NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions front the Press of the Nation Praise For Bob, Jr. (From The New Orleans Item) ONE of the ablest and most industrious men in the senate is Robert M. La...
...Because Gov...
...Last fall, when there was still a strong possibility of calling off the war, Col...
...With the vacation season now well under way and Wisconsin playing host to thousands and planning to welcome thousands more through the summer, traffic officers should double their vigilance to make highways and streets safe...
...He is a Progressive and theoretically his is a minority party...
...From The New Orleans Item) ONE of the ablest and most industrious men in the senate is Robert M. La Follette, Jr., namesake of one of America's great leaders of political action...
...Heil vetoed legislation which would have permitted increases in pension payments...
...We see a country professedly prepared for any eventuality but where even such a vital necessity as railroad transportation has broken down...
...The wrecking of the high minded attitude of public servants and the tradition of the "Wisconsin idea" that made this state stand out among the states of the nation will be continued and expanded...
...It now appears that the Oneida county board junket-eers will stay at home—or pay their own way...
...They have demonstrated again that they do not really want free competition...
...platform that was adopted at Green Bay and of the proceedings and speeches that took place at that gather...
...The first 10 planks of the platform consist of extravagant praise of the Heil regime...
...Hawks Gels Out His Beanshooter With The World Afire CITIZENS in the second congressional ^ district of Wisconsin who have been writing to Rep...
...The 1938 Republican platform, like virtually every Republican candidate, sought to lure the votes of the old people by promising increased old age pensions...
...the Workmen's Circle members, both nationally and locally, condemn any movement which is un-democratic, as we have always been guided by the strictest principles of democracy and social justice...
...It is useless to talk about credits to the Allies, about huge additional appropriations to our army and navy, when the productive capacities of this nation cannot keep up with appropriations already made...
...For months we have been sending hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap iron and other metals used in war to Italy...
...Because there was no reduction in auto license fees...
...And this independent vote should return Wisconsin's senior senator...
...There are of course, the usual claims of economy and efficiency that the record of the Heil administration fails to bear out...
...DERHAPS the only sincere section of * the state Republican platform occurs in the preamble where it is declared: "We . . . commend the present Republican state administration and approve the policies inaugurated by it...
...Everybody knows that the masses of people in Soviet Russia have no opportunity to vote against the dictatorship if they so desired...
...For he has not always been opposed to "meddling with affairs abroad...
...Philip L. Sicgcl, secretary of the Resolution Committee, Madison...
...Roosevelt, but has nothing to say about Mr...
...One of these bulletins was published in Madison in October of 1894...
...It is his thesis that the danger to America cornea Irom those guilty of "meddling with affairs abroad," and since he brands these persons ('a small minority of the American people but they control much of the machinery of influence and propaganda") as "elements of personal profit ar.d foreign interest," it is not impertinent to consider the interests which the colonel himself has been serving...
...Here we have the world afire and civilization is at stake...
...If he does it will be because he has made a record which warrants his people ro discard party alignments because he has soberly, conscientiously and intelligently attended to their interests in thc senate...
...Does It not seem the height of stupidity to be asking for adherence to so-called legal neutrality under which war materials can be sent to aggressors while we become finicky and technical about sending war materials to those who are fighting the very aggressors that may eventually challenge us...
...The voting privileges guaranteed in thc constitution were never allowed to take on any real meaning...
...Many conservatives have regarded the La Foi-lettcs as radical but the fact remains that while they have exerted a profound influence in Wisconsin for many years, Wisconsin is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous states In the Union., Many measures advocated by thc elder La Follette, then denounced as "radical," have long since become the law of the land, and proved sound in practice...
...Here are two paragraphs from the letter which Congressman Hawks is sending out over his own signature to his constituents in this district: "I honestly believe the war hysteria being created is a part of a program by this administration to make the citizens of this country forget about their domestic failures during the past seven years...
