| Show I 1 nazi activities in Us S bared german americans arced T to drill S for army duty in old country by EARL GODWIN Y T Y 7 ASHINGTON the de washington 1 l ivaness of the rus sian bolshevik propaganda is more or less recognized a but sooner or later congress and 1 4 r the executive branch of the govern t 1 l ment must crack down on the im 14 german attempt to kropa t gate the nazi hatred of religion S and love of war in this country con gress investigated the matter slight ly in the last session but it is rife L again and representative dickstein of new york a member of the previous I 1 ous CO congressional gressional ri committee on un american activities reminds the government that germany has gone so far as to utilize social or here for military drill purposes and is calling on ger man americans to reply to a questionnaire tion as to whether or not they are available for military service h A copy of the questionnaire has 1 I been printed in the congressional record this is a hitler attempt to militarize as many americans of german blood as he can find and whether an american citizen or not the man with german blood will be told by the german consul that he owes his allegiance to hitler this amazing impudence goes to the extent of the german government apparently believing that even if a man is born t in the united states if he has german blood he should rush forward 11 to help the present german govern ament anent if need be german propaganda carries with lait the idea that nazism is fighting communism hence the united bested states of america should be interested the trouble is that nazism 21 in germany is anti christian anti democratic and a complete enslavement of the individual the present german type of government looks on the government of the united estates tS i states tates as half witted moreover this present german government is as arrogant in its disregard of inter J j national decencies as the kaisers keisers Kai sers ae government was splendid as we know the german character to be here in america the di diplomatic plo matic and military germans of the old 4 country are completely ruthless in i their attitude toward their own stain alms is there is coll impudence in the fact that there are between betteen t ten and twenty thousand germans drilling for nazi military purposes in this country equipped with ger f man inan uniforms and information german americans in the east are S being hounded by german consuls being browbeaten into german unil un forms which they utilize in social C r clubs much of it is under threat 19 band and compulsion germans here have Is relatives in germany a and nd the i american germans are ordered t to come across or something may k t happen to the folks in the fatherland giand all this is distinctly nauseating A 7 p this government knows it sooner I 1 or later there will be a clean cleanup up 1 I 1 but theres a lot more to it the 1 world is facing a show down soon f atwith with true democracies on one side and the dictatorships of com 01 fascism and nazism on athe other roosevelt hints of t this his 1 horrendous world war every now 1 and then and hopes to keep us out bof of it as far as possible but allied 1 to us in ideals of religious and political freedom are england france and smaller countries like like er sweden denmark norway fin fland and switzerland of course 3 aland the south american republics are i nominally democratic and they are clinging to the good old united states of america but german i and italian influences are at work e on some of these south american A neighbors and they may have to abe be attended to with a big stick the point I 1 want to make is that while J jour our present position is strictly neutral in european matters while we 0 i cannot lend money to europe until 0 band and unless they make satisfactory arrangements to repay us the war W 10 debts where would the freedom A of the whole world be if the dicta kiors tors started war upon france and I 1 england and the little european countries england and france would need our help what would americas Ane ricas position be FLOOD FLOO CONTROL now comes the flood control polli politician I 1 in all his glory 1 every time athe i the country is visited with a devastating I 1 ruin by river members of con Y ij 7 gress from the stricken areas pile 0 billion dollar flood control bills high ion on the desks of the vice president ar sand S and speaker in congress and noth 11 iii ing comes of them but floods of talk floods bring forth proposed re Ar amedias nedies of several sorts one group 2 jw 0 wants ants the floods prevented by plant laing ivins trees on the mountain sides W alc where lumbering operations have denuded the hills and allowed rains to pour down into the streams an i 10 other group favors small ponds to collect excess waters at the heads bof of streams another group wants dams along the rivers another wants the extension of huge levee systems retaining walls to channel ize the greater rivers and keep back the rising waters still another group p wants a series of vast reservoir lakes into which I 1 the rising waters can flow and thus relieve the water courses of their great burden we need all of these in one unified plan for more than sixty years the river courses mississippi and ohio particularly have been at the mercy of rains resulting in fifty five floods each one of which has brought disaster and prolonged a agitation 9 1 for flood control I 1 might amigh t say parenthetically that the army engineers have complete plans for flood control but after the agitation dies congress the legalizing agency apparently forgets a unified scheme and gives money in a scattered disjointed manner for a brief moment last spring congress saw a vision of unified flood control for the mississippi sis sippi valley and 0 K d the spending of for projects in 40 states containing streams feeding the mississippi in the upper half and for dikes etc in the lower valley I 1 said congress 0 K ad d the plan but it forgot to appropriate the cash of course scattered flood control operations are going on all the time but what we need is a unified nation wide long range operation which includes every everything thin 9 necessary from re planting the denuded hillsides hill sides to dams and levees and reservoirs to take up the floods in the larger streams deep down in the presidents plan for reforming the governmental functions is a place for a national planning board to plan the use of government resources what is needed and what the congress will have to act on this session present great example of how a unified plan prevents floods comes to light in the vast tennessee valley authority work along the tennessee river from mountain top to river bed the engineers have worked out a plan and there is no flood menace on the tennessee river two dams on the tennessee have cut down the flood stage of the ohio river at paducah by a foot these two dams the joe wheeler and the norris dam hold back one hundred and forty five billion gallons of water saving chattanooga alone by preventing the flooding of a thousand acres of city property with a population of last year the holdback at norris dam cut down the flood waters at chattanooga by four feet when the work on the tennessee river is completely finished by the TVA greatest government power and conservation enterprise ever undertaken anywhere the flood crest on the mississippi will be reduced by two feet not only dams to hold back excess water but there is tremendous replacement of soil on the slopes and mountainsides eroded soil which shed rain into the river by the million gallons has been covered with grass and other crops which absorbs the rainfall instead of shooting it into the river to make floods the whole development in the TVA will prevent forty four out of every hundred gallons of rainfall from passing immediately into the streams in wet weather the excess water Is is impounded behind the dams in billion gallon lots and in dry weather this water is released tig 4 GRAND TUG WAR behind the scenes in washington a grand tug of war is going on between the proponents of the old time method of financing home own ing and the new streamlined stream lined method which does away with the second mortgage and the special fees involved in the age old struggle to finance a home the struggle centers on the administrations desire to extend the life of the federal housing administration which has already helped a million people to buy homes and is responsible for many more than that number repairing and repainting old homes that were run down at the heels the as we call it here helps you to buy a house with one mortgage only to be paid off monthly like rent with no trick tees fees or charges anywhere the loans are made chiefly through ordinary commercial banks if you buy a ten thousand dollar house you put up 2000 cash and your bank lends ends you while the united states government through stands behind the transaction and insures the bank against losing any part of that which may be paid off over a period of twenty years there need never be any further financing no second mortgages with their heavy fees and re financing charges the power to help in this way expires june 30 it must be extended by congress certain building and loan associations have cut down their interest charges but there are large sections of the building and loan business also many old time nine and ten per centers second mortgage bankers etc who dont like the policies dont like the idea ot of losing all that business who are being blamed by administration officials with conducting a powerful lobby against further extension ot of if the does not insure these individual home purchasers the commercial banks will not handle the loans and home building will again have to be financed on the old time two mortgage plan with its attendant heavy tees fees president roosevelt I 1 am informed is exceedingly anxious that continue and that in addition add tion there be a widespread adoption of the one mortgage plan of financing ordinary town and city houses 0 western newspaper union |
