NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation Prof. Leith Discusses Minerals and Peace (From The New York Times) L OOKING ahead to the peace that must follow war, much...
...Quin writes "we're sending no troops or assistance...
...This $123,000 was later found to have included $03,000 which found its way into .the hands of Dinneen...
...The Sun suggests that the president might seek "to nominate his successor...
...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...
...It is certain, with a war raging in Europe of a kind that has never been seen before, that the future is fraught with danger and an experienced hand is needed at the helm of our own government...
...As supporters of civil liberties and democracy, we deplore the crushing of civil liberties and democracy at the hands of the German and Russian dictators as they recklessly invade one nation after another and under their iron heels suppress human rights and democratic ideals...
...Here Dr...
...MR...
...The following week, the New York organ or Mr...
...COL...
...w * WE refer to the Communist and Nazi groups in this country who travel under disguises of peace, civil liberties, democracy, and neutrality who arc secretly campaigning for disintegration...
...The problem presented is world-wide In its scope...
...Gov...
...Flaxer's union urged distribution of the pamphlet and re|h>rlrd Its plans to make the demonstrations "resound throughout a world...
...declares the Newark (N...
...An 'Uncensore<r Spotlight On Fake 'Civil Liberty' Groups TN THE ABOVE editorial columns The *- Progressive points out the need for turning the spot-light on certain suspicious groups in this country that are giving lip service to "peace, civil liberties, democracy, and neutrality" in order to hide their real objectives that are antagonistic to these principles.' Bearing out the statements made in that editorial is an article appearing in the bulletin, "Uncensored," which is published weekly in New York City by a group of well known liberals...
...Off The Hook Again YOU SAID IT, Ambrose—corporate wealth is riding high, wide, and handsome under the Heil administration in Wisconsin...
...A district attorney would be completely at sea...
...There is an imposing list of liberals who are being given publicity in the advance notices for the meeting and who, we suspect, are being used for window dressing by some behind-the-scenes manipulators...
...The parliamentary battle that would ensue would quickly separate the sheep from the goats and brand the fakers to whom peace, civil liberties, democracy and neutrality are deceitful poses...
...Willie—Yes, sir...
...For years the domineering McCormick has kept a jaundiced eye in the direction of Wisconsin and day in and day out he has plastered this state with his venom and poison...
...Garner has not the popular strength to head off a third nomination, if heading it off depends on him...
...Bvllesby Co...
...Quins pamphlet docs not mention the Soviet invasion of Finland...
...The only innocent fronts available lo the Nazis are discredited Fascist groups such as the Christian Mobilizers...
...Gov...
...is that Vice President Garner, whom nobody expects to be nominated, was able to hold the Roosevelt lead to one far short of a landslide...
...who had a part in the use of Byllesby money for corrupt purposes are now dead and have no further influence in the firm...
...The vote accorded Mr...
...that an existing governor, for example, must be supported, no matter what private opinions may be, if he chooses to run...
...Our only hope is to prevent such a world war from developing...
...It is a maxim of politics that an incumbert party must win or lose on its record...
...Here is the article from "Uncensored": Sinre the Communist party and the German-American Bund are recognized as agents of their respective dictators, their anti-war activities in their own name cause little confusion...
...J.) Evening News (Ind...
...The News Leader adds that "Mr...
...The article pointedly supplements what is said in the above editorial about such groups as the "Wisconsin Conference For Social Legislation" (which held a week-end meeting in Madison...
...In his letter lo Newsweek, Mr...
...Dewey in the White House...
...is not impressive, for the number of votes cast for Democratic and Republican delegates indicates that those Progressives who followed the La Follette leadership voted for Roosevelt in the Democratic primary, as the Wisconsin law permits...
...But Is a capable district attorney who has had no further experience in public affairs the kind of a chief executive this country must have to meet a complicated crisis like the one that faces our country at the present time...
...First step was the dissolution of the American League for Peace and Democracy, most successful of Communist "transmission bells...
...As far as Hitler or Dala-dier or Chamberlain or Mussolini are concerned,"' Mr...
...Auditors retained by the special counsel had made an examination of the Byllesby books and found a special account under which $123,000 had been paid out here in Wisconsin for which the Byllesby Co...
...Kelly got into a huddle the other day and revoked the permit of a small collection firm doing business in Wisconsin...
...In Washington, a great fuss is raised over the eating of peyote by the Indians...
...He is to answer to Republican opinion in Wisconsin in a survey by a group of county chairmen before the party convention on May 30...
...To test our conclusions, we wish that some of the liberals being lured into this questionable environment on insincere peace and democracy baits would test this matter out...
...Y.) Times (Ind...
