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Politics

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MR. DEWEY'S OPPORTUNITY : > SUALLY by this time in an election year the presidential campaign is rolling and the oratorical guns roa ng. But there has been little sound and fury from the hustings

go far this season, in deference to the more deadly cannon-

ading that has been deciding more fateful issues across

the oceans. 3 ‘But tonight Governor Dewey, the challenger, opens his campaign with a speech in Philadelphia. Mr. Dewey must have been under tremendous pressure to start his stumping earlier. He has ‘many disadvantages to overcome. National public opinion polls have shown him running second. He is undertaking to unseat an administration entrenched by 12 years in power and at a time when the country is “enjoying” a war boom and voters have plenty of money in their pockets. Although he has a splendid record as ‘governor of New York, compared to his opponent Mr. Dewey is not well known to the electorate as a whole, and two months is a short time to acquaint the voters with his views and qualifications.

* = 0» a8 " MR. DEWEY’S opponent has the prestige of the presidential office and the trappings of commander in chief, and is neither loath nor unskillful in exploiting them. So Mr. Dewey probably has been both prudent and wise in holding back on his campaign until the end of the European war “as come in sight. The people have not wanted to listen te politics. Their thoughts have been on what has been happening over there, Now that peace and the problems of peace seem to be in the offing, they will be more ready to listen to what Mr. Dewey has to offer in lieu of four more years of what they’ve got. As much as he can Mr. Dewey has tried to eliminate the conduct of the war from the campaign. He has said that he will leave the completion of that job to the generals and admirals, “In the cross-country speaking tour which he begins = this week Mr. Dewey will have an opportunity to tell the people what he proposes to do when the war is won. . % .» = ® @» THIS CONTEST will not be decided by extraneous issues. Uppermost in the people’s minds are three questions, beside which all others pale. They are: 1. How to keep the peace, so we won’t have this gory task to do all over again a generation hence. 2. How to provide real jobs and a chance to get ahead for all Americans who are willing and able to work. 8. How to get away from one-man government and the evils of bureaucracy, and restore to vigor government-by-law. = ae : : Bearing on the big three issues, of course, are questions of international co-operation, military preparedness, policies relating to free enterprise, taxation, economy, social insuyance, reconversion, home rule, separation of constitutional responsibilities—but they are all collateral to, and steraming from, the three important questions. And on those paramount issues, Mr. Dewey is at no disadvantage to his opponent, » » » os 8 ” * MR. ROOSEVELT can claim no special know-how on keeping the peace. He was in office nine years and vested with extraordinary powers—and granted that others may have been more to blame and that he did the best he could —still the fact remains that our country was attacked and the peace was not kept, Mr. Roosevelt can claim no special know-how in the making of real jobs and opportunities. Through those nine ~ years before we entered the war, although he was given billions of borrowed dollars to spend, there remained eight or nine million unemployed, and the country was still crippling along with WPA, NYA, and CCC. "As for one-man government versus constitutional processes, Mr. Roosevelt's know-how runs all in the wrong direction. : But Mr. Dewey eannot win this election merely by reciting: Mr. Roosevelt's failures. He can win only if he convinces the voters that he can do better—only if he lays out a program which the people recognize as being sounder and more hopeful than they expect from four more ‘years of Mr. Roosevelt, The people may want a change, but theyll ask:

A change to what? In answering that lies Mr. Dewey's opportunity, .

THE COMMON TOUCH

THE veil of secrecy was lifted from the Dumbarton Oaks + conference long enough to diselose that, on their first week-end, the delegates went to New York. T hey left their wives in Washington, saw the sights and went night-

clubbing. They attended the theater with tickets “on the house.” ES

Somehow, since learning that, we've felt better about the whote thing. We still don’t like the secrecy. But at least it's good to know that the future of a world full of ordinary folks is being shaped by a group who, bailing out of the diplomatic stratosphere, can behave so much like a typical bunch of American convention delegates.

WANTA BOLO SCABBARD?

