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Y., J. T. "Bibliography of the North Briton." Notes & Queries, 9(7th ser.):104-6, 8 February 1890. Y1
A bibliographic study of the suppressed newspaper of John Wilkes.
Yankwich, Leon R. The Doctrine of Privilege in the Law of Libel. Los Angeles, n.p., 1926. 36p. Y2
-------. Essays in the Law of Libel. Los Angeles, Parker, Stone & Baird, 1929. 310p. Y3
A reference book on problems in the law of civil and criminal libel for the use of lawyers and newspaper workers, written by a California judge who has specialized in newspaper law. He discusses the nature of libel and the legal privilege of newspapers; what is and what is not libelous; some of the defenses in the law of libel; the doctrine of privilege; newspapers and the law of contempt; the character of the plaintiff as an issue in libel; and the law of criminal libel.
-------. "Freedom of the Press in Prospect and Retrospect." Southern California Law Review, 15:322-39, March 1944. Y4
The author reviews the development of freedom of the press in America, particularly with respect to libel and contempt, and cites examples of present-day efforts to curtail press freedom. Special attention is given to the Minnesota gag law of 1925, the attempts to limit distribution of pamphlets (sometimes fostered by selfish newspapers), and the contempt cases of Harry R. Bridges and the Los Angeles Times. Throughout, the emphasis is on California cases.
-------. It's Libel or Contempt If You Print It. A Practical Book on Libel, Contempt, and Kindred Topics for Lawyers, and for Students and Workers in the Newspaper Field, Los Angeles, Parker, 1950. 612p. Y5
Part I, The Newspaper and the Law of Libel. Part II, Freedom of the Press and Its Limitations and Responsibilities. The author is a federal judge.
-------. "Protection of Newspaper Comment on Public Men and Public Affairs." Louisiana Law Review, 11:327-46, March 1951. Y6 §
"To obtain the optimum of the wider scope of coverage and criticism of public men and matters, which the courts now concede to the newspaper editor and writer, two cardinal rules should be observed: (1) Comment should be limited to what is essential to the special situation . . . (2) Facts should be made to speak and non-essential comments should be avoided--especially those fulminating epithets."
-------. "Recent Developments in the Law of Creation, Expression, and Communication of Ideas." Northwestern University Law Review, 101:721-39, April 1953. Y7 §
Notes on developments in law of defamation, privacy, and copyright since about 1940, especially as they pertain to radio and television.
-------. "The Right of Privacy: Its Development, Scope and Limitations." Notre Dame Lawyer, 27:499-527, Summer 1952. Y8
-------. "The Trial of John Peter Zenger: The Beginnings of Free Speech in America and Its Meaning Today." Los Angeles Bar Bulletin, 24:360-61, 371-72, 374-76, 378, August 1949. Y9
Yarborough, Minnie C. John Horne Tooke. New York, Columbia University Press, 1926. 252p. (Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature) Y10
Biography of the versatile eighteenth-century cleric, reformer, and linguist (Diversions of Purley). Tooke was a friend of John Wilkes. He championed the cause of the colonies (for which he served three years in prison), and figured prominently in the treason trials of 1794, in which he was acquitted. While Tooke was cantankerous and quarrelsome, the biographer considered him "an honest patriot, impelled in all of his self-imposed tasks by a keen sense of justice." Chapter 6 deals with Tooke's trial for treasonable writings.
Yarros, Victor S. "The Chicago Socialist Trial." Nation, 108:116-18, 25 January 1919. Y11
An account of the trial in The Federal Court in Chicago of Victor Berger and four other Socialists for conspiracy under the wartime Espionage Act. The overt acts which Berger was said to have committed consisted of publishing in the Milwaukee Leader five editorials opposing the draft.
Yauch, John H. "The Bar's Side of Canon 35." Saturday Review, 46(10):61-62, 9 March 1963. Y12
The chairman of the Special Committee on Proposed Revision of Judicial Canon 35 of the American Bar Association, answers Herbert Brucker's criticism of the Canon (8 December issue). Text of the controversial Canon is given on page 61.
