Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-10-16

hes a very high-type liberal, but he
1911 crank. I've known him for
years. He originally was a newsDaper
man. AS an indianapolis telegraph
eoilor | handled his Washington COW
away back IN the early 19OO's. I've
peen associated with him as a press
galleryite in the Capitol. He's no con-
SENTATIVE, certainly, but neither is
ne the type of lawmaker who looks
uhder his bed nightly to make sure
mat d Communist or a Nezi isn't
hlding there. What he says is worth
listening to
Alien Good manners.
I've been an alien during as much
OF my career as the average in
diVidual
KS an American news correspon-
cent | spent half dozen years in
europe, with headquarters in Lon
don, some Of the time while the last
war was on and company from over
seas had 10 walk a chalk line or risk
being kicked off into the ocean. |
spent SIN or seven years in South
American, doing war-day publicity
Tor Uncle Sam and running an Eng
llsh language weekly in Buenos Aires
I've spent couple or three years in
Japan and China.
Consequently, I think I under
stand how an outsider in a strange
land should behave himself IN or
Ger not to wear out his welcome.
Among other things, when I've been
away from home I've always felt
that good manners required me to
keep quiet as to local cOnditOns-Or
else Identify myself with them on
citizenship basis, thus qualifying my
self TO be as critical rs anybody |
once was somewhat tempted to ask
for naturalization in Argentina My
business was there at that juncture
/ have a daughter and two grand
children who were born there, and
| have an affection for the country.
But on second thoughts l preferred
to remain a "Yanqui" Since | felt
that way about it | also felt that it
would be very bad taste for me to do
bit Of fault-finding If I had in
dulged in much of it, it seems to me
I'd have been quite properly deport-
able. And assuredly I would have
been, had I done anything overt.
Our Bunds and Things.
Therefore, I incline to sympathize
with folk who complain Of the ac-
tiVities Of foreign set-ups here in the
U. S. A.
They're different from such an
outfit as our erstWhile Ku Klux. Dis
approve however much as you might
of the Khan, WOu had to admit that
intrinsically it was American How
ever, you can't but recognize that
COmmunistic cells, Nazi blnds and
Fascist groups are impOrtatiOns, and
it's hard not to suspect that they're
encouraged from over the water.
I don't quite see what the Dies
committee, for instance, is going to
do to an American who chooses to
affiliate himself with one Of these Or
carnations, any more than a KluXer
could be punished simply as a KluX-
er. And ! don't see what's to be done
as to a German-American Of several
generations standing if he joins say,
a bund. You can say he's dislOyal if
his bunch is financed from abroad,
but that's about all. A naturalized
American of foreign birth doubtless
is open to the charge Of having been
naturalized in bad faith if he hooks
up with an anti-democratic aggrega-
ton; perhaps his citizenship can be
revoked and he can be banished.
But a foreigner who isn't even ma
turalized? who's just sent here to
make trouble? = he's an obvious
darned nuisance. He's the chap whom
Louis Ludlow is on the trail Of.