: SOME people around Washington are warning that the ~ government shouldn't gat-in too big a hurry in Selling off the surpluses of world sr 11, Their ala r groundless, for the governn parts. with anything in a Hurry except money. ice of surplus property, treasury procurement

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* ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Deliberations of the Dumbarton Oaks conference and a preview of the Senate's forthcoming debate indicate that discussion of an international organization Yo. keep the peace has reached a stage where © skill is needed to keep it from becoming & political issue that isolationjsts can exploit. ; Delegates of this country, Great Britain and Russia, have. agreed on the use of force by an international organization .to quash future aggressors, now apparently are in the delicate phase of deciding just how this" force shall be applied. : The one pertinent to this country, so far as a political issue is concerned, is whether the use of force must be approved in every individual instance by congeess, The American plan, from what has leaked out, presumably calls for submission to the senate of the general terms and conditions under which force may be used but, once those have been approved, the American government, as an entity in the council, ‘would act without coming back to congress.

Brassy Political Note

THIS Vag mim upon by Senator Bushfleld (R. 8. Dak.) and brofdered with extravagant fearsina senate speech fullef political implications. He attacked President Roosevelt, suggesting that under this proposal the President would become “the absolute despot of the American people; a true dictator in all sense of the word.” Ne It sounded-like the opening gun of the isolationists. The brassy political note was obvious in the South Dakota senator's question: “Do you, Mr. Roosevelt, base the campaign for a fourth term upon this despotic power outlined in this so-balled American plan?” ~ Senator Vandenberg (R, Mich.), who joined the debate, seemed to be backing away from thé forthright position he took a few days ago when he pledged his support to an’ internatiénal organization. He fervently proclaimed that he would never stand for an Americal” delegate making a declaration of war

rather horrendous, Argued Force Might Not Be Necessary

THE SENATOR argued that force might never be necessary, that other persuasive means might do the trick. - Disarming of the aggressors, he contended would, take care of them, and he certainly did not suspect any of our allies-would kick up trouble. This was too mflch for Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.), chairman of the foreign relations committee, who _gsked the Michigan senator how it would have don€ to send “nice homilies” to Hitler asking him not to bother the Poles and the Czechs, or asking Hirohito to desist,

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patience is running out.

in Sofla and drive out the Germans. But that nev happened. 5 So the Bulgars who did not love freedom enough to fight for it, and who cheéred their Hitlerite government as lohg &s it was able to grab territorial loot, will how shire responsibility for theif own cowardice and avarice.

Let Them Prove It

ACCURACY AND FAIRNESS should force us to differentiate between Bulgarian rulers and Bulgarian people, between qther Hitler puppets and the peoples of those satellite countries, and between the NaziJunker dictatorship and the! German peoplé. For all

-| tors: But scelracy and fairness also should force us to face the fact that all who have been ‘willing soldiers and slaves in aiding axis conquest, and who gloated during the temporary axis mastery of Europe, are guilty of terrible crime. 1t the Bulgars, the

Hungarians and others—par-

trust, let them prove it at this late hour by turning on their axis leaders. It is no alibi to say that they dare not face Hitler's guns. Millions of alliea boys have faced Hitler's guns and died, though they were innocent. . If Germans and other axis peoples can

You can’t stop such aggressors, he said, by “send-

‘ ; S ® .. i; The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.=Voltaire.

continue to face death from allied guns and bombs, they can face death from the Nazis—provided, of - course, they are no longer loyal to Nasiism,

Labor Front

ing them Sunday school tracts, by reading them the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s prayer.” Nor, he added, could you always wait to call congress together. Members might be ‘out campaigning and, after you got them here, some fellow might speak for two It the United States had acted quickly, in concert with England and France, this war might have been stopped, .

