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Show THE LEW SUN, LEW. UTAH ilrnrharfn Wanhlnatan liltjpnt Dies Committee Bares Activities Of Radical, Communist Groups Unseen and Malignant Growths Are Being Bred Into . Our National Life by Agitatorslho Seek to Destroy Our Government; Spread Poison in Labor Ranks. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Fress Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. "Unlaw lomo-thin; lomo-thin; Is done to curb radicalism In my tection, there Is going to be an awful clash and a lot of people are going to get hurt." So spoke Fred W. Frahm, superintendent super-intendent of police ot the city of Detroit, De-troit, Mich. And his statement was under oath, for he was giving testimony testi-mony before a committee of the house of representatives, a committee commit-tee charged with exposing to view the un-American activities of certain cer-tain groups in this country. It was the statement of a man who is serving serv-ing a city in an official capacity and who has gone through 246 sit-down strikes which he asserted were the direct result of agitation by the radicals rad-icals 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 dif-ferences between labor and man-. man-. agement; 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, tes-timony, gathering evidence, digging here and there in its effort to uncover un-cover the activities of subversive groups and expose them to public view, ' It has been the contention of the chairman, Representative Dies of Texas and some other members of the committee, that most of as are not aware of the unseen and malignant malig-nant growths that are being bred into our national life. They are out to destroy our government, to bring to ns the type of tiling 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 sev-eral of his committee members have sought to balk his efforts. But there is much more to be done in the direction di-rection of exposing radicalism and the chiseling, cheating, cowardly efforts ef-forts the agitators put forth. Charge Communistt Active In Government Offices What I am wondering is why Mr. Dies has not sent his investigators into the very offices 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, tra-dition, the American profit system of doing business? There has been much talk in the last several years about the operations of communists within the very walls of the government, govern-ment, men and women who are boring bor-ing from within as termites destroy lumber, and we ought to know the truth. If they are within the govern ment, they ought to be exposed and chased out of the western hemis phere; if they are not operating as is gossiped around, then their names ought to be cleared. In any event, I 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 theradicals and their henchmen to characterize any official who attacks at-tacks them as being a subject for the insane hospitals. Their game has been to laugh people out ot court whenever an effort was made to tell of some of the things the agitators were doing. Many will recall re-call 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 opin-ion be worth anything, the folks who were the suckers in that play were the supposedly intelligent members of congress who made up the committee. It was they who fell for a trick of propaganda. Either Ei-ther that was the case, or the members mem-bers of that committee were just plain dumb. Lewis Cannot Break Crip Of Communists on C. I. O. Concerning the sit-down strikes about which Mr. Frahm testified, I want to boast that I wrote of communist com-munist participation in those sit-down sit-down strikes when they were happening. hap-pening. I had several letters thereafter, there-after, calling me crazy and describing describ-ing 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 months. Maybe he sees that the labor la-bor group ot which he was so proud has become a gargantuan monster that is slowly swallowing him, physically phys-ically large as he is. There is, of course, the danger that a lot of people will make foolish and unsupported statements about red activities, thus throwing doubt on the really serious phases. That always seems to happen. Unwittingly, Unwitting-ly, that type of person which shouts and shouts and has no proof creates cre-ates the impression that all cries of "wolf, wolf," are meaningless. But when a congressional committee has the courage rather, when its chairman over objections of some of its members has the courage to bring the stuff out for public examination, exam-ination, there must, indeed, be a basis for it The tragedy of the thing is that the labor movement as a whole will suffer a severe setback. The fact that the radicals have grabbed control con-trol of the automobile workers' union un-ion means that they have "cells" in other groups also, and that these cells slowly but surely will be spreading poison and trouble. The agitators seize upon the unthinking, the