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...review of five regiments at Fort Clayton, recently branded a "suicide post" by rambunctious Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American (TIME, Sept. 30). Following the review, the President pointedly wirelessed Major General Harold B. Fiske, commander of the Panama Canal Department who had sued Publisher Rounsevell for criminal libel and won: "Will you publish to your command my recognition and appreciation of the fine soldierly bearing and appearance of the troops at Fort Clayton...
...answer and solution is obvious. The libel laws must be made more stringent. The prosecuting attorneys must be made liable to them. Newspapers must not be excused from them by the formality of an adjective. Idealism must be abolished...
...railway systems, one State-owned and the other private, are to be merged and if so, whether under the state or private capital. None of these issues definitely crystallized in last week's general election, a depressing orgy of muckraking, boos, catcalls, rubber razzberries, fist fights, suits for libel and bombastic broadcasts...
Fortnight ago the self-styled "rambler and gambler" found himself again in court on a charge of criminal libel. The charge: that an epidemic of suicides at a nearby Army post had led him to compare that post's commander to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler. By direction of the court, Publisher Rounsevell was acquitted (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week Defendant Rounsevell went on trial again-this time for an editorial stating that the commanding general of the Canal Department was incompetent to investigate his subordinates. The prosecution demanded that an example be made to prevent "future sadistic libels...