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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1939
Radio Address By
Former Gov. LaFollette
Of Wisconsin
BY
PATRICIA DOW
CAMPUS COMBINATION
Pattern 8553—Just see what a lot
of accessory fashion this generous
pattern (8553) gives you—the bonny
Tara O’Shanter beret and round bag
to match, as well as a smart fitted
jacket!
You’ll want to crochet the beret
and bag set in two or three different
colors, not only to wear with the jack
et, but to set off your dark furs and
tweeds, as well.
The pattern includes complete and
easy instructions for crocheting the
beret and bag, as well as for mak
ing the tiny-waisted jacket (detailed
sew chart for that, too.!
Broad shoulderer, with notched col
lar, the jacket will go smartly with
your plain dark frocks, as well as
with separate skirts.
Make it of velveteen, flannel, wool
plaid, or crepe—it tailors beautiully
in all of them.
Pattern 8556—The unusual and very
becoming sleeves, the beautifully slim,
high-waisted lines of the skirt, are
details that you’ll especially like about
this practical dress (8556).
It’s ideal for business and run
about. The mode’s new feeling for
lively color and trimming Is express
ed in the bands of contrast on sleeves,
cuffs, and collar.
Notice, too, how cleverly the bodice
is darted in the back to give soft ful
ness above the waist, an important
note in the Fall silhouette.
SCARE SUBSIDES—FOOD
PRICES DROP TO NORMAL
As far as American consumers—as
such—were concerned, chief effect of
European hostilities in this county j^ggp America out, of the war by be
coming an ammunition factory for
Twenty - two years ago a pitiless
campaign of abuse raged around my
father. His name was made a word
of hatred, his picture was torn fyom
public places and ground under foot.
He was burned in effigy.
His offense—his only offense was his
profound conviction that the underly
ing causes of that World War were to
be found in the commercial and im
perialistic conflicts of European states.
He voted against war in the face of
personal abuse such as few men have
known. Until his death he was sure
that he had voted right—voted for
the best interests of America. Mil
lions now agree that he did.
The biter experience of those days
are burned into many American
hearts. We know that there are
steps which lead one by one io war.
A peace - loving nation like ours can
not be led into war overnight. A
democratic nation goes to war because
it takes the steps that lead to war.
Once those steps are taken, war be
comes inevitable unless a miracle
occurs.
The Road to War
Twenty - five years ago we expect
ed to stay out when we elected Presi
dent Wilson on the plea, “He kept us
out of war,” only to find later that we
had secretly embarked on a course
which led to war. That is why we
are all struggling to see through the
maze of arguments we hear now, as
America stands, poised to take that
first step down the long road to war.
Three years ago, recognizing this
country’s overwhelming determina
tion to stay out of other people’s
wars, Congress by a large majority
adopted, and President Roosevelt
signed the Neutrality Act. That law
was based on months of investigation
conducted by Congress into the events
that took us into the last war.
It was designed to guard against
the mistaken steps we took in 1915
and 1916. Its most important pro
vision prohibits the manufacture for
sale of arms and ammunition to na
tions involved in war.
The President has just made to
Congress a number of recommenda
tions to strengthen the original pur
pose of the Neutrality Act, such as,
for instance, a regulation that will
keep Americans and American ships
out of the danger zones. All such
recommendations have the whole
hearted support of the people of this
country. We all favor amendments
to strengthen the law.
The entire difference of opinion
arises over the proposal of the Presi-
d«yit that Congress shall repeal the
embargo on guns and ammunition and
permit their sale to nations at war.
Let me repeat there is no dispute
over strenthening the Neutrality Act.
The sole question is: Shall the Neu
trality Act be scuttled by repealing
the embargo on Arms?
Let us pull the truth right out in
to the open. This question involves
peace or war. If Congress repeals the
arms embargo now it will do so to aid
one side in the present European war.
That is what we did in 1915, and that
is what took us into the war in 1917.
Some may try to fool our own people;
but, make no mistake, we shall not
fool anybody else.
Every country in the world will at
once recognize such a step for what
it is—our taking sides with one of
the warring groups. From that mo
ment there could be no such things as
our being out of the war.
It will be only a question of how
far and how fast we get into it. It is
beyond my comprehension how any
one can argue that we are helping to
was the precipitate rise in food
prices in the week following the in- the European war.
vasion of Poland. eV entual issue raised by the
Now that domestic scare has su h- m jj ar g 0 question is: shall we or shall
sided. , | we not become involved in the war in
In New York City, whose popula- Eurone?
tion consumes 10 percent of the
country’s food output, the commis
sioner of markets reports retail
prices are back to normal.
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Humanity’s Suffering
No sane American would dare pro
pose that it is our job to save any
body’s empire. Certainly no thought
ful American would urge that we
should enter the war to save humani
ty. Humanity has suffered in recent
•years when it might have been easier
to save it. Humanity has been
bombed and gassed in the uplands of
Abyssinia, on the farms, and in the
cities of Chiha, and in the arid plains
and mountains of Spain—not bombing
in a relatively equal fight, but in the
rush of well-equipped battalions and j
squadrons against primitive people
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with a spear, against nations strug
gling to modernize their institutions,
and against a society torn by civil
strife.