...But when the report of the meeting appeared in the Rhinelander Daily News a storm of protest raged over having some 20 members of the board go on a junketing trip with all expenses paid, when no good could come of it, except that it would give the boys a good time for a couple of days at the county taxpayers expense...
...indeed, civilization itself, said the Colonel, depend* "on an English fleet, a German air force, a French army, and an American nation, standing together as guardians of our common heritage, sharing strength, dividing influence...
...The 1938 Republican platform promised no diversion of highway revenues...
...Lindbergh...
...We pledge ourselves to a continuation and expansion there...
...Several years ago Stalin made a feeble recognition of the fact that socialism must be sustained by the votes of the masses...
...BUT then, what can one expect of Congressman Hawks, the political opportunist...
...He is now up for re-election...
...Stowe's dispatch is his hint that Stalin might, if he were sure of escaping reprisal from the Allies or Germany, launch an attack against defenseless Bessarabia, just as he thought to do in the campaign against Finland...
...Not to mention other flouting of Republican pledges and promises to the voters, is there any reason why the people of Wisconsin should place any confidence whatever in the promises in the 1940 Republican platform adopted at Green Bay...
...IT IS QUITE NATURAL that the bitter foes of Pres...
...Morvin Duel and Assemblyman Reuben Peterson to $5,000 a year jobs- -Duel as Kirance commissioner and Peterson public service commissioner, auld there be any more open con-ion to the voters by the Republicans of Wisconsin that they have brazenly violated these major planks and promises in their 1938 platform...
...The Republican administration killed every bill in the 1938 legislature which provided for such a reduction...
...In the light of the needs of the Jewish masses we are broadening our program and as the nerv" center of Jewish cultural life and as thc mediu.™ through which the aspirations of our people are given expression, we go on to carry aloft the banner of democracy, justice and humanity...
...Yet it can ill afford not to have a few of them there...
...The other was published here in August, 1916...
...The supreme court in 1911 declared that the Sherman act merely "outlawed" unreasonable restraint of trade, and judges fresh from the practice of corporation law proceeded to decide that a great deal of restraint could still be reasonable...
...Far from being self-sufficient, Americans were to have a real part in these "affairs abroad...
...The only difference between Hitler and Stalin is that Stalin is forced to play ihe jackal role...
...It has hern the prnrficc of the county boards of the slate to send the chairman of the board to the meeting and pay his expenses...
...Hep...
...THE COURTS—Liberalization and reform of the federal judiciary, including the U. S. supreme court, to curb the threat to democratic government that lies in judicial autocracy and usurpation of power...
...The undermining of income and inheritance tax legislation that asks wealth and income to contribute a fair share toward the cost of government will be continued and expanded...
...Hawks that discusses the danger of the spread of the Hitler ideology...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...Perhaps the country could not afford a senate made up entirely of La Fol-lettes...
...The point The Progressive wants to raise here is that the university experiment station as long ago as 1894 was urging farmers to co-operate in a soil conservation program against wind and rain erosion...
...in Madison is an attractive little community building which belongs to the Workmen's Circle...
...Where the vanguard resis today the rear will camp tomorrow...
...Heil appointed and the Republican controlled state senate confirmed Sen...
...Last March Italy took 48.258 tons of scrap iron, while none was sent direct to Germany because of the declaration of the combat zone...
...Hawks' opposition to the local post office project and pointing out that his father had an interest in keeping the post office in its old location...
...There was a lot of propaganda about what the new constitution would do to democratize the Russian Soviet...
...Hawks' father...
...Hawks helped to put the skids under the proposal because the present post office is located in a building owned by Rep...
...We believe that most of the visitors who come here are interested in avoiding accident and driving carefully...
...Up in Oneida county, however, (he members thought it would be a nice thing for all the members to go and have their expenses and passed a resolution accordingly...
...The Socialists in the Workmen's Circle, however, are devoted to the principle that Socialism must be ushered in through the use of ballots and not bullets...
...They also maintain that a dictatorship such as Soviet Russia has today is wholly antagonistic to the principle of true Socialism...
...Charles Hawks, Jr...
