California Legislature for tighter laws.

Repeal of the Cahan rule, which prohibits the introduction of evidence obtained by illegal means, would be "a step backward," and would probably not be limited to narcotic cases, the jurist said.

"The California Supreme Court (in the Cahan decision) considered violations of individual liberties as a greater threat to our people than the evils sought to be eliminated by unwarranted police activities."

Los Angeles Police Chief Parker, outspoken foe of the Cahan decision and proponent of stiffer penalites has argued so boldly in favor of a police state, that he has even come into public collision with FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, whose job he appears to be out to get. In a recent statement Parker went so far as to say "As long as the Constitution guarantees to every citizen the right to move freely, it makes it possible for criminal elements to operate. . . . Parker would have a national crime unit and apparently do away with the Constitution. But Hoover has objected that "there is no place in this country for even the germ of a national police."

Calif. state officials including Gov. Brown and Atty. Gen. Mosk now are on record as favoring enactment of stiffer legislation governing arrest, evidence, and search and siezure which would greatly upset constitutional safeguards.

We would not like to sacrifice our constitutional law. As Judge Burke has said: "Federal authorities have learned to live with it, and there is no sound reason why our police cannot do so."

PEN-PALS, PIN-UPS

Readers of ONE Magazine will feel less unkindly toward the edi-

tors' policies against pen-pals (see Sept. '59, Jan. '60 issues) and physique photos (see Jan. '61, Editorial) when they fully understand the dangers. In Chicago, a Federal grand jury, climaxing 6 months of investigation of two organizations who solicited members through advertisements placed in magazines dealing in "physique photos," on January 16 named 52 persons on charges of conspiracy to mail obscene matter or of sending such matter through the mails. Named in the indictment were actors, teachers, students, truck drivers, and even one clergyman.

The investigation originated with response by wives and mothers to the vigorous alarms of past-Postmaster Gen. Summerfield who frequently forgot that the Post Office is a service in order to launch his campaigns against obscenity. The idea was for the mothers to turn over to the Post Office envelopes that. had carried allegedly obscene material.

Robt. Tieken, U. S. Atty. for the Northern III. district, on the other hand, explained that Postal authorities claim that the biggest increase in obscenity has occurred in the field of correspondence between males with deviate tendencies." Who have wives...?

Circulation of mailing lists and exchanges of addresses led to the formation of "pen-pal" clubs, which undertook to furnish members monthly with names of people with whom they could exchange letters and pictures for a membership fee of $5.00.

While continuing to increase postal rates, Summerfield carried on expensive unrelated campaigns forgetting that his first duty was the efficient delivery of the mail. It was our hope that new Postmaster Gen. J. Edward Day would be aware of

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