NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation A German Patriot Speaks [From The New York Times] NO voice comes out of Germany to condemn or question the crimes now being...
...But will it...
...HEIL is presenting his case to the people of Wisconsin through the newspapers...
...Lindbergh advised the American people to "stop this hysterical chatter of calamity and invasion that has been running rife these last few days...
...But the real cause lies in the steady waste and exhaustion of the fertility of the land, resulting in vast dust bowl areas, and in the modern development of "factories of the field"—large scale, mechanized agriculture that drove the small farmer off land that barely brought him a living...
...If this treason, let's have more of it...
...Even a standpat Republican like Mr...
...He Is sure that a victory for the Nazi system will bring Germany only a "black, bloodstained and violent future," without liberty, without security, without peace...
...It is certainly against good state policy for a public official to profit personally by a public act, and this is what Corcoran did when he voted to sell commission lands, knowing that the timber on those lands would be sold to him...
...The Record Of Municipal Ownership In Wisconsin r"ipHE Progressive last week published -¦- a detailed table prepared from the reports of 81 municipality owned utilities in Wisconsin filed with the state public service commission...
...In the last 10 years the technological change in farming has made it possible to produce our normal amount of cotton, corn, grains, and vegetables, and fruit with 1,600,000 fewer farm workers than in 1930...
...They subscribe to press services, and hire correspondents to sit at the seat of government, receive all political statements, and from them deduce what they deem to be news...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...and there is a fear of offending a neighbor nation, or of doing injustice to harmless visitors...
...Piece by piece the governor is mailing from his re-organized publicity office details of economies he has purportedly effected...
...He doesn't understand that a development is news only when it happens...
...But that they have more than scratched the surface is hard to believe...
...We hardly believe that he is fitted for such responsibility...
...The enemies of cooperation want us to believe that words like these, and the increasing number of realities behind them, represent treason to the American way...
...True, the economic doldrums that followed the mad speculations of the 1920's did intensify it...
...That Corcoran is an extensive buyer of timber and wood...
...But honorary colonels—the fewer the "kernels" the more manifest the honor...
...Willkie used to be a good Democrat before He became a plutocrat...
...and it is no insignificant one...
...He is a blind young man if he really believes that we can live on terms of equal peace and happiness "regardless of which side wins this war" in Europe...
...The "hysterical chatter" is the talk now heard on every side that the democracies of France and Great Britain stand in Imminent danger of defeat by Germany...
...La Follette and his committee is wrestling, as it seeks a factual basis for a major program of rehabilitation of our natural land resources and a return to the land of those who have been so cruelly iorced into the tragic role of migrants...
...of Wisconsin, whose skill and fairness in conducting U. S. senate committee investigations have won him plaudits irom coast to coast, has opened hearings 01 the senate civil liberties committee on the problem of migrant labor in the United States...
...O'Daniel of Texas and put out a newspaper of his own...
...The ceremony marked the culmination of a five-year plan that was worked out against discouraging financial difficulties and the strenuous efforts of private oil interests to block the construction of a refinery and pipeline owned by consumers...
...Heil's achievements that is available—when it is news...
...Does it seem strange to cite this as a "record...
...And even in the army a superabundance of "'colonels" is questionable unless there's a bevy of buck privates to march ahead of them to do the actual fighting...
...Heil...
...But one German, at least, dares to speak the truth to his deluded people, dares to tell them that they are fighting only for prison chains...
...In such a situation, paroles are likely to be granted to individuals who never should be turned loose on society, and paroles may be denied those who should be given a chance to make good outside state institutions...
...Jessie Ames of the Association of Southern Women for Prevention of Lynchings, is authority that this record has not been equaled in 118 years...
...as non-holders of holding company stock, they liked the New Deal...
...Willkie told a meeting in New York that he had made the contribution "as a life-long Democrat," but had since regretted it...
...This board is said to be dominated by Mr...
...To Mrs...
...Thereupon three of Mr...
...With unfor-giveable laxity these disguised enemies have been permitted to mingle with the population and lose thmselves from the sight of police and other authorities...
...Arthur Tiller, whom he recently discharged, for example, would know that editors don't print, as news, one-sided accounts of an administration's achievements...
...In December, 1935, Mr...
...They are a ray of hope for continuation of this progress toward law and order...
...In addition, it should be remembered that many of these publicly owned plants furnish free service to their municipalities in free street lighting, water pumping, school and other services, and many of them have made large outright gifts of funds for the construction of public buildings, parks, and other purposes...
