THE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says By WILLIAM T. EVJUE OUR fellow townsman, Glenn Frank, over the air and on the speaking platform, frequently returns to his favorite theme.—that under Roosevelt domination and...
...One rate concession or revision for the old Insull or Byllesby empire in Wisconsin would knock any savings made by the dismissal of state employes into a cocked hat...
...Synthetic vitamins and hormones...
...Journal for the statement that inventive genius and business enterprise have done quite as well in the last 10 years a-s In any comparable period In recent decades...
...The corporate devices which have enabled the Insiders who are managing big business to have more power than those who own the business has been responsible for many of the abusas that government sought to eliminate through such agencies as the SEC, the federal trade commission, the inter-state commerce commission, and the communication commission...
...Half a dozen new plastics and resins...
...This is now a favorite theme of Republican editors whose financial pages, however, belie the statement...
...left a trail of bankruptcies, broken business men, suicides, and strangulation because of the ruthlessness of Standard Oil in wiping out competition...
...He has forgotten more about income tax law than many of the newer appointees will ever know...
...Is now bombarding newspaper offices of the country with mat-terlal concerning the Iniquities of the Mexican government in confiscating the oil properties of American corporations...
...Kenneth S. White of River Falls, announces that he fwill be a candidate for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket...
...The Morehouse resignation will mean the almost complete disintegration of the rates and research department since two other key men, Frank P. Hyer, assistant chief, and Barkley J. Sickler, chief statistician, recently left for federal jobs on the Bonneville dam project...
...and Hoover, during which private enterprise and big business had full sway, the American people got hamburger...
...The formative years of the Standard Oil Co...
...Further evidence of disintegration In the state service comes in an editorial by a well-known conservative Republican editor...
...Did they not do it by corrupting earlier dictators in Mexico...
...Frank contends that American business is waiting to get the go-signal and that a vast reservoir of initiative and enterprise will be unleashed if only the social controls set up by the Roosevelt administration can be gotten out of the way...
...Evidently the baritone voice of the new mayor of Milwaukee was not able to soothe the warring elements In his own crowd ,aud now it is reported that the Devine and Bellinghausen supporters may bring on civil war in the Zeidler non-partisan ranks at the Milwaukee city hall...
...Incidentally, if the new mayor of Milwaukee wants to find places to shave off expenses in his economy campaign, he might pause a moment to take a lock at the expense vouchers of lobbyists who are sept to Madison by the city of Milwaukee at each session of the legislature...
...Those at the convention labeled the hamburger as a depression delicacy that reached the pinnacle of its popularity at th;- helghth of the depression and is now being supplanted...
...This theme seemed to run through the whole election and men who had been in office a long time were either defeated or their votes were substantially reduced...
...Fluorescent .ighting...
...And we are indebted to another good conservative paper, the Milwaukee Sentinel, for a minor but...
...What the big industrial and financial overlords really want, and they have retained Mr...
...And now that Mexico is seeking to protect its natural resources for the benefit of the Mexican people, the big oil companies are trying to create propaganda in this country to force the United States government to make demands upon Mexico...
...The changes cited above are illustrative of the demoralization that is taking place in the state service under the guise of economy...
...which arrives at this desk and leaves this writer cold...
...Witness last week's city hall developments in Milwaukee and Madison...
...Harry J. Devine who held that position for the last four years...
...WINNING candidates who throw their hats in the air and beam with joy as the returns are compiled on election night soon find that every silver lining has a cloud...
...John L. Bohn as president of the common council and unseating Aid...
...The jump from hamburger to steak must have been brought about through initiative and enterprise somewhere...
...The youthful Zeidler succeeded in capturing and consolidating the sympathy of youth In Milwaukee and this was no small factor in the final result...
...Polarized glass...
...He has ?vidently thought twice before following out his eariler intention of seeking Merlin Hull's seat in congress...
...Frank and his associate spokesmen in the Republican party would have the people believe that private enterprise has been dead in the last 10 years...
...Sulfanilamide and sulfapyri-dlnc, drugs that kill the deadly streptococcus germs...
...We are indebted to the Wall St...
...In an astonishing upset in Milwaukee, a coalition of eight insurgent non-partisans and seven Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation aldermen seized control of Milwaukee's new common council...
...They seem utterly oblivious of additional costs that will come to them in utility rate schedules rigged for the private utilities in a department infiltrated with political Jobholder* and utility stooges...
...Bob Coe of the Whitewater Rcgistei, who says: "Wisconsin last an efficient public servant when Horace F. Edmands resigned from the tax commission rather than move to Milwaukee as ordered in the recent shake-up...
...A paper covered valume of 165 pages carries the title "Denials of Justice," an-.' discusses the decision of the supreme court of Mexico in validating the appropriating of the oil properties for Mexicon use rather than for foreign exploitation...
