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fron nee ne Nag se p” . «MARCH 8, 1948 “gions in the contemplated “Code of Ethics” laid before the National Asso- ciation of Broadcasters last September forbade dramatization of “controver- ’ sial’’ issues. The chairman of the com- — mittee that drew that code was Robert D. Swezey, Mutual's vice-president and general manager. Although the code has not yet been adopted, Swezey's network has already shown what the clause could do. For one thing, it could decide that lynching is contro- versial. This is the only explanation of Mutual’s action that makes any sense ~ at all. And it does not produce a feel- t ing of confidence in the kind of secu- ; rity preached by the actors reading ry lines so beautifully on Mutual’s micro- phones, ” . -+~ Arnold Perl has been censored in ) the name of a network's freedom to { choose its format—if belatedly. The i seating is discounted. The fact that he was forced to delete the. names of. 4 eet ee ed vee ae j 'd Greenville, South Carolina, is put ~“ down as merely incidental. We must 4 | -- cue opening the program was changed ~~ from Perl’s original, “a deeply Ameri- can theme, blending America with a Negro spiritual,” to just “a deeply ‘American theme.” And maybe this scene, cut out of an early version of - the script, should also be taken as a grand joke: | . think it simply funny that the music” Boy (at scene of lynching): Pa, Pa! Hold me up a little higher. I can almost see his face. Pa, Pa! (Peak) Lookit, lookit—look what they're doing to him ay. how! i? Music: States the killing. Then de- scends and goes out softly. Narrator (very quietly): This hap- pened in America—in 1947... Do listen to Mutual’s reading of the civil-rights report. And next time you hear broadcasters talk about free- _ dom of expression on radio (I expect to hear a lot of it this week in Wash- ington, where the industry is asking for permission to editorialize), remem- ber that Perl’s lines about what hap- pened in 1947 did not get on the Mu- tual air in 1948. fact that his script made lynching nau- | Jp towns like Minden, Louisiana, : SAUL CARSON 31 BANDWAGON Nee eee eee UE EaIEmnamnee Canetti * ” A Room with a View In Panama [Representative J. Par- nell} Thomas said he had gleaned “a clear mental picture of un-American activities in the Canal Zone” in an in- vestigation conducted from a hospital bed. — From the Virginia-Pilot. ” Let the Chips Fall... We are trying to protect Ann Arbor and surrounding communities from the “Junker” type of used cars by selling ° wr all cats of that type to out-of-town | iva dealers. — From the Ann Arbor News. Word to the Wise Thoughtful Negroes in the-South- are aware of the uatimeliness, so far as they ate affected by the four-pointed Truman civil-rights program, of seek- ing to drive it through Congress at this fine As Senator Russell and other Southern Democrats’ in Congress. Rave pointed out, Negroes in the i ath shipped postpaid insured on day received. eck, money order: P. _ 8 Ss. 287 14th Avenue, Newark 3, N. I would be the principal sufferers if laws repugnant to Southern white peo- ple were to be enacted at this time. From the Albany (Georgia) Herald. Patriots All President Truman was urged Thurs- day to seek funds to repay motion- picture and other industries for losses suffered in depicting the American way of life abroad in the fight against communism. — From’ the Detroit Free Press. . Matter of Taste To top off the repast [the $100-a- plate Jefferson Day dinner} the dessert was bombe atomic, sauce melba and a demitasse.—From the New York. 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