Golden Age, April 22, 1936
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PROGRESS OF FASCISM
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INTERVIEWING
THE SECRETARY’S SECRETARY
GREAT MULTITUDE
A WITNESS OF JEHOVAH
GOD’S VINDICATION
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Vol. XVII - No. 433
April 22, 1936 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
INTERVIEWING THE SECRETARY'S SECRETARY 453
Housemaids for the Poor 461
How the SERA Works Out 464
A Word About the Townsend Plan 464
Newfoundland's Horrible Plight 472
The Parish of St. Etienne 472
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
GREAT MULTITUDE 465
AUSTRALASIAN REPORT 466
AMUSING CASE IN GEELONG 467
A WITNESS OF JEHOVAH 470
A Year in Prison for Murder 471
Terrible Atrocity in Transvaal 471
Ten-Year-Old Nuga Liked Cake 471
Wild Boy Found in El Salvador 472
GOD'S VINDICATION IN MAN'S SALVATION 475
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Tremendous Dam Projects Under Way 461
Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project 461
When the Ocean Rushes In 461
Platinum Deposits in Colombia 473
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
AAA Benefits Go to Landlords 459
Midianites Hard at It 459
Not Soaking the Rich 459
"Blood Money" 463
Cotton in Brazil 473
Co-operation in Sweden 474
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
PROGRESS OF FASCISM IN U.S.A. 451
Block Thinks Roosevelt Slipping 454
"WAKE UP THE MIGHTY MEN" 455
"International Anarchy" 455
"He Kept Us Out of the War" 456
AT THE CROSSROADS 457
Pouring Billions into the Rathole 458
Highest Debt in History 458
Three-Fourths Not Yet on Pay Roll 458
Savage Talk in South Carolina 458
Community Chest Racket 462
Government Getting into Business 462
Britain's Poison Gas Statesmen 474
Some Leaders of World Fascism 464
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
A CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN OF FIJI 468
William Raises 50c and Nether Regions 469
The Police of Panama City 473
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Boland, O'Connor, Coughlin, Sweeney 460
No Use to Send Lottery Literature 460
A Great Movement for Liberty 460
Embicles and Imbeciles 460
Kelly Got Back His Farm 474
The Miraculous "Father" Killian 479
"Little Flowers" 479
Scenes in Life of St. Anthony 479
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The Golden Age
Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, April 22, 1936 Number 433
Progress of Fascism [Catholic Action] in U.S.A.
THE following are some of the unconstitutional steps toward Fascism already taken in the United States:
Forced flag salute in schools and by police-protected "vigilantes".
Compulsory denominational religious services in schools, army, navy, lawmaking bodies and for young "criminals" as court punishment.
Discriminatory prohibition of free speech in schools and other public places.
Use of private armies or corporation-paid "deputy sheriffs" to incite riot in strikes.
Organized war veterans used for raiding organized workers' headquarters.
Forced labor for unemployed at wages below subsistence level.
Discriminatory prohibition of free assembly in schools and other public places.
School teachers forced to take oath of allegiance every pay day by boards of education who break the Constitution.
Prohibition of teaching certain scientific theories in schools, colleges and universities.
THE SACRIFICE
Illegal arrest and confinement for legal picketing.
Sentence to 20 years' imprisonment for publicly objecting that United States enter war for benefit of the profit takers.
Class and color discrimination against citizens of the United States.
Refusal to seat in lawmaking bodies legally elected representatives of the people.
Sentence to life imprisonment for working to organize voters to register objections to the above items and other such things.
Sentence to death and execution for advocating the overthrow of the capitalist system which makes impossible the democratic ideal of government of the people, for the people and by the people.—Major B., in the Pittsburgh Press.
In The New Republic, October 30, 1935, Harold J. Laski, economist and educator, said:
I know of no country in the world where Hitler's success could be so easily repeated as in the United States.
The drift to Fascism is plainly shown in the Townsend plan.
New Proposal to Destroy State Governments
THE newest proposal to destroy state governments, now that the NRA has gone overboard, is to establish ten viceroyalties throughout the United States; in other words, break the United States up into ten units, all working under the one head at Washington. This is so palpably Fascist that it can come to nothing unless Congress has entirely lost its head.
Splitting the United States into ten federal districts it is proposed that New England would be one district, with Boston as its obvious capital; most of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania a second, with New York city as its capital; Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina, with Washington as its capital; South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, with Atlanta as its capital; Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, with Cincinnati as its capital; Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, with New Orleans as its capital; Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, with Chicago as its capital; New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah, with Los Angeles as its capital; Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, with Denver as its capital; and North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, with Portland, Oregon, as its capital. State lines would be largely ignored. The object is to destroy the states as such. The Jesuits have the United States divided into seven districts. A favorite method of dictators is to redistrict the land, so as to confuse and distract the people. A proposal to destroy the states was made the day the plan was announced.
Take a Look at the Devil
THIS country is fully developed industrially. The railroads are built, the cities are built, the highways are largely built, practically all major projects of development have been completed, and in addition to these recovery deterrents world markets are largely gone, for ever. What then, has private capitalism failed? Well, we have now passed to state capitalism, and the profit system is supported by state subsidy, which is the economic essence of Fascism, copied from Italy, a great "Christian" nation, now engaged in mass murder of and theft from a helpless people. Now then, if you like to look at pictures and want to see a true likeness of Satan the Devil, take a look at Mussolini; then if you wish to see different facial expressions of the same creature take a look at Hitler and a squint at Stalin. Finally, give the United States of America a sweeping once-over, and if you do not see the subtle influence of this invisible overlord working overtime in this country you are blind. I thank you.—J. Howe, in the Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette.
The Red Book for February, 1935, told the story of the employment by this administration, using the taxpayers' money, of one hundred outstanding journalists to sell the New Deal to this country. Everything was colored at headquarters at Washington to attain this end in the same way that the farmers of the country have been deceived by the horde of paid administration employees to sell the AAA plan to them. In other words, our own money is being used to destroy us. The menace which faces this country is Fascism, and the plans of the New Dealers, if realized, will make President Roosevelt the dictator in a land which for 150 years has been free from such influence.—E. N. Sanctuary, New York.
Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, in an address in New York, indicating how he thinks Fascism will come in the United States, said:
We are likely to have a bullish pickup of business and stocks for the next two years, with another depression thereafter. Then discontent will arise, force will be used against the labor movement, civil liberties will practically disappear, and then Sinclair Lewis' "Minute Men" will be herding us into concentration camps. If anyone doubts this, let him look about him and see that certain characteristics of Fascism are already among us. The American Legion prides itself on being the leading opponent of civil liberties.
Governor George H. Earle, of Pennsylvania, in an address before the American Legion at Wilkes-Barre, repeated General Butler's charges that wealthy men in America are seeking Fascism, to divert attention from the fact that here is starvation in the midst of plenty, and millions on relief rolls in the richest country in the world. He said:
If we consider the number of people in this country at 100, and our wealth at $100, we find that one person has $59, one has $9, 22 have approximately $1.26 each, and 76 have only 7 cents each. When such a state of affairs exists, anything is possible.
The Government is considering a penal colony on the Rat islands, at the tip of the Aleutians, far east of the International Date Line, some 800 miles off Kamchatka. The climate is good for rats, averaging 39 degrees in winter and 54 in summer. The proposition is to dump on the islands all male prisoners who are sentenced to over five years, provide them with shelter and a minimum amount of foodstuffs, and go off and leave them. By comparison, Mussolini's penal islands would be resorts.
Interviewing the Secretary’s Secretary
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT had just returned from his fishing trip, so we went to call on him. Police eyed us sternly in the reception room of the White House. Newspaper reporters swarmed out of a press conference. We asked for an interview with the president. We were told we could see his secretary, Mr. McIntyre. Finally we saw Mr. McIntyre’s secretary. We told him about the terrible living conditions in the Black Belt of Alabama, about wages of $1 to $3 a week for 70 or more hours of work and wages of 35 cents per 100 pounds for picking cotton; we told how the Share-Croppers’ Union had called the strike of the cotton pickers to win $1 per 100 pounds for picking cotton and $1 a day for wage hands.
Then we told him about High Sheriff R. E. Woodruff of Lowndes County shooting four times at Willie Witcher, Negro strike leader in Calhoun, beating him over the head with a pistol, and throwing him into jail for twenty-seven days. That was on August 19. We explained how a lynch mob organized by Sheriff Woodruff had carried six strike leaders out of their beds that night and beaten them almost to death in the swamps. We told how, a few days later, Smith Watkins, a Negro leader of the union, was caught by the mob, his stomach ripped open with knives, his body riddled with bullets and thrown into the swamps near Fort Deposit. Also we told him how Jim Press Meriwether, a Negro striker, had walked into his sister’s home with a sack of flour and had been shot down by John Frank Bates of Fort Deposit, one of a gang of lynchers who had taken over the house; and how this lynch mob had carried the dying man to C. C. Ryles’s plantation to question him as he lay in the hot sun for more than six hours, then hung him to a limb and riddled his body with about a hundred bullets. Mrs. Meriwether told how part of the same mob came to the place where she was staying, and how Vaughn Ryles and Ralph McGuire stripped her naked and whipped her with a rope until her legs were cut and bleeding, and how they hung her to the rafters until she was unconscious—later they drove her away from the place. We told him that on Labor Day a mob headed by Deputy Sheriff Ed Arant of Fort Deposit raided the home of Ed Bracy, county leader of the union, and shot him nineteen times in the neck and head as he tried to escape through the back door. We also told him about the three unidentified, bullet-riddled bodies of Negro strikers found in the swamps around Fort Deposit and Calhoun—and that no inquest was held to identify the bodies. All of this, we told him, had happened merely because the workers used their constitutional right to strike.
The official smile on the President’s secretary’s secretary’s face faded as we proceeded with the story. We told him that Governor Graves had sent Kyle Young, former high sheriff of Tallapoosa County and leader of the lynch mob against the share-croppers in Camp Hill in 1931, to investigate the strike with bloodhounds from Prison Camp No. 4, and that the investigation ended with the running down of strike leaders in the swamps.—Thomas Burke, in The Nation.
LOST
Garnishing the Tombs
READERS will recall the Battle of Anacostia, where President Hoover won lasting fame by ordering out the full power of the United States Army to chase some few hundreds of sick and poverty-stricken veterans out of the capital environs when they came on to Washington to demand the bonus admitted to be their due. Subsequently, in 1935, another attempt was made to get their dues, and, to keep them quiet and get them out of the way, hundreds were loaded on the cars and sent to the Florida Keys in midsummer. When the big storm came along 442 of them were blown into eternity. Thirty-six were burned in one funeral pyre. The bodies of others, by presidential order, were buried in Arlington National Cemetery, euphemistically described as the "graveyard of the nation's hero warriors". The presidents of the United States are commanders in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and it must be admitted that both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt won great military and financial victories over these sick and indigent warriors, but it all came out lovely in the end, for they are buried in Arlington, even if they didn't get their bonus. The worms in Arlington are the most high-class worms in the United States.
The Arbitrator makes it warm for President Roosevelt by quoting his speeches of 1932, made before he was elected to take Hoover's place. One of these gems is the following, especially rich in view of the fact that Mr. Roosevelt in three years expended as much as previous presidents expended in the first 124 years of America's national existence. Here is what Mr. Roosevelt said of Mr. Hoover's administration: "I accuse the present administration of being the greatest spending administration in peacetime, in all our history—one which has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs of reduced earning power of the people." Twenty days later, and still before his election, Mr. Roosevelt, quoth The Arbitrator, went on to say: "I regard reduction in federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that government can make to business."
"We propose to reduce the operating cost of your Federal Government by no less than twenty-five percent. We plan to consolidate departments, abolish useless commissions, and to houseclean to the point where the present extravagance is entirely eliminated. We plan to balance the budget year after year by keeping expenses within revenue. . . . No government finance can be sound unless its revenue is justly derived. . . . There must be no taxation on the necessities of life, hidden taxation, whereby they become more expensive to the consumer." —Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Liberty Magazine, November 12, 1932.
