The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK-Having seen how quickly Com
munists and fellow-travelers filter into every
new agency of the New Deal government, for
example the Labor Relations Board and the
Office of War Information, we may anticipate
that the same thing would happen in any new
| creation intended to nationalize the public
schools. Like the stalWart German tourists
who invaded Norway in multi just before the
betrayal, they always place themselves in
position to take over, in the guise of liberals,
and always with the obvious connivance of the
administration 1t cannot be unintentional on
the part of the governing party. for it has
happened too often to be regarded as acct
dental Thus it must be concluded and the
fact must be faced that this party does lean
toward Communism, not only as a political
and economic system but as habit Of thought
and moral code, which later is the worst ex-
preston of Communism as We have learned
from the testimony of such blackslide bolos as
]. B. Matthews, the Dies Committees most eff
fective informant. and Benjamin GitloW, who
at one time occupied in American Communism
position equal to that of Earl BroWder Git
lows recantation and confession are espec-
tally telling in any consideration of the in
fluence that the Communists would exert
among the American children if the national
government. by the seductive method of a
federal subsidy for state and local educational
the schoolhouse door.
''The young Communists Gt1ow wrote
'drawn into a life of their own, fell easy prey
to all the vices in the party, which to them
were not vices but expressions of rebellion
against Bourgeois society and the Hypocrisy
of Bourgeois morals. They broke with their
families because the family was a Bourgeois
institution which stood in the way of their
Communist activities. Many completely di
ond 4Lai, ofc
very often mothers would come to the
office, complaining that their young daughters
had failed to come home and they had lost
all influence over them. We knew the situa-
ton very well but the complaints and plead
ings fell deaf ears. Another tragic case
occurred at the national offices in Chicago An
irate father came into the office and de-
posted an infant on the desk. He shouted,
here take your bastard' The child was the
infant of 16-year-old girl who had been Sc
duced by one of the party leaders. Loose
morals were general. If young girl who
joined the Communist youth organization in
sisted on maintaining her chastity, she was
frowned upon by the self-styled Revolutionists
who had just emerged from their knee
breeches.
OF course it will be contended that this is
Red-baiting and that there is no ground Tor
suspicion that the national government would
NY 10 influence Cne SCHOOL CIll1eil Gill; DuI Pdot
performances are not reassuring. For every
contribution to the states or to any group or
class of the people, the national government
exacts the surrender of a degree OF lndepen-
dence and the process has been ever thus since
1888. Plainly this chance to impress the Com
munst theology and morality on whole gen
GRAFTON of children is too tempting to be
passed up.
The proposal is bolstered of course with the
usual type of humanitarian appeal intended
to convict of heartlessness all who oppose it.
They would starve the teachers in the bleaker
areas and keep the children in those areas in
squalid ignorance But the alternative would
be Communistic teachings as sure as the la
Dor board became an agency for the strength
ening of Communists in the unions OF the ClO;
and Communists soon bobbed up IN the OWL
and other bureaus
All this is aside from the fact that the pub
lie schools are local, and not national lnstltu-
tons in which the Individual parents still re-
tain some influence, which they would lose
under national administration. We mad feder-
al schools in sense run by the carpetbaggers
in the stricken South after the civil war and
they were one of the worst causes OF the ku
Klux rebellion and the prolonged destltutlon Oh
the Southern tier.
-V
There will continue to be something rotten
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