Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1940 — Page 11

TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1940

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SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

beer ATLINBURG, Tenn, Oct. 29.—Everyone who has , Hawaii knows about “The Big Five.” How se five old families (control most everything in oval, Jt is one of the tigntest, and aso in my pinion one of the best, monopolies in the world. : Well, Gatlinburg 1s just like Hawaii in that respect. There are five leading tamilies here. Four of these families hold the reins. The fifth, although old and numerous and doing all right, could not, considered a member of the “control.” ! In Gatlinburg it could be called STRe Big Four.” Let me tell you about these families. ; OGLE—They, I think, are probably ‘the oldest. An Ogle started the {first store here, back betore the Civil War. The Ogles havé always been the merchants of the Smokies. Charlie Ogle is the head Ogle today, and he runs the general store that is one of the sights of Gatlinburg. : As business grew they kept building on more additions. The store rambles and juts around all over the place. It has separate grocery, shoe, hardWare, women’s-wear departments. An You can buy things here you can’t get even In Knoxville—provided Charlie or his son Earl can locate them. They say you can get anything here fronr a hairpin to a threshing machine.

Meet the Whaleys

WHALEY—The Whaleys too have been here a long time. Steve Whaley is the head man of the family. One son manages the |[hotel. Ariother son manages the tourist court. There is also a filling station in the family, and a saddle-horse concession, and they rent out nearly half a block of business buildings. I was talking to one of the Whaley boys ot my pleasure in seeing the rich harvestings from the tourist crop kept in local hands. “Yes,” he said, “and I think we deserve it. We've always been poor and had to scratch. It wasn’t many years ago that I was hoeing corn right where the “hotel stands now. We always had enough to eat, like most farmers do, but we never had any money ,to get any of the things £ wanted. I think it’s right

that we have some of it now.” ‘MAPLES—There are two brothers of the older

. Inside . ALL IN ALL, the Monument on the Circle and Miss Indiana on top had a definite party hangover today—from what police said was one of the largest crowds in the city’s history yesterday afternoon when Wendell Willkie breezed into town. . The G. O. P. candidate was less than 50 minutes, just enough to stir up about a of confetti, some of which, we | might add, is still blowing nd today. But that’s not all that happens when a Presidential . candidate drops in on your city. Although final estimates have not yet been tabulated, a conservative guess would say that the Circle was the recipient of more’ than 200,000 cigaret butts, some 3000 doten and signs, and about two

dozen badly damaged women's hats. Police wouldn't be pinned down on any official crowd figures, but any bystander could come close with between 35,000 and 50,000 persons. And next to Mr. Willkie’s job of [hauling words out of an irritated epiglottus, the police had the toughest. If you don’t think so you should ‘have seen them trying to get through the crowds to chase some youngsters off some of the statuary on the Monument. They had- _ to give up trying to get through the line and had to send up an appeal to Walter Bruce, who was handling the public) address system.

[The Doctor’s All Right

BESIDES THE AINLOAD of newspapermen, Mr. Willkie was accompanied by two extremely husky

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—If Willkie is elected, he will have his troubles winning the confidence of labor. Roosevelt has had his troubles, too. Labor embarrassed him with jis sit-down strikes. Whenever Roosevelt resisted dictation he was set upon feroci- ; i ously by labor leaders. Roosevelt has done more for labor than any other President. Yet no President has been mauled around more by me sections of labor. Being a friend of labor has not guaranteed osevelt immunity from trouble ith labor. Willkie will be no ore immune. Although Willkie obviously is an object of suspicion among large sections of labor, he has promised to uphold the Wagner t and to stand against destruc- ; tive amendments. He has promised to support the right of collective bargaining. He has promised to defend the Wage-Hour Act against its enemies. : How hard Willkie will exert himself to those ends must remain unknown for the present. If he is practical and hard-headed about it, he will know, should he be elected, that he must follow through or suffer severely.

