Political * Fair Memorandum i for Peace Conference ItEHEVD Freedom of Speech— The News New Deal Style Parade Enough —By Paul —By George —By Westbrook Mallon By Benjamin D^Casseres Rothwell Brown Pegler “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging proverbial cucumber distance telephone rec- IVASHINGTON. June 21—Mr. — rpHE the freedom of speech.” ARTICLE I OF THE *¦ Churrhill must have been would seem to be running a LONGords subpenaed by the Diet, OF RIGHTS. in comparison revealed a in a Rood humor when he hope- BILL temperature with committee have the the exceedingly cool gentleman relationship between the politi- fully predicted the end of of the CIO TT IS an astonishing fact that 153 years after the who is sitting these days in the cal action committee war in Europe this summer. and the following: military **¦ adoption by New York state capitol in Al- The most respected the states of that vital amendment The White House and Mr*. authorities here share the ho|>e to our Constitution an occasion should arise bany, apparently oblivious to Roosevelt. that the European end is a the excitement already center- Vice President Henry Wal- wherein that very keystone of our liberties—- name and matter of months, but they are ing around his lace. at every crossroads not predicting. To them this is freedom of speech—should need to be decided by personality The department of agricul- in the country. ture. just ihe beginning of the final a court of law. governor York department justice, military operations. These are 4 The of New The of the tenor of and the early stages of the planned It is all the more startling in view of pursues even his way, outwardly indifferent to Various regional directors of crushing blows. fighting conquer Security that we are a war to Those the knocking of opportunity at the Farm Administra- Look at the front pages. The powers tion having the power to exert operations which formerly were totalitarian that have denied the right of his door. strong political and economic One gathers talking reported in two or three dif- free speech. after pressure on farmers. with him that he does not con- headlines now monopo- The numerous calls to the re- ferent sider that opportunity is knock- gional made the columns, The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Phil- FSA officers were lize practically all ing at all, but rather a messen- in most cases by C. B. Baldwin, so far flung have the battle- adelphia has just rejected by unanimous vote a ger summoning him to one of asajftmnt politi- the director of the fields grown in the past week. those toughest spots in cal action committee, who re- petition of the New Deal National Labor Relations world. He hears it with no fear, And they will grow more. signed his job as chairman of but also with no elation. Washington be- • • Budd the FSA in to • Board to have the Manufacturing Co. Returning to his desk after come actual manager of the DARING as the European and its president, Edward G. Budd, adjudged in a week at his farm at Pawling PAC’s campaign to elect Presi- ASinvasion, was the attack contempt of court because Mr. Budd has written a and in New York City, Gov. dent Roosevelt for a fourth upon Saipan. Up to that point, Dewey as little resembled a term and to defeat a select list well the lead merely on the letter to the 15,000 employes of the company argu- man in for the of aspirants for the House of we had been Republican nomination for Representatives and the Senate. outer fringes of the Jap de- ing for what he sincerely believed to be “the president of the United States Sidney Hillman, chairman of fensive line. With that thrust, as possible to imagine. very heart it is the PAC, is president of the we plunged into the advantages of a union of their own.” have supposed all the naval One would Amalgamated Clothing Work- of it. bypassing petition placed itself that his office would have been ers, CIO. and recently ha* been strongholds dotted out south- In this the NLRB besieged by callers and news- in the Pa- denounced by David Dubinsky ward and eastward paper correspondents. A sort of right (Truk, Yap. etc.) ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION. and other wing radical*, cific Palau. Sabbath calm appeared to have usual as the leader of the Communist There was not the It demonstrated again the dangerous usurpa- descended upon the great gran- party in New York, but an en- now known island hopping, ite structure over which he pre- as the American Labor party. lightened strata- tions of bureaucratic rule in a free democracy. and brilliant sides as governor of the rich- * • • gem designed to put our bomb- * * * est and most populous state in has held various ers within easier range of the union, and which, the sign- Tokyo and over all the Jap BALDWINkey tohs In Washington ever rpHIS board, a spoiled child of the Wagner Labor boards tell jrou. was almost caught shipping through which she sus- as long in building as the pyra- since 1933. when he on as secretary agri- tains her war empire. Relations Act, says, in effect, in all its totali- mids of Egypt. assistant of • culture under Wallace. He be- only because a • It was feasible tarian arrogance: came director of ihe Farm we have been dominating the last week before the call thus could supply Security Administration in OcJ sea lines and ‘The Constitution? 