Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1936 — Page 15

(Times readers are invited to ceptors of the people's good who

all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

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‘worth collecting except that they ped fool the common man into jeving it was his campaign. Fourth, since the Democratic rty is waging the battle against lI Street for the common man, is only fair the common man

Fifth, the easiest way to tax the ‘common man is to tax the man who ‘holis office, Sixth, this method makes the office-holder feel a great deal more

Street lobbyist after the election. =

Your editorial about Gov. Landon’s ~ most sensible demand that Presi- . dent Roosevelt express himself is " wery silly. You say, “Suppose Sistie or Buzzie should assume to speak of Grandpa's plans.” One has been ~ Jed to suppose that James Roosevelt has a mentality above that of Sistie or Buzzie, yet you infer that he . must not be held accountable for ‘what he says more than those children should. His speeches about the Kansas schools and Mr. Mc- ~ Nutt's, too, make one believe that his thinking is about on the plane of a small child. Didn't Indiana have hundreds of schools close when the township is were built. I have seen ed of them, and I know that _ when I lived in a Western prairie state nearly 400 were closed and “the children were far better off “than they had been in the little one-room schools. They were taken in busses to school; previously they had ridden horseback. You infer in your editorials that Roosevelt loves the laboring man. Yet just before he became Governor "of New York, he was a director in ‘a company manufacturing auto"matic machines, which, according to the ads sent to stores, would transform into profits for the stores “millions of dollars that weit into pay envelopes of clerks, these ma“chines take the place of clerks.” There is a proof of his tenderheartedness over the unemployment thousands. His name was used especially to get gullible investors to pay money into this concern that made slot machines that were to displace .housands of clerks. Be‘cause of the small success of these machines, they did not last long. But that was not the fault of the now “great benefactor of the poor.” . He also was a director in a company that used every inducement "to get investors to buy stock. Yet "with pious folding of hands he bewails the stockbrokers of Wall

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G. 0. P. CHILDREN'S PARADE . DRAWS CRITICISM By Joseph F. Nelson ~ With President Roosevelt's reSelection assured, are the Landon 1PDO becoming desperate? A new low in political tactics was unded recently when a group of pildren paraded on the Circle, proesting against the New Deal. This plitical by-play was presented.by he Independent Coalition of Amer- ~ ican Women. One had only to look at the com- % fortable clothes the children were g and their happy faces to see t they were well nourished and in happy contented homes. perhaps, that were never id by the Hoover panic, homes re the only worry the parents have is the money spent to feed, e and shelter the less fortunate. ‘One little girl carried a sign which i. “An elephant never forgets.” ‘this little girl an elephant is an or a toy. To her parents i the coalition women, it is the abol of the Republican Party. . . . elephant never forgets the privsd. The people won't forget ident Roosevelt on Nov. 3. = = =n

IMC T ANSWERS DSEVELT CRITICISM

5 5 + . . I wish to answer a few of x-Democrat’'s questions in regard §o his letter of Oct. 22. "I am a Democrat, not an ex-one fther, wishing with all my heart Bat President Roosevelt wins

far as living on $15 a week, pw about when Hoover was in?— puld you live and send your chilpen to school? What were you then? ... = ” YOUNG ROOSEVELT ax Kinney te & tyrannizing mother, as a pishment for some childish peccalo and “for his own good” coerced t small son into sitting on a hair. His innate sense of justice 8d, the little shaver sulked for time, rebelling in his heart. ly he openly revoited into the pen when he said, “I'm sittin’ here, it I'm standin’ up inside of me.” gan sympathize with this little (Ww. With the enthusiasm only pungster on his political adcan know, I the manager idea of government * Indianapolis. Well do I rer the low hour it went down ignoble defeat through the pations of the same inter-

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| are now imploring the kingly voter | to save the country by electing them. | I predict that Roosevelt will be re-elected by the young people and the young hearted, those who have smarted under the lash of reactionary oppression, suppression and depression. Only the Democrats can hang out a bright daystar of hope to them. They will have none of the Tory “for your good” paternalism. This progressive element is standing up inside itself! = FJ

PAT HOGAN IN CLASS BY

HIMSELF, WRITER SAYS By P B Fitzpatrick We have had Pats before, but neither Patrick Henry of Virginia, or Patrick Hurley of Oklahoma, is in a class with Pat Hogan of Columbus, if we must judge by his writing. I used McGuffey’s readers and analytical spellers and Buyot’s geography and American history in the days before typewriters were in use. With the Constitution of the United States, they were enough to show me how erroneous were Mr. Hogan's statements. If he will read the banking history of the United States, beginning in 1863, he will see how things really are. = = F J REPUBLICAN PRESS HELD INCONSISTENT

