OCR Text |
Show - : - ' . - 'ZANY ZANY ' ' NO NOMORE MORE - Martin Dies Grows in U . U . S . Esteem EsteemAs As 'Ism Ism ' ' Investigation Bears Beai's Beais ' Fruit Fru : 1 By HOWARD LANCASTCR LANCASTER LANCASTCRReleased LANCASTERBlcased LANCAST Newspaper Union iJnlon V I ) IUTASHINGTON WeEtern Western ( Released Blcased by "The The "TheV " < " UTASHINGTON - WASHINGTON / V V Vonly only ythlng thmg thing that counts coun ' m in mthese inthese these investigations mveshgatlOns rnvestlgathOflS is whatgets what whatgets v vgets " gets into mto the papers ' credo credothe credothe That was Martin Martm Dies the moment he opened the thefirst thefirst first ' hearing hearmg before his con congresslOnal congressional gresslOnal gressional committee Invesh investi investigating Inveshgatmg gatmg gating un American Amencan activitiesand actIvItIes actIvItIesand and propaganda propagandaWIthm propagandaWithin Within WIthm a few weeks most mo ; of ofthe ofthe the nation nahon was laughmg laughing laughingat at atlum athim lum him Strip Stnp trtp Teaser Gypsy Rose Leeoffered Lee Leeoffcred offered offcred to bare all for tor the commIt commIttee committee coir tee and little Shirlcy Shlrlcy Shirley Temple was waslabeled labeled a Communist decoy by byot one oneof oneif ot of if Mr D es witnesses witnessesIt It seems strange therefore thereforemuch thatmuch that thatmuch much of America is laughing laughmg on the theother theither other ither s de of Its face today T There ThereI Thereare Thereire I are ire st 11 II plenty of people who thlOk think thlOkthe thinkthe ) the committee s early invest mvest gabons gations gabonswere gationswere ga were a farce ( ( and D es aciImts admits he hegot heiot got iot a few tew crackpot \ witnesses utnesses Itnesses ) but buta buta a a peculiar pcculIar comb nation nabon of at circum circumstanccs circumtances cin stanccs ; tances has placed the un tin Amcr Amen Amenan Al ! can an sm sin committee commitlee front and centcr center centcron centern c con on ) n the Washington Washmgton stageTh stageTh stage Th ! s a month having havmg . iubmltt , ubmlttcd ubmittcd < a areport areport report on os-i os i - its second } ) ear s IDvcsh investi IDvcshgallon investiXation gallon Xation the committee is ask ng can con cangress conIress gress Iress tor for a new approprlat appropriat onIere on onHcre Hcre Iere s why it happenedFirst happenedFirst happened have the correct corn coin cornbmat cointnat < First , , , you of at and times DlCs Dies ishe IS ISthe bmat ) tnat on men the he 38 36 year old Texan TeJl.an TeJlan . with hi heavy heavyhands heavylands hands lands and yellow ye1l0w hair whose sale sole salec1a solela c1a la m to fame after seven lean years yearsm yearsis ears h b penchant for forspeech forpeech m " is congress was s speech peech ; making makmg and a hatred for forIsms forisms Isms Two other men in m tnlS tnlSaffaIr affair afTair were New York Yorb . s Naz hat hatRep ngRcp ngRep ne ng Rep Rcp Samuel Dickstein Dlckst.em Dlckstem . and VIce VIcePresident VicePresident Jce President Jack Jacb . Garner Garnen Dlckstem Dickstein DlckstemI Dlckstemused Dicksteinused e I used to have a nab hab tot t of baiting baltmg H tier tierI tierfrom tierfrom from the house floor and read nglong ng nglong I long lists hsts of ot citizens whom he ac accused accused cused of ot being bemg Nazis H s fellow fellowJews fellowJews Jews thought he was doing domg the racemore rimore race racemore more harm than good and the house housedldn houseditin hoididn jse dldn ditin t 1 ke to be embarrassed embarrassedthe Sothe So Sothe the rules committee ( of which v.hlch vhlch ithich . DIes DIeswas Dieswas Dwas les I was a member ) decided to silence silenceDrcb.stcm silenceDickstcm Dickstcm Drcb.stcm Drcbstcm . by stealing stealmg h is s thunderJack thunder thunderJack Jack Garner s place in m this affair affairIS ar , is mysterious but poss pass biy bly very 1m im 1mportant important portant Being Bemg a fellow Texan and anda nd a friend of Dies he might have haveseen haveseen hs , , seen an opportunity opportumty for poking pokmg the thered thered 1 1red red hot spotlight spothght ot of publ pubi city mto into intoleft mtoleft left wing wmg elements of at the New Deal DealI Dealthus Dealthus DC , thus paving pavmg the way for his ills own can candldacy candsdacy c ; I didacy dldacy dsdacy in m 1940By 1940By 1940 By 1938 19J8 the sh rt crowd-black crowd black crowdblackshirts crowdblackshirts crowd - - shirts brown sh rts silver shirts shirtsetc shirtsetc ts etcwere etc -were were - - were getting gettmg to be a d rty shirtcroscd shIrt shIrtcrov croscd crow crov . d When Mart n ci D es read readabout readabout re ad about Bundsfuehrer FrItz Kuhn bls his $ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ; _ _ _ ) . , S Sn n . r.ii rii , t _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 ' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A Al AC Ai l C i _ _ _ _ O Oc c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . ' - . 