Good Influence

In Wales last fortnight, a routine church commission report denounced the immoral influence of the movies. But one anonymous commission member filed a minority opinion that was anything but routine. Wrote the objector:

"We should recognize with humility that the cinema does a great deal more than the church to keep young people off the streets and out of the saloon bar. Perhaps gangster films have led to some increase in juvenile crime, but the normal child cheers the forces of the law.... It is no part of the church's duty to abolish occasions of temptation to the few if their general effect is salutary. Gangster films bring the element of adventure into the drab routine of a city."

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