Show remain Net neutral itral Is U S policy selfish interests alread already y plot to drao drag country into war in ethiopia by EARL EAHL GODWIN ASHINGTON tills this country wan washington does not want to mesa with an afro european war and if I 1 am any judge of american temper there has been complete and universal endorsement of Roosevel ts prompt declaration of f neutrality in this outrageous and murderous italian raid on unprotected ethiopia but to remain netral ne r requires just as strong a hand as to adopt a warlike attitude and the reason Is that there are munitions makers shippers and bankers who can profit by a war and will use every influence to sell som something ethl at a huge profit to one or both of the warring nations the thing that drags innocent nations into other folks w wars ars that slays millions of young men whipped aped up to pseudo patriotism by t the he arts 0 of f the propagandist it Is what Is hal happening right now a definite coterie of cold blooded business men Is conspiring to profit by raid into africa regardless of the roosevelt warning and his embargo on arms if these conspirators have their way we will be dragged into the conflict and american lads will be killed hilled to defend some ones export business sooner or later you will hear bear orators whooping about the inalienable right to trade and the freedom of the seas calling the president yellow farmers will be told they can sell wheat at two dollars a bushel if we could only take part in the war manufacturers will be crowding to the trough like so many pigs and even our ministers of the gospel will do as bishop manning of new york has already done begin to prate about some wars being justifiable and holy I 1 am not a pacifist I 1 have been to war I 1 believe in war when war represents the true american feeling but ill not be shoved into war for the glory and honor of saving giving somebody alses bacon and making the other side of the world safe for some munitions maker hardly had roosevelt proclaimed this country neutral forbidding the shipment of arms and traffic with the belligerents warning americans to keep away from the trouble than a group of shippers in new york tork wired the president that he be was wrong that neutrality Is considered a serious blow to commerce and this port this Is just the beginning the pressure to get into the european me mess ss will be tremendous and powerful which reminds me that the duponts those international munitions merchants have hired hire a good press agent and will be heard from in one way or another on the so called patriotic side of the war business we are determined tal to stay out of war now bat will we be as neutral a year hence after the propagandists and the wall street newspaper editors have done their work we can be as high minded as gabriel up to the time our pocketbook nerves begin to tingle after that will we or will we not be in favor of sending our lads across the seas to die tor for larger munitions dividends e 0 THRIFTY POLICY professional politicians and props propagandists ts are now smearing the policy of feeding the hungry and putting the jobless to work on government funds it 11 Is the scare the thrifty policy of the te heavy money section of the republican party for instance chester bolton chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee gave to newspapers his opinion that putting people to work on projects the people want Is a spendthrift program in other words let the people starve rather than pay them tiny bits from the unlimited wealth the creator has given this country and it odd that our eyes are blinded to this wealth by the gosh awful array of figures on the budget while bolton Is denouncing what he calls a spendthrift policy he Is evidently working up the G 0 P to the point where it will favor a starvation policy because at present there Is only one alternative for government relief and that Js as starvation bollons Bol tons ideas are not those of an american congressman they appear to be the icy thoughts of a neurotic miser bolton spokesman as he Is for the republican effort to elect a republican congress Is apparently afraid of the size of a job afraid of a major solution jut to a national problem ile he would rather sail boats on a duck pond than walk the deck of a battleship hed make a good swiss admiral for instance bolton puts the republicans public ans on record in support of the policy of let the people starve by howling at the size of the bill he says the eight billions congress au an thorlew in two years to feed the hungry Is more than double the worth of all the automobiles and the trucks manufactured in the united states in 1920 1909 can you imagine the flint structure ot of a heart which would permit such a bloodless lifeless selfish statement to be put on paper in the name of a great political party I 1 suppose lincoln had deplored the cost of freeing the slaves claves had measured that supreme effort of the american people in terms of 0 dollars and cents I 1 colton bolton and his big R republican publican candidates for the next congress will not find it easy salling sailing on a policy of let the people starve they will find that gratitude Is not dead