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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

© THE DEMOCRATIC “ISSUE” HE oratory at the Democratic national convention is of the old spread-eagle variety, brimming with bromides and packed with partisanship. Governor Kerr of Oklahoma, who gave the keynote last nicht, and Senator Jackson of Indiana, who made the permanent chairman's address, followed the party line laid down by the indispensable man. But they lacked the cleverness of their master politician who is' running this convention fogm afar. They let too much corn creep in,

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HERE ARE the Democratic campaign cries: Save America from Harding, Coolidge and Hoover! ‘Since Harding and Coolidge are dead, and Hoover is not a candidate, this appeal may be found somewhat lacking. Dewey was picked by Hoover! This is a little better. The Democrats can prove that Hoover knows Dewey and that Hoover was at the G. O. DP. convention.” Of course Hoover. had no control over the choice of a candidate and has no power over Dewey, but if the story is dressed up properly maybe a few hundred voters somewhere will believe it. "Dewey was picked by the old guard bosses, who are “in the saddle!” This is excellent propaganda. To be sure the public knows the old guard bosses favored Taft or Bricker, opposed Dewey, and went along with the popular draft movement only after they had failed to stop it So propaganda to the contrary will not be widely believed. But the tale of a boss-ridden G. O. P. can confuse voters and obscure the fact that the big boss and the notorious Kelly, Flynn, Hague and Co. control the Democratic party.

Keep this Democratic prosperity, which has made everybody fat—employer, labor, farmer! According to all the rules of politics this is sure-fire stuff. Lots of people are supposed to vote with their bellies instead of their brains. “Full dinner-pail”—"happy days are here again” ~—many of the best campaign slogans of the past have used this appeal. But there is some difference between peace time prosperity, which the New Deal never achieved, anda war boom—which these Democratic orators forgot to mention. Millions of Americans do not forget that—taxpayers footing the bill, businessmen who know government contracts can’t last, workers and soldiers who know that war plants do not automatically provide peace jobs, parents and servicemen who find war a heavy price to pay for a boom. » . BUT ALL the other Democratic slogans are secondary to this one: pi The indispensable man! man, himself: The indispensable commander in chief! Here a paraphrase alone would sound so unbelievable, if not libelous, we quote Chairman Jackson’s exact words: “A change in national administration in time of war ++ + is frightening to. contemplate. It is dangerous to make ses (it) might well prove'to be the tragedy of this generation . . . our people will not gamble with the lives of their sons~+. ,

“But how many battleships would a Democratic defeat be worth to Tojo? How many Nazi legions would it be worth - to Adolf Hitler? Frankly, could Goebbels himself do better to bolster axis morale than the word that the American people had upset this administration . . . we must not allow the American ballot box to be made Hitler's secret weapon!” There it is. If you dare voté~against a fourth term, you “gamble with the lives” of our sons, you give aid to the enemy, you make the election “Hitler's secret weapon.” Treason? Isn't that going just a little too far, even for a spokesman of the indispensable commander in chief?

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IT'S UP TO- THEM NNOUNCEMENT by Addison J. Parry, president of the Marion county council, that favorable consideration will be given to requests for additional funds for the Children’s “Guardians” home and for an extra appropriation of $28,900 for the juvenile detention home puts the responsibility for eonditions at these two institutions squarely up to the

Marion county welfare board and Mark W. Rhoads, judge of the juvenile court.

