The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-25
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Whether Ne shall follow the on.
course on the other viii depend
~ the long run Upon the condl-
tons government imposes N max
un, Us atomic. discovery available
% industry.
NACATIONING HERE in Wash
"-ton among or Old associates IN
me fedora. cr,.Ce brings back
Uc1'or e ~ tho Roosevelt wears
Wrc0 almost every Negro holding
q reSpon>.o,e fedora. appointment
VAS aS'ed oy ne Dies Committee
as 4 Communist o. fe,lOW-trAy-
Q g. Somehow they omitted ~
from ms exalted society: and this
omission left US feeling Ike some
one who had been secretly inves-
tlgated and found unworthy 10 be
claSsed as an outspoken champion
81 human rights and human dig
nifty.
The oversight NAY have been
d8e 20 Our position as high
ranking attorney N tHe Depart
mont ~ La0or--a department
N7.c1 MS 'Nov. ard "e suspect
.S,l rs no'or,ouS,y safe for anti
.a0or !o.ceS.
NEVERTHELESS. WE. in CON-
Da0y with thousands 81 other or
binary Americans. continue 20
Wonder just What there $ 50
Wro0E ABOUT Communism or me
Communists that liberal thinkers
everywhere I'VE IN deadly fear
nat they III ne called Conr1In-
SITS, prcferrinE nc safer roren-
C.atu-c o. Socialists.
lnWardiv, 'nev KNOX. AS 90 Ne.
mat All who tearieSS.y ana con-
sC.enrouSly fsh' the battle i0r de-
mocracy and 'or freedom for al
mon N the word today sre spirit
val oro'herS-.n-aynS with me
GeSTj>ed Russian Corn 1urlSiS.
Certainly the common people 81
BRIAN, Fra0ce. China and Italy
have recognizes thus k,nsa,p Why
no' Ve mere N America
WY f1r example has this <ar
q beng labelled Communist
become >acN an ooSession among
0Craf 00ncrS mat Ne hesitate
- purchase openly and read the
CoTmuniS' rape~ as Nor-haiantly
as We -LgnIli -reai 2 Socialist pa
NNr or inc Detroit News Why do
80 steer c'ea~ 81 BOOKS hv Karl
N9yN o. the Communist Nantes
n. nut have no Quaims whatever
about openly reading Pla'o'S Re-
public or Henry Georges Prog
rcSs and Poverty or even the
New Testament The one contains
aH08t IS much Commaris,ic think
lrs rs tHc o'her except that we do
rot Ike 20 think ~ The Bible as
containing Commurism--we pre-
fcr 10 say that i, is social" COS
pei or socialism
THE ANSWER TO this fear. n
this peryerson ~ reasoning, IL 70
be found IN the diabolical thor
ouehness with which an an'i-RuS-
sian daily press IN America has
made 2 oS' ~ uS its thought-SlaveS
We think urconsciouSlv As We
read, and since our general read
Ing ever since the last World War
has been Communist. our
thoughts are too And 50 in our
thinking u Is almost crime ever
10 he identified IN thought. let
alone IN action. with the so-called
Communist Inc Hence. the fact
that no Communist Party mem
bers are for this or that measure
IN Congress, or favor this or that
course ~ action no matter how
sound the supporting reasons may
De means that Ne must be against
II o. lay ourselves oPc7 "a beng
ciaSSVd as Communists.
This : doWnrlg chit fooliShncsS II
defiCS all sense of logic. Reduced
90 rs simplest terms u means that
every person who believes that he
or she should he free 10 work. eat,
I've or move the same as anyone
else. or % marry whomsoever he
or she pieaSes the same as anyone
else, must be 4 Communist-be-
cause this is what Communism IS
supposed to teach.
BY THE SAME spurious reason
inS, everyone who believes that
the government Is the sum total
Of all The people and. as such.
should control and supervise the
wealth Of the nation the national
/ resources and the means OF pro-
ducton-muSt be Communist
since this also is what Commun-
ism is supposed 10 teach
And everyone who believes that
tho hunk Of tho large fortunes
amaSScd N this country from the
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