Bold Proneuncetiient Needed

WHEN SENATOR Bushfield launched inte his political tirade Senator Connally saw the danger signals, He pulled out a long list of cases in which Presidents had sent troops to put down disturbances, uprisings, minor wars, and the like, without the approval of congress. He did not recall that it was just such use of marines by President Coolidge in Nicaragua that raised such a howl of “imperialism” from Democrats, shouts of “dollar diplomacy” and the like. It will take more than such arguments, What is needed, apparently, is a bold and frank pronouncement of a new concept in the wérld—that the nation must get together for their mutual interest, as a union of nations, not as jealous individuals, and they must keep a policeman constantly on the beat who can be summoned at mement’s notice.

We The People By Ruth Millett

GO OUT and take a good look at your kitchen. It may be next on the list of vanishing American institutions. If some of the more imaginative designers have their way, your roast of beef is going to be cooked in a desk in your living room. And other pietes of kitchen equipment will be as neatly concealed. . When designers turned the oldfashioned, brightly curtained kitchen of the past, large enough to acconimodate a rocker for Dad and a table with real chairs, into a cold chromium and white affair that resembles nothing so much as a chain hamburger dispensary they did enough to ruin the influence of the kitchen on family life. But if they succeed in taking away the kitchen entirely—home certainly will become nothing but a private hotel—as alarmists are always predicting it is in the process of becoming.

Leave the Kitchen Alone ;

THE KITCHEN is of first importance in family life, Many a grown-up’s most persistent memories of home are such things as the aroma of frying doughnuts coming from the kitchen, or the beauty of apple pies sitting on the kitchen table to cool, or the after party snacks eaten at the kitchen table, And many a man and woman remembers a mother most fondly, not in her Sunday best, but in a kitchen apron—humining as she went from stove to ice box. What kind of memories are you going to have if the mothers of the future haven't any kitchens in which to be queens? In the'interest of family life we wish the designers would leave the kitchen .alone— unless they can do something to make it as important as it once was.

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So They Say—

IN THE YEARS ahead will come the test to determine whether the lessons of this war have been taken to heart and incorporated in our nation’s doctrine or whether we shall dissipate the- military strength of America through the some sort of psychological disarmament which frittered away our power at the end of the first world war.—Lt. Gen. Ben Lear. . IF OUR enemies believe they can triumph in” view of the present situation, they may do so. It is, however, certain that the pleasure they express derives from the belief they have come nearer to the end: of this war, which is weighing on them as well with a | ar, Nazi? radio

; swag nH VICTORY in Eirope is sure by the end of 1944 if everyone does his part.—Acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson,

: "Ret w A§ SURE as. it is that we are fighting today, so | sure is it that another war, more horrible than human |

By E. W. U., Indianapolis ten by “Sit-Behind-the-Teepee.”

ter written by the person who signs ‘{ himself R. C. A.—which you call the $64 question—wouldn't it be better if you found out the exact wording of President Roosevelt's speech? R. C. A, either doesn’t know what the President said, or, if he does, then he intentionally omitted four important words from the sentence in which the President promised not to send American boys overseas in order to discredit him and make it appear that he had broken his promise to the people. other econtributors to the Forum have been guilty of this same omission,

gave his promise that no American

“UNLESS WE ARE ATTACKED.” We were attacked. Therefore, the President did not break his promise, He had to send our boys overseas. Public opinion would have demanded that of any President. :

|T. T. But, if he doesn’t know the President’s exact words, wouldn't it be better to.enlighten him rather than mail him. a ¢lipping that puts his President in a false light by the simple act of omission?

we all have a right to eriticize our ‘President. garble, distort, misquote, or resort to omission in order to engender distrust and hatred in the minds of the unthinking, Let's be fair,

TEN-ROUND BOUT” By W. G. Dotterer, 251 N, Delaware st.

among informers of the public to belittle the results and magnify

heads for officials in Washington. These self-appointed guardians of the public conscience KNOW that this war will go down in history

“IT IS NOT RIGHT TO GARBLE”

This is in reply to the letter writ-

Before you mail your son the let-

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In his radio address, the President

soldier would be sent to foreign lands

Your son may know this, 8. B.

