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PACK EIGHT MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OKECON. PUNDAY. AUGUST 1?. 1940. Willkie Urges Some Form Conscription; New Deal Blasted Elwood, Ind.. Aug. 17 yP Here is the text of the speech In which Wendell L. Willkie formally accepted the Republi can presidential nomination here today. - The ceremony of an acceptance speecb la a tradition of our pioneer put before the days of rapid com munication. You all know that I accepted at Philadelphia the nomina tion of the Republican party for president of the United States. But 1 take pride In the tradiuona and not In change for the mere aake of overthrowing precedeuta. An acceptance epeech la a candi date's keynote, a declaration of hit broad principles. 1 cannot possibly review the Issues in detail. I shall, however, cover each of them frankly during this campaign. Hen I give you an outline of the political philo sophy that Is In my heart. Outlines Folltlcal Philosophy We are bera today to represent a acred cause the . preservation of American Democracy. Obviously. I cannot lead thla causa alone. I need the help of every Amer icanRepublican, Democrat or luc pendent Jew. Catholic, or Protectant people of every color, creed and race. Party ilnea are down. Nothing could make that clearer tban the nomination by the Republicans of a liberal Democrat wbu changed bis party affiliation because be found democracy In the Kepuoucan party and not In the uew deal party. And aa the leader of the Republl can party let me say this. We go Into our campaign as into a crusaoe Revitalised and re-united, and Joined by mlllloua who shsre In our cause, wa dedicate ourselves to the prin ciples of American liberty, and we sball fight Una campaign on the peels of those prlnclplea, not on the bails of bate, Jealousy, or persousll tles. The leaders of the Republican party. In congress snd in the party organisation, have made me that pledge. 1 have given that pledge to them. And I eitend it to au wno will Join In thla cause. Whst we need In this country Is a new leader ship that believes In the destiny of America. I represent here todsy the forces that will bring that leadership to you. Bounds Pledge There is a speclsl resaon why ! bava come back to Elwood, Indiana, to make this acceptance epeech. t have an engagement to keep In this town. It waa made a long time ago with a young man 1 knew. Thla young man waa born and raised In Elwood. He attended the Elwood publlo schools. Ho worked In your factories and stores. He atarted the practice ol law In your courts Aa 1 look back upon him, I realise that he bad plenty of faults. But be bad also three steadfast convictions. Ha wss devoted to the Ideal of Indi vidual liberty. He bated all apeclal privileges and forma oi oppression. And bs knaw without any doubt that the greatest country on earth was the United Stews of Amertcs. That boy waa myself thirty-five yeara ago. I still adhere to those convictions. To him, to his genera tion, to bis elders, and to the youth of today 1 pledge my word that I shall naver let them down. In former deys America wss de scribed aa a country In which any young man might become president. It Is still thst kind ol country. The thousands ol my fellow townsmen standing hereabout know how distant seemed that opportunity to me thirty years ego. We must light to preserve America aa a country 111 which every girl and boy has every opportunity for any achievement. taltlt In Future To the mllllona of our young men and women who have been deliber ately dlalllusloned by the polltlcsl Influences I now oppose; to the mll llona who no longer believe In the future ot their lend to them 1 wsnt to say in all humility thla boy 1 knew atarted like you. without money or position; but, America gave biro the opportunity for a career. I aant to assure a sim ilar opportunity to svery boy and girl of today who is willing to stsnd on bis own feet, and work, and light. Plrturee family Tree I have more reason thsn most ol you to leel