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David Lawrence: Loose Charge May Boomerang Truman's Detroit Speech on the Signing of Petitions Could Arouse Enmity of People Taken In Before President Truman unwitting ly gave the American wing of the Communist Party the best piece of ammunition it has acquired in a long while when he derided the people of Madison, Wis., for refusing to sign, on last Fourth of July, a petition made up of quotations from the Declara tion of Independence and the Constitution's Bill of Rights. The Communist technique has always been to select quota tions that appear harmless and use them as a basis for the petitions. The State Department itself has denounced one petition which started with the Com munist group in Stockholm last year and was Circulated through out the entire world, getting millions of signatures from in nocent persons before it was recognized what the subtle prop aganda purpose of the so-called peace plea really was. .Many people in Madison, Wis., signed that petition innocently and learned later that it was pro Communist. They are justly suspicious now of petitions that affirm the right of revolution. Mr. Truman’s Justice Depart ment recently has prosecuted successfully eleven Communists who claimed that they were in / titled, under the Constitution's Bill of Rights, to advocate revo lution now, just as did our fore fathers in 1776. The Supreme Court of the United States held that no government has to wait till revolution is actually started in order to begin to suppress those who are inciting other citizens to revolution and that such incitement is not protected by the free-speech provision of the Constitution. President Truman says he cannot imagine why, out of 112 persons approached in Madison, Wis., on the Fourth of July last, only one signed the petition composed of quotations from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. The explanation that will occur to many other Americans less naive is that persons do not sign a petition of any kind when handed to them by a perfect stranger representing no organization or sponsorship of any kind. The people of Madison, Wis., on the Fourth of July last, also were asked by a “left wing” organization to sign a petition which demanded that troops be withdrawn from Korea and that the "poor man not be taxed to pay for a rich man’s war” — Communist technique and propaganda again. Mr. Truman' may not have followed the .trials of the Com munists recently in the courts or he would have known that the whole Communist case rests on the contention that, in advo cating revolution, they stand on the Bill of Rights of the Con stitution and the Declaration of Independence. The President’s speech will give their argument the best boost they have had for some time. Certainly there is an abstract right of revolution, but there is also a concrete right of the gov ernment in authority to suppress it, and the law of the land, as affirmed by decision after de cision of the Supreme Court, provides punishment for acts of insurrection or incitement to revolution. Instead of berating the people of the State of Wisconsin for de clining to be taken in by phony petitions and tricks, the Presi dent should have commended the Wisconsin people and urged the people of America generally not to be deceived by spurious petitions no matter how inno cent they look. Mr. Truman, however, was so intent on scoring a bull’s-eye against Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin that he labored by his speech to prove that the people of Wisconsin had been to such an extent misled into distrust ing their own Government that they wouldn’t even sign a peti tion containing quotations from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In this case, the loose charge can only boomerang and antagonize the people of Wisconsin. (Reproduction Rights Reserved.) Doris Flee son: But Takes Time to Pick Her Hats Mrs. Rosenberg Pauses Before Hop on European Defense Tour To Explain Manpower Problem to Congress Group Representative Overton Brooks of Louisiana, chairman of a House Armed Services subcom mittee, opened hearings yester day on a whole new Reserve sys tem to replace the present hodge podge whose injustices and in equities were pointed up by the need for troops for Korea. His first witness was the Pentagon’s manpower expert, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense. Mrs. Rosenberg briskly re viewed the ways in which the old system, like Topsy, just growed; in some detail she set forth basic policy for the new with practical methods for putting it into effective opera tion. Representative Brooks thanked her for her “very force ful, very fine” statement and as sured her that if the bill con formed to the principles she had described, the Reserve problem would be well settled. Mrs. Rosenberg thanked the subcommittee for its efforts, straightened her hat, dropped in at the Pentagon to pick up her luggage — two suitcases — said goodbye to Defense Secretary Marshall, drove to the Military Air Transport Terminal and by 12 noon was aloft for Paris. In a whirlwind tour of North Atlantic Treaty headquarters, Germany and Austria, she plans to inform herself personally on a few little details like: 1. How her program of distrib uting the brains and the rank and file among the draftees equally between Navy, Army and Air Force is working qut. This problem of Insuring that each service got its fair shares of available gray matter was one of Mrs. Rosenberg’s first and most delicate chores. 