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A DANGEROUS DISPUTE
TN its note rejecting as unfounded the State
Department's protest, the Moscow govern
ment is guilty of bad diplomacy. The diffi
culty. of course, is that the Kremlin writes
with an eye to home readers just as the State
Department does.
Every' political realist knows that it is a;.
Impossible for Stalin to kick out the Com
munist International as it is for President
Roosevelt to go into the coming campaign as
a Communist ally. The praise of Roosevelt
as the anti-Fascist hope, which came from the
Communist International meeting may seem
very friendly to Moscow but it certainly is a
political liability here.
If Moscow were wise it would not have re
plied to the sharp American note in kind. It
would have sought a way out of a dangerous
impasse. The impasse is dangerous not be
cause of Communist propaganda activities but
because of the international situation.
If President Roosevelt had evidence or be
lieved that Russia was deliberately trying to
overthrow this government, it seems clear that
he would and should have broken diplomatic
relations at once without talking about it.
Until such overt evidence is forthcoming, it
can only be assumed that Russia's violation
of her pledge was of a technical rather than a
willful nature.
But, technical or otherwise, nations during
an international crisis can not fire notes at
each other with such belligerent phrases as
“serious consequences” without shaking world
affairs.
It is not an exaggeration to say that a
break between the United States and Russia
would strengthen the world forces for war, at
the very’ moment when the flames are smolder
ing in the Far East, are about to blaze forth
in Africa, and are seriously threatened in
Europe.
The sooner this Russian dispute is settled
the better.
ONE GOOD EFFECT
COME critics of the Roosevelt tax-the-rich
bill, ourselves included, charged it was
motivated by politics. Certainly it has been
proved to be neither a revenue-producer nor
a real tax revision.
Yet it is interesting to note that, if, as
charged, the primary purpose was to deflate
the Huey Long share-the-wealth boomlet, the
President’s gesture has not been in vain.
Three months ago Huey Long's share-the
wealth clubs were mushrooming all over the
country. The Kingfish had the answer to
our economic troubles. “Every man a king!
Five thousand dollars and a home for every
family! Take it away from the billionaires!”
Then along came the President's bill to
tax the rich at rates more drastic than Huey
Long had proposed. And what was the esti
mated yield 9 Enough to give $2 apiece to
every man, woman and child in the country.
An average of about $8 or $lO a family.
Presumably, the Kingfish could not think
up any amendments to sweeten its promise.
Anyway, he didn’t. The Congressional Record
covering the two days of debate preceding
Senate passage of the tax bill fails to dis
close a single suggestion or a single speech
by the Kingfish. He was absent, as a matter
of fact, and did not return until the tax job
was out of the way.
Meanwhile, public and congressional debate
on wealth taxation has punctured Huey Long's
extravagant sounding share-the-wealth talk.
A demagog, says Webster, is “one who
plays an insincere role in public life for the
sake of gaining political influence.”
Demagoguery in politics, like bluffing in
stud poker, works all right, until you get
caught.
THE LEGION MYTH
ONCLUSION of the American Legion
state convention in Indianapolis has
brought to thousands of residents of this city
t::e realization that the Legion membership
contains none of the ‘‘bad boy" elements so
widely attributed to that organization.
The Indiana Legionnaires are to be con
gratulated for effectively dispelling a libelous
myth.
Theirs was a gathering of adult men and
women, who went through the world's most
disastrous war in active service, and who con
ducted their business here with dignity and
dispatch. When play-time came, the Legion
played, cleanly and In the true American
spirit.
It was a great convention and to the new
leaders of the State Legion this newspaper ex
tends every wish for a successful year.
We hope they all come back.
DOES HISTORY REPEAT?
WOODROW WILSON entered the presi
dency in 1913 with a militant program
of domestic reform. That program re
viewed today shows a surprising similarity
between the new freedom of Wilson and the
New Deal of Roosevelt.
Under Wilson there came the Underwood
tariff, the income tax law. the Federal Re
serve Act. the Federal Trade Commission Act,
the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, all bitterly op
posed by big business, as are the Rooseveltian
acts of today. Almost precisely the same
alignments existed then as exist now.
Suddenly came war in Europe. From that l
fateful month of August. 1914. through the
rest of Wilson’s presidency, domestic issues
were pushed far into the background.
