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- 6-= ; ) of the United States, in the case of Pennsylvania v. telson, decided a year ago, and in the case of Sweezy v. New Hampshire, decided in june of this year, has effectively blocked all State action in this field. This is reason enough for withdrawing the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over State laws for the purpose of controlling subversive activities. The subparagraph numbered (4) of my bill is designed to preserve home rule over our schools. This is a basically important principle to which the Supreme Ccurt did great violence in its decision in the Slochower case, last year, when it denied New York City the right to discharge a teacher for willfully refusing to answer questions about his participation in subversive activity, Control over our schools must be kept at the local level, and when the Supreme Court is ready and willing to deny to any community the right to determine the kind of teachers it wants to instruct the children of that conmmity, and the terms and conditions under which those teachers may continue to teach, then it is time to take away from the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction of cases in this field, The fifth numbered subparagraph in my bill is designed to protect