Evening star., 1944-09-08

| IeTHldH PRISONERS captured at
at left.
Dewey
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eral servicemen'S voting law, and
already has mailed out $50, 900 bal
lots. Local political observers point
out, however, that under the law the
soldier ballots will not be counted
until November 22-15 days after the
election. Service ballots in Penn
Sylvania will be valid If they are
mailed with postmark not later
than November Z.
| Some experts estimate that not
more than zoe, 900 soldier ballots will
be cast. but even that number could
leave the State hanging in uncer-
tainty if the home front vote is
close. And if the election should be
close nationally, all eyes would be
turned on Pennsylvania, which has
the second largest block of IS elec-
toral votes, until the soldier ballots
are all counted.
Gov. Dewey said last night that,
with the winning of the war in
sight, there are two overshadow-
ing problems The first, he con-
tinued, is the making and keeping
of the peace of the world, so that
your children and my children shall
not face this tragedy all over again."
That objective he will discuss to-
night when he addresses the Ma
tional Federation of Republican
Women's Clubs in the Louisville
Armory.
Many Things Involved.
The other problem" he said, 'is
whether We shall replace the tired
and quarrelsome defeatism of the
present administration with fresh
and vigorous government which be-
lieves in the future of the United
States and knows how to act on
that belief.
Such action involves many things
tax policies, regulatory policies, la
Dor policies, opportunity for, small
business, the bureaucracies which
are attempting to regulate every
detail of the lives of our people
these are all of major Importance.
I shall discuss each of them in de-
tail before this campaign is over. /
will discuss them in plain English
and say what We propose to do about
| them"
His first speech laid out the gen.
eral pattern of his campaign. Then
by getting his foreign policy stand
on the record Immediately, tonight
lit appeared obvious that Gov.
Deweys strategy will be to center
his main attack during the remain
ing eight weeks on New Deal do
mestic PHILOSOPHERS, in an effort to
convince the voters that they failed
during eight prewar years, and
would prove inadequate to meet the
ordeal of postwar reconstruction.
Gov. Dewey repeatedly struck at
"the New Deal" and this admins
tration," but only referred to the
President by name once, when he
said:
Mr.. Roosevelt himself said in
1882 our industrial plant is built
- . our task is not =" necessarily
producing more goods. 1t is the
soberer, less dramatic business of
administering resources and plants
already in hand"
Administration Philosophy.
The Governor used this quotation
to develop his claim that the New
Deal was founded on the philosophy
that our frontiers are behind us and
all we have left to do is to quarrel
over the division of what we have
The Republican nominee charged
that the administration operated on
that philosophy "for seven straight
peacetime years with limited power.
At the end of that time in 1899, the
New Deal gave it's own official YER
dict on its failure by this cold admis-
sion: The American economic ma
chine is stalled on dead CENTER"
THE administration knows that
the war with all it's tragic toll of
death, debt and destruction, Is the
only thing that saved it," the Gov
ernor continued. They are deadly
afraid that they will go back to re-
sumption of their own failures.
That is why they are afraid to let
men out of the Army. That is why
they say it is cheaper to keep men in
the Army than to let them come
home"
Gov. Dewey cited the recent fric-
ton on the War Production Board
and the departure of Chairman
Donald M. Nelson on a mission to
China, as proof of the administra-
TONS inability to handle reconver-
sion.
Disunity in WPB Mentioned.
Right in the final crisis of this
war the most critical of all war
agencies-the War Production
Board-fell apart before our eyes,"
he said. This is also the board in
charge of reconversion and jobs.
Yet we have seen quarreling
disunity and public recriminations
day after day. as one competent
man after another resigned and the
head OF the board was sent to China
We have seen this happen in agency
after agency. The cost to the coun-
try can never be calculated. And
it's time the people put an end to it,
When the WPB fell apart. so did
your chance under this administra-
ton for jobs after the war. For now
the New Dealers have moved in, and
their handiwork, their promise for
America Is not jobs-but the dole. "
Gov. Dewey asserted the New
Deal really believes that unemploy-
ment is bound to be with us per-
manently." He predicted: They
will change this 12-year-old tune