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[Mockus, Michael X.]. "At Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A., Rev. Michael Mockus, Unitarian Minister Has Been Prosecuted for Blasphemy." Freethinker, 4:37, 28 February 1917. M405
[-------]. "Case of Michael Mockus for Blasphemy." Outlook, 115:111, 17 January 1917. M406
Mockus was a Unitarian minister of Detroit who was found guilty on blasphemy charges in Waterbury, Conn. The text of oral arguments at the retrial are given in Schroeder, Constitutional Free Speech Defined and Defended in an Unfinished Argument in a Case of Blasphemy.
Modder, Montagu F. "The Censorship of Literature." Peabody Journal of Education, 7:281-84, March 1930. M407
"Since it is the function of literature to present life as a whole, it should be the endeavor of the teacher and student to study not only the `obscene' but also the beautiful." While it is necessary to include the seamy side of life in literature, constant emphasis on the sordid is unhealthy.
"Modern Ideals and the Liberty of the Press." Dublin Review, 81:191-222, July 1877. M408
A philosophical discussion of the difference in meaning of a free press as seen by "liberals" and Catholics. Where there is a "true synthesis" of belief in a society, Catholic doctrine, according to the author, states that liberty of expression is not allowable; it is an evil and a snare. The law should interfere for the sake of protecting the true synthesis.
A Modest Proposal for the Prohibition of Speech, Humbly Offered to the Consideration of Parliament. Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson, 1743. 16p. M409
The anonymous author argues that a prohibition of speech would save all from saying foolish things or giving offense to wise men obliged to hear, would silence defamation and scandal, would abolish shocking oaths and curses, would save innocent young creatures from infamy and ruin resulting from beguiling tongues, would save public revenues used to silence critics of the administration, and would require people to show their intent by actions rather than words.
Moeller, Leslie G. "How Free Is The Press?" Vital Speeches, 23:750-54, 1 October 1957. (Also in Black and Kerr, American Issues, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1961, pp. 163-68) M410
The director of a Journalism school discusses the proper and judicious use of freedom. "Right of access" is the greatest problem area today in the realm of freedom of the press. There are three groups involved: the "Policy Definers" or "Policy Controllers" (mostly in government), the "Active Defenders" (from the press, law, education, and the ACLU), and the "Usually Passive Beneficiaries." These average citizens, according to various polls which the author cites, are too often indifferent to the issue of freedom of the press. He suggests ways in which the media can bring about an improvement in the climate of freedom.
[Moens, Herman M. B.]. "Injustice to a Holland Scholar by the Department of Justice." Medico- Legal Journal, 37:77-80, September 1920. M411
An account of the prosecution of Professor Moens, his conviction, appeal, and final acquittal on a charge of obscenity in photographic studies of nudes showing race mixture, intended for an anthropological study. The fear- psychology of the war, according to Theodore A. Schroeder, induced groundless suspicious that Moens was a German spy.
[-------]. "Three Black Bands." Medical Review of Reviews, 25:719-23, December 1920. M412
Reference to his own prosecution for having in his possession a series of anthropological photographs of nudes, and an account of the support he received from scientists and artists. The September issue of the Medical Review reproduced some of the pictures with black bands across the genitalia.
Mohr, J. W. Report on a Study of Obscene and Indecent Literature. [Toronto?], The Author, 1958. 102p. mimeo. M413
A report prepared for the Committee on Obscenity and Indecent Literature of the Attorney General's Department, Province of Ontario, Canada.
Moley, Raymond. The Hays Office. Indianapolis, Bobbs- Merrill, 1945. 266p. M414
A eulogistic account of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America under the direction of Will Hays and the efforts of this organization to promote self- regulation in the movie industry. Part II, Evaluation of Self- Regulation, deals largely with the operation of the Production Code.
-------. "Strange Roads to Freedom." Newsweek, 14:64, 20 November 1939. M415
The author objects to the kind of free press proposed by Harold Ickes and Max Lerner, who charge a sinister monopoly of the channels and sources of opinion. What these men want, Moley writes, is not a completely free press or radio, but "merely control over the instruments of public education."