1 AM THE CONSTITU- THEof the Republican national tober, 1940. The phone callj| an advanced force, or at to the such !” convention order found indicate a strong continuing in- we have Ihe right to sus- TION governor transacting routine least terest and influence in the FSA, pect we can, because we put business aloof and remote from transports safely The soundly American judges who constitute while he is on leave serving warships and politics. with political into action there with the in- the leader of th* Lend-Lease—and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals show in their His political friends and Communist vading force. New York faction decision every evidence of profound surprise that closest adviser* have alreadv of the union movement. H»» mad* it clear—lndeed to the biography in Who s Who say* details of the fighting at this day and date in American history they discerning they did so as far he was appointed "co-ordinator held hack, last Januarv that if Globaloney THEwere at first prob- to back as for state department. Italy, ably even from Washington, be- should be called upon to pass on the question as nominated for president Gov. 1943” and that he was "dele- country should by this time That is, due to the operations of cause this is only one knife whether the president of a manufacturing com- Dewey will not turn his bark gate. first Pan-American hous- thrust in a general scheme of upon duty. ing conference. Buenos Aires.’* THEbe accustomed to getting two lendlease, farmers IN OTHER attack, just one phase upon pany has a right to express openly his opinion on There remains then the ques- a pleasant outing for impercep- kinds of reports lendlease COUNTRIES, to which we are send- which further developments tion of the probability of his tible benefits to the American about rest. Consequently, it must bp labor organizations. nomination, and beyond that, people. wisely operations. ing FOOD under lend lease, can get assumed the authorities the sort of camjvaign he would The perlod hy th* in the In the United States that is like a challenge of covered - decisive break in American made machinery which awaited a be likely to make the event subpenaed telephone records is One kind statutory in fighting. being comes at the right to breathe. of that summons made. from Dec. 5, 1943, to last May AMERICAN FARMERS cannot get 1o tervals from the White House, as So also with Prance some Judge Charles Alvin Jones, who wrote the Anything can happen in a na- 31. The slips showed 2* calls required by the act of Congress, set- TO GROW AND HARVEST THE extent. The hulk of our army tional political convention to from the New York headquar- FOOD that we send abroad. has been held out of Normandy, decision against the NLRB, and who is, by the upset the calculations of the ters of the ClO's political action ting forth the vast quantities of mu- in a similarly threatening man- most far-seeing Such might committee direct lo ihe Whit* ner. In Italy, the Nazis are at- way, a Democrat and an appointee of President occur at Chicago next week. House, including ore from Hill- nitions and other war materials that Yet it is the AMERICAN to tempting from time to time Roosevelt, says: The most that can be said is man to Mrs. Roosevelt on April go to the United Nations. FARMERS who must produce not stiffen their resistance at a few that for six months Gov. Dewey 5, and another last Jan. 19 from only our food shipments under lend- strong points, but at other “Itcan hardly he questioned that the constitu- has held the leading place in Hilman to David Niles, formerly Along the same line, the appro- times, they are soft. the thoughts of Republican Nyhus of Boston, one of the nations committee of the House of lease, but food for our armed forces, Thus it is impossible to guess tional guarantee (of free speech) protects the leaders, and that nothing ap- President s selfless assistants submitted report besides meeting the needs of our war accurately on the end of the employer and employe alike.” pears to have altered the popu- with a pa«sion for anonymity S .epresentatives a war. So much depends on fac- lar conception of him as the and for left wing politics. Hill- plant workers, who also help to sup- wp on May 4 as to the total cost of lend- tors concerning which may But it has been questioned by the administra- probable nominee of his party. man also called Vice President ply lend lease, and the rest of our havp an opinion, but which are One may judge of the sort of Wallace and Baldwin is re- lease. not facts, such things as Ger- tion's National Labor Relations Board! corded having made own civilian needs. campaign he would make as a* three ‘‘Lend-lease aid,” from March 11, man military and civilian mo- Is it not incredible that the simple basis of our that nominee by the sort of calls to Wallaces office. All Thus the effects of lend rale on which there are oscil- campaign he made two years these calls were placed from lease are signs, missing 1941, to March 31, 1944, cost $21,- lating the luft- needs to be restated in the year 1944—0 ago when he was running for the New York headquarters of FARMS OF etc. thp Pacific, liberties f 794,237,819—0 than SEVEN felt ON THE waffe. And in governor. the political action committee. r more • • • AMERICA. the real attack has just started. all years! Baldwin also telephoned the on* BILLION DOLLARS a year. * 0 * * * * war has discounted the w ho calls himself Nile* and Jon- The congressional report also in- Nor is THE AMERICAN THE robot plane assault on THEbarnstorming campaign of athan Daniels, another of th* IF England is thp dummy luft- OPEAKING of the Wagner Act, Judge Jones the kind popularized by William President s selfless and anony- cluded loans, purchases and other HOUSEHOLD untouched. waffe