Evening star., 1940-11-05
November 5
To Be EurIy
Thanksgiving
Peace Will Return
To the Lond, and
It's Wonderful
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

oy JhI IT Hh4NhLINs
Painfully close inspection OF the
national landscape reveals a number
of valid reasons for Democrat, Re-
publican and innocent bystander-
for regarding November as an ad-
vance notice on Thanksgiving Day.
Among the undisguised blessings
OF this 1910 season it is possible TO
list the following without even turn
ing up the files of the morning news
papers or tuning in on the days
events.
National affairs will cease 10 re-
semble an irresistible force doing the
rumba with an immovable object.
Radio will get back to the serious
business Of plugging song-hits and
tooth paste and it will be possible to
twltch the dial without humping into
the -with-alarm
Newspapers will no longer inform
US that George Goofus was hailed by
cheering thousands-or met with a
disappointing reception-dependin
on the politics of the publisher, when
he spoke at Billsville in his crusade
Cor machine campaign for the
governorship of Winnemac.
The poll takers will return to poll
ing the American public on urgent
questions like do you think the
Chinese are fighting hard enough?"
or Are you in favor of having Eng
land win the war?"
Buttons Back to Normally.
Buttons will be round things with
which TO hold up your pants and
keep your shirt on, and not a stand
ing invitation to mayhem. ostracism
and other gentle preliminaries to
the ballot.
The Republicans will cease to sell
Roosevelt as national disease and
Willkie as a new, powerful yet harm
less antiseptic.
The Democrats will cease to sell
Willkie as a compound of Hitler,
j. P. Morgan and both Babes in the
Woods. or to argue that Roosevelt
is growing a halo and a pair of
wings.
Both parties will forget Washing
ton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jackson
and Lincoln for the next four years
and cease attempting to resolve all
practical problems in 1941 by pious
reference to the proceedings Of the
Constitutional Convention of 1887.
John L. Lewis will become a labor
leader again and labor leaders will
cease from acting like a mixture of
Boss Tweed, Little Orphan Annie
and the Voice of Experience.
Peace, It's Wonderful.
Joe Louis will once more be a
prize-fghter and not a campaign
promise.
Steve Early will be man and not
an issue.
Elliott Roosevelt will be a captain
of reserves and not a sinister portent
of New Deal cynicism.
The farmer can escape from being
saved for a while and labor can start
to work without being warned that
his job and his vote are Siamese
twins.
The taxpayer can resume his old
and honored profession of paying
taxes, with appropriate groans and
yells of anguish.
Congress can return to the busi-
ness of debating and enacting legis-
lation without having every comma
and semicolon referred in advance
to the Republican and Democratic
National Committees.
1t will be possible to ride In a
train, dine in a restaurant, 60 to the
movies or walk down a street with
out being asked to take part in a
straw vote. Neither will it be neces-
sary to back up your opinions by bet
ting weeks pay that you are going
to be in the majority.
We can begin to look after our
foreign interests, without making
every move with sole and serious
reference to the possible vote in Pike
County or to its effect on the split
in the fourteenth ward.
Wall Street will becoem a money
market rather than an argument.
Won't that be pretty fine and peace
full, after all the tumult and the
shouting Of the last two years?
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