Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-03
FAIR w.
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Peeler
THE party is beginning TO get


Booth Luce, a Republican, OF
course, and a warty, shapeless
old bag with pool-table legs and
face that would clabber milk
mile away. is running for re-
election to Congress.
l toss in this little dash OF
descriptive matter about Mrs.
Luce because her campaign
manager says II is unfair to her
10 keep on writing how good
looking she is as this tends TO
suggest that she is using SEX
appeal on the stays and might
ALLEVIATE the women's vote. These
dispatches aim To be fair.
THE Communists of the Pollt-
l. ical Action Committee have
ganged up on the frowsy old
ostrich in greater force and We.
hemence than they have eXerted
against any other nominee IN
the county except Tom Dewey
himself. and now il has been
announced that Mr.. Big, in per-
son. will make a tailboard APP
-pearaHee- and tess off few
remarks i'm his Groton-HarVard
dialect as he passes through
Bridgeport, Saturday, on his
way to Boston.
Henry Wallace, the Johnny
Appleseed of the campaign, who
has been thumbing his way
around the East like a widowed
bum and making a speech
wherever he finds as many as
two prospects, or even one,
gathered in rapt and eager
throng. is scheduled to speak
in IL towns.
This personal attention from
the President and the forgotten
man might be attributed to a
spirit of perso nal revenge
against the poor, unsightly
Wench because she sometimes
gives an imitation OF Eleanor
Roosevelt telling humorous
and comlcal anecdote about the
time Franklin said he would
like TO have his shoes soled and
the second butler hooked them
10 the cash-clo' man thinking
Franklin had meant that he
wanted them sold.
lust to give you an idea of
~ the ferocity of the CUnmu-
mist campaign, Clifton Fadiman,
sometimes known as Killer
Fadiman, the bull butterfly of
the literary teas, made An ora
ton the other night IN which he
dropped an ominouS hint that If
the Republicans should win the
election we would have a civil
war.
Anyway. those citizens Of
Connecticut who may be toying
with the idea of voting Republi-
can cannot say the Killer didn't
give them fair warning that
heads will roll and the cutters
run with gore if they wreak
their wicked will at the polls
come election day. The Repub-
leans may even take down their
ticket in fear.
The Killer also accused Mrs.
Luce of bad manners, being
quite an authority on swlnish-
ness by re son of long associa-
ton, to say nothing of natural
gift. and said she is fresh from
the foX-holes of Park Avenue"
a remark which elected from
her the inquiry: And where is
your fox-hole ?" which was ir-
relevant, of course.
WHEN she isn't prowling
w around the streets soaring
babies and bulldogs with that
mug of hers, Mrs, Luce takes
trips 10 the war, in person, and
she has invited the killer to
come on up sometime and swap
"reminiscences about foX-holes
under battle conditions.
Another OF the commands
selected for this shock opera
ton by the Communicative
Deal-Political Action Commit
tee Axis is old Dorothy Thomp-
son, who has been fading away
as a pundit eve since 1910
when she thought il would be
good idea not to bother 10 hold
a presidential election.
The Luce heard Quentin Reyn-
olds. known 10 the night clubs
as the artful check-dodger, in
one of the attacks from the
outside, and suggested that the
place for a war correspondent
was with the invasion army and
certainly not Connecticut, of
which he is not resident.
II do not envy this man who
has chosen this battle" she
said, instead of reporting the
battles in which our men are
fighting and dying"
WELL, this will give you an
w idea of the Importance of
this particular congressional dis
trict 10 the New Deal and their
Communists.
ON labor and war measures
her record is Just about perfect
even from their own standpoint
but for these two reasons they
are out toNmow her down.
Most of the conversational
commands are written out