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CAMPAIGN OF 1944—X1 BRICKER VS. TRUMAN THE, Constitution provides for a vice president because of the possibility that a President may die, resign, become unable to perform his duties, or be impeached. Later congress passed a law extending the presidential succession to the secretary of state and down through the cabinet so there would be no possibility of the republic ever being without a chief executive. So in casting his vote the citizen " should consider the case of Bricker vs. Truman, the governor of Ohio or the senator from Missouri. ‘Mr. Bricker was drafted by the Republican convention; Mr. Truman was picked by the big-city bosses who controlled the Democratic convention, after being cleared with Sidney, of course. :

Mr, Truman owes his political career to one of the worst of the bosses, or at least, to one who was caught and sent to jail for his sins—Tom Pendergast of Kansas City. Mr. Bricker made his political way on his own and has never had to take orders from anyone. - . . ? i s » = MR. TRUMAN, we thought for a while, had gone a long way toward expiating his past. His special committee to investigate the national defense program did some valuable work. Its reports were honest and effective. It laid the criticism at the doors of those who deserved it, mostly at the door of the man he now calls “indispensable.”

Mr. Truman paid part of his debt to his Kansas City

Democrat to be U. S. attorney there, whose only fault was that he was personally obnoxious to Pendergast. And we can't blame Pendergast for that. Because this U. S. attorney is the one who sent Pendergast to jail,

Now Mr. Truman has other bosses to pay back for favors rendered. And he is already beginning the installments. He is going around the country disavowing the honést, efféctive reports and criticisms he made as a senator who was doing his best to help win the war. His own words, in the record, attack his “indispensable” chief and day after day he issues disclaimers. Not so soft, either.

® x =» Tio ! IF MR. TRUMAN became President could he say “no” elly, Hague and Flynn any more than he could to Penrgast when that boss objected to an honest U. S. attorney in Kansas City. Could he?

But there are no strings on Governor Bricker. He was honestly elected, ran an honest state government that turned a deficit into a huge surplus and became a vice presidential candidate because 1000 delegates demanded it, not because three or four bosses ordered it.

There were many people who wanted Bricker nominated for the presidency by the Republicans. There was never a whisper of a possibility of Truman for President.

ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE

THE Democrats $1000 sucker list has not been divulged yet, but it will be, as the law requires, and when that happens some of the well-heeled faithful may be expected to seek the less frequented streets and alleys as they go from home to office and vice versa. For their faces must be red.

A thousand bucks was no doubt considered by many to be a small fee for the chance of getting to “know our ~ President” (as One Thousand Club’s prospectus promised) or of being granted “special privileges and prestige by party leaders” (as the finance directors of the Democratic ‘campaign in Arkansas promised), But now comes Bob Hannegan, the Democratic national chairman, smarting from a Dewey needle. Mr. Hannegan deposes and says that while the One Thousand Club has his approval, “I have never discussed with the Presideht the organization of the ‘Thousand Club,’ and any quotation contained in the letter read by Governor Dewey attributed to the President is wholly without substance and is unauthorized . . .” There used to be a law about taking money under false pretenses.

Will Mr. Hannegan kindly explain to the gullible mem-

bers of the Thousand Club where the line forms to get their money back?

IT’S DEMOCRACY WORKING

| OWELL THOMAS is as nearly 100 per cent objective and impartial in his news broadcasting as any mortal could be. He doesn’t deal in policy. He has no editorial page. Yet the other day he told of the brickbats he was getting from many listeners, accusing him of partiality. And Broadcaster Baukhage describes how one of" his listeners burned him up for not quoting Helen Gahagan at length when that lady spoke on the same program with the Republican nominee. Baukhage explained that, his . radio time being limited, he devoted it to the headliner and didn’t quote Clare Luce either. She, too, was on the program. We publish newspapers. We have opinion as well as news departments. Judging by these radio experiences, we shouldn't be too surprised and pained at the “You louse, you've lost your soul” letters we get from those who differ with us, or too exalted about the laudation which comes from those who agree. For it's campaign time, a vital cainpaign, that's swinging into home stretch; one in which neutrality, if at all, is rare. But it's democracy working.

