The American Guardian (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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There was a run on the biggest
banks in the LOOP district Bluf-
fer Dawes sent out an S O S for
help to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation whose presidency be
had just resigned and secured a
huge sum for his bank What was
harpening in Chicago was DE-
LIBERATELY played down by the
press whin had given wide puts
lieity to Dawes' eptimistic state-
ment "DIG r sT" WAS
WORS OFFENDER
But the offense of the daily press
I was almost as nothing when com-
pared with that of the Lit erlt ry
4gest published in teis town but
with a large circulation in every
1state of the Union This weekly
actually had the nerve to dish out
to its readers in its issue of July
19 after all of the 30 Chicago bunks
: had closed their doors and there
had been a run on the big banks
I in the Chicago Loop section and
after Dawes had received an Un-
mense sum from a government
corporation with which to
l
Strengthen his own bank a ful-
some article praising Dawes' silly
optimistic statement
Printed in July the literary Di-
gest was careful not to call atten-
tion to the fact that the statement
of Dawes was made in June The
article began with "Crackhng
I words of good cheer from the man
! who made 'Hell and 'Maria famous
give this depression-worn country
( a thrill of optimism" Then lot-
I lowed the atatement of Dawes I
:have already quoted
Not contented with this the
Literary Digest quoted from pa-
pers throughout the country Nari-
ous words of praise for Dawes'
statement These quotes where
they were taken from daily papers
were undoubtedly taken from June !
Issues If the fellow in the Digest
office who wields the scissors had
bad any sense of humor he cer-
tainly would have left out the
quote from the Chicago Journal of
Ceinmerce "If any man in the U
s S should know how things are
running in most businesses he is
General Dawes"
NOW FOR THE
REAL ST tFF
This handling of the 131LWI'M
t Statement at this belated date by
the Digest is all the more remark-
able in view of the fact that the
continuous closing of Chicago
banks bad been forced into the
news in spite of all the "playing
I down" and the Digest itself was
compelled to notice these failures
In another article In this article
I however nothing was said about
Dawes having appealed for help to
the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration At the time Blufrer Dawes was
C talking what was being told the
bankers by the biggest trade and
securities bureau engaged in gath-
L ering information for its clients in
every state of the Union? here
is the confidential statement they
sent out at this time:
"Trade statistics contain
nothing that might be construed
as indicating a turning point in
the downward trend of business
Definite indications of busi-
ness recovery are not anticipated
before the spring of 1933 mean-
while the outlook is for slack
I industrial asitivity and disap-
c pointing corporate Pit rning-s"
t This bureau does not deal in
psychology but in facts If it
: didn't it would soon lose its clients
Most of the clients would and have
C in the past Led to their customers
to make big profits but they don't
wesit te be lied to That's an-
other matter
AUTO BUSINESS
I FFILL SKIDDING
f line are some of the things we
KNOW down here not just
THINK The automobile industry
continues to get it in the neck
The output declined 45 per cent for
( the first six months from the 1931
level and the decline that year
from the previous one was any-
' thing but slight Some residers of
The Guardian may remember how
I ridiculed the claims of the auto-
mobile people last December ask-
ing where they expeets:' tte people
to get money so buy then ma-
chines
I As for the radio business de-
mand goes down down down
t Again lack of purchasing power
4 of the mass of the people What's
the good of making things If you
can't sell 'cm As for the rail-
road business of course it is rotten
even with the Class A roads If
you can't sell things you
make 'em and if you don't make
'em you don't transport 'em If
you turn to the deparment store
sales you find they declined 22 per
cent for the first half of the year
As for the basic industry of
Pteel the figures indicate that it
will fall about 40 per cent for the
year 1932 As for textile fabrics
we know the sales fell about 30
per cent for the first six months
of this year And even th i great-
est natural monopoly in the coun-
try the telephcne business is get-
ting it right on the solar plexus
Disconnections of instruments
which were absent in the early
months et the depression are con-
tinually increasing as the resources
of the people become depleted
A "BIG ()NE"
TALKS FRANKLY
But why go on? I'm going to
end with quoting a man still of
big means who understands the
f workings of the present system
' and most of whose money is now
( in sbort term government securi-
ties which only pay about 1 per
I cent net
- It was a private convers-ation
"What's the use of speculating
about conditions" he said "Every-
s thing we deal in has value given
t to it )secause people buy goods
tr and service at a profit The more
' the people spend Use more profit
t we fellows get who own shares in
a the corporations which sell the
things and services If the spend-
logs of the mass decliiie the value
r of the bonds and shares we own
decline and the values of these
t bonds and shares today with a
t few excepticns record the decline
' of the purchasing power of the
millions
"I'm thorouebly sick of experts
E 'business cycle expects "planning
experts' and all the rest The only
plan I'm interested in the ot
t plan that will enable me to keep
what I have lef': out of this mess
c is a plan to give the mass of the
e wa
people a full time job at ges
"- that 'ill give them a liberal
L amount of msney to spend and its
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help to the
Has German
Labor Been
"Licked"?
