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Show j MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE. DELTA, UTAH - DECISION AGAINST FREE SPEECH CURBS . . . Twitchell Takes Supreme Court to Task GIVES ELMER REASON TO GRlp: ' ' " By H. I. PHILLIPS v TWITCHELL VS. DOUGLAS "About the only fellow who can get into trouble easily today in America is the one who believes in law and order, pauses for sec-ond wind now and then and be-lieves there are limits to breach of the peace," declares Elmer Twitchell. He has been going over the recent supreme court decision by a 5 to 4 vote against curbs on hatred, violence and rabble rous-ing tactics even when they bring on riots. Mrs the voice-throw- yelling for mob rule who gets an Oscar, a pat on the back, the green light . 1 .1,1. .1 , permit," added and the embossed Elmer. "It was another one of those photo finishes due to a strong stretch run by Justice Doug-las," declares Elmer. Bill, speaking for the majority opin-ion, said the authorities have no right to curb speeches no matter how violent or full of hatred. He says that If Amer-ica is to be vital it has got to have the rabble rousers shoot the works. In other words, we have got to preserve our vital-ity even if we use our last ounce of strength. "We are' leaning over backwards so far for free speech that those who stop at nothing to scuttle our freedoms are getting the right of way at all times. The demagogue, the earsplitter, the gasbag and the microphone bellyacher are getting a pat on the back, a license to op-erate with the throttle wide open and a kiss from the high courts. You would think they are the back-bone of the country and that the enemy was the quiet, thoughtful, tolerant little guy who always kept his voice down, respected the police and wanted no tear bombs tossed at anybody. "The five justices held that no speeches should be curbed until it was clearly shown that they might cause trouble far above the public inconvenience, annoyance or unrest." " And since the case in question was one which involved street riots, rock hurling, personal as-saults and stench bombs, it would seem that these jurists classified such violence as merely an Inconvenience and an annoyance. "The other four justices took the view that it is more than an in-convenience and a nuisance to find, yourself flat on your puss with the moD trampling over yom body. Justice Jackson Jf-r- ug from under the by saying that if the hilf doesn't temper its with a little horsf '"' will convert the bill 0( a national suicide pact that the majority orW the police m the teeth an uV the most extravagent h those groups which want t lyze and discredit authortvE spoke my language. 1 don't?; idea of rabble rousing bei deuces wild, with all rules ' play suspended and haw the biggest pipe to tte f Elmer concluded. K FORMULA FOR SCCCE Be good, be carel Watch your belt And never bet 'Gainst a l' The lawyer for j, after hearing an FBI man u' seeing Judith and her " friend meet at Third avei 15th street, New York ' "Wasn't this a quiet piaie l might select to whisper nothings?" Next to the middle of the r. at Broadway and 42nd, if, the most romantic spots a York, counsellor. RACE CHART STTJTF Othello .... Must show ")it(. Rope Trick .... Tender hang Creamery .... Gone K Dry Fly . . . Beat the fc-- last time out. Golf Club .... Cantehi here. The $20,000 baa wtujfoj, hart Eisler has been forfeit was put up by friends ol thefc No. 1 Communist agent In t ica in good faith for his appr. but to Mr. Eisler it Is unim as all money is capitalistic ii: bail systems decadent 3ro - 'I I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS fi Administration Asks Vast Powers 'B In New Agriculture Support Plan; F Labor Legislation Gets Priority r i , (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of ' ' Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily ot this newspaper.) ani LIDICE: Nothing at All It was hard to tell where possible Communist machinations began and truth left off, but if the charges ol a Czech official that not one dollar of five million raised in the U. S. to rebuild Lidice was used, then the American people and humanitarian-is-generally had taken the worst rocking in years. JAN VODICKA, secretary-genera- l of the union of fighters for freedom in Czechoslovakia, said the collection to rebuild the city razed by the Nazis had been made "among our compatriots in the United States and the rest of the American public, and the union has information that of the five million dollars collected, 30 per cent was taken by the collectors and nearly 70 per cent by the administration." There was a quick denial. In New York, Dr. Jan Papanek, re-signed Czech U. N. delegate, said the Lidice memorial committee col-lected "$5,000 at the maximum" from Americans and never got a chance to apply any money to Lidice. LIDICE, as too few probably will remember, was the village near Prague which was completely de-stroyed by the Nazis in retribution for the assassination of the German "hangman" Reinhardt Heydrich. All the men of the village were killed and its women and children dispersed. ' -- ' -- f t, j ?, fi . . ' J v t $ v - - Nf I f ? v r f w 4 ... r-- S ;WI - v. i If V p" $ ; &C " 1 NICE TRY! . . . Like a round peg in a square hole, Officer George McPherson of the San Francisco humane society became I stuck in a narrow