THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S forum---a Full Page of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBERTIES.-M1LTON. Almighty...
...Please send me your paper...
...If such was the plan, it has worked very successfully so far...
...His objective, to regulate free speech, once opened, loses its retaining wall...
...Eighty-five per cent of our population are wage earners of their dependents and food and raw material producers, and if they as a class took the same selfish attitude as the advertisers, they would vote them out of existence and upset our capitalistic system, so it is probably just as well that this minority group have control of our major propaganda organs...
...Schwalm when Dr...
...15, 1931: "The government requires a paper to publish the names of the folks who own it...
...Roosevelt then came and he took the broken down machine, put air in the tires, adjusted the carbureter, put in gas and oil and started the machine on its way again...
...False Economy (Emmett, Ida...
...I think they were right then and you arc ritjht now...
...Certainly the payment of a few soldiers' pensions in a small community has a good effect on business in that community...
...A just tax must principally benefit those from whom collected...
...If congress would provide for the aged people as generously as the people have provided for government and those that manage the affairs of government, there would be small cause for complaint...
...That is, if it were received as a democratic right and not as a result of passing a means test...
...j Books could be written on Colorado's : attempt to get out from under...
...Let us see to it that our lawmakers make the big fellows pay their full share of taxes and stop levying the sales taxes which are a disgrace to any civilized nation.—J...
...elephant never forgets its friends and the next day the G.O.P...
...They were not Communists plotting to overthrow the government but big business and bankers did not approve of them for the simple reason that under our present system they have piled up fortunes and want to continue to do so...
...I am wondering if anyone advocat-ng such procedure is not thereby causing a situation more dangerous...
...Hoover, and many other Republicans were very strong for drafting Fres...
...For many years we have been hearing all sorts of things about the "industrial revolution" and now we are able to produce such a flood of good things that we can't get rid of them all even at a time when one-third of the population is ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed...
...In our district, here in Illinois, a | New Deal Democrat, Thompson, was beaten by a few hundred votes by a G.O.P...
...B. WILSON...
...As important a national question as that is today, and has been for a number of years, and promises to become more so, It seems to me that your paper, which endeavors to mould public opinion on the outstanding problems of the day...
...Finland has paid the United States her war debts, while the great powers, England and France, have refused to even start paying theirs...
...We never can pay off our national debt with low prices for raw produce, nor with high prices for finished products...
...To provide a pension that would be democratic as possible, it must be offered by the national government to all citizens above a certain age who are not liable to an income tax and offered without any means test and without any compulsion...
...The third term bug-a-boo has been worn threadbare...
...The results of the 1938 elections should have corrected some of their misguided efforts...
...The following is from a news dispatch from San Francisco...
...During the last several years it has not taken any stand on the national old age pension movement...
...I do not like to be without your paper.—P...
...You cannot control other's thoughts by depriving them of free speech...
...They are blasting away at the New Deal, saying it is a failure...
...In order to control such disputable question, apparently, his aim is to concoct a flaw or loophole in the constitution containing his desires, thus aiming at having the privilege to designate the language as to what would constitute free speech, and 'what not...
...This United States has many domestic problems to solve which the Communists and Nazis assert a democracy cannot solve...
...The .same with California...
...But, Stalin has nipped it in the bud...
...Of course, the land problem is the larger, but we are much nearer the solution of the money problem...
...You must have read the views of the "Workable Old Age Pension Federation...
...In addition, there is the other well known fact that more youthiul criminals arc being sentenced to our penal institutions...
...They don't want them in NYA...
...I am sure the people would like to have the opportunity to see their good ex-Gov...
...about 1965, 40 million workers will be supporting about 46,000,000 young plus 16,000,000 old, or a total of 62,000,000 young and old together...
...The Republican press, which covers about 90 per cent of our newspapers, is trying its best to smoke out Pres...
...If I don't miss my guess, they will have established in 20 years a model that will be the envy of all but the bankers and big guns who are in the habit of pulling at the purse strings of the laboring men until they have amassed incalculable wealth by pauperizing one fourth of the people...
