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sale of comic books td children under a certain.age. workable, it said, as "bootleg" sales will result and-make the banned work mort desirable. And a law banning publications devoted chiefly to criminal news and stories of bloodshed, lust, and crime cannot meet constitutional standards, “volunteer "watchdog committees" ‘are no less objectdonab: "+ "Certainly individual members of the community have the righ their childron should read.". But "concerted action designed to decide the reading: fare of the entire community. constitutes cn attempt to enforce conformity, a tice alien to the American idea of free choice and democratic tradition." Nor is establishment of a comic book publishers! code commendable, according ti the Union statement. "Although a stagle publisher may presozibe for himself’ any § of. standards he may desire for the publica:ion of material, a different situation <” exists where a significant seguont of the industry agrees to abide by a code. Colle tive adherence to a single set cf prizciples in a code nas the effect of limiting: different points of views, for individual publishers’ - as well as writers - are f -ful of departing from the. accepted lest hei 8c ir attack and: suffer economic loss." is ee A The be: ope lies in the home itself "~ parental control over the reading: habits of their children," the ACLU atatement concluded: “As the testimony of child welfare experts attests, an environmeut which embraces 2 wide vangé of interests will make comics less of an attraction to children. ,To those who argue that not, every; child's home environment can mect his total needs and sozething must be done t jafe children who, unfortunately, live in an unwholesons environment, the answer: lies in the work of schools, ch:rches, and community orgenizationse The cre: the healthy environment is their chailenges" =e NOTE TO EDITORS: This story is only a summary of the ACLU statement filed with Senate Subcommittees Because of the widespread public interest. the issue of comic booke and delinquency, the fuil text of the ACIU statement, w 4s being printed as a pamphlet, will ve sent to you next reek Fe. LEE eEe—e—E——e MALIN HITS STATS LAS BANNING CONTRACEPTIVE INFORMATION ~ The Connecticut and Massechuse*ts laws which prohibit a doctor from giving col traceptive information to his patienss violate the civil Liberties guarantees of tl Federal Constitution, Patrick Murphy Nalin, executive director of the ACLU disc’ recently. een sort. a -. oe Addressing 800 guests at the annual luncheon of the P. tion of America in New York City, the ACLU official said: -; "No one contends that Massachusetts and Connecticut must make Planned Parenthood: services or information available tc their citizens, But there is a civil liberty: principle, embodied in the first and ‘ifth amendments in the Federal Constitution; that these states should not interfere with the right to disseminate information by: adopting laws barving the use of contraceptives and the supplying of. info: then’ natn ° iMlegal for a physician to prescribe contracey -erime to use any, device to prevent conception, Matin pointed out that civil liberties, as cuchy parenthood, put require “equal defense of the free spee ‘th i do’ not attempt to suppress the ergument of those who crusade ‘against it, while who crusade against Planned Parenthood regularly attempt to suppress-the az those who crusade for it, ‘ Malin said "there is no area of human existence at f: and communication is more needed than the area of family life." He described Ameri= cans as “yniquely fortunate" in the heritage of freedoms affecting fi life. this country, ° ! . te, Se Stal tek . "One of the worst lags dn the development of civil liberty as it affects the American family," he added, "is the suppression of free. speech about Planned hood, and the practice of unwervanted discrimination against those who believ it, for example, in medical employment ." - tho