Rate of American Arms Production Refutes Isolationists
Rate of American Arms Production Refutes Isolationists WASHINGTON, D. C.—Lindbergh's talk* are being carefully directed and edited by isolationist leaders, and their wives, here in the Capital's...
...He is using his column as a club over several of the younger baseball players who are being pressured lo release anti-British statements to counteract the favorable publicity Hank Greenberg is getting for the selective service system...
...The isolationist know this...
...the deadline long set by the Germans...
...But when a man with a pipe enters upon the scene, JW know that rescue is in sight...
...At Fort Jackson in South Carolina, Fort Meade in Maryland, Fort Robinson in Arkansas and in scores of other camp constructions...
...The American red-man enjoyed his smoke exclusively through ™* agency of a lovingly carved pipe...
...Why can't we have some choice...
...Espinosa has a long record of government investigatory work, having been associated'with the War Frauds Division until 1926, the FBI for eight years, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee, and the TVA Congressional Committee, where he worked under Francis Biddle, now solicitor general...
...We think Ben Stolberg ought to send Nelson Rockefeller an autographed copy of "Muddled Millions...
...By January of 1942, it will be turning out each month 300 of these guns, the most effective weapons in the world for combating dive bombers...
...The climax came in London when, after the Daily Herald had practically predicted the revolt in Baghdad and .pointed out the German agents and the Iranian bases from which they were working, the North African military command Was again caught flatfooted by Rashid Ballaini's putsch which brought on the Iraq war...
...The Neicspa per Guild may sti~U:e the New York Daily Mirror...
...It was only after a prominent newspaper correspondent, now in America, told the British commanding officer that tribesmen in Tunis and Tripoli knew that the Germans were smuggling in men and tanks, that the English learned what had happened...
...Tobacco * t»t» form is denied its ancient nature and function...
...Either wide blue eyes or limpid brown oneS ?«n gaze through the smoke in the last scene while red lips »urmur: 'If only I had recognized your true worth before this ¦"rid play began!' "In...
...In the philosophy of Hollywood—which is now gfrityle ee'nter of many things besides clothes—the basic la\v is: ean trust the man who smokes a pipe.' As the curtain goes 5?' customers vote for the redolent briar"—not two to one— ralions to none...
...The gentlemen who have attained greatest faction in this field, Hitler and Stalin, began at the wrong -jjjes and went too far...
...fa the United States, our Treasury Department has the same ¦ objectives wt promoting the sale of savings-stamps and bonds...
...The American Locomotive Company works are now putting 28-ton tanks on the belt system...
...T}RESS PICKV PS.—Breaking some record or other, Jan Voltin's new book has just bern signed by King Features Syndicate for serialization in newspaper throughout the world...
...Most important politically is the analysis and probe of the 5,100,000 aliens who registered during the closing months of 1940...
...The committee has already turned out seven large volumes of detailed and horrifying reports on the destitution of nearly 5,000,000 of our dust bowl refugees and job seekers...
...By that time there will be three times the 7,000,000 persons who are now 65 and over...
...The thought in the minds of the Ijnhriistrators is that this purchasing power placed in the hands ef consumers at the right time will cushion the shock caused by tie withdrawal of the government as purchaser of arms and gnnitions...
...Leyda's review whoops it up for the Soviets, and winds' up by saying: "I think the Dean of Canterbury would welcome the New Teacher, as a visual supplement to his •book, The Soviet Power...
...Add this to the $1,000,000,000 a month now being spent by the British alone and it is only a matter of time before Anglo-American production overtakes the $50,000,000,000 lead piled up by the Germans in the past five or six years...
...Shortly afterward he wrote to Nelson A. Rockefeller, who with Jock Whitney controls the museum, explaining how the tovarischi had gained control of the library...
...Despite the vastness of the machinery which is onlv now getting creakingly under way under the guidance of'the Office of Emergency Management, an offensive military, naval, aerial and propaganda mechanism is developing ahead of schedule...
...that case, of .course, there would have been no play...
...His recommendations would revolutionize national relief policy by extending the Social Security Act to provide general relief for non-settled persons...
...Leyda, who for years was the library's assistanlt curator, is featured in the last edition of Soviet Russia Today...
...Some things are like toothbrushes— .oa want them for your very own...
...fc«sr* since Norway, "the British have been caught flatfooted by sudden Nazi moves...
...Responsible officials of the union have been restive since Jacob Baker resigned as president rather than work with Communist elements...
...Thousands of government employees are now at work trying to obtain an understanding of population shifts, social tendencies and mores out of the long statistical sheets which were filled out in 1940...
