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Show i ' . Sunday, December 4. 194 SUNDAY HERALD rica's 30-Ycor War Against Communism: 6 si Anti-Red Weapons Not Heavy Artillery By PETER EDsnv NEA Washinrton Correspondent The weapons brought up by Congress and the Supreme Court nava hardly been what might be termed heavy artillery against the communists. The court aavx It cannnt art f factively because congress has not strengthened the basic laws which may be used against Communists the seditious consipracy act (1881); the espionage act (1917) ana tne immigration act (1918) Conversely, congress maintains that . it cannot strengthen these laws in any significant particular Decause such action would inev ttably be ruled uncontsitutional as an abridgment of the bill of lights the ruling to come from tne supreme court. C There, in essence, lie the weak ness and the strength in the U. S war against Communism. From i democratic point of view the Con atitution and the' bill of rights are good and sacred. From a Communist Com-munist point of view they are fyves and fetters, making it impossible im-possible to put down all but the bomb-throwing type of revolu tionist. i-. , Consider. Congrew first l Session after session has doggedly dog-gedly refused to enact laws which .would abridge the rights of free if m , s V 0 J i's-v' . :( "NICE WORK, OU SOCK" Joseph DolinaJ of7 Dunnellen, N. J, crochets as usual after winning first prize in the "Men Only" division of a national crocheting contest in Chicago. DolinaJ, a railroad signal tower-man, tower-man, took up needlework five years ago after betting his wife $5 ha could beat her at the art speech, and freedom of assembly The 4 Hatch, Voorhis and Smith acts, voted in the 1939-40 session, were aimed at Nazism and Fas cism primarily. Rep. Hamilton Fish. Jr., of New York, headed the first attempt to write a basic anti-Communist code, in 1931. Fish's committee sat in 13 cities, interrogated 275 wit nesses and came up with a 14-point 14-point program so impossible to execute and so potentially harmful harm-ful to the country that it died aborning. Only two of the recom mendations bore fruit to broad en the FBI's authority and to increase in-crease its funds so it could func tion more efficiently in the field. Next came the McCormack-Dicksteln McCormack-Dicksteln Committee of 1935, which drew some blood. Its report held that the Communist party was not a legitimate party at all, but was an adherent to foreign Ideologies without any real con cern for the internal weal at all. The committee made six recom mendations: 1.. Legislation which resulted in the foreign agents registration act of 1938. 2. Action by the secretary of labor to terminate the stay here of any alien on a visitor's visa if he engaged in propaganda activities. activ-ities. Largely realized when the immigration service passed from the labor to the justice depart ment with greater powers. 3. Negotiation by the state de partment of treaties under which foreign nations would agree to accept ac-cept their nationals by deporta tion in cases of action against the U. S. No action on this one. 4. A law prohibiting advice or counsel to members of the armed services to disabey regulations, Covered in the alien registration act. 5. A law which would give U.S attorneys over the land the same right to invoke the rule of contempt con-tempt against recalcitrant wit- neses. No action. 6. Outlawing the old "over- throw by force and violence" line Partially achieved in the Smith and Voorhis acts. Now pending is the Mundt-Fer- guson bill, which would: 1. Outlaw advocating estabiisn ment of a dictatorship. 2. Forbid passage to alien or ganizations of any classified in formation affecting national se curity. 3. Punish any agent with up to 10 years and a $10,000 fine for receiving such information. This bill met with no great sue cess in the session just ended, but is likely to be a 1950 campaign issue and may be passed. How much emasculation will occur in its detailed provisions is any body's guess. The old bogey that the constitution may be violated hangs over it, as it has hung over virtually all previous bills. ,. On the supreme court side of the picture you find: In the last three decades, the court has considered perhaps 50 cases involving Communists r-e ; - 20 ( 4m M fa 3 Q o Tl-in. Magnetic Jig Saw Needs No Motor, Belt Craftsman Brand Easy Terms Not a toy, but a strong, well-made power tool! Cuts to super-smootji edge on wood, plastics, metals. So smooth needs no sanding. Amazingly easy to operate; safe enough even for children. .Cuts to center 22-in. circle. Table 8i2x8-in. For 110-120 volt AC' Get yours today! Open Til 8 p.m. Friday Nights though not communism. The court has consistently ducked the aues tlon of whether the Reds advocate the overthrow of government, in effect saying that its function is solely to rule on the constitution ality of decisions and not to make determinations about the legality or illegality of an organization. The first case involving a sub versive was that of John Turner, an ' Englishman, who entered the