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"Freedom of Information: A New Program of Study and Work." U.N. Bulletin, 13:457-65, 15 November 1952. F304
A summary of the work of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly, considering the draft convention on freedom of information, including the attitudes of the various delegates toward aspects of freedom, censorship, codes of ethics, war propaganda, and false news.
Freedom of Information Center Publications. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1958-date. Irregular. F305 §
Each publication deals with a separate topic related to freedom of information. Publication no. 00 (November 1958) contains a brief chronology of the Freedom of Information idea taken from the files of Hugh Boyd, publisher, Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., a member of the National Editorial Association's Freedom of Information Committee, 1952-53. The account closes with a resolution of the Association to establish a Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri "for the purpose of advancing the right of the people to know and be informed through all means of communications, printed, oral, and visual." Nancy Baker describes the work of the Center in the ALA Bulletin, June 1965. Publications of the Center are listed in this bibliography under individual authors.
Freedom of Information Conference. University of Missouri. School of Journalism. Speeches, First Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . . , December 11-12, 1958. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1959. 57p. F306
Contents: Freedom of Information: A Ten-Year-Old Prodigy by James S. Pope; What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You by Samuel J. Archibald; The Great American Jury by Murray Snyder; Books and Censorship by Dan Lacy; Do Access Laws Serve the Public Interest? by Coleman A. Harwell; Access in the Age of Electronic Journalism by Howard Bell; New Horizon for Press Photography If . . . by Joseph Costa; A Look Ahead by J. Russell Wiggins.
-------. Speeches, Second Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . ., November 5-6, 1959. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1960. 42p. F307
Contents: Censorship by Terror by Jules Dubois; The American School Textbook and the Freedom to Know by W. MacLean Johnson; Ohio's Open Doors by Charles A. Mosher; The Right to Advertise by C. James Proud; Broadcasting: A Panorama of Challenges by Vincent T. Wasilewski; Which Way the Press of Uncommitted Countries? by Boleslaw Wierzbianski; Harold L. Cross: Arch Foe of Secrecy by James S. Pope.
-------. Speeches, Third Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . ., November 17-18, 1960. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1961. 48p. F308
Contents: Secrecy in Federal Government by V. M. Newton, Jr.; Oh, Touch Not the Press by O. R. Stackbein; Privacy Intrudes on Public Education by Robert Finkelstein; The Hennings Committee and Freedom of Information: 1955 to 1960 by Charles H. Slayman, Jr.; Exegesis of the Danish Study Circle by Vincent Naeser; Toward Closer Cooperation Between the Journalists of the Western Hemisphere by Nicholas Pentcheff; Now, After the Election by Kenneth G. Crawford; The Philosophy of the Right to Know by Herbert Brucker.
-------. Speeches, Fourth Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . ., November 2-3, 1961. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1962. 64p. (Sponsored by the School of Journalism and School of Law) F309
Contents: Criminal Procedure by Frank J. Remington; Contempt by Publication and the First Amendment by John W. Oliver; The Right to Privacy by Leon Green; Access to Judicial Records by Albert M. Spradling; Executive Privilege and Discovery against the Government by Harry Blanton; The Bill of Rights--Its Relationship to a Criminal Trial by William H. Becker.
-------. Speeches, Fifth Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . ., November 15, 16, 19, 1962. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1963. 30p. F310
Contents: Between Old Europe and New America by Lewis Galantiere (Free Europe Committee); Gathering News in Latin America by Henry W. Goethals; . . . Twenty-three Years in the State Department by Lincoln White; High-Level Handouts and the Responsibility of a Free Press by Clark R. Mollenhoff; Vietnam: Underdeveloped Freedom to Know by Nguyen Thai.
-------. Speeches, Sixth Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . ., November 7-8, 1963. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1964. 41p. F311
Contents: Censors and Their Tactics by Jack Nelson; Freedom from Filth by Joseph L. Badaracco (Citizens for Decent Literature); Where the Real Power Lies (textbook selection) by Campbell Hughes; Do Teachers Encroach on the Students' Right to Read? by Mrs. Enid M. Olson; How Good Can Better Books Be? by Robert C. McNamara, Jr. (textbook publisher); The First Manner of Freedom (student reading) by Harold B. Allen.
