Show V r I Not in the Least Surprising l lIT i ij j J JIT IT jr IS comforting although not in the least A. A surprising to read that the United States circuit court of appeals has acquitted Mary Ware Tare Dennett of the charge of sending an obscene book through h the mails Mrs AUs Dennett you doubtless remember wrote a pamphlet on sex instruction for her children some sonic fifteen years ago After doctors doctors doc doe tors tots ministers and and church organizations had hall praised it she had it printed and distributed it broadcast She was arrested and a New NewYork NewYork York j judge dg fined her and sentenced her herto herto to a year in jail The idiocy of the whole proceeding was as almost too obvious to need comment To have upheld her conviction and sentence would have been t to confirm a grotesque and startling miscarriage of justice Her I final exoneration ex cx- is nothing but simple justice The only trouble is that there does not seem to tobe tobe tobe be any way of reaching the busybody who first started proceedings a against her |