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Show Womens group seeks answer to problems A springville group of women concerned with the workings of government recently re-cently wrote to Senator Frank E. Moss; to Representative King and Representative Peterson Pet-erson and to Senator Bennett at Washington D. C, asking for an explanation concerning certain governmental regulations. regula-tions. The group headed by Mrs. C. A. Spafford, asked the question why tons of subversive subver-sive literature is being sent to the schools of the United States from Moscow and Red China free of any postal charges. They stated that each package contained from five to 15 publications on "Youth Leadership and Training Operations Op-erations for Communism." In a recent year their letter stated stat-ed seven million pieces of such literature were cleared through New York and tons now through the other ports of entry. The women got their information from the congressional congres-sional Record, they reported. The women's letter pointed out that such material should cerning communist and other foreign political and cultural publications which stated in effect that after a careful study by the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and the Postmaster General, it was found that the Eisenhower program of intercepting the mail had no intelligence value and that it interfered with efforts ef-forts to improve East West relations and so it was discontinued discon-tinued March 17, 1961. be labeled "Political propaganda," propagan-da," but none of it is. They stated than none of the material, mater-ial, not even first class mail, sent from the U. S. to Russia, is delivered without being opened and examined. They further told the congressmen con-gressmen that in view of the raise in postal rates, they felt it unfair to tax U.S. citizens for their own destruction. Answers In answer to the letter Senator Sen-ator Bennett replied in part: "I share your concern over the use of U.S. mail by the Communists Com-munists in propagandising the American People. During the Eisenhower administration, a program was in effect of intercepting in-tercepting all Communist propaganda pro-paganda from abroad and preventing pre-venting its distribution via the mail. On March 17, two months after his inauguration, President Kennedy rescended, by Executive order, the policy which was then in effect. As a result Communist mail can now be sent at will through the United States mail. Senator Moss replied to the letter, stating that the matter had been given extensive study by President Kennedy and he enclosed a lengthy statement by the general counsel of the post office department con- |