THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM—A Full Paee of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBEKTIES.-MILTON. Reviews the...
...Now that the noose Is tightening around England's neck, should we go to help them...
...Russia is still, an enigma to mast Americans, made thus firstly, by these Samsonian reporters, and secondly by our own desire to remain in blissful ignorance with a wishful hope...
...Why should a few countries claim they have the "God-given" right to own nearly half the world with a monopoly on the different essential products that other countries need and should'have the privilege of sharing...
...If that is your belief, let us hope that in your case it will be true.' " And so I hope that A Reader, Mrs...
...However...
...Our form of government is based on the doctrine that everybody is assumed to be law-abiding and loyal until proven to be otherwise beyond any reasonable doubt, provided that he has been given a fair and impartial trial first, and he has been deprived of his liberty in the manner provided by law...
...F. nf L. meetings through-<"it the country...
...They were not bolsheviks and did not really know what bolshevism meant but they were happy because the new government gave freedom to Finland and issued a decree that the poor should have the land...
...According to pub- j lished nlans of our military leaders for "M-Day," entry of the United States into the present European war...
...It would be illogical to expect them to overlook anything which might perpetuate their control for a little while longer...
...A defeat for Germany would bring those revolutionary forces to the top...
...We must not waver now that the crisis is at hand," Lindbergh said...
...More and more machinery' is continuously being put into operation while more and more of our people are forced to forfeit their jobs...
...Supposedly every time the Old Testament was recopied...
...The present hard times having bepn caused bv man made laws, by Ignorant repr»sentatlvc« trying tn please a lot of ignorant voters, If your paper will put a plank In your platform for more efficient management of school houses, you will be driving in the right direction to speed up the adoption of every right reform...
...Russia also offered a mutual assistance pact of immense value to the Finnish government but this the Finnish government refused...
...They, as a rule, are integrated...
...Surely these reporters explain Judges y.V...
...Germany soon notified Sweden that this kind of fantastic wishful reporting had to stop, and that was the end of Allied victories as well as the end of the British and Frenrh expeditions in southern and central Norway...
...They permitted democracy to be destroyed in Spain where they had no difficulty in giving material assistance...
...Col...
...If the Reds had these possessions, it would be more than imperialism...
...Russia is rapidly going forward, increasing her wealth by 20 to 30 per cent yearly, as compared to our 3 to 5 per cent...
...v. 15-16, better than anything I have read...
...Very few workers really do eight hours of work in an eight hour day, so why should they be kept on the job eight hours...
...He predicted the growth would steadily continue and that "hundreds of thousands" more members would be arirled this year Membership campaigns were recently launched at regional A...
...I hope you can find a place for the following In your splendid newspaper...
...The wars we have now are caused bv the greedy powers who wish to continue with the outmoded manipulating monetary system, because Mammon holds sway in their hearts...
...Utopian Society (Lewiston, Mp...
...Has he forgotten that the British also landed troops in the White sea area on the Arctic coast of Russia in 1918 and 1919 as armed intervention against the Soviet Union in behalf of the old Tsarist imperialists and the Kerensky regime...
...but I doubt if many of us would be willing to sign our names to such an exhibition of idiocy as the epistle titled, "He Hates England...
...Some people may criticize your Washington, D. C. reader who did not have the courage to sign his name to his long and bitter tirade...
...Any war between us would be fought in that area, with Japan standing by...
...Some who refuse to be informed will stubbornly maintain that thrma-chine is not responsible for great unemployment, contending that each new development creates new jobs...
...I suppose the holding of all this land by Britain and France Is not imperialism...
...There are Canada and Newfoundland in North America as well as British Honduras in Central America and Jamaica, 3arbados...
...I am enclosing subscription for The Progressive, the best newspaper...
...There is a naval base at Hong Kong, on* the tip of the southern coast of China...
...Its sponsors sopiii to sense the approaching stor nun Britain, France, find Germany when the death lists beam to appear...
...American business as an institution is on the verge of extinction...
...After all: "There comes a tide in the affairs of men...
...Many others were sentenced to die in horrible concentration camps...
...William B. Richter: "War Strategy...
