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Show I Program SANE, PROGRESSIVE, HONEST POLITICS Income - Leisure for Age Opportunity for Youth Conservation of Human Resources Published Weekly by C. N.Lund THE AaIyU Weekly New -- WOMEN Retort 'apal Election Thought In the Newt . Dictator Interference Igainst RUSSIA'S By Joseph W. La Biae peacetime Ugh), various army units will be boosted by about during the coming fiscal year. Increases ere planned both at bona and In colonies. IBS,-TO- O nmwr ggmmmt, mb SEn"" rS i & ww Sivy. Fearing German English, Australian, South African and Hong Kong porta will be secured against submarines and minelayers. Canada may purchase a naval flotilla leader to head iU fleet of six destroyers. Six new motor torpedo boats are being shipped to Hong Kong. Planned construction: 1 fast escort vessels, two battleships, one aircraft carrier, four Ordinal Pacelll. Pope srstory In mediator jln fSMWuabbta. HU Vatican achievements yat notable World kadenhlp to the 1) of Pope gUhncnt attempt i XV and (2 consummation leedat that broufht peace at Vatican and Italy. HU cruisers, craft B 10 destroyers, 30 smaller AvUtiaa. Personnel will rise from to 110,0001 four times the U34 total of 30,000. By March St a total of 1,750 first-lin- e planes will be ready, with production paced at 800 a month against an estimated 000 in Germany, Chriliaa. Fifty million civilian gas masks, 1,400,000 "toy" gu helmets for babies and 1,300,000 masks tor children are on the list Rnmy 127,000,000 sandbags are on hand, with 800,000,000 ordered. Special electrical equipment is planned and "crisis organization is being com106,000 pleted. e e e Dm Tag, whose fear is responsible tor this preparation, meanwhile remains at flirting distance. Points of potential trouble between France and Italy over Mediterranean ( mands have grown more prominent Italy has repatriated her nationals in France, ousted French newspaper men, won Polish allegiance away- from France and haatened rorE nrs zn mobilization. One new gairiaon Is Caul Citne and Cenaaay. reportedly established at Genoa, only 150 miles from Nice. Meant fifleult ob was nefotlatUf while Spain emerges as the new cenwiA Proteitant Husaia In of European balance. i kit that won him the red ter d ordinal when Pietro Gas-- , . NADEJDA RON-8-T ANTINOVA KRUPSKAYA, wUow of Nikolai Lenin, early revolutionist leader and educa-tile- d on her seventieth birthday at Moscow. JAPANS EMPRESS NAGAKO gave birth to her seventh ehng, a girl, five days before her thirty-sixt- h birthday. AMERICAS MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT resigned from tbe Daughters of the American Revolution, reportedly because that organization refused Washington's Constitution hall as a site for the recital by Marian Anderson, Negro contralto ENGLAND'S DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, AMERICAS MRS. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, discovered to be neighbors to an exclusive Parisian section just off the Bols de Boulogne. ' . 'sdbor For two years labor's dove of peace has sought a resting place, hovering over the battleground of John Lewis' Congress for Industrial Organization and William Green's American Federation of Labor. This month, for three reasons, the dove hovers nearer earth. But there is still no indication that peace win come via mutual consent; a more likely solution is victory tor the A. F. of L thanks to growing antl-L O. sentiment welling up since Homer Martin split the United Automobile Workers during January. The fluee indications cf a showdown: Csnrt. The much cussed national labor relations board, allegedly pro-C- . L O, was rebuffed . , yi retired in 1929. i Pope Piui XI died Uat Feb-- f I Secretary of SUU Pacelll Rdief Everyone knows relief costs much more today than in 1929. Everyone knows, too, that President Roosevelt's dream of an $90,00Ql000lM0 national annual income may mean little even if it does come true, since increased governmental costs How would eat up the profits. much relief costs have gained, how much national income has dropped, is shown in reports of the social security board. (See graphs;. But far more Impressive facts not shown in the report, nameCndinal Pacelli had never ly, that a noticeable share of 1938's sentiments, national Income came not from prii Foreign Minlnter Count Ci-- vate initiative but from government Hvipaper, II Teleyrafo, lost aid. For example, even the $3,724,' t pointing out that n Pacelll 000,000 total relief expense was included, as was $57,000,000 spent for would be unwelcome In Germany another war veteran payments. Emergency Du Schwarze Korps, lia At the Vatican, German became camerlengo, i chief ot