Southern Democrats Seek to Organize Front Against FDR 4th Term in '44
SHORT, GEORGE
Southern Democrats Seek to Organize Front Against FDR 4th Term in '44 Tory Press Supports New Move By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C—1944 and the 4th term is the theme of conversations in this...
...Minister to Finns Returns to Post . WASHINGTON, D. C. — The White House this week reported that H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, Minister to Finland, would return to his post...
...At varying periods it will be heard from stations in all of the principal cities and towns of the East...
...And the added filip is the speculation over the tote of the Southern Democrats in a fourth-term line-up...
...The preachers were still going strong in the Midwest...
...The long-inactive Senate committee on executive expeditures will start a probe this week on war agencies...
...Leader of the Radicals during the war years, shrewdest and most powerful of American politicians, Stevens was no friend of Abe Lincoln, but was in some ways a warm and attractive figure nonetheless...
...They were after him for longer than that to free the Negroes...
...hests and Dreams And in Washington, capital of the nation, an ¦** old Negro scholar did some reminiscing...
...In a statement issued on February 10, Savele Syjala, speaking for the co-operative movement specially requested that friends of the movement take pains to look up the time of the* local broadcasts and, more particularly, write or telephone to their stations indicating their interest...
...Large oil interests have fought this bill, or at best have been indifferent to it...
...The second cause of the delay," reads the report, "was the desire of the Big Steel companies to prevent any expansion that might react unfavorably against their control of the steel industry after the war...
...John Washington, They Kne-w Lincoln...
...They said, after Lincoln was shot it was a common thing at night to see lights in the Old Ford's Theatre and to hear heavy iron chains rattling across its floors, and other strange noises...
...Jig Dim is« gentleman...
...Abe asked: "What do you mean bf feeling patriotic...
...The joker in the whole affair is in the politics...
...Already Tory forces are seeking to utilize the Anti-Roosevelt forces among the Southern Democrats to chip away the New Dealers from the regular party machinery...
...This factor has given impetus to the legislation sponsored by Senator O'Mahoney to encourage oil wildcatting...
...But in Mississippi somebody broke tradition...
...At a hearing 'before the special Senate committee investigating the war effort, last week, Clifford E. McEvoy acknowledged that his Savannah Shipbuilding Firm had spent more than $750,000 solely for salaries, rental and overhead items without delivering any of the concrete barges contracted for by the Maritime Commission...
...The program will he carried on Sunday afternoons at 5:8© toy New York's'WQXR and at 1-A5 by Pitts-burgh's KDKA...
...Abe may have been honest, but as a matter of cold fact, sorry to say, he never did dose up his shop and walk hours through sleet and snow to return to a poor old lady a few cents overcharge...
...And the sad result was the shocking intelligence that the favorite Lincoln story was a sheer invention...
...The Bureau of Mines estimated the need wHl average 4.1 million barrels a day, production is about 3.9 million...
...Are these flippant people with heart* of rags and souls of chalk, are these worth preaching for and dying for upon the cress...
...She' said, too, that foreign policy proposals must await the pronouncements of Joseph Stalin...
...our "Little Napoleon...
...As late as November, 1941, the armed forces estimated their steel requirements at a total figure much smaller than their present demands...
...The facts...
...In the Civil War...
...Mrs...
...Untold tons of steel were permitted to be consumed in non-war production until far into 1942...
...Luce said that Wallace's proposals would cripple American air traffic and permit the British to gain control of the air...
...And Thad Stevens...
...this case would hit a middle trai] < which is always down through no-mar...
...The committee, headed by Senator Truman, attacked the Maritime Commission for making a contract with McEvoy...
...They first failed to direct or even to allow expansion...
...The third contributing factor to the present condition was the delay of the War Production Board in converting industry to a war basis...
...They said that every year, on the anniversary of the day on which Lincoln was shot, these spots would brighten into a brilliance...
