Gov't Can Hire Millions Exiled from Industry
Gov't Can Hire Millions Exiled from Industry Rebuttal A letter to the New Republic Editors By Ferdinand Lundberg Secretary of the Committee tor Cultural Freedom Author of 'America's 60...
...Prior to the New Deal, the traditional attitude on taxes was that it was to be resorted to only as a means of raising revenue for limited governmental purposes (the more limited the better...
...What had a man's religion to do with it, anyhow...
...However, there is more to this business of taxing than -is to be seen in the above oversimplified illustration...
...The fact is that the Committee for Cultural Freedom includes a single follower of Leon Trotsky...
...Many organizations were launched to educate the people against the dangers of continued spending, and ready and willing professors offered their services (for so much a lecture, or article, or book) to help in this educational work...
...But when it is a question of Communist "harmony" should we not remember Spain ? Behind the "harmony" of a democratic front supporting the Loyalist government the Communists cut down, by brutal G.P.U...
...The fact as stated, however—if it is a fact—is no reason for giving support to a fake socialism that is repudiated by every intellectual alert radical in the world today...
...Already Communist penetration into the American "cultural front" is very deep...
...That we deplore and protest such actions by Congress and the President of the United States as unwise and unwarranted and as indicating a dangerous tendency toward the union of church snditate, which is a chief cause of the troubles of the Old World...
...The issue is simply that totalitarian agents, Communist and Fascist are short-circuiting internal American movements for their own ends—the Fascists in the Coughlin "Social Justice" movement and the Communists in nearly all the labor, radical, liberal, and intellectual organizations...
...Does the New Republic prefer one" style of strait jacket to another...
...I should think that a sense of false expediency should not be permitted to blind the editors of the New Republic to what is taking place...
...the same priest's bright young men jtjd political meetings and the meetings of other religious organisations...
...Goebbels most of the time...
...On December 31, 1933, the Western Electric had 21,933 em ploy ess...
...Having been a reader of the New Republic since circa 1920 I should think its editors belong on the side of the Committee in a struggle to purify a stream that is being gradually polluted by anti-democratic propagandists...
...AND yet, when I tried to be toughly honest with myself, I bad to admit I was beginning to bear a grudge...
...And this is a "practical world" wherein there are all sorts of necessary restrictions...
...It is this extraneous issue that it today splitting American lib-, erskarn into many hostile sections and is having repercussions of the gravest character throughout the whole labor movement aad the "intellectual front...
...The price we pay for government services produces values which compare favorally dollar for dollar with services rendered by private business enterprise...
...HE failure of the New Deal lies in thinking that the economic * crisis is the result of the workings of temporary business cycles...
...Now please observe that I have called these payments "taxes," for there is no essential difference between price and taxes...
...And to carry this re- • sponsibiiity the government will need money—lots of it...
...Both, in reality, are costs for goods and services rendered...
...I can't abide it...
...A P P A R E N T L Y , somebody has stuck an 'ecclesiastical neck out 9 too far...
...Millions of people were unemployed, and bankruptcy...
...In the United States this substance it present involves the direction of thinking among...
...I ET'S assume that you are one of the lucky individuals who gets ""— enough income to put you into one of the income tax-bracket paying groups...
...In America we have seen laws passed to forbid the spreading of gossip regarding financial institutions without, so far as we know, any opposition from the Hberterian groups...
...J. P. Morgan and most of his twenty partners did not pay income taxes during the years 1930, 1931, and 1932...
...The "kluxers" have gone back to "traditionalism" f i d that was to be expected...
...IN the process of pouring out these billions the national debt * jumped upwar, and more and more money had to be borrowed by the government to finance its spending program...
...This question is ignored by the manifesto of the new committee...
...In New York State we tried to pass a child labor amendment and the bishops licked the tar out of us by scaring our legislators at Albany...
...The note was much like that which is used by some folks now in announcing: "so-and-so is a Jew...
...I wonder how I, free-born * American and over 21, would act in a given national emergency...
...WHEN the citizens of the United States adopted the 16th amendment to the federal constitution empowering Congress to levy Quandary CatholicChiefs'Politics Irk Average American By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, New York PRANKLY, I'm in a quandary...
