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. . .THE PEOPLE'S FORUM. . . Clarity And Charity Dear Sirs: The world has never known a .more Christian statesman than Abraham Lincoln. And the world was never in greater need of Christian...
...Wagner is the nearest thing we in the East have to a La Follette...
...Dear Sirs: It puzzles one at times how The Progressive manages to maintain circulation enough to exist in the face of the vast numbers cancelling subscriptions because some writer criticizes something about their pet country or ism abroad...
...Churchill's recent statements bring out a fact that Herman Melville knew and stated so adequately: "There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men...
...The journalists grind out their quota ad nauseum...
...There is just one remedy: Return the people's land value (which is socially produced by the public) to them by collecting the full rent on land and its natural resources for the public treasury and welfare...
...If so it will be a Great Day...
...that it is an utter impossibility to establish international justice, democracy, unity and peace by force...
...Mayer's brother Jews, let him read the Sept...
...It is interesting to find that Harry Barnes, who is so passionate a defender and user of the right to criticize the government in America, is so strong a supporter of shooting critics in Russia...
...Ada McConnell Cedar City, Utah * * * Cover To Cover Dear Sirs: We are glad that there is at least one paper in America which tells f 3 truth...
...Waste Of Advertising Dear Sirs: Just a pat on the back to Milton Mayer for his answer in the Sept...
...Look at most of our newspapers which got us into this war for freedom of expression and you'll find they mean freedom for only the owner's expression...
...The Monkey Debate It appears to me that J. C. Pew-ther in the Forum of Sept...
...Milton Mayer should now feel very flattered...
...And under the leadership of that Lincoln, not only Americans but free men everywhere can write to demand a Lincoln peace plan, a plan dictated by malice toward no people, but by charity toward all peoples...
...Is liberty for Dr...
...As well attempt to make an empty sack stand upright...
...If this sensitive class continues to increase, likely in time it will become unsafe to be pro-American...
...Mrs...
...2Unlike Dr...
...My personal suggestion for the fulfillment of the objectives of that program would be to have officers of high rank with a passionate desire to see democracy work...
...Now the people here are getting more, but still watch the garbage can...
...Robert F. Wagner painted a fine picture of the "lock" of security for the people of the U. S. A., but forgot the "key" to unlock this abundance, which consists of the use of constitutional money in place of the counterfeit of private bankers which spawns misery and war...
...Dear Sirs: For a long time I have been want-ting to write regarding my approval and appreciation of Milton Mayer and Ernest L. Meyer...
...Will we see J. Edgar Hoover running down columnists (5th and otherwise) ? Will we read of irate judges sentencing people to prison who dared to intimate their allegiance was to America and its Constitution only...
...he is alleged to have replied : "Heavens, no...
...The charity of lovers of Lincoln—and they are legion wherever there is love of peace, liberty, and justice — today can write a peace, to wljich future generations can look as the beginning of a truly Christian era, an era of peace on earth, of good will toward man...
...Pro-Americanism or pro-Jeffersonianism appears to be nearly as extinct as the bison...
...If I did the Germans would accept immediately...
...The next few years will depict clearly even to historian Barnes the fruit of such a tree...
...It is because of their corner on the most valuable land sites and natural resources that they are able to, and do, exploit to the limit the rest of humanity, and one-third or more of the population is always ill-housed, ill-clothed and ill-fed...
...Iowa City, la...
...More power to both of them...
...Still he always believed that Heaven (Tien) is above all men and is concerned for their welfare...
...I also think it is a great mistake of Lin Yutang to stress the value of the teachings of Laotse over those of Confucius...
...Pvt...
...Thomas vs...
...As a people we do not want to prolong bloodshed on this demoniacal scale when it might be terminated by a negotiated peace...
...Madeline C. Church Point Loma, Calif...
...Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, Freedom from...
...He springs from the ancient and honorable line that includes Hosea, Micah, and Amos...
...Tacoma, Wash...
...Wagner's article on postwar security is the sort of thing that makes us New Yorkers proud of our Senator...
...F. E. Spicer Abilene, Kan...
...Our differences, and they are very important, will appear from the statement of my position on the present controversy...
...Mrs...
...Truman on "Advertising...
...Mr...
...A Point For Each Dear Sirs: Relative to the subject of our relationship to the Simian tribe: Harry Elmer Barnes scored a pointy a good one too, in showing up the silly, human trait of falling for the excitement of war...