Yeaman, Elizabeth. "Catholic Movie Censorship." New Republic, 96:233-35, 5 October 1938. Y13
An account of Joseph I. Breen, "one-man censor of the movies," who enforces the morals code, carrying "the portfolio of the Legion of Decency." The head of the Eastern Branch, Production Code, objects to the statements in a letter to the editor in the 9 November issue.
Yeats, William Butler. "Censorship of Films." In Donald R. Pearce, ed. The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1960, pp. 51-52. Y14
Senator Yeats speaks against a proposed amendment to the Censorship of Films Bill requiring that minors should not be permitted to go to the cinema unattended by adults. "I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the general conscience of man-kind." The amendment failed of passage.
-------. "The Irish Censorship." Spectator, 141:391-92, 29 September 1928. Discussion: 141:435-36, 6 October 1928; 141:488, 13 October 1928; 141:528, 20 October 1928. (Reprinted in Downs, The First Freedom, pp. 388-91) Y15 §
The noted Irish poet and playwright, then serving as senator in the Dáil Éireann, expressed eloquent and vigorous opposition to the Irish Censorship of Publications Bill of 1928, which he states will create "an instrument of tyranny" and place "control over the substance of our thought" in the hands of one man, the Minister of Justice.
"You Can't Censor Nonsense." Collier's, 70:15-16, 4 November 1922. Y16
Second in a series of articles written anonymously by a producer of motion pictures. The first, Little Men Behind the Big Screen (Collier's, 70:11-12+, 30 September 1922), gives the view that the movies have outgrown the men who control them, that stupidity of those in control is the main trouble of the movies. This article says you cannot censor stupidity and cites pettiness and difficulties encountered by movie-censorship groups. A third article, You'll Get What You Ask for (Collier's, 70:9-10+, 18 November 1922), points out ways the public can help obtain more intelligent movies.
Young, Donald R. Motion Pictures; A Study in Social Legislation. Philadelphia,Westbrook Publishing Co., 1922. 109p. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania) Y17
The author examines the conformity and the deviations of motion pictures from the standards established by the various censorship boards. He considers the work of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the various state and municipal regulatory bodies. He concludes that legal censorship is justified by conditions in the motion picture industry which have been unavoidable, and that for many years to come the most desirable form of censorship will be that which is under direct state control. Appendices include: English censorship rules, standards of the Pennsylvania Board of Censors, samples of eliminations by the National Board of Review, and the text of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio.
-------. "Social Standards and the Motion Picture." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 128:146-50, November 1926. Y18 §
An enlightened public opinion, not government or industry censorship, is the most effective method of counteracting the false standards portrayed in the movies. A change in public attitude toward films is basic to reform of the industry.
Young, Eugene J. Looking Behind the Censorship. New York, Lippincott, 1938. 368p. Y19
An examination of the forces responsible for political censorship and propaganda met by American news correspondents in Europe during the period leading up to World War II.
Young, Julius R. "Should Democracy Curb Propaganda?" Common Sense, 9:8-10, March 1940. Y20
Can propaganda be curbed in a democracy without abrogating the principles of freedom? The author believes it can and proposes a federal law with a threefold purpose: (1) To eradicate obnoxious and vicious practices in propaganda and establish a code of fair practices; (2) to reduce the disparity of influence among propagandizing forces by the creation of a tribunal where equal consideration can be given to two or more sides of a question; and (3) to provide the public with a reliable opportunity to get at the undoctored truth.
Young, Kimball. "Censorship in Wartime." ALA Bulletin, 38:439-42+, 15 October 1944. Y21
A sociologist discusses censorship as a system of social control. He offers advice to librarians in dealing with threats of censorship.
