THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM- - -A Full Page of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE I REELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBERTIES.-MILTON. For Pete's...
...The Whole Loaf (Garner, la...
...Just a reminder— with the coming election this fall...
...I know what the mothers are doing to keep us out of war and the least I can say is, "God bless them...
...The Small Nations (Associated...
...If you are liberal, or think you are, if you are interested in the welfare of the 90 per cent of the American people who have incomes of less than $5,000 annually, if you are actually one of these people and the chances are many thousand to one that you arc, don't be so small as to cancel a subscription to The Progressive, or any other similar paper, just because you don't agree with some article you find in it...
...The money powers of the world, big banks and big industry, are determined to force the use of gold as the standard of value so they can collect their big interests and even force another world war to destroy cooperation, knowing their doom is sealed when cooperation is universal.—E...
...Acting on a complaint brought by the Farm Equipment Workers Organizing committee (CIO), Whittemore...
...The artist who draws the cartoon has recently signed a contract with a large national syndicate which is distributing his work to daily newspapers all over the country...
...v Men Of God (Scottsbluff, Neb...
...I refer to such letters as that of Peter A. Orde, O. Swensen, and many others...
...It is probably true that many features of Danish life will be profoundly and permanently altered...
...may be wrong...
...The Yanks Are Not Coming," why don't you include "Fortune Magazine...
...So, that's that...
...the intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt, who did so much to develop a constructive social consciousness in America...
...Rock Falls, 111., Rock Island, 111., West Pullman, 111, and Milwaukee, Wis...
...but we prefer to believe that the essential qualities of the Danes can be helped to survive even such a trial as they are now undergoing...
...He mu'jes to a former theological student of his that it may be possible that God...
...If the leadership in the church does not keep pace with the world it will go the way of all out-moded forms and philosophies of the past...
...In the "Forum" of The Progressive recently appeared an article by a minister...
...DAVID ORNSTEEN...
...The golden rule, first, last, and always—MRS...
...Do you know the main reason why I like The Progressive...
...I've had enough about prosperity—American Ideals—and about England's democratic system to last me for some time...
...The character of the ex-minister Casey in John Steinbeck's great novel, "Grapes of Wrath," represents to me a far better conception of the proper position and work of the teachers of Christ's life than the petty figures of the mercenary ministers, bishops, and cardinals of orthodoxy...
...H. KN'APP...
...What is most important, help such a paper by giving it all the support you can in a financial way...
...AFL Pres...
...If it survives two more centuries it must drop the ecclesiastic ritual and buncombe with which it has held the masses of ignorant and superstitious people In bondage...
...They are more or less guilty along with the larger powers, because they are always willing and ready to deliver anything and everything so long as they are paid for it...
...Some 'Pro' Needed (Saginaw, Mich...
...The church and clergy which has for so long a time monopolized God by the small circle in which they have kept Him may find that He has drawn a circle that has shut them out...
...I have given thought to why more men of the cloth did not associate themselves with the social movement of the mass of their peoples in the quest for economic and social justice...
...27, criticizing Communist tactics is so grossly unfair as to leave us who are informed on the subject, astounded...
...MRS...
...Don Benedetto, that aged and kindly priest in "Bread and Wine...
...When copy that contains potent ammunition on some controversial issue is handed in and it is material dat dc poor guy in de street wouldn't have a chance to read in the periodicals which have circulation figures up in the millions, why Mr...
...Two Millstones (Wilmington, Del...
...It can grow and flourish if each nation is allowed freely to contribute its share in its own way to the good of the whole...
...If we examine only the period since the World war, and take the affairs of state properly apart, it appears that generally our educational and "ethical" institutions have handed humanity the proverbial cold stone...
...This law holds true whether the weight is carried horizontally or vertically, or dropped...
...My father served four years in the Civil war and was promoted several times for his service...
...On its sports pages it prints jokes about German subs sinking British ships and remarks where the regular team is...