Because we live in a democracy,

But it is not right to

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It has been the fashion lately

he bunglings and inefficiencies and nfer that we have fione but block-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies 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, 8nd publication in ne way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsis bility for the return of manus scripts and cannot enter core respondence regarding them.)

books as the best-run war America has ever fought.

To be sure, we've had a good measure of bunglings and ineficiencies—but the fact is that we have created the largest, besttrained, best-equipped, best-fed and best-paid fighting force in our history—and did it in less time than was done by any other nation on earth, While doing this, we also supplied our allies with food and equipment and got it to them. Realizing that we were facing the most powerful foe that we have ever faced, we have, as promised by our President, hit our enemy with this avalanche of military power to administer the most crushing mili. tary defeat ever inflicted on the would-be master race of the world. Tt Is not a ten-round bout, but a fight to the finish—their finish, not ours, oy ° | To prepare to convert the greatest facilities in the world for production of peace-time goods into the mightiest arsenal and armory in the world has been an enormous task. That this could be done without mistakes is unbelievable. So enormous are the complexities. of this task, so varied the activities which must go on concurrently. with one another, the President can do little more than set policies, determine objectives, and appoint subordinates to develop and carry out

Side Glances—By Galbraith

plans for reaching them. The President's daily job is to

iniagination can ever visualize, will break. in another 20, or 30 years if we do not see to It that Germany

buy a restaurant after the, wars.

| [#nd invaluable analysis in the

East 43d st., New York City, asking: {for “Full Employment.” i

| But the mouth of fools ‘on foolishness. —Proverbs |

jmake one decision after another of enormous importance—decisions involving the lives of men and the safety and stability of the nation. The man who can do this day after day without error does nét exist and never will. The man who needs thousands of subordinates in posts of grave responsibiity and avoids getting a share of falterers, falsefronts, and some lights has not been born. And yet, no war America has ever fought has produced less bungling, inefficiency and mismanagement than this one, despite the multiplied opportunities for so doing.

J “A. NOOSE FOR THE BUSINESS MEN” By Samuef B. Pettengili, South Bend

Astute radical and collectivist propagandists have hung a noose for the business men and too many are sticking their necks into it. The noose is labelled, “Full Employment—Or Eise!” A good many industrial leaders say, “Yes, that's right, It’s either that—or eise. We must assume responsibility for full employment—or else.” They do this without proviso or condition. If then, -in the postwar year, we have unemployment, they are without a defense which they can assert in the court of public opinion. The radicals will say, “You promised full employ-

By Walker Stone _ WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—The finest testimonial of what Ameri. can labor has accomplished in the last three years can be found in the news coming in from the battlefields of the world, of conclusive victories being woh with tools supplied from the factories and workshops of our country.

ized on a scale that was believed impossible of achievement a dec- “ ade ago. But it must be admitted on the debit side that with some labor unions the sense of responsibility has not kept pace with the unions’ growth. And in that unfortunate truth lies the basis for some misgivings. Appropos of that we quote below excerpts of a letter. from an employer who Operated successfully with union labor many years before the Wagner act or the war labor board:

“I do not like to be unduly pessimistic, but I can't get away from the feeling that the foundations of collective bargaining are breaking down, and that unless something happens labor chaos will result,

Contract Once ‘Meant Something

“BY FOUNDATIONS I refer chiefly to the prine ciple that collective bargaining in its proper sense means strict observanhee of contracts by both parties

and faithful employment of grievance machinery in settlement of disputes.

