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RILEY 5551 Give Light and the People Wilk Fina Their Own Way WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940

CLAPPER’S DISCOVERY

RAVEL, we are pleased to note, is broadening the perspective of our columnist, Raymond Clapper.

Ray is one of the best kibitzers in.the business. As a rule he is very good at calling the turn. Right or wrong, he always calls ’em 36 he sees ’em, which is one reason why he has such a large following. : Until a few days ago Ray spent most of the autumn around Washington, a city with an atmosphere all its own, where New Dealers and news correspondents and commentators gather at luncheon tables and cocktail hour to tell each other what's happening around the world. And until a few days ago, calling em as he saw ’em, Clapper was writing that’ the 1940 election seemed to be all over | but the shouting. It looked like a third term in. a walk. | But in the last few days he has been beating the bushes out in the great Middle West, far from the inbred atmosphere of Washington. Now, still calling ’em as he sees em, Ray reports his discovery that this election campaign is a real hoss. race, that Wendell Willkie is making tremendous gains in popular support, that many citizens who voted for Franklin Roosevelt the last two times are no longer serene about his handling of domestic and foreign affairs. There is a tone of surprise in Ray’s writing, but to us it makes significant reading indeed.

NAPOLEON AND HITLERJF MERSON saidiof Napoleon:

“Here. was an experiment, under the most favorable conditions, of the powers of the intellect without conscience. Never was such a leader so endowed, and so weaponed; never leader found such aids and followers. And what was | - the result of this vast talent and power, of these immense armies, burned cities, squandered treasures, immolated millions of men, of this demoralized Europe? “It came to no result. All passed away, like the smoke | of his artillery, and left no trace. He left France smaller, | poorer, feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest | for freedom was to be begun again. The attempt was, dn principle, suicidal. “France served him with life, and limb, and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him, but when men | saw that after victory was another war; after the destrue- | tion of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desper ately were never nearer to the reward—they could not spend what. they had earned, nor repose on their downbeds, nor strut in their chateaux—they deserted him, “Men found that his absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men. It resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on anyone who takes hold of it, pro-| ducing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man cannot open his fingers, and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim. ; “So, this absorbent egotist narrowed, impoverished and |

absorbed the power and existence of those who served him, | and the universal cry of France, and of Europe in 1814, was ‘enough of him’; ‘assez de Bonaparte.’ “It was not Bonaparte’s fault. lay, to live and thrive without moral principle. It was the nature of things, the eternal law of man and of the world,

which balked and ruined him; and the result, in a million! § Every experiment, by multi-| 4 tudes or individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, | §

experiments, will be the same.

will fail.”

INVITING THE PRESIDENT

N asking President Roosevelt to join him on the same platform in Baltimore, Wendell Willkie issued the invitation by making a public statement. Although he doubtless was guided by a belief that the public would be interested i in the prospect of such a meeting, it seems that Mr. Willkie erred grievously in his procedure. Said the President's secretary, Stephen T. Early: “If 1 were going to invite you to my home, I would send you an invitation—and I don’t think I'd send it if 1 knew you were not coming.” It is asking a little too much to expect Mr. Willkie to know whether the President would or would not accept— considering the frequency and rapidity that mark the Presidential changes of mind. But the other point Mr. Early raises, about the personal invitation, is no doubt a valid one. And surely Mr. Willkie will want to correct his breach of etiquet. In a spirit of service and of rowel for the inviolable formalities of third-term campaigning, we pass along to the Republican National Committee a suggestion offered by our protocol editor—that a messenger be sent to the White House to deliver-by hand a beautifully engraved and embossed : invitation, on fine stock, reading somewhat as

follows: ; Mr. Wendell Willkie

Requests the Honor of the Presence of The President of the United States To Join with Him.in an Address Wednesday Evening, October the Thirtieth At Nine o’Clock At the Fifth Regiment Armory Baltimore, Maryland

We wanted to put an R. S. V. P. down in the corner, but the protocol editor said that wouldn't be protocol.

MODERN VERSION

A. GOOD many young men are finding she, old advice

‘about ‘avoiding a draft pretty unhealthy these days. §

| entation of

warped notion of citizenship employs the same to

| sale, he gives a particular warning that this device, | if fired at a business rival, will produce results highly

i peace and order of the community. u ” ®

the laws respecting gambling his responsibility has | ‘anism to uses which are not respectable.

| sticks of chewing gum, evil groups in Chicago, New (York, rural New England and the rural Midwest and | South, New Orleans, the Miamis, California and New | Jersey have persistently flouted the law.