...We will consider that he works eight months, paying with the employer the $4 each month which entitles said employe to the insurance of a certain amount for so many weeks unless he has been employed before the number of weeks expires, which automatically cuts off the compensation or insurance...
...Only then will we have security for ourselves and those who must take over the burden after us...
...We intend to gel them Communist, or no Communist...
...Defends The Reds (Chula Vista, Calif...
...I can trace my ancestry back 120 years into Ohio and Virginia...
...The half page editorial in The Progressive of Apr...
...Calif...
...Fortune built its inanimated slave of but only 150,000 foot-pounds of work done in an 8-hour day...
...The simple minister in the book, "Drums Along the Mohawk...
...Please give me a breathing spell to digest what I've already read...
...As you are of course aware, Denmark until recent weeks was a principal source of independent and un-censored news dispatches, covering the news of the war...
...Their wives would literally fight for some vantage point to secure but a glimpse of Her Majesty's enormous spring bonnet, while this exalted human being reclined in the imperial coach drawn by a bevy of Arabian steeds...
...Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it bark to cancel half a line...
...Some article has been printed which he considers unfair to somebody or some thing he holds sacred...
...If the people took enough interest in "their country" to bring about such conditions, we could not only stay on the map forever but we would serve as a shining example to the whole world...
...If the employe and employer each put up only 2 per cent of the amount earned by employe, and we will consider the amount to be $200 per month, would give us a premium of, S4 per month on said employe's insurance...
...Why should folly and vanity remain respectable...
...But it must be a leadership for their congregations and not the artful connivance with the exploiters of their people...
...Orders Company Unions Disbanded WASHINGTON, D. C—Disestablishment of employe representation plaits by the International Harvester Co...
...Breathing Spell i Ashland, Wis...
...So with the consent of the owner of the land back of the store, he had built himself a little shack out of old boxes about the size of an oversized doghouse and lived on government free goods to indigents...
...You may be right in your foreign policy, and Martin Dies may be right about the Communist boogaboo...
...On the advice of French militarists and British Tories, the Finnish government cowardly, as they subsequently admitted, refused the Soviet demands...
...Let the universal 3* hour week be applied, let production expand, gradually but consistently," h* asked...
...Housevleaning :-< New-York City)—Iam -glad uvsee you pummeling the Communists so hard...
...Your unique publication is read by the whole family and has news we do not see elsewhere...
...and leave the Soviet Union isolated in the event of aggression...
...His hands had that gnarled appearance of one who bad been used to hard work...
...This is not the kind of letter I admire, but your attitude has prompted it—N...
...Isn't a really free press worth something to you...
...It will perhaps be a spiritual comfort found in the friendship, companionship and brotherhood of men— something that the Christian church has failed to accomplish in a period of 2,000 years...
...I became a citizen of this country 47 years ago...
...Today, while waiting for a storekeeper just outside of the corporate limits of Saginaw to get through with a customer, I noticed a rather elderly man standing peering out in the street evidently watching for something...
...As long as those papers are more interested in selling advertising space than in giving the people reliable information on vital problems, and in stirring up squabbles and animosities amongst the people, so they may call one another names, instead of fostering solidarity among them, that long our national existence will be in jeopardy...
...B. O'CONNOR...
...I have read the "Yanks Are Not Coming...
...I have never been able to find it or find out what it is...
...Announcing the signing of the pact, Molotov declared: "Their (the Franco-British) aid was hedged around with many reservations on indirect aggression so as to have formal and judicial pretext to avoid rendering aid...
...They had led the world in democratic progress, in decent national and international living...
...Not if you want truth instead of sheep dip...
...Then, maybe I will be able to stomach a little more.—JOSEPH LANGAS...
...A man shoveling dirt who fills his shovel with seven pounds of dirt, and pitches the load 10 feet, dones 70 foot-pounds of work in about...
...The history of the Boer war still smells...
...Join other liberal political organizations for the purpose of saving the latter from Ihe machinations of traitors within...
