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Show iSsW- - I 2L- American America is underwritten by a divine promise. Its government shall not perish while the world stands. Waves of sin and rebellion may hurt, but never destroy. world's hop "a- - to the dying ltrtarw omlina gftth I to ghin1 nl I rtiiiUmniitauul WiMhlnKtaa Wa4M8 - uaufc rears. 1940 unoar ms Act or March Weekly by C. N. Lund a lQ7fl $1.50 PER YEAR WORLD WAS WITHOUT AMF.RIPU NEWS ANALYSIS BY fZrtLY JOSEPH W. LaBINK EDITORIALS in Prospect Despite FDR Peace Overtures; New Tax Measure Faces Fight Lengthy Congress N0TB-- SHOE'S " Pwse score, end deduct SO sack qneiHon yon edu. Scare or mars It acceptable. How It Was Before America Arose. appreciate America one should know not only the conditions which prevail in the world today, but he should know something of the conditions that prevailed before America and its democracy came into existence. With this knowledge and some honest comparisons he should feel to thank G?d that he ie an American living in the best country on earth. uefore America was born, rulers, for the most part were tyrants, degenerates, selfish, cruel, ignorant and beastial. They abused and starved their subjects. They oppressed, clothed themselves in cloth of gold woven out of the blood and tears of the people. They lived in ein and extreme luxury. They could torture, mutilate, imprison, kill at will anyone who gave the least offense. More than 200 offenses were punishable by death. They could take rents which amounted to about all the peasants produced. If one failed to pay, the master could chop off his right hand. For so little as killing a hare for breakfast men were tortured and h anged. Labor was oppressed and abused. Countless small children were worked to death in mines and factories. Imprisonment for debt was the rule. The universal poverty was appalling. All The people had no progressive ideas merited imprisonment rights or liberties worthy the name. Foundations of cities and fortunes were being laid by the traffic in African slaves. Into such a barbaric world came America with a system whish hitherto had been looked upon as Utopian impossible. It was the first nation of any consequence to sail forth as a democratic state. It was a noble experiment which, at the time was the laughing stock of kings. The tories ridiculed and predicted failure. But there were great souls, dauntless spirits back of the adventure. Washington and God were at the helm and stood by the ship of state until it tailed out to success and leadership. America made all the world different. It set the pace for democracy and caused history to be written from a new standpoint. It waa a light and a leaven to all mankind, and it mutt forever remain the Great Hope of a crumbling world. Today there are rebels and serpents trying to strike at tne and patriotic vitals of America, and it is up to honest-heartcitizens to do their utmosi to preserve the last best hope of earth. Those of her own who turn against her in this hour of her trial and testing will become sons of perdition and go down to oblivion to fspose in ignoble dust with all the Judases and the Benedict Arnolds of history. Rtlaaasd by WsMsreMswapapu Union.. three-to-on-a CONGRESS: nd a fAIben BsrUey lettlnd Jatorii month in Washington. behere until June. ho told "but I doubt If them win the re JTbmA MW lofWntton. win bo effort! to unend Ewaner act end the wagehour Tho reciprocal trade treaty Egnm probably will caiaa tba noted controversy. Preot-fgH told no lis there, and X it. Striking beforo tho opposition bad a Prefiinet to open its mouth, tba of xed keynoted the second session congress in a theiewnty-sixt-h speech which attacked of trade Si destructive mine-fiel- d Plumping for renew- mtrictfans." knew Booievelt u state-dtbouni- threa-to-tw- o majority In tha senate, lead In the house. Major issues, aside from the redpro- cal trade act and national defense: 1. Whether to raise the national jtoMltalt now nearing Its legal peak. What to do about new tax proposal. such aa Secretary ot Agriculture Wallace's certificate plan" (In ffct, n processing tax) to pay farm COMMUNICATIONS: Wire Merger Western Union maintains 20,000 branch office employing 43,000 people: Postal Telegraph, Its competitor, has 4,400 offices and 14,000 employees. Thanks to air mail, telephone and radio. Western and Postal are both having financial troubles. This month, as a result, came a paradox: WhUe Trust Buster Thurman Arnold waa busy breaking up d fedmonopolies, tha eral communications commission recommended to congress that Western and Postal be allowed to much-concerne- consolidate. INTERNATIONAL: Something in the Wind It was Mg news In early January that hardy Finnish troops had cut 16,000 Russians off from their base at SaUa; bad trapped another division near Suomussalml; had captured n Bunion base at Alttajokl; KEXrUCKYg BARKLEY had repulsed eountiesi shock troops r.'fl be bare until Jn an the Karelian Isthmus; had even Masted a Bed air base in Estonia. ddhli