Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-10
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE


ION, Liberty, now many crimes are committed In thy
name exclaimed Madam Roland. Of the cause of peace,
in which no humane person can disbelieve, it may with
equal truth be said: 30, Peace, how much selfish econom-
ic propaganda is being put over in thy NAME This
propaganda has deceived many well intentioned persons
who get no view beyond the veil which hides motives hav-
ing to do with profit rather than peace.
We have heretofore referred to the fact that in the
propaganda of many of the 81 varieties of ''peace" or
CARNATIONS, heavily financed and nationally organized,
appears clear evidence of a purpose to put over something
Tar less ldeallstlc than peace. One of the most powerful
of these organizations, which spends a quarter of a mil
lion dollars a year penetrating schools, colleges, women's
societies, is the National Council for Prevention of War,
of which Frederick j. Libby is the guiding spirit. Quota
tlons from the literature OF this organization have been
given to prove that in the cause of peace economic
aims are urged which would, if attained, result in three
things: first, the sinking of American standards of life to
those of all other lands; second, the profiting of interna-
tionalized finance and industry at the sacrifice of Ameri-
can well being; third, the further involvement of America
in European and Asiatic wars!
Another issue Of the press release Of this organization,
sent to many hundreds of newspapers turnout the country,
is al hand. 1t reeks with the familiar arguments of the
international financiers, contends for deeper American
economic and political Involvement in Europe, defends the
international bankers, ~iustifies the position Of Germany
and the allied debtors of the United States in their deter
mination to repudiate debts to their own advantage and
our hurt, and demands the tearing down Of the economic
defenses which stand between American and European
wages and standards of living.
The first article is by Seymour Waldman, editor of this
press release. ''The peace movement, = it says, "must
face political and economic conditions If those who
oppose a political and economic merger with Europe cam
not be converted, then the ostrich must be ostracized. -
Attacks upon the international bankers "by the raucous
yellow press and the usually innocuous Saturday Evening
Post" are denounced. "The fact is" declares Mr.. VALID
man, that "'the international banking community is
bending every effort to maintain world peace. = = = The
international bankers are for peace, that is for an alb
sence of conflict, a cementing of tranquility, a condition
necessary for stabilizing their power.' Exactly. cit is
important that these facts be known and assimilated if
further confusion is to be avoided. Certainly.
Now get this. The editor quotes a letter from DR.. AL
bert Elnsteln, better known as a scientist than as a men,
Der of an organized subsidiary to the Third Internation-
al OF Moscow. "Dr. Einstein wrote to me that 'disarm-
ament, which is so urgently necessary, will prove feast
BILE among the European states only if there is absolute
certainty that the decisions of an obligatory court of ar
bitration will be guaranteed by all participating states
is a reminder that there is still no moral law between ma
tons and that consequently there is a pressing need for
a sovereignty superior to the members composing such
international groups in the manner that the sovereign
state is now all-powerful over its citizens The effica-
cy OF such a court, Mr.. Waldman adds, is based upon the
efficacy or the moral and physical strength of a super
state which can only give birth to such a court Here
we come back to that article of the League of NationsI
covenant, by which it was sought to obligate the Ameri-
can people to conscript American youth to 90 to war to
maintain peace, not at home, but in Europe and tbruout
the world.
Here is the conception held in common bv internation-
al socialists and communists and predatory internation-
al capitalists, of a world hegemony, under which the no.
&lcal and economic independence of the United States