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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1961
Page
2
A critical column argues that the House Un-American Activities Committee distorts rights and silences dissent. It warns that fear and guilt by association threaten speech, assembly, and due process, urging defenders of liberty including churches and the press to persevere.
A Caltech Jet Propulsion Lab scientist relates how Bell Labs is teaching a mechanical brain to read. The device may absorb six millennia of knowledge, yet lack love morality and conscience. Ben the barkeep predicts trouble if robots learn to reproduce.
A columnist ruminates on moral standards and national unity while recalling Confederate service doubts. The piece references the Pat Brown era staffer Cecil Poole, a Chicago professor exchange with Dr. Hutchins, and the Schweitzer Hospital aid in Haiti.
St. Petersburg Times argues the nation must protect the Bill of Rights even while combating communism. It warns that sacrificing freedoms the Communists aim to destroy would be history's most tragic irony.
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