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ARK.] about applicants for the positions covered by the statute. It cannot be doubted that the information would often be of real value to the employing school board. We are not convinced that either the federal or the state constitution compels a school board to engage its teachers without first inquiring about the matters that the act requires to be disclosed.

A similar question was presented long ago, in McAuliffe v. New Bedford, 155 Mass. 216, 29 N.E. 517, where a policeman complained of a city regulation that prohibited him from soliciting money or aid for political purposes. In the familiar words of Justice HOLMES: "The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman the city may impose any reasonable condition upon holding offices within its control."

The appellants are not entitled to demand that the University and the Little Rock school board employ them without making any inquiry about organizations to which they have belonged within a period reasonably close to the date of the application. Such investigations are the usual practice among private employers, and, as the court pointed out in Garner v. Board of Public Works of Los Angeles, 341 U.S. 716, public employers are not denied the privilege of making similar inquiries. From that opinion: "We think that a municipal employer is not disabled because it is an agency of the State from inquiring of its employees as to matters that may prove relevant to their fitness and suitability for the public service. Past conduct may well relate to present fitness; past loyalty may have a reasonable relationship to present and future trust. Both are commonly inquired into in determining fitness for both high and low positions in private industry and are not less relevant in public employment. The affidavit requirement is valid."

The prima facie validity of Act 10 is pretty well settled by the holding in Adler v. Board of Education of New York, 342 U.S. 485, where the court sustained