Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1928, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Di: €, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1928 e 1R " RIFTIS DEVELOPED IN MOVIE COUNL Six. Woman Members Walk Out and Majority Decides on Regulatory Program. After six women walked out last night 0 protest against the manner in which the meeting was conducted, the 29 re- maining delegates to the sixth conven- tion of the Federal Motion Picture Council of America, which met in the Mayflower Hotel, Tesolved that the moving picture _industry should be placed under control of a Federal regu- latory board, to originate in the Depart- ment of Commerce. The six woman dissenters, represent- ing organizations of national promin- | ence, left the meeting when Canon | William S. Chas> of New York, general secretary, made it clear that they would not be expectad to take the floor dur- ing the open forum meeting unless the spoke in behalf of the council’s project, the enactment by Congress of a bill to create a Federal board of control for the movies. Several of the women said they had been told they wers “not wanted” at the meeting. Mrs. Owens Leads Protesters. ‘The leader of the protesters was Mrs. Charles T. Owens, Pennsylvania State chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who said she had | been sent to the convention to guard | against the name of her organization being brought into the mecting in any way which might give ris2 to an im- pression that th» D. A. R. favored | Government regulation of films. | The women who walked out of the | meeling with her were Mrs. Clara K. Heflebower, representing the League of American Pen Women; Mrs. C. Fuller ‘Winters of the American Federation of Industrial Women; Mrs. Robert E. Griebe, heading a delegation from the International Society of Catholic | Alumnae; Mrs. David H. Ross of the National Photoplay Indorsers and Mrs. E. L. Grossman, representing the Cleve- land Federation of Women'’s Clubs. Mr. Chase requested Mrs. Owens to sRow her delegate card before he grant- ed her the floor. Speaks Against Legislation. Mrs. Owens declared her organization | did not support proposed legislation that would establish Government super- vision. “This is a form of bureaucracy,” she said, “which the Daughters have been on record as opposed to.” Y During the forum discussion Mrs. Ilarriet Hawley Locher of Washington, Tepresenting th> General Federation of Women's Clubs, made a statement that could have been interpreted as a criticism of the council. She said her organization had spent six years in exhibiting selected movies for children, adding: “Your organization has been in existence five years and has done nothing.” “Two years ago you refused to let me speak at this mceting,” she con- cluded. During the day there were discussions of the effect of certain types of motion pictures, it being asserted the cinema might in some instances cause juvenile delinquency, crime among older per- #ons and might also be a cause of war. Thompson Suggests Treaty. Huston Thompson, former member of the Federal Trade Commission, said that irritating nationals of other coun- tries by motion pictures constituted “a very grave cause of war.” He proposed a treaty to deal with the” international aspects of motion pictures to be shown abroad. Censorship found another friend in |: Miss Maud Aldrich of the W. C. T. U. of Oregon;-who- seid it -was the- bast thing ‘done thus far in the cause of ‘wholesom= pictures. Prof. Harmon B. Stephens of the University of Tennessee told of the harmful effects of what he termed immoral motion pictures. “Motion pictures appeal to the men- tally immature,” he said, “and because of that we have a great duty to per- form.” ‘The council at the final executive session agreed to sponsor a meeting to formulate a legislative program to pro- vide Federal supervision of pictures. e Sl NI Princeton students, one in every five in the university, earned in a year in 60 lines of employment $376,792. Atwater Kent -RADIOS Demonstrated In Your Own Home A short demonstration will convince you of the Atwater Kent Radio and Grove's “Superior Radio Service.” Liberal payments arranged arry C. Grove Inc. 523 11th St. M. 2067 We Will Gladly Demonstrate the Atwater Kent Radio Open Evenings Radio SERVICE Studio No Branch Stores 1721 Conn. Ave. Decatur 4212 Vl:atestr MoIleI : ATWATER KENT Complete With Tubes and Speaker 1172 $20.00 Down $10.50 Monthly Dorians 704 10th St. NW. 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