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(TO BE CONTINUED)

maltachine REVIEW

BOOKS

LIGHT FROM THE BENCH

CAST THE FIRST STONE, by Justice John M. Murtagh, Chief Magistrate of the City of New York, and Sara Harris. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1957.

"Any sincere judge who is administratively responsible for courts which deal with sex offenders must be struck by the fact that our laws are based on false assumptions and unimaginative cruelty."

This chord, with amplifications and illustrations taken from numerous cases tried in New York City, dominates this eye-opening exposition of the prostitution problem in Amerca's largest city. The sordid story of prostitution, with its legal snares that enmesh individuals but leave the basic problem itself unsolved, with its accompaniment of corruption and entrapment, is true of any large American city. The authors, however, have chosen to tell the story as they know it in one particular locality a locality in which one of them, Justice John M. Murtagh, is Chief Magistrate of the city courts, and the other, Sara Harris, a working sociologist and author.

As such, this work has an interest and validity not only to those concemed with the problem of prostitution, but with current American laws in toto. In dealing with one area in which inadequate and unenforceable laws have proven ineffective, the authors of this book have struck at the root of the problem in all areas covered by these laws. And they have done this with a human understanding and a clear head all too rare in popular thinking in this general field.

More important, the key author of this book, Justice Murtagh, between its covers and elsewhere, has ventured a conviction that deserves echo wherever sex code reforms are contemplated. A devout Catholic, a man who commands profound respect in his profession and community, Justice Murtagh has had the courage to demand consistently that the laws be confined to the public domain and for the protection of the individual, and not be used to legislate the private morality of consenting adults. He says, in effect, that a sin is a sin and a crime a crime, and that laws should recognize a limitation beyond which lies the domain of private conscience. It is no accident that both prostitution and homosexuality were the concem of seven Catholic clergymen in England, whose report he quotes with approval. This because the laws in Anglo-Saxandom concerning both these problems constitute together a glaring instance of legal attempts at interference with private morality. This report, which has been cited in a previous issue of the Mattachine Review and which is quoted on page 300 of CAST THE FIRST STONE, was prepared at the request of a committee of the Home Office in London and commissioned by the late Cardinal Griffin, Arch bishop of Westminster. It stated, in unequivocal terms, that "penal sonctions are not justified for the purpose of attempting to restrain sins against sexual morality committed in private by responsible adults."

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The authors of CAST THE FIRST STONE propose at least one positive measure abolition of vice squads. "Take the vice squad," they say. "Its very being is an immorality and a shame. We are forcing the guardians of our society to play a filthy game of entrapment and are making spies, decoys, and stool pigeons out of them. Yet, hypocritically, we dare to affect surprise and indignation when some of the