The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-25

SS VI POFef. L. Was MS 1nCen-
tlon to have speakers bureau
and train speakers who were lone
hundred per cent American like
Garland here
Would you train those speak
ers along nationalist lines?" l ask
ed.
That's Americanism," he an
sWered. Nationalism is American
ISM
I made an appointment to see
him a few days later ''to talk in
surance. Vietig said nothing
about having addressed closed
meeting of the N.W.L. in Septem-
Der, 1941, regarding which Sage
had told me: 'Doy, he sure OPEN
ed up on the Jews-for the first
time in public
A peculiar insurance sales
man." Vietig seemed not at all
interested either in talking or sell
ing insurance. Instead we talked
about nationalist politics.
What should we nationalist do
noW?" | asked.
TREAD water. That is all we
can do he answered.
Vietig described himself as a
promoter. Il represent men," he
said, and J promote IDEAS" AS
to his personal future: II expect
to work less and less with t h
years. Why should l work hard?"
He told me of his close friend
ship with Laura ingalls,, and of
an America First Committee meet
ing at Lansing, Michigan, where
the two hac spoken together to a
labor audience. He recounted how
she had said: Il CART say every
thing now because / do not want
to go to jail. Then she stopped
Vietig resumed, because she was
afraid to go on. But ! stepped on
the platform and said: I'll tell
you what, rnen. # we 60 to war
your unions will be shot. Labor
will be under dictatorship. You'll
have a revolution eventually-why
not have it now
After particularly hard day at
the shop, | Travelled some three
hours by buses 10 reach Mrs. Rosa
M. Faber's home.
l talked with het for two hours
and despite her associations was
beginning 1o believe l had mis-
Judged her. She tul6: me she had
worked with Mrs. a Cressy Nor
rison. Mrs Catherine Baldwin, DR..
Maude Delsnd, and had read So
cial Justice. Mrs. farber confirm
ed my impression Of Catherine
Curtis: Il ,egald Miss Curtis as
the most capable woman in the
country today. She uot only knows
Washington Mrs. Farber was
also well acquainted with Robert
Vietig and was impressed by his
abilities.
President of the Mothers Of the
United States CT America. she had
known as esrly as May, l941, she
tfat Laura ingalls, was
on the Nazi pay roll. There was
a lot more abou. ner than ap-
peared in the newspapers, she
said mysteriouslv. What was
printed was only half the story"
Mrs. Farner suddenly came out
with: There is no other way out
for us tilan through d revolution"
"You mean a revolution with
/ asked. surprised at
aer sudden remark
She nodded: Its the only way"
II was going to start an under
ground organization last fall, she
explained. "put they tmean1ng COS
sipy women would not have been
able to keep + secret and l gave
up the ides It's the only thing
left to do now-start an under
ground movement. Mrs. Farber
wasn't holding meetings OF ny
kind now. You only make your
self target she said. They Ii
shut you down. The only way to
work now iSthrough conversation.
What she actually did was to
outline a whispering campaign |
She gave ne her formula as she
practiced it day by Gay. She re-
counted how she had spread de-
featism at the local school. One OF
the teachers giving cut "a t n
cards had said that rationlng was
necessary for psychological rea-
sons. But Mrs. Farber had ar
gued back IF they want us to
know that we are i, the war then
let them publish TIE casualty lists
and also send the bodies back
One of the teachers had comment
ed, Eyes come to think OF it,
those lists haven't been published
ed, have they. /
Mrs. Farber boosted, You see?
planted an idea in her head
now she'll think Of it again.
Thoroughly warmed UP to her
subject, she went on: Il u
plant seeds like that every day.
They are little ideas which l put
in my conversations day by day:
I do If all the time. That is all