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has ever suffered. Yes, “three long years” ago a strong hand was absolutely necessary. (Not 48). dictaforial action was needed. Business and finance were yanked rudely from the “Slough of Despond” to 8 higher and safer ground, and now many such are yelping because a bit of skin was rubbed of in doing so, and because the doctor's bill must be paid. Yes, Mr. Landon, where would the people have been if strenuous means had not been taken to rescue them? Probably back around the corner. The press and radio record unbelievable progress now being made “after three long years” in rescuing business and restoring the workers to jobs. Could you, Mr. Landen, or the Great Old Promisers, for which you speak and for which you would like to work, have done better? The average citizen demands more than promises, for he can read the record as it has been so badly written by the G. O. P. ” ” » SAYS CITIZENS ARE NOT PROTECTED FROM DOGS By A Reader I notice by the papers that the city is asking for a $1.24 rate for the coming year, which is about an 11 cent boost over last year's rate. About the only thing the city intends to do with this money is to secure the citizens in their property rights.

If you will look over the budget you will notice that a very small part of this money is to be used to secure the citizens in their human rights. Your paper has always held itself out for human rights when it interferes with property rights. The city is asking for playgrounds, park systems, boulevards, firemen, policemen, etc., so that the citizens can be more secure in their property, but times have changed. The will to live is exceeding the desire for wealth.

If you will review your files, you will notice that the city is not giving any protection to the residents from stray dogs that are running amuck. I do not think that the taxpayers would begrudge the city its $1.24, if the taxpayers could be sure that their children would not be exposed to the danger of loose stray dogs that do no one any good and do every one some harm. I am for inor ohn the budget another 25 cents

or ev?n $1 if I could feel that my child’ can sit on his front porch safely. I realize that there are a large group of people who think more of the dog than they do of the child, These people own dogs. Their dogs are not harmful because they are penned up or vaccinated against rabies. But it is also this group that the administration would benefit if they rounded up all loose dogs. » » ”

THINKS BROUN SHOULD STUDY UNION PARTY By A. J. McKinnon :

I feel that Heywood Broun ought at least post himself on the Union Party platform before giving Amerjcan public his writeup on the Lemke platform. Mr. Lemke does not claim to have a cure for the whole world, but he has a cure for America and especially for relief and the unemployed. His platform makes that point clear. What would be interesting is, if Broun would give us a writeup on which of the two old sham battles he favors and why. Or better still, a writeup on the next four years of depression if Lemke is not elected president. There is one thing that stands out as clear as the noon-day sun, and that is, there must be a complete change from the two old major parties to the Union Party to put this country on democracy. The two old parties try to run our country with a government automobile without a battery. They have sold the battery to the Federal re-

serve bankers. And in order to pay.

for relief, project works on down to the government pay roll, they borrow juice from the bankers’ ba tery at 3 per cent interest, which helps one class of people at a heavy

.| expense to the other.

Under the Lemke platform the battery is replaced in the government car and all tires are inflated to 35 pounds American people roll on to victory, liberty, democracy and the pursuit of happiness. Unless this change comes there is no relief from the depression. Vote for Liberty—Bill Lemke has this plank. There is no plank on the money question in the two old parties. Here lies the key to prosperity and the opening of 200,000 manufacturing plants that never will be opened by the two old major parties. » » » MR. EEUHN IS TAKEN TO TASK BY READER By 101 Per Cent Roosevelt Booster In your forum I see many articles of criticism of the Roosevelt Administration from a Mr. Keuhn of Richmond, Ind., calling himself a 101 Per Cent Wilson Democrat, who seems to find fault with about everything they have done in the last three years, even finds fault with The Times editorials, and Mrs. Roosevelt's articles in The Times.