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The viewpoint of the council unquestionably reflects |! the overwhelming sentiment of the citizens of Marion | county. | The people of Marion county, outraged hy the recent picture of ag-vear-old boy tied down in the cage he had occupied for nine months at the guardians’ home and the earlier disclosure of dangerous and unwholesome conditions at the detention home, are determined that the children committed to the care of the county shall receive decent, enlightened and humane care. They are willing to spend the money to make such care possible now, without delay, excuses, or further temporizing. But they will expect results, They will expect that this money will be spent wisely to improve facilities at the two institutions, so that children will not be crowded like cattle into tiny rooms, so that adequate medical attention will be readily available, so that recreational facilities necessary to health and‘ wholesome development. will be provided; and so that it will not be necessary to expose normal children to the dangers of association with those who are mentally retarded or morally delinquent. } ie They will expect that it will be used to employ persons. whose qualifications for the delicate and responsible Job of shaping young live consist of something More substantial than the indorsement of a precinct committeeman, “We believe that this can be done, and we know it should . be done. The welfare board and Judge Rhoads have the - power to do it, and if the county council stands behind its chairman's announcement they will have the funds to do it. ts dp tothemmow. bi

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gavel by Mr. Roosevelt's grinning acceptance of a fourth nomination, the incongruous and uneasy Democrats, at their convention of 1944, present a new spectacle in the politics of the United States, a strange congress of distrust, re-

; sentment, fear and a oynicism such i as not even the most sordid old‘guard Republican ever had the

effrontery to express. Here is idealism of the most pretentious and milky sort, the pious nobility of purpose of the New Deal, fermented and soured into a mash of underworld politics and European continental trickery, all in ‘the course of 12 years since the faithful went forth from the same hall in 1932, bawling “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Many old faces are missing now, a few to appear in the following of Tom Dewey, disillusioned, repentant and humbly eager to atone. Many enthusiasts of the early New Deal have’ gone to their. graves.

wearing the same smile as of old, but a smile done with the muscles now, and not by the impulse of a confident heart, has become a beloved but pathetic Has-been; trampled, scuffed and confused, while Sidney Hillman, leader of the C. I. O.-Communist coalition, holds press conferences at a hotel of his own selection, the Sherman House, at the other side of the loop.

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‘That Perverse Loyalty Is Stronger’

TO A DEGREE it may be said for Jim that he is standing by his principles, for he never would court or have any political traffic with Hillman’s aggregation of naturalized but unassimilated Europeans in New York when they called themselves the American Labor Party. Never vet has he compromised his total American devotion by appearing, under any pretext of emergency or wartime unity, on any platform where he could be photographed under the hammer and sickle of the Communist conspiracy. Yet, ale though, ‘as an American, he obviously ‘believes the election of President Roosevelt to a fourth term would be @ national misfortune, still his. deep, personal

- devotion tothe rulés of the game will deter him from

opposing the ticket. Jim is no longer ambitious for of New York two years from now but even that is a remote and highly speculative possibility and would be a dull climax to the career of a man who, four years ago, had an honest, if naive, hope of going to the White House. But boy and man, Jim has been a Democrat, and that perverse loyalty, that spirit of politics as a game, is stronger in Jim and, also, in many others here this week, than the inner whisperings of patriotic judgment. Many men and women in this convention long ago lost their belief in the President as an idealist, even lost faith in him as a party man as he steadily took over and became, himself, the party, but, in resignation, go along anyway this once more because they don’t know what else to do. Some feel an obligation to their little followings back home. Some are too proud to make public demonstration of their private fears for the country after four years more of the same. Some are so degraded they would risk it all for the little pay and power the politics gives . them,

They Know the Power of Such People’

THERE ARE men and women here who hatefully resent Hillman and his small but tireless and clever group of scheming Europeans and fully understand the superior importance of a few hundred thousand New York votes, cast under the influence of European fears and hatreds, as compared with several times the same number of votes cast in their own home states. They know the power of such people to pull the switches and throw American cities and factories into darkness and terror, for they have seen it demonstrated. They know that, at Hillman’s plea, Charles Poletti, as temporary governor of New York, secretly released from prison an European Communist firebug who held office in Hillman’s union, and that nevertheless, if not for this very reason, Poletti was made a full army colonel and the American military governor of Rome. All this they know and of gangsterism in Hillman’s union in New York, but President Roosevelt is their chief and the chief favors Hillman and Hillman, as late as Tuesday night was still insisting that, whatever the Americans of the Democratic party might desire, he and his Communist associates would demand the nomination of Henry Wallace for the vice presidency. It was not so much that he and his group demanded Wallace. The humiliation, the startling, disturbing change lay in the fact that they could make any demands on the convention,