nation" But tha Mggest news came from (run in which the administration' d racreso has tha power to aign a little Madrid newspaper called tndc pacts, ha offered this defense: Alemur. Said Its editorial: "Fin. . . it is advisable to provide, at land la defending with its flesh and fines of emergency, some flexibility bravery the treasure of occidental to nuke the general law adjustable civilization. Fighting so bravely for to quickly changing conditions.1 independence she fights also for all Only one other concession did ha Christianity, and it la inexplicable wont In 1940, because it is an electthat after n long month of war she ion year: I am asking tha con-fte- hasnt received tangible aid . . ." far army and navy increases Looking about them, European obakich are based not on panic but servers wondered It the Alrvr plea so common sen sc." wasn't being answered. They caw Conservation of resources, protec-fio- o a aeries of potentially related moves of national health, extension of ocial security and the merit sya-kwere also mentioned, but in most-favor- -- oi m i moderate voice. Only political dart waa n crack at ft 0. P. Hopeful Tom Dewey, who utly accused tha New Deal at hJefeatiim." Said the President: Tb warble easy platitudes that if 01 only go back to the waya ot ksve failed, everything will be iD right in not courage. Bert day congress got the budget Items and total: brtoiMetoiM flj00.000.000 pcocrsmu 1.300.000,000 Pnwrsmu .... 100.000.000 and invest ffg1") '"Is Mwttnet Slid S2lff W. 1100.000.000 debt., l.ioo.oooiooo 1.000.000.000 said the President was an eut we current of $879,000,000 fiscal year, while from r treas-,- Pcted to riae animated net deficit ,178,00000. compared .3.000.000 this year. But to .M. eut iha deficit Mr. Booae- - tt 2rended defense JW t- - n HOO.OOO,-i- coaU be paid Commented n"100 frona Mis- - f3r raise I'm not strong ftataxbuslness. (WUm'iMi 001 right off. up IU sleeves, eongres. democrats enjoyed a over-faxe- d, $45,000,-000,0- benefits. . Whether to amend the Wagner labor relations act, under fire from all aldea. d. Whether to continue Martin Dies committee. L This English peer's daugfe ter, an ardent Hitlerite whs baa been in Germany siace bef are the war started, retimed te England n stretcher with n revolver bullet fa her neck. Whats her name? 2. Why did Irish Premier Da Valera ask parliament Bums far dictatorial powers? I. Tree or False: Martin Dies has uked congress (a discon time Ms probe became of in health and Nwau the Justice department is new prssecsting alien "Isms." What da the following have in earnrnm: Robert Fechner, head a t the CCC; Gay Ballard, head af the "Great I Am eak; several thonsand residents f the Ikrkiah earthquake area; the UW Reuelnn division an the Finnish front. L H the U. S. began taking its decennial censm January 2. why hasnt an enmneratar knocked an your door yet? t t t tt ed - ' At A j j L Onitf Valkyrie rrwman-Hltte1 Hs tearsd an uprising ot tbs outlawed Irish republican army. . a ratio. Ho asked oaafteee lee non funds. 4. They died. Most at tha Xuislaa dtvtateo was killed. a Tha business eensns started Jannose count" uary L Iha regular doesn't start until April L Pressing Down the Thorns On the Aged fc'Mdtts, Bed COURTS: Tell It to Congress d It Its Intention was to heighten congressional demands for revision of the Wagner act, a declaim by the Supreme court upheld d National Labor the Relations board on three count: (1) For refusing to place an allegedly company dominated union on ballots used in a bargaining agency election at the Falk corporation, Milwaukee. (2) For designating aCIQ. union ai collective bargaining agency far waterfront worker! along the Pacific coast. (3) For ordering employees of the Jackson, Mich., power company to vote on the question of affiliation with C. L O., after a ballot on CL L O. versus A. F. of L. had brought no majority vote. These decisions offered no particular commendation of NLRB, however. Commented Justice Harlan PAUL EMILE NAGGIAR . . . this failure (of conStone: LtmtMomt In Afascms. tat a court review to provide gress) that mltfit eventually lead to peace (of NLRB decisions) is productive .. . . But these among tha allies and Germany, and of peculiar hardships to to a European attack driving the are arguments to be addressed courts." not to the and Indications: congress den. his Russian bear to Isolation. Home from Moscow to London went Ambassador Sir Wil- TREASURY: liam Seeds to write a whit paper relations. Gossip Easy Taxes' on Russo-Britis- h Tenderly breaking the news that had It that his conversations with tha Premier Vlacheslav Molotoff had incoma tax time is Just around commie-done- r T. Helvering, he corner, Guy that probably and been stormy, of internal revenue, soothed wouldn't return. Also homeward announcement bound waa Augusto Bosso, Italian taxpayers with tha ambassador. Left In Moscow, un- that this years report forms have once comfortable and lonesome, was been simplified. Instructions, fits report form as Emile as Paul complex