Passiveness of Late Has
Been Appalling Caused
Ey Disappointments
—
By NOTABENE
Special Correspondence To
The Guardian
MT:RLIN—The new von Papen-
Schleicher cabinet of feudal aristo-
crats old-time diplomats and am-
bitious militarists has dissolved the
reichstag and general electiom
will be held On July 31
Will the Ilitlerites be able to
conunand a majority in the new-
elected parliament? The rent
state 'elections showed that while
a Fascist majority is not probable
a Fascist-Nationalist majority is
possible A parliament where Hit-
ler's Fascists must look to former
Chancellor Eruening's Catholix
party for support either by coali-
tion or by a parliamentary "tol-
eration" is the most likely de-
velopment liruening's Catholic Centrists
have until now played the role of
a middle post in German post-war
politics as every new election re
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how the Germans solicit votes in
such a campaign as is opening
now Many parties have their post-
ers on this pole At the top i$ the
Social Deinocratio plea marked
"Lisle No I" Lower is the Com-
munist appeal marked 'Liste No
4" to the left is the National So-
7ialis1s' (Fascist) c:! marked Liste
No 8" and the Chris!ian Socialists'
slogan is marked No 14
stilted in their unavoidable par-
ticipation in the government
which WW1 unable to find a ma-
jority without them It is ob-
vious however that with the abso-
lute increase of the Ilitlerites the
relative strength of the middle
party the Center begins to
dwinlle It can therefore only Re-
sume an attitude toward the Hit-
lerites which tries to prevent their
gaining the strength which would
enable them to exclude it from
power
III:CHUFFED FROM
CATHOLIC LABOR
Beal ts thia mere political con-
shieration of the Centrists there
is a social one Who ig backing
them? Sixty per cent of their
members and followers are re-
cruited from the ranks of Catholic
Labor in the Milne land and in
Westphalia These workers are
organized In the etrongest union
besides the Socialist one the
Chriatian Trade Union They are
unlike the majority of the German
workers and resemble more the
majority of the American workers
in their lack of class consciousness
They will however never tolerate
the anti-workiag class policy fol-
lowed by the new government
which is the first since the over-
throw of the monarchy not having
any labor representative in its
ranks In the future nmeh de-
pends 9n the Catlin lio ‘vorkers
Their neutral pelitical attitude
could become a great chance for
Hitler when he assumes power and
does not find In them strong and
active opponents against his ttohe-established)
system el fascist
terrorism
One reason for the Centrist dis
got to come quickly unless we want
to see this entire financial and in-
dustrial system go clear to hell"
"ACTING LIKE
MORONS"
As far as saving the capitalist
system and with it his own finan-
cial skin the financier was right
Why his fellow financiers cannot
see it is one of the mysteries that
I haven't enough brains to solve
They are acting like a lot cif mo-
rons Personally I want to see the
whole profit system destroyed and
a socially sane system take its
place I don't talk about that
down here however It wouldn't
do any good
I know I won't see it however
until the mass of the people take
the bit in their teeth and refuse
to pull the load for the few any
longer In the meantime the only
piece of useful work I can do is to
tell the readers of The Guardian
once in a whOe whrt is really hap-
pening in this neck of the wilder-
ness of capitalism
:
RED PARTIES
OF REICH IN
JOINT MARCH
Communists and Social-
ists Protest Suppres-
sion of Press
BErtI111—For the first time
3 ince the parties split after the
World War the Socialists and
Communists of Berlin Joined in
demonstration when they
made comfit-non cause over the
suppression by the von Papen
Covernment of Vorwaerts offi-
cial organ of the Socialist party
on the ground that it had slan-
dered the government and presi-
dent of the Reich
A crowd estimated at more
than 150000 gathered in the
Lustgarten the immense square
m which faces the old imperial
palace museums and the Berlin
cathedral Men women and chil-
dren marched through the
streets to this center from all
sides their shouts directed by
cheer leaders drowning out the
noise of traffic Addi ti o n al
crowds lined the streets along
which the paraders went held in
check by large detachments of
police
Communist delegations
marched in the same proces-
sions with the Socialists 8 Ild
Joined in cries against littler
but adding with raked fists
their "flail to the Soviet Union"
In the square a system of
Loud-speakers carried the
speeches of Socialist leaders to
all parts of the Lustgarten
There was tremendous cheering
