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Show THE4 AMERICAN WAYl BLACK HERRING By Gtorfr The avowals recently made by French, Italian, English and American Communist leaders that in the event of war between their respective countries and Russia, they would be traitors and give aid to the Soviet Union, is just so much more evidence that Communism is a deadly,' ' soul-destroying ideology. These 1 brazen, treasonable statements 1 confirm what I had to say in 1 my column released June 9, 1946, 1 and which I think will bear repeating re-peating here: . "Much has been' said and written writ-ten about the comparative standards stand-ards of living of peoples under Communistic Dictatorship and those living' under free Capitalistic Capital-istic Democracy. The evidence ; proves beyond shadow of doubt that the free citizen in a Capital- ; istic stale enjoys an overwhelm- ingly superior standard of living i to that of his less fortunate j brother living in a slave Com- i munistic state. That, in itself, is j enough to condemn Communism j as a way of life. "But there are two things ) even more important to the in- dividual than material welfare i and freedom. One of these is his ; love of God. Communism denies i, this great privilege to its ad- ' herents it claims that 'religion is the opiate of the people' and i that, therefore, a Communistic : state must be a Godless state. "The other thing more impor- tant than material welfare is ! love of country. This, too, Com-munism Com-munism denies to the individual Communism demands of fol- f lowers that if there is a choice of which is to be served, Com- ' munism must come first, even if l it means committing the crime ; of treason against one's own ; country. "Names like that of Benedict Arnold have lived on. After the lapse of a century and a half, ; Arnold's name endures and is : synonymous of all that is loath- some in a numan Deing. we Americans consider treason the greatest of all crimes. During our history there have been cruel, vicious murderers whose names have made the headlines for a short time, and then they have been forgotten. Few of us can remember the name of a murderer of a few years ago. But the fellow who sold out his country a century and a half ago, his name is not forgotten his crime is considered so despicable des-picable that his name is perpetuated. perpetu-ated. We do not forgive our murderers, but we forget "them our traitors we neither forgive nor forget. "The greatest condemnation of Communism, therefore, is that when its virus enters a man's soul, he is willing to betray his country without the slightest twinge of conscience. Communism Commun-ism destroys his sense of moral values its poison so warps his mind that he cheerfully commits what we Americans consider the most henious and awful of crimes treason. In embracing Communism Com-munism he sells his soul to the Devil he renounces God and country. "Yes, all the statistics prove that undsr Capitalism the common com-mon man fares better in a material ma-terial way than under Communism. Commun-ism. But what really reveals Communism as an unwholesome and loathsome thing is that it destroys men's souls. Like as with any other dangerous contagious con-tagious disease, we, who love America must find the way and the courage to repel the insidious i-n v a s i o n by traitor-breeding Communism of this, the world's greatest citadel of spiritual and economic freedom." Various agencies of the Federal Fed-eral Government are moving to gtet a law enacted that will put these American traitors where they belong behind bars. American Communists have served notice that the "herring" is "black," not "red," as previously prev-iously alleged in high Washington Washing-ton circles. |