The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-16
AS Pegler Sees It
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1947, by King Features
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NEW YORK, - The committee on un-
American activities OF the House of Rep
resentatives has redressed some clumsy
errors done by its predecessor, the So
called Dies committee and has become, on
achievement, a valuable body of the ma
tional legislature. By the initiative and
dill of this committee, a number of
the most dangerous enemies of the United
States have been sent to prison on various
charges arising out of their treachery as
communists or in collision with the COM
munist conspiracy. Several thousands of
alien spies and provocateurs and Ameri-
can traitors who, in the role of red Outs
lings, collaborated with them, have been
catalogued in a permanent directory in re-
lation to one another and to the hundreds
of communist fronts. This is an invaluable
record the like of which no other govern
ment bureau thought to prepare The Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation has it's own
copies of the committee reports and relies
on it in its current anti-communist activ-
ity.
The F.B.1. was firmly restrained as long
as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt exercised
power in the White House in the role of
wife OF the one whom she blandly and
sincerely spoke of as our truler." The
communist desk of the Navy was abolished
early in our war and the rule of the Army
excluding communists and their feather
from the commissioned ranks was revoked.
In consequence communists and Trojan
horsemen were given commissions and ac-
cess to information which any prudent ma
ton would entrust only to persons of re-
liable devotion. These infidels were turned
loose in the role of writer's and lecturers
in the "indoctrination" phase of the mill
tary training with a mission to corrupt the
patriotism of loyal Americans. Some of the
lessons taught by these d%octrinaires were
anti-fascist from the standpoint of the
communists, but not from the hygienic
standpoint of American patriotism which
detests them with an equal adherence.
The F.B.I. has consulted the records of
the Dies committee, now known as the
Thomas committee, ever since these in
quiries began. The Departments of State,
War and the Navy have made equally
free with the files. Probably, in many
cases, the State, War and Navy Depart
ments were fishing to learn just how much
the committee had discovered about them,
because they were miserably infested
thanks to the gallus hospitality of Franklin
D.. Roosevelt. Except as to a few sullen
file-clerks, the F.B.I. seems to have been
clean and it's inquiries to have been ad-
dressed to the committee in good faith on
legitimate government business.
Martin Dies, the congressman who was
chairman of the special committee, suffer
ed much for his country. He was a Texas
country boy who knew nothing of the tricks
of the organizers of leagues, committees,
councils and congresses and they led him
through many a briar patch before he
learned. However, he got him a stack of
books and studied his lessons by lamplight
with Mrs. Dies, the both of them exclaim-
ing from time to time, "can such things
be?" He also had the good fortune to get
him a chief investigator named ]. B. Mat
thews, a backslid bolo WHO had once been
a true-loving bolshevik and therefore knew
all the enemy's methods and, more i'm
portant, knew thousands of communists,
overt and covert, by personal acquaint-
ance. Matthews, a Phi. D., known as Doc,
got his degree in Vienna for study in Sans
krit, of all things. He might be a fine
authority on Henry Wallace's adventures
in the supernormal state with his old guru,
Nick Roerich, the R%osicrucian Rooseian,
but for a wicked impulse which CAV him
one night to pluck a spring from the two
legged beard of the old keeper of the joss
house whose drooling disciples, including
Henry, regarded him as God Almighty or
not less than God Almighty's traffic msna-
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the jossery on Riverside drive for a seance
this night and, being a scholar in Oriental
voodoo adept in blowing smoke rings
through his ears, took one look at Henry's
guru and busted out laughing. Roerich rec
ognized him then as a feilow-professional
and keeper of the secrets and, out OF the
side of his mouth, passed him the conf
dental word, "ix-noy acking-cray ithWay
all esethay umpchays around" This is
Sanskrit for "jiggers, pal, no Wisecracks
with all these chumps around" But the
Doc clapped his hands and hollered for a
bowl of gung-fung with narroW-gauge
noodles, chop-chop! They didn't exactly
detain him when he left, and that is how
he happens not to be available to drive
IN to Henry Wallace's Farvue farm to
stab him in the brisket with an accusing
finger and make him tell all about pipe
nights at the old hop joint:
After Doc got fed up with the bolshe-
viki he rugged up a two-passenger lamas-
erv of his own on a hilltop in the Jersey
u1;1ds and it was there that an apostate
New York flvcop, working as investigator
for the Dies committee, found him, one
summer afternoon leaping from crag to
crag in short pants ana on 011erea nun the
lob of chief investigator. The cop said the
noc was an authentic museum siGe-hill
dodoer with one leg shorter than the other
and claims that when he saluted him, Of
fering a string of beads, a dime-store mir
ror and a swatch of red flannel, the Doc
Yelled "%revenooers, maw!" and scuttled
~ Doc saws the cop is just a dam old liar
and, that in fact, this particular afternoon
he had a shirt on and a necktie handy on
. the knob of the door.
ANYWAY, that is how Doc Matthews came
~ he chief investigator for the Dies COM
nnittee and if you will meet me here to-
come alone and do not try to play me
morrow, 1 will tell you some more, but
false. Till then
Initiation is here, and prices will go high.
err. We have industrial strife and economic