...I have taken your paper for a number of years and in general am fairly well satisfied with it...
...The holding companies are anxious to get in power through a Republican president...
...A little more of that and it will force the schools to do a better Job...
...Managers of these groups, in order to keep the dividend rate high to their stockholders, do their best to buy raw materials low and hire their employes as cheap as possible...
...There are several bills in congress to stop this pyramiding of credits and have congress take control of the quantity of money in circulation...
...That's why there's so much yelling...
...After it had been in operation long enough to show results the age limit might be lowered, and the amount raised or lowered...
...you state that under no circumstances can a state or federal government suddenly begin to give away money...
...When Russia gets through, Finland will have her freedom and a government for the Finns and not Mannerheim and his bunch...
...Machine Age <Oswego, Mont.;—i have taken The Progressive a long time...
...At the beginning the age limit might be placed at 70 years, and the amount at $100 a month...
...I have the pleasure to read jour paper through the courtesy of one of your subscribers, and enjoy it to the fullest.— ROBERT DANIEL...
...I think the above is especially appropriate just at this time in view of the coming election and the antics of a lot of reactionary members of the 76th congress who seem bent on doing everything in their power to hamper the president and congress in their recovery program...
...The same law operates in economic reform...
...But the American people are not ready for Communism yet, so it is better today to adopt the national retirement pension plan first, and later, as the public becomes more reconciled to severe social readjustments, we will gain our objective without bloodshed and a violent turnover in our form of government...
...Theodore Roosevelt should have accepted a second or an apparent third term consecutively, which he could have had, to stabilize and consolidate his accomplishments instead of turning them over to his protege, Taft, who allowed the country to drop back into the same old groove...
...Until it ls something more than "leave it to the legislature...
...That should be an inducement for us to solve them...
...It docs not lie about the issues as other papers do...
...We enjoy Tl .'Tojjrcssivc ."¦!though we do not agree with all your views...
...I don't think the Lutheran Messenger knows the truth...
...A third party composed of Progressives, Farmer Laborites...
...Where will the money come from...
...If these men were honestly trying to represent the whole people who are paying their salaries and expenses (they could not by any stretch of the imagination conspire to block proposed legislation intended to help the great mass of common people out of the present "slough of despondency" and worse still, create, as a result, worse financial and industrial distress that, studying history, has an ominous outlook...
...The law of the acquisition of knowledge is: "From the known to the unknown...
...I do not see how j The Progressive can fight the G.O.P...
...You evidently have not heard the other side of the pension plan in Colorado...
...I am takmg advantage of your 20 cents subscription offer...
...When the people of Colorado have an opportunity to vote on a better pension, there is no doubt they will pass it...
...As a result all proposed reforms are based on one or the other, or a combination of two systems...
...William Lempke for his book on money...
...i •:• •:• •>.• Valuable Info i Kent, Ohio;—We get valiable information from reading The Progressive which would be difficult to get elsewhere—C...
...Newspaper columnists and radio announcers draw pay in proportion as they get their employers viewpoint across to the public and it takes effort and time to sort out the good from the bad...
...Our manufacturers of consumers goods are running ahead of consumer demand...
...Our money reformers want to combine the two ideas...
...Because one system depends on money and the other is without money, that is a suggestion that money is the offending element in our system...
...When the government forbids the use of gold or gold certificates as money, it has nothing to do with prices...
...We will soon be obliged to discard this lop-sided system...
...Would it be much worse to give the money to those who need it where it would do the most good and save $1,-000,000 a year...
...the pension plan now in the constitution is likely to stay there...
...I like to read the views of other people, although some have very peculiar views to be living in U.S.A...
...Yet corporations and financiers are building up surpluses and profits never before dreamed of...
...He has had seven years to show how it will work...
...Peojrte's Rights (Sheboygan Falls, Wis...
...Disease and evil thrives best in obscurity...
...That means individual private production, ownership and exchange...
...Evjue kept his editorial page pointed in the right direction...
