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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pkbliabed Every Evening Except Sunday by /HE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. MBtnred at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office m Second Class Matter. |. H. Heller President A R. Hoithouse, Sec y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copiesl .02 Dae week, by carrier— .10 One year, by carrier——— 5.00 One month, by mail— .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mai11.75 One year, by mail3.oo 3ne year, at office3.oo Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 33.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. - National Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc. |ls Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Hear the secretary of war. Hon., Harry H. Woodring, of Kansas at, the Catholic school auditorium tonight. j Join the paraders tonight. Meet at the jail yard on First street at seven o'clock and take part in the j big event. — The New York News-Week ask ed twenty-eight prominent political writers for an opinion on election results. Eight declined to guess, oue favored Landou and nineteen predicted the reelection of Mr. Roosevelt. President Roosevelts political meetings in Chicago, Detroit, Cin : einnsti and other places have been the greatest ever held for any can didate. Little wonder the president| feels that the answer on November, 3rd will be "yes.’’ Ask your friends from Ohio when they come here to trade tonight if they like the sales tax. The merchant who thinks the gross income tax is wrong, might change his mind if he got the dope direct from his Buckeye customers. Sales billed by the General Electric Company for the first nine months of this year, show an increase of 27% over last year. Business is going forward and those who wish it to continue, will vote to let President Roosevelt finish ' bis job. - In 1564 Abraham Lincoln, sage: of the Republican party, W'on his victory, with the slogan, “Don't ‘ change borses in the middle of the stream.” The same condition exists now for the war against de-, pression has been in many ways, as severe as a war. The only sign that has graced the desk of President Roosevelt since he went into office is oue' which reads: “Seek only the great-, er good for the greater number of Americans.” That tells the story of wisat this great man has been trying to do and will continue to i do if you reelect him. Hon. Earl Crawford who will speak at Berne Thursday evening is secretary to. Governor McNutt. He is able and has for years been; a student of economic affairs in Indiana. He will,make clear to you many issues of the campaign that are important to you. Be sure to! listen to him. The members of the Woman's Democratic Club, the Young Vot-> ers Democratic club and the regui-1 ar organization, should all assist. . in gettyig the vote out on election day. If that can be done, the majorities for Roosevelt, Townsend and the local ticket, will be 3.000 and it should be this year. The business man who does not favor Roosevelt for president and, Townsend for governor, is not using the same good judgment that has caused him to succeed. Don't get side tracked ou some minor sue. The main thing is that the|

I gong on the cash register is ringr ing three or four times ottener . than it did four years ago. - Wells county will send a deiega- •' tion here for the Woodring meetJ ing this evening and to promote it.’ the Democratic committee of that I county placed a thirty inch advertisement in the Bluffton paper. Ad--1 ams and Wells counties may scrap on base ball, basket ba’ ind-other [ sports but in polities they have for 1 a half century played the game to- * gether. I . ... u i! Do you have a deposit in the | II bank? It is safer today than it has il ; ever been in our history. It Is guaranteed. laist October first marked . | the end of the first full year in 55 ; years without a single failure of a : , national bank in the United States. isn't that on the credit of the gov-' ternment's account with you? FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It certainly takes a lot of nerve for the 0. O. P. to attempt to make I Governor Landon out a Goliath and ' President Roosevelt a weakling, i The past four years should certainly prove that the president is ' one of the strongest characters who ever held office in this nation. He has fought a great battle against the mighty forces and has won. No man without a strong chin' i could have taken it. Republican propaganda now lie-; ing published says to ask if the I public schools will not be closed if . the gross income tax is repealed, is a libel upon the parents of Indiana who have always supported, 'schools and always will. Os course | they will and that's the trouble. If. 'the law is repealed, the only two! i ways to keep the schools going, i would be a higher rate on farms ‘ and city property for taxes or a • sales tax. The people of ludiaua don't want either. We are nearing the end of the i campaign, which regardless of the predictions that it was to be the most personal and bitter ever known, has been conducted on a i ! higher basis than usual, a good , sign for any nation. Keep it clean, i Discuss the isues and vote as you; believe is best. Hot words often'. lead to hotter conditions. You can get an idea by studying the Euro- j ■ , peau situation in comparison with the peace and happiness so appar-1 ! ent here. Rome reached a point in her history when her people cared for i ■ nothing but pleasure and you re-' member how Nero finally fiddled while be watched the city burn, the only thrill left. It's easy to drift into such a condition and the i i good i>eople of this nation should RIGHT NOW turn back to their I ehurch, for their own good and for ’ the good of those to come after . us. A Christian community has back of it the only security (hat has ever kept nations going. When the people forget God or quit believing in Him. it is but a quesi tion of how long they will carry on that depends on how much re- i ligion they had absorbed before, | the change came. David Lawrence, wholesaler in political news, came to Indiana and ■ discovered the two per cent dub. t His article turns that into a terr--1 ible crime against the government and he suggests that it be iuvestij gated by a senate committee; And ; this from one who has lived many years in New York City, who has long favored a political organiza- | tion that takes contributions from organizations which expect legisla-| |tive favor in return. The two per' cent club receives contributions or assessments from those employed and who thus earn their livlihood from the political jobs they hold. The process of raiding money is I the fairest used any where and , the objections to it are made because the opposition knows that by I any other means the Democratic party cannot raise sufficient mon ey to combat them in their game | of wffiumg by any means.