...GEORGE SELDES is much perturbed . . . immediately after Ralph de Toledano's exposure of In Fart, he wired The New Leader asking "Will you correct, all the lieg abmt.1 In Faet iai your May third issue or don't you believe in the ethics of journalism...
...Negroes, skilled, semiskilled and unskilled workers, were given widespread employment, according to Sidney Hill-man...
...By June 30, the army will be in shape and partly equipped for offensive action...
...The charges were ignored...
...Robert C. Weaver was placed in charge of the Negro Employment and Training section of the National Defense Advisory Commission...
...As a result, it is believed that our population will reach a peak of between 140,000,000 and 150,000,000 in 1970, and that this nation will be a country of older persons...
...there may be an old fellow somewhere who dislikes this sort of tking...
...Some folks prefer misinformation or, at least, other information...
...But the isolationists are finding difficulty in obtaining meeting places because their demonstrations, with their sales of Bund, Coughlinite and Mobilizer literature, discredit the halls...
...So marked was its impact upon Europe that historians might well use its advent as the starting point M the modern era...
...More recently this column revealed that Nelson A. Rockefeller planned to utilize the Film Library in his project of engendering South American goodwill for the United States...
...How much our recent misfortunes are due to the unnatural increase in the consumption of cigarettes we most leave to future historians to cal-enlate., Certain it is that this increase started about 1914...
...Senator Capper and Representative Coffee are providing George Seldes' In Fact with testimonials...
...If the government takes the advice of Committee Chairman Congressman John Tolan of California, the western section of this nation may soon be studded with neat federal camps...
...Though the scheme is voluntary, if it takes out of the market 00 a sufficient volume of funds and makes them available later as, the impact of the' post-war depression will be softened...
...In Great Britain the government is carrying out a fiscal scheme intended to forestall the collapse of the commodities market when armament buying falls df...
...Characteristic is the world's biggest powder plant...
...This action was foreshadowed some weeks ago when Haywood was forced to write a note warning her not to lead the UFWA into the American Peace Mobilization...
...the army air corps, 179,200...
...Fly, if one station out of the 187 prefers to have "Misinformation Please," it should . hive that democratic privilege...
...Since then the Germane have stolen march after march in the Balkans...
...l: * * » 'THERE will be enough exiled German officialdom picketing the Yorkville Nazi film house this Saturday to re-create whole sections of the second Reich's government...
...Cioits ea the Air pHAIRMAN JAMES LAWRENCE FLY, of the Federal ^ Communications Commission, is concerned about overmuch coordination in the radio industry...
...If you are at leisure between ten and twelve in the morning, you cannot escape from the deadly-dull and endless domestic serials...
...the engineers and cavalry, 126,000...
...By applying the same methods, future trends can be predicted with considerable accuracy...
...They know that if Britain is wiped out the United States must go on a permanent defense basis to match not only the production of Hitler's Europe but any added production that England can turn out...
...I like a swing band...
...Here are honest worth and W*en constancy...
...Their aim is to give the public the impression that our entire American armaments industry is futile and should be abandoned...
...Revolt inside the American Newspaper Guild is widespread...
...Fly thinks, irks Oshkosh and Kalamazoo...
...Last week came corroboration of all our charges...
...Among these groups are the Negroes, the migrants, the aliens, and of course the general population recorded in last year's census...
...On the insistence of Sidney Hilman and other labor men in the government, Dr...
...That this ancient form •oil holds its symbolic value you will soon recognize if you recall *5e romances which furnish you escape at your neighborhood ¦ovie-palace...
...I ITTLE more than a year ago Seymour Stern, movie scenarist and biographer of D. W. Griffith, exposed subversive elements in the strategic film library of the Museum of Modern Art...
...we would say, "some things we want to manage peromuHy and inefficiently...
...At full capacity it can turn out 100,000 pounds of powder daily, enough to supply an army of over 1,000,000 with rifle and artillery power...
...rather than less...
...34th Street Childs after the Lindbergh rally...
...The Federal Workers' left-wing tendencies reflect directly against CIO's national headquarters, for the union's leadership and paid organizer^ are appointed by the CIO—and not elected by its membership...
...To this unprejudiced observer the Commission seems to be right It may be a source of great satisfaction to a radio dictate to New York to look at his watch at 8:30 on Friday and «|y: "The listeners-in of 187 stations are enjoying the sparkle of Information Please.'" But, says Mr...
...This is being studied by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens...
...Such a production schedule will completely revamp entire sections of American industrial life and work wholesale changes on our social,, existence...
...He agreed to replace Haywood in the I'FWA with a man who would give full time to the organization and take control out of the hands of Communist fellow-traveler Eleanor Nelson, the federal workers' secretary-treasurer...
