IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Bowen Cites Value Of Cooperatives In Distressed Areas Adult education and cooperative organization are "two basic steps America must take," E. R. Bowen, general...
...Records of the state bureau of personnel showed that a radical departure from usual civil service regulations was ordered in the case of Mrs...
...Heil's was exposed this week by Aldric Revell, capitol reporter for the Madison Capitol Times...
...War cannot long be a substitute for domestic prosperity," is the farm leader's foremost point...
...Moreover, even with the very high experience rating, Mrs...
...Italy's Albanian Harbors Remain Crucial Factor AS FOR THE SITUATION in Greece, it is discouraging to learn that Italian transports have twice landed fresh troops at Durazzo, Albania, in spite of a heavy bombing which the English say they have given to that port...
...Thus, the Italian army in Libya, which has been threatening Egypt and is said to number between 250,000 and 300,000 men, must be maintained and provisioned from Italy...
...Home Prosperity Way To Peace, Co-op Head Says FORCES which make for domestic security "are the only real safeguards to future world peace/' Perry L. Green, president of the Ohio Farm Bureau federation, declares in the current issue of the Ohio co-op's monthly News...
...The national humiliation of that he is bound to put off until the last moment...
...In a recent address before the Vermont Farm Bureau, Warbasse claimed that one- sixth of all farm supplies are now purchased through consumer cooperatives...
...They include gold, copper, lead, nickel, platinum, silver, zinc, coal, natural gas, gypsum, and petroleum...
...It not only brings the British airfleet much nearer to Naples and other Italian targets, but it makes possible the easy bombing of the four harbors in Albania which the Italians, must use in order to land reinforcements for their embattled and' disorganized army...
...Still, all the lying that the Italian press is now doing about the war in Albania will not prevent the truth from trickling into Italy and passing from mouth to mouth...
...An economy geared to -war and leading to participation in war cannot solve the grave domestic problems which have confronted America for the last decade...
...Klode is a close personal friend of Got...
...Of course the Italians have piled up masses of supplies in Libya during the nearly six months since the war began...
...Americans do not realize the importance of proper harbor facilities for the landing of a modern army—there are only three ports on the Atlantic coast at which an enemy could land a large force...
...Nichols was given the highest rating for experience by a bureau clerk i'n spite of the fact that she had held no job of any kind for ; 20 years, according to her own ap, plication blank...
...Nichols soared from the bot' torn to nearly the top of the list...
...And Mussolini will not invite Hitler into the conflict against Greece until he is absolutely desperate...
...IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Bowen Cites Value Of Cooperatives In Distressed Areas Adult education and cooperative organization are "two basic steps America must take," E. R. Bowen, general secretary of The Cooperative League of the U. S. A., told the Kentucky Conference of Social Workers in Lexington at its recent annual meeting...
...Wagner Seeks Extensions Of Security Law Extension of social security benefits to millions of Americans not now safeguarded will be sought by Sen...
...Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, has introduced a bill requiring labor in defense industries to file a SO-day notice to employers and the Secretary of Labor of intention to strike...
...By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD...
...But the army must live on those supplies...
...In addition, unemployment insurance would be provided for about 5,000,000 more workers, including those employed—in-establishments having fewer than eight employes...
...Robert F. Wagner, New York Democrat, when the next session of congress convenes, he revealed recently...
...If such a commission is deemed inadvisable by the United States government, I do not see how the administration can avoid the responsibility for projecting some alternative method of making known the facts which are pertinent to our foreign relief policy...
...The fact that an important action has been fought by the English and Italian ships off Sardinia is proof that some of the ships that were at Taranto were seeking a new base on the other side of Italy probably at Spezia...
...The youth groups assailed suppression of civil liberties, and award of government contracts to anti-labor firms and termed peacetime conscription a "compromise of democracy...
...Green concludes his plea for "greater social responsibility" among these groups in the domestic field and less emphasis on a war economy with, "God forbid that we in America shall go any farther than we have along that road to war...