...Net so good...
...Taxes merely effect a redistribution of income...
...This new agency should be established on a permanent basis...
...HE New Republic editorial * contains many true statements, but set down only so as to mislead the unwary...
...Obviously, taxation is the best method of assuring a more equitable distribution of the income, and will also serve in the nature o f insurance against a repetition of the evil practices of 1929...
...The priest who does more talking than all the rest of "The Church" put together quotes Goebbels at us and "The Church" doesn't clump down on him...
...On the contrary, when a statement from such an organization is issued the New Republic seems to become somewhat naive itself in its enthusiasm...
...It is a fact, at any rate, that fa—it a totalitarian practice u defended by many liberals, who have come to make one's attttnd* toward Russia and Stalin the teat of one's liberalism...
...Both groups are concerned solely with foreign policy—the Coughlinites with a foreign policy that favors Germany and Italy and the Communists with a foreign policy that favors Russia...
...There remained about one million persons with incomes of over $5,000...
...It threw more billions into helping the bankrupt farmers and for caring for those millions who had to go on relief...
...James, as his personal representative to Rome to witness or participate in the crowning of Pope Pius X I I , and whereas, upon the recent death of Pope Pius X I I , l>oth Houses of the United States Congress adjourned, be it resolved: "That we recognize in the decease of the late Pope the passing of a distinguished world citizen, which brought keen sorrow to all peoples of his faith, with whom we sympathize in the loss of their leader...
...There are millions o f jobs to be had in activities which come best under public organization and responsibility...
...P.W.A...
...To a considerable extent the New Deal has used this power of taxation to regulate business, to bring about a more egujtable distribution of the national income, to limit the growth ofgreat fortunes, and to take back for society part of the great accumulations of wealth of deceased persons, estates, etc...
...In a" practical world, men live in a network of obligations, inhibitions and socially imposed restrictions...
...It upsets me a bit when the organized priesthood sings paeans for Butcher Franco, or some "Father" up in Massachusetts says Thomas Jefferson and the Erench Revolution were the most terrible things that ever happened, or a bunch of wild-eyed zealots threaten trouble on behalf of a Father Coughlin who is quoting Mr...
...Private business calls it "prices," the government calls it "taxation 'Debunking Taxes I" aad lhe'apmer brvche* Mmrii Hoe chiefs don't maintain them to mump their fend* ta eircnletioa...
...Should we fight so hard the next time for the freedom of "The Church...
...But the two-volume report on the A. T. A T. by the Federal Communications Commission has been barely noticed...
...Only by followers in America of Josef Stalin, who stigmatize all leftists that are ¦0* -their- docile puppets as Trotskyists...
...ALL of which upsets me whom I read of a Catholic (Coughlinite) organization calling itself "The Christian Front" raiding political meetings in New York, or raiding Jehovah's Witnesses in New York, or when I hear of a gent like George Deatherage of the Knights of the White Camelias informing a Congressional Committee that 750,000 Irish Catholics in New York are organising for action...
...The K K K campaign, which featured hanging of a Negro in effigy and similar threats of murder, succeeded only in increasing the vote of Miami's colored population to a record h i * h . ----1—-1 taxes upon income from whatever source derived they created for themselves a weapon for greater social control which in its significance has revolutionary implications...
...The New Republic, in this veiled defense of the concentrationcamp technique by which Soviet Russia has solved the "problem" of liberty, ends where the problem really begins...
...t0ne down in Atlanta, I found myself saying: "Atta boy, Kluxer...
...But never, in all my experience in •very' state of Protestant America have I ever before heard of a great church convention taking a shot at the Catholic Church...
...First, what is the labor record of the Bell System...
...The conservatives clearly understand this power and refer to it as "the power to tax is the power to destroy...
...Their total money income was about $65 billion...
...Dividends were kept np and surplus was drawn on to pay them...
...In passing, let it be noted that The New Republic apparently disapproves of followers of the anti-libertar»a Trotsky BUT HAS NOTH©•TTO SAY IN CONDEMNAWON OF THE FOLLOWERS QP-THE ANTI-LIBERTARIAN JOSEF STALIN...
