Judge — October 4, 1924 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Lady, your Eiith A Qa bik Mich you may Gat your On you Know Cosmetic License evoked BD * COSMETIC CENSORSHIP By Don Herold HE reason I want cosmetic censor- ship—well, while I am at it I might as well go clear to the bottom of this censorship question. In the first place, I think all censor- ship should be bigger and broader. For example, I would have much more patience with censors if, in- stead of cutting out a few feet of moving pictures here and there, they would just cut moving pictures out altogether. Censors like that would be censors worth talking about. The trouble with censors now is they censor such darn fool little insig- nificant trifling things that are bother- ing nobody. They have to hunt and hunt before they can find something worth censoring. They want to be the first to find it. And then they probably censor the wrong thing. I would like to see censors riding on horseback up our main streets in- stead of snooping up alleys. I would like to see them ordering buildings (\Euanbones/™ fiom is still blew up, and the drinks were on the house Guddge wil pay 85 for cach one printed torn down because they are ugly, ordering noises stopped, ordering folks to go home and dress more beautifully, ordering ladies to go home and powder their noses or to take a lot of deck paint off their faces—in short, beautifying the world. Iam afraid that censors now uglify the world, if anything. Most of the things the censors now Eskino Cuprp—For the love 0’ Moses—make it snappy! (| fuansbonesy | A tin-lizzie generally has a brass | driver. —— < Tadge will pay 85 for cach one printed “| ( censor are already sufficiently cen- sored, anyway, by a price per copy or a price of admission. Nobody is | giving me $2 books that I don’t like and nobody is forcing me into $3.30 theater seats that I don’t want to occupy. It is the free things that really need censorship—things that meet our eye as we go down the street—and enter our lives whether we want them to or not. A in. Free looks at cosmeticized faces. So for example. Yes, faces ought to be ( 7 censored—that is, the make-up on | i, them. They are some of our busi- ness. They are of public concern. They are a part of our lives and we have a property right in them that is at least cosmetic deep—that is, as deep as we can see. We have to take - free looks whether we want to or not. Therefore, as a start on bigger and |] Tor better censorship, I am for cosmetic — | / censorship. ~Y I suggest cosmetic bureaus in every ward and township, equipped with cosmetic callipers and gauges, to insure a square deal for everybody. = I suggest standards of cosmetic measurement. I suggest Will Hays a". (Continued on page 30) comicbooks.com