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=6- judge and evaluate what is happening. There seem. to be no fixed points. Some misguided individuals keep changing them and coiling this progress. _ Once it is denied that men have no other standards than those taken from the quicksands in which they ore dwelling, It becomes impossible to induce them to build their houses on solid foundations. Two recent ominous decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, | think, deserve our attention because they reflect an acceptance of degeneracy and the beatnik mentality as the standard way of American life. In approving the book, “The Tropic of Cancer", five judges struck down the rulings of courts in several states including Illinots, Florida and New York, all of which declared the book to be vile and obscene. Their judgment of morality has been imposed on the people of the United States. Such a shocking decision indicates o great indifference to the principles of decency and morality - the strong right arm of the framers of the Constitution of our United States. The Supreme Court applied the same unfortunate test in approving a highly objectionable and morally offensive motion picture, "The Lovers",