Show WESTBROOK PE LER LERIt R It Depends censors on Who Says It ItIN ItIN t tN IN N THE general public discussion of Communists in the movie industry industry indus try someone made the mistake of proposing the repeal of one of the laws of nature This patriot recalled movies in which the American banker had been portrayed as a bleak and bloodless rascal who celebrated celebrated cele cele- Christmas by turning the widow and her little brood out into the snow This was held to be a wicked slander on a noble school of Americans Ameri Amer cans intended to undermine confidence in the holy edifice of liberty Actually this is just a familiar working of the fatal attraction Lion tion of the plug hat for the snowball The same theme written and acted by men and women of respectable motives has been applauded for generations Horatio Alger was no seditionist but In Jed the Poor-House Poor Boy and many repetitions of the same artless tale he made the banker so downright mean that you were likely to lay down the book and hiss We take some things from some people without a blink When others say them we get red necked And It Isn't so much the things themselves themselves themselves them them- selves that we resent as the nasty way some people say them If i a fellow American remarks that we certainly did give the Indians an awful deal we shrug and wish it were not so But If U a captured Nazi on trial tria before Americans should say that we set Hitler the example of conquest conquest conquest con con- quest repudiation of treaties and genocide the new gullah for extermination extermination extermination ex ex- termination of a race race we we want to hang him for impudence and are glad glac of a more plausible excuse |