' -Is, (AND » B//J ILfx p Jr -- wM* A TAKING THE PUNCH OUT OF IT

DISPELUNG THE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

Getting down pretty close to elec-, tion day, it is possible to survey j the campaign, and fairly well to. forecast the result. It has been a unique period in politics. Ordinarily the two big parties, after the Conventions, spar about for a mouth or so while they organize their county, State and national headquarters. During this time of armed truce they feel each other our much as two skilled boxers spar for an opening in the first round. There was none of this, this time. The contending parties were at grips almost from the moment the gavel tell for the convention adjournment. President Roosevelt sounded the bugle call on the last day of the Philadelphia nominating ceremonies and the battle was on. The Republicans had their lightweight skirmishers out immediately. Colonel Knox, their Vice Presidential candidate, bubbled forth his characteristic speeches and National Chairman Hamilton went I scampering all over our broad country emitting his strange cries and his preposterous prophecies wherever he lighted. The performance was rather amateurish. Mr. Hamilton, new at the game, modeled himself on some of the experienced actors he had watched from a gallery seat. UnI accustomed to the limelight, he ' found it enjoyable and wallowed | ; in it. No chairman of a political party ever talked as much or as t i often. Small wonder that political I commentators began to give credence to the first of the campaign . whisperings that the supposedly I enigmatic candidate at Topdka was . becoming restive at his campaign I manager monopolizing the head- , lines. j Meanwhile Chairman Earley of the Democratic National Committee remained quietly at the party's , New York headquarters, organizing his bureau, staffing his departments, calling in the chiefs of the State organizations, composing local controversies, and reconciling local rivalries. In brief, he was gettin ready for the heavy fighting, and paying small attention to the outpost affairs, which his less practical adversaries seemed to mistake for general engagements. Truth to tell, there was less of < subtle strategy than of simple logic in the procedure. The Democrats had started out with a vast advantage. During four ' years they had kept the various party organizations intact and functioning. The Republicans, demoralized by the crushing defeats of 1932 and ■ 1934, had let their State committees disintegrate. and the whole | of their party machinery rust and mildew. Hence Mr. Hamilton's bur- ' tied and more or less random dashies from ocean to ocean were not motivated exclusively by his enjoyment of his sudden prominence. He had to rebuild the parts of his organization that had Sone to pieces and get the wheels in shape to . turn again. In the last analysis, it

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iis on the district leaders and pre- . cinct captains that tile actual fate :of a political campaign depends. A ■ ;great speech or adequate heau ; quarters help, of course, hut if the ' unadvertised fellows down below are not on the job and on their toes to get out the vote, all the oratory and all the strategy is next to futile. And yet it was during thio very interlude of random running about i and flustered spell-binding that , Governor Landon enjoyed the zei:J ith of Republics hopes. Th<n there seemed to be a cnance for him. Many people thought that, with the mountains of money behind htm. and the support of the enemies that every positive administration is bound to breed, he might be the Moses that could lead the Republican party out of j the wilderness. He had been built up to appear I a strong, able figure emerging full! panoplied from obscurity—anotdi-1 er Lincoln, perhaps, or, at least, J another Coolidge. The arrangements were perfect to bring this about. AH the organs of wrath against the President were drafted to the service. The Chicaog Tribune and Col Knox's Chicago News contributed, and ail the Hfarst i sob-sisters and type shriekers wore i put on the job. The Frank Kents I and Mark Sullivans and lesser by-1 line artists trooped gladly to the service. The du Pont Liberty League dio its part. So, for abrief time Governor Landon loomed large. Had he been able to come up to the specifications of the portrait that had been painted; had he even been able to remain enigmatic, things might conceivably have gone well for him. But he was confronted with the necessity of delivering a speech of acceptance. In that speech he was compelled to be Liberal—the Western farmers forced that. There were a hundred other positions, each with its perfect antithesis, which he had to be—or which his managers thought he had to be—en both sides of. So he stumbled through an address—bound to be unconvincing even if delivered by a modern Demosthenes. and absolutely flat from the lips of one with no graces of oratory. There was no such person as had been pictured By the word sculptors and phrase architects who had buildefl the abstraction to satisfy a nation. There was only Governor Alf Landon. And perhaps the bitterest obituary ever penned emanated from a wise-cracker of his own party, when the end of the acceptance speech I came over the radio: “You can't beat somebody with nobody." Governor Landon's sp**ehee grew measurably better later in the campaign That is to say, his elocution improved and hrs diction became less awkward. But his cause steadily diminished. The day before this is written'

