Put Our Gold To Work
Flynn, John T.
Put Our Gold To Work By John T. Flynn (Noted! Economist and Writer) THERE IS SOMETHING we can do for the world and for ourselves when this war is over, and even sooner, if we wish to begin...
...the other is our own problem with reference to certain essential materials...
...England No Democracy Dear Sirs: "Whereas, The English government which is dominated by the British aristocracy, has persistently refused to make specific statements as to the object and purpose of the war it is waging against Germany, or to make any proposals for a permanent peace at the expiration of the war, and "Whereas, The history of England reveals a determined opposition to Democracy by that government, in evidence of which we cite the following facts: It made desperate attempts to suppress the aspirations of the Thirteen Colonies to establish a democratic government In 1776...
...All we would have to do would be to deprive ourselves of a stock pile of gold which does us more harm than good and which other countries sorely need...
...his radio work has been of tremendous importance and should somehow be continued and increased in amount...
...It is merely a clumsy substitute for a free exchange system...
...When you next watch an . Miner take off note the length of tir.ie required to get that heavy plane moving rapidly...
...The assisted take-off would mean greater safety for airline operations...
...Long runways mean heavy expense...
...Gone With The Wind Dear Sirs: Until the last few months I found it much easier to read the New Republic or Nation rather than The Progressive simply because your paper was harder to handle in a physical way, clumsy, shabby, etc...
...They were put out in short, punchy sentences...
...We could create here literally huge mines of manganese and tin and other alloys as effectively as if we possessed natural mines...
...Apparently Senator La Follette felt that, like his father, he was powerless to stem the tide of events, for he alluded to the similarity of circumstances...
...As compared with the last war the means of hypnotizing the people into mania has one possible weak spot and that is the radio and its ability to get into homes of millions...
...We are a, very rich nation, but there are few things —chiefly metals and some vegetable products—which we have to get from abroad...
...But one problem which vexes the world is gold...
...Aliens should not be permitted to own any of the natural resources in the Unitted States...
...Honest neutrality is the only road to peace...
...With both hands he would run his fingers through his long white locks...
...PLANES BASED ON warships are launched by catapults...
...In fact, a DC3 can land safely on one-half the runway ne"eded for a take-off...
...THIS HE DID IN a very telling way when he alluded to Wendell Willkie's recent statement before the Senate foreign relations committee in which Will-kie agreed that his attack 'n the last campaign on the President's foreign policy was "a bit of campaign oratory...
...I do not think this is as serious for us as it is for the nations that use it...
...England has never done any good for the U. S. and never will if we try to hide behind her army and navy...
...Assume that the airline Douglas DC3 has 1000 horsepower for each engine...
...We have most of the gold...
...Help Planes Take Off By MA J. AL WILLIAMS (Noted Flier) THIS COUNTRY should be putting more effort into development of machinery and technique for the "assisted take-off" of aircraft...
...In addition to taxing the engine, long runways are required...
...That's the limit of safety on use of full-out aircraft engine power...
...hysterically following the insidious suggestions of un-neutral partisans, who demand that we, ourselves, become an aggressor nation and endeavor to invade distant shores, under the same handicaps, crusading on behalf of some slogan or phrase, that neither in the past nor in the present, had or has any foundation in reality...
...I can understand the love of foreign-born citizens for their fatherland, but I cannot understand the attitude of so many Americans who seem to think and act as if this country were the United States of Great Britain...
...Why follow a deceptive leadership that is endangering the success of this great democratic Republic that constitutionally guarantees equal social, religious, educational and economic rights...
...Enclosed is $2 for a year of The Progressive...
...Put Our Gold To Work By John T. Flynn (Noted...
...McDougall Davenport, Wash...
...If these suggestions were put on the statutes Uncle Sam would be worth saluting, and the morale of the citizens would be improved...
...it promised a measure of democracy to the people in consideration of their support during World War No...
...Now, I'm sorry to say, it seems that my laziness must cjase to be catered to, I must renew my subscription to your paper in spite of its being hard to handle, the other papers have gone with the big wind, they're off to war again and merely suggest to the innocent reader, "Hold your hat, here we go again...
...L- G. Leraan Hartford, S. D. The Battle Goes O By James L. Wright ^ (Washington Correspondent of The Milwaukee Journal) STANDING AT THE same desk in the senate chamber where his father stood more than two decades ago and voted against_America entering the World war, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin declared Feb...
