NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation Dunkerque (From The New York Times) SO long as the English tongue survives, the word Dunkerque will be spoken with...
...2. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits...
...Docs the answer Sic in the fuel...
...State and county officials, as well as the board of state bar commissioners, had knowledge of the graft that was paid to the former district attorney, but to date none of these agencies has taken any action beyond the stage of secret investigations...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...I no longer desire to give any support to a newspaper which follows the editorial policy of the Milwaukee Sentinel...
...Whatever disciplinary steps have been taken against attorneys in the last few years have been against those attorneys who were not very prominent in activities of the bar and who did not happen to be attorneys for big corporate interests...
...You hypocritically flew the American flag in your newspapers in those days and you are doing it today...
...these Ad.iiiis nii/.ens wore persuadi'd to sign complaints prepared by an attorney for the Wisconsin Power and Light Co., and that the attorney in company with officials of the private utility visited these people...
...We greet this ruling w-ith intense pleasure...
...The complainant furnished copies of correspondence making charges against this attorney, yet no disciplinary action of any kind has been taken...
...Strachey believes that the Communists have moved from opposition to the "imperialist war" to a definite interest in a German victory...
...The board is charged with the duty of investigating complaints of misconduct on the part of licensed attorneys...
...Inflation or the fear of it...
...In doing so, it seems to us, he refutes the Worker's innuendo that his attack is motivated by considerations of personal safety...
...But I have been following the editorial policy of the Sentinel with increasing amazement and curiosity and I have now decided that I can no longer give any support, however small, to a newspaper that follows such policies...
...There, beaten but uncon-quered, in shining splendor, she faced the enemy...
...Nothing could indicate better that Finland is still Finland, despite the Soviet assault, and that its people are still proud and undaunted...
...This ".miii tr- 'iiuoity :,ln>ws I.I nil...
...Here we have insidious, unethical behavior that is not incomparable to ambulance chasing...
...At the same time they will hope that the American government will graciously decline to accept this money from the Finns or at least turn it back immediately for relief...
...What of scrap iron and steel as the next step...
...16, 1939, The Capital Times published portions of sworn testimony of four citizens of Adams, revealing that they were induced to sign complaints to start the "taxpayers" suit sponsored by the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...Yet it may be questioned whether the danger point is near at hand...
...Rogers never submitted a written report to the state supreme court on the case...
...The supreme court supervises all activities of the board of state bar commissioners—and appoints its members...
...HEARINGS on migratory farm labor now being held by the La Fojlette committee represent more than a humane interest in a luckless portion of our population...
...343.20 of the Wisconsin statutes...
...Even at a time when they need every dollar for rebuilding ruined cities and villages and for feeding thousands who were forced to leave their homes by the Communist territorial grab, Finland seeks to keep her perfect record of war debt payments unbroken...
...In their reply the editors of the Worker deny all bias with that Communist objectivity that equates the British seizure of Iceland with the German seizure of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and Luxemburg...
...Here is a case where an attorney for a private utility went from Madison to Adams to secure complaints from people who had not solicited his services...
...We hope it will be taken...
...For decades you have exploited the American flag and American patriotism in your newspaper...
...6. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...The changes which have been taking place in rural areas, by depriving large sections of our farm population of economic freedom and security, are a serious threat to the institutions these same areas did so much to nurture...
...Glenn Frank, G. O. P. program committee chairman...
...It was the common man of the free countries, rising in all his glory out ot mill, office, factory, mine, farm and ship, applying to war the lessons learned when he went down the shaft to bring out trapped comrades, when h« hurled the lifeboat through the surf, when he endured poverty and hard work for his children's sake...
...that they are prepared "for the sake of what they consider the interest of the Soviet Union, to give way to Hitler to any extent...
...Some months ago I chose the Milwaukee Sentinel as the lesser of two evils and further because the Sentinel would give me more Wisconsin news...
...When Harlan B. Rogers, Portage, attorney for the board of state bar commissioners and present president of the Wisconsin Bar association was questioned about this flagrant case, he refused to deny or admit that he had conducted an investigation...
...Wisconsin, the first state to adopt unemployment insurance, is the first state to have a conference of this kind...
...They sent away the wounded first...
...We can do no more at this time than point to the high lights of the testimony before the committee More than half a million farms in this country consist of land so poor that no farmer can make a living on it no matter how hard he tries...
...How About Scrap Ir.on Next ? [From The N. Y. Post] MACHINE tools are no longer to be exported from this country...
...Yet it, too, reflect* that struggle...
...A Letter to William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst Hearst Ranch, San Simeon, California...
...There is a move in congress to take this step in behalf of Finland...
...Your readers, Mr...
...The future nf locracy in America may depend on our abili > cope with the problem they represent...
...Officially, the meeting will be known as the "Wisconsin Conference on Steadier Jobs" and the groups participating include the Wisconsin Industrial commission, the Wisconsin Manufacturers association, the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce, the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, and the Wisconsin department of the American Legion...