in this country ile he will find that america has a soul that rises higher than the cash drawer and he will also discover that the american people realize that the new deal his has a human purpose of vast potentialities which the lint flint hearts of the G 0 P cant possibly appreciate DEMAND MORE RELIEF while chester bolton Is leaping up and down emitting loud cries of distress over the cost of the depression which his bartys policies perpetrated it may interest him and everyone to rea realize lize that there Is a loud demand in ot other er quarters for more relief instead of less these cartloads cart carti loads oads of m oney money which mr air bolton would save for the financial giants when divided among the poor on relief amount to very little litile per person I 1 it t I 1 Is s just about b 0 enough jis ton to keep body and an d s soul ou t together g et h I 1 these professional politicians who attack the governments public work P policy olley as foolish should realize that 1 very every project originated in the community where the work Is going on states counties cities and towns beg for the federal help because the states cannot do their share the states are bro ae and running to uncle sam f tor or helps help these works uncle sam has undertaken der taken are helpful and all of them have their supporters and beneficiaries les if the republican party would actually dare to promise to put an end to all these works another republican would not cot be elected anywhere for a generation furthermore the republican bartys record with public works and public money Is far from clean from the days of the whisky ring way back in grants time down down to the teapot dome scandal no republican politician has objected to public moneys if it flowed his way the outcry comes when this spending Is done under the white light of honesty I 1 think the republicans should quit trying to play politics with distress and say whether or not they advocate stopping public relief they should tell these hungry and jobless people just what they intend to do if roosevelt Is defeated and a republican administration takes hold what can this country expect while waiting for that perfectly appalling and overwhelming wh elming burst of prosperity which the republicans promise what will these hungry and jobless do in the meantime if I 1 read the signs of the times industry Is picking ur up but not employing very many people the mills and factories are learning how to produce more without increasing the pay rolls in proportion as a result of abandoning what you got going g to do about that chester if you take the present republican theories to their ultimate and logical conclusion you will throw the problem of unemployment and starvation right straight back on the states and counties all right it they take care of the problem bolton suggests as a campaign slogan for the republicans turn the spendthrifts out let him add 11 and let the misers in that would insure solving the problem by a systematic starvation process which would remove the hungry and save the cost of relief within a few months this would result in larger dividends for the secure classes which count on larger dividends when government spending is reduced that would be the supreme glorification of the dollar human rights and human sympathy would be trampled in the mud and the opposition to the humanities of 0 the new deal would be in the saddle they could take down the american eagle and replace him with a vulture 0 0 f JOB FOR BOWERS there is a story about that claude bowers greatest orator in the democratic party will be recalled from his post as ambassador to spain and turned loose in the campaign to reelect roosevelt no doubt bowers can dramatize the human values of the administrations accomplishment better than anyone else and the new deal needs dramatization theres so much more to it than these thee long columns of figures and defensive replies to republican attacks the opponents have dramatized their bunk with such slogans as stand by the constitution and soak the thrifty this has aroused a fear among many americans who have supported the new deal and who have benefited thereby and it is now high time that something Is done to tell the real new deal story the new deal could be told in terms I 1 of happy homes vie the home owners loan corporation has saved for a million families their homes which would have been sold by the auctioneer in those drab days when no one could get money and when human rights were far below the value of property rights rl abts homes mean hap bap a million happy families will testify to Roosevel ts foresight in the I 1 HOLC so also the F IIA federal I 1 housing administration more than a silly alphabetical phrase with no more apparent meaning than t the name of a high school frate fraternity frateroli rolt Y that outfit has helped countless americans to restore their homes to put in new equipment new heating beating apparatus to brighten life some one has jutt just got to tell this story and a hundred others it must advertise this new deal just as an automobile auto moble maker advertises his cars not hot as mere machines but as adjuncts to a happier life a 0 wistern union |