wouldn't teach practice. However repugnant polygamy may seem, it hardly constitutes such a danger to public morality as to justify wholesale arrests and family wrecking for the ostensible purpose of "protecting" the family. Can authorities have right to seize properly cared-for children when objecting to views of parents? Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy O'Connor banned film GAME OF LOVE because "it aroused sexual feelings in me." Hear tell only sexy scene showed adolescent boy running nude

Cop cites motorist for speeding. Cop discards carbon from ticket. Motorist cites cop for littering street. Charge sticks...

ODD BITS ...

Newsman Ed Lahey, on Richard Loeb's murder in prison by fellow inmate objecting to sex advance, said, "Thrillkiller Loeb, for all his fine education, today ended his sentence with a proposition." ... Reviews of Andrew Rosenthal's play, THIRD PERSON, at NYC'S PRESIDENT sound very good

Dr. Masters of Wash. U. Med. School sez new 3rd sex growing rapidly: older persons, formerly male or female, whose hormone secretions fail as they age . . . AP sez Prince Ranier (long disinclined to wed even to insure principality's independence -before Kelly romance) was shy, formal with Bronx Vet-Hospital nurses, "more communicative with male patients." . . . Men experimentally (at risk to masculinity) getting female hormones to halt artery-hardening . . . Selective Service boss Gen. Hershey attacks softness of youth, inner-spring mattresses, easy college courses, entertainment and other pampering Unemployment Ins. Referee in NY ruled man fired for not shaving beard entitled to compensation. "Unwarranted infringement upon his privilege as an individual in a free community to present such an appearance as he wished."

GETTING THE TREATMENT

New lowa law, H.F. 185, stemmed from sex murders of boy and girl, defines all "persons charged with a public offense, who are suffering from a mental disorder and are not a proper subject for the schools for the feeble-minded or for committment as

insane person, having criminal propensities toward the commission of sex offenses, and who may be considered dangerous to others,"

"criminal sexual psychopaths." Law describes procedures whereby "any reputable person" may charge such an individual has such "propensities," and the court appoints psychiatrist for exam, then may commit victim indefinitely to asylum, until cured, or until proven to court release not "incompatible with welfare of society." . . . Serious consequences from such slovenly undefinable terminology...

11-25-55: DES MOINES REGISTER's Nick Lamberto sez 29 persons committed, 20 in Sioux City, without trial, for morals offenses or "conspiracy to commit morals offenses" . . . Dr. W. B. Brown, state hospital supt., criticized law, complained lack of facilities, added, "There is no specific cure or treatment for that condition Law requires me to report to the court once a year. What can I say? I can't say they are cured." County Atty. Don O'Brien said at least "word is out that they're not welcome in Sioux City any more." Figured $1500 a month well-spent to keep 20 in Mt. Pleasant . . . Will homosexual acts

cease to occur among lowa's 2,700,000? Hardly. Nor do officials like O'Brien, or the ex-mayor of Miami, or anyone else, have right to say homosexuals are "not welcome" in a community. 29 scapegoats placed, till cured, with doctor who can't cure them. Is this due process? Can every lowan who has committed any "unusual" sex act, or who might, or who might be accused of having a "men-