Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1940 — Page 20

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SMITH BITTER

ASHE ATTACKS OLD PAL, FOR

Once Happy Warrior Ironic When Turning Fire on President.

- ‘By CHARLES T. LUCEY led Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 24. —The Happy : Warrior—brown derby, big cigar and all—was back in the fight today. - He came back last night in the little New York town of Harmon, . Where. the [steam - locomotive that - [roared in from Chicago at-the head “of Wendell -‘Willkie's campaign train was replaced by an electric engine for the final run into: New York ‘ City. All day the Harmon townspeople had waiteq for this, and as the train came to a‘stop in the dark they be- . gan their chant: “We want WillRiel” «|

Stresses War Issue

They got Wendell Willkie and Al Smith, * - ~The two stood on tHe back platform sidg’ by side, brotiers in a common? cause—to - turn « Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. And then, only a few moments after boarding the train, the ex-

Governor was back in the club car, leveling at his one-time friend the hardest charge he could make: “The important issue is war. There is a pretty general belief that the =New Deal is trying to get us into war” . Did the @overnor share, that . view? | | a “I certainly do.”

Jaw Is Set

All the old bitterness was plainly there—the bitterness that made him

turn on his heel and away: from Chicago in 1932 even before the ‘end of the convention that had nominated Franklin Roosevelt; that made him “take a walk” in 1936; that drove him; a lifetime Democrat, to support a Republican. It wasn't the bantering East Sider but the man from the high tower on Fifth Avenue, the businessman in the immaculate pin-stripe suit, with the gloss of good living about him. His jaw was set and his syllables were clipped. Far away was ‘the day ‘when Franklin Roosevelt stood before a howling mob in the old ‘Madison Square Garden in 1924 and " nominated for the Presidency this man he called the Happy Warrior. Far away, too, the day in Houston in 1928 when he again was put in - nomination by. Franklin Rooseyelt. And far away the-day when he wanted this’ same man to run for Governor of New York in 1928 to “ make the strongest possible state ticket.

No Kind Words

That day Franklin Roosevelt began the climb that took -him past the man who had been part mentor, part idol, to the White House. Now, as he met the 1940 RepubHcan nominee, there were no kind words for Mr. Roosevelt. The {third term? “It goes without saying,” the Governor snapped, “that that is cutting very deep. . “There is no question but what there has been a swing to Willkie. * You can feel it. As old Dr. Coue said, it's getting better and better every day. New York State is safe. .I don’t think New York City can give a big enough Democratic plurality to.beat what Mr. Willkie will come down to the Bronx with.” There was scorn in his voice as~he turned his fire on the President. Who, he demanded, would make the military inspection trips now that theY President was busy with politics? That was the old Al Smith irony— the irony that probably will be turned on Mr. Roosevelt again and again in the speeches he is to make in these last days of the campaign.

_ KERSHAW TO SPEAK

Neil Kershaw, chief chemist for the Indianapolis Water Co., will address the West Virginia section of the American Water Works Association tomosrow at Huntington, W. Va. ' His subject will be “Taste and Water Control in Water Treatment.” :

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HARBOR | CREEK, Pa, Oct. 24 (U. P.).—Here is the text of Wendell Willkie’s reply to President Roosevelt's first campaign speech, as transcribed by the United

Press here today: People of America: I had a very interesting half hour last night, I listened to the defense speech of the third term| candidate. ° That is, the defense of his own Administration. It was strikingly similar to the defense system, the aerial, the naval, the military defense system that he is building for these United States today. | It was either [obsolete or on order. It was obsolete for the reason that it discussed the issues of- the 1932 campaign. It was on order because it promised jobs to you and the right to work. There is no issue between the third) term candidate and myself about 1932. I voted for and supported him in 1932. I believed in the Democratic platform of 1932. There is no| issue between the third term candidate and myself on thé question of old age pensions, unemployment panic of collective

bargaining, guarantee of minimum wages and prohibiting men working more than [so many hours per week, or the elimination of child labor, or the retention of Federal relief. , I am not- alone for all of these laws but |I defend their improvement and Feintoreement, The only issue with reference to these questions between the thirdterm candidate |and| myself is that 1 will preserve these social gains. The only way these social gains ¢an be preserved is| by! keeping this country financially solvent. If we continue along |the road we are traveling—every| year spending more than we take in—the end will be in financial chaos, bankruptcy and inflation, avhich will result in the loss of every social gain as well as the loss of liberty. : : In his discussion last night the third-term candidate spoke of falsification of the record. Many of the things he spoke of ‘in ‘connection with-this Ij do not even recog‘nize as having heen said. There was one point he did, however, raise, and that was with reference to the Munich pact. | He objected to the statement that he telephoned Hitler and his allies. As soon as that statement was called to my attention I corrected it, contrary to [the practice of the third-term candidate who never corrects any [misstatements he makes. |