' in court proceedings intended to enjoin the ownership

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler "This Is the Week of the Debut

"For Jimmy Roosevelt in Joining aj

Firm Famed for 'Vending' Machines

EW YORK, Oct, 23.—This is the week of a three-day carnival of smorgasbord, refined entertainment and innocent: fun arranged in honer ef fhe debut of Capt. James Roosevelt, U. 8. Marine

Corps, Reserve, in a new field of business. Capt. Roosevelt, the eaglet of the dy=nasty, thus announces his assoclation with the Mills Novelty Co. of Chicago, the leading manufacturers of an innocent vending device which has been put to questionable . uses by sinister characters in many sections of the country, described as the one-armed bandit. Invitations to the gala affair read as follows: “You are cordially Invited by James Roosevelt and Fred Mills to attend the Eastern premiere and expositien ‘of Mills Panoram Machine and ‘Soundies’ at the Waldorf-Astoria. Admission by this invitation only, bearer and party. Please reply on inclosed card to Fred Mills, Milis Novelty Co., Chicago.” The program inclosed with the invitation lists activities ‘that began last Sunday with the “Mills epen house,” consisting of smorgasbord, or Swedish cold delicacies, and special entertainment under the direction of Miss Sixteen Rogers, “the famous Panoram girl,” as hostess. Monday's program included the Fred Mills luncheon, a “press and, celebrity” party, “soundies,” an address by the eaglet and the pres“stars of theatrical, radio and musical world.” re # : ESTERDAY'S exercises, as announced in the program, provided an introduction of “celebrities” with this parenthetical enticement: “Have your piecture taken with Jimmy Roosevelt.” There will be those persons of ill- will and political bias, no doubt, who will enjoy believing that Capt. Roosevelt's association with the company which. for many years has manufactured the one-armed bandit by the thousands is indicative of something. That, however, is unworthy of any broad-minded American, for the fact is, of course, that the Mills Novelty Co. has been pained by the misuse of its invention by low individuals to violate the ‘laws against gambling and to corrupt the administration of government and justice, all to the great detriment of American civic morality. If a man manufactures shotguns, for example, is it his fault that a purchaser having low ideals and a

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blow a business rival full of rusty bolts and automobile parts? It is, indeed, not the fault of the manufacturer, the less so if, on offering the shotgun for

deleterious to that individual's health and to the

O, also, if the manufacturer of a vending machine gives notice that it should not be used to violate

been nobly discharged. He certainly cannot be blamed for the sins of those who pervert an honest mech-

In spite of the high purposes of the Mills Novelty Co. in producing one-armed bandits to purvey little

Millions of dollars have been gbtained by this means. It hardly needs to be said—but it has been said

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TAKES A SLAM AT

NEW DEAL SENATORS By A Patriot

It is anything but enlightening to hear New Deal Senators rant

and rave about the opposition to (the New Deal party, for in their

and operation of the one-armed bandit—that the Mills Novelty Co. regrets such misuse of its products.

‘desperation they stoop, not only to smear but to hypocrisy. They Have sold out their birth-

fought and stood for, and without

right and all that their forefathers|

By John T. Flynn

| men will be called from Nov. 18 until July.

| be aware of a very serious economic effect which will

He did oll that in-him?

‘knows whether he is going to be called or not.

{ some eight million homes now has come uncertainty

Business

Uncertainty When Draftees Will Be Called Likely to Hurt Business!

EW YORK, Oct. 23.—The War Department announces a schedule according to which drafted It is well that the Government, as well as the country, should

presently make itself manifest as a result of this proceeding. ‘I suppose it is in order to count the cost of anything we do. First of all, something more than 16 million men from 21 to 35 years of age have been registered. All of these men are liable to be called. Of course. married men with dependents can feel reasonably sure they will not be. But it is a fair assumption that eight million young men—or half the total number—do not know today whether they will be called or not. This immediately produces a group of uncertainties in the lives of ‘these men. For instance, the winter is at hand. It is the season in which a large number of men buy overcoats. But no man subject to a possible draft by Nov. 18 is going to buy a winter overcoat when the Government may furnish him with one. If a man is not called Nov 18, he may be called in December and the same uncertainty will keep him out of the overcoat market until then ‘and for that matter until January, until he He will worry along with his last year’s coat until he feels sure that he will not be included in the draft and he cannot feel sure until it is too late to buy a coat. 2 2 ”

