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Sullivan, Sheila. "The Anti-Secrecy Law in Wisconsin." Nieman Reports, 17?(1):25-28, March 1963. S708 §
The Wisconsin law (1959) guarantees open public meetings and unopposed admittance of newsmen except in certain cases specifically excepted in the law.
Sullivan, Walter. "U.S. Purges Libraries It Runs in Germany." Nieman Reports, 7(3):34, July 1953. (Reprinted from New York Times, 11 June 1953) S709
Censorship of U.S. information libraries overseas.
Sulloway, Alvah W. Birth Control and Catholic Doctrine. Preface by Aldous Huxley. Boston, Beacon, 1959. 257p. S710
Legislation against birth control, according to the author, grew out of a Victorian preoccupation with obscenity; it was later supported by the Catholic Church. There are frequent references to efforts at suppression of birth control information in England and America and a section on the legal aspects.
Sulzberger, Arthur H. Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof [Honolulu], University of Hawaii, 1954. 11p. (University of Hawaii Occasional Paper 61) S711
Charter Day address by the publisher of the New York Times at the University of Hawaii, 16 February 1954, as part of Columbia University Bicentennial celebration.
-------. "Newspaper--Its Making and Meaning." Vital Speeches, 11:539-43, 15 June 1945. S712
The editor of the New York Times,in an address to New York teachers, denies charges that the American press is dominated by economic pressure groups. He appeals to his audience to teach that a free press is the right of the people and not the publishers.
-------. "Where We Stand on Freedom." Nieman Reports, 7(2):3-6, April 1953. S713
"Discussion is being restricted . . . A smoke screen of intimidation dims essential thought. . . . It isn't the super-zealots who bother me so much as the lack of plain old-fashioned guts in those who capitulate to them." From a talk upon receiving the Columbia College award for distinguished service in 1952.
Summerfield, Arthur C. The Great Menace to America's Children: What You Can Do About It. Washington, D.C., U.S. Post Office Department, 1959. 10p. (Mimeographed release no. 114) S714
An address by the Postmaster General before a conference of women leaders of civic, educational, parent, and religious organizations, and women members of the Congress and government agencies. He calls for parents to report any pornography received by their children to local postmasters for action.
-------. Mail-Order Obscenity vs. Decency, Our Responsibility to Our Children. Address by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, before Detroit Federation of Womens' Clubs, . . . Jan. 14, 1960. Washington, D.C., Govt. Print. Off, 1960. 15p. S715
-------. Our Challenge, Decency and Dignity for Our Children. Address by . . . Postmaster General . . . 2d National Conference, Citizens for Decent Literature, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 27, 1960. Washington, D.C., Govt. Print. Off, 1960. 21p. S716
Summers, Harrison B., comp. Radio Censorship. New York, Wilson, 1939. 297p. (Reference Shelf, vol. 12, no. 10) S717
A compilation of articles and extracts, pro and con, dealing with the proposed amendments to the Communications Act of 1934, prepared as a guide for debaters. Includes extracts from newspaper editorials, not readily available elsewhere. Bibliography, pp. 285-97.
Summers, Joseph P. "Freedom of the Press--Court Orders Forbidding Photography, Television, and Radio Facilities on Streets and Sidewalks Surrounding Courthouse Is Constitutional." Notre Dame Lawyer, 36:78-81, December 1960. S718
Comments on the Georgia case, Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. v. Grimes, 114 S.E. 2d 421 (1960).
Summers, Robert C. "Constitutional Protection of Obscene Material against Censorship as Correlated with Copyright Protection of Obscene Material against Infringement." Southern California Law Review, 31:301-12, April 1958. S719
Summers, Robert E., comp. Federal Information Controls in Peacetime. New York, Wilson, 1949. 301p. (Reference Shelf, vol. 20, no. 6) S720
A collection of articles and official documents relating to government control of information in the interest of national security--the military force, atomic energy, and the federal loyalty investigations--and the implication of such restrictions to freedom of the press.
-------. Wartime Censorship of Press and Radio. New York, Wilson, 1942. 297p. (Reference Shelf, vol. 15, no. 8) S721
A collection of articles and extracts relating to the development of censorship in World War II. Limited to news control as it affects radio and the press. Most of the material is taken from the trade journals of the news industry: Variety and Broadcasting for radio; Editor & Publisher for the press. Articles are presented under such headings as: history of censorship, development of controls, censorship in operation, self-censorship, censorship controversies, problems of censorship, editorial comment, and philosophy of censorship. The appendix includes text of executive orders and wartime codes of radio broadcasting.
Sumner, John S. "Activities against Obscene Literature." Light, 189:10-13, July-August 1929. S722
The secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice discusses recent censorship cases including that of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett.