light well into which he crawled to rescue a cat. It took fellow officers several minutes to dislodge him. The cat was removed through a window opening onto the bottom of the light well and is being held by Officer George Warren, at right. CHILD LABOR: Law Is Strict Summer vacations were coming up and there would be hordes of youngsters seeking work during the long holiday. But if the wage and hour and public contracts division of the U. S. department of labor had its way, all child labor would be done strictly according to law. FROM Cleveland, the director, William S. Singley, issued a remind-er to all employers of school boys and girls under 18 that age and employment cirtificates for such workers must be on file. He pointed out that these certifi-cates "are considered as proof of age and serve to protect employers from unwitting violations of federal laws regulating the employment of children." Under the fair labor standards act, the minimum age for most jobs is 16, but in occupations de-clared to be especially hazardous for young workers, the minimum age is 18. Baldness "Cure" Buried on inside pages of most newspapers was a story which, if true, would have rated banner headlines in the eyes of those it concerned. FOR, from Een, Holland, there came a claim that Meinheer J. Van Rooyen, a bewildered little barber, could cure baldness no fooling. The news leaked out, and the little barber shop was thronged with visitors. Letters poured in by the thousands. The meinheer started it all him-self by trying to stop his own thin-ning hair from growing thinner, experimenting with various lotions and use of infra-re- d rays. ACCORDING to reports, he final-ly hit upon a combination that made his hair grow. Tried on others, it succeeded. Now he is treating 160 people, working 13 hours a day. 1 FARM PLAN: I More Curbs Asked Critics and supporters alike of Agriculture Secretary Charles Bran-nan'- s 1949 farm support program " were surprised when Brannan asked Tr sweeping new powers to control 01 the nation's agricultural produc- - tion. THE latest Brannan proposals were contained in the full draft of the administration's farm program which was laid before congress. In that program, the powers re-quested would mark the first time in the history of the nation not ex-cepting wartime when farmers and their activities would be so com-pletely IH under federal control. For example, Brannan asked that rigid marketing quotas, now usable on only six major crops, be applied on the great bulk of farm products, including meat animals, milk, poul-try, eggs, fruits and vegetables. It was a bold stroke on the part of the administration and one that was gambling with farmer good will over the nation. For it was quickly discernible that, if enacted, this program would put the American farmer under fed-eral control from the moment he arose to feed the chickens and other stock in the morning, until he tended his vegetables and worked his crops, milked the cows and fed the stock again in the evening. The big question was: Would the farmers stand for that, even if congress did enact the law? Farm-ers would be given a choice because under the Brannan proposal, they I would have to vote adoption of the program by a two-thir- vote of all producers. Brannan envisions a condition where prices would be allowed to move freely in the market with farmers getting a payment cover-ing the difference if and when mar-ket prices fell below a predeter-mined "fair" return. MINE SAFETY: Lewis Wants Law Attacking state regulation of mine safety codes, John L Lewis, leader of the United Mine Workers, demanded a federal safety law to "prevent coal miners from being maimed, mangled and killed." CHARGING that the "nation's coal is stained with blood," Lewis produced figures to show 1.25 mil-lion miners have been injured or killed in the past 19 years. Lewis' charges were hurled be-fore a senate labor subcommittee in support of a bill which would give federal mine inspectors right to' close mines they think danger-ous. Under present conditions, while the federal bureau of mines makes safety inspections and rec-ommends safety measures, all con-trol is exercised by the states and there is no way to implement fed-eral suggestions and recommenda-tions. Lewis contended that states are falling down badly. LEWIS' testimony chiefly car-ried the tneme that the states have failed to enforce safety regulations and that the mine operators are not going to pay any heed to safetr unless forced to do so. Remember Him? U. S. JOBS: Could Be Cut A contention that the government cut its civilian employe rolls by 10 per cent and "accomplish exactly the same purposes" was made in Washington by former President Herbert Hoover. Declaring that this could be done if the government were organized properly, Mr. Hoover said the savings to the tax-payers might reach four or five billion dollars a year. MR. HOOVER'S statement must have carried some weight, but there were only an optimistic few who believed anything might be done along the lines he pointed out. The former President was speak-ing with authority because a com-mission of which he had been named the head a g body to uncover just such things as he had uncovered had exhaustively studied government functions and processes and had reported its findings. A 200,00o cut in federal person-nel would require no