Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-20

drums. But scores
and scores of meetings were held by
men and women who are determined
that America shall not again be drawn
into a bloody foreign war. On the
evening of April 6, l addressed such
meeting for peace in New York city
that was largely attended and the fer
vor displayed by my hearers would
have convinced the most skeptical
that the American people do not want
war so long as peace can be honorably
maintained.
There is no question but that the
President and his New Dealers are
heading for war. They have tried
everything else to bring about recov-
cry. I fear they now want to try
the sword Indeed, the situation here
in Washington is becoming critical.
In order to counterfeit the war
propaganda and hysteria of the New
Deal administration Is members, and
Thursday and organized the 'Na-
tional Committee to Keep America
out of Foreign Wars" I was honored
with election as vice-chairman. Such
prominent men as Hamilton Fish,
John j. O'Connor, Oscar Youngdahl,
Royal c. Johnson, F. B. Keefe, Albert
E. Carter, Ralph o. Brewster, Roy O..
Woodruff and Usher L. Burdick are
among the incorporators of this or
ganiZation.
Lists Detectives.
Our purpose is to counteract the
war propaganda with which the New
Deal administration is flooding the
country We propose to use every
resource available to conduct an open
and militant campaign of education
so that the American people may be
kept fully informed. The detectives
of our organization are:
l. To provide national nonparti-
san, nonprofit and nonsectarian or
ganization through which the Amer
lean people can express their deter
mination to keep out of foreign wars,
and to promote peace and goodwill
toward men.
g. To counterfeit the inspired prop
uganda emanating from the White
House and spokesman of the New
Deal, which has created mass war
hysteria throughout the nation by
inflaming the fears and passions of
our people and melted hatreds against
foreign nations.
8. To maintain the American pol
icy of nonintervention and peace,
and against entangling alliances, war
commitments and policing and quar-
antining the world with American
blood and treasure.
4. To uphold adequate national de-
tense and the Monroe Doctrine.
5. To check the propaganda and
activities of all foreign nations in
this country which seek to entangle
us in Old World quarrels and to fight
their battles.
6. To expose propaganda emanat-
ing from within, such as Communism,
which seeks to have the United States
go to war with Japan and Germany
for the benefit of Soviet Russia.
Z. To combat the spread of Naziism,
Fascism and Communism in Amer
lea, and be Americans for America
regardless of race, color creed or poll
tics.
8. To oppose racial and religious
persecution.
9. To take the profit out of war,
and make public the activities and
propaganda of the war proiteers,
munitions makers and other selfish
interests.
10. To resist the activities of the
Internationalists, interventionists and
other groups who would have the
United States use force and compul-
sion in international disputes; to ex-
4ert its influence to prevent the Con-
gress from delegating its war max
ing powers to the President.
II. To give the right to the Amer
lean people to vote in national
referendum as to whether American
citizens should be conscripted for
service outside the western hemi-
sphere to fight on foreign soil. (Not
to be confused with the Ludlow
amendment, providing for national
war referendum).
IL. To preserve our American Sys-
tenn and constitutional government
and to devote our energies to solving
our own economic problems, restor-
ing confidence and providing employ
ment for the American people.
Radio Talk Not Reassuring.
The Presidents radio talk on for
eign affairs Friday was not reassur-
ing. 1t breathed the same old spirit
of hate and passion that was so pro-
nounced back in 1917. Today the
propaganda mills are again running
overtime, spewing forth their poison
Gus doctrines.
81 will be back in the fall if we
don't have war;" said President
Roosevelt, smiling, waving an airy
farewell from his private car leaving
Warm Springs, Ga. Who does the
President mean by "we?" Does he
mean the American people? Certain
1y. Otherwise, we would have said
eff they don't have war;"
To me it is both alarming and
shocking that the President of the
United States should talk of war