NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation The Polish Papers" (From The New York Post) THE German government's production of "documents," supposedly taken from the...
...For instance, ever since 1914 they have been entirely unintelligible...
...They are equally adept at finding out the faker, the stuffed shirt, and the demagogue...
...In the first place, any man in an important public office for 24 years incurs enmities which bring resentment, pique, and soreness...
...The report is that these young people worked tooth and nail for Zeidler...
...Hoover when he was secretary of commerce...
...Cynicism [From New York World-Telegram] EIGHT politicians in Pennsylvania go on trial on charges of conspiring to shake down state employes for political contributions ranging from 3 to 5 per cent of their salaries...
...Since the war this has been more thr.r...
...Frank advises the Republicans not to attempt to repeal any of the essential parts of the New Deal—INCLUDING RELIEF...
...Neither I nor any of my associates in the department of state have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence...
...N. C. News Item) WEIR'S appointment suggests that the...
...Instead, the newspapers that had applauded Heil "economy" promises let forth a torrent of protest, joined by the chambers of commerce and other groups that are all for economy as long as it doesn't affect them...
...5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...Encore . A Scotsman who had lest his way on the Alps was found by one of the St...
...Well, let's look at the record...
...Gov...
...Incidentally, the Wisconsin vote should dispose of any notion that Garner is a strong presidential candidate...
...Heil was a candidate for the governorship and which praised him as the champion of economy, executed a quick reversal when it was announced that state highway commission offices in their own communities were to be closed...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...Much of the time obstacles were placed in his way by a reactionary, bipartisan council...
...They succeeded in giving touches of jazz and ballyhoo to the campaign, while Dart Hoan and his group continued to give serious discussion to issues...
...On the basis of approximately 2,400 precincts, Fred R. Zimmerman, Dewey delegate, polled 168,480 votes, while Walter S. Goodland, Vandenberg delegate, polled 100,126 votes, making a total of 268,606 votes...
...While aroused citizens in Kansas City were cleaning up the last remnants of the corrupt Pendergast machine, Milwaukee was slipping back into the status where it will be undoubtedly governed by corporate wealth...
...They undoubtedly believed that it is a good thing in a democracy to introduce new blood in high executive and administrative positions...
...A congressman from Georgia is indicted on charges of selling postmastership appointments...
...He assures the American public that the government does not consider participating in the war...
...Neither do we believe that when the Republican national convention is adjourned this summer that Mr...
...Now let's look at the Republican total...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...While these reports probably do not tell the whole story, they indicate where the heavy slush funds were spent...
...But it will be said that the Garner vote is anti-Roosevelt and that fact must be taken into consideration in assessing the significance of the primary vote...
...Don't overlook, either, the fact that this young fellow Zeidler is a good looking bachelor...
...A Bachelor Baritone Licked Mayor Dan Hoan DAN HOAN was licked by a good look-ing bachelor baritone...
...During the 24 years that he has been entrusted with power at the Milwaukee city hall Dan Hoan has succeeded in making Milwaukee tne best governed big city in the United States...
...The vote in Progressive counties indicates that Dewey received thousands of Progressive votes...
...Banking statements and balance-sheets were always designed rather to veil discreetly the modesty of our monetary institutions than to let the full liglit of day upon the beauties of their figures and proportions...
...Meanwhile, the young fellow, Zeidler, who had nothing to lose, put a lot of pep and vigor into his campaign...
...Of course, corporate wealth in Milwaukee as represented in the Milwaukee association of commerce and the First Wisconsin National bank will rejoice at the defeat of Dan Hoan...
...If the so-called economy advocates In the Heil administration expected acclaim when the highway office closings were announced, they were rudely jolted...
...AT THIS writing 2,453 out of 3,011 prc-cincts in Wisconsin cast 3311,641 votes in the Democratic presidential primary...
...6. UNION'S—Development of a strong trades anion movement...
...In a vote where these Progressives would have an opportunity to vote directly for Roosevelt for president, they would be found in the Roosevelt column...
...In our judgment, the Wisconsin results mean the end of Vandenberg's presidential aspirations...
...People are guaranteed the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in this country...
...Watch out for Taft or some dark horse like the utility tycoon, Wendell Willkie...
...It differs from other private institutions only in that it has the privilege of concealing who are its shareholders and what are Its profits...
...Dewey will be the nominee...
...The governor with a- twinkle in his eye replied, "Mr...
...This is all the more remarkable because only intermittently during these 24 years has Dan Hoan had a common council to work with that was sympathetic...
...WE STILL maintain, however, that it President Roosevelt decides to become a candidate and puts on one ot those campaigns for which he Is famous, the Wi: c.onsin vote indicates that he will sweep the country, "Economy" Eor Political Purposes ILLUSTRATIVE oi what The Progressive has been saying about the so-called "economy" program of the Hell business administration is the action of Gov...
...The census attack followed the inventory poll attack, and the inventory poll was no less than the original idea of Mr...
...Meanwhile, the Republicans pulled every wire in an effort to get out votes for their respective candidates, Dewey and Vandenberg...
