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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. BILL OF RIGHTS Americans Are Protected From Censorship by Bill of Rights This Is th« MCSB4 of » series sf three articles en the BIU sf Rights an4 Bill ef Rights day which will he celebrated December 15. Censorship is something that Americans simply don’t believe in. It Is a word synonymous with dic tatorships, calling to mind Hitler’s infamous book burning of yester day and the Soviet iron curtain of today. Most Americans agree censorship is contrary to the spirit of free ex- By INEX GERHARD M ARTA TOKEN, dark-haired and bine-eyed, was discovered at the Royal Dramatic Academy in Stock- holm, where Greta'Garbo and Ingrid Bergman also studied. Universal- International signed her as soon as they saw a test sent to this country, and has had her under contract for Baaafr MARTA TOREN twe years; her current picture is "Deported”. She was just finish ing a cross-country tour for it when she was summoned back to Holly wood. U-I had lent her out for "Sirocco”, in which she will appear opposite Humphrey Bogart. Miss Toren will be seen as a dancer in a Damascus cafe—easy for her; she began studying ballet when she was four. Robert Ryan will have the leading role in “Clash by Night”, when RKO films the play. Talullah Bankhead starred in it, and Ryan had a small part; his performance got him his present long-term con tract at RKO. Smith and Dale, for many years a top vaudeville act, have been signed for important roles in “Two Tickets to Broadway”. They were the nucleus of the famous Avon Comedy Four; it took television to revive their popularity. Tol Avery, on the other hand, can thank radio for his debut in motion pictures, in “Where Danger Lives”. Director John Farrow heard his voice on the air, and signed him to support Faith Domergue and Claude Rains. •DDS AND ENDS . . . Anne Sey mour, who was so good as Brod Crawford’s wife in Columbia’s “All the King’s Men”, has been signed for a key supporting role in “The Whistle at Eaton Falls” . . . John Payne has signed to star in six more Pine-Thomas films; he last worked for them in ’Tripoli” . . Don “Little Brown Jug” Reynolds, expert boy fider and actor who has appeared in several Gene Autry westerns, will have a featured role in “Snake River Desperados.” Jfe . . -Mite*' 1 Censorship is one of the most hated words in America. In modern days it calls to mind Hitler’s infamous book burning (above) of yesterday and the Soviet iron curtain of today. pression and inquiry set forth in our Bill of Rights, yet it does exist in the United States. These thoughts were expressed by Patrick Murphy Malin, executive director of the American Civil Lib erties Union, in a statement issued on Bill of Rights Day, December 10. This day marks the 159th anniver sary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights'. , “We have censorship of plays, books and magazines by public and private agencies. Of course, ob scenity must be guarded against, but these groups go much further. They may seek to suppress expres sion of political ideas or views. Our children learn that the right to in quire is rooted in the Declaration of Independence, yet the New York Board of Education bans their read ing of The Nation magazine because of an article criticising the Catholic church. “Banned in Boston” is a familiar phrase. Certain books and plays have been banned there be cause its content has been consid ered offensive by certain authori ties. Not so familiar is the startling fact that in 90 American cities, po litical appointees, following the criteria of personal opinion, tell their neighbors what movies they can or cannot see.” * • • LITTLE BROTHER to censorship is blacklisting, denying employment to people because of their political views. ’Diis was recently brought into vogue by Red Channels, a booklet listing radio performers suspected by the publishers of Com munist sympathies. Despite the pub lishers' denial that Red Channels was intended as a factual bible, one major television sponsor suspended a player for being among the red- listed. Contrary to the American spirit of fair play, she had no hear ing or a chance to defend herself. We have an able set of laws to prosecute abusers of free speech, Mr. Malin said, which realty can curb Subversive acts. Industry self checks such as the movies’ National Board of Review maintain high moral standards in the communica tions fields. “Setting up arbitrary