Bans-of-the-Week

The magazines: Ken, Esquire, Film Fun, Thrilling Love, and 24 others; in Ann Arbor, Mich. The agency: ordinance committee of the city council, consisting of three University of Michigan professors, three local businessmen and a tailor. Authority: an ordinance passed in 1895 prohibiting the distribution of obscene literature, providing for fines or jail sentences for violators. After two days of loud protest from the university campus. Ken and Esquire were removed from the banned list on condition that they refrain from publishing obscene matter. Judge of obscene matter: City Attorney William M. Laird.

The magazine: American Mercury for June; in Providence, R. I. The agency: Bureau of Police and Fire. Reason: an article, Chastity on the Campus, "by a Co-Ed." Authority: a voluntary agreement between magazine distributors and the Police and Fire Board which acts on citizens' complaints only. Last time the American Mercury was banned in a U. S. city was 1926 in Boston. Reason: Hatrack, Herbert Asbury's story of a small-town prostitute.

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