Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1944 — Page 12

PAGE 12 Wednesday, July 19, 1944.

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.| Parley and proceed.from that, in all divections, ing to the conversational manner and poli of the Spelvins. . “I saw Jim Farley today,” Mr. “Is he back?” exclaimed Mrs,

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MR. ROOSEVELTS CONVENTION THE Democratic national convention opens today with all the suspense of a thrice-told thriller, and as much reality. Speakers will recite well-remembered lines, and

delegates will arrive at their make-believe decisions writ-

ten by an author who is not there. If some forget: their cue, they will be prompted; if they make faces at.the stage manager or stick out their tongues at the audience, in re-

“volt or boredom, that will not matter much—the end will

be the same.

Mr. Roosevelt in effect has even accepted the nomination in advance. A bit hard, perhaps, on the dignity of

delegates trying to give reality to the show, but effective ~withal. There is no other possible candidate—for 10 years he has killed off politically every potential successor as rapidly as one arose. He also has written most of his own platform. So the " delegates will not have to bother with policy decisions. It is said to be a well-polished document, first outlined to his chief scribe, Judge Rosenman, and then rewritten by Mr. Roosevelt himself, Maybe room has been left here and there for lesser men to fill in the chinks, and a little -arsument may arise cvor that humble labor, Dut-the colts pleted product will have the symmetry which only a single ~ architect can achieve. Compromises, to bé sure, but his own. - » » 2 »n - UBTLESS THAT is only fair to the candidate. For he has decided it is better politics for him to make few ‘ campaign speeches, thus denying to himself the customary candidate's privilege of recasting the party's platform as he goes along. Anyway, the Democratic platform is singularly unimportant this year. Mr. Roosevelt's record, for better or for worse, is the actual platform. His promises won't count. The most naive voter will not suppose that this - candidate can provide more wisdom or efficiency, if re- . turned to the White House, than he already has shown ~ swhile in office. Being a fourth-term aspirant thus has its disadvantages. Whatever the platform verbiage or the nominee’s maneuvers, his candidaey perforce boils down to afour-word appeal: “More of the same.” ey | Whether that appeal will elect Mr. Roesevelt again depends less oh him and his party than on Mr. Dewey and the Republicans. “More of the same” is not good enough for many independent voters—how many, will he determined chiefly by Mr. Dewey’s ability to convince the dissatisfied voters that a younger and freer administration would be more progressive and efficient than the same old bureaucracy under the same one-man rule, oy x BN » » ~ tJ : BEGAUSE THAT would-be indispensable man is not as * young or as vigorous as he once was, which increases the possibility that he would not finish his fourth term if elected, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee must be picked consciously as a potential President. Hence the unusual public and party concern over the second man on the ticket, who may become first. Mr. Roosevelt, nothing loath, is taking care of that, too. No running mate can be chosen without his approval. In 1940 he forced the unpopular Wallace on the unwilling convention. But his aids—who have to make the delegates take it and like it—are begging him to be more considerate of the convention's pride this time. Apparently he has agreed. But if he refrains from dictating his choice openly, he will O. K. the man in secret—hands-off gestures in public notwithstanding. ‘Even in the best-bossed convention—and there never has been one like this—there is always a chance of minor revolt and a few delegates breaking away. Texas now threatens to do just that. But this would not upset the convention's pre-ordained decisions. For the Southern politicians as a whole have one thing at least in common with the other delegates, including the New Deal officeholders and the Kelly-Flynn-Hague machines: they mu accept Roosevelt dictation or else. Such is this command performance for the c didate who says: “I would accept and serve, but I would not . Tun in the usual partisan, political sense. But if the people command me...” Certainly there is nothing “usual” about this performance. Neither is it the kind of “command” Mr. Roosevelt says he craves from the American people.

YOU CAN'T BEAT IT HAT are we fighting for? Well, we were looking through the papers the other day and saw where 40 men spent 10 days in rescuing an old hound dog from an underground cave. had taken time out from his official duties and personal concern for his political future to telephone a young wife that her soldier-husband, whom he had seen in China, had been badly burned but was getting along fine. Maybe, among other things, we're fighting for a pretty nice country full of pretty nice people. —_—

SPARE THE CORN s

IGHT now is the time for the two national political chairmen to get together and take a stand against puns on the Republican challenger’s name and the Democratic title-holder’s terms in oflice. "Otherwise we shall be Subjected to such bright items as “glorious Fourth,” “safe and sane Fourth,” “Dewey-eyed supporters,” “Dewey or don’t we,” and so on, ad nauseam. So let's have a non-partisan embargo, quickly,

2 eee esas: 8 GANGSTER’S ENDING

Q EPORTS from the German frontier say that truck loads ~ of supplies are arriving at Hitler's" inaccessible Berch-

ad where he and his henchmen .are expected to run defeat draws near. : :

It all sounds like an oho of our lawless ‘prohibition lonely hideout, “the arsenal, the cache of food.

anything intelligent around here.”