-------. Speeches, Seventh Annual Freedom of Information Conference . . . November 16-17, 1964. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1965. 32p. (Sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Freedom of Information Center) F312
Contents: The Harold L. Cross Memorial Lecture by Michael V. DiSalle; Freedom and American Films Overseas by Gordon Stulberg; The Film Industry and Self-Regulation by Geoffrey Shurlock; The Artist and Film Freedom by Tippi Hedren; The Screen Writer and Freedom by Michael Blankfort; The Legal Aspects of Freedom and Film by Barbara Scott.
"Freedom of Speech and Group Libel Statutes." Bill of Rights Review, 1:221-25, Spring 1941. F313
Group libel laws such as the New Jersey law which prohibits false racial propaganda, jeopardize freedom of legitimate expression of opinion. "It might be preferable to bear the mad harangues of bigots rather than to extend the criminal law so that it might in the future become an instrument of oppression."
"Freedom of Speech and of the Press; Guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and of the Several states." Niles Register, 49:236-37, 5 December 1835. (Reprinted from the Richmond Compiter) F314
An extract from the Constitution of the United States and the several states showing that "no law can constitutionally be passed for the purpose of restraining the fanatics of the north in their crusade against our rights."
"Freedom of Speech and of the Press--Prerequisite for Damage Awards to Public Officials Resulting from Defamatory Falsehoods Concerning Their Official Conduct." Iowa Law Review, 50:170-76, Fall 1964. F315
Concerning New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 84 Sup. Ct. 710 (1964).
"Freedom of Speech and Press--Federal Statute Authorizes Post Office to Detain Communist Political Propaganda unless Addressee Requests Delivery." Harvard Law Review, 77:1165-70, April 1964. F316
A review of the statute which authorizes detention of mail, other than sealed letters, which originates in a foreign country and is found to be Communist political propaganda. The author considers the act a violation of the First Amendment.
The Freedom of Speech and Writing upon Public Affairs Considered; with an Historical View of the Roman Imperial Laws against libels . . . With Observations on the Proper Use of the Liberty of the Press, and Its Abuses, Particularly of Late with Respect to the Colonies; and a Brief State of their Origin and Political Nature, Collected from Various Acts of Princes and Parliaments. London, S. Barker, 1766. 160p. F317
English libel laws, the author believes, were in a measure drawn from the unfavorable Roman imperial laws. He traces the persecution for free expression from Roman times to eighteenth-century England, describing the work of the Star Chamber, the action against Prynne, Leighton, and Lilburne, and the recent press restrictions on the Colonies.
"Freedom of Speech, Press, and Assemblage." Canadian Congress Journal, 17:9, March 1938. F318
Editorial on freedom of the press in Canada, with reference to the Alberta law "to ensure the publication of accurate news and information."
"Freedom of Speech--Prior Restraint on Motion Picture Exhibition." Vanderbilt Law Review, 14:1525-32, October 1961. F319
Review of Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago, 365 U.S. 43 (1961). "Considering the dangers to free speech inherent in pre-censorship, it is suggested that the state has failed to bear the heavy burden of proof which would warrant prior restraint in an area designated by the Supreme Court as a 'significant medium for the communication of ideas.'"
"Freedom of Speech: Whose Concern?" New Republic, 18:102-4, 22 February 1919. F320
Freedom of speech would be supported by conservatives as well as liberals if they understood the long-range implications.
"Freedom of the Air." Nation, 119:90-91, 23 July 1924. F321
Three short articles: Uncensored and Uncontrolled by David Sarnoff; Radio Control by Grover A. Whalen; and Radio--the Fulcrum by Hudson Maxim. Sarnoff states that "the danger to freedom of speech by radio is not the danger that any one interest will ever be able to monopolize the air. The real danger is in censorship, in over-regulation." Whalen believes that radio broadcasting should be free in every respect from control by private corporation, that any control should be by the government. "Broadcasting should be as free as the air through which the sound waves are impelled, except for such government control as may be necessary and advisable." Maxim confesses to being puzzled concerning the control of radio. "I distrust the wisdom of allowing radio broadcasting to be controlled by any private monopoly, but I also distrust the wisdom and the ability and the justice of federal control of radio."
