Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-16
What's
New?
By
EdWdrd ].
Duck,
Assistant
Director,
National
A,Uto.T ire
DUSion

and capers of the Philadelphia
gandi-dancers of the past
month, who can help but
draw the simple conclusion
that it will take a major de-
preston to awaken the Amer
lean people politically.
Defeatism never won a bat
tie. But who can feel enthusi-
astic about the present pic
ture? Truman made a fatal
error in admitting he never
wanted the job when he first
fell into it. He admitted weak
ness and invited a beating by
pleading for peace and apollo
gizing for being elected. Any
false show of bravado on his
part now is about as effective
as Snow White challenging a
mad rhino.. His display of con-
fidence is an act, and a corny
one, at that.
Now let's look at Tom
Dewey for a moment. Grove
Patterson properly termed
him, "The Man Nobody
Likes" and the description
fits him to tee. Dewey is a
Wall Street Darling and a
Utilities Sweetheart. They
love him. Since they love him,
we shouldn't. The COP baly-
hoo boys would have us for
get that they've resurrected a
defeated horse. If we didn't
want Dewey in IA we want
him less right now. The cost
of living is too high already
without selecting big business
honey-boy. The same people
who forgot about housing,
who sabotaged price controls,
who double-crossed the vet
erans, who haven't a humane
thought in their heads, picked
Tom Dewey as their boy.
They say Dewey is a good
administrator. They say he'll
slash costs in Washington,
They say he'll rate A-Plus in
efficiency. They fail to say
that he will really do any
thing worthwhile for the
great mass of people in Amer
lea in the way of social and
economic advancement, how
ever, and they are afraid to
accept the Democrats chal-
lenge to reconvene Congress
and act on the platform which
the Republicans hypocritically
say they will put across if
elected.
If memory serves us correct
ly these same people had this
same platform before, much of
ii as early as 1914. They are
insincere from the word go,
because they voted exactly OPP
posite to their previous pledge.
They fulfilled the we'll known
simile, "As insincere as a po-
smile"
Even Elsa Maxwell, who is
certainly no New Dealer"
told a Toledo audience in a lee
ture here a while back, that
Tom Dewey lacked a sincere
feeling for people, that he was
a shrewd, cold, calculating
man. Do we want for Presi-
dent of the United States of
America, the country to whom
the worlds millions look for
from oppression, for
guidance, and for necessary
aid, person who feels no hu-
name motivation, w h ose
strongest point is his ability to
aim at the target he likes
without letting other things
bother him?
No, Harry Truman is GER
tainly no world beater He is
a far cry from Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, But he is a giant in
comparison to Tom Dewey
when measuring the heart as
we'll as the head Truman, in
the opinion of most of us who
believe we are progressive In
though, should have SCI
down and beat the drums for "a
stronger democratic candidate.
He is not a strong man in any
sense of the word. He is not
4 leader. He is not a good
president, and therefore he
ooks all the more scrawny in
comparison.
We, the people of America
II is indeed disappointing to
most CIO leaders, wheth-
er they admit it publicly or
lot, to have a choice between
Truman and Dewey. And we
nave made it plain enough that
We are not for Wallace and his
,ommy-friends. One person
cannot speak for the CIO in
matters of policy, and if one
person did, it would not be
your correspondent, you may
De sure. But none the less, it
cannot be denied that the fore
going facts are true, and that
4 sad situation exists. The next
Tour years are not promising