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MR. ROOSEVELT SAm—

‘BY our example in Washington itself, we shall have the oy artunity of pointing the way of economy to local

boss by voting against confirmation of a good, honest

, was in 1932, before he went to.

REFLECTIONS —

"And Good Will (By John W. Hillman

ns 18 something extremely significant in the - announcement of a radio program which will be carried by the National Broadcasting Co. at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. This program, a church service, will mark a milestone on the road back to tolerance throughout the world. It symbolizes a victory for one of the four freedoms for which we have been fighting. For this is no ordinary church program. It will be a broadcast of a Jewish service

was destroyed almost six years ago by the Nazis in reprisal for the assassination of ‘a minor German official in Paris, Those ruins, where Chaplain Morris A. Frank of the United States army will conduct the worship of his creed, stand as a monument to the eternal truth that you can crush walls to rubble and burn books and altars, but you cannot destroy beliefs. The true temples of the world are in the human spirit, and against faith neither the sword of the conqueror nor the oppressor’'s whip have any power. Men may die, and they will, for their beliefs, but the beliefs live on.

Crime Against the Mind and Soul

THE GREAT CRIME of the Nazis was their crime against the mind and soul of man. They presumed to tell those whom they ruled what they should think and how they should worship. Not the Jews alone, but Catholics and [Protestants as well. They sought sovereignty over hot only the temporal, but the eternal. And it was this that united the world against them, it was this that brought about their defeats, and it will be this that, one day, will destroy them. The nations rose, not so much to avenge a martyred and oppressed race, but because they saw that unless the principle of human dignity and personal freedom was restored the day would come when no man could think as he chose, speak as he saw fit and worship as he believed. No price was too great to pay for this principle; without it, life alone was not enough. They rose, and their cause is triumphing. Proof of that will come tomorrow when from the historic city of Aachen, the Jews, as they have done there since the days of Charlemagne, will sing praises unto Jehovah,

Their Victory is Ours, Too

WE OF other creeds rejoice with the Jews that in Aachen the hand of the oppressor has been stayed. For their victory is our victory, too. The faith may be theirs, but the freedom is ours as well. Liberty is a universal thing; it cannot be given to some and denied to others. To millions, the ancient lines of that service tomorrow will come as the first dawning of the day for which we have long waited. Beamed back to the occupied countries, the broadcast will bring hope that the long night of oppression is nearly over. There are sermons in stones, and certainly the ruined walls of that synagog at Aachen have a message for the world—a message of human brotherhood, of freedom of the spirit, of the dignity of the individual. They teach that no state, nor any ruler, can ever be so mighty that he is greater than God, stronger than humanity. And, particularly for us whose numbers might tempt us to make others conform to our pattern and- dogmas, they remind that victory is also a responsibility. Victory is not enough. Neither is peace alone. For the angels long ago sang of something ‘peace on earth and good will toward men.” And good will must be the foundation of a

new world that shall be better than the old.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Test in Spain By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—Civil war again threatens Spain. And if it develops along the lines of the last upheaval in that country, It may well become the first test of the new league of nations now being organized by the Big Four. Chapter VIII of the Dumbarton Oaks draft says the security council would “be empowered to investigate any dispute or any situation which may lead to international friction” the continuance of which might “endanger . , . international peace and security.” Certainly the Spanish situation in 1936-39 fitted that description. It brought Europe to the brink of war. The Soviet Union supported the Loyalists, providing officers, arms and money, while Germany and Italy did the same for Generalissimo Franco. Even in the United States there was a torrent of propa~ ganda demanding American intervention,

Not Always Easy to Draw Line-

IT IS TRUE that another section of the Dumbarton draft provides that “situations or disputes arising ‘out of matters which by international law are solely within the jurisdiction of the state concerned” are not a proper subject for the council. And certainly. civil war and revolution are domestic. Yet nearly every one of the great world powers took a hand in the Spanish fracas, hence it could hardly be said to be “wholly within” Spain's jurisdiction. It doubtless should have been, but it wasn’t. In any event, it proved that it will not always be easy to draw a line. The proposed new world organization could be provided with an extremely ticklish issue if Spain presented it soon with something similar. Already there have been skirmishes and blood - shed along the frontier as Spanish “Republicans,” organized in France, cross back into their own country. The exact character of these guerrillas is not known here. According to some, they are Communists who escaped to France after their defeat in 1939. Others say they are not “reds” but only “liberals” out to overthrow Franco.