...C. F. Knizweg...
...It was the first national appeal from any group leader, that did not resort to hatred against foreign nations and contain every ear mark of war propaganda...
...It is time for the underlying.character of this country to rise and assert itself, to strike down these elements of personal profit and foreign interest...
...There seems to be few other papers that take the liberal stand The Progressive does...
...She also rules India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo, Austin il...
...This should be done before the workers cause a lot of trouble because of the way they have been treated...
...He is a genius, yes, in aviation...
...The profit margin of business as a whole is nearlng the vanishing point...
...Years ago we decided to stay out "!' foreign wars...
...Don't count too heavily on your Scandinavian subscribers to support your one sided policy...
...We all know that the development has been astonishingly rapid and despite the fact that a few inventions and improvements, such as the automobile and the radio, have created innumerable jobs and a tremendous amount of new business, the group of permanently unemployed has steadily grown, even through the late boom period...
...Defends Russia (Telna, N. D.)—I like your Interesting valuable weekly very much...
...That there must be unification of Europe is becoming more apparent it would seem...
...Enclosed find one year subscription...
...I want as many people to read It as possible as it tells one solution to the great crisis that lies before the workers of this nation full of unemployment and hunger...
...which sum up just as clearly as anything could just what exactly is wrong with our economic structure in these United States...
...No wonder ousiness is not any better than It Is in this his country...
...P. STENSIIOEL...
...Most daily, weekly, and monthly magazines are reactionary and do not, therefore, print the true facts...
...Great Britain promised Finland aid...
...All of which means that we now have a vast body of citizens who cannot possibly ever again find employment and that the numbers constituting this great body will steadily increase...
...Through the whole process fewer and fewer men are required to make and operate the producing mechanisms...
...Nothing doing, not for that imperialist class...
...Here are a few quotations from an address delivered at the public assembly of fhe Utopian Society held at Hollywood bowl...
...Even your news begins to be col-ored: witness your front page space for the Martin Dies appeal for Amer-lean interference (or Investigation) In the internal affairs of Mexico...
...They made their own nest and scorned and ridiculed any advice the American delegation tried to give them at Versailles...
...would...
...The tax payers, who are already broke, yet are supposed to repay these vast sums to themselves in the person of the government...
...Wc need not fear a foreign invasion unless American peoples bring it on through their own quarreling and meddling with affairs abroad...
...This would bring about the employment of about 100 per cent more workers all over this country and would almost wipe out all necessity for relief...
...In the meantime, county and city governments all over the country are rapidly approaching bankruptcy—unable to collect taxes because the people cannot pay...
...Calif...
...We Americans should learn more about Russia as we are only a few miles apart in the Alaska area...
...That is the change that should be brought into a reality for the workers of this country...
...The Lindbergh address was a cleverly - worded, demagogic appeal to unthinking Americans who constitute an overwhelming majority of the citizenry...
...Then you will realize the big change told about in the little poem Just must be brought into a reality.—GEORGE F. YOUNG...
...Some of our soldiers did not return until as late as 1923...
...W. L. Smith...
...A six hour dav A five day week, With the very same pay Is what we seek...
...What Is to prevent them from double crossing us and attacking us after monsen...
...Is there a good magician in the house?—FRANK W. CHANNEL!* + + 4Monkeys (Chicago, 111...
...Our best efforts are for an International Mutual Co-operative Service corporation for the benefit of a mankind united to end war, poverty and greed—E...
...Minn...
...All your good work for co-ops...
...We notice you advocate ownership of some natural resources, etc...
...If the human being ever lived who could devise a routine of financial gymnastic by which such a thing could be accomplished, his genius would be equal to making two and two equal seven...
...Let us remember that when thieves fall out honest men get their dues, and let us remain honest men instead of joining one of the bands of thieves...
...Some holding companies have served a legitimate and good purpose...
...The press everywhere should be truthful, if it would be free...
...Jitterbugs...
...If the Loyalists had won, there would have been a good chance that the high hats in Great Britain would have lost their chance to help the Spanish grandees continue to exploit the masses...
...Model Russia (Winston-Salem...
