South Bend Mirror, January 28, 1944

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CITY.
PU-BL1C   LIBRARY,
NOW THAT HE IS DEAD EVEN NEW DEALERS CONFIRM SENATOR WAS GREAT
FRED VAN NUYS, DECEASED
no
ELIEVE IT
Or ELSE
MEAT O' THE COCONUT
BY
SILAS WITHERSPOON
II
NEW DEMOCRATIC
CHAIRMAN HANDS
ALL INSURGENTS
PASSPORTS WITH
ASSURANCE THAT
REGULARITY AND
NEW DEAL BROOK
NO BACK-FIRING
says so himself.
Now it is Mr.
Chairman Robert
E. Hannegan, internal revenue
collector at Sr.
Louis, who sits
at the head of the
New Deal Democratic table ——
and the state of
Anhuyser - Busch
is in the saddle
and in control of
the reins. He is a
"full-fledged regular" Democrat;
He'll brook no back talk
from anybody. In substance, he forthwith
hands their passports to all insurgents, recalcitrants, and adherents of the Jeffersonian,
Jacksonian, and Wilsonian school of democracy, though, of course, not that way—as-
suming,that such is his status, and that of the
New Deal. Up from the trenches; heV general now,—and "orders is orders." It happened last Saturday when the Democratic National committee met in Chicago, accepted
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker's resignation as chairman, heard Vice President
Wallace and House Speaker Sam Rayburn on
the kind of man for president we must have
next time, and received the blessing of the
white house for its splendid judgment,—in
•F. D. R.'s fourth term behalft The national
"convention will be held in C-iicago sometime
in July; no hurry, what of lit if they can't
get the ballots to the 1.attleftft-s in time?
*   t-   *   #
WAR SECRETARY
FEARS SOLDIER
VOTE BY STATE
RIGHTS METHOD
WILL DISPLACE
REGULAR MAILS
AND WRECK ALL
ARMY MORALE taryofwar Heis
much fussed about it, and of course, it is a
new leverage for the supporters of the white
house military ballot idea, and won't necessitate such early convention in order to avoid
(On Page Four?
Balloting by soldiers under the
"state rights" laws
as approved by th<_
senate and house
election committees, would gum
up the regular
mail, sidetrack letters from home,
take up time of the
fighters, and destroy morale, according to Henry
L. Stimson, secre-
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OF SUCCESSOR HAS INDIANA ALL ASTIR
FREDERICK VAN NUYS is no more; that is, no more in the flesh.   The senator, the lawyer,
the citizen, the man, has finished th« fight, run his course, and ^pass^ o-t-l^-hat is, in personality, his real self—though behind him lingers an influence that will live, indentified or not,
as long as cause has effects.   "For good or ill, we linger still."
The career of Fred Van Nuys as United States senator has been more or less stormy, and that
will be the phase of his life that,will leave the major mark. As civilian, lawyer, state legislator,
U. S. district attorney, he was just Fred Van Nuys, loyal to duty, keen and active, but it was never
until he became United States senator that he began to show any great strength of character, and
determination to follow his best judgment.
Thus, though a Democrat, and hard worker for Democracy, as state senator, Democratic state
chairman, and U. S. district attorney under Woodrow Wilson, we found Senator Van Nuys not long
(On Page Four)
Anti-Willkie Two-Facedness Betrays G.O.P. Designs
THAT element of Republicanism that is bellyaching that Wendell Willkie has the backing of
Wall street, demagogically pretending that it must not be tolerated, and then,_4n the next
breath voices its approval of the movements in congress to limit income andkineritance taxes
to 25%, exempt fire insurance companies from the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law, and to
block renegotiation of war contracts for the purpose of extracting profiteering, are insulting the
public sense of consistency. If they anticipate,
and they do, that it is going to win for them a
lot of public confidence, of any considerable
vote-casting variety, they are performing just
like a small dog barking at the moon.
That type of dog ought to be incorporated
into the "Psychology of a Dog" story starting
elsewhere in The Mirror^this week, but the authors seem to have overlooked it. He too has
a psychology as has the dog that races across
field barking at thunder; is all so wrapped up
in himself that in his dumbness he
defies even dumb nature.
"Economic royalty," as it has
been  more  or less   well   termed,
semi-deposed from its plutocratic
throne the past decade, is more or
less of a "dog in the manger" and
too obdurate to democratize, still
thinks of itself as the whole universe; that, of
^course, everyone must be of its mind. One trou-
l**ble with the Republican party is that it is more
of a "mutual admiration society" than a political functionary.
They meet at the cups, and the curbs, lament their woes, and air their grievances, and
(On Page Three)
Russian Press and the Great Anglo-American Hellabaloo
THIS big hellabaloo about headlines in Russian newspapers, that so many people seem simultaneously glad of, and scared at, might bode something puzzling if we had no American newspapers, and knew none of their operations or their tricks. It appears not so much different in
Russia than here. They have a sort of "freedom of the press" in Russia. Papers in Moscow are frequently at sword's points; much so as the Chicago Sun and Chicago Tribune.   Over here, however,
(On Page Three)
Psychology of a Do,
By Henri Xeuver
JUST why will a dog^jleyer mind the breed,
bob out at you ^hen. you're passing his
home (yes, his home), and race, chasing beside you down the road, some barking as if determined to eat your car and all, others just running, and giving up only when they can no long
er keep pace? It is all in the dog. I have tried
them out, slowing down, even stopping, and kidding them out of the window. Some will bound
at you as if mad as hatters, but the majority
will cool down and want to play.   Say it myself,
(On Page Two)