foreign-born who are not steeped in our customs or love of country, or upon elements that have been badly treated, and they will use these innocent victims to carry out their destructive plans. C. . O. Being Used as Tool For Destructive Purposes There will be much more labor trouble. " You can eount on that The Communist party representatives representa-tives will never allow the slightest chance for creating trouble to escape es-cape them. They are determined to convince labor that it cannot trust : the managements, they are encouraging en-couraging the breaking of agree-1 ments between labor and management manage-ment to the end that employers will have no faith in the leaders of labor, and they are using the national labor la-bor relations board wherever that can be done to give official voice to labor troubles. That fact is chiefly j responsible for the position which the C. I. O. group has taken in opposition op-position to proposals for revision of the labor relations act William Green and the American Federation of Labor are urging revision of the law, but C. I. 0., having its tenta cles in the labor board, obviously does not want its grip broken. It has been known for a long time that the C. I. 0. was being used as a tool for destructive purposes, but the agitators and emissaries were sly and careful They covered then-tracks. then-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 adminis tration organized a union and aflili ated with C. L O. It was to have social as well as fraternal aspects. There was a dance scheduled. Ne gro workers attended and insisted on inter-racial participation in everything ev-erything that was done. They said they were told to do so by repre sentatives of C. I. O. After the dance was concluded, so participants partici-pants have reported, a phonograph record was procured and the bellowing bel-lowing notes of "The Internation ale," communistic anthem, blared forth. Dies Committee Exposes Methods Used by Radicals The Dies committee record is full of testimony about methods employed em-ployed by the communists in their devious borings and destructive tactics. The record tells, too, of how many innocent appearing organizations, or-ganizations, created for an allegedly useful purpose, are captured by communists and used by them to obtain money contributions for which no accounting ever is made. And tragic, also, are the stories ot how the real leaders laughed at the suckers who gave hard-earned money, mon-ey, laughed in the secret recesses of their hideouts about the soft and easy minds of Americans. But another-session of congress is coming. The Dies committee will make a report and probably will ask an appropriation to enable it to go on. We will see who ODDOses that appropriation. There probably will be opposition from two or three members of the committee itself. and we will see who they are. If they are outspoken in their opposi tion, I suspect most people will know why. I think this condition has reached the point where attention should be paid to it by the federal "government "govern-ment It is now hot on the trail of some alleged German spies who were seeking American military secrets. se-crets. So why not make a thor ough job of it and lift up the lid that hides various other kinds ot spies whose work, to my mind, is much more dangerous to American national life? C Western Newspaper Union, Weekly News Rome-Berlin Axis May Crumble If Germany Is Given Colonies Foreign At best, Germany, Italy and Ja-pan Ja-pan are unnatural bedfellows with nothing in common except totalitarianism totalitari-anism and a grudge against the world. Flushed by her Imperialistic victory at Munich, there is every reason to think Germany might abandon Italian and Japanese alliances alli-ances if they stood In the way of her march to world power. First step in this direction has been taken by Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler in presenting African colonial GERMANY IN AFRICA Of onetime German possessions (shown in black) France holds man dates for Togoland (I) and the Cam- eroons (ZJ; Ureat IJntain has minor interest in both. British South Africa (5) holds mandate for Southwest Africa (3), and Britain a mandate for I anganyika ( i). Angola (6) is held by Portugal. demands to Great Britain and France. What Hitler wants and probably will get is return of Togo- land, Cameroons, Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, held under League of Nations mandate by Britain and France since the Versailles treaty. If they pay this price for peace, Britain and France will also agree to German arms equality. British-French British-French gain through such a transaction transac-tion would be German friendship and an understanding that Italy had better confine her imperialism to the Mediterranean area on pain of com bined German-Franco-British oppo sition. Moreover, H Duce would be forced to withdraw from Spain. Next Der Fuehrer may turn his eyes to Japan, which now controls one-time