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...The Allies have billions of credits in this country so why should we talk of war loans...

...n> are, oday as ever, ready ¦ <> rise up and folio eldership which they believe , br sjnrer<- and ' -nf-m bu mess" in terms of •iiiitrv ami...

...Even the Hitler war strategy is not new...

...The danger will be that for every bona fide fifth columnist there will be a lot of innocent people finding themselves in a terrible Jam...

...As Dr...

...it's Europe's war and they will have to fight it out...

...But if they want to start something over here, we'll be ready for them...

...He says...

...Military experts and those familiar with the work of Sherman In our Civil war recognize that present German strategy is that pursued by Gen...

...McMurry was quick to add, according to the report, that he was not contending nothing should be done about fifth columnists, but that it was his belief the action should be left in tthe hands of the federal bureau of investigation or "other constituted authorities—and not in the hands of self-constituted grouos or individuals...

...I happen to be working in the field of politics, where I come in contact with all kinds of people who are working for the same goal, the carrying out of Progressive principles of democratic government in Wisconsin and in cur country...

...Boes the _|_ old saying which often comes to mind these days...

...Reason is stopped...

...Even the fifth column is not new...

...because a man or woman is a good newspaper correspondent or college president, his or her words should be taken as "expert" on our country's national defense, is a puzzler to me...

...Zimmermann, Germany's World war secretary of state and author of the famed "Zimmermann note" which influenced America's entry into the conflict...

...Except in scale, this is no new experience...

...Teachers and parent- everywhere stress kindness, service, unselfish-• ess...

...Hitler go: his i* «er and holds it by talking in terms of food to a ni ion whose democratic government could not or did ot provide it...

...He feels desperately sorry for the people of Europe and also recognizes that the Nazi idea has its apostles the world over, but he continues to think fortified by past experience...

...I consider myself unusually privileged in my experience, particularly in times like these...

...I see the English are investigating Henry Ford's offer to sell them planes at the rate of a thousand per day...

...Japan, through Mexican mediation, was to be urged to abandon her allies and join in the attack on the U. S., and for her reward Mexico was to receive financial support from Germany and reconquer the "lost provinces" of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona...

...There is a point beyond •> '¦- •mwtee 'i go in servlr'.' others...

...The probability is that hysteria is going to run wild...

...Aren't we doing that now...

...The generals have always Uld us that in ...my marches on its stomach...

...we it is backed up by my oh 11 va'Jon a xperient...

...It is so easy to overdo it...

...Everybody is going to see a fifth columnist under every bed...

...Robert N. McMurry of Central Y. M. C. A. College of Chicago, is quoted as saying, "Before this hysteria runs its course you are likely to see the worst witch hunt in American history and posibly the establishment of concentration camps...

...I suppose it is like politics—there are always plenty of people "viewing with alarm" who are not in the position of having to do something about it...

...I was especially •truck recently by one of Angelo Patri's little articles...

...It is a matter of people letting their emotions get so much control they can't do anything about it...

...We recall that serving under the kaiser he offered Mexico a war alliance with the prospects of territorial gains provided Mexico went to war with the United States...

...Logic goes down the rat hole...

...Now they're saying we should give the Allies everything short of men...

...In the state which supported the late Robert M. La Follette through a life-time of public service and suffered with him during the hysteria of the last war, memory is vivid...

...As principal of one of New York City's great public schools, he has day by day...

...I read every few days of another ship carrying planes to the Allies...

...Too many of these people make comfortable, yes even more lan that, living as profes-:onal gossips, exhorters, idealists" and general crit-s oi those who are doing ic world's work, especially i-mocracy's work...

...It is not a matter of intelligence...

...With this conviction in mind...

...Doro':hy Dix ha/s on )ls theme again and again in her advice tc wives *bout keeping their husbands...

...In the name of everything important in life, let us keep our normal outlook...

...In an hysteria the veneer of civilization is stripped off and when this happens all of the public's sadistic tendencies come to the fore...

...Like the Communist or Bund sympathizers, the anti-fifth column witch-hunters never stop to think of themselves as victims of their systems...

...From my experience I am confident that the average American's teet are on the ground concerning the present World war, just as they were In the last...

...That done, the or an opportunity for service . . Times oi stress ait li"* vw when we need tc hang onto the weii-proired br/.r rules...

...It is true that in mos' of otr distressed groups in America today—the agec, the y. :ng, the unemployed —there arc wnscrupuJ' is agitato » making their own living by a Musing ' ' P*0P> Perhaps it ia mv faith that stains t -ut 1 be...

...and some of these young people are certain to - verdo the unselfishness...

...except in name...

...If children have no i to give away their ;<d !/, be l . t by their fathers ir.es a good start, hild training and emotions are at ; ¦ ,,, slty for restrain: / oth< ¦ nildren should be t., _ . it thi ie work in hand...

...His scheme, however, "fell into American hands...

...Patri came as a small boy from Italy to America, and by the familiar American route, of idealism plus hard work he has become one of our outstanding educators...

...Those who find time to attend to the affairs of the neighbors rarely have enough for their own...

...Children In adolescence are likely to be misled by their altruism...

...While the press and many "prominent" individuals are.giving way to most distressing jitters, these men and women maintain their fine realistic stability...

...year after year, been making Americans out of the youth of that crowded tenement-ridden section where children only know a farm from pictures and a bbig city's worst side...

...1 have no reason to doubt: more thai I »« confident that the iank ,md file of An...

...We smile ironically when we read today of the death of Dr...

...The press of the country, by and large, is again on the war-path and being aided and abetted bv quantities of our citizens whose exceptional "educational advantages" arc supposed to qualify them as loaders...

...He writes, "Sharing the burdens of those about us Is a wholesome and praise-worthy way of living, but our first duty is toward our own business in life...

...Sherman in his "victorious" march through the South...

...the first great service each of us must do for our country is to think calmly and carry on our work...