...Amis Johnson up through the war was a pretty straight-shooting, rebellious Southern plebian, loyal in bis limited way to democratic movements...
...I guess I'm the first Governor of this State who would have that picture on his wall...
...He insisted that the Union (by which he meant in part democracy, and in part American capitalism, as did almost everybody of the day) could not afford to win the war and lose the peace...
...He had fought for public schools in Pennsylvania, and won a signal victory with the first establishment of free elementary school education in the United States...
...Yea, when the sick world cries, how can he sleep...
...with all their minds so blank of high hn manity and aspiration—then CO IS Ml the terrible query, and will not be denied...
...But Abe himself once said:""I don't want a biography if it can't be a true one.' W'eU, , true.one ir...
...But there were still many who remembered the moving lines of Vachel Lindsay's 'Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," written during World War I, and thought the poem a prophecy: He cannot sleep upon his hillside now...
...A major reason is the decline in new oil fields...
...May be not—may be it is indeed a dream-yet one thing sure remains—bat the exercise of Democracy, equality, to him who...
...The two, made independently, are linked because they indicate a weariness with "ntopian talk" and an assumption of new "real-politik" and that America is going to take a "hard-boiled" view...
...The case then came on for trial before Justice Valente and was tried for five days in January...
...The House Committee action came in passing an appropriations bill for independent offices...
...His head is bowed...
...It means thousands of man-days lost...
...Expose Profits/ Waste in Ship Crisis Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — The shipping situation is acknowledged to be "desperate" bat two factors that play a vital role in the picture have been generally ignored: the neglicence of some shipowners and their terrific waste, and a powerful shipowners lobby that is trying to extort enormous profits...
...He cannot rest until a spirit-dawn Shall come;—the shining hope of Europe free: The league of toper folk, the Worker's Earth, Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp, and sea...
...A Year With Abe Lincoln By Melvin J. Lasky Riding the Circuit With Father Abraham •"There seems to be a fawt echo in the air of * Civil War bugles, and one almost fancies the fluttering image of the "Bloody fihirt...
...The committee was their whip...
...But Old "Sis" Thomas had to add a few words of her own...
...Southern Democrats Seek to Organize Front Against FDR 4th Term in '44 Tory Press Supports New Move By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C—1944 and the 4th term is the theme of conversations in this politics-hungry capital...
...Some of the older residents said, they even heard shots and people screaming in the night, and after midnight, it was claimed, Booth could be heard cursing his horse and tearing down the cobble-stone alley back of this haunted building...
...House Cuts Post-War Planning Funds Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Congressional Economy Woes got under way this week and took a heavy toll of vital New Deal projects...
...When a large picture of Lincoln fell off the wall—and a bird flew into the room—she just knew someone was going to die in the neighborhood...
...A Congressional committee today would hit the Administration from the Right, where in the <5ivil War it pushed it on the progressive Lett The precedents here are simply torn loose frsm their political contexts—a little inelegant operation on historical truth at which the New Yelk Times is by now an adept • * * Of Gods end Men /""od loved the common people, because he mane ^* so many of them: and God must certainly love Old Abe...
...The Truman Committee is clear on that point...
...t, iaad, with strafing mrring in from both aide...
...The return of Schoenfeld gave rise- to reports that U. S. pressure m)ght speed A peace between the Finns and the Russians.' Co-ops Win Airtime The co-operative movement has win its fight to go on the air, lnoTrfchs of controversy with CBS artd NBC...
...As an island empire, Great Britain has long depended on her merchant marine, not only for transporting products but as a carrier for other nations' shipping...
...Abe...
...The Southern Democratic "revolt" is being sparked by the Farm Bureau Federation, the organization of reactionary big farm elements, which is particularly strong in the South...
...The representatives and employees of Big Steel companies dominated the iron and steel branch of WPB...
...Lincoln...
...So-called Business Enterprise fell down on the job of supplying Steel...
...And in Memphis, Galveston, and Raleigh, a new Yankee abolitionist novel was—favorably reviewed...
