Milford chronicle., 1948-12-03

DECT returns, Dy SJlTnu-
lating Mr.. Truman's
spirits and self-confdence, have
also enlarged and fortified his char
acter and broadened his education
and wisdom.
Obviously, they have done no such
thing. They couldn't, and only pol
troons or sordid mercenaries who
hope to propitiate the President and
escape punishment for acting the
part Of Americans in campaign time
would entertain this absurd propo-
sition.
Mr.. Truman is the same man
today that he was the day be-
fore election, a more ingratiat-
ing man by far than Governor
Dewey, a fighter who doesn't
care If he does tear his pants
and get his glasses busted and
doesn't mind rolling among the
gObbOOns; a man so truly Of the
people that he figures out what
would fool him If he were in
their place and uses it to fool
them.
The idea that a man who so re-
Gently would play a plant part in
the inner vilainies of an urban ma
chine, which will live in history as
a great corruption, could suddenly
become a spiritual crusader for the
right, cannot bear intelligent inspec-
ton.
1. The fact is, as Nor
oo~S man Thomas puts it,
Not that neither Mr.. Tru-
Discussed man nor Mr.. Dewey
discussed the issues.
AS to whether Dewey should have
come down off his toes and slugge6
with the President, I am not a bigot.
AS matters turned out, he had moth
ing to lose by fighting head-to-head,
but in 1914 he let Roosevelt pull
him into slugging match with his
speech to the tosspots at the Team
ster's dinner, and lost the decision.
thought he did very well at
the inlighting that time but
should have gOuged old moose
jaw with dirty cracks about
the family graft and the heredi-
tary Roosevelt opium fortune.
If man is going to fight rough
he shouldn't restrain himself.
During this campaign I read sew
eral speeches Of both men. It is
true that the President sounded like
a split week imitator Of Milton
Berle in a lOw-ceiling joint in New
port, KY, with his witty cracks and
cOmical expressions, but Dewey
wasn't even funny. His speech about
Communists was souffle almost all
the way and his actual remedies
were not original and too briefly
stated.
Both men pretended
israel to discuss Palestine,
Is which will be fateful
Our WorJ in the future of this
independent western
republic and already lays terrible
burdens and responsibilities upon
US. Israel is our ward and protege.
But enslaved Poland, a nation with
a history, only recently robbed of
her Integrity by consent Of the Unit
ed States. is forgotten, as an iso-
lationist might plausibly argue that
she could be.
We do not know what proper
tiOn Of the immigrants to Israel
ever had any religion at all, but
we do know that many of them
are absolute atheists AID Conn
munists, claiming refuge from
religious" persecution. And
anyone who has tried to cOnsid-
er the merits Of the Arab case
or even the true interests of our
own country has been damned
out Of hand as a Nazi.
Truman and Dewey ignored every
fact Of this problem, deliberately
stunning intelligent discussion be-
cause both men knew that the peo-
pie" couldn't be trusted to consider
it without passion. The nominees
were right, and there. I remind you,
= proof that when the people speak,
a. we are solemnly told the" did at
the polls, they often speak appall-
ing clap-trap.
Those who believed that federal
Intrusion in the police problems of
the states is wrong, that the poll
tax is a domestic problem for each
state, that socialism is a blight on
progress and a curse on humanity
are not necessarily wrong because
''the people" voted, as Mr.. Truman
put it, against the 75-cent lamb
obOv.