Had it not been for that war. many of the
domestic reforms that Franklin Roosevelt has
advocated undoubtedly would have been
Drought about by Wilson two decades ago.
Today, as the reform Congress of 1935 ends,
Europe and war again dominate American at
tention.
Is history to repeat? Are our domestic
problems once more to be submerged by a
flood of events from abroad?
What happens in the next 30 days may
give the answer.
ARMY PUTS ON A SHOW
THERE is a homely American touch to the
news that throngs of tourists have been
so dense in the vicinity of Pine Camp, N. Y..
that the elaborate war games being practiced
by troops there have been in danger of ac
tual interruption.
These games are the most elaborate ever
held by the American Army. Some 35,000
regulars and national guardsmen have been
assembled to go through maneuvers. The
United States has never seen such a large as
semblage of troops in time of peace.
Naturally, the thing has been a bait for
tourists. Army officials have estimated that at
least half a million Americans are trying to
get a look at the soldiers.
We can’t be in much danger of militarism
when the gay indiscipline of sightseers can
overwhelm the American Army itself.
DEATH ON A TRESTLE
SIX Ohioans, taking an afternoon hike
through the country, sought to shorten
their homeward journey by walking along a
railroad trestle over a little ravine. A freight
train came along while they were in the mid
dle of the trestle and it was unable to stop
in time. Two of the six people were killed
and a third was painfully injured.
The moral of this tragic little story is too
obvious to need mentioning—-or it would be.
if it were r.ot for the fact that people still do
use railroad bridges as footpaths, in spite of
everything.
A railroad bridge, then—to restate the ob
vious—is a place for railroad trains, not pedes
trians. It may offer a. welcome shortcut when
you are out on a hike; but it is also a death
trap, and if you use it you are taking your
life in your hands.
GILSON GARDNER
of the gentlest souls that ever went
forth to battle has withdrawn from the
conflicts of this earth.
Gilson Gardner, a militant champion of the
abused peoples of the world and once pre
eminent among Washington correspondents,
has died. He left a record of journalistic in
tegrity for younger men of his profession to
emulate.
It was his fortune to be associated inti
mately with two of the great men of his time
and to leave the impress of his stubbornly
exalted character upon them both. One was
Theodore Roosevelt and the other E. W.
Scripps.
Gilson Gardner never clamored for the
freedom of the press. He accepted it as a mat
ter of course, using it not for his personal ad
vantage, but for the public welfare. So long
as journalism occasionally produces men of
his kind the press will remain free.
In Washington and throughout the coun
try there are hundreds in public life and in
newspaper work who knew and loved this
quiet, friendly man and who recognize the loss
to the world that comes with his death.
NOW, FOR THE TEST
\ DMINSTRATION of the new Guffey-
Snyder coal legislation calls for the best
brains and greatest devotion to public service
thai President Roosevelt can commandeer.
Getting the right men is made more diffi
cult by the threatened attacks on the bill’s
constitutionality. The jobs may not last long.
But no second-raters should be trusted, even
temporarily, with the important responsibilities
of advancing the public welfare and simul
taneously bringing peace and prosperity to the
bituminous industry.
Here is a bill damned by its foes as pos
sessing almost every conceivable fault, and pre
scribed by its friends as the only cure for long
existing evils that have oppressed both capital
and labor.
If this plan succeeds, it will provide a pat
tern for other industries whose workers and
management wish to unite. That will be true
even if the Supreme Court invalidates the law.
If it fails, through faulty administration
or weaknesses in the plan itself (not including
possible unconstitutionality), those who strive
for co-operation between capital and labor
under government umpiring will lose heart.
The law will fail if its administration per
mits any producing section to steal the mar
kets of any other section; if the public is
gouged with unjust prices; if any labor organ
ization is permitted to squeeze out any other
legitimate labor organization: if strife and
poverty continue among mine workers.
We supported the coal bill because soft-coal
evils cried for help long before the depres
sion and ceased for only a brief time under
NR A. We hope to be the first to condemn if
the law is used for selfish purposes
We believe there are enough safeguards in
the legislation itself, and enough others in
the laws of economics, and enough good
sense among coal operators and coal miners,
to prevent the possible evils here listed.
But all these protections will fail if ad
ministration of this admittedly experimental
law is intrusted to incompetent or politically
minded men.
NEUTRALITY LAW HELPS
' I 'HE neutrality bill passed by Congress is
a step in the right direction—but only a
step. If we expect too much of it, we lay
ourselves open for an unpleasant surprise
some day.
