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JOHN L. LEWIS—1940 HEY—the class conscious—came to scoff or cheer, but

there was something about the John L. Lewis speech that finally “got” both of them. By both we mean the

Many, as they turned the dial, hated Lewis. Many looked upon him as fthefr Messiah. But after his first few moments of oratorical warming up, something happened. When he said he was speaking not as a leader of labor but as a citizen, he registered more than mere high sounding

-public speech. And when, in the closing part of his address,

he declared that if Roosevelt is elected, he, Lewis, will step down, he carried weight which will count, heavily in the 1940 campaign. : . » Hearing that, a [lot of listeners who have loved or hated the man ‘with the big voice and the big eyebrows, recalled one thing about him—a thing that both employees and employers have always|said: That his word is good. And so, when Lewis, who started with his bare hands, and who attained the hard way the position of national prominence that is now his—when such a man feels so deeply and “lays it on the line,” as he did, a sincerity is sensed that transcends all the hokum of conventional campaigns. : You couldn’t hese the ¢ spent without the conviction that here was one who was sorely worried about the future of his country, and who was willing to risk his whole career and the power and prestige he enjoyed, on what happens a week from Tuesday next.

You can’t laugh that off.

=a TIME FOR A NEW PARTY LINE?

HILE® we don’t pretend to have a telepathic pipeline into Joe Stalin’s headquarters, still we have a notion that a lot of oa is going on these days in the Kremlin. | ’ In August a year ago Stalin rocked the world—and started the war—by embracing the man who had for years been denouncing the Bolsheviks as scum-of-the-earth. As a result, he got his piece of Poland, plus the three Baltic states, plus a slice of Finland (though here he lost a few ' fingers in the buzz fom) , plus a part of Rumania. So far so good for Joe. It looked as if he was no slouch + at power politics. | But several events of recent date do not appear to fit. p

so well with Moscow’ s aims. The German-Japanese-Italian alliance, for instance; while this treaty.has a clause explicitly denying that it is aimed at Russia, nevertheless the result is to encircle the Soviet Union. | And now Germany has sent thousands of toons into Rumania. If Germany grabs the Dardanelles, Hitler will have the drop on Stalin for fair. Russia’s own aspirations for control of that strait have caused many wars in the past. They may cause another in our time. Stalin must realize that if Germany can beat England without wearing out, he will be in the middle—between a traditionally hostile Japan and a Germany drunk with the momentum of conquest—a Germany whose master is on record as cove tous of the Ukraine. This week we hear of “conversations” between Russian diplomats on the one hand and British and American diplomats on the other, Maybe they will come to nothing. It may be too late or too early to expect reversal of the “party line.” But if Stalin’s policy is designed, as many have thought, to maintain a fairly even balance between the Nazis, and the democracies so that they may grind each other down until eventually the Commis s can pick up the pieces, it seems con-' ceivable that Anglo-Soviet and American-Soviet relations might be on the verge of an improvement.

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IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN

UST in case vill have overlooked them in the excitement, there are five other candidates for the Presidency besides Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie. Two of them you know; two you probably wouldn’t know from Adam, and the other has turned up rather unexpectedly. | Nearly everyone knows about Earl Browder, the Communist candidate who is waiting to serve one four-year term—in jail, and Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist candidate. ' Not so familiar, however, are John W. Aiken, who carries the Socialist Labor Party stamp; Roger W. Babson, the economist, who represents the Prohibition Party, and John Zahnd, who, despite the fact that he is a resident of this-city, is not generally known as the candidate of the Greenback Party. All save Mr. Zahnd and Mr. Browder will be on the ballot. It just seemed, out of fairness, folks wught to be reminded.

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LET'S HAVE IT IN BLACK AND WHITE

IF the Federal Constitution had been amended to conform with some of the state constitutions, the country would have been spared the present spectacle of a grab for selfperpetuation in office. Seventeen states’ impose constitutional limitations on the tenure of their chief executives—either forbidding consecutive terms by the same man, or specifying the number of terms he may serve within a stated period of years. That has been. a healthy thing in the states. It has tended to prévent the. entrenchment of personal political machines. It has made mandatory the periodic process of rotation in office. If it is Wendell Willkie who makes the Inaugural address in Washington on Jan. 20, we should like to see him propose on that date a constitutional amendment which ouldlay foreve the ghost of the third-term threat,

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

2 ‘New Dealers Long Have Tossed Verbal Eggs, So It's Not Surprising Followers Heave Real Ones Now