-------. "Are American Morals Disintegrating?" Current Opinion, 70:608-12, May 1921. S723
An appraisal of sexual immorality in America and the efforts of the New York vice society to suppress immoral literature.
"The Clean Books League: Mr. Justice Ford and Obscene Literature." Light, 152:21-24, May-June 1923. S724
Justice Ford introduced a "clean books" bill in the New York legislature. Sumner's picture appears on the front cover of this issue.
-------. "Comstock and Sumner." Journal of Education (Boston), 82:458-59, 11 November 1915. (Reprinted from the Philadelphia Public Ledger) S725
Written on the death of Comstock, by his successor. "I shall go after the sellers and distributors of indecent pictures and cards and 'literature' just as fiercely as he ever did." Since the trade in pornography has been forced underground, greater secrecy is now required to ferret out the offenders.
-------. "Criticising the Critic." Bookman, 53:385-88, July 1921. S726
The secretary of the New York vice society defends the society against its critics, principally Heywood Broun (Bookman, May 1921). "The Society is an agency to enforce the law where it is violated--not a censor."
-------. "The Decency Crisis; a Summing Up." Good Housekeeping, 107:26-27, 140-42, August 1938. S727
"I see the need of protection for the young from the temptations of pandering enterprises which assault their eyes and ears." Sumner calls for the public to take action against the spread of filthy literature.
-------. "Effective action against Salacious Plays and Magazines." American City, 33:553-55, November 1925. S728
The author calls for an end to the delays of legal action against offending literature. The judiciary should be "aroused to the fact that the safeguarding of public morals is much more important than upholding alleged 'freedom of expression' or 'freedom of the press.'"
-------. "The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice." Publishers' Weekly, 117:2516-18, 17 May 1930. S729
The secretary of the Society describes its work. Photograph of the author on page 2517.
-------. "Obscene Literature--Its Suppression." Case and Comment, 23:16-19, June 1916. (Reprinted in Publishers' Weekly, 8 July 1916) S730
"The suppression of obscene literature and pictures is an ever present necessity." Sumner defends a rigid enforcement of present laws on obscene literature.
-------. "The Suppression of Vice." Fra, 17:198-99, September 1916. S731
In defense of the law prohibiting circulation of birth control propaganda.
-------. "The Truth about 'Literary Lynching.'" Dial, 71:63-68, July 1921. S732
In answer to an article by Ernest Boyd (April 1921) Secretary Sumner defends the activities of the New York vice society in its attack on obscene works of literature and art. References to the suppression of the Little Review.
The Suppressed Book about Slavery! Prepared for Publication in 1857,--Never Published Until the Present Time. New York, Carleton, 1864. 432p. S733 §
The reason for including this title, an exposé and denunciation of slavery, is that the work was suppressed, according to a statement on p. 6. The book was written in 1857, stereotype plates made, but for seven years it "slumbered, unknown, unnoticed, and undisturbed, beneath the surface of the earth." We no longer have to fear the slave power, the editor proclaims. "We can print, publish, read, speak, and listen to exactly what we please."
"Suppression." Nation, 68:388-89, 25 May 1899. S734
An editorial criticizing the McKinleyAdministration for attempting to suppress publication of letters from soldiers in the Philippines, which are critical of the United States government.
"Suppression of Malicious, Scandalous, and Defamatory Newspapers and Periodicals by Injunction or Suit of the State Held to Violate the Constitutional Guarantee of Freedom of the Press." Law and Labor, 13:153-58, July 1931. S735
"Supreme Court Decision Limits Censorship." Publishers' Weekly, 186:48-49, 6 July 1964. S736
The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Jacobellis case, which declared the movie, The Lovers, not obscene, limits movie censorship.
"Supreme Court Upholds Estes Appeal; Photo Ban Qualified." FOI Digest, 7(2):4-page supplement, July-August 1965. S737 §
A report and analysis of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in June 1965 that Billie Sol Estes, in a Texas trial for theft and embezzlement in September 1962, had been deprived of his right to due process by the telecasting of the trial. Includes press commentary on the decision.
"Supreme Court Upholds Validity of Municipal Ordinance Requiring Submission of All Motion Pictures for Censorship Prior to Exhibition." Columbia Law Review, 61:921-26, May 1961. S738
The case of Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago, 365 U.S. 43 (1961).
Suren, Victor T. "Obscene Literature: a Theological Opinion." Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists Bulletin, 8:73-77, April 1961. S739
Obscene literature makes a frontal attack on the protective virtues of modesty and shame. "It tends inevitably to progressively disarm the unsuspecting and curious adolescent until it leaves him the unguarded victim of his lower passions." Dissemination of obscene literature can be curtailed only by concerted effort of the Church, parents, schools, the courts, and the legislature.
