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PAGE 10 Wednesday, November 1, 1944

ROY W.HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE MARK FERRER President k Editor Business Manager . (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

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THE SPRINT (GOVERNOR DEWEY is a slow starter and a fast finisher in politics.” That's his record in previous campaigns "in New York, and that's the way he's running in this national race. ; While some of his advisers were nervous in midsummer because public-opinion polls were then going against him, Mr. Dewey bided his time, organized his political forces | across the country and gathered his material for the cam- ~ paign. In the middle of September he started out, with slow and deliberate cadence, in speech after speech, outlining his pregram. Te It didn’t take the clever politician in the White House long to realize that he was up against a new kind of -opponent, one who was not campaigning on bygone issues but was building a new and progressive party program looking to the future. So Mr. Roosevelt decided that after all it might be better to campaign as usual 4 v 8 . J " ” ” ) WHICH WAS apparently just what Mr. Dewey wanted. It had been slow going against an aloof commander-in-chief, but when the candidate-in-chief stepped out with his sneers and wisecracks Mr, Dewey was ready for him. Since the with Mr. Dewey keeping the offensive. Last night in Buffalo he wrapped up and disposed of his opponent’s two speeches of the week-end, by standing| the record &f Roosevelt performance alongside the new Roosevelt promises— Sia "The promises of post-war jobs for everybody, against: * a record of 10 million unemployed after seven peacetime years of the New Deal; the promises to eliminate red tape, after the record of multiplying bureaucracy; the promises to encourage business enterprise, after the record of Against such a record, Mr..Dewey declared, promises ; are worthless, “even though repeated again and again and again.” i i 2 a ="

ae ” ” . - THEN MR. DEWEY outlined once more his program ’ Direct all government policies toward the goal of full employment through full production at high wages and ‘chance to make a profit. : ” Adopt a simple, fair and stable tax structure. ; Expand social security to include the 20 million Amerjeans who have been left out in the cold under the New Deal's selective paternalism, . Establish a ficor under farm prices, and’ leave the ~ farmers free to farm. I or : Restore’ free collective bargaining, eliminate overlapping labor bureaus and bards, and re-establish a real department of labor. ~~ Abolish thousands of needless questionnaires “reports, End business monopolies by stead of astEgSpabE Sp = And by mo means least, stop the name-calling and restore a smooth-functioning relationship between the President and congress. 2 Mr. Dewey goes on to Bosten tonight. Mr. Roosevelt follows him there this week-end, but the way the race is going now the old champ may not catch up on this fas

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- BE A BIG SHOT (PRICE $1000) R: J. MILLICAN, a contractor who heads the. Alabama * branch of the One Thousand Club, writes a mighty "nice letter. td AT One of his letters, inviting an Alabaman to lay adhousand dollars on the line and become a fellow-member of President Roosevelt in this club, reads in part: . “After the election, the members of the One Thousand = Club will eonstitute a party of leading-citizens throughout the country, upon whom the President will feel that he is at liberty to call for advice or assistance he might need, 1 know you will agree this is not only a rare opportunity but also a pleasure and a privilege. . . . “Every citizen who joins the One Thousand Club now will be allowed to sign the constitution and by-laws of the One Thousand Club as a founding member (Gosh! Ed.) and will receive an appropriate certificate. (Gee! - Ed.) The complete membership list will be turned over to the President personally and it will always be available to him. “Time is of the essence in this as the club is limited to one thousand members in the entire United States.”

. » un . . MR. MILLICAN emphasizes that the President will . feel free to call on fellow members “for advicé or assistance.” Another club letter, however, written to a Tennessee businessman by Rep. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.), suggests that the advice and assistance might be a two-way street. For Kefauver, who boasts that “We have a lot of ‘big shots’ in our club, says flatly: “Each member receives a copper-plated identification plate and certificate which is all the pass they need here in Washington to go anywhere.” Presumably the pass would even get a member in to see . Sidney. The more we hear-about the One Thousand Club, the -more brazen this political shakedown appears. .

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MR. ROOSEVELT SAID— go 2 “THERE will be many in this nation during the coming - months who will implore you not to swap horses cross- . ing a stream; there will be others who will laughingly tell

‘me that the more truthful, the more accurate plea of the people of the nation should be this: ‘If the old car in spite of frequent emergency repairs has been bumping. | on. only two cylinders for three long ‘years, that will start uphill on all

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The Lights Go Or Thrasher |

THE - AIRPLANE has added “mystery as well as revelation 40. warfare. We can send aircraft over-Germany to look snd photo,graph as well -as to bomb. And yet, except for the fringe of | border on which the Americans and Russians stand, Germany re mains as baffling and inaccessible as Tibet. The airplane . reveals ‘only a tantalizing- glimpse which deepens rather than dispels the mystery. a jrpors There was, for instance, the report that the 9th air force filers brought back from the Ruht, Thése fliers gazed down on the Ruhr cities from what, as Space goes, was an insignificant | distance, But they were as remote as astronomers azing at Mars through a telescope, And what they

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canals, . What were ‘those creatures doing down below? It was night, yet they had the lights turned on. This hadn't happened since the allies first flew over the Reich, What were they up to? Was it a trick? Were they inviting further destruction? Or had they become fatalistic or dispirited past the point of caring? pin And what were the “bluish white flashes” observed issuing ‘from #ghted buildings ana jrolley cars, and which resembled small arms fire? Did they mean that a civil uprising had begun?

