Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-01

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factor.
1T is quite apparent, therefore, that
1 State Chairman Farley is not
fighting merely for Mr.. Bennett in
this contest, and that the New York
campaign is not a matter that con-
Germs New York alone.
And there is still another COM
polling reason why the people of New
York and Of the other states can
hardly approve their Chief EXecu-
tive's time-consuming attention to
election politics at this alarming
hour.
Because of his august office, the
President is charged with response
bility for the conduct of the war
and the war is not going well for us.
Russia, with her back against
the Caucasus, pleads for more help
from us.
China, cut off from the seas,
needs our airpfanes and bombs.
India is restless and in great
danger
Field Marshal RommePs forces
still menace Alexandria and the
Suez Canal.
The japanese are in the Aleu-
tians, ON AMERICAN SOIL, and
are widening their approaches to
Australia, where General Macarthur
stands on guard awaiting our con-
voys.
Half Of our motor transporta-
ton is idle, or partly idle, for want
of gasoline, and millions of people in
the North Atlantic states face the
rigors of a cold winter with a lack
of fuel to heat their homes.
Axis submarines are sinking
our merchant shipping faster than
we can replace our losses, and Axis
shipyards are launching submarines
faster than we can destroy them.
An ineffective labor policy has
produced a recurrence Of strike de-
lays in ornaments industries, and
Congress out of leaderless timidity
hesitates to prevent a disastrous in
flation.
4 MIDST these unprecedented perils
Il New Yorks petty politicians are
allowed to trek to the White House to
discuss" their animosities and their in
trigues with the Commander-in-C Chief Of the
army and navy, little reckoning that every
moment Of presidential time that is con-
sumed by these itinerants is precious time
lost forever from one of the most momen-
tous tasks in all history.
1t is no wonder that Mark Sullivan frankly
reports in his column in the New York Herald
Tribune that there is concern among thought
full persons over President Roosevelts inter-
vention in New York politics"
THE concern" he said "arses because of
the diversion OF the Presidents temperament
leads him TO take part in state political
contest at such time aS this.
What is meant by such time as this?
1T is time when the war is at a crisis
when several conditions i'm Washington yitally
affecting the war are i'm paralyZing confusion;
and when. because of that, it is not too much
TO say fatty that the war is going against us.
seriously-at this precise moment, critically"
Nor only critical military operations, but
' also vital domestic affairs are evidently
being shunted aside by POLITICS.
Dealing with Just one of these obstruc-
tons, News Week says
Leon Henderson has been roaring pri.
Nately over His inability to see the President
about the subsidy program. WHILE PRIN-
CIPALS IN NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL
BATTLE TAKE HOURS OF PRECIOUS
PRESIDENTIAL TIME"
In these fateful days, which may deter
mine the survival or the fall of the republic,
II is Ubiquitous FOR connvng New Deal office.
holders 20 be signing phoney petitions and to
be consortug with native Reds 1t is disgrace
iu for ward-heelers TO be visiting the White
House md impeding the defense Of America
against The alien enemy