...says the Washington (D...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...The Communists, however, retain a hold in labor and liberal groups...
...In some trade unions precautionary measures have been taken...
...In other unions, interventionists have taken advantage of the general mistrust of Communists to point out that their vigorous advocacy of isolationism is a good reason for taking an opposite stand...
...It so happens that the world's mineral business is commercially and politically controlled by the democracies—75 per cent of it by Great Britain and the United States alone...
...To this others retort that sanctions increase International tension and...
...There should now be a showdown between the state and this powerful utility...
...If it is objected that sanctions failed in the Ethiopian war, Dr...
...Here is what we suggest: The Progressive is doubtlul of the sincerity of the noisy Communists at the university who promote peace demonstrations...
...Zeiler has decided to issue a permit to the Byllesby Co...
...Over the week-end a meeting is to be held here in Madison under the plausible title of the "Wisconsin Conference For Social Legislation...
...When Heil got into the governor's office and proceeded to turn out those who had been in the securities division, the governor plucked a fellow named Vern Zeiler out of the Wisconsin Bank-shares set-up in Milwaukee and made him the big mogul in the securities division...
...Quin and his sponsors concerning "our" intentions toward Stalin have brought no response...
...The Progressive is inclined to question Mr...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...We denounce the assault on peace represented in the invasion of Finland by Communist Russia...
...to use our international influence and economic power lo stop Fascist aggression...
...Heil has a Messiah complex which is unjustified, misguided and dangerous...
...continues to be a powerful factor in spite of the opposition to the third term by many thoughtful leaders...
...Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.—Luther, THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities .vith a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation 2. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits: governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions: a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...You may have forgotten that it was the bribes paid to William Dinneen by officials of the H. M. Byllesby and Co...
...Part of the Communist strategy has always been the promoting of paper organizations with plausible names into which unsuspecting liberals are lured in the belief that they are serving such principles as peace, civil liberties, and democracy...
...Wisconsin's Primary [From The United States News] IN appraising the results of the primary elections in Wisconsin, commenting newspapers attach greatest weight to the effect of the balloting on the third-term prospects of President Roosevelt...
...Leithe believes that some collective" guarantee of equality of access Is possible, even thouch It may involve "the affirmative use of power" lo maintain "a certain amount of law and order by force...
...Flaxer avowed that "we Americans have plenty of problems to lick here at home without hutting into Europe's quarrels and rraping some additional headaches the way we did last time...
...In this country there are people posing, we suspect, as spokesmen lor neutrality who are only for neutrality because they think that a program of neutrality for the United States will serve the purposes of the Nazi war lords...
...was already found guilty ot bribing a Wisconsin official and that there was much concealment in its accounting methods, the special counsel charged that the Byllesby Co...
...Madam," he said, "the prize is yours...
...could not give an adequate explanation...
...5. PURCHASING CO OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...The technique is familiar...
...WE wish that someone would toss a " resolution of this kind into the hopper at the session of the "Wisconsin Conference For Social Legislation...
...Did you note recently that Gov...
...News Leader (Dem...
...Leith Discusses Minerals and Peace (From The New York Times) L OOKING ahead to the peace that must follow war, much is said about equality of access to raw materials, especially minerals...
...In June, 1938, William H. Spohn, Bruno V. Bitker, and Lawrence J. Brody, acting as counsel for the securities division, started an action to revoke the license of H. M. Byllesby and Co...
...had used 8123,000 with which to corrupt public officials in Wisconsin, The Capital Times made this statement in an editorial on January 27, 193B: "The Byllesby Co...
...The Communist Pose of Being For Peace and Democracy rpHE PROGRESSIVE believes that the spotlight should be trained on some of the suspicious groups in the United States that are blatantly giving lip service to such high-sounding terms as peace, civil liberties, democracy and neutrality...
...The state of Wisconsin should serve notice that Wisconsin will not permit any concern to operate in this state that engages in the practice of bribing and corrupting public officials...
...In addition, the auditors found that there were entries on the Byllesby books totalling approximately a million dollars and for which there was no adequate explanation...
...If necessary, prominent names are used without authorization lo obtain non-Communist support...
...Picture the bewilderment of young Mr...
...The auditors found that $500,000 of the §1,000,000 had been paid out in cash...
...Logical Conclusion Schoolmaster—Now, Willie, if the earth's axis is an imaginary line, can you hang clothes on it...
...Thomas, president of the United Auto Workers (CIO) and a staunch non-Interventionist, recently warnrd his union against use of the Quin pamphlet and recommended the distribution of CIO anti-war material...
...This crisis is not the first of its kind that has confronted the American government since last September, but it is one of the most serious...
...says the Baltimore (.Md...
