PAPER-RATIONING
Sk—The remarks.of " Janus " regarding the ability of the purveyors of pornographic filth to piocure ample paper supplies to meet their disgusting needs demand attention. The Daily Worker was banned amidst much controversy since the whole principle of free speech %vas involved ; a movement for the suppression of low literature, on the other hand, could meet with little opposition, for surely there is no advocate brazen enough to declare himself in favour of such publica- tions. In peace-time the majority of pornography was impolite' from America in the form of ballast for ships, but this presumably has ceased since the outbreak of war. Whatever the cesspools from which this scum is now culled, it is obvious that it needs but a simple piece of legislation to put a stop to the publication of such rank scourings. The paper supplies thus released can then be diverted to worthier causes: the amount of such paper admittedly will be comparatively small, but it will at least ensure nbt only that no more precious paper is squandered in this fashion, but also that the influences perverting the youth. of Britain shall be destroyed.—Yours
Balliol College, Oxford.
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