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Evening star., 1957-12-22

1his IS the beginning Of Christmas week.
Its sights and sounds will be with US day in
and day out. We accept Christmas As q
dear and familiar tradition, but do we
receive Il with the understanding which can
grow deeper and stronger every year?
Such understanding does not spring from
the exchange Of gifts or printed cards, nor
even from recognition Of the historical
meaning Of Christmas. We know that
Christmas means the birth Of Christ every
where there are reminders Of that birthday,
the shining star, the shepherds who saw il
in wonder, the wise men who followed It's
mysterious light to the maneer in Bethlehem.
Bm Is fhis alp If we are really to cele-
brate Christmas, should We not also think
Of the fate Of the child born two thousand
years ago; Of Christ's life, what II stood for
then. and what il stands for now?
Tor those who seek Il, the essence Of this
life IS not hard to find. Jesus summed it up
when He said to the Pharisee:
"7h0E shalt love the Lord thy God Wifh all
my heart, and with all Thy soul. and with all
dry mind. This Is hhe first and gveaf COM
psaadmeHf. And The second Is like unto IL.
Thou shall love thy HeiehbOv as h.yseU"
Even these two sentences can be summed
up in one word: love. This is the meaning
Evening star., 1957-12-22

Q The Man Who Cove Us Sonto CIovs
70 eieiioa. A Present From The Post
u Feed: CIemeniine Gives A Chfisimos Porty
IS heiss Fsnf.ss: JoIIy Chrisimos. BY Lowell
Evening star., 1957-12-22

csvsr. Provence Shepherd BY Marc RiboUd
Shepherds StH Wosch
casfboaFd: Sonto -mensuI Seoson
= Don't Wont NY Groodson To Be Ptesdenfi'
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EUCLID M CONVICTION. PSeam the Board
NICHOLS STEWART BsAcas Executive
oDS United hio~pupsn YoA HNI
@ odh
Voy "tdsd
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This londscopins may be pretty.
but its mode to order for the
burglar. He con operote on
thot sround-hoor window un-
seen from behind the shFubbeV
and moke his exit the some woy.
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3. Failure to notify the milk company by
telephone or letter to stop deliveries. note
in an empty bottle saying the family will be
away for a while win stop milk delivery, but
1t also will give a snooper a green light to
plumber.
L. Leaving a note for prospective guests in
mailboxes saying key Is under doormat, make
yourself at home" Burglars appreciate such
thoughtfulness.
And" adds Capt Shimon. "a burglar
especially likes you to let your shrubs and
trees to grow to such heights as to hide your
side porch doors or windows He then can
work in leisure and privacy"
How can you burglar-proof your home?
I'm the first place." says Capt. Shimon.
'vacation-be persons must realize they can
use the police. I've actually begged people
to call the police to tell us their vacation
dates. It is lot less trouble for US to check
their homes daily than to try later to track
down some sly housebreaker who has stolen
their valuableS
your neighbors also should be alerted to
call police, II strangers are seen on your
premises You should ask neighbors to pick up
mail and circulars piled at your front door,
so your house has 'lived-in look"
Capt Shimon points out additional ways to
foil burglars:
1. Many thief has gotten in by slipping
q screw driver or a piece Of celluloid into a
door crack and forcing back a spring lock.
Equip doors with windows) with jimmy-proof
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dead bolt latches. which can be locked from
both sides. This foilS a time-teSted burglar
method of forced entry by simply wrappings
a handkerchief around the hand, knocking
in a window pane, reaching in and turning
the doorknob.
2. Put a latch bolt on door leading from
basement to first floor. II a burglar Is confined
to the basement. he may be able to carry off
q can of oil, but he can't carry on the furnace.
s. Leave shades up to avoid that "cloSed-up"
look.
4. Make sure all windows. from basement to
attic, are locked.
S. Keep a record Of serial numbers Of all Of
your valuables. Pawnshops and secondhand
dealers are required by law to file sales reports
with police. Recently a burglar who was ter
rorizing District, Bethesda and Arlington
homes was caught as q result Of tracing
serial number on a sound protector, found
in his car trunk.
g. Never diSconnect your phone. An old
burglar trick is to knock or ring your door
bell When he gets no answer. he may call
your phone number. Then he has an open in
vitation to enter when the operator says,
Sorry. this phone temporarily has been dis
connected"
So be tough on the burglar. Follow these
suggestions and your vacation return to
"home sweet home" won't be bitter one.
As Capt. Shimon says, MANY burgiaries
happen during vacation months because, un-
Willingly, YOU let them int"
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How to Interpret Your
Home Protection Score
A PERFECT score on the quiz
on poge J is SO. Allow 10 points
for Questions ] 3 and 4. Score
; points eoch for sections Of
question z. Questions 5. 6. ].
9 and 10 ore worth 5 eoch.
Give yourself Is If you an
swered question 8 yes" A
totoI score of 80 or more means
you ore doing o good job Of
foiIine burelors. A score Of IS
or more meons q fair Job. u
you total so or less. your home
moy be o burglars delight"
Better do something about it.
Scoring box on Page Z and cartoons At
the right from the Yale q ToWne Manu-
featuring Co. New York
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13

