NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions front the Press of the Nation Primary Results (From The Nation THE "Draft Roosevelt" forces look to Illinois, which holds its presidential primary next...
...The pomp and circumstance of his inauguration was in keeping with his campaign...
...but that Is unlikely...
...The Von Ribbentrop maneuver, staged with all the melodrama associated with Nazi propaganda, will not go down witn in toll ifcnt...
...Those who are familiar with the local situation know that there is an influential Communist element in the Madison CIO council...
...supervisors or mayors...
...and It also showed that Mr...
...the people of Milwaukee and of Wisconsin will want continued the honesty and integrity of municipal government which was Dan Hoan's contribution...
...As for qualifications, Kresky can claim with good reason that he knows something of the ways of Washington...
...There has been talk of Johns seeking the senatorial post against Bob La Follette...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...The burglar you find in your home is usually responsible for the burglary and can hardly give competent evidence when he attempts to blame some other person...
...They will not be above the use of treachery and deceit In seeking world justification of their dastardly act...
...ALTER KOHLER was a sturdy and ™ a militant champion of his philosophy of life...
...How's the pain in the neck?'' "Oh...
...Buyers also mark up their bids for the various kinds, types and grades of cheese, all standard, and then trading begins...
...With the blood of Norway dripping | from their own dirty hands, the Nazis may seek to point the finger of guilt at the Allies...
...Sometimes sellers shade their prices a little to move stocks, but there is no underselling, and more frequently bidders come up a little in their offers...
...It is unfortunate, here in the United States, that it seems necessary for our people to personalize our feelings on political, economic, social and religious questions...
...Who knows at what moment President Roosevelt may want the Wisconsin legislature to "meet any situation that might arise...
...A Last Salute To A Worthy Opponent fT IS an American tradition that we must speak well of the dead...
...Both sides were still claiming victory in the state...
...Then the farmers and cheesemakers organized, put their own price at a level that allowed a profit and marked their offerings on the blackboard at the bi-weekly market...
...This is the type of argument made by Von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and spokesman for the Nazi war lords who brutally invaded the peaceful little country of Norway and are now laying it in,ruins...
...3. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...Kroenke wanti to...
...News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions front the Press of the Nation Primary Results (From The Nation THE "Draft Roosevelt" forces look to Illinois, which holds its presidential primary next week, for a landslide vote that -will dispel any third-term doubts in the white house, but co far the Democratic presidential primaries have revealed nothing we did not know before...
...ACURRENT trick of the Communists, whose line now requires that they conceal their own identity and to work undercover, is to solicit funds by selling buttons and propaganda "bonds" issued by organizations using plausible titles with an anti-war slant...
...Heil Goes International (From the Milwaukee Journal) GOV...
...Men familiar with both the cheese situation In Wisconsin and the citrus situation in Florida believe that organized growers operating through a single sales agency would likewise protect themselves against prices below cost of production...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...His right to sit as governor was challenged because a large amount of money had been spent to bring about his election...
...Kohler drew the concentrated fire of those in our society wno believed that the application oi tne technique of big business to the problems of government would be at the expense of the welfare of all the people...
...We suspect that the readers of this editorial are already guessing that this is preliminary to what we will say on the death of Walter J. Kohler, former governor of Wisconsin and an industrial leader of national proportions...
...Liberals Delighted To Get Rid Of Communist 'Kiss Of Death' ONE of the political irritations that used to bother liberals in the past was the intrusion of noisy Communists who insisted in attaching themselves to liberal movements and appointing themselves as spokesmen for liberal ideas...
...Heil undertook turns out heavy beyond all reckoning...
...Organizations like this, which are adroit at enticing unwary liberals into becoming sponsors or members, are really nothing more than fronts in this country for Communists and Nazis that really pull the strings...
...And in the evolutionary scheme of things, good probably followed when an E. L. Philipp or a Walter Kohler arrived to ask a government that has been under the label of La Follette to give an accounting...
...Germany has been the brutal and unconscionable aggressor...
...The bitter invective of life was suddenly transformed into fulsome eulogy in death...
...The Kohler strike brought many hours of care and worry to Mr...
...It was a good thing for Wisconsin when Robert M. La Follette came along and challenged the powers that be that were entrenched in the days when Phile-tus Sawyer, Henry J. Payne, and Charles F. Pfister were the symbols of power in this state...
