Wednesday, October 30, 1940
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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That third term again!
With the rational political campaign really swinging into the home
stretch, radio listeners and newspaper readers are having a difficult time
trying to find anything but reports of speeches and orations.
President Kooseveli's obvious mastery of oratory, plus a few cold figures
and some quotations taken from the Congressional Record have given hiiu
a good hammer with which to ring the bell.
On the other hand, Wendell Willkie's business leadership and confidence
producing personality, pumped up to balloon like proportions by republican
publicists have kept him in the running. . . yeah, he's really formidable.
The two campaign platforms are so much alike that the parties could
exchange them with little trouble. Campaign promises are abundant. liotU
groups are going to help the farmer, the business man, the laborer, Hoth
promise to work for peace, for hemisphere defense. Both promise to build up
the army and navy. Yes, according to each party, this country will be the
strongest, the most efficient the world will have seen since the dawn of
history. So the first thing we think ought to be done is to pencil out the prom
ises, the propaganda, the spellbinding . . . and look at the record. If it is
a good one, let its producers remain in office. If, all in all, it has been harmful,
vote them out.
And so we look at the record; Koosevelt administration's which consists
Of many things previously untried in this country, but which had been sorely
needed for many years. Whether the republican administrations overlooked
them or didn't want to institute changes is a question of debate among re
publicans. lVrliaps, in all sincerity, they thought some of the changes that
should have been wrought were the wrong changes to make. Now, after almost
eight years of democratic administration, the republicans pecept and are
willing to continue social security, unemployment compensation, minimum
wages, C.C.C., and other features of the new deal. The main republican cry
was "wasteful and needless expenditure," but as tta campaign progresses,
that cry becomes weaker and weaker. The G.O.l. realizes porliaps that when
new things are tried they cannot work perfectly, but must undergo a sifting
process which will show which features are good and which arc bad.
So the republican cry has centered around the third term issue, broad
ening into a huge and strenuous campaign which warns us that a third term
means dictatorship, that a continuance of the democratic administration
means war, that a third term means abolition of democracy and freedom in
the United States.
The whole argument is founded on the premise that the administration
plans to entrench itself, through semi fascist methods, at the head of the
government for generations to come. The premise goes deeper than that. It
is based on the mind reading ability of the republican campaign managers.
Against their word is the word of the president ami his campaigners,
who swear up and down that their's is nothing but a campaign to keep that
party in office which knows best how to run things, which has experienced
the problems and carried the burden of solving them these eight years.
Who to believe? Well, personally, we never have believed in mediums
and mind readers. That the president wilfully and wantonly plans to siezo
all powers, that the democratic party asks return to power only to be in a
position to perpetuate itself through forceful and unconstitutional means
seems to be an alarmist's assertion and one in which we can hardly concur.
y Chris Petersen "
CONCERTO FOR TYPEWRITER.
Seated last night at the type
writer, I was weary and ill at ease.
And the quick brown fox and the
lazy dog raced and chased and
jumped over each other after they
had about-faced. And with mad
dening regularity, fell down on the
noisy keys.
And legions and legiona of good
xnen. And corporal's squads and
plattoons of them, and companies
and regiments and divisions and
brigades, marched over three
reams of paper to get to the aid of
their party. But none of them ever
came to the aid of me. In my
travail over what I was doing
then, damn I can't remember
when. Oh. I know not what I was
thinking, or what I was doing then,
but I struck one note on that type
writer, like the sound of a great
chin falling on the keyboard of any
typewriter.
Clashing, mashing, dashing keys.
Setting down those tilings I please.
Hop a space, skip a space, verily a
hopscotch for when it cornea to
typewriting, I am not topnotch.
But I hunt and I bump and peck
ft white letter until I think my
existence Is for the worst, certainly
not for the better.
Yet I am glad, you see, that the
typewriter is not me. For I would
dislike very much to sit around
all day and just slowly pound my
elf away.
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lhMUKHton topic; "American Women anil
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