under the 1857 tax increase 1,
conjectural, but / do know tina,
agents Of the federal alcohol tax
unit in Montana are concerned
about 1t and are keeping a close
eye on developments. In the
realm Of moonshining there re-
mains in Montana no little know
how acquired in the prohibition
days, and it may be assumed that
II the competitive situation be-
comes attractive enough some of
these fellows will again set up
stills.
/ covered Montana federal
courts during the prohibition era.
Seemingly there was an endless
parade of violators, most of whom
pleaded guilty, paid the penalty,
and then went back into business
again. The situation now would
not be comparable, but 1t surely
would not be in the public in
terest if, taxwise and morally, the
state liquor control board had to
compete against moonshiners and
legitimate liquor retailers, trying
to obey the letter and spirit OF
the law, had to compete against
bootle9ge1S.
Inquiry / recently made in two
cities indicated that al
ready certain men are gathering
all the empty bottles they can get
that contained top grade bond
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13

/ September 6 - six months after
adjournment OF the legislature
the tax would then be Suspended
pending decision OF the voters. :
Retail liquor people are assert
edly backing the petition cam
paign. 1t might be alleged that
their interest is mercinary, but
regardless of what views one may
have on the liquor business, the
situation of these people is ba-
sically the same as that of any
other business threatened with
heavier taxes.
Before commenting on the pos
sible effect of the tax increase
on the retail liquor operator and
the tendency the higher levies
may have to encourage moonshin-
ing bootlegging, i would like
to make this observation as TO
taxes generally:
There seems to be a rather
strong inclination by some per-
sons in the executive department.
of the state government and by
some legislators to slap on new
or higher taxes for the effect.
Their theory appears to be, for
example, that doubling the tax
rate doubles the income. This is
a fallacy.
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13

One does not need to be much
OF an economist to know that
when prices reach a certain point,
the law of diminishing returns
becomes operative. Under the
higher tax the per capita con-
sumption of liquor can be expect
ed to decrease, though perhaps
not much, but the main effect on
revenue Is likely to be the pur-
chase OF cheaper brands and
hence a lower tax return to the
state. This may be offset, at
least in part, by a gain in liquor
consumption resulting from Mon
tana's growing population, but
there Is no escaping the fact that
at a certain point the law of dim
inishing returns is activated.
II the purpose of this legisla-
ton were to reduce per capita
consumption of intoxicants and
thus promote temperance, that
would be all to the good. But this
was not the purpose, for the OBJ
jective is more revenue. In seek
ing more revenue from liquor, the
legislature may have overlooked
some significant factors.
What the legislature may have
overlooked, is that the tax, il
high enough, invites the moon
sinner to set up his still and the
bootlegger to go back into bust
ness. Whether this would happen
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13