There was a time when, if ever,
the appeal to humanity should have
had the greatest force. But those
appeals were then unanswered by
those who now make them in their
own extremity. I do not criticize. No
man or woman speaking in this safe
and blessed land has the moral right
to criticize those who are charged
with the terrifying responsibility of
leading a people dwelling in the teem
ing lands of Europe or Asia.
An appeal to enlist in a crusade to
fight the brutal dictatorships strikes
a responsive chord in the warm
hearts of the American people. The
desire to see the tyranny of dictator
ship ended, whether those dictators
be red, black, of brown, springs from
America’s deep-rooted love of liberty;
and I yield to no man in my loathing
of dictatorship as a denial of the
free principles upon which America
was founded.
But we must not fool ourselves into
thinking that we can help fight dic
tatorships in Europe and still stay out
of war. A nation cannot be half in
and half out of war. We either go in
or stay out. Past experience and to
day’s facts should have taught us
that cash and carry before very long
would become “charge it” and carry I
it, too.
More important, let us not forget j
the tragic error of thinking that war |
supplies are not all we shall be called j
upon to provide in this European war. I
Six months ago, while in France, I
asked one of the highest officials what
they expected from the United States
in the event of war. He instantly
shot back the reply “supplies—and
men.”
More than 1900 years ago the Mas
ter said, “What shall it profit a man
if he gain the whole world but lose
his own soul?” That fundamental
precept applies not alone to indivi
duals but to nations as well. What
shall we gain to crush dictatorship in
Europe, if we lose our priceless free
dom at home ?
Make no mistake; the moment we
embark on the road to war we inevit
ably take on the trapping of dictator
ship. Modern warfare calls for the
mobilization of a great deal more than
an army. It demands the complete
regimentation of all resources and all
the people. It demands regimenta
tion of thought and action of the en
tire population.
As war lengthens in duration and
grows in intensity, the shackling of
freedom becomes more and more ab
solute. When peace comes at last,
the terrifying economic collapse
which must follow may well become
the emergency to continue dictatorial
powers and thus destroy Americanism
itself.
Let me turn again for a moment to
my father’s experience. At the very
height of American enthusiasm for
the World War, he never wavered in
his repeated predictions that that war
would be followed not just by more
wars, but by the worst economic col
lapse the world had known.
He was not a prophet. He was a
student. He knew history. He knew
that nations could not destroy mil
lions of productive human beings and
billions and billions of dollars of
wealth without paying the inevitable
price in hard times, poverty, and de
pression.
Look at the world today. Europe
enters this war with billions of dollars
of debt left over from the last one.
With the enormous debt the world
now carries and with the awful in
crease in the destructiveness of war
today, you can write it down as a
foregone conclusion that if this is a
prolonged war, it will end in the com
plete collapse of the economic and
political systems , of every nation
which participates in it.
But worse than the loss in bank
ruptcy and poverty—worse even than
the slaughter of millions of human
beings—is that prolonged war will be
followed by the worst era of demago
gues the world has seen. Those who
sow the seeds of hatred, who spread
racial, religidus, and class strife, bi
gotry, and intolerance would feed and
fatten on the distress and collapse
that must follow. Every scoundrel
anxious to exploit degraded aspects
of human nature would find a thous
andfold increase in the fields he can
till it we make hatred respectable by
joining in war.
“The stability and future of the
American nation do not depend on
the victory or defeat of any other na
tion anywhere in the world.”
They depend on what we do here
at home. That is why in all that has
been said I have kept waiting for
word about America and American
problems.
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It is shocking to discover the eag
erness with which some of us have
dropped our own unfinished tasks
here at home and turned our backs to
the problems that gave us 10,000,000
unemployed, millions of distressed
farmers, and millions of young and
old who face still another winter with
a scanty and uncertain living in this
land of plenty.
In our excitement over wars in
Europe and in Asia are we forgetting
that our task is not for ourselves
alone but for every people of hope
everywhere? - If we are to be helpful
to the world in the years to come, we
must not forget that our first task
is to safeguard our own people here
at home and the principles and ideals
in which they believe.
You have heard of the forgotten
man. Does that forgotten man now
live in a forgotten country?
When they vote for or against
wrecking the Neutrality Act, your
Congressman and your Senators will
be taking the first big step on the
road to war or peace. You have elec
ted them to decide for you. But you
owe it to your conscience and your
country to take your own stand on
one side or the other of this life-and-
death front.
There can be no alibis. This is not
an issue where just a few chosen ex
perts alone know the answers. This
great issue is not a test of brains. It
is a test of character. Once the flood
gates are opened, the fences and those
who sit on them will be swept ruth
lessly along over the precipice.
Mothers and fathers—you who have
through pain and sacrifice brought
life into the world—what do you
think? Your voice is more important
than all the statesmen and leaders in
all countries. Speak up for yourselves
and your children.
1 Young men and women—you who
dream of finding a useful place in ’
the life of your country where your
creative gifts can help America again ■
become the beacon light of the world
—you who would pay the bloody price
for the mistakes of politicians—speak
up for young America.
You who are older—doctors, teach
ers, nurses, ministers of all faiths,
workers, and tillers of the soil; you
who have the wisdom of experience—
speak up and give your country guid-.
ance in this critical hour. ,
Americans all! You still hold in
your hands the power to guide the
destiny of this great land. Use it!
America, speak up!
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