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the irresponsible trade unionists, the pink'to-red editorial writers of na' tional journals and daily newspapers who carry Guild cards in their hip pockets, have been throwingvthe term "fascist" around in a most ungentlemanly and unprovoked manner. Any arch-backed employer who feels that he has a certain property right in his own investments, any sparkless and literal man who sputters with impotency over administrative ukases that try to mask social reform procedures behind the cloak of a national emergency, any person who fails to subscribe to a governmental philosophy which lies "a little left of center," is likely to be dubbed a fascist and a black-hearted reactionary with a mental pattern cut along the same lines as the shirt worn by William Dudley Pelley.
This name-calling back and forth is a shoddy spectacle for Americans to be putting on before an audience of world spectators. It happens that the fertile soil of our country is capable of producing an infinite variety of crops. Two men — reared in the atmosphere of democracy, both exposed to the same traditions of freedom, both loving their country and its people — may develop strangely different attitudes on political and economic issues. It may seem that their ideas are irreconcilable, but if they are good Americans, they show one mark in common. They have been innoculated with the protective vaccine of tolerance. They believe in the rule of the majority but they will fight at the drop of a hat to protect the rights of a minority.
tn^ June, 194)
So to these people who have been using the words "communism" and "fascism" without thought to their proper meaning, it is suggested that they refer to their glossary of faulty diction. Both words have ugly connotations and very seldom do they mean what their users think they do. On the rare occasions when the words can be properly employed to describe a person in this country, they should be taken as an insult. Any American who finds himself on the receiving end of such a remark will snarl: "Smile when you say that. Mister." He will be angered by it because he knows there's something wrong with the blood stream of any American who is either fascist or communist, the innoculation of democracy didn't take.
Louis E. Perkins, 2 years old. who was found lying in a first'floor doorway at 102^ Cherry street, sufferinR from head injuries early yesterday told police in a sicned statement last ni^ht that while drinkini; in a tavern near Twelfth street and Troost avenue Wetlne.stl.iv niiiht he had met a young couple whom he accompanied to an apartment. He said he had a drink, then remembered nothing until he came to in ;ait yesterday.
The youth gave his address as l)}3'/2 McGee street, and his occupation as a cab driver.
— from the Kansas City Star.
How young was that young couple, did you say?