New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1920, Page 5

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VAMP KISSES, UMM! vz PALACE GALLED WORST KIND & { nh most beautiful love story ever tolcl DORIS KEANE /%qrftdmdbm il | rican arfiste who hs. | won infernational Fame in her exquisite rd PLEASURE CARS M. IRVING JESTER | Rev Reform Preacher Would Banishl Them From Sight in Movies | D. C, Dec. 15.—The Wilbur F. Crafts, superin- tendent of the International Reform Bureau, Inc, is going forth to reform that unguided portion of American youth which is tempted after seeing a movie to go out and shoot up a town or rob a bank: those persons in the United States, Canada and Mexico who persist in long distance betting on the races; those who arc thirsty enough to drink liquor that is taken out of bonded warehouses and those in China who take morphia if they are able to get it Dr. Crafts said so yesterday at the headquarters of the International Reform Bureau, Inc, a bullding set comfortably near the capitol, away from the influences of vice. Anybody who has any other idea about what the International Reform Bureau, Inc, is trying to do has it entirely wrong. There is no movement on foot, the Rev. Dr. Crafts averred, to close up movies on Sunday or any other day, except so far as the Dis- trict of Columbia is concerned. There the “blue law" Sunday closing is to stop, at least for the present The hands of the International Re form Bureau, In effort to put thro during the y ent year the specific corrections they apply to the United States, ( ada, Mexico and China The blue laws of the District of Columbia is Washington, Dr. e full with @ wside line entirely. Four Reforms This Year. The four reforms that constitute the year's program are 1. Federal censorship for the mov- les 2. The prevention of the smuggling of morphine from America into China 1. The interstate and international transmission of bets between Canada and Mexico and the scveral states a applied to the races. 1. The removal of the whiskey stock of the country from something like 400 bonded warehouses and it doposit In ahout six bonded wure- ouscs, where it is less likely to stolen Soaring above all the other great Issues is that of the movies in An erica, in the mind of the Rev. Dr Crafts. The worst feature of the sil- ver screen is the kissing, kissing by vampires, unholy, unwholesome kiss- ing that ean be traced to w of the laxity in the morals of thos: who g to the movies. To those who sit 4 the dark watch a vamp kiss somebody impor! out of illion or 80 there is the greatest p time was when the evil was not so great, but now the thing is difierent The rough element that used to hang out in the barroom is going to the movies and there, inspired by the wily vamps, makes prey of unsus- pecting women of tender age. Statis- tics of everything bad that has hap- pened as a direct result are in the course of preparation Two Kinds of Kisses. There are two kinds of kisses, the Rev. Dr. Crafts has decided after con- siderable study. First, there is the sacred kiss, which is far too sacred Then | to be portrayed on the screen there is the infamous kiss, which is far too infamous to be pictured. Those * are the kisses of the vamp. Those are the sort that should be ruled out of the reel. “Our idea is to have the motion pictures regulated just like the banks and the railroads,” the reformer ex- plained. *““We want ‘to have a board of censorship that will correspond to the United States supreme court. I believe there should be a membership of at least seven, men of the highest character, men who could command a salary of $4,000 a year. I would | then have boards of deputies In vari- ous cities and make it possible for appeals to be taken to the higher au- thority. 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Must Exclude Vamps. “The vampires should be excluded A great war should be waged against their infamous kissing. 1 refer to | | he replied. “Quite a lot.” N gh,” he replied, *“to know how bad they are.” In the opinion of Dr. Crafts, people of the United Stutes are the not the sort of kissing that typifies the [ yet ready for the application of the complete surrepder of one soul to| ‘‘blue laws” or Sunday closing. The another.” “Do you ever go to the movies?” ! Dr. Crafts was asked. International Reform Bureau is not making any campaign of this sort at this time, he said, except to give its The evils are twofold. They de- | more | % 3 GEG GRS EG S EG L IR DI S ESCEETMGsE 0 EG0E LAMPS ROCKERS PHONOGRAPHS LIBRARY TABLES BISSELL SWEEPERS TORRINGTON ELECTRIC SWEEPERS 2 05 ] 45450 ] 253 (] 40 5[] <00 5[] 33 G4 [0 3 S . ol % is of FURNITURE. 7-8-9 R. R. Arcade. 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