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BY BECK
A Dog's Life
4
Salem, Ore., Wednesday, May 18, 1949
, "A Doctrinaire Suicide Pact"
The United States supreme court In a sharply divided
decision, 6 to 4, written by Justice Wm. O. Douglas, held
freedom of speech cannot be curbed merely because the
speaker stirs people to anger, Invites public dispute and
f creates unrest. This is virtually giving the green light
' by the highest court In the land to agitators fomenting
riots and revolt and legalizing subversive campaigns,
i Justice Robert H. Jackson, one of the four man mlnor
', lty, called the decision a "dogma of absolute freedom for
irresponsible and provocative utterances" which almost
' ties the hands of local officers.
The decision waa in the cu of Arthur Terminiello,
, Catholic priest under suspension from his duties as clergy
' man, from Birmingham, Ala., who spoke in Chicago Feb
ruary, 1946, at a meeting called by Gerald L. K. Smith,
cx-Huey Long rabble rouser, who called the priest "the
Father Coughlin of America."
i
The majority opinion pronounced unconstitutional a
Chicago ordinance the Illinois courts had construed as per-
mitting disorderly conduct conviction for any speech that
' "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about . . .
' undeet or creates a disturbance." Douglas declared:
"A conviction restlnf on any of those grounds may not stand.
, A function of free speech under our system of government Is
to invite dispute. It may Indeed best serve Its high purpose
when it Induces a conditoin of unrest, creates dissatisfaction
' with conditions as they are even stirs people to anger."
Justice Harold H. Burton joined in Jackson'a dissent.
They called the majority decision a fulfillment of "the
: most extravagant hopes of both right and left totalitarian
groups, who want nothing so much as to paralyze and dis
i credit the only democratic authority that can curb them
in their battle for the streets."
Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote another dissent, on dif
' ferent grounds. Jackson and Burton joined in it. Chief
Justice Fred M. Vinson also wrote a dissent his third
written one since he has been on the bench,
The court admit that Terminiello's speech, which re
sulted in his Chicago conviction provoked a riotous dem
onstration. Over 1000 persons picketed the auditorium
and hurled bottles, stink-bombs and brickbats, breaking
28 windows. Seventeen demonstrators were arrested.
Jackson said that Terminiello's harrangue "followed
with fidelity that is more than coincidental to the pattern
of Europeon Fascist leaders, the transcript showing that
use of such words as "slimy scum that got in by mistake,"
"snakes," "bedbugs" and that he said the mob outside
was "imported- from Russia" and was typical of "atheistic,
communistic Jewish or Zionist Jews." He continued:
"American citizens have the constitutional right to urge
peaceful adoption of fascism or communism, socialism or capi
talism, but no serious outbreak of mob voilence, race rioting,
lynching or public disorder is likely to get going without help
of some speechmaking to some mass of people. Unity of pur
pose, passion and hatred, which merges the many minds of a
crowd into the mlndlessness of a mob, almost invariably is
supplied by speeches.
"It Is naive, or worse, to teach that oratory with this object
or effect is a service to liberty. No mob has ever protected
any liberty, even Its own. but if not put down it always winds
up in an orgy of lav 'leanness which respects no liberties."
Douglas said for the majority that freedom of speech
1s not absolute but that it is protected unless "shown likely
to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substan
tive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoy
ance or Unrest. There is no room under our constitution
for a more restrictive view, for the alternative would lend
to standardization of ideas either by legislatures, courts
or dominant political or community groups."
Justice Jackson hit the nail on the head when he warn
ed: "There Is danger thai, If the court does not temper its
doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will
convert the constitutional bill of rights into a suicide pact."
But the ideologists and Utopian dreamers are in the sad
dle riding toward anarchy and its eventual goal totalitarianism.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
France Will Refuse to
Evacuate From Germany
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Firmly and without fanfare, France has told
the United States she will not withdraw its occupation troops
from Germany regardless of what is decided at the Big Four
meeting on Germany.
