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All nerhts of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938 Now this tyves me a 5n of I can Start by CPtiSor ing fry ggnsarinq anyone MAE WEST AS WHIPPING GIRL We have been following with grave trepidation the news stories about the Federal Communications Commission's Jan. 14 bawling- out of the National Broadcasting Co. for its Dec. THE QUESTION.

Which would you prefer, to marry a stage door Johnny or a chorus man in your show? If not, who else? THE PLACE. Winter Garden. THE ANSWERS. (By cast of "Hooray for Hclene Ecklund, chorus: "I'd prefer to marry the stage door 12 broadcast of the Mae West-Don Ameche-Charlie McCarthy radio stunt. One of the numbers was a skit called "Adam and Eve," and this was the one that most displeased the FCC and its chairman, Frank R.

McNinch. Finding the broadcast "far below even the minimum standards which should control the selection and production of broadcast programs," Mr. McNinch and his fellow commissioners proceeded to read the NBC a long lecture on presenting radio programs which would offend nobody. From there the FCC went on to tell how the Federal Government is licensing the wavelengths nowadays, under a six-month license system, and to make only a slightly veiled threat of much license revokiner if anv station puts any Johnny, because a girl doesn't know what she's petting when she marries one of these strange and unique individuals, and mystery and uncertainty make up the spice ft S8- 1 Hums fc. Chairman Frank R.

McNinch, Federal Communications Commission that is in life. A girl wouldn't have to think of money, because the stage door Johnnies have it." Hene Damur, dramatic understudy: "Neither. more "suggestive, vulgar, immoral" features on the air. I 'j Chorus men are likable, and stage door Johnnies always strive to please; but I want to marry a playwright, who can write the lead for me and star me in a play. Of course, I VOICE OF THE PEOPLE i Titan givt nam mm sJJrtit uilh your letter.

ill uUbholJ bath reqnett. V3 That is the way government censorship gets its start. Bureaucrats itchy for more power pick on some such thing as this Mae West broadcast. Anybody who objects to the bureaucrats' first attack can be counter-Progress of attacked with charges of sympathizing Censorship with indecency. If the bureaucrats win this first round make censorship on moral grounds stick it will be a short step to government censorship of some orator like Father Coughlin on the plea that many of his remarks are dangerous to public order.

From there, the bureaucrats' progress to a point where the political Ins would bar the political Outs from the air would not be difficult or to the point where radio licenses would be passed around as political favors. At least two opinions are possible on the Mae West episode. This country is broadly divided between funda- i i I i fx 11 I 1 A T7 SAYS CONTEST IS RIGGED Manhattan: Here's a letter you won't publish. Now that The News Beautiful Child Contest is on, I'll bet it will be like every other one. mean a four "star writer, a man like Russel Crouse, Moss Hart or Yip Harburg." Marie Vanneman, chorus: "I'd prefer the cho rus man.

The men in the chorus are making a start in the theatre, just as I am. They are ambitious, hardworking young men, and they speak my own language. I know that many Vina imi -fria'Yi people think that chorus men are sissies, but they'd better not say that to the chorus men." Dagmar Nilsson, singer: "It meniausts ana evolutionists. 10 ine evolutionists, is a ii cl tJ myth, and the human race came up by who Should slow stages from lower forms of ani- Censor Radio? al A Eve can hardly offend the evolutionists. We don see why Mother Eve should be particularly revered by the fundamentalists, for that matter, since to them she is the woman who brought sin into the world.

But that is beside the question. The question is Who should see to it that dirty, immoral or profane words or thoughts shall not enter American homes and the ears of children via the radio? There are several legitimate censorships of the radio now in operation. One of these, and the most effective, is the American parent, who can simply tune out programs wouldn make any diiterence whether the man was a member of our chorus, a stage door Johnny, or some one connected the theatre, not jre- ith jS. nan. fj not with as long as which in the parents judgment the children shouldn't hear.

Parents can't keep children from hearing bad talk on the streets, but they can censor Censors Now Functioning was a real and I loved him. TALK MARATHON Bronx: Here's some food for thought. We are always patting ourselves on the back because the United States is supposed to be a purely democratic nation. Yet th) Southern Senators find it lots of' fun to filibuster against the anti-lynch bill. Some democracy! IRWIN A FRAN.

JOBS WITHOUT TAKERS Brooklyn: A sick householder gets a summons to clear the snow from his sidewalk. He is half-crippled ani in bed and willing fr pay for the work. No such help is available, yet a near-by poolroom is crowded with menu' boys on relief, whose chief job seems to drinking imported wine. FRANKLIN AVENUE. DETOURING THE RED TAPfi Manhattan: I was much gratified by your editorial "We're Annoyed With the Post Office." The main post office troubles are insufficient help, incompetent help, incompetent management and buck passing.

