THE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says By WILLIAM I. EVJUE WHEN after many battles past. Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last. What Is it. after all. the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and...
...Zeidler was in Madison yesterday in connection with his duties as state secretary of the Socialist party...
...Organized business in Milwaukee has gone gunning for Socialists ever since they first appeared and finally organized business got the Socialist mayor," said Mr...
...A joint resolution was introduced in the assembly onk Feb...
...Shawano...
...I understand that Communist influence dominates your CIO here in Madison...
...Jensent said that, he continually saw the Relch«-wchr being called to suppress the.-.e riots...
...Huber nad made his speech late in the afternoon...
...Mr...
...For that reason, in the work of the National Conference of Christians and Jews we are seeking a mobilization of Protestant, Catholic and Jew around fundamental religious principles on which they all agree to the ena that our people will not be divided...
...Door, and Marinette counties...
...Naturally, the first question addressed to to our young visitor was this: "How do you get along with your conservative brother, the new mayor of Milwaukee...
...La Follette in a prepared speech on which he had been working for several weeks...
...He cited the fact that Communist inspired strikes in shipping circles in Australia are being car-rt ' on at a time when Australia Is trying to help England carry on Its war against Hitler...
...He rose to power because the opposition was divided among five or six different parties and these parties thought more of thelr own particular loyalties based on party and class, than they did to the German nation...
...Perry's belligerent jaw brought back recollections of the stern days of another World war when the resolution censuring Sen...
...On many occasions I sat up late into the night discussing points of view with these Nazi students and I was appalled to see how completely their minds had been impregnated with hate," said Jensen...
...Back in 1931 and '32, the years before Hitler came to power, young Jensen attended the University of Berlin and It was there that he witnessed conditions that prompted his decision as to hLs life's work,—to enlist in a crusade the hatos created by differences In religion, race, and economic conditions...
...Galesville: Henry A. Huber, Stoughton: Anton Kuek-uk...
...Jensen stated that the hate movements typified by the Christian Front, the Silver Shirts, ,-nd similar organizations evolved originally out of the Ku Klux Klan...
...The foes of Socialist candidates, too, have been particularly prone to engage in machine politics of the type connected with the saloon...
...We are now being told that Hitler has been spending $60,000,000 a year in the United States to create division among our people through tensions based on race, creed, unemployment and other factors to bring about disintegration...
...AN UNUSUALLY interesting visitor —the Social st brother of th:> new mayor of Milwaukee...
...The assembly galleries were crowded and the wives of many Madison industrial leaders were there In Red Cross uniforms...
...While at the University of Berlin, Jensen witnessed the results of Hitler's use of anti-Semitism In his struggle to gain power...
...There is need of this work in this country where tensions based on race, creed, and class can have a serious effect on the national unity that is necessary In these critical days...
...The two brothers, both bachelors, live with their father and mother, and according to our caller of yesterday there is much spirited repartee between the two brothers under the parental roof...
...continued Mr...
...Wh"n the vote was taken, only 7 senators voted against the Wilcox amendment and against the denunciation of La Follette...
...When Chappie pressed for action on his motion...
...At the moment he is particularly interested to the fifth column activities of the Communists and the Nazi and he maintained that In Milwaukee, the Communists and the Nazi are working together...
...Perhaps some time in the future, these and other businesses will have cause to remember that under a Socialist administration they did not have to pay for pro-ttction...
...The county and the state industrial council (CIO) should be advised not to act as a rubber stamp for the Communist line...
...Louis Lochner...
...FRANCIS MOORE A vagrant sentence, in the grist which comes to this desk, is apt when one surveys the battlefields of France toCay and the horror and death and destruction wrought by mechanical monsters of iron and steel, the products of man's inventive genius: "In the arts of life man invents nothing, but in the arts of death, he outdoes nature...
...Zeidler is particular]- concerned about the headway which Communists have made in labor unions and ihe opportunities for fifth column strategy that are open to them as a result...
...taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt...
...1918 pledging the support of Wisconsin to the federal government in its prosecution of the war and citing the contributions that had already been made by this state...
...The Perry amendment was later withdraw...
...1918...
...Hitler outlined it...
...It cannot be blamed because it was miseducated...
...In fact the parishes of the cUy have been foca...
