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...No real American will object to paying for needed defense...
...Pike is described as being a "practical business man...
...He may be honestly convinced of the unutterable perfidy of the Nazis, but he should not forget that the Allies are defending a system equally perfidious...
...Profit Takers (St Petersburg, Fla.l-Why all of this poverty when we are surrounded with plenty...
...The army and navy on which we depend for the protection of our nation...
...A. MOORE...
...I was in Belgium before and after the last war...
...Lowdermilk said that the probler of erosion by yvater is greater tha that by wind, such as the problem o the great American dust bowl...
...Atty...
...Until recently we were taught in the public schooLs and colleges that gold alone constitutes the only safe money...
...Pointing out that the CIO welcomed the original Wagner health bill for $100,000,000 as a good start...
...Rabbi Swarsensky said that many young people in Russia, Germany...
...and that Hitler has proved that people can be swayed by appealing to their emotions rather than to reason...
...The committee declares that "the time has come when the United States should throw its economic and moral weight on the side of the nations of western Europe...
...To hold the farmers in line, the government taxed the city dweller for money with which to pay a bonus to the farmers, made employment for wage-earners to placate them and hold them in line, and so the old speculative system of bleeding the American people in the mass has been saved for the time being...
...of the business of collecting interest except, for the government...
...I sure enjoy reading The Progressive all the way through...
...indiscriminate "red-bailing" of Innocent people, particularly trade union leaders and by the F. B. I. to intimidate and bulldoze persons before arrest...
...To prove his point Mr...
...ask for peace and save millions of lives and billions worth of property...
...These are facts which we should all remember...
...Now this despicable brand of statesmen send their youth into the maw of certain death...
...In Its capture of Denmark and Norway it forced the people there to surrender their gold in exchange for German marks...
...Thomas Jefferson foresaw the need for such organization "f the people when he said: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty...
...Cites Problem in U. S. Lowdermilk said that in the United States the problem of the soil conser-ationist Is to adjust agriculture to lilly slopes...
...It must be something very attractive that so many people high and low fall for it all over the world...
...The amount...
...The barlforian war is going on high speed, the legitimate fruit of imperialism...
...Thanking you.—ROBERT DROUIN...
...The exception was the fixing of the price of silver more than 100 per cent, above the normal market price, following the printing in its publication "The Nation's Business...
...The highways and public buildings...
...The Milwaukee Journal recently carried this Associated Press dispatch: "James H. R. Cromwell, United States minister to Canada, announced Monday that he would resign his post May 21...
...Although the methods of warfare have been fundamentally changed since Nov...
...Defends Communism He Is Callous Ruby...
...Kans...
...Enclosed you will find subscription...
...They would learn that it is more heroic, more idealistic to live and even die for democratic than for fascist ideas...
...Respect for every Individuality should become the motto of the 20th century...
...But this is not intended as an argument in defense of the single base of gold only for our national and international money issues...
...Lowdermilk declared that he found that soil tillers in North Africa In the 7th century had practiced soil erosion control methods which moder o.servation-ist thought were oris: and which are now being adop'- n western United State...
...They are bankrupt men...
...Let us play our instruments as Christians and Jews in our great common symphony—America...
...La Follette committee's report...
...It was the group's final regular meeting of the season...
...It might truthfully be said that the consumers are the ones who are primarily unemployed...
...N. Dak...
...people did not have the spirit which they had before the war...
...He said that agriculture on flat land presents no problem...
...The political bribe-taker and the kidnapers for ran.-om demand legal money in bilLs of small denomination which may be spent without identification...
...It is a matter of fact...
...Bowen s:ated...
...Enjoys Paper (Detroit, Mich...
...THE Federal Trade commi.-sion has accepted from Maurice and Hilda Robbin trading as Rob-bin's Camera Shop, Washington, D. C. a stipulation in which they agree to discontinue certain representations...
...I say: "God bless America...
...Rabbi Swarsensky said that he had lived under the Hitler regime for six years, and explained the methods used by Hitler to gain power...
...I want to let you know that I think it is the best paper for a working man that I have ever read...
...Your duty to vote and help eliminate the most shocking, shameful, and savage brutality known to a so-called civilization, mob lynching of Negro and white victims...
...then, the poverty...
...It has approved of fixing the price of silver owned by rich men up more than 100 per cent...