THAT is true of coats is true of all kinds of things. Many families not dependent on the earnings of a son or two. do, nevertheless, have their standard of living fixed by the total contribution of the family, including the son or sens. Into perhaps

as to what the family earnings will be this winter, Take a case at hand. Here is a family, a man and wife, who have an income from the father’s earnings of $60 a week, but who have a young son who earns $40 a week and gives his mother $20. That extra $20 is now shifted into the domain of complete uncertainty and of course the family’s whole budget of spending must be altered until it knows where it stands. The calling of men in waves, as is being done, reduces eight million men to uncertainty as to their economic status for a whole winter in order to get

regard for posterity. Their only thought is, of course, to continue in office at $10,000 a

year and to heck with sacred traditions.

Fifth columnists are no worse a

menace to America than these shallow Senators and I refer particularly to Senator Minton of Indiana.

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INDORSES DEFENSE OF MRS. ROOSEVELT

By Fair Deal 1 heartily indorse Ruth Shelton’s defense of Mrs. Roosevelt. We should be so thankful that we have a First Lady who is interested in

{the youth of our land, in the handi-

capped physically and the poor and needy. If she were different, she could spend her time at the White House entertaining lavishly, displaying fine jewels and finer clothes and perhaps whiling away a few hours at cards. The cards are all right and the clothes too, but she has chosen the better part. She is willing and happy to give

her time, her ability and her money

to help in any good cause. Of course

‘her house may get in a mess while she is out touring the country but I have an idea that there are thase who take care of that part of the

work. As te her family, she devoted her time to them when they needed her, while they were growing up and if I am any judge she is still working at the job, though her family is scattered to the four corners of the country. I wonder if that “Democrat, No New Dealer” , really knows Mrs. Roosevelt, a real wife who stood by her husband through the dark hours of an infantile paralysis attack, a real mother who loves her children

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when they are good and when they are naughty the same as you and I. God bléss Eleanor Roosevelt!

"2 = HOPES WE DO BETTER

AFTER THE ELECTION By E. B. I once wrote you in praise of the high quality of your daily editorial column, counting them as a “lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” But that was before your recent estrangement from support of the New Deal and other progressive measures for the restoration of a more abundant economic life. If I felt sure that the present letdown in the past high quality of your editorial page was going to be permanent my sorrow would be increased. However, following the coming election I take comfort in believing that the need for the daily building up of Willkie and the denunciation of Roosevelt will be over, and a return to less partisan political discussion will follow. I believe if you knew how many of your friends and readers regret the lowered tone of your editorials, you would lose no time after the election in returning to our former standard of excellence. It is with deep regret that I feel under compulsion to thus differ from you in these ecrucial times “that try men’s souls.” 8 8 ” INDEPENDENT RATES ROOSEVELT AT TOP By J. Roberts We ara not Democrats or Republicans—just independents. Seripps-

Howard papers have been our choice for many years. We are sorry to

Side Glances—By Galbraith

900,000 men. Thus seven families are forced to economic retrenchment as part of the process of selecting one man. The Government is not prepared to take these 900,000 men right away, but it certainly ought | to decide "right away who these 900,000 men will be, without waiting for them to be called.

So They Say—

WHOEVER IS elected will be my president for the next four years.—Alf M. Landon, G. O. P. presidential nominee in 1936. onl

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WHEN YOU got children old enough to come to | live in a Home for the Aged, you're not a spring Lhicken, no?—Mrs, Bella Reiner, New York, 103 years o

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IT WAS a more than satisfactory demonstration

of the ability of free people to rise to an occasion.— Selective Service Director Dykstra. +

THIS COUNTRY is almost the last citadel if in- | dependent, untrammeled scholarship.—Governor Lehman of New York. 1 * » » ; AND WHEN PEACE comes, remember it will be for us children of today to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place.—Princess Elizabeth of England.

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SPEAK UP FOR democracy—my massage boils down to four words.—Edward L. Bernays, publicity expert.

: COP. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFP.

