The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN VUX^.A. Cuba.—Last Sunday I saw a swell game of baseball Tf,. played, umpired and applauded by Cubans. This was at TpWlirr f" "lUe* from H*V*n<x> The two nines...
...But do you suppose I could take him...
...As we rolled along up the east coast of Florida, then through the luscious, lake-dabbled central region, and so up into the.rich peach and melon section sf Georgia, these convict gangs troubled her...
...Success of this purchasing campaign in South America voids entirely this country's freezing and embargo weapons...
...The opposing players and half the crowd were soon beat-jsg shout the dianvond in waves of protest...
...For their -own financial good, they should immediately remove all con-jict work gangs from their highways...
...Attorney in this instance is none other than former NLRB secretary Nat Witt...
...The move into the, "dark continent" will not be primarily to encircle the British, but to extend Nazi political and geographical schemes...
...You enjoy the same sort of open-hearted treatment every where—in stores, filling stations, hotels...
...Pro-Nazi Bolivia is more kindly -disposed towards the United States now that this country buys $4,645,000 worth of its goods, instead of $2,137,000 as we did in 1940...
...TUMULT out of Washington (these days the only source of news) is the result of the comrades hammering their apparatus into shape to prevent furthering .firings of their party member* and friends...
...Mass-while, incensed at bung used as a political football many USHA employees have organized a union of their own to buck CIO United Federal Workers...
...After several years of intensive Washington efforts to win over South America, the U. S. Department of Commerce can report some success...
...known to this city's newspapermen ss one at the seusrest reporters is the business...
...Eight institutions have been closed, and...
...CioJn Gongs Are Bad Business ATLANTA, Georgia.—Our Southland has the most gracious planners in the...
...1 wsh a)l you Northerners, especially you New York Northerners, «vuid have sat with me about the tables with those Rotarians as Marion Smith pilloried Talmadge and all of the other cracker Hitlers: You who think that salvation depends en Manhattan Would .have had your eyes opened...
...The GuiM is «ow on record as* indorsing a strike which threatens the defense program "of our country...
...the rule book had nothing to do with the case...
...These people may differ /jop> as in color, in language and in their political and social ^»ttern...
...GniktTmd Msmdi*t» its Policy roo«W In fill I. I joined the Guild beheving it was formed *o better the' conditions of newspaper workers, which hesWen knows needs bettering, w -r > , "* ¦1 ""Last weems gwierai mea»feership mrsting condemned reopening of struck North American Aviation plant...
...The basic outlines of these schemes is this: No single country would be allowed a self-sufficient economy...
...In both states, however, the man with a rifle ftsnrie alert, overlooking every gang...
...1 jpsrely .want to draw your attention to the fact that the tourist uspVis breed and butter to you, and to the tourists these con-net gangs are plain poison...
...It is the way of the region to treat you that way—if you are'white...
...It is therefore necessary to include the supplies of foodstuffs asd...
...As I approached the door, two gentlemen- were stand-isr there discussing (the war...
...W Atlanta I had luck...
...Allocation of raw materials in this great economic area would be centralized in Germany...
...Already the tovarischis' pressure groups are in act:or., their lobbies working overtime in Washington...
...Central idea apparently is that as soon as they smash Soviet Russia, the Nazis will announce the organization of a new world labor body to include "unions" in the occupied lands...
...Recently, on account of expirations of terms of office and a.number of resignations, he *f» managed to dominate the Board of Regents...
...His ideas indicate the propaganda hot' Germany is taking to convince its own people and -provide excuses for new .Nazi aggressions.., ¦ As to the -Nasi's 'plan toward Russia, the-statements by fpemer Reich Ambassador to the S«riets von Schulenhexg,' after crossing over into Turkey, are Cjuite dear "in Russian be said, *there would so longer be sap group inside capable of gathering national forcfw together or of fnnndmg a new regime in the spirit of the 'new order.' Russia waned have to become a sort of colony administered directly by the Germans until a new Russian generation would arise to inherit the land under German tuition.'' Philippines Feor Possible Invasion Thrust by Japan MANILA.-^-With the Philippine Islands one corner of a triangle formed by iFrench Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies, the...
