South Bend Mirror, October 12, 1945

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1HREE IS TWO LESS THAN FIVE IN RUSSIAN TOTALITARIAN MATHEMATICS
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Shade of Stephen Decatur
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tflDAY, OCTOBER 12th, 1945
ELIEVE IT
Or ELSE
MEAT O'  THE COCONUT
BY      -.-. P
SILAS WITHERSPOON       P
G.O.P. FEARS F.D.R.
DEAD, MAY WIN 5th
TERM AGAINST THEIR
Republicans
running
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
though dead,
for   a   fifth
LIVELIEST BEST ELSE S"ra.t
THEY TOP HIS GRAVE iSEgb
WITH LAYS OF OFFAL Sttt
again be elected. Evidently, frorn^-their confusion, conduct, and promulgation of pin-
head issues (both ways), they are prone to
acknowledge that they have no- one to run
against him who can defeat him. By their
maneuvers they all but openly admit that
F. D. R. has a better hold on the American
people, dead, than anyone whom they can offer alive,—and may-be they realize that the
livelier their man is the stronger Roosevelt is
likely to become. Void of constructive issues,
all for undo and nothing do; they're
stumped.
Between F. D. R.'s family and Pearl Harbor they seemingly hope to put the dead man
on the run—and whether he runs or not
they're going to run him, hoping that being
dead, maybe they can win the race. Yessiree,
they're going to show him up; him and everybody related to him — and splatter them
with Pearl Harbor and whatsoever else they
can kick into dust with their* cloven feet, or
slander with their split tongues.
*   #   *   *
ELLIOTT AND JOHN
NOW HOT ON GRID
IN SUCCESSION OF
ELEANOR AND JIM
First it was
Eleanor; they
wore her our.
Then it was
"Jimmie"; they
run him ragged.
Next and now
k' is Elliott •
they're sawing and quartering him — but
meanwhile, poor John, who though in the
armed forces for three years,  finds himself
-On   Page Two)
THE HAND OF GOD
(Serial in Five Parts)
By LOUIS BROMFIELD
PART I introduces Salasso, on the Bay of Biscay, and
a lovely home, with a personality, where the nov-
... elist and his family stayed for a season, surrounded
by the Basque town-folk, semi-Christian and semi'
pagan, but honest and reverent., -It had been the home
of Monsieur Andre, a Paris lawyer, with the gift of
romance, love of beauty, and solitude. Near neighbors
were Baron and Mademoiselle Fernande. old fashioned,
(On Page Six)
ur Treasury and Our Patience
AMERICA must uphold Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and President Harry S. Truman,
in their pursuit pf a righteous peace—and that their cause is just is tenable from the fact,
that surrounded by diversified interests, each superiority complexed, a happy mean must
be found, and give and take is essential to 'agreement. Agreement too, in the( instance, is indispensable. You can't have peace without it.
True, the United States hasl suffered no bombardment, no invasion, no destruction of life or
property, from enemy penetration,—but we went to where
fighting was going on and suffered plenty from the combat.
On the home front our disasters have been economic and
mental, not alone as to war debts and recovery debts, burdening the treasury, but every little thing greedy people can
conjure up—both in the pursuit and. in the resistance.
We have poured men and money, war machines and war
materials, lease-lend and self-spend, shelling and subduing
9Ur share of the foe—like so many drunken sailors, ashore
on leave, staging a spree. That is the American way; when
we go out to win
we   go   out   to
win. It has cost
y^;; hundreds of
b i \%Wt$gi£. say
nothing   of   the
killed      and
maimed,   —   to
which  must  be
added the upset
in our own economy.
That, before
readjustment
and reconversion is finished,
may run into
quite as many
billions more ;
not all in treas-
(On  Page Three)
Military ■ Politicos in Washington, Germany and Japan
Governors Gates
And Wallgren
Play Twin Roles
Stalling Vets
CONDUCTS that countercharge are boomerang-
eous; comparisons are
odious. Two wrongs do not
make a right. Think it was
Talleyrand who said "The
more you try to cover up by
blasting at a like fault in the
opposition the more certain
you are to encounter your own
folly and multiply the exposure. The reaction equals the
action; the kickback meets itself on the way out." Thus of
the counter-cases of Governor
Mon D. Wallgren, Democrat,
of Washington, and Governor
Kalph F. Gates, Republican, of
Indiana.
(On Page Five)
GENERALS   OF   ARMY   ALSO
PUPPETS   OF   POLITICS
AND   SOMETIMES OF
OWN AMBITIONS
THAT Dwight D. Eisenhower,
general of the army in American occupied Europe, may be
called to Washington to succeed General George C. Marshall, chief of
staff, isn't the least surprising. Politics is being introduced to army life,
these latter days with considerable
abandon and Eisenhower, throughout his career in Africa, Italy and
Europe (France and Germany), has
proven his adaptability quite consistently. What his politics are, is
less known than his acumen for subordination to politicians and diplomats.
Speaking parenthetically we're
having another specimen, besides that
of Eisenhower   in Europe, via Gen.
(On Page Three)
Sewage Disposal
Threatening
Mayor Dempsey
With Ouster
BINGO again! Do as we
say, or naught; when we
say reconsider that
means "come across,'* and so
the city council stood pat Monday night on its sewage disposal attitude. Erstwhile F.
Kenneth Dempsey will not ba
mayor the next time; he may
be a candidate for the nomina*
tion, may get it,!but he'll not
be elected. Charles W. Cole,
Sr., and William S. Moore, engineers, will see to that; they
say so themselves, — five of
our ten councilmen trailing.
Messrs. Cole and Moore are
going to have that sewage dis-
(On Pase Sixteen)
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