We The People

By Ruth Millett

service who doesn’t want above all else for his wife,

We also saw that tl ie resident if she can't follow him—and often even if she he vice pre den could, to stay put and keep their home together,

they shared, he wants her to take their possessions along and to make a new home which she can picture to him clearly enough so that he can visualize it.

Wants the Things He Knows

storage and moving in with her family or his or with another war wife.

of those things. But it isn’t what. her husband wants.

of coming home to. It isn't quite enough for him to dream of coming home He wants to come HOME, to knows, to his favorite chair table he has put his feet under so many times.

perhaps homes aren't than to women. For - the home, women are Many a war wife would sponsibility of running a house

Join one of the services, reason runs something like this,

where you are and keep our home to come back and find everything

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Elks!” “Oh, Jim Farley,” Mrs. Doaks

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‘You May Have Them Mixed Up' FI 7#

“YES,” MR. SPELVIN said, “I think you are mixed up. , Jim was postmaster general and Walker is postmaster general now so you may have them mixed up.” “He is?” said Harry. “How did he get to be postmaster general, anyway? I saw him fight Greb, that time. Boy that was a fight, but a fight!” ‘ “Not Mickey,” -Mr. Spelvin-said. “Mickey is running a saloon. What a fighter he was, though. But a fighter. Made over a million and wound up broke," “Well, I think you all musk be crazy,” Mrs. Doaks said. “Because don't be trying to tell me Jimmy Walker comes from Syracuse or any of those places unless you mean St. Luke's place, because I remember he always used to live in St. Luke's place but he certainly wasn't from upstate and I may net be so smart about some things but I saw him several times when he was mayor and ....” “Not Jimmy,” Harry said. “Jimmy wasn't a fighter,

the greatest fighters that ever lived.” “But he isn't postmaster general,” Mr. Spelvin said. “Frank is the postmaster general but ‘I think your uncle must be mistaken because he comes aut of the West somewheres, but Farley has lived all his life in the East and he used to be the prisefight com. missioner, but, if any man ever gat a dirty deal

'Poor Dempsey With Those 14 Peints'

“I THINK THEY are all a lot of Jaw-gown, rotten, no-account, double-crossing fakers,” Mra. 8pelvin said, “the way they treated that poor Dempsey with those 14 points ,,..” Sa “That wasn't Dempsey,” Harry said. “That was Woodrow Wilson had the 14 points. I see they got a movie about him now.” “The world's champion sucker,” Mr, Doaks said. “The prize sucker of all time, The way those smart swindlers took that sucker, but good.” “I still think Dempsey got a dirty deal” Mrs. Spelvin said. “That Tunney and his long words. Why if Dempsey had a fair chance, Beeause George took me to dinner at his restaurant en our 20th anniversary and he signed his autograph and we had ‘a bottle of imported French champagne . ..." . i “And did Mama get plastered” Mr. Spelvin said. . “Give me heer and you can have all the im. poried champagne ii the world,” said Mrs. Doaks. “Only it makes you sofa. But, champagne tastes 80 sour and the prices they get for it but I could set and drink beer and eat Liederkranz all night , . . .* “I certainly wish I could offer some beer,” Mrs. Spelvin said. “But it is so hard to get now... .”

‘Thank You to Be Not So Underhanded

“DON'T FORGET Jim Farley brought beer back,” Mr. Spelvin put in doggedly. “Yes,” said his loving life-partner. “And I will thank you to not be so underhanded with your nasty cracks about who gets plastered, because, if I remember, that sister of yours, that refined and snooty Miss Vere de Vere sister of yours from the interior decorating department, with her Harvard accent. Well, permit me to kindly call your attention, that I didn’t pass out that night but your refined Vere de Vere, sister, why she ... ’ “What did Jim Farley say to you?" Harry asked, “Is he going to campaign for Roosevelt and the Communists or ., , .* “Well,” Mr. Spelvin said. “There is a lot of angles and it is still pretty early but ....’ “That is what I say,” Mr. Doaks said. “Because if the Germans are licked by election day, why ...,.” The Doakses and Harry went home about 11 o'clock and just as she was dropping off to sleep, Mrs. Spelvin asked: “What were you going to say about Jim Farley tonight?” “Nothing,” said Mr. Spelvin. “Nothing at all that would interest anyone around here. Around here it's all Frank Walker and St. Luke's place and Harry Greb and Tunney and his long words. I wasn't going to say anything at all. It is no use trying to say