...and from thai time -all of the state's educational institutions, twenty-three ir...
...It is now appesring obJt iwic* m,onthi...
...in Florida Jhejr are garbed in regular work-clothes...
...So I think inebbe I better keep away from the public...
...Several newspaper desks in town have heard that Some of the royal passengers aboard the West Point, now nosing for New York have Hitler's peace plans with them...
...This Board has admittedly done a fine job...
...1 would jitt as soon have had him as anybody, and it meant money in my jacket...
...You can't imagine kov: narrow-minded some of the Georgia crackers are that come along and rent these cabins...
...We tried to explain, but who can explain a thing like this to a sharp-eyed ten-year-old...
...She WsU -broadcast mg-"ularly to America from the Russian ca#.t»J U the German army remains bogged down...
...As important as these "fishermen" are the Jap "tourists" and "scientists...
...You see," he drawled, "I spent my life Jbossin' Nigger road gangs...
...HOLLYWOOD will be ia as aprpar daring the coating weeks ss the California Legislative Committee on Ln-Americas Activities begins holding hearings at the Lee Angeles Baikltaf on sahversiye penetration of city asd state governments fts and aToasd Los Angeles...
...Everywhere, if you are white, you ire met with courtesy and genuine kindness...
...TJEOhl Washington to California, efforts to obtain a full pardon * for Jan Valtin are being pushed...
...Once I wis inside, he held out his hand, gave me his name and introduced n*\to the members of the staff and to a number of subscribers s^ happened to be there...
...In 1931, during the administration of Governor Russell, there wss passed the Reorganization Act...
...Philippine sericulture is already substantially developed, with sugar, copra, and coconut oil exported in large quantities...
...They bowed to me, one of them opened the door and said:-"Won't you step in, please...
...Whs*, started .*ke.riet was the sight of the mighty and SpH .hero—after he had cracked out a single with the score tied—calmly sitting on...
...Haushofer has been* responsible /or most of the propaganda jargon used by Hitler...
...literally crawling pver Mexico and South America in • search of purchases of any kind...
...No sir, I just had to let that Packard drive out...
...By buying heavily in Latin nations, the Japs are also crippling U. S. efforts to win South American good-will...
...The nation's first lady then replied en White House statiemery, dated July Uk: , tl . .„, m ¦ f WH ».f** *° •<* your lettor pf raftsjtptjup from the Ghui, hut if the present leadership can he throws out, do cosae back...
...Also available in substantial quantities are silver, lead, sine, copper, iron, petroleum, chisley ore' and manganese...
...This fight which was aired here yesterday has been going on since Talmadge gtsrjted his first term...
...Miss Warden skin sent a espy of the note-to her friend...
...world...
...Aaron Warner, Joe Forer and Ben Diamond...
...The story will break soon, especially since the Guild threatens a strike'TPRhrnek isn't rein staled...
...The NatumtU Labor Relations Board is also under -CIQ f*r*>-The SLRB is bringing in outside attorneys to fill vacancies instead of pushing up employees brought in by the Smith-Madden combination...
...During the last six months, Tokyo's men have been busy through-cut South America buyipg up huge quantities of tuqgsten...
...TpHE German government is preparing to set up a competitor to the International Labor Office...
...Henri de Man...
...Ga., the place where Dr.' Crawford W. Long, a hundred years ago, vta the first man in the world to use ether to lessen human pain, I walked up to the office of the Jackson Herald...
...number, were under one Board of Regents...
...Good-Will Drive Nippon Uses NY Bank Credits for Purchases By GEORGE SHORT 1>UB*JC awareoess,of Japanese military, lava!, * .Aadantiial «pd social penetratioa *•( Americas Has been slow in crystallizing,because of the newspaper concentration on German, Italian and- Rniaiap propaganda and sabotage aetivity, ami because the Roosevelt administrstion has wanted to avoid a Pacific war and has therefore handled quietly its counter-Japanese actions in this hemisphere...