...The Workmen's Circle (londemns (lointnunism OUT at 41 N. Mills st...
...It may be said that soil conservation is only another "Wisconsin idea" that later became part of the New Deal...
...O. K. to Help Aggressors: Wrong to Helo the Allies...
...We have yet to see any statement or literature issued by Rep...
...There can be no Socialism where the power is vested in a personal dictator...
...If the war goes on very long, wc shall have scH shocking internal political disturbances in thc \H ious European countries.—Vice President JaH D. Mooney ot General Motors...
...Oneida county is having a hard time meeting its expenses, as is every other county, and it wouldn't be consistent with a program of economy to send the members on a free vacation...
...iZ. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits...
...By following methods snd instruct inn outlined in their pa;.;e: , i armors in Wisconsin have been helped to prevent their land from becoming eroded...
...Lindbergh's Isolation [From The Nation] IF Charles Lindbergh wants to preach American isolation, that is his privilege...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...In a single month in 1939, January, we sent 11,635 tons of scrap to Germany, 26.055 to Italy...
...F the above quotation is not the cheap demagogic palaver of a self-seeking politician, then we don't know what political demagogery is...
...When the city of Horicon had an opportunity to get federal funds for a new post office building...
...Yes, we have been arming the dictator nations of Europe at our own peril...
...The 1938 platform promised reduction in automobile license fees...
...r * 5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...Regardless of any swing which may take place this fall In either of the national parties there will be a great deal of independent voting...
...When hordes not only press on the German border but spill out over Western Europe to the English channel, the colonel reproves Americans for "this hysterical chatter of calamity...
...Wisconsin, of course, is glad to welcome vacationists and tourists from Chicago and elsewhere...
...Hawks reveals himself as a pee-wee politician...
...Sam Strawitz, chairman, Milwaukee...
...Yes, Wisconsin pioneered in soil conservation...
...The oil-trust decision reverses the famous "rule of reason" bj' which a conservative supreme court in 19J1 left the Sherman anti-trust act a dead letter, still handy for use against labor unions but impotent to deal with big business combinations...
...if the Republican reactionaries are returned to office in Wisconsin, there will be a "continuation and expansion" of the policies of the Heil administration...
...However, when (lie details of the wholesale Junkei wen- published in the Rhinelander News, a vigorous public protest was forthcoming...
...It would be difficult to estimate how much has been saved in the value of Wisconsin farm land by the application of the soil conservation methods described in these booklets...
...Is this due to the fact that in his congressional district, Waukesha, Dodge, Jefferson, Columbia, and Dane counties there is a pre-dominent population of German descent...
...But the chances are fairly good that La Follette will win...
...But the most illuminating section of Mr...
...That welcome, however, does not Include the privilege of wild driving, excessive speed on dangerous roadways, and other violations of the law...
...Agricultural experts at the university say that these two bulletins over the years have had a wide influence throughout Ihe state...
...All this material has been going to countries that someday may turn it against us...
...In earlier years the defense of the dictatorship in Russia was that a dictatorship was necessary to bridge the gap in the transition from capitalism to socialism...
...Hawks may get the surprise of his life if he thinks that people of German descent are supporters of Hitler...
...The Oil Monopoly Decision (From The Nation) THE conservative press is dismayed by the supreme court's decision in the Madison oil trust case, and its dismay is revealing...
...The Workmen's Circle puts its finger on the nub of the matter when it condemns the Communists for condoning the crimes that have been committed by the Stalin regime of Soviet Russia...
...Roosevelt should try to take advantage of the president's proposal to dispose of old war, equipment, including planes and guns, to the Allies as indicating that Roosevelt is getting us into the European war...
...Because Gov...
...of Horicon asking him to give his support to tin* proposal to send planes and war materials to the Allies are receiving mimeographed form letters In reply in which Rep...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...UR attention was called the other ^ day to two bulletins of the University of Wisconsin agricultural experiment station regarding soil erosion from wind and rain...
