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Knock Them If You Must—But Remember the Bathtub, Bessemer Steel, and the Steam Gars While You Do It By Ralph Hayes WEEK-OLD copy of the London unnecessary bui'den who would label it A sizable Christmas party was given Daily Mail's Continental Edi- a panacea for flat feet, Bolshevism and at Cincinnati in 1842; the Big Idea was A tion, torn and wrinkled, passed scarlet fever. to show the guests a contraption re- through many hands to mine in It's that way with a new thing under cently made by the host—a bathtub, January, 1919, somewhere north of the sun ; however sound it may be in the probably the first in the country. The Baccarat. It was a badly damaged center, lusty-lunged extremists gather next day the Cincinnati newspapers thing, but it did bring news of the around its edges rapturously to praise right roundly denounced this preten- States. There was, for example, a or viciously to condemn it, whatever It tious, undemocratic vanity. Other story headed "In Bone Dry America," may be. cities took up the anti-bathtub crusade. quoting a prominent divine describing That's been true as far back as the In the Philadelphia town council there just how America was since it had taken eye can reach. was serious consideration of an ordi- on the Eighteenth nance making bathing Amendment. This was unlawful between the his conception of what first of November and had happened: AMERICAN LEGION has a special interest in motion pictures the middle of IVEarch. rain of tears is THE "The because it is represented in the councils of Will H. Hays, former post- Boston debated a mu- over. will The slums master general, now head of all motion-picture activity in America. nicipal regulation pro- soon be only a memory. Three months ago, at the invitation of Mr. Hays, representatives of many hibiting bathing except We will turn our pris- civic, educational and welfare organizations met with him to express their when prescribed by a ons into factories and views and co-operate in the improven.ent of the movie. Out of this meet- physician, and Virginia our gaols into store- ing grew a permanent general committee which will include representatives taxed the tubs $30 a houses and corncribs. of more than one hundred organizations. Its purpose, among others, is year. Men will walk upright "to establish and maintain the highest possible moral and artistic standards Unoffending things now; the women will in motion-picture productions and to develop the educational value as well like railways, too, took smile and the children as the entertainment value" of moving pictures. The central body of this some stiff wallops from •will laugh. Hell will general committee is a Committee of Twenty, and The American Legion Antonio Vox Populi be forever for rent." has the distinction of being represented on this committee in the person of while on their way to I have no disposition National Commander MacNider. Ralph Hayes, author of the accompany- respectability. At a to criticize prohibition ing article, is a former assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and meeting of the school —I do suggest that is now assistant to Will H. Hays. They are not related. board of Lancaster, those of its proponents Ohio, in 1826, the busi- place upon it a wholly ness before the house — PAGE 4 THE AR3ERICAN LEGION WEEKLY was the framing of an answer to a Statistical demonstration or expert traced directly to motion pictures." request to use the school building for testimony in support of some of the From his court in Denver Judge Ben a public gathering to discuss whether most prevalent of these opinions has a Lindsey says: "All of my experience railroads were practical. The board way of hiding itself altogether or of in the juvenile court is that movies are saw its duty and didn't flinch. bobbing up on the wrong side. positively in the interest of morality "You are welcome," it replied, "to There is, for example, the conviction and good citizenship." use the schoolhouse to debate all proper that a juvenile mind plus a motion pic- As a "school for crime," the motion questions in, but such things as rail- ture equals a life of crime. From picture seems a bit inefficient. roads are impossibilities and rank listening in on adjacent conversation, Or take the item of admission re- infidelity. There is nothing in the it once seemed plain that a cinema ceipts. One has no difficulty here in Word of God about them. If God de- theater was a dark place filled by finding an opinion to suit him. A signed that His intelligent creatures droves of children impatiently await- Saturday Evening Post article sug- should travel at the frightful speed of ing a chance to go out and become gests an annual income of $750,000,000 fifteen miles an hour by steam. He yeggs. The motion picture might have from admissions. The Annalist, citing would have clearly foretold through His been supposed to be a kind of National the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, holy prophets. It is a device to lead Academy for the Training and Propa- estimates $767,000,000 for the year immortal souls down to hell." gation of Felons. ending in mid-1920. A story in the A committee of Massachusetts legis- But witnesses have come along to Wall Street Journal raises the ante to lators wrinkled its brows in 1848 over cast some heavy doubt on what seemed $806,000,000; and the Federal Trade a resolution which would permit mar- perfectly clear. It won't do, either, to Commission, according to the Neiv York ried women to hold as their own "prop- fling back at them "Is that so?" in Herald, puts its figure well beyond erty acquired from parents, friends, or answer, for these people are in the $1,000,000,000.