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America’s Way With Free Speech.— 1-BANS ON SOX AND CIGARETTES; ••PATRIOTIC” INVESTIGATORS: A COUNT'S METHOD OFIMPRESSING THE STATES: PRIVATE BATH AND RETIME.these ** bolsheviks *' .n “n very small per-j Stairs, and sprr»-li may ho gagged. hut crntagc of flint element in mir country who M«.n«r nr later ovi-rvoiu- get** to know nlimit engage in their favourite pastime of tear- j it. «■•! •I all hhrrnl-mimlfd Americansing down, and offer nothing constructive! s,,t ii|» a ImnJ f indignation. 'l'li** sameas no alternative fur n Mipimvd wJution(From (he “Echo New York Correspondent).Mrs. Bertrand Russell, following herhusband on an American lecture tour, ispetting some of the usual excitement ofsuch n tour by way of refusals to grant hera platform. Mrs. Russell, talking on sex,is n* objectionable m Miss Maude Hoyden smoking cigarettes;lhvaue of the objections of rhih women. Clergymen, and others, Mrs. Russel), exponent of companionate marriage, was refused the Stole Capitol in Madison, vviM-nnsifi. the L’nirersitv of Wisconsin, ami the Madison labour Temple.Even (llcnn Frank, the Liberal president of the I’nivrrsity, r.crecd with the ban on her lecture before the student forum, because j,r thought it was not good tastethat she should address a i:. :d audience on marriage and sqx relationships!THE BLACK LISTS.Again and again lecturers have similar experiences, and now it develops that there an* ” patriotic ” organisations that exist for the Mile purpose of smelling out anything that savours of “radical” and ’'subversive” nrtivitie« in the I'nited States. I Hack lists of dangerous ”speakers are compiled and circulated among societies which engage lecturers in order th.it thev may be warned beforehand-In a country where speech is “free” it would l*e unfortunate it tnv utterance of .1 “ radical ” or “ bolshevik or “communist ” or 44 liberal ” or ” pacifist or ”socialist ’*— the terms are-regarded as synonymous—wcro allowed to go un-clilt; eked.The Reserve Officers* Association is one of Ibn busiest of these '’investigators, and, according to its own statement, it is associated with acventy-ecven other patriotic Mcirties.”Together with the key men of America, undrr the directorship of one Fred R. Marvin, it seeks to protect Babbitt from the infection of those who waver in 100 per rent. Americanism, or who express a thought that might bo construed as the faintest shade oi pink. (hie cannot he too careful in n country where freedom of sj-cci h is written into the scry Constitution!THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN.According to the black lists compiled by the*p ’* investigators,” Jane Addanis. selected by Emil Ludwig, the famous biographer—also lecturing now in America —as one of the four greatest living Americans, is cited as the “ moat dangerous woman in America!”In one of its bulletin!, “ Scabbard andBlade,” the national fraternity of theReserve Officers’ Training Corps describesof the nil embracing subject-matter of national defence.”PATRIOTISM EXPOSED.I.ike American political corruption, however, this espionage work of the “patriotic'' is c.xj**xrd. To the ” New York World” falls the credit of the most recent exposure, hacked up by “The Nation.” Politics may he rotten in the I'nitedcountry that furnishes the intellectual die-hards run! the persecuting ignoramusesnbofurnishes the freedom loving citi/eiis who criticise wrongs nud welcome criticism.Mean while. Count Kovserlilig. of Travel Diary ” fame, is striking mil on n line of hif own lie is adopting the grand manner— which Americans adore—and charging the enornioiis sum of $1.COO n lecture.W hen he arrives in n city he has to ho met VdSHSCnv IN St.vt ivll.t MN.Mission Of Mercy To Wild Ponies.f« •*. - i »The Piople’s Dispensary for Sick Animals has sent a caravan of food and medicine with skllltd veterinary surgeons, to succour the ponies In the New Forest which are tn tad P(13ht °in9 t0 th® {100r cond'tion th« herbaqe. Many ponies’have had to be destroyed, particularly mares with their fcals. The picture shows a mare end foil In shocking condition. The mother was scarcely able tt drag along the yerdi of chain and rope which were attached to it.
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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool, Middlesex, GB
Mon, May 21, 1928
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