Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
EDITORIAL PA &c
OF THE
Dies Committee Value

THE House of Representatives has been formally re-
quested to continue the Dies Committee for an add
onal period of two years with an investgatve iuho Oh
S100000O to finance its operations during that time
This committee has had to contend against several
serious obstacles in the past.
One has been a continuous Smear campaign con-
Quoted by radical newspaper critics and by Communists
and their sympathzers-a campaign to which Official
hostility has than given disreputabe support
Another difficulty has been the limitation of the
committees existence to oneyear terms, that every
December has caused interruption of its work and
threatened to disrupt its nvestigative organization
And third difficulty has been stngy appropriations
in fact with only $4,000 its original allotment the
committee accomplished wonders in its first year toward
making the country aware of the growing menace OF
subversive alien sms
ONCE then even official Washington to have
- become convinced that the Dies Committee has
than justified itself and is reported that the rules
committee of the House will readily approve its con-
tinuance.
If so the appropriations committee should gladly
sanction the of funds for which the committee
asks.
National defense is the great national effort.
The work and the vigilance of the Dies Committee
have come to comprise exceedingly important phase
of this effort
The committee has thoroughly exposed the Commu-
mist Fascist and Naz invasion of this country and has
done than any other agency perhaps could do to
break up their organizations and to thwart their
Vaccinations. tu~
TN IT'S earlier period the committee operated largely
i upon political front
With its disclosures of Red penetration-and even
domnaton-of certain labor groups the committee ex-
tended its researches into the economic front and conse
ouenty in view of the fact that industry and man.
power are now being drafted" for rearmament the
committee has found itself engaged upon our military
front
Sabotage or inspired" strikes in plants could
dangerously hamper impair costly defense activities
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the criminal
laws exist to punish sabotage WHEN 1T HAS BEEN
COMMITTED.
The function of the Dies Committee the contrary,
is to prevent sabotage by exposing s agents BEFORE
THE SABOTAGE-AND THE MATERIAL DAMAGE
OCCUR.
IN THE course of extensive Investigations the COM
mittee has performed still another high service by
discovering numerous defects in present laws.
Accordingly in duly reporting to Congress, the COM
mittee. recommends.
1.-THE enactment of legislation to bring about the
i immediate mandatory deportation of alien spies
and saboteurs.
0-"The mandatory deportation of aliens who advocate
any basic change in the form of our government
C-"The enactment of legislation requiring that ALL
EMPLOYEES AND OFFICIALS OF OUR FED
A-'Withhold all federal financial support from any
+ educational institution which permits members Of
its faculty to advocate communism fascsm or nazism
as a substitute for form of government.
c-"The enactment of legislation to outlaw every
political organization which is shown to be under
the control of a foreign government
c-"The enactment of legislation to stop all mmigra
ton from foreign countries that refuse to accept
the return of their nationals found under American
law to be deportable from this country
1.-THE passage Of added legislation to place restrc-
tons on the distribution of totalarian propaganda
when that distribution involves any cost to the Amer
can taxpayers and is shipped from foreign sources
o-That the statutory period during which citizenship
q papers be revoked under existing law be ex-
tended to at least 10 years"
Every one of these recommendations is vital to our
welfare and safety.
The committees program in this aspect, proves that
Congress as well as the nation needs to have the
mttee kept at its job.
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