Probably the best way to see how it would
work in actual practice is to go back 20 years
and imagine what would have happened if
it had been passed in 1915.
Its chief provision is a ban on the ship
ment of munitions to warring countries. This
would have had a very direct and marked
effect in 1915 and .1916. Millions of shells
which burst along the German lines between
Switzerland and the North Sea were made in
America; their use had much to do with arous
ing German resentment to the point where
unrestricted submarine warfare was declared.
So if we had had this law in 1915, our
chances of getting embroiled would have been
substantially lessened. It must be remembered,
also, that some of our great industrial con
cerns which found so many dividends and
jobs in the munitions trade would have gone
idle. *i
Next, the bill prevents American ships from
carrying embargoed articles to the ports of
warring nations, and forbids Americans to
travel on the ships of belligerents except at
their own risk. This would have saved us at
least a little of the submarine warfare trouble;
it might also have pulled a few teeth of the
Lusitania tragedy, although the emotional
shock of that affair would still have been
great.
The other provisions—barring the use Df
American ports to the submarines of bellig
erents which made illegal use of the American
flag—would have been of minor consequence.
So much for what the law would have
done for us in the World War. Now for what
it would not have done.
It would not have kept us from selling mil
lions upon millions of dollars worth of wheat,
oil, autos, beef. copper, cotton, steel and simi
lar commodities to the allies, nor would it
have kept American snips carrying such com
modities from passing through the war zones.
It would r.ot have kept our bankers from
floating billions in loans to finance those pur
chases.
And it was that trade, far more than the
trade in munitions, which made us in effect
the silent partner of the allies, and persuaded
Germany that the chance of victory by sub
marine warfare was worth the risk of bring
ing us in as an avowed combatant.
The law would have helped, undeniably.
It is doubtful, however, if it would have helped
quite enough. When Congress reconvenes this
winter it should give earnest thought to a
possible broadening of the law, if it hopes to
guarantee American neutrality.
MISPLACED BLAME
'T'HAT old theory that the big manufactur
ing city whose population includes a high
percentage of foreign-born is the most fer
tile field for crime seems to have been ex
ploded by statistical studies recently an
nounced by Prof. William F. Ogburn of the
University of Chicago.
Prof. Ogburn discovered, first of all, that
cities having a large percentage of foreign
born had actually less crime, proportionately,
than cities wit*, largely native-born popula
tions.
Secondly, he learned that the thickly popu
lated East has a crime rate only a little more
than half as great as that of a more thinly
settled West.
It would be well if these findings could be
widely broadcast. It appears that by blam
ing our lawlessness on the foreign-born we
have simply been kidding ourselves—'and as
long as we do that we can’t expect to reduce
the crime rate very much.
Liberal Viewpoint
BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES
THERE has undoubtedly been enormous prog
ress in the rights and status ot organized
labor in the last century. But this progress has
been spotted, and many of the inroads upon la
bor rights which were common 100 years ago
still crop up from time to time. In his inter
esting book on "The Workers and Their World’’
(The A. L. P. Committee, $1.50). Joseph Schloss
berg calls to our aid the similarity between the
crusade for deporting laborers in England in
1834 and in the United States a century later.
“In 1834, six English land workers, in the
village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, were transported
to penal colonies in Australia for the crime of
organizing a trade union of agricultural work
ers. When pronouncing sentence, the judge
said that the exile for seven years—the highest
penalty under the law—was intended not only
as a punishment for the prisoners, but also as
a warning for others.
“The workers had the legal'right to organ
ize. But woe to those who attempted to use
that right. There were judges ready to trans
port them to a penal colony in Australia, not
only as a punishment for themselves, but as a
warning to others. In England of those days,
the technical excuse was the harmless initiation
ceremony for new members. Excuses are easy
to find.
“In this country, years back, Socialism of
I. W. W. (International Workers of the World)
was the convenient charge against trade union
ists. Now it is Communism. That is the charge
against discontented workers who assert them
se.ves. They may be Republicans or Democrats,
but if they are dissatisfied and demand their
rights, they are Communists. If a modern va
riety of a penal colony is brought into being,
of whatever else it may be, it will be for Com
munists and non-Communists, aliens and Amer
ican citizens. The six martyrs of Tolpuddle
were not aliens in England. They were British
subjects, and sent to jail regardless of their
citizenship.
