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...baiters tried last year with a spate of bills, all of which ended up tucked away in a committee file. But with the coming of Fall, the seasonal outcry against The Great Conspiracy forced at least two of them out in the open again. The Ober Law has gone through the House and now lies before the Senate; the Dorgon-McCarthy Bill is still in the House...
...Ober and Dorgon-McCarthy bills are not produced by cynics like Wisconsin's Senator McCarthy. Their authors are confused men who cannot quite figure out where the menace is coming from. All criticism looks like danger to them, and the louder the criticism the greater the danger...
...such implication of the Court's decision is that it may encourage many national, state, and local legislators to conjure up subversive control of bills of their own such as the Maryland Ober Law and its pending Massachusetts imitation. Another is that administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
...State House has finally come out with a sensible approach to this year's glut of bills to curb Communism. The Joint Committee on Rules recently urged the Legislature to defer all this legislation for a year of study. If the House does not push through the Ober Law Bill as the substitute for the Rules Committee's suggestion--the loyalty oath bills, the teacher control bills, and the bill to outlaw Communism will probably die a quite death...
April 17 was the big day for Beacon Hill anticommunists. The legislative program copied from Maryland's Ober Law by the Special Committee to curb Communism was up for consideration before the Committee on Constitutional Law. The latter committee was so impressed by the issue of Communism that it held the hearing in Gardiner Auditorium, anticipating a large crowd. But when the big day came, spectators filled only a third of the seats...