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KS —— ao, , “The Last Straw ye | By VINCENT — JONES: upreme Court within the past few Pf. ‘] years can be interpreted-as a fore- cast of things to come, then Southern f; «| Senators: fighting the vicious civil... is rights bill have nothing to fear b- _y When the measure meets the teat of E.. “the nine men who are such ardent {* ‘| supporters and protector's of the | i decisions. by by the United zt | judge “having the authority. to sen- : tence @ person for contempt without d, benefit of a jury trial. Will the nine (: men who have been. s0 liberal nk their interpretation of a people's ‘nights permit such « travesty of civil ‘liberties? Of course not. | | What have they done to ef _, citizens against their’ governments, FY A _eity, state and federal? Why has the a. * iw aay Supreme Court become the self-sty}- te ed paternalistic father and guardian |. y of all human Yights, when the Con- H ‘'I stitution specifically lists a Bill of Rights which acequately provides for @ the protection of every citizen's f righte?T, 62.0, a - VY y y>* / UV " 1 5" a THE JACKSON PROGRESS~ARGUS ~ * JACKSON, GEORGIA aye JUNE 27; 42°! oe wet DOYLE JONES - EDITOR ie vont ~" PUBLISHER ” | people’s rights, - cud a Why the very “idea of a federet ¢, ; ce but, at the same time, it red ‘ Mr. Mohr Mr. Parshall 2 . Mr. Y x Ros 2 In thestield of civil liberties, the J 4% 1. Ter Court has made many deSfelons of te he the past few years that have narrow- Mr. Holloman ed the limits to which local govern- Miss Gandy. ments can go in interfering. with the basic freedoms. of their citizens, -Most historic of these decisions was handed down in 1954 when Court moved into the legislative field’ and outlawed segregation in public | schoole on the ground that segrege- tion meant discrimination and we. fair treatment of citizens. The Court's decision outlawing segregat- my ed achools was perhaps prompted by * Congress’ inadility to act in this, BAUM: wiped out prior Court decisions, setting up the separate but equal: doctrine of schools ‘for Southern {| states as being fair, honest and prae- tical. s , “.The. “most. Fecéni, and shocking, example of the Court’s determination tp, { PEstect the rights, of ita citiaffns -the feci on high: & wee per 5 ce Raa € spiring th indvocate: _qiolenit sean ithrow of thes’ governmel s he vz “ta its rulirig: the High t art found’ that teaching. the” forcible overthrow, of Rqvernment es “en abstract, pri. ' ciples vorced from any. effort to | inatigate\ ‘action - ‘to that end” war Not a. violation of the Smith Act, unh- der hist the Communists were me secuted od convicted, "Rie OY woe ra = Lo 6 JUL "38 : Hal as 1 ws =