...But it ha* happened now...
...It seems to me that in the political field, in free countries, nobody does anything but shout " F i r e " at all times with a viewto stampeding public opinion...
...X conclusion, the aim of the * Committee for Cultural Freedom, as I personally see it...
...And the lobbies did Trojan work keepiesj Harding, CooBdge end Hoover Congressmen in tine...
...So far as w e are concerned the land frontier is closed...
...On the' basis of any reasonable budgetary distribution of expenditures, the* most they could spend for manufactured goods was $38 billion...
...These things trouble an everyday, run-of-the-mill American who hasn't got any special ism to itch him...
...But by whom are these members of the Committee "widely supposed" to be Trots*Ti«ts...
...Granting this to curtail discussion, can the New Republic point to any similar observation by its editors when it has been a ques-" tion of commenting upon the declarations of the many paper organizations set up in our midst by the indefatigable agents of Soviet Russia...
...The New Republic has elected to defend • on rational grounds a position that can be defended only by frankly adopting a totalitarian political philosophy...
...On December 31, 1929, the Western Electric had 34,841 employees...
...If "a" has an income of $25 and "b" $15 the combined income is, of course, $40...
...In short, I'm just common-place, every-day, ordinary American, with roots in the exceedingly American Middle West and^grief in New York, and I'm durned if I know how I'd act in a national emergency of a given kind...
...The fact that business has been unable to reemploy the millions of jobless despite the heavy subsidies from the government, by way of huge public spending, is a clear indication that the economic system is dicker than is generally realized...
...I've seen little boys in West Bend cross the street in order to avoid passing too close to the small, frame Catholic Church after dark...
...Because the taxing power of the government is so great and because if properly used we can with it bring about great modifications in our society for the purpose of promoting the genera* welfare, it becomes of the utmost importance that we have a- clear understanding of what taxation really is...
...and when the Kluxers turn "traditional" we have a hard time keeping up the old war cry against the "bigoted" Klan...
...liberals, radicals and middle-class intellectuals, who must be made to see every anti-social manifestation at "Hitleriam" in preparation for the war-front now taking shape against Germany...
...The * reader will recall the testimony presented to the Senate Committee investigating stock exchange practices, which revealed that Mr...
...Whether you pay a private telephone company for its service, the Post Office department to carry your mail, or the municipality to clean your streets, it's all the same...
...is to bring democratic self-government into a domestic area where a species of anarchic terror, quiet but persistent, now prevails...
...that we request Congress and the President to adhere strictly to the principles upon which our government was founded and the basal principle of separation of church and state so plainly taught mtkearst section of the Bill of Rights of our Constitution...
...far yeors Washington IMS mode high incomes sate from effective taxation...
...The Western Electric Co...
...The question concerns the evaluation of what liberties are to be restricted and what are not...
...For it continues trickily: "When it comes, however, to saying what is 'the utmost possible,' for any given group, at a given time and place, we arrive at a question that is enormously complex and difficult...
...j» - And when the new Wis, old Sourpuss Jim Colescott, donned his L s i r ' " 1 foolscap and pledged "action in traditional Protestant _ | i r — " 1 « ° r t o f M , d to myself: "New that's the sort of Klan «re understand...
...BTHEN the New Republic says "in its editorial that some of the members of the Committee for Cultural Freedom are "widely supposed" to be followers of the anti-libertarian Leon Trotsky it Hands on the firm ground of » phraseological morass...
...That's what puts not only me, but most of the people like me, into a quandary...
...Readers of the New Republic editorial must have been struck by its completely hostile attitude toward even the slightest nuances of the manifesto...
...When the wealthy citizens found that they would* beee to pay a good part of the spending program and couldn't ahift all the burden over to the poor through sales taxes and similar devices, they began to squawk: "Taxes are ruining business...
...But, whatever, the attitude of the editors of the New Republic the Committee will, I trust, go on to the work of presenting the public with the cold evidence supporting its initial statement...
...I understand the feeling of these people...
