Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
PegIer Airs
Youth Leader
Lash S Work
Mrs. Roosevelt Asked
Him TO CampobeIIo
DETROIT
JULY 81, I94I
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

N - SUNNI may TeIilelnDeT, MIS-
"A Franklin ID. Roosevelt re-
Gently entertained at the Sum-
mer home of the President of
the United States on Campobello
Island something called the
Summer Student Leadership In
stitute.
Among those prominently
present along with Justice Felix
Frankfurter of the United States
Supreme Court and dear old DIR.
William Allan Nelson, president
emeritus of Smith College, was
a veteran member of the younger
generation and career man of
the youth business, Joseph Lash.
The frequent presence of Mr..
Lash in the White House surely
may be taken as evidence that
Mrs. Roosevelt regards him as
pretty nice sample OF and for
American youth. and his pres
ence at the Student Leadership
Institute at Campobello seems
equally indicative that she re-
CARDS him as one who is equipped
for leadership among American
students.
With this preamble. let us now
cast aside the bigoted record
of the Dies committee which dis
covered Mrs. Roosevelts young
friend often in the company Of
Communist youth. Let us con-
slider something else in order 10
obtain a fair impression.
Let us frisk the files OF Lib
erty Magazine and the New
Masses, 10 the Autumn OF 1885.
IN TIE issue Of The New
i Masses dated Sept. 3, 1885.
the lead story is a charming ex-
preston of an American daugh-
ter's devotion. entitled MY
Father Is a Liar" written by
Nancy Bedford-Jones whose age
at the time was II.
This work, breathing the very
spirit of high-pressure, advanced
American youth, was a reply TO
a piece published in Liberty by
some one who wrote under the
name OF Shaw.
Miss Bedford-Jones declared
that this was pen name
adopted for this special occasion
by her father, II. Bedford
Jones. professional fictioneer.
Nancy said Shaw's article in
Liberty was about her. although
her name waslSt mentioned and
she was not otherwise identi-
fled.
The Liberty article created an
impression that young Commu-
mist agents infested American
college campuses.
MISS NANCY BEDFORD
vi JONES exclaimed, in effect.
That's my pop" and tore into
him 10 the eXulting applause OF
the Communists in the pages OF
The New Masses
Incidentally. note should be
made OF the fact that the paper
listed as its business manager
William Browder, the brother OF
Earl Browder
Earl Browder succeeded Git
low as chief OF the Communist
Party here, but is now in prison
for fraud.
1.-THE author OF this Is my
father, III. Bedford-Jones," was
the way this lively example OF
American youth saluted her
daddy. "Why did my father
write these things about his
daughter"
She then demanded and pro-
ceeded to tell you why, accord
ing TO her view Of the matter.
Her view was that he was
slandering American youth.
COON after, on Nov. %, 1885.
- the Daily Worker reported
that Nancy had married in
Yuma. Ariz., none other than
Joseph p. Lash. whom we now
discover sometimes in the White
House and then again at Campo
bello as a guest of Mrs. Roose-
welt in something called
Student Leadership Institute.
The Workers marriage notice
mentioned Miss Nancy's father
as "a red-baiting pulp magazine
writer" and said the marriage
illuminated a friendship which
grew out of their participation
in student anti-war and anti
Fascist activities"
Mr.. Lash is still a youth after
a dozen years In the business,
still employed and hustling, first
With one youth or student coun-
Gil, service or institute, then with
another, and he is still in there,
or thereabouts, with his patron
ess. Mrs Franklin d. Roosevelt,
when the pictures are being
taken.
The institute at Campobello,
OF course, would have no wish to
conceal from the youth of the
American campus, or the par
ents of that youth. this pretty
little story from the life of one
whom Mrs. Roosevelt entertains
as candidate for student lead
ership.
by United Features synd. ln-