Show s C VOne y V S I One for All I Ic I c J DACK ACK ACI in Des Ds Moines I Iowa o the chief of police has undertaken the t task sk of serving as as ts censor of the curr current nt magazines He has which he considers con- con prepared a list of magazines ill siders harmless so far as the public morals if w ire are ire concerned The TIie list however means lit lit- STile for the chief chief- indicates to to the magazine vendors that these may be stricken from the ther r list if they become salacious in the future I The Ds Moines chief must be kept busy on on account of having to read all the stuff that th t other people With the postal 1 department possessed of strong laws prohibiting prohibiting prohibit prohibit- ing ing the mailing of objectionable matter the Des Des Moines effort seems superfluous The contents of the so-called so objectionable magazines magazines magazines maga- maga what hat the reader makes themiA them are iA A one-man one censorship is too narrow to per per- of any material moral moral improvement S Some good souls serving as s censors would ban ban 90 per cent of the magazines on the thet i t market Others of righteous intent would find finda I a 3 little little- good goodin in all of them for for after all ill magazines and periodicals are but reflections ns of 1 of f the v vices ces and virtues of ot their makers In every human there are re streaks of good and andr r r bad and it is not surprising if some of the weaknesses v-weaknesses creep into the magazines Censorship Censor- Censor hip ship which seeks to fashion the human mind Rafter after fter a Q t common mold is impossible It is s just justas justI I as likely to reduce reduce- standards as is it is to raise them for the result is entirely dependent upon the mind and vision of the one who v reads eads what the rest of ofus us |