JEHOVAH'S SERVANTS DEFENDED 15 —this being in accordance with the declarations of the Watch Tower publications.” See also Douglas et al. y. City of Jeannette et al. (May 2, 1941), _. F. Supp. —., by the United — fama — for the h ages Rat of ennsylvan aring a peddling an wkers’ ordinance invalid as applied to Jehovah’s witnesses. The fact that literature is claimed to be sold matters not, In Commonwealth (Borough of Clearfield) v. Reid et ux, (June 30, 1941), ... A. 2d —_, the Pennsylvania Superior Court set aside a conviction of two of Jehovah’s witnesses who were convicted of alleged sclling and offering for sale literature upon the streets in violation of the borough ordinance. The ordinance was held invalid as applied, and the court said: “The historical reference to ‘pamphlets’ in that [Lovell ¥. City of Griffin, supra] opinion and in other opinions of that court (Schneider v. State... ; Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88, 97; . . . ete.) is not limited to ‘pamphlets’ which are distributed without cost. Every student of history knows that the ‘pamphlets’ referred to by Chief Justice Hu in his opinion, and by Mr. Justice Sutherland in Grosjean case, were not for the moat part circulated gratis, but were distributed to subscribers or sold. They ‘were the immediate predecessors of weekly newspapers, ... Under Queen Anne pamhlets arrived at a remarkable degree of importanes. ever before or since has this method of publication been used by such masters of thought and language. Political = of any d of authority was almost entirely con: to ganopiole If the Whigs were able to command the services of Addison Steele, the pedia Britannica, Vol. 20, Pamphlets, pp. 659-660. ‘The a is popular as an instrument of religious or poitical controversy in times of stress. It is relatively in nsive to the purchaser, and to the author or the publisher it can be more timely than a book bound in eloth or leather, and it gives author and readers the
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