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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948
Spies, Traitors In Our Midst
Although President Truman referred to
the spy mveetigation now in progress in
Washington as a “red herring," the Army-
Navy Register, the United States Military
Gazette, evidently does not so regard it.
Said the Register in an editorial in its
August 7 issue:
“Amazing revelations of gross negli
gence in the handling of documents of a
secret or confidential nature bearing on the
parts played by certain agencies charged
with planning for the war effort, beginning
about 1940, were given a congressional in
vestigating committee recently.
“A witness who was employed in respon
sible places, including the War Production
Board, testified that he furnished outside
agents With information taken from the
Government records on matters concerning
airplane production, production policies,
synthetic rubber formulas, and war pro
grams in general.
“The same individual told the committee
that he had knowledge of some of the high
ly secret operationa of the Manhattan pro
ject (atom bomb), although, according to
Committee Chairman Ferguson, of Michi
gan, information on this subject was denied
the Truman investigating committee at
about the same time. ^ ' -
“It seems clear from the information
given the two committees that Communist
agents obtained what was thought to be
important information, which was sent to a
foreign government. This is a most serious
situation.
“Vigorous steps should be taken without
further delay .to ferret out those guilty of
violating their iayalty oaths, taken upon
appointment to Federal positions, par
ticularly in time of war, and punishing
them as spies and traitors."
And so the Army-Navy Register evi
dently does not agree that the committees
conducting these hearings were engaged in
dragging a red herring over the trail.
The Preeident has laid himself liable to
further'driticikm by his refusal to give the
committees access to the government em
ployment files, in order that the committee
might further try to locate any possible
communists or communist sympathizers in
government positions.
It’s a rather unusual situation when
Congress, the governing body of the land,
can be denied .access to government rec
ords. It seems that we have something of a
dictatorship in this country after all.
Why Bring It Up?
According to the chief, engineering divi
sion, of the United States Engineering of
fice, the question of the projected dam at
Buckingham Landing, at the confluence of
the Congaree and Wateree rivers, will not
necessarily be brought up at the Rearing
oA the Santee River system to be held in
Columbia, on September 2.
The chief of thfc engineering division
told .the Columbia Record that a resolu
tion was adopted by the Committee on
Rivers and Harbors of the lower house of
Congress on December 28, 1946, requesting
-tha engineers to review the reports hereto
fore submitted on the Santee River system
with a view to determining whether any
modification of the recommendations con
tained therein is advisable at this time.
“It cannot be stated that this time," he
said, “if the question of a dam at Buck
ingham Landing will be discussed as one of
the projects, It has been considered that it
would not be necessary to further discuss
the Buckingham Landing project at this
hearing, since it waa thoroughly covered at
the Sumter hearing and the data presented
at the Sumter hearing ar^ available and
will be ueed in preparation of the report."
If the matter is not to come up again
we do not quite •understand why notices of
the
in
were sent to interested people
be wiped off of the
and kept off.
of former p redden-
that this year
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A Plea For The Indian
Writing in the New York Times’ Sun
day magazine, Oliver La Farge gives some
very interesting information about the sad
plight of the Indians in this country and
makes a plea for something to be done for
these red men.
According to Mr. La Farge the latest of
ficial figures show that there are more
than 420,000 Indians hi the United States
and Alaska now under Federal supervision.
Our greatest tribe, the 60,000 Navajos, is
locked, he says, by illiteracy and endemic
disease into a desert mijitary reservation
which can hardly support half that num
ber.
Mr. La Farge says that the Indians are
a loyal and useful people. “Some 25,000 of
them,” he says, “served in the armed
forces in the last war—women as well as
men. Mahy" thousands served in war indus
tries. The Marines had a special corps of
Navajos who were used to communicate
by radio from ship to shore in landings—
as simply by talking in their own language
they used an unbreakable code. One of the
men in the famous picture of raising the
flag on Mount Surabachi, the one with his
arm up, reaching, was a Popago, and
shortly after the flag was set up, a Flat-
head was killed defending it."
The plight of the Navajos is then dis
cussed by the writer, who describes th$m
as “very primitive, half-starved herds
men."
“We took the whole country from the
Indians, leaving them tracts of land, often
the poorest there was, sometimes purely
worthless, on which to'^try to get by," says
Mr. La Farge. “We shattered the simple
and satisfactory life which they had been
living, and in return we inflicted upon
them a vast variety of diseases, above all
tuberculosis, against which they had no
immunities. Conquest, despoliation, dis
ease and mistreatment they have repaid
with loyalty and patriotism. We owe these
people a debt. There is no excuse for us
today to follow' a course which will pro
long and renew’ the evils of the white man’s
advent. The Indians deserve a square
deal."
