Draft

I am not a candidate for the nomination, said Socialist Norman Thomas, at his Party's convention in Reading, Pa. That statement, a reporter pointed out, puts you in a class with Roosevelt and Dewey. Indignantly Mr. Thomas disagreed.

The reporter pressed: "Does that mean that you mean it?"

"I would not put it that crassly. The President has not named anyone he would like to see get the Democratic nomination and Mr. Dewey would seem not to know that there is an election this year. I at least have named the man I would like .to see get the Socialist nomination--Maynard C. Krueger of Chicago."

Whereupon Maynard Krueger promptly nominated and the 229 delegates unanimously named Norman Thomas to head their ticket for the fifth consecutive time. Candidate Thomas, a real draftee, immediately got off an acceptance speech over the Blue Network: "If we persist along the road on which the Roosevelt Administration has planted its feet, we shall be hurled into a third world war incomparably more dangerous for us than that which we now endure."

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