POLITICS

...He means it...

...With Franklin D. Rooscvel and a strong candidate for governor on the ticket, we can easily wipe out the Republican majority...

...he says, "is made to pay back the billions of dollars due us on war loans, but, My Lords, you have billions to spend in another war, the real cause of which is silly and ridiculous on the part of England...

...He particularly resents the suggestion that by giving him the job of raising lis campaign funds, the G.O.P...

...Conditions in many states support his contention and supply an explanation of the eagerness with which Democratic chieftains out in the country are urging a third term for the president...

...ARMY DAY APRIL 6 President Roosevelt has named April 6 as Army day...

...Lehman...

...Herring of Iowa, a Democrat, said: "Only 45 per cent of the voters went to the polls...

...Hull, who has managed to get along with President Roosevelt and the New Dealers for two terms while remaining at heart a Democrat of the old school...

...Bolton, Rogers and Sumner are Republicans...

...4. j. WAR DEBTS LETTER George McClellan of Beach, N. D., a business man, has sent an open "war debts" letter to the House of Lords in London, England...

...TO SUMMON RED AGENT The "head of the Soviet military police in the U. S." will be called to testify before the Dies committee, Rep...

...Abraham Lincoln had a clinching argument against slavery...

...We can't carry that district unless we have a strong state and national ticket to bring out the vote...

...And yet Mr...

...It is $5,000,000 less than that recommended by Gov...

...Yet in the totalitarian states of Europe we see today whole populations bogged down in involuntary servitude...

...This confidence was permitted to leak out and it immediately soared aloft to be added to the Roosevelt collection of trial balloons...

...Hull has turned thumbs down on one or two well-meaning persons who proposed to line up delegates...

...Unfortunately for Mr...

...The Indiana branch of Labor's Non - Partisan league will hold a state convention on Mai...

...Hull is rightly regarded as a leading presidential possibility...

...Reps...

...And probably only after the question of his candidacy has gone to the floor of the convention will he indicate his willingness or unwillingness to run for a third term...

...McClellan is vice-chairman of an organization known as the "Make Europe Pay War Debts Committee...

...We must be constantly vigilant against the attacks of intolerance and injustice...

...Cordell Hull would make a fine president...

...The New York state law declared that two firms cannot be incorporated under the same name...

...Their wages and hours are fixed and they are not allowed to bargain for anything better...

...Goss lost his position when the FCA was reorgan-izen to come under the department bf agriculture...

...Petiiions bearing more than the 15,000 signatures required to create a third party in North Dakota were filed with Secretary of State Gronna by R. R. Scholl of Washburn 30 minu.es before the deadline...

...For seven years Roosevelt has been sponsoring the New Deal in Washington, splendidly supported by such men as Norris, Wheeler, La Follette and a score of others...

...All it needs is a platform, an Issue, a candidate, and 20 million more Republicans...

...He was living at a time when involuntary servitude was about to end in this country...

...The conference de-elded to organize Itself Into a more or less permanent, body, with committees undertaking .studies of various phases of the problem...

...In a message of greeting to the fourth annual conference of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, President Roosevelt wrote: "Every American takes pride in our tradition of hospitality to men of all races and of all creeds...

...uled to be introduced in the senate this week by Senator King (D) of Utah...

...Hull declares with vehemence bordering upon indignation that he is not a candidate for that high office...

...Commenting on ihe election of a Republican congressman in the sixth Iowa district, Sen...

...Positively...

...It is hoped (not an easy job) that the group will be able to do some worthwhile missionary work—unless, of course, the Dies committee meantime brands Its a "transmission belt for dissemination of subversive propaganda...

...The vote was 5 to 1 for the bill...

...If they had a white light for every sound G. O. P. proposal for solving unemployment, it wouldn't require any extra electricity...

...The eight Democratic convention delegates from New Hamp-shore are for Roosevelt . . . Joseph Driscoll writes an interesting piece on Secretary Hull for tne St...

...Hull is not going after delegates: If the delegates should come to him unsolicited, that will be something else, and the Democratic National Committee will then be the Hull organization...

...They are not called slaves but citizens...

...Civic as well as military bodies will observe the occasion . . . New Hampshire Democrats, In last week's primaries, gave impetus to the third term movement for President Roosevelt...

...No effort...

...Hull's friends wondered whether the white house had floated the balloon in a genuine effort to test sentiment or merely to afford another targqet for the rifle brigade of the New Deal which specializes in shooting down any candidate who might interfere with a possible third term for President Roosevelt...

...They have only the privileges which a state, not even of their own creation, chooses or considers it expedient to give them...

...The Davenport Times admits that the sixth district Is "traditionally Republican...

...The league declares that if we 'elect men who are sincerely progressive, men who will work with farmers and wage earners for human welfare in our domestic problems, men who in a crisis will think of the suffering that war means for our people...

...Reps...

...Remarks Olin Miller, Washington correspondent: "The GOP is just about ready for the big push...

...For the last six or seven years he has fought, with every resource at his command, all attempts to unionize his employes...

...In many cases the places where they must work are determined for them, subject to change only at the will of the state...

...Bob Alien and Drew Pearson write in Washington Merry Go Round: "You can write it down in the book that Roosevelt will make no announcement regarding a third term, probably not even five minutes before the Democratic national convention opens July 15...