Molina G, M. I. La Libertad de Prensa en los Estados Unidos de Norte America, La Prensa en el Mundo Socialista. Caracas, Venezuela, [Editonal Cantaclaro]. 1961. 47p. M416
Mollenhoff, Clark R. "The Answer to Secrecy." Nieman Reports, 8(1):3-7, January 1954. M417
"Follow through - that is the newspaper answer to secrecy in government." A talk presented before the Iowa Radio Press Association at the State University of Iowa, September 1953.
-------. "Congressional Inquiry on Government Secrecy Aids the Press' Cause." Quill, 45(8):15-16, 20, August 1956. M418
What the Moss Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has done to ease executive news barriers.
-------. Deadly Dilemma: Defense and Democracy. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1962. 12p. (The John Peter Zenger Award for Freedom of the Press, number 7) M419
The 1961 recipient of the award was Pulitzer Prize- winning Washington correspondent of the Cowles Publications. His lecture explores the problems of national security versus the rights and responsibilities of a free press.
-------. "Is the Press Alert to a Dangerous Precedent on Executive Secrecy?" Quill, 43(12):9-10, 37-38, December 1955. M420
A criticism of the current use of the Eisenhower- Wilson letter, issued during the Army-McCarthy hearings, to keep certain executive matters confidential.
-------. "Managing the News." Nieman Reports, 16(4):3-6, December 1962. M421
The Harold L. Cross Memorial Lecture to the National Editorial Association in St. Louis, 16 November 1962.
-------. "News 'Weaponry' and McNamara's Military Muzzle." Quill, 50(12):8-9, December 1962. M422
A criticism of the control of information by the Defense Department during the Cuban missile crisis. Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense, answers the criticism: "No distortion, no deception, no manipulation of news."
-------. "Secrecy in Washington." Atlantic Monthly, 204:54-59, July 1959. M423
The author examines the "executive privilege" doctrine as proclaimed by the Eisenhower administration and the withholding of information from Congress and the press by the federal, executive, and independent agencies under this doctrine. The basic question is: "Can the President or his department heads arbitrarily override a specific law of the Congress which requires the production of records of 'financial transactions and methods of business' in all agencies?"
-------. "Shield of Secrecy." Nieman Reports, 14(1):20-25, January 1960. (Reprinted in Black and Kerr, American Issues, New York, Harcourt, Brace 1961, pp. 168-78) M424
In the 8th annual Lovejoy Lecture, Colby College, December 1959, Mollenhoff discusses the use of executive privilege to withhold information from the Congress and the public. He describes the use of official news handouts, unavailable officials, favoritism, and the misuse of security classification as forming the shield of secrecy.
-------. Washington Cover- Up. New York, Doubleday, 1962. 239p. (Reprinted in Popular Library, 206p.) M425
How increasing cover- up in the executive branch of the federal government has prevented Congress, the press, and the people from learning about incompetency, laxity, bungling, and even fraud. Although a practice that is as old as government, beginning with the Truman administration the executive branch has become increasingly highhanded in withholding information that might be critical of the party in power. Under the Eisenhower administration the practice of "executive privilege" became a constitutional right to withhold government records. While President Kennedy has spoken against secrecy in government, the practice of "news management" continues.
[Molz, Kathleen]. "More Than Lip Service." Wilson Library Bulletin, 39:537-40, March 1965. M426
A summary of the proceedings of the conference sponsored by the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, 23-24 January, Washington, D.C., with the theme, More than Lip Service: Backstopping the Library Bill of Rights. The reviewer compares the general scope and nature of this conference with the one sponsored by the Committee in 1952, noting an increase in number and magnitude of censorship incidents over the past decade, the group nature of the censor, and the "inverse" censorship pressure to add hooks, particularly of the right persuasion.
Monaghan, Frank. "Benjamin Harris, Printer, Bookseller, and the First American Journalist." Colophon, 1932. Pt. xii, 8 unnumbered pages. M427
Account of the publishing career of Benjamin Harris, convicted in England in 1680 for publishing a newsbook without a license. Ten years later he published the first American newspaper, which was suppressed after the first issue. Includes checklist of Harris' American printing.
-------. Heritage of Freedom; the History & Significance of the Basic Documents of American Liberty. [Presenting and Explaining the Documents on the Freedom Train]. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1947. 150p. (Published in cooperation with the American Heritage Foundation) M428
Includes three items relating to John Peter Zenger; a copy of Benjamin Franklin's defense of the freedom of the press; a copy of John Wilkes's no. 45 issue of North Briton; an account of Elijah Lovejoy's martyrdom; a first edition of George Hay's essay (1799); a first edition of Milton's Areopagitica; a polygraph copy of Jefferson's letter to Thomas Seymour declaring that an honest press is "Equally the Friend of Science and Civil Liberty"; and Jefferson's letterpress copy of a letter to Edward Carrington with the famous quotation, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate to prefer the latter."
