The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 34

2 High Point Inttrpriit, Sundiy, March 15, 1944 Central Hi High Points By JANE SNOTHERLY Booming Business Of Smut Peddling ing cleanup teachers. services for Nancy Tysinger is among 12 winners of the Katharine Smith Reynolds scholarships to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro next year. The scholarships are valued at $1,200 a year and are renewable for four years. Nancy plans to major in mathematics. She is a member of the Beta Club, National Honor Society, is vice president of Future Teachers of America and is president of the Y-Teens.

She was also a commencement marshal last year, was listed in Who's Who Among Seniors and named Most Likely to Succeed. The Reynolds award is equivalent to the Morehead Scholarship for boys to the university at Chapel Hill. Last week was observed at Central as Teacher Appreciation Week. It was a time for all students to express their sincere gratitude to faculty members. Special announcements over the public address system, devotions, and thoughts for the day emphasized the importance of educators.

School clubs have sponsored various activities and projects honoring teachers during the week. These included making bulletin boards and posters, distributing candy, flowers, and school supplies and furnish- BOB VEITH, one of eight Indianapolis race drivers sponsored by the Champion Spark Plug spoke to students last week on "Highway Safety Is No Accident." Both track and highway experiences were related by Veith who travels 35,000 to 50,000 miles a year delivering safety lectures. YESTERDAY FIVE Central swimmers represented their school in the State 4-A swimming meet at Wake Forest College. Bobby Gray, Mike Koonce, Roy Wooster and Don Masline will compete in swimming and Jimmy Forrest in diving. Also yesterday juniors took the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests.

These tests are the first step toward possibly winning a full scholarship to any college the re- cepient desires. Thomasville High Corner MARGARET POOLE Test! Test! Test! The sophomores had their fiat dosage of national level testing Thursday. Almost all of the sophomores took the National Educational Development Test. After three and one-half hours of testing they were nearly too tired to eat their dinner. Two days before the sophomores' test, the juniors were given the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Last Saturday the college board test was administered to several TSHS students as well as students from various other schools towns. After having taken all of the tests, some of the students have been overheard saying, "I'm brainwashed!" Carol Little, who was a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition, has recently bad to give up her battle for'the scholarship, but Carol is not a loser. Last Saturday she was notified that she is one of the 12 winners of the Katherine Reynolds Scholarships, given by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Having won the Reynolds scholarship, Carol had to agree that she would not pursue any other scholarship. Carol is the only girl at Thomasville Senior High School ever to have won a Reynolds Man Dies From Wound THOMASVILLE a Barnes, Negro man critically wounded during a shooting March 7, died early today in City Memorial Hospital here.

Thomsville police said Lon Gathright, Negro, would be charged with murder. Gathright was charged with assault with intent to kill and released under $500 bond following the shooting a week ago at his home on Smith Street. Barnes was wouaded in the stomach by a shotgun blast. cial wound in the chest, police reported. scholarship.

Hats off to Carol. THE DEBATORS are defending their state championship well. District Round Rob- ing Debates were held at Memorial Methodist Church Wednesday, and they were sponsored by Thomasville Senior High School. Our de- bators were involved in six of the debates, and they won all six. TSHS students are looking forward to experiencing another championship year in debating.

AS USUAL, the Student Council is hard at work. March 20 will be the date of Thomasville's first Hootenanny. All of the people in this area are urged to buy their tickets for a show which promises to be a real "blast." Those featured will be the Coachmen from Albemarle, the Collegiates of High Point College, the Malibus of Thomasville, Big Jim Burgess and Hoxey Jones of High Point, and Eugene Wagoner of Thomasville. As all of the Student Council Members would say, "Ya'll come to the i High, and hoot along with us." Speaking of the Hootennany, Bruce Finch is to be given a hardy "thank-you" for the splendid job that he has done to get publicity for the show. THE SENIOR CLASS was on top again when report cards were issued Tuesday, 27 per cent of the seniors were on the honor roll, 14 per cent of the juniors, and 12 per cent of the sophomores.

"CLUB 13" was the theme of a dance sponsored by the band members in the school cafeteria Friday night. A combo played dance music as a great majority of the student 1 1 1 i Lruuj CIIJUJTCU LUC 11CAI, IU llltj last dan-e of the year. The junior-senior will be the last. By BERNARD GAVZER Associated Press Writer A teen-ager on his way to school stopped at a candy store to load up for the day. He had a soft drink, got a pack of cigarettes, four candy bars and three magazines.