...We are not the sort of folks who like blanket-proposals...
...This line is being taken in direct contradiction to military and naval facts with which men like Senators Wheeler, Reynolds, Taft and company are familiar in detail...
...We are witnessing here in a democratic country an approach to managed purchasing power...
...Phil Murray's action may be a sign of a wider purge inside CIO...
...I like the new music...
...There is a lot of competition, one week's end to the next you can hear any sort of thing gf^ike—in addition to a lot of things you don't...
...I don't expect that...
...Already pledged against the national administration are i3 delegates elected in Philadelphia, nine in San Francisco, and five in Twin Cities...
...But if a project looks good to us, no blanket prejudice stands in the way of our accepting it...
...The Chrysler corporation has just been given an order to manufacture 40-millimeter rapid firing anti-aircraft guns for the United States Navy...
...There is Japan to consider...
...the medical, and ordnance corps, 140,000...
...In less than eight months it was built in an Indiana cornfield at Charlestown...
...The villain, the trifler, the despoiler of trusting joaale hearts, flirts a cigarette and gracefully flicks ashes over »e r%g...
...How some of these are among the things with regard to which we are skittish...
...At a meeting recently in the Biltmore Bowl, speakers from the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, and the Metal Trades Manufacturers'Association urged that pressure be brought on the state legislature to pass State Senate Bills 877 and 975...
...The biggest job of all is the analysis of the census...
...The paper you read, the jggi yon eat, and the church you stay away from—these are things dictators must keep hands from if they wish to succeed in America...
...and 168,000 in the armored, quartermasters and signal corps...
...We have four great chains as well as jJpTof independent stations...
...But London political circles finfelly became- furious when much to the surprise of the commanding British General in that North African sector, two German panzer divisions appeared outside of some small desert town east of Benghazi...
...He appears along with Anna Louise Strong...
...Their presence would interfere with the fashioning •« •'•lota, l; Gov't Surveys Social Changes Shown By Census, Aliens, Migrants By BILL ROBERTS This nation is now going through some of the greatest mass surveys in history...
...But why, just at the host listening time of the twenty-four hours—when the most people have leisure—should all of the statimis give us swing music which sounds so much alike that there is no choice among them...
...A part of the sums collected as taxes from the lower income jroups is marked "enforced saving...
...jath here and in England we are now furnished with other example8 of central planning which we like...
...Thevcommittee has heard 200 expert and 150 migrant witnesses...
...Incidentally, cutting down the purchasing power of the population now lessens its power to bid against the government for available goods and so reduces the danger of inflation...
...Either you turn your receiving-set off, or you endure them...
...The "hot cargo" practice is a refusal by a union to handle the goods of ' companies on strike...
...In addition, Congress will probably authorize the increase the Regular Army to 800,000 men...
...Jim Crowism was suddenly spotlighted last year by the Selective Service Act, and just as suddenly made the center of intense ill-feeling among 12,000,000 Negroes, when it was learned that industrialists with millions in defense contracts were defying government laws by discriminating against colored applicants for jobs and training...
...But this is not the best example...
...There surely is a good deal to ' be and on that side...
...A statistical bull's-eye was achieved in predicting the results of the 1940 census, according to Stuart Chase, who has just finished a study of the census results for the Public Affairs Committee...
...By July 1, a special investigation section will begin working on cases, some of which are expected to expose fifth column activity and the extent of the human-smuggling industry which has long been a Department of Labor headache...
...He is now working on a book, "Kino, a History of the Russian Cinema from 1890 to the Present...
...No other nation ever had its production of streamlined vehicles so carefully forecast as we...
...It would not do to have too many ¦WKs...
...That ¦ not too much to hope for...
...Some of their leaders are saying around Washington that if American aid can be kept from the British—through the quashing or dehating-to-death of the convoy problem —until July 1 then England is through and there will be "no danger of America's entry into the war...
...They started in with planned politics, banned information, planned business, and ended with a carefully JJJtrieted diet—taking in planned religion along the way...
...Whole sections of the population, including whole units with as many as 5,000,000 people, have been canvassed for social and political reasons...
...The Garden management now is stalling, too...
...Hy point is that we object tg planning in general, but we wekonie it in particular—even when it touches a matter as important as money...
...last week it began production, 23 days ahead of time...
...Chaides A. Lindbergh, the flyer, charges that American industry cannot arm the democracies in time...
...Planning from New York, Mr...
...Out of the United States now is pouring a steady stream of planes, guns, machine guns, rifles, grenades, bombs, mines, high explosives and mechanized equipment.' They go to England, the empire, the Dutch Indies and China...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN gmtft to Dictators ^ ^__ mtoft}- can't Wame *hB American people if they shudder at the Tidea of planning...
