Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essentially evil which "no law can permit if it intends not to unlaw itself". Our Act says that the Commissioner of Public Safety "shall approve such films or parts thereof as are not obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, or such as tend to debase or corrupt morals or incite to crime." Can any law permit the things herein prohibited without unlawing itself? In an appeal from an Ohio case it was contended that such regulation infringed the principle of free, speech; but the Supreme Court of the United States said: "Are Moving Pictures within the principle as it is contended that...
...should be noted, also, that this decision sweeps away the objection that the present laws, punishing indecencies after exhibition, are sufficient. The only reason for punishing obscene or crime-provoking exhibitions is to prevent moral injury to the spectators. Mr. Will Hays, himself, said to a deputation from Massachusetts: "It would be better that the whole film industry should be sunk in the depths of the sea than that the delicate mechanism of the child's mind should be defiled." But, if the exhibition is once given, the harm is done. Legal procedure is costly of time and money...
...organization will be to stamp out profanity, whether spoken or written. The use of such terms as "damn" or "devil", will be considered a crime of the same degree as bootlegging, and punished accordingly. All literature of the past will be carefully expurgated, that the rising generation may be free from the danger of using strong language: for the influence of the classics upon the youth of the present is profound. The organization will not be disbanded until swearing, like the use of intoxicating liquors, is stamped out. "Hell" as Samuel Johnson once remarked, "is paved with good intentions...
...case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure a Christian in any manner he pleases because this doesn't constitute a crime in Turkey. With prospects like these any man fortunate enough to be born a Turk is indeed lucky, provided of course that he can find a Christian on whom to practice the pastimes the Koran neglects to forbid. But the Christian in the case, or anywhere in the neighborhood gets...
...nine hundred odd people killed each year to keep up New York's daily average of three deaths a day in street accidents (not to be confused with the far more impressive averages of the Crime Wave), it is safe to say that very few were ever Harvard men. Four years of struggle spent in crossing and recrossing the "Square" and the "Avenue" have reaped their reward. However the University may succeed in educating along other lines, it is certain that in the art of traffic-dodging, the training given is supreme. Anyone emerging from Cambridge alive, with or without...