...price is "special' or for "3 days only," when in fact it is the regular price without limitation as to time, and that bona fide protection for life Is extended when in fact no such pro taction is offered and the products are not of such quality as to last for the period of life expectancy...
...Leonard said that "the most that can be said for the present watered - down, sawed - off...
...of an article by John Hayes Hammond who suggested that the price of silver be doubled by governmen decree...
...If Hitler wins this present war...
...I regard the paper 90 per cent right...
...Throughout its history the United States Chamber of Commerce has opposed governmental price fixing with one exception...
...Deportation of unemployed workers to other states and the right of the individual to move freely within the United States have been threatened in several states —(the migratory worker in California...
...we must cut much of the red tape to speed up larger proportion of this increased cost by additional taxes...
...Most of the small amount raised will be through the extension of sales taxes...
...Lowdermilk said in an interview...
...then back down to 30 cents a bushel out in Iowa, At one time a dollar based on gold, even a gold dollar, would purchase three bushels of wheat...
...The markets of the world had become overstocked with silver...
...The Associated (Grapes of Wrath) Fanners, Inc., a fascist front run by big business, are conducting a campaign of violence against organized labor throughout the west and midwest...
...Money is a fetish, "an object of unreasoning devotion," which "gives to its possessor power over . . -. deity," quoting Webstea...
...UNEMPLOYMENT OF CONSUMERS' CAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT By Co-op League News Service WASHINGTON, D. C—"We must reduce consumers' prices if we are to strike the key log in the economic jam which produces unemployment today," E. R. Bower., general secretary of The Co-operative League of the' U.S.A...
...Being capitalized by public funds, it has saved millions of dollars for all the users of electricity in the districts served which saving would have found its way into the pockets of private capital...
...Why is entton kept a way from our naked and partly clad people...
...Gehrmann (Washington, D. O—At this writing, the ways and means committee of the house is considering a bill that has for its purpose the raising of additional revenue to partially pay for the increased armament program...
...milions of areas still are...
...NATIONAL WELL BEING A ne'tlec'.ed factor in national defense is the health and well being of the American people, the National Conference on Social Work was told by Richard T. Leonard, executive board member of the United Automobile Workers...
...Foreign rulers sneer and laugh at our so-called democracy...
...Your Editor, Evjue, is taking such a violent line on the war issue that I do not care to support your paper, or your party, if his attitude is representative...
...That should not be and is not true Americanism B.'J...
...Derr.c racy which respects individual;' This is the reason I do not like the term tolerance.' I would not like democracy based on tolerance...
...Best for Labor (St...
...Enclosed is subscription to The Progressive...
...But why fill up the pages of our dally papers with the numerous why that could be asked when the answer to them all would be the same—profits...
...Sumner T. Pike has been appointed to the Securities and Exchange commission to succeed George C. Mathews...
...GEHRMANN...
...now you st open her veins to bleed some re...
...Rep...
...C. E. PAYXE...
...Cancel this government promise of collecting interest on money loaned and we will have traveled a long way toward the end of the rainbow where social justice will be discovered...
...he would contrast the European situation with the American and imbue into the people here an ardent love for democracy...
...Near the end-of his address, Rabbi Swarsensky said: "I would like to see those who stand for democracy, religions and humanity to be as ardent, as zealous, as enthusiastic, yes even as fanatic for their ideas and ideals as Fascists atld Communists are for their idols...
...Wash.—How could you...
...Provoking racial intolerance, the Rev...
...Harmony Is Needed Rabbi Swarsensky said that a true democracy operates successfully only when every group which makes it up works in harmony...
...There is a way to do it...
...the Chirillo case in New York...
...They betrayed Germany in 1919-20 by not disarming when Germany disarmed...
...Your first investment is your only investment" or any othe statement of like meaning, when lr truth such .statement, is contrary t> fad Militant Democracy For U. S. Is Urged by Rabbi Swarsensky in Talk Here Addresses Local Council of Jews and Christians BY ELWYN C. PRIDE WITH the type of civilization we have known for generations now threatened as never before, It is time for believers in democracy to promote democracy as militantly as Fascists and Communists promote their beliefs, Rabbi Manfred Swar-sensky of the Beth-El Temple here declared before 30 persons at a dinner meeting of the Madison Council of Jews and Christians in Baron's tea room Tuesday night...