...This month there will undoubtedly be 1,500 planes coming off the belts—nearly 1,000 of which will be combat craft...
...As an antidote, the Bund-backed Wheeler crowd want to rent Madison Square Garden for a demonstration featuring John L. Lewis and ex-Colonel Lindbergh...
...Why not give a break to people who like drama or classical music, or folk-music or discussion or humor...
...George Seldes...
...Another problem is that of the 5,000,000 migrants now living in hovels and ditches along the nation's highways...
...Isidor Schneider, New Masses esthete who toured the Soviet Union for 20 months on funds supplied by the Guggenheim Foundation, and Ivan Menshikov, a Soviet writer...
...Seldes is expecting the same...
...We pointed out that there still u^as Russia First sentiment over at the library, and that its former Commissar, Jay Leyda, still exerted influence thcret But Mr...
...He revealed last week that "more than 2.500 Negro carpenters alope were employed on these various sites at wages ranging from $8 to $12 a day, and thousands of brickmasons, plasterers, plumbers, roofers, cement finishers, power saw operators and other skilled and semi-skilled Negro workers were and are being given employment...
...The list should be completed and published every-?here or painted, on mountains and on the skv...
...That is what the many-government probers are trying Los Angeles Big Business Organizes Anti-Union Drive LOS ANGELES.—The three-months-old Ventura lemon pickers' strike seems headed towards a settlement, as word was received of a secret conference of the Agricultural and Citrus Workers Union, AFL, with growers representatives and several church pastors...
...The British were caught completely by surprise...
...reviewing a new Soviet film, is billed as an authority on Russian pictures...
...TWfc is one aspect of radio programming, however, with regard to which more planning would give increased liberty to the lisfcss...
...Automobiles, for example...
...Even before the days of Sir Walter Raleigh, the sacred plant was recognized as the source of philosophic calm and poetic inspiration...
...By last week its activity had become so blatant that Phil Murray was forced to take action to prevent national anti-CIO sentiment from flaring again...
...It will be returned to the uj'tixens at the end of the war...
...Heaven in the world of radio would be a blessed state in which, at any time in the day, any normal person could turn on some station and get the sort of thing which he likes...
...which Vanguard will publish in September...
...A recent Guild membership referendum upheld the decision to lea re the CIO Council...
...The Manhattan Center managemerit did its best to avoid renting to America First but were finally forced to do so under threats of legal action...
...the coast artillery, 183,400...
...But toe moral is clear...
...p Walt What We Want BUT 801,16 Parts °f we ''^e to Plan or have planned for us...
...In March this country turned out some 1,216 planes, 244 more than in February...
...Result was that Eleanor Nelson's plans for participating officially in the recent APM demonstration were frustrated...
...The vast progress of the world from, 'let Os-say, the year 1600 to the first World War cannot be thought <rf apart from this inspiration...
...OPM spokesmen now count on 20,000 planes before 1942, most of which will be put into British bands...
...Let's not talk about heaven...
...It appears thai the complaints heard in Parliament last w«ek against the military intelligence service were weH fcaswd...
...It is understood in labor circles that these bills are reprisals for Dave Beck's Los Angeles organizing drive...
...There is much more, but this will suffice to suggest the •section of the mind of Virginia...
...No one objected when the other day President Roosevelt suggested that armament industries should go on a twenty-four hour basis and that skilled workers should be shifted to the places where they are most needed...
...Despite recent exposes...
...Waiters and newspapermen, also there for their coffee, reported that( the crowd was entirely Bundist, chortling over the German military successes and the bombings of British cities...
...Typical of America First audiences js the crowd which ponred into the...
...Not only is American production ahead of schedule in vital fields, but analysis shows tha't combined American-British output will shortly surpass the $2,000,000,000 which the German government is spending, on production of war materials...
...Jimmie Farrell has just finished his new novel, "Ellen Rogers...
...Paul, Guild has come a national appeal to oust men like Morris Watson, Milton Kaufman and Victor I'asche, national Guild officers...
...A LLAN HAYWOOD, national director of organization for CIO * * and head of the United Federal Workers Union, has complained long and frequently about our criticism of <TO's Communist bloc...
...But to do this the United States must get at least $1,000,-000,000 worth of materials to the Allies each month or Britain will fall by September, 1941...
...He ignores the pace at which it is now producing...
