The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
By RICHARD LEWIS

Indianapolis, July 5-(NEA)-The American Greenback Party, which
 has lain dormant in political win ? ter three generations long, is coming
 out of Information.
 And it's ambitious plans foresee national Greenback candidates in
 every state in 1948 on platform of
 economic salvation through a re-
 turn to the simple life. The Green
 back Partys definition of the sim Iple life includes a house and an Iacre of ground for every American family and plenty of greenbacks for leach citizen to spend
 | This is the word from the sum- Inner headquarters of John Zahnd, |the 74-year-old party leader and perennial write-in candidate for Ipresident of the United States. Uncle John" sets the party line
 example for 5000 oldsters, who form Ithe old guard of the party in In-
 diana, by cultivating his acre with 1.-the finest tomatoes and mustard IEreens you can find in the country. ISouth of the national road.
 Retired Salesman Uncle John" is retired real E ftestate and farm wagon salesman, land he remembers the day when ithe Greenbacks were the power in
 the middle west.
 "Folks don't know it." he said,
 "but we still swing elections
 around here, and in Kansas, toe" "
 His summer headquarters is a
 chair on the Kentucky bluegrass Il lawn of his suburban farmhouse
 here, and ensconced therein, he di-
 vulged the plans for the party's first major effort to become a third party since 1918.
 The party will enter the lists with
 a program opposing capitalism. so- X cialism, communism, fascism, ban kers, loan companies and tht atomic bomb.
 Condemns Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb" he said, slap. ping mosquito to death agains the arm of his lawn chair, lis tht most miserable thing we ever made It ought to be quashed and throwr away"
 . The elder Greenback statesman f who has offered himself for tn presidency more times than prob ably anybody else, is personally op l posed to the draft and radio com mercials. Both make people d. things against their will, he said. Under the. Greenback program the draft would be an academi subject, anyway, because ther wouldn't be any war
 When everybody has his hous and acre of ground, who wants war War" he said, lis caused b profiteers. Everybody knows tha We don't allow profiteers or an such like. When they disappear ], l along with the bankers and sue like, where is your war?a The Greenback Party emerged ou of the Civil War and the monetar dislocations which followed i Greenbackers ran Peter Cooper c New York for president in 1874 O the same program of economic sal
 vation" that Zahnd advocates to . ! day: Land and greenbacks. This program is based on the res Al cue of the Federal currency durin M the Civil War by Dick Miller c II Coal County Ill, according to tn HI Greenback interpretation of event. N Invited to Washington H Abe Lincoln was running shor
 of cash to carry on the war" re
 called Zahnd. The New York ban ] lkers asked exhorbitant interest rais les. because they knew Washington N lcouldn't borrow from anybody elst \ British banks were supporting tn IConfederacy.
 Then, Honest Abe received a let tier from his friend Dick Miller ove | lin Illinois, with the solution Tn E lpresident wrote to Dick asking hin to come over to his place in Wash
 Iington and tell the cabinet about il HI Dick came as fast as he coulc HI He asked the cabinet whether M lwould be cheaper to borrow fror lthe banks at high rate of interes Tor to issue greenbacks at no interest "Why. it would be cheaper that