Show M N V LS J JA A curious case Was i tn l Ne Nebraska I braska the other d day y A hd I girl took four l novelS to ti hoo with her teacher found them in her desk and con considering ld them unfit for the yOun womans l P DP d h Into to a 0 stove stOe and destroyed ed them The father as her next t friend sued the foi or 4 the alleged value ot of the books setting Up that they were vere property and that the girl was de deprived unlawfully of thorn thom The Tho court presided over by Judge ot of li Logan n th that t the teacher was right That Is hr t at athe he had a perfect rl right ht to destroy the I books on tho theory that the they were worthless The Tue pOint at Issue said the court W was S ot ns as to whether or not the tho teacher had haa infringed on th the property rIghts FightS of the pupil The only feAture ot of the tho case worth was the authority or laok of it or of the i to on the literary or of books read by a pupil while under ld his charge e eThis This authority the teacher In the Opinion ot of the court coUlt clearly had It was not nece ary rot for the novels to be erotic or capable ot of having an un unwholesome unwholesome wholesome cn n th the mora morals is of the child There J Is plenty ot of tra trash 11 that i not b but t that d es e n not t cOU a r ree inin n on fo for It And one a a life lite uok of children In the formative period of their is 18 vcr very much more I to be trusted with tHe selection of suit suitable suitable able books than the child chUd or in most oo cases ea the parent t Let lI us hope that th the decisiOn of oC Judge GI will 1 be e accepted AS the law and that that It wilL bi bb Un Vers lly adopted there I is too much tendency on the part or of parents to allow their children to read rd books as they please Too fathers and mothers believe bellec that when thc they have kept dime novels antI and those ot of the yellow back variety out of oC the hands of their hell chil children children dren they have luwe done their full dut duty The ransacking ot of a few school desks and the o of reading matter con contained tamed therein would surely open tue tho eyes or of careless ones and luul cause a 8 mighty might bonfire ot of lou litera literature ture |