Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-20
Wallace Reception
Attacked Where
Worse Ignored
PEGLER
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 194S, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

have actually served the good
purpose, deplorable as it may be
to Henry, of proving by con-
trast that these southern com
monwealths are more polite and
obedient to law than those 9TH
ers which critized them.
The campaign of disparage-
ment has been growing for fif-
teen years and is the work of two
agencies, the Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
a sinecure for a few over-privi-
legged elegants, and the Com
munist Party. Both of these have
contrived to make use of outlets
which were less likely to be sus-
pected of special motives. The
advancement outfit made con-
nection with the ever-susceptible
New York Herald Tribune
whereby its president, one Wal
ter White, a Negro so pallid as
to walk in peril in Harlem after
midnight, should publish its pro-
paganda in the Sunday section
in the guise of impartial obser-
vations.
The H. T., its ethics gone
numb, ran Whites early pieces
with no line to identify him as
press agent for a touchy cause.
1t was a snide deception of a
piece with the publication of es-
says against the American Le-
gion by Charles G. Bolte, the
founding father of the American
Veterans Committee, with no
line to warn the reader that this
too was pleading by an interest
ed party. On being exposed, the
H. T. quietly complied with the
rule of good faith in journalism,
and in due course, the A. V. c. s
communists debauched this wet
eyed society of campus ideolo-
glans vindicating the suspicious
of all honest observers. Bolte,
with a leg off, was the Long
John Silver and the front for a
collection of draft-dodging lieut.
colonies of procurement, ac-
countancy and propaganda.
Wallace made himself as often
sive as he could to the white pop
ulation of the south and to most
of those Negroes who prefer pro-
gress IN peace to solution in
blood, sweat, and tears. His de-
cision to live only in the homess
of prominent Negros was pa
tronizing affectatien by slob-
bering montebank who hadn't
even learned the tricks of the
Journeyman demagog. He never
promoted Negroes in the De-
partments of Agriculture or Com
merce when he was Secretary
and it never occurred to him to
sleep in a colored mans bed
and spill salt in his home until
he went traipsing in election
year under a banner which i'm
pugned the Negroes patriotism.
Through all this, Bubblehead
was treated with the good con-
tempt of men of both races who
were in moral position to des-
pise him. He was egged slightly
but never stoned and of the to-
matoes thrown none hit him, a
warning, perhaps of the decline
of the South as the source of ma
jor league ball-players.
But few years ago, in New
York, when Fritz Kuhn and the
Nazi Bund held rejoicing in
Madison Square Garden, it took
all the spare cops in town to
keep some $4,000 level-headed,
patient New York opponents OF
tolerance and forbearance from
throwing the edifice at him,
brick by brick. Kuhn was anti
American, anti-Semitic, dishon.
est and unpopular. Wallace is,
II not anti-American then, any.
way more friendly to the enemy
than to his own country. He is
anti-white, notorious liar ano
no more beloved in Alabama
than Kuhn was in the Bronx.
In the southern states, Wal
lace generally was let to speal
MS meandering piece. People
called him a few names and hi
him with few eggs which
caused no injury. The cops were
lew by contrast with the mightly
cordons which were Necessary
to protect Kuhn that nigh.. OBJ
viously the southern people
could be trusted to restrain then
selves.
In New York, Madam Kerster
Flagstad came to sing nonpoli
hcal songs and was placardee
long in advance by frantic Incl
tations to assault or even homi
eide composed by illiterates OF
the foundation of motivated gos
sip about her late husband. ant
published in daily papers. N,
modern southern paper. woul,
consider printing such bruta
counsel. Mr.. Flagsted was sal,
to have been a Norwegian Nazi
The A. V. c., of the Herald Tri 4
oune's reference, was one of tn,
v,lgilante outfits that pickete,
her show.
In the New York district whicl
sends Vito Marcantonio to Con
gress to follow the party line, al
eiectloneer named Scottorigg
was kicked to death in dayligh
Tor all around to see, becaus