EW YORK, Oct. 26.—It has come to the attention of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt that eggs, wastebaskets and other missiles have been thrown at Wendell Willkie, and she has deplored this violence without discovering what caused it. So I raise my hand to teacher and step into the aisle to state my idea. I begin by noting that both of "the individuals who have bea caught throwing dangerous objects at the Republican candidate for resident have been connected with the relief organizations whose members, generally, have been asked to believe that they owe their benefits not to: their fellow-citizens, who pay the taxes, but to President Roosevelt and the Social Democratic Party. It should be observed, too, that there is an element of Americans on President Roosevelt’s side of the campaign who actually think that Mr. Willkie or any other American has a hell of a nerve to run for President as long as Mr. Roosevelt wants the job. These people have convinced themselves that any truthful criticism of the President or the Administration is akin to treason to the United States/ and, believing this, they naturally detest as a traitor any man who has the effrontery to oppose the President's ambition.

HE “egg throwing” actually started a long time ago and has been engaged in by the President himself, Harold Ickes and Charlie Michelson, the silent lobbyist,sor public relations consultant, of the Crosley Radio Co., the only paid corporation consultant who ever had the gall to maintain his heads quarters openly not only in the White House but-in the very office of the President. President: Roosevelt has said so often that those who opposed various parts of his changing and always unexpected program are Tories, Copperheads, Economic Royalists and Princes of Privilege that he has created a class hatred in” those who have been kept on relief and in economic slavery to his Administration and a belief among them that the rest of the people are not much good, have no rights and exist only to provide Mr. Roosevelt with the means of supporting them indefinitely in the bondage in which they find themselves. They are mistaken in this, for the fact is that the rest of the Americans admit no social or political inferiority to the President's egg throwers and will stand just so much of it and no more. The fact that a man or woman is on relief—one way or another— is a matter of regret to the rest of the citizens, but that does not mean that they will permit anyone to kick them or their candidate around at will,

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IF is strange but true that those who oppose a third term for the President, who tried to pack the Supreme Court and who now has a stooge in the office of Attorney General to justify any conduct or proposal which pleases him, have not committed the slightest offense against the proprieties in this campaign. For years they have been accused of bitterness against the President, and some of them certainly are bitter, but they are, on the” whole. such good Americans thaf not one of these millions has done anything dirty/or spectacular. Their conduct, notwithstanding their bitterness, has been such as to deserve apologies not merely for the record, but from the heart of those who have provoked the egg throwing and heckling on the New Deal side. I submit that Fiorello La Guardia has been the worst mucker on the New Deal team. Caught in flagrant association with men whom he often had denounced as crooks, this man tried to strangle George Spelvin, the average American, for uttering a remark which accurately appraised his honesty but ‘which was a lover's whisper by comparison with the dirty repartee which is characteristic of La Gaurdia’s own political language.

Business By John T. Flynn

Willkie Right in Warning, Defense Spending’ Will Not Bring Recovery

EW YORK, Oct. 26—Mr. Willkie is on solid ground when he warns America that it must not be deceived by a business boom built on preparations for war. For such a boom is only another form of ine boom thay the Administration has been trying to produce by its spending program. Instead of spending on schools, roads, theater projects, etc.—however meritorious—it is spending on armaments. And it is paying the bills with horrowed funds. And this, Mr. Willkie warns, is merely pushing one step further the dangerous experiment of creating a destructive national ¥ debt. : . In spite of this, however, busi9 nessmen are becoming increasing- : 2 ly pleased with the boom possibilities of armaments paid for with more Government debt. That this policy can create better business is certain. -But it is a mistake to suppose that it can create a tremendous boom as it did during the’last war. The reason for this is plain. In. the first place the Government had already been spending a deficit of more than three billion a year when it started its defense spending. And as it gets under way with defense spending it is‘ forced to restrict. some of the spending it was already engaged in. In other words, the net addition to spending will be great enough to aid business but not enough to create a great boom.. However, there is one condition—and one only— where the great boom can be created. That is to go into the war. If that happens, the spending program will be speeded up; it will be carried on recklessly, with abandon. Instead of a deficit of three or five billion, we will have a deficit of 10 or 15 billion.