...But the Finns spurned every effort and tried to find an exensp to squirm out without trying to come to an understanding...
...I suppose | it was :U1 right for us to intervene in another country's Internal affairs, but Russia is not supposed to do that...
...She also has the islands of Malta and Cyprus...
...If possible, let us be neutral, if not friendly, to Russia.—P...
...Mannerheim is rightfully called the "Butcher of Finland...
...In my opinion it was a fine combination of realism and expression of the emotion humane people experience when they behold injustice...
...Even such dodges as publishing the likeness of J. P. Morgan's own "angel of mercy,"—Sister Anne—on the front page of every newspaper in the country, will not forever fool the people...
...A few million lives, more or less, would not be too high a price to pay...
...The best thing we can do Is advocate and work and fight and argue for more efficient management of all public business, especially of the industries that could be privately owned...
...British Ches-nuts,' by Charles Schafer is well presented but weak in logic...
...The last three issues of The Progressive have carried some bitter attacks against that particular editorial, and of your criticisms of the Soviets and the F. B. I. Some commendable letters have appeared in these three issues...
...and "Threat of War," E. E. Evans...
...It is difficult to see that any of the territories demanded, except probably the port of Hango...
...Hitler refused to make war on Russia, even though he had the full assurance of all Allied help and blessing...
...If France and England can master the situation, so much the better, but let them do it alone...
...Meanwhile business mast still dig down for taxes to feed, clothe and shelter those who cannot buy...
...France, United States, and Japan also have concessions in China...
...The stores could thus be open 12 hours every day, and then the workers who work the early shift every day can do their buying in the afternoon, and Ihe Workers who work the late shift every day can do their buying in the morning...
...if other great nations would follow suit, both wars and unemployment would soon be ancient history.—N...
...Such a contention is as silly as it is unfounded...
...What could more certainly elicit the approval of the tax-burdened small business man than the prospect of a nation free of debt...
...Automatic producing machines no longer create other jobs as by-products because those very same . machines are now made by other automatic machinery...
...Defends G-Men...
...Hitler rose to power w'ith just such an appeal...
...A Soviet government was set up in Bavaria after the first World war...
...E. CASSEL...
...some of the holding companies stubbornly resist the present attempt to apply the act passed nearly five years ago...
...Few "images of God" seem to be proud of the "evolution theory"—that we have all descended from ape-like beings...
...This fact becomes evident when one reads "Red Utopia," Martin Goetz: "He See Red...
...She also has numerous Islands in the Pacific ocean...
...This is a jump of nearly 300.000 over the total of last August and far above the previous record of 4.078.0OO attained after the World war, Green said...
...It is doubted that, this can be brought about voluntarily judging from past history especially the past 20 years...
...This in turn would mean investment of Icoal capital and the payment of dividends to the Inhabitants of the communities served by the utilities...
...Furthermore, its very short comings make it useful, for it is a striking illustration of the truth in the proverb...
...war to meet with opposition but I was surprised to find that those letters most in disagreement with you were the most poorly written and displayed the least intelligence...
...Absentee landlordism is as bad in this field as in others...
...What did the Allies do for China...
...Nearly two years have passed since I have written to the People's Forum, partly because my time has been taken up with other matters, and partly because I tell that I had nothing to say which could not be stated more capably by others...
...Since I prefer to live under a de-mocracy...
...Some people and the Roosevelt administration expect that we should help the Allies all we can because they claim they stand for democracy, and are fighting for religion...
...He was a grand leader of "Americanism...
...President Green revealed last week...
...They appear to be more afraid of anything that points towards a civilized "Utopia" than they are of the veritable hell on earth, which we now* have...
...When a hysterical mob is trying }o hang a Negro, not only because he is black, but because "somebody said" that he killed a white person, the members of that mob are not half as insane js the attitude many a person (who has the impudence of calling himself an "American") is inclined to assume towards this or that "ism " In the former case, the alleged "villain" is supposed to have done something everybody considers "wrong," namely, killed an innocent person...
...P. of I . dues-paying membership has reached the all-time peak of 4,300,000...
...The law is an important phase of the movement toward effective regulation of natural monopolies and the restoration of local control and local management...
