The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30

responsibility fer the personal views Of Mr. P9rIer
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bis readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1914, King Features Syndicate. Inc
NEW YORK, - Mr.. Roosevelt couldn't have
made speech more to the liking Of the Re-
publican party workers of the West il he had
let them ghost the script OF his Grafton to the
stately assemblage Of goons whom he selected
as an appropriate audience for general state
ment OF his ideals and principles in Washing
ton, last Saturday night.
Realizing that the people prefer a fight to
a studious presentation Of arguments, philoso-
ply and plans, these organization politicians.
all through the West, had endured patiently
Tom Dewey's dignified appeals to the intelli-
gence of those voters who are still undecided.
They wished, however, that he would 20 into
his role Of Mr.. District Attorney and pour it on
As groundwork, Deweys speeches on his
long tour had been necessary to demonstrate
his grasp of affairs and his appreciation Of the
solemnity Of the campaign.
The text and tone Of Roosevelts remarks to
the satraps Of his strong arm auxiliary plainly
showed that Dewey had shaken him up with
his program Of jobs under free business enter
prise rather than political charity from the
party in power, paid out Of deficits. The presi-
dent had been bruised. too, by Dewey's ems
phasis on the long continuation Of a panic in.
herited from the republicans so long ago that
millions OF young fighting men know it's origin
only by historical hearsay. And Dewey's re-
iterated reminder that it took war to take
Roosevelt's ten million unemployed had split
lip and drawn blood.
The corny little aside about Roosevelts dog
Fala, having cost the taxpayers two, or three
or twenty million dollars was in the true
Fauntleroy humor of a man who was in charge
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generation were playing iggers-the-cop and
never went to public school with the uncouth
sons of the common man because the lower
classes have B. O.
The President hoped up the rumor that a
destroyer was sent back to the Aleutians for
his mutt for an obvious purpose. He wanted to
take the heat off some factual charges of out
rageous extravaganza for his own personal in
terest which will be heard soon. 1t is by no
means certain that Roosevelt himself, didn't
start the rum about the dog through Harold
Ickes' secret police and scandal service or the
dutlfW F. B. l., as an easy one to knock
down.
He probably was anticipating report cur
rent on the Pacific coast that one of our big
warships, with an enormous payroll OF men
trained to fight, was laid up for long time
before and after his recent political and pleas
ure cruise, so that installations could be fixed
up for his accommodation and then torn out
again before she could return to duty. There
are many congressman in position to demand
the facts of this and to learn exactly what
sort of ship his wife monopolized on her flight
to the south Pacific and how many fliers and
planes were taken out of the war with the
Japs to attend her.
And 1t is no longer military Sercret that a
large garrison has been maintained at public
expense and some detriment to the military
effort, ever since Pearl Harbor to guard the
Roosevelt private property at Hyde Park, with
| sentry boxes, communication wires and flood
lights scattered over wide range. The Presi-
dent seldom is there but the guard remains in
greater strength and more elaborate organi-
cation than that of any other head of warning
| nation except, perhaps Hitler and Hirohito.
| True, Mrs. Roosevelt has been in residence
| as the phrase goes much OF this summer since
she went underground, as it were, suspending
her travels for the period of the campaign.
But most wives stay with their husbands in
times Of danger and trial, and the necessity
| for such a pretentious guard at Hyde Park
still needs explanation.
| For contrast, Dewey, living few miles over
the hills at Pawling, has only few state police
to give pests the buns rush during his candi-
dacy for the same job. Grandeur is out of Dew
ey's line and his wealthy neighbor, the heir to
a fortune honorably earned, according to his
moral lights, by the Presidents distinguished
grandfather, smuggling opium into China, pro-
baby has been expecting some contrasting
revelations Of the imperial appointments con.
stantly surrounding his property and only &C.
casionally his person, this guard, alone, has
cost more than million dollars. all payable,
in the Presidents own phrase, through the
sweaA Of those who toll
Dewey shrinks from low-down repartee in a
Presidential campaign. His respect for the Of
flee is that Of all sman-town school boys, by
contrast with the flppant vulgarity Of a man
whose stilted gags bespeak a personal con-
descension in serving the lower orders as their
president ~
i Yet people do love rough campaign. And
Dewey has SO much ready information about
political sonnivance and outright blackrnail in
the Department Of Justice and the Treasury,