...The only excuse that I can see for it is to introduce the public to new discoveries or inventions, but then it should be education, not advertising...
...the name of your paper was also included in this vermin publication...
...Ben R. Brainard Los Angeles, Calif...
...Barnes is posted on socialism, he would not consider Russia a socialist nation...
...And, as a people, we do not want to see slaughtered thousands more of our boys and we do not wish to further jeopardize our democratic civilization by greater debt and war exhaustion if a negotiated peace can be enacted...
...Norman Thomas New York, N. Y. Russia And Socialism Dear Sirs: I would like to correct a statement of one of your contributors, C. E. Robel of Lewiston, Idaho...
...A Long Way To Go' Dear Sirs: The section of "The Last Column" of Sept...
...J. G. Thurman Phoenix, Ariz...
...A socialist society need not have absolute equality of income, but it ought not to have, even in its army, inequalities so much greater than those that exist in the United States...
...Though a contemporary of Confucius, Laotse is a shadowy figure in Chinese history while that of Confucius stands out in bold relief...
...During that 48 months, destruction, devastation, and ruin have swept back and forth over vast areas, causing desolation and woe upon a scale that beggars description...
...But a third man comes, a land taker, holder, and owner...
...By that I mean the program is left to the individual commanding officers, and passed on to indifferent or junior officers of limited perspective...
...According to Laotse, nothing in life really matters...
...He was a stickler for rules...
...S. C. Franklin Sadler, Tex...
...Churchill, "Will you offer peace terms to Germany...
...Now in his need he had to resort to a garbage can, his government being too poor to aid him...
...He has been both praised and blamed for being practical rather than spiritual...
...Milton Mayer showed up the fallacy of the Darwinian theory in so far as its relation to the essentials of life and living are concerned...
...So far it is free and fair cooperation, neither one being able to exploit the other since either is still free to return to work by himself, as originally, if he is not satisfied and prefers to...
...Robel belongs to...
...The government expects to put the ceiling at 200 billions of dollars . . . which is cheap for the security of those yet unborn . . . Did you ever see fear in the eyes of a child, my friends...
...We intend to erase that fear, my friends, from the eyes of those yet unborn...
...That is the situation in our United States and all of the other exploited countries, though the big land monopolists behind our governments are generally also capitalists (owners of buildings, machines, etc...
...Frank D. Slocum New York, N. Y. * * * People's Land Value Dear Sirs: A man goes to an uninhabited island, rich with fruits, nuts, vegetables, etc...
...Marjorie Brown San Diego, Calif...
...But, while we enact laws to compel laborers to work when, and on whatever terms somebody else demands, we humbly submit to the dictates of organized business tycoons...
...13 has had the really last word in the Mayer-Barnes debate as to men and monkeys...
...Ye gods and little fishes, what is there so civilizing and progressive about war, the greatest and most unpardonable of all crimes against humanity...
...Though neither he nor anyone else ever produced any of the land he is supposed actually and honestly to own it because he has a legal deed to it from his government to prove it...
...Today, Milton Mayer keeps us alive with words edged with irony and compassion...
...Mayer's articles definitely belong in this grade of paper and not in as fine a publication as The Progressive...
...Controversial subjects" include the war itself...
...In commenting on an article by Mr...
...sometimes he was pharasaical...
...Finally the government compromised and handed him $15 a month, which they thought was a little better than garbage, and the state made it up to $30 a month, but took all his property and insulted him in the bargain...
...A, Hq...
...Scores of less conspicuous Polish and Jewish Socialists had earlier been shot when Stalin took ever his part of Poland...
...These savage, sadistic words seem to have their roots in Nero's time instead of our Atlantic Charter epoch...
...A prophet is not one who speaks out of the emptiness of the heavens...
...Carl Jawurek Los Angeles, Calif...
...Does latitude and longitude make all that difference...
...If there is any question about what Mr...
...That's the kind of character building we need...
...An old man looks speculatively into a garbage can...
...At a time when terms are unconditional surrender, it is only right that the peoples at war with us should know to what they are unconditionally surrendering —whether to imperialist ambitions for power of privileged groups, or to human aspirations for peace of the common man in all lands...
...Charles D. Egley Mgr...
...And only the one who has a mandate from Heaven should rule...
...13 entitled "Bayonets and Ideas" certainly struck the highest level of constructive criticism any newspaper fan has yet displayed of our Orientation Program vithin the armed forces...
