Ladies and Gentlemen:
As stated in your program, “This is an open conference with a free
platform--all are welcome.”
I trust that I may be of some service. Even though we differ in
methods, our purposes are the same. We want clean, wholesome motion
pictures and we want to protect the youth of this country against any
evil in this popular form of entertainment, as well as to secure for
them the best that is to be had in this new, marvelous method of human
expression. And whatever may be our differences, I wish to express my
own appreciation of the value of an association like this in bringing
about a free and open discussion that may help to disclose to us real
remedies against the evils that we all oppose.
I have friends here in this conference with whom I differ as to methods
to that end, but I have the highest respect for the sincerity of their
purposes, as I believe they will have for mine. =For my views on the
subject of governmental censorship are well known. They have been
formulated after nearly twenty-seven years of experience in a Juvenile
Court that came into existence under our Colorado law of 1899=--the
same year as that of the Juvenile Court of your own great city of
Chicago, which, next to Denver, I count as home, because here reside
some of my dearest friends.