when Friedrich Staernpfer edi-
tor of the Vorwaerts ex-
claimed: "It is not Vorwaerts
which should be suppressed but
the present Cabinet—and for
good—and that will be done
July 31 in the Reichstag elections"
like of the Ilitlerites is a religious
one Although many of the lead-
ers of the Ilitlerites are born
Catholics his following is essen-
tially Protestant The members of
the new government who are be-
lievt d to have some sort of secret
agreement with the Hitlerites are
mainly Hasa-Prussian Protestant
junkers who symbolize for the
Catholic Centrists those elements
who uuccessfully in pre-war days
succeeded in excluding them from
the government and from the bu-
reaucracy and whose Protestant
church had a privileged position as
the "Imperial Religion"
ROME's POWER
)11CII INCREASED
TheWeimar constitution of 1919
gave an equal standing to the
Cat lino church and during the
last decade different state govern-
ments like Prussia and Bavaria
concluded concordats with them
which were appreciated as great
Catholic tuccesses The favorable
position of the Catholic nowadays
is mainly due to their collabora-
tion with the Social-Democrats in
Prussia (Prussia is 62 per cent of
Germany) where they commanded
together with the Liberal Demo-
crats a majority in the Prussian
diet for the last ten years
Today with the Hitler threat
nearer than ever before there may
be much criticism of the identifi-
cation of the Social-Democratic
leaders with the state machinery
of the capitalist republic Their
support of the conservative Bruen-
ing government could have been
defended with the argument to try
everything possible to keep the Hit-
lerites out of power The counter-
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Socialists sK (ler
man Support
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The Social Democrats until re-
rently Immt powefut party in
Prussia carrying on effective cam-
paigns for votes in such elections
ls that now beginning in Germany
llere are shown some of the means
they use to hold their trede union
tunowers in line and get out their
big vote
argument that the longer the So-
cialists tolerated the Bruening gov-
ernment the more sure Hitler
would finally "jump in" WaS
proved entirely true during tb
last weeks Of course they als')
'wanted to retain the control over
the Prussian police After having
lost their majority in the Prussian
diet during the last Prussian elec-
tions they are deen'ed however
to lose very soon the control over
It
MILITARY MEN
IN TILE SADDLE
Militarists of the most reac-
tionary anti-working class type
are now at the head of the Fed-
eral army and their assuming com-
mand over the Prussian police is
only a question of time With the
army and the police anybody is
able to keep down for a long time
subversive movements The mili-
tarists now again in political power
will not quit Contrary to the Social-Democrats
and all other weak
German Republicans they will
know how to use the power And
they will not forget as (after the
confession of one of the most con-
servative types of Social-Democrats
Philip Scheidemann) the
Socialists forgot in 191$-1s to do
away with some hundred if not
thousands of theq outstanding op-
ponents With such prospects in
view there is not One minute left
for engaging in philosophical con-
templations about the unsocialist
RPla weak behaviour of the Social-
Democrat leaders in the last ten
yrs rs
It soems more important to me
that the majority of the German
THZ AMIE1ICAP4
Hard-boiled Harbord
Thinks Vets Should
Act Like Sheep
By COVINGTON MILL
When "our boys" as President
Wilson generously put it were
conscriptoriously "volunteering en
masse" to "make the world safe
for democracy" they were told by
all the big bankers big business
men and big Democratic and Re-
publican politicians that ''Nothing
will be too good for you boys
when you come home from over
there!" And as we irreverent
"Reds" comment Immediately on
tbe coming back of the "crusaders"--"NOTHING
it is boys"
And that's right all right as you
veterans will easily see by reading
the following noble sentiments ex-
pressed by Gen James G Harbor('
in an interview toward the "Bonus
Army" recently encamped around
Washington The interview with
the noble pay-triot appeared in
The St Louis Star of June 8 Here
it is Vets Be sure to read it and
after digesting it if you all are
still boneheads enough to go and
ote either the Democratic or Re-
publican ticket this coming No-
vember then all I have to say is
that you all sure are hopeless
cases with brains less efficient
than those of a canary
NEW om e thing
must be done to curb the Bonus
Army march on Washington
Gen James G Harbord declared
here last night
"Nothing so ominous or so