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NYBODY who wants the great boom on the defense program will have to try to push us into the war. That would be a terrible price to pay. However, this Administration is trapped. It promised recovery—a new system and a new world. By January, 1940, it was perfectly obvious it had not produced that new world or a new system. Congress was getting ready to junk the New Deal. The war fury broke out in May just in time to enable Mr. Roosevelt to save himself with a great national-defense hysteria. But the national-defense hysteria will not be enough to save him if he is elected. That will tend to level off After & few months. Against the Government spending, all sorts of other capital industries will become paralyzed. He will be in the worst of all jams. Nothing will stand between him and utter failure but war. He is already inching us toward war swiftly. Caught in the inevitable jab, if elected, he will find plenty of encouragement to go the rest of the way. N6thing can save Franklin D. Roosevelt now, if he goes back into the White House, but a war. And nothing will destroy American democracy so swiftly and definitely as a war. The simple truth is that no one can save this country from the economic crisis into which Roosevelt has plunged it but some President who does not have to go on defending the Roosevelt “easy way” methods and who will seek to bring us back to economic. health the hard way— on our own energies, our own resources and strength

without the aid of a bloody war or a continuation of

the fatal spending program.

So They Say—

CERTAINY there is nothing in experience to Indicate that relaxing the 40-hour week for everybody would add anything to the rate of essential production.—Col. Philip B. Fleming, wage-hour law administrator.

GERMANY AND Japan, freed of their military burden, will move into South American markets with products produced at a lower cost than owrs.—P. W. Litchfield, rubber manufacturer.

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disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

WANTS SOMETHING DONE ABOUT THAT SIGN

By E. C.

Coming toward the city on Route No. 29, just after passing the city limits sign, there is a sign that reads population 361,000 etc. It has been there for several years. Can't something be done about that? I should think a motor club would be able to change it or arouse sentiment. : # 8.9 STANCH DEMOCRAT

FAVORS ROOSEVELT By Max Cohee Y am a stanch Democrat, and am voting for Roosevelt. It is difficult to try to understand why any

working man or any person from the rank and file can vote otherwise

lafter referring - to the records of

both Presidential candidates — Roosevelt and Willkie. So, here is my cry for Nov. 5th, “Carry on, Roosevelt,- I'll help!”

2 8 ¥ CHARGES NEW DEAL HAS ‘SOLD OUT’ LABOR

By Just An American

THe New Deal and Mr. Roosevelt have “Sold Labor Down The River.” After considering the various phases of the present Conscription Act, in its entirety, this becomes quite apparent. All who ‘have made a thorough study of dictator nations point out that in the beginning laboring people are told that they are the ones who will profit from dictatorship. When the dictatorship is applied, they are practically in slavery, being required to work as many hours and at whatever pay, if~any, the dictators feel inclined to pay them. = Our Conscription Act, in addition to providing the means of obtaining manpower for defense, provides for the conscription of ‘industry. Without taking space to explain in detail how the law provides for this conscription, sufficient to say, the Government could quickly take over every industrial plant in the United States by demanding that the plants produce defense materials at prices where the owners could not produce. Failure to accept or fill the Government's requirements allows the Government to take over the plants on a “rental” basis. Generally speaking that would indicate that the Government takes over the puilding, the equipment, the inventory of materials, in fact everything

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except the owners’ cash money or

accounts receivable. : When the Government takes over, the Government would meet the

payrolls, buy the necessary raw or semi-finished materials, put theif own men in charge, and operate the plants. Automatically every plant employee who continues to work would become a overnment employee. Those who refused to work would be branded as “Slackers.” Mr. Roosevelt has said, “No Government employee has the right to strike. They may belong to a union, but the hours, wages, and working conditions for Government employees shall be determined by the Government.” Any organized attempt by these employees to get increased pay, etc., can be construed by the Government as conspiracy and punished by imprisonment. Hence if the Government becomes hard-pressed for defense funds, and that is not improbable in view of our present Federal deficit, there is nothing to prevent the Government from making the laboring people work 18 hours a day. and paying them in scrip or in whatever manner the Government may decide. Yes, the New Deal at Mr. Roosevelt’s instructions has passed a law which can ‘be used to end collective bargaining, seniority rights, labor unions, civil rights, and freedom for the laboring people. They have the American working man in the same position ad” the laboring classes of Germany, Italy, and Russia now find themselves. The Government can put it into effect whenever it desires. I am convinced that the New Deal and Mr. Roosevelt, “planned it that way.”

