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CONSOLIDATED
PRESS CLIPPING
BUREAUS
CHICAGO, U.S.A
431 SO. DEARBORN ST
MAIN OFFICE

CINCINNATI OHIO POST
SATURDAY JUNE 10 1939

Cincinnatus
Alfred Segal
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We Take Up A Matter A Man's Right To Stand Firm On The Constitution
  It has to do with Mr. Dowers again.  Mr. Dowers is the one of whom Cincinnatus spoke the other day:  He carried a sandwich board up and down in front of the Republican Club, giving his ideas on P.R. and relief.  He was arrested; he was fined $2.
  But, it appears, the friends of civil liberties aren't disposed to let the matter drop there, even though the fine was no more than $2.  Some essential American rights are involved and so, yesterday, the Civil Liberties Union, through Attorney Alfred Bettman, asked for a new trial for Mr. Dowers.  Judge Hess said, No!  He hadn't really punished Mr. Dowers for carrying the sign in front of the Republican Club, he explained; that, he said, was Mr. Dowers' constitutional right.
  Mr. Dowers' sin was in picketing with the sign after the police told him not to, the judge reasoned.  Mr. Dowers said to the police, I'll keep on doing this until you arrest me.  It was then, according to the judge, that Mr. Dowers violated law and for that he was punished.
  Ho, ho, -laughs Cincinnatus, this is something new:  A man may stand on his constitutional rights until the police order him not to; then, if he continues to stand on the Constitution, he becomes a violator who deserves to be arrested.
  So Judge Hess seems to set the police above the Constitution and to establish a dictatorship of the police here, in fact.  Presumably, Cincinnatus can say what he pleases in this column, in accordance with his constitutional rights.  But the corner policeman, as representative of the dictatorship, may any moment come to his desk:  "Cincinnatus you'd better not print what you've written about Judge Hess,"  If Cincinnatus tells the police-man to go to hell ("I am standing on my constitutional rights, sir") he may be arrested if Judge Hess' opinion stands.
  If this seems far-fetched it is no more far-fetched than Judge Hess' opinion in the case of Mr. Dowers who on a sandwich board was only exercising the same rights Cincinnatus does in this column.
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Bouquet
  Cincinnatus always has had a grand respect for people (particularly young ones) who go to school at night.  He himself is too lazy to go out even to the movies at night, and he is dragged to the theater.  He prefers the comforts of the sofa.
  He guesses that if he were young it would be even more difficult to make himself go to school at night.  (For. if you go to night school there is no truant officer to compel you; it is the discipline of your own character that sends you there night after night for four years.)  So Cincinnatus would probably grow up an ignorant oaf.
  He looks at night school people with awe as at some prodigy of nature; only by the compulsion of their own characters do they keep it up.  There are dances to go to rather, but their self-discipline says, No, no, it's school for you tonight.  There are tempting shows but the stern voice of duty says, No, no, not tonight.  Tonight is school night.
  So through four years and Cincinnatus guesses that at the end of these years a night high school graduate has more than one who has gone to school in the day:  He has acquired command of his character.
  Cincinnatus tosses this bouquet to the 1939 class of the Cincinnati night high schools which graduates at Music Hall tonight.
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Biggest Father
  Cincinnatus is told that the father of the biggest family is being sought in order that he may be honored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at Coney Island, June 18 (Father's Day).
  Yes, says Cincinnatus, the man deserves everything.  He is an epic figure in the city.  Not for him is late sleeping on Sunday; the multitude of his children see to that.  (It's hard enough for people who have only one child to sleep late on Sunday.)
  Yet he bows humbly to this fate of fatherhood.  He knows well enough that sleep for him is only a process of making himself ready for the next day's work by which to earn shoes for his many children; sleep is no luxury.
  Shoes are wearing out wholesale every month.  It's enough to buy shoes every month for one child; this man buys them by the dozen.  He must be the most courageous of men in a world of people who have come to tremble at the thought of more than three children.  At times he probably remembers the old saying: "One father can support 10 children but often it occurs that 10 children can't support one father."  He hopes prayerfully it won't be true in his case. 
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Dom Pedro II
  "Did you ever hear of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil visiting Cincinnati?" inquired Mr. Sig Freiberg.  Mr. Freiberg's remembrance of this was brought up by Cincinnatus' account of the visit to Cincinnati of King Albert of Belgium in 1919.  (Cincinnatus was interested in royal visits on account of royal George coming home to the old colonies.)
  Yes, said Mr. Freiberg, Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, wore a Prince Albert coat the day he visited the Eighth District School, which stands on Eighth street between Mound and John.  Mr. Freiberg was eight years old then and 65 years have passed since.  The emperor was being escorted by Mr. Peaslee, who was the superintendent of schools. 
  Mr. Freiberg brings this matter up as a matter of accurate history since Cincinnatus implied that King Albert was the only monarch Cincinnati ever took to its bosom.  Dom Pedro then was an emperor who seemed as solid as any in the world; he was regarded as a model among rulers until the young of Brazil took up republican ideas. In November, 1889, the Brazilian monarchy fell and, an exile, Dom Pedro, died in Paris in 1891. Sic transit.
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For Ya Ching Lee
  Cincinnatus hopes that people will do something about Miss Ya Ching Lee, the Chinese girl, who is visiting here. People have been wringing their hands on account of China, which really isn't of much help to the afflicted of China. Miss Lee hopes there may be more than despair in their hands, that there may be some gifts of money for the hungry, for the homeless, for the hurt of her unhappy country. Cincinnatus commends Ya Ching Lee to all the hands that have been so full of despair.