Square Shake for Labor

If anyone could bring employers into line and finally achieve’ acceptance of the new era of labor relations which this Administration has sought, it is willkie rather than| Roosevelt, who has failed to win the co-operation of employers and has had to leave the job largely to labor and to short-arm jabbing by the "National Labor| Relations Board. . If Willkie is practical, he will know that he must take labor-baiting Republicans in hand and persuade them that tHe success of his Administration, the success of national defense, the welfare of the nation, require that they play ball and give labor a square shake. Willkie could not afford to have his Administration wrecked by employers within his own camp. 1t would be for Willkie, working through employers, to complete on the other side the process begun by Roosevelt working on the side of labor. He must complete it, if President, because the alternative would be irreparable damage in class warfare. That reality is the best guarantee that Willkie would avoid the bitter

My Day

BOSTON, Mass}, Monday~—~When we reached the home of Miss Read and Miss Lape at Westbrook, Conn., yesterday, Miss Lape and I had a half hour's exercise before lunch. We also walked over to see the log cabin built out of the logs they salvaged from ° trees Lown down in the hurricane. These log houses, set some distance from the main houses, will be good places for those who want complete seclusion. - I find that almost all people who do any work requiring concentration, always look for some place a little more secluded than .| the one they have at the moment. They acquire a new place and, before long, all their friends appropriate it and it no longer is that secluded place of which they . dreamed. To my shame, I must record that I was politely put firmly cautioned .by a very nice looking policeman that I was driving too fast for a crowded section of the road. Since I usually poke along and am passed '. by car after car, it seemed ironical that I should have . - speeded up in the wrong place. I realized he was sight and was humbly grateful for my admonition

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By Ernie Pyle

Maples generation. One is Squire I. L. Maples, who once owned a store (I don’t know how the Ogles allowed that) and was once postmaster. The other brueher is Davilh Crockett Maples. They are direct descendants of the famous Davy Crockett, who died a hero in the Texas Alamo. Davy Crockett Maples was a rural mail carrier. He carried the mail up into the higher Smokies, to Sugarlands, and the little way-back settlements. . He is retired now. He hasn’t much to do with. his time. So he uses it up milking a cow. He has one cow, and they say she gives about a pint ot milk, But neither hail nor sleet nor dark of night stays Davy Crockett on his daily rounds to milk that beloved COW. Rel Maple is Davy Crockett’s son. He owns the Gatlinburg Inn, the newest of the town’s hotels: He

also owns the Log Cabin Cafe, and a gitt shop, and | § there is a tourist court in the family. The Maples | §

are doing real well.

The Leading Citizen

HUFF—Andy Huff is Gatlinburg’s most prominent |

man. He is the civic leader. He starts things, and finishes them. What he suggests, the other three usually do. : Andy Huff came to Gatlinburg 39 years ago trom Greene County, in Tennessee. He was a lumber man. He owned big sawmills and cut timber. In the old days there wasn’t any place around here for a stranger to stay, so Andy Huff put up wayfarers at his house. But the lumber men who stayed with the Huffs liked it so well that when they came back they'd bring friends. That got to the point where they couldn't all get in the Huff house. So in: 1916 Andy Huff built a frame hotel, which looked like a house, just to accommodate the lumber men. He has been in the hotel business ever since.

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These four families are numerous with children, as mountain families usually are. As each tamily’s

: wealth grows, it is invested in some new business for

one of the children. Mountain children do go away, but somehow they always come back. The Huffs, the Ogles, the Whaleys, the Maples—each one has a generation in its 20's and 30's, and they are all in the family business up to their necks. Almost without exception, they carry in their hearts the mountain man’s love of the land. And as long as that lasts, the “Big Four” of Gatlinburg: will endure.

Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

New York detectives, bodyguards forced upon him by his friends. Oh, yes, also along was his throat specialist who has been on the campaign tour ever since it began. The doctor is well again. You know, he lost his voice trying to keep Mr. Willkie’s. Before Mr. Willkie arrived, the Circle throng joined in a sing-fest, with made-t®-order lyrics.

The First Passes

MR. yWILLKIE perhaps didn’t know it, but one of the persons who let out a wild yell when the candidate walked through Englgh’s lobby, headed for the platform, was Lon Adams, doorman at English’s Theater.

It was Lon Adams who gave Wendell Willkie his first passes to a show. It was two ducats to the “Gentry Sisters” Dog and Pony Show” at Elwood some 35 years ago.

Made It, Didn't He?

AND WHILE ALL this was going on, one traffic officer was having other troubles. : The signal light was red, but an out-of-state automobile failed to stop. The driver simply slowed down and cut for' the curb to make'a right hand turn. ~ ; “Hey,” roared the policeman, “you can’t do that!” The driver slowed up a bit more, glanced at the curb and grihned engagingly at the officer. “I can make it,” he said and drove off into traffic. The officer looked

as if he were going to have apoplexy.

By Raymond Clapper

war with labor which some fear would follow his election. It is an experiment and it is taking a chance. But if employers should fail to respond to such an effort by Willkie, then they would be cooking their own goose. They would discover too late that employeemanagement or God knows what was heading around the corner at them. It would be France all over again, and they would be lucky to come out with their shirts. In Willkie and an enlightened labor policy on his part, employers: would have their last chance, because if they resisted, the reaction would be a swing to the left far beyond anything Roosevelt has tried.

The Willkie Stamina

In fact, the conservative Roosevelt-haters would have their last chance under Willkie, their last chance to learn before -it was too late. Some have thought it a weakness of Willkie’s campaign that he embraced too much of the Roosevelt program. On the contrary, that is the one chance of saving the Republican Party and of restoring it to a useful place in American public life. From 1930 on the Republican Party has been a dead appendage, contributing nothing to American progress except a loud bellyache. Its blind opposition by 1936 had caused a nation-wide feeling of disgust. The reaction later was away from Roosevelt, against some of his excesses, and the Republicans caught these disillusioned voters on the rebound. They went over, not because of anything the party had done but because they could not follow Roosevelt all the way. In spite of itself, the Republican Party at Philadelphia had forced upon it a candidate who, although a business executive, was intelligenf/ enough .to see that many Roosevelt reforms were needed and were here to stay, whether the Republicans liked them or not. : Willkie got off to a lame start because he was an amateur, because he was unskilled in political technique and because he was out of step with the Republican Party. His lack of skill for a time seemed so serious as to make it questionable whether he could handle the job. Yet he demonstrated stamina and earnestness and has promised to keep many present Government executives to keep the Government functioning smoothly. He is serving to bring the Republican Party abreast of modern. times and to remove from the field of controversy the essentials of recent reforms.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and felt myself extremely fortunate at gétting off so lightly. Coming into Boston in the dark I lost my way and was quite sure I was on the wrong parkway. Finally, I did discover that I was on Boyleston, St. At a garage, I was told that if I kept on, I would

eventually come to the common where I could turn

off for the Statler Hotel. This I did and, on arrival, found that I had kept Mrs. McNamara and 20 loyal Democrats waiting for half an hour. I had so little time left in which to dress, that I could only ask them to come up and shake hands and chat for a minute. It was a pleasure to see them, particularly the younger members of the group, who were as pretty and attractive youngsters as one could wish to see. I dressed rather hurriedly, because I was warned that the papers wished to take a photograph before we went to dinner. Mr, Louis Kirstine called for me and we went down a few minutes after 7_to find the Governor with two Mrs. Saltonstalls, one his wife and one his mother; the Mayor and his wife, Mr. Charles Francis Adams and many other people already assembled. This was the opening dinner for the yearly drive of the Jewish United Charity Fund, Judging by the enthusiasm of those present, I feel sure they will have no difficulty in raising the money they need. ib

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Candidates for U. $. Senate

DEMOCRAT

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SHERMAN MINTON

HE United States Senate has no more stanch supporter of Presi- : dent Roosevelt and his New Deal program than Sherman Minton. In his nearly six years in the Senate, “Shay” Minton has gone against the New Deal program only once, and that was to vote for passage of the soldiers’ bonus over the Presidential veto. Time after time, from his “freshman” year on, he has helped lead the assault to force through Administration measures. « With the late Senator Joe Robinson (D.. Ark.), he carried the burden of President Roosevelt's attempt to pass the so-called Supreme

Court “packing” bill.

This consistent .and vigorous support of the Administration, which won for him unanimous selection last year as the Senate “whip,” has

resulted in his enemies dubbing him ‘a “rubber stamp” legislator. But you can’t make “Shay” mad by calling him a “rubber stamp” for the New Deal. He not only “pleads guilty” to being a New Deal “rubber stamp,” but-he’s proud of it. ; That, he reminds the voters in his campaigning for re-election to a second term, is exactly what he promised when he ran for office in 1934. : “I will stand by President Roosevelt,” he told them then.

E:makes_quite a point of his, record in ‘his campaign speeches. “I have no apology for the record I have made in Washington,” he thunders. “And so, if my opponent wants to call me a rubber stamp, I want to say to you, I have been the kind of rubber stamp that you people down here expected, because I have been down at Washington rubber stamping the things that would help you. “Of course I'm a New Dealer.” I would be ashamed to be an Old Dealer.” He's widely recognized as a brilliant orator. During the battle over the Supreme Court bill, he orated and wisecracked his way to a place among the select few in the Senate whose words can\hold their colleagues tight in their’ seats. Because of his ability in and his love for a knock-down, dragout word battle, and his bitingly sarcastic tongue, there are few who care to tackle him in debate on the Senate floor, or elsewhere. He's quick on the trigger with witty retorts.

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NCE when a Republican Senator solemnly read a defense of the Supreme Court made by Theodore Roosevelt in 1894, Senator Minton shot back with: “That's like ox tail soup. You have to go a long way back for something good.” The Senator is a natural born crusader. He likes nothing better than making a hair-raising, rabble-rousing speech. He's vigorous and impetuous, and charges into explosive situations without stopping to worry about the consequences. His “press gag” bill was an example. He has a peppery temper and flies off the handle easily. His moods are unpredictable. He may be“ the best fellow at a party, or he may be “down in the dumps” and grumpy. At.the same time, he makes friends easily. The Senator still is a young man. Born 50 years ago at Georgetown, in Floyd County, he was reared in rather humble eircumstances, and, as' a small boy, had to help out with the family’s earnings. At one time the family lived in a rebuilt log cabin on a scrubby hill farm near the Ohio River. ! FE a "IGH School at New Albany— he worked his way through —was. followed by Indiana Uni--

REDS TRAIN 7000 IN

CHILDREN'S CORPS!

MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (U. P)~In a|

special article today the newspaper Teachers Gazette revealed the existence of a Moscow children’s military corps of 7000 composed of young people 16 years or older. The members are drawh from public schools and trained as sharp-shoot-ers, machine-gunners and sailors. The youths are undergoing regular military courses of study under supervision of army instructors. Theory as well as field -exercises with home-made wooden weapons were being taught. The corps recently completed fall

maneuvers and is now undergoing panies

winter training, including nursing

gress of Industrial

and ' shooting for the girls.

versity where he became a classmate of two Hoosier notables—. Wendell L. Willkie and Paul V.

© McNutt.

At I. U.,, he was outstanding in both athletics (varsity baseball and football) and scholarship. As"

~a member of the .varsity debate:

squad, he won the William Jennings Bryan prize for oratory. Graduated in 1915 with the highest honors, he won the American Law School Association scholarship. to Yale University’s law school, from which he also was graduated with honors. At Yale, he was a student under former President William Howard Taft. One day after Prof. Taft had explained a particular law, Mr. Minton took exception, and a lively debate ensued. “I am afraid, Mr. Minton,” Prof. Taft is said to have told him, “that if you do not like the . way this law has been interpreted, you will have to get on the Supreme Court and change it.” Incidentally, Senator Minton has been mentioned several times in the last year or two as being under Presidential consideration for appointment to the court.