Executive Suspension of Law
CONGRESS passed a public utility act forbidding the use of the mails to any utility holding company that failed to register by December 1. Not one of them registered, whereupon the postmaster general said he would not enforce the law. It is something new in American history for an official of the executive department to tell Congress that he will not obey the voice of the people. Meantime 2,000 cases are in the courts challenging the New Deal acts.
May 27, 1935, the NRA was declared unconstitutional. Six months later there were in Washington alone 473 employees of this defunct organization, none receiving less than $4,000 a year, carrying on their now illegal work. All together there are still 2,760 NRA employees in and out of Washington, collectively pulling down $7,003,220. Probably none of these anarchists would refuse to salute the flag.
Reverend Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, in an address in New Britain, said regarding the president:
With a playboy in the White House, a mere opportunist, who caters to popular feeling and whose chief desire is to make himself agreeable, who openly disregards his promises, who acts as the wind blows and who does not know what to do—and does it—thoughtful people of the North, South, East and West are considering the importance of having a more desirable type to control the economic order.
Paul Block Thinks Roosevelt Slipping
IN A radio address at San Francisco the nationally known publisher Paul Block said:
The day after the Supreme Court declared the NRA measure unconstitutional I had the privilege of lunching with President Roosevelt. His health could not have been better, but his statements outlining his plans were most disturbing, and, if known, would shock every staunch American. My investigations of the political trend has convinced me that the people are beginning to recognize the president's broken promises; his assault on the Constitution and his intimation that he would 'pack' the United States Supreme Court; I am also convinced that our citizens have now awakened to the fact that the New Deal Administration is not an American administration, not a Democratic administration, but a group of men who, perhaps innocently, but at least ignorantly, are trying to create one national State, with a regimentation not only of business and agriculture, but of the people themselves. And all this means Fascism mixed with Communism.
“Wake Up the Mighty Men”
IN KEEPING with the general sentiment that the world has been made safe for democracy, and that war is henceforth rejected as illegal and indefensible as a method of settling differences between nations, the United States, in 1936, is buying 500 new combat planes that will be the latest and best to be had. They are mostly fast pursuit planes, intended to overtake the enemy and fill his cockpit with tracts and offers of so many masses for so much down and so much a month throughout all time.
American anti-aircraft guns fire 15-pound high-explosive shells every two seconds, and so accurately that a target towed behind an airplane is torn to ribbons.
The announcement that the barren island of San Clemente, fifty miles off the coast of southern California, would be made the Malta of the Pacific and become a base for naval and aviation activities, was followed within two weeks by the entire United States fleet’s being called out for maneuvers in the vicinity.
Uncle Sam is enlisting 1,100 more men for the Marine Corps, 11,000 more for the navy, and 46,250 more for the army, being the highest peacetime additions to the force in history. The Southern California Methodist conference has denounced war as a social sin, and preparation for war as a sin.
A friend writes in to inquire whether, when it came to spending ten million dollars, the people would rather have one battleship, or ten million dollars’ worth of churches, or ten million dollars’ worth of homes to be given rent-free to the poor. Now, how do you suppose he ever thought of such a hard question as that? The people that are in the business of making or running battleships would prefer a battleship; the people that are operating “purgatory” or “eternal torture” grafts would prefer “churches”, and the common people, they can be—they can be—glad to get anything at all.
'Knowing he hath but a short time’
“International Anarchy”
UNDER the heading “International Anarchy” The Arbitrator says:
The seven dangers of the world believe in anarchy; they refuse to submit to law. Japan, Italy and Germany are demonstrating their lawlessness clearly; Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States are also guilty. Incredible as it may appear, the civilized world has adopted no law by which it will be governed; the various nations have not agreed upon any code by which they will abide, nor upon any authority to which they will submit. . . . Among the nations any government may perpetrate, in the name of patriotism, acts that are forbidden to individuals. A nation may invade the territory of another, steal its property, rape its women and despoil its buildings without breaking any law. To keep their record clean, they sometimes declare war, which makes any atrocity legal. The absence of international law grants freedom to national criminals and leaves the world in anarchy.
In a radio address Senator Borah said:
War brings all peoples to the level of savagery, to the common ground of barbarism. Those who ride the air and employ the most devilish and destructive instruments of modern warfare for the killing of women and children are on the level with those whom they destroy, whatever the latter’s place may be, according to the misleading standards of human advancement. There is nothing human, nothing civilized, nothing chivalrous, nothing heroic left in the old game of war. It is now, with modern equipment, simply mass murder.
Mark Twain’s bitter war prayer reads as follows:
O Lord, our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle—be Thou near them! With them—in spirit—we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste to their humble homes with hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolate lands in rags and hunger and thirst, sport of the sun-flame of summer and icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it—for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask of one who is the spirit of Love and who is the ever faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek his aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant our prayer, O Lord, and Thine shall be the praise and honor and glory now and ever. Amen.
This prayer should be tacked up in St. Peter’s at Rome, to help along the next time the pope wants to whoop things up for Mussolini, and his own rake-off in Ethiopia.
CCC Military Training Camps
THE United States Government is getting ready for Armageddon. Some of the signs are the largest peacetime appropriations in history for the army and navy, the moving of gold, munitions and basic army supplies to forts in the interior, the rebuilding of the air fleet, and the admission that the CCC has really been training hundreds of thousands of young men for military ends.
For reasons unknown, the CCC is building a huge war cantonment at Camp Pike, Arkansas. It is conjectured that this is one of the items in Senator Nye’s charges that the United States at present is spending more money in preparation for war than any other country in the world.
Fearing military discipline, and possibly military training, 214 young men in Fort Worth, Texas, and all in need of work, refused to enroll in the CCC, despite the fact that they would receive clothing, subsistence, shelter, medical care, educational advantages and $30 to $45 per month wages. A mother writes that conditions at Graham, Texas, in the CCC camp there, were such that a mother going there in a car to visit her son was not allowed to get out of the car. This happened twice.