"Freedom of the Films." Spectator, 154:109-10, January 1935. Reply by Ronald Kidd, Spectator, 154:209, 8 February 1935. F322
Discusses the deputation for more adequate control of motion pictures made to the Prime Minister by a group headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The deputation favors a broad inquiry. Ronald Kidd of the National Council for Civil Liberties asks why censorship should be extended to noninflammable films when the original justification for censorship was on grounds of public safety from fire.
"Freedom of the Press?" Grassroots Editor, 5(1):20, January 1964. (Translated from German text editorial, Belleviller Zeitung, Belleville, Ill., 5 September 1861) F323 §
The editor complains of the suppression of several Northern newspapers and the revocation of mailing privileges of others accused of supporting the Southern rebellion. Such administrative action is illegal and unconstitutional; charges of treason should be handled by the courts.
"Freedom of the Press." Literary Magazine and American Register, 5:243-46, April 1806. F324
Comments on the folly and futility of censorship, with reference largely to the Catholic Index. A bookseller's plot to burn Erasmus' Colloquies in order to increase the sale (it sold 24,000 copies) is also mentioned. "The worst abuse of the press is more tolerable than would be such a violation of liberty." The author advises leaving the culminators of falsehoods to their own fate.
"Freedom of the Press." New Statesman, 27:4-5, 17 April 1926. F325
Answer to critics who charge that an English newspaper has no right to criticize the internal affairs of another country. Reference is made to criticism of the Fascist regime in Italy.
"Freedom of the Press." New Statesman, 27:116-17, 15 May 1926. F326
The writer considers as indefensible the General Council of the Trade Union Congress' refusal to set type in an attempt to suppress a newspaper with which they disagree.
"Freedom of the Press?" North American Review, 208:702-9, November 1918. F327
Republished under title "Muzzling the Press," in La Follette's Magazine, December 1918. Describes some aspects of war censorship.
"Freedom of the Press." Survey, 24:365-68, 4 June 1910. F328
The founding of the Boston Common, a weekly newspaper published by a cooperative company, occasioned this supporting editorial which noted the widespread distortion, misinterpretation, and suppression of news in much of the daily press. "Until the ideal and perfectly free daily is founded, we shall have to read more than one newspaper and check up the gaps in their news by a combination of weeklies and monthlies none of which has space for all the facts about everything."
Freedom of the Press. 51 frame, b/w filmstrip. New York, Office of Educational Activities, New York Times Co. F329
Freedom of the Press. 16 mm., b/w movie, 17 min. New York, United World Films. Produced by the U.S. Information Agency. F330
A historical review of freedom of the press in America, from the famous Zenger trial to modern times.
Freedom of the Press. 5-inch phonotape, 30 min. Boulder, Colo., National Tape Repository, University of Colorado. (Jeffersonian Heritage Series) F331
Thomas Jefferson (played by actor Claude Rains) discusses the development of freedom of the press in the United States.
Freedom of the Press and Biblical Christianity Re-considered: by a Bible Christian. Lodiana, 1859. 23p. F332
Listed in Schroeder's Free Speech Bibliography.Copy not located.
"Freedom of the Press--Nuisance--Power of State to Enjoin Publication of Newspaper as Public Nuisance." Minnesota Law Review, 14:787-98, June 1930. F333
Notes on the case of State ex rel. Olson v. Guilford (1928) in which the Supreme Court of Minnesota held that a statute declaring a newspaper regularly engaged in publishing malicious and scandalous material to constitute a nuisance and enjoinable as such was not an abridgment of freedom of the press. The decision was ultimately reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Freedom of the Press to Publish Reports of Current Judicial Proceedings." Yale Law Journal, 45:360-63, December 1935. F334
"Freedom of the Press: Topics of the Day." Dalhousie Review, 17:510-13 January 1938. F335
Discussion of the Quebec padlock law and Aberhart's attempt to limit freedom of the press in Alberta.
"Freedom of the Press Vindicated." Harper's Magazine, 57:293-98, July 1878. F336
A dramatic report of the Zenger trial.