Helena = Initiative referendum
petitions to suspend q 1857 leEis-
lative act doubling the state ex-
else tax on liquor are being cir
culated- Under this act, the ef-
fective date Of which Is July /,
the tax would be 16 percent. An
other law Of last winters assem-
bly, levies an additional 4 per-
cent, OF which cities would get
3 percent and counties / percent,
Thus the tax would jump from
the present 8 percent to 20 per-
cent.
1t is reported that the 4 per-
cent levy is to be contest in the
courts on constitutional grounds.
There appears to be some prece-
dent in support of this contention.
If the petitions get the re-
quired number of signatures by
July /, the 8 percent excise tax
increase would not become eff
fective, unless or until the voters
approved the law at the 1858
general election In the absence
Of sufficient signatures by July /,
the state liquor control board
would begin collecting the tax,
but II adequate petitions are filed
with the secretary of state by
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13
5 out of 10 Smaller Cars
wear a Pontiac Price Tar
yet none gives you Any
Of Pontiae's Advantages
PONTIAC GIVES YOU UP TO S.9Z
MORE SOLID CAR PER DOLLAR!

Not one of the smaller cars can give you the
heavy-duty construction, the rosd-hvsslns ksss
and solid ssevssy that surround you in every
Pontiac. Yet Pontiac's the nimblest heavy
weight you ever managed-and your Pontiac
dealer can show you more than Gx dozen
advanced ngineering reasons why! Pontiac has
gone all out to make this genuine big car the
best behaved beauty that you ever had the
pleasure of bosaing. You'll find Pontiac's excIu-
sive Prseision-Toveh Controls make steering and
braking the surest, easiest you've ever expe-
rienced! Park it, cruise it, try it in stop-and-go
traffic . this is driving the smaller jobs can't
duplicate!
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13

ed whisky. Reuse Of bottles fol
liquor is a federal offense, but
il the price Of legal liquor is high
enough it is a sure bet that many
such bottles will reappear with
contents not exactly up to stand
ard.
Any liquor on which the tax is
evaded means a revenue loss to
government. II more Montana
legislators had lived through the
prohibition period and observed
the corruption and lawlessness
that evolved during that noble
experiment, they would not be SO
naive as to think that the factor
of moonShining and bootlegging
can be ignored in setting up a
liquor tax structure.
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13
PONTIAC GIVES you
TO ] INCHES MORE WHEELRASEl

The small cars extend bumpers and tenders to
look big-but Pontiac puts the extra length
where it counts-between the wheels! Pontiac's
longer stride brueksss HE bumps insseod -
riding on them. And this extra. length shows up
inside, too, in stretch-out space for six footers.
Add to Pontiac's bonus in length its all-new
suspension system and you have Al exclusive
L~svs-lins Ride no car at any price can surpass
-. and a built-in sense of direction and security
that will spoil you for the smaller cars foreveri
The Sidney herald., 1957-06-13
PoNTlAc'S PERFORMANCE TOPS
THE BEST THE SMALL CARS CAN
OFFER-BY A WIDE MARGIN!

Not one of the smaller cars can measure up to
Pontiac Performance. Whether you judge a
power plant by engineering statistics or on-the-
road performance, Pontiac's Strato- Streak Va
stands head and shoulders above anything in
the low-price field. Your Ponfoc dsaIss will b
hoppy 10 show you q complete foess-ond-hsvres
eomporson-then an eye-opening test drive in
traffic or out on the highway will supply all the
heart-lifting proof you need that Pontiac has
separated the men frnm the hoys w.ic1 10 !
to performance
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THEEvENING STAR A-e
Washington, D. C. ss
THURSDAY, JULY 10. 1857

