Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-26
TIIe same inanity carries over.

i then. into the campaigns.
On this expedition, Mr.. Dewey.
at Valentine, Neb.. was invited
into two traps which might
have cost him votes for reasons
having nothing whatever TO do
with his character, ability, in
telligence or political program.
Had he been willing and less
alert and wary. he might have
been photographed both for the
papers and the movies wearing
(A the traditional l0-gallon hat
of the cowman and OBJ the ira
ditional Indian war-bonnet OF
dyed chicken feathers.
The dullest imagination needs
no prompting 10 conjure the ef-
feet on newspaper or news
reel public of the spectacle OF
Mr.. Dewey. sedate as he Is and
little given 10 antics, peering
soberly from beneath either Of
these monstrositles and wearing
his conventional business mans
suit to heighten the absurdity.
The Political Action Commit
tee of the CIO-Communist front
should be willing TO pay a mile
lion dollars for such a scene be-
cause, being as we are, enough
of us thereupon. with no con-
sideration of the issues or de-
bates. would turn against Mr..
Dewey and take Mr.. Roosevelt
for a fourth term and be glad
to get him.
Mr.. Coolidge. whose sense Of
the ludicrous was stunted. did
yield on some occasions and we
saw him haying in overalls and
trouting in boots while wearing
a high, linen collar and an
apathetic expression.
AT EVERY overnight stop
"A along this route. Mrs. Dewey
has been interviewed and the
subject of every such audience
has been her two. or three. the
figure varies, nylon slips and her
SINAI and treasured store of
stockings.
These garments have tapped
from the brass tail board Of
their private car. strictly in a
manner of speaking. of course.
for several thousand miles and,
for the rest. Mrs. Dewey has
been asked 10 explain and has
done so, how woman can pack
sufficient clothing for so long
journey.
Limited by her reticence on
political subjects. the lady re-
porters have had a dull time OF
il and one may blow them a kiss
for doing such girlish pi eces
with the material on hand.
Yet the question sometimes
arises in our own little set on
board. just what possible bear
ing can this have on her hus-
bands qualifications and what
would be the effect if Mrs.
Dewey sometime were 10 say
tn at she wears a 24-button
union suit? Or that il was no
body's business but her own.
II there is a woman's vote,
Mr.. d. would lose the election
on that issue a lone and such
trivialities as peace, jobs. labor
and the re-establishment of rep
resentative government would
go by default.
The fact that Mrs. Dewey
must be along at all, is itself
indicative.
THERE Is, on such trips, a
L constant fear, amounting to
dread. that the candidate, him
self, speaking off the end of his
tongue from the tail board in
some small city, or his wife,
who might. conceivably, be the
garrulous and stupid spouse Of
another Lincoln. will make some
f1ippant or ill-considered remark \
that could destroy him utterly.
That we would reject a man
because of casual answer to a
calculated question or because
his wife erred in some remark,
her manners or her dress is no
less possible than absurd.
We want him wise. impec-
cably righteous, domestic and
kind. little droll. moist with
the Dewey sweat OF sentiment.
happy in his home life and. inn
peratively a regular member Of
some church.
Copyright, 1914, by United Features. synd.