=This all compels me to favor what I consider the saner, more
constructive censorship by cooperation between social agencies, the
public, the producers and exhibitors as against what I believe to be
the more questionable and dangerous power of governmental censorship.=
Mrs. Palmer, the Chairman of the Motion Picture Department of our
State Parent-Teacher Association, supplied me for this meeting with
considerable literature of that organization in support of their
stand for the former kind of censorship as against the latter. The
Parent-Teacher Association of Colorado is a part of that great national
organization of the best motherhood and womanhood of this country. In
recent years, they conducted a series of discussions and debates on the
entire subject of so-called “censorship” or state regulation of motion
pictures. This involved an investigation of what is being done in this
regard in all other cities and states. It resulted in the adoption
at their State Convention at Colorado Springs in May 1921, of the
following resolutions:
=WHEREAS, The picture loving public should be given an opportunity to
act as their own censors, and=
=WHEREAS, Pictures cannot be adapted to the mentality of the lowest
type of person and potential criminals are much in the minority, and
therefore, may not be considered as representing the patronage of the
Motion Picture Theatre, and=
=WHEREAS, All lasting reforms are derived from within,=
=BE IT RESOLVED: That it be the continued policy of the Mothers
Congress and Parent-Teacher Associations to work for the Better Film
movement through cooperation, selection and for public education.=