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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Oww Woy

CANDIDATE ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS R. ROOSEVELT can be either a wartime president and commander in chief above partisanship, or he can misuse that position as a candidate for a fourth term. Last night he took advantage of his office to launch a political campaign from & naval base. For months the Republicans had predicted that he would do something like that. We did not believe he would be so crude. We were wrong. : Not that there was anything new in his formal acceptance speech. He used the same I-am-above-politics pose in his advance acceptance from the White House earlier this month, the same commander in chief excuse for his candidacy. : But that he would time a military inspection trip for a partisan appeal to His party convention did not seem quite up to his protestations as expressed in his letter to Hannegan, . " ~~ “I shall not campaign in the usual sense for the office,”

. he said Tast night. “In these days of tragic sorrow, I do

pet consider it fitting, In these days. of global warfare, I shall not be able to find the time.” ¥y x ss 8 = BUT HE FOUND time to route His military train through Chicago for a secret conference with his political chief of staff. i He found time to dictate the party platform. He found time from his: naval base inspection to run the partisan convention by phone through his party henchmen. He found time to make a partisan campaign speech. Fortunately, the conduct of the war will not saffer foo much. For our real military commanders are forbidden to be political candidates and do not run parties for personal power. Of course Mr, Roosevelt does not think he is being partisan. Granted the indispensable idea, the only partisanship is opposition to him. If you vote for him you transcend party. : As he said last night, “in the last three elections the people’ of the*United States have transcended party affiliation.” Or as his gpokesman, Convention Chairman Jackson, put it in warning against a Roosevelt defeat: “We must not allow the American ballot box to be made Hitler's secret weapon.” | Certainly that is not a “campaign in the usual sense.”

THE AXIS BEGINS TO CRACK

HITLER reports an abortive German military revolt and attempt to assassinate him. Tokyo reports that two “moderates” have been ordered by Hirohito to form a government in place of the fallen Tojo cabinet, and some dopesters describe the new men as “pro-Americans.” The spontaneous and very human reaction among allied peoples is the hope that peace is near, that Germany is cracking internally and that Japan is ready to quit. But to rely on such hope wouid be as disastrous as it is premature, Certainly military reverses in the Pacific and in Europe have shaken the axis. But only complete allied victory can finish the process. This is the time for greater allied military effort to take advantage of the opening, not for wish ful thinking while the enemy has time to close ranks. As for those two Jap “moderates,” one is an admiral and ex-premier whose last regime pushed the conquest of China and prepared a sneak war against us—while talking friendship. The other is a general who participated in the rape of Manchuria and, like the new chief of staff, is from the fanatical Kwantung army. Former AmaWbassador Grew warns us from thé state department that Tojo is only one of a group still in power, that we must not “allow this change to lull us into false optimism.” =

2 » THAT THE German Junkers want to get rid of Hitler, since he became a liability, is not news. They have long hoped to get a compromise peace by disposing of him at the proper time. Doubtless they will dump him eventually. But we are not fighting Hitler and the Nazis only, We are fighting German aggression and militarism, which is older than Hitler and which will outlive him to wage another war if we accept a compromise peace. Not until Germany

. surrenders unconditionally can we cherish peace hopes,

Even unconditional surrender by the axis will be only the bare basis for the long continuing task of preventing revival of German and Jap aggression.

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GATHER IT UP

THE PAPER salvage campaign is not going well. Our 1944 goal is 8,000,000 tons, but at the end of the first five months collections were 400,000 tons short of the schedule. Meanwhile the paper shortage remains so eritical that the army is planning to salvage waste paper from the North African and South Pacific combat zones and ship it home. Department of Commerce surveys show that America has enough paper scattered throughout the country to méet the goal—46.5 pounds of uncollected waste paper in the average home-—newspapers, magazines, kraft paper and other types. So gather Tt up, find out about collection dates-and times, help transport it if necessary, get it to wheré it’s needed.

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ITALIAN patriots in oceipied Italy have sworn to execute . 10 German or Fascist prisoners for every patriot the Nagis execute. If patriots of other occupied lands should decide to make similar vows as the armies of liberation er Nazi térrorism will abate, or else 10 do witP Germany” em will

By Westbrook Pegler

CHICAGO, July 21.-~The old~ at this convention is a bewildered

an acute sense, as of a burr in

smart and tricky individidals, but can't do anything about it.

Democrats of Connecticut, Kansas

Farley, as an individual, as well as to the unpretentious little people of the party, as they are often called in the patronizing jargon of their superiors who unmistakably regard themselves as the big people. It has been several years since anyone with any | political know-how in Chicago believed that the working arrangement between Mayor Kelly and Presi-

political deal and sordid on both sides. Not even personally are they compatible, as politicians often are, who, nevertheless, fight one another at every turn in the spirit of a rough, and often painful but sport~ ing, game.