...One of the reasons dates back to the last session of the state legislature when he repeatedly refused to act as an obstructionist against Republican sponsored legislation just because he wasn't on the same side of the political fence...
...HELLO, dear...
...He thinks it may not be legal...
...Kohler accumulated unpleasant experiences in seeking to solve the problems of business and government in the light of his own philosophy and environment...
...Kresky As A Candidate [From The Marinette Eagle-Star] STATE SENATOR MICHAEL KRESKY Of Green Bay, former Marinette resident, has indicated he will seek the Progressive nomination for congressman in this district...
...These organizations often use high sounding names and claim to be defenders of peace, civil liberties, and democracy...
...Kresky will have much Republican sentiment to overcome, however, regardless of whether Joshus> L. Johns or some one else runs on the Republican ticket...
...So more than likely it will be a race between Johns and Kresky if the Republican sentiment does not wane...
...Walter J. Kohler encountered all this when he entered the political forum in Wisconsin...
...Kohler...
...Then, too, he has a host of friends in his adopted home of Green Bay and his former home of Marinette...
...This has unquestionably made many friends for Kresky in the district...
...On the subject of war, the UAW-CIO recommends the leaflet entitled, 'The CIO And War,' published by the CIO...
...And yet this tradition frequently brings a question of ethical nicety to the American editor who is confronted with a second tradition—that a newspaper must comment editorially when a citizen of national and statewide importance dies...
...It is better that way than when a state is enslaved by a political machine as other states have been and there is no healthy opposition to demand an accounting of stewardship...
...F IKE others before him, Gov...
...HEIL says, scripturally, that it is pretty hard to serve two masters and orders a" survey to learn how many assemblymen and senators are also al'Jermen...
...And Mr...
...If he polls a vote far ahead of his rivals in Illinois, it will be hard to take the nomination away from him...
...Robert M. La Follette and Victor L. Berger became symbols of radicalism...
...But his opponents maintained that his modern village represented a form of paternalism that was shrewdly reared as insurance against a more enlightened program of industrial democracy, organization of his workers, and in lieu of good wages...
...The international recommends that where locals desire to circulate pamphlets or leaflets dealing with public questions they use material published by the CIO or by our international union...
...Newspapers that had bitterly, and unfairly,.assailed the motives and the character of Robert M. La Follette in ate, suddenly discovered that he was a great man in death...
...but when they masquerade as something else and sneak into the councils of the Farmer-Labor association which has nothing in common with the Communists, there is only one course left—drive them out and bar them...
...In an earlier day...
...These fronts are being used to serve purposes that are far removed from peace, civil liberties, and democracy...
...Old Bob La Follette would never want It said that he died of a broken heart because he encountered so many disappointments, so much treachery, and endured so much calumny and bitterness...
...The world now knows that the Nazis are not above the use of lies, treachery, and deceit in sustaining their position...
...Zeidler Fanfare (From The Rhinetander News) MAYOR ZEIDLER took office as successor to Milwaukee's Dan Hoan amid much fan fare...
...Americans who are sincere in their love for peace, democracy, and civil liberties must be on constant guard against such influences and must work to expose them for what they are...
...It is the same position in which many conservative Wisconsin newspapers found themselves upon the death of Robert M. La Follette Sr...
...When the Progressives were entrenched in power, the conservatives trained tne spotlight of publicity on their doings...
...We believe that Mr...
...This pamphlet, without being identified as to its Communist source, has been widely distributed...
...That keener labor leaders are getting wise to Communist propaganda of this kind is indicated by a statement by R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers, which was published in a recent issue of the union's official publication the Auto Worker...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...The vote In Wisconsin, as earlier in New Hampshire, showed that the president could have the Democratic nomination if he wanted it...
...He believed implicitly that the people would be immeasurably better off if they would be content to entrust their welfare with the men whom Mr...
...Assuming that he wins it, it is not unlikely that he will give Congressman Joshua L. Johns a battle royal for the post...
...Judge Gary became the symbol and the target for those who disapproved of the industrial autocracy represented by the steel trust...
...A USTRIA . . Czechoslovakia . . . Po-land . . . Denmark . . . Norway...
...Kohler stood his ground and battled resolutely for the philosophy of government and of life to which his environment naturally brought him...
...Von Ribbentrop, With Blood on His Hands, Accuses Allies HPHE INVADER who ruthlessly broKe into the home and raped the woman of the household now says that he found evidence to prove that another aggressor planned to break into the house and rape the woman first...