...He has served continually since then...
...its experiences since have taught that it couldn't in this way have sufficient in foodstuffs, production or industrial raw materials...
...His name ¦was Fernando, ar.d we called him Blaekstreak ^sbort...
...A FTSR being brought into town by Mary Van Kleeck in IMS, ** Edwin S. Smith was appointed to the National Labor Board From there, he went to the National Labor Relation* Board in 1936...
...He was soft-spoken and was as nice as you or me...
...Bolivia might not bav* discover** *asi plots—as rtrdii not for more than four years, while Reich agents worked pmcticaHy In the open—if concrete cash income foom "tas Ys»q*u»" hswi act increased...
...There is no selfish motive back at' it...
...Until recently, Nazi theory as outlined by Dr...
...His partisan*, on the other hand, stoutly, maintained With, wore vigorous Spanish than Ernest Hemingway ever JM*rd of that if shoes,helped him to bat and bare feet helped aim to run...
...I record it here as an item for the use of ¦^bilosophers on the good neighbor policy...
...the rjecent outpourings of Nazi pseudo-economic treatises indicate Germany's next moves ss being a two-pronged drive through Turkey and Spain into Africa...
...WITH Russia, Italy and Germany cut off from sea-borne trade, only the Japs are competing ¦with this country...
...Heavy industry would be concentrated in Germany so that the transfer of many industries from other lands to Germany would have to be made...
...5i "1 J^rW rtoif" from the Newspaper...
...The failure of the Rockefeller Coordination- Committee has proven this...
...They wanted two cabins—one for the Nigger...
...Meanwhile government chiefs responsible for these attempted hausecleaningsSure yetting a drubbing at the hands of Washington civil service gossip columnists...
...Phil Murray order* the organisation to swing its apparatus into action behind Smith...
...raw materials of Africa in Germany's sew Lebensraum...
...These may "be .dry sfrttstys, hut they rule governments...
...The Herald has 1,400 • subscribers,-and has been in the same family for three generations...
...incrm—i axe reported in Anjemtiaa, where we now buy $51,260,000 worth, compared with l«40*s $36>74,0O0...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR BIESEL j^j*HP tots* ttstoed ahewt for years tar m refeaawam' flW iff* *^ leaders in the American Newspaper Guild, working newspapermen finally rwroHed, left their books, gardens and social life to strike Sack at the Guild's national chiefs who had won office hy AwWsIr, The result is a natisisi referendum among trie IT,000 GuiWsmen tor the sfrntinr of officers...
...The importance of the Philippines derives from its geographical and economic- position...
...Governor...
...In* matter, I am glad to report...
...the initial sack and removing his shoes...
...look of the official gun-man...
...You know," he said later on, "some of the Niggers ain't too bad...
...Reading between the lines, this recent declaration indicates that Britain's ocean blockade has destroyed Germany's notion of continental safety ami that serious economic problems must arise...
...Nazi Labor Chief Robert Ley plans to do the same for Latin American countries...
...But it was plain)y sasinst the rules for him to bat with shoes on and run with ikon off...
...Previously the Americans merely looked with humor on the little yellow 'men with cameras and endless fishing poles and nets...
...Hitler's Use of anti-Semitism that the similarity has not ••eiped the attention of any intelligent Georgian...
...In Jefferson, an old.fellow from the JJ** country said, with tobacco dripping Jfrom his mustache: / S»fl to like taJmadW'bat' so* he io° fSPfkM* Sit,er" ' ** me...
...Nazi Theorists Now Include Africa In German 'Lebensraum' Schemes Blockade Punctures Self-Sufficiency Notion Special to The N?w Leadeb LISBON.—Nazi theory has always been tailored to fit the opportunistic jumps of Nazi for«iipi policy...
...These industrial agents are bidding -30 to 40 per cent higher on all metals and fuel than the United States...
