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Rh There was a five-line press report. If they can do that in For- Inosa, they can certainly exercise a better discretion in our own eowitey,

Senator Hensoxcs. Have you read the Kinsey report ¢

AM. Karbon. [ have read excerpts from it.

Senator Hexnixes. Is it in your Judgment a fallacious presenta- tion ¢

My. Karuox. It is a grand treatise for doctors. It makes spicy veacding for adults. But it is a disgrace if it gets in the hands of minors,

My only experience has been that I went to the pablic library and J asked the Hbrarian there what the story is on the Kinsey book. was amazed to find out. He says only yesterday three high-school girls caine mand wanted the Kinsey book-

I'vee speech. Freedom of the press. The Vbravian says, “What do you want it for?”

Vhe children say, “We are studying glands.”

You ean find much more than glands in that book. T hope the press dloes 1101 publicize way more than they have publicized it atreacly.

But. the reat harm is due entirely to the psychological twist. ‘The INinsey book has been perverted to fhe point where they are selling a synopsis of this book in our very city in New York under the guise of sex hibits of American women for 35 cents.

Now a child does not have to make an excuse to the Itbrarian that she is studying glands; she does not have to en go in a store and blush while she asks for the Kinsey book; and T know in my home- town a youny man was turned down by a legitimate bookstore with S8 in his hand. Tle wanted the Kinsey book. All they need is 3d certs,

You will be amazed, too. It gives a very fine synopsis of the Kinsey book that is being sold in our ‘Desi: drugstores. Certainly it is good literature. You can't censor that sort. of thing to an adult, but it is easily accessible for the price of an ice-cream soda to a child wha wants to Jeatn somethi uug. and there is no child and probably no man here who has not {ried te find out in lus youth probably what some of the dirty words are. He can find them out right here.

Then the thing that probably is most aggravating, gentlemenand, this 7 shall say, it has not been touched npon, eitherone of the best sellers this country has had in many years, and made into a wonderful moving picture, I think it is er and, From Here to Eternity. More smut appears in this book tl rat you wouldn't find ina toilet, In a flop- house, in the Bowery, and not for $3, but for seven-fifty.

Tam hopeful that papers will not pick that up, becanse it will zooin from here to eternity.

Also. it is a shame to the author to think that he could not have completed a book like that without the insertion of the vulgarity that is in there.

To make it all the more aggravating, those of you who are here, you can find out for yourselves, the paper-book edition, on page 447; and I shall not repeat the words here becanse they are not proper to repeat before an assembly of gentlemen eventhey italicize the most vulgar word; it is not of the English languagethe most yulgar word you neould not really find ina toilet, in a flephouse, in the Bowery.