Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-11-05
Cavil~Cade
BY Les Finnegan
Labor Press Associates

After brain n-break1ng seven year study a
Swedish scientist announced that insanity is
increasing in the United States. It took the
poor Swede seven years to find out what he
could have easily proved in the four short
weeks preceding election day. If we're not be-
coming nation of screwballs we're giving the
most horrible imitation of it since the Neader-
thai men combed their hair with their lower
teeth. The prediction antics of candidates and
citiZenry took on all the characteristics of a
hexed rabbit with the hiccups, the seven-year
itch, and delusions of being followed by other
rabbits wearing Dewey mustaches. The evil
dence of this prediction squirreliness would
fill the archives of 10 psychiatrists. For ex-
ample:
Supposedly one of the prize boners of the
campaign occurred when Dewey termed his
engineer lunatic and suggested he be shot at
sunrise For several days afterward he was
met at station-stops by unionists carrying pla-
cards. "Shoot Any Engineers Today; Dewey?"
Truman's blunder was less publicized but no
less sheepish. AT Philadelphia he was met by
crowd including the fighter, Jersey Joe
Wolcott, a Truman supporter. couple of
hours later Truman concluded his speech by
quoting Joe Louis on his fight with Wolcott:
HE could run away but he couldn't hide" The
next day Joe Louis came out for Dewey.
With perfectly straight face, the October
issue of Kiplinger Magazine, a publication
for big businessmen, sWooned over Dewey as
follows: "He is undoubtedly a better scientific
administrator than George Washington, Thorn!
as jefferson, Andrew Jackson or Abraham
Lincoln" A Federal employee who is also an
accomplished soprano was asked to sing The
Star Spangled Banner at the beginning of one
of Truman's major speeches. The Civil Serv-
ice Commission, however, pondered nightly
and decided that this would constitute 'politic-
al activity" and the girl could be fired from
her job
The Democrats dreamed up a political
soap-opera show for housewives and put it on
the air coast-to-coast three times weekly. Much
more symptomatic of the well-upholstered
Republican Party, however, was the fad that
swept COP womens clubs in several cities.
The Republican babes were charged admission
to their social events on the basis of their
waistlines - one cent for every inch of girth.
The take" was said to be tremendous.
Truman's train was forced to stop in a
tiny Texas town by an ancient town law re-
quiring every presidential train to halt there
for five minutes Republican Party Treasurer
]. S. Kemper had the naivete to announce
that "Our 1914 collections totalled $2,999, $685.
48. Another 81 contribution probably would
have seen some of US on our way to the federal
penetentiary." This came after Republican
Senator Styles Bridges had discosed, I'm 1914
committees supporting the Republican national
ticket reported expenditures in excess of
$4,000 000."
Dewey campagned on a program calling
for unity and fishes in all our streams. The
Democrats issued 100000 comic books that
left the nations toddlers with the impression
that Truman won World War I sngle-handed.
Dewey said that he deserved organized labors $
support because it was his party that passed
the Taft-Hartley law. Truman denounced the
''gluttons" of Wall Street and the next day
it was revealed that some of his heaviest cam
paign contributions came from Wall Street
bankers In Rochester, NY, Dewey acclaim9
"the fine people of Syracuse" and in ChicagN
Truman declared he detested the Communist
majority" in this country
Dewey announced that he thought IVA
was all right but there shouldn't be any more
of them. In Washington, DE- group of clti-
zens signed a letter to newspaper declaring
they would not vote for Truman because he had
failed to prevent daylight saving time. Henry
Wallace ran away from Wisconsin and MIN
nesota to avoid debate with Norman Thomas
while Vegetarian Party candidate SAID 1t
was all right to pelt him with meat, but please
not with vegetables.