Roosevelt Opposes Burke Bill As Bar to Efficient Defense
SHORT, GEORGE
Roosevelt Opposes Burke Bill As Bar to Efficient Defense By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, ij. C—What apparently will become the first major national controversy over defense projects costing...
...6th Column, Inc' Plans Nat'l Anti-Labor Drive Special to The New Leader MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Union leaders preparing to fight the "fifth column" of Na?is, Coughlinites, Silver Shirts, and Communists, are beginning to see the strange apparition of a "sixth column," ostensibly organized against the "subversive" elements/ become a vicious anti-labor, strikebreaking organization...
...A day later the Osservatore Romano ran a long article praising all totalitarianism in general and Portugal's' authoritarian Salazar regime in particular...
...The administration feels that the Burke bill will increase isolationist sentiment which is already being inflamed by charges that Roosevelt seeks "regimentation ' of America's youth in Nazi style...
...Urban Municipal Ownership Leaders Fear Effect of Willkie Campaign By JOHN DONNE Special t* The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Despite the intensified propaganda onslaughts by private utilities against government ownership,- municipal operation of light and power plants increased fcy mere than 500 instaHations during the past two years, according to figures gathered by the Federal Power Commission...
...The JS...
...Henson who boasts of originating the idea, was the deputy in charge of the raids on the gambling houses in the Bemidji area last year...
...000 by Congress rather than the $40,000,000 originally contemplated, is rushing plans to build rural power lines to serve some three hundred thousand farm families and other rural dwellers...
...In addition, the amateur student will be entertained by the flashing display of Dewey's wit.and canntiTcriticism of those critics whose understanding of what he meant seems to be occasionally entangled in the mesh of their own preconceptions...
...John Dewey's Philosophy By HENRY R. LINVILLE 1T was the ambitious notion of the editor of the Library of Living * Philosophers* that such a series would serve to terrainat* certain historic philosophic controversies...
...Nevertheless, he made his entry there, for he maintains "the competency in moral inquiry of th* methods used in practical and scientific knowing...
...Cahan at eighty is an extraordinary phenomen — as a man, as a Socialist and a neverdimming star in the world of journalism...
...Large stretches of America have barely been mapped out for literary occupation...
...Fifty-eight cities in New York State operate publicly-owned plants...
...Volume I o/ tl* Library of Living Philosophers: Critical Essays of Deieefi Philosophy by seventeen philosophers, edited by Paul ArtM" Schilpp...
...A total of forty-one generating plants have been finaced...
...N e b r a ska and Iowa rank next with 160 and 135 respectively, and Kansas is fourth with 130...
...To-these should be added the wide growth of fl*rm electric cooperatives financed by the Rural Electrification Administration...
...Eventually the Sixth Column would become nationwide.' Wakefield, a lawyer with offices at 346 McKnight building, was active in the vigilante "-Minnesota Law and Order League" formed after the 1934 truck drives...
...What grand, realistic literature one has a right to expect 18 or 20 years hence, when the Tolstoys and Tbackeraye of America will finally appear...
...Some, however, may become the nucleus of a native fascist movement...
...and to continue the single existing" cavalry division...
...Miss Smallzried is an Indianian born and bred...
...He loves people who know instinctively the difference between right and wrong and do not compromise values by Phillistine theorizing.- He hates tyranny, ignorance, lust for power, pseudo-c u 11 u r e and pseudothought masquerading as the last word in operation of the human intellect...
...305 cities of 3,500 to 7,500...
...We hope Cahan will be among us for many more years...
...F.T.C...
...in the latter field he is almost the last of the Mohicans...
...jf During June, meetings with rural electric cooperative leaders have been held in the midwestern states anil funds allotted...
...When Dewey extended his inquiry into the area of morals, *» found that field already held...
...Ordinarily the high-pressure conflicts between philosophers appear to the common run of mortals to be shadow-boxing...
...Federal Subsidies The Rural Electrification Administration, granted $100,000...
...What he hates merits hatred...
...There are not many more like Abraham Cahan left among.us...
...2,114 cities of less than 3,500 population...
...In effect, this nation will not be prepared for total ^warfare for years...
...Marshall told a senate committee that a federal attempt to handle a large number of recruits would decentralize and weaken-effective training of capable men for technical work...
...It was a discerning comment that Prof...
