Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1944 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

DEWEY AND BRICKER DEWEY and Bricker. It's a good ticket, the best the Republicans could have picked. The only surprise was that Governor Warren was not the vice presidential nominee. It was his decision. He decided he could serve best by remaining in doubtful California, and he should know. : The virtual unanimity of the Dewey-Bricker nominations—with one MacArthur delegate the sole holdout— was most unusual. When the party out of office has a good chance of winning the White House, as this year, the fight over the ticket is apt to be hard and dirty, leaving soreheads. But the Chicago convention managed to escape these hazards, and to emerge with a stronger ticket and more Republican unity than in many years. Significantly, this is not a synthetic strength and artificial unity. It was not a bossed or bought convention. The victor, Tom Dewey, did not control the delegates— they drafted him. This was one of the few bona-fide drafts of a presidential nominee, for a first term, in our political history. It was utterly unlike second-term drafts, when a party record in office is involved, or a third-and-fourth-term self-draft by the parfy bdss and patronage dispenser. ss 8 = 2 8 = THIS UNIQUE DRAFT, of a man who refused even to authorize use of his name in the primaries, is all the more remarkable for two reasons. He was not particularly popular, personally, among the party leaders. And he was opposed by the colorful and pugnacious titular head of the party, who was seeking renomination. The explanation of these paradoxes is obvious. Mr. Willkie was eliminated by the voters in the primaries. And the state bosses, who so often pick a candidate they can control, this time bowed to a man more popular with the

ill-judgment so disastrous as to warrant the removal,

This has been President Roosevelt's through three full terms in office and if he could preserve sufficient power to draft himself for a fourth term on such a record of and re-

and start a fire to burn the opposition down. The campaign should be more than ordinarily rough because Mr, Big, Ickes, Wallace and others have always been partial to tom-cat rules and they can't change now.

Worth Remembering ,

_ 1 HAVE no authority to say that any responsible Republican campaigner has any intention to use the knee, the laces or the thumb gratuitously, but I think that, after the New Dealers have indicated how they intend to fight, the Republicans will do it their way, but better, It will be worth remembering, too, that almost anything said in cMticism of Mr. Roosevelt will be denounced as a dirty attempt to discredit the presidency of the United States. That has been heard already. Nevertheless, the Pearl Harbor disaster and the Roberts report of Mr. Roosevelt's own investigators, will be examined loudly in many an open meeting. Thus, on election day, the President certainly will find himself a defendant on charges of dereliction and

if not the dismissal without honor, of a military commander in similar circumstances.

The C. I. O. will be effectively and probably formally abandoned to the Roosevelt party as a Communist political auxiliary. The Republicans don’t want the C. I. O. It has had no more place in this convention than the Democratic party, because it is | a section of that party, The American Federation of Labor, on the other | hand, has been praising Dewey with faint damns and

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will > detend to the death your right to say it.—~Voltaire.

is growing, if not more affectionate, then, anyway, less hostile. The A. F. of L. is caught in a fix. If it supports Roosevelt it supports the C. I. O. which is not merely a rival but a deadly enemy of the A. F. of L.

“IS THIS A

FREE COUNTRY?” By A War Worker, Indianapolis While going to work in a war

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies excluded. Becaute

human rights and freedom, and ends in communism. That is as plain as I can say it. And, as sorry as we may be to admit fit, President Roosevelt is the leader of

in Chicago Tuesday night. Parts of it we poetry, with the simple, sounding cadences Psalms: ’ y

plant last night my sister and I stopped for a few minutes on the

steps of the monument on the circle because we were early for work.

words. Letters must be i . | We go to work at midnight. signed. Opinions set forth men by little strikes in key plants. The plan is be We sat there about 15 minutes g

ing talked up in Ohio now. : here are those of the writers, Th i ; “ ; _ |and a couple of soldiers came over hy . asic Joule | ne Sari tain 0 va Tomy | “and publication Tn vo wey they will have a free right to call strikes for rev- were very nice and we couldn't very implies agreement with those olutionary purposes. wai ask fem 18 leave. ‘11 o opinions by The Times. The They have adopted Gen. Spaatz's idea, revealed e talked yrtil abou Pm Times assumes no responsiwhen the American bombers smashed the ball-bearing and my sister and 1 were getting 2 ym Po plants in Germany and strangled their production of |eadY 0 leave alone when we were| bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter core respondence regarding them.)

Communists Sneer

GOVERNOR BRICKER undoubtedly will sound oft on the plan of the Communists in Mr, Roosevelt's following to whipsaw the returned American fighting

these leftwingers who are in control of our national destiny, the only way to shake off Socialist - Communist strangle on our governmental to retire Mr. Roosevelt and radical appointees to private Vote straight American! Yes, Mrs. Haggerty, our boys are out there fighting and dying to preserve, protect and defend our constitutional rights, liberties and privileges—to liberate other from totalitarian slavery. And both the soldiers and we, the people on the home front, must not _|fail to vote against New Deal totalitarianism dt home, lest we ignobly lose by ignorance and avarice at home that which they nobly died to preserve,

voters than with themselves—rather than risk defeat in the convention and in the election. While Dewey's nomination by a genuine draft was most unconventional, it was not in the least mysterious. Dewey was so overwhelmingly the popular choice, as proved by primaries and straw polls, that nothing short of a convention conspiracy—if that—could have kept the delegates from conforming the people's candidate. But the political bosses had no interest In killing their best bet for November. 3 They figured that if the election were held next week President Roosevelt would get his fourth term, but that Dewey: was the only Republican who had an even chance, or better, of beating him in November, Probably most ponpartisan political observers agree. .

