POLITICS
Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens [By 'OBSERVER'] INTERVIEWED at Atlantic City, N. J., on third term question, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the president,...
...The American man on the street hates Fascism, Communism, Nazis and all other European isms at this hour...
...Rep...
...The Supreme court is rendering so many good decisions these days that it is hard to keep track of them...
...and unfortunately the FCC has not always resisted these encioacnmcnus...
...Said Rep...
...It provided for low cost housing in both urban and rural areas...
...True and Pelley, is purely an expression of in-tollerance by those who are instrumental in their persecution...
...Quips Loren Norman in the Racine Day: "If the leading GOP presidential candidate is Dewey, does that make the Republicans all wet...
...you should have received a letter and a dividend check from this company-last week...
...Sabath also pointed out that this country's credit is be.ter than at any other time in the nation's history and is borrowing at half the In...
...The Hrosier Sentinel asks: "Do you think these rich men gave all this money just for their health...
...Herbert A. Wagner, president of the company, would have said: "The volumes of electricity, gas and steam distributed by your company during the firSo two months of the current year show gratifying increases...
...The fact remains that Mr...
...Weir: "One of the bitter opponents of the Wagner low is Mr...
...THE LUNATIC FRINGE Philip Pearl, AFL columnist, comments upon the threat of John L. Lew-CIO c.hieftan, to start a third party as follows: "The lunatic fringe In our populace, which has been in mourning since the death of Huey Long, is now hailing a new leader, John L. Lewis...
...you and the rest of us received not dividend check, but a gas bill, and the amount on it is the same as always...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the president, said...
...This would go a long way towards solving the problems of the farmer...
...HOOVER-BOULDER DAM The Boston Traveler, one of the more conservative dailies of the east, with anti-public ownership opinions, still refers to Boulder dam as "Hoover dam...
...capital columnist: "If income of all families in this country now getting less than $100 a month were raised to that level—a very modest family Income, to be sure —it would increase yearly food expenditures $1,900,000,000...
...Sabath last week: "Despite all the hue and cry about taxes, taxes here are far below thost imposed by any major country In the world...
...However, that isn't the point...
...QUIETUS ON SALES TAX The House of Representatives did a good job job last week when, by a vote of 196 to 106, it refused to even consider a bill establishing a sales tax in the District of Columbia...
...Franklyn E. Wolfe writes: "Straw votes and Gallup polls have their uses...
...The fact that the Consolidated showed an increase of $622,303 for the first two months of 1940, as compared with the first two months of 1939, is not gratifying to the rest of us...
...Joseph C. O'Mahoney's bill to place a "labor differential tax" on all products...
...He says even now that he is 'opposed to the law in its present form.' S.eel workers' organizers know that Mr...
...The object of the sales tax Is to transfer the burden of government from the shoulders of the rich, where it belongs, to the backs of the poor and moderately well-to-do, who are already paying much more than their share...
...However, wealthy landlords and the real estate "ring" are determined their profits shall not be curtailed...
...But as it(.happened...
...I wouldn't want him to be president again unless he could do good by being president...
...He, would...
...Students of economics tr.sist that the prosperity of ihe farmer is dependent, more than anything els;, upon the size of the city worker's pay check...
...LOW COST HOUSING The Wagner low rent housing and slum clearance bill has been passed by the senate and reported favorably by the house committee on banking and currency...
...Evidence Is piling up on all sides that Lewis is seeking to mobilize the morons into a third party with himself as their candidate for president of the United States this year...
...Sena or La Follette, Wisconsin, recently pointed out...
...In proportion to population, Washington Is the richest city in America...
...Deatherage, Messrs...
...Ever since the first radio law was enacted, those who secured licenses have endeavored to establish their claim to ownership of tr - rir...
...He has fought labor with everything he had, and has said that the Wagner law ought to be repealed...
...This much is certain...
...Rep...
...MR...
...The question was: "What do you think is the most important problem before the American people today...
...WEIR AND LABOR Says the United Mine Workers Journal about Mr...
...Plainly, it is not the purpose of the federal communication act to protect a licensee against competition, but to protect the public," said Justice Roberts, who wrote the opinion...
...Clare E. Hoffman, labor hating Michigan congressman who probably has a wirier stripe of reaction than any other member of congress, refers to the Chicago Tribune as "one of the greatest of American dailies...
...as such, suitable to fill any office in the government...