35 cents each. The cover of one magazine showed a snarling brute at a Nazi torture room whipping a nearly-naked red-haired girl. The second had the photo of a nude girl, most of her body obscured by a block of type. The third featured a story labeled "Phony Surgeons Who Stalk Our Operating Rooms." These are magazines which are called smut publications. The $1.05 spent by the boy may seem a pittance.

But along with hundreds of thousands of other teen-agers and adults, the dimes and nickels spent on such magazines, books and other materials ranging from offensive to hard-core pornography make it a major industry. It is estimated at $2 billion a year. This is more than was spent in 1962 at all the movie box offices ($82 million), at all professional, semiprofessional and amateur baseball, football, hockey, basketball, tennis and other sports entertainment ($1.9 billion); or was collected by the makers of cigarettes, cigars, pipe and chewing tobacco ($1.1 billion). It is more than was taken in by the radio-television industry ($1 billion). What sort of magazines are these? How are they produced? Who buys them? Dispute One side says such material is smut.

It argues that such magazines introduce the teenager to a world of lesbians, homosexuals, sadists, maso- cists and other deviates. The other side argues that such material acts like a safety valve. It is in this way that all sorts of sexual feelings are harmlessly dissipated. By legal definition, these magazines are not pornographic. If they were, they could quickly be put out of business or driven underground.

Since they are not: 1. They can be purchased by anyone regardless of age, sex or mental condition. 2. All that is needed is the price, generally from 25 cents to 75 cents. 3.

They can be found displayed on open racks in drugstores, supermarkets, terminals, newsstands. 4. They are sold in practically every town and city in America. There are many general-interest, high-fashion, digest-size, adventure, nudist, art, physical culture and entertainment publications which contain photographs or drawings of nudes. Scarcely an eyebrow is raised.

"If a news magazine or a fashion magazine publishes a nude figure within context of a specific event or theme, we certainly are not contending this is a move toward smut," says a district attorney who has prosecuted dozens of pornography and obscenity cases. Charles H. Keating Cincinnati attorney who is cochairman of Citizens for Decent Literature (CDL), says: "It may seem silly to say you can tell which are objectionable just by looking at them, but it is true. I don't want to sound like a witch hunter or professional bluenose, but these magazines and paperbacks have a quality about them that sets them aside. There are perhaps 80 01 90 general distribution magazines which introduce the high schooler to a world of Lesbians, homosexuals, sadists, masochists and other deviates." National The CDL a national organization whose sponsors include prominent clergymen, political leaders and government officials.

There are four major categories of magazines in question. Slicks--There are about 40 titles, most or them trying to cash in on the success of Playboy, considered a man's magazine Chapel--was altered by a painter on orders of tht Pope. The figures were partially draped because of the growing notion among theologians that the nude was obscene. The problem is confounded by the fact that what is smut to one man may merely make another shrug or yawn. A pulp magazine editor says: "How can you tell? I once cropped the picture of a girl so that her feet were cut off.

Tha mail 1 got was the most vulgar and abusive I ever received. I mentioned this to another editor and he said, 'Oh, you've beard from the jelly-bean boys. They're the ones who get passionate about OUT IN THE OPEN and not on the CDL smut list. The slicks are printed on glossy paper, use color, tend editorially and pictorially to appear high-toned. The major feature is the photo essay showing an attractive, young, shapely girl.

She is nude. Men's Adventure--These usually have lurid action-type covers with sensational eye-catching titles. There are at least 25 different magazines. The art and text tend toward depicting or describing physical brutality, perversion of all sorts, generally concealed in a right-versus-evU struggle. Body Builders--These purport to be devoted to developing bulging biceps.

Many are thinly- veiled publications aimed at homosexuals. Nudist--This used to be the province of the nudist groups. Sunworshipers depicted generally had the sexual appeal of a herd of rhinoceroses wallowing at the mudhole. Now the air brush has been put away, and young, attractive nudists, mostly models, are shown with clear and uncluttered detail. FBI Director J.

Edgar Hoover often has condemned such publications and material which crosses the borderline. He says: "I believe pornography is a major cause of sex violence. I am convinced that if we can eliminate the distribution of obscene material among impressionable school-age children, we can reduce the current sex crime rate." When such statements are made, the question invariably asked is: Where's the proof? Dr. Frederick Wertham, New York psychiatrist and author of numerous works in the field, says: "I have proved clinically that books and magazines concerned with violence and brutality and sex are one of the factors influencing the behavior of young people." Dr. Albert Ellis, New York psychologist whose advocacy of a free and unhindered sex life for Elizas aroused considerable controversy, says: "The magazines do not do the harm attributed to them.

