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MANCHESTER 
The householder who did not lay 
in his winter’s supply of coal before 
Tuesday of this week received a jolt 
when he learned that the price of all 
grades had jumped considerably on 
that.day. ‘The. price ‘of egg,stove 
and nut coal increased from $8.50 a 
ton to $9.50. Furnace coal is $8.75 
and Franklin coal $10.75. 
The republican town committee will 
hold a rally in Town hall at 8 o’clock 
this evening. Congressman A. P. 
Gardner, Frank E. Raymond of Es- 
sex, candidate for representative in 
the legislature, and Edwin A. Baylies 
will be among the speakers. Every- 
one, ladies and gentlemen, is invited 
to attend. The North Shore Cadet 
Band will furnish music. 
Manchester’s showing in the recent 
Red Cross membership campaign was 
highly satisfying to the members of 
the local committee co-operating with 
the Essex County chapter. The mem- 
bership in the town was a great deal 
more than doubled, 187 new names 
being added to a previous enrollment 
of 123. Manchester’s total member- 
ship in the American Red Cross is 
now 310 or more than 10% of the 
population of the town. ‘This is, so 
far as we know, the best proportion 
of membership to population in any 
town and should put Manchester in 
line for one of the prizes offered by 
the national organization. Eight of 
Manchester’s new members are for 
life memberships. 
DEMOCRATIC RALLY 
There was frost in the chill Octo- 
ber air last evening, but nothing com- 
pared with the frost in Manchester 
‘Town hall where a democratic “rally” 
was held. The chief attraction was 
to be Frederick W. Mansfield, the 
democratic candidate for governor, 
but he failed to put in an appearance. 
Henry N. Teague, candidate for state 
treasurer, and several emergency 
speakers saved the meeting from be- 
ing a complete failure. 
MOVIE CENSORSHIP 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
The proposal to establish a national 
censorship of moving picture films is 
occupying the attention of a great 
many people just at present. <A cer- 
tain class of people feels it its inherent 
right to determine what all the rest of 
humanity shall see, hear and. read. 
Certain of these people burst into 
print now and then with condemna- 
tion of the “movie” industry in gen- 
eral and with little regard to naming 
particular instances. They are wont 
to describe the moving picture as im- 
moral, degrading, etc. They tell us 
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the mission of the “movie” is to be 
educational and that its high purpose 
is being abused in the average pro- 
duction. Perhaps! 
When these same people attend a 
production upon the so-called legiti- 
mate stage is their object informa- 
tion, or is it rather to seek recreation? 
The movie may be educational. Many 
pictures are. But the average film 
production, to live, must be entertain- 
ing. That there are undesirable film 
plays as well as undesirable plays of 
the stage must be admitted. And the 
problem of their regulation belongs 
to the municipality, exactly as in the 
case of the legitimate stage produc- 
tion. If censorships are to be forced 
upon us, why not have state or city 
boards of censorship? Why a nation- 
al board of half a dozen men with 
power to determine what millions 
may not see? 
The danger of the so-called im- 
moral plays is greatly exaggerated by 
those who have not seen them, but 
who get their information second 
hand. I have been a “movie fan” 
since the days of the crude, jumpy 
French pictures which were the first 
offerings upon the screen. I have 
seen the evolution of the “movie” 
from a thing of mechanics to a finish- 
ed art and I believe that it is today 
better, mechanically, dramatically and 
morally than it ever has been. The 
public is the best board of censorship 
to be found. It will determine 
whether or not a play is worth while 
and its judgment is binding upon pro- 
ducers, for woe be unto the producer 
who tries to put across a film the like 
of which the public has renounced. 
The American public soon sickens of 
the undesirable, in spite of what the 
guardians of our morals may think. 
A national censorship would only 
work incalculable harm to a prosper- 
ous industry without achieving the 
purpose intended. 
Movie Fan. 
“Herr SoupiER Boy.” 
Next week’s offering at the Shubert 
Theatre, Boston, will be the Messrs. 
Shubert’s most important new musi- 
cal production of the season, Clifton 
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Crawford, in “Her Soldier Boy’— 
with John Charles Thomas and Mar- 
garet Romaine, supported by a great 
company of an even hundred, seen 
for the second week. The piece is 
shrewdly called a musical play, for it 
combines most delightfully the more 
alluring qualities of both musical 
comedy and operetta; having the gay 
fun of the one and the dramatic story, 
lovely romance and splendid music of 
the other, 
