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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.”
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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.
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19. Obstacle'
20. Veterinary
surgeon
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27. Longs for
29. People of
China
31. Dress
33. Sound of
a goose
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37. Fan to hit
39. Habitual
drunkard
40. Kind of dog
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fodder
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material
to fill space
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31. Mien
32. Rumple
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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
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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.”
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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. Why that man could blow
out the light and then be un
dressed by the time the room got
dark.” ,
In children, the adenoids should
be removed and the tonsils left
intact, because tonsils often become
enlarged because of adenoids nnA
become normal in size when ade
noids are removed.
• • •
Capping of the teeth helps main
tain the regularity of the dental
arches, preventing pushing out of
line of opposing teeth.
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