...Complete Bibliography of Deft"* Writings...
...Books and Writers By Elias L. Tartak A Footnote to "Main Street" jA7HAT do we know of America who only New York know...
...South Bend has a large Polish and Hungarian population...
...In Auburn, California, two men who had victimized scores of citizens of funds "to fight fifth columnists" were convicted and sentenced to jail...
...He loves the open mind, but not in the sense of a mind so "open", so "tolerant" that it cannot hola any beliefs for more than a fleeting moment...
...VWe have to go to the Sinclair Lewises, Striblir.ps, the Steinbecks and to the late and much lamented Ring Lardner...
...He is most determined when hearts are breaking, most sure when others have lost their way...
...This win be the armament of Germany's' economic blitzkrieg against the United States, once the military war against England is over...
...Seemingly here is a simple scheme by business interests to organize labor spying and disruption in unions under the guise of "patriotism...
...Plan National Group The first public meeting of the new organization was held last Tuesday evening in the Hodgson building, attended by about fifty persons, mostly young men of 21 to 24 year,s of age with a sprinkling of elderly persons...
...Such he is a: eighty...
...r * PRESS Pass, by Kathleen Ann Smallzried...
...William H. Kilpatrick made is fji valuable essay in this book on Dewey's influence on education that - "theory is in the end the most practical of all things...
...The growth of electric cooperatives in the southwestern section of the country has increased the demands on Boulder Dam's electric energy...
...The recently voted increase to 375,000 will permit the army to form nine instead of five streamlined infantry divisions, two new mechanized divisions...
...Moreover, there is no other instance in the history of American journalism of a man writing primarily in a foreign tongue influencing the American environment as profoundly as Cahan has helped to mould it...
...was established in 1935, it has made loans totaling f270,000,000 to 691 borrowers, *8k>st of them farmer co-ops...
...The reader is mistaken...
...One thinks of him as a great American,, an American by choice, by deliberate devotion, by deep conviction...
...And what he lorves deserves to be loved...
...Very ¦'^f little, m fact.-iTeJ^wel Aroejiea begins west of the Hudson...
...And why not...
...A local newspaper has .to "make news out of all this very much alive material, and for such a live community...
...But one thinks of him also as a living specimen of that very wonderful group of Russian revolutionaries of the eighties of the last century, who halving spent a generation behind the bars of czarist prisons, had come out from behind their walls into the political darkness outside unscathed in soul, in mind, in v i sion of the future...
...Inner New Deal circles—and President Roosevelt—while not opposed to compulsory training-will soon launch an open -fight against the Burke proposals...
...And, above all, Cahan loves battle, unceasing battle for the right, for the poor, for the injured and oppressed...
...Army experts predict that it will take from 12 to 20 months to create the necessary plants, eliminate overlapping and prepare the pattern dies for weapons and their spare parts...
...Let Atjone who doubts this statement examine the Nietzacbean theories inspiring the nations that are wrecking Europe today...
...In the editorial praising Petain the newspaper said that the French premier personifies the best traditions of his race...
...In Hitler's industrial arsenal will be French, Italian, Spanish, Belgium, Dutch and Scandinavian industry...
...708 pp...
...Nazi agents in South America already are beginning to pull English and U. S. markets out from under the democracies...
...Membership Cheap Those who joined the "sixth column" would be expected to turn all rumors of suspicious actvity to the Minneapolis executive board which would send out trained investigators...
...His vital contribution to American social thought and to the development of the American labor movement is known "to all familiar with the American scene...
...One of these organizations, the Sixth Column, Incorporated, was launched here last week by a vigilante-minded lawyer, Donald M., Wakefield, and a former special deputy, Marshal Henson, who describes himself as the head of the "Universal Secret Service Bureau...
...The loans will...
...Amazement at the Pope's action' was expressed in London diplomatic circles, since this move strengthens the position of the world's leading anti-Catholic powers: Germany and Russia...
...j I This money has built, or is building, sufficient new power line to take electricity to 800,000 consumers...
...He hates pretense and hypocrisy...
...These qualities combined with great...
...Nazis Demobilize Men to Prepare Economic War on U.S...
...Price $4.00...
...RE A Sets Up Power Placts for Co-ops Rural Electrification Administrator Harry "Slattery has announced the approval of purchase of eight fully mobile generating plants, to provide electric power for four REA-financed distribution systems...
