genuine Degas in its midst for a piece.

HOMOSEXUALS ARE NEVER FAT

Over Austin way the annual Southwestern Homicide Investigator's seminar heard one Dr. Hayden Donahue, assistant superintendent Arkansas State Hospital, hold forth in the very best 19th-century Lombroso style to the effect that he had never come across a fat man who had committed a homosexual crime. Describing body types of homosexuals he said they generally are slender, or athletic (careful there Dr. D.) and had triangular or eggshaped faces and a similar profile. Of the face we trust.

Up at the Capitol Gov. Price Daniel signed into law still one more of those so-called anti-obscenity laws which in due time invariably wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court only to have the stuffing knocked out of them. Meanwhile, ministers who find their crusades against Satan flagging get a good deal of mileage out of them, as do police officials who can always scrounge up a few whimpering newsstand operators and a fistful of girlie pictures in case newspaper coverage of their departments has a slump.

Not to be overlooked are the judges who find it very strengthening to come out resoundingly against sin-in-print every now and then, nor the lawyers who, win or lose, always stand to make a good piece of change off one side or the other, maybe from both.

GOV. DANIEL'S EVER-READY FOUNTAIN PEN

What governor wouldn't sign a bill that offered so many advantages, unless aside from having a fountain pen he also happened to have some knowledge of law and a bit of respect for the First Amend-

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ment to the U.S. Constitution and a little responsibility toward American traditions of freedom? It's pretty hard to picture Sam Houston signing such a bill, but then Sam was quite a different type in a good many ways. Wouldn't you say?

Gov. Daniel would do well to take note of the recent U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that police may no longer just grab a news dealer and an assortment of his stock, then haul him in on the charge of selling obscene material. The Court says there must be a warrant and the warrant must be specific. Ruling on a Missouri case the Court reversed a decision by the Missouri Supreme Court upholding the dealers' conviction. Decision on a similar California case ruled that no one can be convicted for selling so-called obscene material unless it can be proven that he knew it to be obscene.

LAWMEN MUST OBEY LAWS, SAYS COURT!

Surprise of the Supreme Court session and viewed with dismay by police officers the nation over was the novel doctrine of the Court that. the police really mustn't be allowed to behave illegally any longer. Most of us have been so naive all these years as to believe that they were supposed to and that the question. was hardly worthy of the august attention of the Court.

It seems, however, that in 24 of the 50 states police could introduce evidence in criminal cases no matter how illegally obtained. Subscribing to the immoral doctrine that the end justifies the means was the entire law-enforcement machinery and the courts of such populous states as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. In a ringing rebuke to this kind of shifty behavior the Supreme Court referred to "the right to pri-