Suggestion that the moral standards of motion pictures be supervised by a joint committee composed of representatives of the industry, the public and the clergy is contained in a statement issued yesterday by Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, leader of the Jewish groups in the inter-faith crusade against indecency and obscenity in cinematic productions.
Dr. Goldstein hastens to point out that the Jewish groups “do not encourage censorship but they must insist upon sanitation.”
Thus he unknowingly answers
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