NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press ol the Nation Costly Cargo (By Ray Tucker In The Houghton, Mich., Dailv Mininr Gazette) TWO Republican governors may turn out to be...
...What They Miss '"THERE'S one thrill the wealthy never enjoy...
...Everybody's found the New Deal out," he said, "even to Wisconsin, the nuttiest state in the union, next to California...
...one fort missed the orders and is said to have sunk the cruiser Blucher...
...Also, he was one of th« few congressmen in Washington honest enough not to draw mileage both ways when he didn't make the trips, and voted for taxing congressmen* salaries along with the rest of the government employes who have been exempt...
...Get the idea out of jour minds, if it is there that ihe young men and women in state service here in Madison arc primarily interested in politics...
...He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Colonel, Aide-de-Camp, by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging...
...Why did you organize a Delaware corporation, Gov...
...Croix county Republican meeting tabled a resolution to endorse the record of Congressman Merlin Hull...
...By the Governor: JULIUS P. HEIL, Governor of Wis...
...Such extremists would undoubtedly go to any lengths, when they think the time is ripe, to destroy everything the president stands for, including his defense of democracy and civil liberties...
...What is the present purpose of this corporation...
...The halting of democracy in Europe may have the effect of halting democracy here, through tremendous economic pressure...
...The War Comes To Our Own Doorstep r*|THE brutal invasion of Denmark and ¦*¦ Norway by Nazi Germany brings the realities ol the war in Europe to our doorstep in a way that we cannot ignore...
...There are few who need complain of the narrowness of their minds if they will only do their best witli them.—Hobbes...
...Quisling, now 53, was the best pupil Norway's officers' school had had in 100 years...
...Dear Colonel -: ¦ As Governor of the State of Wisconsin, it has given me pleasure to honor you with the Rank of Colonel on ray military staff...
...Afterward the woman in the telegraph office who had addressed Mr...
...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...
...Norwegian forts were ordered not to fire...
...Minier replied "voters don't give a hang for a party label...
...It came out of a clear sky, without warning, like a bombshell...
...It is high time that democracy cease to practice hari-kiri...
...Maybe we are nutty...
...He has steadily insisted that he did not want to become a dictator...
...the conspiracy was so thoroughly and faultlessly organized that every key position in Oslo, including those commanding the actions of Norway's defending forts and ships, was in German hands before the invaders arrived...
...You do much talking at campaign time about keeping industry and business here in Wisconsin...
...Hull's record except his having been a Progressive in recent years...
...The joy of paying the last instalment on something...
...Democracy here must be supported by a sound economic foundation...
...T'HESE exhibits presented herewith are the real thing, with, of course, the name omitted...
...Is it a legal device contrived to evade the payment of income taxes in this state...
...Quisling turned up as Norway's self-proclaimed prime minister...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...Describing his staff and the wrecking of the department, Mr...
...The suit was brought in October, 1938, by five stockholders, in behalf of themselves and all other stockholders, who complained that the Byiiesby corporation bought up securities of individual power companies and then sold them through its chain of subsidiaries until they reached Northern State Power...
...Young men, fired with enthusiasm over their opportunity for public service, they looked out the windows of our offices and saw a glorious sunrise...
...Blond Hitler (From "Uncensored") ON May 16, 1933, Major Vidkun Quisling and 50 faithful followers organized the Norwegian National Coalition (Nasjonal Samling...
...In the three elections since then, the party ha* not been able to win a single seat in the Storting...
...The suit, which named 36 officers of the company, asked removal of those found guilty of breach of trust in the transactions as well as restoration to stockholders of profits proved to be illegally gained...
...Heil...
...When everybody gets to be a colonel, who's going to take orders from whom...
...The fact that Norwegian Nazis were planted all over the country in strategic places, ready to do the bidding of the Nazi war lords when they arrived upon the scene, is only another indication to the rest of the world of the danger of having such groups actively engaged in subversive activities...
...Our economy to be healthy and .sound must have an active foreign trade...
...Congressman Hull was elected to congress the first time as a Republican and also a number of times as secretary of state...
...So, if Wisconsin and Michigan fto Democratic next fall don't blame the Republican presidential candidate...
...It is not true that our stale service is filled with a bunch of bums...
...And I do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders as Colonel...
...Then someone came along and pulled down the blinds...
...They are glad to render public service...
...Governor...
...That is one reason, for Wisconsin Is proving much more satisfactory as an Industrial site than the high-taxed, high-priced, high-pressure areas around Chicago...