...One is as a medium of exchange and the other is a measure of deferred payment...
...Money is the greatest labor saving device known to man, and while many think we have too much labor saving machinery now, they should realize that such is not the case...
...fascism alone, but if wc all expose the lies of the reactionaries wr can help to keep America a democracy...
...There are many people now struggling to earn a bare existence who would be glad to leave such jobs if there were no social stigma attached to the receipt of a pension...
...committee is the best example of a straddle from Hoover to William Allen White...
...Please find enclosed a check for $2 to renew my subscription to The Progressive for one year...
...Wants Paper (Bellwood...
...The situation in Colorado is no worse now than it has been for years, but the pension plan has stopped the excise tax racket...
...It is possible that other financial and non-financial results of the change would be beneficial enough to America's future to Justify the attempt...
...I am satisfied the independent or liberal vote will desert the party should they fall for such tactics...
...Whose fault is it...
...Soon it will be $50,000,000,000 and 10,000,000 out of work...
...Phil was the only governor the common |ico-ple ever had.—CHARLES DrLAI'P...
...JED CHURCH...
...More parents will favor them because those who would be relieved of the care of their parents could better provide for their children...
...Arstocracy and truth cannot exist or live in the same world together at the fame time...
...The legislature paid an average of $8 a month before the present law was passed and only a pauper could, get that...
...While the La Follette boys were playing petty politics, Mr...
...The motive power is the profit motive...
...Such a system as the Townsend plan suggests would give the trusts more money than they receive today...
...One old person quitting a job would not always provide one young person with a job, but probably a thousand old people leaving their jobs would provide jobs for 600 or 800 young people...
...Then keep on and read Speer's writings and many others...
...To preach love and practice hatred has only one goal...
...Very few people seem to know that our schools are teaching false political economy...
...They pointed out to him and our nation that it will not work and will destroy itself...
...For these reasons, this group should see that Roosevelt does not make the same mistake as Theodore Roosevelt, but re-elect FDR for one more term that he may consolidate his accomplishments and make them a definite part of our national set-up...
...That is such an evident untruth that it is hard to conceive of any one listening to it...
...and that's a good law," said a friend a day or two ago...
...Advertisers as a whole are manufacturers, merchandisers, or transportation organizations...
...I find The Progressive a very valuable paper...
...That means indirectly as well as directly...
...Well, there are but two functions of money...
...This Republican insanity of calling the New Deal a failure is so disgusting that it is hard to understand how any of the stupids can listen to it without holding their noses...
...I am very sorry 1 could not subscribe in time...
...It seem: to me logical and sensible to offer sufficiently liberal pensions to old people to induce them to leave lucrative employment so that there may be Job* for young people...
...tBy Their Works ((St...
...If the G.O.P...
...We are getting closer to the brim with $45,000,000,000 in debt...
...When he got to Washington he consistently voted down every progressive measure and has forgotten the pensioner and the farmer...
...Turning Worms j (Boise, Ida...
...Roosevelt wants a third term, but if he does, let's give it to him rather than take a chance on someone that might deprive people of their civil liberties...
...Saving Youth (Anna Maria, Fla...
...The gross income on added values is the most just...
...It always has...
...They are subjected to the meanest kind of petty tyranny...
...This depends on the quantity and as the bank credit money is about seven-eighths of our money and as it is contracted when most needed and expanded when least needed, it makes a very bad money...
...Thus, end all such alluring aims...
...One claim is that liberal pensions would help business...
...BENJ...
...We cannot expect our officials and lawmakers to represent the public if they are getting most of their incomes from special interests that plunder the public...
...VERNON TODD...
...Given freedom of discussion, civil liberty may survive...
...The amount should be placed at that figure so as to produce a visible effect upon the genera...
...Maybe our friend was putting the case rather strongly, and yet an ancient Scripture verse seems to support his view...
...In a dictator form of government the dictator must own and control all industry and must use labor certificates to distribute to all the workers so they would have buying power...
...We are approaching another presidential election...