...When war is declared, with agents of the Comintern strewn throughout liberal and radical organizations, labor unions and various cultural enterprises, what is going to happen to all those who do not see Russia as a heaven-on-earth ? Are they going to be slaughtered in their beds—as in Spain ? Not only were fascists and Catholics the targets of the Communists in Spain, as late information indicates, but Socialists, Anarchists, independent Republicans and plain mule-headed individualists, who rebelled against having Spain utilized as a pawn of Soviet foreign policy...
...All this indicates that before long-term changes can be made in our society to provide employment for all able and willing to work, considerable time may intervene...
...That we, the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention . . . do cheerfully recognize and champion every person's right and liberty to make his own choice in matters of religion...
...Four out of five of the people around the country seem to have an ingrowing suspicion about "The Church," and I was always quarreling about it...
...In the field of slum clearance, large numbers could he employed...
...However, with the economic breakdown and the continuing depression the New Deal administration found itself confronted with problems of a new and unprecedented character, and found that it had to assume vast obligations for which the government was entirely unprepared...
...But is this the issue...
...In the hand* of a socially responsible government "the power to tax becomes the power to control...
...The danger it that these Byzantine happenings are held up for us as examples for America to follow, and are fulsomely apologized for aad rationalized by many wellnaming people among whom the editors of The New Republic may poBibiy be included...
...The Spanish situation is duplicated except that America is not at war—yet...
...j y f T L L I O N S of people on relief must continue to be supported by public funds, and other millions who are likely to remain permanently unemployed will likewise have to look to government for their existence...
...The projects created under government aegis are in most instances just as important as the services of private enterprise...
...Likewise, the late Otto H. Kahn, millionaire banker, paid no taxes for the same period of years...
...Business in capitalistic enterprise does not have automatic controls which make it possible for it to start up activity when and where it pleases...
...This condition led to the so-called over-production of goods which glutted the market and which hastened the economic breakdown and subsequent depression...
...The persona in the upper income brackets save much of their income, and these savings are withheld from the stream of purchasing power until they find some channel of investment...
...But nowadays I'm in a quandary...
...a Most of the folks in America who had fought the hardest for the Catholics were seven to three against Butcher Franco and the Church...
...Although argument pro and con on this question could be based only upon theoretical conjecture, as there is no socialist (Community in existence, the undersigned personally would be inclined to subscribe to the dictum...
...This small group obviously neither could nor would buy up the surplus seventeen billion dollars worth of manufactured goods out of the reach of those with incomes under $5,000...
...Perhaps, if attention is pointed to jost one or two items, interest can be increased...
...Something must have been happening, though, because at Oklahoma City they passed a resolution that was pretty red-faced...
...On December 31...
...T^HE virus of which I speak is " evident in the New Republic editorial directed against the Committee for Cultural Freedom...
...a total of $365 for the year...
...At Oklahoma City, recently, the Southern Baptists held their convention...
...Down in Monterey, Mexico, they had 365 churches, with property to support them, and some of the gentlemen of the cloth in this benighted country tried to g e t us into a scrap with the Mexicans for daring to shut down on some of the churches...
...While you and this editorial writer paid taxes through soles tax aed other shifted levies, the upper bracketeers Incorporated yachts, country homes, ears aad other luxuries which nc'r|it|i'tSl,,i,i >r> " 7r wESS 3KS j tjpR elJ32.1.3R T-TTj aJ< i liyl 11 I'll 'M+jJ fjfc belL The American Telephone A Telegraph Co., head aad boss of the Bell System, has more wealth than seme small countries...
...We must abandon spending in terms of emergency and go in for public investment...
...the combined income remaining $40...
...The rich are using every means at their disposal to make Tom, Dick and Minnie tax conscious...
...But, of course, the fact is that every person who enjoys any income whatsoever pays taxes—even if he doesn't file an income tax return...
...is an electric appliance man*factoring company, owned bodily by the A. T. A T. Its profits, the FCC reports, have averaged from 21 to S3 per cent a year on the investment...
...I hate the Ku Klux Klan like a dose of arsenic...
...On the whole business approved of this spending program—that is they approved of it when it helped them directly by bringing their heads above water...
...On the contrary it incudes a number of leftists who ¦are been as bitterly assailed in *e Trotskyist press as in the Stalinist press...
