Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-10
Dewey S Challenge
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES


men" of the party now turned its duties over to
younger men he set the keynote of the fine speech
of acceptance of the presidential nomination Of
Thomas +. Dewey.
For the essence of Gov Dewey's speech was
the challenge of the eternally youthful spirit of
America to defeatism.
This direct challenge is embodied in the fol-
lowing words of the governors acceptance speech:
1T is the New Deal that tells us that America
has lost its capacity to grow We shall never build
better world by listening to those cOunsels of
defeat. Is America old and worn out as the New
Dealers tell us? Look to the beaches of Normandy
for the answer. Look to the reaches of the wide
Pacific-tO the corners of the world where Ameri-
can men are fighting. Look to the marvels of pro.
duction in the war plants in your own cities and
towns. l say to you: Our country is just fighting
its way through to new horizons The future of
America has no limit"
MO MORE inspiring and old-line American doc
~ trine has been uttered by candidate for
president in our time.
Again the accent is on the spirit of youth in
the governors address wherein he said in speak
ing of the choice of the cabinet if he is elected:
"They (the cabinet members) will each be
experienced in the task to be done and YOUNG
DEFEATISM HAS BEEN IMPLICIT IN
THE WHOLE PROGRAM OF THE NEW DEAL
FOR II YEARS.
What the administration has called "progres-
sve legislation" has really been defeatist legisla
ton in which the spirit of individuaism and
self -reliance has been branded as worn out doc
trines-"horse-an and buggy" Americanism
The New Dealers have told us, says Gov.
Dewey that America is old and out.
The charge made by Gov Dewey must be
self-evident in its truth to any one who examines
the whole trend Of New Deal legislation since 1888
1t has been away from the traditional Amer-
can system and fundamental American ideals
toward WORKOUT and reactionary European and
Asiatic stateism
Our rulers for II years-who now demand
further tenure of office-have lost faith in the
founding fathers
For self-reance they would substitute state
dependence.
They not only made us believe we were organ-
caly i'll but they have kept us sick for purely
political purposes.
THEY have made us believe that there were no
Pacific, as Gov. Dewey says, have by their
of adventure.
They have, from the inception of the NRA to
cradle grave security tried to turn this country
into nursing home
The internationasts among the New Dealers
have tried to make us believe that were no
longer capable of independent and autonomous
action
All this is what Gov. Dewey rightly calls
"counsels Of defeat"
This campaign is then, to be- thanks to Mr.
of the youthful, nspirational far-reaching, far
seeing soul of America against those systems of
RECOMMENDATION and bureaucratic NANNY" gov
eminent which, borrowed from Europe and Asia
are the unquestionable signs of national and in
dividual decay.
HOWEVER, our fighters in Europe and in the
IL Pacific, as Gov. Dewey says, have by their
prowess fearlessness and fire themselves cha
lenged the decayed and paternalistic program of
the New Deals II years.
GOV. DEWEY AND GOV. BRICKER ARE
SOUND, IN THE LARGER SENSE, ON ALL
POINTS OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
POLICY.
In the first the accent is on free enterprise
free individual expression and youthful optimism
in America future.
In the second the accent is cooperation
with and not dependence on foreign powers.
With Dewey and Bricker we 60 forward to
more hopeful America
With the New Dealers we have nothing to
hope for but totalitarian robotism.