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‘Do we get a fair deal, Harold?’
Dewey: ‘Indispensable man’ a myth
GOP leader demands a ‘peoples’ peace’
Portland, Oregon (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey turned south to California today for more campaign speeches following last night’s appeal to voters in the November election to reject the theory of an indispensable man” and the argument that future peace and prosperity depend upon the reelection of President Roosevelt.
The Republican presidential nominee made his challenge of the “indispensable man” issue before an overflow audience of more than 7,000 persons in the Portland Ice Coliseum and over a nationwide radio hookup.
‘No indispensable men’
Governor Dewey opened his blast by declaring flatly that: “There are no indispensable men.”
He said:
If our republic, after 150 years of self-government, is dependent up the endless continuance of one man in office, then the hopes which animated the men who fought for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have indeed come to nothing.
“The peace and prosperity of America and of the world can never depend on one man,” the GOP candidate added.
Threefold requirements
The essential requirements for peace and prosperity, he countered, are threefold:
- “Unity in our government and strength and unity among our people.”
- “Harmonious action between the President and Congress.”
- “A strong and vigorous America with jobs for all.”
None of them, he added, have been evidence in 12 years of the Roosevelt administration. All of them can be realized, he promised, by a change in administrations next January.
‘A people’s peace’
Governor Dewey argued that President Roosevelt will not be indispensable to writing or preserving of the peace terms either.
He insisted:
The peace we seek must not hang by the slender thread of personal acquaintance of any two or three men. The pages of history are littered with treaties proclaiming permanent peace made privately by rulers of nations and quickly and publicly broken…
I want to see a people’s peace come at the end of this war. I want to see a peace which has been worked out in the full light of day before all the world.
To speak in California
Governor Dewey will speak tomorrow night at San Francisco, and at Los Angeles the following night.
Governor Dewey’s address tomorrow night will be broadcast at 11:00 p.m. ET, over KDKA.
House members aim of Browder
Communists now in other organizations
Washington (UP) –
Earl Browder, president of the Communist Political Association, told Congress yesterday that his organization has members not only in the AFL and CIO but also in the Republican, Democratic and the Farmer-Labor parties, the Elks, Kiwanis and local chambers of commerce, and even in ministerial societies.
“And some day,” he added, “we hope to have members in Congress.”
His statement was made before the House Committee investigating campaign expenditures when Republican members questioned him closely about the part played by Communists in the CIO Political Action Committee’s campaign for President Roosevelt’s reelection.
Favors socialistic system
Mr. Browder doubted if the Communists would ever try to reestablish their party, dissolved last May, but said they instead would “try to show that America would strengthen itself through a socialistic system.”
Association members are supporting the President for reelection on a “nonpartisan basis,” he said. “If we wanted the quickest turn to communism in this country, we would support reactionary candidates who would leads us quickly back to the days of apple-selling and revolution.”
Doesn’t speak for others
Rep. Clarence Brown (R-OH) asked Mr. Browder if he “could” give the names of Communists active in the PAC.
Asked whether Joseph Curran, president of the CIO’s National Maritime Union is a Communist, MR. Browder replied:
Why don’t you ask him? Every citizen of the United States has a right to stand on his own feet in political life. No man should speak for another man’s politics.
Recalling that the Communists ceased direct participation in political elections when the party was dissolved last May, Browder said that the association this year, instead of running its own presidential; candidate, is supporting the one "endorsed by the broad labor movement.” It is generally known, he added, that Mr. Roosevelt has its support.
‘Freedom of opportunity’ demanded by Bricker
Republicans convinced that U.S. must stay a republic, Syria Mosque audience told
By Kermit McFarland
Beginning a 40,000-mile campaign tour which will crisscross the country, Governor John W. Bricker, opened up here last night with a plea for “freedom of opportunity” in the American industrial system.
Speaking to an audience of 3,000 in Syria Mosque, Governor Bricker demanded a post-war America in which “creative genius has its reward, in which the inventive ability of our people is utilized and fully protected, where there will be work and the security of productive jobs.”