...Norton, McMillan and O'Day are Democrats...

...Bolton to succeed her late husband as a member of the House of Representatives brings to six the number of women who are serving as members of the house...

...31 in Indianapolis...

...went to the New York legislature, and very soon a law had been enacted, tailor-made to fit the situation, which permitted the banking firm to incorporate under its partnership name even though another corporation by the same name existed...

...The King bill is believed to have the support of the Roosevelt administration, which may pu«h to have it enacted at this session...

...It was about ninety years ago that he wrote that...

...The controversial antl-lynching bill has been approved by a subcommittee of the senate judiciary' committee...

...The kind of work they must do is fixed without their consent...

...high command mny have alienated the labor vote...

...He said: "Although volume upon volume Is written to prove slavery a good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself...

...Definitely, Mr...

...A REFUGEE BILL Opening of Alaska to refugees from Europe is provided for In a bill sched...

...There is no tangible Hull-for-President organization in the nation because Mr...

...Weir, his record as an employer is a matter of public record...

...Weir by the GOP: Ernest T. Weir, boss of the anll-unlon National Steel company, doesn't like the storm of criticism provoked by his appointment as chairman of Ihe finance committee of the Republican National committee...

...Little Finland has made payments every year on her loan, and even made payment this year in spite of her trouble with Russia whose aggression is a result of England's blunders with Hitler...

...The election of Mrs...

...Weir declares he is a 'firm believer" in collective bargaining, but—he is opposed to the Wagner Act "In its present form...

...An unkind commentator suggests that the amount be added to that country's war debt to the United States...

...J. WEIR'S SELECTION Labor, official publication of the railroad brotherhoods, comments as follows on the selection of Mr...

...When J. P. Morgan and Co., giant banking firm, decided to incorporate, It found the way barred by an oil burning concern in New York City, headed by James P. Morgan and Incorporated under the name of J. P. Morgan and Co...

...Commenting on third term talk...

...It is as clear as the noonday sun that his idea of "collective bargaining" is a "company union," or some other "set-up' which will enable him to tell the workers what they may have and compel them to like it...

...Labor's Non-Partisan league in Washington has issued a leaflet which declares: "In this year 1940 we are going to elect senators and congressmen who may voie on whether or not America goes to war...

...Handbook sales previously caused Republicans to attack the plan, and at present John D. M. Hamilton, GOP national chairman, demands that the practice be abandoned...

...So now its J. P. Morgan Co., Inc., oil burner makers...

...Yet they have no inalienable rights of their own...

...Louis Post Dispatch, which begins as follows: Cordell Hull, Secretary of State is a refreshing novelty in a Washington filled with statesmen and legislators who are running—or think they are running—for president...

...Dies has announced, but he did not name the person...

...Connally, Texas Democrat, was the only member to vote against the measure...

...Conceivably all the active candidates at this stage may kill each other off and leave the field to the tactful Mr...

...He will remain in Hyde Park and get the reaction of the convention over the telephone...

...The House of Representatives has made public an item showing that when congress shook hands with the king and queen of Great Britain last year, the reception cost the U. S. a little matter of $2,294...

...They cannot vary the rules laid down for them and they must not criticize their masters...

...Some of Mr...

...Such settlers would not be eligible to enter the United States proper or to become citizens, except as ihey might come, now or later, under the regular immigration quotas...

...Writes A. I. Harris from Washington: Liberals in congress are trying to educate their conservative colleagues to the fact that unemployment constitutes this country's No...

...Wisecracks John Paine: At Republican headquarters in Washing ton there's a gadget which flashes a green light every time the Roosevelt administration takes in $1,000 and a red light for each $1,000 spent...

...They are not nominally property, but they must think and work as they are told...

...now in Florida, will pop into the headlines soon because of his contributions to the insurgent campaign funds In the Democratic primary in Illinois...

...A call issued last week for a conference on unemployment brought out a few conservatives...

...Republicans in the New York legislature have defied Democrats in thai body and adopted their own state budget...

...With a presidential election due In less than eight months, any attempt to have the United States come to the rescue of sore-pressed European minorities is bound to have political repercussions...

...From Raymond Loner-gan's column: "One of the most serious threats to Democratic success thiu year is the lack of Progressive leadership in the states and cities...

...1 problem— and that it's going to take much more than balancing the budget to solve it...

...No date for the next Dies hearing has been set...

...MAVERICK TESTIFIES That breezy Texan, mayor (and former congressman, Maury Maverick of San Antonio testified last week before a house subcommittee on behalf of a national law which would rule out the payment of poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting for federal elections...

...But in too many cases control of the Democratic organizations 'back home' has remained in the hands of reactionaries who serve the utilities and other interests and are out of touch with the voters who made possible Roosevelt's splendid victories...

...Albert S. Goss, former land bank commissioner of the FCA, claims that new farm lending policies were being used "for political purpose...

...Hull-for-President stock boomed a few weeks ago when President Roosevelt confided to white house visitors that, in his opinion...

...That's trie considered judgment of a Democratic leader of national reputation...

...The national Democratic organization, successfully raising campaign funds by dinners up to $100 a plate, also plan to use this year the device of selling handbooks...

...We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background...

...So the financial firm of J. P. Morgan and Co...