French Ambassador have been pared down and Nagglar. of technical phrasing. shaved Petit newspaper Tha Shakeup. that from Italy Peruien reported Germany waa planning a drastic po- POLITICS: litical reorganization to woo the It would Include Adolf Hitlers Appointments to Fait on tha heels of President becoming president, succeeded Judicial and Justice apRoosevelt's Hermoderate the chancellorship by pointments cams a bakers dozen man Goering; purging of radical Goeb-bcl- a of explanations. Among them: Atlike Pctarleh Himmler, Joe torney General Frank Murphy was manageRobert Ley; Dr. and modp.mwt to the Supreme court (a popa affairs by ment of foreign Macken-eular appointment) to get Mm out of erate like Dr. Hans von the 1940 presidential picture; Soliciambassador to Italy; slackentor General Robert H. Jackson was and proRussia with ing of relations reclaimed from obscurity add made and Poland of visional recreation attorney general as grooming for e on the 1040 ticket, probably aa Aid. In an embarrassing spot, placa under would wink vice presidential candidate she announced Germany Cord-- ii Hull; Judge Francis Biddle to munitions of at allied shipments of tha circuit appeals court (a lifeFinland, but could not tolerate troop time Job) waa boosted to tho solicimovements. Thua It was obvtoia altor generalship to make a place for the Reich would like to sec her Warren Madden, NLRB unpopular could back, yet ly, (Russia) driven Thus were several birds allied troops mi-not risk exposure to one stone. A with from the North sea. Other political news: Democratic Chairman James A. ff, War Western more Farley announced the national comFollowing custom, there was westmittee would meet In Washington horseplay than warfare. TheBuenos and at February S to select a time but ern front waa a tomb, far the 1940 Chicago) scut(probably the city from Aires German sailors convention. Thus ho made the tled Gref Spee Joined their enemies P. victor in the winter! biggest In a night battleships from British Ingame, permitting Repubtailing of revelry. British preparations hold their convention and to licans more 1000.000 cluded a plan to call candidate later. their name a men to the colors this yesr, and m of State Cordell Hull secretary been had 20 freighter! report that presidential ambitions and Flow. of mouth Scapa scuttled at the Prta thrt denied knowledge of Nszl Purpose: To prevent Roosevelt had picked him sink-In- s President and from entering the harbor No. 1 choice for 1840 candidate. mnre shins like Revel Oek. Well-time- much-criticize- -- f, n, Czecho-Slovakl- 'vrarSSSm Bnchalter. mo--. tor vlo-prl Uw Yok , District At-- Istliu th Irt ternr,?1 SnTwB fisri 1 hoped ,rnr fears" on racket 10 .Ud'1;, ' em wen, economist ?iSrii Duk ,,riche,t toSdtw,,n,mdu-8lc iJS i,rectr of the bu-- 0 requested to reHsrold bupeau needs a Vcau 0r,l.BreUry whilT tosrfar Mood - . noufih iron in hla pre,ident 8,lmon "ad Trout wJ. 1 'r0fllH: "I fear toiIJL ,,l,'e Prospect ot my toriitions." tohing under pres-- C?, the State Board of Public Welfare might not be amiss now that the members are determined to do some more cutting from the meagre income of those for whom the light of the world has almost gone out, the aged whose years are about measured and who are looking into that twilight hour when the stars of the tomb are beginning to become visible. If cutting has to be done, or chislers found, it would be reasonable to begin at the top, with those who receive from $3,000 to $4,000 a year, rather than down where they receive Colanywhere from $7 to $40 a month. While Upab is cutting orado is raising and has just ordered to be paid an average of $36 42 to its aged pensioners. Shame to the leadership in Utah that classifies them as the ill, the decrepit, the aged and the idle who eat out of men and woman, theneer-do-welHow cruel I cold! How thq government trough. A suggestion to s. West coast C. I. O. SSB11.he80 deportation charges, would aeek Ul earlleit possible mo- - & N. LUND, lor of M epUoM in expressed fa these colmnas, they mb necessarily of this newspaper.) ssslyi Wta of the news V By Know yen r newtf One kumdrei WORTH READING a. a u a ls New Conditions Require New Remedies The ultra conservative Republicans and the ancient and Democrats who have announced themselves as the presidency believe they can solve the ecofor candidates nomic problems, balance the budget, etc. If they all were elected they could not do it to save their lives. They are simpwith the past's ly attempting to open the futures portals blood rusted key.1 This is a different day and the old ways will do, is to simply wont work. All they can do all they the world over. help along in the wrecking that has been, begun There is no salvation in their platitudes and platforms, none whatever. They have neither vision nor wisdom. If anything can be done it will be done by genuine Liberals whd work more for man than for money. rock-ribb- 1 ed Insurance Shouldnt Show Couterapt for Govrnmt people to speak so contemptuadministration