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As a matter’ candidate did not telephone Hitler; he ' telegraphed him. On Sept: -27, 1938, the third-term candidate telegraphed Hitler lurging him to go through with the Munich conference, and sayin , “Should you, agree to a solution in| this peaceful manner, I am convinced that hundreds of millions throughout the world will recognize your action as an outstanding, heroic service to-all humanity.” I Those were the words that the third-term candidate telegraphed, not telephoned, to Hitler. After the negotiations, Senator Wagner, Secretary of War Woodring, and the Democratic Party expressed themselves very proud. of the res achieved at Munich by] the third-term | candidate, but you| know I have a| feeling that it was not a source of [gratification in Czechoslovakia, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Poland, and France, who may well know whether it was a contribution to humanity. In his talk last night the thirdterm ner as 4 spoke about the

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presidency as most sacred trust, and not a commodity to be sold by high-pressure salesmanship. I agree with him. Will he not join me in putting that tiought firmly in the minds of Boss Hom, Boss Hague, and the Kelly-Nash machine in| Chicago? Will he not tell them the presi-| dency is such |a sacred trust that they should not use the manipulations of machine politics in order to secure it for the third-term candidate?

DISPUTES INSURANCE CLAIM

I have a notion that they do not like the natiomal advertising they have got in c@pnection with their tly to win this elec-

tion. Here is .a very interesting thing in his talk -last night. Here is a man who seeks to violate the years standing, a tradition which has been upheld by every thoughtful leader in American ‘life, and yet he offered not one single argument why he should be | permitted to violate that tradition. I was also. very much interested in his claims of accomplishment during his Administration. One was

As a matter of fact, the third-term candidate opposed bank deposit insurance when the legislation was passed. Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg w responsible “for bank insurance; Just to show you how clear this is, Leo Crowley, appointed by the [President, wrote-to Senator Vandenberg on Sept. 15, 1934, after the passage of the bank insurance law, as follows: “I consider you to be the father of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.” And Mr, J. F/T. O'Connor wrote to Senator Vandenberg: “You have rendered a great service to the country in connection with the ;banking| act.”

1936 WORDS RECALLED

Also at the Chicago convention in 1934, L. E, Bergson, General Counsel of the Federal | Deposit Insurance, said of Senator Vandenberg: “We,

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are under obligation to Michigan for having sent to the Senate a] \€entleman who understood the ne|cessity for putting banking insurtance in force at the earliest possible moment. “He i3 more responsible than any| iother individual| for putting into the

which made it| possible to insure! deposits in banks beginning last January.” | So we are under a debt of grati-| tude to him for| his leadership. The| facts are that Mr: Roosevelt himself was opposed to bank deposit insurance. In a letter he wrote in 1932, | he said, with reference to the Fed-| eral Government guaranteeing deposits in all national banks, “I believe such action would be quite im-| possible.” - Another interesting claim made by

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the third-term candidate is in con- | nection with the recent employment | of men in armament industries. He | boasted last night that in the month | of August 400,000 men were added | to private, payrolls, and he tells us that another 500,000 men went to work in September. That is good, but it is a tragedy, that it took a war and a consequent resort to armament to start our people back to work. I want to give you the third-term candidate’s own description. This 1s] what he said in 1936. Listen very | carefully. “We know that vast armaments are rising on every side, and the work of creating them employs men by the millions. : But that is false employment, ~ It builds no per-| manent, structure and creates no! consumer goods for lasting pros-| perity. We know that nations guilty | of these policies inevitably face the] day when their weapons of" de-| struction must be used against their neighbor or when unsound economy, like a house of cards, must fall apart.” # > That is what. the third-term candidate said ‘about employment in| armament industries in 1936, and in| 1940 I agree with him. On another occasion the third-| term candidate told us that recovery which comes from armament is a false goal. I agree with him. And, yet he tried to justify his Adminis-! tration on the basis of recent re-| employment due to armament. | Now, I intend to build armaments too, if you elect me President of the United Statgs. That is exactly what | I have beeni talking about-from one end of the nation to the other, building of a national defense that is on hand and not on order. But at the same time I want to stimulate our domestic economy, so when the defense program is completed there will not be inflation and unemployment of hundreds of thousands of men and financial chaos. If we do not stimulate our domestic economy, it is inevitable on the completion of this defense program that we will have one of the greatest panics in history.

9,000,000 JOBLESS

It was also interesting to listen to what he’ had to say about recovery since 1932. Of course, you all recall that 1932 was the bottom of the depression. A fair comparison would be what has happened in his seven years, compared with the preceding seven’ years. He tells us that the hourly wages of workers. are up. That is good, but what about the 9,000,000 workers who have no jobs at all? He tells us that business: profits

tories? It does no good to tell the unemployed that we are better off than in 1932. A fair comparison would be to compare the record with the seven years preceding the New Deal—years which ineluded three vears of the worst depression this country has ever known, When we make that comparison what do we find? We find that national income under the Administration of the third-term candidate is

Text of Willkie's Reply to | First Speech by Roosevelt

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LABOR TO STUDY Political Analysers

PROBLEMS HERE

Central Union Will Sponsor Educational Sessions At Memorial.

