In the state of Washington and the cities of Omaha and Chicago, last week, decrees were issued by the local district attorneys banning from the mails certain publications variously defined as "salacious," "indecent," "pornographic." These decrees, the first conscipuous discrimination against a type of literature that has long fouled the public newsstands and encumbered the mails, were issued without organized cooperation. They are an indication of a resentment that has long been gathering, undirected and unexpressed, in widely separated parts of the U. S.
The magazines most generally excoriated were: Artists and Models,...
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