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...Eiijah Adlow '16, Associate Justice at Bosten Municipal Court, who gave the Watch and Ward Society its first major fatback last week by refusing to ban risking Caldwell's "Tragic Ground," old the SERVICE NEWS yesterday that common sense" must be the judiciary's side in decisions regarding controversial temperature...
...practical," Judge Adlow asserted. "Why go to a book-seller or the library when the evening paper brings you the complete details of Errol Flynn's latest romance or Chaplin's misadventures...
Stressing that the obscenity statute was intended originally for the protection of youthful morals and that "to talk about the morals of grown-ups is to tread on dangerous ground," Judge Adlow added, "When we come to books in which an occasional passage may be found to be suggestive, or even as some claim, indecent, the question becomes. 'Will the young boy or girl who might ordinarily be interested bother reading 300 pages in order to enjoy the questionable pleasure which a half or a whole page of suggestive narration may afford...
...Judge Adlow has presided over cases similar to the recent ones involving "Strange Fruit" and "Forever Amber" several times during his 16-year career on the bench. He vividly recalls an episode in which the Watch and Ward Society urged the arrest of a young man who had been Hawkins lascivious pamphlets in front of the Old Howard...
While insisting that there must be some 'supervision over public morals, Judge Adlow is inclined to belittle the book-banning art as it has recently found realization...