...Hitler rose to power by a minority vote...
...La Follette to tax war profits as a method for raising funds to prosecute the war...
...Zeidler said: "Youth also had its say...
...Frank v "V, a se-ious-minded stud'ous-• :g young man is the s'-t> •ttry of the Socialist party in Wisconsin and he has been taking a leading part in the Socialist party in Milwaukee during the past six years...
...Feeling was so bitter that supporters of the resolution attempted to move the previous auestion and shut off debate in order that the supporters of Sen...
...The sight of Me...
...When I surveyed the results of the hate movements, I thought, why should a Catholic be compelled to defend his good name against the monstrous thing unloosed by the Ku Klux Klan...
...Wilcox spoke in behalf of his amendment and bitterly denounced S-n...
...The Socialist party has always been friendl...
...Zeidler continued: "There are big unions in Milwaukee which are on the rocky road because the Communist party has packed the officialdom of these unions with its members and sympathizers from the president and secretary through the educational directors to the office girls...
...the winning of the war, and we enounce anv attitude or utterance f theirs which has tended to incite edition amone the people of our -untry a-ri to injure Wisconsin's 'ir ram...
...What happened In Germany can happen in this country, If we do not succeed In building a national unity to make America safe for democracy...
...When ihe call was put on, all doors leading to the assembly chamber were locked and after midnight, many of the older members had sought places in the clfamber where they could lie down and get -ome sleep...
...An intensely serious young man with the zeal of a missionary and doing a worthwhile work was a caller las', week,—Ellis E. Jensen, and field representative for the state of Wisconsin of the National Conference of Christians and Jews...
...5. 1918, when the resolution came up for consideration, was electric with tension in the assembly chamber...
...Once the Communists fasten themselves to a union, it takes a knock-down-drag-outfight to get rid of them...
...In his story of Tuesday, lochner said: "No one seemed to be able In say by whom or how the blaze had been set...
...Then came a bitter all-night vigil In which the forces against the resolution were led by Assemblyman Rosa and the editor of The Capital Times, who was then a member of the assembly...
...The resolution was adopted by a vote of 80 to 11...
...Discussing the part which youth played in defeating Mayor Hoan...
...At a time like this we need solidarity, and if we permit these class and racial tensions to grow, they may threaten the processes of democracy...
...They were Al C. Anderson, Menomonie: Louis Arnold, Milwaukee: Eugene F. Clark...
...to the CIO, but everywhere union members are beginning to stamp out Communist Influence all over the country...
...Few people realize that up to the time of this war, Hitler won his greatest victories In the realm of Ideas on propaganda and not on the battlefield...
...Why, that's easy, Louis,—the Jews did it...
...La Follette: C. B. Casperson, William T. Evjue, Alan Galbralth, John Gamper, P A. Henimy, Herman Kent, Frank Mctaelf...
...Henry A. Huber took occasion to launch a defense of Sen...
...After seeing what the inculcation of the spirit of hate among German students had done...
...Heil's appointment of Milwaukee Athletic club colonels...
...Assemblyman Charles D. Rosa, then representing the Beloit district, moved a call of the house...
...La Follette was carried by a vote of 50 to 32...
...Rob?rt M. La Follette .'.nd al...
...They were so fanatical it was futile to attempt to reason with them...
...I determined to devote my life to the battle against hate movements, and for that reason I became interested in the work of the National conference of Christians and Jews...
...In his first story after reaching the front, Mr...
...As a Socialist, young Zeidler has lit-V.* use for the Communists...
...We need national unity internally quite as much as we need guns and bombers on our shores to stop invaders...
...Evjue, do you know that a member of your own staff wrote Communist resolutions which were innocently introduced by Assemblyman Stachowiak, an FLP member from Milwaukee in the last session of the legislature...
...points and the citadels of the opposition to clean government, and in them hatred of public ownership has been taught as a religious precept...
...The resolution was quite innocuous and marie no mention of Sen...
...While the inauguration of my brother was being held m the Milwaukee auditorium and the people were intent on the program in the front of the auditorium, in the rear were 15 huge banners which were awards for excellence in government, won under the defeated mayor in a period of six years...
...others who have failed see '.he righteousness of our na-on's cause, who have failed to sup-ort our government in matters vita...