By L. J. Brunton

I have been hearing Republican speeches, especially by Gov. Landon, and reading Republican newspaper headlines pouring out the same old campaign oil based on fear, criticism without policy. They are insulting the intelligence of the American people by telling them the Democratic Party is ruining them and that the Administration is fumbling with recovery. After reading all this I am surprised to find on the market page of a leading Republican newspaper this week the following headlines: “44 Companies’ Third Quarter Up 69%,” “New High Level Reached in Recovery,” “1,200,000 Cars Predicted for Last Quarter,” “Jobs Increase 290%,” “Business in State Best Since 1929,” “Electric Output at New All-Time Record,” Carloadings Up to 1930 Level.”... = ” ” REMEMBERS HOOVER ADMINISTRATION By E. T. Brown

Your editorial of Oct. 14 entitled “Why We Are for Roosevelt” should have been read by every man and woman interested in the outcome of the election Nov. 3. It is clean, honest, concise and lays bare the entire record of President Roosevelt fairly and impartially. I sometimes wonder after listening to various Republican speeches over the radio or reading them in the daily papers as to whether or not their Republican sponsors give the rank and file of people of this nation credit of possessing common horse sense? Are they lulled into a sense of false security by believing the people have forgotten the twelve

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long (and some very lean) years of Republican misrule? Do they think we have forgotten the Administration of Warren G. Harding? Is the Teapot Dome scandal buried so deeply it can not be exhumed? What has become of Harry Dougherty, and the “Little Green House” on G-st, Gaston Means, Senator Fall and a few other “luminaries” during such Republican Administrations? Where's our own Sunny Jim, now making speeches for Mr. Landon? How many have forgotten how President Hoover ortlered our own ex-soldiers driven at the point of bayonets from Washington, even refusing to grant them an audience? Compare, if you will, Mr. Hoover's promises with our own Hooverville on the banks of White River and insofar as Hoover's corner was concerned it must have been in the form of circle—no corners to it. How many recall the ex-service men stationed on street corners selling apples at 5 cents? Compare that with a “job” for every man, if you please Think those things over, voters. Don’t be misled by the wolf, attired in the gentle raiment of a sheep. . . That the present Democratic administration is succeeding none but the most blind partisans will deny. It has taken time and it has taken money, but that money has been spent here at home, not for bullets, but for bread; and whilst speaking of money—today your money in the bank is safe. And why? Because President Roosevelt made it so. . . .

® = = MENCKEN HAS FALLEN

FROM GRACE, CLAIM

By D. F. Clancy, Logansport Henry Louis Mencken, sovereign of the “intellectual nobility” of the United States, has abdicated his throne—or at least so they say. Mencken, the great philosopher,

in America to whom one could look for opinions and adjustments unbiased by the usual mental mists of egotistical patriotism, “undying party loyalty” or logic and reasoning American style. To me, Mencken's support of Alf Landon, his descent from the Olympian heights of the mental monarch of the “Republic,” to the muddy lowlands of gregariousness and gullibility—in other words, politics—is surprising, disillusioning and disgusting as if Warwick Deeping were to commence writing like an American or the Prime Minister of

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Landon, as far as his old followers—or enemies—are able to see. He is fraternizing with Republican politicians, seeking to further their welfare and lending his mighty intellect, which of old strove to crush the stupid beliefs of “boobus Americanus.” But I can not believe this. Having devoted many exhilarating hours to reading his works, I rather

is merely having a colossal joke all to himself. But if he has dropped from the lonely heights of clear thinking to that crowded place of psuedo-intellectuals — Vacuum Valley—he is still H. L. Mencken. He may even become a member of Congress, he may become a Senator, but the work that he once did and tan not destroy will live and enlighten and inspire. He deserves honer and credit for that work. He has mine. ” ” 2 HOLDS ROOSEVELT SHOULD TELL AIMS By W. F. E. An editorial in The Times objects to Gov. Landon’s questioning the President in regard to the recent utterings of his son about the reenactment of the NRA or a substitute therefor. The editorial says: “The President is a fairly articulate man. Suppose, Governor, we let him speak for himself on what he proposes to do.” An excellent idea, if he would only say what he proposes to do, instead of spending all his time telling us that he has brought about “recovery,” But then I suppose he knows that those of us who read the 1932 Democratic platform, to which he subscribed 100 per cent, wouldn't believe he meant what he said anyhow. ” ” ”

