BOOK BANNING.
JUDGE IS “TIRED OF IT.” ERSKINE CALDWELL NOVEL. The quaint Watch and Ward Society of Boston, self-appointed guardian of the morals of the inhabitants of the city which is sometimes called “America’s Athens,” has received another setback. A saleswoman, arrested on the complaint of the society, was acquitted on a charge of having sold an obscene book, “Tragic Ground,” by Erskine Caldwell. “I am becoming tired of books being banned,” Judge Adlow said. “It is getting so that the Court’s business is divided between booksellers and bookmakers. The police would do better to bring in a few pickpockets and burglare.” “Tragic Ground” tells the story of a shiftless family of war workers. The father is a drunkard and the daughter becomes a prostitute in a war-boom town.
Erskine Caldwell is the author of “Tobacco Road.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 205, 12 June 1945, Page 6
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