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By Stage-Hand
and
The Vice-Presidential convention of the Democratic
Party really began four days before the opening session
when the Committee on Platform began its hearings We
were all 99fi) sure that the President would run again—
even those of us who before the Hitler thugs violated Bel-
gium and Holland and swept into France believed he would
not
Across the street from the national headquarters the
platform committee has sat for as low a time as the Con-
vention itself will sit It began last Thursday They heard
all sort of witnesses but it is my belief that what these
various persons had to say had as little effect on the mem-
be s of the committee as the
speeLhes on the floor of Congresstnight from the President of the
have in influencing the minds of United States by authority of his
word"
the members the The platform
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had doubtless come out in the brief i I
The delegates understood this n feature in this measure is only half
cases of its leading members aftem shor r- Rumor Hitler To
t message and they were n the story
weeks of argument pro and con in
Washington Some slight changes
stunned for a' few minute' s The I Senator Burke Nebraska lame-
rnnht he made after the four days overwhelming majority of them! u
"Ive Us Canada duck defeated in the primaries
'
had been instructed from back who has been an open admirer
of hearings but they were of no home for Roosevelt and now the of Hitler methods calls the meas-
moment Tomorrow Wednesday ' : President was releasing them from 1 Adolph Hitler plans if victorious lure a "Bill to Protect the Integ-
we will hear it read
The opening session Moday was !any obligation to vote for his nom- i in Europe to make the United rity and Institutions of the United
-4 i 11 ation when the time for naming States a gift of Canada according States" but it fastens a system
sive t and of na interest whatever 1 —
Icanumates in the convention ar- to the "Inside Information" column 'on the country that may well de-
Not all of the delegates even at- rived
la the London Sketch last week stroy those free institutions
tended and there were thousands
The paper went on to say that
OLDIERS AT
of empty seats in the galleries A Their Only Hope this was in accordance with his i
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clergyman talked with Cod asking "America or COOLIE LEA EL
! proposal of "Ai f the 1
for guidance How the Almighty They didn't want to be released Conscripts would be paid the
all mixed upOne part for one reason and the 'Americans Europe for the Euro-
coolie wage of $5 a month regard-
keeps from getting !
other part of the delegates for P"' "Hitler will give a sot-'
in guiding so many political groups eans less of w hether or not they have
emn pledge not to interfere in the
opposing each other's ideas I quite another One part are really !dependents They could be called
Americas " says the Sketch!
0111 hnOW I have a suspicion for Roosevelt because they think 1 away from their schooling or their
that he is luckily hard of hearing he has really done something to "As proof of his sincerity be would
!employment at any time The mil-
Results indicate it The machin- !better the conditions of the pen-agree to the incorporation of Can- itary machine would have a whip
ery being put in order the session pie The other part are just as ads'" hand over labor It could outlaw
adjourned It took just about 40 much opposed to the New Deal strikes by declaring that they in-
minutes policies as the Tory Republicans 'Jobless lief I 11
ate terfered with the administration
e 11 IL V I Il But they sense if any Democrat ' -
:of the act
FEARLESS AND TRUE
OKLAII0MA CITY OKLA FRIDAY JULY 26 19-10
Farmers and Liberals
I FIVIUtit 71 tIIP Ilt- 1 UHL Llt aim IA ”J ItS 7t I in OP II
i
During the past month I've been sitting before the radio produces 12 per cent of the world's wool
listening to the big noise from Philadelphia and Chicago' produces 2 7 per cent of the worlds wood pulp
I heard ss'ords words cascades cataracts and tidal waves ofl
In short America is the richest country on earth could
words I listened to oratory elocution wan and bunktml'io
e easily twice as rich and support twice its present popu-
until ms' ears hurt and heart sickened In that saturnalia
lation at a considerably higher standard of living than the
of words I heard "freedom" "country" "flag" "home
present—if freed from incubus profit But as blessed profit
"mother" "fireside" "Hitler" "Stalin" "Satan" "Jehovah"