'Gang Politics Never More Vigorous'. WHETHER OR NOT Hillman has his way, he becomes, nevertheless, the most prominent lay-Demo-crat in the party, although not necessarily the most powerful. For Kelly of Chicago and Hague of New Jersey are still in silent, secret action and these tough old brawlers this time are under no cloud of outward disavowal. Gang politics, the kind that thrives on public contracts and little favors from the federal courts and the manifold New -Deal bureaus, never was more vigorous, never more respectable, than in the Democratic convention of 1944. Most of the old-fashioned meetings proceed in a hotel bought from the governement, itself, with money derived from the govern= ment; itself, by politicians who dug the Delaware aqueduct and the Chicago subway. Ang this time there is no sanctimonious pretense of purity, no repudiation of the sordid big city machines in the pres= ence of an alarming need for muscle ang money in the campaign, :

We The People By Ruth Millett

IN LOS ANGELES a 2i-year-

band wrote her that he was in’ love with another woman and wasn’t coming home to her, hurled their five-month-old son - ACrOSs 2 room. The baby died from a fractured skull, ’ “oe That appalling act focuses at~tention on a potential post-war problem—that may be tragically: serious. Thousands of young war brides are having babies in the first year or two of

the babies when their husbands are far away, perhaps overseas. They are willing to take full bility for the care of the child until their husbands return.

How Will Their Children Fare? .

1 : BUT HOW MANY of these young, immature girls are prepared to face the possibility of having the sole responsibility of the child’s care for life? . If fate. forces that onto them, aren’t many of them likely to become rebellious and resentful, and take their feelings .out on their children? ; 5 "The gir

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for the young war brides to think about before they decide to follow the wartime child before their men are sent overseas, bec is what other wives are doing, and’ because i sentimental appeal, Sie If they arén't prepared to face the with the ehild—they shouldn't start a f war's end. For nothing could be worse tion of .a mother's being tied to a she 't have a husband

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

“YOUR EDITORIAL WAS SUPERB” By Lillian Dinehart, Indianapolis. Your editorial “Candidate Roose= velt” was superb! What fools Mr. R. must think the American people are, and we justify his opinion every four years! This year we approach a cross-road. If we take one path we say to our gallant men fighting to bredk up totalita-~ rian government overseas, “You've been wasting your time, boys. Come on home, we've elected a permanent ruler for you.” . If we take the other path we say, “Well done, soldier, having seen the dire effects of one-man government, you will be glad to find we have re-established constitutional government in your native land.” . Mr. R. has certainly lost his sense of humor. The whole country should rock with ‘laughter at this line, “All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson.” To me, this is unbelievedly funny, coming from a man who has the whole political underworld working to keep him in office. Between gales of laughter I say, “God speed you, Mr. R, to your home on the Hudson!” The very fact that this man should desire to stay in our highest office permanently should ring a warning. bell in the mind of every thinking voter, that there is something radically wrong with him. He has ruined his party. As you state, he has killed off politically, every potential successor. Since man is mortal, he is saying to his party, “After me the deluge!” Let us mercifully retire this “tired old man” before he brings the ridi~ cule of the world upon us. A few more cracks like this and he will join Eleanor on the comedian’s scripts and then our young people will have nothing left to respect and revere, .” “SOCIALISM 18 THE OLDEST FORM” Boy R. Dewey, Cicero ) . Readin’ in the Times Forum today an article by a certain Charles Ginsberg in which I find that he is guilty of a little mis-information, so to speak. He informs us Forum readers that Socialism as a form of government has never been tried. Why, Charlie, get hep to yourself. Socialism is the oldest form of government in this old world of. yours