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THE talk of deporting aliens as trouble mak
ers is hypocrisy. The threat is intended to
frighten all workers into submission. That is
the meaning of the turbulent events in San
Francisco. Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Mil
waukee, Toledo and other industrial centers,
even as it was of the events in the life of George
Loveless and his heroic comrades : 00 years ago.”
Mr. Schlossberg is a veteran of the labor
movement and a leader in the very important
and up-to-date Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America. His book is an authoritative and
entertaining survey of the principles of labor or
ganization, leading figures in the contemporary
labor movement in Europe and America, and the
status of the labor movement, especially in the
United States, England, Germany, Italy and
Russia. While recognizing the uncertainty of
cur age, he has complete faith in the ultimate
triumph of the labor movement.
.“In our swiftly moving age no one can say
what the next day may bring. Some people
think that Hitlerism will force anew world war,
which will destroy civilization. That is possible.
But it is also possible that Hitlerism will bring
about its downfall much sooner. That will mean
the re-creation of the labor movement. The new
German labor movement will be different from
the old one. It is impossible that the tragic
lessons of the past should be lost in the future.
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“ TUST what the new labor movement will be
J like will depend upon the forces within the
movement. The future of all labor movements,
including the American, lies in their own laps’
It will be just what they will make it. In view
of the events in recent times, the organized
workers of the' world should realize that the su
preme mission of the labor movement is to end
all class rule and inaugurate a free economic
society. The labor movements, which will emerge
from the ruins of Nazism, Fascism and general
reaction will be, as they must be, militant move
ments.”
In his "Intelligentsia of Great Britain” (Co
vici Friede, $2.50) Dmitri Mirsky includes among
other biographical studies estimates of such
important leaders of British labor and radicalism
as G. D. H. Cole, Harold Laski, Bertrand Russell,
Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells. "The Interna
tional Protection of Labor” by Boutelle Ellsworth
Low (The Macmillan Company. $3.50) is an ex
tremely useful compilation of the history and
present status of international labor legislation.
In Iris "Rubber Truncheon” (Dutton. $2.50) Wolf
gang Langhcx gives us a picture of what hap
pens to German labor leaders and other German
radicals who presume to defy the Nazi regime.
It is a graphic account of life for more than a
year in a Nazi concentration camp.
A New York theater-goer has to be alert
these days; otherwise, after waiting in line for
his ticket, he’s liable to find he’s been
picketing.
Sally Rand will act in “Rain. H Maybe she
ought to put something on.
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VIEW OF SITUATION
IN ECONOMICS
By Another Reader
No manufacturer can continue to
produce goods at a money loss. In
our system of production and dis
tribution, the sole emphasis is
placed upon the money value of
goods rather than upon their social
value in service.
The money value is controlled by
the ease or difficulty in obtaining
money as a medium of exch *ige.
This control of money, or its sub
stitute, credit, permits those who
control it to obtain goods without
making any social contribution.
This group is the parasite on the
whole social body. Through this
control of money, this group is able
to steal legally the contribution
made by those who do produce the
real wealth tor social use.
This control of money and credit
gives this group the power to de
stroy the wealth-producing ability
of all who work in production and
distribution.
By restricting the volume of
money in circulation and forcing
the producers 'to borrow credit at
interest as a substitute for money
that is not in circulation, this group
lives in luxury on the toil of all who
work and absolutely controls the
power ctf those who do work to cre
ate goods for their own consump
tion.
The contraction of credit which is
a substitute for money forces the
delivery of the products of labor at
low money prices to the nonproduc
ers, which amounts to legalized con
fiscation.
This power to control the medi
um of exchange at will and to col
lect toll for the use of credit
amounts to despotism.
It brings on the collapse of in
dustry and the suffering of those
who want to work but are denied
the opportunity, and makes relief
necessary and permits the confisca
tion of the property of industry and
the homes of the workers through
j bankruptcy and foreclosures.
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DEPLORES FAILURE
TO SOLVE MURDER
By J. E. Wyttenberr
Nearly one year ago, a vicious
, murder was done. The resultant in
| vestigation was bungled and then
\ the case was allowed to die grad
ually of senility just as many other
of our murder cases of late.
This case which I speak of is the
Dillon boy who lived on Shelby-st.
and whose body was found trussed
up with rope and stuffed into a
sewer beneath the Pleasant Run
bridge at Shelby-st.