yet in an forty-odd not be disturbed one-third of our people a paltry
and "democracy" dragged all over the place and
orty-odd million if you please are ill-fed ill-housed and
that wordy whirlpool not a word about an American market ill-clothed according to the testimony of the good man we
for American goods right here in -America
have just drafted to save America from non-existing foreign
we do foes Yes non-existing in spite of the b'll f d h'
Poor me! Poor you! Poor all of us! 1Vhat shall i ions o 1A-or s t a t
with our alarming surplus of eats if Hiner corners Europe have been spoken and printed to the contrary For if the
and only a third of our people are ul-te(l ? poor tne poor combined navies of France and England could' not land and
N-011 poor all of us what shall we do with our depressing maintain an arms' in nearby Norway and Hitler was com-
suplus of wool cotton and needle trade svorliers if Mussolini relied to rob his own people of milk and bread to get within
a
Protest Regimentation
repudiate Nation-wide opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth co n-!carryour impossible overhead or
rept it and adopt an eco-
i
Scription (and regimentation) bill began to manifest itself nonue system that isn't screwy
last week when farmers and labor leaders and spokesmen
of liberal organizations protested this amazing measure tr'1111)ig aLt:triekv aeillidn isli11t4 !prie!:s labor
which the Economic Royalists supported by the forces ' keep hare-cropeprs a "tat-aril:Id-
which want a huge army to meddle in European affairs are den farmers quiet and under thk
attempting to put over on American democracy Some of ! hill the kickers can he farmed out
1 to Indust rialist s and wait hero
the strongest statements of protest are quoted below !Planters—at $5 a month and keel)
Anzerical
repudiate it and adopt an eco-
nomic system that isn't screwy
A big artikv ean suppress lahor
troubles here and elsebere and
keep share-croppers and deht-riddn
farmers quiet and tinder this
hill the kickers can hi farmed out
to Indust rhilist s and soul hern
planters—at $5 a month and keep
':- ''' -' o' -k I It keep Mexico
l cart be used to keand South America safe for Stand- I 4 lk-1
Fight Loomng on Proposal
itrbaarne iftirlopioltrtalninteintnremndeehrenswAardfialerde
''-°' -''''--1 Farmers Union
ard Oil and Wall Street but isn't
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needed to protect Ameri ca " 4 -4 c" !-1''d'''1' To Regiment Whole
t -- " — : 4s's- Menace to this fact is the apparent nt bypoc- - "-$ 4-
4r41):': I
:: ' s Sees a '::-1
A Irisy of some of the wealthy back-1
---11''' '4 4''-' ''' -s'17t-?4 Editorial in --7----North Dakota Union' ers of the bill who 'would pay the i
:f'4zzAa ?-!'v'''' Farmer:
"''' “ P N Every Farmers' Union Local nd eerv
il 'dr ' :
1 common rookies $5 a month whilel
i ng notice on the Ad
lttl- ThlA aiministra- At Deadly Blow—
Democracy v '
i --1 f-eitv i
r 1
Az Popul
s ation
—
Although the foreign affafrs
1 4441 Aixt clrt' plank in the Democratic party
Donal M Sullivan of Boston whol
plank the acceptance speech of
platform was less of a pussyfoot-
every Farmers' Union memberition that na airplanes or other
ehould immediately write or wire 1 munitions would be built unless
sational Council for Prevention
-- ilair than the Republican
was elected president of the Amer-)'' John Carson former consomers'Ing a
counsel under the bituminous coal
1 sl'IrueZedderitthatRioietisi
lean Newspaper Guild a-10) President Roosevelt and the Northlthc:y were assured "normal" prof-
I ll'ar
at'Dakota d le t' Co -
military :ilsgtitiiinte tco he Unitmpulsory ' ‘ Roosevelt st still bitar wee k-
Tenn ! act A 11(1 will direct the new Wash-
the annual convention in Memphis the ifa kionN‘in Congress OH its It appears that this is a bill
provide adequate de-I arl h & Info rmation
nn July 12 ulliva
Sn a 29-i pasing e ur e- ar
dsworth miff: hot to for a
iCliSe but to Listen the first hold e d 11" I" se gely pie
tary conscription bal ascis et rtaoini:
I Wilco set tig by the Co- uwrathe occupied with England's war and
year -old reporter defeated former' of Fm on k
me rica I States is now under way through ' t t t' t t
P re' he
nneth G C ranford of ! 'You are busy we know but' ! the introduction of the Burke - 1 'A l'I'lle o "le n '''''''" 1 i that the tight for peace and de-
ll'ashington your very liberties are at staked The Farmers' Union does not 'Wadsworth 13ill the provisions of 1 'moeracy must be carried on with
The compulsory military trainingobsject ta spending billions for real!
