a homosexual. He had met Moran and other Marines outside the Hollywood USO. He had called collect to Moran at the Camp and Moran had called him. The two, with others, had been mixed up in some robberies. There were pawn tickets in Quatrano's pockets with Moran's name on them. Quatrano had forged checks. The car Quatrano was driving at the time of his death was stolen. Apparently Moran did not know how to call an affair to a halt in a less final way. As for the Corps' answer to the sex problem, it obviously can't stop sex, it has merely given guilt complexes to less intelligent Corpsmen and thus contributed to such acts as Moran's. It would appear that they countenance making out with a queer if you rob him, or get money, but not if you like him. This leads the Corpsmen into contact only with homosexuals of bad character such as Quatrano. Of course, if the military services tried to be honest, they would likely hear from old maids who think young men don't have sex until they are married or get out of service. But then since when did the military make rules due to public opinion? You don't win wars that way! They just don't have men in the military like they did in the old days of Greece.

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY SOMETHING ELSE!

The editor of that Hollywood newspaper (?) which crusaded against homosexuals took a vacation and went to Europe. We hear the paper is facing a lawsuit as a public nuisance. Anyway, the crusading spirit of the editor didn't stop, it merely switched targets, from homosexuals to theaters showing movies considered immoral. In a front page article the newspaper reported that a man was attempting to prevent theaters.

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from showing a film he did not approve of, and trying to get the licenses of such theaters revoked.

Now the paper wants to go beyond controlling people's private sex acts; it wants to control their minds-what they see and what ideas can be presented for consideration in films, and presumably, in publications. The film which brought on the campaign, which failed as did the campaign against homosexuals, was, The Balcony, starring Shelley Winters

a good, funny show if you can stay with it at the start to get the train. of thought.

These campaigners are probably behind the attempt to get the laws changed, to raise the minimum age for drinking alcoholic beverages and driving cars. The point is that they have no faith either in the young people of today, nor of their parents, nor of the present laws, nor of the law enforcers, in fact they don't trust anyone but themselves.

WE'RE SURROUNDED!

Just as some camp referred to the homosexuals as the sea around us, you can get the idea that bigots and thought-controllers are also all around us. The Los Angeles Times points out that even in Italy there is censorship. Bruce Renton reports that while all the sexy films get past the censors, no serious discussion of sex and its repercussions on family life is allowed. One victim was the famous German caricaturist, George Grosz, who had previously had the same thing (his work confiscated) happen in Hitler's Germany. Also Luis Bunel's great Spanish film "Viridiana" was seized at its showing in Milan because it constituted an offense against the Roman Catholic religion. Although forced to return the film, the police immediately seized another film, "The Queen Bee"