Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free january 1967 View 01 pornography i j Tim obscenity what is it in 1957 the supreme court Down important guideposts for handling involving indecent matter when it ruled that the proper test of obscenity is whether to tiie average applying con temporary Community stand Ards the dominant theme of the material taken As a whole appeals to prurient the words prurient interest Are interpreted to mean a and morbid interest in sex in my Survey of Winnipeg to find a local definition of obscenity and i found a fairly clearcut idea about of according to the major Ity obscenity includes suggestive pictures and extreme sex scenes and lesbian sadism and Homo Winni Eggers do have a Good concept of but is this enough the availability of smut literature is certainly no credit to the major retail ers of this literature Are Newsstands and Only one outlet out of More than 20 which were checked did not have while the rest displayed at least five smutty and pornographic by Biu Dyck Dyck ii the Winnipeg director of an inter nondenominational youth called youth for this article it a Short sum1 Meiy of hit views on pornography in Winnipeg and was part of a study he conducted recently for the knights of Many retailers sold All the magazines checked had a depth of in decency and suggestiveness which is nauseating to the person who values moral and spiritual by and Large the magazines Are open to1 the Public and to anyone of any age who has Money to buy the effect the of this filthy literature has upon our youth is Here the Young people themselves have some a Naire to teens revealed the vast number Felt that the influences were they it can cause the mind to think of makes the body seem people tend to try it indecent Litera Ture twists and warps the basically clean facts of indecent literature May result an establishment of a false sexual concept few parents will knowingly allow their teenagers the dirty however very few parents Are in the they do not realize the Access their Young people have to they believe that their child is thus there is very Little concern Over the situation yet nearly every questionnaire handed to teen agers revealed that either their or someone they were in Contact with this the seller of smut literature has primarily one his if the magazines i dont like but the the Public wants is the common Bui most refused to let their own children read in the face of an eve growing Stream of indecent literature there is parents Nee to share with their Chil Drenthe almost without exception the question referred to revealed that teens think their parents were the Best source of this we need to teach our youth to read Good that is Why it is so important to support our City units attempt to build new Library we cannot expect our youth to Stop Reading indecent books when no positive Reading material is put in its place each Parent needs to take a Good look at the Newsstands and Magazine Racks in his own area of town and share View with the owners then need to organize a citywide decent literature committee r e p r e tentative of those organizations which Are vitally concerned and which will keep a close watch Over availability of the unwanted literature within it is my personal conviction that the dissemination of smut literature is due to a monetary motive and not for the Good and Benefit of our youth and com if this is what we then let us let it go on if let us do something about censorship is not the Best answer a recent television pro a psychiatrist said that there was hardly any Field More thoroughly covered by radio and television than that of sex and the subjects related to he said that after the world had finally reached a stage of enlightenment which had been looked upon As some Sion if not something basically thing out of the realm of discus accepted by society As an assent dirty starting to be Ial part of if what this psychiatrist said is True and there is enough evidence which would prove that then we Are going through a period of controversy surrounding the subject of a controversy that will essentially affect everyone and will cause a Sharp of opinion for some time to one of controversies centres around the availability of printed material which stimulates sexual desires in adores Magazine Racks in drugstores Are filled with publications whose Only aim seems to be to exploit vulnerability of youth towards publishers of these magazines freely admit that they Appeal to mans Basic instincts the Low instincts to be sure to sell their product they operate in the Field of sex per homosexual lesbianism and the obvious there fore is what can we do to curb the distribution of those publications what can be done to keep Young minds from being corrupted by something they can not intelligently Deal with As yet a number of undoubtedly responsible citizens feel that censorship should be rigidly the magazines in question should be that they we would keep Pur youth from contracting the disease of filth and while the Goodwill of those individuals is not to be ques there Are still a few More questions that deserve an answer before any strict censorship is does the influence of Litera books might end up another example of the Dan Gers of censorship could be the United states supreme court decision to uphold the Federal court conviction and five year jail sentence of Ralph who sent a expensive Magazine called through the the part which probably offended the supreme court