Postmaster General I.a\ In Allow
ing Seditious Matter Go Thru Alails
WASHINGTON — It looks as if the President will
have to give Postmaster General Frank Walker the
same dose of personal prodding that finally snapped
Attorney General Francis Biddle out of his moon
gazing lethargy and started him cracking down on
seditious operators.
A venomous flood of Axis propaganda is daily go
ing through the mails. It is no secret. Walker knows
all about it. For weeks he has been bombarded with
complains from outraging citizens demanding that this
subversive activity be stopped.
The Postal Inspection Service knows all about it.
The oldest and one of the most efficient sleuthing
agencies in the government, the Inspection Service, is
itching to move in.
But with one exception, Walker has done nothing.
The exception was The Galilean, a publication put out
by William Dudley Pellev, Silver Shirt leader recent
ly arrested by the FBI on charges of sedition. The
paper finally was barred from the mails, but only af
ter strong official pressure on Walker.
But the several hundred other seditious publications
continue to have free access to the U. S. mails to spread
their vicious Axis lies and poison. Among the worst,
of them are a number of foreign language papers edit
ed by alien Fascists, who are under investigation by
the FBI. If he needed any information on them. Walker
could get it in a few minutes by a telephone call a few
blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from his huge, or
nate office. But to date Walker hasn’t done a thing
to halt this sinister flood of enemy propaganda.
During the World War not only were such publica
tions barred from the mails but the Post Office De
partment obtained the willing cooperation of express
companies to refuse to carry any matter banned b\
the Department.
Walker is one of the most genial officials in Wash
ington. But he is not noted for either initiative or force
fullness. He never does anything that might disturb
the peace of his easy-going daily routine of running a
government department that runs itself.
Roosevelt's Memory
In past years when the President received the first
poppy from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, opening
their annual fund-raising drive for widows and or
phans of ex-service men. he took great delight in show
ing the little girls who presented the poppies a china
donkey and elephant on his desk, and asking them
which they liked best.
Sometimes, to the embarrassment of VFW officials,
the tots chose the elephant. This year no chances wen
taken. Geraldine Reynolds, five-year-old orphan of an
AEF veteran, was carefully coached to point to tho.
donkey. But Geraldine didn’t get a chance to show
her political astuteness. The President, perhaps for
reasons of national unity, didn’t put her on the spot.
Instead, he gave VFW officials something else to talk
about—a demonstration of his remarkable memory.
When little Geraldine was perched on his desk for a
picture, the President demurred; “Oh. no, that’s the
way we posed when I got a floppy last year. Suppose
you stand down here besides me to make it different
this year.’’
Jones’ Experts
There was one illuminating portion of Jesse Jones’
testimony on the rubber shortage before the Truman
committee that was not reported in the press accounts
of the hearing. This was his interrogation by Senator
Ralph Brewster of Maine on the experts Jones consult
ed when he decided in 1941 to reduce sharply the syn
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monel metal, tags bear soldier's
name and serial number, address
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Jonr- exchange:
Pr v,. *er: The r’p i tecum
nv "di-d tiie it":■' ion of a com
mittee of < xV( to pass on
•kneo t'-chnical quest kin*. Did
you cr* . to such a committee?
Jone : Well. I d' nf know what
you call experts.
Brew-ti t-:'I d n't think that is
suscept hi ■ if d fr.ition. I think
either yu know 't nr vuu don't.
Jones' answer was a long state
, ment about consult'ng with “peo
i pie in the industry'.'’
Brewster: Now. did you or did
n’t you have a c mmittee or tech
nical experts?
Jim s: I don’t know whether
we ;'' d a committee or n it.
Brewster: Mr. Jones, thm is ,
very amazing statement.
June-': I dont think it is amaz
ing at all.
Brewster: You don’t know
whether you had a committee
of technical experts or not
Jones: I don’t know what an
| expert is.
Brewster: Well, you know
what a committee is, don’t you?
Jones: We had a committee.
We had a great many people
working on it.
Brewster: Well. I think, we
i can conclude then that you d:d
not constitute a committee. Is
that a correct conclusion?
Jones: That is your answer. It
isn’t mine.
(Tne Washington Merry-Go
Round by Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen.)
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