since the ruling seems to have said that it is unconstitutional to advertise a motion picture as fit for one class of citizens (adults) and not for another. "A picture is either obscene, offensive to the taste, foul or loathsome-or it is not. None of the criteria can change with the age of the beholder." Questions of what children ought be allowed to see have no relation to defining of obscenity. Police Commissioner O'Connor "very properly told the Chicago American, as that paper phrased it editorially, that he is disturbed about movies and television programs that spend too much time showing crime and not enough time showing crime solutions. But can police demand that the press and entertainment media propagandize, as a duty, the debateable moral that "crime does not pay?" Movies and TV are under no legal duty to propagandize for the police departments, even though the policeman's lot's a necessary one.

A yr-old L. A. ordinance requiring any bar or liquor-serving restaurant that has entertainment to get a license from the police, and specifically banning homosexual entertainers or customers, was unconstitutionalized last week by Superior Judge Evelle Younger. The ordinance was fought by the Musicians' Union.

ACLU

protesting

Philadelphia mass police raids (without warrants) on coffee houses, police refusal to permit those arrested to phone friends, family or lawyers, oral threats by police to drive owners out of business, irrelevant, sensational and unsubstantiated charges about the character of patrons to discredit them and confuse the issues. ACLU also criticized Feb. 12th magistrate's hearing finding 17 persons

guilty of disorderly conduct without specific charges or any competent evidence.

Memphis' top vicecop W. P. Huston told Aldersgate Methodist Church men's club that ministers, doctors and other well-educated men were among 67 "sexual perverts" arrested in city in Jan. and Feb.-and cops could bag 15-20 of these men (and some women) per day if they had the time and the men. He added the usual lie that where a young boy, between the age of 10 and 16, "resists the advances of one of these men, there is violence." Unless he is speaking of the violence that sometimes comes from young hustlers who, even at such tender ages, make a profession of "resisting" such advances.

THE REVOLT

Village Voice, weekly newspaper from 25 Greenwich Ave., NYC 11, printed an interesting dialogue called The Revolt of the Homosexual, by Seymour Krim in March. 18th issue.

In an imaginary discussion between a homosexual and a sceptical heterosexual antagonist, the homosexual announces that the gay minority is tired of hiding out "We want recognition for our simple human rights... Courageous gay people are now beginning to realize that they are human beings who must fight to gain acceptance for what they are."

The "straight guy" brought up all the standard arguments: "Do you think it does your cause any good to see platinum-haired freaks swishing along 8th Street screaming at the top of their voices?" "But you'll admit that most homosexuals are much more effeminate than ordi-