“There was a time when a contract with a union,

i ve defaulted In that{ Ofc® signed, really meant something. It stabilized iy SATE wil now take | Inbor relations for the duration of the contract, so over” that both parties could figure definitely the financial

and working conidtlons for a fixed period. Union officials took pride in the validity of these contracts. and were prompt to oppose any violation. “More and more within the last few years—and especially the last year or two-labor contracts have become scraps of paper.. We have had an

What industry should say is, “We will employ men if you, government, do so and 50 and so.” Then state the half dozen basic prerequisites which government must perform, and add that, “If these things are not ‘done, we eannot and do not accept responsibility for ‘full employment’.” Business wonld then have a defense if indicted for non-performance. Meantime, right now and continuously for the next 10 ‘years, business should make its position clear to those potential future jurors, the workers, the stockholders, customers, Voters. What this country needs desperately is public education and understanding of the basic conditions under which free enterprise can live, grow, expand, and provide jobs, and, on the other hand, what makes it wither and die. These truths must be taught, They are not hard to state. They can be embodied in company advertis primarily in newspapers, in radio programs, pay énvelope slips, and taught from the public platform. The thrifty, hard-working Americans are still a vast majority. They don't want their sons to be compelled to live under national socialism at home after crushing it abroad, which is exactly what “full employment” by the state means. They will insist on a favorable elimate for private enterprise, it they know what is needed. They have the votes. What the leaders of private enterprise must .do 8 to resell America to Americans in the home market. The job can't Be done by working at it three months every fourth year. If you readers are interested in the problem of freedom: and jobs, read the timely

which not the slightest effort was made to employ grievance machinery or even to notify the company of the caysé of the strike.

Almost Any Triviality May Start Strike 2 “IN THE old days, about the only strike which ever occurred in violation of contract was a sympa. thetic walkout, and eVén those were rather rare and were widely condemned. “Now almost - any triviality can be the basis of & Bfgike. ~The hours of the soda fountain are changed, a miner is reprimanded for violating safety rules, a foreman is transferred, a returning employee is given a disputed priority, a Negro fs transferred to another department, a particular worker runs his machine too fast, a shop steward is disciplined for loafing in the rest rooth, a particular shift is changed to other hours, the labor board changes some provision of an unapproved agreement, a woman is shifted to a job formerly held exclusively by men—these and similar petty disputes have all caused strikes. It seems that the possibilities aie now almost unlimited. “The union officials who reached agreement show not the slightest. embarragsment when it is violated. They disclaim responsibility and usually do little élse to enforce the contract they have helped negotiate. When the strike is over it is almost always on a basis of complete forgiveness for the ringleaders, plus prospects of a new strike if the employer Attempts to enforce DPénalty provie sions.

Agreements Break Down, If Net Respected “THIS SITUATION has even developed Within

some of the older whions. I cite you at Yeast two incidents In Which our 6wn’ unions §

“I @0 not see how Any cohtractural relationship can long enduré when the principle of observance has entirely broken down. : © “I don't ste how collective bargaining can when there is a persistent attention to agreements after they are signed. Like any other form of contract, labor agreements are bound to break down eventually if they are not trivial causes for strikes

respected ; “If thete ¢an be $0 man under present conditions, } hesitate to think what will happen when all Sorts of post-war problems arise. caused by termination of contracts, return of former | wor 10 claith Jobs and priorities, ing of work-

chapter, “Full Employment,” in President Wriston’s book, *Challenge to Freedom.” A free copy of this chapter can be secured by writing to. the: Constitution and Free Enterprise Foundation, = 210

continue attitude of paying no

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and Spain Which think they An give Hitler sub fosa away with it. For Stalin's sterner policy ward Bulgaria—reached in agreement with Churehill and Roosevelt—is a warning to Gerfiany and all | who Act With Her, directly or indirectly, that allied

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The significance of Russia’s move should be meas. ured by her months and years of forbearance, when she allowed Bulgaria to fight her allies and to aid Hitler against Russia. Russian<Bulgarian bonds of historic friendship and comthon Slavic bldod are close, Moscow hoped that the genuinely pro-Russian major. ity of Bulgarians would overthrow the Hitler puppets

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many, which he “evade the spir

the Versailles Germany to re “If these agre tinued, revived future,” he dec! can win the wa have gone far t of the peace.” . ‘Must Breas

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exist must oper the rest of the safeguards so th cannot be kept | 3. “We must | man firms. Fin LE should al split up into and these not together again. 4. “Some Gen

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