being the govously of the government (the done recent the insurance at was as ernment now as always) them and that The here. held protects govenment convention ridicule and to held was scorn, contempt up their busiuese, radicals do. Let them beware in about as bad a manner as lest shortly their structure totters and falls, and then, we preand dict, they will pray to God for government protection the fair with enorThe not people. are playing control. They mous profits, stupendous and staggering, the mountain-hig- h of the people, would give salaries, if used in the true interests of insurance for the premiamount the twice them more than the interests they and banking They ums they are paying. from taken wealth the in policy holders revel are tied up with, hall. Why Belahassars in banquet lords of fashion after the on the wall? Modthe read writing look not upand will they was ancient Babern Babylon is in as much danger today as feaet. Mark that and remember! ylon at the time of the It ill becomes the insurance Trying to Make War Righteous of a battleship A writer says he has attended the launching erect to sufficient 15,000 of cost money at a built which was bless the giant deto was of Jesus present A disciple homes to kill. Thus war is uphold and given tha stroyer as it went out by the same sort of spirit and opinion of aspect righteousness and the traffic in slaves, as as that which justified slave ships of naked children to death that which worked tens of thousands we account for the way shall else in mines and factories IIow are dragging the young and manner all the elder statesmen mud of war? The and muck manhood of the world into the and the financiers have truth is that the statesman, the priests failed mankind. (Continued on page fburl Bntcharfo Washington Digest Pressure Groups Already Are Worrying Members of Congress! New Deal Agencies, Seekers After Justice and Promoters of Various Movements Active aa Usual; Old Age Pensions, Unemployment Insurance Not Neglected. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WNU 8ervlce, National WASHINGTON. About tha time congress reconvenes each year, file national capital is deluged with what have come to bo known aa "pressure grave." It is a poor description. I believe most of them can bo called "selfish groups" far intho reason that tha dividuals who lead (or promote) movements or eauaes or demands for Justice usually have Jobs at their own at stake. her of seekers after Justice In Wash- ington. It is astonishing to see tha lengths to which some of them will go. For remple, there fa one great church organisation that sought to force the census bureau to include in the' forthcoming census certain questions that would hare given that chureh a powerful leverage in the future administration of government affairs, according to reports. Tho church representative tried for weeks to high pressure the census officials into inclusion of three questions. He made, some threats about the consequences of their refusal. The government attorney to whom tho census officials submitted the question had the guts to say no" and that' waa tha census bureau answer. It was a despicable thing, however, sad lllastratea the dangers Inherent In the ccndlltoae I have tried to describe. The old ago pension movement and the unemployment compensation movement and tho other "wel- They want to keep their followers happy, especially ike asps whe hard earned dimes or dollars aa that their representative or their delegation may pat ap a goad front in the city af Washington. Any way. It U the open season for them, again. They are busier than a hive of bees. They are engaged in the annual Invasion upon senators and representatives and among tho numerous New Deal agencies, seeking Justice, urging help for those whose liberties are being trampled into tiie mud, appealing far fills and that and tha other. There are the usual spokesmen for corporations and groups of cor- fare" movements are represented porations. They, too, are seekers in fun fores. after Justice. They are no more elfish than the leaser racketeers. Other Groups Ars Working Those fellows, however, have a dif- For Gifts From Government ferent kind of stake in the results. There are half a dozen other The seekers after individual justice. groups around town, working for one thing or another in tha shape of gifts from tho government. Nearly PRESSURE GROUPS BUST all of them have found something Harass members of congress wrong with tho present social with various causes. law, but they do not agree comfor be the up tuning May on what is wrong with It Tha ing campaign. whole circumstance rather conMany movements will not get vinces me that maybe tha law ought . f , very. far. , to bt tossed overboard. I doubt Union labor and tha American that tho federal government can Legion active. ever administer such law. There Bruekart doesnt believe it la probably is little possibility that any possible so many new Injustices such law over can ba made workacould have arisen. ble on a national