...What happened in Norway should be given careful thought by those who think that gigantic defense programs, big guns, battleships, and armaments will be sufficient to withstand Nazi penetration...
...A NY morning now you may find an ¦'"•official looking envelope at your front door and you will open it and read the following: Colonel -, -, Wisconsin...
...These are hard facts of importance to the United States, and must be faced, no matter how many times the ultra-isolationists tell us that what happens in Europe is no concern of ours...
...Heil has antagonized all Republican factions in his state...
...When Hitler's legions marched into the Norwegian capital of Oslo, it was reported that there were Nazis present in the city who greeted the gray-clad troops with arms outstretched in the Hitler salute...
...I hope that you will receive this commission in the spirit in which it is given, and that you will be pleased to perform all of the duties entailed as aide-de-camp to the Commander in Chief of the Wisconsin National Guard...
...News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press ol the Nation Costly Cargo (By Ray Tucker In The Houghton, Mich., Dailv Mininr Gazette) TWO Republican governors may turn out to be costly and dangerous cargo on the G. O. P.'s presidential ship next November...
...Even in a state like Wisconsin where civil service has functioned effectively for 27 years, public service possesses a low estate, due to the bitter political campaigns that have raged almost continuously...
...Those not in power at the moment have found the defenseless civil servants ideal targets for their political canards...
...Quisling is a Nordic prototype of Adolf Hitler...
...The effective way is to expose the traitors in this country who seek to spread Nazi doctrines and to make democracy work through economic and social reform so that foreign ideologies cannot take root...
...Until public service does carry with it some degree of prestige, and efficient services rendered result in some little, public recognition, persons who possess any self-respect and capacity will find the rewards in other fields more attractive...
...Only one mine-layer which did not receive the false orders went about its business—and sank tne cruiser Emden...
...of which you are the president shows that the company paid a dividend of $15,797 to the Heil Investment Co., a Delaware corporation, of which you are also the president...
...Dickinson of Michigan...
...We haven't been able to get together enough to build up the political machines Illinois has...
...P.S...
...Hull (From The Durand, Wis., Courier-Wedge) ETHAN B. MINIER, well known St...
...This constant barrage has created in the minds of the public, the legislature, and newly elected governors a picture of public service that not only discourages anyone from making it a career, but also results in inadequate salaries, inadequate appropriations, and lack of support of administrative policies...
...The letter was really received by one of Gov...
...There is a lot of Nazism here, too, among certain big business interests that seem to hate President Roosevelt so much that they would not mind having a Hitler...
...Of course we look "nutty" to him...
...Gov...
...Including his characterization of New York City as another Sodom and Gomorrah, require no repetition here...
...Norwegian boats were ordered to put their men ashore unarmed and did so without questioning the authenticity of the order...
...Stowe...
...Governor...
...Denmark is out of our trade area now, and so is Norway...
...According to Mr...
...Bertie McCormick's inane assaults on our political morals, our intelligence and everything about us...
...Attest: Ralph M. Immel...
...UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...He is bigger and blonder than Hitler, but he combs his hair the same way...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM I. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities with a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation...
...But Mr...
...During the six months ending Mar...
...His philosophy is a conglomeration of ideas borrowed from all the totalisms, from the New Deal and even from the Technocrats...
...But such steps must be taken...
...If you want to be a Colonel, Just come along witli me, By the bright, shining light of the moon...
...But he has also insisted that parliamentarism is dead...
...of Chicago a clean bill of health and has permitted the company to sell securities in Wisconsin again...
...The conservatives defeated Phil in the gubernatorial race and with any kind of luck they think they can beat Brother Bob for the senate...
...You get a lot of newspaper ink for going up and down the country claiming to be a booster for the sale of Wisconsin cheese and other products...
...of State...
...Before the brutal aggressors strucK, these nations were close to the United States in trade and friendly relations...
...These people should remember that Nazis fight not only with guns but also with propaganda...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...Spending vast sums beyond the needs of adequate national defense is not the way to stop Hitlerism and Nazism from becoming a threat in this country...
...He has championed the cause of the dairy farmers in congress, and while liberal in his views ha* never been a radical...
...Dickinson's merry mishaps...
...He became minister of defense...
...Zeller, Please Note THE Wisconsin Securities division has given the Byiiesby Co...
...You're in the Army Now— Or You Will Be...
...10...
...He thinks we're "nuts...
...At the present trade level we have millions of unemployed...
...I never saw such a fine bunch of people as those who are serving our state, many at small salaries, when industries would be glad to pay (licm $5,000 or more a year...
