Voices Out of the Past

Texans last week heard the wind beginning to howl in the Democratic primary campaign for Congressman-at-large. Two raucous voices bansheed out of the past.

Maury Maverick, 55, who served two loud terms in the House of Representatives (1935-39), announced that he will be a candidate. In the early years of the New Deal, Maverick led its most militant wing. He introduced Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme-Court-packing plan. He once proposed that cocktail parties be abolished because "they give the timid talker too much false courage ... a large talker too big an opportunity ... an average man a cross between an earache and a stomach-ache." Last week he started off calmly: "I think the time has come in the U.S. for people to quit knocking the Government all the time . . ."

Already campaigning is Martin Dies, 49, who roared across the land as chairman (1938-44) of a House committee investigating un-American activities. Said he: "Maverick fought my committee and is on record against the things I stand for. A race with Maverick would give us a referendum between the socialistic concept of government and the fundamental American beliefs I hold."

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