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...maker of headlines, most successful third-party Nominee this year has been Communist Earl Browder. In this he was conspicuously aided by unknown persons of Tampa, Fla., who locked him out of the hall where he was to speak, and by the police of Terre Haute, Ind., who locked him up as a vagrant (TIME, Oct. 12). Born in Kansas, son of a country schoolmaster, Earl Browder's own schooling ended at 9 when his father had a breakdown and the son got a job as an errand boy. He studied bookkeeping, became office manager of a farmers...
...soap-box rabble rouser but a kindly, even-spoken man, Earl Browder does a good patient job among earnest Party workers, achieves publicity for his cause only by maneuvering into headline situa tions. Not altogether undeserved was his arrest as a vagrant. During the campaign he has traveled 26,000 miles, mostly in day coaches, shuttling about the country, visiting 26 States. Last week, while Negro James W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential Nominee, was hopping about to Nashville, Richmond, Durham, Harlem, Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre...
Unable to advocate the election of Franklin Roosevelt openly, Red Browder has throughout the campaign done the next best thing: told voters that the election of the Republican Nominee would be a catastrophe. Said he last week in answer to an inquiring comrade: "Advise everybody to vote Communist and if they won't take your advice, tell them that the worst possible thing they can do is to vote for Landon...
Thus did Comrade Browder, whose party polled 102,991 votes four years ago, bring himself to the attention of voters in 32 to 34 States where he hopes to have his Red ticket on the ballot...
Simply because we cannot all find room on our "ship of 'Capitalism'" is no excuse for sinking her and providing every man with a rowboat. Our problem, rather, is to improve her facilities of accomodation; --not to carry out the scheme of "Doryism" that such men as Browder preach...