Edson: Three proposals dominate Chicago air conference
By Peter Edson
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Ferguson: Political campaign
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
As this is written the election is in doubt. Although many people are saying so, this campaign has been no meaner than many others we’ve staged. Between campaigns, we forget old rancors.
The reason we can forget the wounds of political campaigns is because we are essential a fair-minded people. Even when contests are hottest, neighbors and friends on opposing sides can laugh together over their differences.
Editorial and platform accusations sometimes sound vicious, but that’s a part of the game too, and those who are engaged in the fight know it. In Washington, Democrats and Republicans fraternize in private even while the public is led to believe them mortal enemies. Those skilled in political techniques use every device to win, but a good deal of their alarmist talk is pure bosh and nobody knows it better than they do.
Whatever the election outcome, the country faces a crucial period. It will take the best efforts of all good Americans to pull us through. We could therefore utilize the day to examine our own hearts and ask ourselves seriously why mankind has not been able to outlaw war.
We know the answer, too. Peace is not built on hates. It does not spring from greed. It is the result of human behavior. And a good many humans must change their behavior in order to achieve it. Maybe that means you and me, as well as our leaders.
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Simms: Security plans depend on Russian stand
Exclusiveness gives rise to anxiety
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Bricker casts vote
Columbus, Ohio –
Governor John W. Bricker, Republican vice-presidential nominee, today voted the Republican ticket “all the way down the line.”
G.I. ‘affirmative’ wins debate –
Verona brothers on patrol ‘reason’ Nazis out of pillbox
Argument in no-man’s-land results in 18 Germans deciding to save their skins
By William H. Stoneman
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Yank goes AWOL to get in fight
Wounded sergeant tires of red tape
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Texan for Dewey
Houston, Texas –
John H. Crooker, Texas elector, declared here today that he will cast his electoral vote for Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Governor John W. Bricker “if that’s the best way to defeat the Roosevelt-Truman ticket,” and indicated other electors of the anti-Roosevelt party will do likewise.
Monahan: Robeson and Ferre excel in Othello
Uta Hagen appealing in stirring revival of classic at the Nixon
By Kaspar Monahan
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Supply – Lifeblood of victory
Negro troops given credit for ‘miracle of supply’
By Marshall McNeil, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Fourth son dies in service after family asks release
General informs Utah family personally; fifth recently discharged by Marine Corps
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Stokes: Turn of affairs
By Thomas L. Stokes
Washington –
One very significant fact emerged from the 1944 presidential campaign as to the future function and objective of our government.
This is that laissez-faire, though long dead, was finally buried formally for all time, both as affects our place as a nation among other nations, and as affects the role of our government in the life of its people.
Both parties, through their platforms and candidates, agreed that no longer can there be any hit-or-miss, any happy-go-lucky attitude, any return to the principles of what are fondly called “The Good Old Days,” in the conduct of our affairs with other nations, or our own affairs within our country.
There will, of course, be dissenting voices in Congress, and perhaps bitter fights in Congress over the method of our cooperation with other nations and the method of adjusting our national economy. But it will be a battle over a plan, and not a battle as to whether there should be a plan.
The principle of national planning, of supervision from Washington of the delicate mechanism of our national economy, has been established and accepted finally, just as has the necessity of planning our relations with other nations of the world.
Significant turn
This is a simple fact, long recognized in many quarters, though hotly disputed in some others during this campaign. It is worth noting, for it represents a significant turn in national affairs that perhaps will assume more importance in the history books than it does now when seen as closely.
President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey stood together on the creation of a post-war world organization. Primarily such an organization is to keep the peace. But in that objective, it must plan in other directions – to do away with trade barriers, to open up access for all nations to raw materials, to check international monopolies, to protect minority groups, and the like, It is from these sources of irritation that wars spring.
The United States has taken the lead in the past in all these areas and is prepared, from its experience, to furnish leadership now.
Earlier in his campaign, before the fur began to fly, Governor Dewey expressed a philosophy of broad national government participation im meeting economic and social problems. Even before that, in his St. Louis conference with Republican governors, Governor Dewey supervised the drafting of a program which called for broad use of federal powers, in cooperation with the states, to promote the social and economic welfare of the people.
OK’d New Deal reforms
In his campaign along the Pacific Coast, he accepted the various domestic reforms of the New Deal, speaking as the leader of his party. At the same time, he espoused government intervention to keep the economic structure in balance, to provide jobs when private industry could not, to support prices of farm crops against collapse, and so on. He pronounced the end of the “Dog-Eat-Dog” philosophy.
At Los Angeles, he went a step further and advocated extension of social security to cover 20 million persons not now included, and additional assistance to veterans in getting jobs and being rehabilitated.