wholesale firings, he said. He added it could be accomplished through normal turnover, which now runs about 500,000 a year. BERLIN: New Issues The meeting of the big four coun-cil of foreign ministers had de-veloped one fact discussion of Ger-man unity under current conditions was futile So, it appeared atten-tion would be turned to Berlin where som major problems yet remained unsolved. Berlin presented concrete issu. which many hoped could be re-solved or, at least, discussed more profitably. The western powers were understood as ready to insist upon written agreements concern-ing rights in Berlin to replace oral understandings that alone have given them any rights in the im-mediate past. It was also believed they would urge a single elected city council and retention of occupation status for their zone. It was believed in-evitable that the question of four-pow-authority which led to a deadlock over the veto right when the whole of Germany was dis-cussedwill arise again in relation to a Berlin regime. x J i jr. - h 1 LABOR LAW: Gets Priority With domestic issues having been given the green light over foreign affairs, the U.S. senate was com-mitted to wrestle out a new labor law or repeal y be-fore adjournment. The importance of the labor ques-tion to the administration was in-dicated in the senate's shelving dis-cussion of the North Atlantic secu-rity pact until the troublesome labor issue has been disposed of. THE reason was rather obvious. Organized labor, worried by an ap-parent disinclination of congress to go along with the President in re-pealing y and fearing further delay, was pushing the administration to get going. There was constant reminder behind the scenes of the President's campaign pledges to scrap the present over-all labor law and labor wanted action. The 1950 congressional races weren't too far off and the administration evidently felt it had better deliver or face labor's an-tagonism at the polls next year. MAJORITY LEADER Scott Lucas declared that if all major legisla-tion were not disposed of by July 31, "we shall extend the length ol the session until we have dealt with the most urgent proposals." How many will remember the gentleman shown above? Well, the question is hardly a fair one for his public always saw him in fight trunks, not street togs. He is former heavyweight fighter Buddy Baer, whose en-gagement to Hollywood column-ist May Mann, put him in the news. TOBACCO: Less for Farmer For farmers who grow tobacco, the take was just about half as much as Uncle Sam collects in taxes from the product. This ad-mission came from the U. S. de-partment of agriculture itself. IN a review of the tobacco situa-tion, the department estimated that combined U. S. and state tax re-ceipts from tobacco would approxi-mate 1.75 billion dollars during the fiscal year, which would be a record. fJJISBrave Ones Sj' T MARK the men and women every day M I pass my door, or whom I hourly meet, j A And there are few who, journeying on the way, A Fa'l to do their beSt. Although their feet j '3&:y May falter with the burdens that they bear, If1 . There are so few who break beneath despair. V c& s$ They face their days with confidence and cheer, jpS'X Grateful for work, if there be work to do, rjJfv':. And if that work be lost they fight their fear Tr With courage, and with hope which they renew S&r " At the clear source from which all comfort springs: jt-;- -?. God's promises, and the old rememberings That hitherto the Lord has blessed, and now Surely there will be found a way again useness an service, that somehow e paths will clear among the ways of men, f ijfe And the crooked places once more will be Straight. Slvjl)k t'iese brave ones as they hope and waio. Grace Noll Crowell "The " Fiction A PRINCE CAN LAUGH Corner PRESENTLY the task was done to him, grinning. "Thanks a lot. I don't know how I would have managed without you." "Really?" He seemed to appreci-ate my compliment. "Frankly, I've enjoyed it, not only the work, but our little visit." He hesitated. "You are new in town, aren't you?" "Comparatively," I said. "It's a mightly nice town. Folks are all like yourself. Ready and willing to lend a hand when help is needed." I smiled happily. "The fact that I know your name, Prince Alexan-der, proves a little theory of my own." He stared in astonishment. "You know who I am? You knew when yon asked nu i help remove the wmdon" I nodded. "Your philosophj mine have a good deal in can Prince. And that is, that yt'.i: different from the rest ol i; even venture to say that jr.; quite unhappy living up tfc your castle so far removed; everybody. To prove that right, I'm going to ask you a:, tion. Tomorrow I'm going fc l How would you like to come i:-- "I'd like to very much," he:- ' "But we must keep it a secre:: ; the rest of the people. It - i a pity to destroy their Stasia I agreed, winking at him c ingly, and the prince and I ' and there shared a hearty fc j WEEK after I established resi-dence A in Seabrook, Ray Quimper, my next door neighbor took time off to drive me around the town and show me the points of interest. Toward evening he stop-ped his car before a driveway that led up to a huge brick house on top of Drybridge Hill. It was the only brick building in town and could be seen for miles around. I had wondered about I it since the day Minute W arrival. 