Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-27

now in the hands of the magistrate
who is expected to render his decision
this week, after reading the books anc
the expert opinions. The magistrat,
may either hold the publisher, Thomas
Settler, for the grand jury or dismiss
the complaint. If the complaint is dis.
missed, q series of suits will be start.
ed Immediately, according to Jonah J
Goldstein, counsel for Settler, against
the Society for the Suppression OF
Vice, on the charge of malicious prose.
cution and false arrest.
John s. Sumner, secretary of the So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice, rest
ed his case on the books themselves
especially on particular passages, anG
introduced no expert opinion to trace
The prosecution objected to the alleged
expert testimony, holding that there
were no experts in such things. The
magistrate accepted the testimony, but
said:
1T will be necessary for me, l as
sumo, to read the books. The court
Of appeals has said the question OF
obscenity or indecency is one falling
within the range of ordinary intelli-
gence. 1t does not require al expert
to determine it."
DR.. Gregory Scragnell, a specialist
in nervous and mental diseases, even
commended "a Young Girls Diary
which is supposed to be a genuine
document written by a child, as a
phophyletic against the effect of she'll
shock and other nervous disorders.
DR.. Adolph Stern, another neurolo-
gist, said that, when he read the book
originally in Vienna in 1920, he was
moved to translate it because of its
wholesomeness, but that he found a
translation already under way.
Judging from my experience among
nervous people" he said. Il haven't
come across any who haven't gone
through some of those experiences that
this child narrates in her diary. What
purposes that the book serves or
should serve are these-that those
reading the book. especially young ones
reading the book. would go with their
questions, with their problems, to their
helpers, to their parents, and get con-
crete information from a perfectly re-
liable source concerning these mat
ters."
Miles NJ. Dawson. the actuary and
writer, said that it was an entirely
innocent book" 'Casanova's Home
coming was also praised as a mora
book by DR.. Gregory S%cragnell, who
said:
"Schnitzler is considered by literary
people to be one of the foremost among
the contemporary writers of the day
This book is written in the style of the
old classic memoirs of Casanova and
as a sequel to The Diary of Casanova
which is considered a valuable doco-
ment in itself-purely a literary tale"
Story Reveals Psyche anthology
Asked to delineate the moral taught
by the story of Casanova's successive
intribues for three generations in the
same family, the neurologist said:
1T is pathology. 1t is what we call
psychO-pathology. 1t is a pathological
situation. Furthermore, we have arti-
cles of that kind in lola and in other
writer's, and in reading them we get
the impression they are stories of, as
we say psycho-pathology, and | should
think it would have the opposite effect
to stimulation"
"SchnitZler's book was also discussed
from the literary and moral angles by
DIR. Carl Van Doren, associate in Eng
lisb at Columbia university, who said
1t seems to be the most finished
piece of fiction that was published in
the United States in 1921. As to NOR
atty, if one wanted to take it on that
basis, it seemed to me that, of the
books published that year, this was the
one most likely to deter any one from
improper practices.
You have here a literary rake who
had been a rogue and scoundrel all his
life, is finally at the end of his re-
sources. who has one final fling, and
finds himself as the result of it the
object of contempt and scorn and self
loathing. He has so lost his courage,
so lost his desire to be obnoxious in
this way that he gives up. He has been
a man of gallantry and adventure, and