Show Views of the Press It becomes increasingly clear that the corrupt practices and Hatch acts offer very inadequate protection to Federal against political shake The latest instructions issuing from the office of the Democratic National Committee are plainly designed to defeat the purpose of existing protective legislation while avoiding open conflict with the law Suggestions that friends and relatives of relief workers may be approached for contributions contributions contributions contri contri- are no less crude and callous because the proceeding appears to be legal The outrage perpetrated upon federal em em- whose names and salaries are listed for the benefit of campaign campaign campaign cam cam- committees is js no less great because the law does not specifically specifically specifically cally forbid such practices Washington Post The Willkie campaign may now be considered complete Mrs Emily Post has come out for him Mrs Post you recall is the lady who tells teUs the best people people peo peo- pIe how to avoid spilling gravy on their galoshes or beans on their bosoms and otherwise advIses advises advises ad ad- vises them on social graces Mrs Posts Post's reason for championing Willkie is that He is straining every cord in his throat to wake us up True All our Republican can friends are straining their throats these days But egad Emily Should nice people make such a display of their tonsils tonsils tonsils- 1 Philadelphia Record Lewis promised that if Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt is reelected he will resign the presidency of the C CIO I O. O Thus a vote vot for Willkie means a vote vot for Lewis Such a promise promise prom prom- ise if It may be accepted at face value will undoubtedly swing many votes into the Roosevelt column Among many voters who do not like Roosevelt there is a far greater dislike for Lewis Thousands of these will undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly be willing to forget their dislike for the president in their much more Intense distaste for Lewis Atlanta Atlanta Constitution It is unquestionably true as Mr Roosevelt says that the presidency Is a most sacred trust Likewise it ought not to b be dealt with on any level f i other than an app appeal al to reason and to humanity The weakness of this commendable theme is that the president so frequently fails to measure up to the principle principle principle prin prin- ciple he prescribes Washington Washington Post Harold Ickes does not like the current straw stra vote polls They show the tide running toward re retirement retirement retirement re- re of Harold Ickes to private private private vate life So Ickes would have havethe havethe havethe the polls banned by law That Thatis is the true dictator spirit Death and destruction to anything that does not support your side It Itis Itis Itis is the spirit that runs through the new deal San San Francisco Chronicle The president realizes and Willkie does not that production Is the result of a partnership between capital and labor and that the chief factor in production production production tion is labor willing strong and confident in the leadership Under under under un un- der which it works Willkie speaks of production as though It were a tangible thing that a businessman can achieve by pushing buttons or r writing notes notes' to production chiefs He utterly neglects other than to promise retention of labors labor's gains the fact that Roosevelt has the confidence confidence con con- of the men upon whom ultimate production depends Atlanta Constitution The radio is everything everybody everybody every every- body says It is But it has not simplified or even eased the presidential challengers challenger's job Witness the treadmill days of Wendell Willkie since that Coffeyville Coffeyville Cof- Cof speech Three consecutive consecutive consecutive tive nights in a sleeper and your nails hard-as-nails executive is the haggard ghost of his his once fit it self But for Willkie the click of the wheels has become a ceaseless lullaby Then theres there's everlasting sp speaking the interminable interminable interminable inter inter- conferences en route and arid at every point of destination destination destination destina destina- tion days without end of jostle and hurly For shear endurance endurance endurance en en- durance it rates with possibly ranks the Bryan performances of off far 1896 Like Bryan it will be permitted Mr to say whatever the result I have fought a good fight St. St St. Louis Post Dispatch h L |