It is quite a job being responsible for a half million Americans in the CCC camps, but Americans will be surprised to learn that one of the chief jobs in that connection is to prevent them from discussing anything. Director Robert Fechner not only rejected educational pamphlets that would tell the youths something about unemployment and strikes, but has provided the instructors with directions how to thwart controversy, telling them that when “dangerous issues” arise the subjects are to be postponed, forgotten or forbidden. This was probably copied out of some book of instructions written by Adolf Hitler for guidance of the German Youth. The obvious result is that after a sufficient length of time in the CCC service, the half million youths will all be as alike as peas in a pod, and without the courage or capacity to express individual ideas on any subject.
“He Kept Us Out of the War”
IN August, 1914, William Jennings Bryan said that “money is the worst contraband, since it commands everything else”, and definitely committed the United States to neutrality in the World War. June 8, 1915, he resigned. September 6, 1915, Robert Lansing, secretary of state in Bryan’s place, proposed to Wilson, the man that “kept us out of the war”, that America should loan money to the Allies. (America had already been loaning credit.) Two days later, without putting it in black and white, Wilson agreed to Lansing’s proposals, and thus committed the United States to the World War 14 months before he was re-elected because he “kept us out of the war”. The British Government tried its best to prevent the publication of these facts, but they have now come out. Wilson was a traitor to his country.
Why the Draft Was Instituted
GENERAL SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, reviewing America’s entry into the World War, said:
The American people would not have supported the last war if they had had a chance to vote on it. I was on the inside of that war, and I can testify that between the war declaration on April 6 and the beginning of conscription at the end of the month only 38,000 persons volunteered. The War Department got scared and instituted the universal draft.
At the Crossroads
LOVERS of the Federal Constitution should be thankful for a Supreme Court that is able to understand and define it and have the honesty and courage to uphold it. The Constitution is the only bar between executive and dictator, between a government of the people and a dictatorship. When a Congress can pass an act as vicious as the AAA proved to be, with no way left to challenge it, a dictator would be useful only to simplify proceedings. It seems that what was called a liberal construction in the AAA decision would in that case make the Constitution of none effect. In their amendments to the Constitution, the people should spare no pains to safeguard the principles of justice, equality and individual liberty. It would be impossible under present conditions of special interest and graft to write and have ratified a document as impartial. Many laws on the statute books are there, no doubt, because their validity has never been challenged. Wisdom would dictate that laws passed by Congress be passed on by the Supreme Court before being placed on the law books. Had that been done with New Deal legislation, billions of tax money would have been saved to the people, and a grain of prestige left to the Congress that passed them. The comical side of the New Deal is that Congress by their own fiat tried to make unconstitutional laws constitutional. Secretary Wallace started out trying to regulate the packers; the packers, it now seems, wind up with the full amount of money they collected from the people, to pay processing taxes with, in their pockets. The administration started in to regulate the banks. The banks, by next June, will invoice sixteen billion dollars or more of new bonds; with ten billions of gold, and the treasury only knows how many billions of currency (of doubtful ownership) all in a jackpot. On with the game; the sky is the limit. This has all been accomplished by fighting the packers and the banks. What could have been done if they had all pulled together? Another comic was Secretary Wallace and a few other white-collar farmers trying to regulate production to the needs of consumers, when about 50 percent of the average yield depends on the weather and about 49 percent on the way the crop is tended. Of course, the secretary could not do much about the way the hired man plowed corn, and less about the weather, but what he did about the other 1 percent was a plenty and is now history. I forgot to mention how magnanimous Congress was in delegating to the executive powers which it did not possess. Secretary Wallace says the AAA is not dead; maybe not, but it smells like it.—A. H. Kent, Iowa.
Make up your mind, Samuel.
What Has So Far Been Accomplished
NEIL CAROTHERS, professor of economics at Lehigh University, in a copyrighted article in the New York Herald Tribune, said:
There is not one thing in the present outlook to indicate that the market for private yachts is going to be depressed. If you will consider what this government has done for the silver speculators, the farmers, the labor unions, the stockholders in bond-burdened enterprises and other special groups, you will realize that it does not surrender to the mob but, on the contrary, to very substantial special interests quite apart from the mob. The worst that can be said of the present administration is that by vague promises to remove economic distress and social inequality it has encouraged the masses of the people to embrace any fool scheme presented to them. It has sowed the seed from which has sprung a whole crop of rabble-rousers, the most vehement, noisy, conspicuous and colorful in American history.
Government Finance
Pouring Billions into the Rathole
POURING billions into a rathole is not the remedy for the nation’s and the world’s distress. Lewis W. Douglas, former director of the Budget, said, in the Atlantic Monthly:
Billions have been spent and not even one unemployed person out of ten has been given a temporary job through the present government policy of spending. The total unemployed is now greater than in October, 1933, when the Public Works program began. The expenditure of approximately $2,500,000,000 in the three years of this program has resulted in the employment of less than 700,000 annually. Instead of creating sorely needed confidence, recent Government policies seem deliberately calculated to destroy it. Business and industry are harassed by investigations, which all too frequently are persecutions rather than impartial inquiries.
Highest Debt in History
THE national debt, $28,000,000,000, now the highest in history, and expected to be $7,000,000,000 more by the end of President Roosevelt’s administration, is bankrupting the country, according to Lewis W. Douglas, former director of the Budget. Referring to the anticipated collapse of the credit of the Government, Mr. Douglas says:
When this happens we will experience a bankrupt banking system, for it now holds approximately 60 percent of the Government debt, and a bankrupt Federal Reserve System, for it now holds almost $2,500,000,000 of Government obligations. We will have a great mass of unemployed and no government credit on which they can subsist.