2 Be ONE OF the many things this war has brought home is as Important to a man as to a woman. We have thought in the past that the house a couple buys ‘or rents, and the furniture they own, is important mainly to the wife. We have assumed that women, but not men, needed homes for their happiness and security. But we can't think that any more. Hardly a man goes into

If she has to move from the apartment or house

HE DOESN'T want her putting their furniture ip

True, she may have to do one

He wants her to keep a place that he can dream

to her and the children. the house and yard he and the dining room

Men's insistence on this makes you wonder if even more important to men when the man is gone from likely--to lose Interest in it, really like to chuck the fe-

for the duration and 0 out and rent a single room ang get a war job, or

But her man, more often than not, says “No.” His | “You stay right together. I want the same.”

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mare liberties in his

ment and initiative than under any type of society yet devised. Our system of private enterprise is proving to be one of the greatest wonders

in history; it is saving

people who desire to live decently as private individuals. Qur allies and our enemies represent several different social orders, yet we are proving that we can outproduce them all, ) The history of American enterprise is’ the history of men from labor's ranks climbing unfettered to the top. There are almost no industrial or business leaders wha started any place but on the bottom.. Any system of living that would fetter men against development is unnatural and doomed to failure, climb; all men do not have the ability; but those men who do climb lead all men to lighter loads and greater comfort. fact about our way of life is that all men can better their lot if they are ambitious to do it by work and those who have ability to use their heads with their hands and take the responsibility that comes, with increased value can reach any height that they are able to-main-tain, Our God-inspired constitutional way of life seems to automatically compensate for the differences In men and their desires Under “it” you can live ahd earn your bread and cherish and practice any ideals that do not encroach on the rights of othe ers. A group of Socialists, for ine stance, could band together in any business and start and own the business and its production. Why not dp it? One thing I note about Socialists is that their idealism being a theory, | they can leave out a lot of prac-

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CLIMBING UNFETTERED” . By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapelis,

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It seems that during man's long history every type of social order has existed whether or not it was so Most people have a wrong conception of our system of living, A large minority believe that they are being trampled on and robbed of their earnings. Yet to me '|it seems that in America the com= mon man has more of life's comforts, more justice in his rights and

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to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, lettefs should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are these of the writers, and publication in na way implies agreement with those opiniens by The Times, The Times assumes no responsi« bility for the return of manuscripts’and cannot enter core respondence regarding them.)

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are washed overboard by socia » » 8 “SOMEONE NEEDS

AN EDUCATION” By McKinley Brewer, Indianapolis

to be one of agitation,

it is not in Africa?

; us maroon”

teal facts. It is easy for them to talk about owning the factory and the product and leave out the most production operation, that of distribution, oftentimes the

does not create wealth if it is not sold for use, and that is what we do now with the whole procedure

Who are these tyrannical capl-

They are the thrifty American peo--|states. And speaking of the Censtitution, any representative or senator who fails to uphold or defend the Oonstitution is less than a traitor. He has gone back on his oath. If 100,000,000 people wanted to give our President another term say that was un-Amer-

ings accounts and life insurance equities are earning interest for them in American business. They are the farm owners and home owners, the people who take the tax responsibility for our way of life. We had better wake up before they

changes that have already gone far.

You misunderstand me, Mr. Maddox. I did not mean for my letter 1 only wanted you and others to know what Just as good and just as patriotic Americans as you have to go through with in this life. And as far as we being brought from Africa, may I ask you where did your ancestors come from? And have you ever read ancient history or the Bible? And did you know that civilization came from where you said wild savages fought and sold each other, Africa? Not from the Greeks or Hebrews or Irish or whatnots, but from the Egyptians, And where is Egypt if And why

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“MANY OF US "KNOW BETTER” By James Faulkner, Indianapolis J.B., you poor, poor little thing. To hear you tell it, your taxes fed me and 10,000,000 othérs during the depression. I just felt so, so sorry for you that I can hardly keep the tears back, for you are the only person in the whole United States that has to pay taxes. If you really did make $5376 during the year of 1932, then you should have been happy for tie privilege of paying and also contributing to church. and charity organizations that others around you going hungry and cold would not starve or freeze to death. I'll venture to say you hogged onto every penny of your money and you were too busy trying to hog ‘more to even notice the suffering of others all around

shouldn't we wear good clothes or have anything any man has so long as we work honestly for it? talk like it is a special privilege for us to wear good clothes. I am not angry with you and I don't accuse you of being prejudiced. If you helieve in the things you write about, sedom for all, democracy for. all, then you are a true American. You see, so many = pegple say one thing and do another. And any gentleman has manners whether he be black, white, Gentile or Jew. «| You spy some of them have good manners, - Aren't we God's cMildren Just like you? In the beginning there were only two people, so whence And oh yes, the Civil War was not fought for free-