...For girls whom LOVE has passed by or somepin...
...England's intrigue is known the world over, and she is trying her old tricks now to get some one else to do her fighting...
...While it is not unusual to find articles by ministers of the Gospel appearing in the capitalist press, I have long noted the singularity in the appearance of ministers' letters in the labor or liberal press of the nation...
...Inventors and engineers slaves...
...Those who know the Danes well are confident that their traditional fortitude will serve them in the physical ordeal of invasion...
...Technology is just beginning to move...
...One of its issues last year carried a long article which stated these same facts...
...is time something is done to protect the people and the government from such racketeering...
...Instead of picking up your toys and going home when you read something you don't like, hold on to your subscription and renew it when it expires...
...There are those pessimistic enough to imagine that the high civilization achieved by the Danes may or will be finally destroyed, whatever the outcome of the present struggle...
...Boulder dams...
...The Progressive has no information that the League of Women Shoppers is a "Communist front" organization, although it may number Communist members...
...PALL STOECKLE...
...The editor, being an intelligent man, knows that neither I nor anybody else will always agree 100 per cent with everything in each issue...
...There is no use in getting all "het" up about what is going on in Europe and what is happening to the small countries...
...It was that truck that he was watching for...
...Then, when it comes home and they too are taken for a ride by the international gangsters, they run for cover and pray to the Almighty for help...
...Believing that the articulate goodwill of the American people will be of great and practical help to the Danes, in developing a moral force of public opinion in the United States and throughout the world in favor of Danish freedom and democracy, our organization has been formed under the sponsorship of a group of distinguished citizens of the United States...
...That some of those traitors believe themselves to be models of rectitude makes them all the more dangerous...
...I am very much satisfied with your paper...
...The most deceitful is he who best succeeds in deceiving himself...
...There would be that much more income that could be used instead of issuing bonds and paying big interest on them...
...Wc tried that way out before, didn't we...
...The only logical cure, he said...
...The ancient marathon runner, carrying nothing more than a three pound mail pouch, a distance of 10 miles did 158,400 foot-pounds of work...
...Personally, I am very sorry that such things are happening in this world, but that is the way it looks to me, and if it makes anyone think, then this is not written In vain.—W...
...We want protection of property, builders, helpers, workers, security, money and a square deal...
...We want good leaders in the political field, not promises, unkept, but duly fulfilled...
...How Bob La Follette Jr., the son of one of our greatest Americans, will allow his name to be connected with such a reactionary paper is one of our greatest puzzles...
...15 seconds...
...In their own hovels, these women would continue to faint in admiration while describing this fantasy of bird feathers and artificial (lowers...
...Not Seen Elsewhere (Winter Park, Fla...
...Technocracy wants more inanimated slaves to relieve man of his backbrcak-ing jobs...
...A newspapers that creates joke about human events of deepest tragedy gives proof that no one need pay the slightest attention to its political opinions on any subject whatever.— CARL PETERSON...
...We, the people, have a lot to think about and do...
...Among well informed, honest people all this is undisputed, and history will not only absolve the Soviets of wrongdoing in the matter, but will crown them with diplomatic and military glory, displayed in the service of human welfare.— JOHN CAMPBELL...
...Editor's Note: The Redfield cartoon is not from the Daily Worker but is distributed by Federated Press...
...Where are those Communists who are trying to find Jobs for the animated slave that the inanimated is displacing...
...Nawsuh...
...And then came that long valley of the shadows that many of us remember —when millions of the most Innocent and helpless people quietly folded their wings just because a small group of people throughout the earth insisted to act the fool...
...I liked it and I will support it...
...Your last issue contained only two pro-Communist features: 1. League of Women Shoppers, (p...
...Personally, I call them "merchants of death...
...But, to shout to the world about the success of our democracy with millions unemployed and millions of elder.-, eke-ing out a most miserable existence simply docs not make sense...