...When are the different governments of the earth going to learn a very much needed lesson—that wars are always an aggravation...
...Will we behold mobs lynch persons bold enough to say a word in favor of the objective truth...
...On the part of the West this cannot be done without a better understanding of the life of the East as reflected in the history and literature of the Eastern people...
...Barnes for his enlightening articles on the Soviet Union...
...Stalin's power has been mainly built on physical and character assassination, coupled with "Trojan horse" conspiracy, carried past all boundary lines, and directed principally against Socialists...
...But that peace must be written now...
...Bessie Maxson Ojai, Calif...
...The Sept...
...Mrs...
...Thomas P. Christensen 313 Ronalds St...
...Porter, with a thoroughly befuddled brain, draws a parallel between the slaughtering of human beings and war against disease and war against poverty...
...Criticizes Lin Yutang Dear Sirs: Lin Yutang is to be commended for giving us specimens of the literature and history of India and China in his large volume, The Wisdom Of India And China, reviewed by Prof...
...Barnes has seen fit to discuss Stalin in Russia in terms to so many references of myself, and since I am a Socialist and as I i nderstand it, Max Eastman no longer considers himself a Socialist, I think I should be permitted space for a brief statement...
...Surely it is a queer sort of socialist society in which Rickenbacker, the labor baiter in America, can be so indiscriminately enthusiastic over its labor policy...
...To wait, as Fred Rodell feels we must, until 1948 for a chance to form another party seems to me to wait until serfdom will be impossible to break and we will not be able to vote in 1944 for either candidate of the old parties...
...Mamie Schellenberg Arkansas City, Kan...
...I have noticed in the People's Forum letters of subscription cancellations and anger over what this or the other one said...
...A great deal of the future depends upon a fair and accurate understanding of ¦what socialism really means and •what Stalin has really done and left undone...
...During the last war, Romain Rolland in Geneva spoke the burning thoughts, while Gene Debs, sitting in prison, drew the warm gratitude of thousands of minds...
...Dorothy Gorsentino 326 W. 33rd St...
...Max Otto in the Aug...
...Childish Comparison' In your September 27 issue Mr...
...These mental hold-up men will immediately bomb, starve, or hang anybody with a free mind...
...Certainly, advertising is almost 100 per cent economic waste...
...So don't be overly concerned about anything, least of all the dry bones of your dead ancestors...
...An organization here, t. :ause of the abject poverty of the state's senior citizens, has a plan where it will bury you for two dollars...
...But, since Dr...
...If he is himself posted on socialism, then I suggest he get better posted about Russia and its wonderful accomplishments since the criminal Czarist days of old...
...This does not imply that the writer does not see good in other systems, nor that he is a rabid 100 per center who can see no great wrong in America sorely needing correction...
...Now the worker and capitalist must pay the land owner all he demands for the privilege of living on and from tho land...
...Mayer has indeed done himself proud and has finally achieved the award of the "Iron Cross" from one of the native Fascists...
...9 issue, entitled "Realism On Russia," Mr...
...Stalin's message to Hitler that "our friendship is cemented in blood" was far more than rhetoric...
...To us this reply savors of a revengeful heart instead of reflecting a comprehension enlarged by an Atlantic Charter consciousness...
...He was released, was actively supporting the allied cause, was re-arrested, and shot...
...Give us a chance to express our views...
...A prophet is he who looks at the facts of human existence and draws conclusions therefrom...
...In other words "business" had monopolized just about everything required for defense production...
...It is not only right to them but to us that this most destructive of wars should not continue one day after its objective is attained...
...Buddha has justly been termed the "Light of Asia...
...9 Progressive...
...De Aryan thinks of Mr...
...Mike Ackerman Minneapolis, Minn...
...To these men I say, "Get in there, boys, and keep pitching...
...See that our lawmakers do it...
...Everytime I do so my heart quails within me...
...Both work together and get the full increased product of their labor, each according to his worth as agreed upon between themselves, one managing the work, the other using the tools...
...I don't know just what brand of socialism Mr...
...Also, let us hope that Mr...
...Wagner Sen...
...In the mind that can discriminate and associate, facts are the raw material for convictions...
...Then The Progressive will have to shut up shop...
...It is true that Confucius over-emphasized the importance of the past and of social theory...
...there is a Lincoln in the heart of every true American...
...Churchill's that shocked our beneficent Atlantic Charter-educated minds was when he proclaimed that Italy would be "seared, scorched, and burned" unless she surrendered immediately...
