SOUTH BEND-PUBLIC LIBRARY, 304 S.MAIN ST., CITY. Roosevelt Again, Again and Again, Sends G.O.P. *nouse "NO TIME TO CHANGE" 0^'s FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 1944 PRESIDENT and WIN-THE-PEACE CONGRESS are VICTORS ELIEVE IT OR ELSE MEA T O* THE COCONUT a§ -.'• BY •:. SILAS WITHERSPOON That bluff­ GO BACK TO OWOSSO ing, bluster­ ing, bully- MR. DEWEY, SING IN ra gging bull frog, CHOIR, PEDDLE YOUR that has been bark­ PAPERS AND REJOIN ing up and down coun­ BOY SCOUTS. MAYBE try, in pur­ suit of "a SCOUTS CAN REMAKE ch an g€," drops to a YOU BACK INTO MAN simile of th2 small dog FIT FOR CONFIDENCE barking at the moon. He hasn't been taken as seriously by intelligent America, as his sponsors hoped, and it looks like a case of back to Dapplemere .-*_ hog farm, Albany pesthouse, and his Owosso paper route, for Jvlr. Thomas Edmund Dew­ PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN ey. At Owosso too he can sing in the choir, (Reelected 3rd time) (Elected Vice President) and train with the Boy Scouts, which just IMPING with ankylosis of the high-brow, its superiority complex stiffled, and gold-plated god­ goes to show how choir singing and scout liness snubbed, the G. 0. P., Thomas Edmund Dewey and John W. Bricker, in the lead, passed training, do not always send men to the top. L into innocuous desuetude Tuesday night, und er the pronounced sentence that it has been out­ Neither does being the best, or 8th best, lawed by American public opinion. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, were elected dressed man in America, put him there. "The president and vice president respectively, by the electoral vote of 35 states, totaling 413, to 13 bridegroom on the wedding cake," as Alice fOn Page Three) Roosevelt Longworth spied him; well, he proved what one of his manager's wives said F of him, to be true: "You have to know-Mr. Dewey real well not to like him,"—and the COUNTY SOLID DEMOCRATIC INDIANA JOINS MINORITY better the American people came to know T. JOSEPH county went Democratic with a NDIANA slumped away Jfrom the other leading him, the less likeable he became. bang last Tuesday.— by about 6,500 major­ states of the union, and like Ohio and Michigan, And that G. O. P. high command that S ity. That was about 6,369 less than enough I cast its lot with the isolationist Republican dumped Wendell Willkie—into his grave,— to enable Marshall Kizer, Plymouth lawyer, run­ party, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne turning the for the Albany whiz bang; when it comes to ning along with the rest of the ticket, to carry the tide carried on by the farming communities and the picking the man for the job, aren't they the Third congressional district, farmer vote; too many of the wealthier farmers mad because infallibles. Maybe they had one picked to against "Bob" Grant for con­ THE ALSO RANS do their dirt if he ever got the chance, but gress. It was hoped that Mar­ too many of the less wealthy how are we to know? If no more competent, shall county would vote strong hadn't lost their farms in conse­ than in negotiating the chance, again he de­ enough for Kizer to win the quence of the Hoover holocaust; teriorates into a wheeze. day, but Bourbon, Bremen and had been saved from it by the New Deal. Besides some of their This is the 13 th presidential campaign in Teegarden are in Marshall coun­ ty, and to them, Grant's war boys had been taken away to which I have taken a personal part; ten of war, . farm help had become (On Page Two) record has been quite as satisfac­ tory as it has been to Berlin. scarce, and OPA is believed to have held down prices to where They're still nursing the po­ the "agriculturalist" thinks he litical wounds down there that RELIGION AND THE PEACE has been deprived of a grand op­ they received in World War I, By G. I. PHEUM portunity to grow rich. — which went against their HE importance of winning peace, after The vote: kaiser. Marshall county gave winning the war, cannot be over-empha­ President: Dewey, 858,957; Tsized. Quite encouraging is the profusion Grant 2,209 majority. The dis­ of thotful suggestions from our people. Roosevelt, 764,209; 47 precincts trict (St. Joseph, Marshall, missing. Frorfi the American Legion, labor unions, po­ Elkhart and Laporte counties) Senator (long term): Homer E. litical organizations, and from other groups come Capehart (R), 809,550; Henry F. plans and ideas of merit. Even contract-bridge gave Grant 83,720 votes and Kizer 77,531—with six out of Schricker (D), 785,649; 52 pre­ has spoken eloquently thru Ely Culbertson. What cincts missing. has religion contributed to the peace effort? 