...Weir "resented" the suggestion and declared he is a firm believer in collective bargaining' and labor unions, etc...
...Writes A. I. H«rrl...
...Thorkelson, Montana's Tory congressman who has been charged with being pro-fascist, in a recent Congressional Record had printed one of his speeches in which ne declared: "The tolerant majority, being accustomed to place their faith in officers elected to respect and uphold the law, are now awakening to the fact that they are being betrayed and persecuted by such officers...
...Weir's political hat-passing and it doesn't believe he's been to the mourner's bench despite his santlmonlous attitude toward 'collective bargaining.' Mr...
...Eleanor Roosevelt said: "My own personal opinion—and not as the wife of a president—is that, execpt in extraordinary circumstances, we should stick to our tradition...
...Ernest T. Weir of anti-union National Steel Co., and incidentally recently named chairman of the GOP...
...I don't really care for my own sake whether he runs for a third term...
...It has been freely said that this appointment would alienate the 'labor vote'— al.hough there being no such thing...
...In the letter Mr...
...although the name was changed to Boulder dam seven years ago...
...To this 47 per cent said the most important thing was to keep the United States out of war and 24 per cent thought unemployment was the biggest issue...
...The Du Ponts and officials of their companies contributed a little matter of 1383.000 to the Republican campaign of four years ago...
...She claimed that Pelley had been tied up with certain army officers in a fascist effort to overthrow the government...
...None of them is guilty of any other crime than that of exposing the International Communists, his goyim dupes, and other enemies engaged in subversion and destruction of the government of the United States...
...Weir's labor record Is as plain as a nose-boil...
...The ACLU said that such an index is likely to lead to violations of civil rights...
...An editorial in the Labor Herald of Baltimore, Maryland reads: If you were a stockholder of the Consolidated Gas and Electric Light and Power Co...
...The bill provides for a tax on gross Income less the disbursements for wages and materials and ts described as a levy upon employers who make "more than average" use of machines while benefitting those who use "more than average" man power...
...The whole situation is well summed up and a political platform is condensed in the line: "Keep this country out cf war and solve our own greatest question — unemployment...
...We just go on paying our bills, as if no'.hing has happened...
...Weir is not at all subtle...
...Just last week the court overruled the federal court of appeals in order to sustain the Federal Communications commission, which had decided that in issuing a license for a new radio station it was not compelled to consider the effect on existing radio stations...
...This is evidenced in the prosecution of Messrs...
...Only when people believe that conditions are extraordinary should we depart from our tradition...
...Ford, Ed-mondson...
...Pari-mutuel betting at New York race tracks has been provided for in a bill passed by the legis-latuer and signed bv the governor...
...Headline in the Federation News of Chicago: "Shall Chicago Become the 49th State...
...vest rates paid under Republican presidents...
...It is patent that if the two do not stick together, politically and economically, they are certain to be hanged separately...
...To "balance men and machines" is announced the purpose of Sen...
...When 60 propositions were put up to a large number of voters, they disregard the mass of questions and centralize on two...
...They would like to see Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini overboard with a ton of lead for life preservers...
...Weir's idea of collective bargaining is a company union set-up, controlled by the company, top, bottom and in the middle...
...They are in favor of any kind of tax which will be paid by the other fellow...
...the young men who were i arrested in Philadelphia, the Christian Front, the Christian Mobilizers, and the Reverend Wlnrod, who Is without doubt a loyal and patriotic American citizen and...
...This persecution of many individuals, such as General Mosely, Father Coughlln, Mr...
...Joseph Pew, Pennsylvania oil tycoon, contributed JS1.500...
...One of the latest showed that the American voter is not so dumb...
...Such an utterance gives weight to criticisms directed at Thorkelson...
...The point is that Mr...
...finance committee in the coming campaign...
...The O'Mahoney bill revives the old argument about men and machines and its many angles...
...William Dudley Pelley, silver shirts leader, planned to set himself up as the "white king" of the U. S, Miss Dorothy Waring, an investigator for a house committee, testified last week...
...Labor is not particularly Interested in Mr...
...THIRD TERM TRADITION Questioned l?st week regarding what she thought of the president's seeking a third term...
...The American Civil Liberties union has protested to the U. S. attorney general against the compilation of a "general index of persons active in any subversive activity or in movements detrimental to the internal security" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...It makes $800,000,000 more available for the United States Housing authority to lend to state and local housing authorities ai aid slum clearance and construction of houses at rents low Income groups ran pay...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
