Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 171, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 27 August 1947 — Page 3

stittiVAN, Indiana OPEN FORUM " j DAILY TIMES Letter from ministers and others, Interested In local option, are especially Invited (or this column. , : : Letters and Interviews of suitable nature and proper newspaper interest are sought for thli column, the editor reserving- the right to censor or reject snv article he may deem Is not suitable and proper. Articles of 500 words or less are preferred. All articles sent ,( the Open Forum must be signed and , address given, In order that the editor may know the writer, however, the writer's nsme will not be published If requested. ' Articles published herein do sot necessarily express the sentlment of the Daily Times and this paper may or may not agree with statements contained herein.

SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 1947

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', Dear Editor, " Irt my reply to the Miss Whipstitches of Sullivan (Times-Aug 19),. re 'the Committee on UnAmerican Activities, I offered a POSSIBLE solution to, the undemocratic tyranny of this com.inittee. The three suggestions offered at that time are some which are put forth by certain fearful , liberals. Eut I offered them more in a playful attempt to; stem the holy indignation of the Miss Whipstitches; personally I cannot see how they could work. The following is, to me, the only course where the UnAmerican Activities ' Committee is concerned. Enact it out of existance. Is this drastic? Of course it is. But so is the cutting-out of a cancer. ' The Miss Whipstitches will ; cry: "Oh no we need some kind of committee with all this, subversion going on." Dp we? Perhaps. But is it possible to combat one kind of lui-Americanism with another brand? ;. Have the Miss Whipstitches considered the obstacles in the way of such a committee's operating democratically? The very nature of the committee its very purpose is a repudiation of democratic principles. Its existence implies that one person is saying something that another person doesn't like, and that tha second person is going to shut up the first person. Is this democratic? Must the principle of free speech go out of the window simply because I oppose what this man is saying? When the .Constitution-makers laid .down the rule of ' free speech, they didn't mean just that speech that

we like to hear they meant ALL speech. Some time ago, in another letter to the Times, I quoted from John Etuart Mill's "On Liberty." The passage is worth re-quoting: "If all mankind minus . one, were of one opinion, and only one person were o the contrary' opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing tha one' person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind... If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunty of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose . . the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with rror ... To iefuee a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure it is false, is to assume that THEIR certainty is the same thing as ABSOLUTE certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibality.". In short: Are you so "right" that you must silence all or any of your opposition? Sincerely, Puttyputt"

Hccsier Insurance Benefits Drop Indiana families received $16,814,000 in. life insurance death benefit payments in the first half of this year, compared with $17,084,000 in the corresponding perio.d of last year and $11,883,000 in the first half of 1941, it was reported today by the Institute of Life Insurance. The number of policies becoming claims in the first six months was 11,822 which compares with 18,557 in the corresponding period of the previous year and 17,087 in the first haif of 1941. Of the aggregate payments in this state, $11,136,000 was under 4,783 ordinary policies; $2,823,01)0 was under 1,424 group life insurance policies; and $2,855,000 was under 11,615 industrial . insurance policies. For the nation as a whole,

$677,204,000 was paid as death claims under 659,118 policies in the first half, compared with $659,102,000 under 671,561 policies in the corresponding period of last year and $507,869,000

under 563,080 policies in the first six months of 1941., Of this year's payments, $471,851,000 was under 179,296 ordinary policies; $101,569,000 was under 50,628 group

policies; and $103,784,000 was

under 429,194 industrial policies, entered in a show at Wichita Douthitt of Oaktown; Sally Pope

brought home eight ribbons live ot buinvan, it. i.

Doss Score 100 Per Cent ALEXANDER, Kan. (UP) The eight cocker spaniels which Roy A. Healzer, dog kennel operator,

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HOSPITAL. NOTES Admitted Aug. 26: Mrs. Hallie

Admitted Aug. 27': Mrs. Beulah

Rust of Shelburn. Dismissed Aug. 26: Mary Jean Anderson of Sullivan, R. 5; Victor Courtney of East Harris St.

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