Our vision in this matter of censorship must not be limited to the
mere entertainment of motion pictures furnished by the present motion
picture industry. It must go far beyond that. For, in addition to
censoring all forms and agencies of pleasure now contemplated, the
amazing power demanded by the censorship advocates includes the power
to also censor every teaching of science (evolution and otherwise),
economics, patriotism, religion and government. As one after the
other shall fall to the fetters of censorship, we shall get further
and further away from real remedies for evil, only to become more and
more enslaved to the forces of reaction of fanaticism, ignorance,
superstition, despotism and tyranny. All this crusading for such false
remedies is making us more and more the laughing stock of the world.
If we yield to the demands of its well-meaning, but mistaken zealots,
we shall nurse up a generation of human jelly fish, of weaklings,
dependents, morons and criminals instead of a nation of sturdy,
self-reliant boys and girls.