Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-18 | Page 6 | Out for Votes and Victory

Out for Votes and Victory PRESIDENT Roosevelt has announced plans 1 for making five live outright political speeches bel before re the November election Also he is said saidon on good authority to be giving serious consideration consideration consideration consider consider- to pleas of his political advisers that he hemak make mak a campaign trip Into Illinois prior to election In order to cinch that states state's important total of 29 electoral votes So at last it seems the president is going to drop the pretense that he is too busy tp pay any attention to election matters and that the thet t third term Is being forced upon him From now on Mr Roosevelt apparently is going to drop the disguise of presidential aloofness aloofness aloofness aloof aloof- ness and go before the nation as a fighting candidate out for votes and victory Its It's a good thing All this business of ot nonpolitical nonpolitical non political inspection trips rips and aloofness from the political campaign has been a little hard for lor the nation to swallow Too many holes have been blasted In the disguise by Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's own political acts and arid by Washington columnists' columnists confidential rep reports report of his behind- behind the scenes pulling of of the campaign strings With Mr Roosevelt out on the political battIe battle bat bat- tIe tle lines the question of whether he lis is being drafted for a third term will be answered by president himself You cant can't very well say that a man Is b being ing drafted into his country's service when he visits so many recruiting offices and argues so eloquently why he should be permitted permitted per per- to sign up for a year four term e o Some amateur weather experts arc are blamIng blaming blam blam- ing U. U S. S heat cold rain and drouth on heavy bombing and gunfire in the European war Well well we'll take the bad weather 1 If 11 they'll just keep the rest of ol It over on the other side e 0