Big Difference in Revolutions MUCH DEPENDS. on the answer to this question.

which dethroned Alphonso XIH, and the civil war of 1936. The earlier revolt was a peaceful one. The new republic set on foot many excellent reforms. It remodeled the army to make it more democratic. It separated thurch®and state. It made religion a matter of conscience. It secularized the schools, freed speech, the press and assembly. It began to split up the vast estates, but compensated the owners. In enfranchised men and women alike. It emptied the prisons of political prisoners. In short, it made a praiseworthy start toward democracy. But the Leftists were impatient. The Anarchists, Syndicalists, Communists and other extremists wanted faster action. For a long time they had been saying that Spain would be Europe's second Soviet state and they maneuvered themselves into key positions to bring it about’ And in February, 1936, they struck. The civil war which followed was one of the bloodiest in European history. Mobs surged through the streets crying death to their enemies and the torch “to the properties of the Pope.” The smoke of churches, schools and’ other buildings

from German soil. And riloreover, it will come from | the ruins of the synagog in Aachen, a synagog which

There is a big difference between the 1931 revolution, |

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

“THERE IS NO INDISPENSABLE MAN” By J. Dinny,- Columbus Speaking of the idea of an “indispensable man,” the best remark on that subject was made by President Roosevelt himself in his address to the Republican-for-Roose-

velt League in New York city on Nov. 3, 1932. And I quote: “,,.. to indulge in such a fantastic idea of my own importance would be to betray the common hope and the common cause that has brought us all together. .,, A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: ‘There is no indispensable man’.”

” “WHAT WILL OUR WAGES BUY?” By T. W. Lieyd, Indianapolis There is a question of the feasibility and wisdom of planned fulltime industrial employment, We

can have the jobs in plenty; some may be raking leaves on some of these large country estates, under the direction of a Simon Legree. That is not improbable. Then the system is too mechanical and soulless. The big question is “what will our wages buy?” Who has the answer? Leaving out war conditions, there are at least 10,000,000 families that can buy only the bare necessities. They and millions more can’t buy the lowest priced home even at half the price they sell for. What have the planners to say? What good is planned jobs and pay raise when the purchasing power remains the same or less? What we need in place of planned jobs is a country with homestead land reserve, where all poor pebple can buy and build according to means. With a few acres each, millions of families could live fairly decent on half-time employment. Root our citizenship in the soil of America. There is no better protection for our Constitution than title to our own fireside. There is no surer road to Communism than the knowledge that we can’t have a home, Our land is Godgiven for the use of all. The pos~ session of more than the modest needs of family is a social evil and un-American. Forbid these pagan baronies. This excess has caused more wars and poverty than all other social evils put together. It is not more we need, it is something better.

(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, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manu. scripts and cannot enter core respondence regarding them.)

“WE NEED SOME BUSINESSMEN” By §. H. Bemenderfer, Muncie Y quote from a Wheeling, W. Va., newspaper and make contributing comment: “The present administration paid the city of New York $2,600,000 4s rental for the river-bed where the Normandie lay sabotaged.” Comment: Yes, we have heard of this and also the’ U, 8. government paid out $3,000,000 to raise that boat

—after pure carelessness and lack of supervision had permitted it to be sunk—I should say poor supervision permitted it to be sunk. Now they say they have not ‘decided to use it. Took them a long time to find this out—and on the strength of such stupidity, they seek another four years and have the stupidity to ask for it on their record. “The OPA rules and regulations pertaining to fruit cake fill six pages of fine print.” Comment: No, we .didn’t know that they had finally gotten down to regulation of making fruit cake. We are not surprised though that they will do that. Anything to give men or women jobs — as they will then vote for the administration that gave them a job. It is as clear as two and two are four. Why should they miss the fruit cake when Mrs. Roosevelt even started the dancing department. She didn't want to overlook any loose votes laying around for the taking. “The OPA is annually costing the