Neither Explanation Seems Logical

SOME GUESSED that the Germans were hastily trying to move heavy factory machinery farther behind the lines, Others thought that they might be working day and’ night to turn out as much as they could from plants that stood in the line of imminent allied occupation, : Neither explanation seems very logical, If machinery is worth salvaging and-new goods are worth manufacturing, then they are at least worth the customary blackout precautions, Besides, these theories would not explain the lighted trolley and airfields which the flyers noted, oy As the supposition of street, fighting, that, too, seems unlikely, According to common sense and the best tradition of gangster movies, nobody would turn

® saw was as fruitful of speculation as the Martian | §

Old Faithful!

Those people, out Chicago- wa%k working for the re-election of: President Roosevelt, ‘are feeling better about it. = By “out Chicago way" is mean$ the big state of Illinois and Ohio and Michigan, the two big states to the east covered before coming to Indiana on this political tour, They have a total of 72 electoral votes: Illinois 28, Ofilo 25, and Michigan 10. It's a fair bet now, : at odds, that President Roosevelt might carry one of the three. An upsurge, which Democrats profess to see, might topple all three to him. Ba : ; ; ; The winner's margin in each of them-apparently is going to be narrow. That's. what makes it ex= citing now, just a week before election. That's why party workers are keyed up. : - A few weeks ago all three were to Governor. Dewey, and he still edge.

._tFarm States Solidly Republican. i TO THE WEST of Chicago, in the fyrm. states of Towa, Nebraska and Kansas, there is no question, Republicans- are too well entrenched. But Illinois, Michigan and Ohio all have large urban populations to offset the Republican farm and small-town strongs - holds: ; Whatever is responsible, a noticeable lift is ene. dountered among those #étive on behalf of the Présie “dent, and this includes labor groups, notably the 0. I. O. and its Political Action Committee, as well as Democratic party workers. The latter are now somewhat overshadowed, conscious of the weakness in .the regular Democratic organizations which, -in. some cases, as in Michigan, have been almost supere ceded by the Political Action Committee, =. This lift may be largely psychological, though ‘1% seems to have some basis in fact. Polls here and there seem to indicate a turning toward the Presie dent in the last few days, perhaps representing hithe ‘erto undecided voters. It may be that last settling down or crystallization that finally swings elections,

Democratic Workers Gain New Zest ATA = nocratie Jers

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vrsary, But what are those flashes, then? An astronomer ‘might easily explain them if they were a few thousand light years out in the universe, “But observed | in the streets of Dusseldorf, they baffle analysis,

Something ‘ls Amiss in Germany

ONE THING at least is certain. Something Is amisg in the unquiét tenor of wartime German living. And we. incline to the astronomical conjecture that the whole thing is a sop to disintegrating German morale. : . The Ruhr cities ‘have been bombed, repaired, bombed, rebuilt, and bombed again=through blackouts and through clouds. Night after night their residents have waited in darkness, The bombers didn’t always come. But even when they didn't the waiting was nerve-wracking. A ’ The bombers still come, And soon the cities will be in range of heavy artillery and field guns. Then blackouts won't matter, So perhaps the soldiers and civillans of the Ruhr decided that if they must die they would rather die with the lights on. And if they escaped they deserved a brief respite from the years of unlit nights before the enemy arrived. - And perhaps Hitler's government, which had .no other hope or comfort to offer a despairing population, agreed. :

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Stilwell's Recall ‘By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1~Qen. _Stilwell's recall from his. Asiatic commands nay PISS ISIALN ~ iarge crop of conflicting “inside” stories as to the cause. The blame 18 variously put on President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, ‘the British, American officers, Ameri:

himself

will be known for a long time-— there are too many factors ine volved and too many complications of long standing. But we should like to express our confidence in Gen, Stillwell and in Gen. Marshall who, as chief of

staff, had to confirm Stilwell's recdll. We believe they are both great soldiers and great men, whose single purpose is to win the war as quickly and as completely as possible. Both of them are above self-seeking and above politics. “oly Marshall's confidence in Stillwell was expressed only last August in his promotion to a full general ship. il ; d