Mondschein, Morris. "Constitutional Law: Motion Picture Censorship." Cornell Law Quarterty, 44:411-19, Spring 1959. M429
Regarding Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of the University of New York (1958), in a case involving the film, Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Monroe, Bill. "The Electronic Press: How Free?" Quill, 49(11):13, 15, November 1961. M430
Increased government regulation of broadcasting in the area of entertainment, as proposed, may have serious effect upon the atmosphere of news- gathering and reporting. Broadcast journalism "has more to offer the American people in freedom than the government regulators have to offer them by methods of official persuasion."
Monroe, James O. Freedom of Speech in Illinois in 1935. An Address in the Illinois State Senate on May 18, 1935, on a Bill to Repeal the Seditious Utterance Act. Collinsville, Ill., The Author, 1935. 40p. M431
Senator Monroe, a Collinsville newspaper publisher, urges the repeal of Illinois's criminal syndicalism law, passed in 1919.
Monroe, Margaret E. "The Sleeping Dog vs. the Stolen Horse." Wisconsin Library Bulletin, 60:170-72, May-June 1964. M432
Deals with the general public and its understanding of the principles of intellectual freedom. "The sleeping dog must be awakened so that he can meet the thief at the barn door."
Montagu, Ivor G. The Political Cemorship of Films. London, Gollancz, 1929. 44p. M433
In this pamphlet on the conditions for exhibiting films, a member of Parliament discusses the equivocal position on film censorship which involves Acts of Parliament, and action of Scotland Yard and local authorities. "Unofficial" suppression of films is more stringent than official banning and prevents the public showing of many serious educational works that are deemed "controversial."
Montague, Charles E. Disenchantment. London, Chatto and Windus, 1928. 228p. M434
Information on military censorship in World War I by a British journalist who served as a military censor.
-------. "Would Truth or Lies Cost More?" Nineteenth Century, 90:27-34, July 1921. M435
The author explores the proposal that in the next war "we might do well to draw a wide, opaque veil of false news over the whole face of our country," noting cynically that "one morality has to be practiced in peace and another in war.
Montague, Gilbert H. "Censorship of Motion Pictures before the Supreme Court." Survey, 34:82-83, 24 April 1915. M436
"Mr. Montague here puts the case of those who believe that so far as censorship of `movie' films is needed at all, it should be official. Their hands have been strengthened by three decisions of the Supreme Court which he quotes." In February 1915 the Supreme Court in three unanimous decisions sustained the Ohio and Kansas statutes creating official censorship of motion pictures before exhibition. (236 U.S. 230, 247, 248.)
Montague, Henry B. "Pornography." In International Association of Chiefs of Police, Police Yearbook. St. Louis, 1963, pp. 35-38. M437
Montague, Peter. "Controversial Books." Catholic Library World, 36:166-68, November 1964. M438
Brother Montague observes that books are not so much good or bad in themselves but as they affect particular readers. We get out of a book what we bring to it. "The real problem is not banning controversial books, but finding a way of allowing them to be read by the more mature students, and yet not giving them to the younger or less mature student."
[Montague, Richard]. "Proceedings in Parliament against Richard Montague for Publishing a Factious and Seditious Book, 1625." In Howell, State Trials, vol. 2, pp. 1257ff. M439
Chaplain Montague's pamphlet, An Appeal to Caesar, was considered an offense to the Archbishop of Canterbury and an encouragement to Popery. The House of Commons recommended punishment, but in the concern with more important trials, no action was taken.
Montcalm, Henry, pseud. "How Free Is Canada's Air?" Nation, 174:253, 15 March 1952. M440
An anonymous Canadian journalist deals with recent attacks on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for so- called anti-religious broadcasts and the question whether freedom of speech is possible on the air. The row began over six lectures by the British physicist, Fred Hoyle.