The French ambassador, popular Henri Bonnet, told this to Sec-
of State uBn t, ,., . tu.
of the hearing, though he and
Donnell of Misouri together have
done 42 per cent of the question
ing ... . The AFL's Dick Orn
burn, who makes a career of
promoting good-will between in
dustry and labor unions, has been
given a new title by Vice-president
Alben Barkley "Ambassa
dor of Good Relations." Or
burn's union - industries show,
which opens today in Cleveland,
gets bigger and better every
year.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
retary
Acheson on
orders from his
gove r n m e n t.
Bonnet, who
has Just re
turned from
consultation in
Paris, stated
flatly that
France d o e s j
not feel the
Germans can be
truated yet.
therefore cannot take the chance
of pulling out its occupation
forces.
The French attitude has upset
Acheson's plans somewhat for he
was considering the evacuation
mh
Dn Fitriii
TAFTS LABOR ACT CHANGES
While combing through Sena
tor Taft's minority report. Sena
tor Thomas of Utah, scholarly
WSTOPP$Or4TOONt?-TMlBt ARE- T J I
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MYSTERIOUS WIFE
A Typical Instanc
The American Federation of Labor painters' district
council No. 3 of Independence, Mo., has filed a protest with
President Truman against the employment of a non-unionist
to paint the "summer White House" utilized by the
chief executive during his periodic visits to his home town.
The house is a big rambling structure which the presi
dent and his family have called home since he moved in
after his marriage just after World War I.
Jack Cooke, business representative of AF of L Paint
ers' District Council No. 8 in Kansas City, said he does not
know what steps the union will take if the president and
his family ignore the formal protest sent to the White
House last week. He said. "After all, Tmman has cham
pioned himself as the man of the hour in labor and you
can't serve but one master if you serve him right." There
was no reply from the White House.
John H. Moler, 67, who has been painting the house for
many years, says he is too much of an individualist to
belong to a union and Is not bothered. He said:
"I've got nothing against unions, mind you." Moler said, "but
I never did believe a man ought to have to Join any organisa
tion he doesn't want to. Unions are all right in big factories,
I suppose, but the painting business is a different propositon,
especially painting contracting. I either work by the hour
or I figure a Job and make a bid. I do all my work alone. I
used to have men working for me. but I always had to go back
and do their work over again, so now I do It myself In the first
place and know it is done right. The folks around Indepen
dence all know me and know my work and are satisfied with It."
The house is the property of the president's mother-in-law,
Mrs. David W. Wallace, who placed the painting con
tract through her son, the president's brother-in-law, so
Mr. Truman was not in any way responsible. But it is a
typical instance of the tactics of some unions who deny
work to those who do not pay their dues even of attempt
ing dictation to the president of the United States.
The painters' union may still picket the White House
because they think they own a president who plays their
game down the line for others.
Speechless Man Lays Claim
To Fortune Found in Gutter
New York, May II U.n A deaf mate from Los Angeles,
Calif., claimed today that he was the person who lost the
fit, III which two patrolmen found wrapped In a rag in a
gutter a week ago.
Herbert G. Laird, IT, answering police questions with a
pad and pencil, claimed he lost the money when he came here
from Florida last week. He said the money was all that was
left of 813,148 which he and his wife, also .a deaf mute, had
saved to buy a house.
He told police that ha had taken the money with him when
he deserted his wife and XS-montb-old son, David, In Los
Angeles several weeks ago.
Only 11,000 of the money waa actually his, he said. The
remainder was his wife's. He said he had been afraid to come
forward aooner to claim the money for fear his wife would
prosecute him for taking the money.
"How did your wife accumulate the money?" police asked
him.
"My wife wouldn't tell me," he answered. "I expect she
had a rich suitor who gave her present before we were mar
ried three years ago."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Harder to Photograph a
Dog Than to Mug a King
By HAL BOTH
New York M" It is harder to photograph a dog than a king.
"Kings hold still," says Frank Noel.
Noel is the world's greatest living authority on how not to get
dog out of f.S?y& couldn't have been more trouble
if he were solid gold and wrap
ped in a canvas by Raphael.
