HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1940-02-16, Page 611
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lit of "smutty magazines" is
et
the new stands of the
"Last month 8,000,000 people
of ;them under 21 -bought
eia-of 160 nationally distributed
#1q;ddeals reeking witli frankly ob-
lq table• material; iii some locale
*lett
the mnagazines constitute from
l0 ri . - o11rth to one-half of all news-
mltaad des. These are publications
lt1 *t -possess no literary or artistic
is
ttnemit; any intelligent adult would in-
sbantly recognize,.., them as deliberate
j p s u etreial exploitations of filth and
,s !latent violations of existing laws
•against , obscenity.
The filthy magazine is not a chi-
mera of prudish minds. Its menace
is • real, its i,ri:filience• potently crane,
3zucriting. Law enforcement agencies
•recognize that the sex oriminal is a
readier of such 1i.tetratture and that
the imaginations of most juvenile de-
linquents are inflamed by pornogra-
phic publications. Lewis E. Lawes,
Warden of Sing Sing Prison, declares;
"Salacious magazines are defnni1t'iy
connected with the criminal activity
of individuals predisposed toward sex
• cremes. They have had ad ai te ef-
feet in many cases with which I
have came directly in contact." J,
Edgar Hoover testifies: "The •publi-
aatuan and •dist:nibution of salacious
material is a peculiarly vicious evil;
the destruction of moral character
caused by it among young" people can-
not be overestimated. The circulation
of periodicals containing such mater-
adal plays an important part in the de-
•
velolpmuent-of crime %among the! youth
of our o®wntay."
In
,the past decade the growth o f
salacilous li tetz atwne hers been the xnpst
rapid in, history. During this period
sex crimes have more than doubled,
With one out o1 every flour • )mmit-
ted by youths under 20. The laates2-
Natiional Uniform Crime Reports Bub
1etdn indurates that 'Mane crime in
general waned, in the U. S. during
1939, sex offenses increased seven
Per emit. Rape eases have: shot up
50 per cent. in the ,past six years.
Sanford Bates, .formerly Di:reciter of
Federal Prisons, attributes this in-
crease largely "to the 1u.rid accounts
of sex crimes which: appear in pub-
lic print, sex stories in Magazines,
movies, etc.," and K. P. Aldrich, Chief
Inspector. of the Post Office Depart-
ment, asiserts: "The .present flood of
filthy publications lst greatly respoiis-
ibis for the inere se insex crimes,
ari,Fl furnishes an important 'motiva-
tion to youthful offenders.".
But overt crime is pot the only
I i m portant , part of the problem.
"Wherever obscente magazines' circu-
late, cultural values, decline, inferior
standards of taste and morals pre-
veil. The pernicious effect of such
magazines upon high school 'children
is keenly realized by principals and
teachers. Frederick'ouk Law, N. Y.
Director of the Na enrol Eduei tion
Association, voices the atitituds of the
teaehritng professslon when he says:
"For the • young, especially, such pub-
lications cultivate vulgarity, lower
-Praise' its Sure
Dragging emend each
day, Unable to do
bsuiewed; c reohY
with the cluUdren-
feeling miserable.
Blaming Son `des"
when the kidneysmay
be out of order. Wbieu
kidneys bathe system
dogs with impurities.
Headaches , backache. ,frequently follow;'
Dodds Kidney Pills help dear the 'totem;
giving nature a chance to restore �th
and energy. Easy to take. Safe. 116
Dodds Kidney Pills
taste, awaken lack of respect for wo-
manhood, and; lead directly, toward an
increase of social evils."
Distinctions must be made, of
oourse, among -various types of mag-
aainess. There are some that ,handle
risque., .m+ateri'al with wit or :iuttelli-
gent 1rumox1. .with verve and urban-
ity; totbrand .them as obscene would
run counter counter .to thb generally
accepted attitudes of society today.
The filtrhy magazines that have late-
ly provoked clean-up campaigns in
many commundtios.are easily recog-
nizable by their cheap vulgarity;
they specialize in portraying a de-
graded concept of sex, or in glorify-
ing- the activities of el�titmdnals and
perverts.