'which strike at the very founda- seamen Back Out vigor
The immediate problem is to
feature in this measure is only half !adequate defense—although we be- Won of our democracy—that of '
Pummr trtilor TA 01 etelp i lieve that billions could and shouldif 1 deal with the conscription propos
!the introduction of the BuriTe--1 League Of the US'A
1 Ut K LI-Vir111 MI ‘111"1”
1 Wadsworth Bill the provisions of I
Pres henneth G Crawford of 'You are busy we know but i
1Vashington
1 v-hich strike at the very founda-
your very liberties are at staked The Farmers Union does not
Won of our democracy—that of
The compulsory military training c)bject ta spending billions tor real
Rumor Hitler To feature in this measure is only half !adequate defense—although we be- Seamen Back Out
the story !lieve that billions could and should 1 free government!
I
eBa itlisr Burke-rWtah? :eosrtishtraBtiiltim toSi !
As Third Termers
Senator Burke Nebraska lame-:also be spent to solve the Unenl-
6 Mick defeated in the primaries' ployment farm and poverty prob-
Give Us Canada 41T6ihr
lems at home —
who has been an open admirer
all male ritizmin rind mil p n lionn 1 IVhilp p()nsoryntivon cm thp nnr
LLhAsic-41
AS I hird a1 which the President tacitly en
The Burke-Wadsworth Bill (S: dorsed in his sneech savinz: "Attist
Tne Burhe-Wadsworth Bill (S:1 " " "1"“a '
Washineton- Some slight changes !sazzinee Vit- ki ICW maaiLem 1nel
Canada duck defeated in the primares ilgt-stliiiillkinopeoe taaogree)d
o g majority of iv
verwhelminitf them! Li
l'e Us Cda ployment farm and poverty prob- 416-1 ' dorsed in his speech saying: "Aiwa
of hea ing but they were of no
mieht Ie made after the four days i) calls for the registration ot
had been instructed from back w hom aa " ho has been an open admirer! lems at e --
vative trl ole prin r s lzbn h
all male citizens and male aliens I While conser
s on the one !
rs
moment Tomorrow Wednesday between the ages of LS and 6'5 for' hand are threatenina to bolt the !draft is as necesstry aral f ar to-
ho 1 ! w
' 65 as - ' '"
me for Roosevelt and now the
reside w le
nt as reasing them from 1 Adolph Hi of Hitler methods calls the meas- But we are opposed to the ar-1 tler plans if victorious lure a "Bill to Protect the Integ-
will hear it read !mongering h Wysteria that produces I! "selective eompulsory military! Democra tie ti cket the 000 mem- day t
any obligation to vote for his nom- i in Europe to make the United rity a th
nd Institutions of e United the Burke-adsworth bill
The opening session Moday avas I training anti service" Alen be-Ibera of the National Maritime Sin iwas in1917 a
we n d 1918
slim t and of n interest whatever
ce the mihtary men talk of
anation wh '' en the time for naming States a gift of Canada according !States" but it fastens a system
o
And
!candid- t " ! ' '' '
a
n we must let Wa w !U
shington tween 21 and 45 in ould be nion have repudiated their pre- ! an army of 2000000-a much
Net all of the delegates s in the convention ar- to the Inside Information column on the country that may well di es even at !rived know our opposition in no uncer-Illable for training and service for Violas endorsement of a third term :linger force than is beliee d nea led
tendEel and there were thousands v
lof the London Sketch last week !stroy those free institutions ! tain terms eight consecuti P
ve months in the for the resident 'for "h m
eisphere defen his
se" — t
of empty s Their in the galleries A s The paper went on to sav that! AT
Only Hope this was in accordance with his 1- aOLDIE ' ' RS -'
a LL I !land and naval for U
ces of the nit-1 Officials has Ovo
tened to make tuld appear in itself to amount
cl ery
gman talked w sk
with Cod aing '"Starve Quietly ed Slates and paid $500 a month!