...Warn your readers that more "fifth column" members wear dress suits than overalls.—H...
...Poland held out for 18 days against this monster of death which British and French capital helped to create as a bulwark against the Soviet union...
...I see that more than one reads it—JOHN F. MANNING...
...Just how it was figured that these stocks would be reduced by doubling, the price that manufacturers would have to pay for silver is a mystery—of course the result was that the manufacturers substituted other metal where silver had been employed...
...The dictator tells the laborer how much he shall receive per hour and the number of hours he shall work...
...he declared...
...Cox, Georgia were elected by less than a 10 per cent vote in their districts...
...William Allen White, famed Emporia...
...A. THOMPSON...
...The notorious K. K. K. has been revived throughout the country, notably in the south where It is attempting to prevent labor organization...
...They dilly-dallied beyond excuse, lent Germany money and let Germany arm and arm...
...Now the Communists bank on that "general welfare" proposition, and hold that all- those properties and industries on which the general welfare depends should be owned and operated by the people collectively through their organized government and its profits go to promote the "general welfare" and not to private persons or corporations to build up millionaires on the one side and paupers on the other...
...Enclosed is my subscription...
...democracy and retain in congress the members who have served mammon so well...
...We have heard that fairy tale before.—PETER GULD-BRANDSEN...
...People in democratic countries do not appreciate what they possess...
...The countryside was churned upside down...
...Yes, he even dictates what you should r-at and wear...
...in other words, and there are American citizens who think they are "fighting" for our cause...
...But, if we must bring sacrifices, then all of us must be asked to bring them...
...Ky.l— I think Mr...
...The N. L. R. B. is threatened by the Smith amendments...
...The same will be done In an army bill that is soon to follow...
...More Than One tWashburn, Wis...
...if we had enacted one of several fills pending in congress for that purpose, we could now raise a large share of the needed new revenue...
...A student who graduates from high school or college in England, France or America will not necessarily be a crusader for democracy...
...I enjoy and believe in your paper...
...The great dams and reservoirs...
...thus legislating hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of the men who work the workers, also the employers...
...He Disagrees (West Lafayette, Ind...
...We cannot expect to create love for our country by compelling certain groups to do It all while a few are permitted to accumulate unreasonable wealth...
...labor, alien-baiting, political and religious persecution, lynching, flogging, kidnaping and building fascist movements...
...M" or Mobilization day plans of the war department, are preparing the country for a military dictatorship over all labor in the event of war...
...In fact a mortgage against a good farm is even better than money in that wise men and women are forever seeking to exchange the legal money for the real estate mortgage...
...He cited the Federal Trad* commission as authority for the statement that the co-operatives have been the principal factor in lowering the prices of fertilizer to pre-war (1913) levels or less...
...Th...
...For complete democracy!—R...
...They are supposedly responsible for three recent killings in this section of Georuia...
...R. STURM...
...The chtpego Tribune had Belgium bleedI> from every vein in 1017...
...Among the projects introduced by our president is the TV A. Although introduced by the first democrat, it Is actually one of the first demands of the party for the socialization of all industry...
...I have no way of knowing whether either of you gentlemen have ever studied the most valuable of all knowledge, psychology...
...Why pay out vast sums of money for storing wheat just to keep it out of reach of hungry people...
...The district system of soil erosion control now- being adopted in th United States was praised by Lowde: milk...
...A Red Wrote It (Madera...
...Cannot you leave Belgium long enough to re-discover America...
...he said, "that the type of civilization to which we have been accustomed for generations is challenged now as never before...
...Lowdermilk was in Madison for an address before students and faculty members of the university in Bascom hall...
...All laboring men know and those of our lawmaking body should know that poverty and insecurity becomes unendurable because they are unnecessary in this fortunate country of ours...
...Bowen pointed out how co-operatives in the state of New York have cut the cost of distributing animal food by 40 per cent...
...The only fault that can be mentioned is: There are not enough TVAs throughout the U. S. that we all may derive the benefits of the co-operative system...
...A private mortgage is in reality a form of money...
...If it was only 51 per cent right I would still regard it a good thing.—GEO...
...w the reav n that many young people in democratic countries are caught by the f--ren-songs of Communism and National Socialism which promise a vawt Just social order...
