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SUGGEST D LEGISLATION,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH, 1918.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S VIEW.

INTERESTA OF INNOCENT PARTIES, The Lord Chancellor consider that Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in bringing forward this motion, had releed a public service, Law- yera were obliged to listen to unsavoury details when the cases were investigated, buc there was no reason why details of theas uses should be broadcasted throughout the country by publication in the great majority of our newspapers. The effect of printing them indiriminately was to bring these disgusting ranttres before the eyes of thin people who read their paper fe quite other purposes and who abiered that kind of thing, and, worst of all, to bring them before the eyes of young people of both sexes to whom real harm was done. To their honour. sane of our novapapers refusal to publish details of this kind: others thought it pro- per to insist upon their right to publish

them

Indec (Sably they hair fhear and investigate complains of indecent | halo ቅነ ነ or obscene publication, and to take action

Sunday

In the House of Lords on April 14th, Liful Balfour of Burleigh asked the Government whether their attention had been called to the undue publicity which had been given in certain section of the Press to inlevent details of certain recent cases in the Law Courts, and whether they would introduce legislation to denk with the matter. H called that Lord Alverstone, Thefï La Chief Justice, giving evidence before the Divorce Commission, said that the ruischief done by the publication of indecent details was incalculable, particularly in the case of girls nail boys between the ages of 14 and 14. The witnesses from the Press, who nun bered twelve, all ages that the publication of details was undesirable, and some of them pointed ont that while the above was mainly eatined to papers of a certain class Letterclass papiers were

A to the present law it was true that the pelled to privilege of the Press did not uxtend to the hunger reports

becalled to

publication of indecent and obscene matter sereg that reasonable publicity (It was also

we salutary effect, he rust obtain a conviction.

true that it was very difficult to

The Department i not think that that could be held to justify Public Prosneutions was always ready to

orge of posters ami the

of which the

the where a cass could be made, but the evil was The Expecially papers.

intention of the law sometimes not in the publication of some wis porfectly vinar. The difficulty aything grossly and patently obscene, but of

fner that it was not so much in the The words of the report that the in

the something that kind indecritcy

suggestive,

, and it was not sy in lay, but in the suggestiveness which was

procure juries convict. underneath it. What he was suggesting

The faw As it stood was not farther to limit the freedom of the with the whole of the evil. He did not was really not strong enough to deal Press, hat to render effective the limits which by law it seemed to him existest. The definition of indecency of obscenity as

that

would not enlarge the precise ins of doy. It might be that criminal to-day, but the

that was passibly to make criminal that which was it was best to give

criminal proceed the judges discretionings open to the department have been instruct that certale evidence shoulitt proved not to be sufficient to deal with be publistal, or another way might be to the whole of the evil. He did

the Probilit

not puidication of any report until out the suggestion that publication should the conclusion of the case. He believed the be forbidden except as to the names of the majority of the newspapers themselves would parties and the result of the litigation, and he could not believe but there were difficulties about that. The come legislate power of the Ingal Ivisors of the Crown, in cu

collaboration with

se details we found in other enses, this leading representatives of the Press, te

one civil, most of them criminal. People concerned in the cases had an interest to frame some legislation which would meet the

The great majority of newspapers how that they were free from hiame have sutlicient publication of the details to casp, reportent these cases with decency Proposals by the Royal Commission were restraint, but thage was a minority which offended, not only against taste and the Buckmaster introduced a few years agu,

incorporated in tho

bill which Lord public morals, but also against what was the hut objection was at onen taken intention of the law.

by some memberi of that House were connected with the Press All these provisions were either struck out or so truncated that all that remained was of to use. In the following year Lord Corell had in his bill clause dealing with this question, but it was objected to, and was struck out.