Sutherland, James. Defoe. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1938. 300p. S740
Daniel Defoe's lifetime efforts at political satire and his frequent indiscretions in print brought him often into conflict with the authorities, both Tories and Whigs. For his The Shortest Way with Dissenters (1703), a pamphlet favoring the Protestant succession, Defoe served a term in prison and was pilloried. For many years he was engaged in a feud with Ridpath, the editor of the Whig Flying Post, who tried repeatedly to "queer" Defoe with the authorities. As secret agent of the Whigs, Defoe served on the Tory paper, Mist's Journal, in an attempt to tone down its anti-Whig sentiments.
Sutton, Horace. "The Art of Censorship." Saturday Review of Literature, 38(11):24, 12 March 1955. S741
While current literature enjoys relative freedom from censorship there are hidden censors, ghost writers, editors, and a "censorship of silence" in government affairs that is extremely dangerous.
Svirsky, Leon, ed. Your Newspaper: Blueprint for a Better Press; by Nine Nieman Fellows, 1945-1946. New York, Macmillan, 1947. 202p. S742
The nine Fellows reach the conclusion that the press must assume responsibility for public service or face government control; that it is the readers, in the final analysis, who must decide what kind of press the nation is to have.
Swacara, Frank. "Fundamentalism and the Law." United States Law Review, 65:592-604, November 1931. S743 §
Archaic blasphemy laws are used to suppress radical literature that may only incidentally refer to atheism.
-------. Obstruction of Justice by Religion; a Treatise on Religious Barbarities of the Common Law, and a Review of Judicial Oppressions of the Non-Religious in the United States. Denver, W. H. Courtright, 1936. 298p. S744
Chapter 17, Blasphemy Laws in the United States; Chapter 18, Some Alleged "Reasons" for Blasphemy Laws; Chapter 19, Some Victims of the Religious Gag Laws (the cases of Daniel Isaac Eaton, Thomas Tunbridge, Mary Ann Carlile, Thomas Williams, George Holyoake in England, and Abner Kneeland and Anthony Bimba in the United States).
Sweeney, John. At Scotland Yard. Experience during Twenty-seven Year's Service. London, Grand Richards, 1904. 368p. Edited by Francis Richards. S745
Includes the detective's account of the prosecution of Havelock Ellis' Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
Sweet, Justin. "The Right of Privacy." Wisconsin Law Review, 1952:507-20, May 1952. S746
Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., London. Complete Law Book Catalogue. London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1925-49. 7 vols. S747
Vol. 1, A Bibliography of English Law to 1651; vol. 2, A Bibliography of English Law, 1651 to 1800; vol. 3, A Bibliography of English Law, 1801 to 1932. Sections in each deal with freedom of the press and the law of libel.
-------. Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. 2d ed. London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1955. 7 vols. S748
Vol. 1, English Law to 1800; vol. 2, English law from 1801-1954; vol. 3, Canadian and British-American colonial law from earliest times to 1956; vol. 4, Irish law to 1956; vol. 5, Scottish law to 1956; vol. 6, Australia, New Zealand to 1958; vol. 7, Law of the colonies, protectorates, and mandated territories to 1958. References throughout to works dealing with freedom of the press and the law of libel.
Swezey, Robert D. "Give the Television Code a Chance." Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television, 7:13-24, Fall 1952. S749
Written from the point of view of the Television Board of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters.
-------. The Sight and Sound of Justice. Washington, D.C., National Association of Broadcasters, 1958. 12p. S750
The chairman of the Association's Freedom of Information Committee appeals to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association to grant the broadcasting industry equal access to coverage of court trials.
-------. Television Broadcasting in the Public's Interest; the Role of Self-Regulation. Washington, D.C., National Association of Broadcasters, 1962. 12p. mimeo. S751 §
Remarks by the director of code authority, National Association of Broadcasters, at the Television Conference on Broadcasting in the Public's Interest, Illinois Commission on Children.
[Swift, Jonathan]. The Importance of the Guardian Considered, in a Second Letter to the Bailiff of Stockbridge. By a Friend of Mr. St----le. London, Printed for John Morphew, 1713. 25p. S752
In a mild and sometimes amusing attack on his "brother-scribbler," Richard Steele, Swift lists the various devices authors use to avoid incurring charges for libel, such as the use of the dash for part of a man's name, the use of cases and insinuations, the use of nicknames, and "celebrating the Actions of others, who acted directly contrary to the Persons we would reflect on."
Swift, Lucius B. How We Got Our Liberties. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. 304p. S753
A popular presentation of the foundations of political and religious liberty, including a section on freedom of speech and press.