...Then when you have failed, which you have, brute force is called to obtain justice, if they make a few mistakes as they always have...
...T. COOPER...
...They are asked if they have been in prison when they join, but are treated like criminals when they get there...
...SCHWEIGART...
...While they have strayed the reactionaries have ganged up and are getting bolder every minute...
...The job for us here in 1940 is to accomplish the revolution as peacefully as possible...
...F, FISCHER...
...As each individual exchanges with many Individuals at various times, a group—cooperative accounting is the solution...
...Restore to congress the sole power to issue money and to regulate its value as provided in Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.— J. D. KERR...
...They know well enough a Republican will not lay any straws in their way so they can issue billions of dollars worth of watered stock...
...Anacortes...
...Our old system is kept alive by our money system...
...I doubt if they have a new idea in their hcads;—R...
...The government makes and distributes stamps and sacks when and where needed in the mail service...
...Where a man's treasure is...
...People are learning why Europe does not pay its debts to Uncle Sam...
...If the results to the old people hadn't become tragic, it would compare with a brilliant idea a fellow had in the early days of the gasoline motor by gearing up the propeller speed to 3 to 1 with the motor and found to his consternation that the turnover of the motor was reduced to less than one-third its original speed in consequence of which his boat made less speed than it made in the first place...
...But We Have...
...started a sniping campaign...
...I believe they should be across the water, where they should feel more at home...
...there will his heart be also...
...I have a boy in CCC...
...Our economic system is known as a capitalistic democracy...
...Herman D. Beatty...
...Most magazines, newspapers, and the radio are sponsored by advertisers...
...They want congress, not a dictator, to issue money which is to represent neither gold, as in the old system, nor labor, a.s in the new, to be distributed to all...
...it seems to me that your paper should take, a more decided stand on the pension question...
...The local papers never tell how he is voting, so his dupes do not know what he is doing...
...The banking world has made the public think the money question is very complicated and they themselves do not understand it...
...A. A. Radical Stuff (Fall River, Mass...
...Since the church has no economic remedy for our economic ills and has played the part of an aristocrat for 1,940 years with no sign of any intelligent economic progress, I think it would do more good to be silent and let us Christians establish economic security and industrial democracy with democratic control regardless of names...
...The recommendations of the Frank's GOP...
...The whole creation is and should be, free for use for all and man's work alone should be exchange, work for work—work of one kind for work of another kind...
...A. PALMER, JR...
...Complaints against the New Deal fall on deaf oars a.s long as those making the complaints have nothfns to offer only those things that have been tried and have failed...
...It seems to me that more people are now agreed upon wider and better distribution of the national income than upon any other plan for improving economic conditions...
...But I wish we could go a step further now...
...Under our economic system of division of work, all our business is to exchange work, services...
...L, TODD...
...They are not claiming all has been accomplished but they are pushing ahead by leaps and bounds...
...All kinds of schemes have been tried...
...Since Ben Franklin's time, postage stamps were essential factors in handling of our mail...
...Reason: Certain parties are advocating a change, or reforming capitalistic habits, which contrary to his opinion is disturbing him to a point of danger...
...An old farmer who knew the money question gave him questions he could not answer...
...The church is supposed to teach people facts that will lead us up instead of down, but a capitalistic education on rent, interest and profit is not truth...
...Following is a quotation from the Pathfinder magazine of Nov...
...They have not enough confidence in our capitalistic democracy to invest and start new enterprises so they just sit back and grumble...
...GOP Fakery (Moline...
...Isn't the government now giving away the money it is supposed to borrow by selling bonds...
...Even gold has to have the government fiat or promise to make good money out of it...
...In The Progressive t of Feb...
...More and more we are going to need to ask the question: Who owns the candidate...
...They are telling us to put a Republican back in power...
...The reactionary politicians are taking away the peoples' rights...
...Now to get more taxes they have to get it somewhere...
...Kindly send a subscription to The Progressive magazine to me at the above address...
...I have always found the editor always picking out the good from the trash...