4 5 ' 4 L . < b _ _ _ 4 ; , n : / _ _ _ _ _ _ h0 . t.d td t.dh . h 0 | ) > > iKWMMfliitri , , _ - . liitri . , Mi.M.i.fi-n MiMi.fin Mi.M.i.fi MiMifi n . - N VK " n _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fefa & torff . J --.A .A - . * ' d&W dW & 6M & . . r rrri " -rri rri - rril . -l l - , - lirl iKWMMf- iKWMMf < , , . . . , ORATOR-Unltllte ORATOR Unltllte ORATOR-Until Until ORATOR - - Until he lee startedred started red baiting bcntmg bmtzng Martin lIIartln Marten Dies ' onlyclaim only claimto claIm claImto clato ' of ofthe the Demagogues cluli club clubttltose clubahose uhose ttltose ahose tin tm ten badge badgeIS 6ad presidency prestdency to fame was | 's s IS ' anamed aztarded aLwrded aLwrdedonly aztardedonly only only to those those congressmen con ressmera who who get particularly partecularly partIcularlytundy partecularlyntindy tundy ntindy iun I I shirts and his camps h s blue eyes eyessaw eyessaw e : 'es es ' saw redAnother red Another reason was the LaFol LaFollette LaFollette ; - lette civ 11 II 1 1 bert es committee wh whhad , chhad chhad ch I had been accus ng mdustrlalists industrialists ot of ofemploYlOg ofemploying employing emploYlOg spies to prevent 0 their theiremployees theiremployees ' employees from organizing orgamzmg To pro provide provide i ivide , ro vide an offsetting otrsettmg influence mfluence many manycongressmen manyCongressmen m ; Congressmen thought somebodyshould somebi somebishould somebody somebodyI somebodyshould should invest mvest gate subversive mflu influ mfluences influences in ences encesFinally Finally Fmally there thcre was icas \ as the Dies mama mania maniafor ma mamafor 3 It s rumored that he hecal1ed hecalled tor for publ c ty . called cal1ed off an important hearing hearmg last lastautumn 1 lastautumn , autumn because the world senes series serieswas seneswas ? was monopol zing zmg ring the headlmes headlines headlmesAnd headlinesAnd , , And he s not ashamed to admit It ItThe itThe The good that this committee does doesdepends doesdepends gg depends on hov ho v many people read readthe readthe ? d the testimony in newspapers V Vm Who Whom Whoin y - m in th the world is going to bother botherabout botherabout her about the offcial offclal record record'1 record1 ? ' ' Paying Paymg $5 5 $ a day and traveling e'C eC e'Cpenses e'cpenses ' ' penses for each witness eats cats up ui ' ' a a $25000 25000 $25 25 $ 000 appropnat appropriat on like a cat laps lapsup lapsup 1 ; up mIlk Wh ch IS one reason the I committee s first year was a per perfect perfeet ] er feet fect model of what congressIonal invest mvest in m vest gat ons shouldn shouIdn t be Dies had hadI hadno hadno I no counsel no co operat on from the theadmmlstrat theadministrat . _ administrat admmlstrat on and no reason to expect ex expect Pect any anyBut anyBut But he d d get publicity and last lastyear lastyear year an alarmed cit Clt zenry demanded demand demanded ed that these un American upstarts upstartsbe be ferreted out and shot at sun sunrise sunrise s rise Result A $100 100 $ 000 approprl appropri appropriation approprlatIon appro ] ' atIonDies atlon atIon Dies couldn t fight a world series seriesbut seriesbut sei but he used a much bigger competstive comp competI compets competIbve , tive bve news story as a stepladder to tofame tofame fame That story , .vas vas . , World War WarII WarU V II U The Communist Commumst Nazi pact last lastAugust lastAugust 1 August gave h m new stature tor for torIt forit It 1 ! proved the swast kas were bli blood bloodqrothers bloodlrothers lrothers brothers qrothers to the hammers and sicklas sick sickles si les las lesS lasS S nee nce the war started Americahas Amer Amerhas Amenca America Amencahas has tried tned to lock its gates agamst against agamstforeign againstforeign foreign propagandists and has be begun begun gun wondering wondermg if Ii Martin Martm D es Isn un unsomething n t tsomethmg something somethmg of a prophet Suddenly Suddenlythe Suddenlythe Sudde the nabon nation has real zed that-despIte that despIte thatdespItehl thatdespitehee - ite hl hee hlu hiciotorinis terml ! nn onnurentlv mis mls , d a reeled rected rectecl efforts-thIs efforts thIs efforts - this red baiter has hasactual1y hasactually tactually I actual1y actually hung qu te a few scalps scalpsouts scalpsouts sea : [ cuts outs de his wIgwamIn wigwam wigwamIn