Show WALTER WINCHELL Officials Start Probes Official probes often start with witha a bang and end wIth a hush Various Various Various Vari Vari- ous charges and promises explode in a brilliant burst of oral fire fire- works The rocketing headline whizzes across the public e eye e and then vanishes into the darkness of oblivion Public officials might be jolted into action by spotlighting spotlighting- investigations investigations th that t were promised but never started started and and probes that were started without being fin fin- Current Communist exposes help alert the nation But stronger weapons are needed In the fight against subversives sub Our treason and sedition laws should hould be strengthened so so that the sedition trial farce will not be repeated The Communist tactics now being spotlighted and many of the Communists Communists Communists Com Com- mentioned were probed by a Congressional committee a along along along long time ago Yet that didn't halt their subversive rampaging Not one Communist ended up behind bars after all phases of Communist subversive activities were made public by a congressional congressional congressional committee committee in in 1931 Several months ago ngo Cong Congo McDowell McDowell McDowell Mc Mc- Dowell of the un-American un activities activities committee announced he would soon begin public hearings I dealing with fascism in America The legislator stated the evidence was obtained b by investigators working in the deep south in the far west in Texas Chicago Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- troit and Philadelphia r McDowell McDowell Mc Me- Dowell also added this evidence involved cd some pretty important people Ten days later McDowell McDow McDow- ell about faced He pigeon-holed pigeon the probe and go gobbled bled his own promises by We Ve have found nothing to indicate there are any Fascists in the U USA S A worth investigating Why McDowell suddenly changed his mind remains a mystery Tal Take e it from me there is plenty of evidence of native Fascist And its it's a cinch for legislative legislative legislative legis legis- to find it They can just reach out and dust off the facts The Dies committee uncovered unco this evidence and then I promptly buried it The un-American un activities committees committee's committees committee's committees committee's com com- files are packed with neglected neg neg- page front-page exposes Tho The promised legislative probes of black the steel monopoly monopoly mo mo- and real estate lobbyists have all gone down the drain It is not only inefficiency and downright own i ht skulduggery gery that at result in mal making tragic farces of so many investigations The indifference of the people is a mighty ally of public servants who neglect to serve the public |