...Also read the chapters telling of South Bend's charitable organizations, of the fierce squabbles for the presidencies and vice— among the leading citizenesses of South Bend...
...Last but not least, it is the seat of Notre Dame University, famous for its (scholarship...
...3.00...
...It i» iSey wW reveal to us the vast "Main Street" of these United States, a jgreet extending from Salem, Massto Oakland, CaL, tiding with million- of "folks"—in short, tike real people of these United States...
...On the literary frontier we are still behind the settler of 60 and 70 years ago...
...Reich industrial set-ups to produce en masse vast stores of manufactured materials...
...It is an autdbrngraphjcal story of the Kfe of a reporter on tfee South Bend News-Times...
...THE PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN DEWEY...
...If this book (Volume I of the projected series) doesnt do that, it does create the opportunity for amateur students of philosophy to obtain from Prafessor Dewey himself a clear view of the essential elements of his own philosophy...
...Yet aside from the battle of the minds of famous figures, there is involved in these conflicts much that is of practical consatprtnee...
...This was interpreted here as further rapprochement with the Rome-Berlin Axis...
...For several years her work on the newspaper consisted of writing obituaries on tire demise of South Bend's citizens, e.g., on the death ef Casinrir Przybyrz {remember Przernysl...
...Since the RJEA...
...Reports seeping out of Germany reveal that a million men have already been demobilized for industrial production...
...And without the exorbitant costs of finks...
...Oil" as descriptive of "Palmolive" soap or shaving creams...
...Miss Smallzried has written a report on her home folks which for humor and a certain malicious shrewdness (the feminine touch) , could hardly be bettered...
...go to established electric co-ops for extension of their lines and also to new co-ops that have sprung up and are awaiting funds...
...White Bouse -sentiment can be summed.np ns wishing to avoid nation-wide controversy over any section of the -defense plans...
...In many cases successful municipal operation has permitted the reduction of all other local taxes...
...American-plan's will be occupied with creating a vast arsenal for an American army which may never use these weapons...
...Membership sells for one dollar a year...
...In the meantime the U. S. will be keeping vital warships, planes, guns and other military equipment from British fighting forces...
...Reply by John Dewey...
...A New Biography of Piuf*»*r Dewey's three Daughters...
...We have always needed him...
...It added that no,t only France but the entire world faces "a new radiant day...
...He is the eternal fighter, eternal hope, eternal youth—wise, confident, free of illusions but animated by unbending faith in the ultimate triumph of man over beast, of wisdom over stupidity, of common, 1 sense over sophistry...
...Bei* records available in 1938 showed 2,086 municipally owned plants as compared with the present showing of 2,632, the Commission reported...
...He loves simplicity, genuineness, frankness...
...Those who hold fhto view of Dewey's influence are, of course, not specifically attracted by the qualities of consistent integration and the far-reaching penetration of his philosophy, as it arises out of our common culture, and extends into the areas of human behavior and itM ' t constructive by-products in education, in social welfare, to political understanding, and in democracy...
...At the close of the first meeting, he announced that the executive board of the organization had already been chosen by the leaders to direct this patriotic activity...
...T3E reader would think that South Bend is small fry as cities go, and that nothing exciting happens in such a city and to a newspaperwoman therein...
...It is worthy of note that every one of the seventeen writers pays tribute to Professor Dewey's originality and to the productiveness of his mind in...
...Wakefield's organization reports that it is interested in the "preservation of democracy," yet his preachings hardly begin at home...
...Such is,Abraham Cahan..Such he was when he first set foot in this ^country as a Russian revolutionary refugee in 1882...
...By putting Washington and Berlin industrial press dispatches together, American government economists have recently discovered that Hjalmar Schacht, fearful of the potential mechanized power of the United States, is already devising...
...They dominated them completely - as journalists and personalities, i Cahan's eight decades rest lightly on his shoulders...
...American Tolstoys THERE is still much -"paying dirt" not only horizontally, tat vertically...
...His Socialism is not a narrow, sectarian Socialism but a deeply human, broadly social conception seeking the emancipation not only of a group or of a class but of "all the living and the suffering...
...has been actively cooperating with rural cooperatives, and the additional funds are expected to take care of the "backlog" of applications for loans totaling more than $70,000,000...
...thirty-two cities of 25,000 to 50,000...