Herr Goering was ad- J. Bryan. That is not the sort mous political assistants, at the says: White outlays of $8,568,449,543 making a * * # dressing with a plea to fight to of campaign Gov. Dewey would House on several occa- the dealh and there is no other, Wagner purport prefer to make anyhow. sions. “The Act does not to author- • • • total of $30,362,687,362, exceeding MAY 26, Rep. Fred A. Hartley the robot attack itself is a sign The campaign, if he were the ize a restraint upon freedom of speech in any cir- r PHF Hiilman-Baldwin-Com- TEN BILLION DOLLARS a year of New Jersey declared in Con- of German desperation It is a Republican presidential candi- I ON silly method of warfare, for date, would be short and dy- munist group of the circumstances ... had there been such a provision in all. gress that at least 6,000,000 seer- which the only excuse is a de- namic. It would prohahlv not has defeated for renominatlfdW both Martin Dies of Texas am* certainly sucker dresses, OF A sire to spread consternation in the statute it would have been invalid as in con- start early. Two years ago he These solemn reports QUALITY with indiscriminate killing and was nominated in August and Joe Starnes of Alabama, and enlighten the public as to the magni- WHICH AMERICAN HOUSE- destruction. travention of the first amendment. Accordingly, did not get into the stride of this undoubtedly may he ac. cepted tude of lend lease and related opera- WIVES CANNOT BUY, were being The British were so upset it is our opinion that it was not the intention of his campaign until a month be- as one reason for the psychologically dis- fore the election. Good tactics. Dies committee's interest in th* shipped abroad by lend lease or its about it as PACs telephone tions, and help to explain why the turbing. even to the imperturb- Congress to forbid an employer from expressing He won. records. Starnes is a member be high. affiliate, the UNRRA, to be given able. to see those aimless plane- Some few big cities would of the war taxes must opinions as to labor unions or to anything else so have a chance to him. but he committee. away. loads of explosives flying over- see Lend lease is being felt IN THE head. uncontrolled, at a rate of long as his expressions do not constitute, or con- would not tour the country. The The records show, according “Thig if a finer dregg,” Rep. Hart- about lf> or more an hour, day radio would play a more impoi- to the Dies committee, "hun- AMERICAN POCKETBOOK. and night. Rut, from a military tribute to acts or threats of discrimination, coer- tant part than in any previous dreds' of calls from the PACs Republican campaign. New headquarters to vari- « * « ley commented, “THAN IS CAR- standpoint, it is only an attack or his employes’ York upon impregnable British cour- cion intimidation in denial of free His speeches would be short, ous government officials, par- BY ANY RETAILER IN not than an hour kind reports occur RIED age. and untrammeled exercise of their rights as guar- more half in ticularly in the de[>artment of other of any rase. He prefers the shorter, justice, in The rocket planes arp con- and the department THEfrom time to time, when members AMERICA TODAY.” by 15-minutp radio address, packed of agriculture which structed cheaply, but must anteed the Wagner Act.” controls use full of punches. the Security of Congress or others are able to Mr. Hartley further that, much material which goes into Farm Administra- reported It does not take much imagination to believe ¦ wee What TOC Mwlf at Air tion and the fortunes many planes, and every shot of obtain detailed information. restrictions the home one out through due to on to Therefore, the Judge farmers its local agent* “ fails come hack. that above words of Jones were aimed everywhere. On May 23, for example, Senator market, manufacturerg are unable intrinsically, it is just a very Knowledge Test scattered Mr. Bid- expensive, expenditure directly at the whole labor “policy”of this admin- dle. himself, and Mordocai Eze- to obtain gufficient cotton goodg to aimless By DR. kial, William Langer of North Dakota of material by a nation already SABINA CONNOLLY an economist firmly at- istration. tached to the department meet the demandg of the American on the verge of defeat for that fmr #arh of th# fnl H,# of made a report on the Senate floor an#«rtoa* and St# for Hi# last (|tie«tlnn: agriculture, were among very reason, and so short of air “policy” has continuously • I**, brilliant; VS, hiijht; 4-6, aarragr; tho women and children for drcggeg." That been and men so TTie regarding farm machinery. material that it has not been • 9. ftnll. honored. list con- in tains the of many “Not only the women of able to put up an air force. demagogically favor of the laboring man and The Lords Prayer’’ names oth*na Langer are I—" was in Washington who have Senator quoted a news DlMribtited hv King Feature* Rvnd . Ine. bee* America forced to accept this inferior just as continuously and demagogically against first said by: (a) John ihe associated with groups and commentary to the effect that “the Reproduction tn »hoi# or in part (hi (c) ” Baptist; St. Paul; movements hy merchandige said Rep. Hartley, utrirtly prohibited the employers of labor, the most striking instance Jesus. themselves called War Food Administration’s 1944 ’’liberal” and ’’radical” but benefitg ——-every l>ay In Dl>ay In Factor!** “while the recipientg of the of the latter being the Montgomery Ward seizure, 2—Fifty miles per hour on land called, hy others, communistic. food production plans’’ may be equals at about: