Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp has been elected as a representative to Congress by the Sixth Louisiana District. The circumstances of her choice should be interesting to all those who insist that Fascism can never come in the United States. Mrs. Kemp was the only candidate; the Senator had insured that this would be the case by forbidding any primary elections in the district. Nat Tycer, a courageous judge who issued an injunction against the balloting, did not succeed by this mere constitutional device, and he called out several hundred special deputies to insure that it would not take place. Well, the Senator called off the election in these parishes; it did not take place, but the implications of this gaping lacuna do not trouble Huey.

There are many more details in the saga of Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, all faithfully reported by the newspapers, all either ignored editorially or considered as just so many more gems in Senator Long's crown of folly. Senator Long seized power in Louisiana by a coup of this same kind, he has retained it by a series of them, but all of this is treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy? Italy is larger than Louisiana. But if a Long arose in Switzerland, I wonder how long we would wait before the cry of Fascism went up among us.

The answer is that Fascism, far more easily than Socialism, can go unrecognized if we are determined not to recognize it, if we persist in speaking in individual and not in political terms. If Huey Long is not a Fascist, if Louisiana is not a Fascist state, where in the world is a Fascist, and where is Fascism? Louisiana is being governed under an imposed dictatorship, preserving only the formalities of parliamentarism. It is being so governed by a group historically associated with the solidification of the present social and economic order. The trouble with forums and the people who patronize them is a major dislocation of the weather eye; Fascism is not a scholastic question like Monism-- it is a practical question, like a riot or a revolution. POLLUX.