...tew S.O.P...
...Press Pass" is a page of semi-rural America, provincial, simple (not too simple), shrewd, hard working, healthy...
...The Federal Power Commission found that a majority of, the public ownership plants have retired entirely their bonded indebtedness...
...The company also agreed to cease advertising unqualifiedly, that use of "Colgate Rapid^Shave Cream" will obviate the necessity for shaving twice daily, and that use of this product or of "PalmoKve Shave Creams" results in faster or smoother shaves than are obtainable with comparable, shaving preparations...
...journalistic talent made him the distinguished editor of the world's greatest foreign language paper...
...Kathleen Ann Smallzried's book* adds te our knowledge of the "cross-roads of America...
...Read her story of how the chief of police shot himself because he knew who had committed the five ghastly, sadistic murders...
...C—What apparently will become the first major national controversy over defense projects costing $15,000,000,000 hit the front pages this week in attar lot on and support of the Burke-Wadsworth bill for compulsory military training...
...football team, the unbeatable Irish...
...When questioned as to how the organization could support itself on such low membership fees, Wakefield intimated that .a number of "public-spirited American business men, were interested in the sixth column...
...Wakefield announced that ,the Sixth Column would be organized by counties, with not more than five hundred in any county...
...The president's, proposal to train about 1,000,000 youths a year to handle military: .'machinery was received -with ifavor months ago in labor circles...
...They are prepared to point out that Commonwealth and Southern was a heavily watered, company, that its rates have been consistently undersold by T;VA-, and that throughout the country public ownership has consistently charged lower consumer rates...
...The current opposition and bitterness toward Dewey, practically all of it, is outside the range, not only of the method, but also of the point of view, df those who criticize his theory of ethics in this scholarly volume...
...the entire range of human interest •In the estimation of several of them, as well as in the optatea of many others, John Dewey has done more than any other thinker to create a distinctive American philosophy...
...There have been demands for an army 750,000 to 1,000,000 strong...
...Although Congress will authorize the expenditure of 115,000,000,000, the government will spend only $3,60*0,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 between July 1940 to July 1941, according to government statisticians...
...Few men have made such warm friends and such bitter enemies as has Abraham Cah^n...
...Orders Palmalive To Cease Misrepresentations WASHINGTON.—The Federal Trade Commission in its-campaign against misleading claims of drug products cracked down this week on the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company of Jersey City, N. J. The Colgate company was ordered to discontinue using the unqualified statement "Made with Olive...
...production in the world...
...Abraham Cahan— Socialist, Journalist, Humanist—Celebrates His Eighteeth Birthday Abraham Cahan, veteran Socialist leader and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, marked his eightieth birthday last Sunday...
...It is also the center of some important national industries, such as farm implements...
...We need him now more than ever...
...Passed by the Censor).—British relations with the Vatican were strained this week when the Osservatore Romano, official papal newspaper, enthusiastically endorsed Premier Henri Philippe Petain's abandonment' of democratic institutions and the creation of French fascism...
...Such a policy, says the papal newspaper, is the "desire, aspiration, and program' of the Church...
...The Burke bill has aroused trade union animosity throughout the . country because of its provisions which would take men from 21 to 45 out of industry and pay them from $1 to $5 dollars a week for eight months...
...There is as much humor and drama in the life of this lively Mid-Western community as anywhere in* New York or London...
...And they may, you know...
...Wakefield said that members would be sent into workers' organizations to spy out "fifth column work...
...This is what Germany counts on...
...This brings the re-pay.ments for the present fiscal year to $3,700,000...
...340 pp...
...for, in addition to sections of American landscape, whole sections of society are still awaiting their Dreisers and , Thomas Wolfes...
...Through all its vicissitudes Cahan has been a mighty force in that movement as leader, teacher and source of inspiration...
...South Bend is the heart oS-the fruit belt, with the largest peach (or is it apricot...
...This sounds harmless enough, but Dewey has been charged with undermmfclip the authoritative foundations of morality...
...Vatican Hails Petain, French Fascist Rales Special to The New Leader LONDON (By Cable...
...Both men belong to that galaxy whose names include Charles A. Dana, Horace Greeley, James Cordon Bennett, Joseph Pulitzer, Adolph S, Ochs and Fremont Older...
...Income for the present fiscal year is expected to reach $4,500,O00 bring the total plant revenue from 1937 to about $11,300,600...