...Taxes, by themselves, do not reduce the national income—aa is sometimes charged...
...Will the New Republic clarify this remark ? What is equivalent in the political field to shouting "Fire" in a theatre, and what general agreement is there that no one shall do it...
...The danger is not, perhaps, that certain things are happening in Russia that are quite outside western European GraecoObristian tradition...
...faced business, commerce, and agriculture...
...A socialist community, given proper conditions," it says, "should do more to liberate the human spirit than has ever been accomplished on this earth...
...Among such members of the Committee are John Chamber¦»> George S. Counts, John Jj'wey, Max Eastman, Sidney **°*k, Suzanne La Follette, John P°a Passes, Benjamin Stolberg J"d myself (for confirmation see •ijWlectuals in Retreat," in the jmUkyist publication...
...A t tribute the situation to what one will — to misguided zealousness by well-meaning partisans of a totalitarian doctrine, to blind faith •— but the situation nevertheless exists...
...It is then likely that you possess an automobile, an electric icebox, a vacuum cleaner, a telephone, an electric range or gas stove...
...And I hated myself for it, because I still c t n \ bear this anti-Catholmm, any more than I can bear antiSemitism...
...And lets not be fooled by the pry of taxation...
...In 1928, when Al was running for president, and he was Cannonnaded with the whisper that he'd bring the Pope to the White House, I was as sore as a pup with two tails and fleas under both...
...tactics, every liberal, radical and democrat that had a mind of his own...
...From the State government you get: Universities and colleges plus hospitals, prisons, alms houses, bridges, parks (total $21...
...They were brought up on it...
...The Roosevelt administration undertook to deal with this situation: it mobilized the vast resources of the nation and threw billions of dollars into the financial and business structures to stave off utter collapse...
...that system had S6Z.954 employees...
...But were it not that Russia is held up by a highly vocal "front" of organizations and publication as a model to guide democrats action one might not, perkBM, be justified in feeling iliruol But Russia is indeed preteawd as a model, and it is the stasia, as The New Republic mjs, "of tradition...
...Just the same, they've never fallen before, at least officially, for that old anti-Catholicism...
...If the government taxes "s" $6 and gives H to "b" the first income has been reduced to $20, and the second has been lifted to $20...
...The thing that has me down is not the "isms...
...It is not to the ordinary citizen...
...Now what do you get for the taxes you pay to the federal, state and city governments...
...We must stop thinking in terms of "temporary emergencies" and go in for long-term planning...
...Take the prosperous year of 1928...
...If not—well—( ? ) • Business Pushes Myth Of Tax-Made Collapse By IRVING B.ALTMAN Editor, Dynamic America *|*HE rich do not like taxes—when they have to pay them...
...So the present campaign is directed toward spreading the tax base, by reducing exemptions, say, from $1,000 to $800 for the single person and bringing the exemption of the married man down $2,500 to $1,500...
...The acceptance of such a model by Amerkan liberals and radicals can repYese-: only a "sited "backward in'our thinking...
...It is a far cry from shouting 'Fire' in a crowded theatre or from spreading baseless gossip about financial institutions to censorship, political police, judicial frame-ups and falsification in intellectual affairs...
...It's up to the Catholics, not to people like me, to decide...
...But the government can...
...Since the ' government, in t h e main, does not engage in revenue producing activities it must resort to taxation to r a s e the needed funds...
...The New international, January, 1939...
...Anyhow, they've got me down, and got in a lot of other people down, to the point where I just don't know how I'd act if we should have something in this country similar to what occurred in Spain...
...Already, by drawing fire from certain quarters on a clear-cut issue, the Committee, without doing more than to organize, has performed a valuable public service...
...There is not the slightest possibility that the United States will go communist at any time in the predictible future," says the New Republic, and with this observation one must agree...
...Here I've been struggling along for the fast 20 years and more, quarreling with Maw, Paw, and all the rest of the folks back in the Middle West over the Catholics...
...Perhaps I should just say the Catholic hierarchy...
...I am not a Protestant (though I was brought up as one and I know how they feel), and I am not a Catholic (and they're all right, too) and I am not a Jew (but don't pull your anti-Semitic stuff on me...