...But that place, in the estimation of this humble nugget-dispenser, is in the army...
...News isn't a commodity that can be put in cold storage and brought out for consumption as desired...
...But what has he accomplished to merit this questionable cognomen...
...Heil: Colonels are all right in their place, no doubt...
...These directors are not under civil service and in effect are removable at Mr...
...But they are not preventable under the laws governing individual liberty to come and go or...
...Any alien, with or without passport, legally or illegally entered, has nine chances in 10 of successfully losing himself in the mass of the population...
...Lindbergh remains a great flier...
...A fair comparison of those rates with rates charged consumers in communities of comparable size also provides a convincing argument of the benefits of public ownership...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr...
...Col...
...The record speaks for itself...
...These are offered as news...
...Henry A. Wallace, secretary ol agriculture, told the LaFoIlette committee about this revolutionary change in agriculture...
...It just isn't susceptible to refrigeration...
...governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions...
...The purpose of the conservation commission is indicated by its very title...
...The existence of large groups of migrant workers, near destitute and with only occasional employment, adds heavily to the national relief bill...
...Corcoran should resign from the Wisconsin conservation commission...
...There is evidence that here, as in Norway and and in Denmark, many people of influence and authority, even in the government itself, are in open or tacit connection with the possible enemies of the United States...
...He knows that it was not "forced on Germany," but on a peaceful and civilized world, and on the German people themselves, by the "handful of perverted and bloody-minded men" now in power...
...That was, however, on the basis of its record prior to the Heil reorganization scheme...
...It is extremely formidable...
...If there Is any protest within the Oerman soul it is drugged Into the obscene cry of "Sleg Heil...
...Mann warns his fellow-Germans that their way will be dark and bitter, even If they conquer the world...
...What happened in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, far behind the lines, is typical...
...The total earnings figure of $1,122,-000 for these 81 plants is reassuring to timid souls who argue that government cannot be as efficient a proprietor as private interests...
...Police supervision of foreigners is lax...
...Quite Right Said the toe to the sock: "Let me through...
...The disasters that have befallen the European neutrals when the Nazis leaped upon them, in every case, have been largely traceable to this new and dastardly technique of war invented by Hitler's Reich...
...He proclaims, in accents of a modern Cicero or Catiline, that It must and shall be destroyed...
...These unfortunate wanderers are a constant threat to the nation's social and economic security...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...Answered in the figures presented in this tabulation were some of the more glaring propaganda claims made by the private utility interests...
...Lindbergh himself believes that tha country needs "a greater air force, a greater army and a greater navy," which is all that the advocates of more adequate national defense have themselves been saying...
...That subsoil produces bountiful harvests far from the reservoir itself...
...Wisconsin's Parole System Endangered I DISTURBING reports are coming out of the capitol concerning the administration of the state pardon and parole system under the new state setup as reorganized by the Heil regime...
...The Daily Freeman takes occasion to prod Sheriff Redford of Waukesha county, who first says he is going to keep slot machines out of the county and then proceeds to say that his department hasn't enough sheriff deputies to watcn for the appearance or slot machines and that action will have to come through complaints from citizens...
...let me through...
...Ames and to thousands of courageous men and women like her throughout the South belongs much of the credit...
...The sheriff in Waukesha county seems to be more interested in alibi-ing the failure of his department to act than in following a militant and effective enforcement program in keeping the county clean...
...Enough df foreign sympathy and propaganda work shows above the surface to make that certain...
...We Have Our 'Fifth Column' (From The Wausau Record-Herald) IT IS high time for the American government to consider detailed plans for a thorough cleanup of spies and saboteurs—the "fifth column" —should the European war show the least sign of spreading to the United States...
...G. E. Seaman, director of the mental hygiene division...
...Hell, or any other man in office or seeking office, may submit his claims to these skilled, unbiased newsmen with the assurance that every iota of real news therein will be given full publicity...
...They can become so doggoncd plentiful that the title slumps to insignificance...
...Waukesha Freeman Nails Down Slot Machine Situation rpHE CAPITAL TIMES is glad to note that the Waukesha Freeman, the daily newspaper in that city, is taking a firm stand in the effort to clean up Waukesha county and to prevent the county from becoming a Mecca for racketeers, gamblers, and vice mongers...
...On May 4 more than 15,000 farmers from eight states gathered there for the dedication of the first cooperative oil refinery in the United States...
...Yes, and to its political sanity, for they are the raw material that some rising demagogue may exploit...
