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ee Mr. Wihterrowd Sean Ont “| Tele, Reont |. Tayler Caldvell AY Do Mr. Bait nan (~these days, I read the wailing é of Fifth Amendment | Communists about their 3 bap. : stibversive affiliations in the’ '20s and ’30s. “Ty re ne know Iwas wrong, then—but 1 was so young! I didn't 3 : : n+ ee Know any better.” They add, in extenuation: “a Every-’: bo oo ‘. "body, but everybody, in those decades who had any: : oe a intelligence at all was aware of the ‘crisis’ in history,’ : : and we believed that ‘international communism had £ ; the answer.” i ; ms . ~ We, who were never Communists ‘and were young Bo ~ + , with them in the '20s and ’30s; are now supposed to; ~ > vote weep in sympathy and forgive the horror they have. ve . . . ° brought upon us in the ’50s. Perhaps we did not have? _ "| “intelligence.” Perhaps we were, too busy supporting . ° Pl ourselves and our families, in those two decades, to’ / _’. know there was any “crisis” in history, and perhaps: - we believed too strongly in the republic of the United , States of America to know that. international _ Cone, munism had the answer, ian . ara Miss Gandy_. rere ok tt ‘look back upon my own life. ‘I was earning my own: living in 1916 when I was 15 years old. I was. going to high school, at night, to acquire an education,: after 10 hours of work in a factory. I remember my, fellow students, who ranged in age from 14 to 50.; All of us were victims of Wilson’s “New Freedom.”: : In short, none of us was earning more than $10 a)” week; I was earning $4. The Democratic party was in’ full power, so consequently there was a depression. - We had one thing in common, however: we believed; that man was important, that Almighty God answered prayer, and that, with His help, if we worked hard: ; . ' ’ enough, we could amount to something. “ 4 ; | /e v . ; The '20s were no less rigorous. Most of us never, -- - . ‘knew they were “ roaring” and disillusioned. The ma-; Nev “ORDED: wot jority of us, including me, had served in the armed} ° a on 170 sep 7: 1954 “s ‘services. We still believed in God. If we heard of}, oo eS ae a communism and its “ answer,” we thought it ridieulous i a ee . be jand dangerous and not a dectrine to which Americans *s ol - -would be drawn. Only bewhiskered “ foreigners” weres jad ieted to it, and we laughed at them—and our court Gi cat a . oe fate "AUG. 1 5 ‘fe a 90 Les! Lftack Page_L 001. . te ye