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Show wouldn't sell until she re-wrote it and sprinkled in some dirty words and a few bedroom scenes. This is all right with me. I have been around, as the man says, and I know all the words. And if a little sex livens up the pages and aids the plot, okay. BUT YESTERDAY Ipickedup a paperbound book at the library lib-rary which has none of these virtues (if any). This book contains con-tains nothing but filth. It has no plot-it's just a disgustingly nauseating collection of dirty, nasty, stinking stories of degrading de-grading sex in Brooklyn. This so-called book does not even make fun of sex. It makes it so ugly and depressing that it must leave any reader with a suicidal desire. I couldn't even read it-I just skipped through and then fwowed up. This publication will lie returned re-turned to the library as confetti. I'm going to run it through the paper cutter. Several times. Your 12-year old daughter will never see this one. And maybe I'm serious about going into the censorship business. Mac. A RECENT suggestion that I might go into retirement as a night watchman apparently was unpopular. None of the communities com-munities in Summit andMorgaji Counties have come forward witli offers of employment. It's saddening. Friends have urged me to become, instead, a building inspector. in-spector. They point out the fact that I am admirably suited for the post because I don't know the difference between concrete and steel. It seems that a story in The Morgan County News last week said the roof of the new post-office post-office is made of steel. Actually, it's concrete. What I meant to say in the story was that the beams are made of several steel strands surrounded by concrete. Sneaky, hah? Well, can't win 'em all. SO I HAVE decided to devote my time, if and when I do retire, to censoring the books in the Morgan library. In fact, I've already begun. Now I guess I read more books than any man in the county. At least three a week, often five or six, if it rains. Morgan has the most beautiful, best-equipped library in the state, in any city under 10,000, and I have cleaned out the whodunit who-dunit section and am starting over on some of the favorites. As a rule, the selections of the library board are excellent but they've slipped a little this time. People have started bringing in paper-backs for distribution, dis-tribution, which is kind of everyone every-one and widens the choice. But the library folks don't have time to carefully check each one before be-fore it's put on the shelf. IT'S NO SECRET that the trend nowadays is towards sex in reading along witli stage, movies and teevee. In fact, a good author was recently told by her publisher that she had a wonderful new book there but it |