The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-09
- WARNS PARTY
0F INDEPENDENT
VOTERS STRENGTH
continued From Page One)

no greedy" the President
sala. am convinced that most
ANY j., the United States do have
peopS n-vith a real feeling of
o in the moralities involved
pls ss+ we have been moving for
these later years in the right
DIRECTION ; pssentia1
philosophical thread which
l% Enough the address emphasized
rh thought that what made Jack
'e and others of the nations
IA men truly great was a devo-
gre" "a the goodof the whole ma
t s'n nlaced above what is good for
, ma marty. Government is more i'm
'n .ant than politics, he said, but
pU ,,.;os and the two-party system
pv' essential to the good Of gov
%,rnnent'
parties" he said, "are good in
.nr,pnts for the purpose Of pre-
A..ing and explaining issues, of
s+n,ming up interest in elections
..l of improving the breed of
an3iiates for public office"
The speech too abounded in the
.,ins and d~rolleries for which Mr..
ooasevelt is famous, many of them
,m9isbIv aimed at the three re-
rrbIican leaders-senator McNary
mrsl, Senator Austin (Vt.), and
D.n Martin (Mass.)-who declined
Invitations to the dinner.
ua started out, for instance.
Nth a story of a school teacher
nbo described Heaven to her class
# small boys and asked how many
n them wanted to go there. AL
bn- one held up his hand.
Teacher said. Charlie, Charlie
vcNary, you don't want to go to
Heaven? Why not?"
Teacher, sure I want to go to
Heaven. but" Charlie said, point
ing to the rest of the boys in the
ron-"Not with that bunch"
Mr.. Roosevelt went on to say
that although the three republican
leaders had been offered "a $1,000
dinner with all the fixin's free
no cover charge-no 500 check
no tips-nothin' to sign and moth
in to line and a ringside seat at
a nom political plate-side chat" they
had, believe it or not" sent "po-
lite regrets
Elaborately Sorry
The President was deliberately
sorry at their refusal because had
they come he could have told them
not only about Andrew Jackson,
but about Abraham Lincoln as
well and could even have given
them free. though unsolicited, ad-
vice on how to reconstitute the re-
publican party successfully along
the lines on which Abraham Lin
coin created it." He added:
"As the leader Of the democratic
party I felt nc reluctance to give
them good advice for I was sure
that they would not use it-they
Of little faith"
And toward the close of his ad-
dress, Mr.. Roosevelt remarked that
his words had contained little
or no partisanship," as he had
promised the republicans would be
the case.
They are grand fellows" he OBJ
served, "liked by me and by every
democrat in congress.
BY comparison with Mr.. Roose-
Velts previous Jackson Day
Speeches, the address was non
partisan. Absent were the resound.
ing blows at his republican foes
and his critics within the demo-
cratic party. And when all was
sad and done. there was no init
nation of what his third term
plans may be.
Part Of the address was devoted
10 the international situation.
The people of the United States
.ne President said, recognize two
facts today: The first is that the
"orld outside u hemisphere is in
really bad shape. This is a matter
iol lor pessimism or optimism; it
Is a matter for realism. It is a
i@V-a fact so big that few PEG
pe nave grasped it's meaning-a
iacs 50 big in it's effect on the fu-
lure OF the world that all our lit
ae partisan squabbles are shame
il IN the light of it.
Inc second is that we have
maze great gains at home in our
own economic prosperity and in
Ne security of our individual citi
Aens' These gains must not be chip
teu away: they must be only g
n.puHuatlon on which to build fur
lher gains.
behlnd us lies accomplished q
.eally big job. It was the creation
w. u the funk of the early thir.
aS OF a new spirit with which we
now face the forties."
IN the subject of independent
ossiS' Mr.. Roosevelt said "wise
sI leaders" realized that the
,uoIlc was more interested in gov
--neht than in politics, that the
HIATT lin NAHn