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influence, but the employes also should be restrained from the use of strong-arm tactics against their fellow workers, and that the pfofes-

sional organizers shall be restrained |:

from the use of many of their high-pressure tactics which have been so much in evidence in the * last two years. { If it is the desire of labor to be fair, certainly nothing could be fairer. But it also sounds the death knell to the professional labor agitator whose chief interest is the creating of strikes and the arousing of class hatred. There is no doubt but that certain labor leaders who have only their own selfish ambitions at heart - interpret this to mean that an outside organizer, who was not employed in a plant or industry, could and would be restrained from ordinary membership work done in the process of getting workers organized into a union. Now what does the New Deal platform say about the labor question? Of course it gives labor the right to organize. It says it should be free from interference by the employers, and there it stops. If one is to accept the letter of the platform we are forced to admit that labor would be thrown wide open to all radical strike agitators, rabid hate breeders and harassing strike promoters. Labor would be defenseless and at the mercy of these alienminded agitators. The New Deal answer to this is that state laws and city ordinances already take care of it. If this is true, why should labor leaders and New Deal rabble rousers object to the embodiment of these principles in the Republican platform was dictated by the National Association of Manufacturers? . 8 8 =» ANSWERS FORUM LETTER By C. E. Kidwell The following letter written by J C. Watson appeared in The Indianapolis Times, Page 18, July 31, 1936: “It is amusing how the overzealous anti-New Deal press and President makers of the country are boosting the budget balancing record of Governor Landon of Kansas, all the while ignoring the much superior record of Governor McNutt of Indiana, Democratic friend of President Roosevelt.” (Since when did his friendship date?) “Kansas put out the news. that property taxes have been cut 30 per cent. Indiana .can boast of a general 35 per cent reduction since Governor McNutt took office. Kansas brags that bonded indebtedness has been reduced for political subdivisions by $21,000,000 since 1932. Indiana can show .a cut in bonded debt which soon will amount to $90,000,000 since 1932. Indiana can show a cut in bonded debt which soon will amount to $80,000,000 since 1932.” Is this man really so ignorant to expect us Republicans, who voted for the raw deal in 1932 to be really drunk enough to do so again? Indiana had no bonded debt in 1932, and none now, nor can Indiana, under our state laws, issue any bonds. No doubt if the McNutts could have done so, there now would be $19,000,000,000 in bonds outstanding, as he copies Roosevell in every way possible. The only comment necessary on the cut in taxes, Mr. Watson, is that any person paying taxes knows they are higher. » = 2

INDEPENDENT VOTER ISSUE SEEN PROBLEM By M. G. Frenep, Edwardsport

The problem vexing both major political parties today is that of who the independent voters will support in the fall election. The indepencent voter votes principle instead of party and judges a candidate by his corps of advisers and his record ot service to se common people. G. O=P. big top headed by John Hamilton, a second P. T. Rarnum, you will find a collection unsurpassed in

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The Lowly, -but Eminently Respectable, Goober Is Seen as Issue.

By M. BR. Kuehn, Richmond

S September nears, political charges will increase in number. Also, in ferocity, in the velocity, too, with which ey will flash across the front porches of America. ° In this lull before the storm it may be appropriate to take up one issue for settlement before the school bell rings. It is an issue worthy of notice for the apparent harmlessness hidden under its brittle shell. I refer respectfully to the peanut. The peanut is being dragged into this campaign. In the year 1936,°in all probability the last of the “Roosevelt revolution,” the peanut threatens to become an issue. It isn’t one yet. But, like a woman angrily shaking a dust-mop from a second-story window, it threatens. A whispering campaign has begun. The charge is being made on the quiet that John D. M. Hamilton of Kansas and other states has “taken a little peanut and made a little tin god out of him.” That would be a deed worthy of anybody's attention even in peacetime. Now that “war has been declared” and a few people have “enlisted for the duration of the war,” this charge should not be taken too lightly. Not by sober people, at any rate.

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HE peanut has always stood well ‘with most of us. We knew it way back there in the horse-and-buggy days. Let them say what they will about this tasty nut, they can not accuse it of denying its lowly beginnings. It never has tried to hide its nature by letting on that it is not of the earth and earthy. It admits modestly that its home is in the ground. Nowhere is there proof that it ever knowingly left the impression, even on mischievous boys, that

tops of Christmas tirees! If this whispering campaign, now quietly under way, is accusing the Republican Party of 1936 of dignifying the peanut, su let it-be. If it is being charged with humility and common sense and keeping its feet on the ground, the sooner it pleads guilty to the charge the better! There’s no use tryiag to get out of a scrape like that! The peanut stands well with most of us. So does Alf M. Landon. No wonder the people are turning to the earth, where their feet are planted, ang where it’s not only more comfortable but more pleasant to walk.

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Wherein a ‘Constitutional Democrat’ Makes Some Observations.