"Freedom to Read." Times Literary Supplement, 3196:389, 31 May 1963. F337
The article attempts to answer questions posed by a reader: Who lists the books British customs officials are instructed to confiscate from British citizens returning from abroad? By what legal authority? Who lists the books Post Office officials are entitled to confiscate?
Freedom to Read. 16 mm., b/w movie, 14 min. New York, Center for Mass Communication, Columbia University Press, 1954. F338
A librarian upholds the right of the public library to provide books on all aspects of controversial issues against censorship pressures in the community. The film was produced to stimulate civic and classroom debate during Columbia University's bicentennial celebration.
[Freeland, Edward B.]. "The Freedom of the Press." Continental Monthly, 4: 361-67, October 1863. F339
"The government has seen fit at various times, through its authorities, civil and military, to suppress the circulation and even the publishing of journals, which, in its judgment, give aid and comfort to the enemy." The author approves of wartime censorship if it is not despotic. He calls for restraint in public criticism in time of crisis. "The political liberty which [the political leaders] possess of free thought and free speech, has imposed upon them the moral duty of using this wisely for the welfare of humanity." References are made to a convention of editors, headed by Horace Greeley, to consider the government's policy on press censorship.
Freeman, A. C. "Enjoining the Publication of Libels." Central Law Journal, 4:171-73, 23 February 1877. F340
A general review of the legal history of enjoining the publication of libel in Great Britain and the United States. The author deplores the presence of small publications in both countries that carry on a business of blackmail, and pleads for laws and decisions to put them out of business. He disagrees with the court rulings that equity has no jurisdiction to restrain the publication of a libel, even though its publication threatens to prove ruinous to reputation and property of the person libeled.
Freeman, Alden, comp. Fight for Free Speech. A Supplement to "Law-Breaking by the Police." Including a Legal Opinion by Theodore Schroeder, Attorney for the Free Speech League. East Orange, N.J., The Author, 1909. 36p. F341
Freeman was a Mayflower descendent who became aroused over police treatment in suppressing anarchist Emma Goldman's speech in East Orange, N.J. He compiled this collection of addresses, news stories, quotations, and editorials for use by workers in a campaign for free speech.
The Suppression of Free Speech in New York and New Jersey. Being a True Account of an Eye Witness of Law-Breaking by the Police Department of New York City . . . May 23, 1909. By the City Authorities of East Orange . . . June 8, 1909 . . . Together with the Full Text of the Suppressed Lecture by Emma Goldman and the Address of Leonard Abbott and Alden Freeman at the Thomas Paine Centenary . . . East Orange, N.J., The Author, 1909. 28p. F342
Freeman, Marilla W. "Censorship in the Large Public Library." Library Journal, 53:221-24, 1 March 1928. F343 §
It is the duty of the public librarian to furnish important material on every side of a question engaging public attention, including thought in fictional form. Includes statement on how large public libraries, particularly the Cleveland Public Library, handle controversial books.
Freethinker's Convention. Proceedings and Addresses at the Freethinker's Convention Held at Watkins, N. Y. August 22d, 23d, 24th, and 25th, '78. New York, D. M. Bennett, 1878. 398p. F344
Much of the convention discussion concerned freedom of speech; a resolution was adopted calling for repeal of the obscenity laws. During the convention D. M. Bennett, W. S. Bell, and Josephine S. Tilton were arrested for selling Ezra Heywood's Cupid's Yokes.
Frend, William. An Account of the Proceedings in the University of Cambridge, against William Frend . . . for Publishing a Pamphlet, Intitled Peace and Union &c Containing the Proceedings in Jesus College, the Trial in the Vice Chanceller's Court, and in the Court of Delegates. Cambridge, Eng., Published by the Defendant; Printed by B. Flower, 1793. 262p. (Also in Howell, State Trials, vol. 22, pp. 523 ff.) F345
Frend, a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, published a pamphlet entitled Peace and Union recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans, which college authorities found objectionable and seditious. After a lengthy trial in the Court of Vice-Chancellor, Frend was "banished" from the University. Appeals to the Court of Delegates and the Court of King's Bench were unsuccessful.