...Heil thinks Assemblyman Kroenke, who has just been elected an alderman in Milwaukee, ought not to resign from the legislation as Mr...
...Gov...
...The Communists are playing a similar game with their anti-war fronts...
...MOSE—Ah sho' is glad Ah wasn't King Solomon...
...Here in Madison, it is reported, the CIO council distributed this pamphlet...
...He served at one time as secretary to the late Congressman Schneider and was on the secretarial staff of Senator La Follette on another occasion...
...The name Rockefeller became a substitute for monopoly and its abuses...
...They used treachery and deceit in their Invasion of Norway...
...The combination of these and other factors should make him a strong candidate...
...An alderman ought not be s state legislator—except when Europe Is at war...
...There is no objection to Communists or any other group launching a political movement that represents their own principles—if they have anv —and coming out on their own power: that is the American way...
...These unwelcome Communist camp followers provided reactionary newspapers with many opportunities to write smear headlines aimed at liberalism, in political campaigns Communist endorsement of liberal candidates tended to have a "kiss of death" effect and liberal candidates were kept busy repudiating Communist bouquets as fast as they were thrown...
...THE COURTS—Liberalization and reform of the federal judiciary, including the V. S. supreme court, to curb the threat to democratic government that lies in judicial autocracy and usurpation of power...
...We have always had a tendency to hold up human beings as symbols of those things which we are for and against and we direct more of our attention and feelings to these symbols than we do to the systems and philosophies of which these men are a part...
...The Nazi invader of Norway, with blood on his hands, asks the world to look in another direction and place the guilt for the blood on his own bands on the man who wasn't there...
...With the international situation what Is its," says the governor...
...The Progressive acknowledges the passing of a militant champion for what he believed to be best for state and nation...
...People today should be doubly careful about being taken in by groups and organizations working behind a smoke screen of propaganda...
...The Farmer-Labor movement is progressive and practical and seeks to achieve changes in the economic conditions by legislative measures, and not by revolutionary tactics...
...People should be warned before they buy buttons or "bonds" or otherwise make contributions to such self-styled "keep out of war" organizations to be sure to know with whom they are dealing and what are the real influences behind such drives...
...UNDOUBTEDLY the readers of this newspaper sense the position in which The Progressive finds itself in commenting on the life of Mr...
...Kohler would not ask for sympathy on this score...
...For example, there is at the university a "League for Liberal Action" which announces an "anti-war" drive and sets out to sell membership buttons and literature...
...But whatever else may be said about the Allies, the fact remains that in this war Germany has consistently been the aggressor against small nations and continues to be...
...and the governor has left the third district without a congressman for 10 months and a half...
...Garner commands a sizable minority In the party...
...He drew this fire in the same way that Sen...
...Kohler died of a broken heart because of the great disappointments he encountered...
...Now, however, the party line has changed...
...Kresky would be acceptable to numerous voters who do not ordinarily tolerate the ways of the Progressives...
...One of the big factors of propaganda is deception...
...He was a product of his environment,—the environment of big business...
...Certainly the present system or lack of it does not protect them, so a better way ought to be the ambition of all concerned...
...La Follette drew the bitter opposition of those who contended that the people prospered when big business prospered and that, therefore, government should not interfere with the sway of big business...
...Just as an artful football play sometimes depends upon deception, so propaganda becomes effective when its real source is concealed...
...The Communists formerly posed as great supporters of President Roosevelt, regardless of frequent New Deal repudiations...
...And the funniest thing about it is that the legislature isn't in session but congress is...
...Every great leader in public life wno attempts to promulgate his own concept of life must prepare to face the attack of those who are not in agreement with him...
...I think It better for Wisconsin to have a full legislature, so that it can promptly meet any situation that miaht arise...
...If Dewey makes as good a showing as he did In Wisconsin, his chances for the G. O. P. nomination will be increased...
...It contrasted sharply with the prosaic and usually dull manner in which Hoan went about the businessof giving Wisconsin's metropolis a clean, business-like administration...
...Similarly, when the conservatives were in power...
...6. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...Kohler would be among the first to recognize that out ol the bitter clashes of different philosophies and ideologies some dross was eliminated and that government became better because of these experiences...
...Rastus—Whaffcr yo' has dat 'pinion...