iplain that Withd wa
ral Of their en- ! to a nullification of the Democratic
' guidance
for How the Almighty They didn't want to be released' I roposal of "America the for the !
COOLIE LL
tai rie m
a Europe for Euro- !
1 Conscripts would be paid the
15 and traveling expenses Men be-
olorsement of Roosevelt did not !platform
keeps
from getting all mixed up One part for one reason and the aae a ‘1 A coolie wage of $5 a month regard- ! Or Else— teen Is and 21 and between 45 mean they favored Willkiearather The proposed draft bill the
in guiding so mziny political groups other part of the delegates for P"" 1
1 i tier iii give a i less of w hether or not they have! 1
and 65 would be "liable for train- they consider the Republican party !Bu W
rke-idsworth measure aSena-
opposing each other's ideas I quite another One part are ra rne e
Ily emn plea ge not to interfere in the
th
pendnts They could be ca in
lled! and set in tense c h def!"
!A " th Sk tch ds alement by People's Lobbv ---e ina er traditionally anti-labor" and the! tor Blake incidentally one of its
don-t know I have a suspicion tor Roosevelt because they think! A rm a a i I is sinceri s a yst elle e Ne is :laway from their schooling or their:The
i (h eaded la Bishop Fr ancis: units of the land P d naval forces present Democratic administration !-
sponsors hastened to announce
that he is luckily hard of hearing lie has really done something to s P rr f of -1 y fs 'co ild !employment at any time The ma- in or near the communities and 1 untrustworthy :that he was bolting the ticket) i
esu s
Rlts indicate it The oseciara!better the conditions of the peoaagree o the meorpora oration o Can itar w whir orth bill:
y machine ould have a ' J :leConnell) on the Burke-Wads-
! w !areas in which they reside"
ada" 1 The chief complaints agitins m
t !uch more drzt w
stia than the ar-
ery being put in order the session :Pie The other part are just as !hand over 'aeon It could outlaw
1 The con military traM- WU
O LD W REC K the administration s r
ee the newly-itinie draft of 1917 M It WOU draft
ur m
adjoned It took just about 40 u N strikes by declaring that they i n
much opposed to the New Deal! -
ling bill is an effort to a 1 Al101t STANDARDS
appease a i observed conservative tendencies men from 18 to 65: it sets no limit
minutes policies as the Tory Republicans Jobless Men Hare terfered with the administration
economic royalists I 'nisi this plan which Labor o and its behavior since the Euro s! to the number of men called leav-
a 7 a
Kelly-1N ash l'oys But they sense if any Democrat
But be electea it will be Roose-I A o Heart to Fight 1
!of the act
It is not incredible Of course the President doesn't railroad brotherhoods w e e k 1 y peen war broke out !!