Freston, Edwin. "Prior Restraint of Motion Pictures." Southern California Law Review, 34:362-66, Spring 1961. F346
Notes on the case, Times Film Corporation v. City of Chicago, 1961.
Freund, Ernst. "Freedom of Speech and Press." New Republic, 25:344-46, 16 February 1921. F347
Criticism of the juridical status of free speech, inspired by Zechariah Chafee's book on the subject.
The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights. Chicago, Callaghan, 1904. 819p. F348
A discussion of the inherent power of the government to protect the general welfare, including control of advertising and obscene publications.
Friedenthal, Jack H., and Richard J. Medalie. "The Impact of Federal Regulation on Political Broadcasting: Section 315 of the Communications Act." Harvard Law Review, 72:445-93, January 1959. F349
"The authors re-examine the statutory requirement that equal opportunities to broadcast be given to candidates for public office. They analyze the problems involved in determining what constitutes equal opportunities, to whom and when they must be afforded, and the difficulties that state defamation law creates. Judicial and agency interpretations of section 315 [equal time provision] are criticized and various statutory changes suggested."
Friedman, Joel. "Music on Networks Gets Scissors; Sex Is Not Here to Stay." Billboard, 68:1+, 9 June 1956. F350
"The broadcast industry has evolved a system of self-regulated censorship of music which appears to be an intelligent approach to a generally sensitive subject." With the influx of rock and roll, network censors are keeping a cautions ear for material that might corrupt the young.
Friedman, Jon L. "A New Approach to Obscenity." University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 19:166-73, Fall 1957. F351
"It is the purpose of this note to examine and analyze the previous tests [of obscenity] and attempt to predict whether or not the present test [model Penal Code as used in Roth v. United States] will be an improvement over its predecessors." The author finds that the present test has eliminated most of the weaknesses in earlier tests and has greater flexibility and adaptability to the varying customs of society.
[Friedman, Samuel]. "Constitutional Law--Motion Picture Censorship." Brooklyn Law Review, 26:112-17, December 1959. F352
Notes on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of the refusal of a license to the movie, Lady Chatterley's Lover, by the Motion Picture Division of the New York Educational Department. The Court held that censorship may not constitutionally be imposed upon a motion picture, solely because acts of sexual immorality are therein presented as acceptable or desirable behavoir. (Kingsley Corp. v. Regents, 360 U.S. 684).
Friedrich, Carl J. "The FCC 'Monopoly' Report; a Critical Appraisal." Public Opinion Quarterly, 4:526-32, September 1940. F353
A critique of the report of the FCC investigations of chain broadcasting, by the director of Harvard's Radiobroadcasting Research Project.
-------, and Jeannette Sayre Smith. An Analysis of the Radiobroadcasting Activities of the Federal Agencies. Cambridge, Mass., Littauer Center, Harvard University, 1940. 118p. (Radiobroadcasting Research Project. Studies in the Control of Radio, no. 3) F354
A selection of excerpts from testimony before government agencies, private conversations, and comments from industry sources, involving social aspects of broadcasting control.
Controlling Broadcasting in Wartime: a Tentative Public Policy. Cambridge, Mass., Littauer Center, Harvard University, 1940. 34p. (Radiobroadcasting Research Project. Studies in the Control of Radio, no. 2) F355
The report recommends leaving the control of wartime radio in the hands of private owners, subject to necessary military censorship. It also recommends a federal agency be established to control government broadcasts.
The Development of the Control of Advertising on the Air. Cambridge, Mass., Littauer Center, Harvard University, 1940. 39 p. (Radiobroadcasting Research Project. Studies in the Control of Radio, no. 1) F356
The history of control of radio advertising from 1922, when the first national conference on broadcasting endorsed advertising as a source of income for radio, to 1939 when the National Association of Broadcasters adopted the code for good taste in advertising and placed the responsibility for censorship on the local station or network.
Friedrich, Carl J., and Evelyn Sternberg. "Congress and the Control of Radio Broadcasting." American Political Science Review, 37:797-818, October 1943; 37:1014-26, December 1943. F357 §
"In general, the record is one of confused efforts to 'regulate' a very young industry in response to a multitude of complaints and pressures, but with no real understanding of the situation." The authors recommend that a regular committee of Congress devote its entire time to communication problems. Conclusions of a Harvard research study on radio broadcasting.