...The Cleveland Plain Dealer describes the Danes as "more successful than most in carrying democracy into practice...
...It has a fine motto and a very attractive name, "The Progressive...
...For Pete's Sake...
...E. GAUTHIER...
...Leningrad, a city with a population almost equal in number to that of the whole of Finland, is the metropolitan center of 25 per cent of the industrial output of the Soviet Union...
...The "ideals of democracy" adopted by the founders of this republic are giving us, in black and white, that measure of flexibility and freedom which might permit us to build "heaven on earth" in this country today, without unemployment, poverty, crimes and other evils...
...It's what our vote entitles us to In 1940...
...We can use the whole loaf this time...
...Now, as to the Soviet pact with the Nazis...
...Keep up the housecleaning.—B...
...In place of just condemning...
...The Soviet government offered to concede to Finland twice the same area of territory if the Finns would move the Karelian Isthmus boundary some miles back, and permit the Soviet state to fortify some Islands on the northern shore of the Baltic in order to make that sea secure from foreign attack, a security which the smaller Baltic slates could not themselves guarantee...
...Besides this fact, or near fact...
...Are we asking too much...
...Now try to tell the difference between such a pact and more or less concealed chicanery...
...It is particularly interesting to American friends of Denmark that American newspapers have shown such ready understanding of the problems raised by events in that country...
...I spoke to him and learned that he was just another one of the derelicts who had been kicked aside by our crazy "everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost" system...
...The happenings of the day should caution us to act before our own flesh and blood will find itself in the same valley from whence there is no redress...
...Let us be fair and examine the Soviet view...
...of Chicago was recommended by NLRB trial examiner Whittemore in a report to the National Labor Relations board...
...The same "hailers" would conclude the day in some shady beer garden and beam in the satisfaction that, contrary not withstanding, all was so well and "secure...
...We should be taught not to admire our own ignorance and our state of bondage, but to generate enough courage to demand justice and honesty in all our affairs...
...Russia, according lo Fortune, has but 11 inanimated slaves per capita...
...A foot-pound Is the work done in the moving of a one pound weight one foot...
...A form of spiritual comfort will be found outside and independent of the church...
...When I was a little boy, I used to see Social-Democrats line the streets of Berlin a few times a year, and eight deep hail the Kaiser in all his glory upon a prancing stallion...
...or have been working a certain period of each quarter of the year and paying their 1 per cent of their wages into the unemployment fund of the federal government's unemployment compensation plan are allowed the compensation...
...TERRY SMITH, Secretary, American Friends of Danish Freedom and Democracy, 420 Lexington ave, New York City...
...He told me that he had a job on the WPA but on reaching 65 years of age nearly two years ago, he was discharged and told to apply for the state old age pension, which he did...
...OTHELIA ENGEBRET-SON...
...But in view of the revolutionary teachings of Christ, himself in his time, is it not possible that so-called men-of-God today arc not really consorting with God...
...The High Chair (Independence, Kans...
...The only really free press to be found in America today Is the publication which carries no advertising accounts, especially those of powerful corporations, nation-wide in scope...
...When I got home, I found The Progressive which had come in with my mail, and after reading the "Peoples' Forum" first, because it is the most enlightening part of the paper...
...Fortune magazine bases Its February, 1940, economic survey on the in-animated slave...
...One has only to read some of the editorials to know it is a reactionary, fascist Trojan horse...
...Denmark's Friends (New Yock City)—We wish to commend you for the fairness and the sympathetic insight evidenced in your editorial dealing with the invasion of Denmark...
...It lay within gunshot of the fortified Finnish border, a border established by the open enemies of socialism...
...I n animated slave" means the machine slave—dead, but still capable of doing a man's work...
...Our point of view depends on a great many things such as race, religion, and of education, experiences we have had in living, the newspapers we read, and last but not least, our environment, especially, our social environment...
...Communist united front tactics are not Intended for, nor do they result in sabotage...
...Russia has just begun to fight for her share of the inanimaled slaves to be had here' on this earth...
