Show THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY A couple of decisions by import mt nt tribunals two decisions have recently been rendered by important tribunals tribunal 4 which re buke the tendency to interfere with the right of the citizen to be let alone the supreme court of mississippi has decided in the case of a black roan man whose cabin was vas entered by a party arty of men who came to arrest him bim without warrant of law for an alleged offense and who shot and killed two of these invaders of his house that a man has a right to defend himself under buch circumstances cum stances the court says the youths companion in in setting this man free declared its belief that the home should have every possible safeguard thrown around it the other decision mentioned is in a case of a very unusual character A certain society oci ety proposed to erect a statue of a deceased and very philanthropic lady the members of this ladys im i in medille mediL medi ite te family objected on the ground that notoriety in any form was wholly distasteful to her ber and that inasmuch as she was a private citizen the erection of a of her was an unauthorized invasion of privacy the supreme court of new york took this view of the case and declared that the avish of her family representing her own known desire should raould be observed and that no public representation of her should be permitted it is scarcely possible to take up a newspaper without finding in it invasions of the sacred right to privacy offenses which these decisions could not reach not only the private affairs of per sons li holding public relations are arc pried into and falsely published forth but those of persons wm who have no public functions whatever this tendency is a most deplorable one and unless ess it is checked d it will brin about a deterioration tf 01 public sentiment and cause deserving persona perona to shun public relations of every wit |