...He was the originator of phrases such as "lebensraum," wblrh have sparked a whole generation ef fanatical young Nazis...
...This sort of tactics parallels so ep^tl...
...During the first four months of 1941, imports from Latin nations totaled $213,505,000, compared with $130,866,000 during the same period of 1940...
...Norrow-Mlnded People AT WilHstpn, Florida, the old fellow who managed the Auto Court had a wide face and a.talkative manner...
...Later Bernard Adts, who ran for Governor of Maryland on the Communist Party ticket resigned Ms position as auditor at USHA in the midst cf an FBI probe...
...Sariy this mumm the PishM-Is wMe declared terse* against the Guild's national leadership...
...I have no notion of lecturing to you...
...Frequently the handling and financing of these deals is accomplished through U. S. firms, some as large as the National City Bank of New York, which has admitted handling transactions for Jap firms...
...or Brazil, where our purchases have gone from last years $31,636,000 Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay—the only Latin American nation- where a democratic spirit is firmly rooted and widespread—and Venezuela...
...Washington has learned that this pro-United States attitude fn the tropics can only be bought...
...Now the Jap danger in this hemisphere is first being counteracted, although government officials have known of it for years...
...Fsi Fit am...
...These they spent in Latin America, Oitting material sources out from under the United States...
...There are literally tens of thousands -Japanese "fishermen" operating off the California, Cuban and Mexican coasts...
...Won't they work unless there is a gun...
...Revises wss let out by Mew York Post etty editor Welter Lister for failure to meet standard* of impartial reparian* set hp the paper ssd its see Washington bureau chief...
...Recently he let out Bert Gross, president of the United Federal Workers local at JJSHA...
...Jap Agents Tie Up South American Markets, Hit U.S...
...was adjudicated without the ^•epf baLs or bottles...
...Now the other ¦night a gentleman and lady came in here in a Packard, an' they hod a Nigger chauffeur...
...Camouflages' activity wss expected, but active support sf Smith by Pbfl Murray comes as s surprise...
...All lands would be importers of German industrial products, the Reich as the only exception, would-be industrially and agriculturally so well -balanced as to be entirely independent of every other country...
...turncoat socialist, is now working for the Labor Front in Belgium editing a Nasi labor publication in French and Flemish...
...He has used his JP^tet instantly to heat up the race question, to start a fight JsijWt all friends of the Negro...
...Anpa Louise Strong may leave shortly for * Moscow for an American corporation...
...He might well be involved in these Nazi plans for a Competitor to the International Federation of Tca.de Unions now operating out of London...
...in the last election it captured fifty small municipalities including Quezon's home town...
...They W&s lorry an' so was /•, But that's the way it is when you Iff to deal with narrow-minded people...
...V Untapped are rich Philippine mineral resources, especially eoal, with 75 square^miles of bituminous and lignits" unmined...
...glycerine, ruMJear, mercury and other* materials vital to U. S. defense production- Until last week, many of the Nipponese ships carrying these cargoes were permitted to sail through the Panama Canal...
...The German sheet is printed in Central and Eastern European languages...
...ippon this scene, five years ago, came Gene Talmadge, a man «ht in line with Huey Long and Governor Bilbo, of Mississippi...
...to enjoy your fried chicken and gracious mantra and pay you good cash for them, you had better pay wages !»wad-builders and retire the man with the gun...
...L * ' TORESS PICKUPS...
...The state of Georgia now has a right - <o feel proud of its educational system...
...i. i>p>...-' ' i-VV As srmlieted here some weeks back Dsn fiilmpr's FrWay is having dsfkadtfas...
...At least ^00 of them were told by- President Batista- to leave Cuban territorial waters last week...
...It would be all right...
...The Latin countries want hea'vy purchases in exchange for an anti-Nazi attitude...
...Though he seemed gentle enough to me, he explained that he left it to his wife to meet the public and attend to the cabin business...
...We have in our party » sharp-eyed ten-year-old girl...
...The union committee already has had a run-tn with board member Bill Leiserson...
