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Show Bruekar9 Washington Mqet Dies Committee Bares Activities Of Radical, Communist Groups Unseen and Malignant Growths Are Being Bred Into Our National Life by Agitators Who Seek to Destroy Our Government; Spread Poison in Labor Ranks. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU WASHINGTON. "Unless something is done to curb radicalism in my section, there is going to be an awful clash and a lot of people are going to get hurt." So spoke Fred W. Frahm, superintendent of police of the city of Detroit, Mich. And his statement was under oath, for he was giving testimony before a committee of the house of representatives, a committee charged with exposing to view the activities of certain groups in this country. It was the statement of a man who is serving a city in an official capacity and who has gone through 216 strikes which he asserted were the direct result of agitation by the radicals to which he referred. He looks for more in the near future and added, by way of emphasis, that "these communists and radicals do not want to seek adjustment of differences between labor and management; they want to make trouble all of the time." Through a number of weeks, the house committee before which Mr. Frahm testified, has been taking testimony, gathering evidence, digging here and there in its effort to uncover the activities of subversive groups and expose them to pubflic view. It has been the contention of the chairman, Representative Dies of Texas and some other members of the committee, that most of us are not aware of the unseen and malignant growths that are being bred into our national life. They are out to destroy our government, to bring to us the type of thing that has made Russia famous. Mr. Dies is a sincere and honest legislator, and he is trying to do the job assigned him, even when several of his committee members have sought to balk his efforts. But there is much more to be done in the direction of exposing radicalism and the chiseling, cheating, cowardly efforts the agitators put forth. Charge Communists Active In Government Offices What I am wondering is why Mr. Dies has not sent his investigators into the very ofTices of the federal government, itself. Or, if he has done that, as it is gossiped about, then why shield anybody? Why not turn the spotlight of publicity on the individuals who want to destroy the American system, the American form of government, American tradition, the American profit system of There has been doing business? much talk in the last several years about the operations of communists within the very walls of the government, men and women who are bor: ing from within as termites destroy lumber, and we ought to know the truth. If they are within the government, they ought to be exposed and chased out of the western hemisphere; if they are not operating as is gossiped around, then their names ought to be cleared. In any event, 1 hope the Dies committee goes on and shows the cancerous nature of groups that do not believe in our system, whether they be Russians, or Germans, or Italians, or British or what have you. It has been the favorite device of ihe'radicals and their henchmen to characterize any official who attacks them as being a subject for the insane hospitals. Their game has been to laugh people out of court whenever an etlort was made to tell of some of the things the agitators were doing. Many will recall an investigation by a house committee several years ago where the witnesses were laughed down and a courageous superintendent of schools from Gary, Ind., was made to look foolish because of the charges he made. Well, if my opinion be worth anything, the folks who were the suckers in that play were the supposedly intelligent members of congn-M- j who made up It was they who the committee. fell for a trick of propaganda, father that was the case, or the members of tli;,l committee were just plain dumb. Lewis Cannot Break Grip Of Communists on C. I. O. Concerning the strikes about which Mr. F'rahm testified, I want to boast that I wrote of communist participation in those strikes when they were happening. I had several letters thereafter, calling me crazy and describing me as a red baiter. Mr. Frahm now has put into official records the facts that must be obvious to any real American, and he further has expressed the opinion that John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O , cannot break the grip that the communists have on his organization. That may be the reason why Mr. Lewis has been so silent the last several nior.lhs. Maybe lie sees that the la-if :ini of which he was so proud has become a Eariraiituan iii":is'er that is slowly swallowing him, physically large as he is. n Aluminum, Once Toy of Royalty, Marks 50 Years of Practicability I ICS!::"' iif Stf--S Co-Pionee- By JOSEPH VV. LaBINE Fifty years ago