for publishing, "without permission," reports of a "secret" police "investigation" (or whitewash-the paper suggested) of a dope and counterfeit ring operating out of State Prison. "We have news for Skousen," said the TRIB. "Apparently he fails to recognize that he is a servant of the taxpapers of Salt Lake City... He has conducted himself as police chief in a pettifogging manner and has repeatedly issued. marvelous, fictional accounts of impending invasions by international crime rings, gambling syndicates, nefarious gamblers and the like... [while] honest citizens, as shown by police records, have been harassed by overzealous policemen for minor infractions while the rate of burglaries and other class 1 offenses continues to mount."

Sounds like L.A., where another politicking topcop, drunk with the whiskey of his own importance, spends so much time attacking the courts for protecting citizens against unconstitutional police methods, that by his own frequent admission he has done a constantly worsening job of protecting the city against major crime.

Detroit cops also stung by Detroit Bar Association's Civil Liberties Committee report that 45% of the 1956 police arrests in the city were "for investigation," that formal charges were later issued for less than a fifth of these 33,186 illegal arrests. Police officials howled. Commissioner Hart insisted such arrests were vitally necessary if cops were to enforce law. Mayor Miriani, straddling the fence, still said, "I don't believe in keeping people overnight, or for 48 or 72 hours, without probable cause.

VOICES

At recent local confab of G. P.'s on

"Sexual Problems as Seen in General Practice, Dr. LeRoy Kurlander of U.S.C. said nature of sex fears seems to be shifting away from fear of sinfulness to fear of inadequacy. Dr. Norman Levy, another S. C. psychology professor, called legal prosecution of homosexuals unfair and uncivilized. If the homosexual, he said, "is in conflict with himself and with society, he can be helped by psychiatric treatment," but those who harm no one else are no harm to society. "We are all latent homosexuals because we all have homosexual needs-but in a so-called normal person these needs are thoroughly under control." (Under control, or repressed?)

Answering a hysterical mother. who'd just discovered that her model son is living with and in love with an older man, Jane Palmer, syndicated lovelornist, recently showed signs of some limited progress. "All human beings have gills, physical relics of the past," she began, and explained that homosexuality was something like gills, but that Momma must tread easy, not call the cops, and not even expect to be able to force a psychoanalyst down her 21-yr-old son's unwilling throat. "For he's adjusted to his present needs. And he won't wish to change unless he's quite sure that by doing so his life will be as fulfilling as we know it can."

Mary Haworth, another lovelornist, told a young man who'd found his friend was homosexual to cut the association off. She twisted a quote from Christ out of context to seem to give Christian approval for such unchristian lack of charity. She's been doing this subject pretty often lately, and pretty badly. Pity the poor fools who take such advice seriously.

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