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...presented the arguments against the sales tax. As his State applies it, he said it "falls on the thrifty and efficient and on the shiftless equally" it is difficult to fix equitable rates on different classes of taxpayers; it falls on consumption and thereby on necessities; it does not distinguish between extractive and mobile industries (West Virginia coal mining companies particularly chafe under...
...Pastures, Pulitzer-prize-winning Negro folk-play by Marc Connelly (TIME, March 10), might not be produced in London. Reason: since God is impersonated on stage, the play is sacrilegious. Playwright Connelly's comment: "I am mildly surprised to find the Lord Chamberlain's office unable to distinguish the difference between orthodox sacrilege and a simple miracle play...
...longer fight. But when a populace becomes indifferent to its freedom, it begins to lose it." Liberty, once a matter of politics, has now become an affair of individual psychology. "Would you be free? Then first become civilized. To understand this bit of ancient wisdom is to distinguish the true liberal from his vociferous imitator." The struggle for freedom, says Author Martin, is a conflict of cultural values. Romantic ideas such as Rousseau made popular and hoped to make universal are as inimical to the cause of liberty as any other form of intolerance. Tolerance and liberty can prevail "only...
...Robert Williams stock company at the Plymouth theatre Monday night with the "Criminal Code" was not particularly auspicious. The play itself was good enough and the mechanics of the production were also thoroughly adequate. The acting, however, was distinctly inferior. There were none of the subtleties or refinements that distinguish the artistic from the dull and obvious. And when it comes to being obvious this particular company is even ostentatious...
...Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start the War, were powerless to prevent the War, but once drawn in ... prayed and fought for victory and peace. . . . You have no right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. . . . I know a great number of chaplains. . . . I do not know of one who does not hate war, who does not hope for the outlawry of war, who does...