realize this or he would base fired ! calls a "foolish imitation of Hit- Alaritime labor citnnot support leg dictatorial powers in the
!IiiintIS of the President and pro-
Tonight the convention had as velt As for the professional Dem- ' t trig the critical period when ! s
huge an audience as it had a small ocratic leaders at the head of Business Allen Told Farmers' union leaders were a fireside chat - on s 1 p
thi ba artisan !ler" would alter radically our dem- an Administration that proposes I vales much stricter penalties for
sell-out to these economic royal- 11 ocratic way of life is clear What regimentation and military con-ianything construed as "interfer-
one a I the noon session Farley 'most of the state delegations they fighting- to protect farmers (or
its are the arguments against it 7 Iscription of the whole population !enca" Imprisonment for no more
and Bankhead orated Farley net- know that the exit of the Demo-1 ALBANY—The weakest point' E armers' t nion leaders were
' The real reason for it is that the! 1—Compulsory military training 'leads an anti -alien campaign: pro- i than one year was provided in the
many got a big reception both cratic party at the coming election in the American rearmament pro- ! fighting to protect farmers (or
2na of the families who own about in peacetime is an unwarranted! poses to make tile common peple ' World aVar bill nat more than
from the delegates and the audi- means exit for themsel b
ves and gram is the fact that 12000000 laor or other progressi er
ve lead- !three-quarts of the wealth of the !violation of our rights as a free bear the whole costs of war prepa- ! five years in the Burke-Wadsworth
ewe He bad handled the patron- !they don't want to exit !men are unemployed in the opinion I thus rendered lueffective i 1 'bill
:nation know that 70 years of the people It is a dangerous step to- ration while "war profits" legts la - !
age of the party machine for eight Most of the Democratic politi- of Prof Roland H Spaulding of It goes without saying that free Old Deal and seven years of the:ward regimentation which is alien !tion is pigeonholeta and refuses to EMPLOYER GETS
years He had handed out political cians think it's Roosevelt or a New York University addressing speech and freedom of the n
ert'ss Nev Deal have left most Amen-to American democracy I take a stand against the poll tax !ENORMOUS POWER
gifts and might hand out more As goose -egg for them They Would the Kiwanis club would be destroyed for the bill cans busted—and not a piece of 2---Compulsory military training —their statement indicated I Ferm and labor leaders have
politicians go he had been pretty like to nominate Farley if they This "army of unemployed" provides impriaatorient up to five Irina a life insureree policy a woula not be a solution of our tin - painted out that the bill could be
squzire with the gift receivers !consulted only their real syrnpa- would not have the heart nor the years or $10000 fine for anyone share of stock any bond or busi- ! employment problem as some !level The persons on relief in Cali- I used as a Aespon to amesh th ir
A big part of the audience he thies They know however that ' desire to do an real fighting for which the Propaganda Bureau dea ness or savings account is worth ' maintained The provision to pay for Ma are numerous enough to organizations for leaders would be
ing laigely local was made up in Farley hasn't a chance with a ma-
a country that as unable ts cided was interfering with the ad- much except tor the avalanche of men $3 a month for eight consecu- ! hold hands in an unbroken lint' !drafted for the deliberate pur-
part of followers of the Kelly-Nash! jority of the voters and that it provide them jobs during peace ministration of the bill I
!appropriations from the Fade rat tive months e training and service ! from one end of the tOng state to Pose of putting them under mill-
Democratic machine and Farley isn't Democratic office holders who time" Spaulding told the business' ENTERING WEIKiE I Treasury much of whid- is paid Would work havoc with the labor ! the ot her-14 persons out of ev-itary rule Furthermore deferment
was of their breed and they were are going to elect the Democratic 'men i OF THE FASCISTS !by bonds we are leaving to be re- standards which have thus far ery 100 in the population-The !claims for labor are In the hands
theze to cheer him If the Repub- ticket All these can do is to helpa ' This Burke-Wadsworth bill!pudiated within a few years We been achieved Technocrat i of employers and southern land-
licans had been in power in Chia SELECT it When the whole population is makes no provision for the train- fear domestic trouble 3 - America can defend herself : lords will be given life and death