quilted. although some 81 members Of
the Senate voted to convict him because
his offense was regarded as so OUT
rageouS.
The acquittal took place. as recall.
on January 81. 1881. On the day after
that acQuittal. both Houses of Congress
began to make clear what the law Of
contempt should be. They wanted to
make certain that the acquittal of
Judge Peck should not be interpreted
by the other Judges of the District
Court as a charter of offenseS, or a
license to UnitedeStates judges to pun
ish citizens for contempt beyond the
confines of the court and the duties Of
the court
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts,, who
was then a member of the Senate, is
to be honored. as one Of the great
Senators in our history. So great a
lawyer was he that no one can challenge
him. Daniel Webster reported from the
Senate judiciary Committee the bill
correcting the decision of acquittal The
Dill passed the House on the 28th Of
FEBRUARY. and on the I'd of March it
was reported by Senator Webster to
the Senate. 1t was written into law.
So, on the authority of Daniel Web.
ster. of the Senate and James Blu
chanan. of the House, the Judiciary
Committees of both bodies acted; and
the act of Congress written into the law
in 1881, and embodied, as have shown,
in the existing law, in title IS of the
United States Code, declared that the
power OF the judge to punish for con-
tempt was confined to those contempts
which interfered with the processes OF
the court. with the carrying on of the
business of the court. and that when an
offenSe was committed outside those
boundaries it could be prosecuted only
by indictment, and not by any contempt
proceeding such as the present Attorney
General would like to institute by trans
ferring the matter to the civil branch
of the Government
Clearly we are dealing with a funda-
mental right of all Americans, regard
less of creed. regardless of color regard
less of race. regardless of any contin-
gency when we are talking about the
right of trial by jury and when criminal
offenSes are involved To my mind.
there is no answer to it, and because the
American people know that there is no
answer to it. realize why mail has been
coming to Members of the House and
Senate day after day demanding trial
by jury.
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jury trial to living person who becomes
involved in q question of criminal con-
tempt.
If regulatory DEGREES affect natural
persons. or a defendant who demands a
trial, and if a criminal statute is at
issue. then it is clear that under the
Constitution and the laws of the United
States the right Of trial by jury cannot
be taken away.
Are we to turn back on the road to
freedom. and make the individual, the
fiesh-and-blood citizen. the pawn Of the
court and corporations on the one hand,
and, on the other hand, of the Attorney
General and the courts. who may or
may not be acting under the misappre-
hension that corporations are persons.
with the same rights and privileges as
natural persons? The Constitution and
the Bill of Rights. like the Declaration
of Independence, were both written by
men who were defending natural per-
sons. The regulatory laws providing for
injunctive relief in the regulation of
trade and commerce deal with corpora
tionS
should like to invite attention to a
rather interesting and dramatic situa-
ton which developed once in this coun-
try. back in 1881. I do so because I
wish to cite the names of the persons
who were involved in drafting the ear
liest statute defining the powers of
judge to punish for alleged contempt
committed beyond the precincts of the
court.
A Federal judge by the name of
James H. Peck was sitting in the State
Of Missouri. He tried a case in which
his Judgment met the dissatisfaction of
counsel for one of the litigants. That is
a situation which must develop in every
case. But after the decision had been
rendered. and after the appeal had been
taken to the next higher court. the law
yer wrote public article denouncing
the judge.
The judge. affronted by this denuncia-
ton, hailed him into court and punished
him for contempt. He sent him to prison
and ordered his disbarment as a member
of the bar.
A member of Congress from the State
of Pennsylvania by the name of James
Buchanan. afterward to become Presi-
dent Of the United States, acting for
the House Judiciary Committee, brought
impeachment proceedings against the
Judge. The poor man was aged and de-
crepit, and almost blind. His physical
condition aroused the sympathy of
members of the Senate. and he was ac-
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NOW we TURN Senator O'Mahoney
20 the bill. Under the bill the
right of trial by jury will be taken
away from all persons charged with such
crimes unless it is amended to preserve
That right, namely. the right of trial by
jury, because the bill, both in part III
and part Nv, attempts to clothe the At
torney General with the authority to
pflng about the punishment of persons
SO charged without trial by jury. In
every instance the section authorizing
the Attorney General to bring a civil
action includes as defendants not only
persons whom the Attorney General be-
Aeves are about to commit these Of
tenses, but also any persons who are al
legged to have already engaged in the
promolted acts or practices. -.
The amendment which the bill, if en-
acted, would work upon our criminal
code and our civil code contains un-
imaginable pitfalls. The bill is directed
not only against the South: the au-
thorlty proposed in the bill could be ex-
ercised anywhere, wherever the crimes
defined in paragraphs first, second, and
third OF the old laws occur-and they
may occur anywhere. Then, under the
bill, If enacted, the whole procedure
would be changed; and-more important
