normal members of society. . . N.Y. POST'S Barry Gray awhile back irked by Corrections Commissioner Anna Kross' use of less than medieval terminology to describe people in trouble with law giving discjock Gray chance to note NYC overrun with homosexuals, switchknives and gang wars. "Have you ever walked into a Lexington Avenue cafe around the witching hour? .. did you know homosexuals infest that very Lexington area? That wise guys for years have been calling that street 'Queen's Boulevard?' ' etc.
In NEWSWEEK, 3-21, John Lardner described Detroit's police censor, Inspector Herbert Case, who'll gladly send list of banworthy books to small towns that can't afford tedious
smuthunt. On list: Hemingway Mailer, O'Hara, Dos Passos, Farrell, Havelock Ellis and that filthy-minded Dane, Hans Christian Anderson. Case hopes publishers will soon cooperate with him and lay off nasty books one already submits advance manuscripts to him.
At Amer. Assn. of Women Ministers meet, Rev. Madeline Southard, Topeka, told delegates world needs. understanding of feminine element of God, of God's mother nature.
4th Intl. Congress for Sexual Equality, Paris, Nov. 11-14; topic: "Human Rights and Origin of Morals." Among speakers: Prof. Emilio Servado of Rome, V. Pres. of Italian Society for Psychoanalysis and Co-Editor INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXOLOGY.
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This stirring editorial should be widely distributed, especially to journalists, legislators, employers and policy-making individuals.
Newspaper men, never hesitating to publicly disembowel the hapless deviate, should ponder the courageous and highly ethical decision: "FLASH will no longer report court charges or trials where the three elements of age, consent and privacy are present."
Let journalists then tally up the number of broken homes, ruined careers and suicides chargeable to their own socially irresponsible "all-the-news-that'sfit-to-print" policies, and spend a sleepless night or two, while they "think on these things."
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In addition, FLASH will campaign for a change in Canada's laws, and says, "This campaign may not be popular but it will be right. That's good enough for FLASH."
And good enough for ONE! How welcome to find a fearless and vigorous supporter in the campaign ONE itself has been waging the past few years. I predict that more and more healthy-minded men and women will each year be joining this crusade for one of the basic human liberties the right to love, and to be loved.
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Marvin Cutler, Secretary Bureau of Public Information
FLASH is a weekly published in Toronto, Canada, and having more than 140,000 circulation.
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