Montgomery, James. "The Menace of Hollywood." Studies (Ireland) 31:42-28, December 1942. M441
The man who was Ireland's film censor from 1923 to 1940 discusses the cinema as "an ever increasing danger to the manners and morals of our people." He is particularly concerned with the harmful effect on children, despite the inconclusive result of studies of effect. While Ireland's Censorship of Films Act of 1923 (it installed a "sin- filter") provided for issuing limited certificates for "adults only" films, the provision was not used for fear it would advertise films to adolescents. Instead, all films were drastically cut down to render them harmless to children. The cinema production industry, especially in America, has fallen into evil hands and its product is shameful. The author refers to the good work of the Production Code and the Legion of Decency. But this has not been enough to stop the production of rubbish. When the Legion tried to restrain eroticism, sadism took its place. He calls for an Irish Film Company to provide a renaissance of true cinema art.
Montgomery, Reid H. Publication Laws of South Carolina. Columbia, S.C., School of Journalism, University of South Carolina, [1964]. 38p. M442
Montveran, Tournachon de. De la Legislation anglaise sur le Libelle, la Presse et les Journaux. . . . Paris, Alexis Fymery, 1817. 120p. M443
Mood, Robert G. "Let 'em Read Trash." Elementary English, 34:444-50, November 1957. (Condensed in Education Digest, February 1958) M444
The author discusses recent tendencies to exercise censorship over children's books. He examines the dangers inherent in censorship as contrasted with the "worse dangers" claimed by certain groups if children are permitted to read objectionable books.
Moody, Howard. "Toward a New Definition of Obscenity." Christianity and Crisis, 24:284-88, 25 January 1965. M445
"Should we not as Christians raise a new standard of `obscenity' not obsessed with sex and vulgar language, but defined rather as that material which has as its dominant theme and purpose the debasement and depreciation of human beings - their worth and their dignity."
-------"Which of These Pictures Is Obscene?" Pageant, 21:112-18, September 1965. M446
Moon, Eric. "The Benefit of the Doubt." Wilson Library Bulletin, 39:663-7, 704, April 1965. M447
The editor of Library Journal discusses three kinds of censorship: (1) that emanating from legal or governmental sources, (2) that stemming from action of individuals or groups "who wish either to limit the access of others to materials with which they do not agree, or to enforce their own opinions and materials to the forefront at the expense of others," and (3) self- censorship and censorship by librarians, "perhaps the worst kind." Writing largely of the third category, Moon observes that too often library "book selection is one of fear and timidity, of deliberate avoidance of those books which dare to challenge the accepted or which hint of the possibility of repercussions." While librarians may risk popularity by honest book selection, they will gain respect. Even where there is a book selection policy, it is often expressed in such generalities to be useful only as a crutch. Moon questions the practice of librarians catering to majority interests to the neglect of minorities. He also questions the double standard in which the librarian is more circumspect and rigorous in selection of books addressed to a serious or controversial theme than those that are "trite and mediocre and harmless." In all cases where responsible opinions differ, Moon concludes, "it is the book which should be given the benefit of every possible doubt."
-------"Coalinga to Philadelphia." Library Journal, 40:2980-81, July 1965. M448
In light of the decision of the Coalinga, Calif., District Library to classify controversial books (controversial and restricted, controversial but open shelf; open shelf), Editor Moon considers the restrictive policies of libraries (including Philadelphia Free Library) and the position of the American Library Association s statement on "labeling."
-------"Defensive about `The Defenders.'" Library Journal, 88:2210, 1 June 1963. Discussion 88:2580, July 1963. M449
Editor Moon criticizes an editorial in the ALA Bulletin that protested the 30 March teleplay, "The Defenders," as damaging to the librarians' image. The editorial, Moon charges, "makes no attempt to discuss whether the program succeeded or failed in its central purpose or whether the 'total' effect of the program was for good or ill." A professional association should not react this way to a single portrayal of a character. In the July 1963 issue Sidney L. Jackson defends the ALA Bulletin editorial.
-------"In Place of Panacea." NCLA Odds and Books Ends, 43:3-8, Fall 1963. M450
A talk on censorship given before the Nassau County Library Association by the editor of Library Journal. Since we can't apply consistent standards in book selection in both categories, "it would be better to reverse the double standard . . . that is, apply more rigorous judgment to the trite and mediocre and harmless than to the book which deals with a challenging idea or subject."