Simultaneously with advocacy of a broad participation of the national government in the lives of the people, Republicans made quite an attack on “bureaucracy” which raised an inconsistency often pointed out. The reforms of the New Deal require lots of personnel to administer, though not near as much perhaps as the government now employs.
Extension of Social Security undoubtedly would add some more.
What this all adds up to is that if people are to be given this sort of government, as both parties are agreed, then it will require continually large personnel to administer it. There is no way around it, even though politicians in the heat of a campaign don’t say so while making their promises.
But there is a “bureaucracy” issue in the top-heavy, inefficient structure, with its duplication of agencies and its waste, and Republicans performed a service in pointing this out. President Roosevelt recognized this vulnerability early in the campaign when he issued orders for a survey to prepare for liquidation of war agency personnel.
But more than a survey will be needed to cut the government structure down to size.
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
Well, so far as I’m concerned, the election is already a success. The official at the polls this morning asked me if I was old enough to vote.
I was so eager to cast my ballot that I told a little white lie and said I was.
George is terribly nervous waiting for the election returns to come in. And when he’s nervous he likes to smoke one cigarette right after another. Today he’s already gone through three cartons… But he didn’t find any cigarettes.
According to early reports, the Solid South is going the same way it has for the last 70 years… it still prefers Boubon.
Irish hope to rebound against Army
Saddened Notre Dame not yet recovered from setback by Navy
By Joe Williams
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Network drop stars for election returns
OWI to radio results overseas
By Si Steinhauser
Now that you have listened to national Democratic candidates take up 34 hours and five minutes and Republicans 29 hours and 10 minutes of your network listening time, big league commercials go bye-bye tonight to make way for election returns and hourly “commentaries” by “experts,” along with alibis for out-of-bounds predictions.
The 63 hours and 15 minutes of talk does not include spot announcements, five-minute recordings, in-person appeals, or state or county broadcasts.
If there is a decision tonight in the election, you may hear the victor and loser interviewed by network mikemen or the announcement “he has retired for the night,” a pre-radio version of “he has taken a trip up Salt River.” The younger generation may have that explained by their elders.
The Blue Network cancels all programs from 7 o’clock on. NBC, CBS and MBS begin their nationwide pickups at 8 o’clock.
Interpretative commentaries will be made by chairmen of national political committees, also by various aides and publicity directors. There will also be an election dramatization – as if the election isn’t drama enough – and man in the street interviews with “What do you think of the winner?” the $64 question. Servicemen will also he felt out as to “what do you care about it?”
The Office of War Information will begin overseas broadcasts of returns at 7 o’clock. These will continue until the globe is circled and time differences have been compensated and every military outpost has had the returns and the identity of the winner made available. Ten-minute return summaries will reach across the seas.
The Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs will also broadcast returns in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin-American ears.
Wartime emergency transmitters will be used for tonight’s special broadcasts but returns will not be permitted to interfere with the regular transmission of military orders.
All of which is just a semifinal, to the nation’s return to normalcy, soap operas, blue jokes, promises of cheap television sets and warning to do your shopping early for Christmas is coming. And we’ll get more and bigger reports from the victory fronts in Europe and the Pacific. Of course, we’ll have to listen to the “I told you so” guys until next Sunday night. by which time all excuses and boasts will have been completed.
Next election you will see the candidates as they speak if what happened on a tiny scale in New York means anything. Senator Robert F. Wagner was seen by owners of television sets as he asked his native state to return him to the Senate. He was televised by Station WABD and was the first candidate ever televised in a campaign speech.
Now back to the old routine:
Larry Stevens, the “unknown discovery” of Mary Livingstone who made his singing debut on Jack Benny’s broadcast Sunday night was brought to the Benny home last July and signed as Dennis Day’s successor. That, according to Jack Benny, who ought to know, since his manager, Leonard Lyon’s, and Larry’s manager did the signing in Jack’s presence, following an audition.
Judith Wood, who plays a Japanese spy on the Counterspy series, is the wife of a member of the British Consular Service, Christopher Wren, whose father wrote Beau Geste. Judith makes a specialty of portraying Oriental women on the air.
We don’t admire Shirley Mitchell for going on the Fibber McGee Show last Tuesday just after she learned that her father had died. The “show must go on stuff” gets no favor here.
Donald Loughlin has joined the Woman of America cast as Logan Matthews.
Pittsburgh’s Earl Hines will play a boogie-woogie version of the “St. Louis Blues” on tomorrow’s (KQV 3:15 p.m.) Hollywood Show Time.