"It took all my spare time for
four weeks to get and fill out all
the necessary forms," said
Frank.
"I had to get five copies of
a veterinarian's certificate stag
ing that he had given the dog
rabies shots. Each of the copies
had to have five different offi
cial stamps. That meant stand
ins in line in front of five win-
man to leave Italy than it Is for dows.
a dog," he said. "it was also necessary to have
And thereby as the saying five copies of a certificate giv-
goes hangs a tale: ng Rubinetto's value. The vet
We will begin with Noel, a took one look at him and put
wartime Pulitzer prize-winning down $10.
photographer, and his wife, "And f had to attach 10 pic
Evelyn. The dog will wag into tures of the dog, five full face
the story as we go along. and five profile. The profile
The Noela have based in shots had to include the tail.
Rome for the last three years. "Did you ever try to get a dog
One day their Italian maid told to hold his tail still while you
them her sister's two canaries took his portrait? Try It if you
were about to become parents, want to waste a year some aft
She promised Mrs. Noel a fledg- ernoon. It took me an hour and
1'ng. .19 minutes longer to photograph
"I bought a cage," said Eve- Rubinetto than It did King Fa
lyn, "but then the maid came rouk of Egypt."
and told me a cat had eaten up The Noels were so Impressed
the entire canary family. She with all this formality they put
felt so bad about my disappoint- the dog's passport papers in a
ment that the next day ahe safety deposit box.
showed up with a puppy." "And that is why we had to
The puppy quickly became leave Rubinetto behind," said
known as Rubinetto, which can Frank. "The day we aailed
be translated as "Faucet." Frank all the banks were closed by a
called him "invasion dog" be- nation-wide atrike, and we
cause his father was a German couldn't get his papers."
shepherd, left by the nasi army. He left the dog with the maid,
and his mother was a post-war The Noels are on their way to
fascist collaborator. Berlin now, and Frank plans to
Whan Noel got home leave fly to Rom at the first oppor
recently, he had little trouble tunity and free his pooch,
making arrangements for him- "Rubinetto's been tied up In
self and his wife to return to red tape so long he thinks it's
America. But Rubinetto he a leash," aaid Frank.
of all Four Powers in return for chairman of the senate labor
quick election in eastern and committee, scriDDiea oown some
western Germany. Acheson has "'" that throw a light on the
cabled the American Embassy in coming labor battle in the senate.
Paris to try to induce French Thomas found that Taft had
Foreign Minister Schuman to actually recommended 28
change his mind before the for- changes In his own Taft-Hartley
eign ministers meet May 23. law but only 20 changes In the
uia rt ngucr nti. aims cumes ur-
you have a 2 id i better chance not to fail in business now
than in 1941, but business failures are risino again.
(ws r off ox pom fkom houioh jtsmrr, CmcuM
Aye, Spring Was in the Air
When He Saw Artistic Legs
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
lUnlted Prtu 8tIf Correspondent)
Washington. Mav 18 (U.R) Sorine was in the air and I saw
, . . pnsingly close to Thomas own summer right in front of me. In the form of shapely, painted legs.
Oregon s Senator Wayne Morse bui which j, backed by Presl. r followed the ,hanks into ,ne National Prc building and
was literally knocked on nis dent Truman. asked the lady wearing 'em her
high horse the other day. Thougn Tle Utahan picked out the name. She turned out to be Al
an expert horseman, he was top- ain . differences and Jotted ice Lanham, a dark-haired sec-
pled when an unruly colt crashed -rollnrt th ,,,, )hat :h. re'dr''
I asked her about this leg
makeup business and she told
me. It's harder, it seems, to paint
woman's legs from the knee
into a fence and pinned the aena- H-h.- wm h, n th -m.
tor's leg. No bones were broken. floor
but Morse still has a bad limp. Here re Senator Thornas.
Back from the hospital, Majori- , ,.c. i i .
ty Leader Scott Lucas has put Thomas prohibits one type, Taft ?0W" han " to her ace
... .u .u.uu.. iic .. k .i j- prohibits all but 'struck work.'
sign as floor leader He's in the ..jurisdictional strikes No
,... .. ii. ., , la. substantial difference.