...We must keep the wheels of industry in motion bringing back prosperity to the people...
...Vandcrpoel writes recently in the Chicago Herald-American: "The German leadership has contempt for the American army, contempt for the American ideals of democracy, is jealous of the American wealth, and Is confident that when the time comes—with the aid of its fifth column and internal dissension—it will be a simple task to take over the United States...
...If the leaders in the churches fail in their ministrations to the needs and wants of humanity, their theological supremacy will be repudiated for new forms and concepts that better fill the needs of new society...
...5- -r Trib Tactics (Chicago, 111.;—Nothing is too cheap for the Chicago Tribune...
...2. The Redfield cartoon from the Daily Worker...
...in searching for a mean's of expression in such a Godless world, has perhaps chosen to speak through the mouths of the revolutionaries who arc the ones voicing the needs and wants of the masses of people...
...The character of the government and the culture which flourished there were described in a recent editorial in The New York Times: "They had created, in their happy kingdom, the finest flowering of the European spirit...
...There are people living today who do not know that before modern communication and transportation took place something else had done the same work and called those works "Jobs...
...The 20-mule team freight wagons Which had formerly hauled 8,000 pounds a distance of 100 miles in 25 hours are now displaced with paved highways and powerful 300 horsepower diescl truck which hauls five times the load and cover the same distance in less than four hours...
...As a family we have always been heavy tax payers...
...Fortune would be closer to the facts by using 1.500,000 foot-pounds in an 8-hour day...
...more, after a hearing recommended disestablishment and abrogation of contracts with employe representation plans in Chicago...
...MAX O. A. WITTGE...
...Omar of old wrote: "The moving finger writes...
...Tiiat is so obviously true that neither the French nor the British have thought it advisable to give their version of the affair...
...Fortune constructed the Inanimated slave so it would be understandable to Its readers...
...MANDEL...
...There are always two sides to every discussion and sometimes eight or 10...
...a horse's work or, wc could say...
...The old fellow had located himself in the country because he could only get a dollar a week in the city to live on, which would not even pay for a room...
...Science and engineers have built Panama canals...
...Ambassador to Canada, the Honorable "Duke" Cromwell advises us to enter the European war on the side of Great Britain and France so they can blow our inanimated slaves to hell and scatter our animated slaves along the barb wire entanglements in the mud and blood soaked fields of Europe and Asia...
...In other words, cause and effect are not changed by our cheap emotions and, regardless of all such emotional dribble, "earth gets its price for what earth gives us...
...We never fail our country when it Is in need...
...If you would read the history of the facts which prompt many of the letters sent you for the "Forum" page, you might change your attitude...
...Why should hay-shakers and rainmakers continue to get our applause...
...V v -I* Money And War (Nome, Alaska)—For some time I have been wondering why only those who are...
...In 44 years I've been hearing about it...
...The dirt shoveler who docs 70 footpounds In 15 seconds has been displaced with the 4-yard-buckct, steam or electric, excavating shovel which does 320,000 foot-pounds in less than a half minute...
...D. C. — Development of purchasing power on the pan of the people constitutes the problem confronting America...
...Fortune has left an naught off the tail of her inanimated slave...
...A government pension would have done justice to this man and would make it unnecessary to look to foreign nations for trade.—K...
...If you are one of Mr...
...What a tragic joke!—SAM HARMS...
...it such is the case, why not make the law read that "anyone that wishes to be insured for any amount and pays the total amount percentage of the premium of both employe and employer on the stated monthly amount as a wage principal may do so, but must pay the premium of the combined percentage charged to employe and employer on stated wage which he stipulates, and according to the rule now in force, that is for so many months, for so many quarters at least, or continually for a certain number of years, to be entitled to be retired under compensation for balance of life but to be entitled to compensation as now under present plan regardless of age...
...Watch Out for Communist and Nazi Propaganda," etc., I feel it is my right as a real American citizen to answer you...
