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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION
COVER SHEET
SUBJECT: American Civil Liberties Union
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3; Prohibition against sale of comic books t_ children under a certain-_age_ ;_:ls,o;._1r_;4-¢,~..A._ workable, "it said, as "bootleg" sales will result and-make the banned work more 315 1+ Z;desirable. And a law banning publications devoted chiefly to criminal newsstories of bloodshed, lust, and crime cannot meet constitutional standards?!-.- ' -"" ' - ' ' - 1' L - .- ~_:» "._:-._:'-' -i~.."._":"= it LI. ,.." I /.7---. M:1.
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J ' Volunteer "watchdog committees" are no less 'objectionable', the"_ACLU"Certainly individual members" of the communityhave the right to decide whattheir children should read."._ But "concerted action designed to decide the reading;
fare of the entire con1mu.'92ity.ooconstitutes an attempt to enforce conformity, a pracj,--.="?';_'Hp p tice alien to the American idea of free choice and our democratic tradition."-. Y '-'5-T'T§15»'=i'5. " -3'.~"" 4 '."i-?."~'< =5 I= '- *'A Nor is" establishment of a comic book publishers code commendable, according t'5?;';-
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P-P-'.~*.- nee,$1»: The Connecticut and Massachusetts laws which prohibit _a doctor fromgiving con;-§§§;;traceptive information to his patients violate the civil liberties guarantees of
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chairman of the Union's National Council on Freedom from Censorship, defends .the_*@;¢_;A_CLU's right "to " inform the pat-lic oi the threat, to freedom that '..'. censorship"rep,-f?§-resents," and reaffirms the ACLU ls _oppositic.n to ary government""action' that woul_d§{.* gweaken the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. 9' ' 7.-~ - - _-- _ At the same time it makes clear that the ACLU's effgrts have note1braced fie;-:V?4j:i§f-Tense Of Obscenity». It says, "On nunarous occasions we have asserted the right o£{,'<@Z~T;the community to protect itself from such material by criminal prosecutions under "ob;-'_-,_so-anity 13-W30" Asserting that it dz-es not confuse license with liberty, the AC1U¢.j§~§,-:states that where a clear and present danger exists from the-publication of 1-rritten-f_or spoken material and there is no time for counter-argument or other means avaablej,to handle the danger the ACLU does not opposecurb on such expression5_'_'jf'», _* __ ., _ . . _. : '.'~._; I. m_ "'.»~ '. _<». I< ~ - - ~-.-_, ' r,r~"::*: -_v' ;,~,< A _ . . - , ..;VV - _- -V - " -. ;'- ~ ,- _- »'-. ".. -. . .~ ; N. ~ x - .- .- _ - ' "-_ .~.-'-».,- ~ 92g' ~.V.'.. -' However, the ACLU criticized the Post Office Department's use of pze-censcrsh'i_p.T"The power of governnent to deal with obscene material should not be confused withthe power to determine arbit:'ari.ly what reading material shall reach thepeople -2 the power of pre-censorship where the safeguards of a jury trialare'com-¥f:§;,§}P1etelY lack " it asserts $31 A ' . . . t. " _ e ."; -----',=.-K» 1118; O _ _ ... ..,._. ,-...... ._.-.,¢.__:.. W... _..¢,,,- ,.,.92.-4~-,---_~;-_~g_- 7-~,92>_,~,-9;-,~g- - .- - - -..~~.- . -' 2 . ;.:-,?/5.-'-729'? "' ".- -. . .~ , ._ -.V . 7 V - - »- .- 1 .1 ~~, --:~;~.*.----;:*~;.¢'~r§-e. - ~ ~ >The letterreminds the Postmaster General that the ACLU's opposition to Post;Office censorship is based, "on a long history of dispute with the department -. .. .11 '..-!:92.~c- 9, ¢
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1 .ff; ,-.-The question of Bible classes in certain public schools in Vermont is now dispute. Paul Blanshard, writer on religious problems and a resident of_Vermont,";haprotested to state authorities against continuation of the classes.' Classes areiicgnaducted under auspices of New England Fellowship of Evangelicals in Boston which saysthat the instructiorfis "non-sectarian, noncompulsory,' moral and religious ." Th_0!ig_,dispute is unresolved _ ' . V - _ = ' " *- ~ ' ~---- .-0 _ . . ,. _ . . .;. _..I._;-.=£l>.*. z _j ;. ". '.- i '.;_ . 3 ~. . - I. -- - H - " .1 ;92?"t
It has drawn comment from Dr. Frank H. Yost of Takcma Park, Maryland, a 1_ea_<1l!-I181r-.lergyman in the Seventh Day Adventist. Church, who says: "It must be ,5-115151-<=_<1_921IP}>.1'.:_»,i;that children from homes ofidiversefaiths, or no faith, .be protected from havI1_ng_._:-L"listen, in a public school, attendance upon which is compulsory, t0_,re],ig5;<_>11S»-4-1.3-;,V_teav~.hi.x__g to which they do not subscribe Itmust be insisted upon alsothat the,-@1';.:"machinery of the public school, paid for_ frompublic tax money, _removed_'by_ laW;_f£Q}j}j ,3the pockets of citizens of every faith and no faith," shall not be,_u_sed, to propaga »aw one religion, however popular locally;'severa1_ religions 3 or 8-IV 601119053-$9 Ireligion, set up for a given purpose by-a group9f citizens i;n_.8_g§Yl§§;§.l-,92Q§§ru;§3[?; a program forpteaching religion to public scl1_<>_9J,;§:!}i1d5<-III:-_fV.T,''»fff; 7 V'" ,3 ' L ".-.."i:~ r._..' t:.;,V="..--f.i=~<.~~_j' ~f».- " " :~.f§*:~f-5? 1't__j{<-'1-¥~§_. 3"; ¢;r1*V.F"_?"§-'5>,f'%$'7§,§&< YT? ;¬.~:92 .-Dr. Yost adds: ' "Nor-1, in the midst of this _controversy,,"isf'an a_cc'ellent*oppQr'-.'1;tunity for the clergy of the United States to rise up as a body and say; __'heligi_q»is the concern of us and, of the parents we shepherd Leave it tO9218B"'§.V". " " . ' -;~'=--" _;' _ , .. -- . pp.-...__. . .-...'l ._,..-. ._. >3. .' .. -._~l»._-.....- ->.~~-M-~ -;'~_* ~'_~~_ -__~_{"_"?'."f" $1, <1._. _,_. ,, ~,_;~. . -1 .._... >,V_ ;¢.-~.-- ~., ; - a >'92~-L; :- e
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would eliminate discriminatory hirirg practices in Hew.York's brewing industry _h¬3,;'__ _
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opinion analyst .' V . ..failed to be ratified for lack of a unanimousvote of employers and unions "inv9 i1' , L - i
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