nasty as the bonus march has
been seen in the United States
since 1916 when the representa-
tives of organized labor sat in
the galleeies of congress and
forced through the eight-hour
railroad law under a threat to
strike" he said
"NVhethet the men have ad-
mitted to themselves or whether
they are even conscious of it
their purpose undoubtedly is to
intimidate congress into paying
the bonus certificates
"I condemn the leaders of the
marchers the Communists and
the politicians rather than the
marchers themselves because
they may not even be aware of
the seriousness of the movement
Many of them obviously are stu-
pid and they can't be blamed
1793 when the Revolu-
tionary soldiers marched on
Philadelphia then the capital
the circumstances were some-
what different They were ask-
ing for their pay George Wash-
ington ordered out the troops to
disperse them Nobody has or-
dered out troops now to disperse
the bonus marchers though it
seems to me that the business of
the government is to govern
"We should keep in mind that
if we keep on feeding these vet-
erans in Washington they will
keep on coming from all over the
country I don't know what may
happen then"
Well Vets how do you like
"Hardholled" Harbord's pay-triotic
Intentions toward you? 'Member
how he and his gang sicked you
Norris Demands
Probe of R F C
Suspicion Excited By Huge
Loan To Dawes
WASHINGTON — (FP)—Trac-
ing of emergency loans made by
the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration through small banks to
their creditors the big banks of
the Morgan and allied groups is
one of the chief purposes of the
Norris resolution offered in the
Senate for inquiry into what loans
have been made and under what
condition
Sewaitor Couzens proposed an
amendment providing for a select
committee of senators to make a
thorough investigation of these
loans and to report to the Senate
next January
The $S0000000 loan to Dawes'
bank immediately following his
retirement from the presidency of
the R F C has aroused nation-
wide criticism and suspicion Ncr-
ris denounced the secrecy which
shrouds the work of the R F C
when he offered his resolution
Long of Louisiana declared that he
bad information that bonds issued
by Morgan & Co are the most
acceptable form of collateral for
loans in the view of the Corpo-
ration and that other bonds spon-
sored by less powerful groups
were discriminated against The
result he argued was that the R
F C was boosting the Morgan interests
HOOVER'S AMERICA
Freighters Gaining Passenger
Trade-- Headline And so are the
box cars
workers and they are Still organ-
ized in the party and the trade-
unions backed this policy It is
an absurd thing to make a distinc-
tion between the leaders and their
following The members have hun-
dreds of occasions to throw the
I-aders where they belong The
same Is even true for the Com-
munist party of Germany the only
strong Communist organization
outside Soviet-Prussia
ATTITUDE ASTONISH-
INGLY PASSIVE
In the most clars-conscious and
best organized working-class in
the world there seems to be eive
an old German tradition It is not
the progressive French tradition
of anti-clericalism nor British
dernocratism nor American indi
vidualism but the old conservative
PrLssian idea of obedience No
doubt discipline is indispensable to
the success of the Labor move-
ment I do not contend that the
German workmen's discipline is
one which v:ould accept every or-
der to march without knowing
where to march But I daresay
that the recent years of disap-
pointments have created an aston-
ishing passive attitude In the Ger-
man workers CO that many pre-
tended that the only remedy to
inake them wake up Vould be the
"experience" of a Hitler regime
V05 on the Reds and I V NV's
When you got back from "over
there"? What suckers they played
you for then? Yeah I guess some
of you do
Arid now what are you going to
da about it? Join the alleged
Democratic party as I see some of
your "leaders" are advocating? If
so w hat' s gained by Jumping out
of the frying pan into the fire
boys? Think it over had boys
before you jump Also remember
when tbey come to you howling
"We want beer and booze!" that
It doesn't make much difference to
you and the wife and kids whether
you all starve to death drunk or
sober Think it over hard boys
And that isn't all Regarding
"Ilardboiled" Ilarbord's invitation
to the government to call out the
troops and shoot you into submis-
sion do you believe the American
regulars and militiamen will be
beasts enough to obey orders to
shoot down their starving friends
and brothers and their women and
children? I don't or rather I won't
until I see it and I hope I won't
live to Even the Russian Czar's
Cossacks revolted against that sort
of infamous "duty to their( ?)