...IT a recent meeting of the Wisconsin district committee of the Workmen's Circle at a conference held In Sheboygan, Wis., the following resolution was adopted: We, the Wisconsin district committee of tha Workmen's Circle full-hearledly support thc national executive committee of the Workmen's Circle and join them in their fight against Communism and Fascism...
...Hawks' statesmanship...
...r^OR example, the 1938 Republican platform contained planks opposing the diversion of highway revenues, in favor of reduced auto licenses, advocating increased old age pensions, and in opposition to the appointment of legislators to salaried state offices...
...He permits us to glance for an Instant behind Despot Stalin's imposing false front...
...The members of the Workmen's Circle hold that all power in the social structure should come from the bottom up and not from the top down...
...Nazi hordes, apparently, are not barbaric enough to worry Coi...
...The destruction and demolition of legislation that protects the interests of the rank and file citizen will be continued and expanded...
...S. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...Here is the story as told by the An-tigo Journal: The annual meeting of the county boards association will be held In Merrill nrxt Monday...
...Samuel Segan, secretary, Milwaukee...
...Workmen's Circle District Committee of Wisconsin State...
...In the past the Communists themselves have admitted this...
...ingSoil Conservation in Wisconsin —16 Years Airo...
...The attack on the rights of the worker and the drive to hamstring organized labor, such as the Catlin law and the Council of Agriculture measure, will be continued and expanded...
...But in giving the nation the benefit of his advice last week the colonel went beyond the bounds of argument to attribute motives and assign responsibilities...
...4. MARKETING"* CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...It isn't likely now that the trip will be made, and if any do go it will be at their own expense, which is as it should be, outside ot the chairman who officially represents the board...
...This little incident should serve most anyone in forming an estimate of Rep...
...A group of citizens in Rep...
...The editorial tells ot the action of the Oneida county board In voting itself a vacation at the taxpayers' expense— a free trip for the entire membership of the board to the county boards association meeting nl Merrill...
...Is it wrong, therefore, to sell planes and guns and other materials that have been in storage and have not been used for years to the Allies, who are now our first line of defense against totalitarian aggression in the western hemisphere...
...Nol AH County Board Chiselers In Dane County A LL the county board chiselers in Wisconsin are not in Dane county, Judging from an editorial which appeared this week in the Antlgo Journal...
...In view of the reputation that Chicago motorists have for reckless driving and instances of recklessness and traffic violations that have been witnessed by many Madisonians, this week-end record seems to add up to more than mere coincidence...
...The broad aspect of our membership has ever been loyal to its leadership and to the principles of our organization, and it will continue to stay within the Workmen's Circle movement, participating in the common task of defending the masses against the onslaught of fascism, dictatorship and anti-semitism...
...The Jackal Role (From The New York Post) LELAND STOWE, now in Bucharest after * journey into Russia, sends a revealing dispatch about affairs in the Soviet Union...
...It is a good reminder that the Soviet dictatorship, despite all of its professions of hatred for what it calls "the imperialist war," still is hankering after conquest...
...In short, the philosophy of government of the millionaires, by the millionaires, and for the millionaires will be continued and expanded in Wisconsin —at the expense of the every-day citizen...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...But as Italy's shipments grew larger, It was obvious that the Nazis were getting this material through their axis ally...
...The 1938 Republican platform solemnly promised that under a Republican administration no legislators would be appointed to salaried state Jobs...
...Young Bob" succeeded his father in the ,ser>-ate in 1925 and has been there ever since...
...They want to get home safe and sound...
...is suppose to stand, and the list is important primarily for what it omits rather than for what it contains...
...For the effect of the decision is to restore vigor to the anti-trust laws and to make it possible for the government to enforce the free competition which the New York Times and Herald Tribune and papers of similar economic philosophy affect to revere...
...Russia, and Japan...
...Various polls of public opinion show the Wisconsin Republicans dominant over the Democrats and Progressives combined...
...Hawks' home town of Horicon adopted a resolution criticizing Rep...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP ot natural resources and of those activities .vith a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation...
...Rep...