by Hubert Beyer Ture of this kind really affect our youth to the extent moralists would have it Are we not Only trying to pretend that something int there if we close Pur eyes and what would the effects of a censorship be who would decide what is a bad influence what qualifications Are necessary to make such a decision when Hitler came to Power in one of the first things he did w a s to discredit any publication that was not serving his within a few a great percentage of German and were on the list of banned and in 1938 bonfires were held in every major German City where thou Sands and thousands of books were while no attempt is made to compare serious banned in Hitler with the Type of Magazine that can be seen in every it is to pout out the dangers of a it is almost inevitable that any censorship committee will eventually try to Widen the sphere of its the Call for morality can be and with the Best Good was called a Black and White study in showing a White woman and a negro girl in the none of the half dozen color photographs could be called yet they caused an outrage among Large segments of Whites in the United Frank a Grade 12 English teacher at Daniel Mclntyre is quite certain that any smut Only exists in the mind of the any perversion that might occur in Young people by whatever Means it was instigated in the first place can be overcome by open Jacobs says i associate with Young people every they know what perversion they read about he yes i would be very surprised if quite a lot of them thumb through these questionable but Jacobs feels it would be wrong to try to eliminate an evil by simply taking away one of its the Root will still be curiosity of Young people in sexual matters will not be far less be if we outlaw dirty he and he Doest agree with a citizens committee on decent literature at this is the pitfall of Allim repelled by the very i dont see the danger of the so called smut and i dont see the necessity of Banning Jacobs also said that there was not one example where Banning of a Book has achieved and there is yet another question should a adult be forbidden to buy or read the magazines that Are considered a danger to youth is it carrying legislation too if adults Are told what they can read and what not an adult should have Access to whatever material he wants to read even material dealing with perversion and Jacobs Herbert principal of lord Kitchener school in North holds an opposite has to work with children every Neufeld also agreed that smut Only exists in the mind of the but he believes that it is implanted and nourished by questionable Publica a Renaissance painting show ing a naked he might also stir the sexual imagination of Young and yet nobody would dream of Banning the or Neufeld feels strongly about discussion of sex through a healthy approach in at Junior High school he the aspects of sex should already be clinically so it seems differ to a great but it also seems that a rigid censorship is not the Best answer to the prob Uganda baffling Barbaric custom youth must kill to prove manhood to Uganda in the Uganda parliament an opposition alleged that nearly 200 people had been killed in raids Over the past cattle had been and there he a Complete breakdown of Law and order in the Kar Amjad he was talking about the ancient sport of blooding the every year scores of people Many of them women and Are killed by raiding in some years the casualties go into hundreds All because Young warriors by but in Defiance of the have to prove their prowess before girlfriends Are it happens in the Sun scorched wastes where Kenya and Uganda and the Sudan Borders and in Remote provinces of Ethiopia at the East across the Pale Green Waters of Lake the task of stopping this Barbaric custom baffles the Security forces which patrol these empty while deploring this needless waste of human african governments tend to put the blame of this on the inheritance from Little was Ever done by colonial governments to educate these Nomad tribes and they have been isolated for centuries because of their even in the space few outsiders Ever visit this Remote except the occasional Bunting safari and the itinerant now african governments Are trying to pro vide a better Way of life for these primitive tribesmen by starting schemes to improve their opening literacy classes and conducting propaganda in local vernaculars Over the this is especially the Case in Uganda where the problem has become the killings Seldom have any purpose behind them other than the desire to kill a human victim As the requisite proof of according to tribal usually the r a i d s Are More numerous in dry years when drought grips the country and the Young men go off in search of food and for Days on end they will Lope through the scant their seven foot Spears glinting in the in the darkness they will descend on the Flimsy Village of a neighbouring usually when the younger men Are away with the they will Spear the older men and the and round up All the bes looking girls they carrying them off with hundreds of head of cattle As their some take Back a few gruesome souvenirs of their this sort of incident has kept troops occupied in Northern Kenya and Uganda for recently the shift War against somali session its in Ken Yas northeastern province has kept most of the Kenya troops Busy but Uganda has been trying to Cope with the raids on her with several Hundred troops and men of the police special trained in Tough the nomads of the Merille and Maramo