The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-11-23

as the ballots IneIuSSiSCSy "SA.
once counted, lose their value and
become waste paper. Only SUBJ
stance survives. FalsenesS cannot
endure the calmer atmosphere OF
reasoning and acquire perman-
ence.
[. In the closing of the campaign
le hasty people on the radio, for
7SSSfance. suggested Dewey or
Roosevelt should be impeached for
something or other which was not
clear in the speakers excited
minds, and at the other extreme
I heard the all too reasonable
suggestion that now the election
is over the losers should give in
their viewpoints to the winners.
..The issues are decided" and now
we must all work together" Meth
err course is likely to be followed
this time. The frenzied few will
quiet down gradually from inn
parchment thoughts as they come
face to face with new develop
ments. It is equally inevitable
that the genuine faith of people
in certain truths and ideals at
the moment I am writing this, is
not going to be turned. around for
the espousal of opposite ideals
after election.
But there was a surviving SUBJ
stance developed during this cam
paign-a substance which could be
as important to the future of the
country and the world as the out
IF fhc, election
Both Promised / SD
Both sides promised the same
things in great instances. This
agreeable residue of the debate is
what the country has the right to
expect from the victor, indeed
what it must insist upon. The
mutual promises were basicaHy
these: ,..-s,... .s.,sg. ....5E,,.: .z
Jobs. Dewey promised them to
4 all and Roosevelt promised 60, 1000,
800. Indeed they both promised the
- bod of furnishing them-free
&c A%rprise. Both promised against
the Communist and Social
list way of furnishing them Gree
enterprise clearly disavows social
istic methods).
Both promised a high-wage.
high-priced economy with fair
employment practices and Mr..
Roosevelt even defined his liv-
ing wage as applying only to "a
full work week" in rejection Of
previous trends toward less
work. Both promised quick vic
tory and a sound peace. and
nearly agreed on how. They said
they would continue existing
military leadership for war. and
would seek peace through the
Dumbarton Oaks arrangement
for a new League of Nations. On
one league point only did they
differ. and then not as much as
advertised. The most fervid
Rooseveltian internationalists
THE Ball-Davenport MINORITY
said they wanted the American
agent in the league council to
vote for war only by constitu-
tional means. and that is actu-
ally what Dewey insisted upon.
Behind these generalized agree
'mentS, there now lies of course
great prospects of change and
sharp irreconciliable differences
on both sides. On the Roosevelt
side, or rather the inside, it be-
came evident State Secretary
HulPs health might eliminate his
hcund search for unity on foreign
Gcy, and the administrations
eonomic director James Byrnes
definitely made arrangements to
quit before election. If someone
like Sumner Welles happened to
get HulPs job, you can readily
seen how the measure of unity
so far achieved would fade away.
II the radicals took control of
Byrne's place, the change in dom
este policies would be equally
sharp. The changes through new
administration leadership by
dewey were more obvious and
fully presented.
No doubt the various self.
seeking classes will be Interpret
ing the general result for their
own purposes by the time you
read this. so il may be we'll to
get the truth in first: A Roo
seveh victory would not be a
victory for the purposes of any
OF the minority groups which
TOOK leadership in seeking his
elechon. because they do not
e0nirol enough votes to accom-
push such a result. Such a class
9lcIorY was not promised. Roo
seVelt declared the winner, il
was solely because so many
people were afaird of the war
ana thought he could conclude
II sooner Or better. A Dewey
Victory would have reflected a
demand for change.
There is less cause for the quad
4elliilel metamorphosis this time
~ course. the frenzied few man.
aseo 10 call each other liars. but
aiot many proved it, and after all
anyone IN politics is supposed to be
i.dI these days, so the charge is
s5aly sensational.
S a matter of fact I achieve
tne distinction of being called a
6lar oy Tour or five of nv 100000
G F readers circulation going up)
i ioa having quoted MIR. r. as say
ing IN his Boston speech that he
moelo never send our BOYS abroad