Wiley earlier in the year had written Postmaster General
Lewd Material Summerfield protesting against
in Los Angeles Mail Charged
WASHINGTON. (PP) Senator Wiley (R-Wis.), said today present anti-pornography laws are "shockingly inadequate” and that he plans to introduce legislation in the next Congress to tighten them.
"Present statutes barring lewd material from the mails are grossly inadequate to protect our youngsters," he said.
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AS AN ILLUSTRATION, Wiley cited to a reporter a recent letter he received from the Post Office Department stating it did not have a legal basis to bar a magazine published at Los Angeles devoted to homosexuals.
use of the mails to transmit the magazine.
In the reply to Wiley's letter, Abe M. Goff, solicitor of the Post Office Department, said the postmaster at Los Angeles had sent in specimen copies of the magazine that were not sent as sealed first class mail.
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GOFF SAID the issues were devoted to the legal and social position of homosexuals and added:
"They have not contained matter of an obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy character within the meaning of the said section of the law as those terms have been defined by the courts.
"Therefore, there is no legal basis for excluding the magazine from the mails and the postmaster has been instructed accordingly."
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