Show I 1 I 1 QUOTES COMMENTS ON C CURRENT TO TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters FREEDOM imperilled IMPERIL LED by JACOB 11 RUBIN wisconsin writer ITH rn million illion europeans WITH Wen enrolled rolled under absolute regimentation of body and soul wo ive find dictatorship challenging democratic forms of government and even here in the united states there are some people who seek a dictatorship and regimentation there can be no freedom of speech of press or of individual initiative in auch a government mussolini Is trying to make italy a better place for italians and hitler la 11 striving to trouse the national feelings of the german people but stalin and his doctrines are international in scope they say that a world halt balf capitalist and half communist cannot exist through propaganda they fire are waging an actual war upon american institutions circumstantial circumstantial EVIDENCE by R S CUMMINGS aj V S attorney general T arne me give an example e of my m y E contention that circumstantial evidence can be more conclusive than direct testimony under certain conditions assume that after a light fall of snow in the early hours of the morning an animal passes over the ground near a house hours later an expert can tell by examining the footprints whether the animal was a rabbit opossum or fox assume on tile the other hand that three men standing at a distance in the half light of dawn saw that animal pass the chances are that no two or of them would agree its as to the breed of animal they saw the eyewitness testimony would be much less conclusive than that of the expert who never even saw the animal BASIS FOR constitution by A A CEHLE BERLE JR new york lawyer THE HE only force which can up JL set the constitution is a combination of stupidity and dishonesty it Is interesting to note that the supreme court although divided sharply on the legal issues could come to a unanimous conclusion on one issue and that the issue of fundamental honesty there was no constitutional right to be dishonest there la is a sovereign power to be so inherent in the mere existence of sovereignty no constitution can avoid this if one may draw the conclusion it Is ii that whichever way the tide goes whether to the left or to the right if t the result has nn an inherent integrity the constitution stands up otherwise it does not PLAN by DONALD R nl CHBERG official plan to S SENATOR scrap all of the except minimum wages maximum hours ani and the prohibition of child labor Is what the most reactionary monopolistic rulers of big business have hare been urging privately and sometimes publicly for several months under this program the wage earner consumer and small business man will tie be stripped of my real protection against unfair competition monopolies will flourish unemployment will increase farm prices and wages will fall and relief burdens will rise SHIP SUBSIDIES by BENN N BARBER admiralty counsel NOTHER ANOTHER mileage method 21 must be devised to replace the demonstrated faults of tile the present system with the wealth of statistical information at hand through practical operation of american flag vessels since the war a single simple measure can certainly be formulated it Is suggie suggested sted that the differentials on each direct route shall be accurately computed and reduced to a mileage figure and that this mileage figure be averaged on all direct routes and that this average be the subsidy allowed VALUE OF discipline by in DR ERNEST na M HOPKINS president ot of dartmouth I 1 AM not interested in military training from the point of view of preparedness for war but I 1 am very much interested in it as a training in discipline which la Is the most valuable thing a young man can get I 1 feel personally in regard to the bcd work which I 1 understand has been somewhat successful that it would be more beneficial to the public interest it if it were wera more definitely under the military regime that la Is to say for its disciplinary requirements confidence NEEDED by HARRY F BYRD U S senator from virginia must be founded RECOVERY on confidence for wit without h out confidence capital capit alwill will not venture and without new capital invested business will not expand there la Is plenty of capital available but the confidence Is lacking lackin g the succession of man many y experimental devices to recapture prosperity confuses and frightens the business man |