strongly shout this be causa the Uulfd Btetee gave to my femlly their met chance lor a (ree life. The aucestora of both my tether and my mother, like the ancestore o! millions ol Americana, lived In cen tral Europe. They were humble people not members of ths ruling or eslthy clssees. Their opportunities mere reeirlcted by discriminatory laws snd clsss distinctions. One i esUed because of bla religion; anoth er was persecuted because he believed In the principles of ths rrench revo lution; snd still snother wss Jelled for Insisting on the right ol tree epeech. As their descendsnt, I heve fought from boyhood sasiut all those re strictions, dlscrtmlnsllons and tyran nies. And I am still lighting. - My grsndparenu lived In Oermeny They were euppurters of the demo cratic revotutlone In thst country, and when the revolutione fsilrd they fled to the United Htslea. How la mlUar that sounds! Todsy, sleo. people are being oppressed In Europe. The story ol the bsrbsrous and worse than medlevel persecution of tf Jews a race thst hss done so much to improve the culture of three coun tries and our own Is the must treble In human history, today there are millions of retugeee who desire eetic tusry snd opportunity In America. Just sj In my irsndpsrente' time. The protection of our own putor snd agriculture prevente us (rum admit ting more thsu a few of them. But their misery and Buffering make us resolve to preeerve our country aa a land free of ham and bitterness, of racial and clasa dlstmcuon. 1 pledge you that kind of America. Dad, Indiana pioneer sly mother ass born In this coun try. My fnther ass three or lour years old when bis parents settled In northern Indiana It waa then a trackless forest. Aa a young man he helped to clear that forest. He worked hia way through the Port Wayne Methodist college, taught school, and became superintendent of school! here In Elwood. My mother waa also a school tescher. Whenever they bed time, they both studied lsw and eventually both took up the practice of law. I doubt If any two people ever appreciated or loved thla country mora than they. As you who lived here with them well know, they were fiercely Demo cratic. They hated oppreealoo. autoc racy, or arbitrary control of any kind. They believed In the qualltlea that have made America great. At school they taught those virtues to msny of you who art here todsy. At home they taught them to their children. It Is a tribute to tbslr teaching that when the United states entered the World war In 1917. three of their four boys were volunteers, in the uniform of the American forcca, within one month after war waa declared. They withheld no sacrifices for the preaer vatlon of the America of 101T. In an even mora dans-eroue world, wa must not withhold any sacrifice necessary for the preaervatlon of the America of today. No World Isolation Today we meet In a typical Amer ican town. The quiet etreete. the pleasant fields that Us outside, tba people going casually about their buslnees, ssem far removed from tha shattered cltlee, the gutted buildings, and the stricken people of Europe, it Is bsrd for us to realise that the war In Europe can affect our dally Uvea. Instlnctlvsl7 wa turn aalde from tha recurring confllcta over there, tha dlplomatlo Intrigue, tha shifts of power that the laat war failed to and. Tot Instinctively also ws know thst we art not laolated from those suffering people. Wa live in the same world aa they, and we are created in the asms Image. In all the democra cies thst bsve recently fallen, the people Wf re living the eeme peaceful lives that we live. They had aimilar Idesls of buman freedom. Their methods of trade and exchange were tlmllsr to ours. Try ss wa will, wt cannot brush the pitiless picture of their destruction from our vision, or escape the profound effecta of It upon the world In which wa live. Telia Foreign Policy No man la so wise ss to foresee whet the future holds or to lsy out a plsn for It. No man can guarantee to maintain peace. Peace la not something thst a nation