The misguided boys or girls feel sure that they would be successful enough not to be trapped.

The mind through a mechanism which has been understood better and better by the psychologists in recent years suppresses the ideas which are contrary to the secret wishes and makes those ideas flourish by which those "subconscious" impulses are fulfilled.

It is probably a strong exaggeration when a prominent criminologist recently claimed that "eighty-five per cent.

of the juvenile crime which has been investigated has been found traceable either directly or indirectly to motion pictures which have shown on the screen how crimes could be committed." But certainly, as far as these demonstrations have worked havoc, their influence would not have been annihilated by a picturesque court scene in which the burglar is unsuccessful in misleading the jury.

The true moral influence must come from the positive spirit of the play itself.
Even the photodramatic lessons in temperance and piety will not rebuild a frivolous or corrupt or perverse community.