The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-01
Observations
Why Don't COP.
Candidates Admit
Plans TO Run?
BY Helen Essery


Since half the Republican party
wants TO be president Of the Unit
ed States, why in the name OF
simple reason and Harrison Spang-
Ter can't some Of the crew say so
out loud understand. in poll
tics II is fatal 10 say anything at
about loud. Why is this so
In this pre-convention era
through which We are wandering.
so the soothsayers declare, every
Republican possibility feels that
until he is certain there is real
chance Of President Roosevelt be-
ing defeated he dare not expose
himself to the sings, or is IL
"stings", and arrows OF the mach
inatious New Deal or the brick
bats from within his own political
group
Until that day when word gets
around that the current president
is packing up for Hyde Park, all
the. Republican boys do is talk
about unity and Abraham Lin
coin. And vow that being presi-
dent is the last hope OF their pal
plating hearts.
Meanwhile, they tour the coun-
try complete with publicity chiefs,
lovely wives, and set Of speeches
that say nothing in six syllabled
and high sounding phrases.
II the Old Guard doesn't want
Wendell Willkie, and I gather II
does not. then the Old Guard had
better instruct some one or two OF
its better men to stop weighing
away from the truth. Following
wicked Wendell's" way, let these
fellows stand up in meetin' and
shout, ~ DO want to be president
OF the United States.
Funny, you never hear OF but
one Democratic possibility. It's
as though there were no Demo-
Gratis in all the world except Frank
lin ID. Roosevelt. II Cordell Hull
were younger he would make a
stout-hearted opposition to Mr..
Roosevelt. And believe Hull would
speak up about his plans. He's
. seldom coy.
The trouble with the Republican
party is this: II hasn't wit enough
10 see that it should be more like
Mrs. Dolly Gam. I'm quite SER
ious.
Dolly Gam is an inspiration to
anybody or any organization. Pub
lie citizens may come and go. Wars
come and linger. Administrations
come and adhere. But Dolly Gam
around whom that precedence feud
stewed when her brother, Charlie
Curtis, was Mr.. Vice President,
goes on forever.
Dolly Gam goes on looking the
same, acting the same, being the
same as she was years ago when
she insisted that she as the vice
presidents sister and hostess
should outrank Alice Roosevelt
Iongworth, wife of the speaker Of
the House OF Representatives.
The same bright. eager look
shines on Dolly's friendly face.
The same sort of hat with the
same sort of feather aderns Deiiys
head (She always was and always
will be a pretty woman) | venture
TO say she hasn't gained or lost a
pound since the Charlie Curtis days.
| also venture to say that she has
not changed her mind or her 10y
alties an iota in the years that
have passed.
II occurs to me that Dolly Gam
would make a smart mascot for
the webbing anti-administration
group. She does not apologize or
explain. She marches straigf.
ahead. Complete with orchids and
the conviction OF the infallibility
of Brother Charles party. II is
possible she has more spunk than
the rest OF the Republican party
Jumped together.
IT is EVIDENT. from the way
President Roosevelt and several
bishops and generals talked about
the military necessity for the
wrecking Of the ancient Benedic-
tine monastery atop Mount Casst
no that they aren't too comfortable
about the Allied bombing OF a re-
lIgious shrine.
This is undoubtedly the most de-
grading war that ever was fought.
Degrading 10 human beings and TO
the faith they have tried to hold.
Regardless OF any military or legal
necessity. the church. any church
OF any creed has always been re-
garded as sanctuary for the wret-
ched creatures who had to flee 10
II for protection.
Perhaps Il was a military neces-
sity. a duty to destroy the hiding
place OF those Nazis who had been
destroying our men. But is It a
military necessity that we cheer
when the symbols Of Christianity
topple into ruins under the bonn
bardment OF our own guns?
Certainly We must take a life
before we lose a life. Certainly We
must protect our own.
fiut wc-cnte+eA this war in ordel
to save decency. freedom and
truth. DO not let us come out OF
N covered with the enemy's mud