I ago in place of the Democrats Tf the President doesn't run they hunch-backed a straight shape is ing of non-combatant workers in Ws have got to set on e West- with a small well-equipped army a Nothing is more terrible then t power over tenants
eiel they had had a National Con- (Continued on Page 3) I a Monstrosit y—Rztlzae i the many industries which are ern Hemisphere 17 S Empire to (Continued on Page 2) !see ignorance in action- GOCI he I Congressman Hamilton Fish of
vention here the scene would have i New York has introduced in the
been the same Only the (samba! 'Congressional Record facts ant
nations of letters would have been figures designed to "explode a
different myth that has been built up so
Neither Farley nor Bankhead
071 g
g an
Writ ill carefully—that the American peo-
said anything new They praised
ple have been given to believe -
their OWn party and damned the - elr - -A ea
I lielY ASIAP(1 I Or Bld d Nye Gave 1 heril i
that the volunteer system has
Republicans just in the same man- st 1 a - ric broken &Wit completely and that
ner that the Republican orators a the armed forced of America par-
few weeks an had praised their ticularly the Regular Army have
own party and indicted the amis- a been unable to secure their quotas"
rule of the Democrats" Nothing by Oscar Amermger Pointing out that with the in-
of any moment has happened yet troduction of a bill for compul-
and nothing will be apt to until sory military training in peacetime
the platform comes before the Con- I the main az-gument has been used
Now that our European markets have gone with the captures Turds and only one-third of our people are illegunshot of the chalk cliffs of Dover it is an insult to infelli- that it is new esess
ventiom That is unless Senator ary be
Barkley says something startling wind and Japan is about to a Poor walk off with what little market clothed me poor you poor all of us what shall we gence to speak of an invasion of America the A rmy is unable to secure
in his "keynote" speech we had in Asia and our African market was never anything do with the appalling surplus of brick's lumber and building enough volunteers Representative
Well it is now Tuesday and to worry about and Australia has got too much of every- trades workers if Stalin swallows Finland and only one-third i Feel presented a letter from the
I am again at the t oi av 'Oen Moreover will our wise men never learn that re mu- Ad iutant-Genei al of the Army
I thine- We've got too much of and South America is suf- of our people living in city slums and tenant shacks unfit for
Barkley d d say something very e tions be they democratic communist or fascist are not -hewing the figures an giving the
"starthng' But he said it at the fering from the same staggering over-supply of the same the shelter of dumb brutes? subject to either exportation importation or deportation ?' ten number of volunteers in the
end of his speech which speech Ifood fibre and mineral wealth we are suffering from and i Rteular Army up to the present
i They a re native products destined for native wants If date
Wit3 tin indictment of toe Republi- there is no profit in swapping over -supply for over-supply1
can Party during the Hoover Ad and our farmers are unalterably opposed to acceptine foreieul
le For eons man struggled SVrought and schemed to sup- revolution ever comes to America as the fates may forbid DENIES FAILIHE
' - - OE VOI UNTUL'I'S
ministration a nd of the platform: '' ply himself with food clothirs' and shelter For this he it will not be put over on us by a handful of foreign I'01she - - - --
meat wheat cotton and tobacco in exchange for American - 'ts The Adjutant General goes es the
adopted in Pbtla&lphia crossed oceans tunneled mountains spanned rivers robbed N'iki Bundists and Fifth Columniets disguised in blue goggles a a a h ee
manufactured goods and our industrialists Wouldn't dream oeael o ae Ai of La le oalar
Barldey's Bombshell nd enelaved his kind For this he harnessed fire Wind and purple whiskers and foreign a( cents It will come because Arley including Philippine se:tails
f acceptirg foreign factory products in payment for Amer A- - - -
Nearly one-half an hour o
was - water and pressed into his service the children of science we have failed to solve the 100 per cent American problem en July lia le te as - salea He
9
1 arm products and we already have more of the gold
-
eiken from the speech time by a kill f a until at last there came the day when there was enough for of want in midst of plenty as exemplified by twenty-five bil- furhe
tr says corzOnto d the New
(11:itaznstr w Ba
ation hen rkley men- of the w
n e orld than We know what to do with—where all and when ere '
rowcser tat ye t I t
ee i ' he
- law
everywh lions of idle bank deposits ten millions of idle men three ot
tioed the name of the President and how are we going to get rid of the ungodly surpluses of - tap t ta hale on Aug-ust ea )9 in