...Similar...
...Prices on metals ha;ve racketed sky-high since Jap competition became keem Crisis in the Orient has suddenly focused the public's attention on this situation...
...But, to return kindness for kindness, I wish to draw the attention of gentlemen of the South to a way in which they tan byres ae their income from the tourist trade...
...Whether Tokyo's spies have been more successful than its - industrial agents is known only to the -Federal Bureau of Investigation and 'Army and Naval intelligence...
...They hate.the sight of them—and specially they hate the...
...the remaining ones have been rehoused, reorganized, restaffed witbj teachers and executes who hare brought schools for both whites and Negroes up to a high standard...
...These are more than the fanciful mouthmgs of a Munich pro-f ess or...
...Reports available indicate that there is wide Japanese espionage in Hew York, California, Cuba, Panama, Haiti, . Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico...
...nOtsi estsjeasshed looking geatjeaaan will too* for tht American Pehples Mobilization, nee the Americas Penes Mohi-liaaties, nee the Bnergsncy Peace MohiWsaliesi...
...Talmadge, the Honorable jjfariori Smith, son of the well-remembered Hoke Smith, and tt Rotary Club prepared a drama for me that crystallizes the Sraggle between the liberal and reactionary forces of the South...
...i <3oyernor Talmadge accuses liberal members of the Board of Regents of the crime of encouraging "social equality" foT the ff**roes...
...MOW the Jape are cutting ii) as inrpprtant i*" competitors of the United States—pud sales to the Japs result in the same political reaction as do deals with the Germans...
...The New York Guild is fighting Rhylick's dismissal em the grouads that it essne ss a "result of pressure from government sad labor officials...
...If you have dimity in finding another job for him, I have several suggestions » offer...
...This was at TpWlirr f" "lUe* from H*V*n<x> The two nines exhibited about VSSm ****** °f color' tke mtttandim* athletes •were a "jjljjl aniihmy black...
...In -Georgia they wear the colors of shame, the ghastly stripes that advertise their social position...
...As a military and naval base it controls to the east the southern Asiatic continent through its position athwart the China Sea...
...Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, by $94)200,000—language which southern statesmen really understand...
...Haushofer, Germany cannot 1 achieve this needed state unless Africa is brought within its_ sphere...
...Reesevelt has no objections to the publication of her letter...
...Even if Roosevelt decided to reappoint him, which is unlikely, the Senate would find strenuous objections...
...In a letter aest to all CIO affiliates this week...
...sje ntlmsiaisf •¦«¦>sf has lent her prestige v* this tght «s frequently as ber position wade it a—sisjle 8fc* u Eleanor -Pessimit...
...On* mittlon copies of the Dean of Canterbury4* Sovist Power hit the stxseta in a dozen cities last week This is part ef a UtM-up csapasgs tot" the Dean's visit to thj» country in the Fa...
...From first appearances the tovarischi lineup looks formidable - - - and Madame Perkins will probably be in for some harrassing moments for her attempt to clean subversive elements out of her department...
...tUy gipt an e»>'proclaimed, for him to play barefoot...
...A strengthening effect on the anti-Nazi attitude of Latin American statesmen has resulted...
...Haushofer is the founder of . that ¦ garish school of "geopoiitik," and the originator of many- of the expansionist ideas incorporated into the Nazi creed...
...The -4%»tf Constitution and tfce Atlanta Journal are in U to ¦J** finish, the Governor has threatened these journals but *J« hardly scared them...
...Compare this with the pre-war period, when U. S. imports were $20,000,000 less than pur exports to Latin America...
...see the Cosa-mittee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War, see the Yanks Are Not Coming, which only this week was changed by If ike Quin to The Yanks Are Not Coming—Too Late...
...We learn that the Nazi Labor Front has begun publLshing^an international labor review similar to the ILO's magazine...
...At Jefferson...
...As iaterestiag touch is added by the hiring of former New York Post capital correspondent Frank RyhJirk by the United Federal Workers of America to publicize the Miller esse...
