ing Atty. Delhey denied entrapment had been involved. Univ. officials remained mostly aloof. A Jan. 9 Michigan Daily editorial by Thomas Hayden decried the 'crackdown', insisted police had used illegal arrest methods, and questioned the motives of sudden police interest in an old problem. Police are right, he said, in enforcing the law as it stands, but the law itself is archaic and harmful. As first defendants came to trial, Defense Atty. Henry Conlin argued for dismissal on grounds police used illegal entrapment, and that acts charged did not constitute 'procuring', and that the 'gross crime of indecency' is not defined by Michigan's law, and therefore is contrary to constitutional requirements that a criminal offense be explicitly defined. Circuit judge James Breakey denied the motion, rejected the arguments, and sentenced 2 men to prison, 2 to county jail, and 12 to probationary terms. Other cases pending...

OBSCENE VOICES

The filth hounds of the National Organization for Decent Literature and the Citizens for Decent Literature are pressing their vigilante action against the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment, in Hollywood, Williamsburg, Va., Portland, Ore., and many other cities...

WASH., D.C.: April 6th, Rep. Wm. Cramer (D. Fla.) introduced a bill (H.R. 11590) in the House to amend U.S. Code section 1461, title 18 so as to provide fines of $5000 or 5 years prison (doubled on subsequent offenses) for any person who knowingly mails, carries in the mail or removes from the mails any "article, matter, thing, device, or substance of any kind, which, in the opinion of the normal, reasonable, and prudent individual, would suggest, induce, arouse, incite, or cause, directly or indirectly (1)

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lewd, libidinous, lustful, indecent, obscene, immoral, or depraved thoughts, desires, or acts on the part of any person who is under the age of nineteen years... etc. In a House speech, Cramer painted the usual lurid and phoney picture of vast enterprises reaping a halfbillion dollars annually off the vicious lewd traffic, and the valiant efforts of postal and local enforcement officials to stem the corrupting tide. Said his bill would allow prosecution of violators at point of origin of 'obscene' material, or at point of receipt, or any point between. The purpose of this, tho he did not explain, is to circumvent due process quarantees and work financial hardship on accused by allowing multiple suits in different parts of country for same act, so that prosecution could also select the jury most likely to convict. Hon. Cramer did mention that the Supreme Court had previously declared such a law unconstitutional. He noted, "There are those who would contend that this legislation would make the government an arbitrary censor, and would violate the freedom of the press and speech clause of the Constitution," but brushed aside that argument with a slightly out of context quote from a slightly outdated Supreme Court opinion...

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