SOUTH BEND PUBLIC LIBRAE.", 3 04 S .MAIN ST. , C I T '$ . §M. "NEW DEALERS" COLD-SHOULDER G.O.P. DID FOR RETURNxTllLD-.HllfFLE" ^Roosevelt "Squeezes" Through >• FRIDAY, JUL.y 21st, 1944 DEMOCRATS OUT-CHALLENGE REPUBLICAN CALUMNIES T IS Roosevelt all right; he got by. There was one vote against him, for Jim Farley, and 89 ELIEVE IT for Senator Harry F. Byrd, but in the "squeeze' F. D. R., being.willing, came through like I ;a charm. And he hasn't aped himself by flying to Chicago again to say "yes." It would un­ necessarily take gas, space and time, and "good soldier" that he is, he instead used the spaceless OR ELSE air-—sticking to his "war mission"; more "important than his^ personal political fortunes." It is ; MEAT O' THE COCONUT just another of F. D. R.'s way of doing things different, if not the "first time, ' at least without parroting the parroting, by the opposition. "Dear Alben" Barkley made the nominating speech. And now bring on the vice president. If they keep fooling around, twixt Wallace, Byrnes, i5/Z.A S WITHERSPOON i Barkley, and Sam Rayburn, Kerr, Truman, Douglas, Schricker, Minton and Mc(W)Hale, we may "It baets have to go to press without him,—despite F. D. R.'s preference for Wallace, then willingness to 6.0, P. COUNTERFEITS the divil, run with Truman or Douglas — 'ow thot practically kiboshing the others. NEW DEAL WHIRLWIND mon Ros­ Oklahoma introduced its governor, enfeld run Robert S. Kerr, for the vice presi­ AND TRYS PASSING IT it all over dency, after he finished his key- 'he oither noting (see page six). OFF FOR OWN ZEPHYR candydates Can't hold the press when fer 'he prisidency at thot convinshun t'doy," "there's a war on," paper limited, .said O'Shaughnessey brushing into Hennes­ staples none, ink diluted, labor sey's bar, on his way home after^ sitting scarce, power almost rationed, and through a session and listening to "Dear Al­ ye editor perplexed, for a little ben" Barkley lay out the other aspirants, and thing like a vice presidential can­ setting the white house prodigy up for a 4th nomination. "Sompson slew th' Philustanes didate. If they want to hold back with th' 'jaw-bone of an ass' but Barkley to give the "One and Only" j a slew th' asses with th' jaw-bone of a Philus- scoop, let 'em hold; if they get tane. Y'u kin't quite call *em a barbarryun through before the whistle blows or uncultoored, fir 'e kin be mean in th' nicest to start printing, see below, if we way, an' as I 'eard 'em 'ere avter readin' in have his picture; otherwise, name the bapers about.'is break with the prisident only-. doon thar in th' sinit, breakin his neck t' up­ . Following the president's espou­ hold 'im, now, I'm dootin' if Sompson cud sal of Wallace by letter to Sam D. iver 'ave slewn thum dom Philustanes with Jackson, permanent chairman, but enything diffurint." later, according to Democratic "Doan try to be Biblykil, O'Shaughnes­ Chairman Hannegan, expressing a sey," said Hennessey. "'Y'u bitter lave thot (On Page Three) to the praest. Y'r sore on Rosenfeld an' now y'r tryin' t quote God t' bak y'u up. A mon FOR VICE-PRESIDENT doan 'ave to be roit alius. Mebby 'Dear Al­ bin' was wrung th' ither toime, not thisun. ? ? ? I *# Raymember Albin was mad thot toime be­ (Name and full text ofe\gJatfo.rrh''" cuz the prisident vetooed y'r taxes. Wait a next week) zee 'ow y'u likes um." "Y'u doan git me," O'Shaughnessey de­ murred. "I'm not agin Rosenfeld so much but iverybody knowed he'd be named when he sed he wus willin' and so why go around knockin'? Barkley cud 'ave sed, 'Gemleton, the prisident, nomynated and illicted,' an' ended it all thare. The wurst thing ennyone kin zay agin the prisident is that he iz setting sich a gud hexample for Dewey and got Dewey follerin' 'em. I'm down on th' woy the Gran' Ole Purty set up th' New Deal as its ideal, assumin' riginality, and blastin' the New Deal fir it, an' now cums 'Dear Albin' and blasts it fir bein' copied. Guvviner Kerr (On Pag'*; Two") OLIVE JAME& F. BYRNES SAM RAYBURN ALBEN W. BARRXEY HENRY A. j-yALLACE By JOHN O'HARA ISS BISHOP had been the hotel's Suppose They Take Game to Justify Name guest six months without having HE unfortunate possibility of the coming campaign is that with the issues raised, and insane M put in or received a call worth lis­ charges made against President Roosevelt an the New Deal, contested as Thomas E. Dewey tening in on. Within a month of Miss Bish­ Tand the Old Shuffle