Few persons realize how vvids-
sptread the pox of smutty magazines
has •become. They can be bought by
the bale by any 13 -year-old child in
alnnos't any city or town. They filter
into the corner candy store; they
can be ipurebased at filling stations,
soda. fountains, •railroad. 'nmd bus
waiting rooms. They flaunt ,sugges
tively posed nen -nudes on ;their
covers; their contents are revolting
,slime, nstuee'atung to the 'normal
adult but dangerotisily appealing to
. weak or impresssioniale mentalitites.
Mese,. publicatioars are beyond
the pals of decency, not only in
•their text and illustrations, but also
in their advertising columns, which
offer everything from' sexual stimu-
lants, fake dire and abortifacients to
the vilest- of privately: printed obscen-
ities. Among the latter are the re-
volting "cartoon books" -a set' of six
or eight drawings purporting to re-
veal perversions in -the lives of stage
and screen stars. That cartoon boots
thus advertised find their _ way into.
the hands of high school youths and
incite similar practices has been es-
tablished by postal inspectors and lo;
pal law enfoa•cemsnt officers. '
Faced ,by this vicious situation,
whole communities are demanding a
clean-up in the und'erwarld branches
of the magazine ;business. Pnasecu;..
Coin of offenders in the federal counts
Inas• mat • been highly. suceessful. In.
the .fi.•rs+t place,•.: it is dificplt to''Mind
a binding definition of obscenity; it
«I was just saying how forgetful husbands are • • •
044.9edardoey ea/A./me
EO%G DISTANCE
. , and put'me to shame!" A 300=
mile station -to -station call after 7
p.m. (and' all day Sunday) usually
costs no more than a 6ouple of movie
tickets. With rates that low,' a fellow
can easily keep in touch with his
family when he's away from home.
Ni/hy not call thew up ... ton"iightP
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be brou t only at ' pt�int of aII'l,
kin eth , is, where ithe m,agaziae was
pniuted•
It en poet ofiilce itasipectors
a.s muct as a Year 'tto I� a single
outfit o of business. Such publiete
ens -wtar along complicate�dd t 19n�as.
They y, have four comp�sandes:
on bo t the magazine, anotthter to
do thei robing, a third to place tbhe
magazilr, oin news Sta:nde, and fln-
ally a pp'ing company. To build
up an ght case-againstt them, in-
spectutra ve to place t e prwntdng
planet 11 r surveillanice; they htave
to thiitde axpress wagons, and alctu-
al1y. a,e :e bundles tof magazinets as
they down tihe chute from the
sshitppi' pawl'; they •have to fol-
low tine ver• state lines •and th reugh
to tine s stands, •where other in-
specltors urdhase them. A11 this iv
preparat • ifor thte 1nevit 'b1e quee-
triton by defense lawyer: '
""Well, M4r-. Inspecibor, how do
you than thus particular maga
zine act uta travelled intersitate
ow:union rier?" -
To h the answer •must be:
"Becau personally invtialed
when it from; the printing ooan
panty; I de with it to the railroa
stahiton; accompanied it to its; d
tinatien Dass a state line. I Seco
nine it b trse of my ow.n writing
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After •this, wthen a conviction
secured, e ,corporra'tion..•may"he fi
ed only 5�0, and the publisher pla
ed on 'p ation after promising n
to pain naughty magazines a
nvore.
Federa judger cannot be ascus
of mere andn�esv or indifference
�thi�s m. . Their 1iaiiilth • are tied
cumber e laws; apparently, n mo
thy'willing ' to tuna feeler
eourte' tribunals of moralit
Thin trhai s the respohsibility f
eupprests' obscene • 1it:mature up
local and prosecutors - whi
is exactly where it belongs.