It is good to see some one at last speak
ing up for the poor Indian. Perhaps it is
because there are not enough of them to
possibly affect an election that no effort
has been made by politicians to do any
thing gfor them. Nor have we heard of any
of the ministers who are so muchly exer
cised ver the plight °f other minorities say
ing anything about the plight of the poor
Indians. It is sort of difficult to understand
that!
But be that as it may, Mr. La Farge has
sounded a note that ought to make every
American do some serious thinking and
furthermore he should do all that he can
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to see that something more is done for. the
Indian.
As It Should Be
State Chairman W. P. Baskin has an
nounced that an overwhelming number of
the members of the state executive com
mittee have endorsed and recommended
Governor Strom Thurmond for President
and Governor Fielding Wright f°r Vice
President and that the electors from this
state will be instructed to* cast their ballots
for these two men.
This is as it should be. The sentiment in
South Carolina is overwhelmingly in favor
of the States Rights Democrats and the
committee in recognition of this fact has
voted to so instruct the electors from this
state.
We believe if| an election were held to
day Mr. Truman\would not get many more
votes in this state, if any more, than Mr.
Dewey.
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With The Press
For President Truman
The question is asked if some one way
should not be provided for people of South
Carolina who wish to vote for Mr. Truman
to do so.
We have an idea that such an electoral
ticket will be put out. The Progressive
Democratic Party or the Citizens Demo
cratic party will probably see to that.
Doesn't Make Sense
It doesn’t make much sense to sentence
Robert H. Best to life mprieonment for
treason because of his Nazi propoganda
broadcasts during the war and yet allow
Communists in this country to try to deliver
our country lock, stock and barrel to Rus-
IhinkbiQ Out Loud
Now we know who the elect
are
The Southern Democrats and the
Northern Democrats are about as
far apart on the poll tax question
aa the polee.
—
News breaks so fast now that
it Is oftentimes old before people
hear It.
Accord inn to .Oliver La Farge,
there are 420.000 Indians In this
country, many ot whom cannot take
care of themselves. Our greatest
tribe, the 60,000 Navajos. is locked
by Illiteracy and endemic disease
into a desert reservation which can
hardly support half that number.
President Truman doesn’t seem to
■be worried over their plight. Per
haps he is like the South Georgia
politician who was running for of
fice. At one point he made a par
ticularly vitriolic speech. After the
meeting his local campaign man
ager told him: “I’m afraid your
speech today offended many of our
best pebple ” To which the candi
date replied: “To heck with the
best people—there aren't enough of
them" There aren’t enough In
dians to affect the vote in this
country.
That Western woman who di
vorced her husband the other day
and was awarded alimony of $1,500
a month for her three children
must plan to feed them meat.
The United States seems to be
almost as much as misnomer now
as the Unite! Nations?
The guy who conducts one is
the man who gets the lot out of
the lottery
A lot of political aspirants In
Tuesday’s election now need some
aspirin.
I>a8t week In response to a sug
gestion by an economist that a lot
of spending could be avoided If
people would swap Articles they
have 1n their homes for articles
they could use, we announced that
we had an old radio that wouldn’t
play which we would like to swap
for one that would play “J L. K.”
of Columbia wrote: “In response to
your offer to swap a radio that
won’t play for one that will; I beg
to say that I have a radio that
play too d much (the kids keep
It on full blast all day and half
of the night) so I would h? pleased
to swap It for one thp.t will not
play ''
A hen’s only remuneration Is her
feed and she only eats about 40
cents worth a month, so we would
sav offhand that she is entitled to
a raise, considering the price her
product Is bringing now.
Why don’t school teachers lake
a cue from radio announcers and
offer handsome prizes to pupils
who give the right answers?
About the only person who can
bust a filibuster is a flllbusterer.
When we were listening to the
broadcast of jthe Wallace conven
tion In Phllalelphia recently we de
ckled to Join the Better Hearing
Society
People are getting more 1m-
pathnt. says a sociologist. Yes.
we have even seen stories lately
indicating that burglars were
peeved because the money wasn t
left where they could get It easily.
Federal Security Administrator
Oscar Ewing says that he planned
to fire D* John W. Studebaker as
Oomniissioaer of Hdacation hut "he
heat me to the gun by resigning.”
\fr Ewing evidently didn't realize
how fast a Studebaker is
^Believes Moscow Might Change
Policy"—headline. One disconcert
ing thought is that whenever Mos
cow c hanges a policy It is usually
fur the worst
Kerr Scott, governor-elect of
North Carolina, is to speak at the
annual meeting of the North Caro
Una Taxicab Association. Well that
is appropriate as he passed every
body else In running for Governor
Any South Carolina politician
who can’t tell by now which way
the cat is Jumping is either blind
or just plain dumb.