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“Tell him you'll have to charge him the price of two suits, but be diplomatic about it!"

see you have joined the mob to crucify the greatest President the United States ever had. We don’t make - that = statement . without having read the lives of the Presidents and the history of the United States, particularly the history we lived through and read in the daily papers from 1919 to 1933. Where is the decency, gratitude and even ordinary Christianity of people who have benefited through F. D. R.’s Presidency, and whe now hate him and viciously libel him? Let us honor the people’s President with a third term, and “God Bless America” in reality. ” ” 2 ACCUSES NEW DEAL OF INVITING COMMUNISM By Edward F. Maddox Reading of many books, articles, news reports and speeches, together with close study of New Deal actions, methods and personnel has convinced me that New Dealers are leading wus straight into Commupism. , . , - The attack on the Supreme Court,

the open enmity against private] j industry, the neglect of our na-|§ tional defense needs, the attack on |

our munitions and war material manufacturers, the open encouragement of Communistic leadership and tactics in labor unions, the close alliance with the FarmerLabor Party and with ‘Upton Sinclair's EPIC in California and the support of the New Deal by Socialists and Communists are but a few straws to show which way the New

Deal wind is blowing.

8 2 B THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE THAT'S WILLKIE, HE SAYS By A Democrat

Yes, I too, am a former Demosss tic voter who will vote for Willkie. Why? Because unlike Raosevelt, and all his predecessors during my lifetime, Willkie was nominated by the people. . . . Willkie’s record is. better than Raosevelt’s, Unlike Roosevelt he was not born into a wealthy family, er in a great. mansion, but came from the common people. Unlike Roosevelt he never had a nurse or a governess. Unlike Roosevelt he learned at an early age to know what work was and to knew the value of money. Unlike Roosevelt he grew up as an average American boy, endured a lot of hardships, but rose from humble beginnings by his own efforts. On the day that the U. S.

i entered the World War he volun-

teered his services te his country and worked his way from a private to the rank eof captain. Unlike Roosevelt he learned, at first hand, in the muddy trenches of France and Flanders, to know what war is. He afterwards engaged in the prac-

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INEVITABLE

By ANNA E. YOUNG We are all a part of God's plan In some way—He figured us in Somewhere w: play an important

part In something He must win.

-{' | You—may have given me something

Or I—may have passed on te you

|| A bit of faith to reach a goal

The trust of a friendship true.

We are all a part of God’s purpose There is a task for each to do

| Something you may have done for

me : Something—I've done for you.

DAILY THOUGHT

How long, ye simple ones, will ve love simplicity? and the scorn"ers delight in their scorning, and joule hate knowledge?—Proverbs

HE IS of a tree snd open nature that thinks all men honest who but seem te be so, and will as

tenderly be led by the nose as

asses are.—Shakespeare,

Gen. Johnson Says—

Rumor Grows New Deal Is Cooking Up a New War Scare to ‘Bolster Roosevelt's Chances for Re-election

EW YORK, Oct, 23.—Every great wind "from Washington blows a rumor that the magicians .of the great white wigwam are cooking up some heap big medicine to win by a shock-punch just before

