Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BREF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BREF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. APPROVE OF STATE CENSOR Motion Picture Men Will Ask Legislature to Pass Law Creating a Board That Will Pass on All Exhibited Films. Indianapolis, July 26. —The next legsllature will be asked by the Indiana Motion Picture Exhibitors’ league to enact a law for the creation of a state board of censorship to pass on all motion picture films before they may be exhibited in the picture shows throughout the state. This was decided on at the meeting of the league here and is in line with the policy of the National League of Motion Picture Exhibitors. The members present all voted in favor of the proposition for state censorship. It was pointed out that plan would assist in the uplift of the motion .picture business and that it would help to place it on the high plane where it belonged. There are state organizations of motion picture men in fifteen states, and all of these will seek state censorship laws at the hands of their legislatures.