It is useless to hand com-pjaints to the local bureaucracy. You-may get action you send complaints in writing about post office service to Hon. James M. Mead, Chairman House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, Office Washington, D. or to Hon.

Kenneth Mc-Kellar, Chairman Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, Senate Office Washington, D. C. MENTOR. BINGO Manhattan: The Police Commissioner says he is starting a war against vice. Very well, then; lit him begin with the church on thd corner.

My husband and I are en relief, but the money that the investigator says should go for milk he spends on those bingo games that the church is always having, and I think it's a gyp, anyway, because he never wins. WEEPING WIFE. BROTHER TURNED SOI It Manhattan: Your trouble, Disgusted Sister, is as nothing compared with mine. Your brother has always been a pain in the neck to you. Mine used to be lovely, but now he has turned into a green-eyed monster.

Sorrow's crown of sorrow, sister, is remembering Before I could love any one, he'd have to be a real, manly man, the type that a girl can lean on." Mary Ann Parker, chorus: "A How come a baby who has an Italian name and whose father is a laborer never has a chance? Do they have to change their names? DISGUSTED ITALIAN. LEVIATHAN R. I. P. New burgh, N.

I was a quartermaster on the S. S. Leviathan in the days of her glory and spent many happy hours under the command of Commodore Hartley. It seems too bad that such a faithful old servant as the Leviathan should be sent to her death in England's junk yards. Better it would be if the sea should take her in its arni3 and carry her to its deepest canyons.

She was the greatest ship that ever sailed the North Atlantic! HOMER CARLAND. BIDS CENTER ORGANIZE Brooklyn: I'll tell you what we must do. Puzzled Clerks, with your distrust of both the big labor federations. We must organize, too, we 50,000,000 or so members of the middle class, against the radical labor unions' puny 7,000,000, who are trying to sovietize and enslave the masses and also to dabble in politics. We will call our union the Middle Class Protective League, or some such; and well show them who 13 boss here Stalin and anti-Christ, or peace and Christian civilization.

TRINO JUPILUNA. COWBOYS FOILED Westchester: You girls, Baby and Mickey, shouldn't let those whistling, wise-cracking drugstore cowboys bother you. You'll find them everywhere. Such boys only prove by their conduct that they are nothing but dirt-monkeys out on the loose. Their spree ends when some girl comes along and shoves their whistles and wisecracks down their throats.

I'VE DONE IT. HERE'S ONE ANSWER, BILL Westchester: The only thing I can suggest for Boiling Bill drinking mother-in-law problem is that Bill teach the old lady the Big Apple. Then when she starts wavering around nobody will realize that she's oiled up. FRANK TROTTA. chorus man of the type we have in this show.

Our young men are I I If all college grad- VSr i'J uates. I like the 1 tsr tu. affects plaid sox, odd trousers, loud neckties, and the inevit their home radios. The Legion of Decency, which stirred up public opinion and partial boycotts against indecent movies a few years ago, is another legitimate censorship agency, because voluntary, not compulsory. A third censorship agency is the sponsor of the commercial broadcast, who pays for the programs and inserts his advertising into them.

If any sponsor feels that a program will prevent sale of one of his spools of thread or sticks of gum, he can be depended on to purify the program pronto. The radio public, too, can indicate its wishes by postcard, and does. The FCC should keep its hands off. Its censorship is not needed, and will gradually build up a government stranglehold on the radio if permitted to grow along its present lines. Our radio is the world's only free one.

Freedom Even England's is government run. If we Of the Air wan to keep our democracy, we must keep our radio free. We believe the stations should now be regarded as having a species of vested interest in their licenses. Uncle Sam should act only as ether wave traffic cop. The best way we can think of to clip the claws of the FCC would be to broadcast the daily debates in Congress.

There would be plenty of listeners, and the FCC would not have the gall to try to bar from the air any remarks any Congressman or Senator might make. The main thing is to stop government censorship of radio in its tracks, now. able Heidelberg haircut. When one of these beau-brummels comes along, I always look a second time." Virginia Vonne, singer: "Although I have no interest in marriage, and am concentrating on a career, and becoming a real singer, being of the opinion that a career and marriage cannot mix successfully, a girl 0 could do a lot worse nowadays than to marry one of the manly chorus men we have ia this show." happier thing3. S.

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