A bri ut example of what ca
be acro li•Shted by Local cornmeal
action i the Permanent_ Comanittte
on Public Decency,- for -red un Buffal
as result of a campaign
the N.Y.,uffEvening News. T�h•e ed
tor of t News detailed A. Bori
one- of beast 'repr3i'bei s', to go
among the news strands and buy u
copies o :objectionable literature. I
a few hoursBoris .picked up an ar
fol of stench -making periodical
showed m to •civic 'leadters an
ciergyme of the Protestant, Cathtol
and Jewel faiths; they readily agree
to co -Operate in the campaign. Nex
the Chieff-. the Buffalo Police, th
U. S:--' - -et•' Attorney and the FB
were, ttas to conduct separate i.
vestigrat . . While these were a
progress, e. Parent-Teacher Asaoci
iron, the 11tk.C.A. and the local' head
of the BoyScouts, Girl Scouts, Jun
or Chamber of Commerce and Hol
Name -Society gave their enthusiast
sanction the drive. Radia-epeeche
rise • e viewpoinits of educe.
ore, phi "ams and housewives wen
made by presidents of the Sta
eachers lege, the%Uoiinty Medica
ociety the Federation of Wo
mentos ,Cl . Indeed, the whole com
mtundty w aroused to concerted ac
tion ag in ' indecent pu.blicati•ons.
.. T'wo weeksafter the campaign be
gab, the Buffalo Police Departmen
Presented evidence to tithe Grand Jury
hat local indecency ondintances were
eaaag violated, Three indictment
ere •retu di; , 'three officiate of mag
amine distributing- coinpun.iea ,surren
Bred and osted bail. FBI m.en mad
tree further arrests in 'cdnnecttio
wat'h imtpa r use of the mails, Twen
y -nine news dealers eemtoved objet
on;aible magazines from their stands
wtoles distributor `"announced
that the thereafter' would ,refuse to ,lis
tribute• off-color magazines. A month
the paign started not a
tty zine eotild be bought on
uffalo •n elands,. To perpetuate
he Suter of the thrive, a Petrman
e Com ee 'on .Public Decency
w ig it consists.of two
eats, twomti�nisters., an . Episcopa
bishop, two rabbis, and the 'heads of
naetied:11y every 'organization in the
ty. An his may be the most im-
pertantt result of all -the campaign
broughtcivic • enthusiasm to a
higher pit than anything else had
one in many years,
Another successful . 'technique of
leaning upthe news btands was re-
cently' employed int V,'estchester
linty, N. District Attorneys Wale
a Ferris, aroused by a plague of
mime, in a altetribubore of sex
agaziwes attend a meeting .in his
ffiee. The,distributers admitted
at they did not enjoy handling
y
literature but found themselves
riven to i by .competition. Without
reats or ectotring Fe iris said to
em: "Y' and 1 both want this
ing 'Sl p l�h d. slogan do it by
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your town
olations, and I will punish the obher
efow." 7 distributors pledged
emselves the program, poltieed ev-
ry 'stand, the county, reported
e �s dealerswho bought objection -
le magazines from other sources.
o arrests me made; pressure from
e D. A.',. fficel-backed by a de -
ermined .c itton of civic and rellig-
us organ.i tions, was sufficient.
esitoheste County was freed. of
rty magazines with not a single ar-
et, not dollar of oast to the
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In South peed, Ind,, 43 druggists,
sick of the ench arising from their
own ma.gaz racks, ti*ga,n, ized and
wrote individual letters to wholesal-
ers: "In t future I shall demand
that you• refrain from delivering any -
,thing than not acceptable to the
rowel elan s of my customers."
Wholesale tributore who persisted
in sending decent magazines, along
with ' legiti to period/rail (the so-
calledt bloc oolong sy.sttelh) found
that druggi were pitching these
smut -sheets under the counter, re -
'turning thee unsold, Faced with a
food .of returned magazines( the dds-
tni.butoru ab ,domed the block -beak -1W
'
• ag „gemen. SeUth Bend's nretvws-
stands werepurged.
Nearby Wayne succeeded in
a. clean-up drive b3'. plating empthesis
on the positive rather than, the nega-
tive it+lde, League far Ulean Read-
ing was formed and an emblem. cif
,alecentey awarded to every Seller of
's .. flour asst {®r ��� my
"I.. like purity F1n • ,.
baking because ..............................................................