Congress and the Control of Radiobroadcasting. Cambridge, Mass., Littauer Center, Harvard University, 1944. 35p. (Radiobroadcasting Research Project. Studies in the Control of Radio, no. 5) F358
Discusses Congress as a law-making agency (Radio Act and Federal Communications Act), its relations with the FCC, including monopoly control, public service responsibilities, and censorship. Various references are made to Congressional investigations of the broadcast industry.
A Friend to Harmony, pseud. Candid Consideration on Libels . . . With Some Observations on the Liberty of the Press. Boston, Freeman & Andrews, 1789. 22p. F359
Friends to the Liberty of the Press. Proceedings of the Friends to [sic] the Liberty of the Press on December, the 22d, 1792 and January 19th, and March 9th, 1793. London, Printed by order of the Committee, 1793. 22p. F360
On the eve of the trial of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1792), a retired colonel formed the Association for Preservation of Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. This right wing group was intended to combat the efforts of the various English reform societies that had been organized to correspond with French revolutionists. The aim of the Association was to bring seditious activities to the attention of authorities and to see to it that such activities were prosecuted. On 22 December, a few days after Thomas Erskine's valiant but unsuccessful defense of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, a group, not sympathetic with the radical activities of the French revolutionists but concerned with freedom of the press in England, met in Mason's Tavern. The meeting, chaired by Gerard Noel Edwards, passed a resolution affirming the historic English right of a free press and free discussion of public issues. It also protested against the current sedition prosecutions and the vigilante activities of certain societies that have "held out general terrors against the circulation of writings, which, without describing them, they term Seditious." The resolution paid tribute to the contribution of Thomas Erskine in behalf of freedom of the press in recent trials. At the second meeting, 19 January, Erskine himself delivered an eloquent address in defense of a free press, which was subsequently adopted as the Declaration of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press and was signed by more than 500 persons. At the third meeting on 9 March, with R. B. Sheridan as chairman, the group decided to distribute 10,000 copies of the Declaration and to serve as a clearing house for information on cases of persecution for circulation of seditious papers.
-------. The Resolutions of the First Meeting of the Friends to [sic] the Liberty of the Press, December 19th, 1792. Also the Declaration of the Second Meeting, January 22nd, 1793, Written by the Hon. Thomas Erskine; to Which Is Added A Letter to Mr. Reeves, Chairman of The Association for Preserving Liberty and Property; by Thomas Law . . . London, Printed for J. Ridgway, 1793. 27p. (Reprinted with introduction in Erskine's Speeches, vol. 4, pp. 411-46). F361
Thomas Law, a member of the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property, objects to the Association's undemocratic methods in combating alledged sedition. It was the questionable activities of this group that led to the formation of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press. The dates of the Friends' meetings given in this pamphlet vary slightly from the official printing (above), which is probably correct.
Froeschle, Ferd. "Freedom of Information Becomes Law After Legislators Hear Case Stated." Quill, 45(10): 17-18, October 1957. F362
The press in North Dakota sponsors a new law guaranteeing freedom of access to public records.
Frohlick, Louis D., and Charles Schwartz. The Law of Motion Pictures including the Law of the Theatre . . . New York, Baker and Voorhis, 1918. 943p. F363
An early casebook on motion picture law, now largely of historic interest. Sections 115-16 deal with Regulation Amounting to Prohibition, and Prohibition--Immorality; section 119 deals with Censorship. The work summarizes the law and gives a digest of cases.
"Front Page Revolution." Time, 26(10): 51-52, 2 September 1935. F364
A news account of the antisedition bill passed by the Alabama legislature and repealed during the same session after the editor of the Dothan Eagle suggested that citizens arm themselves with shillalahs and "whale Hell out of members of the Alabama Legislature" for their action.
Frost, B. John. "Some Thoughts on Censorship and Youth." Library Journal, 70:792-93, 15 September 1945. F365
The solution to the problem of book selection is to apply to a book the question, "Is it of such nature that it tends to weaken or destroy our Christian concepts of morality?" The author, librarian of St. Charles Boys' Home, Milwaukee, believes that "character [is] so malleable that a man can be depraved through reading a book." Leaders of the Church are justified in protecting the faith and morals of their faith, as is done in the Catholic Church by the Index of Forbidden Books.