country" and I'm damned if I be-
lieve American soldiers are worse
than the Czar's Cossacks
Anyhow its past time for you
boys to wake up and get bep to
yourselves and what's going on in
"this land of the free" You all
are never going to get anything
vorth while out of Capitalism
hoys The plunderous system has
collapsed and there is no hope for
us Underinen but to get together
and establish Industrial Democ-
racy on its ruins Think it over
hard boys! It is Socialism or Bar-
barism Take your choice
BUILIING A LOCAL
By WALTER THOMAS MILLS
How a Useful Worker
Can Best Serve
NOTE—This Is the tenth of a
series of articles on the purpose
structure activities and self-government
of a Socialist Local
ARTICLE 10
1 What do you
mean by a useful
worker
Anyone whose occupation con-
tributes to the general welfare
may be very properly spoken of as
a useful worker
2 Are these
useful workers
the only ones who
would benefit by
the coming of So-
cialism? No All classes of people will be
greatly benefited by the coming of
Socialism But the useful people
can more easily see and realize the
benefits that would come to them
and can be more easily interested
to become active workers for the
coming of Socialism It is always
sound policy to give attention first
to those tasks most easily under-
taken and most easily accom-
plished That is not a good reason
for neglecting others but it is a
reason for seeking out the useful
workers if any seeking is to be
done
3 How can one
most effectively
enter into a dis-
cussion of Social-
ism with one who
is not a Social-
ist? It is more than likely that the
person addressed already knows
enough about affairs to make him
a Socialist if he only knew just
how Socialism would improve the
living conditions of himself or of
himself and his family and the
families of all others For this rea-
son do not assume to play the role
of the teacher but proceed by ask-
ing some question concerning
which you must know that he has
some knowledge and possibly some
opinions as to what should be done
about it 1S'hatever his linSIVCI" do
not meet It with a direct denial
either of the accuracy of his state-
ments or in opposition to his opin-
ions Just ask another question By
this process lead him to say him-
self what ought to he done If
what be proposes is anything
which cannot be done under our
present disorder of things ask by
whet means it could be under-
taken In this way if you proceed
patiently and ask your questions
wisely he will propose some action
which cannot be undertaken under
capitalism In that case do not tell
him so Just state what would
make the undertaking difficult and
ask him how to overcome these
difficulties Sooner or later be will
mention something which the state
or nation should undertake Than
the next question wculd be how to
induce the state or nation to
undertake the plans whch be has
suggested
When be has finally stated some
really progressive measure ask
him to suggest a way by which
this can be accomplished
What I am trying to have you
ask him to do is not to urge his
adoption of the conclusions of your
thinking- Ask the questions which
Will lead him to do the think''
himself and when be has thught
his way to some wise COUCILIFICII of
his own as the result of h!s cvra
thinking you can agree with hm
instead of asking him to agree
with yeti
4 such an
argument make
the person ad-
dressed a Social-
ist! I'robably not but many many
times it will Whether it does or
does not proceed to get him tO
subscribe for a Socialist paper But
in any case your next interview
with him ill start with the pre
I
!low Hobo Raised
Dime In Kansas
— ---
By O Harry Frederickson
HAYS Kan---ifTl—Here'S
how one 'bo ropliQA to a propo-
sition that he go work for his
board on a tarm as many
"home guards" are doing
A tilling station attendant
offered the suggestion when
touched for the price of a meal
"Listen young fella if I
wants to sork for my board and
room I don't have to go to no
farm I can call up your boss
and get your Job What would
become of you and the rest of
of them if we started working
for nothing? In refusing to
work for our board we're pro-
tecting your Job"
"I never thought of that" re-
plied the wage slave as he dug
Into his pocket for some change
in accordance with Hoover's
faith that local and private
charity will care for the unemployed
Biggest Crop In
History Foreseen
By Soviet Chiefs
MOSCOW---According to present
Indications the current year's grain
crop would be the biggest in the
history of Russia Valerian Ossin-
sky head of the State Statistical
Bureau announced
The yield per hectare (247
acres) probably would be at least