judges to suppress ideas before they are expressed is the way of dicta tors. Censorship is contrary to the nature of democracy, where free people can be trusted to select the wheat from the chaff for them selves.” CROSSWORD PO/ilE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ Removing Stove Pipes When taking down stove-pipes, place a paper bag over each end, and the soot will not blow out into the room during the process. N. D. Honey Crop North Dakota’s 1950 honey crop amounted to 1,560,000 pounds, from 13,000 colonies. ACROSS 1. Dancing girls (Egypt) C. Terrors 11. Reluctant 12. An authori tative decree 13. Aromatic herb 15. Medieval story (Scand.) It. From 17. Wild ox' 19. Obstacle' 20. Veterinary surgeon (abbr.) 22. Old measures ef length • 24. Neuter pronoun 25. Epochs 27. Longs for 29. People of China 31. Dress 33. Sound of a goose 86. Therefore 37. 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Masculine pronoun T"™" “ ‘JT"" n F" 1 7 TT T”"“ _ ~ n IT n H 2a Z< H 22 z» ST" TT” 2* zs H 5r *• H n w \A 55 a n n w. 40 A> n ** 44 AS 44 1 4^ A^ Sr n %s « n s» THE FICTION CORNER THE GOOD OLD DAYS By Ona Freeman Lathrop T HE OLD FELLOWS sat on the concrete wall that bordered the court-house lawn. The sun broiled down warm and golden, but the autumn air was cool. The one in the clean striped shirt and blue serge hitched his suspenders high er. “Times ain’t what they used to be when I was young,” he asserted to the man next him. “Prices ‘way out o’ sight, all sorts of machinery to do the farm work, young folks kitin’ around in cars—why, when 1 was a young buck you took your best girl for a buggy ride behind a pair of fast bays, or you went to Funk’s Grove or the Mackinaw for a day’s picnic and it didn’t cost you a cent. Nowadays my grandson wouldn’t start out on a date without five’or ten dollars in his poctyet!” He looked up the street. “Yep,” the other one agreed, tilt ing his straw sailor back and tuck ing his blue shirt into his shiny grey striped trousers. “Things move too fast for me. We don’t get through one war till we’re startin' another one, and them politicians down in Washington are runnin’ the country to the dogs. Now when McKinley was in—” A girl switched by. in white shorts and a striped jersey. His sentence hung in mid-air, for gotten. The endless procession of cars whizzed around the square, their tires sizzing on the hot asphalt. The city busses lined up in front of the drug store. They shook their heads sadly. The first one kept peering out Washington street toward the depot. “Yeah, this is a crazy age! You see BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET TV Busts Up Marriage of Young Trombonist, Harpist By BILLY ROSE A couple of years ago one of the staff musicians at NBC—a trombonist I’m going to call Charlie Michaels—decided he was fi nally in a position to realize his two big ambitions: one, to marry the swing harpist he had been keeping company with, and two, to buy a house and a piece of land in New Jersey. For the first year everything was peaches and grade-A for the Time Square tots—there was a garden to putter around in, house to do over, and neighbors to get acquainted with. Charlie got quite a kick out of telling the suburbanites what an artist his wife had .been, and showing them a studio picture of her seated at a harp with a big Spanish comb in her hair. But last January, when TV started using a lot of live music, their mar riage ran into its first snag. Charlie, who had been doing an afternoon stint on radio, was shifted to one of the TV motor car programs, and a few weeks later was assigned to two ether video spots. These in volved a certain amount of late rehearsals, which meant that sev eral nights a week, instead of catch ing the 5:15, the trombone player didn’t arrive home until after mid night—that is, when he managed to get home at all. Billy win CITY-BRED spouse, of course, didn’t take kindly to this new routine—the country without a around the bsuso wasn’t much fun—mid when it became clear that Charlie was going to be spending more and more of his evenings at the studio, she suggested selling the house and moving back to town. “I’d hate to give this place up,” said the trombonist. *T get a big kick out of it, even if it’s only week ends. As for an apartment, they’re pretty tough to find right now but I’ll see what I can do.” For the next couple of weeks Charlie answered eds and talked to 'real estate agents but without any luck—either the rent was