He said:
But America cannot be that kind of a land if selfish interest and the exercise of great power, be it the power of wealth or of government, is to replace the public interest. It cannot be that kind of America if we are to proceed on the New Deal theory that our nation is fully built and that government alone has the wisdom to plan.
Deviating momentarily from his main theme, the vice-presidential nominee lashed out anew at Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee. He said:
It was a great disservice to the American people, to the Democratic Party and especially to free labor when the New Deal sold out to Sidney Hillman.
Mr. Bricker said the issues of the campaign “may be fairly summed up” in one question: “Shall America continue to be a republic?”
He said:
This party of ours [of the Republicans] is convinced that America shall continue as a republic.
‘Miracle despite meddling’
He asked:
Why is it that the United States, with only 10 percent of the population of the Allied nations, has performed this miracle [of war production] in spite of governmental opposition and bureaucratic meddling almost beyond belief?
It is because the American industrial system developed within an atmosphere of freedom which encouraged inventive and administrative genius. It is because the American workingman also has been free to work in an atmosphere of freedom, to own his own home, to start his own business if he wished.
There is more to freedom than security. It does mean that, of course. But freedom also means the opportunity to risk – to win or to lose.
New Deal ‘fallacy’ hit
He said the country must turn its back on what he called the New Deal theory that the nation is “fully built and that government also has the wisdom to plan.”
He said:
The New Deal idea of economic maturity the idea that there are no more frontiers to conquer – is an utter fallacy.
There is no reason for defeatism in the thinking of business, of labor or of government as they look forward toward production and employment after Germany and Japan shall have been defeated. There is no reason to fear that which shall come.
If we will use common sense, if we will have that faith, the stage is set for a great future… War has tremendously increased our capacity to make things. Jobs come from production. The larger our capacity to make useful things, the more jobs there will be.
Mr. Bricker said the government must restore the incentives that “bring public and business confidence.”
He said:
It can’t be done by more planned economy, or more collectivism, or more government control. It can’t be done by appeals to class consciousness and racial prejudices, or by favoritism to noisy minorities. It can’t be done by bigger debts and high taxes, and deficit financing after the war.
The fallacy of any idea that it can be done by such a course is demonstrated by the utter failure of the New Deal to break a decade of depression and unemployment. Under the New Deal, it took a war to put men back to work again.
New Deal ‘failure’ charged
Considering the background of New Deal failure, the American people have a right to ask these questions.
Is the New Deal planning to meet the post-war employment problem by keeping our boys in the Army and Navy?
Is it planning to meet the post-war employment problem by employing our workers in government-owned plants at the taxpayers’ expense?
Is it planning to meet the post-war employment problem on the basis of a worldwide WPA, for which the American people would supply the goods, the money and some of the men?
‘Let’s talk of jobs’
The New Deal talks of giving and unemployment. Let us for once talk of jobs and employment.
We can’t buy the goodwill of other countries, but we can gain it if we deserve it.
Governor Bricker came here after appearances at Erie and Meadville and left last night for his speech from the steps of the State Capitol in Harrisburg today. Tonight, he speaks in Wilkes-Barre.
Governor Bricker’s address tonight will be broadcast at 10:00 over WCAE.
Introduced by Martin
He was introduced to the Syria Mosque audience last night by Governor Edward Martin, who is accompanying the Ohio Governor on his Pennsylvania tour.
Governor Martin said:
We don’t want anything in Pennsylvania again like the four years of the Earle administration.
Governor Martin, introduced by Republican County Chairman James F. Malone, made a stage entrance at the close of the introduction and the band, missing a cue, played “Beautiful Ohio.” When Governor Bricker made a similar entrance, the musicians, unperturbed, played the Ohio song over again.
Others speak also
Mr. Malone said Governor Bricker and New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate, are running against Sidney Hillman of the CIO’s Political Action Committee, and Earl Browder, head of the Communist organization.