...Wisconsin's Highways Are Not Raee Courses 'T'HE tabulation of serious automobile accidents which occurred In the Madison area over the week-end showed seven persons injured in three auto crashes...
...It is nothing of the kind...
...Hitler...
...We say "affect to revere" because their comment—and the reaction in big-business circles generally—discloses the basic insincerity of their everlasting paeans to the competitive system...
...The few don't-give-a-damn drivers from out of state are the ones that must be told a thing or two, particularly that Wisconsin's highways were not built for race courses and that traffic laws must be obeyed...
...Yes...
...At a time like this, Congressman Hawks prefers to get out his bean shooter and spout his petty criticism of the Roosevelt administration...
...Hawks continues his petty political criticism against Pres...
...This is the same type of program that the federal government under the New Deal has been carrying out in an effort to stop the terrific toll of erosion and restore fertility to land whose topsoil has been blown or washed away...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...Lindbergh pleaded for peace so that the "white race" could rebuild its ramparts against both "the infiltration of inferior blood" and the Asiastic hordes already "pressing toward us on the Russian border...
...The Workmen's Circle is an organization of Jewish working men which was formed to promote the culture and the welfare of the Jewish people...
...EVERY ONE OF THESE PLANKS WAS OMITTED ENTIRELY FROM THE 1940 REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM...
...Last year Italy took 425,000 tons of American scrap iron...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...There are some 1,500,000 men supposedly in arms and yet the trains are not even able to keep the schedules needed for the transactions of ordinary peacetime commerce...
...The G.O.P...
...The emasculation of state departments that look after the interests of the consumer will be continued and expanded under the guise of economy...
...The assault on civil service that took place under the Heil controlled legislature will be continued and expanded...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...Stowe declares that Russia obviously is in no condition to risk military conflict with any major power...
...governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions...
...We, the Workmen's Circle members, maintain the Workmen's Circle schools so that our children may know cur history, culture," and heritage and tradition and that they may be further taught to appreciate the ideals of American democracy as only those who are bereft of all human feelings and in whom the spirit divine has disappeared can permit themselves to be in the Communists' station, condoning the most fiendish crimes to be noted in the annals of history...
...Confessions At Green Bay Convention npHE state convention of the reaction-ary Republican party that rules Wisconsin met last week at Green Bay and adopted a platform that typifies the kind of special privilege, big business government that this state has been receiving for the past 18 months...
...These principles have illuminated and motivated all of our activities in the interest of social progress and the culture and welfare of Jewish people...
...Then come the principles for which the state G.O.P...
...X INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the benefiriaries of monopoly...
...In each of the three accidents, one of the cars involved was driven by a Chicago motorist...
...A. ^. 7. 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...
...ryHE Communists continually prate that Russia is the fatherland of Socialism...
...As a result, the state's needy aged are receiving an average of $22 per month instead of the promised $40...
...We cannot produce war materials in large quantities for many reasons, the most important reason of all being the ham-stringing and persecution of business that has been carried on during the past seven, years...
...But all that brave dream was predicated on hordes of barbarism "pressing toward us on the Russian border...
...The Workmen's Circle is a non-political organization, but many of its members are Socialists...
...But the gesture was a fake...
...What they want is the right to stifle competition —without government interference...
...He suggests that this is the reason why Stalin's despotism Joined hands, In an uneasy alliance, with the despotism of Hitler—for fear of having to fight a pre-doomed war...
...Much of the time of the average industry today is occupied with making reports to the federal government, and the decline in the general business index is evidence of the lack of confidence that business has in the future...
...The court now restores the original meaning— the plain meaning—of the Sherman act's ban on restraint of trade...
...But th,e Communists have now been in control in Russia for 23 years and the personal dictatorship of Stalin still continues...
...That is the real significance of the ; G.O.P...
...Hawks may find that the votes he can cash in on his political demagogery may not measure up to expectations...
...Because the Heil administration has admitted that it is diverting more than 56.000,000 in road funds to balance a swollen budget...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
