The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-12

rssponsibilty for the personal views Of M. f9gef,
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers. His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1914, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
| NEW YORK-Adoh Berle, the old varsity
brain-truster, has cut himself liberal slab
of umbrage because Governor Dewey, in his
Charleston speech, said he once advocated a
each Of us where we would work, at what
and for how much
| Without passing judgment as to whether Mr..
Berle did or didn't say that, I must warn
him that if he does repudiate these ideas he
| is out of step with his eminent colleagues,
Mrs. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, and reads
himself right out Of the cult
| Not long after Pearl Harbor, Mrs. Roosevelt
came out for precisely the system that Mr..
Dewey described and with a little more en-
phasis and detail, too. AS a logged reader
Of Mrs. Roosevelt's journalism, highly pro-
fitable gift which descended on her suddenly
| in dead heat with the election returns of
| 1882, have learned to clip and file away her
| columns in little punches tied with red ribbon.
And 50, going straight to my treasure on
reading of Mr.. Berries denial I found that
Mrs Roosevelt wrote on one of her rare visits
to the White House exactly as follows:
We SoAAlS w VIC VSAy SASoA OSSASAo4S udAAAS-
ly that all Of us, men and women in the
services and men and women at home, should
be drafted and told what job we are to do.
The only way can see to get the maximum
| service out Of our citizens is to draft us
| all and tell US where we can be most useful
and where our work is needed"
| On another day, moreover, Mrs. Roosevelt
expressed impotence with that quaint Ameri-
can way which permitted young man to be-
| cOrna doef0r roara1v her he wantad
| be doctor and to sit for patients wherever
he elected to, regardless Of the community s
needs.
| II don't know whether my opponent" mean
| ing Mrs. RS husband, "calls that system COM
munism or national socialism or fascisn,' -
Mr.. Dewey said at Charleston, He can take
| it any way he likes. It's his program, not
mine"
| Actually, it is communism, national social
| ism and fascism, because such controls are
inherent in all three. Anyway, it certainly is
Hitlerism for which, by a charming irony,
President Roosevelt has been known to express
a degree of distaste, because Hitler, as you
probably remember, bore down with great en-
phasis on the folly, as he saw it, of permitting
| a young Heinie to become doctor or violinist
when there was current shortage of plumbers
or airplane mechanics. Or, having permitted
a young man to become a doctor, Hitler re-
| served the power to select the site of his prac-
tise. II there were already three doctors in
a three-doctor town, the new young doctor
couldn't practise there even though it were
his home town and, of course, this control
presented opportunities for the bureaucrats to
shake down the medical profession for favor
itism in assignments. This might be tempta-
ton to some Of Mrs. Roosevelt's political col
leagues. unthinkable though it may be to some
| OF us, that the Joe Guffey machine or the
Hague or Kelly mobs could stoop to venality
in the service of that soldering and faceless
nonentity whom the bleeding hearts Of Wash
ington so patronizingly refer to as the COM
mon man.
| Mr.. Hopkins went even a little further than
Mrs. Roosevelt, whose house-guest he was at
tf.at time, in the role of the man who came
to dinner. In a magazine article, written by
a ghost under his name, Mr.. Hopkins was
firmly admonitory and said: mo American,
anywhere, not in the war effort, should be
allowed to decide for himself how much he
will do or how much he will give.''
| Mrs. Roosevelt hadn't said anything about
giving but here was Mr.. Hopkins telling the
subjects that not only their services but their
earnings and property must be placed freely
| and wholly at the disposal of that firm but
! benevolent force called IN e government of
which he has ever remained highly influen-
tial personality to the utter bafflement of old
Charlie Michelson who wrote that he never
| COu4Q unUeTSCdnQ WNdt MIL ItOOScVSlL saw IN
him.
Millions not now in jobs must 60 to work, ;"
Mr.. Hopkins wrote women who cannot work
| in factories and shops will perform such es-
sential tasks as caring for children whose
mothers are working in munitions plants,
workers will have to be billeted in homes
and many a social leader will become a
boarding house keeper. Doctors and dentists
will 90 to communities where they are most
needed. Some students should quit high school,
zee no reason for wasting time on nones-
sentials such as Chaucer and Latin. diploma
can only be framed and hung on the WALL
So here, from two of the most powerful
new dealers we. have scenario even more
drastic and detailed than that Mr. Dewey at
tributed to Mr.. Berle, the only hedge being, Of
course. that this program is proposed primari
Nv as war emergency measure.
But Mr. Roosevelt has never yet relinquish-
cd any power or control granted him for an
emergency and moreover, if the entire nation
were in the government service the, obviously,
Decentralization and unemployment in private
industry never could be accomplished That
NAV be what Mr. Dewey had in mind
-V- w
don't think I need a lawyer.
All I did was hold up a crap game.-Man
arrested in Cincinnati, O..