THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Inadequate Institutions Dear Sirs: Sen. Brien McMahon and Millard Tyd-ings are to be commended for their stand for peace and disarmament. Administration proponents to the...
...One can only regret the way in which he was received by the German leaders and hope that the latter did not miss an opportunity which will not present itself again...
...It might easily erase civilization and carry the remnants of humanity back to the Dark Ages...
...Then the judge gave Jim until September to pay...
...Rubin told us a month before the election: "Labor will win by a greatly diminished majority than it commanded in 1945, perhaps a majority so uncomfortably bare as to make decisive action difficult if not impossible...
...We protest such $4.50 injustice and persecution of peace-loving citizens...
...Brain-Clearing Dear Sirs: Congratulations on "Europe in 1950...
...Keep up the good work you are doing in The Progressive...
...No, probably not right away...
...John Silbersack Corning, Calif...
...You could start with a process that would go on...
...I read it with a nice feeling of confidence that he was re,^_^^ things honestly and truthfully as they ap...
...He knew that campaigns are necessary to do organizing and was a candidate for the same office in 1946...
...George Maychin Stockdale Big Moose, N. Y. Bigotry & Distortion Dear Sirs: In the recent letter of Ellis Ogle the controversy between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs...
...Of course, now the organization has passed into the hands of more people and is now well established...
...He carried eight counties, and so did Carl Thompson in 1948...
...The warden would not speak to a welcoming committee because Jim's friends included a colored woman...
...The French have probably done as much as any other country, and more, to seek a rapprochement with their former enemies...
...It is a masterpiece for clarity, conciseness, and fairness, and its simplicity of language makes It readable and understandable to the average reader...
...On that day a U. S. Tax Commissioner in Ashland, Ky., ruled that he would have to stay in jail until he paid the $100 fine and $40 court costs...
...It deserves the Pulitzer Prize for the best editorial of the year...
...After Otsuka served his time, he was due for release Dec...
...Mayer's prodding "voice crying in the wilderness" may eventually arouse nominal Christians and Christian churches Into Christian action in place of mere profession of faith...
...This the judge said was for failure to answer the collector's summons promptly (hang the farming...
...I want to quote some sentences from Mrs...
...And every article by Milton Mayer is also good reading...
...But this can't be carried on indefinitely, and if it ended in war and utter ruin, there would be no financial health to preserve...
...Frances Meyer Schenectady, N. Y. Dear Sirs: I wonder how many of your subscribers did as I did the day after the British election and turned to Mr...
...And the best article in the best of magazines was Mr...
...Two days before Sen...
...I will not renew my subscription...
...Our political institutions, though adequate for most of the 19th Century, are unable to cope with difficult problems that now face us...
...So far, only Gandhi, a non-Christian, has done that...
...To me it looks like distortion...
...Dear Sirs: I wish to congratulate The Progressive on the February editorial, "The Warfare State...
...so Judge Baltzell sentenced him to three months imprisonment and fined him $100...
...Tad Tekla Secretary, Workers Defense Council Cleveland, O. Mighty Pen Dear Sirs: Please permit me space in your magazine to say: "The Pen is mightier than the Atomic Bomb...
...Tydings that the United States call on all the nations of the world to join with us in a supreme effort to achieve total disarmament...
...Witness the projected Franco-Italian economic union and the magnificent gesture of Robert Schuman in visiting Western Germany recently...
...And we surely loved the Wagner Act...
...Martha Z. Williams Rio Hondo, Tex...
...Dear Sirs: The Progressive provides us with the best and most thought-provoking reading in America...
...You say in this editorial, "The Progressive concurs heartily in the far-sighted suggestion of Sen...
...4.50 Injustice Dear Sirs: K. J. Otsuka, 40, farm hand near Richmond, Ind., refused to pay $4.50 income tax, because he didn't want to finance the tanks going to Formosa and other cold war costs...
...Roosevelt says it is a fact that only strong prejudice could cause anyone to suspect that Federal aid in the line of health services and bus transportation for parochial children could come to mean religious control of public schools...