...If he insists upon manipulating the accounts to his own liking he will have to pay advertising rates or follow the example of Gov...
...The FBI has run down some others...
...He admits, sadly, that the German people are dazzled by dreams of a victory which will bring them happiness and glory forever...
...And yet here we have a man at the head of the state conservation commission whose business depends upon a line of activity that is wholly foreign to the spirit of conservation...
...Mrs...
...Lindbergh is a peculiar young man if he can contemplate this possibility in any other light than as a calamity for the American people...
...Members of this association and or others working to combat share-cropping evils, civil liberties abuses, "one-crop-ism," economic colonialism, and other sectional evils are serving their section as bravely as ever their grandfathers did in arms, and at the same time they are serving the whole country...
...We shall gladly print all the news about Mr...
...That Corcoran financed the timber operations of the person who bought the land and timber from the conservation commission...
...Willkie's $150 [From Editorial Research Reports] WENDELL L. WILLKIE, utilities leader prominently mentioned for the Republican presidential nomination...
...THIS migrant problem that the La Follette committee is now exploring cannot be explained away as a byproduct of the depression...
...Kansas' Co-op Refinery (From The New Republic) THE bad news about the attack of big business on the cooperatives has just been offset by some good news from Phillipsburg, Kans...
...In the United States there is practically no supervision whatever...
...It Is a safe assumption that no competent newspaper man approved the governor's course of action...
...If he is specially trained for his espionage job...
...The Progressive table also showed typical electric Dills for specified amounts of current...
...Lindbergh Remains A Great Flier' (From The New York Times) IN his radiobroadcast last night Col...
...Just so the flow of dimes and dollars from the refinery back into your home community will mean many more good things on the farm and more business in the town...
...If the reports coming out of the capitol are true, Wisconsin is not likely to retain very long its high standing in the field of parole...
...6. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...Let us put to one side the question of "invasion" —since Col...
...Under the reorganization system, paroles are now administered by a board consisting of Frank C. Klode, director of the department of public welfare, Dr...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...They have worked steadily and faithfully to erase this blot on the national honor...
...The table covered the year 1939 and provided a composite picture of the fine record that was made by these public utility plants last year...
...Conservation means the protection of our forests, the planting of new trees, the protection of our soil and of our streams and lakes...
...Wonder how real soldiers feel about this colonelcy travesty...
...or it would be more accurate to state that he is trying to present his case through the papers...
...And yet the private utilities will probably continue to tell you that municipal utilities pay no taxes and that they are inefficient and wasteful...
...In the administration of the parole system, it is reported that Mr...
...As a matter of fact the governor has over-ridden his own publicity department repeatedly, to his own detriment, in withholding or suppressing news favorable to his cause...
...We have our "fifth column...
...Gov...
...There is no reason to believe that this sort ot thing has not been going on in the United States...
...After he has served his term or two in office and demonstrated his ability to cope with present day problems is time enough to dub him a colonel...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...Germany will be thankful, some day, that the voice of this German patriot has not been stilled...
...The scope of such a survey is tremendously broad and its importance is very great...
...It is remarkable how candidates for public office before election will make promises about the militant policy they will follow when elected, and yet when Ihcy get Into office they find all sorts of excuses and alibis for doing little or nothing to carry out those pre-election promises...
...That as chairman of the conservation commission, Corcoran voted for the sale of lands and timber under the control of the conservation commission when he knew that the timber being disposed of by the commission would eventually be sold to Corcoran...
...Goldthorpe has finally gagged on the cheapening of the title of colonel on the governor's staff by the slapstick tactics of Gov...
...The existence of these brave and far-seeing men and women is a source of pride to their country...
...Long before the date of the blitzkrieg attack Germans and corrupted aliens of other nationalities have been filtered into the doomed country under passports issued to them as commercial men, travelers, sportsmen, and what-not...
...Anything can be overdone—even the appointment of honorary colonels...
...Klode makes the decisions, often disregarding or not even consulting the reports and records in each case...
...There is another angle on this matter which should have attention...
...Morris G. Caldwell, director of the corrections division of the department, and Dr...
...News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation A German Patriot Speaks [From The New York Times] NO voice comes out of Germany to condemn or question the crimes now being committed in Germany's name...
...Perpetual menace, merciless and gloating cruelty, harsh and bloody oppression, warlike tension unrelaxed"—these, he writes, are the conditions of the Nazi system's life, without which it could not survive...