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lanes, s .. | confronted by two policemen. They plane Dpnines Sd all land vehicles which can't asked our names, ages, addresses, If the Communists carry out their plan to strike where we worked, how long wé had the ball-bearing plants the motor industry would have known the soldiers, and after gétto shut down and the section of the steel and glass | 'i§ that information they ordered industries, too, because the automobile plants would |S off the monument steps and then have no use for steel or glass. called us a dirty name. They said Under such conditions the returned veterans won't | if they caught us there again they be able to get jobs or buy new cars or make homes | ould un ul in, and the revolution will be here under the auspices 1t we had been drunk, loud or of Mr. Roosevelt's Communist auxiliary. anything that wasn't respectable, I Mr. Bricker, being governor of Ohio, 8 heavy-indus- | ¥Ouldn't say a word, but we were try state, will then be able to reveal the plan more simply talking and I sang a couple fully, by way of proving to the Americans in the uniofi of songs because the boys asked me

movement that the preventive is legal regulation of | I, 1 ¥n€W the songs. And that's all arrested or taken to an isolation nasium in a mid-western city the | same way. But you can't even §0 scious, such reckless disregard seen it happen. I'm asking you, 18

wy If we are going to have another Germany, why don't we call our hospital.” Look! My flance is with the 15th air force in Italy. I don't other night. . When e nati Cw in a restaurant downtown unless the nation is at war, fo." yatched by some old lady for property is deplorable for ay oa X that American? I can't live without eating, that's a cinch.

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girls or 11-year-old children. ® I'm not afraid of tramps or murderers any more. I'm afraid of the police department, and I've never broken a law in my life. How about it? Is this a free country or do the police run it?

» WHY? Because Dewey has licked the Roosevelt machine in New York--the state with the largest electoral vote, without which neither party is likely to win in November. Because Dewey has proved an ace executive as governor of New York, the apprenticeship from which Roosevelt and 50 many of our Presidents have entered the White House. (The Democrats will charge Dewey with inexperience, Republicans will reply that, just, as he has been an abler administrator in Albany than was Roosevelt, he will clean up F. D. Rs administrative mess in Washington.) ‘Because, while the Roosevelt and Dewey war and foreign policies are basically the same, Dewey can apply them more effectively, according to the Republicans: (1) Dewey would have more congressional support, and (2) Dewey would not be burdened so much as Roosevelt by past mistakes and unwise commitments. (Military conduct of the war would remain with the same non-political and successful chiefs of staff, but with less White House kibitzing). Because, says the G. 0. P., Dewey has all the advantages of youth and vigor and faith—compared with a weary and over-age administration on the downgrade—in a period

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“PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO GOOSE STEP”

By Mrs. Waller Haggeriy, R. R. 6, Dox 404. Mr. Stevens guards his Constitution and Bill of Rights much as a hungry dog with a bofie, snapping and snarling at everyone for fear they will take a bite. II Americans were like you, Mr, Stevens, they would find themselves like the dog that tried to carry his across a stream and upon seeing his reflection in the water, thinking it some

. . . “LEADS DOWN DARK AND BLOODY ROAD” } By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis. I like to think that future his torians will rank the political debate carried on through the letters to th# Hoosier Forum, and’gther newspaper people's forums;“as decisive factors in moulding public other dog, snapped and lost his opinion in these critical times in own. Mr. Stevens, are you trying our nation’s destiny, as were the to discredit Mrs. Shipp, Mrs. E. E. “Letters of Correspondence” by and myself, mothers of our fighting Benjamin Franklin and others of men, to whom conscientious people Revolutionary War times. In my are forever grateful, or what are opinion the Hoosier Forum Is the you driving at? No one wants your most. effective and interesting peo- | Constitution, but enemies of the U. ple’s forum in this country—bar| 8. No, Mr. Stevens, you know our none. For the last 10 years the de-|sons are going to protect you, too. bate between those who stand firm|Let your conscience be your guide, for constitutional Americanism, and |if you have any. Although you have those Socialist - Communistic ele-| pulled your punches as in your last ments who would subvert and de-|letter, you didn’t tell me to “get stroy our American system of politi- out.” Take that Constitution and Bill

rally, the cheap, tawdry trading of words they are America speaking, ‘and remembering.