"National emergencies Taft
from the shoulder blades up.
"You have to be an artist
almost," Alice said.
You either take a handful of
republicans or dixiecrats who
cross his path . , . . After Chair- adds injunction and plant seizure cotton, or squirt some of the
wU......i, u u.c oi. and mandatorv reDort to con- iun in uom nanua anu men pui
Foreign Relations Committee ac-
gress.
a layer on each leg. Smooth, and
cused Senators Welkins of Utah "Five-man board Taft makes above everything else fast be-
"on"-' .m'"u" seven and nonpartisan
ing iwu-uiinjs ui me time ai me "QtntM law nlnccl
shop -
Italy. He be
came a master
in this branch
of knowledge
by spending his
apare time for a
month trying to
wrestle his
pooch out of
Rome and
failed.
"It is much
easier for a
North Atlantic Pact hearings, Thomas maRe's federal Uw"
senator watK.n. oegan counung preme, Taft makes state law su-
his back wordage. According to preme."
his arithmetic, he has taken up corrUht
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Germany's Control Is Issue
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(OP) Porelto Affllni Anftlnu
Under cover of the "peace" brought about by the lifting of the
Berlin blockades, the western allies and Russia are DreDarinff
intensively for resumption of the biggest battle of the cold war esting one-minute interview and
odorless, tasteless, and a little
soapy in appearance.
In addition to the shank
makeup, you'll find it in tooth
paste, in the sand that shapes
molten steel, and even on the
hooves of horses that run in
such races as the Kentucky
Derby.
Like the legendary Dutch
boy who stuck his finger into
the hole in the dike, it plugs
the leaks In giant dams.
e
According to information I
found in the library: When mo
dern oil drills cut through stra
ta 18,000 feet under the earth's
surface, this magic mud cleared
away the debris and shot it up
to the drillers.
Scientists say that bentonite
has the greatest efficiency for
absorption that nature has de-
with streaks that look awful vised. It's highly absorbent in
like a lot of runners. When you water and also is useful for oils,
go to the beach, you may as Bentonite (not a trade name,
well forget about leg makeup folks) has this absorbent qual-
because the sun won't tan ity because it consists mainly
through it. It doesn't work that of particles so fine that more
way." than 600,000,000 of theAfare
needed to dot a surface one-
I thanked Alice for an inter- inch square.
There have been many tern-
cause it dries quickly.
"It's strictly springtime make
up and saves a lot of stockings,"
she said. "If you go in swim
ming you have to wipe it off.
And if you get caught in bad
thunderstorms, you come out
the struggle for,
control of Ger
many. The conflict
will be Joined
again next Mon
day i n Paris
with resump
tion of the BigfA
Four f o r e i lnw I
minister's coun-f lfi I
cil. Neither! Jin I
side is talking . .
made for the library to learn pen lost - including mine
what goes into the wonderful In the American home, where
stuff that gives a woman a pho- most accidents occur, over how
ny pair of stockings. best to remove linoleum laid
Turns out. It s a magnificent In hard-setting cement. The an-
mud dug from the Black Hills swer Is, of course, bentonite. It
AGIN IT. SO WHAT?
Sober Debate on Hot Spuds
By Tacoma Commission
Taeoma, May 18 Pierce county's three commissioners
sat glumly around their meeting table yesterday, each man
alternately elrarlng his throat with obvious reluctance te
tackle the problem at hand.
Finally, Board Chairman L. A. Hudson mentioned they
had a lob te de.
"We will now hear a dlsconrae on the treatment and dis
posal of hot potatoes" murmured Chief Civil Deputy Prosecu
tor John Krllleh, whe advisee the board In legal nutters.
"I'm again it," Commissioner Paul Newman said and lapsed
Into silence.
"I am too," said the third member, Harry Sprinker, a
Grange saembar and friend of the farmers. "It's a frippery of
city workers. We ought to stop this tinkering."
"Absolutely," agreed Hudson. "I am strongly opposed to
such actions."