more than be could afford to Pay, or it involved plunking down a couple of thousand dol lars for a few sticks of fttmi- ture. When he told his wife what the situation was, she said, “I know it isn’t easy but you’ve got to do some thing. I just can’t take it out here any more.” * * * ONE EVENING not long ago, while grabbing a sandwich during a rehearsal break, Charlie picked up a paper and an item caught his attention: A young woman had com mitted suicide by throwing herself out of the window of a midtown apartment house. On the spur of mood and moment, the musician hopped a taxi and went around to the address men tioned. “I understand you’ve got a vacancy,” he said to the superin tendent, “and it’s worth a couple of hundred to me if I can have first crack at it.” The super took him up in the elevator and showed him the apart ment—f our cheerfully-furnished rooms. “It’s hard to believe anyone with such a lay-out would jump out the window,” Charlie small-joked. “Did the woman live here alone?” "Jstst between us," said the superintendent, "l think some guy was paying the hills. He leased the place in her name about two months ago and at first used to show up pretty regularly. Lately be hasn’t been around, and l guess that explains why she took the dive." “Was she as good looking as the papers said?” “She was quite a looker,” said the super. “There’s a picture of her on the bureau.” Charlie went over and examined it. It was a photograph of a girl seated at a harp with a big Spanish comb in her hair. MIRROR 0/ Your MIND No Audience * ^ For Scolding By Lawrence Gould Should you scold one child before another? Answer: Not if it can be avoid ed. For not only does the child who gets the scolding feel an added sense of shame which does him emotional harm, but the “innocent bystander” is provided with an op portunity to release his own un friendly feelings toward the of fender, either then or later. If Jimmy is jealous of his little sister (as is likely to be the case) hearing you call her a bad girl makes him feel justified in his dislike of her, and encourages him to go on teas ing her and making her unhappy When you are not around. the palm of his hand with a micro voltmeter, which records the changing voltages at the beginning, height, and end of the trance. Here is one more answer to the people who still cling to the idea that hypnosis is “mostly imagination.” It is dangerous if misused, but nothing could be more real. Can the depth of a hypnotic trance be measured? Answer : Yes, by a method re cently discovered by Dr. Leonard J. Ravitz of the School of Medicine, Yale University, and described in Science. The technique consists in measuring the electrical potential between the subject’s forehead and Is anyone always truthful? Answer: No, writes Dr. Ben Karpman in the Psychiatric Quar terly. Though regarded as a vice, tying actually permeates all per< sonal and social life and is inevi table if we are to get along with one another. However, most tying is not conscious or deliberate, but resembles a neurotic symptom. A psychiatrist judges a patient’s un derlying motives from the lies that his repressions ‘ and unconscious wishes force him to tell. Insane people rarely lie, neurotics lie mainly in self-defense, and psycho paths are liars “par excellence.” LOOKING AT RELIGION Their conversation was forgot ten for a moment as a girl in white shorts and a striped Jer sey walked past. Times sure had changed. new houses springing up over night out in the new additions. Look like freight cars sprawled all over the lots—no upstairs, no cellars! Fancy gadgets in the kitchens. Give me the old days and not such a fast pace!” The other one queried, “What’s your name and where do you hail from?” “Well now, that’s a long story." He shifted to the other hip as if to tell it, then grinned. “But nobody’s interested in it nowadays, so I neve? tell it. I’m Clem Mason. Lived hero all my life, and hope to die hero, I’ve watched this town grow from a cross-roads, and hardly been across the state line. And you?” T HE OTHER FELLOW’S eyej narrowed as if he were seeing faraway places. “Name’s Jed Whit comb. Traveled a bit in my day. Went to Chicago once. Lived out in the country till my wife died la%t year. I like the town, but nothin’ seems as good as it used to bs. Too much bustle and rush.” There was a long silence while they watched a cab maneuver in and out of traffic. A Ionian driver and the usual delivery trucks were double-parking and gumming