...Julius P. Heil were announced, and it is being predicted that before next November everybody, or almost everybody, will be an honored member of the executive office's military staff...
...The difference between the degree of control Quisling wants and full dictatorship need not bt taken seriously...
...Stowe's Story On Norway Betrayal (From The Nation) THE greatest journalistic scoop of the war to date is Leland Stowe's account in the New York Post and Chicago Daily News of how-Oslo was betrayed to the Nazis and fell into their hands with scarcely the firing of a shot...
...That is at the rate of over $216,000,000 a year...
...To say that we have no interest, other than sentiment, in what happens to friendly nations abroad is to fool ourselves...
...Dear Mr...
...TTERE in this country this loss of for-¦"--*• eign trade is a serious threat to our economic well-being...
...Last week...
...The "certificate" as reproduced above followed a few days later, together with a cute little emblem for the lapel...
...Just plain nuts...
...the Adjutant General...
...He is opposed to our entering the European war on one side or the other, and against the notorious reciprocal trade treaties with other countries through which farm products are dumped into thi*, country at notoriously low prices so eastern manu* facturers can make big profits...
...But fifteen hundred Germans walked into Oslo unchallenged...
...They arc only a remote interest in politics...
...It is undoubtedly preparing such miracles in other small nations whose independence the Reich aspires to "protect...
...He has made a distinguished record in public service, and is easily tha outstanding congressman from Wisconsin in Washington today...
...So probably are Sweden and Finland, depending upon the outcome of the war in the north...
...To the governor's attention, we commend a statement which appeared in a book written in 1932 by Arthur J. Alt-meyer, chairman of the federal Social Security board, who is well known in Wisconsin through his long and brilliant service with the state Industrial commission...
...May we call the attention of Vern Zeller, the director of the Wisconsin Securities division, to the following Associated Press dispatch from Minneapolis: MINNEAPOLIS, Apr...
...But he has also tried to cut widows' pensions and teachers' salaries and to eliminate the merit system...
...Like Hitler, he is a poor but magnetic orator...
...Mccormick, being a true product of Illinois, doesn't understand and appreciate those things...
...There's only one thing that worries us...
...5—(/P>—A settlement of $252,000 in the $5,000,000 suit of stockholders against Northern State Power companies of Minnesota and Delaware and ihe H. M. Byiiesby Co., holding corporation, was approved today by District Judge Frank E. Reed...
...governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...Such strength as his party has comes from students and white collar workers...
...We have been too busy with other things to get down to serious graft...
...Except for his ineptitude, the G. O. P. figures that it would have a swell chance of smashing the La Follette dynasty...
...With crushing international events following each other in astounding succession, it may be a matter of life and death to our democracy...
...Howevei, if any of his ideas conflicted with Hitler's, he would adjust them readily...
...What's that...
...Fred Zimmerman...
...Also, he favors sane economy in government spending and lightening the burdens of the taxpayer...
...On Saturday the 124th and 125th colonelcy appointments by Gov...
...The "certificate" as reproduced above commands all national guardsmen and offiers to be "obedient" to the orders of the Heil colonels...
...If Italy goes pro-Nazi, we can add Italian trade to the minus list...
...Their policies—and attitudes—may endanger the opposition's chance of carrying their commonwealth...
...Then a few days later along will come an impressive looking document bearing the official seal of the state...
...Heil has been such a poor governor and such an unlucky politico that the senator may squeeze through...
...Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland were good customers of the United States...
...We should extend that program in every way possible and stimulate exchange of goods with those nations of the world with whom we can still trade...
...He put it that way just the other day In an interview on the political situation...
...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...
...Above and beyond this trade loss is the threat of a blackout of trade relations with other threatened countries,— Belgium, Holland, Rumania, and Switzerland...
...Z. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits...
...Trib Attacks on Wisconsin (From The Manitowoc Herald-Times) WE'VE always thought that the Chicago Tribune's continual attacks on Wisconsin were caused by the fear that Illinois industry would move wholesale into southern Wisconsin...
...Is not this something to think about in our own country where we find a retired general of the United States army being openly associated with forces that plan to overturn the government...
...Our newspapers are all pretty honest and try to play fair—losing some of the advantages the Colonel obviously sees in unfairness...
...And the "gigantic conspiracy" itself is the most sensational coup so far carried out by the masters of cunning in Berlin...
...The Nazi Traitors' Betrayal Of Norway I7ROM Norway come disconcerting -¦- stories of traitors who have been discovered operating in behalf of the Nazis and who helped make the invasion by Nazi troops easier because they betrayed their own people...