Uncle Sam’s Office Force
UNCLE SAM’S office force grew from 563,487 in 1932 to 729,977 in July, 1935. The merit system has received a death blow; the spoils system is in full swing. Although Washington has the most tremendous government buildings ever constructed, the U.S. Government is still paying out annually $2,086,545 for 2,110,779 square feet of rental space in the District of Columbia. The discredited NRA alone has eleven buildings. Removal of some of the alphabet to Baltimore is being considered.
Relief to Needy Politicians
TO October 31, Professor Tugwell’s department at Washington had been allotted $154,500,000. To that date he had expended but $8,056,398, 48 percent of which went to office overhead at Washington.
Three-Fourths Not Yet on Pay Roll
ACCORDING to the United States News three-fourths of the voters are not yet on the Government pay roll, and they are good and mad about it, too. The one-fourth of voters booked as already on the roll are summarized by the News as follows:
AAA payments 3,430,000
WPA and PWA 2,975,000
Veterans Aid 860,000
Regular employees 796,297
CCC 539,000
Military 281,654
Student Aid 109,000
Civil Pensions 50,000
Legislative and Judicial 7,005
Total 9,047,956
Savage Talk in South Carolina
THE Charleston News and Courier said: “Without the $4,880,000,000 for distribution the national Democratic administration and party would be at this time in the disorder and panic of an anthill that had been stepped on. It has no ‘policy’. The president’s cabinet is composed of at least two factions that have no more in common than have Socialists and Democrats and Socialists and Fascists. Everybody knows this; the president must know it. There is, for the present, but one national ‘Democratic’ policy. It is to borrow money and spend it, borrow more and go on spending.”
Hit It All Right on the Cow
THERE was great fear at Washington some months back that prices would not get high enough. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) noticed this, and so, when they got around to buy a cow with the taxpayers’ money, they tried to help out. No $9 cow for them, nor a $90 one, but they rushed out and bought one for $900, which shows that their hearts were in the right place. Also, the TVA spent $90,000 in nine months for rental of automobiles. Seems that the TVA makes a specialty of buying in multiples of 9.
One-Seventh Needed for National Government
ONE-SEVENTH of the national income is needed to maintain the national Government. The national income for 1935 was $51,000,000,000, and to balance the budget would require $7,150,000,000.
AAA Benefits Go to Landlords
AAA benefits, intended to help share croppers in the South, are largely diverted to the landlords. In Alabama, in 2,000 cases investigated, 40 percent turned over part of their payments immediately to landlords, and in a third of these cases the payment was actually forced by the landlord. Some large plantations allot to each laborer every two weeks two pecks of meal and four pounds of fat pork. He may live on that or starve, as he likes.
How the AAA Helped
HOW the AAA helped the farmers (of other countries) is shown by the following list of imports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935: Wheat, 14,051,424 bushels; corn, 20,426,064; oats, 15,614,175; rye, 11,230,000; flaxseed, 15,332,000; barley, 10,978,000; butter, 22,390,000 pounds; cottonseed meal, 101,155,000; and tallow, 190,138,000. These are only a few of the items.
Midianites Hard at It
J. PIERPONT MORGAN is quoted in the London Daily Herald as saying:
Unless taxes and Government expenditures are reduced, private fortunes will be wiped out in the United States within thirty years. Even now, anyone who makes any money in the United States is actually working eight months in the year for the Government—and who is going to be able to or will do that indefinitely?
300 Foreclosures a Week
THE Home Owners' Loan Corporation, which loaned $3,000,000,000 of Government funds to 910,000 home owners, is now foreclosing mortgages at the rate of 300 per week, and expects to have 5,000 foreclosures to attach to its belt by the end of the year.
594,427 on WPA Projects
THE New York American seems to wonder why, with $4,800,000,000 allotted for WPA relief projects, it resulted in only 594,427 being put to work on WPA projects up to October 17.
The National Debt
WHEN Mr. Roosevelt became president the national debt averaged $161.50 for every man, woman and child in the United States, and now averages $231.
Not Soaking the Rich, Just Dampening Them
THE First National Bank of Boston, in its monthly letter, said: "It was discovered that the so-called 'soak-the-rich' measure would produce only about $270,000,000 in taxes. Large as this sum is, it is but 7 percent of the estimated deficit for the present fiscal year, and less than sufficient to pay Federal expenses for two weeks."
Uncle Sam's Problem
AT PRESENT Uncle Sam is taking in $10,000,000 a day and spending $21,000,000 a day. This is all right as long as he can get somebody to loan him the missing $11,000,000, but the problem he faces is to make the future look good enough that the needed $127 a second will be forthcoming every time the bills come due.
Additions to National Debt
THE national debt June 30, 1931, was $16,801,000,000. The next year $2,686,000,000 was added to this staggering total; the next year, $3,052,000,000; and the next year, $4,514,000,000. The addition last year was $1,648,000,000, making the total debt June 30, 1935, amount to $28,701,000,000.
Federal Appropriations
THE United States News states that the total Federal appropriations from 1789 to 1913 were $24,521,845,000 for the 124 years. In the three years 1934, 1935 and 1936 the total of Federal appropriations was $24,206,533,000, or 98.7 percent as much as for the entire 124-year period, forty times as long in duration.
Tennessee Valley Relief Project
THE Tennessee Valley relief project is surely doing some relieving. There are 12,530 persons on the pay roll, of whom 89 receive a grand total of $466,000 a year. Some of the 89 receive as much as $10,000 a year, none of them as little as $5,000.
New Deal Bonehead Trust
SAID W. P. Elmore, of Texas:
They shot cows all over this country because they said there was no feed to carry them through the winter, and then allowed the Babcore Development Co. to import 14,000 head from Old Mexico to Terry county, Texas, and these cattle were fed on feed raised here.