...Barnes and I do not differ in our high esteem of the Russian people and their future and in our hope of some reasonable understanding ¦with Russia concerning the nature of the peace...
...It is unfortunate tha...
...Certainly there can be no disputing the fact that the wise guys have been making monkeys of the rest of us and will continue to do so as long "as we stand for it...
...Many of the elder persons are taking advantage of this plan...
...We are fighting for freedom of speech, but to a lot of people this means just their own kind of palaver...
...6th issue of the indicted seditionist, Leon De Aryan's paper, titled the Broom carried a reprint of Mr...
...If Milton Mayer and other contributors will continue with articles of this kind, I am sure there is hope that in time the public will be able to understand the rottenness of our economic system, and make the proper adjustments that will lead to the enjoyment of abundance by all, made possible by science and invention, and no longer suffer due to an economy based on scarcity...
...That is, providing these ideals are as attractive as those abroad and have the magic to charm the allegiance of those who flare up when some writer fails to toss bouquets in the direction of some person or system abroad...
...Peterson, asked Mr...
...Fritz Gannon San Jose, Calif...
...The proceedings were secret as usual in such cases in Russia...
...Los Angeles 7, Calif...
...Barnes so completely relative a thing, something to be enjoyed only by those who agree with him — and Stalin...
...It is our only security that lives dearest to us shall not be sacrificed for any other purpose than the single one for which we entered this war — the preservation of our republic and the principles for which it stands—liberty and justice for all peoples, imperial privileges for none...
...It can be noticed by the observer that these articles are impartial and impersonal because they include all people, parties, nations, and organizations...
...in fact, have received punishment for suggesting and in one instance even sent to see a psychiatrist, who since then has given me an "above officer caliber" rating for OCS...
...Churchill shall not become isolated in pride and vengeance, but that he shall become the leader in his great humane act—a negotiated peace...
...He was first arrested when Stalin's Army occupied eastern Poland...
...Yes, "We have a long way to go in this country...
...The time has come when we in the West must cooperate more intelligently with the peoples of the East...
...I don't know how old Mr...
...Now Milton Mayer is a prophet: not, as he modestly claims, a rabbi...
...We are not deceived about who'is doing the dictating...
...The Lesson To Learn Four years have erapsed since the curtain rose on the most awful, soul-harrowing tragedy ever staged on this mundane sphere — World War II—and the end thereof is not yet in sight...
...We must not complain," he says...
...Contrary to this, Confucius taught that effort does count...
...And yet I hear misguided "intellectuals" prate about wars being essential in the building up of civilization and the speeding up of human progress...
...1Stalin's quasi alliance with « Hitler was not necessary to save Russia...
...ASTU 3930 University of Oregon Eugene, Ore...
...Another man comes, a man with tools to use and rent, a capitalist...
...It seems to me this war has revealed all too many minds of the latter kind...
...Not one of them was sabotaging Stalin, but he dislikes even potential critics who may appeal to the masses...
...Will we wake up some day to find it a crime to be wanting in ardent love for some foreign nation, or politician...
...Alfred L. Fisher Portland, Me...
...And the world was never in greater need of Christian statesmanship than at this most critical time...
...F. G. Mead Washington, D. C. * * * Stalin's Power Dear Sirs: As a complete supporter of the Stalinist regime, Harry Elmer Barnes is admirably consistent in stating that if he were Stalin and could get his hands on Norman Thomas, he would "lose no time in backing him up against a concrete wall and perforating him liberally...
...And when "business refuses to work, except on terms which it dictates,"—that is when "business" goes on strike as the miners did...
...Barnes, I knew « Ehrlich well...
...He simply helps himself to all he wants...
...Courage Is Needed Dear Sirs: Since your paper has shown how both old parties offer us no constructive program for post-war peace and the futility of expecting anything from either in 1944, what have progressives and liberals to offer us...
...31 do not think that Russia is t becoming the kind of private capitalist country that Capt...
...This is the most childish comparison I have ever seen...
...but realism and carrying the program out are ignored...
...And the Department of Commerce is reported to have recently estimated that corporate profits for the first quarter of this year are 43 per cent higher than in 1941...
...The Chinese poet Po Chii-I (772-841 A. D.), in the writer's opinion, might prop-e y have been termed in his time the first gentleman of the world...
