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By Westbrook Pegler ——Q-__ Supplementing my recent dis-| In that campaign of 1946 when elosure of Ziscrimination against seven out of 43 “editors” of the a loyal Apferican girl by an editor LHJ were going to rote for Bub. awit. AK DINUUW LS of the dies Home Journal be- cause fhe had served the FBI as @ tpy against the Communists. way I recaij some other iniorma- tion concerning this magazine? bDlehead and presumably did, his platform was entirely satisfactory to the Communists of this coun- try who had « dominating tnflu- 4 th a Fila # ence in the drafting of it. At that time the Goofy Guru letters had! - | | - fhe Ladies Home Journal, S8/Nevertheless, this “consérvative” you may know, is a property of/magazine which lives aud thrives the Curtis Publishing company.jon advertising revenues {frém Swenty or more years ago therejAmerican big business, Was was pO more conservative houselimpudent enough to flout these im the country. The LHJ was deJadvertisers and the prosperous, voted to styles, recipes, pattettis/rholly-American hig h-euburban! and other such strictly distalf in-jladies who fexm its circulation terests and was innocent offield. Cos politics except that it was, by im-] It may not be too. late but ft been pinned on ae, t f pane nawtainte: ne Se eee Pillcation, devoted to the republi- certaiuy is not too sa0n 16 ean form of government prescribedjexamine whether magnates deal, by the Constitution. . fing in soap, cosmetics, motors.: ‘During the New Deal, however,jfood and the more expensive; Eleanor Roosevelt moved in asitypes of apparel know what politi political housemother to promote |cal ends they are supporting with) her peculiar propositions and prac- their advertising sppropristions. tice her fascinating method of|After all, seven out of 43 editors dodging a question but seeming are a large percentage of the to give an honest answer. _ {dominant powers on such a maga-; . The Ladies Home Journa) be-|Zine. And we were not told in that eame @ trumpet for political poli- mocking little revelation whether eles far te the left of center andjPruce and Beatrice Gould, thei tine came j e48 when it pley-)205S editors and the sponsors of} tally sanounced that, in a poll of|Eleanor the Great, were among] its editorial staff, seven of the 59|the Wallace group. . “editors” had voted for Henry Wallace, for President, with 26 pot recorded. Wallace was the candidate of the Kremlin in that campaign and his Progressive party Was the sub- gtitute for the Communist party. His convention in Phaladelphia had included Paul Robeson and ed to pull out and repudi- a eth assotiates because they were on the Russian side of the ‘American war tn Korea and he geemed to sympathize with the Americans to some extent. . Jt was during this convention, incidentally, that Bubblehead was asked to say whether he had ot padn't ‘«ritien the idiotic Guru fetters to Nicholas Reerich and publicly refused to discuss them at all. . ““wrajlace did write these letters On the face of things, I should have thought they did intend toy vote for Wallace ‘and, if so, that Would mean more than the politi- cal intention of two members of the scrub. There are “editors” and “editors” on a thing of this kind and the twa Goulds, if they want- ed the Kremlin's candidate, wouid ¢ have been more significant than a| many other equally notorious nats dozen pasty slabs from Smith and and only a year ago Wallace felt yascar, cutting paper dolls in far corners of the pit.ce. When Angela’ Calg: “editor,” about some _ssignments for the LHJ and got the insulting answer that he wouldn't have a spy for the FBI in his shop, the Ladies Home Journal was consist- ent, anyways, although neither he; nor the Goulds can clein: that they were forthright. Gould's “apology” to Miss Calomiris, a firstrate professional . news-pho- tografer Who sacrificed much for - rE : con-! and they reflected a met nat | her country to be blacklisted by dition that gave us 10 real z a ghastly rise we hed unwitt taken curing the four years when he had bern, by Roosevelt's choice. Vice President 0 States. Inasmuch esuliirg alfa a Peds SS letters out of the 70 hare been suppressed all these | sears awaiting such an hour when ines might serve some ulterior pur of the Democratic party, T will say that many other docu- ments whose t.xt I have studied show him to be a scheming. merci- Jess doublecrosser toialiy at odds ‘with the amiable ficure of the ingly {this conscientious objector in the LHJ, secms to be insufficient jamend for any American who is { the United, asked to buy the wares which pro vide the pay for the Goulds and as Wallace {s now)Morris, The only real satisfaction ffictal reports and {I got was provided by Angela, her- Ses where they/self, when she told Gould she wouldn't take a job with the La- dies Home Journal if it were the last magazine on earth. _ You misht think -that. the “American” Americans in our ecuntry, especially the rich execu- tives with final authority on ad- vertising contracts, would be » lit ‘the watehfu}. But they seem to gentle “mystic” that he pretends (teave it all to the advertising agen- fo be. He is cunning, ruthless for; his oom selfish ends and as dis-| tts eee) cies. And many of the agencies heave hear erating wilh Naw MEyo wre LAAs rash stl honéretin Ss, Dose as any Ofer’ Ooaters and worse fot isyeats end political faxer we ever had Netlare gaily more 30. . . exeevune Bryan, Haucy Lon;, La bop ist. Poi, Wing Veaiures | Page Times-Herald “a Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Compass