A labor educational institute will be held under the. auspices of the Indianapolis. Central Labor Union Saturday and Sunday in the World War Memorial. Saturday’s program includes talks on “Workmen's Compensation,” by Edgar Perkins, State Industrial Board member; “National Defense,” by Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana director of Selective Service; “The Union Label,” I. M. Ornburn, secretary treasurer of the Union Label Trades Department, and “The Future of the American Labor Movement with Relationship to Democracy,” Spencer Miller, A. F. of L. education director,

Homer L. Chaillaux of the American Legion will speak on Americanism Sunday morning. William | C. Birthright, general president of [the Journeymen’ Barbers Interna- | tional Union, will discuss the “His- | tory of the American Labor Move-

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer DETROIT, Oct. 24.—Two parades wound through Detroit yesterday under a gathering gloom of mist from Lake Erie. They symbolized influences which may be dominant. in the election Nov. § in this populous state with’ its 19 electoral votes—and perhaps elsewhere in the Midwest. One was the rather somber marching of Michigan Na - tional Guard troops on their way to the station and to the South for training. No bands played. Through Cadillac Square, where all traffic was halted for their passage, there sounded the shuffie of young feet. One father walked along beside his boy, no more than a kid. Several mothers were in line, puffing to keep up. There were sisters and sweethearts.

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could find any conversation for the mo-| agers.

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You could sense something of this in the watchers. Anti-draft. sentiment seems stronger in this state than elsewhere. Every member of Congress from Michigan, Democrat: and Republican, voted against conscription. The other parade was put on by women, in Detroit's “no third-term” demonstration. For five hours they marched, ending up in a giant rally with red fire and torches. There

was something ¥solemn about ali this, too.

tinct lines of cleavage. velt is strong in this great industrial city among the workers and low-income groups, mobile cities of Flint and Pontiac land in other industrial centers, and also where hard times in the copper and iron mines have lef: many still on r grip on the state's large agricultural

THURSDAY, OCT. 24,1940 n Michigan With Its Strong Anti-Draft Sentiment

Registration is the largest in the

state’s history.

Here, as elsewhere, you have dis« Mr. Roose=

in' the autothe northern’ peninsula,

elief. The Republicans hold a tight

Four years ago President Roose- | area and on the business people and

velt .stood in Cadillac ‘Square and looked upon one of- the greatest crowds ever assembled in the history of American politics. Then -he was the deliverer, the friend of the masses. Ecstatically they cheered for him and literally sang his name. Now he is the commander-in-chief. “You're in the Army now!” the young men chided each other laughingly as they signed up on Registration Day. But what do they think in their hearts, and what do their families think? And how much will this affect the voting? i This is the biggest question in the minds of Michigan political man-

is whether by enough to offset the Republican majority out-state.

urban middle classes.

Demotrats will carry Detroit. That conceded. The . question * is

There are several imponderables

in the situation here—as to how strong the Canadian and : British element in the state, formerly preponderantly Republican, will swing toward Mr. Roosevelt; how much of the labor vote will switch to Mr. Willkie, and how much effort John L. Lewis’. predicted indorsement of him will have; whether the Finfis in the northern peninsula will vote the them because of recent Administration overtures to ‘Russia, and how much they will be

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influenced by

Al Smith and Wendell L. Willkie engage in a smiling and animated conversation aboard the Willkie special as it heads toward New York City from Harmon, N. Y., where the “Happy Warrior” boarded the train to greet the Republican Presidential nominee. {

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are up, but what about the idle fac-|

put men back to"work has done only half a job. The other night in Chicago I put cértain questions to the third-term candidate nope of which he an-| swered last night. I want to put

some of the same questions to him today. . The Democratic platform of 1932] promised a drastic reduction in|

Federal budget annually balanced, and the New Deal candidate accepted that pledge in his own words 100 per cent, but in not one of his eight years of Administration has the Federal budget approached a balance. Government expenses have more than doubled. More than $60,000,000,000 has been spent—twofifths of all the money spent by the Federal © Government since its founding 150 years ago, and the number employed on the Federal payroll has been raised from 560,000 to more than a million,