Jezebel in Politics
Boland, O’Connor, Coughlin, Sweeney
FOUR Catholic brethren amused the country recently. Representative O’Connor invited “Father” Coughlin to come to Washington, so he could kick him from one end of Pennsylvania avenue to the other. Then he backed down and apologized. Representative Sweeney thanked God for Coughlin. But Patrick Boland, of Scranton, Democratic whip of the house, every inch an orator, took up the battle and said, in part:
“Has not this silver-brick artist the understanding to see the inconsistency of his position as he stands before the altar with one hand on the Gospel and the other engaged in counting the speculative silver he has acquired. This man in his egotism evidences every characteristic of the cruel, selfish and prejudicial dictator. God keep America safe and bless the members of the Legislature who have the moral courage to resist the demands of such unprincipled, self-seeking demagogues who would betray America as Judas betrayed the Redeemer for thirty pieces of silver.”
No Use to Send Lottery Literature
NUMEROUS subscribers have sent in literature showing how the Roman Catholic churches in various parts of the country are operating lotteries in defiance of United States and State laws on the subject. No attention will be paid to this literature in the office of The Golden Age. What good would it do? Out of 72 gamblers that participated in a lottery engineered by the bishop of Sherbrook, Quebec, 66 prize winners were citizens of the United States. But the lotteries are pulled off in the United States too, and in Massachusetts—where Pashby and other Catholics are in such a lather of “patriotism” on this compulsory flag-saluting business.
A Great Movement for Liberty (?)
THE Jesuits, chased out of seventy-eight countries for conniving against the liberties of the people, opened a school in Philadelphia, on December 4, 1935, for what is described as “a great movement against communism and for social justice under traditional American liberty”. Is it merely a coincidence that “S. J.” stands for “Society of Jesus” (Jesuits), and also for “Social Justice”, the Jesuit school? On the same day, at the other end of the state, Jehovah’s witnesses opened the first school for the instruction of their children in the Kingdom of God.
Embicles and Imbeciles
WHAT is an “embicle”? and are there any in the War Department? Somebody got hold of an envelope bearing the words “War Department, Federal Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin” and returned a copy of The Golden Age No. 420. The gentleman (or lady!) expressed the opinion that the editor of The Golden Age is an “embicle”, in the following cryptic language: “If these people don’t like our country, why don’t they go to Germany or Russia with the rest of earth’s embicles?” Just a minute! Just a minute! How does it happen that a Milwaukee “embicle” came into possession of an envelope purchased with the money of Uncle Sam and uses it to such a purpose as to try, all in vain, to convince an editor that he (the Brooklyn editor) is a Roman Catholic and does not know how to spell? The Milwaukee “embicle” did not sign his name; they never do.
Republican Politicians Get What They Deserve
WHEN the Roman Catholic Hierarchy succeeded in bluffing less than 30 out of 300 stations into ceasing to broadcast the Watch Tower programs, and when Judge Rutherford’s friends to the number of 2,500,000 petitioned Congress to protect the rights of all the people to equal use of the radio under equal conditions, Congress ignored the petition, and now Republicans are finding that the “Democrats” control the radio and are able to get free all the time they want, while Republicans can hardly get the use of it at all.
The Wings of a Coal-Heaver
REFERRING to Mr. Farley’s denunciation of slush funds at election time, and referring also to his control of the largest slush fund in history, the New York American says affectionately that Mr. Farley, ex-prize-fight commissioner, speaks “with assumed virtue which suits him like a snow-white shirt on a chimney sweep”.
Coughlin May Choose Borah
AT Charleston, West Virginia, Coughlin of radio fame is alleged to have said he might prefer Borah to Roosevelt in the presidential campaign. One thing sure is that Coughlin will vote and direct his following as instructed from Vatican City.
Of Public Importance
Tremendous Dam Projects Under Way
TREMENDOUS dam projects completed or under way in the United States are the $385,000,000 Boulder Dam and the $13,000,000 Parker dam farther down the Colorado, the great dams at Bonneville and Grand Coulee on the Columbia, the Fort Peck on the Missouri, the Caspar Alcova on the North Platte, the Conchas on the Canadian, the six big dams on the Tennessee, the Muskingum Valley dam in Ohio, and the Passamaquoddy project in Maine. At the latter project, which will cost $36,000,000, the fall of the tides will be put to work on a huge scale.
Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project
AFTER tinkering with the idea of tidal power for several generations, the United States Government has now undertaken the $36,000,000 tidal power project at Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine, and work has already begun, with a view to making some use of the huge tides that flow in that region.
When the Ocean Rushes In
IT IS when the ocean rushes in, not when the bay waters rush out, that the power will be generated at Passamaquoddy. The dams check the inrush of the ocean waters until the ocean is five feet or more higher than the level inside; then the turbines are started and continue to operate while the ocean tide rises higher and higher, and until the five-foot level is reached on the downward ebb. Then the turbines are stopped, and the gates are opened and remain so until the common level has fallen as low as it will. The gates are then closed as the waters begin again to rise. Continuous power is obtained by pumping ocean water to the top of a high hill, into a large reservoir. Withdrawals from this reservoir can be made continuously at any rate desired. The plan looks entirely practical and can be used in any part of the earth where the tides run unusually high.
Housemaids for the Poor
NOTING the government's plan for giving 300,000 women employment caring for the sick, selecting and preparing food, cleaning house, making and remodeling garments, washing, ironing and caring for the children in homes of the poor where their services are needed, one cannot but think how very much better every way it would have been if those now poor and obliged to receive assistance in this manner (where all parties involved are made to feel that they are serfs) had been paid wages sufficient that they could hire their own help in the good old-fashioned American way. Who wants the government to turn its flapjacks or sew buttons on its pants?
The Corpse of the NRA
THE corpse of the NRA is a live corpse, for the NRA still employs 2,760 persons at an annual salary expenditure of $7,023,220. Of these worthies 473 draw annual salaries of $4,000 or more each, which is considered pretty good pay for a dead man. Still better, or worse, there are eight of the NRA birds that have salaries of $6,800 each. These men are needed because they will be useful in the next presidential campaign.
CCC Activities in Wisconsin
IN Wisconsin the CCC boys scattered wild rice over 800 acres of swamp lands, to provide future food for mallard, black teal ducks, wild geese and mud hens. The crop will grow this year to six feet and show high above the water. Wild celery has also been planted for canvasbacks, redheads and bluebills. Surely this is better use of time than practicing the arts of war.