FAVORS ROOSEVELT SYSTEM OF RELIEF

By Elsie Chapin

Gov. Landon, why do you want to return to the old methods of relief? Did you ever have to eat the food from those baskets or orders? Did you ever have to feed your family of five on the amount furnished per week? ... I could keep on and on, having been one of those unfortunates who had to depend on the trustee for some time before the New Deal. Would you care to learn what has happened since the New Deal? We might call it from “rags to riches” if we cared to be dramatic. Instead, we will just say “from watching a ‘trustee’ garden one day a week under state relief to a comfortable home, children back in college and high school and a good position in that ‘alphabet soup’ we hear about.” Politics didn’t get them either. No, Gov. Landon, you may have your state relief. I'll stay with Roosevelt and his New Deal, which is so ridiculed by you and your party—the party that used to be mine. ” on ” CITES HOPKINS LETTER ON PARTY SUPPORT By M. Robertson

“Ex-Democrat” says he heard that people not voting for President Roosevelt would lose their jobs if the President is re-elected. Following is an excerpt from a letter, dated March 13, 1936, from Henry L. Hopkins, national Works Progress administrator, to all state WPA administrators: “No person shall be employed or discharged by the Works Progress Administration on the ground of his support or non-support of any political organization.” A copy of this regulation was posted in every WPA district office, and every project foreman received

a copy of the same. » ” 2

CHARGES G. 0. P. WITH CAUSING DEPRESSION By J. R. Blazer, Frankfort

The most noticeable feature about the campaign being waged for Gov. Landon is his complete failure to even refer-to the record of the three Republican Administrations immediately preceding that of President Roosevelt. And well may he try to forget about them, for it was during these three Administrations, under complete Republican control, that the economic policies were adopted that plunged our nation into its worst depression. Recovery finally was put on its way by President Roosevelt through heretofore unknown economic policies, after all former methods had been found inadequate. . .. Americans are called upon to choose between President Roosevelt and powerful financial groups. The President, despite any mistakes he has made and may make, has the viewpoint of the security and happiness of the 125,000,000 inhabitants of our nation. The few powerful financial groups, whose unrestricted financial operations during the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations brought our nation to its great financial calamity, on the other hand, are striving for the

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financial - control over our citizens, control which they have been deprived of by the Roosevelt Administration.

# = = POLITICIANS JUGGLE TRUTH, READER SAYS

By J. R. L.

How stupid is the American public? Those. who have observed should know how many untrue stories have been invented against the prevailing Administration, stories which no one pays any attention to after election day.

Just at this time the many politicians of all colors are slinging all kinds of dirt, knowing they are all lying. Yet, they try to make it look true, just for the sake of winning their point. For example, Landon, speaking down East, says one thing, and speaking out West says another. He lauds co-opera-tives in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and he will not dare advise cooperatives down East. Clean campaign, yep. Gerald Smith charges communistic activity to Roosevelt and John L. Lewis, knowing it to be untrue. The Rev. Charles Coughlin is saying anything he can think of. ” ” ” SAYS WHO GETS MONEY

MAKES DIFFERENCE By Reader I saw.in The Times a cartoon by Kirby labeled, “The Best Sprinkler Money Can Buy, Too!” showing the G. O. P. watering a sunflower with a sprinkler “contributed by five duPonts, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. John D. Archbold and Atwater Kent.” Remember 1932? The duPonts kicked in for the donkey. ~ Makes quite a difference who gets the dough. Doesn't it?

” 2 ” SAYS MEMORY MAKES HIM ROOSEVELT SUPPORTER By Verle Harless, Anderson

I am going to vote for Roosevelt because I have not forgotten 1930-31-32. How any working man can vote against Roosevelt is beyond my imagination. . . . ” ” ” FRIEND OF LUDLOW

SUPPORTS HIS CAUSE By James O’Niell

It has been my privilege to know Congressman Louis Ludlow many years. As a clean-thinking, courageous Representative he has been a power in the development of projects in this district. In his official capacity he has always responded in behalf of labor and of the veterans, giving diligent care and thought to all matters affecting them. Likewise, he has tried to assist any and all needs of the general public that seemed worthy of attention, Because I have this knowledge, from personal relationship, I do not hesitate to say that because of his love for mankind and also

