the courts, in the two cases mentioned, and several others, endangers freedom of the press.

YES, NO, MAYBE SO, CERTAINLY

At about the time California citizens were reading that their state supreme court had unanimously declared Tropic of Cancer to be NOT obscene, nor to be "hard core pornography", citizens elsewhere were reading that their courts were saying just the opposite. The NY court said it was "From first to last page . . . filthy. . ." In St. Louis citizens were reading that "Experts Doubt Value of Law of Obscenity".

Dr. Paul H. Painter, child psychiatrist at St. Louis Children's Hospital said that the typical delinquent is an actor or doer. He does not read. He's trying to prove himself as a man. Frank W. Miller, professor of criminal law at Washington University, and Norman W. London, practicing criminal lawyer, both said counsel should move very cautiously when dealing with the delicate area of free speech. Dr. Leon A. Gottfried, acting chairman of the English department at Washington University said the principal difficulty with a decent literature commission is that "public-spirited citizens" often cannot tell the decent from the indecent literature.