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Rh What it amounts to simply and solely, [ believe, ts an exereise of i miun's constitutional right to say, “Tam in business: Lam selling legi- timate publications. I shal] nol be foreed by you to take something whieh TF personally think is obscene, indecent, or lewd, as a condition to my selling something else.”

In any ev “ent, I should like to see that type of legislation on a Federal Jevel.

Furthermore, I feel that we need to strengthen the posta] regula- tions. There was a great deul about that in the Gathings report. My understanding is that under existing law the Postmaster General, if he wants to proceed, has to proc eel by hearings and sometimes these hearings take as long as 6 months.

Th the meantime, the fly-by-night operator is gone, or he is publishing something else.

il respectfully suggest that consideration be given to a low empower- ing the Postmaster General to apply to the courts for an injunction en not more than 5-day notice to the individual, company, or cor- poration involved, in distributing this type of literature,

You will find that we are attempting to nse the 1junction powers of the State ina bill which becomes effective here on the first of Inty, and we hape that it is going to be most effective in helping us to rid the stands of this kind of material,

‘Valking about postal regulations, and as a matter of regulation, T think you will be interested to know that I was recently fi flabbergasted to find that the most salacious type of material, advertisements for books that can be purchased, such things as "My Sister and I," "Dau- ble Exposure," "Homosexual Life"everything of the worst type, has within recent months been mailed through. the mails to, of all people, youngsters in preparatory school, unsolicited mailings toa list of youngsters in preparatory school, asking them if they don't want to buy | this type of material.

1am pleased to be able to report to your cammittee, and E believe your connsel is aware of it because he has been after this kind of thing too, that within recent weeks the police department of the city of New York has raided the place from which this material came and has taken away, as 1 understand it, iruckloads of material.

So, fortunately, that has been ecconsplished.

This is another practice which 1s gomg on through tle mails. They are mailing to a with confidential return blanks with numbers so that you, sir, or Ll, if we wish to investigate this, could not tuke the blank and mail it and receive the material. I know, because TE tried. The letters are all returned unanswered. This type of material, advertisements for books which I believe are completely snerilevious for ove thingI wou’t even read the titles in this record. It is interesting to say that on the face of this they start out, "Banned by bigots who can't stand the meaning of the word: 'sex'."

The. Maybe the titles also should go in the record. May I see them?

Mr. . Yes, sir. Some of them I have collected are particularly obnoxious and 1 believe they are sacrilegious.

The. These titles also will go into the record, but they will not be read in the proceedings.

Mr. . Thank you, Senator.