Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1963 Page: 3 of 18
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Martin Dies cites
danger and hope
by Wick Fowler,
Dallas News Staff Writer
LUFKJN, Texas — America is
spending freedom and democracy
into oblivion.
An agreement with the Kremlin
is not worth the paper it is writ-
ten on.
Deception of the free world Is
apparent in the so-called split be-
tween Red China and Russia.
Racial rioting—and all violence
—is the perfect workshop for the
Communists.
The average politican gives the
people what they want. People
themselves demand this policy,
blinded to the fact that the na-
tion is repeating the fallacies that
led to the fall of ancient Rome.
Government is dishonest in
sp?nding money that belongs to
unborn generations.
Deficit spending has become a
part of public policy and is cost-
ing the United States the econo-
mic respect of European nations.
America has defied the funda-
mental laws of economics.
What is the next step? It could
be dictatorship, demanded by the
people as the French were forced
to do in turning their government
over to strongman Charles de
Gaulle.
Martin Dies Sr., the former
United States congressman who,
for years, battled both the nation-
al administrations and the Krem-
lin's lackeys in this country in
his exposure of domestic Com-
munists, is still fired up over the
dangers to the United States.
He is concerned because the
people refuse to study history, to
realize that it is repeating itself,
that fundamental laws of econo-
mics and nature do not change.
But the tall East Texan is re-
laxed now and philosophical in
his attitudes. He speaks of dan-
ger signs with the matter-of-fact-
ness of a fire marshal warning of
the dangers of smoking in bed.
But there is hope for a change
in the trend, Dies believes. It rests
in the unified strength of the
"middle class." These are the Am-
ericans with the most to lose—
and the most to gain if they turn
the tide from waste to national
economic strength.
College students, too, are real-
izing more and more the risky
future they face and are growing
in strength in their objections
to the liberalism that once was
rampant on many campuses. Con-
servatism is no longer a dirty
word.
Martin Dies is a practicing at-
torney, with a deep paternal in-
terest in his three sons and their
fajnilies and a happy, relaxed
home life with his wife, Myrtle.
This relaxed home life Is in
sharp contrast to the eight years
of threats and insults heaped up-
on the Texan and his family while
he was chairman of the Special
House Committee on UnAmerican
Activities, better known as the
Dies Committee.
The insults came from ranks
as high as the President of the
United States. The threats came
from the canny Communist fellow
travelers, both in and out of gov-
ernment, who tried every means
they could think of to destroy the
man who spent most of his con-
gressional career fighting the
breeding places of dictatorship-
Communism, Nazism and Fascism.
Martin Dies and his fellow com-
mittee members of the House of
Representatives told the story of
the internal workings of these
groups, in detail and with docu-
mentation. They were stories of
intrigue, murder, sabotage and
treason.
Most people believed his state-
ments. But many were confused
by the counterattacking methods
by people in public office and in
positions of responsibility. Many
of these counterattacks were the
clever manipulations of the Com-
munsits and Fascists themselves
—and their fellow travelers, the
dupes who were seeking some sort
of Utopia.
Dies is still in demand as a
speaker. He urges his audiences
to take heed to turn back the
trend toward an inflation they
cannot stand, and turn the nation
back to democratic processes and
away from socialism.
In the heyday of his career as
the head of the Dies Committee,
he was in steady demand all over
the nation to speak to large audi-
ences. His oratory filled the seats
of the House on many occasions,
as well as the galleries. Dies al-
ways had something to say.
"At the beginning of the de-
pression," Martin Dies Sr. said,
"■there were great misgivings about
public welfare. But people were
hungry. Even so, the idea of ac-
cepting welfare worked on their
conscience.
"But we spend more money on
relief now, and since then, than
was spent in the depths of the
depression."
Dies said the country has been
able to withstand complete drain-
age of its resources because of
'.he strength put into it b/ hard
work, honest policies, integrity and
frugality for hundreds of years.
"Our sins are catching up with
us," he said. "We are headed for
a rapid showdown with the fun-
damental laws of economics."
As for foreign aid, Dies said
"The very countries we helped
are going to trade with the Com-
munist countries.
"Various administrations we have
had in power wanted to keep up
the appearance of prosperity. They
had to therefore pump money into
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Europe.
"We are reaching the time now
when we are going to have to
cut them off. When we do, we're
going to catch it from them."
Dies added that the huge fed-
eral deficit is now a "planned
policy" and that "liberals have
given respectability to what sen-
sible people have known to be
wrong."
Dies said that the administar-
tions of Roosevelt, Truman and
Eisenhower "at least had a con-
science about the deficit."
This current attitude can easily
cause other countries to lose con-
fidence in the financial stability
of the United States. The result
could be a rapid depletion of the
gold reserves, he said.
"Inflation will cut off Social
Security and other benefits," Dies '
said. "But people will probably
continue to vote for those who
promise the most."
Dies said he is fearful of the
nation reaching the point of des-
peration and calling for a dicta-
torship.
"We will have to give one man
the power to save us, as they did
in France. You can gloss it over
but the De Gaulle government is
a dictatorship."
Continued next week.
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