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Now about the ‘‘filthymind’’ business,. [ am sure I will not suffer by comparison. Since you have robbed my talk with you of its privacy I am absolved from secre- . cy. -Here in my house you started in some weeks 2go with your favorite theme, namely, that liberty for aliens going to the United States stops at the Statute of Liberty in New York Harbor. I asked you what that meant. You explained how men coming from Europe and other foreign lands were hampered by the laws, regulations, and public opinion of the people ¢f the United Statzs. Then I argued with you that liberty does not mean licens2. And you thea enunciated and defended vrinciples which could not be tolerated in anv respectable Community Your statements were of such a natire that my last word to you was: ‘‘Mr. Sverdsen, when you come to this house confine your remarks to elec- tricity.’’ Paragraph II Here you say: ‘'So far as I know”’ Answor: ‘‘Well you do not know very far for I klow th2 opuvosite tobe trae.’’ Paragraph lil. ‘I repeatedly assert- ec that [ projected the picture the pre- ceding righ..”’ Answer: That night yoa did not re- peatedly assert that youa had projected that bpicture the preceding night, but you fumed and r>ved and became very abusive. You would not listen to rea- sya whea you %new the object of my visit. From the principles you had erunciaiad some weeks before [ could n t tak: your judgment that the filin was all “igh: You forfeited your right *o that :laita when vou denounced the principles, Luws and public opinion wnich make for high morality in the United Staias. Paragrabh IV. You make a gratui- tols stacemznt when you say "'t think it must have been you who suggested th> idea to him, as had it been his own. original opinion he would most likely have approached me on the mat- ter lireet. Answer: [he ‘'lthink’ and the ‘'Most Lizely’? are weak foundations upon whieh to construct an argument. daragraph IV. eYou say. ‘lt would appear to me.”’ Answer: A weak statement. Prove facts and do not give mere impressions. DLcg : : y Paragragh V. Perfective’’. Answer: You ought to be big enough and learned enough and know enough Brglish to conclude from the context that ‘‘Porfective’”” was a typographical error as s proved from the ‘‘correction’ in todays issme, page 2, column 1. | have not stooped to correct the gramati- cal mistakes in your letter. My manu- sceript read ‘‘perspective’’. Same -paragraph: ‘ll must say that it 'was not in the presence of one witness that you mace your ‘‘statement’’ as you pleased to ecall it; but in the prosence of 5T 08l AY IS a ‘crowd,’’ and it is now known to every- body. Answer : The faet of the case is that I took but one witness with me to your establishment Aug.-18, 7 p. m. [ had p2en down alone to see you in the after- noon and was informed that you woull not be home till 7, p. m. As my time was limited [ took 2 companian with me so that in case I missed you ke would deliver my message. I told you you had promised when you went into the ''‘Mov ing Picture Business’’ that you wouid put on only good. delightful films. You knew why I was there and as [ said be- fure you fumed. raved and became abu- sive and said that vou would taxke sug- gestions from no on . You yelled so lcud that you aroused the neighb urhood. The pe pie did not know what I Lad said: hat you acted like 2 man bereft of rea- son. Ido not know whether or ot they were accustomed to such exbibitions. [he fact was1 made my protest to you in the presence of one witness znd you would not listen to argument. [f there was a crow:d then you drew it—not I. If everybody knows then vour advertisement from the stage that night was a fine piece of advertising. I did make a statement to onc gentle- man. That gentleman is a Go rerment Official and 1 made the statemont de- signedly. 1 made it with the axpress viaw of, effecting Supervision o»f your pictures. Thatis perfectly ethical. {he officia! had th2 right to know it. I was convinced that vou are not eapible of passing proper Juod:meat on thoe pro- priety of fitms Y »:i [orfeited t e right of expecting a liter:n- Jjudgmenrn: when yeu enunciated principles condemning as encroachments of man’s libe:ty the laws regulations, and public opinion of tne people of the United States that make for high public. morality, You sav! ‘‘Everybody who have seen the pictures agree that they ar: abso- luzely harmless and have no cor lection whatever with any filthy idea.”’ Answer: I deny that evervbody who has seen the pictures agrees tley are absolutely harmless. Pa . aeraph VI ''The last paragraph in your letter advising me to g've the veoble good clean shows seems to me (o suggest that 1 had anytime give unclean pictures.”’ - Answer; My statement that you should oive good clean shows scems (o suggest to you that I accuse you of giv- ing unclean shows. Your conclusion is broader than the premises. In other words if a father ig teaching bis caildren th2 Commandments of God and says that the fourth commandment is “"Horor thv fatber and thy mother’’ does this sug- gest to you that the children have not honored their father and their mother ? The logic is safe and ‘‘Grati= a%se- ritur gratis negatur’’ remains intact. Respecttuily JOSEPH W. DAILY. TELEGRAMS ST. CROIX STATION. Washington, Aug. 28th— Director Gen eral Hines tonight served a notice on the publie officers, railway officers and em- ployees and citizens generally, in Cali- fornia, Arizona, and Nevada, that the railway administration would undertake to restore full railway service with those States on and after seven o’clock next Saturday morning and all striking em- ployees who do nct return to work by that time, will find their places fllled. Anyone who interferes with, or impedes the use of the railway rroperty, will be dealt with for having committed an offence against the United States. This action coming after the announcement by four brotherhood chiefs, that the broth- erhoods would assist the railway admin- istration in operating the lines if the il- legal strike was not terminated, is the most drestic action ever taken by the Govt, in a labour controversy, Washington, Sept. Ist.—The high cost of living which the Government is now sceking to combat, is due primarily to the curtailment in the production of nearly all commodities, hoarding, pro- fiteering and inflation of curreney, the Couneil ¢f National Defence said in an exbhaustive report sent to Congress. The report was made public today by the Chaitman of the Council. Suggestions of the Council for meeting the situation in- clude stimulation of produetiop, repres- sion of hoarding and profiteering, im- provement in the method of distribution and marketing and dissimilation of more exact news concerning probable future national requirements. Gross profiteer- ing in the wool and shoe industries through conseious curtailment of produe- tion, was alleged in the report. Paris, Sept. Ist.—There has been much talk recently about the resumption of diplomatic relations bciween the Allied Powers and Germany. ommenting on the diplomatic situation ‘“‘La T.iberte’’ says: ‘‘The KEnglish seem inclined as soon as the treaty ‘s ratified to send, not a Charge D’affaires, but an Ambassador to Germeny and the French naturally wiil do the same. M. Paul Dutask has heen persistently mentioned for the post. M. Dutask was. secretary of the Peace Conference. Copenhagen, Sept. Ist.—Munich, the Bavarian capital, is under ma-tial law, the Deutsche 'Tages Zeitung of Berlin re- ports. Soldiers with marchine guns have been posted in the streets. London, Sept. Ist.--Reuter’s. The fol. lowing communication has been issued by the Polish authorities:—* ‘W2 captured the fortress of Bobrujak which was strong- ly fortified. We used tanks in support of the irfantry and took five hundred prisoners’’. Bobrujak is one hundred miles south-east of Minsk and is of great strategic importance constitutiug the western Cefence of Moscow and the Key to White Ruthenia.