Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-23
Marshall
Field Held
Like Thyssen
Says Both Get :
Set for New Order
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
4 PPARENTLY we are about
"A 10 see some fun in the field
of journalism in Chicago where
Marshall Field III, the grand
son of the man who founded the
big store in State street, is
starting morning paper to
compete with the Tribune which
has had a monopoly of the
morning field in the second city
OF the republic for several years.
Mr.. Field. who is no news
paperman, has vast fortune
which he received from his
Crandfather'S estate and he has
been hankrolling n curious eX-
pertinent i'm afternoon d ally
Journalism in New York for
some time.
This paper. called PM, which
has no ads and sells for nickel.
turned out TO be a veritable cell
or better, a hive of Communists
and such political tag-alongs as
run with the Communists.
In hiring the original staff.
the executives reached out and
relieved other publishers of some
of their most annoying NUS
anccs. but tho editor Ralph
1ngcrSoll said be wasn't in
tcreSted in the politics Of his
reporters and writer's and hired
them for Such professional quail
iications as he thought they had.
WHATEVER ths explanation,
w he nevertheless did acquire
staff which. with few exceptions.
would have been politically ac-
ceptablc 10 the Daily Worker.
Mr.. Field the other day was
quoted rs having remarked that
he didn't give a damn what hap
pcned 20 his fortune and the
lIerald-Tribunc then interviewed
him 10 the effect tina, he
thought we would first have 10
WIN the war.
Thereafter he would be Will
ing 10 risk the fortune in some
now order, but. he hoped, not
faSciSm.
I'VE paper is vigorously pro-
L Roosevelt and supported The
Presidents war policy during
the time when the comrades Of
the {. p. were damning this
war AS BritainS own and doing
their best to sabotage American
defense.
From whore 7 sit Mr.. Field Is
little indiStinct but. in silhou-
cite. this rich man has An ap-
pcaranCe much like that q
Fritz ThySScn. the German n
duStrialiSt who threw in with
Adolf Hitler in the belief that
der fuchrer would produce a
new order i'm which industry
and the people would enjoy
peace and prosperity. although
n the sacrifice OF some OF their
Jess important liberties.
ThySscn supported Hitler Tn-
nj Hitler became so strong { lat
ThySscn was no better than Nv
other slave Of tho new order
and went over the hill 10, / be-
licvc Switzerland.
Nh FIELD is a New rsaler
VI from cover 20 covert and.
thus. 1T strikes me, is uSfg his
vast Inherited fortune NJ pro
mote an ordcrs here (which,
Notwithstanding his expressed
adherence Of faSciSm. will be.
fasciSm or national socialism,
nevertheless.
II might even be recognized
as communism because there IS
really no difference between the
iSms of Benito Mussolini. the
little forgotten man of the boot.
and Hitler and Stain
Under the New Deal. now
emerging as something called a
I New Order. small business has
been put 10 great distress and
/ is now IN process of extinction
/ in favor Of war industries.
And big business is being
taken over IN various ways.
most notably by more or less
friendly seizure when the unions
of the labor front call strikes
which interfere with war pro-
ductiOn.
/ ABOR thus achieves the same
II position that unions enjoy
IN Germany and Russia.
They still have unions in
those countries hut the govern
mcnt runs them and the govern
menf. i'm the role of government.
decides what the government
viii pay them. in the role OF
employer.
Wei. il is StillNa free country
in some respects and Mr.. Field
has as much right as the next
man 10 exercise that freedom
even though he advocates
changes which would wipe out
his freedom.
But. among the rich men OF
this country there are a few OF
whom il Will be possible TO say
one day, if the New Order does
evolve, that they sold them
selves solid with a man who
seemed inevitable.
Rich men have done that in
Italy and Germany but the men