taxpayers as much money as was spent on the entire navy with 346

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vessels and 66,653 officers and men in 1916.” * Comment: No, we didn’t know of these figures but perhaps votes were not appreciated as much in 1916 as they are in 1944. Now we need the navy —and finally get it at terrific cost — far more than if we would have prepared for war in time of peace. In all the eight or nine years Roosevelt was in officé before the war, he did nothing to prepare us for war and still Mrs. Roosevelt insists that they knew for a long time it was coming. They are at least consistent in their inconsistencies. “The government - operated corporations up to date since the war started — and only that which we know of — already amounts to $1,654,000,000.” Comment: Yes, sir, boys, leave it to Roosevelt and his efficiency brain trusters. They know all the answers, Now we kpow what they mean when they tell us that what we need right now is someone properly trained to lead us out of war into peace—I am wondering if the college intelligentsia of the country blush when they realize that most of these leaders in Washington today are college men. Maybe they are just short on Application or do they just follow the line of least resistance—to get their feet under the table? We need some business. men in Washington. » ” » “IF LAW IS BROKEN, ENFORCE IT” By Fair N. Square, Indianapolis Traffic regulations are made to protect human lives. I, for one #m thankful for them, for I know my children and I are safe. That is why every city has a law enforcing staff. Why should the pedestrian regulations apply to some citizens and not others? A loose, lax law is no Jaw. It is worse than no law, because it develops the habit of “getting by” and disregarding law and order. Why have policemen if they cannot enforce the law? We could then all go selfishly, defiantly, thoughtlessly or ignorantly on our way, in a hodge podge of existence, meandering through lights or across streets. When our country was founded, our forefathers deemed it necessary to establish certain laws “for common good.” Yet today when the laws are madé and enforced, we quickly cry “gestapo” or “Hitler” like spoiled. children. The law is all right—for the other fellow. If police officers are “hard boiled,” dealing with defiant, smart aleck law breakers have made them so. Soft, polite words have no effect on them, and they laugh at regulations. : Every city and hamlet has had to establish traffic laws according to

disregard regulations, have they more rights than the citizens who

: lobserve the law? Or if these few

are stopped by those representing the law, why should they resent it or be surprised? Their own con-

. (science would tell them it was ' |wrong, and tHey should be prepared

to take the consequences, even to the point of being reprimanded or asked to retrace their steps across the street. Every school child knows the traffic tions, and with the aid of the traffic squads, observe them. Yet they see adults get by and defy What kind of citizens will we Have in the future with such examples? Is it any wonder we have juvenile delinquency, With such parental delinquency? They are only follow-

ing the examples about them.

I say if the law is broken, enorce it. Ye \

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By Thomas L Stokes

tide apparently is running higher there this year

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light of this record, it seems to me quite clear that Mr. re-elected ;

CLEVELAND, 0, Oct. 28. President Roosevelt has for some |, years enjoyed the experience of having members of congress, governors and smaller fry offices seekers ride into pover on his

ability of Mayor Frank J, Lausche of Cleve! the fast-running Democratic candidate for governor, Mayor Lausche ‘is one of those unorthodox, specs tacular figures who rise suddenly in politics, with an appeal both for the intelligent: voter and the,

masses. Certainly nobody is tagging on to Mr. Roosevelt's coat-tails here this year. To the contrary, he is almost never mentioned by state candidates. Mayor

hands like those of the President than to inexperienced hands, ? This shying Off is perhaps the best index of Mr. Roosevelt's precarious situation in Ohio.