-------"Integration and Censorship, Two Thorny Issues at ALA's Midwinter Conference." Library Journal, 87:904-8+, 1 March 1962. M451
[-------]. "More Than Lip Service; A Report on a Special Two- Day Conference Sponsored by ALA's Committee on Intellectual Freedom." Library Journal, 90:1067-72, 1 March 1965. M452
A report on a conference "to discuss infringement of intellectual freedom and censorship problems in libraries and to discuss ways and means of implementing the Library Bill of Rights," and, specifically, "to work out steps librarians may take when confronted with censorship problems." Papers appear in the ALA Bulletin, June 1965, and as a separate publication of the proceedings of the conference under the title Freedom of Inquiry. Each paper is listed under the author in this bibliography A summary of the conference also appears in the Antiquarian Bookman, 8 February 1965.
-------. "New York Letter: Courage and Cowardice." Library World, 63:293-96, May 1962. M453
A review of recent American censorship. While regretting incidents of library censorship, "one can feel nothing but pride for the record of the profession as a body, at least as represented by the American Library Association." He reviews the ALA's long record on intellectual freedom.
[-------]. "`Problem' Fiction." Library Journal, 87:484-96, 1 February 1962. M454
"How many libraries provide home for unorthodox ladies like Lolita or Lady Chatterley? Is the Tropic of Cancer too hot to handle? Will you find The Carpetbaggers or the sexsurveyors of The Chapman Report on the open shelves, under the counter, or in the stacks? A recent Library Journal survey, which queried public libraries on their book selection in the area of contemporary controversial fiction, provides some of the answers."
Moore, Charles C. Behind the Bars; 31498. Lexington, Ky., Blue Grass Printing Co., 1899. 303p. M455
Moore was the editor of the free- thought magazine, Blue Grass Blade, who served numerous terms in prison for his outspoken attacks on the Bible and theology. This autobiography was written while in prison for blasphemous articles appearing in his paper. In 1900, in the case of United States v. Moore, the District Court D., Kentucky, ruled that a publication to be prohibited from the mails must be "lewd and lascivious as well as "obscene" and that it could not be banned because it offends the religious sentiments of the majority of the people by attacking the doctrine of the immaculate conception of Christ, even though worded in coarse or obscene language. The publication must have a tendency to induce sexual immorality.
Moore, Donald P. "Chicago Censorship Ordinance Held Enforceable." University of Illinois Law Forum, 1954:678-84, Winter 1954. M456
American Civil Liberties Union v. Chicago, 3 Ill. 2d 334, 121 N.E. 2d 585 (1954). A test case involving showing of the film, The Miracle. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the Chicago ordinance, observing that the U.S. Supreme Court, in holding unconstitutional the New York film board banning of The Miracle (Burstyn v. Wilson), reserved judgment on the validity of "a clearly drawn statute designed and applied to prevent the showing of obscene films."
Moore, Everett T. "Amazing What Turns up in a Library." ALA Bulletin, 56:395-96, May 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 58-59) M457
A view of Miss Cloud, the librarian in John Hersey's The Child Buyer, who, when questioned by Senator Skypack whether she had "dished up" any sex books to the boy, answered: "I dish up whatever a young mind wants and needs, sir."
-------. "Bartlesville, and After." ALA Bulletin, 54:815-17, November 1960. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 12-13) M458
A recounting of the persecution of the librarian of the Bartlesville Free Public Library, dismissed in 1950 for having in the library such journals as The Nation and New Republic.
-------. "Catcher and Mice." ALA Bulletin, 55:227-30, March 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 67-8, and in Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman, ed., Studies in J. D. Salinger, pp. 130-34) M459
Opposition to having J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men in school libraries.
-------. "Censorship; and Threats of Censorship." Calfornia Librarian, 16:226-28+, July 1955. M460
-------. "Censorship in the Name of Better Relations." ALA Bulletin, 55:617-18, July-August 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 69-70) M461
Censorship of books because they are offensive to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
-------. "A City in Torment over Kazantzakis." ALA Bulletin, 57:305-6, April 1963. (Reprinted, with author's note, in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 62-63) M462
Attacks on libraries in southern California for having on their shelves The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis.
-------. "D. H. Lawrence and the 'Censor- Morons."' ALA Bulletin, 54:731-32, October 1960. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 60-61) M463
An up- to- date summary of the difficulties encountered in the publication of Lady Chatterlsy's Lover.