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IN
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OR ONE OF TWELVE • OTHER CASH PRIZES: '
2nd Prize - $15 3rd Prize - $5 Ten Prizes - $1- Each
RULES
1. Complete the sentence: "I like
Purity Flour for all mybaking
because a a :'' m 25 words or less. ,
2.' Send in as many entries to this
contest as you wish, but each entry
must be accompanied by the Purity
Seal cut from a bag of Purity
Flour (or reasonable facsimile) or
a reeeipted sales slip from your
dealer showing you have'purchased
a bag of Purity Flour. -
3.• All entries must be postmarked
not later than March 14:
4. Entries will be judged for
originality and sincerity of express
cion. Simply write each -mitre. on
one side of a sheet of paper: Print
your .name and address, and also
the name of your Purity Flour
dealers;:clearly: "
5. The judges' decision will be final
6. Thiscontest starts Wednesday,
February 14th: Mail your entries,
not later than March 14, to Purity
Flour Contest Departrhentt,:Western
- Canada Flour Mills Co., . Limited
293 MacPherson Avenue,' Toronto;
CLIP THiS ADVERTISEMENT AND KEEP IT FOR REFERENCE.
This is a local contest restricted to '
the counties of Huron, Bruce,
Grey, Perth; Wellington and Water-
loo:. You are not competing' against
the whole.. country: So you have s
real good chance of winning one of
these valuable cash prizes.
Get a free Purity.-Flour,recipe book
let from your dealer -it is full of
suggestions which will help you
to complete the winning sentence:
Send in yourentry early ----don't
forget to attach' the Purity S 1 -ors-. -.
receipted sales slip:
Liam oto
"CAVALCADE OF DRAMA"
Every Monday, Wednesday, Fad' ay
CICS STRATFORD, (11210 kc) 10.3o AM.
CKNX WINGHAM,(1200 kc)11.10 LM.
magazines who co-operated in the
campaign, In ;half a dozen other In-
diana towns similiai• crusades have
been undou'tiken.
an New York tsity a 'Council for
Decency in Magazines? non-sectarian,
was formed in 1938 to check the sale
at "borderline" periodicals that offend.
agaiprist reabonabie canons of -goad
taste. It is in no isense of prosecut-
ing organization; its aims are to a-
rouse public opinion and to secure
the ea -operation of publishers, dis-
tributors and news dealers, The coun-
cil
oupcil advocates legislation requiring the
name and address of the publisher to
be printed in the masthead of the
magazine. Such legislation, would put
an end to the fly -by -fright publisher
'who brings out a single issue of an
offensive magazine, cashes in on its
quitdk sale to news dealers, then dis-
appears from view. Three months
later he bobs up again at a different
address ' with another publication
more objectionable than the first.
In all these local drives, no cen-
sorship of the press' in involved; no
legitimate literary or ,artistic liberty
is curtailed. Bluenose zealotry is
frowned upon by the campaigners.
themselves,. as un-American and con-
trary to contemporary reform meth-
ods. Communti,ties,' all over the U. S.
are discovering that ".the moment they
organize and invoke local' indeoency
ordinances against smutty magazines
publishers and distributors seize a
broom and clean their own house.
This simiple technique bras swept, fil-
thy' mragazin'es off the news stands,
hot' only in the communities men-
tioned, 'butt also in' Albany, N. Y., in
Boston, Lowell, Lynn and ten other
smaller cities in Massachusetts, in
Grand Rapids, Mich:, Des Moines,
Iowa, Birmingham, Ala., Los Angeles,
Calif., and elsewhere.
No city or town need be plagued
by the sex purrveyor pervert -maker or
Morals -wrecker any longer than it
takes to organize against him. His
rwalodlomous product, and all that it
represents in human and economic
watate, can be obliterated by taking a
community stand againist it, J. Ed-
gar Hoover speaks for every decent -
minded citizen when he says: "There
ie no place in America for the filthy
magazine. This trash must go!"
,Pin" ---d Where'
You Fjt
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Sitting at a desk in a skyscraper
office building, a mean pores all day
over great sheets of finely -ruled pa-
per, painftully checking sales figures
and plotting charts and graphs. He
is a big man of powerful physique -
an outdoor man. His nlus'elest cry for
action, says% Frances, 'Mauls„ a writer
in a regent. paper. He dreams, as he
works, of mountains and forests and
open fields, of what he would do if
Oce oould just get away on a camping
or fishing .trip. After. 'office hours, he
seeka escape frrom the life he dislikes
in stories of travel and adventure. He
has been on this scare job now for
five years, and he is beginning to feel
embittered because °tile does,n't get a
raise or a promotion to a bigger and
better, job.