this November, in a little building r" Ifounfi in Pittsburgh, Martin Hall MA. tyj tmd and Charles There is, of course, the danger that a lot of people will make foolish Arthur Vining Davis tinkered and unsupported statements about with a dyspeptic electric genred activities, thus throwing doubt erator, a few carbon elecon the really serious phases. That trodes and a carbon-line- d always seems to happen. Unwitting"pot" for an "electrolytic ly, that type of person which shouts bath." and shouts and has no proof creates the impression that all cries of One of them closed a "wolf, wolf," are meaningless. But switch, the electrodes sputwhen a congressional committee current began to has the courage rather, when its tered, the chairman over objections of some of pass through the mass in the its members has the courage to pot and a new industry was bring the stuff out for public' exam- born wheh was destined to affect ination, there must, indeed, be a virtually all of the nation's populabasis for it. tion. Their discovery: Aluminum. For more than half a century sciThe tragedy of the thing is that the labor movement as a whole will entists of the world had sought to sulier a severe setback. The fact produce it cheaply enough to rethat the radicals have grabbed con- move it from the category of an trol of the automobile workers' un- emperor's tableware to a practical Napoleon III had sunk a ion means that they have "cells" metal. in other groups also, and that these fortune trying to produce it for lightcells slowly but surely will be weight trappings that would give on its foes. In spreading poison and trouble. The his cavalry an edge 1855, the king of Siam had selected the seize upon agitators unthinking, a bar of aluminum as the most unthe foreign-borwho are not steeped in our customs or love of country, usual object at the world's fair in or upon elements that have been Paris, had a watch fob made from to badly treated, and they will use it, and bore it proudly back Bangthese Innocent victims to carry out kok. Today, as it prepares to celebrate their destructive plans. its golden anniversary, the alumiC. I. O. Being Used as Tool num industry furnishes jobs drect-l- y for 51,200 workers with an annual For Destructive Purposes of $68,000,000, the Aluminum payroll There will be much more labor a trade group of some association, trouble. You can count on that of the 200 manufacturers of more The Communist party representa- than 2,000 aluminum estiproducts, tives will never allow the slightest mates. it provides jobs Indirectly, chance for creating trouble to es- for 150,000 more, the industry cape them. They are determined to claims. convince labor that it cannot trust the managements, they are en- Metallic Reincarnation Yet it is probably impossible couraging the breaking of agreements between labor and manage- to make an accurate estimate, says ment to the end that employers will CapL Kenneth G. Castleman, sechave no faith in the leaders of labor, retary of the association, for by far and they are using the national la- the major tonnage of virgin alumibor relations board wherever that num produced becomes a permacan be done to give official voice to nent part of the American scene, labor troubles. That fact is chiefly since the "scrap" is highly recovresponsible for the position which erable by remelting and returns oft- the C. I. O. group has taken in opposition to proposals for revision of the labor relations act. William Green and the American Federation Day-Pictur- e of Labor are urging revision of the C. I. O., having its tentalaw, but cles in the labor board, obviously does not want its grip broken. It has been known for a long time that the C. I. O. was being used as a tool for destructive purposes, but the agitators and emissaries were sly and careful. They covered their tracks. Such information as leaked out was promptly discredited by the very reds who had done the job and they discredited any individual who repeated the story by laughing at his gullibility. However, there is one instance which cannot be denied. The clerks in the rural electrification administration organized a union and aflili-ate- d with C. I. O. It was to have social as well as fraternal aspects. There was a dance scheduled. Negro workers attended and insisted on inter-racia- l participation in everything that was done.' They said they were told to do so by representatives of C. I. O. After the dance was concluded, so participants have reported, a phonograph record was procured and the bellowing notes of "The Internationale," communistic anthem, blared forth. ha v Election Day f It feoae on beiv-i- there. I Ainsuort at a. t t i va F4 V- - JiM Ruth Fi In bis r printed, meets tl cms. f m iiuwS feetutifu profi'iaJ with your crochet hook and string and add charm to jt" home with crocheted access of Be that match! Interesting to this and