European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns Case of fhe Blind blinding the Blind by Russell Baker Tough Blind for you there will be no More Playboy magazines in braille from the Library of con congressman Chalmers Wylie has caught and put a Stop to with the consent and approval of the entire House of representatives of the United and of All right thinking ill imagine it i am speaking now to the unbind imagine Blind american Blind Reading Playboy by moving their fingertips Over make your blood boil All so the famous Playboy pictures those disgusting pictures arc not reproduced in the Library braille thank heaven for Small is that what you say our House of representatives was not so easily because what about the infamous Playboy party jokes what about the vile Playboy advisor with his licentious hints on what to do about this and that trenchant questions were confronted in the House of is the honorable member telling this House that the braille edition docs not make it possible to visualize the most minute details of the playmate of the month by application of fingertips shall we say Only the Reading material is re infamous party vile Playboy advisor interviews with american presidents discussing lust they have Felt in their cries of shame shame party these arc concepts that outrage the House of repro the disclosure that Blind people were being exposed to them was speaker tip Oneill was hard pressed to defeat motions for renting More mercenaries to overthrow the nicaraguan which was assumed to be in Ca hoots with the soviet Union in a plot to destroy the moral fiber of americas Blind with braille Playboy parly Many a member reminded the press gallery what Lenin had said today at the fingertips of the Blind tomorrow the novels of Lawrence in the hands of women and College speaker Oneill blocked resolutions calling for the immigration bureaucracy to hound Lawrence out of the United but Only after testimony from con Gressman Wylie that Lawrence had been dead for Many throughout the turmoil congressman Wylie remained the very Bedrock of responsible literary the distinguished Ohio known in his native state As the Buckeye Saint Beuve sometimes the Buck Eye Longinus or the Buckeye Edmund re fused to be drawn into debate about licentious jokes and vile the facts were government Money paid for braille editions of 36 magazines selected by Blind readers for their literary 1 do not feel that Playboy meets those Wylie he was referring to the literary standards of journals such As Good housekeeping and popular which Are also produced in braille at government sex the usual bleeding hearts were heard from censorship they who Are in spite of our infinite to decide that the Blind Are entitled to expensively produced mag telling How to build Bird and How to dust behind but not to magazines telling How to use Bird houses and radiators to make ones sex life More fulfilling congressman Wylie noted that the question at Issue was not the Type of advice to which the Blind were anti but the literary Quality of its while it was he that officially approved magazines in the 1930s had split a great Many infinitives in such articles As How to build your own Auto Gyro and seven keys to tastier Macaroni and both popular mechanics and Good housekeeping were better edited nowadays and certainly More literate than play which often contained interviews with congressman Wylie emphasized that not All Blind people enjoyed Reading Playboy in this produced astonished cries from the House floor do you mean Many of them Are just As upright and clean living As you and i congressman Wylie said such was the since they would be depriving Only a few and those people of inferior literary taste the members readily voted the braille Playboy out of thus do the Blind Blind the new York times news service some lessons we had Beffer learn by James Kilpatrick not Long 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