election, It is so hard to get this dope that I can’t vouch for it. Guesses run all the way from a suspension of diplomatic relations with Germany, through the contribution of our Army’s bomb-sight and flying fortresses to Britain, to an accept,ance by us of the joint use of the Hongkong and Singapore bases. .. The guesses differ but they all - paint the same way—toward our getting spectacularly’ closer to actus participation in foreign war. If this country hasn’t lost its reason, I can’t see how that would help get Mr. Roosevelt elected. It ought to defeat him. The country overwhelmingly doesn’t want war, Any such policy, apart from its danger of oceanic blood-letting, would wreck our free economic system and surely subject our free democratic political system to a dictatorship. “Keep out of war by getting into war. Defend our democracy by giving up our democracy.” It all seems crazy, but this is a mad world. #” ” ” BELIEVE it would be a tragic blunder for the country and also for the third-term candidate in the election, but the medicine men may have other ideas. They are licking their chops with sly but evi dent satisfaction of a cat that has just surreptitiously swallowed a canary. Perhaps they think it bolsters the argument: “Why change horses while crossing. a stream?” The answer to that one is: “To get a better horse and keep from drowning,” but: they don't seem to care. I wish I could call the turn more closely. I conjectured the timing of some similar. move to “blanket” Willkie's acceptance speech—and . got pretty: well panned because the destroyer deal was not anneunced that day. Nevertheless, it was announced and the acceptance speech pretty well blanketed itself. It. was given before Mr. Willkie really began to go to town. I can’t call the exact turn here, either, but. I feel sure it is eoming. Where there is so much smoke there is sure to be fire. Every political rustle out of Washington smokes with this one. Moreover, it is such invariable and typical Roosevelt strategy to put on a display of fireworks at every crisis to: blind the public to all other issues that, in his greatest crisis, I feel that some such synthetic aurora borealis is as certain as sunrise. - : . ® ” » - . : : HERE is no such trend or condition in the -war situation as would warrant any radical change in our policy, even if anything could ever justify this radical change. But Mr. Roosevelt is adept in such matters. If there is no emergency, he can invent one. He needs something spectacular badly now becatise Mr; Willkie is walking away with millions of votes carved out .of his 1936 majority. Whatever it is, it had better be good. The danger fo the third-term candidate is that any such thing is apt to prove a surer boomerang than any of the playthings of Henry Wallace. It ought to prove a boomerang. Such an act would be playing politics with the peace of America. National resentment should be universal and devastating. It would not just be risking the lives and limbs of. millions of Americans—to no necessary purpose. If we actually get intof§this war through this political tinkering with a volcano on _ the other side of the world, it will surely destroy both the property and the political liberty of all Americans. Let’s look out for this one and if. it happens, swat it hard.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE eminent French newspaper woman, Genevieve Tabouis, now ‘exiled by German authorities, strikes a realistic note in an analysis of her country's downfall. She indulges in ho fifth column talk. Instead she speaks of the French woman’s failure as a citizen. Housewives of France, who will . be the first and deepest sufferers of conquest, were committed to the old “power behind the throne”

ideal, Eyen, the brilliant intellectaf RE ve Curie—only last yedr,Jaugl®d off the suggestion

that France might profit from feminine participation in politics, The old world concepts were deep rooted in that ancient soil. Women believed husbands and fathers could and would “protect” them. Feminine influence, they thought, was most effectively exercised through kitchen wiles, or the customary domestic soft-soaping or the “How wonderful you®are!” attitude, Such methods, it has often been said, will change men’s political opinions—although history offers us very little proof that this is so. Even in democratic France. then, woman’s place

was always in the home; never in the council house.

Wives- and mothers did not have the right to vote. More important still, not many of them were disturbed about it. Genevieve Tabouis now charges that this attitude contributed to the disaster which befell their country. This may or may not be true. But one thing is obvious. If French women had been given some political power, and had been willing to use it intelli. gently, much modern history might have been’ differ ently written. It would be foolish as well as impertinent to say that women are wiser than men in“mstters of state. But: it is neither impertinent nor foolish to insist that the group which is regarded as man’s helpmate in SYery other enterprise would prove a good political ally. Europe’s housewives face a hard fate. Unless we are ready to invifgFa similar one, American women should be willing to sacrifice a good many personal privileges in order to maintain and preserve the free. dom they now possess.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford :

HE danger of getting food poisoning from creamfilled pastries, such as chocolate eclairs, cream puffs and cream pies; is as great in winter as in summer, it appears from a report to the American Public Health Association. The poisoning is due te a poison or toxin produced by germs of the staphylococcus family. Other foods besides the cream-filled pastries -can become contaminated with these germs, for example, meats and vegetables in salads made with mayonnaise, soups and: stews, The custard and cream fillings in pastries furnish particularly good germ food and if they are allowed to stand for several hours at room temperature, the germs can multiply and produce enough tcxin to cause severe illness. During the five-year. period 1935-1939, inclusive, a total of 17 outbreaks of food poisoning in New York State exclusive ‘of New ‘York City ‘were traced” to cream-filled pastries, Dr. F. E. Coughlin, of the New York Health Department, and Dr. Bacom . Johnson Jr, of the Panama Canal Zone Health Department reported. Five of the outbreaks accounting for 60 cases were ‘traced to pastries from a single bakery. Chocolate eclairs and cream puffs were usually the pastry involved, rarely cream-filled pies. Because of the frequéncy with which these pastries were involved in foed poisoning outbreaks, health authorities have warned against eating them in summer when the danger of germs multiplying in the pastry was thought to be greater because of the warm weather, Now it appears that the danger is just as great in winter. - The germs that cause the trouble belong to the same family as those that cause boils and which are often found in the nose and throat. For the safety, the pastries should be kept in the refrigerator from the time they are baked until they

are eaten,”