...The present military status calls for a peace time force of 375,000...
...This may be another organization formed as a shakedown group to solicit large funds from Big Business under the pretext of saving the country from "fifth columnists...
...Many of these are forming throughout the nation...
...General Marshall believes that any increase over 500,000 soldiers would disrupt their plans well-equipped and seasoned troops...
...He loves and he hates with burning fervor...
...Commissioner John C. Page of the Bureau of Reclamation, summing up the threeyear operation of the dam reports that the gross income outstripped by two million dollars the anticipated financial plans for this pioneer hydroelectric project of the government...
...Jtooseveft has been told by Chief of fitaff General George C. Marshall that it will oppose any proposal to raise regular army strength above 500,000 men on the ground that it cannot organize and equip more than that number for immediate service...
...Leaders in the public ownership drive ate •expressing concern over some of the effects of the Wilkie campaign...
...The criticisms and the defense of Dewey's N views in this book are, in large part, within theae fields of inquiry...
...The president will stick by his plans for government vocational training of the young men and women as differentiated from active military service for air, eight months or a year as has been proposed...
...Municipally-owned plants operate in twenty-one cities of fifty thousand population and over...
...Charges made tivity...
...Muck good, realistic writing has been done, but, in literature, we are stall far from the "closed frontier" stage...
...0. P. nominee is being presented as a successful private utilities executive, and these men fear that a Willkie victory might wipe out these gains, or that much of the Republican ballyhoo may cause public sympathy for the private companies...
...He has never lived in any half-way houses...
...The things philosophers fight about .are theories...
...53 cities of 15,000 to 25,000...
...He loves work, achievement, ideals, principles...
...In his case the record is all the more remarkable in that the Jewish Daily Forward itself is not a' one-man paper but the collective, fighting, living embodiment of a great movement which has had many victories and many painful defeats and which at this moment is passing through its severest trial...
...Last winter the U. S. had 227,000 soldiers.- Since then 32,000 volunteered and have been added to the regular force...
...And Miss Smallzried does...
...Already they are selling futures in South America at 50 per cent less than the price asked by U. S. corporations...
...The RjE.A...
...Dvttov and Co...
...The only other outstanding newspaperman we can think of coupling with him is William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette.Bcth men are the only living representatives of that extraordinary period of personal journalism in the United States, now long ended with the rise of an impersonal, commercialized press...
...107 cities of 7,500 to 15,000...
...The outfit is one of those mentioned by the Minneapolis Better Business Bureau as one to which many local busineas firms are contributing...
...IT does not require a profound understanding of philosophy to 1 realize that the commanding ij—HI in of Dawey's philosophy are in its origin in evolution, its basis in experience, its method of scientific inquiry, its progress step by step by way of tfto analysis and the solution of the problems of life and nature, aad the development of intelligence as the product of cumuiafive scientific inquiry...
...And these haw their lives, vanities, passions, social and other ambitions—they want to shine...
...It is a good vantage-point to study the Homo Americanus if you know where and how to look for things...
...As our government prepares vast armament production effective in 1943 and 1944, the Reich prepares on two fronts: - the first is on England's coast, the second in German factories...
...New York, 1940...
...Newspapermen, writers, labor leaders everywhere .have recognized with gratitude and admiration the part played by Cahan during the 58 years of his residence in the country in the social and cultural • progress of the United States...
...These men made their papers and were their papers...
...He continues with undiminished vigor to influence the Jewish Daily Forward, a very .great jpaper in its field, as he has influenced it for more than forty years...
...So, we have to fall back on a little traveling and, above all, on the portion of American literature dealing with the corn belt, cotton belt and other belts...
...In Tenness e e, where TV1A power i s available w h o 1 esale, there are 355 municipally - owned plants, the largest total of any state...
...that "most bad breath begins with teeth," or that "a safe, sure way to correct bad breath is through the regular use of the thorough, cleansing action provided only by the special ingredients in Colgate's Dental Cream...
...V For over a quarter of a century, at least, American literature has been at the task of "discovering America," depicting the homo Americanus "aa ia," in his many varieties...
...Published by Northwestern University, Even****, III...
...Homo Americanus A BOVE all, it has thousands of folks, of Yankee, Irish, Scottish, *^ Polish, Hungarian and all kinds of descent...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 28