Supreme Court Justice I^ee B
Wyatt, of Georgia, told the Ala
bama Bar Association the other
day “If I had my way about Wal
lace I would say get the hell out^
and go back to Russia" Well, 'so
far as we are concerned the Jus
tice can have his way.
Elmer H. Wene is the new as
sistant secretary of agriculture. So
now we know where Elmer is.
A writer complains that school
children are being taught Inac
curacies. And that reminds us of
the mother who wrote her little
son’s teacher a letter as follows:
“Dear Miss. Please don’t give
Tommy any jnore home work. That
sum abcuqhow long would It take
a man to walk around Trafalgar
Square eight times caused hie fath
er to lose a day’s work and after
he had worked It you marked the
•on wren*.*
Juvenile Crime Wave Spreading
There is no denying the fact
that every effect has its cause.
Nothing happens "Just so.’’
There is an underlying cause for
the wave of juvefiile delinquency
sweeping the nation It may be due
to a demoralizing home environ
ment, lack of discipline, the read
ing of degrading literature, the
love of pleasure or dozens of oth
er things.
A few days agp the papers car
ried the shocking story of a youth
who shot his mother in the back of
the head with a .22 rifle and at
tempted to kill his father who was
approaching the home.
Youths, or even adults, who com
mit such atrocious crimes are men
tally deranged—victims of a dis
ease more pernicious than cancer
or tuberculosis. <
Isn’t it about time to begin
drives to suppress or minimize
these juvenile delinquencies? If
they continue to Increase, the mo-
als standards of the coming gen
eration will fall to a distressingly
low level.—Dillon Herald.
Supporting Thurmond
A number of newspapers through
out South Carolina, along with a|
number of men in high position, as
well as others not connected in any;
way with politics, have come out)
flatfootedly to endorse the candi- 1
dacy of Governor Thurmond, rtf |
South Carolina for President of
the United States. Some others,;
and they were quite outspoken a 1
number of months ago about Presi-j
dent Truman’s civil rights program,,
have not endorsed Mr. Thurmond
and what he stands for One of the
most noteworthy example of this
is U. S Senator Olin D. Johnston?
who, so to speak, “shot off his
mouth” considerably, has not en
dorsed Mr Thurmond’s candidacy
and seems to be determined to stick
to the regular old Democratic party
lines even if Jt does mean that (il 8
state and other Southern states are
to he crucified.
All of us know, or should know?
that Thurmond and Wright have
not the remotest chance of being;
elected President and Vice-Presi-j
dent, respectively Dewey and War |
ren, carrying the Republican ban
ner, seem to be a cinch for that
job. However, the South does have
an excellent chance, by backing
the Dixiecrat candidates, to prove
to the rest of the nation that for
too long the South has been con
sidered a nonentity Insofar as elect
ing a president Is concerned. W«
would like to urge that our Demo
cratlc leaders in South Carolina get
behind Governor Thurmond, ex
press themselves as hr ing in favor
of him and work for the success
of his campaign
The time for withholding com
ment on whether or not a Demo
cratic leader in South Carolina la
In favor of a man who Is fighting
for the constitutionally guaranteed
rights of every state and of every
citizen has passed.
We have no need for pussyfoot
ing politicians in South Carolina.—
I^ee County Messenger
Truman and Prices
President Truman called con
gress back Into special session
and threw In their lap an eight-
point program which it Ignored
Tho President wants a revival of
the wartime excess profits tax;
controls on consumer credit,
strengthened controls on bank
credit by the Federal Reserve
Board; regulations of speculation
on commodity exchanges; alloca
tion and Inventory control of
“scarce commodities ”; authority to
ration key commodities if neces
sary; authority to clamp price ceil
ings on scarce and essential goods,
and to curb wage Increases that
would "force a break in a price
celling.”
The President ignores the fact
that his and his predecessor’s ad
ministration brought about high
prices to a large extent by per
mitting excessive exports, en
couraging wage Increases ^id reck
less spending. All of this added up
has produced mounting inflation.
His program to counteract high
prices is only a political gesture
aimed to help In his re-election.
In some of Its phases it is a pro
gram to maintain high prices.
There are four factors which prin
cipally govern prices—wages, the
productivity of labor, costs of ma
terials, and profits—plus the fifth
factor of supply and demand. And
while the President is fussing and
blustering about prices—which we
all know are too high and should
come down—he proclaims that fur
ther wage Increases should be al
lowed and encouraged, that large
additional funds be appropriated
for federal education (dangerous
and sure to lead us into hmore
trouble and complications), public
power, more social security and
federal pay raises It doesn’t make
rut omment
Prices. Where i* £ ^i
creasing taxes i n /L* 01 * I
prices? It | 8 the gJljT 10
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