2. Housing for dependents and military personnel. 3. What has been done about the service of aliens in United States forces abroad and what are the possibilities for expand ing their use. 4. Plans for rotation of the troops now being stationed abroad. 5 Segregation, the extent to which it is being elimmated and what problems it poses, if any. 6. How- educational and mo rale services for the troops are working cut. 7. The general problem of mo rale. both now and for the long winter months. Mrs. Rosenberg had had rather a crowded week end. An alumi num workers’ strike in Cleveland had been impeding defense industry since June 11 last; this, Mrs. Rosenberg informed her friend, Walter Reuther, president of their union, the United Automobile Workers, was quite long enough. Mr. Reuther has red hair but he had heard that tone in her voice before and besides he trusts her. The Monday morning news papers disclosed that a plan to settle the strike had been agreed on. Mrs. Rosenberg had also noted that the Waves were not ade quately represented in the state funeral for the late Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral For rest Sherman. 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Executive Not connected with Stltx Bros., Inc. i i. LOUIE —By Harry Hanan i m i i-1-n—;=i Fletcher Knebel: Potomac Fever The House sends the battered wage-price control bill to the White House. Aides are urging President Truman to keep his temper under control so the party can claim next year that something was. • * * * U. N. and Red negotiators in Korea agree to keep fighting until they sign a truce. Under the honor system, any one who quits shooting will be expelled for cheating. • * * * Winston Churchill asks the United States to take a more prominent role in the Near East. England doesn’t mind sharing the burden, but how is she going to collect her share if we don’t spend ours? * * * * The National-MacArthur-for-President Committee claims that nobody can stop its movement, even the general. Why not try the emergency brake? It’s always helpful when rolling backward downhill. * * * * A live elephant arrives in Singapore on its way from "the King of Cambodia to President Truman. The President is ex pected to present it to the Republican National Committee so the G. O. P. can start the campaign with something that moves. * * * * Former Senator W. Lee O’Daniel of Texas says he'll run for President to help save the Nation. If we all contribute a dime to his campaign, maybe we can get him to forget the Nation and just save the carfare. * * * * The National Security Resources Board says it has a censor ship plan in readiness. After three years of inactivity, it’s nice to know the NSRB has something beside its payroll vouchers. .—— These months are different for doijs - "they need this diet ; ' w As with humans, dog appetites lag in warm weather. Therefore, it is important that Hunt Club is completely fresh; every bag has the fresh, appetizing aroma which delights dogs so much. The flavor is so right, too — you can safely count on dogs eating sufficiently and getting proper nourishment. 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We thought what we pleased, said what we pleased and did what we pleased, so long as we transgressed neither the law nor the rights of others. Our business was our business and nobody else’s. That’s how it used to be. That was the American way. No Government snoopers keep ing an eye on you. No state police prying into your personal affairs. Nobody groveling be fore the law. In other coun tries perhaps, but not in America. Here the air was free. That’s how it was, but that’s not how it is. A few weeks ago a young man sat at his desk in a small Texas city. He was assistant to the president of a business concern and occupied the adjoining office. There entered ah agent of the FBI, asking to see the president. Shown into the lat ter’s office, he was given a seat only a few feet from the young assistant and separated from him only by an open railing. The young man perforce lis tened to the ensuing conversa tion and was surprised to dis cover that it concerned himself. The agent wanted to know all about him: his habits, his associations, his opinions; his relatives and family connec tions. The puzzled company president was able to answer very fully. The young man had worked for the concern most of his adult life and the president had known him for years. He had the president’s complete confidence, but when the agent had departed the president asked the young man what it was all about. The young man said he didn’t know, but he thought he had a clue. He recalled that the agent had asked whether he had a sister in Washington, which reminded him that the sister in a letter at Christmas time had said she was applying for a job in a Government agency, a better job than one she had held for many years. It was apparent that the curi osity of the United States Gov ernment related to the sister. The young Texan got mad. His first impulse, natural to a Texan, was to chase after the agent and punch him in the nose. 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