...tax ourselves into prosperity by means of "funny money" pension schemes or dream ourselves into prosperity by listening to vague generalities emanating from the mouth of some political spellbinder to the effect that the budget must be balanced, taxes must be reduced and private industry will absorb the slack in employment if it is freed from government hindrance...
...I hereby withdraw the slight subsidy ro The Progressive representor by my subscription...
...Instead of seizing upon and utilizing that stroke of genius, that penetrating and rib-tickling slogan, 'The Yanks are NOT Coming," to help build the wall of peace, you attack it because, forsooth, you believe it to have been written by a Communist...
...But politically he is a nonentity...
...Yet the vast majority still seem persistently to behave like monkeys and parrots...
...The abuses of the holding companies in the decade which ended in the smash and collapse of 1929 cost the investors billions and the consumers more billions...
...What we have not known, but must now realize and comprehend, is that with the ever accelerating momentum of machine processes of production more and more people are being thrown out of work, while machines which displaced them immediately begin to produce more than was possible with man labor, at the same time failing to wen up other fields of employment to absorb those deprived of the privilege of gainful effort...
...I also advocate some extension of the principle of public ownership in spite of the inefficient management of some business now under public ownership...
...It is possible that in times like these even the cunning of vast financial interests may be unable to stay the tide of history...
...Isabel La Follette had better look out or -,he will loose her "Room" in your paper: Who but a "red" could have written, as she did, that it would be a hopeless job for us to try to supervise the policies of European countries...
...With these and his army of landholders, he spread terror all over the country...
...School Houses (Quincy, 111...
...nazism" or some other kind of "ism...
...I was surprised to find one translation that had increased these figures x> 10.000 Philistines...
...Through American help France and England won in 1918...
...Social Democratic leaders were arrested and shot and the elected parliament was not allowed to assemble...
...Anybody who is opposed to this doctrine ought (o be jailed and deported, no matter where he was born...
...One who really desires peace would not reject any plank that could help build a peace structure, any more than a drowning man would reject a plank pushed towards him because the pusher ls (or is said to be) a red...
...N. C.)—Havng taught Sunday School for the past 45 years, I have always found it difficult to explain the exploits of Samson until the present war broke out and the war correspondents first began to report about the PolLsh planes bombing Berlin, next about the two Finnish soldiers on skiis capturing 2,000 Russians, and later about the British closing the pineer-movement and annihilating the Germans in Norway...
...It was a "Mona Lisa in words...
...H. Caroll...
...The efficient management of the school houses in the United States would cure the hard times in the quickest possible time and prevent any recurrence unless by Ret of God or natural causes...
...When the Russian revolution started in 191", many Finns rejoiced when they learned that the Tsar had fallen but the Finns soon learned that the provisional Kerensky government in Petrograd (now Leningrad) did not mean to set the Finns free...
...Nothing as Good (Detroit Mich...
...It Is designed to protect the millions of investors in the securities of the utilities to bring about sound financing or re-financing of inflated utilities, and to insure reasonable rates lor their services...
...I note with sorrow that half of your back page, as usual of late, is devoted to red-baiting...
...It is probably true that control of our American society through the profit system is no longer of any utility to the House of Morgan...
...This can be done, too, If all workers will stand together...
...the very next and unavoidable consequence is that business-all businesses big and little —is immediately curtailed in volume and profits because of the decreased buying power of its main body of consumers, whereupon business Is compelled to dismiss salesmen, clerks, office workers and other employes...
...Six Hour Day (South Gate...
...Foreign Policy," Nels Anderson...
...When the Soviet government was established in November, 1919, the Finns again rejoiced...
...They expect to delay and hamper the SECs eflorts by obstructive and technical lawsuits, as well as by sophistical and dishonest propaganda...
...To Hitler the communique states: "Our danger in America is an internal danger...
...The Soviet Union offered the Finns great economic advantage of a large increase in trade turnover...
...In the election which brought Hitler to power, 6,000,000 Communist votes were cast...
...That is the only way they can remain in business...
...Praises Lindbergh {St...
