"AMERICA FIRST."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 15

"AMERICA FIRST."

CRUSADE. gT RONG OPPOSITION. . nDft OWN CORRESPONDENT.) e* 0 * ofcjj JRANOISC 0 , November 2. flaie fla ie Thompson, Mayor of # 4 ® has Rained unenviable fliictf 0 ' . i,i g vituperative remarks and King George he has a vast army „ B nta in America in his crusade Pneland, and Vachel Lindsay. author, in the course of a S'St.S in Spokane, Washing. '"SmeWiMd the Chicago Major , HtcT M one of trampling on the the Mayor affects to 'K and he said it was harming the ip' .f education and statesmanship to remove "pro-British'/ fti>® the Public Library of ChiC, MiTOr's attempted "censorship"' volumes in itself is unLin ds aybe liev e d . A®Sjii Hale Thompson, of ChiJaM not talk 'United States.' He gutter jargon of the steeru .-anger, hating all countries, the as well as England," •1 Lindsay, referring to Mayor 2!that's recent charges that British K«!V°P a ß anda -" Is.kit and insult our Anglo-Saxon j. j, neither statesmanship nor "3 (s«n" he said- «nd after stating ffß.d U.lied widoljr in Kng n mi] Canada, the well-known nurtwidded: "The literary friendship SlliOMffho speak United States and JL-Jio speak Canadian which is the ""L British language with which !Tl»T# to deal, is profound and seL We an unguarded Canadian ISf and to hurl literary insults ' Jjflathat line is just bad interna- [ gfil aanners."

Menace to America. (Jailer Rowel 1, owner and publisher the "Fresno Republican," of Caliy». and who is recognised as one of kprofoundest of American thinkers jibtWest, says there are three chalbM to American democracy, Lenin, jjsjolini, and "Big Bill" Thompson, !pj flat the greatest of these is Big ill. •let it be said, once for all," says Outer Bowell, "that it is Big Bill,as jljw, and not as an individual, who | paced so high among the world's picea. Personally he is an ignorant to, a momentary freak story in the Jjj, But typically he represents the |of the demagogue. If American jililie opinion has become such that li.wayed by prejudice rather than if reason; that it can be ruled better kioiraanship than by statesmanship; Wjt is a jumble of class and group gi tibial interests rather than a comn citkenship—then public opinion is K longer fit to rule America, and will foritaoly cease to do so. There is no iigtr of Leninism and little of Mussolini unless Thompson paves the way. f* shall never turn to a dictator untiu an escape from the worst evil rflie demagogue. That is the immeik challenge to us, to < guard onr taochty from dry rot within." A Chicago's Spray.

fiom the Atlantio to the Pacific, from list. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, hjor William Hale Thompson's cotoa plan to spray the American nation iith the same anti-British ich hu produced such striking re-" Mi in Chicago.. The philosophy and maples-which prompted Chicago's lij Bill" to order all library books Harassed whfcfi mention King Swrp and ,-Kjflg Edward favourwill- b$ perpetrated through > America , First Foundation, I; i corporation sustained by seem--1!% limitless, funds from an unamed

1 U%' stated, however, that the jjnujit. politicians, headed by the %f,.who incorporated the foundawn acting merely as publio-spirit-Nataeng, without thought of personal [w. The- America' First Foundation $ j»|arely for the purpose of imrNipg utuenship of Uncle Sam's citipolitics. Sectarianism or rac»(Efcwntiation will bp taboo. mJ. Murphy, a Chicago real wfebroker, lappeared to be in charge organisation and official spokesjwiien newspapermen sought to dethe wftrefore of the Founda* F®-' Bij prospectus glowed with possiand' be talked in large, if "•J* T»gue > terms. . organisation is not new." deMr Murphy, "but we have been carefully and it was only JJjf that coi jjoration papers were rlw Springfield and we are not able JJW any announcement at all. Even 2#. cannot divulge details of the JMwW than are contained in o\ir WJ We are not going into polionr purpose is purely altruisgaid the organisation ISiy M supported by public subplans of the Foundation ,js®Wwg money indicated an adeof revenue. A large suite been rented in Chicago, JrWwding to Murphy, plans tor ®TBanisations are under way in iftw cities of the United States. • tint's just a beginning," Li?. ) "Our other plans will be jpauns shortly," JJ'JJJarated that Mayor Thompson the invitation of Sir " °' England that he country and meet the people jK? A*.charges are seeking to force doctrines on the Anieri-

I,*. A London Cartoon. Intmt °t le Chicago Mayoral ati win England has spread to lion-, the "Evening Standard" an amusing cartoon by its ihw.,4 J- k° w > giving a half-page of "a grand pageant of QL?*-Wnt. American history, dediThompson, of Cnicago, America nas now enough °« nor own to dispense with *»tance» to a cablegram received in Wuu. Pictorial "pageant," the American flag, is led oy ' and is followed by very complimentary, picfej* Chaney, Barbara Fritchie, St'» Rockefeller, "Pork and wnnessee. Ku Klux Klan, Felix the Cat, ZiegWopold and Loeb, original KjW.oontAming Mr Ford, Mr TUir Spearmint," and. i ? bootleggers, hijackers, M : t?* D unlimited in a motor- ? Wvolvere, a war-winning & Th* ® a " mov i e " being ®nd Dempsey are seen W4 mJ 088 , Wotor-car with a rear Lincoln, WashingKtio n r^ r . Borah. Answering S?sn Hi international critics, %*(, , e Thompson, the Mayor of iSW'nE. to parents of school Jf l» >», the United States gDard for "un-Ameri-for support of his S^d> lrs t campaign and cauto study the hisTOtft®" their children were rely , . 'n public schools.

of Chicago. JjhiliSj® Francisco "Chronicle," Chicago crusade 8a^8: "People who set Big Bill' Thompson, of ' clown, miss (SWiy. 'Bie Bill' is not an wj'mu ll ' was born »n gfjM 1 ® ow a clever set of ?*wyone who knows him understanding. He enough to Jiang

on to the large estate left him by his father and to make it grow. And Ins name is found in the Social Register " 'Biz Bill' as thfi clown is an actor playing a part which be shrewdy judges will go big with the people who cast the most votes m Chicago. Not for a moment .is he so 1 p9 i ra . as to believe t&e stuff for which he nets so bie a hand in Chicago. When he talks alout keeping King George s snoot out of Chicago and of plots to make the Prince of Wales Emperor of She Vv States he chuckles to bimSf. That is just the comedy line he ha" developed to keep his name m the bier electric letters. '•ln* anv serious-minded man Big mil's' hokum would be vicious infincerity In 'Big Bill' it is not qu.te that though it is unscrupulous and it Certainly & vicious. With him polltfes is a diverting game, which he likes best as a hippodrome. He exnects thinking persons to know his Eokum for what it is. but he knows r,,' t thinking persons are not thrones likeiy to elect Mayora m Chicago. $ Chicago voters take him seriously hat "is P g art of the big 'kick/ he gets iut of the game he is playing. They are the boote, not 'Big B.ll,'and to patriotic Americans they are the danlev signal. In them, not in the 'Big Bills 'is r«rU to democracy.