...The result is an organized, stabilized system that protects the producer against losses and guards the buyer against unreasonable fluctuations so that he can resell with confidence in the price levels...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...Mose—Huh...
...Kohler by hastening into print to state that Mr...
...people throughout the world...
...This pamphlet is not sponsored by the CIO and the UAW-CIO does not recommend any pamphlet that is not published either by the CIO or by our international union...
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...5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...WISCONSIN became a better state because of the militant clashes oi two philosophies in government...
...The Progressive has frequently referred to the pamphlet entitled, "The Yanks Are Not Coming," which is a pure and simple piece of Communist propaganda written by a Communist editor on the west coast...
...His opponents maintained that it was incompatible with the public welfare for government to be thus made available to the forces of wealth, while his supporters maintained that the expenditure of this large sum was justifiable in order to rout entrenched politicians from office...
...The Farmer-Labor association is not intolerant of new ideas, and welcomes all who even cherish advanced ideals but object to those who owe allegiance to other and a foreign party and use the association as a steppingstone and field to carry on their dis#uptive propaganda...
...Thomas said: "Some inquiries concerning a pamphlet called 'The Yanks Are Not Coming,- and its sponsoring organization in San Francisco have come to my attention...
...Roosevelt carried Illinois by 700,000' in 1936, and next week's primaries there will be regarded largely as a kind of trial heat between the two chief contenders before the big race...
...Kohler...
...Roosevelt Is unopposed in Nebraska, where the primaries are being held as we go to press, and interest is concentrated on another fierce contest between Dewey and Vandenberg...
...And Sweden will probably be next...
...Since the Stalin-Hitler love pact, the Communists have been attacking the president in company with tne crabbiest of the Old Guard Republicans...
...Kohler believed had a dominant part in the Building of this country,—its great financial and industrial leaders...
...In all of these experiences, it can be said that Mr...
...He's out golfing...
...The Price of Cheese (From The Orlando, Fla., Sentinel) THERE was a time some ten years ago when cheese-makers of Wisconsin, fighting one another in the markets, had to take what buyers offered, which usually was below cost of production...
...These connections should have given him a good schooling in Washington politics...
...Kohler pointed with great pride to his | model village as an indication of his generous attitude toward his workers and their welfare...
...Ir is good news for the Farmer-Labor association members to know that the association will no longer be afflicted by this bunch of cuckoos who have tried persistently to find a nest in the Farmer-Labor movement...
...The present governor of this state, with his tremendous capacity to say the wrong thing at all times, does not do a service to the memory of Mr...
...2. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits: governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions...
...among other things, the congressional power "to coin money, and regulate the value thereof...
...For much as they may like the spectacle of a handsome baritone as relief for a mustached sourpuss...
...Watch Out For Communist And Nazi Propaganda Under High Sounding Names OEOPLE all over the world are feeling the impact of propaganda of every kind...
...PROPAGANDA of the Communist and *- Nazi variety is being directed at this country through phony fronts disguised as defenders of peace, democracy, and civil liberties...
...Another primary fight of some importance was staged In New York, where a split between the right and left wings of the labor party ended with the latter's victory in the city at least...
...This is the Trojan horse technique that lias proved disastrous elsewhere...
...Truly, the burden Gov...
...Tnere is a good reason for this custom,—the American sense of fair play has always demanded that a critical appraisal of a man and his life should not be made at a time when he cannot answer...
...There is one organization in the country that seeks to enlist the support of mothers who are interested in keeping their sons out of war that is nothing more than a Nazi front...
...And these men, throughout their lives, had to endure tne white light of publicity because they were symbols of conflicting philosophies around which centered a bitter struggle in the political arena...
...N EVERY CASE where the Nazis have *¦ shamelessly invaded small nations, they have attempted to give some plausible justification to the world for their assault...
...We believe, too, that Mr...
...There's the rub...
...The article follows: The Communist state committee has issued a press release that the Communists will have thj-ir own ticket in the (Minnesota) state election...
...That liberal groups throughout the country are only too glad to be "shut of" the Communists is illustrated by an article which appears in the current issue of the Minnesota Leader, a publication of the Farmer-Labor party of that state...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities with a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation...
...huntin' up washin's foh one wife keeps mc plenty busy...
...It is to be hoped that only in the inauguration will the contrast be discernible...
...7. BANKS—A government owned central banking system to break the grip of the money trust by carrying out...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
