Judge — March 1936 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Kill the Gag Bills I * HAS long been a saying among editorial writers, plyi trade in the and up their inky stables of and down ais that could 1e only fely ve the man-eal ona member of the ling. He condemning a biting that very t editorial the ng shark. And the next day yaper got a letter of protest from wrote yes. you've guessed it—from Will Beebe. ler contra, it used to be said that the one subject on which you could write approvingly in this democracy v the bill of hts. Indeed, to de- fend free speech and a free press came to be thought not only stale tuff but also rather sissified. because everybody who was anybody was sure with you. Now all that too. Write an editorial today in defense of freedom of opin- ion and you'll get a blast from the to agree is changed TS G Ls Daughters of the American Revoluti Hearst or some er entrenc terest. Well, here $ Two bills which threatened in the last Congress, and threaten even more in the present would set this country f Congress, ck beyond the days of One the bi which would call it a crime to print or magazine it would tend to make a ailor disobey his superior the face no- i. behind the face of is the purpose to put down all anti hody ors disobey war to make soldiers But ir agitation, to treat pacifi Books which dared to doubt the justice of war or the in- criminal offense. mind, effable wisdom of could be and would be interpreted by itary some judges as coming under the ban authors and would be their of this act, an publishers could be and The other bill is a new the ar song and dance of n of the versi fam professional patriots on the subject mm. We haven't had such a Printed to encourage the over- of sedit law as this one ce 17! matter tendin throw of the government “by force 1 would be criminal un- der this law. Now of it, there are very few people have any de ind violence” gain on the face h who re to see our govern- vernment, overthrown by force and violence. Almost all of ght to But in, behind the face of it, is the fear of the f system ment, or any ¢ us would prevent it overthrow of our present the n calling And could always be found judg not by violence, but by for a new social order, there writer » convict a mm socialism or communism or pacifism of to encoura veak-mine tariat to rise and rush to the barri- ge a cade the sake of silly fears and selfish jealousies, these bills would tear down ul ancient bulwarks of our liberty ght to publish that wholesome discussion wh and deny th lich might— one of the problems that vex our gen- ermany has done it. Ttaly has eit Forthright books and journalism are no 1 in those dictator-ridden more n punishes “dangerous thot ng her women na executes outspoken Soviet Ru issassinates and vands that even her 18 men with the Wherever stultifies creative artists march pro- i cession of communism and it and far more dan- r protests which kills ure revolt the ught, renius seeds of f gerous than the mild it forbic i ly lets . hon the same time laugh him do he makes a tool of himse from England that America learned the lesson of free speech and free press. Let us not forget that lesson now after a cen- tury and a half All-Electric Homes MERICA’S first all-electric town A has appeared, in Tennessee. In the village of Pickwick every house is heated by vell as refrigerator, electricity, as with electric heater and electric The heating ur installed in every room equipped electric water cooking stove. ts are just as ordi- radiators are, and are controlled vhich turn th as the temperature Tt is estimated that the original cost tbout half that of steam or hot water. The cost of op- eration, of since in nary by thermostats and off changes. installation is course, is the problem, parts of the count at from electric current costs mu most ore than heat from coal or oil. gas or The fortunate residents of I ck are in the nnessee Valley ernment undertaki ea supplied by th Authority, vast Or problems of our period is to learn hether the special benefits offered to the few by present-day government experiments can in the long run be extended to everybody with ly paying his fair share. every- comicbooks.com