can achlovs by Itself. It slso depends on what some other country does. It Is neither practical, nor desirable, to adopt a foreign program committing the united otetea to future action under unknown circumstances. . The best we can do la to decide what principle shall guide us. sclerdie sen Ire Fstorrd Pot ms, that principle csn be sim ply defined: In the foreign policy of the United Statee. as In Its domestlo policy, I would do everything to defend Amer lesn democracy and I would refrain from doing anything that would Injure It. We must not permit our emotions our sympathies or hatreds to move ue from thst fised principle. ror instsnce. we must not shirk ths necessity of prrpering our sons to tske care of themselves In case the defense of America lends to war. I shsll not undertake to analyne the leglalatton on thla subject that Is now before congress, or to exsmlns the Intentions of the sdministratlon with regard to It. I concur with msny members of my party, that these In tentions must be closely watched. Nevertheless In spite of these consld eratlona, I csnnot aak tha American people to put their faith In me. with out recording my conviction that some lorm of selective servtcs Is the only democratic ay In which to secure the trained and competent manpower wa need for national do fenae. Britain a Bulwark , Also, In the light ol my principle, we must honestly fsce our relstiou shlp with Orest Brllsln. We must sdmlt thst ths loss of the British fleet would greatly wesken our de fense. This Is becsuse the British fleet hss tor yesrs controlled the Au Isntlc, leaving ua free to concentrate In the Pacific. If the British fleet were loel or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Oermany, a power hostile to our wsy of life, con trolling in thst event most of the ships snd htpbulldlng fscllltles of Europe. This would be celsmlty for ua. We might be exposed to attack on the Atlantic. Our defense would be weak ened until we could build a navy and airlotve strong enough to defend both casta. Also, our foreign trsde a-ould be profoundly affected. That trade la vital to our prosperity. But If we had to trade with a Europe dominated by tha present Oermsn trade policies, ws might hsva to change our methods to some totall tarlan form. Thla la a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternstlon. The objective of America la in the opposite direction. We must. In the long run. rebuild a world In whlcb we can lite and more and do busl liese In the deinocrellc way. Agrees Ultn F. It. A. In Part The president of the United States receutly said: "We win extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this ustlon. snd st the seme time e will herueas tile yse ol those resources in order thst we ourseles. In ths Amerlcss. msy hse equipment snd training equel to the task of any emergency and every defense." I should like to state thst 1 sm In sgreement with these two prlnclplea. ss 1 understand them snd I don t understand them aa implying mili tary involvement In the present hos tilities. Aa an American rltlsen I am glad to pledge my aholehearted sup port to tha president In whsKrer action bs msy tske In accordance with these prlnclplea. But 1 cannot follow tha president in bla conduct of foreign affaire In thla critical time. There bava been occasions when msny of us bave wondered If he la deliberately Incit ing ua to war. t trust that 1 bave made it pissn that in tba defense ot America, and or our llbertlea. I should not besitste to aund for war But like a great many other Ameri cana 1 asw whst wsr waa Ilka at flrat hand In 1917. t know what war can do to demoralise civil Ubertlea at home. And I believe It to be the flrat duty of a president to try to maintain peace. Hits Meddling But Mr. Roosevelt bea not done this. Ha haa dabbled In Inflammatory statements and manufactured panics Of course, we In America like to spesk our minds freely, but thla doea not, mean that at a critical period In history our president should csuss bitterness snd confusion for the