By Bert Wilhelm AM a constitutional Democrat. By that I mean I have a grouch in my constitution. I kinder hate Roosevelt because I live in the past and he has forgotten the past and thinks only of the future. For this reason I would be better off in the Republican Party, but I won't vote the Republican ticket because I live in the past and think of Pawpaw and Grandpaw; and they said nothing good ‘ever came out of the Republican Party. They say that Andrew. Jackson was a great dictator, but Grandpaw said that was only his disposition and personality. You see, Jackson drank whisky and swore when he was dictating and got all het up when somebody crossed him; while Roosevelt smiles and says nice, pleasant things. Another thing. I hate professors. I paid $5000 to send Jeff, my boy, through college and have -the professors try to teach him something; but no feller with book larnin’, can tell me anything I believe, like Grandpaw, in rugged individuality. I hate these dictators. I want to see Mr. Hearst and Mr. DuPont repeal all laws governing banks so I can put my money in as I please and have the banker invest it as he pleases. Even if he does lose it and they close his bank, I don’t want him to be dictated ©.

2 » ” (GRANDPAW always wanted to bust Wall Street. Hoover did the best job of busting Wall Street. He just gave them plenty of rope

and they busted themselves and everybody else. I like the Republican platform. It is so clear and businesslike. And

-¥ -like ‘the word “boondoggle.” It

should find its place in the school books along with 100 per cent American, two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage full dinner pail, and prosperity Just, around the corner. I haven't made up my mind yet what to do about this voting. Lemke said that . two days’ ‘wages. out of every six went to pay taxes. Well, Hoover beat that. We did not pay any taxes because we had no job or money to pay them with. Now if we work six days we have four days’ wages for oursélves, even if we do have to pay two days’ taxes. So, I may vote for Roosevelt at that, and chancegpare I will.

Can’t Be Done

By Jack Raper Gov. Landon took a run over to Independence, Kan., to vote in the primary and stopped long enough to make two short political speeches. One was delivered to a reporter and was of no importance, dealing with the importance of voting. ' The other speech was important and showed Mr. Landon knows something about the art of winning votes. It was delivered to the Business Women's League. “I can truthfully say I never have seen so many good looking girls in one room in Kansas,” said the Governor. Then he added for good measure, “and so many young girls.” Let's hear some Democrat answer that argument.

CITIZENS FIND FORUM PROTEST GETS RESULT By a Group of Citizens y We wish hereby to acknowledge the efficacy of the Hoosier Forum as & medium of protest. Two days

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Republicans” — Rev. Charles: E. Coughlin. Then why has Coughlin tried to move heaven and earth to overhaul it to fit his absurd theories about the banking system? “T believe we have such a thing as national lunacy . —Rep. Lemice, Union Party candidate for President. If any one doubts it, a little study of Lemke’s platform, his record, his associates and his affiliations will be

convincing. » 8 8 LESS POLISH ON AUTOS DEMANDED By Anna S8-C Lee - We are pleased with the antinoise campaign, and agree. with doctors that “noise interferes with

‘| the healing powers of - sleep,” but

personally, I believe we have a greater problem in the light of the sun on the nickle-plated lamps and hubs of automobiles, and the mirror-like reflection of the sun on the highly polished automobile bodies. One-third of the citizens of Indianapolis are wearing dark glasses to protect their eyes from these dazzling lights, Our eyes are our most valuable possession, and too

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to hear much about the beautiful home life of Gov. Alf M. Landon. We would like to hear more about the home life of those poisoned zinc miners who, when they were striking for union recognition, were threatened my militant state troops ‘under the command of Gov. Landon.

We know that Alf 1s a great “union man.” We know that he thinks a worker's life is worth al-

about, the home life of those poisoned, ill-paid miners whose wives sit by the window and sigh for .the safety of their husbands. We know that President Roosevelt has and will continue to improve this strata of society, if we, the public, will, in November, use the intelligence with which we are accredited. As a’matter of fact psychologists tell us that we. the public, have the intelligence of a 12-year-old boy. But even a 12-year-old boy should have the intelligence to see the wisdom in “by their fruits ye shall know them.” An exceptionally bright 12-year-old hoy might be -able to camprehend that the social-sin of ordering

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four years.” What has this Administration done for the future security of you and your children? It has produced an artificial famine of scarcity to put

body employed at a wage that would enable them to buy off the market what their labor puts on. A vote for Roosevelt, Landon or Lemke is a vote for a continuance of the silly, insane system that has made it possible for 4 per cent of the people to own 80 per cent of the wealth while 96 per cent have 4 per cent of the wealth spread mighty thinly among them. The only vote that will count toward a new system that will forever banish poverty and - its offspring, disease and crime, is a vote for the Socialist Party. Read its platform

Qoughlin when he insulted our President. Now, Mr. M. F,, they say truth is an imperial virtue and it stands to reason that the President is no better than the citizen unless he does better. Let the chips fall where they may, the American citizens are no fools. Our beloved Lincoln said you can’t fool all the people all the time. We love and trust our President so long as he is in the right, otherwise we are at You will continue with the Democrats and you may elect Roosevelt for. President, (Hope not.) 2 =» = LIKES THE TIMES’ FORUM DEPARTMENT By James Good I am glad to see The Times allotting more space for free expression of the views of its readers. 3 It matters not what the public mind is, nor what particular channels it travels. After all, it is supreme,. 2:

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It must be remembered that the citizens of Indianapolis were not informed of this project nor had we any knowledge.that our board of trustees Bsticipated such a “kindergarten vent

It should be rightfully expected that the Mayor of Indianapolis should see to it that his appointed board should serve -the public and not the best interests of our competing utility. I am completely disgusted with our public servants.

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