...I'Avti In Disaster, Finland Wauls To l\iv Drills OTUltDY little Finlancl struggling with j K' reconstruction since the brutal j aggression of Communist Russia, has informed the United States that it stands ready to meet the $159,000 payment which is due on June 15 on her debt to this country...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities .vith a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation...
...Hearst, are entitled to an answer to this question: Why are you so bitter toward Franklin D. Roosevelt and so tender toward Adolf Hitler...
...They can elect to the supreme court justices who would have no interest in protecting members of the Wisconsin Bar association...
...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...
...It was your yellow New York Journal which took a leading part in driving the United States into the Spanish-American war...
...Equally new and strange is "unemployment on the farm": the 1937 Unemployment census showed 1,500.000 farmers jobless...
...Dear Sir: In your column, "In The News,' in one of your papers, the Milwaukee Sentinel, you printed on Saturday a series of letters from various subscribers of Hearst newspapers laudatory of your position' on a varied number of public questions...
...But, they point out, "working-class fighters must judge the line of fight and where to strike the hardest blows...
...Hearst, to the fact that since the Nazis invaded the Scandinavian countries, your Milwaukee Sentinel has harassed, pilloried, and misrepresented Pres...
...to hamstring the city of Adams in its fight for municipal owner-shin...
...Japan imported the enormous total of 2,016,065 tons from us last year...
...Adolf Or His Stand-in...
...The conference will discuss the problem of providing regular employment and stabilized jobs, experience ratings, and savings that are the reward of the employer who can adjust his business to steadier operations...
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...HPHE board of state bar commissioners cannot expect the general public to have any faith and confidence in its members if it permits practices of this kind to continue unpunished...
...What is your answer, Mr...
...He has, crushed it, where he could, from German hearts...
...It is the great tradition of democracy...
...It was not the result of careful planning, for there could have been little...
...Yours truly, WILLIAM T. EVJUE, Editor, Bar Will Not Be Cleaned Up By The Kopps and Rogers TT IS high time that the legal profes-sion, supposedly the guardian of justice, put its house in order...
...I am this morning sending notice to the Milwaukee Sentinel to discontinue sending the paper to my home...
...The "experience rating" provision of the state unemployment insurance law, which rewards employers who are able to maintain steady work for their employes, has saved Wisconsin employers over $6,000,000 a year...
...Knowledge of the English language and good hard common sense are the prerequisites for Interpreting the statutes—which were made by and for human beings—not legal hair-splitters...
...In this case, if the lawyers cannot clean up their own house, the people of the state should do it for them...
...It is a reversal of the shameful policy of arming the aggressor, a policy whose workings we described on this page yesterday...
...however, the Allies ran hold out into 1941, the continued inflationary issue of paper money ia Germany may well play a part In the final decision...
...John Strachey Quits The Communists (From The Nation) JOHN STRACHEYS decision to sever relations with the Communists is more than just another casualty among the fellow-travelers...
...The American flag has been interwoven in your newspapers with your unconscionable news exploitation of sex, crime, and social filth over the years...
...It would appear that the board is interested in protecting guilty members rather than in disciplining them...
...T> ECALLING that the fuehrer has more stand-ins than a movie star, we wonder if this is Hitler at the front we see on the picture pages, or merely one of his five or six reasonably accurate facsimiles...
...Farmers On Relief [From The Nation...
...If that is your answer, then you are placing a low estimate on the patriotism of the people of German descent in Milwaukee...
...Why the immunity for Hitler...
...That may be good Lenin and Liebknecht, as the comrades say it is, but they should not be outraged if the "enemy nearest to them" treats them as effective allies of Hitler and Co...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...JUSTICES of the supreme court do not have to be lawyers...
...The bank's issue of paper money has increased by one-half since a year ago, and has doubled in the past two years...
...Wisconsin has made an enviable record in employment stabilization, and this record is reflected in the operation of unemployment insurance program in this state...
...The strange phenomenon of "farmers on relief" has made it appearance: at some time during the last seven years more than one out of every four farm families has required assistance from WPA or FSA...
...It is th* future, It is victory...
...Strachey still maintains the anti-war position which he held since hostilities began, and in his criticism of the Communists, which appears in the New Statesman and Nation of April 27, he agrees substantially with them "as to the general character of the war...
...News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation Dunkerque (From The New York Times) SO long as the English tongue survives, the word Dunkerque will be spoken with reverence...
...Germany's Paper Money [From The New York Times] THE statement of the Reichsbank as of June 3 seems strangely remote in the face of the struggle going on in Europe...
...As a newspaperman, you will recognize my desire to have the morning's news available at the breakfast table ia order that I may have knowledge of the world's events on arriving at my office for the day's work...
...This shining thing in the souls of free men Hitler cannot command, or attain, or conquer...
...Faithful to the traditional delicacy of Daily Workers everywhere, the British Communist organ has rushed into print with the tardy revelation that Strachey was something of a rotter all along, but whether or not his going Is a loss to the party is less important than the reasons for the break...
...You have continued to carry on your campaign against Stalin and Communism, but you have nothing to say concerning Hitler...
...in any event, will have, little influence on the outcome of this summer's struggle...