...The landless class stands between these two millstones, and as time goes on the worse the condition will be.— H. M. JORDAN...
...To prevent crime, start with the high chair, don't wait for the electric chair.—A...
...20, I would like to inform our Norwegian friend that one may take several views of the same situation...
...Well, you should know...
...What About Russia...
...I do not always agree with everything I read in The Progressive...
...Purchasing Power Held Basic Issue WASHINGTON...
...Empire State buildings, subways and sky-liners, all based on the foot-pound...
...Fifth Column (Chicago, 111...
...We would have a market of many billions right in our own country if we really had progressives with some "pro" in them leading the way to a better distribution of our products to the people who made this country, who after they contributed their best are relegated to the dog house and a handout...
...The "fifth column and internal dissension" are really the greatest and most dangerous enemies this country has always had...
...With the Democrats doing nothing to cure this condition, the people will again vote in the Republican...
...fighting side by side with his flock, leading them in their struggles, praying for them in their sorrow, advising them, always on the side of his people gives a far better conception of Christ's ideas and philosophy than the ministers of modern capitalist-Christianity exhorting God to be "on their side" as they send millions and millions of Christian boys to the slaughter in their imperialistic wars—and they remain behind the fighting lines with their "holier than thou" attitude...
...Why should we entertain a philosophy of want while we possess every requisite for a contended civilization of plenty...
...We shall be glad to supply you, or any of your readers who may be interested, with information bearing on the continuing problems and aspirations of Denmark and the Danes...
...As a man soweth that shall he also reap," and I think this holds good for nations as well as individuals...
...Select a paper which proves it is liberal by standing on its own feet without benefit of advertising...
...Lewiston, Me...
...Invariably it is because he does not agree with some point in the editorial policy of the paper...
...Is a reversal of the unhealthy trend of the past...
...FRANK W. CHANNELL...
...Please do not misunderstand me...
...Editor can send it to the printer with an absence of qualms...
...The peace terms, which they bravely, as they said, were forced to accept, removed the boundary far enough back to permit Soviet fliers to get their pursuit planes into action should an enemy bombing squadron cross the Finnish border...
...They may now twist, act mcal-mouly, and bray about a "political" salvation—yet the cold facts are against them...
...Nobody has ever given these enemies more "aid and comfort" than the publishers of our leading newspapers...
...Among great Americans who have helpe* to strengthen the bonds between the two democracies might be mentioned Jacob A. Riis...
...In that valley the victims paid the price for their own thoughtlessness—an omission that renews itself constantly...
...You send one out every week...
...We still have that opportunity...
...Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that other Danish institutions and principles are equally jeopardized...
...D. BRUCE...
...E. S. CLARKE...
...But 150,000 foot-pounds in an eight hour day would be "duck-soup" for a midget, to say nothing about a full grown man...
...The Danes are among the most literate of all peoples, and their democratic institutions have been developed with the aid of a strong and free press, similar in many important respects to that of the United States...
...I know that when The Progressive is put to bed each week the editor doesn't have to scan the copy with the idea in mind that he mustn't offend the makers of Whosis Deodorant, Whysis Crispy Crackers or Wheresis Cosmetics...
...The automobile is an inanimaled slave, the tractor, the telephone, the radio, the steamship, the railroad, in fact, all machines that displace man-hours are inanimaled slaves...
...ill-clad, ill-housed") don't seek truth in some magazine or newspaper which is loaded to the guards with high-powered full and double page advertisements...
...After reading your editorial...
...Look about you...
...Cause And Effect (Oregon, 111...
...it is probable that in Denmark today there is a graver concern for the protection and preservation of those principles of individual freedom and responsible self-government which were so quickly suspended...
...L. POTTER...
...In addition, the Karelian people, a minority race, are now united under autonomous rule, just as the White Russians and the Ukrainians were freed from Polish oppression and united under Soviet protection...
...Anything else, especially anything which would relieve distress and suffering, which would put men to work and give youth a chance to find a place for themselves, is Communism...