...On December 31, 1929...
...our population growth is definitely on the decline (the growth in the last 10 years was only 5<K> of that of the preceding decade), and technological developments are oonstar«tiy creating new problems in industry...
...For example, we are pretty generally agreed that no one shall shout 'fire' in a crowded theatre, or do its equivalent in the political field...
...Any expression not approved by the dictators ( f o r reasons of personal power) is treated like the ill-advised cry of "Fire...
...The provision for the care of these millions is a continuing social responsibility that cannot be ignored...
...What is all the outcry about Hitler and fascism but a cry of " F i r e " to stampede the audience ? What is the Republican campaign about the "ruin" being wrought by the New Dealers but a similar cry...
...But at a time when Jobs were the moat precious things in the land, the A. T. A T.—the Bell System—fired nearly a third of its people...
...And so I'm in a quandary...
...Naturally...
...The Communists are willing to condone any evil for the sake of a spurious harmony that will permit the building of an effective war front...
...Business spokesmen cry that if the government would ease up on the tax burden "confidence" would be restored, business would flourish and jobs would be provided...
...Whom is the New Republic reassuring...
...If the Catholic liberals take control of "The Church," then I stand by the old guns...
...The manifesto, says the New Republic, is "a document that is as naive as joint declarations so often are...
...And yet, the other day, when the Kluxers kicked out old Wizard Hiram Evans because he was getting too chummy with "The Church" (he helped them lay a cornerexalt straitjackets...
...So the folks like I am are, quite naturally, beginning to ask: "What kind of meat have these boys, been feeding on...
...The campaign against spending and taxing is going full blast...
...This is an old and outworn idea...
...How dared the Kluxers and the F. F. V's pull a dirty trick like that...
...This reasoning is in the nature of wishful-thinking...
...or anything it stands for...
...And now there is a rumor in Washington that we may soon be asked to accept a Papal Nuncio...
...That the eight and freedom of religious belief does not justify the union or mingling of state and church, but rather requires and demands that the two be kept separate and inviolate, the one from the other...
...It is felt that by such changes the present number of 6,000,000 odd income tax payers would be increased to some 10,000,000...
...I never did forgive the Kluxers for breaking up the Solid South on a religious issue...
...Many other wealthy ladies and gentlemen avoided or evaded payment of taxes in recent years by various legal devices which permitted them to escape this social obligation—by forming dummycorporations, by incorporating one's farm, or yacht, or by creating phony trusts and still more phony foreign corporations...
...aad the FCC says that "the Western's prices bear no reasonable relation to the indicated cost of manufacture...
...On the front porches at night I've heard "the folks" whisper that so-and-so "is a Catholic...
...T would seem to this observer that such a resolution, as passed Jy a great Protestant church congress, should serve as a warning...
...Had we a fairer distribution of our national income in the late '20s lest money would have been available for wild speculation, and more money would nave keen spent for goods and services, providing employment and adding to the comport of our people...
...Gov't Can Hire Millions Exiled from Industry Rebuttal A letter to the New Republic Editors By Ferdinand Lundberg Secretary of the Committee tor Cultural Freedom Author of 'America's 60 families' and "Imperial Hearst" MANY of our bemused liberals, a majority of them newcdmers to the left side of the political fence and hence unsophisticated, do not see that cooperation with pseudodemocratic Communists takes place on a Faustian basis: the liberals achieve some unimportant ends, none of which involves cultural freedom...
...In case some displeasing, unregenerate outfit like the Kluxers start to "putsch," should old-line, run-of-the-mill Americans stand by the same old guns and fight the Klan once more or should we say, this time: "Well, 'The Church' apparently didn't appreciate the protection it g o t . Let 'em fight it out with the Kluxers...
...So, the problem of liberty has become "enormously complex and difficult" to the New Republic...
...The liberals get the plaudits, the pseudo-democrats get the substance of their desires...
...When that point was reached, business reversed its policy and began a campaign against "spending and extravagance in government...
...Business lacks confidence...
...No, business initiative and enterprise cannot provide jobs for the unemployed, no matter how sincere it may be in wanting to do so...
...THE bulk of the spending is done by those in the low-income *• groups...
