Presently the philosophy Department will investigate me to find out what I have learned in Philosophy 75 these last four months. Intensive preparation for this event leaves me no time to write a column, so I shall turn over this space to the members of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who are fortunate enough not to be subjected to investigations of any sort themselves. The following quotations I dredge up from a pamphlet called "Communism and Education, the third in a series on the Communist conspiracy and its influences in this country as a whole on religion, on education, on labor, and on our government." The pamphlet was prepared and released by the last Congress's Committee, and it illustrates what H. L. Moneken has called "the primitive intelligence of morons and Congressmen" in a grotesque manner and, in these days, a significant one.

1. What is Communism?

A conspiracy to conquer and rule the world by any means, legal or illegal, in peace or war.

2. Is it aimed at me?

Right between your eyes.

3. What do the Communists want?

To rule your mind and your body from the cradle to the grave.

4. Are you joking?

Look at the world today and see if the people of Europe and Asia have anything to laugh about, now that Communism has captured so many of them.

13. Do you mean the Communists in this country take their orders from Stalin?

Just exactly that, and every one of them knows it sooner or later.

14. Then a "Bolshevik" and a "Communist" are the same thing in meaning, aren't they?

Yes, and they are bad news for everybody else.

33. Does any other school system teach hate in the classroom?

Some have, as in Italy, Germany, and Japan. Today, people in those countries are paying the price.

34. And that's what Communism wants to plant over here?

Exactly the same thing.

36. What do they want, anyhow?

Power; Communists all have a craze for power.

71. Do these books (Communist-influenced text books) teach lies about this country too?

Yes. For example, some give students the idea that our country is hopelessly ridden with economic ills.

72. Isn't there something to it

There are many ways to answer that, but one ought to be enough. Which n action, in World War II, sent arms and food all over the world to failing Allies and then followed up with armies, navies, and air forces to Europe, Asia, Africa, to outposts in North and South America, and on islands across the seven seas--yet, at home, kept up the highest standard of living the world has ever known? The United States system, as it has been and still is, needs make no apologies to nay other.

73. What's biting these textbook writers, then? Communism. Whoever is touched with Communism loses his sense of truth as we know it.

96. Do many of our teachers play the Communist game?

The files of our Committee, running back over a ten-year period, show that the Communists have always found the teaching group the easiest touch of all the professional classes for actual Party zealots and fellow travelers.

97. What attracts so many learned men and women to such a murderous and destructive cause? sometimes it is frustration. Sometimes it is greed or love of power. Sometimes it is misplaced idealism. But ask them. See if they can give you a good reason for having faith in Communism or any of its works.

98. Are people doing anything about all this?

In some places.

For instance, Ohio State University faculty members are now required to sign the equivalent of non-Communist affidavits. them too, in New Jersey, California, Michigan, and Washington State, among others, local authorities have begun investigation of Communist infiltration of schools.

99. Is this sort of thing suppressing academic freedom?

Certainly not. People who demand freedom to teach Communism are demanding the right to teach murder, robbery, revolution, treachery, and disaster. They cannot justify any such demands on any grounds of moral law, morals, common sense, or reason.

100. What can I do?

FIRST, know the facts.

SECOND, work in your own community to get rid of Communists and Communist influences, whether in the school system or anywhere else.

THIRD, be prepared to face accusations of "witch-hunting," "Red-baiting," "textbook burning," and "strangling academic freedom." These are standard smears in the Communist propaganda routine.

ABOVE ALL, remember that whatever you do you must always keep the Constitution of the United States in one had and common sense in the other. The object here is NOT to destroy academic freedom. It is to STOP COMMUNISM before it destroys us. The Communists CAN be stopped under our system of laws and MUST be.