country illegally in 1904 and was proved to be an anarchist here for no good. The court upheld the constitutionality of congress de portation order. Thirty-odd sim ilar cases have since been decided in lower courts, with the supreme court's ruling as precedent. The first important case involving involv-ing criminal syndicalism was that of Ben Gitlow, who will be remembered re-membered as an ardent Commie who saw the light and became one of Moscow's most articulate op ponents. Gitlow, caught in New York's Lusk committee raids, was convicted as editor of The Rev olutionary Age, which had printed print-ed the left-wing manifesto advocating advo-cating riots and establishment of a proletarian dictotorship in 1919. m Gitlow fought his three-to-five- year sentence to tne supreme Court, whose decision was that freedom of speech did not necessarily neces-sarily guarantee such inflamma tory matter as was contained in the manifesto. Gitlow went back to the pen but was pardoned by Gov. Alfred E. Smith before he completed his sentence. Earl Browder carried his passport-fraud conviction to the high court, lost, and started his four-year four-year sentence. Then in 1942 he was fantastically pardoned by President Roosevelt, who feared the long sentence was something the Dublic might construe as a "penalty imposed because of po litical views." Following the Browder case, the supreme court went liberal in a big way and gave the Com munists considerable freedom of operation. In the Austran-born Joseph G. Strecker case, the court decided that past membership in the Com munist party does not constitute grounds for deportation of unnaturalized un-naturalized aliens. In the Russian-born William Schneiderman case, the court decided de-cided that there must be clear viHpnrp a Communist Darty member advocated party principles princi-ples before he could be deported. m w w The Harry Bridges case set the precedent that there must be clear evidence of Communist party membership before an alien could be ordered deported. But his 12-year-fight against deportation mav aeain come to the Supreme Court if a new trial in San Fran-rico Fran-rico finds Bridzes guilty of per jury in his 1945 citizenship application. appli-cation. " " - - - . And so it goes. There never nas been a clear-cut supreme court decision on a Communist's contempt con-tempt of Congress or the courts, thou eh such opinions may be forthcoming in this year's cases of the 10 Hollywood writers and Of, Eugene Dennis, communist party secretary-general. Whatever me outcome, uue thing is sure: America s communists com-munists will continue to work for the end of constitutional govern ment, while clinging to the protection pro-tection of the constitution every time they get their feet in the flypaper. Monday: How the Loyalty pro gram and immigration &ervice deportations have been used to combat V. S. Communism. 't ' i . tf fX;w-rsra;7 1 - !fV ' KJs 'Jv PAYSON Minor initirii suffered by two men Friday at 9:30 D.m. when the car in which they were riding failed to make a curve ana rouea over. The accident ac-cident haDDened on a rurv on highway 91, north of Santaquin, according 10 atate Trooper Bert Nielson, who investigated. Jack Gardner, 55, Santaquin, ; COAL STRIKE THREATENED United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis smfles liTr!tlybfas i leaders of the union's 29 districts at a conference in Hotel Roosevelt at Mew York lwin mIM f fx. j third day in a row a scheduled meeting of his top officers which was to decide whether to call a new coal Btriu. iwis was oeiievea to ne loosing ior an excuse to postpone the strike, but this new action makes the ";" w nHmMMwj, buuii m hhiic uc vice ricsiuent mnmni i&enneay ueii auo secy.-TTeas. jonn uwens mgnw. Car Fails To Make Curve, Rolls Over was treated at Payson hospital fop abrasions and bruises and ' re leased soon afterwards. Don Cloward, 35, Payson, owner and apparently driver of .the machine left the accident scene before officials of-ficials arrived. He was located at his home Saturday, with onl (slight injuries. Outdated Laws Revised By American Fork AMERICAN FORK American Fork city is to have a new set of ordinances. Revision of the 707 ordinances, many of which were of the "horse and buggy" era, has been going forward for a two-year period. Mayor David L. Greenwood and members of the city council together to-gether with city officials of five other cities of similar size in the county have carefully studied the ordinances governing their communities com-munities under i the direction of Pratt Kessler, assistant attorney for Salt Lake City. From this study has evolved a new set of statutes, 737 in all, which has deleted absolete ordinances or-dinances and "put teeth" into some of the others, especially tnose governing law and order. A uniformity of similar ordin ances throughout the county was the object of the study and this has been accomplished. The city officials have approv ed an ordinance making legal the new set and upon publication, tne new statutes go into effect. 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