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This article focuses on various political developments in the U.S. Nine months ago public-utility officials were assuring Senators that they would give "full cooperation" if the Federal Trade Commission instead of the Senate would investigate them. Now they have defied the commission, convincing Commissioner Edgar A. MeCulloch that they have information they do not want the people of the country to know about. Josiah Newcomb, counsel for the Joint Committee of National Utility Associations, says the conflict "was perhaps inevitable when the commission began its investigation of the separate utility companies as distinguished from their associated activities." Professing atheism is a dangerous business in the State of Arkansas. Charles Smith, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, is serving a twenty-six-day term in the jail of Little Rock because his attacks upon the proposed anti-evolution law which comes up for a popular vote at the next election were "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace." A Little Rock judge refused to allow him to testify in his own behalf because he would not importune the Deity to assist him in truth-telling.