Indians Treated as Humans
ON January 8 the Government decided to grant Indian defendants the full benefit of formal charges, the power to summon witnesses, the privilege of bail, and the right of trial by jury. All this progress was made in less than 320 years, but during the 300-odd years Indian agents have been judges, jailers, prosecuting attorneys and policemen, all in one.
First Steps in Unemployment Insurance
UNCLE SAM is taking his first steps in unemployment insurance, in use for many years in other countries, and on a large scale. The fund is collected by a payroll tax on establishments with eight or more employees. It is estimated that about 26,000,000 persons will be covered by the tax.
U.S. Government Miscellany
Community Chest Racket
REFERRING to President Wilson’s order that there should be a joint drive for funds to the amount of $170,000,000, of which sum $30,000,000 was to go to the Knights of Columbus, The Fellowship Forum, after explaining that the drive was oversubscribed and the Knights actually got $40,000,000, goes on to say:
The joint drives were then given the alluring name of Community Chest. They were virtually a racket worked under Government pressure. Their spirit and objective have not materially changed. The infamy of the plan is to force patriots and Protestants to give to the sectarian institutions and propaganda of Rome. It is using all civil pressure and force of a deluded public opinion to fleece the public in the interest of sectarian activities in which millions of good and benevolent citizens have no confidence.
Telephoning a Cyclone to Go Slower
IT SEEMS that the Government shipped some 1,400 World War veterans off to the Florida Keys, all on the quiet, because it feared the veterans would make trouble about their bonus. When the hurricane came up the commander of the three camps wired Washington for permission to evacuate the camps. The politicians at Washington thought it not necessary to hurry, and so waited until it was too late. Then they rushed a train to the Keys, which blew off the track, and the result was nearly a thousand lives lost. The commander at the three camps would have done just as well to get in communication with the hurricane itself and ask it to wait.
United States Supreme Court Ruling
“THERE is, of course, a sphere within which the individual may assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute the authority of any human government, especially any free government existing under a written Constitution, to interfere with the exercise of that will.”—Jacobson, Massachusetts, Vaccination Case.
Landlords Responsible for Acts of Tenants
IN Chicago the United States Government filed a $12,000 assessment against a building whose owner reported to the government that tenants were operating an illegal still in the building. It seems that the law holds landlords responsible in such cases; which does not seem fair.
Government Getting into Business
WHETHER it wants to or doesn’t, the United States Government is rapidly getting into one business after another, through inability of failing enterprises to meet their payments to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The result is that, to keep the concerns going, the Corporation is now in control of three insurance companies, one real estate mortgage loan company, one railroad, scores of banks, four million bales of cotton, and a batch of miscellaneous enterprises, such as wineries, distilleries, machine shops, foundries and other businesses.
Why the Lives Were Lost on Florida Keys
THE final explanation as to why the hundreds of lives were lost on Florida Keys is that the Miami weather man knew of the coming hurricane but dared not send out the warning direct. He had to send word to Jacksonville, Jacksonville had to send word to New Orleans, and New Orleans had to send word to Washington. It happened to be a holiday, when all the Washingtonians were away from the offices and having a good time. And that is why the hundreds perished.
News Reel Supplements
IN THE Cincinnati Times Star Edward Keagy mentions a news reel containing Italian and Ethiopian appeals to Americans to side in with their stand, each against the other. Keagy suggests a supplement to such news reels. He says:
A half hour’s display of pictures showing Americans being split in twain, and American brains being blown out, and Americans pawing the ground, and crawling around on all fours in filth and muck would refresh the memories of those whose thoughts have gone wool-gathering.
What Fascism Does
IT (Fascism) limits education and degrades it to the level of black magic; for Fascism wages war on enlightenment and progress. The irrational is exalted, the appeal to “brawn, instinct, tribal customs and blood”. Il Duce, der Fuehrer: they become god-emperors, as did the Caesars of old Rome. For Fascism is the modern Caesarism: the organization of disintegration and decline and the stifling of progress. Fascism means the death of civilization.—Lewis Corey, in The Nation.
"Blood Money"
UNDER the heading "Blood Money" the London Daily Express said:
President Roosevelt says, "No more war for America," and no more financing war. Financing war last time, 1914-18, finally involved America in the great war. Roosevelt has declared against lending money or sending goods to either belligerent next time. Any American who goes into the war zone or trades there does so at his own risk and cost. The United States Government will make no effort to recover money lost in such speculation. Britain should follow U.S.A. in that. The British Government should stand absolutely neutral. If our financiers want to invest in war they need not expect the rest of us to help.
Civilization in 1934
THE World Committee for Relief says that 2,400,000 human creatures died of starvation and 1,200,000 humans committed suicide because of economic distress in 1934. At the same time 1,000,000 freight-car loads of grain, 267,000 freight-car loads of coffee, 560,000 hundredweight of sugar, 50,000 hundredweight of rice, and 50,000 hundredweight of meat were deliberately destroyed to keep up the market price level.—World Events.
Faster Air Mails
EUROPE is taking a leaf out of American air experience and putting on faster planes. The new planes will ply between London and Vienna in eight hours, and between London and Prague in seven hours. Meantime thirty new planes will be put on the air lines to South America, and Argentina air mail will be delivered five and one-half days after leaving New York or Chicago.
Strange Mix-up on Gold
IT IS a strange mix-up on gold. The United States Government sold gold to the Bank of Mexico and Guatemala, which, it seems, it had a right to do, yet one of its own citizens may not even keep any gold that belongs to him. How this can be harmonized is not explained.
Getting Rid of Jefferson
LEO BROPHY, writing ironically in the New York Times, of Thomas Jefferson's statement that a revolution every twenty years would be a good thing, thinks Thomas must be a Communist in disguise and should be sent back where he came from.
British Ambassador Rewrites U.S. State
ONE proof additional of the fact that the Anglo-American Empire, seventh world power, is all one is contained in the evidence that when William Jennings Bryan wrote a stinging protest against British interference with American ships back in the early days of the World War, Woodrow Wilson turned the note over to the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, to rewrite it and tone it down to suit the British Government.