Swindler, William F. "The AP Anti-Trust Case in Historical Perspective." Journalism Quarterly, 23:40-57, March 1946. S754
"Almost a century of communications law, literally and figuratively, was rounded out in June 1945, with the Supreme Court's historic opinion in the Federal government's antitrust suit against the Associated Press." The author gives background information and analysis of the decision which brought to an end the long debate on exclusive membership in newsgathering associations.
-------. A Bibliography of Law on Journalism. New York, Columbia University Press, 1947. 191p. S755
An annotated bibliography, with a bibliographic essay tracing the development of published works on the law of the press. Of special interest are the sections on freedom of the press and radio, censorship and control of speech and press, access to public records, libel, and privacy--all relating to the United States--and the section on press freedom and press control dealing with other countries. Includes both books and periodical literature.
-------. "Commentary on Press Photographers and the Courtroom." Nebraska Law Review, 35:13-16, November 1955. S756
The author suggests modification of Canon 35 of the American Bar Association "to permit non-flash camera coverage under certain well-defined conditions and within definite physical limits inside the courtroom."
-------. "Newspaper Libel in Canada--a Note in Comparative Press Law." Journalism Quarterly, 21:25-36, March 1944. S757
Compares Canadian libel laws with those of England and the United States, noting modifications from those of the mother country.
-------. Phases of International Law Affecting the Flow of International Communications. Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri, 1942. 223p. (Ph.D. dissertation, University Microfilms, no. 435) S758
Includes the right to gather and transmit international news, protection of news as property, and laws relating to censorship and propaganda.
-------. Problems of Law in Journalism. New York, Macmillian, 1955. 551p. S759
A casebook for use of journalism students. Each section gives a background note, principles involved, and a selected list of readings in addition to the text of appropriate cases. Includes such topics as: press freedom, freedom to gather news, libel, law of privacy, law of contempt, and law relating to radio. The introduction discusses the basic nature of newspaper law and the concept of press freedom.
-------. "Wartime News Control in Canada." Public Opinion Quarterly, 6:244-49, Fall 1942. S760
"In three years of war Canada has maintained an ever-tightening surveillance over the freedom of its minority press and over civil liberties generally."
Swing, Raymond G. "Birth Control and Obscenity." Nation, 140:621-22, 29 May 1935. S761
The author objects to a proposed modification of the Comstock law of 1873 to permit the Post Office authorities to prosecute at destination of mail as well as place of mailing. This would prevent the spread of scientific birth control knowledge from a city where it was considered legal to a city where it was considered obscene.
-------. "Only One Truth." Vital Speeches, 4:78-80, 15 November 1937. (Also in Lew R. Sarett and W. T. Foster, comps., Modern Speeches on Basic Issues, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1939, pp. 34-36) S762
A discussion of the controlled press of Europe in contrast to that of democratic nations. The title is based on the comment of a young Communist who remarked that it was strange that in old Russia there were thousands of newspapers and periodicals expressing many different points of view when there was really "only one truth." If this were true, Swing comments, a controlled press in which falsehood was suppressed would be the logical answer. "The democracies live by the theory that there is no one truth, that truth is something that comes out of experience, and that since experience is often painful, the individuals that make up the nation must have a voice in choosing the experience."
Swisher, Carl B. "Civil Liberties in Wartime." Political Science Quarterly, 55:321-47, September 1940. S763
Action in the United States against newspapers and pamphlets under the Espionage Act during World War I.
Swope, E. B. "Censorship in the Prison Library." American Prison Association, Proceedings of the Annual Congress, 1940, pp. 457-61. S764
While it is necessary to exclude from prison libraries works that are likely to encourage antisocial attitudes and behavior and upset the mental health of the prisoners, we ought not go beyond this by excluding works of religion, politics, and social problems merely because they are controversial. Careful positive selection of useful books and individual guidance in their use is the sensible approach.
Sylvester, Arthur. "Public Information and National Security: A Government View." Yale Political, 3(1):18, 33-35, Autumn 1963. S765
The assistant secretary for defense presents the two-fold purpose of the Defense Department in this matter: to insure national security and to provide public information. A journalist's point of view is presented in an accompanying article by Arthur Krock.
Symon, J. D. The Press and Its Story. An Account of the Birth and Development of Journalism up to the Present Day, with the History of all the Leading Newspapers . . . London, Seeley Service, 1914. 327p. S766
Chapter 20, in this general history of the British press, deals with freedom of the press.
Symonds, R. V. The Rise of English Journalism. Exeter, A. Wheaton, 1952. 191p. S767
A history of the British press through Daniel Defoe. Includes references to licensing and the work of press censor, Roger L'Estrange.
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