Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-03-04 | Page 7 | War Time Act is Sustained

WAR TIME ACT F 1 x Jt 14 i IS SUSTAINED r Supreme mc Court Holds Part Parl of Espionage Act to torB rB Be Bet t r Good Law I Washington ton March 3 t. While not l passing directly on the question of the tho constitutionality of the tho espionage aga acC act d. the tho court In disposing of ot pro proceedings Involving In Interpretation of ot tho the statute today In effect held that the called so-called enlistment section Is not an ad on interference with the tho Tight right of ot free free speech provided by the tho th constitution When nation Is IB at war the tho court held h In lo In an n n a 3 o 1711 talon rendered hv by Holmes t m i many many m things thing's th SS that t ml might b be De said Bald in time of ot peace are re sucH a 0 hindrance to Its effort that their Utterance utterance Ut Utterance ut- ut terance will not be endured so 80 Ion long aa as men fight and no court could regard them as 11 protected by any constitutional constitutional lIonal right The opinion was rendered In SUlI sustaining sustaining sus sus- I convictions of Charles T T. T Schenk and Elizabeth Baer liner of Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia who were charged with attempting at attempting at- at tempting to Interfere with army enlistments enlistments enlistments en en- en- en by sending Bending through h lh the tho malls mails to men of draft ages circulars discussing subjects relative to the war The court also In effect sustained the convictions of or Kato Richards OHaro O'Hare In North Korth Dakota under uDder the espionage es espionage es- es act by refusing to review revlow her case and also the tho conviction of ot Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham L L. Sugarman of or Minneapolis Appeals Ap peals from tram convictions under the espionage es ed act of ot Eugene V. V Debs and ana Jacob l Frohwerk of or Kansas City argued in to the court prior to the February ary any rece recess s but were were not disposed of or orby by the court today