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and mine. Pure Socialism would be Utopia, a heavenly union in fact, but this purity cannot prevail because we are still human beings and not angels, . Another idea about the *“workers” receiving all the machinery that they produce—what would they do with them, eat ’em? Who would furnish the money to buy the material to make these machines? Why, Charlie, did you ever read in so-

ciology where in ancient Greece all;

of the moneys were equally divided between the men, women and’ children of the country and it wasn't but a few moons until this “moneys” was all back in the same channels from whence it was taken. Someone has spoken that the platform of the GOP was vague and could be construed in several directions; well, they searched the archives of the Coliseum at Chicago for the platform ¢hat F. D. R. ac~ cepted in 1932, thinking that it might make a good platform to stand ‘on this year, but lo and behold, the termites had eaten it into a very fine dust and all they found besides this dust was the broken promises that F. D. R. made since he accepted said platform. There was one plank that they left out of the Republican platform, that of giving the privilege to the ones that do not like a constitutional, republican form of government, such as we have enjoyed here in these United States for the many years until the ascension of the New Deal, including capitalism, of a free “boat ticket” to just any other country over there where they might enJoy Socialism or any other kind of

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Americanism to the rest of who would rather die of under Old Glory and a co tional form of government dads left us than to live 1 in any nation over there where, in the most part the people live most, ly on wine, women and song and they don’t sing so many notes. Another note in The Foruh brought this to my. thoughts: The idea that Mr. President never broke any promises to the service men. Now you boys of 'I17 and '18, you will remember in "32 in his acceptance speech and I quote: “Just because you wore a uniform in the service of your country, need you expect any favors from your government?”

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~ “SEEKING THE MAGIC FORMULA” By H. M. T., Indianapolis Under the guise of letting the general public in on a very important matter, the political sleight-of-hand artists are desperately seeking the magic formula to gold plate the dead, white, dried-out bones of a donkey and an elephant for the “reconversion period.” So far, the results of the fossilized idea men have been merely super-gigantic. The Democrat genii are shouting, “Here's the solution!” and roll the dice for the fourth time: a “four” and a three.” The Republican supermen yell, “Now you see it, now you don't,” as they shake out a foreign policy crazy quilt of intermingled protective tariff. The super Republican sage of the White House for 25 years chants an ancient hokum and drags forth a blueprint for “bigger and “better taxes for smaller “and smaller incomes,” in the upper left hand corner of which is the master craftsman’s notation, “If the object resolves to zero, that’s nothing.” Comes now the post-war planning contests, a form of the old, reliable suggestion box scheme from which the barons of industry obtain million dollar ideas for peanuts. Have you an idea to camouflage effectively 20 to 30 million post-war unemployed? Can you formulate an equation for stuffing 15 per cent of this nation’s population with profits when 35 per cent have not the wherewith to stuff, in terms of the quantity “How does the other half live?” Can you make new hokum from the same old oil? If you can answer yes ® ny of these questions, grab yourself some paper, sharpen up your typewriter and see your ration board about some midnight oil! For, who knows, thirty days from now you may be hailed as the long-sought political Einstein. Me, I'm’ checking out a gas mask, just in case! ~ » » “GIVE AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT A BREAK”

By Sid Simon, Indianapolis. Your news columns as well as the stories by your feature writers are being colored to favor the Republican party. I'm not interested in Scripps-Howard’s political policy in 1944. Nor do I care about West brook Pegler’s hatred for Eleanor.} His poisonous tirades are infi your other Shades of Ray Clapper! How about an impartial and clean writer of Earl Richert's variety being hired | to take over the Clapper column to

balance our diet? . . Give an independent Democrat a break. :

DAILY THOUGHTS ‘The Spirit of the is upon

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WASHINGTON, July 20—This year, as you know, women voters .. wlil probably outnumber the men. Their preference may well be the

a president. But so far we have not noticed the two major parties doing much toward wooing the eminently desirable feminine elec ~ torate. Go wr So today we should like to call 5 their attention, in all non-partisan : friendliness, to this omission