‘Me Is What He Is'

gears and wires and conduits reaching down into the underworld of handbooks and union rackets and tapping the rake-off on government contracts and legal handouts from the federal cours to politically deserving lawyers. He is what he is, ahd he has riever pretended to be a social worker, & bleeding heart or & statesman of world vision. It was Kelly who, so to speak, drew a deadline with his toe across a sooty surburban field on a sunny Memorial day & few years ago, dared the Communist labor leaders to’ cross it as they had during their successful reign of terror in Ohio and” Michigan, and when they did cross it, smashed the challenge to the authority of government, with & toll of a dozen lives. Capt. Mobney, of his police department, took the imniediate responsibility and the main blow of the abuse, but he acted on Ed Kelly's authority. ' Kelly upheld him, and the chals -lenge Nas HEVE heen repeated-in Chicago: Sr . Kelly, like Hague in New Jersey, remaing the boss in Chicago and he is running the festivities and arrangements of the actual convention. Like the rest of the old-style machine bosses, he is concerned only

silenced, of the poseurs and ideologists of the New Deal, about the uncouthness of his political character and his methods. He has no reason to respect any of them from Roosevelt down to Hopking and Ickes for, though they have damned him and all his political kind, they earned his contempt, and Hague's, too, when, at campaign time, they came back to the same old smoke-filled rooms to do business in the same old way.

‘Decision Was Strictly Political

IF SUCH men as Kelly and Hague opposed Henry Wallace, however, their decision was strictly political, not personal or philosophical. Their function is to get out the votes and elect the ticket, and all the machine politicians who have turtied down Wallace did so only because they believed he would be dead weight. Their calculations do not extend beyond their functions as regional bosses. The best foreign policy, the best labor policy, the best economic policies to such politicians are those which will cateh the most votes. But actually, it may be seriously doubted that, when they enter their polling booths next fall, they will personally vote for Roosevelt, There are many less: prominent Democrats at this convention who reveal an inner doubt and fear

try to bslance in their minds the glib catalog of New Deal achievements compiled a few months ago by Senator Alben Barkley, of Kentucky, to take the sting otit of his furibu§ deénunéiation of Président Roosevelt in the tax law dispute, and find it alarm= ingly outweighed by invasions of their freedom. If Roosevelt gave unions the right to bargain with employers, he also robbed the people, who, after all, are the true, living’ body of American labor, of their right to work without submitting themselves to the private codes, laws and taxing powers of the unions and to their brutal, erratic and overbearing discipline.

'Furtive and Mysteridus Stranger’

HERE THEY find & furtive and mysterious stranger, Sidney Hillman, a continental ideologist, holding forth in an official political command post as boss of the political action’ committee of the C. 1. O,, which is largely comipééed of New York Communists, and issuing decrées to’ théir own party’s convention, issuing decrees to them, With the blessing of the President and Mrs. ‘Roosevelt. These bosses and little people of the Democratic party do not know Sidney Hillman nor accept his authority or leadership ghd, though they may play out the game in thé big hall for lack of any alternative, they will not neéessatily go home pleased or confident. They may bé siipérficially impressed by

‘the personal presence of ostentatious, pushful night-

club celebrities from NeW York, billed as authors and thinkérs and “glarnorous” Hollywood personalities; but that neééd not megn that they will accept them and Hillman as éminent Americans, qualified to rule their old Democratic’ party and regulate their ems

country as counsellors of government for four years. Hillman! In God's name how came this nontoiling sedentary conspirator, who never held Amer= ican office or worked in thé Democratic organization, to give orders to the Democrats of the United Stdtés? Something is cooking at this strange convention and it mdy furn out to be a mess.

We The People By Ruth Millett

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IN ORDER to find out for 6H€ aircraft factory why women workers were so often unhappy. at their jobs to the extent of gete ting ill, staying away from work, quitting, etc, a woman doctor worked incognito at nearly every

ed one of their main trotibles was

to do well. YE It may be possible that much of modérn women's unhappiness in marriage results from the same thing. . For fear of failure stares all thinking brillés the face. Divorce statistics are shyrp reminders how many marriages go oh the rocks every year.