...Lochner says that the famous I-ouvain library, destroyed In the last world war and rebuilt by the pennies of American school children, is once more In ruins...
...and W. C. Zumach Milwaukee...
...Remember that Germany was the first cf 'ntry to fall into the lap of Hitler because of his demagogic use of class tensions to serve his purpose...
...Frank Zeidler was a warm supporter of Mayor Hoan's and he is already warning Milwaukee that the citizens of the state metropolis wiil live to regret the day when they turned out of office the man who has made Milwaukee the best governed large city in the United States...
...Henry Ohl, Charles D. Bo;;e...
...A luncheon glimpse of Mel Perry of Algoma, cne time member of the state senate from Kewaunee...
...and a bitter fight in the senate then centered around the adoption of the Wilcox amendment...
...George V. Skogmo...
...A large part of the youth of Milwaukee, blissfully unaware of what the Socialist party had meant to it in playgrounds, schools, public health, decent homes, sanitation and work conceived its new mission to get rid of Socialists...
...On a number of occasions the university was closed when the Nazi students staged riots against the Jewish students and the result spread out over the city...
...the Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press, who was given an honorary degree at university commencement exercises a year ago, is one of three American correspondents given a personal invitation by Adolf Hitler to visit the Oerman war front...
...Herman Schultz, Milwaukee...
...The motion to move the previous question was made by As-emblyman John C. Charjple of Ashland, father of John B. Chappie...
...It was a tense night in the state senate chamber on Feb...
...A startling example of this miseducation was given at the recent inaugural ceremones of the new administration...
...River Falls...
...before the free peoples of is world...
...No I can see the danger to this country if we permit the people to become divided by anti-Semitism, by Communism, by the class struggle represented by the battle between capital and labor...
...It was a stern and bitter night...
...Jensen...
...La Follette's w-ar record...
...William A. Schroeder, and Glenn Turner...
...The amended resolution then went back to the assembly and the night of Mar...
...Jensen...
...Young Jensen Is a Janes-ville boy, the son of J. K. Jensen, well-known in the sand and gravel business and a leading layman in the Lutheran church...
...In looking over the assembly roll call the following are the names of these who are still living and who voted against a denunciation of Sen...
...Lochner gives a word picture of the destruction wrought by the invading German forces on the French city of Lou vain...
...Young Mr...
...Repeatedly throughout the night those supporting the La Follette censure resolution attempted to raise the call but were unsblc to get the necessary 51 votes to break the deadlock...
...The Wilcox amendment was as follows: "The people of the state of Wisconsin always have stood and always will stand squarely behind the national government in all things which are essential to bring the present war to a successful end, and we condemn Sen...
...When the joint resolution came up for consideration1 in the senate, Sen...
...Young Jensen took his PhD at the University of Chicago in the history of primitive religion...
...specific denunciations of La Follette's war record...
...La Follette could not be heard...
...said Mr...
...And here is an outstanding statement made by our visitor: "In Milwaukee Mayor Hoan's campaign got no great support from established religion in keeping a clean city and an efficient government...
...Incidentally...
...his book how he planned to utilize tensions based on race, creed, and economic conditions in other countries in order to soften them, sow the seeds of disintegration, and destroy morale for the time when Hitler would b< ready to pluck them off...
...The senate chamber was packed at night and the atmosphere was impregnated with war hysteria...
...The Huber speech enraged Senators Roy P Wilcox and Mel Pern- and they immediately introduced amendments to the assembly resolution, the amendments contain-in1...
...La Follette...
...Robert M. La Follette's war record was before the legislature and there was a bitter political alignment in the special session of 1918...
...During his speech...
...Almost every meeting of the CIO council in Milwaukee finds endorsement of one or more issues pushed by the Communist party...
...the Socialists being the only members to vote against the resolution...
...It was not until next morning after breakfast time that the call was raised and the resolution lenouncing Sen...
...There were bitt'.r col'oqules between members of the house and several times fist fights broke out...
...Incidentally, he is the county surveyor of Milwaukee county and he inspired considerable levity some months ago by appointing scores of honorary coun-t;- surveyors, lampooning Gov...
...Zeidler...
...Huber referred to the efforts that had been made by Sen...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