...And that's why I, and people like me, are in a quandary...
...Now we find that the rich are up in arms against the "hated" Roosevelt administration because the government has compelled them to abandon some of these tax avoidance devices and to fork over some of their swollen gains to help finance the cost of government...
...If so you pay the private utility companies "taxes" as follows: $100 for electricity, $50 for telephone, $50 for gas, and $165 for gasoline and oil...
...Just how far the New Republic has allowed itself, absent-mindedly I am sure, to wander down the blind alley of totalitarianism is shown in the phrase relating to doing the "equivalent in the political field" to shouting " F i r e " in a crowded theatre...
...From the municipality we get the following services: Street lights plus police protection, street cleaning, water, schools, libraries, fire departments, garbage collection, sewage disposal, play grounds, clinics (total $240 or grand total of $365...
...This, it seems to me, is what the defense of the New Republic leads to...
...Does the NewRepublic want such outcries suppressed, as Stalin and Hitler have suppressed them in their own countries...
...and similar agencies into a Federal Works Agency is a step in the right direction...
...For the same $365 a year you receive from the federal government: National administration plus the army, plus the navy, plus the coast guard, plus the weather bureau, plus highways (total $104...
...I don't share it but I understand how it grew...
...1933, it had 250.396 employees...
...Prices, taxes, costs, call it what you will — it's all the same thing: namely, goods and services being exchanged and their values expressed in term* of dollars...
...in fact, those with incomes of less than $3,000 a year buy 73 per cent of the goods and services produced and rendered...
...Yet in 1928 we manufactured consumers' goods, exoiusige of those exported, to the value of about $56 billion...
...But the real point at issue is: Do we get our money's worth when we pay taxes...
...Agreeing that "the utmost possible liberty for all people at all times and in all places" is desirable, the New Republic agrees only in order to disagree...
...How do you make a person tax conscious...
...The President's plan to consolidate W.P.A...
...I t has been attacked by the Daily W o r k e r (Communist), The New Masses (Communist), the Socialist Appeal ( T r o t s k i s t ), The Nation ( ? ) , and The New Republic ( ? ) . MURPHY PROBES K.K.K.s CAMPAIGN hN MIAMI M I A M I . — A n investigation of the Ku Klux Klan by G-men sent from the office of AttorneyGeneral Murphy, is now being conducted in this city as the result of the K K K ' s recent terrorist drive to prevent Negroes from voting in municipal elections...
...I know that a great many devout Catholics are seriously concerned over the attempted 'church "putsch" in the United States because the last thing they desire is a "putsch" back...
...By making him pay a tax, particularly one that he can bee and feel...
...Or perhaps I shouldn't say the "faith...
...The various trends mentioned in this article dealing with frontiers, population, technology, concentrated wealth, and other ba«ic problems have fundamentallyaltered our economy...
...the thing that has me down is—deggonit, I hate to say this, but somebody's got to—the thing that has me down is the Catholic faith...
...Hundreds of our bishops and ministers had tried to make that elear but received only a figurative kick in the pants for daring to raise their voices about Guernica...
...It has much more wealth than the United States had, at the time of Washington's inaugnration...
...Wither the Coughlinites nor the Communists are at all interested in social amelioration or reform, in peace, progress or democracy...
...Taxes take all the money that otherwise would be available for investment," etc., etc...
...The forces behind Father Coughlin are at present doing everything they can to encourage division among the American people by spreading disruptive racial and religious propaganda...
...It follows: "Whereas ,the President sent Mr, Joseph P. Kennedy, ambassador to the court of St...
...Now a Baptist isn't exactly broadminded, and a southern Baptist may be pretty stiff-necked...
...There were about 2$ million families who had an income of less than $5,000 each...
...Any "wide supposition" that ¦*•*" Persons are Trotskyists can **** only in Stalinist circles, "aw such a supposition is entertained only because of Stalinist journalistic lies, which abound...
...For the government collects more money from so-called sales taxes than it does from taxes based upon income from salaries, wages, or profits...
...The issue has never been stated aa such by the Committee and it is my strong impression that it never will be...
Vol. 22 • July 1939 • No. 26
