Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1910 — 4,000,000 AT NICKEL SHOWS [ARTICLE]

4,000,000 AT NICKEL SHOWS

Professor Says Moving Pictures Can Becomes Moral Uplift.

More than 4,000,000 persons attend moving picture shows every day in the United States, according to a statement by Professor Charles Sprague Smith of Columbia university. Speaking before the Congregation of the Church of the Messiah here, Professor Smith declared that the moving picture show Is a great educational power. Under an adequate censorship, he said, it could be made a force for moral and mental uplift second to none.