This organization has never found any reason to change their opinion
thus expressed. At their recent state convention, they again reaffirmed
it. A most successful constructive work, formulated at their state
conventions, has been carried on in behalf of better pictures. They
oppose censorship with their motto: “Education and Selection.”
In addition to this definite plan, there is a constant propaganda
carried on among its various units for the type of picture that they
think deserves encouragement. Their efforts to create a public demand
for better pictures and to support the producers and exhibitors in
their efforts to furnish them, has been so superior to any city
or state censorship boards that any demand for any such remedy in
Colorado has become extinct. No one would think of giving it the
slightest encouragement in face of the big, constructive work of the
Parent-Teacher organization of our state.
I am glad to avail myself, not only of the privilege afforded through
the request referred to, that I take part in this program, but also to
give some of my own views, after more than a quarter of a century in
the Juvenile Court, on the whole subject of the problem of good and
evil as it relates to motion pictures.