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aspirations. Particularly we to point. out the danger of a third-party

po bility of this was evident at a conventtion the other day which the old-line politiclans may have failed to notice. It was a meeting of Congress Honoring Inexpensive Clothes, which itself by the initials CHIC. Now, the CHIC a bit like an alphabetical New Deal agency, but its approach is unlike that of any extical organization. It puts aside trivialities and aims straight at issues nearest the average woman's heart,

: i Speaks for the Forgotten Woman

MISS HELEN MENKEN was the, keynoter, Miss . Menken is of the theater, and as beauteous and as those more orthodox politicians, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce and Mrs, Helen

“We offer you peplums, not panacess . . , sequins, not subsidies,” she told the delegates. (And don’t you; Mr, Roosevelt, and you, Mr. Dewey, wish you'd thought, of that one?) She also assailed the hide bound history of the opposition. In contfast to the CHIC fashion promises, Miss Menken pointed out that “the sorry sartorial record of the Republican. party is summed up in the Hoover apron. The Democratic party started out 12 years And. it's still stuck with 1¢.”

THE CHIC 13-plank platform made a wide appeal, with a variety of colors. It came face to face with the war by favoring middy-blouse effects, Perhaps there was a little fence<straddling in its “indorsement of both long and short dinner i

mean to astute politicians. It may be that the candidate who can offer the full dinner dress designed on strictly party lines will be the candidate who sweeps the country, rd In Washington By Peter Edson , WASHINGTON, Jily 20— Former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, running true to

uncarved, The Welles opus, which is en Decision” and has just been published by

contribution and the answer is, “Quite a lot.” In fact, there are parts of this book which will make excellent Nazi propaganda and give considerable aid and come fort to the enemy. - Theré is, for instance, an elaborate scheme, with a two-page map, showing how this former diplomat thinks Germany should be partitioned into three separate states—Bavaria, Baden and the Rhineland in a southern state, Hanover, Westphalia and part of Saxony in a western state, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia and the rest of Saxony in an eastern state. It is not hard to conjure the Nazi propagandists seizing upon this proposal and telling the German people, just to make them fight all the harder.

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Denounces Spanish Civil War Neutrality

-..A.SECOND point in-the Welles thesis which might conceivably embarrass the government is his bitter denunciation of U. 8. policies toward Spain. Welles de clares flatly that, “Of all our blind isolationist policies, the most disastrous was our attitude toward the Spanish ‘civil war.” It {8 his opinion that the United States should have given aid to the Spanish republio in its fight against Franco instead of declaring strict neutrality. Welles claims that President Roosevelt was out of Washington when this policy was adopted and did not approve it. This is open to question as a matter of record and historical fact, as Roosevelt was in Washington, knew all about it and approved it. The important thing, however, is that the govern ment is now trying to win the Franco government away from Germany and over to the united nations cause. Important negotiations with Spain concern< ing air rights and trade with Germany are now underway. To have Franco blasted at this time doesn't help. A third knife which Welles throws is against the administration's policy of not recognifing the Argentine government now headed by Gen. Farrell. This isn't news, for Welles has written pieces for the newspapers to this same effect. But to show how this stuff is seized upon and used as propaganda, it is’ only necessary to recall that the previous Welles article on this subject was ordered printed in ail the Argentine press, giving encouragement to the revolutionary government of the Argentine to resist

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the country and full co-operation given to the united nations.

Tells of Trip to Europe in 1940

WELLES IS’ at his best as a reporter—telling of his mission to Europe for the President in 1940. His plan of post-war international organization to maine tain peace differs from the department of state’s pro posals, but that is of no importance as no two people can agree on how this should be set up. ¥ is in petty vindictiveness that Welles does him-

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