If the bluenoses were correct, everybody would be in the looney bin by now. But in reference to children, they theoretically are not able to think for themselves and need protection. This is the substance of law and our interpretations of it. "One child of 16 may easily laugh off stories of voyeurs and exhibitionists and sadists while another may not. While sex is a vital part of life, we do not want a society in which people think of nothing but sex since there would be no space in their minds for thoughts of other values." Keating of CDL comments that one of the difficulties in prosecuting obscenity or smut cases is that there is always an attempt to demand cause-and- effect evidence.

Some publications walk the tightrope between pornography and legitimate interest. Closer to the line of pornography are those magazines which print photos of women in a picture sequence, supposedly as a photo essay. This maneuver seeks to skirt around prohibitions against sales of such pictures in packets. Outright pornography--that is, any photograph, drawing, cartoon, motion picture or other representation showing sexual intercourse or variation of sexual acts--is sold under the counter. The operator of a candy store near a school isn't apt to try to sell this hard-core stuff.

"I don't even decide what goes on my stands, anyway," Furniture Galleries Open House Today An open house will be observed today in the new quarters of Annex Furniture Galleries on Greensboro Road, located about a mile east of the store's former location. Hours for the open house will be from 1 until 5 p.m. William Michalove, manager, said that no sales would be made today, that the house was being held to give the public an opportunity to stroll through and look over the furniture and accessories on display. The new building has been ANNEX FURNITURE GALLERIES NEW BUILDING designed along Colonial lines and contains some 35,000 square feet of floor space on two floors. Incorporated in the building are many display techniques which have become identified with the big furniture markets, such as wall- to-wall carpeting, decorator designed display spaces and overhead grid lighting.

Philip Michalove of Winston- Salem, president of An- ripy Furniture Galleries, said that the company carries a variety of showroom samples from the furniture markets. On display at the present are room settings using Heywood-Wakefield's Cliff House, Davis Cabinet's Aegean and Thomasville Furniture Industries' Chateau lines. The firm also sells furniture by Globe Furniture, Clyde Pearson, Weiman, Empire, Continental, Lane, Stanley, American of Martinsville and other distinctive lines. Its carpet lines include those of Mohawk and American Carpet Mills, as well as others. Layout flexibility has been designed into the new structure and it is heated and cooled by electricity.

Parking facilities include- room for 100 cars. Hours are from 9 until 9 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs days and Fridays. On Wednesdays and Saturdays store opens at 9 a.m. a closes at 5:30 p.m. Other company officials include Stanley Tulman of Win- sion Salem, vice president, and Joseph Grissett, assistant manager.

says a candy store operator. "The distributors come and they decide. If I want the mass circulation magazines, I also get Men Only, and those lousy comic books and all the others. This is a business. You think I got time to read all the magazines and junk here?" An East Coast distributor who handles dozens of titles, says: "Naturally, I personally don't have time to read all the magazines.

But we try to weed out the weird ones. Still, you have to remember that it is not our business to be censors. Who am I to tell you what you should read?" A West Coast distributor who lias been involved in several court suits argues that "the question is one of civil liberties and constitutional rights. I'm not a policeman and I certainly should not be called upon to stop anyone from having access to such material." Pulp paper magazine publishers sometimes are asked: Why not turn to slick paper and escape harassment? An executive of a publishing firm comments: "We can't compete in that market. This is a perfectly satisfactory one.

We have six titles which go from adventure to what might bs penny dreadfuls. If Nazi war stories hit for a period then one of our adventure or horror magazines will carry much of the load. When the emphasis is on the nudies, then it brings ia the big cash. Profit "If we average a net profit of $4,000 a month, which is about what we do, we get a $24,000 profit from all six. This is very nice for a pulp house like this." The furor over smut is noisy and involves a lot of cash and energy.

An estimated $1 billion a year is spent battling it. But it is nothing new. In terms of art, the noted British scholar Sir Kenneth Clark says the nude as an art form was invented by the Greeks in the fifth century B.C. and comments: "No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spec- tator some vestige of erotic Fiberglass Animals Are Life-Like THOMASVILLE No doubt many area residents had to take a second look Friday to be surp that thpir eyes were not playing tricks on them. That really was a trailer loaded with animals! But, the animals weren't real animals although they probably couldn't be told from real animals at a distance of at least 50 feet and less in many cases.

