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...present restrictions. The new regulations could be made more realistic by raising the limit on campaign expenses and making the candidate directly responsible for money spent on his behalf. Failure to observe the law should constitute grounds for expulsion from Congress. A revised law should also make it a misdemeanor to contribute to a campaign fund without informing the candidate and receiving his written acceptance of the contribution...
Reform Through Labor. A feature of Lo's system is collective responsibility and collective punishment. A neighborhood may be punished for a misdemeanor committed by one family. Fishermen are forced to guarantee each other mutually, in units of from five to 15 fishing boats. Peasants must join Peasant Associations, which are collectively responsible for the behavior of individual members. In state factories and mines, Comrade Tribunals, composed of Communist workers, conduct "cases that are of educational significance and are related to labor discipline and work regulations," i.e., workers suppress workers. At a recent mass trial at Tenckuang football field...
...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South (TIME, Dec. 12), is a double-edged blade...
...opinion will force substandard hospitals to upgrade themselves or shut down. "I wish it were possible," he added, "to hang a scarlet letter above the admission desk of every provisionally approved hospital in the U.S. and Canada. Nonaccreditation, by my standards, [is] criminal, while provisional accreditation marks a grave misdemeanor on the part of those responsible...
...matter: it is an official notification to a student that he is in serious danger of separation from the College. Students on probation may neither hold scholarships, compete for prizes, or represent the University. The measure is a just and effective instrument when used to correct academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front of their houses every night--an act that the University has, in practice, permitted for years--probation is degraded to a position slightly higher than a reprimand for jay-walking...