In 1933 1938 he pointed pOll1ted the commit committee committee comn-tee comn tee - tee s guns westward from Wash ng ngton ngton iton ton and helped mow down 45 Demo Democrat Democrat Dencrat crat c congressmen Dies charged chargedthat chargedthat chargthat that Frank FraIlk Murphy failed to cai carry carryout carryout . out h ii s 5 gubernatorial gubernatonal duties in m the theFI theFl tFl FI Fl nt sit down strike stnke back in m 1937 1937and 1937and 19 19ed and the resultant rumpls rumpps } contrlbut contribut contrlbuted contributed ed to Murphy s 5 defeat defcat when he sought re electionEs election electionE E\ E Es Een \ \ en the adminstrat admlrlstrat admiristrat on has bas start started starteel stared ed eel to co operate President Roosevolt Roose RooseveIt Roosivelt veIt volt called it sord d procedure procedurewhen procedurewhen procedurewhen when the committee published publishednames publishednames pubhsheinames names of 565 government employ employees employees employees ees on the ma 1 I ng 1 I st of the Amer Amen Amencan Amencan : can League for Peace and Democ Democracy Democracy Democracy racy the inference mference being bemg that these thesepeople thesepeople thespeople people were Communists But Butte a afe afe fe v days later D es charges aga nst nit nstCommun nitCommun nsCommun Commun st Earl Barl Browder tool took tookshape too , . : Bunds Bundsfuehrer Bundsfuchrer Bundsfuehrer shape in m a federal md ctment cttnent fuehrer fuchrer Fntz Fritz Kuhn I melighted by bytI bytl b : tl tI e C comm ttee was sent to S ng ngS ngS nS S ng by l > . .ew ew I\ew I I \ > ew York D str ct Attar Attor Attarney Attornay Attoiney ney nay Tom De Dc veyThe veyThe vey The case of Harry Bridges rad radl radi radlcal radical : cal west coast labor leader was wasfrom wasshouted washouted ' shouted from the housetops unt untMadame 1 1Madame 1Madame Madame Secretary Perk Perl , . ns agreeto agreed agreedto to a hear ng on charges that Bridges Bridgeswas Bridgeswas Bridgewas was an undesirable alien allen A decision dec deci decislon ; sion slon is now pend ngGlarmg ngGlaring ng ngGlaring Glaring Glarmg at labor Martin Martm Dies ac aceused aceused accused eused the unions umons of at harboring harbormg foreign foieign for forelgn elgn eign agents He no v claims one oneot oneof onof ; ot of the largest unions is quietly pweing purg purging purgi.zig ing i.zig izig . its ranks He was partiall parbal1y partially partiallyrespons parbal1yrespons : respons ble tor for the recent hou'e houe hou-e hou e houce ' - m in mvest invest irvest vest gallon gabon gation of at the National Nabonal Laborlielat Labo Labor LaborRelat Relat lielat ons board m in wluch which unsavory unsavoryrenorts renorts were aired Dies put a stop to the WPA fedrai fed federa era , rai I theater project which he saId saIdwas saidwas saidwas was alive with Communists He also alsotalked alsotalked alsotalked talked congress into halving halvmg the ap np approprlatIon nppropriation appropnation proprlatIon propriation of at Senator Scnator LaFollette s sCIVll scivil scivil CIVll civil libert llbert es committee \ wh sth h ch IS ISworkmg isworking isworking workmg working the other side of ot the ismstreet ismstreet ismstreetEven Ism Ismstreet street streetEven Even his most severe critics now nowadmit nowadmit nowadroit admit Mart n Dies is is . coming commg coining of agethough age agethough agethough though they st stU 11 notice nobce a lot of ofrough ofrough ofrough rough edges that need polishing pollshmg Oblivious Ob Obl1vlous Oblivious l1vlous livious to cnt crlt cnit cism clsm Dies has madehis made madehis madebis his report to congress and started startedcampaign startedcampaign startedcampaign campaign ng tor for more fundsHere fundsHere funds fundsHere Here s 5 h s view of at it He s provedconclusively proved provedconcluslvcly provedconclusively concluslvcly conclusively the existence of Isms Ismsm ismsin ismsm m in the United Umted States Therefore thene'it the thene'Ct thenext ne'Ct neCt ne'it neit ' ' log cal step is to get at the thecause thecause thecause cause ot of these radical movementsTo movements movementsTo To this end he be would ask congressfor congress congressfor congressfor for funds to interview lntervlew share crop croppers croppars croppers pers pars laborers sa so lors d spossessed spossessedfarmers spossessedfarmers spossessedfarmers farmers bootblacks and all other otherunhappy otherunhappy otherunhappy unhappy Americans who come corne wltb with wltbm within within m in car ear shot . It would be the b ggest show on onearth onearth onearth earth with Martin Marbn D 13 es as as ringmaster rmg ring rmgmaster ringmaster master |