The guardian., 1953-09-19
BOSTON
BAKED
BY MABE KOUNTZE
"Sin has many tools, but a
lie is the handle which fits them
ALL
Oliver Wendell Holmes

ALL
Oliver Wendell Holmes
SOME COP spokesmen, in
cluding editors, have urged the
American people to become a
nation of "informers minding
eVefyone's business except their
own, sending in Spy-reportS on
their fellow men. OF course, this
is merely a copy of NaziSm, Fa-
cism, and Communism methods
which SOW seeds Of disunity,
distruSt and destruction. 1t will
never succeed in the u. S. A,
FOURTEEN UNITED STATES
Postal workers, thirteen of them
cOlOred, were fred due to lin
formers during the 194S-49
Loyalty Purge. But to-day they
are all cleared and have been
awarded back pay. 1t was dis
covered that the stool pidgeOn
infOrmers who called these men
communists" were bearing
false witness. In brief, they lied.
But stool pidgeOns are usually
of a cheap character who allow
pay, prejudice, and ignorance to
rule.
THE NATIONAL Alliance of
Postal Employees knocked the
stool pidgeons right off their
srnear-campaign stools. 1t took
FIVE years to clear these fourteen
Americans, some of them veter-
ans, living in various states Of
our Union, including PennSyl-
vania, New Jersey, Ohio, I'LL
noiS, Missouri, and California,
This is an example of what !
could happen to any American,
white or colored. No one is safe,
THE INF0RNGERS who have
been doing most of the loud
testimony in recent years have
been sO-called "ex-COmmuni.ts'
and "ex-Nazi agents, whose
word (due to their training) !
never was nor ever will be a
Prayer Book. Some men will
testify against even God for a
price. And "ex-spies" are MAX
ing a mint of money these days.
The amazing fact is that some
authorities put so much faith
in the word of men trained TO
lie.
THE ENTIRE Protesta a n
Church ministry has been
sineared in recent weeks by the
testimony of just two ~ so
called "ex-communists" whose
word has been accepted as Cos
pei by the Un-American COM
mittee. According to these "in-
formers, only one faith had
high loyalty record, but church
men Of Jewish and Protestant
faith are bad risks. And last
week, one Cd "ex-communist"
was allowed to judge the entire
New England ministry.
THE RUSSIAN PLAN to pit
Catholic against Protestant and
eventually all against the Jews,
is making great headway,
thanks to the stupidity Of some
Of our "pOwer-erazed pOliti-
Clans" The American religious
disunity which can and may
result will be a tragedy Of our
times. The smear against the
Protestant peoples loyalty is an
insult TO every Protestant war
veteran lying beneath a cross.
This SANDER can not go un-
challenged.
THE PROTESTANT Clergy
have indeed opened their doors
to many people Of many beliefs
and some, right or wrong, pride
themselves on this policy. Christ
mingled among all people. 1t is
also true that Protestant clergy
mingled with groups which they
believed were honestly working
for better economic and social
reforms. The question here is
whether religion "rubs of" by
such associations. If so, Mis-
sionaries wouldn't stand
chance.
EVEN so, the clergy, mot only
ProtestantS, but of all faiths).
should make it forcefully plain
that they oppose not only Com
munism, but all evil designs
against humanity. including
Mazism. Ku Klux KlaniSm, and
colonial race suppression, all
equal foes" of u. S. democracy.
For the fate of the West rests
with a combination Of evil isms.
And reform will only come
through Christianity not
through stool pidgeons and
aIsnder