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Pornography, Sex Education Debated
To Permit or Not to Permit—Britain Wonders
By TOM CULLEN
LONDON—(N E A)—“Sex
ual fascist” is the latest dirty
name with which to smear
your enemies. The term is
being flung about wildly here
as the backlash to Britain’s
permissive society gets un
derway.
What makes it confusing is
that those who like nude
films are being labeled “sex
ual fascists,” but so are
those who are opposed to full
frontal frankness.
The peddlers of dirty books
are “sexual fascists,’ 1 but so
is Lord Longford’s commit
tee of 47, set up to investi
gate “the incipient menace
of pornography in Britain."
Whichever side wears the
jackboots one thing is cer
tain: The counterattack to
sexual license is now in full
swing with bishops, politi
cians, psychiatrists and child
educators climbing onto the
bandwagon.
Lord Longford’s commit
tee, which plans to spend a
year studying pornography
in all its manifestations, in
cludes the Archbishop of
York, Lord Justice Edmund
Davies, pundit Malcolm
Muggeridge and pop singer
Cliff Richards. A more
mixed group it would be hard
to imagine.
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As in America, the coun
terrevolution is being direct
ed against sex education in
the schools. The feeling here
is that the child’s mind may
prove to be the most impor
tant battleground in the war
of the antipermissives versus
the permissives.
Two events have served to
divert the backlash to the
field of sex education. One
was the release of “Growing
Up,” a sex education film
for 10-year-olds in which
masturbation and sexual in
tercourse are illustrated on
the screen.
The film was made by Dr.
Martin Cole, lecturer in gen
etics at Aston University,
Birmingham, who argues,
“You use photographs in
other forms of instruction
like cookery lessons, so why
not in sex?”
“Growing Up” has been
condemned by the Archbish
op of Canterbury and the
Minister of Education,
among others. In a recent
House of Lords debate Lord
Longford, a Roman Catholic,
described the film as “a de
praved and depraving medi
cine.”
Unrepentant, Dr. Cole, who
shows blue films to his uni
versity students, maintains
that adolescent promiscuity
British 'Children Charter'
LONDON—(NEA)—Following are excerpts from
the controversial British “Charter of Children’s
Rights” drawn up by the British Advisory Center for
Education and the National Council for Civil Liber
ties:
(1) All children have the right to protection from,
and compensation for, the consequences of any in
adequacies in their homes and backgrounds.
(2) Children have the right to protection from
any excessive claims made on them by their parents
or others In authority.
(3) Children have the right to freedom from re
ligious or political indoctrination.
(6) Children have the right to freedom of expres
sion, both written and verbal.
(7) (Children) shall have the freedom to make
complaints about teachers, parents and others, with
out fear of reprisal.
(8) Children have a right to exercise choice in
the school curriculum. Such choice should grow as
the child matures.
(9) No child shall be deprived of any right or
benefit as a consequence of his mode of dress, style
of hair, make-up or any other aspect of dress or
appearance.
(12) Children shall have freedom from physical
assault, whether under the guise of punishment or in
any other form.
(15) Children have the right at the appropriate
age, to such knowledge as is necessary to under
stand the society in which they live. This shall in
clude knowledge of sex, contraception, religion,
drugs, including alcohol and tobacco.
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Today's Producers Don’t Fit Stereotype
By DICK KLEINER
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) -
What is a producer? What
does he do?
The answer to those often
asked questions are different
now than they would have
been 10 years ago. In the old
Hollywood, a producer was
strictly a businessman —
cigar-chewing, girl-chasing,
tough-talking. And what he
did was to put deals to
gether.
He was out strictly to
make a buck, and he figured
Mjbiic responsibility was
ed when he gave a
check to the Community
Chest drive.
There are still a few of
them around, but they’re dy
ing out, like the bald eagle.
Nobody is shedding any
tears.
The new producer, gener
ally, is still business
oriented. He has to be, be
dause he’s in a profit-making
enterprise. But he is a man
who would prefer to be a
writer or director, and got
into producing when he
couldn’t cut it In those other
fields.
Hence, he is sympathetic
to artistic considerations. He
wants to make a good movie
and most of them, given the
choice, would rather have an
artistic than a commercial
triumph. Most of them, to
day, have the good sense to
hire writers and directors
and then let them have their
bead.
Which brings us to Herb
Gardner, a writer who has
good things to say about the
two producers he’s worked
for.
Gardner wrote “Who is
Harry Kellerman And Why
Is He Saying Those Terrible
Things About Me.” It’s a
Cinema Center Films pro
duction, and CCF’s head
man is Gordon Stulberg.
