The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-11
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

ers. His articles serve the good purpose
Of making people Think
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate)
NEW YORK - If you would like to share
Inv perplexity over the editorial policy of
Golfers Weekly in publishing articles which
seem to me to be unnecessarily kind to COM
munism and communists, why just help your
self because there is plenty on hand and it
isn't ratloned.
AS these dispatches pointed out not long
ago, Golfers, which is Park Avenue publica
ton with the usual chubby furniture in its foyer
for anxious authors, illustrators and cartoon
lists to sit upon while waiting their turns to
see somebody, printed one story by Ella Win
ter and another by Lillian Hellman, couple
of seasoned old party-ners about their OBJ
servatons on a recent trip to Russland and
as regular thing, it was here observed, Col
ler's articles by fellow on the staff
who calls himself Kyle Crichton in Golfers
but uses the name of Robert Forsythe when
he writes for the New Masses, which is a
straight communist publication.
In this connection it was noted that although
Golfers blew a few editorial kisses at these
durable old babes by way of introducing them
to the customers it said nothing at all to call
| attention to their politics. This took to be
rather serious oversight because, after all, if
writer is pro-coumunist then he or she
In1SnL De inclined 10 give communism ana the
Russian system the best of things. And the
| result might be misleading to the American
consumer.
On that occasion l went to the index of the
Dies Committees records and gave you the
number of citations of each Of these three
and the only reaction from Golfers was not
a disagreement with my warning and argu-
ment but note catching me in a mistake
that 1 should not have made and here do
7 no obi
of Golfers, which a dumb error because
Bill has been made publisher and the editor
is Henry La Cossett as should have noted
on the masthead.
My further interest has been aroused by
some additional items for l now see that
Crichton is no longer writing harmless little
nonsense about movie actresses in which there
could be no chance to serve the cause but
lately did one called the &C. l. Bill of Com
plants" That would seem to be a change
OF policy because one Of their executives told
me year or so ago that they used Crichton
as they call him, only on frivolous stuff and
that policy seemed to me to recognize the
possibility that the guy could get his two per-
sonalities confused if assigned to do a heavy
piece and give us Forsythe product on
controversial issue.
Now they have another by Winter telling us
about the revival of religion in Russia and the
chastity of the females and the beauties OF
home life This line may be out of date al.
ready for 1t was only few days ago that the |
communists in New York had terrible fuss
among themselves and the American party
line changed back to old revolutionary Marx.
ism and the class struggle. The formula for
mat line calls Tor riots in the streets, the dis
rupnon OF the family, promiscuity, divorce by
postcard and abortion.
AS Winter herself says, certainly, in the
first decade of the revolution, there was ire.
mendous ferment'' and "al kinds of expert.
ments were being tried including ibertinism
and general immortality
Possibly if they can get Winter back there
again they will shoot her for counter revolu.
Nonary for mlstmlng her appeal to American
moral and religious feeling but that is her
worry, not ours, although maybe her hus.
band, Hollywood gag writer named Donald
Ogden Stewart, would cut himself in for
slice of anxiety, marriage being such beauti.
full institution now.
If you know my reputation for chivalry you
will understand how painfully it grieves me
to have to dlsbelieve Winters story about this
cnange in affairs in Russia and will realize ]
hope, that it isn't a personal doubt of person
but dlstrust Of whole group of propagan-
dists and biologists. They would never for
give me for believing any evil things written
about life in Russia by some anti communist
and SO don't see how they or Golfers can
expect anyone to believe beautiful things writ.
ten by their friends And l sort of feel that
Golfers should have told us that these girls
were friends Of Russia instead of leaving us
to believe that they were objective and i'm.
partial reporters
Well, then, furthermore they recently had
story about thing called a school for leader.
ship conducted by the National Maritime
Union, whose president is Joe Curran, a great
friend and political protege of the Roosevelt
government, who has honored communist |
policy for a long time in his political attitudes
here. This was a great plug for the N. NJ u,
and you would have thought it was Just a |
school to teach merchant sailors to get along
tolerably with the masters and the companies
il your mind were innocent of my own convic. |
ton that it is a school of communistic Dur.
poses and a device to confirm after the war
the control of the American Merchant Marine
by small group of individuals who are loyal
to foreign government and hostile to our
own. If had been the editor of Golfers, with |
my knowledge of this union, would have de-
voted a few paragraphs to the voting system
by way of informing my leadership that only |
small fraction of the membership is eligible
to vote for the officers and that its weekly
publication is ar organ of publicity and lauda-
ton for Curran and propaganda for causes !
dear to the communists.
Then, on top OF all that, along comes Col |
ler's with editorial, mind you, entitled
the NMU sees the light which said, among
other things, Joe Curran deserves a round
of app1auSa hri1 pt nil of CT