The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-09-17
What About Wallace

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BY Paige Strickland
For the past two weeks the daily press of the coun-
try has been headlining the southern tour of Henry Agard
Wallace, Progressive party candidate for President of the
United States of America. The former Secretary of Agri-
culture and also former Vice President was met by bar
RACES of rotten eggs, tomatoes and assorted garden truck,
in his sundry speaking trips'in the south. Because of the
garden truck hurled at the candidate, waggish reporters
dubbed Dixie the Salad South" a fairly clever take-off
on the stock phrase, "Solid South"
To the credit of the daily press (even southern news
papers), there was unanimous condemnation Of the hood
lum tactics of clan-minded Dixicrats. There was national
feeling that any person in this country was entitled to the
privileges of fair speech, no mater what that person had to"
say. With the rest of the newspapers of America, the Ex-
press feels strongly that Henry Wallace should be heard,
in the spirit of true Americanism. The Express now goes
on to anaylze the inner thinking behind the Wallace third
party, and delves into the background of the man, to see
how he stands.
For our purposes most of the time we date our cur
rent political history to the end of Hoover and the start
of Franklin D. Roosevelt. That was 1882. Remember ?
Bank brushes over the nation, unemployment widespread,
apple sellers on street corners, a ragged Bonus Army
marching on Washington and being forcibly elected by
United States Army troops led by none other than the
genius of Japan" the redoubtable General Douglas Mac
Arthur (who would have liked to become President of
the United States).
AS Hoover went out to the den of crashing banks,
FDR took over the business and inaugurated his famous
New DEAL, which has been and still is vilified by the
press Il ~ COuulIy, WulCH Gull IlISlCdu It's eau
ers. For this New Deal, FDR imported intellectuals, lib
erals, experts, wizards and put them into important spots
in International government. For this smart and intelligent
move the New Deal President was castigatd by the press,
called a crackpot, "a communist, and many other things.
Among these experts, FDR selected one hayseed
known as Hnry Wallace, to become his Secretary of Agri-
culture. Wallace was the son of a liberal politician who
was also an Iowa farmer of repute and publisher of a
farm paper which tried to teach western soil grubbers
how to improve their farms. The son followed in the faith
ers footsteps. Young Wallace it was who developed a
cross breeding of corn which proved invaluable in pro-
ducing better corn and which now stands as a million
dollar business-createda and operated by Henry Wallace.
This is a good thing to remember when your daily press
calls Wallace an incompetent, a failure, a visionary, a
loony communist. That a man able to devise and create a
million dollar business could be dumb is just so much
noise. Plenty of smart men known to the Express wish they
could dream up a million dollar business.
In FDR's cabinet, Wallace tried his hand at improv-
ing the lot of farmers the country over. That was def
nitely a part of the New Deal program. Their thinking was
that the country was no more prosperous that its farmers,
its steel workers, its organized union men and it's white
collar slaves. Under Wallace, the various farm relief
agencies such as A were instituted and most are still
in operation.
Leaving the cabinet, Wallace became Vice Prexy, a
job which shoves it's possessor into obscurity, lest he over
shadow the head man. Wallace did, however, become an
outspoken mouthpiece for the New Deal and made many
wanted said but preferred to have some other do the talk
ing, for political rasons). It was in this role that Wallace
became known and respected by all peoples of the world.
Ousted BY Roosevelt in the 1914 campaign, to make
way for Harry Truman, Wallace refused To lapse into
nothingnesss He toured the world and came up with his
book--gs.sSixty Million Jobs, Heawas laughed at and lam
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