The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-08

congressional veteran who ran un- successfully for the senate last year, he looked like just another lame duck until the presidential finger pointed to him.
 He Is tall, quiet, intensely serl- ous and looks like 2 prosperous farmer. When he talks, his drawl now and then has Q broad Scan- dinavian infection. He lacks the nervous mannerisms most men have; doesn't fiddle with things or shift his position while talking. The current cry that he is next thing to Communist amuses him; he remarks that the vigor- ously fought the Communists in his effort to start farmer-labor party year or so ago and was denounced in Communist publi- cations as red batter. A Wisconsin Progressive of the left-of-the-LaFolletteS persuasion, he came down here in 1881 advo- eating a five billion dollar public works program. In 1882 he was calling for a ten billion dollar pro- gram. In 1883 he advocated a pro- duction- -for-use system for the un- employed; suggested 1t, he says, before he heard that Upton Sin- clair had the same idea. By 1885 and 1886 he had gone on to advo- cate plan for @ controlled sys- tenn of farm and factory production. ECONOMIC
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 All of this, he feels, was not radi- calism; 1t was rather search for e middle of the road line that would save the country from having to make @ choice between the extreme right and the extreme left.
 "If there Is any middle of the road path, 1t can only be main- tained if we reverse the process of economic contraction" he says. This process, which makes 20 per cent of our people live outside of our economic system, sooner or later makes people turn to their emotions for guidance"
 What happens when they do? He illustrates. Suppose there has been . shipwreck, and 12 men are adrift in . life boat which has room for just II. One man is due to get thrown overheard; and he will be the man who is different from the rest. 'Tf I'm Swede and the other II are New England Yankees, they'll pitch me out" he says. Then, he adds, the men who do the throwing will go on and try to make their action seem logical-so they'll have to develop Q hatred of the man they're toss- ing out.
 "I've tried to avoid this division into right and left" he says. "It means Fascism. If we have these 20 per cent of our people living outside of the economic system what have they got to lose but their civil liberties? And what do his civil liberties mean to a man who is hungry?" HEADED LEGION
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 MT. Amlie doesn't think he got very far in his fight for a middle of the road path. His best efforts of the last eight years, in fact, he looks on as failure. But he doesn't feel that he can be called radical.
 Born in North Dakota of Nor- wegian descent 42 years ago, MT. Amlie was educated at the Univer- sities of North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin and hung out his shingie as a lawyer in Elkhorn, Wis. He has been president of his home town bar association and commander of its American Legion post.
 Will the senate confirm him? There1l be @ fight. One rather conservative Democratic senator summed 1t up like this:
 "l-fter all, there are II other men on the commission and they're all conservative. One lone wild man can't do any harm there, and he may make some of the railroad men wake up."
 Copyright, 1889, NEA Service, Incl