Mr. Malone said:
Mr. Hillman is the No. 1 lieutenant of the New Deal and Mr. Browder is No. 2. We don’t want anything to do with Communism in any form.
Governor Bricker was preceded by two other speakers, County Court Judge Blair F. Gunther and Hobson R. Reynolds (Philadelphia Negro police magistrate, ward leader and former legislator).
‘Roosevelt vs. Stalin?’
Mr. Reynolds charged that the Democrats “won’t give Negro troops a chance to fight.”
He said:
If they will turn the black troops loose in France and Germany for 30 days, we’ll have all the troops home in a short time.
Judge Gunther charged President Roosevelt “doesn’t have the moral courage to say ‘no’ to Joseph Stalin” in the dispute over the division of post-war Poland.
He said:
In spite of all the beautiful words, the Atlantic Charter is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The administration is improvising our foreign policy.
He alleged that Mr. Roosevelt is “hanging on to the coattails of Mr. Browder and Mr. Sidney Hillman.”
Adams presides
District Attorney Russell H. Adams, presiding at the rally, said the nation still faces the “same problems” it faced when the Roosevelt administration took office in 1933.
In a press conference preceding the rally, Governor Bricker said President Roosevelt’s order to the Budget Bureau to start planning for reduction of wartime government agencies was “necessary” but had come “very late.”
He said:
It should have been started long ago. Many of these bureaus should never have been treated. Many, even those that are essential, are entirely overstaffed.
Candidates introduced
U.S. Senator James J. Davis, a scheduled speaker, sat on the platform but did not address the rally. Mr. Malone said he had asked to be “excused.” Superior Court Judge Arthur H. James, Mr. Malone said, was unable to appear because of court work.
Supreme Court Justice Howard W. Hughes (candidate for a 21-year term), Judge J. Frank Graff (candidate for the Superior Court), State Senator G. Harold Watkins (candidate for Auditor General) and Philadelphia City Treasurer Edgar W. Baird (candidate for State Treasurer) were introduced.
Mr. Malone also introduced three CIO representatives from McKeesport unions. He said they were “evidence that Sidney Hillman doesn’t boss all the CIO members.”
Bricker charges ‘broken promises’
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (UP) –
President Roosevelt has left in his three administrations a trail of “broken promises” of abundant life, economy, security and unhampered private enterprise which prove the New Deal “cannot be trusted,” Ohio Governor John W. Bricker charged here today.
The Republican vice-presidential nominee charged that Mr. Roosevelt had “broken up” the London International Economic Conference of 1933 which “aggravated the worldwide economic maladjustments which led to a second great world war.”
Under the New Deal’s promise of an “abundant life,” Governor Bricker said, the nation faced long before the war “restrictions, orders and taboos.”
Security, he said, brought the “CWA, the FERA, or the WPA with their doles and made-work.” The “economy” which President Roosevelt promised increased the national debt “by 100 percent” during the first seven years of his administration, he added.
Charging that the New Deal was not prepared when war broke out, Governor Bricker said that the President “frantically appealed” to capital and labor and agriculture, which pitched in and “are saving America in spite of the New Deal.”
I DARE SAY —
Recorded in blood
By Florence Fisher Parry
I saw a newsreel of the liberation of Paris. I heard on the radio the actual record of it. Shots upon Gen. de Gaulle at Notre-Dame; the hysteria of the people. And from day to day, I read small scattered inside-page items of how the Maquis of France, the French Forces of the Interior, are taking their own way of settling their score with the trapped Germans.
I read the lists of books that are published, dozens, hundreds of books about this war, first-hand reports, magnificent fiction, diaries, poems.
Suddenly there is a flood of newsreels at last released by the United States Army to the motion picture exhibitors who, all through this war, were not able to procure the news films that had been made and were still being held back. The Army and our government offered the excuse that it would be bad om the morale of trainees in the audience.
Now that the invasion of France is nearly over, now that the landings at Tarawa, Saipan are old stories, now with the end of the war imminent in Europe, suddenly we are seeing what we had a right to see months ago.
