Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

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WASHINGTON, April 6 - The
PoStoffice Department has issued
its first order of the war barring
one issue of a periodical from the
mails for publication of material
held TO be detrimental to the ma
ton defense program under the So
called espionage act of 1917 but
| there's nothing to get excited about
The publication held to be unmail-
able was the March issue of the
Gallilean, a magazine published at
Noblesville. Ind, by the Fellowship
Press of william Dudley Silver
| Shirt, -Minutes-in-E Eternity
Pelley
Bleeding hearts who may be
inclined to drain their liver and
lights over this ruling may as
well save the self-torture. Bar
ring from the mails one 'ssue
of a dry magazine isn't any
violation of the right of free
speech or freedom of the press
and is no infringement on civil
liberties.
| All it amounts to is curbing the
circulation of material that is def
iLitely subversive, suppressing in its
insipiency the publication of mat
ter that threatens danger to ma
| tional securit". The border-line be-
| tween Sedition and criticism of
government may at times be hard
to draw, but the Pelley publication
-, frnlN1pT,N IN
that point.
Warnings have been issued by
government agencies that the Unit
ed States is in for wave of axis
propaganda, drive to divide Amer
ican opinion and so disrupt the
country's war effort. Attorney Gen
eral Biddle has indicated that
criminal proceedings will soon be
started by the Department of Jus
tice to expose and curb several
persons and publications against
whom evidence of seditious utter
ance has been gathered. In coming
months, therefore, you may expect
to see increased activity of this sort.
MORE WILL GET 1T
Postal officials who inspected tons
of this seditious material and bar
red it from the mails during the
last war are frankly surprised that
there has not been more of it in
this war They explain the scarcity
of it thus far only by the fact
that this war is less than four
months old Seizures have been
made of several one-shot, sub
versive tracts, but the Pelley CALI
lean is the first periodical to be
touched under the espionage act.
Examination of this magazine
reveals what subtle and what
stupid forms this propaganda
can take. The title of the pub
licatiOn might lead anyone to
believe that here was good
Christian magazine. Even the
masthead prOclaims it to be "a
32-page magazine devoted to re-
search in the field of Christian
Mysticism, Biblical Origins and
Psychic Phenomena" 1t is
well-printed job, big type and
arty, butcher paper. 1t can't be
self supporting, for it is devoid
of advertising except for the
inside back cover which blurbs
ether publications of Fellow
ship Press. One in particular
holds the eye. 1t is titled "YOur
Rights" and the catchline is
do you know what to do when
the Oman cOmes?" That's the
tip-off.
RULGES WITH BALDERDASH
Inside is the most misbegotten
line of gibberish ever handed out
The titles are What You Should
Know About the Cosmic Role of
Race" Why the Worlds Aryan
Are Disguised by War" Why Mod
ern Luciferians Would Abolish
Races" The Role the Almighty
DEGREES America to Play" and How
1t Feels to a Soldier to Lose His
Life in the Heat of Battle" Under
those titles rou find such scurrilouS
stuff as you get only in "Mein
Kampf" and the mouthings OF
Goebbels and Rosenberg:
"The word 'aryan' means
noble people or the earth's
aristocrats' )" Germany is
coming to the fore because she
typifies the best and finest
flower of XanthOchOric culture"
And so on. That word means
eight haired" by the way.
Violent anti-Semitism runs thru
out The United States is depicted
as dominated oy Mongoloid-Juda-
ism, whatever that is. The doctrine
is presented that the United States
should not be engaged in taking the
side of any nation. The role OF the
soldier is constantly belittled.
If there is anything to get alarm
ed about over the barring from the
mails of stuff like this, it should
be centered on the fact that the
country has to wait for a war to
come along before it can take such
action,