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for seeing that justice is done for all the people in this, the Twelfth Congressional District of Indiana, there will be no disparagement felt if he is re-elected. .. . 2 ® ” FORMER REPUBLICAN SAYS HE IS DEMOCRAT NOW By O. R. D. . . « I am one of the many who in the past have voted the Republican ticket—in fact, I voted for the late Calvin Coolidge and, shall I say, the Hon. Herbie Hoover? But it is beyond me to see my way clear to vote for a man like Mr. Landon. Any working man who will avail himself of all the statistical reports, can not, in fairness to himself and his brother working man, vote for a man with Landon’s record. . . . I am one Republican who can truthfully say that the Republicans made a good Democrat out of me. ” ” ” REPLIES TO LETTER BY ‘EX-DEMOCRAT’ By Mrs. R. W. In answer to Ex-Democrat: . « . You say you can’t live on $15 a week. Why can’t you? Four of us lived on $20 a month during the Hoover Administration, and we were refused aid of any kind. I have never known any one to be fired on account of politics. ” ” ” PLEDGES SUPPORT OF ROOSEVELT By Ruth Shelton

May America always have a President as sympathetic with the lowly masses as Franklin D. Roosevelt has been. So long as this is true, Old Glory never will lack defenders and Old Glory represents a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” Win or lose, I vote on Nov. 3 for the greatest man the whole world knows today — Franklin Delano Roosevelt. » ” ” HUMANE AGENCIES ATTACKED, WRITER POINTS OUT By James L. Trotter, Louisville, Ky.

The farmers ask for a fair profit on their produce; they are branded “Communists.” The AAA attempts to satisfy .this request; its staff is branded “fat-headed bureaucrats.” Laborers ask for a living wage; they are called NRA asked industry to comply with this request and in turn is ruled unconstitutional. Starving American citizens cry for food and when the FERA feeds them the opposition retaliates with, “The treasury is being plundered.” = ” 2 PREDICTS ROOSEVELT

LANDSLIDE NOV. 3 By Kenneth W. Slifer

. Roosevelt will

* win by 15,000,000 popular votes

and will

“Red agitators.” | thin

garner 498 electoral votes. This, by the way, is the first time any of my family has ever voted Democratic, but we will never vote Republican again until they get those old faces out of there and get some one in who will make a party out of it... . . Mr. “Ex-Democrat” should know that the average man has common sense enough to know that he is better off than he was four years ago. . . . To enlighten his memory—stamps were 3 cents a long time before Mr. Roosevelt was elected. . . = ” 2 2 CITES NEWS STORY AS PROOF OF BELIEF By John Beck If you don’t think the war lords and big business are for Landon read this: “Lamont. du Pont’s contribution

of $105,000 to the Republican campaign fund as cited by Democratic leaders is ‘merely a moderate part’ of his contributions to date,” he said. “Senator Joseph F. Guffey’s figures on my campaign contributions were correct as far as they went,” he said. “But since then I have given considerably more. I don’t have the exact figures, but the total is very substantially more than $105,000.” This came from the United Press, dated at Wilmington, Del., Oct. 16. - tJ ” ” UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DEFENDED } By M. A. R.

The Republican Party pays a great compliment to the average American citizen in assuming that he has not brains enough to see through their many tricks. They are now trying to make all employees believe the “Unemployment Relief” deductions from their pay envelopes are some kind of a tax. They know better than that, but they are just trying to get votes by fraud. This deduction is nothing more Hor less than a savings account for the employe, with the employer, too, adding a like amount. The small amount of change deducted from each pay will not be missed now, but will come in very

handy when the employee is too old |

to work. The government does not get one penny of this amount. Of course, the employer is not in favor of it because it will cost him someg. oe 0 - ’ » ” 2 SAYS UNEMPLOYMENT: LAWS ‘INADEQUATE By a Subscriber

We met a crisis in this country because of our over-production and under-consumption. For example, if the shoe factories would operate at capacity eight

hours a day, five days a week, for

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of automobiles and cther products. It is easy to understand .unemployment with such a setup. When exports became low the manufactured surplus filled the warehouses. The wealthy class now put the burden on the workers and farmers by taxation. They force the workers and farmers to accept what they give. The WPA and other forms-of relief are not good enough for the American people. . . . Poor concessions have been given the workers by the state. In the last four years some unemployment laws have been formulated. None of thesé laws have been adequate. If the capitalists or bankers want to have a lay passed, it is easy. Few laws are passed that are “real laws” for the benefit of the workers and farmers. The Farmer-Labor Party is growing by leaps and bounds and is not the only party in America which puts forth a militant struggle for the toiling masses.

