Show dispelling THE FOG by charles michelson utility candidate wendell willme willkie concluded his western tour and descended on new yorki york 6 with a clela ration that he was well satisfied with his pilgrimage the newspaper people who accompanied compa nied him on his journey did not in their reports narrate anything that might be thought to contribute t to such a conclusion bruc c barton voiced what mr willkie evidently dently vi did not declare Mr barren baron whose estimate of the chances A f the republican ticket this fall aas as so enthusiastic that for weeks ie shied away from a nomination or the new york for chich he was finally drafted he announced that california for ex ample afforded an even chance for willkie Vill kie california does not know this yet for the betting odds out here are two to one on the other de they are offering even mony that Roosevel ts majority in that tate will vill be over congress nan iian barton suggests that willkie ill effect the same result in new rork ork state and down in wall st hey are betting two to one he oes nt lots of people are trying to cheer tp ip mr Will willkie kle even the gallup oll all that the other day calculated hat roosevelt would carry thirty ight states as against ten for the republican tries to make him feel fee etter it did not recant on its foreast but it took another scientific oll oil that it says indicated that the are more r their candidate than the derno demo rats are for the president an en gauge is something nc ut a painstaking poin staking poll taker would ot balk at estimating the percent irle CC of whether a mule driver or a A section boss could swear more ef fictively the result would doubt less be buttressed with all the ap trimmings of weighted I 1 totals trends vari abilities and 4 per cent margin tor for error talking 0 of straw polls it would be interesting to have them calculate for us how many people believe that the election reelection re of franklin D roosevelt would result in congress never meeting again which was one of the dire d i re prophecies emanating from the G 0 P high command perhaps the most interesting of the willkie declarations in his empire state debut was that the country was on the verge of economic economic luin juin and that F D R was isble tor for the plight of business A few days before alfred P sloan had deplored the policy of the roosevelt administration which he said made accomplishment a crimp crime and restricted business with all sorts of things yet on the same day the general motors magnate mentioned that the output of his 1941 models would be ten per cent great I 1 er than this years business has been so bad that whereas general motors only made a net profit of in the five years arom 1930 to 1934 inclusive lis its net profit for the five years ending in 1939 was these figures are from the new york times it was also recounted that the dividends paid amounted to only in the first five years cited but amounted to in the past ive five f years taxes are so high said mr sloan at pittsburg that the profit motive is in jeopardy well the figures quoted from the times represent the earnings after payment of the higher taxes complained of after social security taxes and after the payment to labor of its highest wage scale the sorrows of corporations corporation with net sales of over a billion dollars annually for the past five years the 1939 net sales aggregated it would hardly seem that mr sloans business could be put in martyr class however for campaign purposes the picture of a nation still in the throes of depression is deemed necessary and mr willkie continues to repeat that businesses must be given a chance to make profits you may take the whole list of money makers from the five and ten centers woolworth pearly tri ples pies this year the it it made in 1932 to U S steel which went from a deficit to a 40 profit and get a gauge of bo how business is doing it might be worth noting mat the ten big outfits whose losses at the time of Roosevel ts advent to the white house aggregated last year lumped in profits these figures like those given about mr sloans enterprise are after the taxes have been paid under the circumstances it might he pertinent to ask how much these distressed millionaires expected to make after january 1941 when they put up the champion of light and power for the presidency of the united states |