I the betting odds were twelve to [ five against him, and the newspapers proclaimed that the Landon high command were fighting desperately to save Landon's own State of Kansas from going into j the Roosevelt column. Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ •-»' 1. Antarctic regions. 2. Lick Observatory. i 3. Gorilla. 4 Minaret, j 5. Pluto. 6. English poet. 7. Au optical illusion due to progressive variations in the refractive indices of adjacent layers of the atmosphere. 3- Missal. 9. A pair of twins is two chiklren. 10. Cleveland. o— Motor Guests Defied Pidiadena. Cal. (U. Pl—Friends ' wno go "dutch ' on an automobile j trip are not paid passengers but ' merely guests, according to a rul-: ing of the courts of appeals here. | As a consequence, if the car owner gets intoxicated and is sued, the guests are not responsible. Townsend Saip 0 u r homes, S our security in old age and the future of • child re n, de- . mand united action in defense 1 o f t h e opportu nit ie s for f and Hk WS faimers in this SL. Wl new Am e rica . M. C. Townsend of . Who can remember way back when the morning meal was opened with prayer instead of a can opener? • • • If we knew each other better, we would find that there are many i more things — more important things—upon which we agree than there are upon which we would care to quarrel. I deplore the fact that owners of lards and of homes are not assembled into the strong voice they surely could raise. If they were, we would hear less from some of the minority groups and individuals who complain bitterly he- i I cause they, for the first time in .' their lives are being required to pay for the costs of educating their children and protecting their homes. I

Judge Candidate t From Fir»t District WALTER E. TREANOR Bloomington Supremo Court Judge (Fin* Metric!) A background of long experience in the practice of la.w and in law school teaching, coupled with a splendid record during a 1 term on the Indiana Supreme ' Court bench are the qualifications of Judge Walter E. Treanor, of ! Bloomington, who is seeking reelection to the State Supreme 1 Court from the First District. One of Indiana's leading jurists Ihnd a citizen of high merit. Judge ' Treanor has proved to the voters iof the State of Indiana that they made no mistake when he was first elected to the Supreme Court bench and he is going before them seeking re-election with the undivided support of those who rallied to him iu his first campaign. Judge Treanor. who is 52 year's * old, has devoted his lifetime to the l law and teaching professions. His first teaching experience was In the public schools and. in 1922. he ! was made a member of the faculty j at Indiana University, becoming a professor of law. He also was editor of the Indiana Law Journal, official publication of the Indiana State Bar Association. Judge Treanor is known to attorneys and couurt attaches throughout the state as a splendid lawyer and jurist of sound judgment. He was born at Loogootee. Indiana. in ISB3 and. after completing his grade and high school training. entered Indiana University, at Bloomington. After graduating from the College in Liberal Arts and Law School at the state unlI versity, he attended the Graduate I School of Law at Harvard Univer-j i sity. from which he received his | ' S.J.D., the highest degree granted by that school. At the outbreak of the World War. Judge Treanor enlisted in the United States army and served during the period of the war. He has been active in American j Legion affairs since the organiza-! tion was formed and has a wldej acquaintance among veterans of: the state. — o ♦ A I The People’s Voice Thia column for th* use of our reader* who wish to make euggestions for the general good or diecuss queationa of interest. Rease sign your name t* show authenticity. It will not be uaed if you prefer that it not M. | 1 * 4 Shout For Roosevelt Surely no firmer has forgotten ’ 3c hogs, lie oats, and 15c corn and 1 that no farmer could come any ways near getting the cost of production. Go where you will today and the wheels of machinery are moving. In three short years with a real President St the helm see what has been done. Sure it takes money to get the ox out of the

