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...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...King Haakon has sworn that as long as there is a foot of Norwegian soil untaken, he will not bow to the brutal Nazi aggressors...
...If a company which i...
...TT SHOULD be remembered, too, that King Haakon of Norway still remains on Norwegian soil and is still defying the Nazi conquerors...
...Dawes and the Budget [From 'Labor.' Official Publication of the Railroad Brotherhoods] MR...
...Green controls the A. F. of L vote...
...Now get on with it...
...There was not a word of criticism of the president...
...The citizen who is a Communist has the same rights as the citizen who is a Republican, a Democrat or Progressive...
...If this suggestion of the governor's is anything more than a political gesture toward the farm vote, why was it not made when the legislature was here and something could be done about it...
...Singleness of national purpose may be undermined...
...Mayor Law's Pose of Wanting to Help Home Owners and Farmers "M/TAYOR LAW of Madison, as president of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, has sent out a circular letter and literature addressed "To Those Interested In Reducing The Tax Burden On Homes and Farms...
...Roosevelt so aptly calls "undiluted poison" is vigilance on the part of both government and the people...
...You never find him advocating or supporting income and inheritance taxes that are the concrete application of the ability to pay principle...
...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...
...First, discord...
...The antidote to what Mr...
...That record is not dotted with a lot of slick and broken pledges Would that there were more men in public life, and particularly those occupying positions of higher authority and graver responsibilities than the senator's, whose word could be as well relied upon...
...Men can lose confidence in each other and therefore in the efficacy of their own united action...
...He tells how he would balance the budget...
...The Progressive submits that such conduct is against all concept...
...Sound national policies come to be viewed with a new and unreasoning skepticism, not through the wholesome political debates of honest and free men, but through tne clever scheme of foreign agents...
...You cannot confine the prosperity which cooperative enterprise produces...
...Heil did not think of this price-fixing plan when the last legislature was in session...
...to save his Chicago bank...
...Well, sir," said the barber—he was a Boston barber—"if it's all the same to you...
...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...
...They were, of course, given cordial welcomes...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...It will be loaded onto the tax bills of the home owners and farmers about whose welfare Jim Law is supposed to be so solicitous...
...As a result of these new techniques armament programs may be dangerously delayed...
...headed by a person holding an important executive position is charged with abuses that are against the public interest, there should be a full and complete investigation of the charges...
...The detailed recital of improvements and additions in army, navy, and air corps personnel and equipment was convincing evidence that these services have been receiving proper peace time stewardship...
...Bui there is an aded leclniicfiic for weakening a nation at it's very roots, for disrupting the entire pattern of life of a people...
...None dares to speak in these days of mounting horror: if there is any protest within the German soul it is drugged into the obscene cry of "Sieg Heil...
...Mob Violence Always Defeats Its Purpose HPHE PROGRESSIVE regrets the vio-lence that took place at Pekin, 111...
...Do you have notions on this floor...
...Fortunately, American men and women are not easy dupes...
...And yet here comes Gov...
...I. O.) passed a resolution praising President Roosevelt for "the tremendous gains made by organized labor" under his administration...
...THE COURTS—Liberalization and reform of the federal judiciary, including the V. S. supreme court, to curb the threat to democratic government that lies in judicial autocracy and usurpation of power...
...These German children were given public school educations and treated as if they were members of these Norwegian families...
...They must not be allowed (o spread in the new world as they have in the old...
...Zimmerman's attempt to divert attention from the business concern with which his name is identified was a gesture ill fitting a state official in a position of high public trust...
...This newspaper is glad that Pres...
...6. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...While the Nazis were plotting the invasion of Norway, these young Germans were sent back to Norway on the pretext of visiting the families who had befriended them...
...The unity of the stale is so sapped that its strength is destroyed...
...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...
...DAWES returns to Washington...
...The New York Times and its corps of European correspondents have done a fine job in helping to right this wrong against Norway...
...Campaigns of group hatred or class struggle have never made much headwav among us and are not making headway now...
...Heil told reporters that he was in favor of passage of a law by the legislature which would fix the price of milk at $1.60 per hundredweight...
...Mann warns his fellow-Germans that their way will be dark and bitter, even if they conqurt the world...
...The Trojan horse...
...I still have one speech on my chest...
...H» 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 nower...