...And because is has, certain nations, chiefly Germany, have been driven to barter in international trade...
...Economist and Writer) THERE IS SOMETHING we can do for the world and for ourselves when this war is over, and even sooner, if we wish to begin to think in terras of American interests...
...They were warmakers...
...it refused to grant democratic rights to Canada or the other Colonies until they threatened to break away from the British Empire and establish independent governments...
...The guaranteed horsepower output of American engines means that a given engine can produce the specified power (safely) for just 60 seconds at a time...
...The above resolution was adopted at a regular meeting of the club held on Jan...
...President, this little group of men, who sat...
...To anyone, like the writer, who has seen the two Robert M. La Follettes, each in his turn, vote La*F^lleTte^enior h's convictions, disregarding completely whispered suspicion that he was actuated by pro-German sympathies because Wisconsin has a heavy German population, the picture presented Feb...
...Just as he had methodically prepared important speeches for his father when he was his secretary, the younger La Follette had painstakingly prepared, his own arguments...
...They still stand with him now...
...I hope the Americans will not fall for the same war propaganda that we had in the last war...
...The Wrights and other early fliers all used the catapult method for getting their planes into the air...
...Return to honest money, Lincoln money, Constitutional money...
...Let me quote a passage," he said, "from one of the speeches made by my father in this chamber when the Versailles treaty was under consideration: " 'Mr...
...It seems to me Uncle Sam was a little inconsistent...
...Indeed, when he wanted to send his rapier into an adversary he departed from and amplified his text...
...24 that passage of the Lease-Lend bill will mean that Congress has given the President "the green light for war...
...Previous to this present hysteria, every military authority pointed out the security from invasion that we enjoyed by being blessed with physical isolation from Europe and Asia that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans provide...
...The world has been denuded of gold...
...G. F. Fisher Centuria, Wis...
...MORE FORUM Honest Neutrality Dear Sirs: Let an imaginary invader of propaganda worry about transporting a necessarily huge army, equipment, landing mechanism and enormous supplies, over thousands of miles of ocean, to the unapproachable and unlandable shores of the United States, the most impregnable, quickly mobilizable and best harbor-protected nation in all the world...
...There are other such materials...
...Cowards Fear Invasion Dear Sirs: Please accept my congratulations for the stand Phil La Follette has taken against our involvement in ¦ eign affairs...
...Why was I compelled to take out papers and at the same time permit those English nobles to hog so much land...
...One gained the impression that the continuity of the arguments and their exact wording were so well fixed in the speaker's mind that the manuscript served only as a guide...
...1, but ignored and violated that promise and has continued to rule those people ruthlessly and dictatorially...
...Redestribute the natural resources, limit ownership to individuals and corporations to just what they need...
...Then the American spirit is dead...
...But what we should worry about it...
...WE HAVE ALREADY done something about manganese, creating a stock pile and even encouraging production sources in this continent...
...This thing that we can do grows out of two problems...
...But the oratory of his son is different...
...Ignorance is the world's greatest enemy...
...We had built up a stock pile of manganese which is good for perhaps 15 months...
...AS SOON AS THE airliner reaches cruising altitude the throttle is cut bark to between 50 and 60 per cent of the total power of which the engine is capable...
...To get a DC3 rolling and clear of the 'ground before "running out of airport" it is necessary to open the engines wide and let them roar...
...We started that way, because we just didn't have the power to haul a ship off, unassisted...
...But there was no humdrum reading of them...
...THIS IS OUR problem...
...And if any of these countries had gold they would quickly drop the barter which seems to terrify us so much...
...it assisted Hitler and Mussolini to defeat the democratic government of Spain and set up an autocratic government in its stead...
...One is the world's problem...
...In the light of these historical facts we conclude that the claim of the English government that it is fighting for the preservation of democracy is false and a subterfuge that is designed to cover up a sinister purpose that it dares not reveal...
...Thereby point was given to the old saying, "Like father, like son...
...They cut and slashed the map of the old world in violation of the terms of the armistice...
...Now we do without that way—but at great expense...
...cowards, not red-blooded Americans, fear invasion...
...in secret conclave for months at Versailles, were not peacemakers...
...W. Tobias Butler Brooklyn, N. Y. * * * Likes Our Stand I am sending you $2 to renew wy subscription to your paper...
...On the desk in the second row on the Republican side, one removed from the center aisle, a reading stand had been placed...
