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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1961)
Supreme Court Upholds Censorship Of Motion Pictures Before Public Showing WASHINGTON (AP) - The 6uprme Court today upheld cn lorship of motion pictures before their public showing. Justice Clark delivered the court's 5-4 decision. The tribunal acted on an appeal ly Times Film Corp., distributors 01 a movie called "Don Juan. The firm refused to submit the picture to Chicaso's censors and the city then refused a permit (or its exhibition. j In today's high court decision, Chief Justice Warren and Justice Douglas wrote dissenting opinions. Also dissenting were Justices Black and Brennan. The majority was made up of Clark and Justices Frankfurter, Harlan, WhitUker and Stewart. In the controlling opinion, Clark (aid the challenge to the validity of the Chicago ordinance present-1 td the tribunal with the "broad justiciable issue, whether! the ambit (bounds) of constitution al protection includes complete, and' absolute freedom to exhibit,' at least once, any and every kind of moticn picture." Clark said the court was decid- , Lrig that question alone. Chief Justice Warren's dissent ing opinion said the court major ity "indiscriminately casts the net of control too broadly." ' Warren said the court's deci sion gives assent "to unlimited censorship of moving pictures through a licensing system, de spite the fact that Chicago has chosen this most objectionable course to attain its goals without any apparent attempt to devise other means so as not to intrude on the constitutionally protected liberties ot speech and press. In argument of the case last October, lawyers for Times Film contended tliat any prior censor ship of movies violates the con stitutional rights of free speech and free press. But counsel for Chicago said prior censorship is necessary to protect the public from obscenity and other objectionable matter. The answer to that problem, the Times Film lawyers argued, is not prior censorship but prosecu tion for public showing of improp er pictures. The firm said It had no objec tion to payment of city permit fees, and had submitted to Chi cago its required fee. But the city refused a permit without first seeing Don Juan. Times Film asked the U.S. Dis trict Court in Chicago to order the city to issue a permit. The court dismissed the request, stating that! if the firm had submitted the film! for prior examination the cityl The US. Circuit Court in Chi-ltion asainst the citv). v.e will belCourt. Tinw Film said th ntiPft.lThft firm't 1awvAr iniKted it u'jitlhnrtlr nr nWKran In thftft am. censors might have approved it cago agreed with the District sanctioning the public exhibition "on 01 weiner' Don Juan Is or immaterial. They argued that a sorship before publication m and there would be no need for Court, commenting that, "if we of we know not what." legal action. ' Igrant the relief prayed (an iniunc-l Appealine to the Sumemei'lERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. lis not obscene was not an issue. Imovie has the same status as a unconstitutional. Sunday, February 26, 1M1 PAOB Is It 'Are Or Is It 'Is'? Still Problem Survey Says CHICAGO (AP) - "The gram mar of the passenger department is deplorably weak." asserted Vice President C. E. Spens of the Burlington Railroad, surveying a entence for a 1926 institutional advertisement. It began: "For within this tre- Friendly Helpfulness ' To Ivery ' Creed end Purse Word's Klamath Funeral Home . Mergucrite M. Werd end Sent 923 High TU 2-4404 mendous area is produced: two thirds the oats, more than hall the corn, more than half the bar ley, half the wheat . . .' " 'Are produced' is the correct form," declared Spens. Not so, said P. S. Eustis, pas senger traffic manager who had submitted the layout. He quickly produced a University of Chicago opinion for is. Probably got that from the foot ball coach, retorted Spens, and issued an SOS. "Are" is correct, opined Northwestern University. "Is" it is, said Harvard. "Are" it is, said the Literary Digest. And so, in 1926, the grammarian battle was joined to the delight of headline writers everywhere: " 'Are' vs. ' 'Is' splits five col leges, - dictionary and railroad heads," headlined one newspaper. "Is It 'Are' Or Are It Is'"? I Our ltuurnc Prof rams Always "Measure Up!" When you buy insur ance , , . buy it from us, your local inde pendent agency. 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