-------. "A Dangerous Way of Life." Illinois Libraries, 46:165-74, March 1964. M464
In an address before the Illinois Library Association, the author discusses the anti- intellectualism in America that has resulted in fear and suspicion of ideas, of books that convey them, and of librarians that select the books. He recounts some of the attacks against books and the efforts of American librarianship to withstand the attacks. "We are committed to a way of life, therefore, that is dangerous." But there are "other priceless elements that make our way of life well worth the hazards involved . . . We have been given the happy and solemn task of seeing to it that every man shall have a chance to read without fear of the meddling censor and the obstructive hater of books and ideas."
-------. "For Reference Only." ALA Bulletin, 55:19-20, January 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 19-20) M465
Controversy in Santa Barbara, Calif., over whether the magazine, New World Review, should remain on the open shelves of the public library. The case was resolved by treating the book as a reference work, for use only when requested.
-------. "Friends and 'True Friends' in New York." ALA Bulletin, 57:387-88, May 1963. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 3-31. M466
"Seldom, if ever, has so direct an attack on the Library Bill of Rights been recorded, as the one made by the 'True Friends of the Library' of New City, New York (a few miles north of New York City) in the midst of the turmoil in that town over book selection policies of the Free Library."
-------. "The Huckleberry Finn Matter: Some Facts Overlooked." ALA Bulletin, 56:629-30, July-August 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 71-72) M467
A correction of a New York Times story that Huckleberry Finn had been dropped from the approved textbook list of the New York City schools. It was only the "adapted" and expurgated edition that was dropped and, the author notes, the school authorities are to be congratulated.
-------. "The Innocent Librarians." ALA Bulletin, 55:861-62, November 1961 (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 37-38) M468
Comments on Rosalie M. Gordon's accusations that librarians show a decided left- wing bias in their book selection and are being "used" by the liberal review media.
-------. Issues of Freedom in American Libraries. Chicago, American Library Association, 1964. 80p. M469
"All of the pieces in this books were first published in the 'Intellectual Freedom' department of the ALA Bulletin, the official journal of the American Library Association. They are now reissued in this form to provide a record and an interpretation of a number of problems concerning freedom which were faced by librarians in the United States mainly during the period 1960-63, and, in a few instances, in earlier years." The articles are grouped under the following headings which suggest their scope: The Nature ofthe Problem, Charges of Subversion, On Defining Obscenity, Concerning Our Children, and Who May Use the Library?
-------. "Justice Douglas on 'Freedom of the Mind."' ALA Bulletin, 56:985-86, December 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 21-23) M470
A review of Justice William O. Douglas' pamphlet, published for the American Library Association.
-------. "L. A.'s Tropic Decision and the Geography of Community Standards." ALA Bulletin, 56:301-3, April 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 50-52) M471
An account of the spirited testimony for both prosecution and defense in the case of the Tropic of Cancer, convicted in the Los Angeles Municipal Court. Moore comments on the crazy- quilt pattern of southern California bookstores and libraries stocking or not stocking the book.
-------. "Learning Without Fear." PNLA Quarterly, 28:6-14, October 1963. M472
A look at the "wave of fear that has overwhelmed so many people in this country and has made them wary of almost all kinds of reading - particularly of reading by others." Similar to the author's article in Illinois Libraries, March 1964.
-------. "Librarians and the 'Decency Committees.'" ALA Bulletin, 54:571-73, July-August 1960. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 41-42) M473
The campaign to curb distribution of "smut literature" by various decency groups is a potential threat to libraries because in many cases such groups have gone on to demand restriction of book selection in libraries.
-------. "A Library Burns in the Los Angeles Riot." ALA Bulletin, 59:983-86, December 1965. M474
An account of the burning of the Willowbrook branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library during the race riot of August 1965.
--------. "Massachusetts Provides First Major Tropic Decision." ALA Bulletin, 56:785-86, October 1962. (Reprinted, with author's note, in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 55-57) M475
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that the book was entitled to the protection of the First Amendment, and that it could not be held obscene in the constitutional sense.
-------. "The Nature of Our Problem: There Have Been Some Changes." ALA Bulletin, 57:488-92, June 1963. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 79) M476
How the library profession came to change its emphasis from defender against immorality and indecency in literature, to defender of readers against the censor himself.
