The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

is a duty of national government
to perform its social obligations.
believe this administration has sin
cerely attempted to fulfill thosu
obligations. But that is only hal
the job. The OTHER HALF is t,
maintain, to ENCOURAGE tn,
economic system which support
the government and MAKES per
Torrance of SOCIAL 0BLIGA
TIONs POSSIBLE
Not far from the rolling Dor.
chester hills of Massachusetts, 6
farmer in 1884 wrestled with his
land. He lifted his eyes occasion.
ally to the far horizon-symbol to
him of the freedom he had come
so far to win.
But it is doubtful if in his minds
eye that simple God-fearing men
saw the limitless sweep of the
horizons of the America that was
to be; or if he saw over the hori-
zon the figure of one of his des-
cendants moving steadily toward
the highest office in the greatest
democracy in the world-the Presi-
dency of the United States.
That farmer was 7. Dewey. The
Descendant is Thomas E. Dewey,
born in owosso, Michigan, of
sturdy folk who followed their
destiny eve as they followed the
westward course of America.
Thomas E. Dewey belongs to
all America, for he is a typical
American who has used the OPP
portunities our country gives her
sons to advance his own career
as a public servant in behalf of
a better America for all. Thus
Dewey, the candidate, was born
to a Republican tradition in the
upstairs V a red brick general
store.
AS a boy, Tom Dewey attended
the public grammar and high
schools in his town. He worked in
his fathers newspaper office as
a printers devil; clerked and
swept the floors in a drug store;
sold magazines and delivered pa
pers. When he was sixteen he went
to the nearby farms to work dur
ing summer vacation for money
for college. He entered the Uni
versity of Michigan in 1919. He
continued to work and earn as he
studied he was a reporter and
telegraph editor on the University
Meantime, he delighted college
and church congregations
with his fine singing voice-the
voice that won him a coveted scho-
in New York-in New York
where ne was ultimately to rise
a national leader. Dewey studied
both law and voice there and in
the meantime, had met Frances
HUT. another voice student.
With characteristic seriousness,
the two young people waited I'M
til the young attorney had advanc-
ed sufficiently in his law practice
to enable them to marry. And on
June 16, 1928, which was five
years after they met, the pair
knelt in the chapel of st. Thomas's
Episcopal Church in New York
City and exchanged lows. Frances
HUT Dewey then and there gave
up all thought of a career of her
own to further her husband.
That career ever then was shap-
ing into a life work that had at it's
core the ideal of public service.
fwo years after his marriage,
had become chief assistant
States Attorney, admins
head Of the largest prose-
office in the Federal gov
eminent, with go lawyers working
lnder him. Then began the specta-
yet sound attack on crime
hat was to make Dewey's promo
ion inevitable. In a short time,
=: youngest UniGed States at
orney in the history of u coun-
ny, his accomplishments as a
'earless, hard-hitting, invincible
enemy of organized crime, graft
md corruption, were nationally
In October 1882, Mrs. Dewey
presented her husband with a son,
Thomas Edmund, Jr. John Martin
Dewey was born three years later
October, 1885.
By that time, Dewey had been
appointed special prosecutor. Then
n 1885, a New York County Grand
Jury sensed that the Tammany
District Attorney was ignoring
evidence of racketeering. They de-
cided to investigate and the seeds
of Indignation which Dewey not
sown as a prosecutor by pointing
out through his work the lethergy
and Indifference of local law en-
forcement agencies, began to bear
The Grand Jury called upon
the Governor to appoint a special