the Roman Catholic lentil the collece of cardinala I him a tucceisor. Intema-- r better known than any other i candidate, Cardinal Pacel--t erae Immediately bandied I at the moat likely succesaor. . dnpite hie eonfeiaed longing I the contemplative life of n dnpite rumors that his ae--i mdd be none too welcome irian Germany and Italy. i r Diego voo college that his na-anliting at the elabora- sew world, and that "the without doubt has an easen- - Wd the 1 "7 ni unrelated to wnceivaMy k Cardinal Paedll's ele--, papacr might be U mmition against two gov which uw lit to interfere - jn IJJain. the A further Rome-Berli-n pos-PTB- axU t iUmatieany to such an ex cardinals ippoint an expert deal Ifa-nU- T" Hitler and Signor 'Lntton was 1 tor unprepaied--I Z!equnt PPeasemenU HoUeeably smaUer as 'gwwusped. In January, Ojamberlain gave Rome. In filter Febru-innounc- ed plans to ,nd U win the i F,Kit ftlZV will be spent the follow 1 L r 2CH -- SK., luxiw ujitooe K (IT"'0 A2MS0J0S IT brtato ouUF to more or more than the ,to82n in three Supreme court decisions n which effectively banned the strike. Specifically, the two major decisions ruled (1) that Chicagos F Insteel Metallurgical corporation could not be compelled to rehire participants in the notorious 1937 sitdown, and (2) that NLRB has misruled in charging a Cleveland firm with unfair labor practicea tor dealing with one set of organized workers after failing to reach an agreement with another set Since C. L O.'s most successful weapon has been discredited, C. L itself is thereby discredited. But John Lewis organization has already attained a big measure of success, so this effect is unimportant Greater by far to the blow to NLRB's prestige. Wagner Act C. L O. has stood pat against amending the labor act and well it might since most NLRB have been favorabtak 1939 INCOME: $7974,999,999 decisions Rail ceil only per cent, er Wr Chief sentiment for change has was ey liny piece a pie." come from A. F. of L which lost prestige by NLRB decisions, and employers, who claim the act discriminates against them. Adding its voice is the public, which apparently dislikes the' idea of giving wt.wh jurisdiction which traditionReally has belonged to the courts. vision of the Wagner act is the No, 1 certainty of thia year's congress, probably stripping NLRB of its a ! tb 1939 INCOME: $64,184,900,909 Ref Uf ceil SJB per cent, er H,7Hs OOOflOO, Rol including edminiitrslivs costa. Since total income mu saiaUer than 19294 percenlafa far nliefit toaffy larger then shown in pie. subsistence payments to farmers are also counted in. Darkening the picture still more are estimates that total relief costs would have mounted to $4,468,900,000 instead of only $3,724,000,000 had federal, state and local administrative costs been included. Moreover, since 1938's national incoma was more than $14,000,000,000 under 192Tb, the growth of relief cost over this period was bigger than shown. TIMES. Reviews Lifes Busiest Year While we do not feel that it is necessary for one to make loud affirmations about his Americanism, yet we feel at this time to say, once and for all, that we are for America and the Whether the public American system, as it was meant to be, like it or not, Britains against the world. The noble structure that was built on the frame work of the Prime Minister Neville Constitution was to be a New Order of the Ages, and that Chamberlain hot tried Order should not be marred or sullied desperately to mainby transplanting to this tain peace. On March soil any of the prevailing European systems. We are unquali18 he ends hie seven-tiet- h fiedly for the Hill ofRights in its entirety and believe that it is and most eventthe only guarantee the people have for life, ful year. Rights Mr. liberty and the Chamberlain startled happiness, without which life wouldnt be worth living. svorld September the We hold that it is thoroughly American to believe and ad14 by paying a vocate that this nation will fall far short of its duty and destihattering call on Hiller at Berchtesgad-Phot- o ny if citizens do not try to make their personal lives measure shorn him up somewhere near to the moral and spiritual qualities that leaning London, flying underlaid the characters of the founders. That unless the people for the first time. Bo can rebulwark th ir democracy with high character and noble loses The second meetpurpose it will degenerate. All must come to believe with a ing, ot Goiesberg, on 22. September writer moral indivigreat rearmament of that, Only through duals can there ever be peace (or security.) In the regeneration of the individuals lies the key to the moral regeneration of the city, the state and the nation." This