inexpensive, too, you .rech!' make either chair set or pr? alone or make a pillow tj tiler, l matching scarf ends. Can't "tog; a see what attention they'd j maid ti an eaV at a bazaar? Pattern 6168 cor l' charts and instructions for aj, A!BS tuna.' fi a room ing the set; illustrations of ft stitches used; materials needed" al u4 To obtain this pattern, send cents in stamps or coins - Us olv a preferred) to The Sewing Cir" an Household Arts Dept., 259 W jts end ""? of v n St., New York, N. Y. J att-- (cc- -t : :m t. i ' en a dozen times to make competition for the new metal produced. "The aluminum foil which wrapped your morning cigar may have gotten its original start in life in a cast touring body of the now extinct Franklin automobile or one of the famed 'White Steamers,' " Castleman says. "Sold as "scrap from an automobile boneyard, it might have been restored to usefulness successively as a cooking utensil, an automobile piston, a washing machine or vacuum cleaner part, a bit of a permanent wave machine, a hair curler, a toy kite, a souvenir calendar-bacor even a set of false teeth." In the short space of 50 years is 10 (aluminum, commercially, years younger than electric light) it has assumed fourth place in volume among metals, although it has had to battle for its position with other materials commonly employed for thousands of years. The first twinkling dawn of a bright future probably appeared on a February morning in 1886, when Charles Martin Hall, then a youth just out of Oberlin college, rushed from his crude, woodshed laboratory to the home of his former chemistry professor, crying, "I've succeeded, at last I've succeeded!" In his hands were some pellets of the first aluminum to be made by the electrolytic process which still produces all the nation's aluminum. k Headaches, Heartaches But Hall's experiments had been made in the laboratory. There was no assurance they would work on an industrial scale. He couldn't find a backer, and it was two years before Capt. A. E. Hunt, George S. Clapp and a few other Pittsburgh men decided to take a gamble and invest $20,000 in an experimental, or "pilot," plant. Hall's process had so many "bugs" that for the first year or two the little plant was hardly more than an experimental laboratory itself. Arthur V. Davis, another young college boy who had been hired as night superintendent, now recalls the early days with a twinkle in his eye. "Hall and I roomed at the same house, and each of us worked a hec- - tic shift," Davis, today the outstanding figure in the aluminum "Something industry, reminisces. was always wrong with the plant. The machinery would break down, the current would fail, "It's rather an amusing thing that for a while during the first year the only time we were able to produce any aluminum was when the plant broke down and the bath would harden, or 'freeze.' In hammering this black, dirty mess out of the pots, we'd usually come across a few pellets of comparatively pure aluminum. For the first year we kept the metal in the office safe, because it was worth $5 a pound at that time, although today the price is listed at 20 cents." But after they had produced their lightweight metal, Hall and Davis slowly awakened to the surprising revelation that hardly anybody wanted it. True, there was some little sale for mustache combs, ladies' fans, cigar ctses and a few similar novelties popular in the nineties. But to make their orphan industry successful, these pioneers knew they must get it into fields of common use. Like cooking utensils, for instance. Aluminum is light, conducts heat evenly and does not contaminate food. Today nearly 400,000,000 aluminum cooking utensils have been made. But in the early days it was impossible to get a utensil manufacturer to give the metal a a lahorat II Aluminum is used in countless forms sheet, tubing, forgings, extruded shapes, impact extrusions, foil and wire, to name a few. This workman is pouring small sand castings. rm K' 1 eil com ji8elan Pattern G1G8 Spend spare moments gr-in- teit theca. Tl e Mr. Pre ful" vati even bh jrpw: tboi , $nd Cliff - tern: Side-- That Everyone Who Tales Aspirin Should Stud) Drop a Bayer Tablet in water to disintegrate In 2 econdi reody to "go It COS ana ere.'; wo1 iW ; Joan I- - henct Ho- - to work" rapidly had art.. ; FV eZ WOE jo jjj I Si 1 i ' J ., 1 . d' her 1 'I mu likc ' This Quick Dissolving hea: He Propertj of Genuine Bayer Aspirin Explains Fast Relief ter ; He Has the Evidence headaches 4r in g ,V L-- a TOG; to' PUL "Si Q( ot U: 11 c H the fi ot w ei o rnt alone. pr to t 1CC I O FOR 12 TABLETS 2 FULL DOZEN 2Se wi sk French Slanguage The French language surpass-all other languages in slang cabulary, says Collier's. sk Wl J th ! i OUT OF SORTS! f Her le Amazing Belief Conditions Duets SluaoH" W.