Did I say "eve-wh"? t evywhe The billions of idle equipment six millions of farm families sink-
a
MI but the banners of five states rood things from which the great and intelligent people of er ere No no er here er :aeLeou nd tait the Dav () a
eide
end P ue rto Rico yore in this de ch
in are still many millions dwelling in the age of 'Sever-Enough ing daily deeper into the morass of poveity under ever- lesee authorized to tiring the
-
t a on a
t ' re sufferine9
onst ration So bitter was t he is n i for All Only one country in all the world has reached the growing mountains of Wheat meat and cotton laventv-t No Array te its -tisnete ef a-alai° has
feeling against the Garner Tory! Well wise men of the East brain hucksters publicists e 1t 1t been rtit'te1 to toe it
ro -
- age of Abundance-for-All and that is our America yes billions of gold in a Kentucky hole and one-third o o n
gup in the Texa s dele gab ‘m that and politicians what is y our answer ? What you have no lueeee 111! tor nes:elements
onlv here in our blessed America have soil climate mineral people ill-fed ill-housed and ill-clethed because there is too c 2a1 t t I L t 1
it asts necessary to summon a po- answer! Is it possible that NVith all your sheepskins titles - aey ma e ao d zth
lice guard to protect them resources science and mechanical enerew combined to give much of everything that makes life wcirth living save only I q' Ui l t
e a d'At:tt1 hey do rat
don know Where to find a market for the
d degrees you t -e
When the demonstration was all an enough to all all the time Compared to our America the brains e nough to distribute enough rag-paper tot- us anlong h i in
irce tle L i they 1 e nt
u a e
over Keynoter Barkley continued appallingly blessed output of our factories mines and fields ?British Empire is a pauper the greater Germany of Hitler our people to fill their dire wants from the surrluses of good eieete Ie eeeeseee this extra
his speech Then one what 'And yet there is such a market—a market ladies and gentle- J)11oi mid ac ori! to t!:e aa
a poorhouse mighty Russia an undiscovered wilderness and things created by themselves However as the good things q!add
ws a w
bombshell for most of the men capable of absor bima everything our factories mines
e or which I sreak and millions are crying for can not-must 11
dealegates who ere not in the! imeerial Japan a barren rock ee asked tar From tais
' - end fields are capable of turning out That market on
1
not—be distributed without profit to someone and the some- leri eashet se flew nee th
t i
"Rn)w" Aft minutes at er his ' Think of it if still capable of thinking with only 6 per
speeeh was finished Senator Bark- illustrious ones is right here in America
ones eve reached the place where thee are no longer nue alit eete tele el the fatale
cent of the World's population this blessed America of ours - -' e ieeteeesilliiII FISh aaird 1111-ther
liY now the permanent chairman! eith er to spend waste or pro fit ably re-invest these proetea - - -
state d that he had a me s sage from! hauls 13 per cent of the world's freight elet u: "Addle n to the 10 (WO in
the President In a tense silence ' Oh you hadn't thought of America or of en American lot us fereet the problems of America and devote our utne- is seoaelee tamest and woe our
produc es 76 wr c
ient Of the worll' s motor v ehicles gested blessing in a gamble to solve the troubles of countries e e
aeee netkies a t ail o f about
Barkley said—"The IJ'esidellt h"s market for serpluses of good things made in America? You
never had and has not today anY : produces 35 per cent of the Nvorhrs eleetric power 'Who suffer from nothing more sarieus than never having 'eeee tieet is ademeits Pal suf-
'ire so blamed far-sighted that you see prospective buyers' a :est
desire or purpose to continue in ' per o
had enoueh cf the good things of 1A-hich we have too damned s
the office of P - I- t t
1 ese en the
1 e a in 'le storm-awe t crags of 11-te-
jungles of Borneo ti - - p ea a produces 31 ce nt f the w orld's c o al
much e Icing- strong npposalon to a
caralidate for that office or to be eonia among the peaks of Greenland's snowy mountainsa produces ti2 per cent of the world's petroleum seeea et teeepasery letheily
nominated by the convention for '
BLit you can't see the most wondrous market in all the world produces 29 per cent of the world iron ore
i tini!: in 1-ai-1111c t he Con-
In ShOrt let's be blind as bats to the vital g sszrati es rted -we have now
that office He wishes in all ear- four feet below your long noses! i
nestne and sinceritto make
ss y it ! cs 33 p er c ent of the orld teel intere o
w's s -
sts f the Xi-ner ican people as e x- 1i Army mai ar g ct-
Yes that must be it too blamed far-sighted to SPe 1 produe tir tho n't' ' - t '-
ILA S dt CW e t 0
Char that all cl the delegates to!
