The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1954-03-20
BOSTON
BAKED
BY MABE KoUNTZE

BY MABE KoUNTZE
Truth is the most valuable
thing We have, let us ecOnO-
mize it,"
Mark Twain
THIS WEEK the desk of
this humble commentator con-
talnS two subjects. The first
Item is the case of grey-haired
4o-yr old Mrs. Annie Lee Moss
whose loyalty has been defend
ed by the Army, and attacked
by the Junior Senator. The
second item is the statement
denied by the GUARDIAN that
Mr.. wilkins is the first U. S,
caolnet member Of color.
THE SENATOR from WIS
consin, in his widely pubIicized
attack on the loyalty of Mrs.
Moss, has certainly created
deep resentment within coIored
Americans l have talked with
and whose vote may mean the
adherence between Republican
victory and defeat. Mrs. Moss
has denied she ever was dis
loyal. The U. s. Army has up
held her loyalty. No proof has
been given that Mrs. Moss ever
sold security secrets or worked
as a traitor.
THE ARMY and FBI files
reveal that Mrs. Moss broke
her membership ties with the
Communist Party in 1916. The
Army hired her in 1850 Mrs
Moss says she was never in
the Party to Overthrow the
Government" but to agitate
for better equalities, which is
actually true of 80 percent of
colored communists, as both
Ed Hoover and Herb Philbrick
know and as President Eisen-
hover has been duly informed.
Let us face the facts. Not pro-
paganda.
THE GERMAN ex-Nazi scien-
lists, along with other former
Axis employees are to-day work.
ing in tOpfiight security jobs
without any challenge from MIR.
Mundt and Mccarthy. Does |
their color alone make them
better risk than Annie Lee
Moss who knows and loves no
other country but the u. S. A!
Are Mr.. Tito and the former
comrades of HirOhitO and Mus
sOlini better tax and job risks"
than COlOred Americans? II is
time we raise the question. And
loudly.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
chairman, Leonard Hall, i'll
quoted correctly, has shown
gross ignorance of Colored |
Americans almost as bad as
Mccarthy. Mr.. Hall is quoted
as saying that the recent ap-
po1ntment of Mr.. J. Ernest Will |
kinS assistant Secretary of
Labor is the first time a
colored American has held a
cabinet position. This is lust
another example of current
careless political handling of
the facts, In this there is
time for a change"
ALEXANDER HAMILTON was
Secretary of the Treasury under
Washington and the first Con-
gress. Tom Jefferson and Ha-
milton were rivals as to policy
and while Jefferson is called
the Father of the Democratic
Party, Hamilton is the father
of Leonard Halls own Republi-
can Party. But perhaps, like
the OAR, Mr.. Hall doesnot like
to accept the fact that Hamil-
ton was a mulatto. Someone
should send Hall the valuable
works of ]. A. Rogers.
POLITICAL WRITER, the
NNPA syndicate veteran Louis
Lautier went to great lengths
to educate the Republican
Party last week. Mr.. Lautier
reminded COP that BoSton's
own william H. Lewis had served
as Assistant U. S. Attorney
General under President Ho-
ward Taft. This Assistant sta
tus, is the same sub-cabinet
rank as now held by Mr.. Will
kins. So it's nothing new
BILL LEWIS actually had
the ability to be the full At
tOrney General and even
member of the I. S. Supreme
Court as all who knew him
will most heartily agree. The
fact is that major cOlOred ad-
vancement in political position
is dlsgraCefully limited while
hotb r,aior s1artiNs shout big