German islands forfeited after the World war. Since Hitler's aggressive imperialism makes one conquest merely an appetizer for the next, moreover since self-pitying Germany looks angrily at any nation which controls large territories territo-ries and resources, Japan may find her Chinese conquest threatened. Nor do observers overlook the chance of a German-Italian breach over Hungary's Czechoslovakian claims, now handed to the Rome-Berlin Rome-Berlin axis for settlement. Mussolini, Musso-lini, Hungary's friend, wants Czechoslovakia Czech-oslovakia dissolved, moreover wants Hungary to get the common border with Poland which she desires. But Hitler, temporarily angry with Hungary Hun-gary and anxious to preserve a path to the east through Czechoslovakia, will fight partition. Transportation U. S. railroads, arguing before President Roosevelt's fact-finding committee, have claimed a 15 per cent pay cut is the only solution to their problem. Labor, which threatens threat-ens to strike if the pay cut is enforced, en-forced, says better management will do the trick. Without waiting for the fact-finding commission to report railroad management has taken the matter into its own hands on three fronts: Northwest Before the interstate commerce commission have appeared ap-peared stockholders of two huge lines, Chicago & North Western, and Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul At Pacific. Pa-cific. Their plan: Physical consolidation consoli-dation of the two roads, immediately immediate-ly effecting operating economies of $10,000,000 a year and hastening normal recovery of the two roads. Southwest An I. C C. examiner has recommended reorganization of the Missouri Pacific line with sharp reduction in its fixed interest debt Also recommended is consolidation of owjied properties being operated as the Missouri Pacific system, excepting ex-cepting the Missouri-Illinois railroad. rail-road. South Placed before the L C C is a plan for merging the Gulf, Mobile Mo-bile & Northern railroad with the Mobile St Ohio line. Chief opponent is Burlington railroad, which owns 27.7 per cent of G. M. St N. stock. Chief significance of mergers and reorganizations is (1) that railroads will become economically sound; (2) labor will suffer through decreased de-creased employment, though wage levels probably will not be cut; (3) scores of small communities, originally origi-nally built to follow the railroad's line of expansion, will find themselves them-selves isolated without rail service. Defense Knotted inseparably in recent news have been Japan's conquest of China and world democracy's attempts at-tempts to strengthen their military-economic military-economic positions against German-Italo-Jap aggression. Though England Eng-land and the U. S. have been rub bing noses in their trade pact ne Review -Ky Joseph W. La Him gotiations. October of 1938 will be remembered primarily as the month when America first stood up and barked at modern imperialism. Within 24 hours two barks came from Washington. First was President Presi-dent Roosevelt's precedent-shattering condemnation of nations employing employ-ing force (Japan), exile (Germany) and repression (Italy) as instruments instru-ments of national policy. Next day. on the heels of Japan's conquest of Hankow, the state department made public a 21-day-old protest to Tokyo against violation of China's "open door" policy. This was but percussion in the new American overture of preparedness. prepared-ness. Chiming in are plans to strengthen military and naval forces so that "the Western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation." To the north, at Kodiak, Alaska, the navy is quietly preparing prepar-ing two bases accommodating at least 200 long-range patrol bombers. Thus, if Britain and France deny it, the U. S. admits Japan has become be-come the Far East's No. 1 power and bids fair to dominate the Pacific unless stopped. Although Generalissimo Generalis-simo Chiang Kai-shek will continue battling Japan in the hope his foe will eventually commit military and economic suicide, there is little likelihood like-lihood that China's door will be reopened re-opened to Western nations unless Japan wants it. For a preview of things to come, democracies need only look at Manchukuo where seven sev-en years of Japanese proprietorship has both closed and locked the door. Trend Ilotv the wind is blowing . . . TIME CLOCK Film actors earning earn-ing up to $1,000 a week, and all extras, now punch time clocks each morning under new union contract with provision for overtime over-time work. 'NOBODY A baby born to one of 200 sad-eyed Jewish refugees living in a ditch in the Czechoslovak-German "no man's land" has been named "Niemand," meaning "nobody." 