...Co-ops Are Checking Farm Tenancy And Debt, Warbasse Says Dr...
...Wagner's proposal would apply the «old age insurance program to 10,000,000 agricultural workers, 2,500,000 domestic servants, 750,-000 employes of non-profit institutions, and 1,500,000 employes of state, counties, and municipalities...
...Records Expose GOP Distortion Of Civil Service ASPECTACULAR instance of civil service manipulation to provide a job for a relative of Gov...
...Canadian mineral riches, as yet' hardly touched, are vast...
...Is Italy Cracking...
...For the first time in the history of the state only 20 per cent was | given for the written exam, 30 per cent for the oral test, and 50 per cent for the experience rating . Although she received the lowest grade in the written exam, Mrs...
...The daily cost of carrying on the war has risen steadily, Wood disclosed...
...Only with the dependable facts which such a commission could secure can we formulate an overall overseas relief policy consistent with our foreign relations and broad enough to comprehend both public and private action," Way-bright declared...
...We shall not have a clear conception of our international relations until we have a trustworthy formula to follow in the field of overseas relief...
...The duty of part time officers will be to report for sick call at a fixed hour each day and to be subject to emergency call at .j,il times, the commission explained...
...Seeks Ban A poll tax state congressman, Rep...
...Naturally the English army in Egypt must be longing to engage the Italian forces...
...War Socks Britain $36,400,000A Day Europe's war, the most costly |he world has ever known, is costing Great Britain an average of $36,400,000 a day, Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of the exchequer, revealed this week...
...Naval Action Threatens Italian Army In Libya EVEN IF SOME OP THEIR cruisers have been crippled by the Italians, the English sea position in the Mediterranean is now enormously improved, for other reasons than th«se already stated...
...The extraordinary success of the Greeks in driving the Italian invaders out of their territory and pushing on into Albania, the steady nibbling away of the Italian fleet by the British navy, the bogging down of the Italian offensives in Nor-, thern Africa, and above all the advantage gained by the British in having the Greeks as their allies and thus being able to land on Crete—all of these things are very serious blows to Mussolini's ambitions and prestige...
...IT DOES NOT DO TO be over-optimistic in regard to Italy, but there are many signs that Italy is in distress, so much'so that one can understand the earnest appeals in Parliament and in the British press that a knockout blow be given to Mussolini at once...
...Grace Harrington Nichols, mother-in-law of Joseph H. Heil, the governor's son, received the position of assistant superintendent of the Milwaukee Industrial School for Girls despite the fact that she tinnkcd the written examination badly, receiving a grade of only 46.31...
...In urging the conference delegates to set up study groups and co-ops in their local communities, Bowen cited successful results of different types of cooperatives...
...Strategic Value Of British Fleet's Better Position ALREADY THE NEW strategic position of the English fleet has led to the attack upon Taranto, the injuring of several Italian capital ships and cruisers, and what is more important, the driving out of the fleet from that important harbor so necessary for the control of the Adriatic Sea...
...A. J. Opstedal, I bureau director, who holds his position at the pleasure of Gov...
...Criticizing recent administration steps the letter warned that "the policy of all aid 'short of war' is fraught with danger and reminiscent of our entrance into the last European war...
...Of course if England had lots more ships and many more airplanes Churchill would unquestionably order a grand attack on all Italian fronts in the expectation of inflicting one smashing blow after the other upon the Duce's forces . Probably, however, in order to get airplanes for aiding the Greeks, the English have had to draw them from t-heir none too large air-fleet in Egypt...
...Heil, ordered an experience rating given each candidate, with the result that Mrs...
...The Tast named is probably the most important...
...On the other hand Mussolini may now be counted upon to move heaven and earth to redeem his prestige...
...Disclosures showed that Mrs...
...Indeed, Crete is a wonderful gift to the English—so great that one wonders how in the world Mussolini thought it worth while to risk this seizure...