“He was great,” Gardner
says. “He’s a little crazy,
which helps. He never said a
thing to us—in fact, at the
first screening, he thought
that maybe we had been too
timid.
“He was like David Pick
er, the producer of my first
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movie, ‘A Thousand Clowns.’
He left me alone, too. I think
the thing is that they like
movies, basically."
Gardner was actually
listed as coproducer of both
movies, a job he got, first,
on “A Thousand Clowns” be
cause of an incident which
happened early in the pro
duction.
He had written the Broad
way play and then wrote the
screenplay when it was sold
to the movies. One day, soon
after the filming started, he
went to the set and some
lackey stopped him.
“Who are you? What are
you doing here?”
“I’m the writer,” Gardner
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is a “learning situation.” “I
think teenagers should be
promiscuous,” says Dr. Cole.
“I think being promiscuous
can in many cases be a vital
ly important part of growing
up.”
The other event which has
touched off violent contro
versy is the publication of a
Charter of Children's Rights
drawn up by the Advisory
Center for Education with
the help of the National
Council for Civil Liberties.
Among other things, this
Magna Carta for toddlers
states, “Children have the
right, at the appropriate age,
to such knowledge as is
necessary to understand the
society in which they live.
“This shall include knowl
edge of sex, contraception,
religion, drugs, including al
cohol and tobacco, and other
problems which openly con
front every growing child.”
The loudest outburst
against the Children’s Char
ter has come from David Hol
brook, a Cambridge Univer
sity lecturer and author of
books on education, who de
scribes it as “menacing.”
Holbrook says that the doc
ument smacks of “certain
manifestations of Nazism.”
notably in urging children
said.
“Oh,” said the man.
“You’re the woids.”
Gardner said he didn’t
want to go through life
known only as “the woids,”
so he had them make him
coproducer. And he was that,
again, on “Harry Keller
man.”
But he wants to be a writ
er, not a producer. And what
he’d like to write, most of
all, are more Broadway
plays.
“Broadway is my unre
quited love/’ Gardner says.
“They keep saying how
they’re looking for plays, so
you show up with a play and
nothing happens. Then you
read somebody saying how
“to spy on their parents and
report them.”
The permissives who drew
up the Children’s Charter are
the real “sexual fascists,” in
Holbrook’s view. “Nazism
was but the product of the
fanatical immoralism that
pervaded the youth of Ger
many during the late *2os
and early ’3os.
But Holbrook, himself, is a
totalitarian figure in the eyes
of Britain’s liberals, such as
Richard Crossman, Labor
Member of Parliament and
editor of the New Statesman.
“In Denmark,” comments
the New Statesman, “sales
of pornography are falling,”
while Hollywood has “dis
covered that nudity is no
longer a box-office draw.”
The New Statesman con
tends that Lord Longford’s
campaign is really an upper
class plot against the work
ers. "Lord Longford and his
supporters . . . were pre
pared to tolerate a society
where pornography was
available to the upper mid
dle class and the aristocracy,
but kept discreetly hidden
from the public gaze.
“What they cannot toler
ate, it seems, is the demo
cratization of sexual pleas
ure."
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they’re looking for plays. It
hurts.”
So he wrote “Harry Keller
man” for the screen, his first
original screenplay. Un
doubtedly, since it is a suc
cess, there will be more.
Gardner, a creative man,
has a creative theory which
may be the biggest thing in
international relations since
Ping-Pong. He believes he
knows what’s behind the cur
rent move to restore trade
with Red China.
“I think,” he says, “that
20th Century-Fox is behind
the whole thing. They fig
ure all those moviegoers in
Red China could redeem
‘Tora! Tora! Total’ and take
it out of the red, as it were.”
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Boundary
fuss brews
ATLANTA (UPI)-The U. S.
Supreme Court may have to
intervene to help settle a boun
dary dispute involving Georgia,
North Carolina and Tennessee,
a state legislator says.
Rep. Larry Thomason of De-
Kalb County, chairman of a
special commission named by
file General Assembly to re
solve the question, said North
Carolina officials have cooperat
ed with his commission but
Tennessee has been less than
enthusiastic.
One reason for Tennessee’s
reluctance, saidThamason, may
be that Georgia would acquire
most of the cities of Chatta
nooga and Copper Hill if the
dispute is resolved in Georgia’s
favor.
He said old maps indicate
surveyors made an error in
drawing state boundaries back
in 1804, and that the line should
run along the 35th parallel. He
said such a boundary would give
Georgia an extra 300 square
miles, including the Highlands
area of North Carolina.
“If the two states don’t co
operate with us, I’m going to
see to it that a suit is filed in
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