Frost, S. E., Jr. Is American Radio Democratic? Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1937. 234p. F366
A study of the American system of radio regulation, control, and operation as related to the democratic way of life, with emphasis on its educational aspects. Chapter 2 deals with federal regulation of aural broadcasting in the United States. The author finds that the present American system makes possible much that can be judged democratic, but its commercial foundation makes impossible a fairly reasonable advance in this direction. "Private profit, censorship for commercial ends, a dictatorial selection of program material, among other things make inevitable the subordination of public welfare to private or corporate gain and a resultant warping of the individual both in thinking and in action." Recommendations are made for revisions in the regulatory laws to lessen the station owner's power of dictatorial censorship and to open radio to a broader discussion of public issues. Based on the author's doctoral dissertation.
[Frothingham, David]. "Trial of David Frothingham, for a Libel on General Hamilton, 1799." (In Wharton, State Trials of the United States, pp. 649-51) F367 §
Frothingham was fined and sentenced to four years in prison for publication of a libel against Alexander Hamilton in his newspaper, Argus.
Frothingham, Octavius B. "The Suppression of Vice." North American Review,135:489-95, November 1882. F368 §
A noted Unitarian minister of Boston states his opposition to censorship activities of vice societies. (1) Vice societies are belligerants, not judicial bodies, yet they pretend to perform judicial tasks; (2) they are sectarians who wish to impose their notions of blasphemy, infidelity, and obscenity on others; (3) their methods of attack have kept many infamous books alive that would have otherwise died; and (4) the sources of corruption will be dried up only so fast as common enlightenment proceeds. Anthony Comstock and J. M. Buckley comment on the subject in the same issue.
Fry, John. The Accuser sham'd; or A Pair of Bellows to blow off that Dust cast upon John Fry, a Member of Parliament . . . By the Accused J. J. London, John Harris, 1648. (Case summarized in Schroeder, Constitutional Free Speech, pp. 272-75) F369
Fry was accused in Parliament of publishing two books, The Clergy in their Colors and The Bellows, which were attacks against "Doctrine and assertions of the true Religion." The books were ordered burnt and Fry "disabled to sit as a Member of this House" of Parliament.
Frye, Northrop. "Dr. Kinsey and the Dream Censor." Canadian Forum, 28:85-86, July 1948. F370
The author uses the threat of censorship of the Kinsey report in Canada to attack censorship in general. "Censorship and democracy don't mix, and there is no argument in favor of censorship that does not assume an anti-democratic social tendency." It is the adult book, the work of the serious author, not the adolescent, titillating work, that has to fight to be read.
Fryer, Peter. Mrs. Grundy; Studies in English Prudery. New York, London House and Maxwell, 1964. 368 p. F371
A study of English prudery (interference, organized or unorganized, in other people's pleasures) as it is found in various fields since the Middle Ages. Part I deals with the taboos and consequent euphemisms used to express parts of the body, sexual activity, excretion, and certain articles of clothing. The section includes a frank account of the "four-letter words," their derivation, and their substitutes, including the ban of certain combinations of initials in motor vehicle registration plates. An article based on portions of the book appears in Horizon, Spring 1964.
"Full Text of the Cleveland Newspaper Contempt Case. Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County." Ohio Law Bulletin and Reporter, 31:394-412, 24 March 1930. F372
Fuller, Edmund. "Books, Beds and Bromides." Saturday Review of Literature, 32(2):6-7, 33, 8 January 1949. F373
The author discusses frankness of sex expression in modern literature, arguing that it should be used sparingly and only when artistically necessary. He disapproves of both censorship and the lack of restraint in modern fiction.
-------. "The Post-Chatterley Deluge." Critic, 20(6):9-13, June-July 1962. F374
This literary critic believes that the freeing of such literary works as Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, has broken the dam of restraint so that a "free invitation is offered to any Tom, Dick and Harry to write with absolute license without the tests of proving themselves which made Joyce, Lawrence, and Miller the men they are, for better or worse. The whole concept of avant garde vanishes if no price must be paid for a bold departure from a previotis convention." Fuller believes that those who write, edit, and publish must make themselves "the responsible referees of our literary freedom."
