“There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.”

OSCAR WILDE

“The motion picture industry is the greatest enemy of civilization, greater even than the liquor traffic. For a generation it has been the universal school of crime in all nations, creating the international ill—will of foreign peoples against the United States and seriously interfering with our commerce abroad.”

CANON W. SHEAFE CHASE,
rector of Christ Church, Brooklyn, New York, ca. 1926