Jong tribes Are tougher however among the toughest people in the they have to be if they Are to survive in this wilderness of blistering Rock and burning and usually they can travel faster on foot than their pursuers in four wheel drive they Are skilled trackers themselves and know How to others off the scent once they Are on the the Uganda minister of inter Nal Basil refused to admit that More than four people had been killed in recent raids and said that after touring the area he was Satis fied the police were keeping things in although there is at present a state of emergency in the Security forces Are finding it difficult to track Down the Many of whom sweep Over the Border from Kenya armed with ancient the Possession of firearms is strictly both in Kenya and and forbidden entirely in the nomads Terri but Many firearms have been used in recent in addition to recently a group of do doth tribesmen were reported to have sent into the Sudan for their the to come to their Aid with rifles in fighting the neighbouring the Southern Sudan has been a fruitful source of rifles and ammunition since men of the Sudan defence Force mutinied in tort Barracks in 1958 and made off into the after murdering their Arab other firearms Are of ancient italian with now and then a modern British Rifle finding its Way into the where it fetches Good Uganda minister of internal Felix told parliament in Kampala he reckoned it would take another 10 years before these tribesmen could catch up with the rest of the country and Stop making these meanwhile local opinion is not so much at the increase in the number of but because Young men Are no longer made to pay blood Money to the bereaved in the past killings were so Long As the dependents could get some form of compensation for the loss of the from the observer truth should Mot Embarrass you cant publish this because it Doest agree with should history be censored Washington the myriad problems attach ing themselves to pos Facto censorship of books sold and alleged to be pornographic have Over shadowed the less dramatic hut far More urgent question of the pre censorship of there is increasing evidence that a considerable number of planned books will not he written and written books will remain unpublished because they Are embarrassing to people highly placed who have the Power to cajole or bully out of existence words they find re two recent cases of such pre censorship have originated in the White the first being the suppression of a Book of speeches by the president to which was appended an essay by former presidential Richard soon after Goodwin delivered himself of a speech critical of administration foreign policy his already released for review in was withdrawn and recalled by Mcgraw More recently a or Schoen Stein wrote a Book to be published by Doubleday about the presidents dogs which Elizabeth Carpenter fancied to be repellent to the dignity of the presidents High has been suppressed after its publisher was warned that to print the Book would be to sacrifice future cooperation from the White House with its various we should much lament the disappearance of the inside Story of a Brace of puppies but the suppression sets a most dangerous if such a whose potential for offensiveness would seem to he can be suppressed there is reason to fear that real against whose revelations people highly placed have real reason to May increasingly be it was perfectly fair for Mary Hemingway to attempt to enjoin against the publication of Hotchner biography of her husband and for Helen Frick to attempt to prevent the publication of Sylvester Stevens biography of her the court found for by Geoffrey wore Mutchner in the inter ests of history and free it is to be hoped they find against miss but at least these disputes have been openly raised and will be openly Johnpaul Sartre observed that words Are loaded or censorship has tacitly admitted the truth of his remark As has a seemingly different but in fact related activity of the government vis a vis i speak of the subsidization of books useful to the establish the other Side of the Coin of the suppression of what is for some time the Central intelligence Agency and United states information Agency have used the taxpayers Money to commission works of propaganda to plead official positions against in 1965 Isia paid for 16 books that it freely admits would otherwise never have been written or More than half of which came from now owned by the encyclopaedia it then subjected the books to editorial changes to bring them fully into line with current official it is at least a questionable practice to use Public Money for the proselytizing of beliefs that May not be those of the majority of our but what is clearly hateful is that there is no truth in the packaging of these made to order a citizen buying a Book that pretends to Tell the truth about Cuba is forced to rely on the reputations of its author and and pays his Money on the basis of those repute he is no govern ment imprimatur tells him what he would surely want to know that he is paying for a Book because of its is anything but an objective account and a Book that showed so Little or sales that it needed extraordinary and artificial Leonard director of Usia replying to a question by congressman Glenard lips comb Republica California during hearings on this subject in the House of explained Why it is useful to protect the taxpayer against the True nature of the product he pays for once in taxes