Never Popular With Political Generals

STILWELL, AS a result of his long and brilliant service there, has a special place in the respect and

been popular with the political Chinese generals and militarists, of whose inefficiency and worse he has been a severe critie. . Though Chiang Kai-shek appointed Stilwell his chief of staff, there has been friction from time to time because of delays and other factors which the American commander resented. To what extent Chiang was the cause of these undesirable conditions and to what extent he was, and is, the victim of his own war-lords ahd politicos is not clear, The situation, has been complicated further by Chinese-British hostility. Stilwell was the liaison be

of ‘staff, and also Lord Mountbatten's deputy 11 the combined India-Burma theater, ag well as American commander. All in alf it was a thankless job In which he achieved much with little, 2

Worry Is Not About Stilwell

OUR WORRY Is not about Stilwell-who will doubtless be used for bigger things—-but about Mount batten dhd Ohiang. The British have not given Mountbatten the forces necessary for his long over. due amphibious offensive. We hope they will do so soon; especially now that the American navy in the

fleet, including the Jap Singapore naval squadron, In China political and economic conditions are desperate. “Military defeats have sacrificed the best

can diplomats, and on Stilwell | We doubt that the whole truth |

affection of the Chinese people. But he never has

tween our two suspicious allies, He was Chiang's chief | |

Philippines has knocked out so much of the edemy ||

» : } . ; v The Hoosier Forum : 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will ; > defend to the death your right to-say it—Voltaire.

EN on Abe with that zest of the und the supposed superior aggregation. Tt is attributed to these factors: sd yan NED © The unexpectedly high registration in. cf breaking all previous records, such as ih Oleveland, Detroit and the lesser automobile in Michigan. Demccrats interpret this to thelr vantage and they are highly elated over it. Registra

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The lineup in the senate at this time was 66 Demoerats and 23 Republicans. The house was 331 Democrats and. 86 Republicans, How could this small minority have thwarted his “preparations for war if he had such 4 plan? This was in the summer of 1839 that the President was talking and war “came to us December 1941 were we prepared then? No. “And still he was working with a cdngress that was still overwhelmingly Democratic. | i There is only one verdict for the American people to arrive at in the face of this evidence, either he advanced no specific plan to prepare and arm this country for war, or the Democrats in congress plocked if, At least we know that it is time for & change. Tennig . . »

“THESE THINGS ° ARE ONLY HISTORY” By Chess. M. Knight, Indianapolis - It seems that the New Dealers resent having Mr. Dewey discuss Mr. Roosevelt's “record” By way of protest they plunge into a tirade about the Hoover administration. They represent it as being typical of all Republican administrations. If we are to go back to Mr. Hoover's administration, why not take a glance at the whole Republican and Democratic records? 3 The first President to be elected by the present Republican party was Abraham Lincoln. From that time, 1861 to 1983, all of the progress and prosperity that thy nation enjoyed was under Republican party policies. During those 72 years we had only two Democrat Presidents. They - were. Grover Clevéland and Woodrow Wilson, * Under Cleveland’s second administration / thé nation experienced one of the most severe depressions pf its history. In the fall of 1913 alter about six months of Wilson's first adminis-

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" tion in Wayhe gounty, in which Detroit is located, “LET No ONE S (Times readers are invited “LET'S DON'T may go as high as 100,000 above four years gos ro to sn hoe in| OFT MAT. Sites, eb smn a IAD 8 BEX. O. Jaus, Rushville these columns, religious con. |By M- B. Clark, Noblesville 100,000 off the figure of four years Ago. : eT me be oe x for| froversies excluded. Because It gives me great satisfaction %0| pregiqent Roosevelt's 1ithehour entry into the nis a pt to pass the-buck for f th | ived. let read the Forum and read editorials! campaign as a dynamie, fighting figure, “ Ai our unpreparedness on to the Re-| Of the volume received, lei in the news criticizing and] A feeling that Governor Dewey's campaign is peters Gublicass in congress. In his New| ters should be limited to 250 3 oar pay i» ¢ or some of the| Ing out, that he has shot nearly all his ammunition, I Ee words. ‘Letters must be Tallin Sur Pre Dubie ofies as he| Just a8’ President Roosevels is hitjing his sirids and 'sianed. Opini et forth ; . gradually bringing his campaign to a peak—what is the senate under Senator Borah| ‘signed. Upinions sei case might be. Not because it is 80] yo © oy “ine Roosevelt strong finish.” fwaled hum nn prepating this| - here are those of the writers, |sightening or important what fs : : oe War A othing . . . . * could be farther from the truth| ond Publication in no Way ead in these columns, but it is an President's 7 Tour Inspires Hope foie. yess 880;

