The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-09
Mothers Club Sends
 Letter To Governor
Local Unit Also Urges President to Dismiss Knox Stn1son From Cabinet; Praise for Senator
 Wheeler Voiced

Letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to Governor Robert A. Hurley were drawn up by one hundred members of the Mothers of American Sons in a meeting at The Elton last evening, at which their president, Mrs. Katherine Johnson, presided.
 Opposition to aid by this country to "barbaric Russia" and demand for the dismissal of Secretaries Knox and Stimson were the princi- pal content. of the two letters which the group drafted.
 The letter to the president said in part: "Who authorized United States aid to Russia?
 We Americans condemned Rus sia and her blood thirsty Stalin for attacking our friends in the small democracies. This Russia we are helping today is the same Russia she was one year ago. This Stalin to which we are giving promise, sympathy and aid today is the same rough, uncultured, barbaric blood- thirsty Stalin of one year ago when he invaded Finland, Estonia, Lat via and Lithuania. Russia hasn't changed -Stalin hasn't changed the small democracies haven't changed = freedom loving people haven't changed-but what a dras- tic change the democracies-Eng- land and United States-have made in theirs ideas, promises, sympa- thies.
 "Why should we help Communism which tears out the soul of a na- tion?
 "Now that the small democracies are. winning their freedom without the help of the imperialistic Amer ican and British democracies why should we spoil their chances by supplying war materials to the most ruthless dictator, the world has ever seen?".
 The groups letter to Governor Hurley reads as follows:
 August 8, 1s41. Governor Robert Hurley,
 Hartford, Conn.
 Dear Sir: ,r
 We were deeply concerned apout your address to the American Le- zion which appeared in the Water bury Republican July 27, 194l, stating that you condemned the fifth columnists and the fifth wheelerS etc.
 We the mothers and sisters and wives of boys of the last World War and the same to the present con- scripteds boys whose lives are put up to defend our freedom, resent very much being clasSed with the fifth columnists. You, MT. Hurley, are supposed to serve your people, not | dictate, and we cemand your help in busting two war mongerS, Secre- tary Knox and Secretary Stimson. We want them replaced with real l Americans, fathers of boys that are in service. We want men like Sen ator Burton Wheeler that won't play the role of Judas. MT. Hurley, we believe you are well read and up to the minute in politics and that you know all about Joseph Stalin,s barbaric doings, all his broken agreements, signed pactS and self imposed protectorates. You must know now he had all his enslaved small nations patroled by Mcngolians. All enslaved govern ments were filled with members of l the powerful minoritieS.
 We haven't forgotten how Presi- dent woodrow Wilson promised he would keep us out of the last for cling war. Soon after his election he dragged us into 1t! Our mothers went to their graves heart broken
 and as yet we have our hospitals filled with the last World War vet erans. Some of us are little bet
 ter of f-ollr crippleS are at home
 with usl What is our government doing about 1t all2 We'll, you know
 they are trying to force us into the
 same mistake we made the last
 time. It was just too bad for us we
 didn't take the advice of Col. Lind- berghss father-i -in-law. Senator Mcr-