FREE SPEECH IN WAR TIME.

This paper presents a sketch of concepts regarding freedom of speech in the United States, as an example of civil rights. In particular, to show how free speech is abridged in war time. Such treatment may lead to consideration of how social scientists can maintain freedom of communication about their special studies today. To make discussion profitable, we must agree to use common terms with more precise meaning than men in the street usually give them. For that purpose, the author ventures to submit a diagram showing the relation of ideas employed in this paper. Although such definition may not prove acceptable, its clarity enables critics to determine just how the logical framework should be amended. In 1914, the society of American Sociological Review devoted its meeting to considering the topic freedom of communication. Since that time the United States engaged in a world war and now has entered a second phase. New instruments of communication have been developed new rules controlling their use have been established.