-------. "Objections to the Foreign Policy Association: A Familiar Pattern." ALA Bulletin, 55:684-86, September 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 16-18) M477
The American Legion's objection to holding of the Great Decisions programs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, in the Miami Public Library, recalls earlier attacks on the Association in the 1930's.
-------. "Open to All - Except the Censor." California Librarian, 25:153-60, 183-84, July 1964. M478
A review of current efforts at censorship in California, viewed as a manifestation of the fear of intellectualism that exists throughout America.
"Raising Hell with the Legionaires." ALA Bulletin, 57:222-26, March 1963. (Reprinted, with author's note, in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 2&29) M479
Account of attacks by the American Legion on the treasurer of the Ringwood (N.J.) Library Association for alleged Communist affiliations, and on a social science teacher in Paradise, Calif., for brainwashing students in a unit on American government. The teacher was accused, among other things, of requiring students "to read salacious literature" and with "teaching sex." The Board of Education voted their confidence in the teacher.
--------. "A Rationale for Bookburners: A Further Word from Ray Bradbury." ALA Bulletin, 55:403-4, May 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 39-40) M480
Comments on Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, written during the panic and wholesale book burning of the McCarthy era, and Mr. Bradbury's comment on the continued validity of his attack on tyranny over the mind.
--------. "Screening the Propaganda Once Again." ALA Bulletin, 57:17-19, January 1963. (Reprinted, with author's note, in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 24-25) M481
"Many librarians feel that the federal government turned back the clock last fall by writing a 'mail- screening' program into the statutes books for the first time." The screening was aimed at censorship of "communist political propaganda." Public, college, and university libraries are exempt from the screening.
-------. "Still No Decision in Albany." ALA Bulletin, 57:111-16, February 1963. (Reprinted, with author's note, in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 77-80) M482
Relates to the campaign against racial segregation in the Carnegie Public Library, Albany, Ga.
-------. "The 'Study- In' as Reported in Jackson, Mississippi." ALA Bulletin, 55:497-99, June 1961. (Reprinted, with author's note, in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 75-76) M483
The episode of Mississippi's first "study- in" at the city's main public library, which is for whites only.
-------. "Sustaining the Atmosphere of Caution." ALA Bulletin, 55:100-104, February 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 64-66) M484
An account of the activities of the Daughters of the American Revolution and America's Future, Inc., in passing on the fitness of school and college textbooks.
-------. "Tropic Controversy: Not Yet Concluded." ALA Bulletin, 56:492-94, June 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 53-54) M485
Ruling on the literary merit or lack of it in Tropic of Cancer, including Chicago Judge Samuel B. Epstein's ruling that the book was not obscene.
-------. "Tropic of Cancer (Second Phase)." ALA Bulletin, 56:81-84, February 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 47-49) M486
Efforts to suppress the first American edition of Henry Miller's book.
-------. "Tropic of Cancer; the First Three Months." ALA Bulletin, 55:779-80, October 1961. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 45-46) M487
Legal action against Miller's book, published in the United States by Grove Press 27 years after its first publication in Paris.
-------. "Vexation on the Right." ALA Bulletin, 54:433-34, June 1960. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 14-15) M488
An account of complaints from conservatives that librarians are discriminating against their periodicals.
-------. "What Harm Will Befall?" ALA Bulletin, 56:213, March 1962. (Reprinted with author's note on the Fanny Hill case in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 43-44) M489
A brief discussion of the difference of opinion on the effect of reading an obscene book, a discussion prompted by the reading of Paul and Schwartz, Federal Censorship.
-------. "Why Do the Rightists Rage?" ALA Bulletin, 56:26-31, January 1962. (Reprinted in Moore, Issues of Freedom in American Libraries, pp. 32-36) M490
Article tells of pressure brought by rightists on public librarians to change their policies of book selection in order to emphasize rightist literature. Includes a list of authors and some of their recent articles which are used by rightists to espouse their cause.
Moore, George. "Apologia pro Scriptis Meis." Fortnightly Review, 112(n.s.):529-44, October 1922. M491
Moore discusses his controversy with the firms of Mudie and Smith and their refusal to circulate his books because of the unconventional writing. "Conventions there must be . . . but man's instincts are always invading the moral law, and may loosen the conventions of prose narrative still further."