” ” » RENEWS CRITICISM OF .ELLIOTT’S CAPTAINCY By Harry Clay, Brightwood : It seems that Mr. Robling of El-

wood Tesents my criticism of the appointment of son Elliott Roose-

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velt to a captaincy in the air corps. He wonders if my sons would be willing to give up a $76,000 a year position for one of approximately $300 per month as Elliott did so that he could serve his country, Well, Mr. Robling, what my sons would or would not do has absolutely nothing to do with this The fact is that Elliott with no experience whatever was handed this pesition ahead of other deserving young men who had trained themselves for this work. President Roosevelt has pushed us right to the very brink of war. Just another good push and we will be in it. Elliott knows this, He knows that my sons and others will have to go to the slaughter fields of Europe to be mowed down like weeds. So he takes a job at a desk at $300 per which. is still good money. He toes not have to train. He does not have to march 15 miles per day carrying a 55-pound load. ;He doesn't even have to wear a uniform. But the main thing is this. While my sons and others are dying on some battlefield in a war in which Roosevelt has pushed us, son Elliott will be safe at home with his feet on his desk. This eage and safety I think is a pretty g $76,000 investment. - Probably I may be just a little bit selfish in this matter when I think of poor Elliott giving up $76,000 while my sons and others won't

lives. # 2 » AMOS PINCHOT'S SPEECH DRAWS A REBUKE

By Charles Acton

way Mr. Pinchot talked about the President of these United States. He called the President “incompetent” and said that he neglected national defense whilé conducting “a theatrical hell-roaring foreign policy.” If Mr. Pinchot can remember the early days of the Presid:nt’s Administration he would find that the President did try for a national movement toward appropriating funds for national defense, but it was nipped in the bud by Congress. His phrase of “a theatrical hellroaring foreign policy” lends a strong Willkie atmosphere in figures of speech. He might just as well said “damn dumb.” If Mr. Pinchot was as competent as he thinks the President is incompetent, I wonder what he would have done through all those years of depression and unemployment if he had been in the President’s shoes,

» ” » GETS A KICK FROM MUD ON WILLKIE SIGN By Myra Carey Morgan After listening to the Willkie mud slinging contest for weeks, I'm disgusted right—but the other day I saw something I got a big kick out of—a Willkie sign on a parked ciir—when clean reads—Willkie the Fiope of America—mud over the

first letter of Hope, made it read— the Dope of America—and it's true.

ua AGE, CHIVALRY?

i By F. F. MacDONALD : Alter my visit with the family was o'er— Who swiftly—scarcely noticed—escorted me to the door? Who kissed me “cherubically and waved a fond adieu?

|"Y'was my precious toddling nephew

—Bobby, age two!

DAILY THOUGHT

Watch and pray, that ye enter hot into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is* , ‘weak.—Matthew 26:41. \

TO PRAY against temptations, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and

then pray they might not be burnt.

have to give up a: thing but their | gum

In my opinion it is just too bad |} that a brother .of a former Gov- |i ernor of Pennsylvania talked the|:

Gen. Johnson: Says—

Roosevelt's Peace Pledge Recalls Promise He Made in 1932 Not to Debase Gold Content of Dollar

ANSING, Mich, Oct. 26.—At the close of Mr, Roosevelt's 1932 campaign the Republicans fired a shot that threw a ‘terrific scare into his headquarters, I was there and I know. They said that, in rank violation of the specific pledge in the 1932 Democratic

platform, Mr. Roosevelt planned to debase the gold content of the dollar. Public reaction adverse to Mr. Roosevelt was so alarming that Something had .to be done about “right now.” Mr. Roosevelt's I for keeping promises as Governor of New York was noth=. ing to write home about, * There . was, however, one man in our: camp whose honor was so bright and his knowledge 50 profound ee that his word would be accepted: at absolute par by all the people, His name was Carter Glass. He was ill, but our need was great enough to drag him from a sick bed. After conference with the candidate, he went on’ the air and delivered the most devastating blast of the campaign, repudiating the Republican charge as an assault on the credit of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt called it a “magnificent philipic” and then proceeded at the very height of his best movie manner to “register gravity, earnestness and sincerity in indignant denial.’ Words could not have been invented to make his promise clearer or more eme phatic, that no such terrible thing would ever be dona,

