Evening star., 1954-12-09
ALI Over?

Inc CenSuTe dCClOIl Is OFcI, IIlc Ocu-
ators have gone their separate ways.
Finally they succeeded in condemning
a fellow Senator. am remembering a
Biblical reference to subject OF con-
demnation, and the admonition, ''He
that is without sin among you, let him
cast the first stone" (St. John, viii, 10
But the dignity Of the Senate, they
claim, has been restored. Consciously.
or unconsciously, every person in Amer
lea, and many outside, is now a self
appointed committee of one to watch
our United States Senate as it attempts
to walk the high wire it has unwittingly
stretched for itself. The striped-pants
decorum dare not slip for one second.
The back-to-the-primitive desire for
revenge shoulders in the human breast,
be it Senator or laborer. Labelling this
desire dignity" was not too convinc-
ing. but it did bring gratifying results
to the majority of the Senators.
Yes, the censure action is over Or
is it? The end result will be interest,"
ing to watch, considering the high wire
and the natural proneness Of human
beings.
Margherita Martin.
According to many editors and coll
unmnists (your Dorothy Thompson
among them, all decent" Americans
were in favor of the censure of Senator
Mccarthy. According to their stand
ards, am an indecent" American. I
was opposed to the Mccarthy censure
proceedings. I know many others in
the same category. men whom I had
always considered very decent, and in
telligent, too.
I wonder how the decent" people
can tell I am indecent" just because
1 don't agree with them that Mccarthy
should have been censured. Guilt by
association? Couldn't be that, because
decent" people don't believe in guilt
by association. Decent" people say
Mccarthy takes the attitude that if
you disagree with him, you are Com
munist. Apparently if you disagree
with decent" people you are "in-
decent" Well, am plenty indecent.
And now there are "a indecent" Sen
ators, so am not going to be lonely.
j. E. S.
want to express my admiration
for David Lawrence and Constantine
Brown in their patriotic defense Of
Senator Mccarthy. They expressed
forthrightly the judgment of our
founding fathers who gave us the Bill
of Rights guaranteeing freedom of
speech to all Americans. including
Senator Mccarthy. Since the begin
ming of our Nation, men have been
free to express their thoughts. AS
early as 1765, in the Virginia House
of Burgesses, during excited debate on
the Stamp Act, Thomas Jefferson
described the discussion as most
bloody" In 1888 the Virginia Con-
vention met at Richmond to ratify
the United States Constitution. Ac-
cording to John Esten Cookies book.
Virginia" 1t was bitter and pro-
longed conflict. Personal attacks
were made on the motives and con-
sistency of members. Patrick Henry
exclaimed in an exchange with his old
friend Edmund Randolph. IF our
friendship must fall, let 1t fall like
Lucifer, never to rise again!"
On the floor of the Senate, speak
ing for Senator Mccarthy. Senator
Dirksen said, "Who would have taken
upon himself the harassment that
began with the speech in Wheeling
five years ago? Oh, the harassment
and villif1cation and abuse! Who would
have taken that? I doubt whether I
would have done so. But he stood up"
Today they are trying to run out
of public life another hunter of Com
munists, Senator Joe Mccarthy.
Virginia States RICHTER.
I don't believe that the American
people thought they we're indorsing
left-wing government when they
voted for Gen. Eisenhower. When he
had as his running mate Richard E..
Nixon, former chairman Of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities.