The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-24

'H VA SucAE VleWpOmtDs
 have not a thin dime in their jeans (which has not been put there by duPont Liberty League) to buy admission to a picture house let alone to produce a draw ing card attraction for one. Whether the League is actually in the making, fllm-exhibit- ing business at the moment or not, it will be later. It has the Sentinels of the Republic by the tail and, like the man with the tigers caudal appendage in his grasp, is afraid to let go.
 Still Nutty
 If the duPont Liberty League makes only a tiny contribution to it's Sentinels for turning out "The Amateur Fire Brigade" 1t will be proof positive that the League IS definitely crazy. Some years ago one of the monarchs of filmdom was bemoaning the fact that he had no further worlds to conquer because the supply of stories had been exhausted. One of the at-A tendant lords-chamberlain sug- gested that "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had not been pie turized. "Nah!" snarled the morl- arch. There ain't no money in them football films. The finan- cial kings of the League-and the Sentinels which watch over their domains, should know that there is no return to be expected from fire brigade pictures even with Alfred E. Smith singing "The Man With the Ladder and the Hose, with Alfred Pushover Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, doing 8 fire dance, and the Three Serio-C Comic duPonts, Qrenee, Lammot, and Pierrc), rendering their favorite selection Fireman, Save My Child.
 No Kick Coming
 Over five hundred American newspaper publishers gathered in the grand ballroom of the Wal dorf Astoria (no pikers these birdsD to blister their hands Wednesday applauding resolu- ton which pasted the Black Com mittee of the Senate for "gagging" the press and impeding It's free / dom. I cannot see what partic- ular kick the newspaper pulp fishers have coming nor have I been able to notice any shackles being rivetted on their freedom by Senator Blacks committee. A cer- tain type of publisher kicks about everything. Anything which in terferes with his demand for un- limited license to publish is de- nounced as an attack on the lib- erty of the Fourth Estate. There may be some justification in the condemnation of certain activities of the Black investigators but there is certainly a lot of nonsense also. No tears spring to these eyes when MT. William Randolph Hearst Is the alleged victim of op- pression. Personally think the newspapers of the country ought to pass vote of thanks to Sen- ator Black for the news his Com mittee has furnished. After all what good is the freedom of the press if there is nothing upon which to exercise 1t. The pub fishers may be riled to furious rage over the methods pursued by the senator from Georgia but the public at large is delighted with the results they have accom- plished. The nation owes 8 debt of gratitude to an Investigating body which exposed the despicable doings of the Southern Commit tee to Uphold the Constitution.
 Disgraceful
 The manager of the Southern Committee, Vance Muse, admitted under examination that he had supervised the printing and cir ,culation of thousands of abom- inable pamphlets and pictures poured all over the South in the effort to rouse the racial rabble against President Roosevelt. Pho- tographs of the President greet ing delegation of Negro Elks, and Mrs. Roosevelt addressing 8 Negro meeting as well as permit ting her travelling bag to be car- ried by a Negro porter were smeared broadcast. MT. Muse arl- nounced that his conscience com- pelled him to do the srnearing be- cause he is "a believer in White Supremacy. Not being the keep CT of MT. Muse's conscience am not at liberty to comment on it's powers of compulsion or even on its debatable existence. To say that his actions are shocking is putting 1t mildly. But far more shocking too is the fact that one outstanding member of the du- Pont Liberty League contributed to the disgusting propaganda. John J. Raskob, who with Alfred E. Smith ran the gauntlet of just this sort of villainy in 1928, gave $5,0O0 to help finance the Tal- madge convention which was sponsored by MT Muse's Southern Committee. Mir. RaSkob may have been unaware that his mori- ey was being used by the corl- science-driven MT. Muse to do the self same dirty work which MT.