Show dispelling THE FOG by charles michelson candidate willkie told the country that some form of selective service is the only democratic way in which to secure the trained and competent manpower man power we need for naf nh tonal lonal defense T in 11 other words he r announced with formidable vehemence that you cant have an army unless you have soldiers nobody As Is lias has nought it worthwhile to 3 discuss this obvious ob vius u principle what has caused whatever commotion over the the conscription issue there Is or has been is what sort of se selective I 1 c ct service tho the country requires bequir es on that point the utility candidate maintained in his acceptance speech a magnificent silence nce yet the presidency to which he aspires involves the command of the army and navy and therefore he might tn ight reasonably be expected to tell the country what sort of draft he has in mind he might of course incur disagreement greer gre ement nent with the limited draft advocates or the ane all the way edness voters but politics is that way and the fellow who carries water on both shoulders generally gets nothing but a duetting ducking take the delightful town of elwood for example that enjoyed its great day doing honor to its son its favorite son now whatever it may have thought of wendell wendall will kie in the days when he was mount ing to his industrial stature as a corporation lawyer that city had a reputation almost unique in american communities of allowing no negroes within its borders automobile owners visiting there we ar arc 0 told had to park their colored chauffeurs outside the city limits but on the great day appeasement was the watchword and a fy dam statesmen who wore willkie buttons were received with courtesy and consideration cities like Fandi candidates dates haaf got to 0 figure on votes even at the ice fice of 0 prejudice who pays for thit this nobody will accuse candidate didace willkie of racial fanaticism but in some sections of the country an effort is being made to invoke something along that line for the bell benefit of the candidate on the he very day the candidate made his hii acceptance speech there came to my desk the prospectus of a book mailed to me by an indignant citizen to whom one of the circulars had been sent this circular ciraula r begins no one would expect a negro who has been on relief for five years to vote for mr willkie or to see our impending doom but those who argue that we still I 1 have our personal freedom in america exhibit little more intelligence telli gence than the chronically dependent negro the rest of the circular proceeds along the same ku klux philosophy in its arraignment of the new deal or in the language of the pamphlet the american government we are informed by the author that the reciprocal trade agreements were made for the benefit of jewish agriculturalists in argentina shades of the I 1 yanked yankee packers who were generally supposed to dominate foreign capital in argentina this sort of propaganda smacks of machine politics which also absolves mr willkie ws shocked views of political machines he has voiced so often since he ceased to be a tammany county committeeman along with jim parley farley its an old story with th the G 0 P and the memory of the elephant is proverbial it will be recalled that the republican national committee consistently denied that it was in any way responsible lor for the output of klan literature during the al smith and herbert hoover campaign however seekers for that particular material were carefully directed when they called at republican headquarters to another address where they could and did get it by the bale and to this day nobody has ever learned though some may have guessed where the money that kept the klans presses running came from how it was w done in 1936 maybe it is something like the money gathering processes of the republican high command this year mr willkie almost blew a fuse in explaining that the law as to obtain ing contributions none of which could exceed and the aggregate of which he suggested would be only two and a half million would be observed strictly and along comes mr fletcher of their financial directorate with a program nealy charted by which they can take all the money they can get and it will be plenty it contemplates the organization of independent committees on the order of the old liberty league and the frank gannett upholders of the constitution and a number of other expedients that could garner the sheaves and expend them for mr YUl Will kies benefit and the national committee would have no more obligation or responsibility in this regard than it had for the anti a nt catholic deluge of propaganda in the 1928 campaign and incidentally mr willkie could continue unhampered in his denunciation of democratic bosses bosse and inferentially the democratic democrat ic candidates he of course has come through his long affiliation with willi tammany the ohio state machine the indiana organization and the utility lobbies in a dozen states perfectly pure unspotted and unstained by these associations of his pre incarnation I 1 in one parti particular eglar at least the candidates di acceptance speech must be regarded as successful lie he talked for an hour without revealing anything the american public has no more notion of what his policies would t be wr were re he be elected than jt it knew be fore his address the instance of his views in conscription typifies the whole argument he favors all of the roosevelt policies but he is against roosevelt arid and knows that he could do a better job than the president he is in sympathy with everything aimed to protect the farmer but he faw falls to 0 o even suggest I 1 what he would add to ot in I 1 farm br program or what part i he program he would repeal in short he has taken tor for his policy the stumbling effort of the G 0 P s press bureau in the period when it didiot did not enow know who As ts candidate was to be and had to par apar for time that policy consisted merely of generalities of denunciation of the administration with no particularization of what they ob ejected to but with the jn infer ference encel that whatever president roosevelt had done for the good of the country the minority party could do bedier better |