What I would like to know is why doesn’t he find fault with the great business recovery now. in progress all over the country. Perhaps he doesn’t read the financial page of The Times. Why doesn't he find fault with the sound conditions of the national banks with deposits guaranteed, or does he prefer to return to bankrupt conditions as the G. O. P. left them? Or would he like to see the liquor business put back into the hands of racketeers and” hijackers instead of the government with the large revenue annually pouring into the U. S. Treasury? Or would he like to see property and farm values go to the un-heard-of low level that the Republican party put them, Why doesn’t he look at the bank clearings each’ day and compare them with the last Republican misrule to which I think he wants to return? Also the bankrupt railroads, closed steel mills, 9-cent corn, 35-cent wheat and 3-cent hogs? Why doesn’t he refer to these things when finding fault? You can never make me believe he is or ever was a 101 Per Cent Wilson Democrat because they were fair and looked at both sides, and did not overlook great things accomplished. ” ” 2

WANTS LANDON'S ANSWER TO PROBLEMS By H. L. Seeger Gov. Landon is supposed to be a miracle man, in that he is supposed to have balanced the Kansas budget. That required no power of magic, as Kansas law prohibits gpending more than is in the treasury. ,

What we are looking for is not a man who can balance his books. when such balancing means ignoring the misery of those who are victims of involuntary unempioyment. We are interested in find. ing a leader who knows how to balahce consumption power with America’s production capacity. Mr. Landon does not know how to put these millions of unemployed to work. That is the most important thing before the American people today. Business gets confidence to produce more, only as business finds a market for increased production. What does Mr. Landon propose as a remedy for lack of purchasing power? - More doles? How does Mr. Landon propose to get profits that are useless for investment back to the consumers as.purchasing power? How. does he propose to eliminate the duplication and waste attending our system of production and distribution?

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IN OLD MADRID ; (1936 Version) By George Sanford Holmes In Old Madrid, where long ago Thete softly sighed of love the light guitar, Now sparkling eyes, by lattice hid, Bun, Sercely bright as Mars own 3 Tr. Fhers on the casement ledge a rifle

By tiny hand is genfly laid, As senoriias serve the guns that

A fratricidal serenade: Rings the sniper’s deadly song, While Spain burns from shore to shore, Each household armed and shuttered strong, With barricaded door:

O’er street and sea the planes are ying, Men are dying, heafts are sighing, Loyalists with rebels vying, ' In the hell of civil war. &

Beleaguered town of Old Madrid, On you depends the young Republic’s life: Ah, had you but a new El Cid To quell revolt and internecine strife, Where Fascism’s lust for dictatorial power Consumes a land with fire and fear, And Communism, quick to seize the hour, Ambushes Freedom from the rear! Rings afar the ghastly song Of the firing squadron’s guns, Avenging centuries of wrong On helpless priests and nuns:

Neutrals at the leash are straining, Freedom waning, Fascism gaining, From the sky the sparks are raining, Will .they set the world aflame? s » n QUERIES CAUSE OF NEGRO VOTE SHIFT By Interested Colored Voter Political observers are asking themselves “What is responsible for the drift of the Negro vote from the Democratic Party to the Re-

to be the large number of Negro Democrats who- joined the carsvan to Connersville, all of whom seem to agree that the Republicans have a better state ticket and a better platform than the Democrats. A Democrat who is making a survey of Negro political opinion told a group recently that 20 per cent of the colored Democrats who voted 4 in the primary will vote Republican in the fall, whereas 15 per cent of those who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, and who took no part in the primary, will vote for Landon. At least three outstanding colored Democratic speakers are expected to take the stump for the Republicans. What are the underlying causes of this definite loss to the Democratic Party? ” ” ”

“SMEARING” TRUTH-TELLING

WRITER AVERS By Hiram Lackey

Our Republican friends protest against the Democratic use of an effective kind of truth-telling that they are pleased to term ‘“smearing.” If the reputation of Hoover, Landon, Hearst and the Liberty League were of ‘greater im-

portance than the prosperity of the!

United States, this protest of reed would be justified. We sympathize with Republicans. We see that Landon, measured by the highest Republican ethics, is an ideal ‘man. We also see that a cannibal chief in Borneo, measured by the morals of that savage land, might appear as an exalted individual. We are not interested in critising such a chief; we are concerned = with - Christianizing the island. It is for the enlightened Chris~ tians of America to help their fellow citizens in the evolution of their morals. - We feel compelled to remind Republicans that, in our modern machine age, Landonistic stinginess is fatal to the health and happiness of millions of Americans not to mention the peace and safety of all. Republicans can not transform meanness into a virtue by granting it the respectable title of thriftiness. But in their efforts, it is possible for them to elect Mr. Landon. It is for us to save America from this tragedy. We do not smear Mr. Landon. We do brand his prosperity-killing theories ‘with the mark of Cain.

