Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-10
Too Many.
Bricks Put
In Our Hod :
Promised Freedoms Big
Load TO Tote Up Ladder
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

I HATE TO seem intelligent and
reasonable. and perhaps you
will vindicate me of any such
seeming when you have read
this but il does strike me that
we have put too many bricks in
the hod in promising TO estab-
lish all those beautiful freedoms,
forever. everywhere in the world.
That is a terrible overload
which we never can tote up the
ladder.
These freedoms can never be
established in this world until all
the nations and peoples are
united in one great brotherhood
of the human race. and one OF
the most reliable ways TO start
fight in our own country is 10
propose that.
Accompanying the instructive
pop on the nose which would
greet this suggestion you would
hear something old and familiar
about a religious plot or some
thing newer just as angry. and
probably from me. about tho
dirty Communists.
Christianity. logically is moth
ing but this great, loving BROTH
erhood of all the people OF our
little world, but the human
breed is far from the day when
national and racial boundarieI
will be obliterated and a man
will be a man among his BROTH
ers wherever he finds himself on
earth, living strictly by the word
of Jesus Christ
4 ND. even If communism were
"A good. the Americans with
their faces worn nude and their
habit of washing and bathing.
wouldn't like il If only for the
final reason that ~ has been
brought 10 us by lot Of hairy
Russians who smell pretty high.
tell lies about everything and
say the most scandalous things
about God whom we profess 10
love but whose teachings most OF
us follow at distance meas
urable only in light years.
Nobody believes that we have
any intention or even popular
desire. 70 say nothing OF the
ability 10 establish all those
freedoms everywhere and the
worst Of il is that we don't even
believe il ourselves.
We know in our hearts that
we have no more right TO IN
| flict freedom on the German peo-
pie than they have TO impose
Hitlerism on us. and that II We
should go 10 war under that de-
vice Hitler would only have 10
tell. ITO arms, boys. Those
goofy Americans are coming TO
/ liberatc us again.
lust don't believe tho Ger
mans or the Russians. and they
take in a great deal of territory
and population which we would
undertake 10 emancipate. have
any appetite for freedom. and IL
would be perfectly all right with
me if they should continue TO
belt each other over the head
with wagon Spokes and solem-
nize their massacres and fam
ines within their own territorN
until they get bloody well sick
of il and try some other way.
T FEEL sorry for the Italians.
i because they do have their
pride. and any one who doesn't
like Italians socially without
necessarily grooming over them
as so many absentee or remit
lance Americans learned to do.
is missing something. pretty
good
But Italy is not our country.
and time is long and Italians
have plenty of future in which 10
work out their troubles
And while il certainly makes
q fellow sore to see what the
Germans have been doing TO
their other captives. a recent
peek into an old congressional
document giving the minority re-
port on the investigation OF the
original Ku Klux Khan reminds
me that only 65 years ago and
a few years before, we Amer
leans Of the northern tier were
doing pretty much the same to
the people of the defeated and
destitute South
We thought up more devil
ment TO humiliate. prosecute
and rob those southern people.
a marvelouSly brave and durable
foe in war. and our own ma
tional and personal kin. than any
OF us arc likely TO remember
now. If we ever knew
We sent among them some OF
the dirtiest grafters and COM
mon thieves that the human race
ever has produced to its shame.
and Hitler himself couldn't out
clever some of the nasty and
remorseless ingenuities by which
we taxed their property away
and sneered their human and
civic rights out Of existence.
The wonder is not that the)
southern politician and the
patriot waved the bloody shirt
AS long as they did. but that the
southern people ever did have
the bignesS Of~Soul 10 forgive,
forget and cn-nnerafc again