this convention are free to ante America and in its 130000000 people a market for every- produces 16 per cent of the world's wheat 04 as it iblishi
pressed in such sordid objects as e:lts duds 'I''''' - -
for any candidate Viet' is the thing in sight stacked up and stored away! 1
produces 53 per cent of the worhr s corn dle t
and roofs by channelling the nation's i tiniti mitury service iii
his count r v
) kialitt kaki to th
mess e
age which I bear to you - I to ! nrodnees 7)0 nee cent of the tvorhi's cotton
— - — creation ot a "lAar s)tein- fer it
Researcher
OUR COUNTRY
Not the richest and most
powerful on earth but the
leader in all that's good
true and beautiful on earth
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ag
Pro-War Bund
Thinks Peace
Hank a Trick
White Assumes the Presi-
dent Put Over "Fast One"
On Wheeler
BRITISHERS ARE ELATED
produces 31 per cent of the world's coal naa enougn ra tutt gotor tilitigh W IA litt:11 NNe Ala Ve LUti ilitilllit'U t t a
Nr'elcing- sron oppustion r)
1111Ch sytiii il t onipuisory inilltd 1 y
produces 62 per cent of the worhrs petroleum
uurg in peaectime the Con-
produces 29 per cent Of the world 's iron ore ! In short let's be blind as bats to the vital g sren'ori as irtei -we have now
Avrtased ct-
or Army ano ar A g
produces 33 per cent Of the world's steel interests of the Xi-nerican people as ex- tirig tne recruits in:cordng to the
produces 16 per cent of the world's wheat pressed in such sordid objects as e:lts duds " t'tiblishi r ish be-
produ ces corn 53 per cent of the world s universal military service in
and roofs by channelling the nation's idle thk count r) tkonlit icad I o t he
produces 50 per cent of the world's cotton ci!aiiiii ot a "lam sNsdein" for it
Avealth resources and man power into the -does awly ‘ith ail peiwe
produces 12 per cent of the world's wool I
'only field of human activities that knows ' ht (lid teat es nothing hut 4
produces '27 per cent of the vorld's wood pulp great armed camp an armed na
neither over-production
oduction nor nd a h m m
er-eonsump- I uge ilitary a e
chin
In short America is the richest country on earth could iiiiii eventnatcs into a Frankel-
lsily twice as rich and support twice its present popu- tion—war and preparation for var So that tht Iihsql some dietitor comes
n at a consid the Biblical in "They asked fot i erably higher standard of living than the - ---- - h: - 0(! - -' 'tthart mat t i !in P riisa::le t
as o'n'1ti'i1:' :a'rd
sav:11
?nt—if freed from incubus profit But as blessed profit irtier Ind farm-
and profit °nye them stones" shall be fulfilled ne """e '
not be disturbed one-third of our people a paltry '-' V14 nit‘e mooing ttimieter to siy
'-odd million if you please are ill-fed ill-housed and In tne more up-to-date variation: thin are tio peace elements lett"
"I have ahAars atoo for P I o-
A he d according to the testimony of the good man we! They pleaded for permission to earn fl d
le TIM national 'defense" de red
just drafted to save America from non-existing foreign kieptesentative Fish but I do not
Yes non-existing in spite of the billions of WOrds that
WhereWiIIIS' of life liberty and happiness m n i c 0!-or
been spoken and printed to the contrary For if the the sweat of their brows and you gave them turrinir this country into a gizin-
)ined navies of France and England could not land and pillboxes I anks bombing plan eS' battle- l'eAce"
tic military machine in time of
W
tain an army in nearby N Oray and Hitler was corn- The interventionist forceq vker
i to rob his own people of milk and bread to g!et within snips submarines :ii"41 White crosses (Continued on raie 2 )
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