The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1929, Page 10

vy an OPFEPAM 2 RRA APLAPE NEES Bh Ae 2 UMPOSHSANDSHOy BME MAN Heer aMNNAnnnse st SeeHUA men By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, June 25—There scems | to be a good chance that the “censor- ship joker” in the tariff bill will be | knocked out by the senate before the | conate gets through with the measure. A large howl has been raised against it and no one has risen to its warm defense, not even in the treas- ury department, which sponsored the | Provision. Progressive senator: ‘ob- ably will insist that it be stricken out The “joker” forbids importation of “any book, paper, pamphlet. writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture or drawing containing any matter ad- vocating or urging treason, insurrec- tion, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing | any threat to take the life of, or in- flict bodily harm upon the president of the United States.” University professors have Ied the outcry, against this proposed new | law, insisting that many classics of economic thought would be barred if it were rigidly applied. ‘Would Hamper Research “This law is a kindergarten meas- | ure which assumes that the American People are so stupid and untrust- worthy that it is unsafe to Ict them read anything about revolutions be- | cause they would immediately become | converted,” says Prof. Zechariah} Chafee in a recent article distributed by the National Popular Government league. ! “If this legislatiow is enforced with any impartiality, it must nec cut us off from the economic Political thought of Europe and the Test of the world in our time.” Chafee says Harvard has been col- lecting in its library books, posters, | pamphlets and other material relat ing to the Russian revolution which will some day be of great historical value, but that the proposed tariff act would bar further importation cf such material. Other cducators. agreeing with Chafee, point out that even the quo- tation «of: revolutionary utterances would automatically bar a book from the country, though the book itself might be completely opposed to ic: thus expressed. They believe the would prevent Americans from ob- taining books abroad by such men as Marx, Lenin, Proudhon, Bakunin or ¢ had a large circulation in the ited States. Considerable mystery has been at- hed to the “joker” because of the bility of myestigators to discover who was responsible for it. Chair- man Hawley of the ways and means | committee and other committee mem- bers interviewed said they had never een the thing before. A very zht amount of sleuthing by your correspondent, however, re- | the measure was put into f bill at the instigation of casury department. Officials at the treasury department say they had the customs service would seditious literature hat of the postoffice de- rtment. Furthermore, they don't regard it as highly important and profess to be surprised at all the fuss that has been made about it, It is admitted unofficially that treasury officials will shed no bitter tears even if it is stricken out Parallels Postal Regulation administrative meas- C. Alvord, special assist. relary Mellon. “The post- lations bar such literature this would express, ant to office res from coming in by mail; prevent it from coming by freight or handbag.” The postoffice regulations, in bar- ring “indecent” publicat that anything inciting der or assassination” is They also bar anything a any matt vocating or urging treason, insurrection of forcible re- to law of the United testing professors are not revolutionary tracts. object to is leaving it to customs a) s to decide just what American scholars and other citizens shall be allowed to read. The postoffice department, since the war, has not given any tryannical exhibitions or censorship over radical j literature, although som@ of its judgments concerning what con- stilutes obscenity, as in the Mary Ware Dennett case, have been widely criticized. The customs the obscenity service, acting under sions of the pres- ent tariff law, has also been vigor- ously attacked for seizing imported foreign classics which some one of its officials didn’t think would be good even Bertrand Russell, whose works for American morals. With a queer little smile twisting the corner of his mouth, Colin Gray came swinging down the narrow lunch room toward her, his long, thin body slouching. How could Harry Blaine say he was “not so blamed géod-Icoking"? Crystal told herself, as her eyes drank him in ercedils that he was the most exciting person she had ever seen. What if his shock of hair did need trimmin What if his clothes did need pres ing, even cleaning? She would not change the slightest thing about him! “Hello! Swell yarn you had today, but you let yourself get into it too | tossed life. By the way, I've already ;begun a short story about her—the j penniless waitress ‘in trouble’ who | turned down a chance to marry So- | ciety's Sheik because, by golly, she found out she'd fallen out of love with him and didn’t want him any more.” “So—that’s all Caliie means to you another short story?” He grinned wider at her in disgust. “What do you think?” Her heart melied. Her words came | in a low, p ti your heart last night, and you're trying to case the | pain by writing it all cut! I know much. Good idea to forget there's | you're a sentimentalist, and you kid Aan upper-case I on your typewriter,” | yourself you're a stark realist, of the he greeted her, as he swung out the | ‘Main Street’-and-garbage-can school. chair opposite hers and dropped his | But you're not, you're not! You are long body into it. , brimming with pity and—and love for “Thanks—for both the praise andj people, and they break your heart the knock. I'll break the ‘I’ key on | almost every day of your life. Then, my typewriter tomorrow,” C! al an- | because you're ashamed of your se- swered, over the singing in her heart, | crct tears and of your pity, you write Official capacity recently. * General If anyone else had criticized her : brutally she would have wilted or flamed with anger, but even criticism from Colin Grant was precious. It proved he had been interested enough in her to read her stuff. “Don't you | want to hear about Callic?” i “Oh—that,” he answered, his black eyes frowning at the greasy card. | “T've already got the low-down on the Callie story. Hiked over to Via- | duct Lane when I turned in my last | copy at three. I gather from Callic | that you and your Tony Tarver were angels of mercy, 1929 versions of Lady | or Bountiful i | , and— “Oh!” Crystal's face flamed. “We | did not act like that!” | Colin Grant grinned at her. “Cal- | lie’s actual words, I believe, were that | you and Tony Tarver were the’ best sports and the whitest white girls she had ever run across in her storm- j cut the stories in the baldest sen- tences you can make, afraid even to put in an adjective for fear you'll give yourself away—your tender heart that you're so ashamed of! You—" “Guess I'd better have another cup of coffee to see me through this,” Colin grinned at her, but she did not miss the bright light of excitement in his eyes. They were not furious for the moment. “So you didn't really like my book?” he asked with elabor- ate casualness, and Crystal was de- ed to see that he had enough ry vanity to care. ke it?” she repeated, scorning the word. fo you want to know what I did when I had finished read- ing it?” “Yes,” he answered humbiy. NEXT: A harsh indictment. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Jugo-Slavia’ Hinted | - As New State Title! Belgrade—(7)—The term “Jugo- Slavia,” commonly applied to what is | @ Officially “The Kingdom of the Serbs. | Croats and Slovenes,” was given its | first mention by a statesman in his Peter Zivkovitch, premicr of King Alexander's dictatorship, gave & toast at a dinner to two retiring cabinet ministers. 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