...I thought his summing-up of "the counsel of the high and low in France, Germany, and England" was particularly good...
...As an Englishman, I cannot be accused of pleading my own cause...
...Roosevelt was again rehashed...
...Rubin's February reporf on British politics...
...J. Luther Kibler Newport News, Va...
...The experience reaffirmed my feeling that many of us who subscribe to The Progressive don't appreciate how much better and more accurately we are being served than are readers of many of the bigger, slicker and more expensive magazines...
...He didn't even comply with a collector's order to produce books and papers showing his financial condition until he was hauled before Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Indianapolis Federal District Court...
...Roosevelt a bigot, but in her column she did prove to have a strong prejudice against the Catholic Church, which is not at all surprising as this is the traditional weakness of nearly all professional liberals...
...To arrogate to oneself the capacity to judge to whom the nation should bestow its goods is supreme conceit...
...An intelligent man should know that...
...Mayer for President Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's February article on Christmas is a classic...
...M. H. Sawyer Berkeley, Calif...
...Bill Munro Minot, N. D. Statesmanship Needed Dear Sirs: Your editorial, "What Are We Waiting For...
...Herman F. Jessen Phelps, Wis...
...Those of us who believe in the right of any human to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools...
...That boy ought to be President...
...E. C. Gentry Marthaville, La...
...He couldn't have been closer to the mark without being subject to suspicion of practicing witchcraft...
...Now the American people should give the Truman Administration no rest until it actually moves to recapture the leadership for peace...
...L. L. Bernard State College, Pa...
...Dear Sirs: Congratulations to Mr...
...For that reason I don't expect this will be printed...
...Nick Theisbn Minneapolis, Minn...
...On Aug...
...18, his first day in court, he complied with the red tape and was let off with a reprimand by the judge...
...Truman and Acheson—and Congress—must soon do something...
...Rubin's "Europe in 1950...
...We need more Mayers and Gandhis to lead us away from the idea of war as a solution to our problems, toward the more courageous idea of following Christ's Sermon on the Mount...
...A. S. Haywood Pallens s/ Montreuy Switzerland Comfortable Feeling Dear Sirs: I want to tell you how very much I enjoyed Mr...
...Administration proponents to the contrary notwithstanding, armament races always lead to war...
...Dear Sirs: Morris H. Rubin's "Europe in 1950" wis an excellent summary of developments there...
...Emily M. Bbttenhauser Philadelphia, Pa...
...To lack the political sense, regardless of one's scientific acumen, to realize that being an expert does not make one the executive, is really unbalanced...
...Lauds Durand Dear Sirs: Since Christmas, when I was fortunate enought to receive a year's gift subscription, I have read every issue from cover to cover with great enjoyment...
...Rubin's report, "Europe In 1950...
...Thomas E. O'Leary Baltimore, Md...
...I hope you will leave no stone unturned to have it brought to the attention of members of Congress who will put it in the Congressional Record...
...It can be used by the writers of the world to generate hate in human minds to a degree where humans will drop the atomic bombs, or these same writers can use the same pen to make all men want Peace on Earth, good will among all mankind...
...Afraid Dear Sirs: In the days of Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., I considered The Progressive an excellent and really progressive magazine, but in these days of the cold war and the drive by the big business interests of London and Wall Street and by the Papacy for a hot war, it seems to me that The Progressive is afraid it may be smeared as fellow-traveler if it doesn't publish at least some of the Fascist cold war propaganda...
...Dan Hoan started in 1942 to organize the Democrats and was nearly elected governor in 1944...
...He has been doing this ever since election day...
...Dear Sirs: Morris H. Rubin's "Europe in 1950" was eminently good...
...To give our national property away is theft...
...We were not, as Wechsler assumed, all taken in by Communism in the 1930s...
...This is what Mr...
...Jim was still of the same, stubborn mind on the 1st...
...His ability to provide an overall picture, with consideration of the essential small parts, provides the kind of balance and perspective which are glaringly lacking in most reports today...
