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...series of majority opinions, the U.S. Supreme Court redeemed itself from the obloquy which fell upon it last year after a decision written by Justice Stanley Reed, which prevailed in a 5-to-4 decision. Then the Court had upheld city ordinances denying the obstreperous sect called Jehovah's Witnesses the right to peddle their literature without a license. The Reed decision held that free speech, free press, and freedom of religion may, despite the Bill of Rights, be limited-"to times, places and methods . . . not at odds with the preservation of peace and good order." Wrote Justice William...
Month ago, an Army court-martial at Monterey, Calif, sentenced slight, bespectacled Herbert Weatherbee, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, to prison for life. His crime: refusal to obey a superior officer who ordered him to salute the flag. Last week the American Civil Liberties Union publicized Weatherbee's story, adding it to the growing list of persecutions suffered by the anticlerical, religious group which refuses to bow before any "image" or to fight in any war save Jehovah...
...Witnesses take their name from the twelfth chapter of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Their leader, the late "Judge" Joseph Rutherford, taught that they "must be witnesses to Jehovah by declaring His name and His kingdom under Jesus Christ." They claim half a million followers in the U.S., several million abroad. In peacetime their nonconformity got them deep in trouble with local and state authorities. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that their children must salute the flag in public schools, in 1942 that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard...
...Waters of Sugar Creek. Among the book's most successful sections are those in which Utah-born Bernard DeVoto describes the exodus of the Mormons from the time they were driven from Illinois. The flight from Nauvoo ("The city of the Lord God Jehovah King of Kings. ... In February, 1846, it was fallen-that great city") is memorable. "Acres of ice" floated in the Mississippi. "The ferries were jammed with men, women, children, horses, oxen, cows, swine, chickens, feather beds, Boston rockers, a miscellany of families and goods hastily brought together in the fear of death. The boats dumped...
WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court, ruling that freedom of the press and religion had been abridged, today tossed out Texas court convictions of two mem- bers of the Jehovah Witnesses religious sects on charges of distributing literature in violation of city ordinances...