...11, 1918 when the curtain fell upon the last great slaughter of the world's youth, the same old phrases of "dying on the field of honor," "heroic resistance" and "victory will be ours," appear again and again in the press...
...We are at present practicing Communism in the very best things in our government...
...Same with shoes and other commodities...
...The farmer gets what the dictator set-s...
...If they were wise, they would admit defeat to the world now...
...Not having known how to maintain peaceful relations with their once vanquished foe...
...The president in his fireside chat said that no war profit millionaires should be permitted...
...grand jury, giving particulars of its anti-labor action, in the flogging of a CIO organizer...
...After that if the war lords of this country are in power a paper like The Progressive will not be allowed to be published...
...Hammond suggested that Inasmuch as gold was priced at $20.67 an ounce by governments (the price almost doubled later) and purchased with private bank checks at no cost at all above a printing bill, that our government could also print new money and acquire this silver at no cost at all...
...Instead congress legislated that government shnll now loan the money and collect the Interest and then pay the "lake" over In Ihe money-lending shylorks affiliated with private banking, that is to borrow the money or credit from the private Interests, loan It to the people on farms and homes, collect the interest and turn the money over to shylocks...
...From Rep...
...A student who* leaves high school or university in Germany, Italy or Russia will surely be an ardent apostle for Fascism," he said...
...When they point their fingers at our tolerance of savage brutality, lynching, we have not any room to cast reflections on the actions of totalitarians and brutali-tarians of other lands...
...Because if it pays better profits not to overstock the market the workmen are thrown out on the street to shift for themselves just exactly like the burrows in the west...
...Yes, they all have jobs ovel-there, 'itit what do thev get and why are they employed...
...They have succeeded in repealing the competitive bidding provision that has always applied to any government contract of SI00 or more...
...It will only be a drop in the bucket of the total increase that was voted for defense purposes...
...This will offset at least or.e of your disgusted subscribers who order The Progressive stopped because they don't agree 100 per cent with your views...
...After the war houses yvere greatly run down...
...Russia's Position 'Denver, Colo...
...If I were sdilorial paragraphing for The Progressive I would emphasize this enviable position.—H...
...Hoover's administration under the gold standard system, the price of wheat was "regulated" up from 50 cen.s a bushel to $1.25...
...Calif...
...I believe that we should thank God that we are not in this war of wholesale murder and destruction...
...The value, of money and the price we pay have little relationship-under the existing setup, less under the old gold standard monetary system...
...On Apr...
...toll a course now can have no other result than it did 23 years ago...
...It is argued that the wage and hour provisions of existing law should not apply and that longer hours be permitted when the president deems it necessary...
...while Baldwin talked and talked, busying himself wi h depriving n king of his throne, and while France was en-i',uK:':i in .Etavisky - scandals and Cagoulard affairs...
...By developing consumers cooperatives to lower prices and labor unions and farm marketing co-operatives to raise pay, we can and will together eventually eliminate unemployment...
...Mostly you have been quite sane...
...No attempt will be made to bring in new taxes by closing exemption loopholes, and no attempt will be made to tax exorbitant and unreasonable war order profits...
...Let us keep our young men over here for more noble and better purposes than to kill and be slaughtered...
...That Germany of today has immediate designs on the United States is propaganda, probably concocted by the British ministry of information or misinformation...
...He state that 200.000,000 million acres of agri cultural land in the nation are erodfci: faster than the soil is being built up Recently returned from resean i and study into soil erosion problem and solutions In Europe, North Africa, and the Near East...
...But the situation unless improved will bring more suffering and threatening declaration from the masses of betrayed laboring classes of this imperfect democracy...
...thoroughly chiseled $10,000,000 hospital bill is that $10,000,000 is better than nothing...
...I would like to see a militant democracy...
...Mo-it liberal minded people are too self complacent, too much interested in preserving the status quo without doing much for the preservation of the status quo, too much confident that everything will turn out well, not conscious enough that nothing will turn out well unless We strive and act and labor and sacrifice for it...
...Would anyone be they an industrialist, In business of any kind, farmer or laborer, prefer the dictator form of government whereby, nearly everything is confiscated and absolutely controlled by the government...
...He said: "Frank Murphy, Justice of the U. S supreme court, said a few months ago 'America's mission is to show that by reasonable and peaceful means men of different nature can build a common security in which justice an...