up the works. Horns blasted and women scurried across the crossing. “Yep,” Clem answered, his eyes still squinting up the street watch ing for something, “give me the good old days. A fellow could saun ter down to the harness shop or the livery stable to chin a bit and not be in danger of his life. Nowadays I just sit here and don’t try to navigate very far. Hate to even ride around with my grandson in the car. Too dang dangerous!” He eyed the corner anxiously. “You’re right,” Jed answered. “Nothin’ much to do, either. % No more chatauquas or medicine shows. No camp meetin’s. A swank blue convertible drew up to the curb. A sporty young fellow leaned out and called to Clem. “HI, Gramps. I’ve been out to the airport and the station. I got your pi*n* reservations and your pnUman tickets. Everything is all set.” Clem got up hastily. He looked at Jed apologetically. “My son in Washington, D. C. has sent for me to come down and see the sights. He’s paying all my expenses or I’d never go. Can we drop you off any place?” Jed rose too. “Nope. I’ve got my scooter-bike parked around the corner and 1*11 just put-putt back to my daughter’s. There’s s good television program comes on pretty soon that I never miss.” 0. tV. THE DELUGE, WHICH HISTORIANS STILL ARE TRYING TO LOCATE IN POINT OF PLACE AND TIME, IS SAID BY THE BIBLE TO HAVE BEEN A JUDGMENT UPON THE WORLD FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF ITS INHABITANTS. RAIN FELL FOR 40 DAYS, AND THE RISE OF THE WATERS‘CONTINUED FOR ISO DAYS UNTIL THEY STOOD 22 FEET ABOVE THE HIGHEST SUMMITS. I KEEPING HEALTHY j Blood Pressure May Need to Be High By Dr. James W. Barton W E READ AND HEAR much about high blood pressure and of how high blood pressure is the underlying cause of heart and brain strokes. What we do not read and hear about very much is that with certain conditions of the body it is necessary for our blood pres sure to become higher, in order to send blood through blood vessels whose inner coat is thickened or partly clogged. Your physician does not immedi ately give you a drug to lower your temperature when it is above nor mal. He tries to find what is causing the increased temperature. By giving you a drug to lower your temperature before he finds the cause, he hides the cause. High temperature—increased heat—may be necessary to help fight the con dition causing the increased tem- perature; lowering the tempera ture of the body at this time may take away much of the body’s fight ing ability, for heat is life. Similarly with blood pressure. Giving drugs to lower the blood pressure prevents the proper flow of blood reaching the part where it. is most needed. Of course, there are cases of high temperature and high blood press ure where the danger point is reached, or nearly reached, and drugs to lower temperature and blood pressure must be used to pre vent strokes or death itself. * In the Bulletin of Georgetown uni versity medical center. Dr. John R. Cavanagh states that most of the studies to date in regard to treat ment of essential high blood press ure have been directed to lowering the blood pressure rather than curing the disease causing the high blood pressure. We know that emotional disturb ances raise the blood pressure. Therefore, the cause of these emo tional distrubances should be sought, and as far as possible removed, or the patient made fit to overcome them. N The commonest cause of high blood pressure due to the emotions appears to be aggressive impulses that are not thoroughly repressed or controlled. While most physicians agree that infection is the commonest cause of rheumatism, it is agreed that other conditions—lazy bowel, too much starch, cold damp weather- are also factors in causing the malady. * • • • A doctor who does not take a pa tient into his confidence is not up to date. JUST r wrjwm Proper Punishment Wifey—“John, what punishment should be meted out to a man who proposes to a woman and then refuses to marry her?” Hubby—“He should be com pelled to marry her.” L-C ' — DUE TO COLDS For soothing relief, rub on •» Fast Guy Two farmers, sitting by the stove in the village store, were engaging in a little exaggeration fest. “Naow, I oncet had a nephew,” said one, “whp was as fast a crit ter as ever I see. Why he use tew hev people shoot at him, and then outrun the bullet for five miles and get clean away.” “Wal, yew won’t think that’s so fast when yew ’ heat about my cousin. 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