...The loss of friendly foreign customers who buy $500,000,000 worth of peacetime goods from us mea-Vi a cancellation in this country, on the basis of conservative estimates, of $300,000,000 in wages and 300,000 jobs...
...For 15 years he wandered around Soviet Russia, mostly as first assistant in Fridtjof Nansen's famine relief activities...
...J, PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...But, then, democracy looks "nutty" to Hitler...
...The two state executives who are worrying the party's G. H. Q. are Mr...
...Blame the governors of those states...
...It will turn out to be your "Certificate of Appointment," and it will read like this: CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT The Governor of the State of Wisconsin To all who shall sec these presents, greeting: Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity and abilities of---, I do appoint him Colonel, Aide-de-Camp in the service of the National Guard of the State of Wisconsin, to rank as such from the - day of - nineteen hundred and forty...
...RACING reality, it behooves this coun-•*¦ try to take steps that will soften the blows that are depriving us of foreign markets...
...This means lowered tariffs within and without the reciprocal agreements, to which our Old Guardsmen will vehemently object...
...He is ascetic, mystical, intense and fanatically determined...
...The extension of the scourge ol the Nazi and Soviet dictators, which they call "protective custody," removes from BLOCKED our world the unhappy nations that fall victim to their attacks...
...Given under my hand at the City of Madison, this - day of —- in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty...
...in discussing the state servcie, hit the nail squarely on the head when he said: "What is needed most of all is an elevation of public service in the public mind...
...Some Required Reading For the Governor ]|yf AY The Progr^sive suggest a bit of required reading for the governor of this state, who seems almost incapable of making a public speech without hurling brickbats at state employes, and who has threatened to close up the state capitol for a month as an "economy" gesture...
...CO, apparently, goes the Hell version ^ of the rollicking Wisconsin song...
...For the governor's benefit, we might also quote from the statement made by William F. Ashe early in the Heil administration when he was retiring from the state commerce department, at which the Heil administration had directed a legislative blitzkrieg...
...We're too nutty not to be honest and sincere and anxious to have good government...
...If these countries succumb to the dictators' war blight, the total trade loss will reach about §267,000,000 for a six months period, or over a half a billion dollars of foreign trade per year...
...No city in the state has anything like the Kelley-Nash machine or the old Thompson machine that the Colonel gets along so well with...
...Chairman Bill Hawley, editor of Th3 Baldwin Bulletin, apparently saw nothing wrong with Mr...
...what they want U results...
...Heil of Wisconsin and Mr...
...The reciprocal trade treaty program that has been in operation for several years and was recently extended has done much to build foreign markets for our products, agricultural and industrial...
...These are, therefore, authentic documents,—the real McCoy...
...Since this thing is becoming universal and anybody almost anywhere may open their mailbox and discover that they have been suddenly drafted into the Heil grenadiers, The Capital Times believes that the citizens of Wisconsin should be prepared for this eventuality —just as people in Europe carry gas masks about with them in case of air raids...
...Aide-de-Camp and he is to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future Governor of the State of Wisconsin, or the General or other Superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of war...
...All over Norway, including Narvik, the German espionage accomplished similar if smaller miracles...
...Two days later 20.000 more German troops were landed...
...With their governments dominated or threatened with domination by the dictators, our friendly exchange of goods is imperiled...
...J. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...The Nazi occupation of strategic towns, it was said, was facilitated by traitors in positions of authority who betrayed their trust...
...They charged the company paid exorbitant prices for the securities...
...Don't be surprised if the lightning strikes, and you're in the army now...
...Ilril, Goicriior of Wisconsin, S/a/r Capitol, Madison, Wis...
...Gov...
...ioiernor: The 1939 income tax return filed by the Heil Co...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...On Endorsing Rep...
...With best wishes to you and yours for continued good health and long life, I' am Sincerely yours, JULIUS P. HEIL, Governor...
...Heil's most recently appointed colonels...
...Croix county Republican, was very' much put out when the St...
...If you are so loyal to Wisconsin, why do you find it necessary to go to Delaware where you organize a corporation to which you send profits made by your Milwaukee concern...
...Altmeyer...
...Mine controls were cut...
...An Inquiry, Mr...
...Why, Mr...
...Ashe told a legislative committee: "I've got one of the best staffs you ever saw...
...But it seems that more than that lies behind Col...
...Stowe in English spoke German...
...So we have decided to show how the thing is done—the mechanics of transforming plain Mister John Voter into Colonel John Voter...
...I alius I...
...1 of this year, we sold §108,300,000 to these four countries...
...You can't say The Progressive didn't warn you...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 17
