Evening star., 1944-11-01
~ the Associated Press.

BUFALO, N. Y, N0D. 1.-The
teIt OF GoU. Thomas E. DeDeys
speech on postwar employment,
delipered here last night, tollo,us.
Tonight want to ask you to look
ahead into our future as Nation
Join me in, looking at what our
country will face the day after VIC
tory over our enemies.
But first let me give you right
now two solemn assurances prompt
ed by the speeches of my opponent
last Friday and Saturday.
Your next President will never use
his Office to claim personal or po-
Iitical profit from the achievements
of the American people or from
the sacrifices of their sons and
daughters.
Your next President will never
make you a promise that he does
not intend with all his heart and
soul to keep.
And let me add that except for
the pledges I have made publicly
to the American people, your next
President will take Office next jan
uary 20 without promise, express
or implied, to living soul.
No COP Thousand Club.
There is no One Thousand Club
in my party. I have not offered the
Government of the United States
for sale at $1,000 to any man and I
never will to any one at any price.
Your next administration will take
Office honestly, without secret prom
ises of special privilege to any class,
group or section. We shall repre-
sent all the American people equally
we shall restore honesty and good
faith to the Government of the
United States on January 20, 1945.
Now put your minds ahead with
me, if you will, into these peacetime
years which by the courage of our
fighting men and with the help of
Almighty God are being brought
closer every day.
Eleven million men and women
will be coming home from this war
eager for more education for jobs,
for a chance to start business and
to get ahead. Twenty million war
workers will want peacetime jobs
and opportunity.
Last Saturday night my opponent
once again promised jobs for every
American when peacetimes come.
But his own peacetime record is
that at the end of eight years the
New Deal has spent $4,000, ,000, 900,
it enjoyed more power than all
previous governments; and in March
of 1910 there were still 10000
900 Americans unemployed. On
the record, his promise of Jobs is
worthless. 1t will still be worth
less, even though it is repeated again
and again and again.
Cites Roosevelt Promise.
Having discovered from my Phila-
delphia speech, delivered two months
ago, the need for a million new
homes year, my opponent now
promises that. The fact is that for
years we should have been building
a million homes year just to
get back up to the standards of
1880. But under Mr.. Roosevelt we
got an average of only 380, 1000 homes
a year.
On the record then, that promise,
too, is no good, even though it is
repeated again and again and again.
My opponent now promises. to
free the American working man
from the strangling bureaucracy he
himself has created. When a man
promises, in trying to win an elec-
tion, that he will reverse. the course
of everything he has done for IL
years-then that promise, too, on
the record. is no good, even though
1t is repeated again and again and
again.
My opponent promises the farmers
good prices after the war But the
farmer knows that in all the peace
time years of the New Deal he never
got decent prices. Under Mr.. Roose-
velt 1t took a war to get prices,
just as it took war to get jobs.
On the record that promise, too, is
worthless, even though it is repeated
again and again and again.