Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-09-13

IN. +. A." MADE IN
Many have begun to wonder whether the N. R. A. is
workable or whether the plan is that of some one who re-
Gently broke loose from an asylum, which insane plan a
few who may have some hopes of working out, have taken
onto themselves to prosecute.
IF it is a sane and workable idea, we ask why the gov
eminent doesn't fall in with the plan itself and lead the
people into it instead of using the old Lenin-Stalin idea
of trying to drive the intelligent American people into
line? Americans are not accustomed to being driven like
cattle. This driving and coercion has not worked salts
factorily even in downridden Russia. They have had to
resort to the bayonet there to force people to bow to the
dictates of a few brainless r~acketeers in government. The
American people are the most loyal citizens in the world
to their flag, but they are now a bunch of cattle. They
do not need to be driven in to rallying around the Stars
and Stripes if they are convinced that it is to save the
nation.
Why, for instance, cannot the government find it legal
to work its force on a 40-hour week instead of go to 68
hours, which every department is doing? Why can it not
raise the wages of those government employees at least to
the minimum of $14 a week, which it is not doing? Why
does it not buy its products from N. r. A. concerns as
made by N. r. A. firms, which it is not doing in every
instance?
A few weeks ago every newspaper in the United States
received matrix impressions of a page advertisement, to
publish Gree for the N. r. A. headquarters at Wash
ington, D. G. This advertisement informed. the public
what to do to obtain a blue eagle and to buy of N. r. A.
concerns. Yet the matrix which was sent out by the N.
r. A. was stamped on the back 'Made in Germany. -
This matrix was invented in the United States and is
made here in great quantities-there is no shortage. Why
did the N. r. A. buy the German mats? Was the plan in
stigated by a New York financial house, directed by ma
tives of Germany, where most other MARKHAM theories
have sprung from and is this the reason for the "made in
Germany plan that was sent out to newspapers, or what
is the dope, Mr.. johnson?
We read of threats, shudders and "socks in the nose;''
we read of revolution, dictator, and what not. So much
so that the governor of Connecticut recently suggested to
President Roosevelt that it might be well to muzze a few
of the maniacs in Washington at the head Of the govern
ment. Recently we found in a book, ''The Primer Of the
New Deal, written by the supposedly sound members of
the brain trust, the statement that if necessary the Sup
rene Court personnel would be changed to put a consti-
tutional stamp on the socialistic program that is in mo-
ton; that at least four members of the Supreme Court are
now subject to retirement and that the president can
change the views of the court by changing the personnel
if it is necessary to do SO. We learn by that book that IT
the farmers fail to fall in with the dictators that it might
be necessary to declare martial law and put soldiers into
the rural districts to force them to bow to the new dicta-
tors; we learn that if industry doesn't jump through that
it will be licensed and thereby fined or put out of bust
ness. This all sounds as Alfred Smith said recently, like
the voice Of Stain of Russia. Never before in our history
have Americans been talked to in that language. And as
long as President Roosevelt retains such transformers In
his official body he of course will be held responsible for
their pronouncements. AS long as he fails to ~repudiate
such statements he is thought to approve of them. There
are other elections in the offing and if congress has bel
come the "rubber stamp that Professor Moley said it
would be, and does not force the president in its next ses-
sion to clean house and modify the wrongs committed,
then the American people will use their constitutional
rights by voting in a sane and militant American con-
gress to serve as the check and balance that the Constitu-
ton intended should exist.
Newspaper publishers are not overlooking the fact
that they have been more or less licensed by code and
that Mr.. johnson, reputed to be the agent Of Mr.. Baruch
Of the international finance house of New York City, Ber-
lin and France, which is said to have controlled most adj
ministrations in the past, omitted the guarantee Of free
press rights from his first draft of the code, stating lat
er when the publishers bounced on him that it was
through Oversight This may or may not have been
oversight. But the 'fMoline Flowers in office would do
well to quiet down q little and think before they speak