Oftén They Try Too Hard

marriage is their job and that the success © of their marriages is almost entirely up t6 them. tod hard

Po to ses that they don't, they try make them a success. oh Psychological’ studies have shown that work harder at the job of making their successful than do men. And such studies h it 1s more often the wife w

| shown that re off in mirriage than her husband. 5 _ 80 isn't it Mkely that the second fact § of the first? And that if women could selves of the fear of failure when they riage and not work. quite so hard a) sliccess they might be happier

line, partisan, American Democrat and pathetic specimens whe has his britches, that he 4s being: played for a gullible fool by ® few This refers to Ed Kelly, Frank Hague, Ed Flynn and the machine | "© City and the South, and to Jim |

dent Roosevélt was anything more than & practical, |,

KELLY 1S A machine man who$é machine has |

with his own interests in his own jurisdiction and, | like them, he ignores the old sneers, now expediently

of the future should their own party win again. They |.

ployment, their earnings and lives, and rule their |

Job in the plant afd finaily decia- |

that they were tense from fear of | : failure or from too great effort |i

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they WOrry for fear thelr marriages will al

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

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“ITS CHANCES ARE THIN” By F. H., Indianapolis Somehow a seed lodged in an old stopped-up trash chute, 25 feet above the ground. Soon a little tree was waving its branches in the wind, the same as to say, “Look at me, I'm starting a New Deal among trees.” The old fashioned way by which trees have been growing is outmoded. There is need for progressiveness and a sharp turn to the left.” “The little free basked in the limelight for a time and the less ‘expriencéd trees became all muddled in their thinking about the affair. The old ‘experienced trees were not taken off their feet by the events, they merely wagged their heads and said: “This can't last.” A tree can’t flout the laws of nature and get by with it forever. The little tree showed a disliké for [opposition. It called the old trees names dnd tried to belittle these one time. It got péeved and said: | “I'll show you who is your master.” The little tree seemed to flourish through the first and second summers. It is in thé third summer now but its branches are withering, and it appears like’ a tired old gentleman. It may try to make a| fourth summe mer, but its chances are! thin.- Anyway, the old trash chute is rusty dnd will eventually fall down dnd the little tree will be remembéred ds the most foolish of them all. ~ If yor ean't catch the moral,

take off y fr’ ledther specs and ask a réal Dei t or Republican to explain;

f 4 2 =» “CAN WE WORK | WE PLEASE> By Charles Ginsberg, Indianapolis Thank you, Forum Fan, for your suggestion of June 16. However, since you carping - cynics have a ménopoly on all information, would you mind telling us where ships go ‘where there are no “wicked capitalists”? You obviously were suffering from the intense heat that prevailed at that time. Can we go and come when we pleasé? Can we work where and when we please? You .are behind thé times dnd are living in a fool's parddis€. How about the absentee? How about the orders of the manpower commission? How about the Austin-Wadsworth bill before congress for the conscription of labor? ‘Can we bity what we want? Ask fany hotisewife what ration stamps and tokens dre for. Ask any auto ‘owner whit gas rationing is, and ‘pledsé tell The Forum readers who

| plus that piled up. Today, we have

‘|from falling bombs, shrapnel, ma-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words,” Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in ne way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times, The Times assumes no responsi« bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

really are happy about all this. Are

the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and sweethearts happy about their loved ones being slaughtered on the battlefield? War has caused all this unhappiness for thé people and happiness for you, Mr. Forum Fan: and war is the fruit of the system of capitalism, and as long as ‘capitalism lasts’ there will be commercial rivalry resulting in war. You must have forgotten’ what has happened since the Black Friday of October, 1929, when the capitalist system crashed, when thousands of industries went bankrupt, throwing milHons of people out of employment and many millions more on part tiie, turning the country into a big poorhouse, Banks all over the country failed, with millions of workers losing their life savings. The factories were idle for many years due to no markets for the sales of sur-

a markét war, and you are very happy aboup it. Your hide is safe

chine guns, submarines and all the horrors of war. = . If you love all these things as you claim you do, that is your privilege, but one believing in the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States would not offer the invitation you did. A real Forum Fan would be guided by the quotation from Voltaire at the head of The Hoosier Forum. ” “LET US NOT LOOK BACKWARD” By Mariam Williams, Plainfield I would like to answer the letter by Mr, Maddox which appeared in The Times on July 4. According to Mr. Maddox, the American applecart of liberty, equality and freedom threatens to become destroyed