'BANG WARFARE Japanese troops patrolling streets of newly captured Canton, disperse terrified terri-fied Chinese by merely pointing their guns and shouting: "Bang!' U. S. LANDLADY Women hold 25 per cent of all U. S. jobs (apart from domestic service), are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of I all life insurance, own 50 per cent of all corporate stock, operate 60 per cent of savings accounts. HAIR RAISING Mrs. Dorothy Kantack of Chicago has won a divorce di-vorce decree against the husband hus-band who protested against her new "upswing" coiffure. People British royalty symbolically corresponds cor-responds to the U. S. flag. Since the Czech crisis proved Great Britain's Brit-ain's empire Is becoming vastly independent, in-dependent, a little flag waving is entirely en-tirely proper. First King George and Queen Elizabeth announced a GREAT BRITAIN'S MARINA Is she being exiled for usurpation? state visit to Canada and probably to the U. S. Latest news is that the popular, 35-year-old duke of Kent becomes governor general of Australia Aus-tralia nexf year. To fun-loving Kent and his wife, beauteous former Princess Marina of Greece, Australia Austra-lia win mean virtual exile from their favorite diversion, London night life. Though English papers discreetly failed to mention it, part of the U. S. press called Kent and his wife victims of royal jealousy. The claim: That slim, elegant Marina Ma-rina is usurping Queen Elizabeth's rightful place as ruler of British fashion. At Australia's lonely Canberra, Can-berra, where Kent will receive $50,-000 $50,-000 a year, not a single night club will help break the tedium of this "British Siberia." Miscellany At Anaheim, Calif., miles of surplus sur-plus third-grade oranges were dumped when federal diversion funds ran out, leaving the $8-pcr-ton price unsupported. At Prestonburg, Ky., 34-year-old Fleming Tackett married 10-year-old Rosie Columbus. : :. I : , 1 VD3 V I : I t "x 5 : i - . v V'-: 1 V. s 4 (I j II Treasury InConven.entl, close to e ec ion day have come piecemeal report! .d offhand predictions concerning the U S. fiscal situation. When 'president Roosevelt talks finance before congress on m bj may ask almost anything. But rtgni now. as the President busies him-self him-self with budget planning, he can be guided by 'acts and forecasts. Facts: Despite upswinging bus. ness. the U. S. treasury deficit for the current year Jumped above ne billion dollars Oet tag forward several million dollars a day. Gold reserves, mounting since the European scare, hit fit.-008.236.361. fit.-008.236.361. Revised, the 193 1 fiscal deficit prediction stands at $3,9M.-000.000, $3,9M.-000.000, second largest In New Deal history. By next June 30, when the fiscal year ends, the U. S. public debt will hit $40,000,000,000. compared with $16,800,000,000 in June, 1931. Thn.ish "niimn-nrlm- forecasts "6" . . . ing" will help business, the 1940 budget budg-et will be unbalanced. Only by con- Unuea spenaing can SECRETARY MORGENTBAU Coolest of all concerned . . . tion hold a mass vote for the 1940 election, thereby forestalling the normal swing to Republicanism. But it is far more painful to pay than merely file away the bill, and next winter's congressmen will present at least five new methods of making John Public pay: S (1) A 10 per cent "one shot" in come tax levy to garner $263,000,000 needed for increased armament; (2) a processing tax to pay for the agriculture department's proposed "domestic dumping" program for crop surpluses; (3) removal of tax exemption from future issues of fed eral, state and local bonds, also on official salaries; (4) extension of social security to Include farm la borers, domestics, bank employees, seamen, self -employers, etc.; (5) lowering of income tax exemptions under $1,000. Coolest of all concerned with fiscal affairs has been the man in direct charge, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Unworried by mounting gold reserves ("We have plenty of storage space") he predicts improved business condi tions will cut relief rolls and help the budget, which observers now think will run to $8,000,000,000. Only Morgenthau fear has centered around the British pound sterling, whose declining tendencies have ad' verse effects on U. S. commodity prices and export trade. White House When its investigations first opened, the Dies congressional committee com-mittee on un-Americanism confined most of its probing to Fascism and Naziism. Neither of these "isms' has much support amons U. politicians. But with election time approaching and its witnesses be coming influenced by political fever it was natural that the probe should turn to a more popular "ism communism. First came the charge that Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was impeachable for fallins to support aggressive deportation proceedings against communistic Harry Bridges. Madam Perkins re plied that she was awaiting court decision on a test case, that pro ceedings could move no faster than the courts themselves. Next the committee asked why Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan had taken a passive interest in the 1936 sit-down strikes, only to learn that Governor Murphy had commented that "sometimes "some-times events make laws malleable." President Roosevelt, hopping mad by this time, jumped in to charge the Dies committee is providing a "forum" for politicians with election-year axes to grind. Though recalling re-calling that no such reprimand was forthcoming when the LaFoIlette civil liberties committee held its hearings, impartial observers agreed the Dies committee might have done a less impassionate job in 1937 or 1939. 