The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-15
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

OF making people think0
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1915, by King Features Syndicate.)
In writing some time ago Of the use of radio
by a Russian born war contractor to har-
rangue the Americans with propaganda con-
sistent with the communist line, I made the
mistake of declaring that our standard Amer
lean press would not sell advertising space
for editorial matter 1t was a careless obser-
walton and incorrect because periodically,
since 1899, the International Latex company
of Playtex Park, Dover, Del, has been run
ming political arguments as paid advertise
ments. These have been new deal preach
ments, and anti-Nazi but, as far as my read
ing of them reveals, never anti-communist,
nor hostile to totalitarianism, as such.
The company which took to the air with
the party line propaganda over a local sta
ton OF the Blue Network in New York was
Electronic Corporation of America. AS relat-
ed before in these dispatches, its news inter
prefer" is renegade rabbi, born Margolis,
who changd his name to Gailmor to conceal
his identity as convicted thief and deceived
the Blue Network regarding his true person
ality and police record in the interview which
preceded his engagement. After the expose,
he was invited to the White House alone with
many others of like mind and purposes for
the inauguration festivities.
The president of electronic is native Rus
sian, naturalZed American, named Samuel
Novick who manufactures secret electrical
equipment for the Army and also has inter-
ests in a company of similar activities in
Mexico the center of the communist conspir-
acy in Latin America. Novick hired for his
press agent in New York a prominent and
aggressive communist who, like Gailmor al
so uses an alias Novick, moreover, is aso-
ciated with group of conspicuous conmun-
lists and felloW-travelers in new corporation
which is preparing a strong campaign by ra-
dio voice and television to begin Immediately
after the war;
In Gailmor's propaganda conscious example
of pro-communist bias were denunciations of
Great Britain Tor resisting t h e communist
coup in Greece after the liberation and lauda-
tons Of the Quisling Polish government set
up by Soviet Russia in Poland under the
title of the Lublin committee. This matter was
presented in the guise Of news Interpretation
and, under ordinary practice, the cost of the
program, more than $4,000 a year, would
be deductible from the profits of electonic
as legitimate advertising expense, in the prep
aration Of its tax returns. Thus, in final eff
feet, the American people, the actual tax-pay-
ers, would bear the cost of their own indoc-
trination, subtly administered as explanation
of news developments Even though it were
not deducted but paid out of the company's
own profits, they would still pay for it be-
cause, after ALL it is the taxpayers who pay
the profits, too. A communist organization
having the form of an American business cor
poration might desire profits only to be able
to use them to promote the cause of COM
munsm
There are points Of similarity between No.
wick of electronic and the president of in
ternational Latex, whose name is Abraham
N. Spaniel. Like Novick, Spaniel was born in
Russia and, like Novick, he is diligently en-
gagged in war production and would appear
to have prospered enormously. His advertise
ments run two or three columns wide, the
length OF the page, in a national list of news
papers, a campaign suggesting huge op-
preparation for political propaganda. and he
is rapturous advocate Of Henry Wallace as
an American political prophet. To this end
he has published at advertising rates on a
national scale several eulogies of Wallace, os-
tensible as "a public SERVICE including one
by the ineffable Senator Joe Guffey, of Penn
the artful tax dodger, who for many
years owed the treasury an item of 81 900
and. finally, after much publicity, persuaded
himself to pay it, but without the usual i'm
post of accrued interest.
No wonder the forward looking people of |
the United States and the common people of
the World believe, in Mr.. Wallace said Sena-
WI 1aAACy LII ollS VI MI OpduSl ) dQS ueSleCL-I
ing, however, to mention Wallace's disparage-
ment of the American constitutional Bill of |
Rights or his plan to build a highway, wheth- |
er OF eight lanes Or one, and whether of
concrete or platinum, from New York to Paris |
by way OF Alaska and Siberia
Another OF Mr.. Spanels rhapsodes was a |
reprint OF column by a member of the |
Roosevelt newspaper following in Washington,
which described Wallace as champion and
symbol OF the aspiration of the common man
and the under dog" This was a poetic con-
structlon well expressing the attitude of some
aemagogues OF the extreme left who regard
the American citizen as a soulless lump to
be fed, quartered, ordered nd disciplined
even as dog. A native of Russia and an
admirer Of the Soviet system might be par
doned in the error.
Golfers recently published laudatory per-
sonal history of Mr.. Spaniel praising him for
MS invention and manufa cture of pneumatic
GOATS Tor gungle warfare and pneumatic
'tretcher Tor the recovery of casualties and
or MS foresight in laying up, before Pearl
darbor, reserve supply of liquid latex, or
pure rubber. He formerly had manufactured
glrdles for women and baby pants. Collies
tells us that like Gailmor Spaniel studied for
the clergy
He is said to have returned voluntarily ST. |
500, 600 of his profits to the Treasury but we
are not told whether he might have had to do
this anyway as many manufacturers must.
under the renegotiation process. war con-
trac tor thus could make patriotic virtue of l
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