-------. Avowals. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1926. 308p. M492
In chapter 3 Moore reports his conversations with the young American correspondent Balderson, which deal with literary censorship in England. Moore describes his experiences with the English lending libraries over his books Esther Waters and A Mummer's Wife, because of their requirement that sordid stories must have moral endings. In their conversation Balderson and Moore present a mock enactment of the trial of Henry Vizetelly for publishing the works of Zola, with Moore's sleeping black cat representing the judge. Balderson's account of the conversation appears in the Fortnightly Review for October 1917.
-------. Literature at Nurse or Circulating Morals. London, Vizetelly, 1885. 22p. M493
Strictures upon the selection of books for circulation at Mudie's Library.
Moore, Harry T. The Intelligent Heart; the Story of D. H. Lawrence. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Young, 1954. 486p. (Also in Penguin edition, 1960; Grove Press edition, 1962) M494
In this biography of Lawrence there are many references to the banning and bowdlerizing of his work, with particular attention given to the publishing history of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Lawrence's views on obscenity.
Moore, John R. Daniel Defoe; Citizen of the Modern World. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958. 409p. M495
A biography of one of England's most prolific satirists and political pamphleteers. For his The Shortest Way With the Dissenters (1703), a satire recommending death to dissenters, Defoe was pilloried, fined, and spent 18 months in prison. The pamphlet was burned by the common hangman. At Newgate prison Defoe continued his writing. He experienced numerous arrests and frequent imprisonment through- out his life, largely for his attacks on the Tories and the High Church.
-------. "`Robin Hog' Stephens: Messenger of the Press." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 50:381-87, 1956. M496
One of the most disliked of the government spies who reported to the authorities the existence of printing that was unlicensed or otherwise objectionable.
"A Moral Pestilence." Nation, 129:767-68, 25 December 1929. M497
While defending the political rights of Catholics in this country, this editorial is critical of doctrines of the Catholic Church which claim to the Church the right to prescribe in detail, through the Index of Prohibited Books, what may or may not be read. The editor calls upon liberal Catholics in this country to make known their sentiments in the hope of having some ultimate influence upon the official doctrines of the Church.
"Morality Commission's Action in Compiling Lists of `Obscene' Paperback Books and Threatening to Recommend Prosecution of Distributors Held Not to Infringe Constitutional Guarantee of Free Speech." University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 110:1162-65,June 1962. M498
Relates to the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth that had prepared a list of books it considered objectionable for sale to minors. Bantam Books, Inc., v. Sullivan, 176 A. 2d 393 (R. I. 1961). The decision was later reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The Morality Crisis." Newsweek, 65(16):98, 101-2, 19 April 1965. M499
The Motion Picture Production Association, faced with the influx of racy foreign films, the production of films by independents, and the apparent public acceptance of more sex and nudity in films, has announced the intention of a massive overhaul of its code provisions. Commentary on such frank and permissive productions as Kiss Me, Stupid, The Pawnbroker, and The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders.
Mordell, Albert, ed. Notorious Literary Attacks. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1926. 255p. M500
A collection of contemporary reviews of such works as Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, Leaves of Grass, and the poetry of Swinburne, revealing the hostility to frank expression, particularly in the realm of sex.
"More Condemned Books." Literary Digest, 59:27, 12 October 1918. M501
Books on the "Index" of the U.S. Army during World War I.
"More of the Same: Massachusetts Supreme Court and Dreiser's An American Tragedy." Outlook, 155:214, 11 June 1930. M502
The highest court of Massachusetts upheld the state's obscenity law by finding Dreiser's work in violation.
Morecroft, J. H. "What about Libel by Radio?" Radio Broadcast, 9:118-19, June 1926. M503
Morel, E. D. The Persecution of E. D. Morel. The Story of his Trial and Imprisonment. Glasgow, [1917?]. 11p. M504
Morel was sentenced to six months in prison for sending a copy of his book, Africa and the Peace of Europe, to Romain Rolland, then residing in Switzerland, for which he was technically guilty of a felony in wartime. Introduction by Sir D. M. Stevenson.
[-------]. Rex v. E. D. Morel. Trial at Bow Street. London, Published by the Union of Democratic Control, printed by the National Labour Press, [1917?]. 30p. M505
A verbatim report of the court proceedings at Bow Street, on 1 and 4 September 1917, before Mr. E. W. Garrett. A photograph of Morel appears on the cover.
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