-- -- ts Western Newspaper Union. J l sk ar tt tt u "ffljv & RiskKutSM&S . h rK!)ln. InvWumimt. Ipendll rick bmdMhra, blllntu fpelu, W wxHawd Without . . ! BSWLs J.. " W.VJ Y So .. . .km .... ,eBU f i Ul. P rotund the puronane reir. priee. MB imi'i Tablet toder. Get ft; a: It ft ALWAYS CARRY FOR IlKDIGBTlOU MERCHANDISE rrrm U'" Sj alu-minu- personalities. P f' I"" a and or tie pains of rheumatism or neurita, keep the above picture about g nine Bayer Aspirin in your mini t Especially if quick relief is you want. For the way a Bayer Tablet woib j in the glass is the way it works wto you take it. It starts to dissolve most at once hence is ready tt i "take hold" of the rheumatic pa or headache with astonishing sped , Relief often comes in a few minuta Always ask for "BAYER Aspirin" nevor ask for aspirin ! rne If you suffer with one-eight- h 1 OCCl try. -- a cettras sKU'h d H' 1 iT 4ir t(6mat Jn "As a matter of fact, I made the first aluminum cooking utensil myself," says Davis, and he still has the original article a teapot on display in his office to prove it. "We had to build our own sheet mill and eventually a cooking utensil plant to get them on the market at all. Then many of the stores refused to stock them, because they were already making a profit on A favorite American politmore familiar goods made of other Dies Committee Exposes ical game is having your picmaterials. So we peddled our wares ture taken while voting. Methods Used by Radicals house to house. That was where The Dies committee record is full Here's a preview of three the 'working my - way through of testimony about methods empoliticians as they will apcollege' sales approach was born. One of our collegiate salesman, inployed by the communists in their pear November 8. Above: devious borings and destructive Sen. Millard E. Tydings of cidentally, was Huey Long." tactics. The record tells, too, of Maryland. The same story was true of elec" how many innocent appearing ortrical conductor wire, which now conganizations, created for an allegedly sumes of the nation's aluuseful purpose, are captured by minum. Davis, after long travail, communists and used by them to succeeded in persuading a customer obtain money contributions to try aluminum cable and then for which no accounting ever is madt. found there wasn't a solitary mill And tragic, also, are the stories of capable of producing it. He had how the real leaders laughed at the the double trouble of keeping the suckers who gave moncustomer happy while building a ey, laughed in the secret recesses of cable plant in a whale of a hurry at their hideouts about the soit and the same time. To make aluminum easy minds of Americans. generally But another session of congress available, the founders of the indusis coming. The Dies committee will try themselves had to find new uses for the metal and often turn out the make a report and probably will fabricated products themselves. ask an appropriation to enable it to From their research laboratories go on. We will see who opposes have come the discoveries leading that appropriation. There probably to streamlined trains; new oxide finwill be opposition from two or three ishes which opened up wide fields In members of the committee itself, architecture and construction; aluand we will see who they are. If minum foil to wrap foodi and Inthey are outspoken in their opposisulate buildings; weather-resistintion, I suspect most people will aluminum paint, and countless alknow why. loys which make the metal adaptaI think this condition has reached ble to most any' purpose. the point where attention should be The American aluminum 1 paid to it by the federal governindustry ment. It Is now hot on the trail of produced 292,000,000 pounds of virgin ML XI.. .&.. .irf.f r frtS' soifle alleged German spies who if ingot last year. Yet it Is within the of persons now living that a were seeking American military seGov. George H. Earle of Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton memory certain young man in Pittsburgh crets. So why not make a thorwas winning Ed) Smith of South Carolina Pennsylvania once brought from London a ough job of it and lift up the lid the Democratic senatorial knows he'll pair of but isn't opera glasses with frames of that hides various o'Iht kinds of nomination win, when this picture very happy about it. as a precious present for his whose '.M.rk, to tuy tiii.vr), is Throughhe could have had much more iir.;'rtv.:s u Ast.u.Can was taken at the primary out America, election bride; day but aluminum was so platinum, election. On November 8 he finds news !:...; Ml l:fe? much more photographers will vote Wfsti-iagain, siehinsr hane. waiting at the polls for unusual-a- nd Nf p .rcr Union, they were both the same price! fully. Ysv ' lor n hard-earne- i IT Industry's Golden Jubilee Recalls Early Struggle Of "two-by-fou- Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. mowandChcrir K Must Bi uuvy to lyAJverthed k BUY ADVERTISED GOODS e fi t t h i i |