HARTFORD Township VOTERS The total amount your township received this year from the state for SCHOOL PURPOSES ONLY, was $4,600.13 Os this amount, $3,825.00 was from gross income lax. Valuation of your township is $1,011,534.00. Your present school tax rate is $1.06. Additional property tax rate needed if state support is withdrawn by repeal of gross income tax law 44c per SIOO VOTE FOR TOWNSENO AND THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET Rolrtical A<vt ft

ditch, but it has been mighty wisely spent Hoover spent Ave billion dollars and there were no results except the worst depression the world ever knew. Under his farm , board prices fell lower and lower until people right ou the farms I went hungry. If Franklin D. Roosevelt was a I Republican and In three short | years had brought this country to 1 prosperous condition, he would ! have had my hearty support. What ' was done for the common people un- ' der the Harding CoolMlge and Hoover sdminstratlone? I heard a woman i say recently that if it took the bread and he knew It would right f out of their mouths, her hueband | would vote the Republican ticket. If Jesus Christ was the candidate for the presidency on the Democratic ticket, and Al Capoue was the candidate for presidency of the U. S. on the Republican ticket there are people who would vote for Al Capone. Such people hare neither wisdom, knowledge or good sense to guide them. They are jnst Republicans and that Is all they know. No one can be honest with themselves and go against Roose velt, for it plainly shows that they do not want to give the credit of bringing the country back to living conditions — where the credit plainly belongs. The man who sev-

A Recent Conversation Between An W Indiana Farmer And His 12-Year-Old Son; I Son -"Say. Pop. are you going to vote for Roosevelt this M< ■ Dad-" No. Son. My father always voted the Republican Father before him voted It and what was zood is good enough for me. What stirred up your inteiw 8on—“Well. I heard Jim’s Dad say that if It hadn t bees for he wouldn't have any farm now, and nes got a oars.” H Dad—“l know. Our farms were appraised for a Eedenl LattiH same day It does help a heap to only pay on the mortgage instead of 6%. ■ Sou—“ And Jim said that bunch of 5U hogs they sold brought 340 b more than that bunch of 100 bead tbeyi|9 before Roosevelt took office.” ■ Dad—“ Well. 1 guess ours did about that well, too. I bad eaoffiM those coru-hog checks to catch up my back taxes arfolgß last hog check in the bank tor next year's interest ud ' Son -“Well, I’m sure glad you got those corn hog cheduorluX have any bicycle, or gone to the State Fair with ny:M|B either. Gee! Pop. that sure was a swell fair this year. 1| Mr. Townsend gets to be Governor so we cag bar, ti* that every year." Dad—“ We’ve been having State fairs for a long time, Sos." Son—“ Yes, but we didn't have to sack up wheat to take to * tickets this year. Yon had the money. Au* wasn't kff have Mom go the day I showed my heifer?” Dad —"She wanted to go this year to show-off her new oath" ’ Son—“ Well, 1 know she was awfully proud of her new dothaal has talked ever since about the 'old time school' and the M school' exhibit sne saw at the fair. Do we really kaw h schools here in Indiana than most other States hare?' Dad—" Yes we do! And it costs a lot of money to have good 4 and hire good teachers. The Gross Income Tax Law in Iff sure has helped us farmers with the schools. Why Mw law was passed, the property owners paid nearly all ot Ik of the schools and there were thousands and thowandi 0 who were not paying any tax at all. Now everybody Mh port the schools and our taxes are only about twothirdiill they were three years ago.” Son—" That's what my teacher said. He's glad he taught 10IN where the teachers were paid every month and didst ha worry about the schools closing or the term beinj sM He's glad to pay his share of the Gross Income Tax t«’ Dad—“ Yes, but there are some people whe aren't glad to pay V Son—" Why not Pop? Jim's Dad says he pays less tax now. Xi both his property tax and his Gross Income Tax, tluk: to pay in property tax alone.” ' Dad —“Well, Son. you know some people want good roads, gwdtd and good school buildings; and all kinds ot governßUUk and yet no matter how fair the tax is, they harp' uteriN it.” Son—" Say, Pop, aren't you afraid any more to put your stowfi bank?” I Dad—"No sir! Son, you see our government has insured talk posits up to $5,000 and I expect it will be some time have that much in the bank. I want to put up someneste make some changes in the barn; and your Mom has get a that she’d like to have the place wired for electtid*! ‘electricity costs' for us farmers has been reduced so nu't I tdlnk I will surprise her and pipe the water in the Ma maybe put a motor pump on the well so she won't havetel and carry the water in this winter.” Son —"Oh boy! Then we can have lights to do the chores bj* a motor to turn the separator.” Dad—“ Yes, 1 think we ll wire the barn and chicken bouse' Son—" Pop, you and Mom sure are a lot happier than ytrawi* before Mr. Roosevelt became PrAident." Dad—"lf you don't look out, son, you'll make a Democrat Son—“l hope I do; because I'm going to vote the Democratict» soon as I'm old enough.” Dad —"I believe you are right and 1 am going to beat you W» voting with those who have helped me. lam going to Al on November 3rd and cast my first Democratic ballotopened my eyes, son.” Contributed by lhe Chairman of the Adams Democratic, Agricultural

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