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-9- by those who profit from the salacious as a spurious tallying cry to defeat the high purpose contained in this legislation.” - 1 am also heartened by the intelligent and sound observations of Judge Charles $. Desmond, who in a vigorous and well-reasoned dissent in the ‘Fanny Hill" case stated: "I refuse to believe that all this can continue to be the law. I predict that the wheel will turn and the pendulum swing back. Sometime and somehow we will return to the historical meaning of “Freedom of the Press.” On that awaited day, the courts will find it possible in at least some extreme cases, not only to announce but to apply their oft-repeated holding that obscenity is an exception to the First Amendment's protections." Like the three dissenting judges, we cannot accept these court decisions quietly and without reservation, if this nation is to survive. These decisions impose upon us the responsibility for immediate, continuous and universal action. And we may take hope from an action taken only last week by the House of Representatives in Washington which on July 2lst approved a bill intended to keep "morally offensive" mail to be delivered to homes. The jvdges would be the heads of the households. A vote of 325 to 19 sent the measure to the Senate.