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Judge Elijah Adlow, dispensing good cheer as well as punishment to the parade of petitioners who passed before him, admonished Smith that "when people pay money for a dinner to hear the Vice-President speak, why should you stand up and disfigure the assembly...
November 21: The nine Harvard students arrested in the welfare mothers protest were found guilty on charges of conspiracy and sentenced to three months in jail. Trial judge Elijah Adlow '15 offered the students a one-year suspended sentence if they promised to stay away from future demonstrations, but changed the sentence to three months non-suspended when the students appealed his decision...
...Adlow says he does not like to label himself a censor, but rather a believer in the value of privacy. "No Supreme Court has ever said censorship is forbidden in the United States," he said. "They have always attempted to set forth certain standards of decency, while investigating the book or picture in terms of its redeeming social value," he added...
...Adlow said that the ambiguity of "redeeming social value" saved Naked Lunch, a book he termed to be "the nearest thing to a literary cesspool ever produced...
...Adlow sees his policy as insuring that the law promote good taste and public decency in the community...