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unless a Republican: administration presides in the White House after Jan. 1, I think that the G. O. P. campaign is doomed to’ definite defeat unless the Republicans give a better account of thefiisélves' than they have. By this, F mean their critlcism of thé WPA" which has been since its foundation the political tool of the Republican party through local administration. Furthermore, the fact that all the speakers in the Republican convention have outlawed a group if their most loyal supporters; the famous “farm bloc.” Additionally, it is an undeniable fact that the Republican policy of isolationism is both impractical and a danger to political growth and expansion. Therefore, it denotes in my estimation, the fact that Dewey would never be able to control his own party. The reason for my opinion in this is’ that only the old hard-shelled, die-hard Republicans can’ afford to back such a platform because they are the only ones who want it. Furthermore, should Dewey succeed in becoming President; I think for the good of the nation the following guarantees would be necessary: ’ 1. That Washington and not Wall | Street shall remain: the actual seat of government. 2. That labor be permitted to organize in such’ a way as to insure the protection of its members against the greed of private enterrise. 3. That a policy of free trade with foreign nations be encouraged and a tariff guaranteed to protect home manufacturers. 4. That private gdins bé taxed to prevent an unfdlr distribution of money, 5. That congress ehact & Bill that shall guarantee “living wage” prices for all farm produce. Let us not look backward, but fofward. The Améficdnism of this nation is too valusblé &' possessioh to sacrifice upon the sitar of politics. 4s uw & “EASY TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES” By O. D. Switzer, 1778 Brookside. As the father of two sons now serving in the army, one in Itdly and the other in & camp in Michigan, I would have this to say to the thousands of parents having sons fighting in this war. This being an election year, it becomes the patriotic duty of both political parties to nominate the men most thoroughly hated by Germany and Japan. Who are these men? That's right, you guessed it, Roosevelt and Willkie. You all know what they did to Willkie, They turned him down because his views on foreign policy were too much like Roose velt's. This proves a fact that many of us have known for 20 years, that the Republican party is thoroughly isolationist. Go back to the records and you will find that almost the entire present leadership even including the great and only ir Tosi and Bricker, sat on the isolationist fence until it was shot from under them

ended the war months es 1 firmly believe that, had the ”

Willkie, the last of & negotiated peace for Germany and Japan would have been plastéd. NOW that Willkié is out of tHe plétire

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hé admonishes Ris p on to the last { that in the end Germsdy victorious, AN &V r : \ win it, is éasy to réad bétwe lines of mMitler's spi wherein German Hb

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ALBANY, N. ¥, July 71. — A short campuign and probmbly a red-hot one is beginning to shape

will: include one~probably’ no more~msioy swing the circuit; tHat it’ will rely heavily upon

outset. He does not need to take weeks to introduce and identify himsell; -he can start right in. selling His bill of goods, THis does riot mean’ that the remainder of July and the month’ of August will be wasted. Quite the contrary, They siready sre beitig utilized efficiently.

Focus on 26 G. O. P.-Governor States

.goverriors: and- which; in the te, cast about 60

Each of these states has an aggressive, successful G. O. P. organization which’ elected its governor, and in’ turn’ has beer stréngthened by Him. Each has céndidates for senite and house seeking election and re-election. Mr.- Dewey has talked with national: committee

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any event. The GG: O. P. feels that for the first tithe sirice Priinklin Roossvelt entered

The Conpianddr

By Burton Rascoe

NEW YORK, July 31.<Wheh, during the Fourth War Loan campaign, we were confronted with ubiquitous posters bearing a picture of Mr. Roosevelt, whereon he was milslsbeléd “Your Cothimender-in-Ohief,”

seems to have

that the error was made by some well-meaning, but misinformed eénthusisist in’ the promotion department of the treasury. oe erE——— a But Mr. Rodsevelt's letter to Mr. Hannegan | telling of his reluctant decision to run for & fourth term shows thst Mr. Roosevelt himself is either ignorant of his : WOES oF not Bove mikking guiléful and disingenuous’ usé of the term - he intimates that commander-in-chief title’ than President: “The President is i-chief arid He, toS, has his supefior ~th people of .the Uriitéd States.” Again, he siys, “By next sprifig, I shall have Been Presidént snd com mander-iri-chief of the armed forces for 13 years” 'He Hasn't Been Any Such Thing’ WITH ALL due respéct, he Hasn’t béén any such thing. He has been comimandeéf-in-chiéf of the navy and of the army in the “actual service of the United States”; but he i§ not, arid has riot been, commander-in-chiet of the separate state militids, except such of those as have béen called into’ “the actus! service of th¥ United States.” Mr. Roosévelt is not YOUR commander-in-chiet unless Jo aré in the active sérvice of the srmy or navy of the United Stetés, He is not comimander-in-chile! of dny civilish whatever. He is not even come mander-in-chiéf of Gen, Pershing or of dny other officer oh the retired Iist of on the msctive list. He is not commander-in-chief of any state militia, any state or municipal police, or of any armed service except that of the U. 8. army, navy, coast guard and marines. i ats The reason the title, commander-in-chief, was conferred upon the President is explicity explained in exander Hamilton on the dential he federalist papers. It is a title without significance and also without military sigificance except for one important technical point—in order that, in lui 98 Wa, So military or naval coranander would outrank the civilian chosén by the people as their chief executive. Nof ds Imporfanf Now as Then THIS WAS not only to delimit the power military for thers is siwars & off Ginger

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