Jim Rorie of Alphine, owner of the Fiberglass Menagerie explained that he sells the life-size fiberglas animals to zoos, schools, hotels, cattle auction firms, lodges, parks and other organizations. Atop the small truck Rorie uses to pull the trailer are two deer. The deer, like all the other fiberglas animals, are painted life-like colors which tend to give a first- glance impression that the animal is real. Included on his trailer are quarter horses, a polled here- ford steer, a black angus steer, guernsey cow, holstcin cow, pimrnscy or holstein calf, deer, rearing horse, bears, elk, Western Hereford steer, an African lion and a life size roaring lion head. feeling, even though it be only the faintest shadow and if it does not do so, it is bad art and false morals." Apparently it did so in that flowering age of art because in the next century Plato remarked that the society "must also supervise craftsmen of every kind and forbid them to leave the stamp of baseness, license, meanness, unseemliness, on painting and sculpture, or building, or any other work of their hands; and anyone who cannot obey shall not practice his art in our commonwealth." Two thousand years later, in the middle of the 16th century, the most famous single picture in the world Michaelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Weather Offers Mixed Outlook A Duke's mixture of climatic conditions is offered for today, with the promise of a better day tomorrow.

Weather observers predicted that early today would be cloudy and mild, with chance of scattered thundershowers through the morning. A gradual clearing is seen for the afternoon, accompanied by a slight warming trend. This will be of short duration, for it is to turn cooler tonight. Monday's forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies, with a cooler reading on the thermometer. Low last night was to be 54, high today will be 68 and low for tonight is to be 40.

High tomorrow will be 61. Pilot Lions Plan Annual Horse Show THOMASVILLE Officials of the Pilot Lions Club Saturday announced plans for the March 28 Horse and Pony Show. Club President Grady Kanoy said the two-part show will have 45 classes and that entries are pouring In to show officials. A pony will be presented at 9 p.m. during the second half of the show.

The winner will be named in a drawing. Tickets to the show will be on sale at the gate for one dollar for adults and 25 cents for students. Children under 12 will be admitted free with a paid escort. Officials estimated that this show will attract entrants from North and possibly South Carolina, as well as Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Some 2,000 persons are expected to jam the bleachers at the track and grounds situated across U.

S. Highway 29-70 from the Pilot Volunteer Fire Department. In October, at the last show held on the grounds, more than 1,500 persons were counted. Officials termed it a record crowd. Pit-cooked barbecue will be available, along with hot dogs and soft drinks.

Other refreshments also will be on sale. Paul Burton, project chairman, said Billy Bunn of York, S. will judge the show. Delk Mendenhall and T. H.

Burwell will be ringmasters Harold Harrison will serve as master of ceremonies. Kanoy said entrants will be vying for $1,500 in trophies, ribbons and cash prizes. The afternoon show gets underway at 1 p.m. while the evening show starts at 7:30 p.m. William Penn Notebook By ERNESTINE SCOTTON The band concerts which junior and senior high school students have enjoyed seems an appropriate way to welcome the spring-like days.

With spring comes music and the band made its debut, presenting "Calypso Joint" by Farrell, "Italian in Algiers" by Rossini, "El Conquistador" by Tarver, "An Original Suite" by Jacob, "A Second Suite" by Reed, "Symphonic Suite" by Williams; and "Tampan:" Solo" by Britton played by Talmadge Carter Jr. An impressive program was presented by the Girl Scouts Friday morning. The seriousness with which the Flag ceremony was performed, the promise given, and hymn sing seemed like a rededication to the principles of scouting. The Democracy class had as its guests Friday, representatives from the Urban Renewal Commission. They were Mr.

Robert Dunlap, Deputy Executive Director; Ruby Byers, Relocation Director; and Mrs. Yvonne McCall, assistant relocation director. A film, "Let's Talk Housing," explained the aims of a redevelopment commission. Urban renewal should be a cooperative effort of three parties -the federal government, the local government, and private citizens. This is the first program of its type which takes into consideration the people displaced.

REPORT CARDS were Issued during the week and with them came the realization that the end of the school year is fast approaching. Those who were displeased with the marks have only a short time to buckle down to serious business. A ovtiorinnno tiroe enjoyed by the Cotillionettes when they attended a faculty concert at A College on Wednesday when Mrs. Patricia trice and Miss Burdene Booker performed at the piano. This was just another of the many activities a these young women will enjoy.

ALTHOUGH William Penn's basketball team has lost its opportunity for the championship trophy, the student body congratulates the i varsity. Our pride in the team has never wavered In defeat nor in victory. Next year-who knows we may have that trophy for there is determination to overcome obstacles, victory follows. THIS YEAR great interest is being manifested in the oratorical contest sponsored by the Quakers and the Elks Club which will be held In April and May. Students have been reading and preparing their essays with enthusiasm and with hope that they may be among the "big winners..