...F. P. A. in his column in the New-York Post says: "Now that Germany has taken under its protective wing so many small countries, many a work of music or literature will have to be renamed...
...If ever an organization was built on injustice, Standard Oil had that record...
...significant sidelight...
...His ruddy face has been familiar In the lobbying crowd that descends on Madison during each session of the legislature...
...REVELL, our capitol sleuth, reports that Edward W. Morehouse, director of the rates and research division of the state public service commission, will soon resign to take a position with the Associated Gas and Electric Co...
...Synthetic rubber...
...The Standard OH Co...
...of New York...
...The extent to which management, rathei than ownership, dominates American business today was illustrated at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co . In New York yesterday...
...And in Oslo, the Norwegians will probably be compelled to change the words of their national antheym "Ja Vi Elskcr" to Ja VI Heilsker...
...We predict that there will be more dishonesty in income tax returns this year than in any year in decades...
...MR...
...In Eerlin, for instance, they probably play Chopin's Polonazi...
...Whom do the big fat boys who are close t the administration have to fear...
...And here again the state can lose, in a few crooked and overlooked income tax returns, many times more than the savings that will be effected in the closing of the income tax offices...
...One need only recall Miss Tar-bell's volumes to get a picture of the corruption of public officials, the price wars, the secret rebates, the pressure on bankers to freeze out competitors, and the general record of Standard Oil in attaining monopoly proportions...
...The Editor Says By WILLIAM T. EVJUE OUR fellow townsman, Glenn Frank, over the air and on the speaking platform, frequently returns to his favorite theme.—that under Roosevelt domination and regimentation private enterprise is being stifled and that the creative talents of American business have been deadened...
...Journal, the newspaper bible of the big-wig financiers who control the Republican party, has an unconscious habit of occasionally demolishing in its news columns the contentions made in the editorial columns...
...Hull wounld make mince meat of this reactionary upstart who used to maka some pretentions of having Progressive leanings...
...The coalition also succeeded in retiring a good regular Republican...
...Frank to say it in a sugary way, is to return to the glorious days of the pre-1929 period when business had the opportunity to exploit the American people without any governmental Interference...
...But that has no consideration when politics creeps in...
...The coalition succeeded in electing Aid...
...If the Standard Oil and other oil interests want to base their appeals on justice, it might be well to ask how these American oil concerns obtained control of these properties in the first instance...
...Edmands has been assessor of incomes in Racine for 25 years and courteously and carefully looked after this district...
...A luncheon chat with Assemblyman Andy Biemiller of Milwaukee yesterday and he put some illuminating touches on the recent Milwaukee election...
...Some propaganda from the Standard Oil Co...
...The A. T. <St T. has 635.000 stockholders and yet only 300 people were in attendance at the stockholders meeting Yesterday's meeting illustrates how little ownership has to say in the direction of these big corporations...
...The Wisconsin Restaurant association is holding a convention in Milwaukee and out of the convention's proceedings the Sentinel reports that the popularity of the 5-cent hamburger Ls on the wane because people, having more money to spend, are turning to steak sandwiches and more expensive snacks...
...Colored home movies...
...Leonard P. Bellinghausen, as city clerk...
...Television...
...Unfortunately, thousands of people in the state of Wisconsin are being fooled by this fake economy that is being given so much ballyhoo by the Heil press agents There is evidence that in some quarters in the state the governor has gained politically by his assault on state service because there are thousands in Wisconsin who naively believe that their taxes will be materially lowered through the dismissal of hundreds of state employes...
...Witness this: Streamline trains...
...Biemiller interprets the election result as a revolt of youth.—a feeling of dissatisfaction among '-oung men and women which took the form of opposing older men who have held public office for some time...
...Synthetic hosiery replacing silk...
...Glass building blocks...
...We say that tr.e Standard Oil appeal leaves as cold because the Standard Oil organization should bi the last one to deplore denials of Justice...
...Trans-oceanic passenger air service...
...Fiber glass for insulation and textiles...
...After 12 yeais of Haidlng, Coolldge...
...Income tax offices are being demobilized over the state under the pretense of Heil economy...
...And now the super-reactionary of the state senate...
...New plywoods, stronger than steel...
...The Progressive ventures the statement that the amount spent by lobbyists for the city of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee school board, and the county of Milwaukee would represent a tidy sum...
...Bellinghausen was particularly obnoxious to the FLF because of th3 recent activities of the city clerk's office in favor of the new mayor and against Dan Hoan...
...Has it occurred to the citizens of Wisconsin that this is a part of an insidious scheme to neutralize and gut the income tax for the benefit of the fat boys who are close to this administration...
...The Wall St...
...Devine is the typical big-town, city hall politician...
...Frank and his associates are also assiduously boosting the Republican theme that, despite the billions spent by Roosevelt, conditions aren't much better than when he took hold...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 17