...That we should be taught from the beginning not to construct our own jail, mentally and physically—and even at this late date...
...Should any minister today decide to risk his orthodoxy and personal financial gain on the altar of chance, decide to quit playing on the side of the winners simply because they are winners, and give himself to the cause of the homeless and helpless (and there are a few who are so doing) it appears certain that their reward will not be the questionable and posthumous reward of a life after death but the very definite reward of a life happily and unhypocritically spent in a life of service among their fellow-beings...
...After reading the expose of the fabulous amounts of money that the insurance companies have obtained from their patrons and after allowing certain ones of their officers to draw such unheard of salaries, it seems to me that it would be better if the government ran the companies instead of private corporations...
...But being good Americans we can not help remembering when Orcat Britain hired Hessians at $30 per head to do her fighting against us.- Our histories tell that she bribed the savage Indians to massacre our people...
...Tragic Joke (Salem, Ore...
...The average fat-jowled red baiter wouldn't recognize a Communist if he found one in his bathroom...
...Communists in their capacity as citizens, striving for the common good...
...I turned to the editorial page and found sure enough a sob editorial on how much trade we were losing in Denmark and Norway—just as that is so much more important than the trade we are losing right on our own hill because of just such conditions as above...
...We are not satisfied with 153 inanimated slaves per capita in the United States of America...
...I like The Progressive and have faith in its contents because it is not subservient to tiie many thousand dollar advertising contracts of some mammoth corporation...
...We Intend to build some more of them...
...I contend the unemployment problem will be the greatest victory in U. 6. The land is in private hands and so are the tools of production...
...Scientific advances and material progress to date has but caused a retrenchment, an ossification of ancient superstitions among most church leaders of today...
...Having erred, why should we continue to do so...
...It gives his former student a chuckle to think of the Lord having to masquerade under a pseudonym...
...By the same token they are by no means neutral...
...Why should an American hand us Europe's historical misery and death, when from within we are so full of life and potential happiness...
...A Mr...
...And you in your cowardly way call us Communist or Nazi...
...Another thing that has been evading mc is the American ideal...
...One of the most amazing swindles at some American publishers have :en putting over for years is that of inting fiction,, articles and illustra-jns of beautiful dames which "per-jne away gloom" so that the average nel'ican boob will buy the magazine id read it so that he will be subtly pfluenced by the advertisements lercin so that he will buy the prod-cts so advertised so that the advertiser can keep right on advertising md use the profits he piles up to rurn loose all the devious and inferential propaganda possible in the same Magazine to keep the reader sold on "the American way...
...Nor all your tears wash out a word of it...
...Civilization cannot be molded by force...
...Roosevelt's "one third," (you know, "ill-fed...
...If the runner ran at the rate of 5 miles per hour, his day's work would have been done in two hours...
...again characterizes a real man of God—and a real man—willing to doubt even his own teachings: a man who has seriously asked of himself, "Is it possible that I, too...
...The very word "minister"—to administer the needs and wants of suffering humanity, giving solace to the helpless, the unfit, the poor, does not imply merely saying prayers over the starved corpse or the saying of grace over the meager table...
...and Mrs...
...Iam not a Communist...
...In its columns it reveals ideas of human dignity that only a newspaper run by nitwits could have...
...However, I find their Inanimated slave built of altogether to light a material, although I am thankful to Fortune for the attempt to bring the facts before us...
...Don't ask Technocrats what we are going to do about the unemployed situation...
...What the big corporation president usually means by "the American way" is a 'condition in America whereby he can use the latest labor saving devices to pile up millions of dollars in profits with a minimum of man power, with a minimum of government interference, and a maximum supply of dirt cheap labor so that when he does need the services of a man once in a while he can procure said services for practically nothing...
...Not the least serious of the consequences of the invasion has been the cutting off of that flow of responsible news reports, untainted by propaganda...