...As an old timer I do not believe the younger generation is going to work the balance of their natural lives to pay this $45,000,000,000 debt...
...Hatred and knocks do not develop love and friendship...
...The resultant development of character leads to physical, intellectual, and spiritual demoralization of the masses and intensifies the need of dictators and tyrants.—MARTIN G. VIKLA...
...Why not the same with money where needed in business...
...The most sensible thing I have read this month is when La Guardia said he looked at the proposed G.O.P...
...The first one is to solve the money problem...
...Coolidge for a third term and not until economic conditions began to look bad and his popularity was fading did he "choose not to run...
...National money contains more elements of good money than anything else...
...For Mr...
...Money Factor (South Rockwood, Mich...
...In the case of the La Follette boys, ambition has caused them to run around in circles...
...Schwalm's information, there are millions of supporters to the principle properly applied in financing a retirement pension for all citizens through a transaction tax earmarked for that purpose, the forced spending of which by the annuitants will again restore a consumers market that can't be permanently restored any other way except through the principle of Communism...
...The Townsend plan may be "crackpot" in some provisions, but some of its claims are worthy of unbiased consideration...
...I enjoy The Progressive very much because it is the only paper In the United States for civilized people to read...
...used find renewal Mib-fiipifn : The Progressive...
...They want jobs where they can do their work and live their lives...
...By their works, ye shall know them...
...One fact is overlooked by all...
...welfare, either good or bad...
...Why then the delinquency in this respect?—JOHN E. ADAMS...
...I am for loyal citizenship...
...The church is to be pitied in this machine age, because it cannot progress under capitalism and dares not to teach the truth even if it were known...
...Write your congressmen and senators and demand that they have congress take charge of the issue of all money and that the U. S. cease to pay interest...
...The voters must become educated on these simple social questions.—R...
...Karl Marx, who was an exception to the above law it seems, conceived of a system without money, kept alive by an all-wise and all-benevolent dictator...
...I cannot say that I support all your editorial policies but you are putting out the best paper we have today...
...Some public services were established so long ago that they are now regarded as right and natural, but when they were first proposed, they met as much bitter opposition a.< liberal old age pensions no now...
...I am also opposed to your treatment of the young folks...
...Section 8 of the U. S. constitution says that "congress shall coin and regulate the value of money...
...The New Deal was just a few reforms and efforts to put a little honesty and humanity into our economic machine...
...The only thing needed is the unity of a sufficient number of people with the will to get it and it will be done by constitutional methods...
...Most of the writers in the People's Forum seem to be possessed by that "divine discontent" without which the human race would still be enjoying a clam like existence at the bottom of llie sea...
...Is it possible that England's international bankers saw a chance for a good investment through their bank in He'sinki...
...As one prophetic columnist figures it out: "Twenty-five years from now...
...I cannot believe that Pres...
...No loans to foreign countries, more aid to farmers and youth, etc...
...Through the last eight years of trying times...
...Early in his administration the Technocrats showed him a clear way out but he ignored it entirely...
...J. MAYWED...
...Left The GOP (Harrisville, W. Vn...
...How did poor little Finland, smaller than the state of California, build that wonderful fortified front called the Mannerheim line, which Russia was not able to penetrate...
...At the same time the annual crop of babies is becoming fewer in number which means that the proportion of old people to the total population is increasing...
...According to the law we always add a little new knowledge to the old...
...So likewise is "money" an important essential factor in all business and trade...
...The big bankers cuss the president because he tries to make it possible for the people to eke out a miserable existence...
...Some while back you folks were proposing a third party...
...W. McKEEN...
...At this time world conditions demand that we select as our leaders able and experienced men, and too, this administration has done more for the wncc earners, farmers, and wonting people as a whole than any previous administration...
...Schwalm is woefully lacking in his knowledge of the plan...
...They can keep the index of prices ever the same or nearly so...
...Taft should have added that the elephant is never to be trusted unchained either...
...I would not miss this year's Progressive for many times the subscription price...
...If there has been any failures the last three years, it has been that of the masses of people to hold their gains...