is Americanism I We believe that its thoroughly American to hold that Americans must solve aright the staggering problem of massed and concentrated wealth on the one hand, and massed and direful poverty on the other hand. It is wholesomely American to proclaim that those who revel in their mountains of wealth while their brother Americans starve in squalor and wretchedness will see a day when they will feel very much ashamed of letting such conditions prevail, and that it would be to their interest tqchange them. We maintain that it is pure and unadulterated Americanism to say that public officials, from the highest to the lowest, who sell and barter their souls for mammon, are selling out the people and undermining Americanism and should be herded to jail. It is one hundred per cent Americanism to say and publish that men can never be truly free while they are enslaved economically, and that to battle for Freedom today is just as patriotic and noble as it was in 1776. Americanism means righteousness, progress, justice, tolerance, fair dealing, and more equality among men. We most sincerely brlieve that it is pure Americanism, in all its meaninp, to hold and advocate that little further pro gress can be made, no lasting prosperity can be assured, no p ermanent peace or security is possible until social and industrial justice has been established. And we further believe that it is highly American to set forth the human and divine truth that the only sure way to save and perpetuate what is good and true in Americanism is to restore God to his rightful leadership and set about serving him by "morally and spiritually rearming ourselves." Infinite Power that set up nations and that hurled Old Empires to oblivions dust, Be with Columbia's sons an I help them keep their world Safe for Freedom and its holy trust! pur-auit.- of precedent-s- THIS IS TELLING 'EM. 1 believe that one of the best concepts of mankind is a righteousjdignity. Whenever men are reduced to dire poverty this manly or womanly dignity is killed. We are killing democracy and all that it stands for. fc Democracy ennnt survive under the present system. Some of our big" politicians and am very much alarmed about the people's morals as if incomes of five or six hundred dollars a year would ruin their morals. God Tody knows what are the morals of the big bosses who receive forty jto two hund red thousand dollars a year?" R. M- Brandon But the policy of bore appeasement suspicious fruit. Munich, Germany and Italy appeared planning nets Fot-lotoi- Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, foreign minvisited Paris ister, November 24. Beiows The idea of some of the legislators caUinganybody "demagogue comes with mighty poor graee on the face of the record. If only they sould hear what the people, not the interests, are saying, they might sit up and talos notice. The big interests are licking their chops over their apparent victories. On January 10 he again slopped in Paris en route to Rome. Photo, left to right, shows French Foreign There are 345 taxes on your Automobile HE HAS Minister Georges Bom net, Mr. Chamberlain, Premier Edouard and Viscount Halifax. SUCH TAKING WAYS Dtd-adi- er Next day, January 11, Mr. Chamberlain arrived in Rome to visit Mussolini. The trip sons heralded as another appease-mea- t mission from tehich a new totalitarian victory could be expected , but nothing happened. Mr. Cham- berlain may have (Igyjg rfer- t- Miww Livies ma t ALL Taxes. ng demands against France and Britain. - power. Peace Talks. Encouraged by court rulings and public sentiment A. F. of L. could afford to accept President Roosevelts current labor peace bid, with reservations. Hope of the administration is that labors two factions win settle their disa pute in conference, precluding debate over Aery congressional But Mr, Wagner act changes. Roosevelt had not counted on such Independence as that of William Green and Daniel Tobin, A. F. of L. stalwarts. Appointed a delegate to the peace talks, Mr. Tobin refused to attend on the excuse that ha had too much work. A more logical reason is that Mr. Tobin, famed as a peacemaker, tolled to see a chance for harmony. It was recalled that at lest autumn's Houston A. F. of L. convention ho arthe gued tor arbitration "provided fundamental points do not involve laws of the organizations." OF THE At 70, Britains Chamberlain SOME AMERICAN TRUTHS Wrth Knowing and Thinking About J doml liter General Fran-- " recognized the uS? "d ir ministers Pirlinment to outline Jzr BriUtas Urgest K J??.0 Wrld war (more 00 DANIEL TOBIN The peacemaker eschewed peace. DRIFT $1.60 PER YEAR gained nothing , but he tried to break down the growing barriers. |