Show ZANY NO MORE 51 il lartin arl dies grows in U S esteem As ism investigation bears fruit D 1 LANCASTER 1 rn union washington mashington the only I 1 V thing tha that counts in these investigations sti gatio n s is what gets into the bat papers as was martin di dies ies credo A e inor moment rient 11 he e opened the first nis his bearing ring before investigating un committee ii 1 aati activities cities and kropa within ittin a few weeks most of ftp nation was laughing at strip teaser gypsy rose lee bm geed red to bare all all forthe for the commit and little 0 shirley ley temple was abaied ee lplez a boll communist un st decoy by one mes dies witnesses fit witnesses nesses amr mr it seems stran strange ge therefore that ucb i of 0 america is is laughing on the ler r side of its face today there e still plenty of people who think committees early investigations he e ere 8 farce and dies admits he g few crackpot witnesses but peculiar combination of circum inces has placed the un ameri aikaa committee commett e front and center the washington stage this month having submitted a port norl on its second years incesti aton the committee is asking con for or a new appropriation heres eres why it happened first you have the correct com lealion dation of men and times dies is le 38 year old oid texan with heavy fiands as and yellow hair whose sole claim lim to fame after seven lean years h congress was hi his s penchant fo for r speech ech making and a hatred for iams isms two fro other men instrumental in this were new yorks nazi hating asp ssamuel pS samuel amuel dickstein and vice pres iea t jack garner dickstein used a have a habit of baiting hitler wn the house floor and rea reading ding ing lists of citizens whom he ac ased of being nazis his fellow aws M thought he was doing the race bore harm than good and the house lint like to be embarrassed so a rules committee of which dies as a a member decided to silence destein tei stein by stealing his thunder jack garners place in this affair mysterious but possibly very im being a fellow texan and friend of dies he might have an a an opportunity for poking the d hot spotlight of publicity into ial wing sing elements of the new deal a paving the way for his own can cy in 1940 by 1938 the shirt crowd black ss Is brown shirts silver shirts fc were getting to be a dirty shirt cowd when martin dies read lout Bunds fuehrer fritz kuhn his I 1 shirts and his camps his blue eyes saw red another reason was the lafollette civil liberties committee which had been accusing industrialists of employing spies to prevent their employees from organizing to provide an offsetting influence many congressmen thought somebody should investigate subversive influences finally there was the dies mania for publicity its rumored that he called off an important hearing last autumn because the world series was monopolizing the headlines and hes not ashamed to admit it the good that this com committee cittee does depends on how many people read the testimony in newspapers who in the world is going to bother about the official record I 1 paying 5 a day and traveling expenses for each witness eats up a appropriation like a cat laps up milk which is one reason the committees first year was a perfect model of what congressional in investigations be dies had no counsel no operation cooperation co from the administration and no reason to expect any but he did get publicity and last year an alarmed citizenry demanded that these un american upstarts up starts be ferreted out and shot at sunrise result A appropriation dies fight a world series but he used a much bigger competitive news story as a stepladder to fame that story was world war II 11 the communist nazi pact last august gave him new stature for it proved the swastikas swa were blood brothers to the hammers and sick les since the war started america has tried to lock its gates against foreign propagandists and has begun wondering if martin dies something of a prophet suddenly the nation has realized that despite his blustering and apparently misdirected efforts this red baiter has actually hung quite a few scalps outside his wigwam in 1938 1933 he pointed the committees guns westward from washington and helped mow down 45 democratic congressmen dies charged that frank murphy failed faced to carry out his gubernatorial duties in the flint sit down strike back in 1937 and the resultant rumpus contributed to murphys Murp hys defeat when he sought reelection election re even the administration has started to operate cooperate co president roosevelt called it sordid procedure when the committee published names of government employees on the mailing list of the american league for peace and democracy the inference being that these people were communists but a few days later dies charges against communist earl browder took shape in a federal indictment bunds fuehrer fritz kuhn lime lighted by the committee was sent to sing sing by new york district attorney tom dewey the case of harry bridges radical west coast labor leader was shouted from the housetops until madame secretary perkins agreed to a hearing on charges that bridges was an undesirable alien A decision is now pending glaring at labor martin dies accused the unions of harboring foreign agents he now claims one of the largest unions is quietly purging its ranks he was partially responsible for the recent house investigation vesti gation of the national labor relations board in which unsavory reports were aired dies put a stop to the federal theater project which he said was alive with communists he also talked congress into halving the appropriation propria ion 0 of senator LaFollett es civil liberties committee which h is working the other side of the rsm ism street even his most severe critics now a dmit admit martin dies is coming of age though they still notice a lot of rough edges that need polishing oblivious to criticism dies has s made his report to congress and started campaigning for more funds heres his view of it iles hes p proved roved conclusively the existence of isms iams in in the united states stales therefore the next logical step is to get at the cause of these radical movements to this end he would ask congress tor for funds to interview sharecrop share crop pers laborers sailors dispossessed farmers bootblacks and all other unhappy americans ahr coir coi within ear shot it would be the biggest show on earth with martin dies as ringmaster |