...Ohio...
...Praises Villard iJeffersontown...
...Why the uncertainty of labor...
...Fascist nations have an efficient and attractive youth movement, he said...
...they apparently do not know how to meet him In war either...
...Lindbergh held a series of private conferences with William R. Castle, former under secretary of state on the Hoover cabinet...
...These and many more all government owned...
...I wouldn't like to miss one issue, for I think your paper is grand...
...Howard Smith, Virginia...
...Organize...
...The echo repeats—profits...
...Then they propose to raise the present income tax a flat 10 per cent on all those subject to federal income tax now...
...The label of "fifth column" will be pinned on many in the next months...
...Co-operatives have been a factor in cutting the margin of retail petroleum products to half what it yvas before the co-ops entered the field...
...Mob Violence Berkeley, Cal.—I notice that you are bitter against the Communists...
...A number of anti-alien bills now before^-congress would establish concentration camps, sharply restrict freedom of speech and action and regiment opinion...
...Yes, congress should have carried out the interest and purpose of the legion's proposal to draft capital as well as labor in case of war or in a period such as this when there is danger that we might be attacked...
...Villard's articles are wonderful...
...no matter who does It...
...I agree with that and...
...The union official noted that under the revised bill the hospitals would be built in communities that can maintain them, not in communities that, most need them...
...But in order to bring this change about we must dispossess the profit-takers of the power of ruling the government which can only be accomplished by organizing labor on the political field for the purpose of making of this country' a perfect democracy.—TJ.K...
...Authentic surveys and figures prove beyond doubt that the mentally deficient outnumber the mentally efficient throughout the world and the South is no exception...
...wages and hours law by numerous amendments...
...Hijackers of business establishments leave behind postal money orders and checks, taking only the money invented by thieves for the purpose of making thievery a profitable business enterprise and keeping the thieves out of jail...
...Therefore, let us not complain too much but, rather, let us pray to God that we may be spared a similar fate...
...That would be a worth-while job...
...Stop it, lest our justice continue to be a travesty and mockery...
...Originally the land was all government owned...
...Russia appreciates the fact, that she does not belong to plutocratic nations...
...Every citizen of this country worthy of the name knows we have all the resources, machinery, buildings to house it and willing workers to operate it...
...The dispatch was headlined (by mistake) "Public Improvement Promised...
...Wars Do Irrepairable Damage To Farms, Soil Expert Says Water, Wind Big Problems In U. S., Low-dermilk Says Wars, such as that now being waged in Europe, cause irredeemable damage to agriculture and farm com-munit.es, Walter C. Laudermilk...
...Washington, D. C, chief or research of the U. S. soil conservation service, said here Tuesday...
...If labor Is asked to yield in an emergency, then why should not any manufacturer be a good enough American to be willing to use his plant for governmental needs at a fair profit and not insist that a 10 per cent profit is not enough...
...Unite...
...perhaps a billion dollars...
...I have recommended it to be read throughout the entire local—MERLE GRIMM, tinted Packinghouse Workers...
...During Pres...
...This is because the farmer agreed to pay a premium in the form of interest for the so-called accommodation and the government promises to aid in the collection of both interest and principal...
...well known author and idealist, has severed his relations with the Communists...
...England and America are social!^, minded...
...Wishing you success...
...Respect that leads ultimately to unity, to genuine brotherhood...
...All designed to destroy the "industrial bill of rights" and again place the millions of organized and unorganized workers at the mercy-of entrenched greed...
...Simply to make tools of destruction that leaves nothing but suffering and starvation In its wake...
...N. J.)—To Sens...
...I am taking it before our local to renew our subscription and I am sure I can see it through...
...Out in Iowa the farmers took the law in their own hands, placed a noose around the neck of a judge who was Intent upon collecting the interest payments due, or foreclose...
...Something happens when you go through the country and destroy...
...This time Europe is faced with a w;v machine o" unprecedented strength and efficiency, a veritable steamroller tq which a long list of countries have already succumbed...
...The Pennsylvania Industrial Union council, meeting recently, referred the question of whether it will support FDR for a third term to incoming officers...
...Your editorial attack on the pamphlet, "The Yanks Arc Not Coming," was uncalled for— LLOYD J. FOOTMAN...