Changes in Military Styles
IT IS no longer popular in Washington for military officers to receive presents of round-trip tickets to San Francisco from dealers in second-hand or surplus army goods. For doing that, one colonel in the U.S. Army was demoted to the bottom of the list of colonels, and fined $3,600, to be deducted from his pay for the next two years at the rate of $150 per month. The gentleman demoted has been assistant secretary of war for fifteen years.
U.S. Military Disaffection Bill
THE United States Military Disaffection Bill, which passed the Senate by accident, and was reported out of committee in the House without a quorum, is described by Representative Maverick as gagging the press, threatening a censorship of books and magazines, violating every precedent of American liberty, and adopting the philosophy of Communism and Fascism. Under it troops could invade any home, search it and confiscate any suspected printed material.
What Fascism Is
SAID John Don Passos, author, and Laurence A. Milner, retired United States army captain and former major in the Oregon National Guard, in a letter to American war veterans:
You veterans don't need to be told what Fascism is. It's the kind of control, all the time, that you sometimes got in the army. It's being bossed around, and cussed, and kicked, and beaten by human swine. It's just the worst kind of military control which our profit makers are trying to fasten on the country right now.
Mints Afraid of Holdups
APPARENTLY afraid of holdups, the treasury department is planning to turn every mint into a fort, equipped with machine guns, gas masks, gas guns and bombs.
How the SERA Works Out
A SUBSCRIBER in California tells how the SERA works out in his case. He is allowed but two eight-hour days and one six-hour day each month, a total of $13.20 per month. He has to travel 54 miles round trip to Sacramento to get his work slip, then 60 miles each day to and from work (180 miles), then back to Sacramento to get his check. All told, he travels 288 miles to get $13.20. The only way he can get by at all is to bum his way clear around the circle.
Some of the Leaders of World Fascism
UNDER the guide primarily of the Devil, and, through him, of the pope, some of the leaders of world Fascism are Benito Mussolini, of Italy, Adolf Hitler, of Germany, Casimir de la Rocque, of France, Plinio Salgado, of Brazil, Eoin O'Duffy, of Ireland, Corneliu Codreanu, of Rumania, Jose de Rivera, of Spain, Sir Oswald Mosley, of Britain, and Charles Coughlin, of the United States. President Roosevelt is an intimate friend of Mosley and Coughlin.
America Not Civilized
"A NATION in which murder, kidnaping, robbery are commonplaces and justice is news cannot honestly presume to call itself civilized, however much it may plume itself on its material achievements. That is our situation today. It is a shameful admission to make, but an admission that America is compelled to make by the record."—New York Journal. (And how about the mistreatment of Jehovah's witnesses in New Jersey?)
Would Save Lots of Teetering
REPRESENTATIVE MAAS, of Minnesota, has introduced a proposed amendment to the Constitution requiring the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of every act or resolution of Congress within sixty days of its signature by the president. At the moment it seems as if this would be a good rule.
Thousands of Violations of Law
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ICKES alleges that Six Companies, Inc., contractors for the Boulder Dam, kept duplicate sets of books, which, when examined, disclose thousands of cases of violations of the law limiting work on government projects to eight hours a day. Police of Plainfield, please take note.
A Word About the Townsend Plan
IF THE Townsend Plan were to go into effect, it is alleged, it would call for a payment to the persons 60 years of age of more than 40 percent of the entire income of the American people in 1934, and would raise the cost of living for most products to about 75 percent to 100 percent above normal prices.
Long, Schall, and Cutting
WITHIN a few months of one another Senator Huey Long, of Louisiana, was shot and killed, Senator Thomas D. Schall, of Minnesota, was run over and killed, and Senator Bronson Cutting, of New Mexico, was killed in an airplane disaster. These men were the outstanding critics of the New Deal in the Senate.
Crime Statistics for One Year
IN ONE year the United States has 12,000 murders, 3,000 kidnapings, 50,000 robberies, 5,000 cases of arson, 10,000 assaults, and 40,000 burglaries. The crime bill is $12,000,000,000, three times as great as the cost of education.
1914 Was the Dead Line
IN AN address at Winter Park, Florida, Secretary of State Cordell Hull made the statement: "There is no doubt but that statesmanship became bankrupt some years ago, prior to 1914."
Taxes, Food and Clothing
THE national tax bill is $9,000,000,000 a year, the national food bill $7,600,000,000 a year, and the national clothing bill $3,600,000,000 a year.
Riots Against Portuguese Jesuit Fascism
A DISPATCH from Paris states that there have been riots in Portugal "against the Jesuit-Fascist Salazar Government". At the town of Peniche the Jesuit-Fascist police attempted to arrest sixty fishermen, the town alarm bell was rung, and the whole population rushed into the streets to prevent the arrests.
Von Schirach Tells What His God Wants
BALDUR VON SCHIRACH, head of the Hitler Youth, had the assurance to say of his god, the Devil: "God has commanded—and this we feel to be the truth—'Band together, fight for Adolf Hitler and for the German fatherland; and if thou doest that, thou fulfillest my will.'"
Great Multitude
A five-minute talk by Judge Rutherford
THE seventh chapter of Revelation identifies the 144,000 commissioned ones who constitute the church of God, and then adds these words: ‘After this I beheld a great multitude, of all nations, that stood before the throne, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands, and they cried: Salvation unto our God and unto the Lamb.’ The book of Revelation is written in sign or symbolic language. This great multitude standing before the throne clothed in white robes means that they have received the approval of God and of Christ and therefore have a standing in righteousness. They have taken their stand firmly on the side of God and His kingdom, and the waving of the palm branches means that they are hailing Christ as King, exactly as the multitude did when Jesus rode into Jerusalem. They say that salvation is of God through Christ Jesus; and thus they attribute all salvation to the Lord, and not to man or any man-made institutions. They are for God and His kingdom. Such are the people of good will toward God and Christ, and for that reason they are at peace with God.
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