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...little scene on Boston Common had been most elaborately led up to. First Dr. Chase ? offended by an article called "Hatrack" which dealt with copulation in a cemetery ? had ordered newsdealers to remove the American Mercury from their stands. Editor Mencken, on advice of counsel, determined to test the validity of the order...
...American Mercury or the dance of that young lady at the Methodist dance? Which is more potent with real danger, the bookstore of, let us say, Felix, or the Old Howard or Gayety? Which are spreading more disgrace and contamination, the issues of "Birth control", "Jurgen". "the Genius", "Hatrack" or the half dozen places which I know right here in Boston (and, which cops around them know...
...Chase reflected upon these problems or is he aware of then existence? Hardly. He still thinks that "Hatrack" has a special appeal to man's lower passions. And I am sure that the listeners who laughed up their sleeve while he read his "Credo" of "New Paritanism" had a pity for the man and his ignorance, especially when he was staggering to answer, why, to his mind, the Macfadden publications were not as harmful as is the American Mercury. Why that man and those who are backing him are simply one hundred and fifty years behind their time. A. Phillipoff...
...action of the police is alleged to have been taken because of a story entitled "Hatrack" which appears in the American Mercury. It was characterized yesterday by Mr. Chase as "one of the most vulgar and degrading articles that has ever appeared in this city." Felix Caragianes, the accused, when questioned last night, replied briefly that he had not read the article in question and that since the agents of the Society had taken every copy he had, he was afraid he would not be able...
...Hatrack" is written by Herbert Asbury, formerly connected with the staff of the New York World. He has published a book called "Up From Methodism." In the article in question, he contributes a portrait of a harlot of Farmington, Connecticut...