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HALL OF JUSTICE

-OR PUNISHMENT

We note that at ribbon-cutting ceremonies to open San Francisco's new Hall of Justice, the mayor, Hon. George Christopher, called the new facility a "monument to crime prevention," or something to that effect. Forgive us, but we think our mayor is dead wrong. The new Hall of Justice is, rather, a monument to punishment-of which monuments we have all too many in our nation today, halls that are teeming with humanity, but hollow when it comes to facing the reality of prevention, rehabilitation, correction, and help for our fellow

man.

The price of crime prevention is too high a price for the forces in charge of correction to implement prevention in its fullest meaning. It is far too easy to perpetuate the punitive barbarisms which build the towering in-

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stitutions of police power, investigation, and regulation of people's lives, etc., because these things build careers and are invariably the magic stepping stones to higher political office. A recently passed state law requires any California citizen to give adequate identification to a policeman under certain "reasonable" conditions. This inroad into individual liberties, while conceived for "better law enforcement procedures," as undoubtedly the peace officer's associations sponsoring this bill declared, is but an intermediate step to the full police state setup where every individual must carry an identification card with photo, fingerprint and other data on it, and probably with the requirement that every change of address will have to be duly noted with a police or sheriff's department.

This is not a quibble against the new Hall of Justice. How we wish it were to be just that-a Hall of Justice under law, of Understanding of one's fellow man, of Respect for one another, and of Frevention of transgressions by one against the person and property of another.

But with law enforcement being still as punitive as it is, and with crime having become an industry, we fear the Hall of Justice is already just a newer and bigger Hall of Punishment.

TELEVISION BREAKTHROUGH BRINGS FAVORABLE COMMENT

"The Rejected" on KQED, San Francisco, Sept. 11, was probably not

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Volume VII

OCTOBER 1961 Number 10

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 CALLING SHOTS

4 "SEXUALLY PROVOCATIVE" MAGAZINES NOT LEGALLY OBSCENE

6 ARRANGED BY THE GODS, fiction. by Gregory H. Roxton.

9 THE "QUEEN" WHO ALMOST BECAME KING OF THE UNITED STATES by Noel I. Garde.

11 PATIENCE by Tom Wilson.

12 TOWARD AN ENLIGHTENED SOCIETY

by Lee Vincent, Ph.D.

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15 NIGHT CHILDREN, a poem by Bud Kelly

21 PRIMER FOR CENSORS by Lon Tinkle

23 TWO MERIT AWARDS FOR 1961

24 SON LIKE THIS POSES A PROBLEM by Dr. Walter Alvarez

26 BOOKS

29 READERS WRITE

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