...And all M. C.'s make solemn oath of office to support the constitution without any mental reservation whatever...
...If pensions are considered as a public service then the cost should oe paid in the same way a.s the costs of the army and navy, the public health service, the coast guard, the weather bureau, and other federal agencies designed for the security and welfare of all the people.—DANIEL T. HINCKLEY...
...One young fellow recently posed as an expert on the subject as he had recently graduated and had taken extra work on the subject...
...Enjoys Paper (Los Angeles, Cal...
...At first 75 per cent of the people were enthused, then it was decided to tax the swollen profits and salaries of a few of the too well paid...
...It is not in a position to advise the Student Union about Russia or anything else especially in political economics...
...Let us show them that they cannot do this to us...
...Take the army out of the CCC and it may be a fit place for American boys, but they want to be in their own homes...
...A so-called straight sales tax is the most unjust...
...They say that the New Deal Is scaring capital and that taxes are smothering them...
...Johnson's bait that put him over was a pledge to the Townsend blockheads and a promise of cost of production to some of the most ignorant of the farmers...
...Whence comes "his master's voice...
...Whether the saving of the expense of supporting some young people would pay the pensions ls uncertain...
...I believe it was Lincoln who once said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time...
...Communists (it would be a phoney third party without them) and unattached liberals would be the saving of this good old U.S.A.—GEO...
...Where the Golden Rule is law ar.d has become compulsory as in Russia, there Is no aristocracy...
...In 1928, Sen...
...Although all other conditions were just right, a high rate of property taxation will discourage home ownership...
...It you all have not abandoned the Idea I think the time is now ripe...
...I like your paper...
...If the Student Union turns to Communism for truth, I think Use church would belief it by keeping out of economics until it studies and understands better than it docs that the issue between Communism and capitalism is economic...
...He declared that it was not merely a situation which had resulted from the depression, as it was already in existence in 1930...
...i am for economic, political and Christian truth.—BURL S. WILSON...
...Mrs...
...To compel people to leave lucrative employment and compel pensioners to spend each monthly installment within 30 days is undemocratic...
...As a result we have those who want to reform our money...
...Congressman Frank B. Keefe from Wis., Rep., is advocating a paradoxical solution which if applied may result in automatic control of free speech...
...Thus, being neither blue nor red, we shall carry on the burden of debt our money system as piled on our backs with case and happy hearts...
...Fess, national Republican chairmah, Sen...
...You have the education and position ! for power to squelch us little fellows just so long...
...It would take many years to pay off our nation debt with low prices in general, because our government would lack volume from which to collect revenue or taxes...
...and CCC...
...Does Keefe realize, and especially as a congressman, that he is advocating something which is adding fertlity to those with Communistic leanings...
...The worm will turn...
...I don't think you are fair to Russia, a country, I believe, that is destined to become the finest country in the world for the working people...
...Martha Taft who is also running for the presidency told one of her audiences that the G.O.P...
...It is plain to me from the above that Mr...
...Money Reform (Lonsdale, Minn...
...The Lutheran Messenger is farther from the truth than any other would-be teacher...
...For instance, the first Ford automobile was nothing but a horse buggy less the shafts and plus a motor and steering gear...
...Finn Debt % (Crookston, Minn...
...If our economic machine will not run on honest principles, then perhaps we had better change the form...
...The change is going to be forced on us in spite of many views to the contrary...
...Enclosed herewith check to extend subscription to paper for one year...
...presidential candidates and said "Pbooey...
...Liberal old age pensions would produce .more direct and indirect benefits than any other method that could be put in operation within a reasonably short time with as little disturbance...
...La Follette run for re-election...
...History tells us that President Washington accepted a second term against his personal desire, because of unsettled world conditions and refused a third term only a few weeks before time of nomination...
...The one quality or lack of quality that fails most and creates most havoc is that of stability or non fluctuation...
...The 10 million men who are walking the streets must remember that the big business class of men have only one god, the almighty dollar, and they will resort to almost anything to discredit those who oppose them...
