Restraining Demoralizing Public Pictures
By Editor
WE learn from an Eastern paper that "Michigan has a law which provides that no sign, picture, painting, or other representation of murder, assassination, stabbing, fighting, or any personal violence, or of the commission of any crime, shall be posted, under penalty of fine or imprisonment." If California had a similar law the occupation of a considerable number of sensational artists and bill-posters would be gone; and theaters would have to resort to some other means of corrupting the morals of the young and inexperienced, than with their demoralizing pictures and worse plays. The advertising of legitimate business is all right, but when theaters, houses of ill repute, and saloons flaunt in the faces of the public pictures which can but bring a blush to the cheek of modesty, public policy demands that their greed be restrained by law.