National Affairs: Eye-Blacker

Before Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino in Brooklyn, N. Y., one day last week stood David Weiss, 17, U. S. Junior Communist Leaguer, charged with soliciting alms for textile strikers.

Declared the judge to the prisoner-at-the-bar: ''What you need is for me to have you in a two-by-four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated hereĀ—a mongrel and a...

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