Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett.

  • Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947.
Date:
[1930], ©1930
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Credit: Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    operating with the United States Health Service. Syphilis, Gonorrhoea and Chancroid—Healthy Mothers and Babies. Man-Power, reprinted with permission from a pamphlet issued by the United States Public Health Service, by direction of the Surgeon Gen¬ eral. Sex and Youth by Sherwood Eddy, published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. The Effectiveness of Certain Social Hygiene Literature by Paul Strong Acilles, Ph.D. Pub¬ lished by the American Social Hygiene Association, by agreement with the United States Public Health Service. Mr. Ernst: I have offered them on the ground that they are in part identical- Mr. Wilkinson: I object to any speeches as to what they are identical with. There is a difference be¬ tween literature generally disseminated by a profit mak¬ ing organization, and literature that is disseminated by the United States Government itself. Mr. Ernst then introduced into evidence, so that it would be before the jury, the stipulation by which the leaflet Representative Opinions was admitted to be the “certain printed matter” included in the indictment. Then once again Mr. Ernst moved for a dismissal on the ground that the indictment was unconstitutional, that the Government had failed to set forth facts suffi¬ cient to constitute a crime, and on the further ground resulting from exceptions taken during the course of the trial regarding the admission of evidence. He had, of course, announced his exception to each instance where the Court had sustained the Prosecutor’s objections. There were 90 exceptions. The Judge said “Your motion is denied.” Then