and again when he buys the Book Lipscomb is it wrong to let the american people know when they buy and read the Book that it was developed under government sponsorship Marks it minimizes their value if we say this is our then the author is a employee in it changes the whole status of the author it is this double the suppression and creation of hidden from Public that reinforces the fears of american artists that the government cannot be is not yet mature to contribute to the subsidization of the Washington Post lbs cant frit his Teeth Washington addres sing Congress last week the president appeared As a sad and compassionate Man having taken his stand in was determined to no matter what the the picture is for it leaves out the fact that the president is confronted with great new last weeks picture implied that the military situation is it is in fact very the new decisions which have still to be made turn on the probability that troops have prevented a military Victory Over the Saigon government by its Northern and Southern the hopeful observers among americans argue that this Success Over the main forces of the enemy will be followed by the weakening of the Viet Cong rebellion and the pacification of the whole of South Vietnam by South vietnamese As Ambas Sador Lodge has put by the South Vietnam regular the regional the popular the South Vietnam to police Field neither general Westmore land nor ambassador to Cape takes the View that the South vietnamese will pacify South Vietnam they Are thinking of a Long period of guerrilla warfare and terrorism and sabotage up to 10 years of other competent observe who take a Grimmer View of the strength of the rebellion and of the weakness of the Saigon regime believe that if in fact South Vietnam is to be the task will have to performed by the United if they Are then the president is going to have to make new and tremendous he will not be As he implied in his address to just to grit his Teeth and persist in what he is he will have to decide whether to conquer and occupy the whole of South Vietnam not merely to repel the military intruders from the but to suppress the rebellion in the and to run the country until a new South vietnamese society can be put for America to commit itself to this task would however disagreeable the old words to become an imperialist Power on the asian Unap the record of Lyndon Johnson since his election gives Little reason for hoping that he will not take this just As in 1965 he transformed the Eisenhower Kennedy intervention to assist indigenous forces by Walter Lippmann into an american so in 1967 he if he runs True to enlarge the scope and the objectives of the american he will argue sadly that there is no alternative to doing that to Honor his pledges and Lus promises he must do and to justify the sacrifices of the american he will move towards the Conquest and occupation and the Clearing and the reconstruction of the whole territory of South i is the dread possibility before it but it the much debated question of whether to attack Hanoi and Haiphong in order to win the War by knocking out North if the president enters upon the imperialist which is what he is being hard pressed to the War will Widen and no one will see the to conquer and occupy and pacify the whole of South Vietnam would on a conservative a million american troops for an indefinite disregarding what this would do to the american nation Here at it would mean the increasing isolation of the United states because the would be retarded As a threat to the peace of the it would mean also spreading disorder in the borderlands of China where the United states military and economic Power is now Domin for it is inconceivable that the shall not encounter a swelling resistance in All the continents if it advances towards a self appointed Imperial destiny in is there no alternative which is consistent with interests and Honor there the prospective Nightmare i have been describing arises from the current military situation even though organized forces Are the Viet namese rebellion we Are at a Point though the big organized forces Are stale there is almost no Progress in subduing the activity of the the alternative to the imperialist course is to stand fast and be ready to instead of conquering and occupying the whole coun americans would make secure the positions they now and would then encourage the vietnamese to work or to fight their this of the Central principle of what is known As the Gavi Ridgway a year has elapsed since general Gavin time and experience have i am con that it is the Only workable for one there is no longer any doubt that it is a practicable for it is now generally accepted that the United states forces cannot be pushed out of their experience has that the pacification of the whole country would be an enormous commitment to one which might Well prove to be an impossible the Junta of Northern generals around general almost All of whom Are veterans of the French army in its War against the vietnamese Are quite incapable of becoming leaders of the vietnamese a these adventurers from the North cannot win the Confidence of the people of the the Only Hope in the situation is to remain in military positions and let the internal politics of Vietnam take their this is not a policy of scuttle it is not a policy of delayed it is not a policy of betrayal and and i should like to see anyone show that it is not in the True interests of the United the Washington Post ;