threaten to contest them, it will mean, if Roosevelt and the New Deal op's checking in, Olive, the day operator, win, that the voters have given them carte blanche to go ahead and do exactly what the Republi­ knew all the regulars, outgoing and incom- cans promise for them. (On Page Seven) (On Page Three) Page Two THE MIRROR But the international When Mr. Dewey issue, — from the Re­ ELIEVE It publican standpoint. Deny it as they please Talking "Out of the isolationist and re­ Or ELSE.' actionary Republicans (From Page One) Turn" Juts' Mrs. read Col. Robert Ru­ of Oklahcmy, keynoting, did the zame thing." therford McCormick "Oi sae," Hennessey rejoined. "Y'u think Roosevelt Atop as though he were they shud braise the Gran' Ole Purty fir bein' a Jesus, and his Chicago thief, eh? Begorry, O'Shaughnessey, mebby y'u Tribune (Fremden­ blatt) with more con­ got sumtnin' thar. Thare tryin' to steal th' In Their Foars viction than they do the Bible. To listen to New Deal thunder an' disguise it as thare rain­ them revile The Sun, and then try to cover up bow, jus' like th' car thief mutylates the engin' by apologizing for The Tribune,—you soon get numbers, daubs on a new coat o' paint, zhanges their slant, as "straight as a bee-line." Recently th' licents plates, an' sets out to vool th' per- the Tribune (Chicago) had a cartoon of Mrs. lice." • Roosevelt, captioned, as she had said in part, And thus endeth the second chapter. "I am sometimes afraid of my own nation"; * -* * * horrors! "The white house fears America!" Treason! We must rid Washington of such Made it, "by the varment. ^Taciturn" Tom Is skin of his teeth," Roosevelt did, hav­ It is just like the G. O. P. quotation of ing come to the President Roosevelt, as of the 1940 campaign, Even Aping F.D.R. front finally, and that "your son will never be sent to fight on By "Skin ooff TeethTeeth"" s"^™- foreign soil,"—leaving off his addenda, "un­ vention that he was willing to have them skin­ less we are attacked." It makes a half truth ned. And incidentally, inspecting "Taciturn" worse than a whole lie, and ditto of Mrs. Roose­ Tom Dewey's smile, have you noticed that he velt, whose whole remark was, "I am some­ too'has a tusk; counterfeiting F. D. R. even in "If I ever pin another medal on you for bravery, don't times afraid of my own nation, lest tri2 people that,—notice to Deweyites (or "dewdr'ops") yell ouch!" beguiled by strange -gods follow them again into who even disdain the president's teeth. '— an isolation, and aloofness, that will eventually constitutional amendment to limit all income And the vice presidency? Well, it may be Henry Agard Wal­ plunge us into another world cataclism." Can. lace, now vice president, or James Francis Byrnes, economic sta­ taxes levied against corporations to 25%, except, ycu guess who she was talking about; wno she bilizer, or Sam Rayburn, speaker of the house, or "Dear Alben" they say, "in case of emergency." None of this, Barkley, senate majority leader, or Henry F. Schricker, governor of course, for the advantage of the members of was afraid of? Well, I'm afraid of the possible of Indiana and candidate for U. S. senator, et al, etc.—all of these various business organizations^ oh no. slide of America into that very sub-normalcy; whom have been variously considered on the trading block, since It makes all the difference in the world, you not exactly afraid, or scared, but distrustful. F. D. R. said he wouldn't "butt-in," and since he did. know, whose money it is, where it is going, and (On Page Five) what for. Business corporations John Henry simply won't wait for this column until the vice are forbidden to make campaign presidency is decided. I know, he is afraid it will be Wallace, and contributions, but oh how the SPuE'is he will probably head his ticket Roosevelt and Bricker, personal expense accounts ot just to be stubborn. He don't like Bricker either, thinks less of some officers, and directors, and him than of Dewey. He "says the Republicans picked the best of even branch managers, paid by the two, though both, "and yet," says, he, --"Wallace is 'impos- the corporations, do mount in sibler' than even Bricker." They'll fool around yet until they campaign years; indeed, mere find John Henry supporting Claude Watson, the Prohibitionist. traveling salesmen have been He is from Michigan too; farther up than either Hillsdale or known to contribute' to cam­ Owosso—Cadillac.