...Similar examples of the operation of the totalitarian mind among current Communist peace advocates are numerous...
...However, In January 1».'J9, Mr...
...Flaxer signed the call to the fifth national congress of the American League for Peace and Democracy which said: "We cannot hope lo remain aloof from a Fascist-instigated world war...
...concludes that this primary "may have an important bearing on the nominating conventions and the election in the fall...
...was not a fit concern to be permitted to do business in Wisconsin...
...Remember how the conservative Republicans and their S150-a-week stump speakers of the Alvin O'Konsky and Harlan Kelly type sought to smear Phil La Follette in the last campaign by attributing responsibility lor the Dinneen and Buckman scancais to the laxness in his securities division...
...C.) Evening Star (Ind...
...3. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...The little fellow is held to the strict letter of the law, while the new securities division is willing to overlook the past record of the Byllesby Co...
...The Roosevelt prestige," according to the Richmond (Va...
...R. .1...
...And what sort of clothes, Willie...
...Heil on the Carpet (From The Janesville Gazette) GOV...
...Several of his appointments have been subject to criticism from within and without the party...
...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...
...When Newsweek on Feb...
...This newspaper believes that there are groups in this country that are posing as devotees of peace, civil noerties, democracy, and neutrality who are really using these principles as a convenient screen to conceal hidden ideologies that are antagonistic to peace, civil liberties, democracy, and neutrality...
...The matter has dragged along lor the past two years until suddenly it is announced that Mr...
...FOLLOWING the discovery three years *- ago that the Byllesby Co...
...Adept in the organization of innocent fronts, they are shifting their entire solar system in accord wilh the new position of the Moscow sun...
...There is an easy way to do it...
...hence the possibility of war, and that they are not popular because they involve a loss of trade which may come at a time of economic depression and unemployment...
...THE PROGRESSIVE has a plan for smoking out these fakers who are using peace, civil liberties, democracy, and neutrality to cover up their real objectives...
...He has chosen to be a one-man show and has lacked considerably in leadership even along his own chosen paths of action...
...Keep on Buying His Paper, You Nuts...
...The guests all managed to make horrible faces and at last the judge went up to a lady in the corner of the room...
...Looking up indignantly, the lady replied, "Excuse me, sir, I'm only a spectator...
...Do the brutal invasion of Finland and I the assault on peace which transpired there indicate that the Communists are devoted to peace...
...Does anyone have any confidence in the pretensions of Communists in behalf of civil liberties and democracy when the top hierarchy among the Commu-nists has time and again expressed only contempt for democracy and the American conception of liberty and freedom...
...The Bund sponsors rallies for "Neutrality and Civil Liberties" addressed by Wilhelm Kunze, its national vice-commander, and other officers...
...Zeiler says that the officials of the Byllesby Co...
...that eventually brought the Dinneen and Buckman scandals to the fore...
...Let someone arise at the peace meeting at the university or at a meeting of the "Wisconsin Conference For Social Legislation" and introduce a resolution which reads something like the following: "We pledge our devotion to the principle of peace, civil liberties, democracy, and neutrality...
...Moreover, this control also extends to sea-borne trade...
...Are Not Coming Committee" was organized in San Francisco by Harry Bridges' Maritime Federation Under a variety of names, local peace and civil liberty groups are springing up throughout the country...
...a license to do business in Wisconsin...
...The surprising thing...
...The result of the voting...
...And you suckers in Wisconsin continue to buy his paper,—a paper that continually seeks to put a stain on this great commonwealth...
...Wc denounce the callous violation of neutrality and the rights of small nations as represented by the invasion of Norway and Denmark by the Nazi war machine...
...Returns do not lend encouragement...
...That's good...
...C. K. Leith, chairman of the minerals and metals advisory committee to the assistant secretary of war, professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin and one of the world's leading authorities on mineral resources, comes to our aid...
...ROBERT R. MCCORMICK, the pompous boss of the Chicago Tribune, was interviewed by a Times-Herald reporter while in Washington, D. C. Discussing the recent primary elections, Col...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...At the present time the Communist is posing as a friend of these principles as a means of boring into unsuspecting groups where they can carry out machinations and intrigue intended to further the plans of the despot of Moscow...
...All new groups pass the same set of resolutions, adopt the "Yanks Are Not Coming" as their slogan and undertake to distribute the pamphlet of that name by Mike Quin, former editor of the "Western Worker'' now called the "Peoples World," but still the Communist organ on the West coast...
...Without urging us to commit ourselves now to a particular program, Prof...
...Heil's record has not been overly impressive...
...The president's victory in Wisconsin," states ' the New York Sun (Ind...
...This §1,000,000 was used for purposes of corruption throughout the United States...