...But it would plainly be a great military blunder to risk defeat if the same end could be achieved by gradually starving the Italians out, or making them attack across fhe terrible Libyan desert...
...We shall not know how hungry Europe is, or what, if anything we can do about it, until we have adequate first hand information...
...So it is best not to assume that Italy is very near the end...
...The British claim to have sunk from time to time a number of supply ships and have certainly destroyed a number of Italian submarines, some of them while patrolling this line of communication...
...Hell's...
...there is nothing to be obtained in Libya...
...17 Youth Groups Ask FDR Keep Us Out Of War Seven national pro-democratic, anti-totalitarian youth organizations, representing millions of members, in a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urged the President to keep America out of war, to preserve our social gains, and to solve domestic problems...
...Nichols finished third in the competition for the job, but Frank Klode, director of the welfare department which, does the hiring, , did not even bother to interview the candidates finishing first and second...
...Organizations signing the letter are the Fellowship of Reconciliation (youth section), National Council of Methodist Youth, Progressive Students League, Student Peace Service of the American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League (youth section), Youth People's Socialist League, and Youth Committee Against War...
...In a war economy, Green emphasizes, "an outside enemy" is always being dug up to fight so as "to detract the people's attention from their real problem-1—that of internal domestic insecurity...
...He said that cooperative work in Nova Scotia has taken "scores" of communities off the relief rolls and that co-ops had helped eliminate unemployment in Finland, poverty in Sweden, and farm tenancy in Denmark...
...Your leadership can mean either peace or war," the youth groups wrote...
...Now with the Italian fleet more than ever in hiding and avoiding a genuine stand-up fight, the opportunity of the British fleet to cut off the Libyan army from its home supplies must be most tempting...
...James P. Warbasse, president of The Cooperative League of the U. S. A., believes that farmers, through farm cooperatives, are carrying on the most,, important work in America to stop the trend toward debt and tenancy...
...If only the British air force and fleet could wreck the Albanian harbors completely, not even Marshal Bagdolio's brilliant talents could rescue his army...
...Army Seeks Part Time Civilian Medical Officers Physicians are urged by the U. S. Civil Service Commission to apply immediately for information concerning the army's need for about 600 civilian medical officers in various grades for temporary and part time service...
...it is admitted that the British technical troops and some fighting units that have been landed in Greece have come from the Egyptian front...
...Their inborn contempt for them as fighters must have been very much strengthened by the Greek victories...
...The greatest number of our people want peace...
...Prom Crete the English can proceed to take the Dodecanese islands which lie between the former and the Turkish coast...
...It is profoundly heartening that things are going as well for England as they are, and that the Greeks have so immortalized themselves...
...Only ultimate procedure that will preserve democracy and eliminate wars, in Green's opinion, is joint action by agriculture, labor and industry "on the basis of the social needs of the people...
...Our national defense begins on the domes* tic front...
...It must not be forgotten, however, that nations can and do hold out a long while with their backs to the wall, and that even if Mussolini should lose his army In Albania and all his farces in Africa he could still go on fighting for just as long as his home supplies of food and raw materials would permit him to do so...
...Editor Urges Study Of Food Needs Abroad Appointment of a representative ' American commission to make a first-hand survey of food, shelter, [ and housing conditions in war-< battered Europe is urged in the December issue of Survey Graphic | by its managing editor, Victor I Woybright...
...Nichols...
...The farmer's recognition of himself as a consumer and his union with his neighbors to supply their needs without paying tribute to anybody is the revolution in American agriculture now in operation," Warbasse said...
...even if the French should allow supplies to come through Tunis it would be a long and difficult haul to get materials to the army...
...There is no question that the food situation in Italy grows more gerious every day and that it will he much intensified if the British fleet is now practically in control of the Mediterranean...
...During the first year of the current war, .Britain's expenditures averaged $21,200,008 a day...
Vol. 4 • October 1940 • No. 50