'Quotes' SEX. WILLIAM E. BORAH on U. S. intervention to force justice jus-tice for Jews In Great Britain's Palestine problem: "We cannot can-not retain the respect of Europe Eu-rope and our own self respect by directing nations how they shall carry out their treaties and obligations, and do nothing noth-ing but direct" HARRY HOPKINS on WPA's record: rec-ord: "We have made mistakes. mis-takes. But our greatest mistake mis-take has not been in doing too much but in doing too little." WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. A few years ago, this writer had the job of get ting up an amateur entertainment Robert Sherwood was just an aaaea starter, but ha Bob Sherwood, ran away with Cay or Staid, the show. He is Steals bnow 6, tajL lath-like dimensions and has a trick of undulating both his chest and his Adam's apple at the same time, when he sings. To hear him sing, "When the Rob-Rob-Robin Comes Bob Bob - Bobbin'," undulating through a full octave, and flapping his long arms, is rare entertain ment He could have filled the the aters that way if he hadn't become a playwright With all his gift for foolery, his is the "weltschmers" of a shy, sensitive, thoughtful man, and his are the peculiarly civilized civi-lized qualities which enabled him to portray "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" with insight and fidelity which have brought the heartiest hearti-est critical salvo of years and many cries of "the great American Ameri-can drama at last" jSome of the reviewers see here a thrilling "play within a play" la the skilled and timely dramatization of Lincoln's timeless utterance at just this moment of national wavering and soul-searching. Mr. Sherwood may be a man of destiny. He would dismiss all that with a slight thoracic undulation and perhaps per-haps a modest quip. He is the least pgntiflcal of men, as he proved when he was a drum-major in the war. Unable to make the grade in our army, he joined the Canadian Black Watch. They put him in kilts, gave him a shako and a huge baton and enjoyed him tremendously as he quickly mastered the necessary twirling and stick-tossing stunts. But they also used him in plenty of fighting, in several hot engagements. engage-ments. The trouble was that the trenches were only six feet deep and he was a constant lure to enemy sharpshooters. He was gassed and sent to the hospital for a long stretch about two feet beyond the end of the cot He read a great deal, and decided to be an author. Demobilized, he connected with Vanity Fair as dramatic critic, did a two weeks' turn as a reporter in Boston, joined the staff of Life and later became its editor. He was born in New Rochelle, in 1896, and left Harvard to get into the war. This is his eleventh play, not counting "Tom Buggies' Surprise," Sur-prise," which he wrote at the age of eight. His fame as a playwright began with "The Road to Rome," which he wrote in 1927, "just to lift a couple of mortgages," as he put it. Ia 1922, he married Miss Mary Brandon, the actress. He has an apartment in Sutton place,. New York, and a modest estate in Surrey, England, where he has been helping Alexander Kor-da Kor-da produce films. A li ANAGER EDWARD JOHN. SON'S musical autarchy at the Metroplitan comes along slowly, and we aren't yet quite musically . self-sustaining. Met J anes a For the opening Singer From of its new sea-pnnn sea-pnnn Pt. son. toe Met an nounced 14 new singers. There is one American contralto, 11 Germans, Austrians, Italians and Swedes and two new American male singers, John Car ter and Leonard Warren. Over in our Rockland county, N. Y., we have been quite ex-cited ex-cited over a "popular local farmer," as one of the parochial sheets had it, making the grade at the Metropolitan. He is the 26-year-old Mr. Carter, who has been growing beans and potatoes, pota-toes, singing at his work, near New City. Mr. Carter, born In New York city, studied engineering engi-neering at New York university. The depression turned him to vaudeville and later to his joint cultivation of voice and garden truck. He and Mr. Warren were winners In the Metropolitan's audition of last March. Mr. Warren, also 26, was born in the Bronx, son of a Russian-born fur dealer. He felt constraint in turning his big voice loose in town. but let it run In the big north woods. with his father on fur-buying trips. That was how he first knew he bad a voice. He studied at Columbia university and night school. Consolidated Newi Feature. WNU Service. 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