...Mayer's article which recently appeared in your paper, titled "Unconditional Surrender Of What...
...Let us hope that in this epoch man can conquer this madness and redeem himself somewhat by negotiating a peace...
...Robel says that if Mr...
...Came the war, not the dawn...
...There a»e none, to my knowledge, who are beyond reproach and who can't stand a little criticism...
...Hence it is easy indeed to see that, when it comes to being a dictator, "business" out-Lewises John L. by a "whole city block...
...In a day when corruption has reached such proportions that honest people merely shrug at it, when no one dares speak such words as truth and beauty and compassion, we need prophets...
...Edward M. Porter takes issue with Dr...
...Even as rhetoric, it was a ghastly utterance for any sort of a Socialist or for a successor to Lenin...
...our midst...
...Porter is but my guess is that he is 11, going on 12...
...The Chinese have properly honored Confucius above all others of their leaders...
...Congratulates Barnes Dear Sirs: I. want to congratulate Prof...
...In several camps I have tried to originate such programs without any success...
...The„ malice of enemies of Lincoln, at the end of the Civil War, wrote a peace, from the evil effects of which this country has not yet recovered...
...If those whose hyphenated allegiance is to government beyond the oceans would only study the true old fashioned philosophy of America, not as taught by crack-pots or capitalists, but by teachers of the Jefferson type, perhaps real democracy could be realized here...
...When the Milton Mayers and the Ernest L. Meyers become mute, then indeed will I lose faith in the survival of this civilization...
...My greatest respect for your courage of expression and your People's Forum...
...27 issue of your very good paper to a previous article published therein written by Sen...
...Mayer 8C The Vermin Press Dear Sirs: Mr...
...They say a lot of things that need to be said...
...Muzzy Chesy Co...
...It is good to see him in my favorite magazine...
...This man was in his 70's, and had worked hard and paid taxes and supported a large family all his life long...
...We were very much in need of his message to assuage our dismayed spirits...
...After 14 months of application for OCS, I'm still as far as a private...
...Park Ave...
...But, says this Committee, "Business refuses to work, except on terms which it dictates...
...But he was not a blind worshipper of the past...
...But Lin Yutang for some reason does not even mention this poet...
...It is to be fervently hoped that Nth Freedom, the Gibraltar of this Foreign-Sympathy-Ism-Group, will be permitted, to-wit: The right to cancel one's subscription to any paper which occasionally carries something one does not like...
...What we need are fewer journalists and more prophets...
...Sir, I can write this in all sincerity and without the normal feelings of frustration, that anyone taking this war seriously with the postwar problems in mind, will in the Army, find himself at odds with his comrades . . . and that includes officers, with few exceptions...
...This is a land of free speech, and our freedom should make us broader and more universal, but instead there is evidence of a narrow-mindedness which completely misses the point of what has been said...
...They happen to be the truth, and to speak the truth is no "sin against the Holy Ghost," but a necessity for correctly shaping our own future...
...Recently we had been disturbed by the news that when the NBC reporter in London, Mr...
...Barnes in the Aug...
...Not the calm and patient conclusions of the honest historian, but burning convictions that will not let him sleep, that call upon him to scourge injustice and corruption, and lash the human soul toward the end for which it is destined...
...The Four Freedoms...
...Where there is no vision, the people perish...
...This Committee found, "It [business] controls the natural resources, the liquid assets, the strategic position of the country's economic structure, and its technical equipment and knowledge of processes...
...which was such a persuasive plea for a negotiated peace, fell right into the hearts of the American people...
...Nor does he mention the first systematic Chinese philosophers, Chen-tee and Chu Hi, who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries of our era...
...Another proclamation of Mr...
...Tht first is conspicuous by its absence in our administrative war policy today...
...Paul, Minn...
...E. E. Coleman Grand Rapids, Mich...
...We very accommodatingly place hundreds of its henchmen in places of authority, as $l-a-year men, so that it will be no trouble for "business" to dictate terms...
...The Real Dictator Dear Sirs: After making extensive investigations concerning the attitute of "business" toward the war and the government, the Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC) found that the government and the public were at a great disadvantage when it comes to dealing with "business" in time of war or other crisis...
...I am making a scrapbook of the articles of these two men and when my son reaches an age of understanding, I will present it to him with the words, "When you become confused regarding human values and on what really counts regarding our actions toward our fellow man, spend a few minutes now and then with these two exponents of human justice and your course will not go wrong...
