Evening star., 1940-10-17
Roosevelt Royal Line
In Third Term Hit /
By Mrs. Norris
|, 500 Hear Novelist
Urge WiIIkie Victory
At Campaign Rally

Kathleen Norris, novelist, took the
stump for Wendell L. Willkie last
night during a rally of the Willkie-
McNary Campaign Club of the local
Republican State Committee in the
Willard Hotel to tell an enthusias-
tic'crowd of $500 that the crisis in
this country today is as great as
any in its history and that the
blame lay with the New Deal.
She hammered at President
Roosevelt with both ingenuity and
wit and warned her listeners that
if he is reelected the country will
stand aghast at what it could not
see before"
She charged the Presidept with
leading the country to the brink OF
war by his creation of repeated
false crises"
Only after the remarkable NOM
nation" of Mr.. Willkie, she de-
clared, did President Roosevelt "as-
sure the mothers of America that
ne was not going to send our boys
to the battlefields of Europe" She
added that he had taken this stand
too late"
Sees "ROyal Line"
Mrs. Norris said a third term
would mean royal line" of Roose-
velts that would be an end to de-
mocracy and looked to the No
Svember elections to bring an end
to that madness of power in evil
dence in Germany. Italy and right
here in the United States"
She accused President Roosevelt
of having broken down the moral
fiber of the Nation by creating the
belief that the old frontier spirit
is gone by creating class hatred,
by insisting that there would al
ways be frt n 8 to 10 million un-
employed aid that from now on
"one of every five persons will have
to sit around and take crumbs from
the hand collecting large sums. =
The result. she said, was a future
jeopardized by the bland gesture of
charity"
Americans thrive on adversely,
Mrs. Norris insisted. I'VE like to
face depression and get by it. We
like to look back and say we married
on s22 a week. We like to see if
what worked before won't work
again"
Once capital is freed of these
maddening restrictions, she said,
the United States will move on TO
a golden era"
Sees No Horse in Stream.
Answering the argument that
America should not change horses
in the middle of the stream. Mrs.
Norris said:
I'VE are not up on a horse and
I don't know what stream there is
unless it is straem of promises
I think we're stradding a weary little
donkey. 1t might be smart to climb
up on big strong elephant"
While insisting that we send no
soldiers abroad, Mrs. Norris said she
wanted her devoted affection to
gallant England" understood, and
indorsed the sending Of every aid to
Britain short of men"
She said that America was apart
from all other countries of the world
and not detached European state,
as some would have us believe.
Whatever We do" she added, we
cannot solve the problems of Euro
peans who have failed to solve these
same problems themselves in thou
sand years"
Randall Cation. attorney of Alex
andria, Va, will speak at BIS
O'Clock tonight over Radio Station
VOL in one of series of 5-minute
radio talks being given Tuesday and
Thursday evenings under auspices
of the Willkie Washington Commit
tee. Last night the committee kept
open house" at It's headquarters,
727 Fifteenth street NV. for per-
sons to listen to the radio broadcast
of the speech py Wendell Willkie.
G. 0 P. presidential candidate. de-
livered in Cincinnati and for the
broadcast of Thomas E. Dewey's S
Michigan address.
Members of Young Willkie Clubs
in the District, Maryland and Vir-
ginia will meet at pm. tomorrow
at the home of Leonard Williams,
7 Virginia street, Chew Chase, Md,
preparatory to staging an automo-
bile parade in nearby Maryland and
Virginia, it was announced today.
A boys band is to lead the pro-
ceSSion.
Russell Balderson. chairman of
the Democratic Central Committee
for the District of Columbia, has
issued notice 20 all persons living
here and who maintain voting resi-
dence in Colorado that they must