policies of various state agencies in dealing therewith.'

"In contrast, the Committee has set out on a large-scale policing and public information program.

"Nor is this the first time this Committee has strayed from the proper activities of gathering information on which to base proposed laws. Rather, it is another in a series of incidents that raise questions about the advisability of the Committee's future existence."

(The Miami Herald) "It is hard to understand why any responsible official group would issue such a publication as the booklet 'Homosexuality and the Citizenship in Florida,' now being circulated by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee.

"In the unsavory annals of this body the so-called Johns Committee this illustrated monograph on perversion is a new low.

"It is shocking to see that it bears the great seal of Florida, and the governor's office as the return address.

"We feel that the immediate resignation of every state official who had a hand in it, and full investigation of possible violation of obscenity laws, are called for." ONLY LAST JANUARY

Only last January many newspapers were eager to publicize the statements of Mr. Evans of the Committee staff that at last "the Committee has withdrawn from he practice of investigating allega-

tions of sex deviation against teachers. This is a task for the State Department of Education." Evans made it clear then that the Committee was not dropping their campaign on homosexuals. Finally, in March, the journal of the American Association of University

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Professors made mention of the investigation of the Committee at the University of South Florida and the failure of the President (Allen) to carry the nomination of Professor D. F. Fleming to the Board of Controls because of alleged communist leanings. Apparently President Allen has the reputation of being worse than other university officials when it comes to protecting the rights of professors and students. He actually "invited" the Committee to investigate his campus.

Interestingly enough, the Miami Herald chose this March period to print a series of articles on the Problems in Our Prisons, in which Joy Reese Shaw did what the Johns Committee avoided doing like the plague. She actually investigated some aspects of homosexuality on a scientific basis. In the most devasting words of the series the whole flaw of "policing" morals and the prospects of changing a person by only imprisioning him came out in the following interview.

"At Raiford Penitentiary, 26 year old Robert Wesley Davis, a chubby carnival worker who bore the label 'Dade's best-known sex offender' sat in a stark wooden chair and spoke his last words. 'It seems that all my life people in one way or another have been locking me up. They couldn't be satisfied with that. Now they want to take my life.'" Miss Shaw then adds that for 15 years, since he was 12, Davis had been in and out of state institutions on morals charges, involving young boys, and no one had attempted to understand him or his problem. Yet most law enforcement officals and judges and criminologists claim that homosexuals and sex offenders should be imprisoned for