May React fo President's Benefit

BUT THE STIR that the Cleveland mayor is creating may react to the President's benefit, and Mr, Lausche might do real business if he stepped down hard on the Roosevelt pedal. He is exciting v3ters all over the state. Democrats are very enthusiastic bee cause they. think at last they may have a man who can wrest the state from its long Republican control under Governor John W. Bricker, now seeking the vice presidency. Frank Lausche holds the vote of this big industrial city in the hollow of his hand, so to speak. He got 70 per cent of the vote here when he was re-elected. A second-generation Slovene, a veteran of world war IL, a former semi-pro baseball player, he is a husky, human, vital fellow, and an orator of“ability. When he gets warmed up on the stump, with his shock of black hair in action, he 1s something to watch and to hear, If President Roosevelt wing Ohio this year, his vice tory must come from Cleveland. That was the story in 1940. - He carried Cuyahoga county embracing. Cleveland by 138,000. His majority in the whole state was 147,000. Thus his margin elsewhere was around 9000. It probably will be wiped out this year, and reduced to a minus quantity. He depends for victory on the cities. A unified labor command, ine cluding C. I. O, A. F. of L. and railroad workers, is doing a good job in the industrial areas,

Republican Tide Running Higher RURAL OHIO is almost solidly Republican. The

and is breaking over into the cities. In Cleveland, Mayor Lausche will .run ahead of the President, In the suburbs, normally Republican, a general inclie nation is found to vote for Governor Dewey for President and Mayor Lausche for BOVernor. What is surprising about the Lausche candidacy is the interest he is attracting downstate. He has a good issue and is exploiting it to the limit—the always effective issue of “bossism.” This is his case against his Republican opponent, Mayor James Garfield Stewart of Cincinnati, who was hand-picked by Ed D. Schorr, state chairman, Forteasts of Mayor Jauiche's Victory 4s Sovernos aed principally on his strength in Cleveland, ted as phenomenal in a preliminary poll by the Cleveland Press, which projects a 266,000 majority here, based on a prospective vote of 575,000. Presi dent Roosevelt comes up in the same poll with an estimated majority here of 104,000. That is cutting it almost too close for Mr. Roosevelt. * : Senator Robert A. Taft is regarded as sure of re-election. His Democratic opponent, William G, Pickrel of Dayton, one-time lieutenant governor, seems to be making little real headway despite a vigorous campaign. Democrats may pick up three or four house seats in the state out of the seven they lost two years ago BY small majorities,

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IN WASHINGTON—

Religious Appeal

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.— An effort to incorporate a great ree ligious movement into the prox gram of the Nationa) Citizens’ Poe litical Action Committee, working for re-election of President Rousee

ters and pamphlets sent to some 20,000 American ‘clergymen of all faiths, soliciting them to become “Religious Associates” of the N, C.P.A.C

New York headquarters of the _

P. A. C. says that about 130 priests, rabbis, preachers and lay leaders are now enrolled in the “R. A.” branch of the P. A. C. The movement has drawn criticism from a nume ber of conservative clergymen, particularly Dr. Nore man Vincent Peale of the Marble Collegiate Reformed church in New York, who has charged that P. A. C, is “trying to drag the church into politics.” It was Sidney Hillman himself who started the Religious Associates, with a letter to the 20,000 clergy~ men, dated Aug. 18. In the letter Hillman said that the Associates had no blueprints and no goals, but would be an informal fellowship of ministers and lay leaders. Shortly after this letter went out, the Rev. Dwight J. Bradley e head of the Religious Associates and his name now appears on all the R. A. literature, Bradley has held pulpits in a number of cities and since 1938 has been head of the Congregational Church Council for Social Action.

10-Point Credo Set Forth

ONE OF the more intriguing bits of literature which Dr. Bradley has put out is a 16-page pocket size leaflet bearing the old nursery rhyme title, “This Is the Church, This Is the Steeple, Open the Doors + « . and There Are the People.” C. I, O. isn't mentioned in this sermonette until page seven, where it explains that anyone who serves the working people well is a friend of the church and “The Cc. I. O. is primarily concerned with the pros tection" and the improvement of the economic cone ditions of its members.”

There is a 10-point credo set forth for the Re~ +

ligious Associates, and another decalogue of Political Aims of the Religious Associates. In neither of these does the name of Roosevelt appear, but in a series

of neat mimeographed notes sent out over the signa-

ture of Dr. Bradley, Roosevelt's plenty. The last of these letters, mailed from New York on Oct. 18, begins:“Dear Religious Leader: ? “In the last letter we asked: "For wham shall we Yte in order to meet these issues in the Tight way?” There follow six paragraphs of all the things Mr, Roosevelt has done, with the conclusion that “in the

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