sske ot a little polltlcsl oratory. The preatdent a attacka on foreign powera nave been useless and dangeroua. Ho haa courted a war for whlcb the country is hopelessly unprepared and which It emphatically doea not want. He haa secretly meddled In the affalra of Europe, end ha haa even unscrupulously encouraged other countries to hope for more belp than wo are able to give. "Walk aoftly and carry a big atlck" waa the motto of Theodore Roosevelt. It Is still good Amsrlcan doctrine for 1940. Under the present administra tion the country hss been placed In the false position of shouting Insults BY LAND AND SEA Father crlls "To brims HIM HIS PIPE FROM frit SIDEBOARD IN THE DlrJlrvS ROOM BY aiMBlWS SOFA, WHICH HAS BECOME A MOUNTAIN KAN6E, MAKE A SAFE PAS4ASF TO FARTHER 6H0RE I ftrf.i.eH (,y Tie Belt t.Min'i Inr i 819 j j TAILSPIN TOMMY Snarodl A" ArtMBO plan. Ms Attack! o T thahj - okay, ted.' Tell him V" 7 look, tom.' X I F what a man 1 TeVii''.-"0'".-1 li-OHfc AHt.R. ( WELL LAND WE'VE K 7W ( T M 6 "i'5 A J4) TMAT BARON MAS BEEN KILLED... AND NOW .7-aO I GOT TO CON SID 6 fl THE VSUSMAtLINi , Oi, IVON HAPSEIG IS I V SAFETY" OP OUR. JW tVV' r0OWN THedEJ ciZf' )H6 P10URE0- V Ahoy, clipp-. --v AiASS engehs wTV) d vtv " Ki - v - "f i-i I it to the exact t shV..we shall VY IL--J- A AC ( A lonoV.,0 V j give you oust K -I--- "TY : 7. vXfevC, )w V , A L LONGITU-E r rL QN THE CLIPPER'S COCKPIT, ll! I Jf iL '.T TOMMY i,K6$ f. SANE , .l .Jwa.., SSs4?' 5""-' - 1 . . ' t-N I but kecuctaht decision I j - r,rV&ZV?!z. f felsTer-pesT BEN WEBSTER 8 CAREER-Offe, Accepted Bt EDWIN ALGER f WEL-' THIS IS THE DOflSON'EST " 7 COME TO THINK CP IT, A4E 1 16T ME SEE, NOW TIM'S VgjJ I CAM I WHV...WHO ARE VOUT ' I PLACE I EVER WOCKE0, BRIAR! I THEV SO STRANGE AFTE.R ALL? fci 3 M LAST WORD'S WERE FOR WT HELP YOU, fl NEW BOV AROUND I 1 I MR. CLANCY SURE HAS SOME 1 GOSHl I THINK lM GONO I I ME TO MAKE MVSELF fl MISTER? yl HERE? SURE VOU i-' 7 V THE STRANGEST IDEAS, BUT- V7? IIKE IT HBRBI USEFUL-JtY "N. HELP ME1" THE NEBBS The Pes! By SOL HESrt MR.NEPS, WILL VOUrV'1 AROUMO ThE. WORLDS f TwECEL'S KlO OTME'i tUELTVlW "N flF VMWATVOL) SAY S tdueXWELL INCREASE IwOuStbvM PILLS REALLY DO N"TW i NO OTWEC POWER BUT ( VS..LL PRODUCE HA.LP TmE POWER volVL PUT TSjSAkjOS BY SiSHfft CMP ftlra aftt 7 VrcMOMSTRATl X K 2-ELClSH COCTUNE: VOO'Ll. ) FATHER'S B5MM ANO 6SWDM WeVTH S VrX ,r a VJLV5 V0 HUNSER.'- UVE WITHOUT ExEROSiMG 7 snd not even beginning to prepare to take the conaequencea. Confidence Lark Told But while he baa tbua been quick to tell other nattona what they ought to do, Mr. Roosevelt bsa been slow to take tha American people Into bla confidence. He haa heeilated to re port facta, to explain situations, or to define reellstlc objectlvee. The confusion in tho nations mind haa been largely due to this lack of In formation from tho Wblte House. Would tee Candor Aa prealdent. I plan to reverse both of these policies. I should threaten foreign governments only when our country waa threatened by them and when I waa ready to act; and 1 should consider our diplomacy aa part of tha people a business con cerning whlcb they were entitled to prompt and frank re porta to tha limit of practicability. Candor In these times la the hope of democracy. Wo must not kid our selves sny longsr. We must begin to tell ourselves tho truth right bore and right now. Wo have been sitting aa spectators of a great tragedy. Tha action on the stage of history haa been relentless. Por Instance, tba French people were Just aa brave and Intelligent aa the Oermana. Their armies were con sidered the best In tho world. Prenoe and her allies won tba last war. They possessed all tha material resources they needed. They had wealtb and reaervea of credit all over the earth. Yet tho Germans crushed Prance 11 Xe an eggshell. (Continued on Page Ton.) 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In the second half of July 41 men died of wounds from the fiehting in France and 95 were killed in Africa. by JOHN MX HAL FORREST 17 - 'SB v -m i i M - By
