Milford chronicle., 1957-12-13
WARNING ABOUT COMMUNISTS

FBl Director j. Edgar Hoover IN an article
appearing in the American Legion Maga-
zine for November. He applies it to commun-
ism. For communism he writes, despite the
efforts of leaders to put on smiling new
faces, has not weakened and its philosophy
has not changed, nor has the danger from
it lessened. In his word g: the same old
communist crowd is doing business at the
same old communist stand in the same old
subversive wayw
Actually, according to qualified spokes7
men, the Communist Party, u. S. A., lis
exulting that it has received renewed lease
on life." And it is intensifying its work in
certain extremely significant directions. For
one, thing, it seeks to place members in
heavy industry, steel mills and shipyards.
For another, it is seeking to appeal to young
people and to influence them through con-
cealed members in church and civic organi-
cations. Minority groups are also a prime
target, and communists are experts at eX-
plotting and warping legitimate and honest
grievances. Then, the purposeful hand of
communism is turned to protesting against
the continued testing of nuclear weapons
and other such strategic matters.
AS Mr.. Hoover, out of his long and init
mate experience with this danger, puts it
Division and disunity are communist weap-
ons. 1t pits race against race, worker
against manager, and group against group.
ing, 'Coexstence'
The personalities of communism change.
We now see for instance, Khruschev in place
of Stain. But, as we have also seen, those
who oppose Khrushchev are purged just as
surely as were those who opposed Stalin
1t is Mr.. Hoover's point that "The tactics
of communism do not change! Hypocrisy
guile, deceit, and subversion are the hall
marks of communism today as they were
opCo AY1on liz 0f
life has been infltrated by the fanged sales
men of subversion cloaked in the lambs
wool of glowing promise"
Then he propounds question: "What
shall we do to insure that Americans will
never eat the bitter fruit which is the dread
full lot of more than one-third of the peoples
of the world?" His answer is this: Learn
what communism is and make ourselves
aware of the tactics used by those who pro-
mote communism" Communism is purely
materialistic in its explanation of the rela-
tionship of man to the universe and in its
Interpretation of history. 1t wishes to abol-
ish all religions and the economic system we
know as free enterprise. It's code of action
is based not on morals but on utility. It
reasons that the. end always justifies the
means. It's goal is worldwide revolution cul- |
minating in a worldwide communist. society.
And its end result, to quote Mr.. Hoover once
again: 8. :. is the reduction of man from
a spiritual creature to the level of high
grade animal whose sole reason for being
is to copulate and die"
BASIC ISSUE
Senator Holland of Florida recently had
some fortnight things to say about the
effort to extend the federal wage-hOur law
to retailing and to certain other service en-
terprises which have been exempt ever since
the law was first passed some 20, years ago.
The basic issue, as the Senator sees it, |
is whether we shall permit further encroach- |
ment upon local and state affairs by a CEN
tralized federal government which is al |
ready too large to be efficient or economical,
and too powerful to be soundly democratic.
In the course of his talk, he brought up
some interesting quotations out of the past.
In May, 1887, President Roosevelt requested
the wage and hour legislation for those "whO
toll in factories" Then the President, whom
no one could term anti-labor, stated that
@. there are many purely local pursuits
and services which no Federal legislation
can effectively cover"
The wage-hour bill was introduced in the
Senate by the liberal Senator Black-now a
Supreme Court Justice. Senator Black said
at the time: at is not intended to, and does
not, attempt to provide by Federal legisla-
ton the fixing of minimum wages and max
imum hours of employment in all the varied
peculiarly local business units of the naol
tion."
Retailing is ''local business unit" by any
definition. An outlet of the biggest chain
system in the country must compete on the
local level, and deal with local needs, de-
sires, and conditions. The reasons which
caused retailing and the other service busi-
nesses to be exempted from the federal
wage-hour law in the beginning are as valid
today as they were then.
RSGR$
EDUCATIONAL AIM
Many commentators are saying every
thing but what is most important about Rus
sian education. And educators, scientists and