than anything elSe-citizens charged
with crime would be deprived of the
trial by jury which. under the Constitu-
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away from home, and when
my mother could not find
me, she knew exactly where
l was. l was in one of the
colored homes, eating dinner
or breakfast. 1 enjoyed it.
| enjoyed their company. and
l think they enjoyed mine. 1
have always helped them, and
will help them again. They
are my friends.
"Modern-day carpetbag-
gers. if you please. are not
interested in the welfare of
either the white or the Negro
people in the South, but are
interested only in the politi-
cal advantages they can gain
on election day."
Day after day, charges are
being made in the Senate
debate that the Southern
people cannot be trusted to
give fair trials by jury to
Negroes. This is the iusti-
fication claimed for passing
a law making it possible to
try, through the device of
con tempt" proceedings.
those persons accused of of
fenses growing out of dis
puteS over voting eligibility.
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ton of the United States and the laws
Of the United States, they are entitled
to have
The argument in support of these at
tempts 10 take away the right of trial
by jury is based upon the contention
that Congress has already authorized, in
many other statutes, government by in
junction. without right Of trial by jury.
We are told that there are % such laws
An examination Of these statutes reveals
the important fact that, without excep-
ton, they seem to deal with the regula-
ton OF commerce and with the activities,
not of natural persons, but of artificial
persons known as corporations.
No corporation can exist unless it has
been brought into being by the act of
some government. Governments, like
corporations. are the creatures of men:
but men are the creatures of God. That
was the message which Thomas Jeffer-
son and the other Founding Fathers de-
clared to the world when they wrote the
Declaration of Independence. Men were
to be the source of all authority which
could be exercised over them economi-
cally or politically; and government was
to be their instrument to preserve
freedom.
But here we have a bill which. if en-
acted, by the elimination of jury trials
would institute in the United States of
America something which has never ex-
listed in law in this land. at least not
since the appointed governors of the
King of England sought by the Stamp
Act and other ernanations from London
to deny the American colonistS the free
dom they insisted they possessed because
they had come from England, where the
doctrines of freedom had been wrought
out, sometimes in bloody struggles
against those who wished to use arbi-
trary power, from the King and the
courts. Here we come directly to the
old-in fact, the eternal-issue of
human rights versus property rights.
The Constitution of the United States
was drafted for the protection of human
rights. The drafterS were thinking of
individuals, of living human persons.
when they provided for trial by jury.
They made an exception in cases of i'm
parchment, because impeachment in
wolves. not crime. but failure of an Off
Ger properly to discharge the duties of
office. OF course, the officer impeached
was to be tried by the Senate-jury
enough, perhaps.
Mr.. President. the trainers of the
CONSTITUTION were SO careful to protect
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the human person against conviction
for crime except by jury that even
in providing for the trial of treason
they wrote it down that mo person
shall be convicted of treason unless on
the testimony of two witnesses to the
same overt act, or on confession in open
court"
1t seems to me that this declaration
found in the Constitution is very clear
evidence of the desire of the great men
who wrote that document to make GER
tain that there should be in the United
states no government or no official so
powerful as to send any citizen of the
United States to prison for a crime with
out trial by jury.
Shall we now, under color of a civil
action on the equity side of the court.
break down this shield which for CEN
turtles has been the only protection of
living persons against the authority or
the pretended authority of govern
ment? Everybody knows that when
ever we attempt by law to violate the
Constitution we imperil free government
itself, because We set precedent which
can easily be followed by future Con-
crosses and future administrations.
Once we set foot on the path that
strayS away from freedom to the arbi-
trary power of those who sit in the seats
OF the mighty, then we are Straying
away from the principles which brought
this Government into existence-a Gov
eminent which must be preserved in all
its pristine grandeur as a free Govern
ment, If We are to pretend to be leaders
of the free world against arbitrary power
that is now exerting itself by all sorts
OF chicanery and deceit and force to over
come the free government that men seek
to establish everywhere. But the oppo-
nentS of jury trial under this measure
say that Congress has frequently given
the Attorney General power to sue on
behalf Of the United States for relief
by injunction. Such persons, am per-
suaded, overlook the distinction between
offenses which are classified as NAHUM
per Sc or nlGla prohibita, offenSes which
are in themselves evil or offenSeS which
are wrong only because they happen to
be prohibited by law.
In the former category are the GRIM
inal offenSes for which no man can be
punished unless tried and convicted by
jury. The latter offenseS which arise
only because some regulatory law pro-
hibits them do not have the same sig
niflcance as the crimes Of force and vio-
lence which are evil in themselves and