This is a grave fact. Standing alone it would seem to charge a certain Jewish element with intentional gross immorality. But that hardly states the condi¬ tion. There are two standards in the United States, one ruling very largely in the production of plays, the other reigning, when it does reign, in the general pub¬ lic. One is an Oriental ideal—“If you can’t go as far a§ you like, go as far as you can.” It gravitates natu¬ rally to the flesh and its exposure, its natural psychic habitat is among the more sensual emotions.
This Oriental view is essentially different from the Anglo-Saxon, the American view. And it knows this. Thus is the opposition to censorship accounted for.
It is not that producers of Semitic origin have de¬ liberately set out to be bad according to their own standards, but they know that their whole taste and temper are different from the prevailing standards of the American people; and if censorship were estab¬ lished, there would be danger of American standards being officially recognized, and that is what they would prevent. Many of these producers don’t know how filthy their stuff