This Convention Was Different POLITICAL COMMENTATORS have agreed that

of Mrs. Lucé’s, the unknown soldier toon. It was a convention that seemed the tramp of history on the march. Fog"such a convention, the speech was a perfect expression. It made a bow to ship, to be sure, but most of paragraphs were those that any American could second. Por this was _ a different Clare Luce, too—not the ; of “The Women,” not the Tacile “globaloney” maker, not the intellectual, the world traveler, or the wife of &

boys, husbands and sweethearts back home or else put up signs stating, “Any girls found talking to soldiers on city property will promptly be By Ruth Millett want another soldier. But I would i } } be very grateful if a girl in a strange : ; ; A GROUP of boys broke out |, . “toived to him or sang for him, 62 windows in the college gym- | 4 © tnink other girls feel the when housewives are saving |’ . irasekitchen fat, when school children | #10 (if you watch long enough) are gathering waste paper, when you will find is a detective. If you sit 8 Paper, 1 | there five minutes lon than is the whole country is waste con- : ger n necessary, youre picked up. I've

of continuing crisis at home and abroad.

BRICKER BALANCES the ticket—geographically, politically, and personally. Like Dewey, he is an able governor, popular vote-getter and strong campaigner. Like New York, Ohio is a key state in national elections—a mother of Presidents—and this year very close. Bricker can contribute to the ticket more personal warmth than Dewey, a closer contact with organizations and voters in farm states, a liaison with the older and conservative wing of the party. Whether the Dewey-Bricker ticket will be stronger than the Democratic remains to be seen. That will depend on the Democratic nominees and platform, on the administration’s record between now and November, and on the Dewey-Bricker campaign performance. But the Republicans are away to a good start.

NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS IRGIL STINEBAUGH, whose appointment as superintendent of schools was announced ‘yesterday by the Indianapolis board of school commissioners, is a capable administrator who started his career as a one-room country school teacher 28 years ago and has worked his way up

Authorities in the city in which the window breaking occurred might have profited by the experience of the officials of another city where youths of well-to-do parents smashed several expensive street lights one night while celebrating some event which they thought called for something special. As soon as their identity was discovered bills for the damage were sent to the parents, who promptly recognized the obligation and agreed to pay. It isn't much fun to smash street lights when dad and mother have to foot the bill, especially if the parents insist on junior's earning part of the payment him-

self. That city has been singularly free from such incidents ever since.

It's Your Property, Too

Sure, I don’t have to stop in town to and from work. little fresh air or cold orange juice. I'm telling you it's good after eight hours of hot, stuffy air, cold sand wiches and a punch press. old ‘enough to vote yet, but if this keeps up I don’t even want to. the police would work around Blake and New York st. or West and Washington, I'm sure they would make it o. k. without picking up

But how about a

I'm not

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

cal, economic and ethical liberty, individual rights and free enterprise and regiment this great republic of free people under a despotic oneman, totalitarian dictatorship, in what is cynically offered to us as a New Deal, is becoming clearly defined, as the next election campaign gets under way. ' Yes, my friends, the New Deal leads straight down the dark and

bloody road of world-wide revolution, toward the final extinction of

OF COURSE, we can't put all of the blame for such episodes on the kids involved. Perhaps the major part of it should be placed squarely on the shoulders of parents who have failed to impress their children with the importance of safeguarding propertv—especially the property of others. In commenting on the subject recently, a young naval officer told this story. A group of boys were playing in the yard of his home when one of them knocked a ball that broke the windshield of an auto« mobile parked nearby. The boy's father promptly hunted up the owner of the car, made arrangements to have the windshield replaced and paid the bill “While the breaking of the windshield was accidental,” ‘said the young naval officer, “the fact that dad was so prompt to recognize his fesponsibility and pay for the damage made an impression on me which I never forgot.”

| “WHAT AN OLD

of Rights off your sleeve, instead pin on a badge of “Gallantry in Action.” or even “I have boght a bond today,” and try to be a better citizen. The advance of women to equal political office and suffrage puts her on an equal basis with men and since then, there has been a marked increase in good government and I think" if there had been women around that peace table we would have settled all disputes without going to war, even if we did have to pull hair (not good). I think Mr. Dewey will start out his campaign speeches with a “law and Order” program Which elected Hoover in '28. Law and order served three times a’ day, without sugar and cream, don't make a very

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{in law and order, but not enough| lithat you have to “goose step” | “hell” anybody. People in the U. '|don't Hke to

or 8. goose step.

DEMOCRAT THINKS"

| By P. L. Best, Brazil 2 :

Regardless of party, regardless of class, of beliefs, those are words to remember.

Olive Branch

through the educational ranks. Prior to the death of the late Dewitt C. Morgan, he was assistant superintendent and since has served as acting superintendent, a position that he also held during the interim between the Morgan and Stetson administrations in 1937. Thus he is thoroughly familiar with the local system, as it is with him. ident Stinebaugh faces a heavy responsi bility, in which the city will wish him well. The strains of war borne heavily on public education, and the 8 are not going to be easy for those who is. Mr. Stinebaugh also will have the task lorgan, who like Paul C. Stetson, ng executive but had won national leader. However the new superinin developing and executing

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He learned then and there that it is other people's property until you damage or destroy it. Then it is yours to repair or replace.

So They Say—

taining both cash and credit. . . . every possible | precaution has been taken to prevent anything of the kind from happening —British Production ister Oliver Lyttleton, Lr Re ~ 1DO NOT entertain gis as is ended the wa

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