basis. Some of Few are able to analyze the tha dreamy New Dealera who consituation. ceived it have faded out of Washington officialdom already and have those who urge maintenance of left their baby for aomebody else to "civil liberties, etc., usually are nurse to maturity. The one service concerned with keeping themselves they performed was to tho New In their Jobs, while the seekers after Deal finances, because file original justice for the corporations and busi- program has brought six or seven ness interests are trying to preserve hundred million dollars into the federal treasury and It has been their own material fortunes. can-tribn- ta ty .. May Be Just Tatung Up For the Election Campaigns There is, however, something disturbing about this years invasion. It seems to be utterly Impossible that so many new injustices could have arisen within the last year, There always has been a considerable amount of this low form of high pressure around Washington, but the increased number of seekers after justice this year would seem to prove that the whole country has gone to pieces. It may be, of course, that they are tuning up for the election campaigns. Seriously, however, few persona have been able to analyze the situation. Some suggest that the current trek ot seekers after justice results from the fact that tha national government has become the focal point for "relief' from everything since the depression foil upon us in 1930. Others feel that a sense of futility about life, itself, has crept into this country from the lands where dictators hold a human life to be nothing more than a chattel. If either of there answers 1s correct, we have a dangerous condition on our hands. It is the defeatist attitude. It Represents a decaying civilisation and national leaders had better wake ap to what it means. Now, lest someone charge me with having changed my tune from several years ago, I want to recall that I once feebly to pin a senator! ears back for seeking legislation to make everyone register who visited a senator or a representative in behalf of legislation. He wanted to brand each one aa a lobbyist That senator waa Hugo Blaek, who now writes binding legal opinions as a member of the Supreme court of the United States instead of blabbing for hours on tha floor of tha aenate. 1 maintain that everyone has the right of petition to any government agency. What lam trying to do here, however, is to how that there are so many more "petitioners now than heretofore and to find the reason for it. Many Seekers After Justice in Washington Of course, most of there movewill not get very far. They will not get aa far, in fact, as when I used to crawl under the comcrib for eggs out on the farm. But then are enough dissatisfied end discour eged folks throughout the country ti pay tha freight and tha hotel bllla for an estraordinarily large num ments pent Organized labor has its representatives on thd scene in a Mg way. Both tiio Congress of Industrial Organizations, which la headed by John L. Lewis, and the American Federation of Labor, which is headed by William Green, have national headquarters here. What is a poor politician going to do, however, when Lewis and Green are fighting each other and seldom, if ever, agree upon what changes must be made in the national labor relations act The labor row may get more than Just aa ordinary airing dnrlng tho session of congress now under way. I have written heretofore about the special house committee investigation of the National Labor Relations board. Exposure by that committee already have brought demands for tha ousting of Commissioner Smith and Chairman Madden. Commissioner Leiserson, ap--' pointed only a few months ago, apparently la seeking to clean 19 tho stinking mesa, but the Lewie faction of labor which has dominated the board thua far is making Mr. Lelserson's job pretty difficult There will be little consideration for the Green faction if Lewie can prevent it American Legion Can Really Put on High Pressure There is an offshoot of organized labors setup here known as Labors league. I don't know what It is supposed to accomplish, but it has a press agent and a staff of executives" and they all seem to get paid regularly. Tha American Legion is getting active again. It wants more government money for the end make no mistake about it The American Legion ean really put on high pressure when it seta out to do an the Job. 1 havent scratched the surface In naming the pressure groups that are to be found here for the current n of congress. There are at least SO business organizations and trade association!. The purpose! of all are the same, namely, advantages for them. The advantages may be in the form of cash such aa the pension petitioners and tha Legion seek, or advantages that ean ba turned s. into cash after the methods of In any event, they ere all cadcd down Washington-waIt eems to bode no good at all toe he folks who arc going to pay tho ill. Including a national debt that is nnw $15 qm.mo.noo or more see-sio- bual-r.es- y. |