...therefore, in accepting appropriations {P>m these men, the Board has given its approval to this anti^**M~Wincij>le.' 4The issue is clearly drawn, and all that is decent and liberal ? Georgia js against this cracker Hitler, Attorney...
...The local party lads have engaged counsel for this and all similar cases of dismissal from government services on grounds of "political" attitudes...
...Bhmkm Roosevelt...
...Haushofer writes: 'Until the outbreak of the war Germany -was convinced that it could be self-sufficient economically within the great European economic field...
...General >|m.4rnal heads the fight The members of the Rotary Club JW.^hom I lunched gave th.ejr support to the last man...
...1 have keen an active memher of the Guild from the beginning...
...It happened this TJdne 18, WorhMTeiegrsm feature writer Helen Warden e?ro»er«D New York Guild President < Journal -American rewrite man^'Mssroat Stun: r - ««r-"-V...
...Haushofer, regarded Europe as far as and including the Danube as sufficient to keep Germany self-sufficient...
...The party-lin* National Federation for Constitutional Liberties has started a campaign urging that pressure be put on President Roosevelt, Senator Wagner and Secretary of Labor Perkins in an effort to effect his reappointment...
...Bare-/•st beset*' 1 is qui to in,the C uban tradition...
...fthV Washing toe Guild is doing better...
...For years past, under °Jher governors, the intelligent leaders of the state have been .working coneertedly to bring the educational system of Georgia up to the national level...
...Meanwhilet.progressive California Congressman Jerry Veorhis has introduced a new bill tasking that the "Out of the Night" author be 'adyiiled" into the country under the quota from Germany...
...All political groups are united against any threat of invasion, front Quezon's party to the Labor ites—and there is a strong Labor-Socialist Party here...
...Japanese threatened move south menaces this keystone of the Malay archipelego...
...You have to speak kinds smart to make a Nigger work, an' I got so I don't sound very polite...
...There's a question for you statesmen of Florida and Georgia...
...yjfut he turned out to be an old softie after all...
...J.am oni...
...A special legal advisory committee has been formed consisting of such members of Washing-Ion's pro-Soviet elite as Morton Stavi.s...
...TNITED STATES Housing Administrator Nathan Strsus is also ^ UDder fellow traveler attack for attempting to olesn house...
...The excuse for this is the fact that the Board and cer-tfffi educational executives have solicited and received funds from ¦%* General Education Board and the Julius Jiosenwald F.oupda-Wth the directors of these funds, the Governor says, have *n-•Braged "social equality...
...Warships here can control the route .to Singapore...
...The star batter and base-runner was blankest There would b* a thorp crack—and he would streak toward t^jik^a yaung <MnnaK-ball, ?. - . ¦ S3iiB» seventh inning, when matters got: hot, this Negro hero -p^ipiMtfcd a sports ensis that would have done honor to Ebbetu Jield...
...When the South Americans refused tp take harmonicas for tin and tungsten, the Japanese— although shcxt of foreign exchange—simply turned to New York banks for loans or ertenrWd credits and withdrew dMlars here...
...The Helen Mjlier case will soon have national repercussions...
...which on this basis should be extended to the Eurafarican economic area...
...Our ten-year-old i*»t asking: "Mummy, what's the man with the gun there for...
...But deep down we are alike...
...For the eight months through April, 1541, the United States trade balance was favorable to South America to $56,265,000 in 1941...
...At the sasse time the CIO chief wrote to Roosev«Jt urging the beard member's reappointment...
...This is treason...
...Sidletutwerth reathng if the new streamlined -Union for Democratic Action pubiimtio...
...Iwmthe start he aimed to control every board and use all appointments to consolidate his power...
...If one of 'em had hired a cabin and the* seen this Nigger come out on the porch next to theirs, no thin' vouLi hold 'em...
...According to an announcement in a special magazine published b}' Dr...
...An amazing gain of 63.2 per cent...
...His term expires on August 27...
...If you want Ksrthern visitors...
...t Mrs...
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