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Show Literary Mud I Germany's reformers are having a furious and funny time in: trying to impose literary censorship. They !have got a "Literary Trash and Mud Bill" through the Reich and there seems to be stuck by the everlasting problem as to what is and what isn't; in short, the problem of sifting out ; the "mud." i - ! What is a "drunk" ? What is a turpitudinous ndde in i . art? What is "intoxicating in fact"? What is immodest -.j ,v dress? What is a "suggestive" movie? What is immortality? - Law and police cannot be depended upon for the uorrect : answers. Is there any more definite answer than that it is all i I a matter of taste how you feel'toward the thing? ' The German reformers of literature are going to "fnake i Rome howl" at least the Berlin part of it througithe government's formation of a committee of eight censor two school teachers, two youth protection society members, two ; ' publishers, and two authors. This committee will have teh : ; right to bar "muddy" literature from advertisements, news- ! stands and bookstore windows. A queer provision of the "Mud Bill" is that only persons per-sons over 18 years of age shall be permitted to buy the "mud." Maybe the German idea is that, after a boy has .reached the age of 18 years, the "mud" won't' hurt him, or thatf he will get it, law or no law. Perhaps, this idea applies especially espec-ially to Germany. In most countries naming none a considerable con-siderable proportion of the general deviltry arises jthrough so many persons above the age of 18 years goinj' in for "mud." 1 i |
