The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
(NEA Telephoto)

implied that the Republicans had eengplFed to make it difficult or impossible for service men and women and other absentee voters to participate In this years election.
 "I think the people will Do able to fix the responsibility for this state of affairs" he said, flor they know that during this past year there were politicians who quite openly worked to restrict the use of the ballot in this election, hoping there are many unsDemoeratie de- fleets in our ordinary voting laws and made Q powerful paragraph appeal for Negro support by deelar. ing;
 "The right to vote must be open to our citizens irrespective of race, color or ereed-without tax or arti- fieial restriction of any kind, Tho sooner we get to that basis of poe litieal equality, tho better 1t will he for the country As Q whole"
 He warned that the war Is not yet won, but that German and Japanese resistance remains as "de- termined and fanatieal AS eVer,"
 We shall have to fight our way across the Rhlne-we may have to fight every inch Of the way to Ber- lin," he said, But we Americans and our British and Russian and French and Polish allies-all the massed forces of the United Nations will not stop short of our final goal"
 But the controversial campaign subjects with which MT. Roosevelt dealt in most detail were Commun. Ism and the Republican charge that the administration eontemplates keeping men in tho armed services until there are jobs for them out. side.
 Promising that service men twill come home and be returned to eiv- ilian life at the earliest possible moment consistent with our nations al safetyi' tho president accused Governor Thomas E, Dewey, Repub- llean presidential candidate, with use Of reckless words" in implying to the contrary. Dewey has repeats cd an assertion by Major General Lewis D. Hershey, Chief of Seleetive Service, that it would Do as cheap to keep men in the service as 1t would to create on agency for them when they are out.
 ''1t seems c pity" MT. Roosevelt said, that reckless words, based on unauthoritatiVe sources, should DO used to mislead and to weaken the morale of our men on the fight- Ing fronts and the members Of their families here Rt home"
 He said that legislation enacted last spring provided specifically "that War and Navy Departments shall not retain persons in the armed forces for the purpose of preventing unemployment or await. ing opcFtunlfjAa for employment q"
 MT. Roosevelt also pledged that wagtin1e controls and restrictions would Do lifted lat the earliest practicable moment" after final dc. feat of our enemies. And he re. called that "strict provisions for ending these inconveniences have been written into our wartime lowS," suggesting that those who fear they will be unduiy extended should examine the laws in ques- ton.
 "The American people do not need, and no national administra- ton would dare to ask them, to to- lerate any indefinite continuance in peacetine of the controls essential in war tine," he said.
 Leading into his repudiation of Communist support with Q state. ment that "all decent Americans" regret the dragging of red herrings by political propagandists, the pres- ident said that labor baiters and bigots and some politicians use the term Communism loosely, and ap- ply 1t to every progressive social measure and to the views Of every foreign born citizen with whom they disagree"
 T have just been looking" the president continued, "at a state- Inent by Rep. Anderson, chairman of the House Committee on cam. paign expenditures, about @ docu. ment recently sent free, through the mails, by one senator and i2 representatives-all of them Repub- iicang.
 "They evidently thought highly of this document, for they had more than three million copies printed by the government printing af6aoe requiring nA0g0 than 1e tons oe scarce pnper-an0 ssnt then through tho maile and all over tine country at the taxpayers' cxpense.
 'sghls document says that the