I may have a guarantee of freedom by the Constitution, but, when I am denied voting or enjoying life like any other American, what good is a guarantee? I presume-you are & poor man like me. the things you want. hope you can see I am not angry at anyone, but someone needs an education. There is ne racé problem. If every man was allowed to live his life as he wanted so long as he violated no law, there would be no race problem. That is, with the same guarantee and protection, I would like to meet you personally and talk with you. Yours for an understanding.

ou prove that you didn’t care 1by having the unadulterated gall to say in your article, and I now quote, “I believe anyone else who wanted’ to work could do the same thing, providing his - health permits.” J. B,, you know there is not a word of truth in that sentence. If you really think that, it is your privibut there are too many of us who know better, = ler By the way, you said you $5375 during the 12 months of 1032. Maybe you omitted a decimal point betwéen the 3 ‘and the 7, and in that case, you made $53.75 for the 12 months, which sounds more like it. “Even that was better than most of us tid, so count your blessings,

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dom of the Negro. ans ware: By Henry J. Taylor know that the Negro not only fought ) i in the Civil War but in every war : CORICAGO, July 19.—~The real this country has had? |p steam behind the worry here about Speaking of friends, I quote from ) second place on the Democratis the Bible: “Greater love hath no h ticket is fueled by a conviction in man than that he lay down his life] | top Party circles that, this time, for his friend.” I too have fed peo-| | the party will need every vote i It/ ple of your race who were less for- ean find to win, tunate than I. I have given them The President's popularity as money to buy food because it was the polls is obvious. But hard, my duty as a human being and a headed leaders arriving here are Christian. I had better make my-| Eg looking at the alarming matheself clear about the Civil War, The matics in the Democratic political ?{ Civil War was caused by the seces- map. sion from the Union of certain The. reason the President's personal popularity, the

commander-in-chief angle, the “don’t change horses” thesis—or the Wall Street betting odds—are not blind ing these mathematically-minded gentlemen is that

where it takes political power sand organization to bring out the vate, and the other on the particulars of the electoral college, where the votes must strike in certain ways if they are to count. Outside the South, in most of the 38 states where the battle will be fought, the Democratic party is overwhelmingly the minority party, “Republican office-holders and state organizations have a big edge in the grassroots. They have been in control long enough to possess heavy advantages when the bell rings in November and the time comes to get people to the polls, a

G. O. P. Controls 149] Counties

critical 38 states. - Democrats control §39. Leaders here emphasize that their difficulties start right there, for it is in the individual precincts that states dre won or lost. 2

At the higher level in these states, Republicans control 37 of the 38 state legislatures, 26 of the 38 governorships and 311 of the 331 seats in the of representatives, esch place representing a political powerhouse of its own, to the grassroots. eo! And ds for the White House, these 38 states represent 150 more votes in the electoral college than th Republicans need to win. to a In 1940 in these 38 states Mr. Roosgvelt 1 Presidency by a margin of only 3.7 per cent of the popular vote. A change of less than three votes out of every 100 would have defeated him. : Even then, Mr. Roosevelt ran 3 per cent ahead bt his party, which to political clockers is impressive evidence of his personal popularity. But even this performance would not have been enough to bring him home as winner in 1943, a year after Pearl Harbor. Had Mr. Roosevelt run then when the Aen were running and had he galloped as far ahead of them as he did in 1940 (“people vote differently for the President”) he would have lost the elec college, which means the Democrats would have lost-the White House, ; : : And the leaders note particularly the special congressional elections of late, where Republican majorities have showed sharp gains over 19432, fil ~~ Without exception, also, state and munieipal elec. tions in the 38 states since 1942 have filled out the

Republican hold in the precincts, uprooting still more of the Democratic party's earlier strength,

Democrats Need 10] More Votes

IT TAKES 266 electoral votes to win the White House, and as this convention convenes top Democratic leaders seem entirely sure of only 165, represent. £d by the Solid South (including Texas), plus Rhode -

| Island, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, The

Democrats need 101 more votes. Many admit, however, that the Republicans are reasonably sure of 187 electoral votes from the Céntral and Mountain states, which, if correct, is a deficiency of only 79,

aut of the 117 in the Middle At. lantic states, 40 in New England and 30 on the Pa“Yet, these areas are mostly in the hands of local Republican - organizations ‘today, from ‘the county courthouses to the capitols, And. from among them the 79 votes could come from two states aléne, Penn. sylvania and New York. : . “This is why we can’t take a chanoe We can't eve afford pres: h: 8

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