large space advertising in such media as New York Times, Saturday Review and the New Yorker. It will be issued initially in a run of 10,000 copies.

'ADULTS ONLY' FILM TAG VOIDED IN CHICAGO

U. S. District Court Judge Philip L. Sullivan recently declared unconstitutional a Chicago ordinance requiring a movie with a sex theme to be limited to 'adults only.' He likened the censorship statute to "burning down the house to roast the pig." He affirmed the argument that such censorship is an infringement on the right of freedom of expression as guaranteed in the Constitution. “A picture is either obscene or it is not," the decision stated. The harmful impression that such a film might create does not diminish with advancing age of the viewer. Movie in question was Paramount's "Desire Under the Elms." The decision condemned the ordinance also because it set the adult age (for purposes of viewing certain motion pictures) at 21, and granted wide censorship authority to five old ladies (widows of former police officers). The decision called the law "capricious" and "vague in its language."

STERILIZATION URGED TO CUT ILLIGITIMACY

North Carolina legislators came up with a bill to permit sterilization as a means of curbing illigitimate births. It would give the state Eugenics board authority to classify as "grossly sexually delinquent" a woman who 20

gave birth twice out of wedlock and would order her sterilized. Doctors and county officials supported the proposal (which has not yet passed), pointing to the burden of illigitimate children on public welfare rolls, but private citizens have attacked the proposal as contrary to religion, costly, unweildy and as cruel and unusual punishment for "immoral behavior."!

Lacking in reports on the measure were any statements about the role of fathers in illigitimate births, as well as any discussion about abortion or birth control.

BIRTH CONTROL FAVORED, MICHIGAN STUDY REVEALS

Birth control has become a widespread topic in all strata of American society, a survey by the University of Michigan shows. In interviews with more than 2700 wives aged 18 to 38, only 1 in 20 flatly opposed family-limitation practices. Unqualified approval of some kind of birth control was voiced by 62% of the wives who were questioned. Most of the interviewed women considered 2-4 children ideal family size.

OHIO LEGISLATURE BUSY ON STRONGER SEX LAWS

The Ohio legislature is attempting to achieve what laws, enforcement practices and courts have almost never succeeded in doing in most other states (although they have also tried): halting major sex crimes by heaping the penalty on minor offenders. mattachine REVIEW

Major concern, it seems, is rape. But there is today before the state's Senate Judiciary Committee a bill to requireregistration of all sex offenders. Main support for this comes from the Ohio Parent-Teachers Association Association and Cleveland law enforcement officials. Such laws have been declared unconstitutional in other states either wholly or in part.

17 COPS CATCH 1 HOMOSEXUAL IN WELL-PLANNED TRAP

San Francisco Chronicle on April 12 reported that a well-planned joint action among 17 county and city police officers and agents of California's Alcoholic Beverage Control Department resulted in "catching" one homosexual in a bar-restaurant in nearby Marin County. The "stage" was set for catching a lot more of them, but they didn't show up.

A few days later this letter appeared in the Chronicle:

"You reported on April 12 that a task force of 17 State, county and city police officers were busy in Sausalito as a vice squad, hoping to catch homosexuals. I am wondering what the law is which makes this action possible. What is the exact legal offense which could be charged against a person, even obviously homosexual, sitting in a restaurant?...Is there a clear-cut statute against simply being homosexual which makes the present 'vice raids' legal? It would seem that an individual's sexual action with another adult, when violence is not involved, is a personal matter, of no reasonable concern to the police.

I understand that in the past two years the California Appellate Court has. held that homosexuals are not a menace to society and have not increased propensity to commit sex crimes."

In addition to the sound logic presented in the above comment, one more pertinent question might be asked of the Marin County citizens: utiIs such action as the above lizing the salaried time and energy of 17 police officers to obtain the the dearrest of one homosexual sirable way to use tax dollars to enforce the law in your county? Court records show that so many of these "misdemeanor vagrancy" arrests are promptly dismissed by judges. One wonders what other serious crimes in Marin county went unm ticed while the 17 officers were so busy setting their trap. Finally, one is also inclined to wonder if perhaps the hunting of homosexuals supplies a novel form of amusement to the police force? ORPHAN ANNIE A TERROR, PSYCHIATRIST DECLARES

A University of Cincinnati psychiatrist called Orphan Annie of the comics a greater threat than smut literature when he appeared on a panel discussing the merits of newsstand censorship not long ago. "Obscene literature is not much of a problem," Dr. James L. Titchener, assistant professor of medicine, stated. Personality difficulties, he said, develop out of a long history of relationships with other people, "not because · (Continued on page 28)