...can only operate in Wisconsin by permission of the state...
...In other words, concessions could be made, but with the right to apply sanctions if peace is threatened, and even to use force if necessary...
...McCormick said: "Everybody's found the New Deal out, even in Wisconsin, the nuttiest state in the union, next to California...
...Zeller's easy alibi that death has made the housecieaning in the Byllesby concern that he contends...
...6 reported that the State, County, and Municipal Workers was one of the CIO unions (hat had "picked up the idea" of the 'Yanks Arc Not Coming' pamphlet, lU president, Abram Flaxer, wrote lengthily lo deny that his union had done anything more than mention (he pamphlet in Its magazine...
...Political tradition is defied by this movement in a burst of realism that commands admiration...
...There are many who feel that Mr...
...Sooner or later we would become involved as we were in the last war...
...to either third-party or third-term movements...
...as a dealer in securities in Wisconsin...
...With a third of the nation ill-fed It is gratifying to find that the Indians are still eating anything...
...IN VIEW of yesterday's headlines, what do the American people think of the possibility of having a young man like Mr...
...Among the sponsors of the bulletin are Stuart Chase, John T. Flynn, Ferdinand Lundberg, John Chamberlain, Harry Elmer Barnes, Marquis W. Childs, Oswald Garrison Villard, Selden Rodman, and Ernest L. Meyer...
...Dewey were he faced with keeping this country on an even keel through recurring situations like this...
...His self-styled good-will trips to advertise Wisconsin have brought severe criticism at home...
...The reason given was that the firm's bond was not satisfactory...
...The minority, however, believes that, on the showing made in Wisconsin, Mr...
...INURING the last campaign the Heil *^ spellbinders frequently promised that under a "business administration" such as the Republican candidate would give to Wisconsin there would be an alert securities division which would not tolerate a recurrence of such scandals in the future...
...ZELLER and Mr...
...IN VIEW of the fact that the Byllesby Co...
...In extenuation of his action in granting a permit to a company with a record like that of the Byllesby Co., Mr...
...HEIL is being called on the carpet In one of the most extraordinary political maneuvers on record—and a hopeful one, withal...
...6. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...suggests that Mr...
...In New York City, nine of the trade union sponsors of the "call to peace" are ako signers of the call for the Communist May Day conference Some trade union leaders, particularly in white-collar unions, have had to make the change in line carefully...
...Leith replies that they were only partially enforced and hence never effectively...
...Leith holds that we should at least begin "to see the problem in its broader outlines...
...Now that Republican leaders have taken the big step by casting tradition to the wind sufficiently to survey the situation, it is important that the poll of opinion be thorough and fair...
...It is clear that if the distribution of raw materials, and especially minerals, is to be considered in any future treaty of peace the United States cannot remain aloof...
...Nor can we be ignored...
...Schoolmaster—Ha, ho...
...When this editorial appears there will be noisy refutation of the charges herein made...
...Mistaken Identity At a games party a prize was offered for the one who could pull the ugliest face...
...Garner already is being interpreted as an anti-third teim protest, and the size of this vote is not to be made light of by third-term forces...
...Dewey is a capable district attorney, as his friends and foes will gladly admit...
...Evening Sun (Dem...
...Heil's new securities division granted H. M. Byllesby and Co...
...Willie—Imaginary clothes, sir...
...Before any such internationalization can be considered, there must be recognition of the problems to be faced...
...The Geological Society of America deserves thanks for having published his anaylsls...
...He Is right when he says that its consideration In the past has been "petty and piecemeal...
...And so we have a company that was found guilty of bribing a public official in Wisconsin and a company that is unable to give any satisfactory explanation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in its books now being given the opportunity to sell securities to investors in Wisconsin, despite the fact that not a single person has served a day in jail as a result of the earlier revelations...
...Persistent inquiries of Mr...
...Behind these groups are the individuals and organizations who always form the nucleus of Communist fronts...
...Roosevelt's chances for renomination are strengthened...
...What Would A District Attorney Do In International Crisis...
...This is an organization in which Communists arc an influential force...
...Joseph E. McWilliams, head of the Mobilizers, and James True, both notorious anli-Semites, have collaborated with Fritz Kuhn in his "neutrality" campaigns and represent the only type of innocent the Nazis can find...
...To operate in the labor movement, the "Yank...
...The three-to-one lead of the Roosevelt delegates over the slate supporting Vice President Garner is regarded by about three-fifths of the commenting press as insufficient to encourage third-term hopes...
...Garner's lack of appeal outside of Texas was demonstrated...
...The Geneva (N...
...Communist peace mancuvrrs of the last few months will culminate in their new fronts...
...Orders for thousands of copies were cancelled...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