six pounds greater than last year
he said and the total crop har-
vested about 8200000 tons greater
M Ossinsky indicated that it was
too early to attempt to determine
the exact figures The actual acre-
age sown was somewhat less than
last year but this factor is ex-
pected to be more than offset by
an increase in the yield per hectare
vious agreement as to what should
be done That having been ac-
complished you will have a clear
field to talk about the single ques-
tion as to how to get it done If
you do your work well its conclu-
sion will be that it must be done
by the action of the government
If this is true get his application
for a membership in the Socialist
party and enlist his interest in
naming others who can be reached
with his assistance If you can do
that you will have made both a
Socialist and a worker for So-
cialism 5 What about
speaking for So-
cialism ?
By all manner cf means help
him to !earn how to speak for So-
cialism There are all sorts of op-
portunities to speak for Socialism
but in doing so ask yourself ques-
tions and then answer them
A good speech should be nothe
Mg but a conversation In which
the speaker carries on both sides
of the conversation and in doing
this he should follow the same
tactics as in a private talk with
a neighbor
In this way every private talk
will be a training for a public
speech and every public speech a
further preparation for a private
talk
6 Should a be-
ginner try both to
speak and to
write for the
press or try to
publish books or
pamphlets?
Why not? If he writes for the
press the paper will not use his
stuff unless it is useful If it proves
to be useful because it is used once
in a paper why not re-write it for
a leaflet or maybe for a book? But
whether one tries to speak or
write he must be prepared for
many bitter disappointments The
fact that one's articles are not pub-
lished or that one's speeh has to
him seemed to be a failure is no
sign that it is not worth while
Editors of papers with national
circulations are usually over-
whelmed with contributions of the
highest order which they cannot
use And the new writer most in
any case have struck a new vein
or an entirely new dressing for an
old thought or his manuscript will
be returned One established with
a wide reputation or a man made
widely known by some accident or
some unusual achievement can put
over all sorts of worthless stuff
but the use of their stuff must not
encourage one to send to pub-
lishers written material just be-
cause he well knows that it Is su-
perior to the stuff he reads from
others
There is a wide field of use-
fulness in svriting for the press
that the Socialists are every-
Is here neglecting to use and that
Is the columns of the local press
Some years ago I sent for a long
time a weekly letter to a long
list of country papers over my
own name which gave me sev-
eral million readers until other
matters made it impossible to
continue that service
At another time I sent a weekly
letter to a long list of comrades
who rewrote or revised and made
use of as if original matter but
published over their own names in
the local press I really think that
this last t service was among the
best schemes I have ever tried to
reach the public with the things I
rvas so anxious to have said Be-
sides this some of the best news-
paper men in this country were
among the comrades who used my
stuft as they were authorized to
do but as rewritten by themselves
for the readers within their reach
and for which in its final form I
was in no way responsible
Well these are some of the ways
in which a useful worker can serve
the cause of Socialism
The subject of next week's ar-
ticle will be: "The :leY1f-6overning
Local"
Pastor TTTIzo
Voted "Red"
Loses Place
Business Men Deacons
Wanted "Comfort &net-
ness and Light"
From The Buffalo Courier-Express
Because be "preached Socialism"
from hi pulpit on Sundays the
Rev William J Semple pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Gowanda has been forced to give
up his charge His resignation
already has been offered and ac-
cepted and he will leave August 1
According to Mr Semple he has
not been preaching Socialism but
"the social gospel" which means
that society and the social system
as well as the individual may be
held up to tests of righteousness
The Immediate cause of the
Friday July 15 1931:
'COMMENTING ON
THE HEADLINES
By COVINGTON HALL
July 6—Recognition of Soviet
by U S looms as possibility ("Pos-
sibility" is more than right Cap-
italism either finds more and big
get foreign markets or Capitalism
soon tahos the final count in the
U S A And that's that!)
