Dr. Malcolm Beck, in addressing that meeting, summarized 
     
     the facts, considered likely effects of salacious literature on the 
     
     child and on society, and made suggestions on future action. 
     
     Three things which Dr. Beck cautioned against doing were: 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. becoming alarmists about this literature, 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. overstressing this one moral issue while ignoring other 
     
     equally serious moral issues, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     3. adopting an attitude of prudery. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dr. Beck suggested that what is needed in our society is “a still 
     
     small voice in its midst saying, ‘this is wrong, this is wrong, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     III 
     
    
   
   
    
     you know it is wrong, and we must do something about it . 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is significant to record that Home and School, with the 
     
     active support of the Attorney General, and the co—operative 
     
     spirit of local merchants did succeed at that time in getting 
     
     salacious literature removed from public displays where young 
     
     teenage people browse. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Twelve years later, Canadian Home and School at its 
     
     1973 Annual Meeting, on a resolution from the P.E.I. Federation, 
     
     asked its member federations to seek ways to reduce the negative 
     
     influences of ”moral pollution, be it in press, radio, T.V., theatre, 
     
     or news-stand literature.” Later historians will relate how today’s 
     
     young parents respond. 
     
    
   
   
    
     RESPONSE TO THE 
     
     ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT 
     
    
   
   
    
     ”No matter how thorough a survey is, and no matter how 
     
     attractively bound it is, there is only one thing it can do by itself 
     
     and that is gather dust." This is a quotation from an editorial 
     
     which appeared in the Journal-Pioneer on November 25, 1960, 
     
     and it was written by Hartwell Daley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A series of Hartwell Daley's articles was later published in 
     
     pamphlet form with the title Educational Surveys on P.E.I. 7908— 
     
     7958, and the publication was done in co-operation with P.E.I. 
     
     Teachers Federation, the Home and School Federation and the 
     
     P.E.I. Conference on Education. The occasion of his writing was 
     
     that on October 15, 1959, Dr. Milton E. LaZerte was commis- 
     
     sioned to undertake a public inquiry into educational financing in 
     
     this province. 
     
    
   
   
    
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