...The chamber is hardly in a position to challenge the plan for fixing the prices of other basic raw materials at a reasonable high point and paying spot cash with new currency, whereby our government would come into possession of all basic raw materials at no.cost at all, then resell to private interests at a slight advance, thus assuring that big and little processors may always have their quotas of raw materials at a standardized price, when competition would then revolve around quality of production, not competitive guessing what the price of these materials may be tomorrow, next week, next month or a year hence.—JESSE T. KENNEDY...
...Smathers and Barbour: A most important, vital, and serious duty confronts you in the very near future...
...Cox Was elected by a vote of 6 per cent of the people...
...The Nation reports that before his recent radio speech on foreign policy...
...While the German army—the German base of money issue—is supreme, that form of money will be made acceptable in all payments...
...New ones by the same people meet with the same results, so let's do the best we can with what we have—PETER BANKER...
...Gerald Winrod, Father Coughlin, Kuhn, Pelley et al are building a fascist, movement with little interference from the Dies committee and F. B. I. Official Investigations helpful in the case of the La Follette committee has been misused by the Dies committee for the...
...To "regulate" prices up and down is the big idea, universally approved by all despoilers of humanity...
...Let us strive for such a democracy...
...His articles are pushing us toward war.—F...
...It is claimed that speed is essential and that, if competitive bids and 10 per cent profit limits were maintained, a great many of our largest manufacturers would not be Interested in government orders...
...Yes...
...My idea is that they live in communities under one form or another and politically organized in a government in which all are represented, that is Communism...
...C. OLCOTT...
...is now suggested that we "pc...
...At the same time the United States possessed more gold than all the other nations combined and was cursed by economic depression and unemployment, having built up no military machine at all...
...On your editorial page on May 18, you have two articles denouncing them...
...The sea ports and harbors The lakes and navigable rivers...
...I hope in the future that I shall be able to be a lifelong subscriber...
...Holland caved in after five or six days after the mass-murder of her citizens...
...that has already been voted is about three and one-half billion...
...I will welcome your sentiments in this grave matter...
...In regards to your request that we subscribe for your paper another year...
...Can anyone picture the anguish and suffering in European countries...
...I don't see how people can survive this process of complete destruction...
...We should be willing to pay until it hurts, if we can so fortify and prepare our country to make it improbable that we will ever be attacked, but the tax bill that will be handed us is an insult to the patriotism of our American people...
...Robert B. L. Murphy, one of the group's three co-chairman, presided...
...In view of the Important role '<-economy for all other functions of life, democratic countries should be most interested in showing to the youth that democracy strives for a more just social order than Fascism and Communism promise to bring...
...Goebbels...
...told several hundred people gathered here for the Lnter-faith Conference on Unemployment...
...Until the majority of our people realize the urgent need for a strong organization of farming, laboring, liberal and progressive forces in America to combat these destructive forces of reaction, our liberties will remain in jeopardy...
...But one of the reasons was its own weakness, its lack of idealism and zeal...
...Time For Action "The time is ripe, is appropriate as never before for a strong and efficient educational movement for democracy...
...Let us vitalize democracy...
...Defeatist View (Berkeley...
...Hammond's proposal and give approval to the bad...
...uch as another cent on gasoline, cigarettes, automobile accessories cosmetics and a great many other items...
...Knows Hitler Tactics At the start of his talk...
...none of us would want to trade places with the best of them over there...
...to engage In "wire-tapping" in violation of existing law...
...He explained that in Europe the problem is solved by levelling the hillsides by a series of rock terraces...
...The respondents also stipulate that they will discontinue employing the statement...
...Congress saw fit to reject the good in Mr...
...Let as mention a few of them: Our postal system, the greatest and most efficient single business in the world, government owned and operated by the government...
...I am convinced that we need 'he money to prepare ourselves so that nobody will dare to even think of attacking us...
...The activities of these undemocratic elements or groups, both in and outside of government, embrace race, red...
...As I have been elected chairman of the new press committee...
...In the sale of "John Shannon Vacuum Filler Sacless Fountain Pens," the respondents agree to cease rep-rosentiiift that such products have a $3 or other alleged valuation in excess of the actual value or usual price is "special" or for "3 days only...
...Why and how so-called Christians and Americans of normal mentality and judgment have stood by in silence for so many years and even condoned such bloodthirsty and barbaric lawlessness is a mystery to me...