...Integration means "home rule" in the field of public utilities—responsible local management...
...He caused the death of at least 28,000 Finns who opposed him...
...fascism...
...especially when it is unsupported by wisdom, or any kind of restraint...
...PKASE, Minn..—"Trust in yourself...
...Those which are pertinent to foreign affairs include "Power Politics...
...The workers should be allow id to work six hours and have 18 hours for rest in each day, and they should let the same pay they are receiving now No less than that amount...
...and he has done remarkable work with Dr...
...The rich men like Gen...
...Best Newspaper (Atascadero, Cal...
...The strongest objectors to public ownership are those who point to Inefficient management as the great reason against extending the theory...
...Col...
...Thus more people will have more time and money to buy what they want, and then this country will have the best and biggest prosperity It ever had...
...Reviews the Forum (Bazaar, Kais...
...Lindbergh has never been noted for political astuteness...
...Is a fat robber (like Britain with India) so much more virtuous than a lean and hungry robber that we should bleed our resources, as you suggest, to feed the fat one...
...When the Germans were carrying >n their "blitz-krieg" in Norway, the Swedish radio and press, being controlled bv the Allies, began reporting sreat Allied victories until many of us Americans did some wishful believing...
...Since the outbreak of war The Pro-gressive has been engaged, with in-creasing hysteria, in trying to break down the neutral attitude of the American people (a necessary pre-lude to actual entry into war...
...The strongest nation in Europe should be the nucleus for any unification...
...It b not unmindful of the fact that modern wars breed social revolution and that the bol-shevization of Europe as a consequence of this war is a strong possibility...
...Spanish democracy was not the kind of democracy the English high hats wanted to win...
...In return the Soviet Union offerPd territorial compensation in Soviet Karelia consisting of an area twice as large as that which she demanded...
...If the Republicans win the next national election, they will doubtless repeal or emasculate the law In question, and the utility Bourbons Count on aid and comfort from that quarter The intent and object of the law are laudable in the extreme...
...LELAND WEBSTER STARKEY...
...Years ago I met Bob La Follette and wife at Pendleton, Ore...
...Great Britain has naval bases all over the world...
...The result is more goods, faster production and fewer people to buy because of the increasing number deprived of income...
...A good friend or mine has often said to me that people who should read the liberal papers so they would honestly know what Is going on about them do not do so...
...I hope that that imperialist gang gets licked this time...
...Likewise, the six hour day will not ruin the nation, either...
...Lindbergh's recent radio address was clever...
...by Dr...
...H. HAN-LY...
...The Lindbergh address even throws out a sop to half-baked radicals with the following: "The only reason that we are in danger of becoming involved in this war Ls because there are powerful elements in America who desire us to take part...
...and not as an Innocent disinterested witness...
...The Living Church" once received the question "What can one say to a woman who...
...and "He Hates England...
...We do not ask school boards to endorse our federation but to assist the people to organize non-exclusive community clubs and lead or advise or direct them toward study of important subjects in the meetings.—J...
...Any nation which expects any other to defend it will have no defense...
...Great Britain has a naval base at Singapore on the Malay peninsula In the East Indies...
...The United States must prepare for any eventuality, it must be powerful enough to repell any invader...
...She has the fortress of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain 'it the entrance of the Mediterranean...
...But, that does not mean that newer, sterner, stronger and more effective "controls" may not be fashioned...
...Great Britain s,lso has special concessions in sorn^ of the larger cities of China...
...There is nothing as good as The Progressive in my opinion—HARRY J. NOBLE...
...For instance, many people are in the habit of abhorring "communism...
...I only regret that the common people have to fight for the imperialists—FRED E. SCHMIDT...
...No properly organized utility or holding company has anything to fear from the law...
...Mrs...
...I even strongly doubt that he understands all of its hidden meanings...
...I had expected your stand on th...
...A large number of workers do not buy anything because they have to spend 111 their lime wording...
...The shaky, weak and scattered utility empires, geographically separated, fight Integration, but the public should not be misled and deceived by the outcry and the wailing of these speculative and fantastic structures...
