Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH
-OR FOURTH TERM VOTES

to high office, Roosevelt MADE flghI
smart effort helping the people in max
ing such call in his Saturday night
speech.
As vote-getting speech there is room
for argument.
Delivered before chosen group pledg-
ed to do everything possible to put him
in for fourth time, the President round
ly was cheered, and the rOugher he got,
the more epithets he used, the louder
the cheers. His stop introduction ovation
was exactly five minutes to stop watch
second.
After an analysis of the speech, word
for word, one conclusion clearly can be
made, and there scarcely can be any dis
agreement there, and that is that the
fourth term will not change one whit
from the other three terms in policy
He made the labor leaders feel good
when speaking directly to their interests,
but applause tapered off when the speak
er drifted into other bounds.
Heralded as one of possibly only two
political speeches for the entire cam
paign, the new deal three-times President
told the country his administration had
not failed in a single phase; that already
the reconversion period pattern is well
will carry the nation to unheard of
peaks of prosperity and progress
Thus have close listeners to his speech
come to the main point after diVesting
his remarks of their epigramatical en-
bellishmentS.
There was nothing said of scaling down
the 3,125,0O0 federal employees now on
the payroll, exclusive of the 100000 out
side continental United States. Indeed,
the President told his hearers that more
agencies and bureaus already have been
set up to put into effect reconversion
programs.
The fourth term will continue to boil
ster wages and prices through subsidies.
The business and industries of the ma
tion will continue to be under the throt-
ting RECOMMENDATION of scores of bureaus;
there will be another four years Of CON-
plete regulation of every citizens daily
life.
There will be higher and higher taxes
to keep these bureaus going with their
countless regulators at fancy salaries.
There will be food regulations with
vast surpluses going to waste
There will be no check or brake on the
mounting national debt and there will
be no plan to pay the war debt.
The well-known and criminal spend
ing policy will go on and on
In fact there will be no change. That
the President promised.
He forgot all about telling his select
audience that his boasted rescue" of the
nation from 1888 to 1897 cost the tax
payers 68 billion dollars, not cent of
which has been paid and all Of it drawing
interest. This interest alone on the new
deal recovery days is more today than
the annual cost of the entire federal gov
ernment the years prior to the advent of
the new deal into power.
There isn't much the commander-in-
chief can add in any subsequent speech.
He told it ALL or didn't tell it all Satur-
day night in his bid for an office he has
declared must come as a gift from the
people.
He rests his waiting for the call'' case
on this one speech.
Paris is precious symbol Of that civil
ization which it was the aim of Hitler and
his armed hordes to destroy. We rejoice
with the gallant French people at the
liberation of their capital.-President
Roosevelt.
Nothing can ever undermine the Jap
anese from believing that they will
never be invaded by the enemy.-Toshio
Shiratori former ambassador to Italy.