• Standing behind a counter in a de-
partttientt store, a young woman is do-
ing her beat to appear a1d''t and in-
terested in the needs of her custom-
ers. Actually site hesno interest
whatever In hbr eusttomsers. Wheat
she -le interested in, is figures'. When
she goes lit ifile' at night she does
problemist in, rcalculu•s for refreebe ent.
She is not a successiful saleswoman.
She keeps 'her job becetise ,sgio Is
conscientious and hard working, but
she doesn't get ahead. '
young map. Who, a.s. a lad, found
ni: chief joy in building, repairing
n d installing radio receiving sets. and
to has taken his license as, an ann-
1411r• ratio operator, is languidly
landing out groceries in.' a chain
Store, A young woman who,- just for
frit, makes hats that are the -envy
and despair of her friends, is working
as a filing clerk. An older woman
who• is invariably asked to head eV
ery money -raising drive and every,.
charity _bazaar launched by ..then com-
munity
onmunity because of •her exceptional or-
ganizing ability is pounding a type= ,
writer.
There they are - round pegs in."
square holes, wondering why they are
not 'hap.py and successful in their pobs
and why they don't get ahead on their
jobs. •They* are where they are, ap-
parently, for no better reason than
that they once sew an "ad" in a Help
Wanted column, or because they
chanced to be ant hand when a call
came into an employment agency, or
because an opening was made 'for
thein 1h a family business, or because
they knew somebody Who knew some -
beer who knew somebody.' •
Ask any employer -ask a.ny ere
mentioned stopped to ask it of.thein
selves, the bored, young saleswoman
might hve been, an on-'her-toer etatis-
(00nt+innedr on Page 7)
ployTnentt manager, personnel direc
tor, • employment agent, voeationa
counselor -what is the primary
quirement for landing and making
success of a job. The answer Wil
alnu hest - invariably he, knowing What
yoave to offer•.
:urs. Loire Brophy, an employment
counselor in ,New York; who is also
the author of two books of vocational
advice entitled respectively, "If Wo-
men Must Work" and "Men Must
Work" will not even discuss any of
thei � vocational ,problems with, her
clients until they ave furnished her
with a document - setting forth not
-only the -facts in regard.- to their 'edu-
cation, training ,and experience; not
only their job -preferences, bobbies
and leisure -time activities; but their
dreams, their dearest hopes, their
1
philosophy of life. very item, how-
ever irrelevant it may seem to the
writer, is important to her, because,
she stays, it is often the seemingly ir-
relevant ones that give }her the most
valid• clues to the client's best assets.
Sidney W. Edlund, wire has -helped
many men and women to a happy ad-
jusitment of their career problems
through his free Man Marketing Cltn-
ic in New York, attributes his high
batting average' of successes to the
detailed "presentation" of job assets
that he requires of each of his puz-
zled job -seekers. Examples of these
presentations,. together with their re-
sults, are to be found in• Mr. Edlund's
.'book, "Pick Your Job and Find It."
fleury Sealer, .president and gener-
01 'manager of the American Writing
Machine Company, whosewhoseForty-Plus
Clubs. are now so 'widely scattered
throughout the Country, also empli�a;:
sizes the importance of a Searching
self-analysis as a preliminary .to the
job -hunt.
Before you take one 'step toward
looking for a job -before you even
settle in yodr own mind • what kited
of job to go after -'plead. these stu-
dents of vocational problems,---anid all
other .students of vocational 'problems
-go ,into executive session with your-
self and find where you ht.
If you ,eould have awry job in the
world, which. one would you pick?
Had ;the outdoor man. referred to
'at the beginning of this article only
asked &dmself this quostti+om; in ,time
he might have been;--insVaad of p,
merely' 3'afir-tanniddlintg statistioi•an..
top lot'eli forester, tree Surgeon, far-
mer, minim elegiinieer, explorer, pro-
mot'er M industrial ventures in un-
�dtevelope`cl fields. Had. .the others
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6.59 8.113
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