...Business stagnates and falters, while additional tax burdens are placed upon it and upon the whole people in order to care for the unemployed who have now become objects of charity and are liabilities to the community, rather than producing assets...
...I do not agree with your anti-Russian attitude...
...Calif...
...New Zealand...
...Who is supposed to pay off those tens of billions of dollars of debts...
...France s»lso has possessions in Africa and Asia...
...Now let them fry in their own fat...
...How much longer can they endure all this...
...but instead of taking steps to bring about a unification of Europe, they feathered their own nest...
...The Soviet Union also wanted certain small islands near Leningrad and some territory in the Rylachi peninsula overlooking the port of Petsame which might otherwise be used as a base threatening the arctic port of Murmansk...
...But what wrong is a man committing in case he does stand committed to some particular "ism," and then why not find out, in the first place, whether that man recall, is what you may call a "fascist" or what not...
...In closing, let me commend you for your current editorial "The Centra-Fact In the World Today...
...Tens of billions of bookkeeping money are being borrowed by the government...
...says she doesn't believe in heaven...
...The real crisis Is that the war may have gotten out of hand...
...Can we call that democracy...
...A little knowledge is a dangerous thing...
...When taken at the flood leads on to fortune...
...The federal government with local assistance creates synthetic Jobs to give a synthetic stimulus to business and pays the whole bill with synthetic money—debt claims against itself...
...We may be on the verge of an awakening that will ring down the curtain *on the big financiers and and everything they stand for.— ANON...
...Russia asked Finland's permission to establish a naval base at Hango and that the Finnish-Soviet frontier at present only 20 miles from Leningrad be moved back a few miles to get the city out of range of artillery fire, Russia desired to lease the port of Hango with the right to station a fixed number of troops there to stop any hostile fleet approaching Leningrad...
...Isn't, it worth trying...
...Lindbergh's truthful message over the radio must have been of great consolation to over 100 million people in the U. S. It came from a clear sky, single-handed and unadvertised...
...S. J. Simonson...
...For many years they have been doing just that, And with greater and ?reater rapidity, especially since the World war, so that today we are faced with a situation wherein people, out of business necessity, continue to be thrown out of work in ever Increasing numbers, while business is obliged, for its very own life's sake, to go on cutting down labor costs and at the same time produce more than the people on possibly buy—mark you, not more than they can consume—but more than they can buy, because of the steadily increasing number who can buy very little or nothing at all "The unemployed worker is only the first to be affected...
...because of no other reason than that "everybody's doin' it...
...This was not because he loved Stalin, but because he knew the power and resources of Russia better than anybody else outside of Russia...
...but near the end of the century automatic machine processes began to displace men faster than they could be reabsorbed and thus started the period of permanent unemployment for certain numbers of capable ar.d willing workers...
...Then let him wonder just how in h- we can...
...Utility Home Rule WINTER PARK...
...Your 'ast front page editorial on the Norwegian invasion Is typical Henrstian journalism: Appeal to emotion based upon presenting an incomplete picture...
...Farmers investors and consumers should give earliest and vigorous support to the SEC in its eminently reasonable effort to apply the law which reflects g!eat credit on the New Deal philosophy and program.—VICTOR S. YAKROS...
...The communique is also a plea to both belligerents to stop the war at once...
...June 23, 1934...
...Carrel in experiments with the "mechanical heart...
...Let every reader draw upon his own experience and observation and prove the truth of these statements to himself...
...It was a direct slap in the face of group leaders great and small, whose record has been and is now for partial economic conduct of such magnitude as establishes a record of grave hostility against foreign nations, so bad as to reasonably invite attack, if it were possible, but as congressional investigations show and as the colonel says it is not...
...They represent a small minority of the people, but they control much of the machinery of influence and propaganda...
...The greatest inheritance we can pass on to our children is a reasonable solution of the problems that confront, us in our time—a strong nation, a lack of debt, a solid American character free from the entanglements of the old world...
...Petersburg, Fla...
...Unemployment increases as automatic technological processes advance...
...It might have caused Propaganda Minister Goebbels to writhe with envy...
