Show things one remembers ITEMS in the daily news which often fall fail to make the headlines have the most vital bearing on the daily lives of most of us for instance a six line dispatch from berlin states that to relieve the shortage of physicians caused by nazi ban on jewish doctors a drastic reduction in time required for medical education has been granted will this help a person with a ruptured appendix 0 0 00 0 THE IE assessor of josephine county oregon announces that public utilities will pay per cent of the tax monies collected by that county in 1939 under public ownership such utilities would be tax exempt and josephine county citizens could add 36 per cent t to 0 their tax bill plus the additional expense of financing such utilities what a blessing this would be 0 oooo 0 00 0 ANSWERING questions before the senate judiciary committee which later favored his nomination to the united states supreme court by a unanimous vote felix frankfurter said it matter whether the constitution is invoked for ends I 1 like or ends I 1 dont like so long as those who invoke it keep within the framework of the constitution there must be freedom of speech freedom of the press freedom of assembly and freedom to worship as your conscience dictates civil liberties mean liberties for those we like and those we dont like or even detest and that is stating the fundamentals of american democracy in just about its shortest form 0 oooo 0 00 0 THERE THERE is now much agitation for taxation of salaries of state and federal officials and employed emp loyes on the same basis as the income of the private citizens zens who earn the money t to 0 pay their salaries its difficult to understand how a member of congress or a state legislator or a public employee can ask for or justify such an exemption |