How much promotion money has been spent on our various War Bond drives? Millions, millions; and at the very time when the showing of realistic and timely newsreels of our boys as they fought in the Southwest Pacific, as they fought in Africa and Sicily and Italy and last Normandy, would have done more to storm our hearts and open our purses and crack our savings banks than all the Mardi Gras stunts and stump speeches and bands and movie appearances and lunches and banquets and benefits could ever have done!
The great performance
But what the newsreel failed to do; our reporters certainly made up for. Never have there been such magnificent dispatches from the combat areas.
As for the book publishers working under similar paper restrictions, they have put forth a produce of war literate that is simply magnificent. This is all the more remarkable because no one, so well as publishers, knows how quickly the reading public is through with war literature when war ends.
Yet on the very eve of Germany’s collapse, every major publisher in America is putting forth war books and still more war books! It is of some of these that I should like to speak now, for unless they are read now, they are likely to be missed and join the innumerable host of war books which came too late and missed their earned immortality.
Already World War II has given us a few really distinctive books: Limit of Darkness by Howard Hunt – just a story of one day in the lives of a group of American fliers at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal is one. Another is A Walk in the Sun by Harry Brown. It, too, is a report, in fiction form, of a torturous landing of a leaderless platoon and its making its way six miles inshore to a farmhouse. Both of these are small books. Each can be read in an hour. They have in them the elements of lasting literature. Others are A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey, and The Moon Is Down, by John Steinbeck.
The moving finger writes
Too, there have been some of the columns of Ernie Pyle which have in them the sudden impact of reality that makes you know, as you read them, that you cannot forget, not ever, what they have written.
But really great novel about this war has not been written.
Kay Boyle has written some good short stories about this war. Rebecca West, too, has managed to set down a very live record of a dangerous day, and even Katherine Anne Porter, in her new collection of stories The Leaning Tower, tells a story about Germany that will keep haunting the reader years after it is read.
I have just read a book, Still Time to Die, by Jack Belden – horrific, burning, alive with death and menace.
I want to live long enough to read what some of these survivors, now 20, 22, will write at 40, at 50, about World War II, unless, of course, they are too busy writing letters to their sons in World War III.
Government takes over 44 West Virginia mines
SFA moves swiftly to halt stoppages
By the United Press
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Fascist policeman on trial in Rome
Rome, Italy (UP) –
Pietro Caruso, chief of police in Rome during the last few months of the German occupation, who was sought by a mob which lynched a prison official last Monday, was brought peaceably to trial as a Fascist criminal today.
The trial was opened in Lincei Academy in a tense atmosphere as hundreds of armed police and mounted carabinieri guarded all approaches for blocks around. It had been kept fairly secret, however, and there was no public demonstration such as that which ended in the lynching of Donato Caretta, a chief prosecution witness.
The Academy was chosen because it is near the Regina Coeli Prison, making it easier to transport Caruso to the courtroom from his cell.
Caruso and his secretary, Roberto Occhetto, who is being tried with him, were impassive when they were brought into the courtroom. They are the first of the alleged Fascist criminals to be brought to trial.
Mrs. Bricker: Women’s political interest growing
GOP leader’s wife urges all to vote
By Betty Jo Daniels
After traveling more than 40,000 miles with her husband during his pre-convention tour, and with thousands of miles more ahead of her during his campaign tour, Mrs. Harriet Bricker, wife of the Republican candidate for Vice President, said last night she is convinced that women are more interested than ever before in politics.
Addressing members of the press, Mrs. Bricker said:
Everywhere, I think, women really are extremely interested in politics this year and are finding it quite challenge to become active in this campaign.
‘Important to vote’
She added:
I’m sure they will realize the significance and importance of voting now, during wartime.
Affirming her comment made during her husband’s first tour that she would make few public appearances “and no speeches,” Mrs. Bricker said her only comment is voiced in her hope that every American woman qualified to vote will do so in the coming election.
