Show Have Many Skills US U.S. Needs II r I C r Useful Citizens Stay Idle In Displaced Person Camps By BAUKHAGE Analyst and Commentator Its It's Its It's a strange thing about us Americans who grew up under a Declaration of Independence which states that were we're all bora borl free and equal and a Constitution which is so scornful of blue blood that it specifically declares I r that no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall without the consent of congress accept any present emolument office or title of any kind whatever from any king prince or foreign state In other words were we're supposed to believe a mans man's a m man m for a that 3 1 I Nevertheless come election eve eve somebody always gets gets gets' very ex ex- excIted cited about the ancestors of any prospective candidate for the office of ot orthe office of dogcatcher for that I So I wasn't surprised to see a djs djs- patch come over the wires saying that somebody I who says hist his t t sI l grandfather was w J the brother of the ther r f g grandfather ran d tat her of General Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- how hower e r. r i is sin in aR a R displaced perr persons persons' persons persons' per per- r sons' sons camp in r Denmark Eisenhower EisenS Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- S hower when questioned says his ancestors came to America before belore the revolution revolution revo revo- lution and he has Baukhage little or no information information information mation about the family in Europe A good American answer Id I'd say And it serves to bring up the question ques tion Uon of displaced persons in Europe a matter with which the congress of of the the United States is mildly concerned concerned concerned con con- at present Not as much concerned however as Rep William Wil liam G. G Stratton Rep Ill would like since he has introduced a bill to authorize the United States to take its fair share in the resettlement resettlement reset reset- of displaced persons In Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many Austria and Italy i including relatives of citizens or members of the armed forces by permitting their admission to the United States in a number equivalent to a part of the total quota numbers unused durIng during dur duro ing the war years ears There are some 11 million persons who were enslaved captured in war or thrown into concentration camps by the Nazis who have been sent home and others who like the alleged relative of General Eisenhower and many who have escaped d from under the Iron curtain curtain cur cur- tain tam since the war can never go home for fear of political persecution persecution tion in Soviet controlled countries where they would face slavery or death Fifty per cent of these still in the camps are women and chil dren One-fifth One are Jews Many MaDY have skills and andare andare are arc only too anxious to useI use I th them m. m And there is room for lor H S them or somebody to take lake the place of the tho manpower which has been drained from Irom the farms In the Middle West Vest into factories There are who are arc trained farm workers Now instead of producing food for others and easing easing ens- ens ensing ing the terrific strain on the American Ameri Amen can farms due to the shift shUt in population lation these are arc eating at Americas America's expense I doubt if it any American is hardhearted enough to say I am not my brothers brother's keep keep- er Send em all back where they came from to strengthen the sinews of the Communist dictatorship dictatorship dictatorship dictator dictator- ship and live out their lives in slavery i if lf they are allowed to live at all Breaking down the DP census under the agriculture classification tion made by American officials we have Farmers all types A Agronomists Lumbermen 70 1 Hunters fishermen Millers 1191 Other agric workers workers Many other skills are represented represent represent- ed Need any carpenters More than are in the camps nearly 2000 painters altogether more than trained in construction and maintenance And so on No comment is necessary on the items Hospital attendants 1135 nurses physicians and surgeons sur sun geons 1763 or or from the housewives housewives' housewives housewives' housewives housewives' house house- wives' wives point of view Domestics It Isn't as If we Yc had thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of unemployed in this country or that we weren't tryIng tryIng tryIng try- try Ing to increase production to feed leed and house our people It costs our army that means you per day to keep these people semi-prisoners semi growing up to be useless citizens b by denying them freedom and hope What does it cost our consciences S a S Creed of Destruction What Is Communism as fled fed by members of the Communist party In the United States Some say it is a religion Well if it the whirling whirl S ing ag dervishes are religious so are the Communists They are certainly certain certain- ly as fanatically devoted to their creed If It the American people were i a little more familiar with that r creed they would understand the t Communists better and it is to be j. j remembered that that creed is more than an I believe It It is a set of S n rules es and if you dont don't obey those n rules es your life HIe Is in danger Communists Communists Com Com- dont don't believe in punishment in a future life lite Their motto is do doIt doi i T It now and they do itS it S S My attention has been directed recently recently re reo re- re c to one paragraph in the Communist Com Corn s r bible a resolution passed and accepted and integrated into S the It explains Just what you can expect of Communists S when they join a club a union or any International body Expect no nomore more of them no less This Is the paragraph i There can be no question of ot S. S the utilization of 01 bourgeois governmental governmental governmental gov gov- Institutions except for tor the purpose of their tion Many explanations have been offered offered of of- as to why a normal natural natural- born American should embrace communism The The reasons range all the way up and down the scale and include everything from a aS S broken heart to some hidden neurosis neu neue rosis rosin that makes other people nag their husbands maltreat their w wives ves drink kick the dog or jump into the river But But whatever the urge is it has some has some strange effects on the patient Take for tor Instance that time one-time firebrand member of the biles bUes' Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Many of you recall the picturesque International Workers of ot the World who flourished In the early Mis Misi Flynn played a spectacular part In the famous a range strikes of 1919 her father was a miner She helped organize the Communist Communist party In America In 1920 Now she conducts a column Life of the theS S Party In the party organ the theS S Daily Dally Worker published In Hew New York Y ork which follows the party Uneas line Une lines lineas a as s a fox tox follows the aniseed bag bagor o or r a rat follows the smell of cheese In a recent column Miss Flynn described a luncheon in hon Jf of the First Daytime Women's School of the Communist Communist Com Cam party's parts Kings Highway section Says she note how Marxism flavors even en the simple sim sim- I pie arts of the housewife ife The luncheon which i the women prepared pre pro I pared themselves was so delicious delicious deli deli- cious claus it is I evidence they are equally good Marxists and good I cooks How can I reduce under such temptation Perhaps sensing that someone might reach for a grain or two of ot s salt alt before perusing her observations t ions further she sounds a somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what different note in in another breath The Communist party of New York affords us not only this w won n. n opportunity attending a big meeting to meet together to memorialize the noble life Ute of Lenin but give us inspiration to be guided by his ills teachings |