...Jennie dear," he said, "and what'U I order for ye...
...But one German, at least, dare* to speak the truth to his deluded people, dares to tell them that they are fighting only for prison chains...
...I know the weather's terrible and that the dictators are a menace to the world...
...Because Mr...
...Fun and Philosophy The Soft Answer With a grim look on his face, the customer settled down in the barber's chair and let the man put the towel round him...
...Germany will be thankful, some day, that the voice of thi» German patriot has not been stilled...
...At least it can be said of the Communists from Chicago who attempted to distribute their Communist literature in Pekin that they were open about their activities and made no pretense that they were anything else than members of the Communist party...
...These dividing forces are undiluted poison...
...Gov...
...The Republican state platform of 1938 on which Gov...
...Perpetual menace, merciless and gloating rrue* ty, harsh and bloody oppression, warlike tension unrelaxed"—these, he writes, are the conditions of ine ,\azi system's life, without which it oould noi survive...
...It expresses the hope that "this situation can be corrected at the next session of the legislature...
...But, will the senator keep his word...
...An administration that will practice that awareness will not be caught napping...
...With all of these we must deal vigorously...
...There must be no more shipping board scandals, no instances of shoddy equipment dumped on the government at war-time prices...
...We know of new methods of attack...
...Well...
...If she will explain to my wife how this purse got there, I will pay for ad myself...
...Yes...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...It has happened time after time, in nation after nation, during the last two years...
...Heil in his own campaign reiterated that charge in speech after speech...
...The wonder ilia...
...3. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to he levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...He, at least, knows that, this war was inherent in the Nazi system from its very beginning...
...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...
...That is a question that always must be asked because we have men in public life whose words are no better than the promise of some boodler who has run away to Nicaragua...
...I don't care who'll win the next big fight and I'm not interested in horses...
...Heil, candidate for re-election in 1940, declaring that he is lor a sweeping form of government interference—price-fixing—and expects the farmers to believe that he is sincere and a Republican administration is going to take care of the farmers if the Republicans are retained in power...
...Roosevelt...
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...Roosevelt's Frank Message On Defense PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S Sun day A night message to the people of the United States was a smashing reply to those who have been trying to embarrass the administration by asking what has become of the money that has been spent on national defense during the last seven years...
...Phone 2479-J...
...When one begins to turn in lied, it's lime (o turn out.—Wellington...
...Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy...
...he gasped...
...While it is exasperating to see people asking for free speech and free assembly for themselves until such a time as they get the power to deny these rights to others, nevertheless the fact remains that the Communist party is a legal party and citizens of this country have a right to advocate Communism if they so wish...
...It may be said for Mr...
...A group— not too large—a group that may be sectional or racial or political—is encouraged to exploit their prejudices through false slogans and emotional appeals...
...5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...For years Uncle Sam has been attempting to collect this debt...
...The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery...
...Zimmerman happens to be secretary of state in Wisconsin and in a position to exert influence and pressure on state departments charged with seeing that the law is observed, this fact should not mean that the firm of which Mr...
...The Truth About The Fifth Column In Norway A GREAT injustice was done to the Norwegian people in the first published reports that came out of Norway describing the invasion of that country by the Nazis...
...The courage of King Haakon is in marked contrast to the action of the king of the Belgians, who has shown the white feather at a time of grave peril...
...The aim of those who deliberately egg on these groups is to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis, and, eventually a state of panic...
...The Progressive still maintains that the best way to fight Communism is not to SUPPRESS the Communists but to EXPOSE them...
...Losh...
...In a talk at the city Y. W. C. A. recently he advocated the enactment of a state sales tax which would fall heaviest upon the small income group, including the home owners and farmers it should supposedly help...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP oi natural resources and of those activities .vith a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation 2. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits: governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions...
...He is confident that it will not win...
...He proclaims, in accents of a modern Cicero or Catiline, that it must and shall be destroyed...
...Roosevelt by John L. Lewis...
...Rnd then remarked...
...LA FOLLETTE says that he will never vote to send American men in uniform across the seas but that he will vote for all reasonable appropriations designed to protect America's vast interests in the Western Hemisphere...
...I'm aware I'm getting thin on the top, but I think, it suits me...
...The New York Times pays a stirring tribute to King Haakon and the Norwegian people in the editorial printed on this page today...
