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...that religious freedom, along with free speech and a free press, can be limited, despite the Bill of Rights, "to times, places and methods . . . not at odds with the preservation of peace and good order." In the three cases up for decision, the Court ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses (a band of religious zealots who do most of their proselyting by peddling or handing out pamphlets from door to door) can be forced by any town they visit to pay a prohibitively high peddler's tax for the right to distribute their pamphlets...
...chary last week about expressing clear-cut opinions on the Supreme Court decision. But the press was outspoken. Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "If a small sect can be denied its constitutional rights, the way is open to deny them to other sects." Said the New York Times: "Jehovah's Witnesses suffer because they are a small and, to many, an obnoxious sect. The minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. . . . Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test, of the sincerity with which we cling...
Buried. The late "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford (Jehovah's Witnesses); in Rossville, N.Y.; nearly four months after his death. His followers had lost a fight for permission to bury him in his San Diego orange grove instead of a cemetery...
...spite of their undoubtedly good intentions, the film distributors who have ostracized conscientious objector Lew Ayre's may be classed with the school principals who expelled juvenile Jehovah's Witnesses for their religious views. It would be different if there were some doubt as to Ayres's sincerity. If he had suddenly been converted to the stand he has taken, or if there were any other reason to believe that his views were purely opportunistic, then there might be some justification for banning his pictures. But the fact is that nobody has denied his sincerity, and no informed person doubts...
Died. "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 71, founder and guiding spirit of the energetically anticlerical, antiwar, anti-State Jehovah's Witnesses sect; in San Diego. A tireless orator, he was a youthful admirer of Orator William Jennings Bryan, affected a high-standing wing collar, string tie, capacious hat. He was legal adviser to Sectarian Charles Taze Russell, leader of the "Russellites," took over the organization after Russell's death in 1916, renamed it Jehovah's Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released...