Can’t some pressure be brought to
bear on the homicide detail to really
try to solve this terrible crime and
bring the guilty one or ones to light?
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AMERICANS WON’T TOLERATE
ANOTHER WAR
By R. S. P.
Big Bill Thompson, the book
burning Mayor of Chicago, had the
right idea all along when he used
to storm about the perfidy and
downright orneriness of His Maj
esty’s Empire.
Ever since Queen Victoria ex
panded the gates of London to Asia
and Africa. England has tried to get
the United States in on her wars
on the simple theory that all Eng
lish -speaking people ought to band
together to protect Great Britain.
Strangely enough, some of the
American folk had the idea that
King George also ruled the United
, States and if he said go to the front
NOT AGAIN!
Scores ‘Military Rule ’
By H. L. Sceger
It looks very much like the
Democratic Party has gone drunk
with power. The attitude is very
much like that which prevailed
during the days of the reign of
the Klan, when “I am the law”
was the modus operandi.
The bill of rights and our con
stitutional guaranties are suspend
ed at will, when they apply to per
sonal rights, but are at the same
time doubly enforced as they con
cern the rights of property.
The declaration of martial law
made by former Gov. Leslie for
Sullivan County at the time of the
coal strike there has never been
lifted. Officers of the military de
partment of the state stationed at
Shakamak Park are still the nom
inal controllers of the county as
far as the declaration by Leslie is
concerned.
Can any one remember a dec
laration of martial law to protect
the personal rights as set out in
the bill of rights? Why a dual gov
ernment of military and civil au
thority, with the military supreme
as concerns the suspension of the
personal guaranties of the bill of
rights? When does the declared
military rule cease, if ever, in any
district or county, where there is
any possible chance of a strike
against working or wage condi
tions?
Now Vigo County is added to
the list of Russianized czarist
rule.
line trenches they ought to pick up
their rifles and go.
The English ambassador, Col.
House, and Woodrow Wilson in
dulged in this theory and sure
enough the United States found it
self in the "war to end war” in
1917.
The mouth of the Blue Nile in
Ethiopia is pretty far away from
the comfortable American hearth,
but his majesty's men are mad as
blazes because America won’t sub
scribe to the theory that it some
how is mixed up in protecting Brit
ain's river.
The roast beef mind of the Brit
isher can’t get over the idea that
the United States is a part of Great
Britain and can be called upon to
mobilize the moment Parliament
gives (he word.
I have never seen any historical
record of England rushing to Amer
ica’s aid in the Spanish-American
War, or before that helping the
American frontiersmen subdue the
noble red man.
Mr. Roosevelc, heretofore a rather
sensible man as President’s go,
seems to have stuck his nose out
too far in opposing neutrality leg
islation. The American voter is a
patient fellow who can stand about
anything but being a target lor an
Italian sniper.
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ANOTHER BONUS PROSPECT
AND THE NEW WAR
By Victor Volmer.
The Italians and the Ethiopians
apparently will wind up in a foot
race down there in Africa among
the lions. The English don’t want
the lions insulted that way down
there, so they'll save the civilization
by horning in on the race.
Some say it’ll be a real race, and
everybody will be in on it. The
Ethiopians are good runners, they've
got it on us with their footgear, all
they wear is spats, the rest of us
will wear military pontoons studded
with hobnails.
Then, later they’ll be talking
about another bonus again, and
that ought to encourage the
veterans now* waiting for the one
now way overdue. Yes, that’ll also
give them a chance to clean up
their World War laundry bills. The
soldiers never did balance their bud
get in those days unless they had
checks coming from home. If a
new bonus will be an issue that'll
[1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1
defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J
The Constitution provides that
the military power shall always be
subject to the civil power, except
in case of complete suspension or
breakdown of civil authority.
The military is the agent of the
civil authority, not vice versa.
When the courts are still operat
ing, granting injunctions, divorces
and money judgments, there can
be no contention that civil au
thority is suspended. Such condi
tions raise a serious doubt of judi
cial integrity.
It seems as if the Democratic
Party has found ways to block
labor from protesting any of the
grievances by speech, press and
assemblage, much less the use of
its only economic weapon, the
power of strike. Are we drifting
toward the totalitarian state of
czarism and dictatorship? We
must not forget what were the re
sults of such government in Rus
sia. Liberty can not safely be sup
pressed with impunity for very
long.