...The most drastic action was the step taken by the House Appropriations Committee rn cutting off President Roosevelt's National Resources Planning Board without a penny...
...Mr...
...The consolidation move among Southern Democrats has been under way for several months...
...It is doubtful Whether the Southern Democrats would bolt the party...
...And we who toss and lie awake for long Breathe deep, and start, to see him pass the door...
...Committee counsel contended that the McEvoy company has no assets other than the Government contract on which it stands to make a profit of $1,250,000...
...Abe Lincoln was slandered, the dogmatists were saying, because Andy Johnson was played through as a Hero...
...Today the picture is somewhat reversed...
...Lately business forces have organized a Committee for Economic Development to present industry's plans to Congress...
...Nowhere in the report was the Resources Planning Board mentioned, except in a table showing the President's request for $1,400,000 for it next year beginning in July...
...The Byrd Committee also swung into action with a . statement that it would issue piecemeaLreports bearing on particular appropriations as they arise in Congress...
...The victory for free speech was won by public pressure...
...Somebody in some learned journal also spent a little time checking up...
...In Sooth Carolina but month a man named Lynchfield started a petition requesting the state legislature to make the public display of a picture of Abraham Lincoln an offense punishable by a fine of $50 or thirty days in prison...
...Daily News writer John O'Don-nell has summed it up with "What the hell are we going to get out of this war, anyway, that's more concrete than the old slogan of making the world safe for democracy...
...for look at all the Lincolnian* And some of it you can take as a text for tie year...
...Welles' speech skirted mention of a new world league or world government, and the talk was interlarded with such phrases as "real and practical interests...
...Mrs...
...The Struggle tor Power A nd not very far from the memorial to Abra•* * ham Lincoln in Washington, there are some fiery debates going on over the "real" story of the Committee on the Conduct of the War which in Civil War days gave Abe so much trouble...
...he consequently insisted on the confiscation of large estates in the South, and then-redistribution among the poor to create a free and independent fanning class...
...The radio executives were pressured into reversing their action by protests from thousands of individuals, newspapers and organizations...
...Abe Lincoln is a fool...
...He recalled his days as a little boy playing on E Street near Ford's Theatre, and sitting up nights listening to ghost stories of the neighborhood as told by the old colored people who lived and worked there...
...Smith, Cox, Hoffman, et aL Industry Worries About Oil Output Oil production is running behind schedule this month...
...of 305 Broadway, attorneys for the union...
...The priorities system failed to accomplish its purpose and did not halt the flow of steel into non-essential commodities...
...The report names Big Steel and adds the WPB, and Army and Navy negligence as other factors, perhaps because it feared too large a public animosity if it pinned the blame squarely on the major culprit, the Monopoly Steel group...
...But neither Tojo nor Hitler — nor Hitler has done as much damage to the South as Abe Lincoln did...
...Is set Democracy of human rights humbug after all...
...It was a different Andy, according to historical testimony, that took over Lincoln's seat It was an ex-Southern troublemaker, a man who had been strangely won over to the Aristocracy's side at the very moment when victory, his life-fog ambition, was in his hands...
...You see that picture of Abraham Lincoln on the wall behind me...
...The New York Daily News ami the Washington Times-Herald have commented, favorably on a "third party" movement onw getting under way in Lousi-ana now...
...I'm a great admirer of Mr...
...Messrs...
...She, after all...
...on the model of the old...
...They want to keep hold of the name and the party label and bolting the party nationally might lead to complications...
...Thad Stevens and Ben Wade hounded Lincoln for more than a year until he got rid of General McClellan...
...Indeed, Walt Whitman may hare hid this in mind when he wrote those fumbling, sensitive words which so many people are remembering today : . . as one sees the shallowness see miserable selfism of these crowds of men...
...a little corrupt, more than a little cynical, and a good deal of an oprftunist...
...All believed that the large dark spots on the brick pavement in front of Ford's Theatre were drops of Lincoln's 'blood that stained it when the dying man was carried across the street...
