Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 October 1939 — AROUND TOWN [ARTICLE]

AROUND TOWN

The word “purge" was born of dictators and has an unholy sound to Americans. It never appeared in the United States vocabulary until the New Deal brain trust adopted it last year to liquidate at the polls Democratic senators who had declined to be rubber stamps. Now Congressman Dies,, a Texas Democrat and chairman of the House committee investigating un-American activities, has designed a “purge" which will bring no offense to. democracies. He intends to drive the Communists from the Federal government. “The report of our national investigation will be more far-reaching t-han any one now imagines in unmasking Communists in the government service,” Mr. Dies announced. “And I don’t mean clerks and small fry. I mean that Communists have risen high in the government and hold important key positions. This is particularly true of the New Deal agencies. Radicals gravitated to them naturally.” More power to you, Mr.oCongressman. May your purge be efficient, successful!, and permanent.