman, I would suggest that the gentleman be allowed not more than two weeks within which to prepare his brief. The Chairman. If there is no objection, permission will be granted Mr. Schechter to prepare a brief, with the understanding that it will be submitted within two weeks from to-day. The committee has attempted to give both sides of this very inter- esting question every opportunity to present their views, and we have had presented to us quite a mass of information, all of which has given us a great deal of information and light upon this subject. The desire of this committee is to find the truth in regard to this matter and to act accordingly, and we will attempt to do that after the most careful consideration of the subject. Mr. Orrin G. Cocks, the advisory secretary of the national board of censorship, is here. He desires to submit a brief on this subject and also desires to make a short statement. We will hear you now, Mr. Cocks. STATEMENT OF MR. ORRIN G. COCKS, ADVISORY SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF CENSORSHIP FOR MOTION PICTURES, NEW YORK, N. Y. Mr. Cocks. Mr. Chairman, I want to submit a brief on this subject, and I want to say also that the national board of censorship will pass, I believe, absolutely, on the statement of Mr. Prosser. We recognize that this problem is a difficult one and that the national board of censorship is not the ideal means of dealing with it. We also recognize that the formulation of standards of censorship and standards of morals for the 100,000,000 people of this country is an absolute impossibility. Churches have never done it; Y. M. C. A.'s have never done it; educational institutions or organizations have never done it. It can not be done. It just simply means that you are going to have difficulty in the same way in which the national board has had difficulty. The opposition will be there, either from one gi-oup or from another group. Criticism is inevitable. We have endeavored to meet the situation, and I do not know that we have done so successfully, by urging the different cities and the larger towns of the country to establish standards of censorship for local pictures. We have tried to cooperate. We have put into their hands the actual decisions each week of the national board of censor- ship in regard to all the pictures that have been passed, exactly what the decisions have been, and then we urge them to watch for these future pictures and try to reach tlie pictures which the national board of censorshii) can not reach. Pictures are passed around to the dif- ferent men who are going to exhibit the pictures, and they can not be reached througli the rules governing interstate traffic. We have tried to get the local groups to watch for the pictures and censor