...Now, under our present economic system, this condition must exist, and its trend must of necessity continue with ever increasing acceleration because the only way producers and manufacturers of goods can keep irom losing ousiness to their competitors Is to operate more efficiently—that is, more rapidly and with lower production or labor costs in proportion to their output...
...If they had done so and also allowed the Allies to crass their territory, it would have brought in Germany on the side of Russia and Scandinavia would have been the battlefield for the great, powers...
...We are now existing on government credit...
...Hillman (all of whom left-handedly advocate totalitarianism) may, with Martin Goetz, sometime dwell under the benevolent protection of the O. G. P. U. or the Gestapo, but that the rest of us— the Grace of God—continue to live as free people...
...which provides for the geographic integration of utility properties...
...were of any appreciable value to Finland if no aggressive moves were intended to be carried on by anyone from her territory...
...it is impossible for this writer to believe that control of humanity by financial manipulators can last forever...
...PEVERIL MKIGS...
...In listing small states that have been Invaded, you omitted Manchuria, the first victim in the appeasement series, seized by Japan with the blessing of Britain and setting the precedent for the later robberies...
...We Americans should Join in a demand for truthful reporting, regardless of whose interests are at stak...
...If other group leaders would now come forward and disseminate the truth, the percentage of citizens holding correct opinion formations would advance from 10 per cent to 90 per cent and thus establish true democracy instead of faLse democracy, such as exists today and as proven by the speeches and official record of our representatives at Washington...
...We based our military policy on that decision...
...AFL Members at 'All Time Peak' WASHINGTON...
...Those that have been parasitic and worse than superfluous should be forced to reorganize...
...One Sided," by Rev...
...It did not do so...
...Russia was Justified in taking fiction that she did after giving the Finns every opportunty to come to a compromise agreement last fall...
...Every local election showed gains for the Social Democratic party...
...A change like this has to be brought into reality to save the nation's workers and also the nation itself...
...Cn the otner side of the Atlantic, Britain hns British Guiana, the Falkland islands, and other islands on" the north coast of Venezuela...
...Money Evil (Crookston...
...Russia will not join Germany any more then the Allies, unless the Allies foolishly declare or make war on the Soviets...
...Has the editor of The Progressive forgotten that, or can't he remember back that far...
...Lindbergh's acceptance of a medal from Hitler aroused a storm of protest in America...
...With all due respect, however, it is their empire more than democracy they are trying to protect...
...Ethiopia, Spain, Czechoslovakia, and Foland...
...Machines began to displace men in industry early in the last century but for many years the displaced labor was reabsorbed in new developments, new industries or in building the various machines which had first taken their places...
...I do not agree with the "Soviet Alibi," of Peter Orde...
...Old officials of the Tsar began to organize to continue their oppression of the people...
...As "Time" said, concerning the Norwegian Invasion: "The 1,500.000-odd Scand-Americans in the U. S. prayed, raised relief funds, damned Hitler (and Great Britain, whom many taxed with provoking the invasion...
...And as for Congressman Coffee, quoted in The Progressive: "We should maintain an aggressive militant neutrality as between the belligerents of the war," and he endorses a peace platform of "no war loans, no planes, no men to any belligerents...
...Thus, as the process of disemployment continues ail are affected in turn and like manner...
...or the letter "Europe's Mess" by Louis Scholl: but I do admire the way in which these views were presented...
...O. SCHALLERT...
...Finland also banked on Norway and Sweden to come to her assistance, but they did not...
...When the eight hour day became a law many business men said it would ruin the nation...
...C.—A...
...It would be interesting, but at this moment it is unnecessary to trace from thit period on, the rapid development of technilogical processes in industry, agriculture and transportation...
...That this country can be defended by drawing a line through Europe and defending frontiers in Europe is very' doubtful...
...Why not attack "government of the people, by the people, for the people" because fhat phrase was written by a Republican...
...They had to be hustled out so that they would not become bolsheviks if they were left there any longer...
...have the immediate effect of convert-ing our country into a totalitarian die- , tatorship, terminable only at the will ! of the dictator...
...These writers have run into the difficulties encountered by everyone who attempts to defend the indefensible...
...Think about this for awhile...
