Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24
Need for Real Unity,
Not Synthetic Variety,
Is Seen by Ickes
By the Associated Press.

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the Interior Ickes, addressing the
CLIO convention, called today for a
"reaffirmation of unity among those
who really are united" but added
that 1--WE don't want synthetic unity
in the wake of the election CAM
paign.
1--WE cannot have true unity in this
country or even hope for it unless
we face the facts" he told what he
termed the CLOS victory conven-
ton"
"Now that the heat of battle is
over, it is time to count the casual
ties, to release those who have been
prisoners of their own fears, to clear
the minds of our people of the rank
and miasmic underground into
which horrible creeping things have
slithered in the mud of the cam
paign.
Disunities Go Underground.
'Some of the most repellent dis
anities which were exposed during
the campaign have gone under
ground But this does not mean
that we have unity. Sibilant whis-
pers Kissed by serpent tongues are
no less disruptive and disorganizing
than if shouted in clarion tones.
Prove to me that disloyal news
papers just on the edge of treason
have honestly repented of their
ways: demonstrate that those who
sought to array one race or re-
ligious group against another have
repented; call for me the roll of
reformed bundists, appeasers, and
Roosevelt haters, who now want, as
good sports, to abide by the results
of the election and go forward with
us, shoulder to shoulder, determined
to win the war and to make better
America-and I will gladly acclaim
myself convert to a belief that l
do not now possess. that the fake
unity of which they pirate, is the
real unity we seek.
1--WE will be the better prepared to
face the peace If we take stock of
our disuniters and know where to
find them when 1t Is time to be
counted. But We don't want syn
thetic unity"
Campaign Left Scars.
The recent campaign, he said,
was the sort of campaign that
leaves scars"
He praised the CLOS part, through
the Political Action Committee, in
the fourth-term campaign of Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
THE country and the world owe
a great debt of gratitude to those
two great leaders of the CLIO. Philip
Murray and Sidney Hillman," said
Mr.. Ickes.
MI. Ickes, septugenarian, said
now that the election is over the
tired old men of Washington are
continuing to wage the greatest war
in history, while at the same time
carrying on the greatest business In
the world"
And what has become of those
vigorous, strong and enterprising
young men who kept shouting in
chorus that it was time for a
change; that the affairs of the Ma
ton and of the world ought to be
snatched from the inept and almost
palsied hands of the centenarians?
Why these young, vigorous, tire
less youngsters are lying exhausted
in the warm sunshine of Georgia and
Arizona"
~ Meyer Sees New Era.
Eugene Meyer, publisher of the
Washington Post and one-time la
Dor mediator, told the CLIO yesterday
it was meeting "at the end of an era
and the beginning of a new one"
Mr.. Meyer referred to the par
ticipation of the CLIO Political Ac-
ton Committee in the recent cam
paign, in which 1t successfully
backed Mr.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Murray called Mr. Meyer to
the convention platform, interrupt
ing the session to praise the pur-
fishers record. Mr.. Meyer stopped
over here en- route from a visit to
the Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MINI.
Mr.. Murray pinned CLIO badge
on Mr. Meyers lapel. as he had other
speakers, saying I'm going to make