...The old zeal and old crusading spirit whicn characterized the earlier Hoan campaigns were missing...
...Immediately we Hear it said: Sure, The Progressive has been strong for Roosevelt for eight years and naturally would make that conclusion from the Tuesday returns...
...But this argument works both ways...
...to some degree, pror.i-ised to give help to the Allies came properly from Secretary of State Hull...
...George W. Norris of Nebraska and Sen...
...And the sooner the rest of the Republican politicians understand this, as Dr...
...This long tenure contributed to his defeat...
...Bernard dog-s...
...ever so...
...He met his fate at the hands of a smart young candidate who emulated the guitar strumming technique of Gov...
...Heil in doing a complete about face on the proposed abandoning of branch offices of the state highway commission...
...Nye come to Wisconsin for a personal appearance...
...The Vandenberg crowd had Sen...
...But waive these considerations and still the Wisconsin primary vote remains a remarkable tribute to the strength of President Roosevelt...
...The whole scheme was dropped like a hot potato and a face saving statement issued that because of other "economies" in the highway commission the branch offices would be kept open...
...R6BERT M. LA FOLLETTE won new honors recently in the nation's capital when more than 100 newspaper correspondents voted him the "ideal U. S. senator" among senators not more than 45 years of age...
...A Milwaukeean who is a good judge of political trends told this writer yesterday that in his judgment at least 25,000 unmarried women in Milwaukee had voted for the handsome young Zeidler in preference to the married, antiquated, lantern jawed Dan Hoan, whose map has never won any beauty contests...
...Yet there are some who think it is smart to ridicule the efforts of Senator Hatch and representative Dempsey of New Mexico to enact legislation designed to add a few safeguards to the integrity of public pay rolls and to the freedom of elections...
...It will be remembered that it was just a year ago that Bob La Follette was voted the "most industrious member" of the senate, regardless of age, in a poll of capital correspondents conducted by a nationally circulated magazine...
...Their opinion, expressed in polls ot this kind, is based on intimate knowledge and experience that outside observers lack, and is a reliable guide to merit...
...K.3 tells how during the war he was discussing ti:3 bank return with the then governor of the Bark of England and said, "that there was only or...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...THE COURTS—Liberalization and reform of the federal judiciary, including the U. S. supreme court, to curb the threat to democratic government that lies in judicial autocracy and usurpation of power...
...The Roosevelt supporting newspapers (all three of them) will point to the election returns as a great victory for the New Deal...
...G. O. P. has learned nothinp...
...Lee O'Daniel of Texas and the colorful Huey Long of Louisiana...
...S. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...Presumably part of the value of such a propaganda trick, from the Nazi point of view, Is th::t all the diplomats involved In the "revelations" are immediately forced 'o engage in the distasttl-.u process of making formal statements of refutation...
...Any charge, however wild, puts its maker in a momentarily advantageous position...
...He has taken the aggressive, and, at least until enough time has elapsed for the denials to get into print, he has stirred up worry and confusion in the minds of his audience...
...The bank has then on.y itself to blame if the public are drawing obvious, if possibly, unjust, deductions...
...ACCORDING to reports filed with the secretary of state's office, the Republicans spent a total of $20,807 in behalf of Dewey and Vandenberg delegate candidates, compared to a total ot $3,941 spent for the two Roosevelt slates and $20,155 for the Garner slate...
...Leaf, I do not think you should understand even that," It is hardly denied that the balance-sheets which the bank issues are made intentionally unintc'.-ligible and, the more interesting the year, t-:s more difficult to understsnd is the balance-shcit...
...The same magazine poll ranked Bob La Follette with Sen...
...The showing of Roosevelt strength is all the more significant in view of these figures...
...The very newspapers that made the most editorial noise about economy when Mr...
...Boh La Follette Honored By Capita) Newspapermen SEN...
...It is a point that cannot be repeated too often...
...There are a number of reasons for Dan Hoan's defeat...
...Dewey came into the state himself to make speeches...
...If that, is not an indication of the strength of President Roosevelt in Wisconsin, then this writer's SO years of trying to interpret election results have been wasted...
...The incident makes it only too clear that a lot of people are for economy when it is at the expense of the other fellow...
...It is a private institution operating for profit...
...Glenn Frank, who fashioned the program of GOPlanks for the 1940 presidential platform, indicated that he does, the better it will be fo rthe Republican party's chances...
...Both Ambassador William C. Builitt and Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish ambassador to the United States, have bluntly denied the statements which arc attributed to them...
...Evidently the perennial mayor of Milwaukee was bumped off because he became a bit old fashioned in the art of politics...
...These figures demonstrate that the Democratic party polled approximately 71,000 votes more than the Republican party...
...In spite of this, Roosevelt polled a vote that Is within a few thousand of the total polled by the highest Dewey and Vandenberg candidates...
...That is true...
...Everyone who knows anything about the newspapermen of Washington, D. C, know that they are the keenest, most critical large group of newspapermen in the country...
...Robert Wagner of New York as among the most intelligent members of the upper house of congress...
...governmental monopoly on the iiiami-facture and sale of munitions...
