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Show oo SEPTEMBER MORN NOW COMMONPLACE. Discouragement is expressed by the head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Recently courts have failed to convict and John A. Sumner, the president of the organization, organi-zation, say s: We prosecuted the seller of the worst pictures which have been ex hiblted in show windows for years. If any have ever equaled them before. Two years ago conviction would have beea a certainty. But the spirit which seems to prevail at the present time-won time-won a victory The defendant was freed and the picture was decreed to be an artistic pose." The controversy which once was aroused over the innocent "September "Septem-ber Morn,1' whose display was fought by the late Anthony Comstock, appears ap-pears to date back to Puritan limes, In comparison with the picture which in December wax hold in eourt to be chaste and artistic. It is a photograph of a woman dressed only in a fishnet I of two inch me?h The society labored to convince the court lhat a photo- graph was worse than a painting, and that the output of the camera might be immoral, even though similar prod ; ucts of the brush of artists might be! accepted a clas-slcs. But the court would not allow that what was excusable ex-cusable on canvas was culpable In i photograph. Since this picture was vindicated, score of similar pictures ! have, appeared in window decora- j tions. ' Mr. Sumner finds consolation in i h ihought that this lax moral sentiment is a passing "backwash " and even tually there will come a moral awak ing as to the obscene and vulgar. oo |