late 1959, it is probable that the Code people are going to be extremely leery of letting "perversion or any inference of it" appear in any of the films cited above. Last year both the Code and the Legion rejected two feature films on Oscar Wilde.

In Canada where censors are always particularly busy, Alberta's board of censors banned four films. and cut scenes from many U. S. and foreign releases in 1960. The banned films were "Suddenly Last Summer," "Smiles of a Summer Night, "Bramble Bush," and "The Third Sex." Col. P. J. A. Fleming, chairman of the board, gave the following reasons for two of the pic-

tures:

"Suddenly Last Summer" "Although homosexuality may be suitable for some men and women, it is not fit for teenagers who make up so large a segment of the movie audience." The board considered that the picture had "a depraved and thorougly shocking theme."

"The Third Sex" The board found that the topic homosexuality— coupled with seduction and prostitution, was condoning one evil to save another. The board could not accept the responsibility for the effect this picture could make on the morality and ethics of young people.

Once again adults must take the Pablum of babies for a diet. Canadians, nor any of us, will ever be allowed to grow up at this rate.

Concerning the movie "La Dolce Vita," don't be fooled. In this film homosexuality is presented in its most ludicrous, derisive aspect. And there is nothing either obscene or immoral in the picture. However, every delicate situation is suggested but never given in the raw. Even the striptease number is suggested rather than actually filmed.

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Therefore, those who go to see this picture looking for sex, sex and more sex, will be disappointed. Some people consider the film a work of art. It is certain that Hollywood would never have attempted it.

SURVEY

SAN FRANCISCO. Three husky teenagers confessed to brutally beating and robbing a young school teacher and then leaving him to die beneath the wheels of a streetcar because they thought he was "queer." This the police learned in later questioning was their habit. "We hate them," one of the boys told reporters. The boys whose pictures and names were printed in San Francisco papers were Larry Magee 16, of 116 Tiffany St., Robt. Hall 17, and Wm. Castillio 17, of 680 Castro St. A fourth boy, Michael Kilkenny, 16, of 710 Castro St. was arrested as the driver of their car. The pattern of the boys' attack was that they would spot a likely victim and talk to the person a few minutes after which time they professed to be able to tell whether or not he was a homosexual. If they thought he was, they would beat him up. They indicated that they made a pasttime of "rolling queers." Police have since been searching for other possible victims of the perverted quartet. Under the circumstances, we cannot believe they will find many.

TALLAHASSEE. The Florida legislative investigating committee reported the 25th of May that Florida's public educational system is "a veritable refuge for practicing homosexuals."

Filing its biennial report with the Legislature, the committee also reported that it had found a "call