” ” ” SOCIALISM ACCUSED OF CAPITALISM’S GUILT, IS VIEW By R. Sprunger It is amusipg to note that believers in capitalism accuse socialism of the things of which capitalism is guilty. Marriage is out of the question for some because of unemployment, in-

sufficient wages or need t6 support’

needy parents out of jobs. The result is breakdown of morals, Many inject religion into an economic question. Since they do, think this one over. Why talk of. the brotherhood of man bn Sunday if you are going to see how much profit can be swedted from your fellowmen on work days? Who is breaking down democracy and government with graft money in return for special privileges? If you have any thinking power at all the answer is easy. The two old parties have shown they can not solve the situation so it is time to change to a system of production and distribution for use and service instead of profit. ” ” 2 NEW DEALER WRITES JAMES A REED By New Dealer

To James A. Reed, Citizen of Missouri: “I see you are trying to upset the applecart by organizing a right wing Democratic Party. “Your interest in your fellowman seems to have disappeared, when you became Mr. Nelly Donnelly. . “Can it be that our hard-hitting Missourian has gone new-rich and smug? “Your opposition to all things ‘Roosevelt seems to have developed when Johnson slapped the Blue Eagle all over your wife's Kansas City garment factory. “Your bitter denunciation of the NRA and your frequent use of the word ‘liberty’ was misleading unless one was aware that the Blue Eagle probably increased your wife's production costs. “You have given your party the high hat, “Between your and

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Radical Party recently formed by Churchman Coughlin and Bpel]binder Smith.” :

S553 1 DEPART By E. 8. Barber :

On ‘or about June 15 we yard-boy scrape into neat plentiful trash in the gutters our house, then called the Commissioner te know could be taken away. He dwere a little behind on their sched-

“next Monday,” rotting in front of our house and is a breeding place for insects and an® eyesore to the householder, who has had guests from California. They were quite impressed, of course, with our No mean city.” What is the matter with the Street Cleaning Department? Is the Commissioner on vacation, or are we “balancing the budget?” I recently heard this remark from an old resident: “I never saw Indian-

apolis 50 dirty.”

By Fred Grossart, for Fred K. Eisenhut, Street Commissioner Lacking -a street address, we can not be certain where this home is located. Only one such complaint has come in during the past few weeks. We sent trucks to Corneliusav and 44th and 46th-sts, but found no trash. All such complaints and requests for service should give the exact address. We will attend to them ag rapidly as possible.

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| CITES ADDITIONAL SIGNS

OF RETURNING PROSPERITY By J. R. 8., Bloomington, Ind. This observation that I am going to make may be a little belated in comparison with your “signs” of returning prosperity, which appear daily on the Editorial Page. But no more belated, I feel, than those Republican leaders who are still viewing with alarm that government which permits the following: (These items were taken fzom The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1936.) 1.'U. S. Steel profits best in six years. Dividend on preferred stock doubled. Net profit for first six months $12,862,423. 2. Inland Steel Co. net profit for

| June Quarter $3,208,423.

3. Republic Steel Corp. net profit for June Quarter $2,661.062. 4, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. profit for June Quarter, $1,115,733.

‘As a word of advice to these steel

companies, I think it would be extremely wise for them to investigate

thes¢ Republican leaders who are

viewing with alarm the government that permits these handsome profits.

Think of'Mr. Hoover being a Bol-

shevist in a rugged individualist’s underwear! : If you employed a lawyer to take: care of.12 cases and he lost nine of them, would you employ him again? Jim Watson says that after a Democratic administration it takes the Republicans to clean up the debris. ” 2 ”

READER ASKS ABOUT TAVERNS’ NOISE By a South Sider

I notice there is agitation for an anti-noise ordinance. What about beer taverns where people yell,

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who printed on the bottom of the menu, “The proprietor eats in his own restaurant,” and then ate there three times a week because he believed in honest advertising.

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till it is impossible to even think of sleep, and have music so loud it can be heard four or five blocks away? Then after the taverns finally decide to close, the drunks get out on the sidewalk and keep up the noise for another hour. Surely people that work are entitled to a little rest before daylight. » URGES LIMIT TO SPEED OF AUTOS By H. C. Unger, Peru I would like to see a campaign among automobile manufacturers for lower speed automobiles. The réal menace on the highway is highspeed driving. When travelling at 60 miles an hour or higher the human mind is unable to act quickly enough in an emergency to avoid an accident, Safe driving and speeds

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