...The president is now preparing another estimate for the army amounting to at least seven hundred million...
...But let the German army be defeated on the field of battle, and the German marks- will sell only as waste paper at so much per bale, whereas the gold stored out in Kentucky always will possess "real, genuine, sterling" value, regardless of who wins a war, assuming that the nation defeated at arms has its gold hidden where the victor can not locate and take it away...
...By reducing corsumer prices, the consumers co-operative movement strikes al the key log which produces unemployment today...
...at another time but one bushel...
...I don't believe that most of us appreciate the freedom we enjoy here as compared with most other countries...
...Those who represent democracy should be aware this fact and know that political d mocracy can only endure if it is c> pled with economic democracy...
...we shall know how to guard ourselves against any eventuality, if we do not in the meantime invite attacks upon our shores by shortsighted, selfish policies...
...The United States Chamber of Commerce...
...Is superior and better than the German form of money, printed off by the bale, simply because gold has and always will have commercial demand and value, whereas the German form of money is based solely upon its arms and its army...
...In the preamble to the national Constitution it tells of its various purposes and sums it all up with these words, "to promote the general welfare of ourselves and posterity...
...All this had to be levelled off before the land could be cultivated...
...Maybe the only thing he does is to take advantage of all the privileges his democratic country offers, and the only thing he has learned to do is to criticize democracy...
...Cal.1—If you expect people to subscribe or renew their subscriptions, why do you attack liberal and progressive groups and accuse them of being communistic, especially the peace organizations...
...Producers have piled up surpluses and have had to stop producing because consumers cannot consume...
...Berlin...
...The U. S. C. C. is in a dangerous position...
...We will, have appropriated or authorized not less than four and one-half billion dollars before we leave here...
...This results in warehouses and stores full of goods because thev cannot be distributed...
...HENRY SLHRE...
...The wonder is that the situation has not produced disastrous results...
...Why supply the enemies of our form of government with death-dealing devices to kill the people of a government friendly to our own...
...New parties are of no use if we can't make the old ones successful...
...20, two Klansmen testified before an Atlanta...
...What We Have (Mandan...
...and free her from any entanglements with the deer dent blunderbuses in London and Paris...
...Therefore, lynching is the work of morons...
...By logical comparison our monetary system, based upon a huge store of gold in the vaults under & Kentucky hill...
...He said the system places re sponsibility directly upon the farme in the community to see that oth farmers practice soil erosion contro Lowdermilk declared the district system encourages initiative a m o r. farmers and heips them to visual...
...they have gone farther than that, they have had the 10 per cent profit limit on all naval construction jobs removed and the sky is now the limit...
...To fill the gap of commensurable weapons with human beings, such as France and England arc now doing— the Belgian king having had enough sense to save his soldiers from mass slaughter, even If he had to sacrifice thai hackneyed and defunct Hem called "national honor"—is perhaps the best of all proofs of the Allies' negligence, stupidity, and cupidity...
...Martin Dies, Texas...
...he continued...
...The most effective way ot increasing employment—of increasing demand in accordance with consuming capacity—is by lower prices...
...The successful bidder, per previous agreement, turned the property back to the original owner—a modest little revolution that should have given cause for sincere thinking and congressional action intended to take government out...
...As far as military prepardness is concerned, the Allies simply aren't there...
...Why Is this plenty exported to foreign countries while those who have produced this plenty are suffering for want of if Why these inadequate portions doled out to those who have produced all our surpluses...
...If you did, you probably would readily recognize your southern colleagues in the senate by their actions and their anxiety to block any progressive movement to stop mob violence...
...Free money," that is...
...Need Y'outh Movement Rabbi Swarsensky declared that educational institutions in democracies have neglected to instill a love for democracy in youth of the countries...
...I do not hold or imply that employers in private industry are guiliy and hope to convince everyone not associated with private money-lending that universal price fixing of the basic raw materials would prove advantageous to private employers, their employes and the public alike, to the complete exclusion of the sure thing speculators on the commodity boards of trade and elsewhere...
...The feebler the mind, the more easily antagonized...
...Not a democracy that attacks other people by force, but rather a democracy that arms its ow n people spiritually and makes them safe against the poisoning influence of other political concepts...
...It is estimated that it may raise six hundred and fifty million dollars...