matter of sume

that it was

adv

DRASTIC SUGGESTIONS,

Lord Buckmaster said that they could not by Act of Parliament further limit and defiue the power that the Press now possessed in reporting these cases. If they were to effect any remedy it must be by something far more drustic than that,

his opinion, the right thing to do was to promiliit the

of anyt

thing connected with a

suite

was

not

shut

who

After talking the matter over the "other day with a deputation of members of the e public huln right to know gested that they should endeavour to everything that took plug within the four the Press in hun over this matter, that Ket walls of divorce court? When he heard they should interview the mebers of the of the lib

e liberty of the Press being invoked as Press who wear desirous of helping, and a reason why jadecent matters should should try to get are kinil of agreement disseniinated broalcast throughout the in the respectable Press, the effect of which Country he was unable to respond. So also would be to purify the columes of our news- was it with regard to the suggestion that the papers from matters of this kind. At- fear of the shine of prizedtion would deter temps land, he believed, been made in people from dedig atong

but hitherto without of ho- result.

E Cecil latented to in- connected trorluce a

ject:

SUNBESLed excepting the result. Why was it other House, he (the Lord Chancellor) KUK; |

to under-estimage the passions.

The rett up-

that Sir

to deal with the sub- With the heavy programme. thas

with these reports was that they the Government airenly had this session it

the person who had done no wrong. woman who had done no wrong had to give or evidence before a court which, was crowded

with vulgar, ille spectators who were not gathered for the led the that they of seeing justice done if they wanted could go to the commercial court-but to hear unclean untter come from the lips of a woman. That offended the elementary sense of justice

If he had his way there would be far wider powers of clearing the court ere won than existed, and he would absolutely

Pere hibit the publication of details, was any matter which was a private -aari domestic concern it was a quarrel between man and his wife. The right way to deal with the question was to stop all publica tion of details and only give the result. (Hear, hear)

The Bishop of Durham naked their

would be very difficult for them to introduc legislation on a subject upon which people were not yet agreed as to the remedies. and done in this matter, and if they raw any The Government would note what was said opportunity of useful intervention they would not fail to take advantage of it."

Earl Beauchamp wid they realised the asked whether it would not be possible for difficulty of this wssion's programme, but them to introduce a bill next session. urged that the fovernment should abo deal with the publiention of indecent ad vertisements.

The subject then dropped.

lordships to imagine the effect of the daily THE VALUE OF GOOD SIGHT publication of the most degrading matter

unt

the minds of the idle thousands of

for everything that is valuable or enjoy.

able in life. You cannot tell if your eyes

youths and men in the great industrial cannot be over-estimated, Bight stands centres. It provided them with a text for the

most degrading conversation. What conceivable public advantage could there be from the publication in fall of painful and humiliating trials in the Divorce There was a saying that " breeds contempt."

Bre right; you may see well yet have

He would amiliarity defective eyes. If you wish to have your

paraphrase

it by rying that the common discus- eyen tested, the Refracting Foom of The sion of very gross vice blinds mea

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The Earl of Meath urged the Lord Chan- located in, 53, Queen's Boad - Central- cellor to take the matter up and bring in is at your service. They have the equip- a measure to prevent in the future the publication of perfectly unnecessary details. Viscount Fialay said that one of the most deplorable nights in London was the queue of people waiting at the doors of the Divorce Court for admission in

order that they might revel in the details which it was the duty of the. court to investigate But it was not only in the Divorce Court

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that were heard cases which should not be HONGKONG SHARË MARKET reported except in barest outline, with a statement of the result. It was a moet un- im-

fortunate thing that nowadays it was possible to leave about newspapers where there were young people, two kind. necessary before any reform of this could

carried that they should have Co-operation of the Press and there was a section of those responsible for

Come

in

it

the

be anythin of the Press whis would wel Would strengthen with this great and growing evil. Would

not be worth the while of the authorities concerns to con- sider whether a selection of cases could not taken to show that the existing law was mt so impolent in this matter as was some- times supposed? If in one or two canon. the law were exforced it would live a very great deterrent uffect.

The

guin Carl of Botare did not take the sun.

De

view entertained by Lord Finlay that any adaptation of the existing law would He did out think they Sprecessful. wandel succeed before magistrate in regard. to one report out of a hundret]. He would suggest that all "that should be reported would be the name of the partics, the charges nude, and the requit, and a ro port of any discussion on a point of law,

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