316 precincts yet to be heard Senator (short term): William Religion seems hesitant, with its timid "Six Pil- from. THOMAS EI DEWEV JOHN W. BRICKER j E. Jenner (R), 643,246; Corneliu (On Page Seven) (On Page Five) (For President) (For Vice President)' (On Page Sixteen) Page Two THE MIRROR ARMISTICE DAZf .944 gy COLLIER Pen* ^r' C*cwey could begin at once that house- cleaning, getting rid of Madame Perkins, Harold ELIEVE It Ickes, and the rest of the tired old men,—and revising the war and peace policies of the nation. ft He could then have made his Mr. Dulles secre­ Or ELSE tary oi state, reverse all war policies, dump the (From Page- One) peace plans, and put Messrs. Churchill and Sta­ them in an editorial capacitv. I have lost just lin in their place, as meddlers in an "isolated" twice; on Harding and Coolidge. Of the eight Ametiask That would have been what America presidents elected in those thirteen campaigns, I voted for. But it didn't. have supported six; have seen all except two, and shaken hands with five. I have never even The election gave the seen Herbert Hoover or Franklin D. Roosevelt. Giving P.A.C. Too Republican party a Anyhow I have been with a majority of the "definite status," as people, or the majority with me, some of the Credit May G. O. P. Chairman time. With Theodore Roosevelt, William Brownell says, and Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson I have most certainly. It is been on speaking terms. Of course, they didn't ve Boomerani the status of isola­ know me as, perhaps, you do; may have tionism, 'pro-plutoc­ thought I was somebody. To G.O.Fa Labor racy, and incorrigible liar. It could only be Ordinarily I incline to be generous to my half-beHeved at any vanquished in a political rough-and-tumble, and ailing Backers time since 1920; as shown above, I have had some experience at about one-fourth since 1930, and hardly at all it—but this time, somehow, I cannot fathom since 1940; however, they can hardly say that wherein, the abandoned one has it coming. He the Democrats stole their convention this time, has done nothing in the campaign to ingratiate and nominated their candidate. He was their himself upon anybody—save those of prejudice own pick, and as they have pictured him, picked and passion who have found in him an echo of right offythe great white throne. And one of their fisfcesv and" a potential agency for the satis­ the most unfortunate things about it is their faction of their vengeances. Pfeover got pretty admission, by blaming it all on Sidney Hillman "snotrtry" in his 1932 campaign, and is still and P. A. C, that organized labor has been able running at the nose; Landon was at least an to give them- such a thrashing. It is giving PAC American gentleman, and Willkie proved that a lot of credit, on which, if they were plutocrats, one catac rise to heights of poliJaea^ virility, yet rather than of the proletariat, they would cer-^ maintain adherence to American decency; dab­ tainly feel puffed up, and start capitalizing olkiL ble in tmida. instead of lies. Willkie was for MANAGEMENT it. By presuming to make Communism the *s*iQ; Amecka as against all foreign aggression; even sue- ini the campaign and crediting it with win^j for the-world as against Hitlerian expansion. ning it, it is sticking its neck out for a possible^* Dewey has been everything that Landon and Will­ partisan minds, tinged with isolationism, but those undue- wringing. kie weren't. He is a discarded deuce. He should go issues are inconsequential comparative to the. .war-and Bu4 tire- G. O. P. has had Communism on the back to Owosso and rebuild from the diapers up. peace programs. In England such repudiation of a brain, for l©ng; Communism now, Socialism yester­ ,The spoiled boy has gone to rot. pcime minister, in the commons, without awaiting a day, Nihilism the day before. Anybody who has popular vote, would mean his immediate retirement. ever questioned the constitutional authority, en­ Jfe should mean the same thing here especially when trenched power, divine rights, or infinite light, of America observed its 26th the repudiation comes from the people themselves. Election Provides Ataaiistice day this year capitalism, no difference how vile it becomes, has long (tunc pro nunc; vice nunc The president should not go on for two months been put down in one of the above categories. Social pro tunc) Tuesday foi. t©»- administering a program that the pepple do not want* ostraeisnr, fraraneial blacklisting, and so on, is capi­ Fit Observance of mossrow; Armistice day of prolonging their distaste, — especially in strenuous talists; super-capitalistic system of "controlled econ­ World War I, — and: it? times like these, when, if there-must be a change,, itf omy" under its false pretense of "free private enter­ Armistice Day in served distinct notiise on the should come at once.