Bill White Gets Himself Some Ink
Bill White Gets Himself Some Ink Press Agent For American Involvement In War Reveals Tricks His Committee Used In Promoting The Destroyer Deal, And Is Caught Contradicting Himself On The Famous...
...And was that a face card...
...As the St...
...The Facts About The Nation's 'Shrunken Bellies' SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, when John L. Lewis placed the number of "shrunken bellies" in the United States at 52,000,000, there were a lot of lifted eyebrows and a number of bombastic retorts from the daily press...
...it smells to me like Bill White,' White said: " 'Lord...
...It shows: That one-third of all families and single individuals in the United States received less than $15 a week...
...More Than I 1,000,000 Families Earn Less Than A Bare Minimum HERE IS THE Institute's table showing income distribution in the United States in 1929: Total in Bach Class Families Per Cent Cumulative Totals Income Received (inOOO) of total Families Per Cent 'Jnder flOOO_____ 5,899 21.5 5,890 21.5 PtOOO to S1500 ___ 5,754 21.0 11,653 42.5 S150O to T2O00___ 4,701 17.1 16,354 59.6 $2000 to $2500___ 3,204 11.6 19,558 71.2 $2500 to SS3000 ___ 1,988 7.2 21,546 78.4 $3000 to S5000 ___ 3,672 13.4 25,218 91.8 $5000 to $10,000__ 1,625 5.9 26,843 97.7 Over $10,000 _____ 681 2.3 27,474 lOO.O 27,474 lOO.O 27,474 lOO.O The 11,653,000 families in the first two brackets earned less than enough to provide the essentials of food, clothing, and shelter, and by every scientific yardstick did not have enough to eat...
...Taking that number as a goal was pure hunch, but I want to say that we've never had an objective Jhat wasn't approved in advance by the General Staffs of the United States Army and Navy...
...Heil, who has been denying for months that he planned to open a branch office of the Wisconsin capitol in Milwaukee, admitted this week that he has engaged a suite of offices and will function there at least two days a week...
...I never heard of it until Clark Eichelberger, our executive secretary, called me by long distance to tell me to listen to it...
...Committee Is Now Alienating Some Of Its Original Supporters -------¦-------- TPHE White Committee, which is becoming widely known as the America Second Committee, has been pursuing such a reckless course in recent weeks that it is alienating some of its original supporters—men and women who embraced the Committee's early program of staying out of war by aiding the Allies...
...It was...
...Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College, up to now a supporter of the White Committee, expressed grave concern last week that the policies of the Committee "are calculated to bring us into the war at the earliest possible moment...
...The Committee demands that the United States supply Great Britain with all possible merchant ships and assume responsibility for maintaining the so-called lifeline between Great Britain and the United States...
...The Brookings Institute reached this startling conclusion: "Of the non-farm families as a whole, 16,000,000, 74 per cent, did not have sufficient income in 1929 to provide an adequate diet at moderate cost...
...This can only mean that our warships shall be employed to convoy merchant vessels between the United States and Great Britain, and an act of war would inevitably follow...
...Heil said he expected the state to pay the bill, despite the fact that the taxpayers provide him with a fine mansion and a suite of offices in Madison, constitutional seat of the state government...
...Last week, however, William Allen White, publicity director for the British cause in America and chairman of the Committee to Defend America By Aiding the Allies, was getting himself more ink than he was getting for his cause—intervention...
...Pershing on the air, but the really smart trick we pulled was that after Lindbergh made his speech, we put his mother-in-law (Mrs...
...In a letter to the New York Times, Dr...
...patriot...
...That another third received between $15 and $28 a week...
...The story of mounting utility costs under Hopson management was told by Alexander Speer, former Florida and Virginia utility magnate, who testified that when Hopson took over the Florida Power Corporation, its administrative expenses shot up by $100,000 in one year...
...But a survey of the latest and most authentic data shows that Lewis was not far from wrong, if he was wrong at all...
...We put Gen...
...It's a scholarly report on distribution of income in the United States prepared by the conservative Brookings Institute...
...One-Third Of All Families Set Less Than $15 A Week AMORE RECENT survey, published in 1938 by the National Resources Committee, is based on 1935-1936 conditions...
...White, "was to send the destroyers to England...
...This is r to avoid entangling alliances, to defend the American hemisphere by the use of our armed forces, to defend the Philippines if possible, and under the present laws to assist the British empire by the sale to Britain of all food and military supplies for which Britain can pay...
...Bill White Gets Himself Some Ink Press Agent For American Involvement In War Reveals Tricks His Committee Used In Promoting The Destroyer Deal, And Is Caught Contradicting Himself On The Famous Pershing Speech AGOOD PRESS AGENT is a guy who gets his client a lot of ink in the papers but keeps himself strictly in the background...
...If our committee had participated in the arrangements, I'd have known it long in advance because Eichelberger is constantly in touch with me, calling me on an average of twice a day.' " And yet, despite this emphatic denial in August, White the other day openly boasted that "We put Gen...