...Conservatives, after the Times fashion, are seeking evecy brake to hold what dynamic forces exist in check...
...Bat when he died, this was put on Stevens' tombstone in a poor, unfashionable Pennsylvania graveyard: / repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for sohhtdt, but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that J might illustrate in demsk the principles which I advocated through a isma Ufe, Equality of man before his Ci-eator...
...The New York Times has spoken...
...The Chicago Tribune has sent a reporter touring in the southern states to whip up stories about the "New Deal Losing Favor," and he reports the statement of a Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation official that: "We believe that the continuation and expansion of bureaucratic control ser-iusly jeopardizes the Democratic processes of government and the freedom for which we are fightThe Southern Democrats are organizing on a program to abolish the FSA, exempt farm Workers from the draft and higher farm prices...
...had come into the neighborhood just before Lincoln was assassinated, and according to her, dogs howled and chickens were crowing For days before Lincoln's death...
...He thinks on men and kings...
...Finally they concentrated practically all of the belated expansion in the hands of the eight largest companies...
...The strategy, apparently, is to control 110 Southern electoral votes and use it as a club over the head of Roosevelt and the northern political machines...
...Welles, Luce Speeches HintNewForeign Policies Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C —The recent speeches by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles and Representative Clare Luce are straws in the diplomatic wind and, lio some observers, indicate a shirt in U. S. Foreign Policy, especially as regards post-war relations with Great Britain...
...They feared both the possibility of having excess capacities of steel-making facilities after the war and the competition of smaller companies which might gain strength during the war program...
...That is their platform for 1944...
...Welles' speech, made to the graduating class of the Uni-- versity of Maryland, stressed that "self-interest" rather than "emotional altruism or sentimental aspirations" should be the keystone of this country's international relations...
...Luce, long considered a leader of the Willkie interventionist bloc in the GOP, got a wide play in the press with her attack on Henry Wallace's "globaloney...
...Old Thad has ben coming in tor his share of the battles, too...
...Who cared for the facts...
...The move was considered significant because Great Britain is at war with Finland, as fs, of course, the Soviet Union...
...The Truman Committee also blames the Services, saying "The armed forces seriously underestimated the amount of steel they would need for war conditions...
...The plaintiffs sought an accounting from the officers of the union and an injunction restraining the officers from alleged improper conduct...
...politics will want to keep careful track...
...Nor was it labor that was to blame...
...During the course of the litigation the plaintiffs examined all of the unions financial books and records in order to obtain evidence in support of their charges...
...said Mistuh Johnson of VickSburg...
...In this way," says the editorial of February 8, the possible third party might be the determining factor in a defeat of the New Deal and a restoration of the Republican Party to national power...
...i But who was the War Production Board...
...The Daily News editorial talks gleefully of the possibility of this group or a new party throwing enough votes against Roosevelt, fat he run s, to elect an anti-New Deal candidate...
...The program "Here Is Tom morrow" will finally go out over stations from Boston to Pittsburgh next Sunday afternoon, February 14...
...It certainly has Men a big Lincoln year...
...asked one of the crusading newspapers...
...Andy and Old Tfcod ¦kileanwhile in New York, where the film "Tennessee Johnson" was being shown, people were fighting over characters as if they had blood and not celluloid in their veins...
...Thus, three factors are reduced now to two...
...True, Philip Van Doren Stern's Drums of Morning takes some potshots at the Old Emancipator in its own way—but in Durham it was even recommended as a corrective for "limited," narrow-minded Southern interpretations...
...we had a middle-of-the-way President who needed sharp prodding to make political and military progress...
...Judge Valente dismissed the complaint and awarding Judgment for the defendants...
...believing, preaches, and to the people whs' work it out—this is not a dream—to work for Democracy i» good, the exercise is cose —strength it makes and lessons it teaches— god it makes, though it crucifies taesj often...
