I am not questioning the sincerity or good motives of anyone. I simply
question their understanding. How people can make the statements that
are being made in some quarters, that the movies are getting worse
instead of better, I cannot understand. I do not believe it. If they
are, then it is a terrible indictment of our schools and churches, far
more than of the movies. It is proof that they are failing. For if this
thing be true, that, without the kind of governmental censorship and
regulation that is being proposed in some quarters, the movies are to
get worse and worse, then the churches and schools had better close
their doors, for the claim is equivalent to a confession that they
are failures. I do not believe they are failures. =I believe in real
religion and in real education.= I think their power and influence are
on the up-grade in this country. It is from their wise application that
we must look most for our remedies in the fight against evil. The great
duty to childhood today is that of parenthood and its handmaidens, the
school and the church--real education and real religion.