-------, and Raymond D. Lawrence. Bibliography on Censorship and Propaganda. Eugene, Ore., University of Oregon Press, 1928. 133p. (University of Oregon Publication. Journalism Series, vol. 1, no. 1) Y22
Part I of this selected bibliography covers censorship: political, wartime (largely World War I), and literary. Young has written an introductory essay, Censorship and Propaganda as Factors in Social Control, pp. 7-14. Except for foreign material and newspaper articles, most of the items have been included in the present bibliography.
Young, Stark. "Censorshipping." New Republic, 91:101-2, 2 June 1937. Y23
An essay on censorship of the stage, prompted by the passage of the Dunnigan Bill in the New York legislature setting up a state system for licensing of plays. The bill was vetoed by Governor Lehman.
Young, Wayland. "The Adventures of Eros Denied." Censorship, 2(2):2-13, Spring 1966. Y24 §
The author of Eros Denied reports on the difficulties he had in getting his book published.
-------. Eros Denied; Sex in Modern Society. New York, Grove, 1964. 415p. (A chapter, Excluded Words, is reprinted in Evergreen Review, April-May 1964) Y25
The author considers the "unfreedom to discuss, describe, depict--in a word, to possess--sex and love with the full resources of the individual imagination in Anglo-Saxon countries." The book "places itself in the tradition which holds that the unfreedom to love hurts more than is justified by the countervailing gains." Part II deals with "excluded words" in English, French, German and Italian; Part III deals with "excluded images," forthright descriptions and depictions of the act of physical love in writings and pictorial matter. Pornographic works and taboo words are quoted throughout. Felix Pollak, in a lengthy letter to the editor in the August-September issue of Evergreen Review, considers this work and similar clinical studies as having the net effect of "a de-sexing of sex, far more effective than all the sincantings of the censors."
-------. "Obscenity." Twentieth Century, 157:237-43, March 1955. Y26
Comments on the British obscenity bill, drafted by the Herbert Committee.
A Young Gentleman of the Temple, pseud. Arguments Relating to a Restraint upon the Press, Fully and Fairly handled in a Letter to a Bencher, from a Young Gentleman of the Temple, With Proposals Humbly offer'd to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament. London, Printed for R. and F. Bonwicke, 1712. 51p. Y27
An anonymous lawyer refutes the usual arguments for freedom of the press. The Bible, he believes, contains all the religious truth needed by men; the Lords and Commons are capable of deciding all political truth; controversial ideas only lead to trouble and should be suppressed. The solution offered is the restoration of a strict licensing system, and he submits a proposed act for "accommodating the Regulation of the Press, to the Sentiments of Moderate Men."
Yorke, Sir Philip C. The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Cambridge, Eng., Cambridge University Press, 1913. 3 vols. Y28
As Attorney General, Sir Philip prosecuted Thomas Woolston for publishing a blasphemous tract (1725), the publishers of The Craftsman for seditious libel (1728), and the bookseller, Edmund Curll, for obscene libel. In the case of the latter (Rex v. Curll) Sir Philip established obscenity as a temporal offense, reversing the earlier decision in the Queen v. Read. He also upheld the opinion that in libel cases the jury was limited to determining the fact of publishing only. In addition to comments on the above cases, this work includes Sir Philip's opinions on the John Wilkes affair.
-------. "Remarks on the Legal Meaning of the Liberty of the Press." In Howell, State Trials, vol. 17, pp. 670 ff. Y29 §
Yurasko, Frank N. "The Right to be Let Alone." Progressive, 28:29-33, September 1964. Y30
Because of modern electronic devices for eavesdropping, the old common law method of protecting privacy is no longer adequate.
Yust, William F. "Censorship--a Library Problem." Library Journal, 57:176-79, 15 February 1932. Y31
Brief discussion of legislation pertaining to censorship in New York State, particularly the "clean books bill" which was defeated. The author concludes that "absolute rules on the subject of book censorship are unwise and unwarranted. What we need . . . is an attitude . . . of open mindedness that will adjust itself to conditions and cases as they arise."
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