The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-30
How The Cold War Is Being Fought


T takes person of unlimited time al
curiosity to read all the articles al
acts about things going on in our n
on today. We dare say it approach
le impossible. In our own limited wa
e try to read as widely as possible, al
ass the information on to readers
he Herald.
Among the hundreds of articl
tossing our desk this week, we feel tn
vo should be passed on in their entir
:. The first is an article written
ebert S. Boyd, Washington Bure:
bserver for the Charlotte Observe
harlotte N. C. His article appear
lay 81, and was entitled 1900 Organ
atoms Called Communist Fronts T
BIZ. The article reads as follows:
WASHINGTON = FBI Director j. Edgar
Hoover has his agents checking on some
200 organizations which he believes are
Communist fronts.
He is asking Congress for money to hire
so agents to step up his war on spies and
crooks.
He told a House Appropriation subcom-
mittee. in testimony made public Satur
day, that these organizations are 1.-The
transmission belts through which the Com
munist party furthers its conspiratorial
designs
They have infiltrated every conceivable
sphere of activity youth groups, radio.
television and motion picture industries,
church. school, educational and cultural
groups. the press, minority groups, and
civil and political units. Hoover said.
Some celebrated, self-styleo pacifists
and some men of wealth and prominence
have sometimes been unwilling - but
sometimes knowing political shillS
and stooges of deceitful Communist mani
pulation' he said
Despite the elaborate security meas
ured invoked by the Communist party .
the FBI has succeeded in penetrating the
party's walls of secrecy, he said.
Hoover told the committee that 4.346
people were arrested last year on the basis
of information provided by his army of
confidential informants
He also said the FBI is running 80 wire
taps mostly in spy cases.
The FBI already has $685. agents spend
ing SIPS million year on nearly 100000
separate Investigations.
The workload is going up all the time,
Hoover said.
The 1859 Landrum- Griffin labor law and
the 1860 Civil Rights Act have boosted
the need for agents to probe labor racke
teering and racial trouble.
But the burden. he told the committee.
comes from two causes
Major crimes rose a shocking" 10
per cent last year.
Communist spying and subversion
have multiplied and become agrees
lively bolder.''
Hoover said the Communists moved
quickly last year to exploit the Negro
''sit-in" movements in the South.
He called the sit-ins made to-order
issue which the Communist party fully
CApiOltC0 W Aul tICl It's OWu cIiOS.
The Communist strategy was not to
openly advocate picketing. as this would
tend to expose its members Hoover
said. but rather to get behind the move
ment by urging college students to take
the initiative"
Hoover repeated his belief that the
student demonstrations against the House
Un-American Activities Committee in
San Francisco year ago were 1.-THE re-
suit of minute and skillful planning, di-
rection, and exploitation by handful
Of dedicated. fanatical, hard-core men,
bers of the Communist party"
He scolded college students who favor
what he called 1.-The false peaceful coexis-
tence theory and congratulated those
who have joined anti Communist organi-
zations.
He singled out columnists George
Sokolsky and Fulton Lewis Jr., for praise
for their writings exposing" Communist
activities among young Americans.
He complained about a 1858 Supreme
Court decision denying the government
the power to take away a Communists
passport.
Since the decision he said, there
have been number of well-known Com
munistS who have Travelled abroad to Rus
STA and who have made public attacks
against the United States while abroad"
It looks like good bet that Hoover will
get his so extra agents. The committee
chairman, Rep. John j. Rooney, D.-NY.,
noted with pride that the committee has
never cut penny of Hoovers budget
requests.
Extensive comments on the abo,