...If we were to set about swapping off some of this gold for things like manganese and tin—and some other essentials—we would do ourselves a service and the world, too, for we would get some things we need far more than we need gold, and other nations would get the means of stabilizing and strengthening their financial positions...
...The British report that the Germans are depending upon means other than the aircraft engine to give heavily loaded planes that first push in getting away...
...All arounc we face peacetime reasons for solving this problem of assisted take-offs, and there are emergency reasons for it in wartime...
...The noticeable decrease in engine exhaust noise as soon as these big airliners are "off" is because our carefully trained airline pilots cut down the power just as soon as they get into the air and always long before the 60-second limit expires...
...We no longer produce any very important part of the world's annual gold output, but we do get practically all the gold that is produced...
...The truth is that when the elder La Follette decided he would vote against America's entering the World war, he called his wife and children to his side for a family conference...
...True enough, the Senator of today was standing where his father had stood and quoted words the father spoke in World war times...
...We do this becat o* our favorable trade balance, because this is a safe place for it, and chiefly because of our gold-purchasing plan...
...It seems to me that the Constitution doesn't amount to much when land hogs are permited to own millions of acres depriving millions of people of their right to own land and homes of their own...
...They will soon have the land all corraled like they have in England, unless our legislatures wake up...
...According to the Constitution, 480 was the limit that any one person should be permitted to own...
...Aside from that, they are desperately in need of gold...
...All were of the liberal stamp, all against war, all unique...
...For the Doy who used to be his father's secretary and succeeded him as United States Senator at the time of his death, was carrying on the old battle "to keep America out of the bloody conflicts of Europe...
...BUT THERE WAS a vast difference in the way the " two men drove home their similar arguments...
...Indeed, that is what he had wanted to be as a young man, and was heartbroken when he found he was too short of stature to play Hamlet...
...The family stood with him then...
...He told them all, "Young Bob" among them, that he was about to do an unpopular thing...
...24 had a dramatic appeal...
...I need mention merely two—tin and manganese...
...Phil La Follette must continue to carij on as he has been doing...
...The elder La Follette, white of hair, ruddy of face, stood in the center aisle of the senate chamber, pouring out his words, shoving Senate chairs against the desks to give emphasis to his actions...
...The more conservative the airline the nearer the 50 per cent mark the engines are operated...
...His was the oratory of a Shakespearean actor...
...The statement: "You cannpt serve two masters," still retains its valuable advice...
...One hundred-sixty acres homestead, 160 preemption and 160 acres timber claim...
...Therefore, The San Diego democratic club opposes any further assistance to Great Britain until that government announces in specific terms the objects and purposes for which it is waging this present war, and for specific terms of a permanent peace that it will advocate at the expiration of the war...
...With the plane boosted up to and far above flying speed, the engines or engine (in case of failure of one) could easily haul the ship around for a landing...
...I came to the United States in 1880 and I took up a preemption, but 'I was compelled to take out citizenship papers before I could file on same...
...27, 1941...
...Conscience-guilty accusers now cause fear of invasion...
...There were both parallels and contradictions...
...Frank Simpson San Diege, Calif...
...Long ground runs and severe stresses are still tearing the hearts out of our engines duri-ig the take-offs of big planes...
...How can we involve our nation by taking sides in the endless conflicts of Europe, without weakening the solidarity of our citizenship, our friends and neighbors, and often our own mixed-blood relatives...
...The English shyster makes a goat of Uncle Sam...
...But these are purely temporary and crisis arrangemenst...
...The Germans are using assisted take-offs for their routine bomber operations, and that is still a dream here, where the airplane was invented...
...Standing there, the present Senator La Follette read from a manuscript...
...Uncle Sam Inconsistent Dear Sirs: I'have .the names of 27 English aristocrats that owned 5,848,748 acres of land in these United States, 216,600 acres each, on an average, and they were not citizens...
...it advised and encouraged Hitler to overrun Czechoslovakia and crush their democracy...
...Some of them are quite small in amount but very important in manufacture, such as certain metallic alloys...
...I am very pleased to see the stand you take against the war...
...True enough, the son was saying in his own right words what his father would have been glad to approve...
...John A. Bergstrom Chicago, 111...
...Past history is r pie evidence of our error in 1917, and Churchill substantiated it when he stated "that had we stayed at home and minded our own business, the present conditions would not exist...
...Then, fearing the wrath of' outraged peoples, they made a League of Nations to stand over the swag...
Vol. 5 • March 1941 • No. 10