...It all started when Mr...
...A Department of Agriculture study of diets at four levels of nutritive content and cost, adjusted to 1929 prices, shows the following food budgets per family for one year: Restricted diet for emergency use__________$350 Adequate diet at minimum cost___________ 500 Adequate diet at moderate cost___________ 8O0 liberal diet__________±__________________ 950 * * * Vast Majority Cannot Afford Health-Providing Foodstuffs ¦pXPERTS at the Brookings Institute found that in the lowest income group, among farm families, the average amount spent for food was $250 per year, and for non-farm families $360—or less than one dollar per day per family...
...200 That's What Heil's Milwaukee Offiqe Will Cost Us Each Month Gov...
...Equipped with three telephones, smart-looking furniture, and a huge star on the door, the new offices will cost $200 a month...
...The Emporia editor was elated, and in accepting the award, he bubbled over with enthusiasm...
...We learned there were certain over-age destroyers that could easily be spared—150 of them—but we plugged for 50...
...his former bookkeeper, told of a Hop-son spree in Florida which cost his companies $6,000...
...Those who believe that the United States should not enter the war at this time should record their opposition to the policy declared by the committee...
...And it shows that in the boom year 1929, when this country enjoyed the biggest income in its history, 11,563,000 families earned less than $30 a week, and of these, 5,899,000 families had less than $20 a week...
...Pershing on the air...
...Hopson, who is being tried on charges of cheating his utility system out of $20,000,000 in mail frauds and conspiracies, showed his first sign of interest in the trial when Lillian M. Nickl...
...This amount, on the basis of the Department of Agriculture's study, could buy only a "restricted diet for emergency use"—a diet which does not provide a sufficient surplus of protective foods (milk, eggs, citrus fruits, and green vegetables) to insure good health over an indefinite period of time...
...I think that the declaration of policy published in the Times today is a long step in the direction of war...
...Take "America's Capacity to Consume," for instance...
...Dwight W. Morrow) on the air...
...Another Hopson trick was disclosed by Miss Nickl when she testified that employes of his holding company often worked overtime but never received compensation despite the fact that Hopson would charge the operating companies "twice the amount these employes would have received if they had been paid for their overtime...
...9 that his ; committee had anything to do with | the Pershing broadcast...
...Nickl told how he vacationed at expensive clubs in Palm Beach and Miami in 1935 and then turned in a $6,000 expense account...
...The former utility magnate had been dozing in court for a month, but he perked up when Mrs...
...Our first job," pontificated Mr...
...calls, White denied on Aug...
...MacCracken Prefers American Way Of Defense Right Now « A LTHOUGH a supporter hitherto of .. - the general aims of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and even speaking from the same platform as William Allen White on one occasion on this subject...
...She said 'Telegraph the White House and your Congressman,' and the next day—15,000 telegrams came tumbling down on Washington, saying 'Give the destroyers to Great Britain.' They never knew what hit them...
...Nineteen million families, or 90 per eent, were not in a position to enjoy a liberal diet...
...Speaks As One Press Agent To A Bunch Of The Boys TTJIS exuberance reached its highest *¦ *¦ pitch when as one press agent to a bunch of others, he told the boys about the tricks his committee worked in promoting the deal for the trade of 50 American destroyers...
...With all respect to the distinguished names which are quoted as responsible for the composition of the document, I must express my preference far the American way of defense as I understand it at the present time...
...Hugh S. Johnson's column yesterday that 'nobody can tell me that the General wrote that speech...
...It is entitled Consumer Incomes in the United States...
...The same was true, he added, when Hopson took control of the Virginia Public Service Company...
...Utility Outlay Soared Under Hopson Touch WHENEVER Howard C. Hop-son laid his hands on a piece of utility property, its costs would shoot upward immediately to provide tribute for Hopson's fabulous Associated Gas and Electric utility system,, according to testimony introduced in the federal court of New York last week...
...Louis Post-Dispatch re...
...The | general's speech in behalf of the de-| stroyer deal was supposed to have | been a spontaneous outcry by a great...
...Examining these figures and many others like them, the experts on the National Resources Committee decided that "the incomes of a very large part of our population were clearly insufficient to provide a minimum standard of healthful living...
...The Post-1 Dispatch's story on that day said: "When White's attention was called ;o a statement in Gen...
...White was invited by the National Association of Accredited Publicity Directors, Inc., to accept an award for "outstanding service in publicity...
...MacCracken outlines the steps now demanded by the Committee, which in his opinion would "commit us to a definite war policy for which our country is not prepared and which she is not willing to undertake," and urges instead adherence to "the American way of defense...
...White Claimed He Didn't Know f About Pershing's Radio Talk I rpHIS remarkable recital by the man s who has become the nation's num-l her one press agent is all the more re-\ markable because it was only four or \ five months ago that he publicly de-I nied that this committee had anything | to do with Pershing's broadcast...
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Vol. 4 • October 1940 • No. 50