excellent example of democracy in ia to gain much from the Pr t's action, free press, free speech Which) Loryng) tour which took him through. the. industrial my son and my neighbors’ boys &re| priadle West to Chicago. Democrats there were very fighting to preserve. Such as, bawl out the President if we feel like it and complain about. unpleasant conditions of wartimés and vote

urday night that set a new record for political crowds and demonstrations; thanks to Mayor Ed Kelly “and his efficient machine. : ; ’ The effects of this personal appearance, they hope;

tration, another national depression was going full blast. The outbreak of world war I in 1914 created an ever increasing demand for our products. lifted from a depression by & War. During the Harding .and Coolidge administrations, from 1921 0 1029, the nation enjoyed the great~ est prosperity in 1s TETOry.” Tris stead of increasingly unbalanced budgets 10 billion dollars was paid on our national debt. Then came the Hoover administration and the world-wide depression. But as far as this campaign is concerned, these things are only history. Neither Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson, Coolidge or Hoover is the candidate. - Franklin Roosevelt is. a candidate for re-elece tion to the office of President. His record is a paramount issue in this campaign, Thomas Dewey is the opposiiig candidate. His record as governor of New York is also an ‘important issue, New Dealers tell the voters about Mr, Dewey's “record” as governor of that great state? Also of his ‘rec-

which is included the prosecution

against him if we please, : So let's don't get mad and stop our newspaper if it don’t agree with us. Remember we will never have a dictator as long as we have the privilege of writing and reading editorials and The Hoosier Forum. Dictator nations don't per80 don't get hot and botheréd about some -editors or individuals” views if we don't like them. My knowledge of -human frailties prompted me to predict that this would be one.of the “dirtiest” campaigns in many years, so why be surprised? But soon the election will be over and editorials and letters will read fh the usual way, such as: “Now the election is over and some of us were disappointed, but whoever is elected is our President 80 let's get behind him, help win the war and help win a permanent peace. : . “We admit many things were said under the stress and emotions of a heated campaign, and many blows struck beneath the belt which made scars, but may they quickly heal.

will react all through the Middle West, east-of the: Mississippi. expect it also to allay any miSe givings about his health and to belie the whispering campaign which has been just as vicious here as the Fast. Incidentally. got up close Saturday night to see how the President looked. He looked fine to: me, better than lots of men his age. Better than some younger. It was believed here that the President was shrewd to choose as his subject Saturday night a continuation of the New Deal ad tha voters out Mere kuoW"it und”

Consequently we were

trine is regarded as peculiarly effective here, even among the farmers, some of whom downstate, it is reported, still remember what it did for them. They are skeptical about gi up a known for afi ufie. known quantity, despite Governor Dewey's promises

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excited about the meeting at Soldier Field last Sate. . .

; ; We hope the people have made a| : . and conviction of many of New : -" Right now, the Red Oross is moving special Christe York's gangsters and political] J hore Jd HOP? nC or WY mas cartons into all German camps for Americans, racketeers. i operation.” ; ; ; These were packed last August, The voters’ decisions should be «=» but are something right from based upon these records. For “THE VERY ESSENCE home, including even & collection those who wish individual liberty, OF OUR DEMOC ; of photographs of American city, * private enterprise, jobs instead of ¥ D RACY” town and country scenes for the dole and constitutional in the place By Sylvia Basey, Indianapolis . boys to swap among themselves, of personal’ government after the| Your letter of Oct. 23d disgusted The food contents would make. war, there is no alternative, the|,.. amr Hinesley. Is narrow-mind- a good list for any. Christmas choice must be Dewey. 3 : at stocking — canned butter, figs, edness a universal attribute of New dates, turkey, plum pudding, ham, Dealers? Because the editor of cheese, tes, bouillon, candy, nuts, yours you saw fit to cancel your * package has one game — ‘hess, bridge or gin rummy sets—also . value of this Christmas carton The regular weekly carton 1s is to

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of the deaths of _ dition five othe nine have been : . Ki 1 Pfe. James Michigan st, in Pfc. Paul E, brother of Mrs N. Oriental st. ' 8. Sgt. Raymc ford, Californis N. Tecumseh st . Sgt. James V 8. State st, in Pfc: Nicholas Linwood ave., 0 Pfe. Wayne I “26th st., in Ital

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had been over: Sgt. Weaver , Technital high was employed Ce. He entere . 1941, and trai B. C: for two His father is e anapolis Times » Pfc. Nicholas of Mrs. Helen Linwood ave.

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missing over H Son of Mr. Kelsch, 1406 N ticipated in t Normandy cam presidential ci mandy invasio: day after D-da good conduct } pean theater r Before enter! cember, 1942, F ager of the N of the Stand: graduate of C and the Litt school, he we 1943. He is 2 Wt . » Ple. Wayne Mr, and Mrs, 1 W. 26th st. | Italy since Oct ‘The 21-year “believed to be ¢