Then "Hyde says Roosevelt re-
forestation project utterly vision-
ary" (Almost as much so I should
say as Ilyde's advice to the farm-
ers last year to go out and eat
grass Nothing like our "Big Men"
when it comes to seeing visions in-
stead of lacing facts)
"Democratic chiefs making har-
monious gestures down East" and
"Politician accused of biting op-
ponent" (And such is harmony
under Capitalism — all gestures
and biting and no music)
The immediate cause of the I "Senator Borah demands cur-
breach which reached its official
rency expansion before adjourn-
close when the Buffalo Presbytery ment" of Congress (Blagiblaa Bill
this week dissolved the pastoral
relations of the Gowanda church how to "inflate prices" without in-
wants to "help the farmers" but
not say Just like a "Liberal
l
ary by $500 a year leader" ain't it?)
and Mr Semple lay in the arbi- fluting wages the Big Wind does
trary reduction of the pastor's sal-
"
Mr Semple's interpretation of White House Conference on re-
this act of the trustees was that it
that?)
lief fails" (What's the news in
was designed to force his resigna-
tion which he offered forthwith "Wets in Congress press for ac-
meanwhile over in St Louis we
however denied the salary reduc-
read: "5000 more families to face
It was accepted A leading num- tion on Convention plank" and in
her of the church board of sessions
tion was designed to bring about
starvation in St Louis July 15
Citizens' committee must drop
Mr Semple's resignation
SUSPICION AS TO them to prevent deficit" (This in
HIS "REGULARITY" addition to "8000 families already
According to other leading mem-
al leaves "12000 destitute
hers of the congregation which l told dropped" niaking 13000 families
numbers about 100 active persons
theso can be carded (maybe) until
families on the charity roll and
the case against Pastor Semple de-
veloped in this wise: the beginning of 1933" Cheering
1 When he first came to Go-
ing the plutes most seems to be
news isn't it? But what's worry
wanda three years ago the parish-
loners were delighted with his ser-
demie ill break out in the city s w
mons He was forceful he —as their fear that pestilential ept
eloquent be spoke plainly But
due to the terrible overcrowding of
and the unsanitary conditions un-
after some months had passed a
suspicion was born that the pastor
being ed
der which their disemployed are
was not regular politically He forc to exist in which case
was not a Republican be was not
a Democrat--he was something wartime banquets for worms—
else a lot of them might furnish pre-
along with the rest of us And
2 From time to time in his ser-
of course that would never do
MMIE Pastor Semple was beard to
But what to do about it? Bright
Idea: Why not drop 'em all off the
speak of Socialism in an admiring
way as if there were something
good about it More be even said "charity(?) roll" and their agony
and thus "prevent the deficit" for
in his pulpit that there might be kPel)S?)
some good in Soviet Russia Then "Houston Post-Dispatch
BROUGIIT HAHN building (22 stories high) sold at
TO HIS PULPIT auction for $750000" to mortgage
h
3 The suspicion hardened Into holder the New England Mutual
( ?)
