The recent public announcement of a determination to cleanse and uplift the moving picture business from within its own management is a most hopeful sign.

But surely no parent can throw all the blame of any evil influence of a film exhibit upon the managers of a theatre! Where are the parents, and what are they about, that they do not know what pictures their children see and how often they go to any place of amusement?
=The Automobile and Its Influence.=--The same thing is true of the automobile, that now so often takes the youth of the well-to-do classes too swiftly away from necessary social safeguarding.

The inventors and makers of these machines are not responsible that criminals use them for unprecedented escape from arrest, and boys and girls go to destruction of honor and purity in a whirl of wind and dust.

As in all the new inventions and discoveries, we have gained more control over material things than we have yet learned how to use for either our physical or moral good.

We shall sober down, no doubt, and learn to wholly profit by the new wonders of motion and of recreation.
=Parents Need Social Help in Moral Training of Children.=--Meanwhile, the parents who are trying to make the right atmosphere and secure the right influences for their children have a more difficult task than in any previous time; for the young can so much more easily take on all the new appliances as a part of their daily life and can so swiftly change from old ways to the unaccustomed.