O take that step was, for the first time in our hise tory, flatly to repudiate a basic engagement of. our Government to all our people, a tragic step, a faile ure of honesty and faith of the first magnitude, in its own category almost as serious as leading this country into war. Within six months after his election, Mr. Roose= velt had .violated the promise of his platform, the promise of Senator Glass, his own most solemn prome ise and, worst of all, the promise of the United States to all its citizens. The 1932 situation repeats itself. This Administra« tion is today charged with a course of conduct in foreign relations the effect, if not the purpose of which, is inevitable, if not immediate, involvement in foreign wars to protect the British Empire. We, are already half way in. Some. jubilant pro-war, pro-Roosevelt commentators have exulted that we are already fully involved. I don't agree with that, but I am convinced, that if Mr. Roosevelt is elected, war may come soon. No sact of his in the past two years is: inconsistent with a purpose of war. Regardless of words, no act is wholly consistent with a purpose of peace. If there is’ a competent close observer and publicist of the Wash ington scene who does not believe that the election of Mr. Roosevelt means war, I dont know his name, It is the private conviction of most Army and Navy officers. It is the common talk of the capital. But it ig poison to more than 80 per cent of the American people. » » ” ATURALLY, then it is political point number one. If the conviction of informed Washington were the conviction of the country, Mr. Willkie would carry every state. But the country is not so well informed. It is just uneasy, as it was in 1932. So, as in;1932, Mr. Roosevelt in his Philadelphia speech “registers gravity, earnestness and sincerity in indignant denial.” Once more, words could not be invented to make that denial more emphatic, Can he get away with it again? I doubt it. Beginning with his promise on gold, he has gotten away with that kind of stuff too often, culminating in the hypocrisy of the third term “draft” in the Chicago conyention. The national ups’ heaval against the fourth New Deal is, as its foundae tion, acute popular distrust of it. Since Mr. Roose= velt is almost all there is of it, it is distrust of Mr, Roosevelt. He, who is so fond of favorably comparing himself with Lincoln, should read again those famous words: “You can’t ‘fool all of the people all of the time.” :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OME queer logic is going the rounds these days, And most of it comes from our brightest intele lectual leaders. Miss Dorothy Thompson is a flaming example. Attempts to talk us into the war have made turncoats of a good many of her kind. Maybe this is a sincere change of opinion, although it is hard to believe that opinions worth anything can be cast off so easily. After four years of damning Mr. Roosevelt and all his works we now find Miss Thompson say= ing he is the only man who can save us. And afte even more years of preaching the cause of ‘human freedom and dignity, she now holds that war is an en= nobling influence. What but confusion can reign in ‘the public mind after these. extraordinary peenouncements? If one were inclined to carping criticism it ‘might be said that many of our writers are enthralled with the sound of their words while giving little thought of their meaning. It does not seem logical to us that we should . be asked to give up the many blessings of our own Republic, after its slow building, in order to meet the exigencies of a war on the other side of the earth. It is true, of course, that human beings are all in the same boat, but does that make it necessary for us to neglect democracy’s business entirely Ry absorption in affairs abroad? Another thing. Aren't you just a little tired of hearing that England’s fall means the end of everye thing for us? They say—and no one says it so often, so well, or so vociferously, as Mis§ Thompson— that the disaster would disable, wreck and sink us, Maybe the folks along the Atlantic Seaboard honestly believe that. But those who live in the Middle West certainly do not. Out here we still have faith in our own brawn and brains. We love our liberty, but we propose to preserve it exactly as our fore= fathers did—by thinking of ourselves as adult Amer cans ead of as sons ‘and daughters of Great rita.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ON tonics and red meats or even beef juice were

mother’s time. Doctors are still prescribing iron and protein foods such as meat and eggs for anemic persons, with much r "knowledge of how these substances help to b blood. These remedies used in anemic conditions

tract are used for treating that condition. The iron ‘tand the protein foods are used for a different kind of anemia. One of the commonest types of anemia. is that due to deficiency of iron. Every cell in your body ‘needs iron to help carry on its vital functions. Yet the total amount of iron in the body. is relatively small and the amount lost daily is so small that even a diet containing very little iron will take care of ore -dinary needs. When extraordinary conditions occur, however, .there may not be enough iron in t the diet to meet the extra. demands. Some of these extraordinary condie ‘tions are repeated unnoticed losses of small amounts ‘of blood over a long period. Stomach ulcers may -cause such losses, and many women are often une aware that they are periodically losing excessive ‘amounts of blood. Decrease in the amount of acid in the stomach may make a person eating a low iron diet anemic: because the little iron he is getting in his Sood Bs not being absorbed. Infections may cause anemia. growth in children, particularly at the ago 14 oe 15 years, causes an extra demand: for iron particularly are likely to becom

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