...but let us never forget the pioneer who did the spade-work...
...Agnes Chase Alexandria, Va...
...Nor would he allow any of the ministers among them to see Jim (during regular visiting hours...
...The development of industry and recent technological and scientific discoveries have outstripped our political and social development...
...Mrs...
...If I have one criticism to make, it Is that I think he did not do full justice to the French, even granting their chronic "alpha-betitis" of political parties...
...I doubt If the Cardinal really did call Mrs...
...The request of Cardinal Spellman that Catholic schools should share in Federal aid funds forces upon the citizens of the country the kind of decision that is going to be very difficult to make...
...In view of recent scientific discoveries, modern war is too horrible to contemplate...
...Roosevelt's column to prove my point...
...Thanks for such a good job...
...Your hopes are our hopes...
...Dan Hoan went out organizing this district and spent several thousand dollars and lots of time, even after election, to make it possible for the next candidate to defeat O'Konski...
...peared to him—that he wasn't slanutjg things to make them appear different from what they were, for one reason or another...
...W. W. Harris Tryon, N. C. Justice to France Dear Sirs: I have just finished reading Morris Rubin's excellent article on "Europe in 1950" in your February issue...
...Not All Taken In Dear Sirs: I have just read James A. Wechsler's March article on the Hiss case...
...2) To give away what does not belong to us is a crime...
...Mayer in March Dear Sirs: Your March issue's article by Milton Mayer, "The End of The Line," is tops...
...There was not even a shadow of an organization here...
...Money spent on armaments is considered necessary to keep our country in financial health...
...Revell's Omission Dear Sirs: It is regretful to read a good factual report by Aldric Revell that deliberately leaves out the most important part and person...
...Lionel Durand's article, "Sweden's Welfare State" in the March issue, was especially good and timely...
...Wisconsin is fortunate to have such a great number of young, able, and politically-minded, progressive people, as Revell describes...
...At that time, there were only poor organizations in seven counties...
...That article ought to be copied in every magazine and publication in this country and, indeed, throughout the world...
...Sister M. Margaret Patricia McCarran Washington, D.C...
...Our Council is glad to express its solidarity with a soft spoken Nisei, who has put the internal revenue system and the infernal prison system under a glaring spotlight...
...N. Y. was going to drop The Progressive berse I have so much to read, but Morris Rubin's "Europe in 1950" in the February Issue was so fine I feel I must renew...
...Remaining adamant towards telling Stalin that he is leading the world to the destruction of all civilization is not the attitude of a statesman exercising the power that rests in the hands of the President...
...You could make it harder for him to regiment his own people, and the people behind the iron curtain...
...Thank you for clearing my brain of some dusty cobwebs...
...Two points are always missing in his praise or blame: 1) Perjury is a crime...
...in the March Progressive is unanswerable...
...Rubin on his fine report on Europe...
...Jean Wunderlich Red Wing, Minn...
...the schools of the nation perhaps—but not the Catholic schools...
...The largest Congressional district, the 10th, covers one-fifth of the state, and in 1948 Hoan was drafted to run against the unspeakable Alvin O'Konski...
...In spite of what Mrs...
...As this amount constitutes one-third the value of Otsuka's assets, and as he has not changed his tax refusal position after punishment for same he is still in jail...
...The story Revell wrote about the Democrats in Wisconsin, in the March issue, could not have been written if Daniel Webster Hoan, former mayor of Milwaukee, had not had the vision to make the Democratic Party the vehicle for Progressives, and what is more, went out and did a job organizing, long before the people mentioned by Revell were on the scene...
...Tydings made his suggestion Norman Thomas called on our Government to make a direct appeal to Marshal Stalin for disarmament, and then asked: "Would Stalin listen...
...Jerome Davis University of Colorado Boulder, Colo...
...There you have it...
...Louis Fischer New York...
...You could recapture the leadership of America for peace . . . which we have lost...
...At the same time, may I congratulate Milton Mayer on his very fine article, "The Merry Christ," also in the February issue...
Vol. 14 • April 1950 • No. 4
