ANOTHER STEP

Censorship has recently been discussed more actively than usual and resentment against it has been more or less pronounced. There has been a general feeling that somehow vaguely it infringes upon the rights of individuals.

To those who desire to learn more specifically the grounds of this resentment, there is opportunity tonight to hour at Ford Hall men whose scholarship and experience fit them to speak with authority on the subject. The meeting will be one of the first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest. It is probably too much to hope that the meeting tonight will lead directly to the formation of such an assembly. It should, however, serve forcibly to bring to the attention of those in authority that the present method of censorship from behind closed doors has become repugnant to the community which they intend to serve.