...Roosevelt's attempts to increase national income...
...Still another revolution has been creeping upon us unaware...
...This also goes for Mrs...
...should get in control of the country in the next four years, look out for a fascist government ln the U. s. I can see strong factors creeping across the country now...
...Immediately, the boys that the income tax hit...
...Will it continue to fool the people and government to aid in European wars while millions are in want in our own country?— N. P. STEXSHOEL...
...First thing they know, it will be too late...
...All proposed reforms lead to suppression of individuality and initiative...
...It takes money to keep the noncriminal unemployed youth alive, and it takes more money to keep the criminal youth In confinement...
...I am an old subscriber and hope that Russia gets what she wants over the Mannerheim crowd and their backers and for the Peoples Provincial government which Russia is working with and for.—W...
...And money—if wc are to use the old term must be a means to facilitate said exchange of work...
...Frank P. Schwalm has me puzzled when he writes: "There are the extreme poor who we call the common herd who receive no pensions...
...Liberal thought at that time had no idea that Roosevelt would abandon the New Deal and ridiculed the Idea, saying such a move would split the liberal forces and reaction would be .strengthened...
...Well, why worry about that...
...Doesn't it | amount to the same as giving away j and paying the private corporation to i take it...
...I wish every candidate for office had to publish a list of the big corporation investments he has, so the people could know who owns the candidate...
...That statement is equivalent to a flat declaration that our democracy ls, and will continue to be unable to solve that particular domestic problem...
...Mistrust, obstinacy—and war...
...The retired farmers and commercial elements in the state of Iowa are now j 80 per cent fascist...
...The Foruin page is always good but I see there are many people who don't understand the issue between Russia and the international bankers of Finland, France, England and other pirate nations...
...A federal old age pension should no: be regarded as charity, but as a public service...
...j. Third Termers (Milledgevilie, iu.j—Why all the, to-do about a third term...
...CHARLES C. COOK...
...You don't need to understand the money question to do this much, but if you want to understand the money question, write to Cong...
...Townsend Dimes (Saginaw, Mich...
...j How soon will the voter turn into a j bushwhacker to defend his inalienable j right to multiply and protect his ! young...
...But why blame Mr...
...Roosevelt in his first Inauguration speech stressed the fact that he was in favor of the capitalistic system and that it would work with some money...
...We have lived under money and have developed a condition which hinders the functioning of our money system...
...a private, individual issuance of the medium of exchange...
...The remedy for public despondency is steady employment with sufficient Income to provide respectable living conditions...
...That spells democracy in economics under equal freedom, individual initiative and development of character physically, intellectually and spiritually...
...I have watched small co-operatives come and go...
...As long as this is allowed we will have panics and depressions...
...As the reasons of liberal pensions become better known, more young voters will favor them because more jobs will be open...
...Others'' Views (Hurdsfield, N. D.)—Enclosed please find $2 to extend my subscription for another year a.s I enjoy reading the paper very much...
...Gold is no more money than any other commodity without the government stamp...
...Young folks are not going to be satisfied in a land of plenty unless they can get their share no matter what kind of government gives it to them—COLORADO READER...
...j —VV...
...Third Party (Philadelphia, Pa...
...It seems that the common people as a rule cannot and will not wake up...
...The greater the intelligence of the people in any one line, the greater the strides to the new ideas...
...The power age and our scientists are making it impossible for us to continue much longer...
...IRWIN...
...The trouble is that because of three uneconomic elements...
...J. For Third Term (Clintonville, Wis...
...Several revolutions have occurred since that time and after some of them the world has been a better place for human beings to live in...
...Enclosed find $2 with which to continue my subscription to The Progressive...
...Prices depend on the quantity of money in circulation, but while bank credits effect the prices, it is a limited money...
...July 26, 1939: "With between 4,000,000 and 6,000.-000 young perple out of school and out of employment, Aubrey W. Williams, administrator of the National Youth administration, told the National Education association here that Americans must realize that this is a permanent, and not a temporary situation...