She likes people
She was attired in a two-piece black crepe suit, and a small, veiled black hat. She wore gold earrings and bracelet, which matched the buttons on her dress, and an orchid was pinned to her black faille purse.
She likes traveling with her husband, Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, but finds it quite tiring sometimes when their schedule is particularly full and allows her little time for relaxation. But she likes people and receptions, she said.
Has several hobbies
Mrs. Bricker has several hobbies, among which are collecting glassware, victory gardening, and playing the piano. She has a light tan and a sprinkling of freckles on her nose from working in her garden.
Mrs. Bricker, accompanied by Mrs. Edward Martin, wide of the Pennsylvania Governor and Mrs. Margery Scranton, Republican National Committeewoman, attended the Republican rally in Syria Mosque.
She sat on the platform between Governor and Mrs. Martin while her husband delivered his address and at the conclusion of the speech was introduced to the audience by James F. Malone, Republican County chairman.
Dewey and wife in narrow escapes
Fateful No. 13 plays big role
Portland, Oregon (UP) –
The wreck of the Dewey campaign train yesterday offered some examples of the fateful number 13.It was the 13th day since the special pulled out of Pennsylvania Station in New York. There were 13 cars in the train, with the baggage car, most seriously smashed, No. 13 on the train.
Portland, Oregon (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, dogged by disaster – including two train wrecks and a narrow escape during an auto trip, arrived here last night only a few hours before time for his nationwide broadcast.
On the wheels of a freight train wreck that delayed his departure from Seattle, Governor Dewey’s train rammed into the rear of a passenger train stalled at Castle Rock, Washington, because of obstruction from the first wreck.
Governor Dewey and his wife were badly shaken but not injured in the wreck, which brought injuries to more than a score of persons.
The Deweys proceeded to Portland in a private car provided by an auto dealer and, while making the trip, were nearly parties to another disastrous crash when a furniture truck turned sharply ahead of the Dewey car. Only skillful driving saved the nominee’s car from plunging off the highway.
The Deweys were in their separate bedrooms when the two trains smashed at 11:50 a.m. (2:50 p.m. ET). the impact hurtled the passengers from their seats and shattered glass in the trains.
Poll: Roosevelt shows gains within CIO
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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750 bombers from Italy hit Balkan targets
Weather cuts down raids from Britain
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Editorial: Who pays for ‘prosperity’?
Democrats appear to be relying heavily on “Roosevelt prosperity” as a pro-fourth-term factor at the November polls.
Prosperity? Sure, many people not in uniform are making more money than they were before the war. (Mr. Roosevelt was President then, too, incidentally.) But where does the money come from?
An analogy might be the case of a man who borrows $1,000 from a friend and then throws a big party for the generous pal. Should the latter feel a warm glow of camaraderie – or should he start worrying about the money?
The recent tax report of the research committee of the Committee for Economic Development estimated that “after the war the average cost of supporting the activities of the federal government, if spread evenly over the entire population, would be more than $500 a year for a family of four.” And a footnote added:
This would not be the full picture… It is estimated that state and local governments, after the war, will have to collect around $12 billion a year in taxes. Accordingly, the total cost of government in the United States after the war, if spread evenly over the whole population, would be in the neighborhood of $850 a year for a family of four.
Or put it another way. The national debt today is some $211 billion. It certainly will go past $250 billion before the war is over. The total population is around 136 million. Suppose, for simplicity’s sake, that the population consisted entirely of four-person families – 34 million of them. A little arithmetic shows that the average share of that $250-billion debt will be $7,353 per family. This is an obligation that a good many of us have neglected to put down in our personal budgets.
In short, “Roosevelt prosperity” turns out to be a patty at our own expense. Guests will be presented with the bill as they leave the festivities. And they will have to settle it – through taxes, or through inflation of one kind or another which will chop down the value of their savings and their income.
Of course, most of the expenditures have been necessary, because of the war. But he who attributes the pleasant state of his bank account to economic wisdom on the part of the White House, and expects more of the same indefinitely from that same erratic economic fountain, is living in a fool’s paradise.