POLICE, PICKETS CLASH AT FRENCH CONSULATE
Police, Pickets Clash At French Consulate Picketing of foreign consulates has been banned in N"ew York as a result of the war In Europe, but the ban didn't prevent a demonstration by about 30...
...Thereby the authors count in the three most bubble inflated years of our history for their side...
...Homes and farms were going on the auction block in ever-increasing numbers...
...The theme of the book is obviously the grapes of wrath, but there is no profanity, there is no incest, there Is hardly any calling of names, though we would not say the work is free from political prostitution...
...The judge was Carl Runge, 80 year old veteran of the civil bench, sitting in district court...
...Lister Hill [FROM RECENT SPEECH IN U. S. SENATE] AS we recall conditions in our nation on March 4. 1933, culminating 12 years of continuous Republican administration, and survey conditions ^n the United States today .after seven years of Democratic administration, we see that the country is Infinitely and definitely better off than it was on March 4, 1933...
...The court did this because of a mother the defendant had 19 times forgotten enough to get into trouble with the law...
...What Judge Runge did and said Monday is a challenge to everyone who believes that only by a vigorous and unbending stand against lawlessness can law and order be maintained...
...Word reached Washington that morning of hungry people raiding a food store in one community in the Southwest...
...Irate citizens had forribly stopped a foreclosure sale, and in another they had actually dragged a judge from the bench and threatened to tar and feather him for carrying out the state law in dedarlng the forfeit on a fanner's mortgage...
...He pleaded for leniency to support his 77 year old mother...
...Its value depends on the reckoning that the public Is pretty sick of the New Deal promises and debts...
...In another state, only a few days before...
...For Judge Runge on Monday also released two drunken drivers with trivial fines—$5 in one crsb and $25 in the other...
...they will do more...
...The Judge's attitude must have astounded friends of law and order, of public decency, throughout the county...
...But it all adds up to something like this, familiar from the ill planned, ill carried out and disastrous Republican campaign of 1936: The Republicans will do everything for you the New Deal has done...
...We have often wished—everyone must have wished—that authors would give clues to their meaning...
...Finally he yielded to the defendant's plea for just a fine...
...The Judge allowed himself to be persuaded to reduce the charge...
...Judge Runge, hearing the cases, preached not to the defendants, but to the district attorney and law enforcement agents generally...
...Those questions deserve the careful consideration of every citizen and, above all, of every lawyer and Judge...
...There is not enough of specific meat in it to furnish forth a would-be congressman with material for one speech...
...The only specific thing is the enumeration of the taxes its authors want abolished or reduced...
...In the whole 33,000 words or more there are not 100 words that catch fire, that tell the story of hopes disappointed, that commit the party to a single clear issue...
...THE first defendant, we understand the record showed, was arrested twice in 1936 for this same offense of drunken driving...
...There is hardly a line we have not read again and again during four years, and much of that four year criticism has been sound...
...If this Is so, It doesn't take 115 pages to say it...
...He was charged under the state statute...
...Lest We Forget' - - By Sen...
...As I have said, these are not my words, but those of the New York Times, describing that memorable day and preceding days...
...Judge Runge let It be understood that he was no foe of gambling, even In this, one of its lowest forms...
...He got drunk again, and again drove his car...
...The Judge at first considered a jail sentence of 90 days, then made it a sentence of 30 days...
...Speeches are now being made from the stump, in the forum, and on the air by those of the political faith which espouse the policies which existed on March 4, 1933, pleading that we return to the governmental policies responsible for the desperate economic conditions with which we were only too familiar...
...He was not so worried about his job as to avoid liquor, it would seem...
...Let we forget—lest we forget...
...The mountain labored for two long years and brought forth"—a fileld mouse...
...The demonstration, said to have been inspired by New York Communists, was dispersed by police...
...That day dawned a dark one in every respect...
...Each time he was fined $100...
...Good things are to be found here...
...The accused were sent forth, almost with the court's blessing...
...I ask those who hear such speeches and words going out over the radio to stop and think, and to harken to the admonition that a plague once suflered has its own warning...
...Judge Carl Runge Fines Drunk Drivers FROM THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL THREE persons involved in the "policy" racket were released in Milwaukee Monday...
...The biggest dose of political hikum in the program Is addressed—you've guessed It—-to the farmers...
...WHERE are we going in the administration of justice in Milwaukee county when such things are possible...
...The most Rooseveltlan statement in the program is the simple sentence: "It should not be too difficult to accomplish a 20 per cent reduction from the present level (of federal expenditure)," And this without a figure or a word about what expenditure Is to be omitted...
...they will do it for 20 per cent less and no normal taxes on your dividends...
...Banks were closing literally by the hundreds...
...After carefully showing the unsoundness for the "long haul" of the New Deal program, it winds up by saying that temporarily it may be necessary to do all these things—lease marginal land, make payments for soil erosion, lend money on crops held for higher prices, and all the rest of it...
...After Two Long Years - - A Field Mouse -EDITORIAL IN THE MILWAUKEE JOURNALAT LONG last the Republican program of Dr...
...Life savings in bank accounts and securities were being blown away like so much dust...
...THE "program" will not serve as a campaign dictionary for stump speakers...
...Police, Pickets Clash At French Consulate Picketing of foreign consulates has been banned in N"ew York as a result of the war In Europe, but the ban didn't prevent a demonstration by about 30 pickets in front of the French consulate protesting the expulsion of Spanish refuges in France...
...I have before me an article from the New York Times of March 3, 1940, written by Turner Cat-ledge, giving a description of conditions in this country seven years ago...
...As a third offender, this drunken driver was thus fined one-twentieth as much as he had been as a first offender—to safeguard the job that he himself does not seem to worry about jeopardizing...
...The description is not mine, but one published by the New York Times, entitled "A Memorable Day," from which I quote an excerpt: "Few people who live in Washington will ever forget the New Deal's natal day...
...What can we do to stop the thing that has started...
...In certain sectons citizens were beginning to grow desperate...
...It runs to 115 pages, size 7 by 10, very nicely printed in good, readable type, with excellent subheads...
...The reason for leniency in the first case was that the defendant, it was pleaded, would lose his Job if his driver's license was revoked, The reason for tenderness in the other case was that the accused said he required his liberty to support his aged mother...
...Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet...
...The sincerest thing in the book is that its authors don't like the "attitude" of the New Deal toward business, free enterprise and so on...
...THE cheapest statistical trie* in the book is the comparison of the first six years of the New Deal with the preceding six years...
...The great depression hung over the country like a darkening cloud...
...A considerate feature is three pages of "Clues to the Argument...
...It has to be explained too much...
...When we recall in 1932 and 1933 the bread lines of hungry, desperate men, the burning of grain for fuel, business in bankruptcy, banks failing, and desolation and despair everywhere, we should give thanks on this seventh anniversary to a Democratic administration which relieved us of those conditions and provided us with day's of prosperity and contentment...
...A pretty record, indeed, for our district court for Monday, Mar...
...His attitude toward two other cases must have astounded these citizens even more...
...Glenn Frank's program committee is out...
...The second defendant, a former bootlegger, had been arrested 18 times for minor traffic violations since 1932...
...11, 1940—three persons engaged in a despicable form of gambling practically given the court's blessing: two persons charged with one of the most serious of traffic offenses given nominal fines out of mere sentiment...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
