The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-23
AS Pegler Sees 1t
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1917, By King Features Syn
dicate Inc.

0ICatc, 1nC.
NEW YORK, Sept. q. - was telling
Won that Robert Stripping, the chief investl-
gator of the old Dies committee and now
chief investigator for the Thomas commit
tee. finally was shanghaied into the Army
He was the father of child born before
Pearl Harbor and surely was not regarded
as military asset because ne pus IN more M
than a year as yardblrd, picking up
butts and wrappers. For about four months
in the summer and fall of 1914 it had been
almost impossible to give man to the
Army because Roosevelt was easing the
pressure on the great American home in
anticipation of the election: The
draft boards manned the rifle sllts and
drove them off. After election, this chang
ed. Recruiting and drafting business pick
| ed up: rationing tightened and there was
shell shortage in France, soon after Roose-
velt had sung his melodious song of mill
| tary abundance.
But still, the drafting of Mr.. Stripping
was special political business All the Wash
ington Bolshevilxi hated him and two regu-
lar national broadcasts, done in the, gulse
of news on Sunday nights, clamor-
ed at his draft board to fetch him. Stripping
was our best authority on the Bolshevlk
sedition and all such treachery: You would
have thought the Army and Navy would
compete for him as an intelligence officer,
but they didn't dare touch him. They tossed
rank right and left to hack playWrlghts
and nightclub takers, but Stripping was IN
wrong with Eleanor the Great. When they
took him as a draftee he couldn't even
catch on with an outfit for about year.
He was an orphan soldier in the Army OF
his native land. When the old man died
Striplng was made a master sergeant ana
set to teaching a class in subverslve actlvl-
ties. Herbert Hoover was invited to the
White House.
Some people still believe Eleanor was al
Ways sincere and kind But not all people.
Some other have caught that icy flint
Stripping had put himself in dangerous
position. Those bigots of the Roosevelt SS
were restrained only by the fact that our
people had resisted better than the Ger
mans opposed Hitler.
Eleanor was trying to build UP aer own
youth movement. The Nazis had their Hit
Ter youth, including girls, and the Italians
had their loathsome little sprouts, sticking
their chins out and brandishing cheap stl-
lettos with a Sanguinary motto stamped on
the blades. Eleanor invited some nasty
young free-loaders to the White House and
to her homes and then one day she showed
UP at hearing of the Dies committee to
give aid and comfort to her particular
hcuse-pet, Joe LASH
wen, DdCh LII 1Oo0, cCAAy sOoAtAA' -
fornia new deal congressman who is not a
bolo but very guillible, had some business
at the White House. And passing the LIN
coin bedroom Voorhis saw Joe Cadden and
Abbott Simon, professionals in the youth
racket, as you might say, at home IN the
great emancipator's old private chanber.
Vcorhis let out an awful holler to Mr. Big,
but lot of good that did; the old grl out
manned the boss in every contest. Remem-
ber. she even served orange blossoms to
Roosevelt's personal and official guest,
Winston Churchill, brandy man. In other
days that could have started a war
i'My God,'' Churchill yelled, ''I am in the
house of the borgias," and spewed it into
the rubber plant.
No, wait That wasn't Churchill. That
was John Barrymore the night Gene row.
ler's daughter served him sarsaparllla ana
told him it was something called black
velvet. made of champagne and porter.
Still, Voorhis begged the rest OF the boys
on the Dies committee to 60 easy on the
American Youth Congress- because Eleanor
had asked him to persuade them not to
call it a communist front. Like dummies,
they pulled punch for her and few
months later the outfit held convention
in Washington and booed her old gent when
he said communism was dictatorship too.
Stain and Hitler were allies then that
Cadden, who was in Lincoln's bedroom
as a guest, recently turned up in another
conny front called the Civil Rights Con-
gress.
Lash had caught on as the old girls
fair-haired boy. She almost adopted the
guy. When she took her ioyride to the
Pacific she called on Joe in some COM
Portable place where he was stationed and
kissed him. Pat Robinson, of the n. S..
reported that he asked some gloomy G. l.:
chow would you like to be kissed BY the
Presidents wife," the guy said. "not
bit but sure would like to be kissed by
nv own wife"
Before that, the old girl had planted Lash
in the office of Civilian Defense with May
ris CLANCY. that snnall-tir'e dancer from
California and MELVIN Douglas Of the
movies The O. c. D. connmandeered a
whole big apartment house on Du Pon+
place and kicked the tenants out. but pretty
soon it got Just too si11v even for tho
y. S. A. under Eleanor and was disbanded
All this time lot of politics was goino
to get Lash commission in Navv intel
ligence. The Navy said nothing doing Until
he got clearance from the, Dies COM
mite. then one dav Strip1ing GOT a COM
and tn come and see her majesty at tho
White House. He refused on the ground
that he had no authority to speak for the
Then Dies got an invitation to 1'nch and
ike sucker, he fell for that First Lady
business
She wanted special confidential
hearing tor Lash so he could unlouse him
self OF his old political associations and
reputation. The committee gave him the
nearing and he was supposed to suuea7
on his old friends But so many of them
were friends Of Eleanor tha t he choked
up and wouldn't chirpl So the connoittee
1ust sent note to Lssh's draft board re-
porting that he seemed to be in excellent
health and he got grabbed. Later Dies
got a note from Eleanor saying he had
double-x'd her and he lost out in a snoa11
purge at the hands of Sidney Hillnnan in |
the next election Stripling didn,t h...a -