HURLS QUESTION BARRAGE

Now, third-term candidate, tell} the American people whether Wendell Willkie falsified that part of! the record. . The Democratic platform of 1932 also promised a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards, but six weeks after taking office the third-

term candidate suspended the gold} standard. In the autumn of 1933 he undertook the disastrous experiment of the commodity dollar. Even today he retains the power to alter the gold content of the dollar, and the monetary policy of the nation is stated to be on a twenty-four-hour basis. Mr. third-term candidate, tell the American people whether Wendell Willkie falsified that part of the record. \ The third-term candidate, when running for his first term said: “I propose to use this position of high responsibility to discuss up and down the country the duty of reducing taxes.” And he said “nothing is more important”—and I am quoting his language—‘“than this covenant with the taxpayers of this country.” But under his Administration the tax burden trebled. Taxes have been iifted to a level exceeded only during one year of the World War. Mr. third-term candidate, tell the American people whether Wendell Willkie falsified that part of the record. >

ACTION CAUSED CHAOS

The Democratic platform of 1932 said: “We advocate an international confidence and facilitate exchange.” But on July 3, 1932, the New Deal candidate canceled the London economic conference., He repudiated the program of stabilization which he himself had instructed our dele-

gates to extend. In my judgment, by that act he contributed more to the fall of the

down 11 per cent; that industrial production is down 5 per cent; that construction contracts are down 59 per cent; that farm income including Government payments is down 20 per cent; industrial wages and salaries 21 per cent; dividends 32 per cent, and new corporate capital used to expand our industrial plants and provide jobs is down 84 per cent. I want the third-term candidate to stand on that record. However, he may twist and turn and seek to justify his record by partial facts and incomplete comparisons. The history of his failure is written in the relief rolls of this country. No amount of words can cover the fact that today more than 9,000,000 men are out of work. The third-term candidate now tells us that he is determined in the next four years to make work for every man and woman in America a living fact. Once again he gives us promises and not performances. He is going to do it in the next four years. Why hasn’t he done it in the last eight years when he has been in complete control of the Government, when he has had a majority in both Houses of Congress? He fells us he is going to provide work for every man and woman in America, but his own Democratic Committee tells us that no man now living or who ever lived can fulfill such a promise.

ALL ENTITLED TO JOBS

‘The third-term candidate tells

date, referring to the, Democratic

Democrats and the rise of the dictatorships than was performed by any single act by any government in the world. It was financial bankruptcy and chaos that followed the collapse of the conference where there was so much hope. Last night the third-term candi-

platform of 1940, quoted this language: “We will not participate in foreign ‘wars, and we will not send our Army, Navy or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas except in cases of attack.” I hope sincerely that the pledge made last night by the third-term candidate based upon the 1940 platform of the Democratic Party is remembered by him longer than he remembered the same pledge that he made with reference to the provisiorts of the Democratic platform of 1932. If he does not remember it longer, then shortly our boys will be on transports sailing for some foreign shore. :

U. S. CAN ‘COME THROUGH’

People of America, we are in one of the most critical periods of history, certainly the most critical period for liberty. The question is whether the United States can come through this period and remain free. I believe it can. I believe it can by making itself strong, by making itself strong not alone in the building of a Navy, an Army, and an Air Force, but in the building of a strong domestic economy. We must also, in order to come

about the social gains of the nation.

‘banking act of 1933, the provisions They are, good, but before you can |this, be united. I am going about

become eligible for- social security, | before you can have unemployment | insurance, and before you can get

the protection of the National Labor Relations Board Act or the Wage and Hour Law, you have to have a job. We believe in those social questions, but go ‘further. We believe that all the workers .in this country are entitled to jobs so they can participate’ with other citizens in these gains. \ The Administration that fails to

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through such a critical period as

this country pleading, begging with the people to make America strong, to : make America productive, to build an adequate defense and to become united. = +I plead with you now to join in this crusade to bring that ‘about in America. You have no hope. of its accomplishment through an Administration with a record of broken promises and failure of performance so staggering as to shock the good faith of the American people.

| ment.”

Sunday afternoon will be devoted to discussions led by state and local labor leaders. Permanent Chairman Charles Kern of the steamfitters union will call the meeting to order at 10 a. m. Saturday and the delegates will be welcomed by Hugh Gormley, ofthe A. P.of L..

Emil Hurja, former Democratic mogul who was born on the northern peninsula and who is campaigning about them for Mr. Willkie. Unless the President could swing a really substantial majority in this state, the re-election of Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg appears certain. He probably will run ahead

ment, Sober-faced, they watched| Uncertainty pervades both camps. the boys go by. You wondered what | Neither side is making claims. Polithese people were thinking. No light! tical analysts who at this stage of a crossed their faces. Only -a few campaign are usually ready with an young girls looked cheerfully at the opinion say they dare not try. to young men. “| call the turn in Michigan. All they There will be more and more of do say with conviction is that the these spectacles as the draft takes majority for either candidate will effect. It is the beginning of the|be very slim, nothing like the 315,-

big parade—whither no one knows. | 000 Roosevelt majority in ’36. of Mr. Willkie.

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