certainty when Pastor Semple Life( ?) Insurance( ?) Corn-
p
brought to Gowanda as speaker ans (Sounds like a shakedown
b e f o r e the interdenominational of a heap of "save something for
y-
Men's el-an a preacher from Buf-
our old age" bunch to me buts
falo the Rev Herman J Hahn "business is business")
who came right out and said that Lastly: "3-cent letter rate is
Socialism is the kind of govern-
effective today" (Praise the Dem-
!tient Christians must embrace ocratic-Republican or sive versa
4 Close on the heels of this it party from whom all blessings
was discovered that Pastor Semple "Iv)
voted the Socialist ticket
5 The analysis having been man-made system that is keeping
made the congregation began to God's children from what is theirs
it
see socialism in practically every-
seems clear to roe that it is the
thing Pastor Semple said from his
duty of a Christian minister to do
pulpit They began staying away something about it to do what be
The purse strings were pulled can to point the way
tighter The pillars of the church "I think it is possible to find a
bided their time system whereby man can enjoy
"There is no doubt about Mr what God has given him My own
Semple's fine Christian character solution is social ownership of
and sincerity" a deacon said yes- these goods and I may have indi-
terday "He is a godly and earnest sated this in my sermons A
young man There is no blemish change is coming I am sure of
on his own character whatever that"
WANTED "SWEET-
NESS AND LIGHT" a so
"But we who are business men classified Ativ 7 s
who have business troubles six
days a week don't want to go to
church on Sunday to bear more RATES
about economics and how bad Ado Hun Consecutively
things are We go to get a little Rcr iine Inc
1 Illin"ees' l'" '11"e lic
comfort a little sweetness and Ise I toe l'e
light Count six average words to the line
"I don't know that Mr Semple
ever came right out and said we
13 E A E TI FuI5 trep1:tkTer8yenito Jurillt times $15
ought to go Socialist but he is '
always talking about economic Bulicirirs
evils of our society and how things -- - -- — - ----- '-'sla'-':r-eX
PRINTING
are wrong He speaks of Social-
c
ism as if he thinks it is pretty isissiNssis 6TATIONERY at maii or-
good and he mentions Russia now
der prices Free use of our 10nita
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and then as if that is all right too luctetter11ceicesSeatil:Id usi u urrens natl ocopy of what ti
What I say is anybody who thinks cuts will be sent b
Russia is all right should go there l'tbel Printing Leader l'reSk IOC?
liox 777 Oklahoma
"He was warned to stop talking City Okla
stop" s
about Socialism but he wouldn't PA 31 P II I E Ts
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t is th e P
roic::lauloacg-ar!ieu I Mattl set ma-
Iv Mr Semple though reluctant to R D asamisissoN's cOstalUNIT
explain his position said when t)uAiI:N:eltrls1111 his 02
l
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tltitk deysectriberd )lis this best propaganda
pressed that he considered it his s
duty as a Christian minister to Tittell by a Texas wheat farmer ii
speak the truth as he sees it that itii
certain economic evils of the time i
sress: I ePotrsu'iset C4411°1144 thecorliebile':ili
seem to him most important truth (-'"tsi 25 c"i"4 $1" ri' erTle84 il 75
now and that he could see no rea- Atatrien steruc s250 post pa id TN
son for sparing the feeling of homa Cit (1(111fitan box 77 Okla
members of the congregation just 77777—
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because they had business troubles Alt ( 443 011 101i:1" in 111-page pain-
of their own plant Iiit in DOW in Third Edition
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for somebody else to start the cgt:lt 1:::rtii:t'ihsbc:hi'i:irsiunsgin" lli the
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"It rosy be our duty from time
to time to consider the economic slea simile will to fo'r yiattu:'re711E0'741
problem on Sunday not in the Tr'tili“va'1111 "
same way the business men face it ‘vassia$)--setSalistm to write li'
during the week but from the a leso sei w m
ses wiser eoperati've pal
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standpoint of religion and higher te"i7 iTtr t 't e11114 nes healthiest
idealism We may even question l'i 1 T P1-it-Iii W D Hayman
the rightness and wrongness of the
depression God may also have Mimi': LLA NE()"
something to say about the distri- El IT iiii--i want your manuserints
bution of wealth
Mr Semple said he is not a t1:ieI'':::v1:::'111'IAt i Hanna 412 Park
11'1? Typed a lid prepared toe say
ii 4114344 per thous-
member of the Socialist party
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though he votes the Socialist i 1 i write quickl
Nye -
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be a radical change in the social
order here" be said "And my be-
lief in this may have been reflected
hrliv Fever keeps
and DAY FiiVER
in some of the things I have laid It 3611 poiTer wan otta k f 4 h a
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