...The statements alleged have not represented in any way at any time the thought or policy of the American government...
...In addition, there were undoubtedly thousands of voters in Milwaukee who felt it was incompatible with the precepts of democracy for a mayor to remain in office for such a long period of time...
...GOP Learns Nothing (From The Charlotte...
...Secrecy And The Bank of England (From Christopher Hollis book on Breakdown of Money) THE Bank of England is not a public institution...
...Economy for you but not for me...
...The fact that a man is a good baritone singer and can set the hearts of young women a-quiver does not mean he is possessed of sufficient qualifications for facing the problems of a great city...
...Vandenberg and Dewey will cancel each other out...
...The Republican newspapers will hail the election results as a great victory for the party of Abraham Lincoln...
...He helped hinvclf to the flask of liquor, patted the do*, and settling himself comfortably, said: "Noo, gang and bring me the hale pack.'" THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities with a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation...
...WE BELIEVE that Milwaukee has made a serious mistake in giving up its reputation as the best governed big city in the country...
...The remarkable thing is that in a city the size of Milwaukee, Dan Hoan has managed to remain mayor for 24 years...
...Z. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits...
...Walter Leaf, who was the chairman of the Westminster bank, in his attractive little book on "Bsn':-ing" in the Home University library, says of the Bank of England, "What the real profits of t!:3 bank are is a secret which is never revealed...
...News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation The Polish Papers" (From The New York Post) THE German government's production of "documents," supposedly taken from the Polish government files in Warsaw, surely finds a minute audience of credulous persons in this country...
...Hartley Withers, who is almost lyrical in his admiration for the financial system, writes in his Bankers and Credit...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...Figures Causing Confusion (From The New York Times) LESS may be heard of the "census rebellion" as businessmen make it clear to their legislative representatives at Washington that the farts sought on income housing and various appliances are facts that are vital to them for more efficient production and distribution and facts that they have requested...
...Under such circumstances, workers and supporters take too much for granted...
...They assume that no one can defeat the man who has been re-elected time after time...
...7. BANKS—A government owned central banking system to break the grip of the money trust by carrying out, among other things, the congressional power "to coin money, and regulate the value thereof...
...The Nazi propaganda office has played too many tricks and fostered too many lies In the pa: I. Hardly anyone would accept the German version of the papers without corroborating evidence...
...We hope, however, that the new mayor of Milwaukee will prove that the predictions outlined here do not come true...
...SERIOUSLY speaking, the defeat of Dan Hoan is a loss to good government in this state...
...Secretary Hull's word will be all that is needed to destroy the German propaganda effort...
...Much of the information that used to be made public has been withheld...
...President Roosevelt himself did not lift a finger to get a vote here in Wisconsin...
...It is passing strange that the party which insists it represents business lately appears to be falling into this kind of sabotage...
...Progressive voters were lured to the Dewey camp because there are thousands of Progressives in Wisconsin who are nominally for Roosevelt but who refused to vote for the reactionary Democrats on both of the Roosevelt slates...
...Keep in mind that Roosevelt is not a candidate and there is no indication that he will be a candidate...
...Wisconsin Primary Shows Strength Of Roosevelt THE newspaper readers of the state of Wisconsin this week will be bombarded from eciitorial pages with interpretations of the Tuesday election that will fit into the policies and viewpoints of the newspapers concerned...
...Of this total, Roosevelt received 255,748 and Garner 83,893...
...This can be arrived at only by taking the highest vote cast for a Dewey delegate at large and adding it to the highest vote cast for a Vandenberg delegate at large...
...Heil, with the true instinct of the politicians who uses talk of "economy" for political purposes, quickly back-tracked when the Republican newspapers and local politicians put on the heat...
...The most emphatic reply to the German chare that the United States has...
...line of it which I thought I understood and tint was the line "Gold Coin and Bullion...
...Democracy certainly is a see-saw affair...
...When a leader like Dan Hoan is elected term after term, weakness in organization develops...
...It is difficult to generate campaign enthusiasm under such conditions...
...And in this case most of the principals involved have already given their firm denials of the reported conversations...
...Meanwhile, this editor proceeds into a bombproof, soundproof sanctum without windows and reflects on the election returns from a detached point of view and comes up with this two cents wortn: We believe that the figures from the Wisconsin primary form a remarkable testimonial to the strength of President Roosevelt...
...He succeeded in enlisting the support of young people in Milwaukee...
...They see the inside and outside of official life and are skilled in recognizing outstanding merit...
...To be honored by the press corps at the nation's capita), as Wisconsin's Bob La Follette has been, is no small distinction...
...In Illinois authorities delve into the mystery surrounding the suicide of a man who was the custodian of the campaign war chest of the state-house crowd...
...Relief Or Revolution (From The Philadelphia News) RELIEF was created, just as other New Deal controls, to avert an attempt at revolution in this country against concentration of too much wealth in too few hands...
...His selection suggests quite pointedly that the G. O. P. proposes to raise its war chest, not from contributions by the rank and file, but by appealing to the fat cats, He is admirably calculated to the purpose...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