Fuller, John. "Cibber, The Rehearsal at Goatham, and the Suppression of Polly." Review of English Studies, 13 (n.s.):125-34, May 1962. F375
Presents some hitherto unnoticed material relating to the contemporary belief that Colley Cibber had a hand in the suppression of Polly.
Fuller. W. A. "Books in the Dock." Spectator, 156:873-74, 15 May 1936. F376
Discussion of a proposal under consideration by the British Publishers' Association and the Authors' Society to set up a new central court, the Obscene Books Commissioner, to settle all disputed issues of obscenity in publications.
Fuller, Walter D. "Freedom for What?" Vital Speeches, 7:467-71, 15 May 1941. F377
The president of the National Association of Manufacturers, addressing the National Editorial Association, urges the preservation of a free press as the guardian of American democracy.
[Fuller, William]. Tryal of W. Fuller, upon an Information for Being an Imposter, and of Ill Name and Reputation; Falsely and Seditiously Contriving . . . to Delude and Deceive, and Discords between Said Late King [William] and his Peers, and the Noblemen of this Kingdom, to Excite and Stir up, by Publishing Two Scandalous Libels, the One Called The Original Letters from the Late King; the Other Called, Twenty-six Depositions of Persons of Quality and Worth . . . London, I. Cleave, 1702. 13 p. (Also in Howell, State Trials, vol. 14, pp. 517 ff) F378
The House of Lords directed Fuller's imprisonment and trial as a "cheat and imposter." He was found guilty of having published spurious letters from the late King William.
Fulton, E. D. "How Canada Has Dealt with the Comic Book Situation Through Legislation." Religious Education, 49:416-18, November 1954. F379
"-------. Problem of the Publication and Distribution of Obscene and Salacious Literature." Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 15:111-13, November 1958. F380
Fulton, William. "Social Sciences and the Self-Appointed Censors." Audio-Visual Instruction, 9:714, December 1964. F381
Editorial on the growth and power of "well-financed radical dissident groups dedicated to the self-appointed job of censuring and 'book burning' activities." Reference to the John Birch Society and related groups and their activities through the PTA's, the Chambers of Commerce, and other community groups.
Funnye, Doris V. Book Censorship in America, 1945-1955. [New York, New York University], 1957. 89p. (Unpublished Master's thesis) F382
Furnas, J. C. "Moral War in Hollywood." Fortnightly, 137 (n.s.):73-84, January 1935. F383
A humorous tribute to Will Hays' skill in placating the reformers and at the same time allowing movie producers free rein.
Furneaux, Philip. Letters to the Honourable Mr. Justice Blackstone, concerning His Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and Some Positions relative to Religious Liberty, in his Celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England. 2d ed. With Additions, and an Appendix, containing Authentic Copies of the Argument of the late Honourable Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the Cause between the City of London and the Dissenters. London, T. Cadell, 1771. 284p. F384
The Reverend Philip Furneaux was a critic of Blackstone's limited concept of toleration and, according to Theodore A. Schroeder, was responsible for inducing Blackstone to modify his views somewhat. Furneaux believed that a line should be drawn between mere religious principles and those overt acts which might affect the public peace. Only in the latter should civil law take jurisdiction. Punishing a man for the tendency of his principles is punishing him before he is guilty, for fear he should be guilty. The Virginia religious liberty statute is said to be derived largely from Furneaux's work.
"Futility of Censorship." Nation, 116:508, 2 May 1923. (Reprinted in Beman, Censorship of Speech and the Press, pp. 466-70) F385 §
"Behind the efforts to tighten the laws affecting the publication and sale of 'unclean' and otherwise dangerous books are two motives, more or less blurred. One is the honest impulse to protect society, especially the young and the weak from sinful ideas. The other is a perversion or exaggeration of the tendency, which we all have in some degree, to impose our ideas on the other fellow." The article was prompted by Justice John Ford's sponsorship of the "clean-books bill" before the New York Assembly.
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