Washington and the Nation

...It is pointed out that despite the challenger's warmup campaign in the race for the nomination and the heavy promotion in the presidential campaign itself, lass than 10 percent of the American people react to the challenger as a primary motivation...

...Roosevelt...

...And by the ssme token, whoever loves freedom— whoever hss not sold his soul for a mess of pottags —recognizes in him the foremost fighter for freedom whose thought interprets the world in order to improve it...

...Willkie did in 1940...

...Roosevelt as Mr...

...But it was considered that the SUte Department would have to show vslid grounds for objection in such an event and the only grounds available to the State Department would have been that of protecting the internal security of the United States...

...And it "i»y be aaid with assurance that such a course undoubtedly was considered in some quarters...

...It was decided, therefore, that the wiser course would be to let the Department of Justice continue to carry the ball to the ultimate conclusion and with the ultimate responsibility...

...To be sure, Government departments occasionally defy each other on issues of prior jurisdiction...

...Roosevelt for a fourth term...

...When the campaign jitters which are natural in the final weeks are allayed, cold logic points the inevitable answers: 1—The heavy registration proves the public is sufficiently interested...

...As a result, their early activities were devoted almost solely to impressing the public mind with the necessity of registering in order to qualify for the ballot...

...Out of them has developed a rich, workable tradition that has fused the logic of scientific inquiry with the passion for democratic humanism...

...Whoever wishes to curb freedom of thought and freedom of culture regards bim as a natural enemy...

...Hoos Unites Liberal, in Wisconsin Ever since 1936, New Dealers have struggled to wrest the grip of the Democratic Party machinery in Wisconsin from the reactionaries...

...Earl Browder, wife of the Communist fuehrer, would be more valuable were the reasons for his retirement from the consular service after 24 years otherwise than they are...

...The truth Is that John Dewey's ideas'are dangerous ideas to conservatives, reactionaries, lo- - tslitarians and "totalitarian liberals...

...And it was agreed then that the President's bid for a fourth term would rest on the success of that campaign...

...Ralph Amoth and Leo Vaudreuil...

...Comparatively...

...It is altogether fitting thst John Dewey's vision of s democrstie, freedom-loving, plsnned and planning society, should still be anathema to thee* who fear the operation of the principle ef ere- " ative Intelligence In the school*, churches, politics and social life...

...Hoan has won the significant endorsement ef three important leaders of the LaFollette Progressive Party...

...the liberals and progressives, finally, into the Democratic Party, despite the opposition ef the Communist-led PAC in that state...

...In the magnificent tribute paid to him more attention was devoted to his personality — his noble, humble, and endearing simplicity—than to his ideas...

...When, therefore, Mrs...

...8—Therefore, there can be no other conclusion but thst, despite the gripes, the public is interested—in reelecting Mr...

...The New Leader is very proud of the fact that John Dewey is one of its contributing editor...

...The odds admittedly are against the election of Hoan as Governor...

...All three former Progressive Party candidates for Governor...

...Vaudreuil has not made an open announcement but is working quietly for Hoan...

...In these circumstances, the Stete Department had no other choice before it except to abide by that decision...

...Roosevelt...

...He has written articles for this paper which are of enduring worth, and the philosophy, the ideals, and the values for which he remains at 85 a vigorous fighter are those which inspire u* in our work...

...Partisan polities aside, H Is almost the invariable historical record that presidential races between an incumbent and a challenger find the general public voting either for or against the incumbent, not primarily for or against the challenger...

...The registration results now are all in ami tabulated...

...Browder appeared at the Montreal consulate for a visaihat question had already been passed on and approved by the Department of Justice...

...Ironically enough Hoan was fought bitterly by the Communists in Wisconsin...

...They show a heavier registration than the wildest hopes of the President's most ardent supporters could have expected...

...Whatever feeling people h»ve about the challenger is almost entirely a reflection ef their primary motivation towards the incumbent...

...Dewey has not made as good a showing against Mr...

...The CP supported John Zimmerman for the democratic nomination against Hoan...

...It was bf reed generally by non-partisan observers that President Roosevelt could lose only by default . . . that is, If the public was not sufficiently interested to get out and register...

...True and False In the Browder Visa Case The testimony of Julian L. Pinkerton, former U. S. Consul in Montreal, with reference to the circumstances surrounding the Montreal consulate's approval of the reentry into this country of Mrs...

...The facts are that, it was not the State Department but the Department of Justice which retained jurisdiction throughout...

...Next to LaPollette, Vaudreuil is considered by Impartial observers to be the most influential of the leadera of the Progressive Party...

...Moan's leadership h hrin...

...The first two have endorsed Hoan openly...

...There is no danger that all men will apeak well of his ideas in our society, for their application demands profound changes in the structure of our social institutions and in our personal attitudes...

...Three months ago this was the thinking that motivated the strategy of the President's supporters...

...One of John Dewey's favorite quotation* is: "Woe Unto You When All Men Shell Speak Well of You...

...For his thought will always serve as an instrument in the struggle for more and better democrmcy...

...TrlE 86th anniversary of the birth of John Dewey was the occasion for widespread tribute to America's foremost philosopher...

...Today Zimmerman is in the Dewey camp, ramnaigning with the Wisconsin Democrats-for-Dewey An Editorial Tribute to John Dewey...

...Today that objective is being achieved for them by Daniel Hoan, former Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee and present Democratic candidate for governor...

...The State Department entered the picture only incidentally, and even then without power to make or change the decision...

...2— Figuring every possible gripe against the President (and Heaven knows this correspondent has not been slow in noting them in the past two years), there is no visible gripe of sufficient force to make tenable theory that the unusually heavy registration means that people are going to the trouble of registering in order to vote against Mr...

...8 it" will lie shown that Mr...

...It was a special appeals board of the Dept...

...Washington and the Nation By JONATHAN STOUT Registration Figures Encourage Hope for Smashing FDR Victory WASHINGTON, D. C—Three month* ago, before ft* presidential campaign reached iu present hectic tat Jittery stage, most experts were agreed that the pajtstseskm figure* would tell the story of whether the pedpi* wanted Mr...

...It has furnished the theoretical weapons to break down the inherited oppositions between "culture" and "vocation," "individualism" and "socialism," "morality" and "technology...

...On the contrary, the vslid gripes of the past two years are of such order thst they might have been expected to cause people to lose Interest, to forget to register...

...But his campaign is helping swing the state bsck into the Roosevelt column...

...John Dewey's physical and intellectual vigor becomes more remarkable as the years go by...

...John Dewey cannot become respectable in any class society...

...4—It is very probable, therefore that on Nov...

...But when it was pointed out that Mrs...

...Yet as great as John Dewey is as a human being, his ideas and ideals are greater still...

...of Justice Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization which gave Mrs...

...Browder a re-entry hearing and decided, before she left this country to seek legal reentry at Montreal, that she is eligible for such reentry...

...Browder already had lived in the United States for more than ten years—illegally, of course—it was considered in authoritative quarters that objection by the State Department on the only grounds available would have appeared ridiculous...

...They are John Kaiser, Mayor of Port Washington...

...His face is turned to the future and he is still pioneering on the border lines of the unsettled problems of our day...