...I no longer want a paper in my home that is owned and directed by a man who skulks behind the American flag while attacking and seeking to besmirch the president of the United States and-then is silent and apparently afraid to criticize the worst menace to the American flag and our free institutions—the brute force which is now seeking to dominate the world under the swastika of Adolf Hitler...
...American machine tools have constituted 63 per cent of Japan's purchases in this category...
...At least 2,500,000 persons live on these pauper farms...
...From The Grant County News) THE Blue Book is just out and shows that th* present state administration is the most expensive in the state's history...
...Ours are directed against the enemy nearest to us, Chamberlain and Co...
...This undoubtedly reflects the present strain on the Reich economy, the more so because it is dubious whether the Reichsbank s figures include anywhere near all that now passes as money in the Reich...
...Men died so that others could escape...
...His popularizations of Communist doctrine have been a major educational force for the party, and If he was not a blood brother in the fraternity he served as a valuable liaison between the comrades and the outside world...
...I don't think auv president should commit the destiny of the Amct'can people on war or peace without concurrence of Congress...
...The people themselves can act if the lawyers will not...
...It was not so simple a thing as courage, which the Nazis had In plenty...
...3—A complaint has been filed with the state bar commissioners against an attorney, now a Republican state senator, for concealing certain amounts collected for a client...
...Nazism is a far greater danger to this country today than Communism...
...I should be happy to have the college actively associated with a program for the salvaging of life and hope of youngsters on whom the burden, of war has fallen with terrifying force—President Mildred McAfee of Wellesley College...
...Milwaukee has ;t large Germui population and has business and circulation expediency demanded that you be tender to Hitler while you continue to attack our own national leader...
...Here are three examples where the profession has permitted unclean practices among its members: 1—In February The Progressive published a series of exclusive stories disclosing that a former district attorney in a southwestern county had been charged with selling protection to slot machine owners and illegal liquor operators...
...Stocks on the Tokio exchange dropped several points on this news, indicating the importance of our machine tools in arming that country...
...We are developing a rural proletariat, and the Russian and Spanish examples remind us of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary tinder that exists in landless and hungry rural masses...
...Every American, with the exception of Communists and Nazis who condone aggression and brute force on the part of Stalin and Hitler, will be thrilled by the sincerity and high sense of honor of the Finns...
...Note circulation increased more than fivefold during the last war without resulting in an immediate breakdown, even though the machinery of economic control was then much less efficient...
...Here is a letter, however, which I do not think you will want to print in your column...
...Testimony reveals that the power company attorney informed the citizens that they would not have to pay legal costs whether the suit was won or lost, that the power company would pay all costs...
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...The people of the state have been very patient, hoping that either the supreme court or the bar itself would insist on purging the legal profession of violators of criminal statutes and the professional code...
...A 'Conference on Steadier Johs' OUSINESS, industry, labor, and the state of Wisconsin will be represented at a state-wide conference to be held next Friday in Milwaukee to discuss ways and means of finding steadier employment for workers in this state...
...It is only right and just that business and industrial concerns that provide regular jobs should be encouraged...
...There is some thing to remember from now until after you vote thU fall...
...The Expensive G.O.P...
...governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions: a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...We have often claimed that whatever faults there are in a democracy are due to the personnel and not to the system...
...No Congressman (From The Grant County N'ewsTHERE never was a time when a congressman, was more important than now and we just have not got one...
...A panel of speakers will tell how workers are trained so that they may be capable of holding varying jobs, of transfers of employes to different departments to avoid layoffs, of the manufacture of "fill in" products during slack times, of customer and consumer co-operation, and other means of keeping factories and business establishments active and regular pay checks going to employes each week...
...5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...Money from Finland at this time is money that we don't want...
...3. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and in-some taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...It was not so simple a thing as discipline, which can be hammered into men by a drill sergeant...
...Shipments for Japan and Russia have been halted at the waterside, as the result of an administration ruling that they are indispensable for our defense...
...I no longer want a newspaper In my home that day in and day out harasses, villifies, abuses the present leader of this country, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and at the same time can find no words of condemnation for the brutal aggressors who, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, are steadily crushing peace loving countries in Europe under their heels...
...There are many men outside the legal profession who possess these qualifications and who, as justices of the state supreme court, would administer justice to all of the people of the state, rather than for the benefit of lawyers...
...Steinbeck's Joads are a vivid symbol ;f a growing misery and unrest...
...The conference at Milwaukee should have a useful effect in calling attention to the benefits that accrue both to employer and employe, as well as to the general welfare, when the problem of regular employment is approached from a constructive angle...
...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...
...2—On Nov...
...For in that harbor, in such a hell as never blazed on earth before, at the end of a lost battle, the rags and blemishes that have hidden the soul of democracy ¦ fell away...
...This is a clear violation of Sec...
...Small farmers, freed from feudal tenures, contributed greatly to the development of our characteristic democratic and cqualitarian ways...
...Here in southern Wisconsin, we have the choice of two metropolitan morning newspapers—the Chicago Tribune and the Milwaukee Sentinel...
...9. fiELlEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...Roosevelt while in nearly three months there has not appeared a single criticism of Hitler and the Nazi war lords...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