...In the meantime we still have 10,000,000 out of work...
...Paul...
...I used to be a Republican but I knew I did the right thing when i quit supporting them...
...If Jim Farley will allow such radical stuff to go through his malls, may I expect to receive your next issue?— LESTER T. DAVIS...
...appointed Pew and iWeir, two of the biggest reactionaries in America, as their financial committee...
...Pension Plan ir'!'.:;:nn...
...How long will the lawmakers con-i tinue to hoodwink the common voter...
...One of them thinks that they may be "the most revolutionary cultural and social change since the fail of the Roman empire...
...politician by the name of Johnson...
...and at the same time, save the people billions annually in interest...
...He built large vaults in the Kentucky hills to store what he assumes is wealth...
...Food and living expenses are the chief factor...
...Some of these elements are generally acceptable, non price fluctuation, easy diversibility, handy to carry, hard to counterfeit...
...I read many papers, but The Progressive is tops with me...
...We are to pay only the upper crust $200 a month...
...Such a proceeding prevents a free flow of money...
...It is disturbing to find occasionally in this country some official who has adopted the defeatist attitude toward some particular problem...
...The men on this committee who drew up this report are not politicians but engineers and economists...
...A nationwide old age pension without a means test paid as a right and not as a charity would render the pension sections of the social security act unnecessary and they could be repealed to the great relief of all concerned...
...I hope to have a chance to support FDR again.—R...
...There's just one way to stop making Communists of our young folks and that is to provide them with jobs...
...As we work individually, even though In a cooperative group, so should we own individually what we have produced and hence exchange privately individual with an individual...
...They are using the money to pave the way into Leningrad and Moscow...
...Townsend, after having a great inspiration in applying a simple mechanical principle to bring about a more generous distribution of the abundance our mechanical servants can now produce, advocated applying the principle in reverse with his $200 a month bait and turned his organization into a nickle and dime collection agency at the expense of the oldsters...
...Unfortunately, they don't tell us what a workable old age pension is...
...Roosevelt and boost Garner as a Democratic choice because of his near Republican ideas...
...What does his-j tory say about the matter...
...To suppress expression of mind does not change sentiment but adds in leading the way to secrecy...
...C. BAKER...
...It might be called the "living revolution" for the babies, children, youth, middle-aged and apparently unwanted old aged are living longer...
...The Republicans have started their barrage of lies already...
...The Grange cooperative bank is allowed to loan its money but once, while ordinary banks loan at least seven times as much credit as they have in actual money...
...Other experts are predicting ail sorts of calamities...
...You will find that the government retirement pension question will be the major issue in the next election and the NPA had better pay heed.— R. H. KNAPP...
...Almighty Dollar (Oakland, Cal...
...In 1929 and 1930 the business and financial leaders became alarmed at the prospect of loss of profit and the crash of their fears occasioned the worst panic we have ever experienced...
...Wash...
...Built around the salvaging of the New Deal, the Yanks are not coming...
...Keefe Scheme (Centuria...
...It createst what has been sown and following is what you can expect to reap...
...For Russia (Emmetsburg, la...
...It was a wonderful opportunity to create American sympathy for the Finns ln order to draw the United States into another European mass murder...
...The ratio of our national income to our national debt is in favor of Pres...
...I do not believe it is "crackpot" to say that the payment of liberal pensions would increase general business to such an extent that it would be necessary to employ many of those now unemployed...
...We read what a wonderful the CCC is and hear it is to be permanent...
...Snell, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, Henry Ford, former Pres...
...The editor's page is the best example of liberal thought I have had the pleasure of reading...
...To that all we need is to account our exchanges...
...Are the American people so foolish...
...Doesn't history prove that no nation can long exist under interest and never after its compound aggregate amounts to 35 per cent of which our blessed democracy is now up to 33 per cent...
...They will be doomed to failure until it becomes a national measure for all people...
...not as wages for labor, either as loans or as donations and thus, as they imagine, a perfect circulation of the medium of exchange is to be had...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