...The development was first reported in The New Leader of December 19 which reported that Governors Sam Jones of Louisiana and Frank Dixon of Alabama were leading a group or Southern Democratic Governors into a cohesive political block...
...I am not forgetting that he was also, as Richard Currents new biography of him (Old Thad Stevens, University of Wisconsin Press) tries too hard to point out (for since when have angels gone in for politics...
...And the reply came: "Why, I feel like I wanted to kill somebody or steal something...
...Any person guilty of such a thing would be tarred and feathered...
...The lobby wants the 1943 market price not the price set on the date of the President's . emergency proclamation of Sept...
...He had battled for the Emancipation of the Negro people, .when Lincoln wavered, and hesitated, and prepared to retract...
...The ships were built when labor and material were cheap, and the lobby is" trying to gouge the taxpayers now...
...But the armed forces have always worked closely with Big Business and depended upon their estimates to guide their own opinions...
...You wouldn't hang a picture of Hitler or To jo in a public building, would you...
...Although the Truman report blames three factors, an analysis of the Committee's own findings reduces those three factors to one: the crime of Big Business which feared expansion of its capacity, and squeezed out small steel firms barring them from securing orders...
...One of the strongest such forces is the Army Ordnance Association, on whose national board of directors sits Tom Gird-ler, and on whose advisory board to the Army Ordnance Office is Benjamin Fairless of U. S. Steel, K. T. Keller of Chrysler, and others...
...Dismiss Complaint Against Union Justice Louis A. Valente, sitting in the New York County Supreme Court, this week dismissed charges of misappropriations of union funds brought by 16 members and former members of the Gasoline Station and Parking Attendants Union, Local 917, an affiliate of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, A. F. of L., it was announced by Ashe & Rifkin...
...These ate most interesting possibilities, we think, and this possible thfrd party movement is tthe of which aH the connoisseurs of U.S...
...The NRPB has been active in drawing up post-war plans and has sponsored the plans of Alvin Hansen, which have been attacked by Tories...
...Somewhere in the South little boys were still singing some of the old songs: Jeff Daw ride* a -biff horse: Abe Limcoin ride* a male...
...too many peasants fight, they know not why...
...No one knew what had become of the man who in the blackest winter of the Depression had cried: "0 Lincoln, come down from thy summit of bronze, and march...
...Too many homesteads in black terror weep...
...New Truman Report Blames Big Business for 'Crime of Steel' By MURRAY EVERETT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—"The crime of steel"—serious weaknesses in the backbone of American war production—was laid squarely at the door of the Big Steel firms, the War Production Board and the Army and Navy, in the Truman Committee report this week...
...The Senate grroup found that the needed production of steel will be short from 4 to 10 tons at the end of the year, based on our failure tjo expand when we could...
...Luce attacked the policy of "freedom of the air" and revealed how agitated the British . were on American air expansion...
...An old loafer once said to Lincoln: "I isfel patriotic...
...Wrote in expert T. Harry Williams, pointing out hew much the committee harassed the President and how unfortunate it would be if, etc., etc...
...The shipowners lobby is now engaged in a "putsch" to raise prices on ships taken over by the government Senator Radcliffe, shipowners friend, has introduced a bill to nullify the "enhancement clause" of the Maritime Act, providing that when ships are seized by the United States, shipowners shall be paid pre-war prices, not prices enhanced by the emergency...
...It wasn't "Government" that failed to plan...
...8, 1939...
...Last month it called for a new C.C.W...
...Typical instance: He had sent Carl Schurx into the South to asses* the power of democratic forces in post-war reconstruction—but when Schurx letui tied, Johe-son was simply no longer interested...
...He is among us—as in times before...
...Negro organizations were boycotting the motion-picture: the Great Emancipator was being outraged...
...The Planning Board has appealed for money on the grounds of necessary planning for the post-war era...
...It is net, yon see, a black or white picture, but perhaps ever more dramatically a black and whit* picture...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 7