Labor will be compelled to or
ganize an American Labor Party,
if it can not trust either of the
major parties to guarantee civil
privileges and rights. If it is to be
martial law anywhere, let it apply
to all alike.
Why make the Constitution a
scrap of paper? What does the so
called right to strike amount to
under these conditions? The dis
guise is very thin.
help our future Congress ride into
office for years to come. That will
make everything right with every
body and defeat the depression with
a few strokes. Just leave it to Mus
solini.
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PUBLIC LEADERS CONFRONTED
WITH WAR DEBT PROBLEM
By R. H. Stone
The two oceans are still there.
What happens to them and beyond
them comes thundering in our ears.
Hastily, we have passed a form of
neutrality regulations. Something is
out of joint. For, we have said our
internal structure must be made
over, due to no foreign trade. Evi
dently, our planning engineers did
not keep their eye on the trade
mechanism. While they were tin
kering with the blueprints for the
rebuilding of the machine, this same
machine went off and left them.
It may be a good thing our mor
bidness about that trade practice
is given a healthy jar from outside.
It looks as though we had better tend
to business. The fates have decreed
we formulate our foreign policy
apart from the League of Nations.
Therefore, we should get busy and
put into effect a foreign policy
evolved out of the best traditions of
our nation as made possible through
our form of government based upon
a written Constitution. Napoleon
said that war was no place for a
debating society.
Men who served overseas know
that the older nations never slacken
their watch. If we stop gnawing at
the vitals of our traditions and gird
ourselves to defend our territory by
clearing away the foolish entangle
ments of finance drawn up 20 years
ago we will command respect in the
family of nations.
Silly vaudeville acts in which we
put on smoked glasses through
which to view the world will fool no
body. If with boldness we emanci
pate the old world of war debts as
Daily Thought
For great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised; H' also is to be feared
above all gods.—l Chronicles xvl^s.
FEAR is the mother of foresight.
—Sir Henry Taylor.
.AUG. 28, 1935
Lincoln did the slaves we will start
a train of events that will lead to
a lasting era of life for all mankind.
We would be on firm ground to re
duce prohibitive trade barriers be
tween the nations. As it now stands
we look like a spoiled child fum
bling with broken toys (debts). We
need men in public and private life
who will look squarely at the facts
about war debts. The spirit of
America is not dead. It still lives.
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ITALIAN-ETIIIOPIAN FLAREUP
SIMILAR TO 1919 PROBLEM
By George Fisher
The Italian-Ethiopian controversy,
the international dollar diplomacy
of the hour, might be compared
with a similar situation in Europe
in 1919.
At that time, the new govern
ment in Russia, having instituted
new economic relations among her
people, although not firmly estab
lished. became a menace to old
forms of international capitalism.
The new Russia, still writhing in
agony in the birthpains of anew
era, had to be stopped then and
there.
Germany, weary of war and great
numbers of her people in sympathy
with the Russian experiment, could
not be persuaded in any way to
help overthrow the Bolsheviki.
Even England and France had to
resort to covert aggression.
Poland, drunk with enthusiasm
over its new independence, would
have been an ideal aggressor had it
had the means to that end. An
agreement soon was concocted
whereby England and France were
to supply the money and munitions.
Organized labor of the two coun
tries refused to load or transport
the merchandise of war. Poland
could not expedite her ambitions
and labor had shown its humani
tarian cause in international diplo
macy.
Admitted that organized labor
never was as forceful a power in the
American state of affairs as their
contemporaries in Europe, outstand
ing leaders proclaimed and hailed
the seventh clause of the NRA the
Magna Charta of labor. Then came
the evasion and reluctance policy of
the President’s code administration
in the coal, steel and automotive
industries and its unavoidable in
fluence upon the rest of organized
labor.
According to surface indication,
the President would like to go con
siderably farther in the mainte
nance of neutrality than either
branch of Congress.
Our Dream
BY M
How happy, dear
Close on your breast
To lay my head
And silent rest.
To feel you near
And love you so
Oh, this I know
And know I know.
I hear your words
Os love repeat
And truly know
Life’s joys complete.
Who never found
A love as ours
I pity all
Lost golden hours.
Come sun or rain
These joys I’ll know
In storm or strife
Forevermore.
You brought me life
Complete tat last
I have our dream
No more must ask.