...It compels me to lose faith in men who champion the laws of God, the cause of freedom, liberty, and the rights and protection guaranteed by the constitution of our country...
...Millions of citizens In the eight southern "poll tax states" are disfranchised, making a sham of democracy...
...Those who criticize again and again over the government should go to Europe for 14 days...
...John Strachey...
...The present time is particularly appropriate to demonstrate to the people in democratic countries the privilege and values of democracy by giving them concrete pictures of the horrible events in Europe...
...Joseph...
...Fifth Column (New Philadelphia...
...We must not only talk about preparedness now...
...I am positive that once they find the great benefit that may be derived from the co-operative system" they will demand its spread to other industries so fast that it can not be accomplished in so short a time...
...This U a general tendency of our time," he said...
...Farms yvere terribly dug up by trenches and potted by shell holes...
...Washington swarms with hundreds of individuals seeking government contracts...
...soil erosion as a problem of great in terest to society generally...
...To plea for tolerance is an undemocratic attitude...
...If America had a minister for propaganda as clever as the German minister for propaganda...
...Enclosed is two dollars as subscription price for The Progressive...
...that Hitler never trusts anyone, that Hitler never keeps his promises, that Hitler has shown that constitutions are but "pieces of paper...
...If the defeated nation has based its money issues on soldiers alone, its money will become worthless, simply because the bones of dead soldiers possess no commercial value...
...E. VISSCIIER...
...Now the British Communists, of which Strachey was a member, are denouncing him and declaring that he was something of a rotter all along...
...The trreat bank-owned industries arc- fast forcing the government to be the employer of labor...
...He de clared that gullying, a product c water erosion, has totally destroye 57,000.000 acres of American fan land for agricultural use...
...Other commodities possess greater commercial demand than gold—and although I am about to propose the inclusion of all basic raw materials in our monetary base, I wish to explain that the issue should not be "free' money that may be spent by thieves without identification but a form of government bank checks, when one spending for basic raw materials will be the end of the money...
...What will be the situation when this war finally ends...
...90% Right (Chicago...
...The sure thing speculators "in on the know" made more money in each instance than the entire wheat crop sold for...
...Anti-trust laws passed by congress are being used for a drive on labor unions by the federal government...
...I am sorry...
...The best that the New Deal has done such as minimum wage, collective bargaining, social insurance and other reforms are but palatives diverting the minds of the masses from the real solution of our problems even though the reforms were permanent which they are not because the power of exploitation remains in the hands of private capital...
...Nor should he forget that the issue in coming months will be war or peace...
...But Germany managed to build up from bankruptcy and become prosperous and develop ihe greatest military machine ever known without the use of gold as money...
...Will you for the information of your readers give us your definition of Communism...
...There certainly were many reasons why democracy could not last in Germany...
...Money Problems (Chicago...
...All the best features of the original Wagner health bill are sliced off...
...editor and liberal Republican, has formed a "Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
...In discussing Hitler's methods of gaining power, Rabbi Swarsensky said that Hitlerism appeals to the animal instincts in man...
...Under the Roosevelt administration while off the gold standard, rather near the edsre of i., the price of wheat slid up and down over a range of prices from 50 cents to $1.35 and back down again...
...liberty are denied to none!' "That is democracy at its fine Rabbi Swarsensky said...
...Consumers cannot buy enough because of high prices...
...National Association of Manufacturers and others connive to hamstring the Wagner labor law with amendments...
...I believe you will also be sorry when sanity returns and the war mongers of today are trying to hide their heads in shame...
...The proceedings was halted When the foreclosure sales were finally forced by government, the fanners organized and controlled the auction bids, knocking down to the highest bidder one farm and accessories worth $10,000 for $5.28...
...The primary thing needed to eliminate unemployment is to give consuming capacity a chance...
...Enclosed find money order for which please extend my subscription...
...CHARLES H. GROSS...
...Would you to avoid Communism turn these properties and industries over to private Interests for operation, the postal system for instance'1 E. A. MAY...
...money that may be spent without identification of the spender, is '.he legal instrument of political corruptionists and thieves, and all such are found its defenders...
...Reaction Gaining (To The Editor)—In looking through a mass of newspaper articles collected over a period of several years, it was surprising and alarming to realize how strong and threatening the forces of reaction have become in that short time...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
