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NEVADA STATE JOURNAL PENO, NEVADA FEBRUARY 14, 1950 EDITORIAL JOSEPH F. McDONALD, Editor TOO MANY Better than anybody else, FBI Directof Edgar Hoover should know how man. Communists there are in this country. Sd when he says there are approximately 540,000 Communists and fellow-travelers, one-tenth of that total party members, his ! figure will be taken as authoritative. Just what it means, however, may be open to some dispute. For example, the total is not large by gomparison with the population of -the Inited States, now reckoned at 150,000. 400. But Communists have never. dd! pended on mere numbers to achieve thei ends, They have worked out methods that have been very successful in putting influ- ence and power in the grasp of a few. ( The figure seems to indicate, too, that. Communism has been gaining ground in this country. If it is taken for granted. that not all of the 540,000 Communists and fellow-travelers 'are yoters, the -Hoover Jestimate is sobering. . It is deeply disturbing to realize thst JI the party not only can exist on America! soil but can grow, no matter how slowly when it is known for what it is.. ENCLOSURE 121-33a7?-8