...Inanimaled Slaves (Oceano, Calif...
...and adds...
...Roosevelt, "have won and maintained during a period of many generations the respect and regard, not only of the American people but of all peoples, because of their observance of the highest standards of national and international conduct...
...Although recent events have given special interest to the problems of Denmark, Americans have long been aware of the contributions to the growth and well-being of this country made by citizens of Danish origin...
...If you can find something else to print in your paper for a while I would be more than thankful...
...Being humans, we should prefer to act as such...
...Let industry pay the highest wages possible...
...Every so often I icad in the columns 01 the readers' "Forum" a letter from some subscriber to the effect that^he is dissatisfied with the paper, he is cancelling his subscription or he will not continue to take the paper after his subscription runs out...
...Ministers can increase their waning prestige by simply using the training that they have received—by honest Christian leadership...
...You speak of the Trojan horse...
...HARRY CHRISMAN...
...Such folly should teach us that in the first analysis man is his own star...
...The church, in the western world at least, has formerly fulfilled a social position that the future may render unnecessary...
...When I was here for three years I heard about the thing called prosperity...
...for a Communist, or a Socialist, or a voting Democrat to tell us to put those people back to work, which we have displaced with iron men, simply doesn't make good sense...
...Call-—In reading the caption article in The Progressive dated Apr...
...No, thanks, we have a rendezvous right here In America with congress!—A...
...This neglect has created a terrific burden that must be carried by all of us until we cease fooling around with effects and get down to the cause...
...To date he has not received it because we have a wonderful Christian governor in Michigan who puts the importance of balancing the budget above any human welfare...
...Ask congress ! The Marathon runner doing 158.400 foot-pounds of work in two hours has been displaced by the telephone which docs the same Job in less than one minute...
...Can it be your reason for not liking the pamphlet is because it exposes the fact tha tChamberlaln and many of his associates as well as many of the clergy of the Church of England are heavy stock holders in munition plants...
...This simply cannot be because they by their past action are really not entitled to divine help...
...Green said the federation is appealing to congress for the creation Of ft national advisory council, composed of representatives of labor, industry and the general public, to work out a concrete program designed to overcome and cure unemployment...
...i Paradise...
...and having writ...
...It must present a broad, understandable humanitarian program that can be mentally accepted by intelligent and educated people...
...Whatever that is...
...I want to mention something about the unemployment question...
...In other words he is a person who cannot or will not regard all sides of a question...
...Christianity as a way of life is definitely coming into greater disrepute unless the motive of the churches is reoriented toward the uplifting of the downtrodden and ^.way from the worshippers of Mammon and Moloch...
...That's the "American way" to the average big business man and reactionary office-holder...
...And, yet, in the face of these facts, Communists, Socialists, and Democrats arc threatening to do this or that if wc don't put the unemployed animated slaves back to work...
...If you call yourself an American, for Pete's sake, exercise a bit of tolerance and grant the other fellow the right to his viewpoint...
...Let us examine the circumstances motivating the Soviet-Nazi pact and the Finnish conflict...
...William Green declared in a nationwide broadcast from here last week...
...It is the purpose and program of this new group to enlist the informed interest of Americans in the preservation of the liberties oi me nine nation whose citizens, in the words of Pres...
...If you don't do your bit to support a paper which is really free and unhampered editorially, a press which is really free in the true sense of the word, you arc helping to cut your own Micia), economic and political throat...
...1) a C. P. front organization...
...This advertising yardstick is one that all seekers of truth should measure a publication with when they are seeking light upon the pertinent facts of our time...
...The test resolution which the Wisconsin Conference on Social Legislation turned down Is in itself proof of the need for Communist penetration, for that resolution was a distortion of the truth, and the Communists seem to have had no difficulty in convincing the conference of the fact...
...The friendship and the generous spirit of the American people towards the Danish democracy have been revealed in countless editorial comments, of which yours was one of the first...
...If you are in doubt about where to find such a paper make it The Progressive...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
