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comes perfectly clear that, so long as standards of judgment differ, censorship restrictions will be unsatisfactory. What makes the situation more serious, of course, is that any form of legal censorship is likely to imply regulation by a minority. We already have too many instances of a vociferous minority's right to restrict a freedom of action which is thoroughly acceptable to most of the people and obnoxious only to the few. There are those who may contend, and with some show of reason, that the placing of a curb on the freedom of the screen by a minority is more dangerous than any occasional showing of a demoralizing picture. It is to be hoped that we have not yet reached the point where minorities with self-established standards can control the actions of huge masses of people whose most serious fault is that their judgment as to what is good or bad differs from that of the few. Censorship, as it is now applied, is satisfactory to nobody. Producers, exhibitors, and the public, all have a very reasonable right to complain. It would, of course, be quite the ideal situation to have no censorship laws at all. The general principle upon which producers stand, namely that the regulation of an industry by itself gives the greatest assurance of satisfaction, seems essentially sound. Acting on this principle, however sincerely and honestly, has not prevented our stock and commodity exchanges from being the subject of repeated governmental investigations and very substantial regulation. Producers are, after all, responsible fundamentally for the condition of the censorship problem. Unless the industry takes drastic steps, there seems to be little reason to doubt that those actively interested in obtaining governmental regulation will succeed in convincing the public. The industry cannot and does not intend to do anything for itself. It is difficult for the public to harmonize the offerings on the screen with the assertion of the spokesmen of the industry in the press and at public functions to the effect that "We must voluntarily agree upon and enforce common bases of standards in relation to good taste and wholesomeness." People are more, likely to judge the in