...Authentic reports being published in that newspaper reveal that it was because the Norwegians are a friendly and trusting people whose friendship and trust were taken advantage of by the unscrupulous Nazi regime that Norway was so .easily seized by the invaders...
...That's the time he borrowed $96.-000,000 from the R.F.C...
...Housewife—Too small for their age...
...Where was Jim Law during the last session of the legislature when the Heil regime was taking about four million dollars in taxation off corporate wealth through the failure to re-enact the telephone tax for relief, and through changes in the income and inheritance tax laws...
...Roosevelt that the defense program is not to produce a new crop of millionaires and that business and industry must do their part without indulging in profiteering is an essential restriction...
...he says, and he unloads it on the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...The determination of Pres...
...The senator's record in public office furnishes pretty .reliable data in respect to his purpose and determination to keep a promise...
...They indicate it is fatuous to believe that any American leader holds "millions of votes" in his pocket...
...One wonders why Gov...
...Violence of this kind never serves any good purpose...
...Investigation Should Be Pressed TN AN EXCLUSIVE story published this week, The Progressive reveals that Secretary of State Zimmerman has used his official position in this state to set the pattern for an investigation of a concern in Milwaukee of which he is president...
...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...
...What was done to ability to pay taxes under the Heil administration simply means that this burden will have to be taken over by general property...
...If this is treason, let's have more of It...
...Dawes that he achieved ore record: He got more out of the public treasury and put less back than any individual in the history of our country...
...CIO News Notes (From The New York Post) GUSTAVE A. STREBEL, president of the Stats Industrial Union Council, the New York organization of C. I. O. unions, has come out for a third term for Mr...
...He is sure that a victory for the Na?i system will bring Germany only a "black, bloodstained and violent future," without liberty, witli-out security, without pv^„t...
...Heil Now Advocating 'Government Interference" TN A RECENT press conference in the ¦*¦ governor's office...
...The method is simple...
...he said curtly...
...As long as there is an unemployed man in this country who is capable of doing a day's work, there is no reason for indulging in the practices of the dictator countries—lengthening the work day and the work week and relaxing other safeguards of the worker...
...He is still "holding the bag" for from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000...
...I'll be able to concentrate better on cutting your hair if you dont talk so much...
...TTOW were the Norwegian people to *-• defend themselves against the kind of treachery practiced by the Nazis...
...The president's comparison of the efficiency and condition of the army, navy, and air force under the New Deal and under former Republican regimes should serve to silence those who sought to take political advantage of the president's request for emergency defense funds...
...The president said: Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone...
...Heil has once more gone and put his foot in his mouth in characteristic fashion...
...Particularly we believe in exposing those Communists who sail under false colors and fake fronts...
...Then, when the Nazis attacked, these hundreds of German visitors turned into a destructive "fifth column" that stabbed Norway in the back...
...TT WAS reassuring for friends of the -*¦ Roosevelt New Deal to hear the president promise that there will be no retreat from the great advances in social and labor legislation that have been made under this administration...
...Oh, yes, Jim Law would like to lighten the tax burden on farms and homes— but not by the just principle of ability to pay...
...All this is no idle dream...
...Wanted: One Alibi Found—Lady's purse left in my car while parked...
...In West Virginia, Sen...
...The letter deplores the increased tax burden that has been imposed in recent years on general property to pay for relief and social security costs...
...Yes, Jim Law is always eager to pose as a champion of the home owner and the farmer...
...A large part of the attack on Progressive administrations and the New Deal in Washington by the Heil crowd has been based on the argument that there has been too much interference with business and industry on the part of government...
...Now That You Mention It A cute little lass approached the floorwalker and asked...
...On May 4 more than 15,000 farmers from eight states gathered there for the dedication of tha first cooperative oil refinery in the United States...
...Following the World war that ended in 1918, many kind and generous people throughout Norway took in hundreds of German children who were orphaned by the war...
...In this we believe that the national administration will have the co-operation of every loyal citizen...
...The Communists, who had gone to Pekin from Chicago, had to take refuge in the jail and later were put on a train and sent out of town...
...Faith and courage yield to doubt and fear...
...of good government...
...If prior to the present emergency Pres...
...Heil are to be expected now that the election campaign is drawing near...
...A "fifth column" of Norwegian traitors was supposed to have betrayed the country to the invading hordes of Hitler...