...Is now an enrolled Republican in New York, but in 1932 he contributed $150 to the Democratic national committee for the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Klode, to whom Gov...
...A Record To Be Proud Ol A COMPLETE year has passed without ¦f* a single lynching in the South...
...He cited an example of a single county in Alabama which in 1934 had only eight tractors...
...Such foul attacks are preventable...
...Today there are 260 tractors, and each tractor does the work of three farm families...
...Enough of this colonel monkev-business...
...THE COURTS—Liberalization and reform of the .federal judiciary, including the U. 5. supreme court, to curb the threat to democratic government that lies in judicial autocracy and usurpation of power...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities with a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation 2. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits...
...Why make colonels of Tom, Dick and Harry from New York, Florida or Timbucktoo...
...Carl is a good scout...
...ne will be extremely skillful...
...Conservation means to conserve and to build up...
...And how much better it is that this 1,122,000 in earnings remains here in Wisconsin rather than being sent to absentee owners in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere outside the state...
...is one of the latest neophites in colonelcy...
...Corcoran Should Resign rpHERE are certain facts that stand out in the investigation of the Wisconsin conservation commission being held at the State capitol: That James A. Corcoran is chairman of the commission...
...rriHERE you have the basis of the prob-•*• lem with which Sen...
...It was notable that only two of the 81 electric utilities showed a deficit, which amounted to less than a thousand dollars...
...lawful errands which prevail in most of the democratic countries...
...They added that Mr...
...Experts all over the United States' frequently praised the Wisconsin system and its administration...
...Said the sock to the toe: "I'll be darned if I do...
...3. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...Willkie's personal friends in Akron, Ohio, telegraphed him offering to refund the contribution inasmuch as...
...The Progressive submits that even if these transactions do not violate the law, they do violate the ethical proprieties that should be maintained by a man who occupies the important position of chairman of the conservation commission...
...A hit or miss parole system is sooner or later sure to result in serious consequences...
...This is Thomas Mann, who speaks to them with flaming eloquence in his new book, "This War...
...The editorial from the Waukesha Daily Freeman, printed in adjoining columns on this page, is a forceful description of the situation in Waukesha county...
...You cannot confine the prosperity which cooperative enterprise produces...
...We believe that Corcoran's presence on the commission constitutes a paradox that should not be allowed to stand...
...Rob, jr.'s Committee Tackles Migrant Worker Problem t^EN...
...None dares to speak In these days of mounting horror...
...Milwaukee's new mayor, Carl F. Zeidier...
...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...
...In another county this mechanization of farming ousted about 3,000 persons from the land—turned most of them into migrants...
...Klode's pleasure...
...Then when the day arrives for the attack, they appear in every nook and corner, equipped to sever communications, destroy bridges, wreck air-raid alarm systems, seize strategic buildings, and generally raise hob...
...For instance, the table fried to a crisp the private utility claim that publicly owned plants pay no taxes...
...Let us consider instead "this hysterical chatter of calamity" that also annoys him...
...5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...Even Goldv Gags A SSEMBLYMAN WILLIAM H. GOLD-THORPE, editor of the Cuba City News-Herald, has this to say about the wholesale appointment of honorary colonels by Gov...
...They don't relish the idea of making the title so commonplace thai it loses its real significance...
...But here we have a man as chairman of the conservation commission who is chopping down trees instead of making trees grow...
...The Progressive believes that Mr...
...He Is confident that it will not win...
...He is an ignorant young man if he trusts his own premise that it makes no difference to us whether we are deprived of the historic defense of British sea power in the Atlantic ocean...
...Heil turned over the job of selecting its members, just as he did the directors of other divisions of the public welfare department...
...For decades Wisconsin has had an enviable reputation in the field of parole...
...The Dies committee has uncovered several exceedingly hot trails...
...He, at least, knows that this war was inherent in the Nazi system from its very beginning...
...In Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium the pattern has not varied...
...Heil's Case (From The Janesvllle Gazette) GOV...
...In his dedication address, Howard A. Cowden, president of the Consumers' Cooperative association, compared the $1,000,000 subscribed by members to the water in an irrigation reservoir: "You keep the reservoir full, and the seepage . . . keeps water in the subsoil of many thousands of acres...
...It was revealed that these 81 public plants payed a total of $439,000 in taxes in amounts varying from less than a hundred dollars up to a tax contribution of over $33,000...
...While certain western and southern regions are most vitally concerned with the problem, every section of the country is affected...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
