South Bend Mirror, July 07, 1944

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men" on the supreme court bench, proposed
their ouster, and replacement with what the
wise critics called "young squirts." The proposed process failed, thanks awfully, but then
a "grim reaper" started intervening, and the
rest more or less scared at themselves, began
putting in their resignations. "Young
squirts," said- the critics, were being instaled
in their stead. Different now. Thomas E.
Dewey, candidate of those critics in the race
for the presidency, youngest in himself (42)
of all previous candidates in history (except
William J. Bryan in 1896, who was 36),
seems to pride himself on it, and sets in to
lament the whole Washington administration, as "old, tired, decrepit and quarrelsome." He will set up a cabinet of "young
men," of course, not "squirts" like those elevated to the supreme court bench, but "men
experienced in the task to be done, and young
enough to do it." That ought to be enough
of a hint to Secretary of State Hull (73),
and Secretary of War Stimson (77), especially, and Secretaries Jones and Ickes (70),
"old skinflints." They'll be out if Dewey
gets in—but where is he going to find very
young Republicans, very "experienced in the
task," after this "twelve long years" of Republican desuetude?
*   *   *   *
Mr. Dewey himself
had scarcely begun
his public
career, be-
coming
"YOUNG MEN SKILLED
TO TASK" NOT TO BE
FOUND 1N G. 0. P. DUE
TO YEARS OF INACTION exPe„
enced in the task," when the—Republicans
moved out and the Democrats moved in back
in 1933; was only 30 years old, and four
years out of college; not Harvard but its
equivalent — Michigan and Columbia. Indeed, he got the first and only federal assignment that he has ever had, indirectly from
the man he is now knocking, President Roosevelt, when Homer Cummings, then F. D. R.'s
(On Pag<» Two)
Congresslady Revives Some G.O.P. Memoirs
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE'S appearance ("Loose" at the tongue) at the Chicago Republican convention, was to us quite as big a thing as the nominations of Governors Tom Dewey and
John Bricker for president and vice president.    She made a grand display of her literary
talent, wit, and oratorical powers.   If they can just get that speech across to G. I. Joe before he
becomes G. I. Jim, with a ballot—how
Oh Boy! And Was He Thirsty!
the G. 0. P. would like to send it
along—Dewey and Bricker ought to
go over, so far as the soldier vote is
concerned, with the bang accentuated
into a bombardment.
Democrats are dumb as oxen if
they think for a minute that the soldier in camp, field, at sea, midair, or
on furlough, is so in love with his
tommander-in-chief, that the call to
hurry home doesn't tickle his ears—
and percolate into his brain. He may
be enjoying himself in a way, and
proud of his job, but he has memories, and would rather be eating at
his own, or pa's and ma's table—and
shooting pool or 10-pins. Hash and
Huns, Julips and Japs, are secondary
in his longings.
He is brave, sincere, with a strong
sense of responsibility to his country,
but the qualification "hurry home—
by way of Berlin and Tokyo,"—will
not discomfort his longing; that is,
wouldn't if left to stand alone. It is
when "Congresslady" Luce, feigning
great patriotism as a cloak for sedi-
On Page Three)
If Your Gas and Grog Won't Mix Cut the Gas
Labor Wakes Up
DON MARR NELSON, "king pin" of WPB, and therefore quite the last word on'what ipfSP
try may, or may not) produce, until James Francis Byrnes, "mobilizing czar" (supposedly
infallible and above reproach because once "stuffed" into the supreme court as an associate
justice), butts in, and back of him Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president, and commander-in-chief
of the army and navy; Don Marr Nelson, we say, since he is the one out in front, is nothing if not
up on his toes when it comes to seeing to it that the gay get their grog, — whether* OPA lets the
grimy get any gas with which to get,back and forth to earn
their grub or not.
Nelson recently lifted the lid to distillers to resume production of alcoholic drinks, replenishing their stocks, evidently regarding it a "military necessity," is quite in line with the
allowance some time ago at Springfield, Ohio, of tires for beer-
wagons but none for bread-wagons.   And then, oh dear!
The Methodist church in conference somewhere resolved
an objection to the Nelson permit to resume production of
liquors, when comparative to all else, alcohol seems some military necessity other than by way of the throat. Other "business as usual" is still notoriously circumscribed.   Wow!
The distillers heard the Methodists, — and think of the
(On Page Three)
By NEWTON M. GOUDY
FOR many weeks there has been
some concern among Indiana
Labor groups because of the apparent leaning of William Green,
long-time head of the American Federation of Labor, towards the Republican national organization and
its candidates. Heads of several Indiana  labor   locals,   strongly   favoring
(On Page Five)
TROUBLE IN 1949
By JOHN O'HARA
(Complete) -
BARRY came out of the local skyscraper and
stood on the sidewalk and took a long look
at his watch, just as the Midwestern heat hit
him in the face. Rutland, in his air-conditioned office, had kept him just long enough so that to make
the last good New York plane he would have to
hurry and sweat—and then probably miss it. He
walked to the hotel and took a shower, not hot and
not cold, which made him feel better if not cooler.
He sent downstairs for the largest Tom Collins they
could provide, and he sat in a pongee dressing gown,
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