OCR Text |
Show GRASSROOTS When Herbert Hoover Talks, All America Listens 70' s and 80's of the last century, and both parties will Indulge in the same type of Invective. President Truman set the keynote of the campaign in his address before be-fore the national Democratic Woman's Wom-an's club at Washington in November. Novem-ber. He Was greeted with applause because he -was talking to an audience audi-ence who have voted Democratic because father and grandfather voted that ticket His generalities did not change any votes, nor will the orators of either party who indulge in the same type of generalities. Those whose votes can be changed want provable facts. to Chile, Mexico, Belgium and Italy; William R. Castle, former director European division department of state, under-secretary-of-state, ambassador am-bassador to Japan; Hugh Gibson, former ambassador to Belgium; Spruille Braden, former assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Argentine, Colombia and Cuba; Joseph A. Kennedy, former ambassador ambas-sador to Great Britain; Arthur Bliss Lane, minister to Estonia, Latvia and Poland; Jesse Jones, former secretary of commerce, chairman reconstruction finance corporation. All of the above endorsed Hoover's statements that the nation should concentrate on the construction of more sea and air power rather than By Wright A. Patterson WHEN HERBERT HOOVER talks, all of America listens. When the people of the nation have the opportunity of both listening and seeing, they take advantage of both opportunities. They had both on January 27 when the man whom the people recognize as a national leader lead-er was on both radio and television. , Then millions of Americans, regardless re-gardless of political affiliations, both looked and listened. Those letters that Hoover appreciated most were from the homes of the nation, written writ-ten in longhand on plain stationery, nearly 7,000 of them. Those letters indicated a willingness to accept the leadership of the former president on so vital a subject as our national defense. For him, those 7,000 letters let-ters constituted, a heart-warming experience, but there were many others coming from those recognized as experts in defense lines, and expressing ex-pressing firm approval In what he had said From the army there were letters let-ters from Lt. General Albert W Wedemeyer, Lt. General Leslie B. Groves. Lt. Gen. Harold L. George. Major General Hugh Knerr and General Gen-eral Brice P. Bisque. From the top brass of the navy there were letters of approval and commendations, with the privilege ef quoting them, from such officers as Admiral William V. Pratt, Ad miral William H. Standley, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, and Capt James E. van Zandt, now a congressman From the realm of diplomacy: Henry P. Fletcher, former under-secretary-of-state and ambassador on additional ground forces as a defense de-fense against Russia, and that we must also protect our economy, and not waste our resources in Europe It was the agreement with and the approval of those statements in the 7,000 long hand written letters received re-ceived by Mr. Hoover from American Ameri-can homes which he so much appreciated. ap-preciated. It would be well for those of us who are Interested only in provable facts '.hat we prepare in advance for the storm of invective, mud, filth and generalities that will be showered upon us by political orators ora-tors of both parties through the period pe-riod of the coming presidential campaign cam-paign of July, August. September and October. The coming one will be such a mud slinging campaign as has not been known since the days of the For example, the president charged the Republicans with the expenditure of vast sums contributed by a small minority for purely selfish self-ish reasons in an effort to attain a result, in which they failed. The fact is the Republicans spent in that campaign a total of $1,444,-894.77. $1,444,-894.77. In the same campaign the Democrats spent $2,066,372.50. The figures are those submitted to congress con-gress as required by law, by the national chairmen of the two parties. par-ties. In the Ohio senatorial campaign, cam-paign, he charged that Senator Taft received vast sums from "special Interests" in their attempt to influence in-fluence legislation tor corporate wealth, but he said nothing about the assessments levied against all members of organized labor, and spent to defeat Taft that organized labor bosses might benefit from legislation leg-islation in behalf of a minority. |