...Tie Socio/ Interpretation of Tobacco THE following letter is dated from one of the bright tobacco towns of Virginia, and I suspect the author of being one of those independent experts whose opinions are currently rated » highly: "In a recent number you had the effrontery to discuss the Moral implications of the cigarette without so much as mentioning the form in which our Virginia product is enjoyed by the •We civilized strata of the human race...
...Listen, plan-Ijgn...
...A ND while we're or...
...This sounds Utopian, but it could easily be achieved by some voluntary cooperation among the chains...
...It may give small comfort *° our correspondent to know that the number of pipe-smokers **.Jnst about keeping pace with the growth of population, w that is really all right...
...Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Big Business interests mobilized their forces in a drive on the AFL Teamsters Union, now conducting an organizing drive in Los Angeles...
...With British production at 1,500 a month, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand ami even India building some planes, the democracies will be outstripping German production long before 1942...
...the field artillery, 197,000...
...So easily available are these facts, and so extensive was the research done by Frank Han-ighen, America First's Washington investigator, that even objective observers in Washington view with slightly stifled comment the sincerity of the "Lone Eagle...
...Tovarisch Leyda...
...there will be 14,000,000 less persons under 20, and 20 million more persons between 20 and 64 years of age...
...The appeal was signed by 46 of the nation's leading newspapermen, working in nine cities over the country...
...His present job is to direct the codifying and filing of 5,100,000 aliens' cards—original estimates put the totaL at 3,500,000—and check these registrations against port of entry records...
...They will protest the showing of Victory in the West...
...When two secret service men were lured to the Dutch-German border and simply dragged across into the Reich, most of London laughed...
...Many of those behind the America First Committee—dubbed the America Next Committee by capital wags—are important steel, machine tools, and heavy industry men...
...You are under a, similar compulsion after ten o'clock at night...
...Meanwhile Chrysler is turning out the first of a great fleet of 25-ton tanks, the most heavily armed, most deadly in their class produced anywhere in the world...
...What will be the political face, of the nation as these changes set in...
...But it wasn't until some of these tribesmen were brought face to face with the general that he believed the newspaperman...
...But there they are...
...The new regulations announced by the Commission would give more liberty to the individual station to select programs which would serve its particular region or clientele...
...A MERICA First strategists are frantically trying to put on a show to counteract Wednesday's unprecedented Freedom Rally, which saw such men as Father Talbot, editor of the Catholic's "America," and Dave Dubinsky escort Wendell Will-kie down the length of Madison Square Garden to the platform...
...The isolationists have won over a sports columnist who has several million readers...
...Bgt at any mrticular hour you are pretty well coerced by what seems an jbplanned and accidental brain-wave among the program.builders So do exactly the same thing at the same time...
...Several Catholic priests were present because most of the 3,000 ¦persons involved in the strike are Mexicans and Catholics...
...will be forced by world developments tfi step up its armament industries to a $35.000.000.00(1 worth of war goods each year—the equivalent of the materials being turned out by the Axis and their partners...
...This job is now being directed by J. R. Espinosa, chief supervisor of special inspection for immigration and naturalization, Department of Justice...
...Sociologists Thompson and Whelpton predicted that there would be 131,-650,000 people in the United States by 1940—an actual count show 131,669,275...
...Rockefeller ivas too busy confei-ring...
...Only prompt execution of authors, actors and managers could possibly bring any of these horrors to an end...
...The infantry will have 406,000 exceptionally well trained men...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR R1ESEL XUE don't like to warden over into Dick Reynard's province, but **_/'*» «uf» he won't mind our telling the stoa-y on British telligence work which, one of the boys told the other night after their Freedom Bally stories were t...
...The tubular form—even H competing manufacturers finally extend it \o the length of a &ong-rod—will still remain the symbol of inconstancy...
...We're still awaiting a bill of particulars, and hope Mr...
...This must be done before investigations, of doubtful cases can begin...
...These would outlaw the "hot cargo" practice and secondary boycotts...
...Out of the Minneapolis, St...
...Rate of American Arms Production Refutes Isolationists WASHINGTON, D. C.—Lindbergh's talk* are being carefully directed and edited by isolationist leaders, and their wives, here in the Capital's branch of the America First Committee...
...But it may be that some day a perverse chap wiH arise among the program builders, some fellow who will get the bright idea of giving us something different at the time •hen all of the other stations are doing the usual thing...
...As a result the United State...
...The Labor local of the United Federal Workers is preparing to folltnr the Washington Neuspapetr Guild irnt of the Washington, D. ('., CIO Industrial I'niov Council...
...The Ventura strike attracted nation-wide attention as one of the first concerted efforts of hitherto unorganizable Mexican workers and because of the technique of a sit-in, where the lemon pickers refused to evacuate company houses, and the fierceness of company violence...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 19