This unanimous expreselon of opposition then part of the
record, the commissioners proceeded unanimously to approve
a motion te put Pierce county en Daylight Saving Time on
June 1.
"We have to go along with the ally of Tacoma and other
communities," they chorused.
There's Always a Law
Moerhead, Minn., May II UK Art Sanders was telling to
day akont the big one he landed than threw back.
Sanders had te have eight ether fishermen help him beach
hie big sturgeon after fighting It for ene and one-half hours.
It weighed tl pounda and measured five feet, nine Inches.
Because stale law forbids catching sturgeon except In
boundary waters, thajr threw U back la the lake.
much. Both are
burning midnight oil. And Ger
man leaders, anxious to see the
reich restored to its former pres
tige as a great power, are weigh
ing the odds in the political gam
ble they must take In pledging
their cooperation.
The western democracies are
standing pat on carrying out
their program for creating a
federal republic comprising their '
three zones of occupation. It la
their hope that eastern Germany,
now under Soviet control, will
join this federal government.
Their aim is to create a strong
but peaceful nation in the heart
of central Europe as a barrier
against war.
Russia on the other hand Is
against a federal government.
She wants a unified country un
der a centralized government.
She also calls for the withdraw
al of allied troops of occupa
tion. A communist Oormany In the
heart of Europe, adjoining the
Russian block on the east, would
Increase Moscow's strength im
mensely. That would to all In
tents put the Soviet right up
against Germany's eastern bor
der. On the other side would
lie the nations belonging to the
Atlantic pact.
Taken at face value the Rus
sian attitude, regarding a uni
fied Germany and a withdraw
al of forces of occupation, un
doubtedly has attraction for
some Germans. However, the
German leaders as a whole are
said to recognize fully the threat
of communication which they
definitely don't want.
Moreover, they are not- over
looking that, on the Insistence
of Moscow, Poland was permit
ter to annex 38,98(1 square miles
comprising the former German
provinces of Silesia, Pomerania
and West Prussia. This rich area
was given Warsaw in exchange
for the 89.800 square miles of
eastern Poland which was ceded
to Russia.
In any event the Germans
can't play "neutral" successfully
between the east and the west.
They must pick and stick.
The indications In Washing
ton are that U. S. Secretary of
State Dean Acheson and his as
sistants will want actions rather
than words as proof that Rus
sia iss undergone any change
of heart along with the lifting
of the blockade. As a matter of
fact William P. Maddox, direc
tor of the foreign service insti
tute in the state department,
says the truce hasn't lifted Mos
cow's aggressive "threat."
Maddox declares the threat that is auietly slipping Into the salves the balky linoleum.
will be lifted only when the lives of most Americans. ?
Soviet has repudiated aggres- When mixed with other Cloudy wines and honey are
sion of all kinds in her policies things, it has the power to c""d "P y Passing a benton-
and actions and is ready for swell, absorb, or become adhe-
genuine cooperation with all the slve.
United Nations. It's called bentonite and
Little Ant Hill in Your Home
Los Angeles, May 18 (U.R) Twe million ants flew te Minne
apolis, Minn., today.
The ants ware shipped to an apparel association by "Ant
King" Delyn Hornaday for use In an advertising stunt
Hornaday, who manufactures tiny glue "ant vtllagea"
tilled with sand and a special type ant, the California Har
vester, said the miniature ant hills wUl be distributed te
clients of the association as a goodwill gesture.
ite solution through them (on
prescription) and at least one
brewer does this to uncloud his
foggy beer.
Don't forget Alice and the
race horses. Alice winds up with
pretty brown legs. Horsey
youngsters like Ponder and Ca
pot have four feet that glisten
and click off the miles In rec
ord time.
Bentonite swells the hooves
o Ponder and Capot and makes
it easier for them to dig Into
the track.
as ABC
Men who know vmlsfcoy from A to 2 oKsoys
tM motr Ps end Qs. P stands for Pre-
cmd Q for QooHty. And me way to
be tURC of that Is ...always ask far
StoQroM't 7 Crown,
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Seagram's wV Sure
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