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Subversive LiteratureAn interesting point was raised the other day by Miss Cleora Clanton, head librarian of the Dallas Public Library, in an appearance before the City Council of Dallas, ohe replied to a request by the Veterans of For-eian Wars that tax money not be used to subscribe to pamphlets branded subversive by the House committee on un-American activities.Miss Cianton made it known that some of the pamphlets referred to were not received on a paid sub-scriDtion basis, but were gifts to the library. She declared thct no intelligent person could mistake such literature for anything but propaganda and contendedthat people should be able to read this literature and get fighting mad.Unquestionably is Miss Clanton right in her contention that intelligent persons who read subversive literature recognize it for what it is. But unforunately such literature is sometimes read by persons who are not intelligent, or at least not to ihe point that they are able to keep themselves from being influenced by the propaganda. And too, there are intelligent persons who are easily tempted and are seeking such propaganda.The Banner doesn't believe that any type of subversive material should be placed on the shelves of our libraries in the first place But if it should be made available to the public it should be stamped subver-sve, not particularly to inform the reader of what he might expect, but to let it be known that we are not so gullible as to accept such material as good reading, andthat we know what it is all about.
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Greenville Evening Banner
Greenville, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 27, 1953
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