...Later, most of these German children returned to Germany where they reached maturity...
...It Is important that we understand it...
...i. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...In their treachery they were joined by other Nazis who had entered the country as "tourists," and by troops concealed in the holds of merchant ships which entered Norwegian ports in violation of international law...
...Neely has won the Democratic nomination for governor, running -as a pro-Roosevelt candidate—and, as a pro-Roosevelt figure, had the backing of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, keystone of the C. I. O. In Chicago the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (C...
...Our moral and mental defenses must be raised as never before against those who would cast a smoke screen across our vision...
...Right now is a time when real tests are being made of the sincerity of our devotion to the principles of democracy and civil liberties...
...such ;i nation was able to put an army into the field and put up as good a fight as they did...
...Can nnyone blame peaceful Norway lor the breakdown of resistance against .•¦<;xres.w trial, resorts to such means i. .aultiia !ten people...
...It looks as if Gov...
...The enemies of cooperation want us to believ* that words like these, and the increasing number of realities.behind them, represent treason to tha American way...
...Before we start...
...But when it is pointed out that the best way to reduce general property taxes, ease the burden of the home owner and the farmer is through the application of the ability to pay principle to taxation, Jim Law always takes a walk...
...A large 'vut...
...Roosevelt had demanded huge appropriations for the army and navy, the cry would have been raised that he was trying to get us into the war...
...Heil is looking for every opportunity to catch the farm vote...
...The investigation of these charges should not be sidetracked, directly or indirectly...
...A Cheap Alternative Macpherson was in love, and after he and his girl had had a walk one evening he invited her to have a drink feeling sure she would ask for nothing more than a modest lemonade...
...Th;s is Thomas Mann, who speaks to them with flaming eloquence in his new book, "This War...
...Lewis is making the discovery the painful way...
...But will it...
...But new forces are being unleashed, deliberately planned propagandas to divide and weaken us In the face of danger as other nations have been weakened before...
...The floorwalker looked .her over...
...Zimmerman is president should be given special consideration when it is charged with improper practices in the conduct of its business...
...Here, in brief, is stated a very broad policy, and we believe a sound and excellent policy...
...on Saturday where an angry crowd attacked several Communists who were distributing their literature...
...These three C. I. O. developments are important, coming as they do after the bitter attacks on Mr...
...madam, but we suppress them during business hours...
...As an alternative to a sales tax, Jim Law would lower income tax exemptions to take a slice of the earnings of the low income group...
...Bob's Promise on War [From The Green Bay Press-Gazette] SEN...
...Heil ran for office declares flatly: "We favor elimination of government meddling in business and the recognition of the principle of private ownership and private initiative and the protection of private property...
...Statements like the above coming from Gov...
...Lewis does not control the C. I. O. vote any more than Mr...
...Owner can hnve same by paying for this advertisement...
...Stunted Growth Grocer—What is the matter with those eggs I sent, you...
...He admits, sadly, that the German people ar« dazzled by dreams of a victory which will bring them happiness and glory forever...
...Norway was pictured to the world as a country where treason and traitors flourished...
...One of the sorriest chapters in the big armament program of 20-odd years ago was the piling up of vast fortunes by the war profiteers...
...It's too bad he didn't describe how he assisted in unbalancing the budget during the Hoover administration...
...The Chicago Tribune and the Hearst papers that are now hollering that we haven't anything to show for the money that has been spent for preparedness were given a ringing answer...
...Heil said: "Such a law would solve the problem of low prices and certainly could be worked out easily, since it would benefit all parts of the state...
...It is a mistake to use such tactics against the Communists because mob attacks only make martyrs of the Communists and public sympathy is created for them...
...w w f~\F particular Interest at this time ^ when the "Trojan horse" and "fifth column" technique is giving a great many people the jitters, the president's pledge of action against subversive groups operating in this country should have a steadying influence...
...woman, come on oot ami I'll buy ye a picture postcard o' Livcr-l>ool Harbor...
...That subsoil produces bountiful harvest* far from the reservoir itself...
...Gov...
...Why, thank you," she replied "I'll have a large port...
...Roosevelt sounded the note that he is not going to permit labor standards to be lowered...
...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...
...He has done so emphatically, demanding that labor "draft" the president to run again...
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