Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 250

comments from our readers Dear Editor: Our small club of eight members. from a small mining community in Pennsylvania, until recently was know as the Rural Ridge Busy Knitters Club. We are now a chapter of the Congress of American Women. 32 We have only fifteen dollars in our treasury and out of this we are sending you $10, because of our desire to contribute to the work you are doing. May it help in some way towards The Slavic American's fight for freedom and democracy. Anna Tominac, Pres. Anne Kondrick. Secy. Julia Pukavina, Treas. Rural Ridge. Pa. The American Way through their unions, increased living costs still stay one jump ahead of them. We of the Progressive Party say this is not the American Way of Life. And "we" includes great numbers of ex-Gls and young workers, old-stock Americans and immigrants: Americans of all breeds and backgrounds. If all Americans are employed at better than mere-existence wages or are engaged in business or professional activities at a reasonable com pensation; if all Americans are well clothed and fed; if all Americans are secure instead of uncertain and worried. as the majority are today, there will be no war. The Hearsts. Peglers, Forrestals and Bullitts won't get to first base in trying to propagandize us into fear and hate of other countries which are emerging out of backwardness and, because of their different historic experiences, are attempting a different system for providing benefits and opportunities for their citizens. Dear Editor: I send you post haste my renewal subscription for The Slavic American. In all sincerity-keep up the good work for you are doing an excellent job in the struggle against fascism. I never miss an issue. Dear Editor: How about more profiles on Slavic American writers and scientists like Nikola Tesla? The field for this type of material is virtually endless. Anton Markulic Los Angeles, Calif. (See page 13-Ed.) Continued from page 30 Rev. Eliot White New York, N. Y. Why go to war to keep others from having their way of life? We in the Wallace movement. in the Progressive Party. insist on peace in order to keep the American Way of Life. If our approach prevails in time, there will be no war and Russia will be no danger to America, to the American Way of Life. The chief danger to this coun try and to our institutions under the Constitution lies in our present highlevel politicians and wire-pullers who have raised the cry of Communism and of the Russian menace as a smokescreen to neutralize any possible militancy on the part of labor, to scare us in the new-immigrant groups, to frighten the Negroes, and to confuse the people generally so they won't be able to figure out who or what is responsible for high living costs. Henry Wallace clearly means what he says; so he and his active supporters were smeared, lest too many voters vote for him and in their own interest. The old-line politicians and wire. pullers and their propagandists are not afraid of Communism, but of American democracy and of the American people; of the people get. ting wise to themselves and demand. ing a return to the American Way of Lifethe Way defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. That's what they are afraid of .. that's what we Progressives stand for and that's what will prevail if you and I, all of us and all of our neighbors wherever we come from, do everything in our power to build the new party that has come into being around the personality and political philosophy of Henry Wallace. We, all of us, will have to do all we can in this post-election period to make of the Progressive Party a party capable of saving the country and helping to bring about a world in which the American Way of Life will include not warlike antagonism, but constructive interest in the ways of life in other countries. 250