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WRITER RECALLS POVERTY UNDER HOOVER By Jewell Drake, Columbus All that read Jack Murray's letter and understand the conditions today, need only compare those conditions with the 12 long years of destruction and discouragement all we poor people knew. . . . Hoover said no-one went hungry, but the truth is children didn’t have enough to eat. . . . . Have we all forgotten? I could write a book of nothing but the truth about it. . .. Hoover wanted to protect the untaxed wealth. . .. Roosevelt said, “All must be fed and live in respect.” Let us all get together and land Roosevelt over the top of Landon.

8 nn = THAT PLAN, SHE SAYS, MIGHT SAVE MONEY By Mrs. Fred T. Ross

Can it be that the G. O. P. plans to feed sunflower seed to each soul on the dole? If so, we'd save money. By this knack, we concede we could soon read, “Not a soul on the dole!”

2 # 2 VETERAN SAYS ROOSEVELT HAS AIDED NATION By a Veteran

I am sure that Mr. Roosevelt should be re-elected and put back in office. He has done a whole lot for this country and brought it out of the hole that Hoover put it into. 2 ” ” LAUDS UNEMPLOYMEN INSURANCE : By J. L. B. In the factory where I work the following sign was posted to mislead the men and women: “Reduction in Pay” and went on inferring that our wonderful President was putting a tax on us. This poste does not say that the factory will pay 1 per cent of wages to add to the workers’ 1 per cent each week. They only wish to mislead and tell half-truths. But the working men all know that it is the greatest act of all history, created to give each employe a security for unemployment and an old-age pension. It is a very cheap insurance policy in a very safe insurance company—the. government, Lo ” ” ” THINKS VOTERS DON'T WANT EITHER CANDIDATE

By G. H. H. The voter is more puzzled this campaign than ever before. Not one in a thousand wants either party’s candidate. . . . ” ”» ” NO CAUSE TO COMPLAIN,

SHE BACKS F. D. R. By Mrs. L. B. Gann, Veedershurg

I am going to cast my vote Nov. 3 for Roosevelt, because he is the man that carried us across the depression. My husband is working on PWA at a salary of $55 a month. We get along nicely. We have no room to complain. Mr. Roosevelt has fed us.... 8 ” ”

READER CRITICISES SOCIAL SECURITY ATTACK By J. L. C., Rushville The Republican Party certainly is fighting with its back to the wall, in attacking such a fine law as the Social Security Act. This act should never be injected into politics, but should stand apart, as something big, humane and nonpartisan. I am sure that when nearly all those Republican congressmen voted to enact this fine law they did not inténd it to be dragged into the mud of a campaign by their own party. . . . :

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Electorate Should Decide U.S. Course, He Says at Meeting Here.

The next Congress will give serie ous attention to means of prevente ing war, Rep. Louis Ludlow told & non-political meeting last night in the Marott Hotel. “The people themselves should be the ones to say whether this great nation would enter a war on foraign soil,” Mr. Ludlow said. “Through a decentralization of power on the war question, placing it in theihands of the people instead of Congress, we would be relatively certain of having no worry of future conflicts, especially as disasterous as the one we last went through.” Mr: Ludlow is the author of a pro= posed constitutional amendment providing for a referendum on the declaration of war on foreign soil

and conscription of private property

by the government in event war is declared.

“The proposed amendment,” he said, “would ‘take the profit out of war, and therein lies the cause of the major portion of our conflicts. The Senate Munitions Committee investigation revealed the underlyeing motive of big business in prope agandizing war need. “Propaganda strongly applied is one cause of the declaration of war. When a thousand different pressures and influences are wrappesa around Congress and the war heat is applied, members crack under the strain and vote for war when at heart they do not want to do so. It places Congress in an unfair poe sition.”

UNION PARTY NOMINEE SAYS NAME OMITTED

Charging that his name was: omitted from the official election ballot through negligence, on the part of the Marion County clerk, Otis K. Karns, Union Party candidate for Congress from the Eleventh. District, today had asked his sup porters to vote for Don F. Roberts, Republican nominee, Mr. Karns said that he complied with instructions from the State Board of Election Commissioners,

but that the Marion County Clerk

failed to certify his candidacy to the clerks of Hancock and Madison Counties. =

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day’s program of the Christian Ace tion Conference for Indiana today in the Englewood Christian Church, They were the Rev. Basil Holt, Angola, formerly of Johannesburg, South Africa; Herbert R. Swearens gen, Kokomo; the Rev. Paul x Preston, Indianapolis; Dr. George W. Knepper, Akron, O.; James De= Frost Murch, Cincinnati, and the Rev. Paul A. Millard, Minnesota Bible College of Religion president, Minneapolis. The conference opened yesterday. . x

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