Len Doyle, who plays Harrington of Mr. District Attorney broadcasts, is Chief Special Investigator for the Admiral in the new Broadway play, The Streets Are Guarded.
Murray Kane, who sang with Fred Waring’s gang, is overseas in uniform and turning his experiences into money. Pfc. Kane picked up the G.I. query “Got Any Gum, Chum?” and made it into a song. Fred will introduce it Thursday night.
Remarks by President Roosevelt to the Torchlight Paraders
November 7, 1944
Broadcast from Hyde Park, New York
I see some youngsters up a tree which reminds me of earlier days, when I wanted to get away from the discipline of the family, and I climbed that very tree up where that highest youngster is now, and I disappeared and I couldn’t be found. And they got everybody – I think they got the fire department up trying to find me. And I realized that I was causing a good deal of commotion, so I said “Yoo-hoo,” or something like that, and I came down.
Well, I remember my first torchlight parade right here in 1892 – Cleveland’s election. And I was asleep, or supposedly asleep, right up in this window, a little room at the head of the stairs; and I was listening, and I didn’t know what was the matter – a queer light outside the window, with people coming up on farm wagons – before the days of the automobile. It was Hyde Park – a large part of it – coming down here to have a Democratic celebration.
And I got up and appeared down here in an old-fashioned nightgown of some kind, on this porch, and I wrapped up in an old Buffalo robe that came out of a wagon. And I had a perfectly grand evening.
Now if Elmer were old enough, he would know about that. But he has done pretty well himself. He has been an awfully good supervisor for this town, and we are all mighty proud of our neighbor Elmer Van Wagner.
And then there are all kinds of people that I remember, which only very old people like myself can remember. And I remember, once upon a time, I was fascinated by old Dan Barrett’s brewery. And Dan, after meeting the train, which came in about twice a day in those days, used to bring people down here in his old bus, and I would go out there and I would talk to Dan Barrett by the hour. Now we have got a young Dan Barrett and he is down here on this place, here on the right.
The reports that are coming in are not so bad – but I can’t concede anything. Oh, I couldn’t concede anything – much too early. I can’t make any statement at all. The State of New York as a whole seems to be going pretty well – pretty well, but it’s much too early to say anything. We won’t get the final returns on these so-called pivotal states for, I suppose, another hour. And they are working out all right, so far, and it looks as if I will have to come back here on a train from Washington for four more years.
And it’s worthwhile still, and always will be, to leave Washington on a Friday night and get here Saturday morning, and go back to Washington on a Sunday night, just for two days up here. It will always be worth it.
And so I am glad to be here on this Election Day again – I might say again and again and again! But I’ll be perfectly happy to come back here for good, as you all know. I don’t have to tell you that.
It has been grand to see you. Thanks ever so much for coming down, but I have been on the telephone all evening to almost every part of the country. I have got a ticker in there, and I get the returns on that. I am trying to keep in touch with all these people – calling up a few people.
One person I haven’t called up – I am waiting and holding my breath – and that is a lady over in our neighboring state, in Connecticut. She is running against another lady over in the adjoining state, and my friend seems to be winning – she is ahead at the present time. And if she can only hold on to that lead, and they don’t hold back the returns too long, we will have a new Congresswoman down Bridgeport way. And so we have real hope, which will be rather excellent for our own feelings – and I think if they prove true, a mighty good thing for this country. And that’s a rough thing to say – about the other lady.
I haven’t had any word about the present Congressman from this district, but as I remarked yesterday somewhere, when I was taking a drive around, there is more than one way of getting rid of a Congressman. You have known about it being done by redistricting the state and putting the Congressman over in another county, but in the last returns that I have just got, he is doing very well in Rockland County – I mean his opponent Bennett. Bennett is also doing pretty well in Orange, and so there is a real possibility of our having a new Congressman in the lower districts. Of course, we are in a different district this time – Thank goodness!
It has been good to see you, and I will have to go on back and do some more telephoning.
ROOSEVELT REELECTED FOR FOURTH TERM
Remarks by Governor Dewey Conceding the Presidential Election
November 8, 1944
Delivered at Hotel Roosevelt, Washington, DC
It is clear that Mr. Roosevelt has been reelected for a fourth term, and every good American will wholeheartedly accept the will of the people.
I extend to President Roosevelt my hearty congratulations and my earnest hope that his next term will see speedy victory in the war, the establishment of lasting peace and the restoration of tranquility among our peoples.
I am deeply grateful for the confidence expressed by so many million Americans for their labors in the campaign.
The Republican Party emerges from the election revitalized and a great force for the good of the country and for the preservation of free government in America.
I am confident that all Americans will join me in a devout hope that in the years ahead Divine Providence will guide and protect the President of the United States.