3- - "The 01 Fiction hornAe, I j Moisevich Deborin," he explained. I looked at him curiously, sensing that this was a proud moment for Ray. He had saved the brick house until last, like a child relishing the last morsel. "Of course," Ray explained further "he has a city home too. But the fact is he spends the greater part of his time out here. He craves solitude." "Are you sure? I mean, wouldn't it be fitting to let the man know you're glad to have him as a citi-zen?" "We've tended to that," Ray said importantly. "Three days after his arrival a committee made up of leading citizens waited on the prince and extended him a formal welcome." He regarded me sagely. "We're smart enough not to an-tagonize the man by pestering him to death." On the day of w&ich I write I was removing the storm windows from my house, for spiing was near and the day was bright and warm. The prince came strolling along my street and stopped, oddly enough, at the end of my drive to watch. I perceived him from the corner of my eye, though gave no indication that I had seen. After a moment or two, much to my satisfaction, he turned in at the drive and came slowly toward me. At this precise moment the stepladder on which I was standing tilted precariously and the window I was removing threat-ened to tumble to the ground. I uttered a cry of alarm, turned, perceived the prince as if for the first time, and shouted to him for aid. Involuntarily, he leaped forward and steadied the ladder until I had de-scended. "Phew!" I grinned. "That was a close call." "It was indeed," he replied. "Would you mind holding the lad-der for me on this window over here?" He seemed a little sur-prised, but agreed to lend his as-sistance. He proved as good a helper as I could have asked for. Three windows I removed while he steadied the ladder and helped rrie lower them to the ground. We chatted amiably about the weather.' BY INEZ GERHARD SEYMOUR has shared a DAN with such head-line-as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Benny Goodman, Andre Kostelanetz and Lily Pons. After 14 years on the air as a mas-ter of ceremonies he says "The bigger they are, the nicer they are. Maybe it's because they are so well established they don't have to 'pound' every line and grab DAN SEYMOUR every minute of their air time." As emcee of the Tuesday night "We, the People" and the Saturday night "Sing It Again," he has established a reputation for expert handling of a variety of situa-tions. That ability to think and talk fast requires real talent, and he has it. MacDonald Carey is In the mar-ket for a good comedy. Currently playing a villain for the third time in succession in "Copper Canyon," after doing the same in "Streets of Laredo" and "Bride of Vengeance," he'd like Gloria Swanson, starring in Faramount's "Sunset Boule-vard" after a long absence from the screen, turned down a contract for $18,000 a week in 1926 to organize her own company; hence, that long ab-sence from pictures. She'll never make a bigger mistake. But she has not lost her looks or her figure even looked won-derful on television! Robert Sterling feels better now that the feud between him and Sun-beam is over. It began with the start of "Roughshod"; the horse realized that this was Sterling's first riding assignment nipped Sterling whenever he turned his back, tried to throw him at un-expected moments. Sterling figured leven a horse had his price, won Sun-bea-with plenty of sugar. "cjETpToiilJ! ti to itrQILi; 2. Macaws 3. Tibetan, priest 4. Coin (Fr.) 5. God of pleasure (Egypt.) 6. Tree 7. Divide and distribute 8. Keepsake 11. The afore-said thing; 13. Still 15. Guido's highest note 19. Half ems 20. Mongrel 22. Roman pound ,23. Ritual 26. American v Force (abbr.) 28. Interna-tional ' language 29. Clings to 30. Made of wool (var.) 32. Excavated 34. Speck 35. Bay window 36. Cup-like spoon 37. Attica 41. TiUeof respec' 42. Chirpof chick '44, sieeveW garment (Arab.) 45. Guided ACROSS 1. One of two equal parts 5. Inner bark of linden tree 9. Sandarac tree 10. Reverberat( 11. Play 12. Wobbly - 14. Mad 16. Female ruff 17. Tellurium (sym.) 18. Lenient 21. Former ruler (Russ.) 24. Sky-go- d (Babyl.) 25. Otherwise (mus.) 27. Stalk of a grain 31. Man's nickname 33. Fuss (hyphen.) 34. Woebegone 38. Exclamatio 39. Openings (anat.) 40. New Testa-ment story of Christ's life 43. Per. to tides 46. Torrid 47: River (Ger. 48. Woody perennial 49. Metal 50. Serpent-lizar- d DOWN 1. Working equipment for any animal H m p " Jh . lfii-- $ T, 73 " Z' 777 27 W "" " WwMfu 'l 15 TmZWms"rr " h tov. PUZZLE NO. 3 y "oi 'IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM . . .' Shanghai Populace Swings to Communists It was mostly beer and skittles for the Communists in Shanghai. The city and its millions had swing into the Communist camp, not by degrees, but with what appeared to be an enthusiastic rush. Along long lines of avenues, Red flags fjew from every shop. Newspapers reversed their policy overnight and began to sell the populace on com- - rnunism. Students danced and sang Com-munist songs.- - All traces of any nationalism or opposition to com-munism appeared to be gone. In the customs house work appeared to be stopped. Instead, clerks assem-bled in the halls learning Commu-nist songs. Chinese radio stations spent much time giving singing lessons. The words were read over slowly, then music was played. |
