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Ncckly Bul Faculties themselvcs can bc countcd 'on to cleansc their ranks. However, sional unfitncss. "Those unthinking individuals who miscall thcmsclves liberals, and who bclicve indoctrination, and thosc inquisitorial individucls who cannot distinguish bctween. education herosy.....and educational conspiracy, are cqually the gravediggcrs of.... aca.dcmic frcedom. Olivcr Pilat, feature writer, The New York Post: Pcrhaps 400 to 500 artists.. are directly affected by radio-TV blacklists.. use blacklists with varying severity. "Formcr collaboration with a Communist front, thc usual citcd rcason for blacklisting, may come close to subvcrsion or mcan nothing. of thc accusation, or if he receivcs a hint of it, may bc unable to' facc it, or win clcarance on factual grounds." the cntcrtainment industry today-- occasioncd by the very tactics of the Communist movement. Anti-Communist sponsors and patrons of the commcrcial thcatrc have "under standably.-and_rightly rcactcd to Communist tactics of cxploitation by rcfusing to. Therc-is-n hire or patronize Communists and those who notably support them. violation of civil rights.....in such rcfusal to hire or patronize Commnists thcir supporters. It is clcmcntary common scnsc." SEGREGATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C. RESTAURANTS UPHELD IN 5-4 COURT DECISION Scgregation in restaurants in thc District of Columbia wns uphcld in a recent court decision whcn a U.s. Court of Appeals, in a fivc-to-four dccision, denicd that.. so-callcd "lost" laws of l872 and l873 on which the casc was bascd had any validity.. The casc grcw out of charges that Thompson's Restaurant in Washington refused. to servc three Negroes in l950. The case went through two lower courts and is now!y hcadcd for the Suprcme Court. A bricf urging thc courts to uphold the validity of. the Equal Scrvice Acts of cighty years ago was filcd by Former U.S. Solicitor Gencral Committee. Thc appcals court turncd the argument of the plaintiffs down on technical. grounds: (1) It is argued that the #lost". laws, which barred discrimination in. cating placcs bccause of racc, were "of the character of gcncral lcgislation" and that therefore the District of Coluabia Legislative Assembly of those ycars had no power to pass them. (2) These laws wcre rcpealed in any case by the District of Columbia code of 1901. A strong dissent concurred in by four judges asserted that the legislation "was cnacted by a legislative body and has always becn subject to legislative modifi crtion or repcal. No modification or repeal has been enactcd.".. NEW YORK ACLU PROTESTS BAN AT JELKE TRIAL The New York Civil Liberties Union hes protested against tho banning.of roup prcss at the trial of Minot Jelke on charges of campulsory prostitution. ' dofendant's and the public's civil liborties".. in an cffort to upsct the.ban A group of eight newspapers and press scrviccs,. This weck Justicc Benjamin F carried a lcgal protest to the State Suprcme Court. Schrciber upheld Judge Valente on the grounds.that the latter could invoke his dis- cretion to kecp sodomous matcrial away from thc press and public. Schreibcr also. to a higher court. NYCLU protested on the grounds that freedom of the press had been.violate. theba not result in an acquittal"..