...Mrs...
...Is Americanism A Crime...
...Pour it on every prejudiced, biased, bigoted one of us...
...Mayer As Prophet Facts can be one man's liberation and another man's chains...
...It has a totalitarian state capitalism...
...Freedom Of Expression Do: Sirs: When I read in the Forum of a person cancelling his subscription because he doesn't agree with some of the views of your columnists, I'm amazed at the amount of narrow minded and hypocritical people i...
...He was intensely anti-Nazi and pro-Russian to the extent of recruiting Poles and Jews for Russian service...
...Farmers Union Livestock Commission So...
...Call the new party anything you will, just so long as it does the job...
...Churchill And Nero Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's article, "Unconditional Surrender Of What...
...Eddie Rickenbacker thinks...
...C. B. Goering Newton, Kan...
...John Haynes Holmes because the latter does not believe that war and Christianity can have anything in common...
...It was an eloquent and humane piece of reasoning...
...With all my heart, I wish the facts were otherwise...
...We seem to have all kinds of pro-some country or ism beyond the seas among our people...
...For there is no dawn in California for the aged, unless you call the grave the dawn...
...Jesus lived in such a day and died for his convictions...
...Barnes' 'Twaddle' Dear Sirs: Harry Elmer Barnes' twaddle on Red Russia is unworthy of the columns of so distinguished and truthful a publication as The Progressive...
...There ought to be a law that a newspaper in a democratic country should have a page for the people's voice...
...Key' To Security Dear Sirs: Sen...
...He quickened the thought of all the Far Eastern countries...
...And it is a queer sort of Socialist government which finds the satisfaction Stalin is reported to have found in the elevation of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Trust, to a position of policy maker for the post-war world...
...the unimaginative mind too often chews down incredible quantities of factual material and spews it out again, unrelated even to his previous arduous conclusions...
...He finds he does not need to be exploited by anybody to have a chance to live...
...Need Third Party Dear Sirs: There is urgent need for a third party for those who cannot longer vote for one of the two old parties...
...And by Christian statesmanship, I mean clarity of head, directed by charity of heart...
...Well, if I understand socialism, and I understand Russia, they are both the same—a plan of plenty, all things socially used are socially owned...
...Frank Potocnik Owen, Wis...
...Two hundred billions of dollars is cheap to make a world safe for those yet unborn, and to keep fear from the eyes of our children . . ." Ned Mauston Los Angeles, Calif...
...I think both of Mr...
...The second is hidden in a cloud of vague objectives, full of promise to all peoples, empty of j.?rformance to anyone...
...Controversy on that subject doesn't prevent us from entering the war nor will it prevent us from talking about it...
...All we need is the courage of Bob La Follette, Sr., and not ask if we will be able to get the votes...
...We have an excellent program outlined that includes discussion groups...
...it gave Hitler the green light he needed for the war...
...20 issue of this viciously anti-Semitic publication...
...If this is not done, World War III is in the making right now...
...Robert J. Pearsall 5715 So...
...Proud Of Sen...
...He has finally succeeded in making the front page of the vermin press...
...Barnes (Concluded) Dear Sirs: Doubtless, Max Eastman's reply to my friend, Harry Elmer Barnes, •will cover much of the ground more adequately than I can in this letter...
...Never mind* those critics who call you pro-German, for certainly they know little of the truth...
...Is criticism treason when accompanied by no other act, but on the contrary, by such active support as Ehrlich and Alter were giving the Russian government during the war...
...Paul Nichols New York, N. Y. * * * 'The Last Column' I consider "The Last Column" one of the best features of The Progressive and would miss it very much indeed...
...Burial For #2 Dear Sirs: During the economic depression o' the early '30's an old man in California looked speculatively into a garbage can, having lost out by watching the government make garbage out of honest opinions...
...This is, however, not the fault of the policymakers within the general staff...
...One of Stalin's lieutenants gets a hundred times more pay than a private, according to figures recently published in this country...
...R. H. Knapp Saginaw, Mich...
...Lehman Wendell Minneapolis, Minn...
...We read The Progressive from cover to cover and can hardly wait until the next issue arrives...
...And, if we want to know what kind of terms "business" dictates, we should learn about the rates of profit which a study of the WPB is reported to have shown...
...Pour It On...
...Of nine airplane corporations reported on for 1941, the least profit made by any one of them was 25 per cent, and the highest was 94 per cent, after paying taxes...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 41