...When Mannerheim forces found they could not win, they imported about 40,000 German troops...
...Now the Allies too are finding this out...
...Bahamas, Bermuda, and other islands in the West Indies...
...Heil Hitler (Chieo...
...serving on a jury or holding a public office.— DAVID ORNSTEEN...
...They must meet their own problems as these problems arise...
...Any presidential candidate, no matter what party he swears allegiance to, is either uninformed or misinformed if he labors under the delusion that he can reduce taxes, public debt, and unemployment and expect private industry to absorb the unemployed...
...Neither should they be compelled to work more than five days a week...
...A crushing defeat of Germany is the last thing that the House of Morgan desires...
...If our representatives in congress would live up to their sworn duties (so plainly d< legated to them in the constitution) In regard to our monetary sys'em, and...
...Just say...
...Manner-heim were afraid of the people and began to break up meetings in cities and villages, but the people fought back...
...Recently, however, you published a front page editorial on the Nazi invasion of Norway...
...They seize every opportunity to push us closer to the edge...
...while those who already know what ls going on and do not have to read a liberal paper to find out are the ones who read the progressive papers...
...the SEC...
...Lindbergh's Talk i Minneapolis, Minn...
...And, what would constitute "a reasonable solution" of our problems...
...When you decide to t.ikr your stand on peace with Congressman Coffee, please let me know...
...England has concessions in Arabia, Egypt, the Union of South Africa, and other Afric n territories...
...Eugene U. Briggs...
...Munition Men," Peter Guldbrandsen (an excellent letter except for too sweeping generalities which lead to false conclusions...
...Is bound in shallows and misery...
...Tire plan of the president of the tfnited States to prepare to defend itself against any aggressor is a real American plan...
...Tasmania, and Palestine...
...the original figures were increased by 10 times, which was easily possible in the old Hebrew script...
...Isn't that imperialism...
...Appealing to the middle class, the communique says: "no generation can entirely safeguard the future for those that follow...
...Duly elected leaders should have faith in the neople who elected them, and vice versa...
...Such creatures are not even fit to live in a truly democratic country, let alone the responsibility of votins...
...The effect of false propaganda upon the masses of people exercises the same effect upon every elective officer in the nation, namly true democracy Is destroyed and the people suffer by miserable economic laws and war.—E...
...United States intervened with armed forces in Russian Siberia, 1918-1919, to help overthrow the terrible bolsheviks...
...There is a limit to the patience and endurance of the workers, and after that is gone, something ls going to happen...
...Carroll, and Mrs...
...Later it was "liquidated...
...I do not believe that Lindbergh wrote a single sentence of it...
...Then the workers would have more time for shopping, and they will do so, too...
...Omitted and all the voyages of your life...
...public ownership, etc., is nullified by your build-up for a war which would throw such developments into the discard...
...The financial circle of the world persists in dancing around ¦he "golden calf" and within this circle are millions of blind followers who have received their instruction of our monetary system from the international ba.ikers' kindergarten...
...In fact, there was a high converse correlation between name-calling and sound argument...
...P. TERPENING...
...That .seems to tell the Nazis that the House of Morgan will, from now on, prevent the United States government from giving any more help to the Allies...
...Mabel Hillman: "She Leaves Us," Mrs...
...We have not forgotten the Insull utility "empire" and the dire consequences of its fall...
...Monkey sees, monkey does...
...by "A Reader" of Washington, D. C. In examining these carefully, I find that, the shrillest yelling is accompanied by ignorance, faulty logic, half truths and plan misstatements...
...The answer read...
...If any great, power with or without the assent of the Finnish government should land there as the Germans did in 1918, it can seal up the port of Leningrad and proceed overland to attack the frontier northwest of the city...
...The House of Morgan may have decided to scuttle the Allies and play along with Hitler...
...Fla—Despite the caution and patience displayed by the Securities and Exchange rommission...
...By being on the Job for eight hours they are Just robbing some other worker out of two hours' work every day...
...The bill simply cannot be paid—not in 10 thousand years...
...Hence all producers of commodities are compelled constantly to apply the same methods...
...Bigness without strength and health is an economic curse...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