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AFTER Yale, he and A. N. (Bo) McMillin toured the summer Chatauqua circuit, and then he began practicing law in Albany. : .., A year later, he closed his law office, entered an officers. training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was commissioned a captain and served overseas. ;

Upon his return to New Albany

after the Armistice, he first saw his eldest son, Sherman Jr.,, who was born while Capt. Minton was at the front in France. Sherman Jr. now is a student at the I. U. Medical School here. A daughter, Mary Ann, is in high school at Washington, while the Minton’s younger son, Johnny, is in school at New Albany. Mr. Minton joined a prominent

. Miami law firm but returned to

New Albany when the Florida bubble burst and became active in the American Legion and in politics. ” ” ” E was defeated twice for the Democratic nomination for Congress and held his first public ‘ office—Public Counselor for the Indiana Public Service Commission—through appointment by Paul V. McNutt. As Public Counselor, he began a vigorous fight which resulted in some subsfintial utility rate reductions throughout the State. His election to the Senate came in 1934, when the New Deal was at the height of its power. Senator Minton is an Elk, a

. Mason and a member of the

Christian Church. The nickname, “Shay,” was. ac ‘quired jn his youth. His. younger brother, Roscoe, then at the lisping age, couldn’t say “Sherman,” his attempts sounding something like “Shayman.” Sherman’s amused chums adopted it as his nickname, later abbreviating it to “Shay.” .

Lewis, Hillman

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.).— President John L. Lewis of the ConOrganizations and Sidney’ Hillman, . labor coordinator for the National Defense Commission, were reported today: to be engaged in a race to announce inauguration of collective bargaining negotiations with Bethlehem and Republic Steel Companies. C. I. O. headquarters here buzzed with unconfirmed rumors that one or both: 6f the “little steel” comwould announce their willingness to sit around a conference table with the C. I. O.’s Steel Workers Or

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REPUBLICAN

RAYMOND

AYMOND E. WILLIS is a typical small town newspaper editor who has spent a lifetime knowing and liking people. For many years he has been the editor of the Steuben Republican at Angola, one of the most successful weekly newspapers in the State.

He is making. his second ' bid

Senate, running against Senator Sherman Minton. he sought the seat held by Senator Frederick VanNuys, losing by the

slender margin of ‘only 5197 votes.

The Republican State Committee asked a recount of the vote cast in certain counties but its petition was denied by the Indiana Su-

preme Court.

Mr. Willis, as 4 boy, learned typesetting on his father’s weekly newspaper, the’ Waterloo Press, which was established by his mother’s

brother in 1857. Newspapering seems to run in the family. The Press now is edited by one of Mr. Willis’ five brothers—Herbert. Another of the brothers, Edward, is associated

with Ray in the paper at Angola.

AY WILLIS isa rather short, stockily built man who has been described by ‘his critics-as pudgy. By nature, he’s conservative, quiet, unassuming, retiring. He seldom expresses an opinion, unless asked to do so, and when he does, is cautious about it. He's also slow about forming opinions. Extremely deliberate, he never rushes into anything. He has a. philosophical nature and seldom, if ever, loses his temper. He knows the small town newspaper and job printing business inside out, from working experience. He .can go into the plant and do anything, from setting type to running the press, and occasionally does, but in recent years he has confined himself largely to - writing the editorials and greeting friends and customers. Most .of them ask for “Ray” when they drop in to leave an ad or figure on a printing job. ” ” ” : 1S friends say he has a grea abiding faith . in America and American institutions, and a deep resentment of “some of the things happening under the New Deal, which he fears may destroy ‘those institutions -as he knows them.” He feels the nation’s trend is toward national socialism and dictatorship. He hammers constantly at these points in his campaign talks. On the platform he might be described as a convincing but not a brilliant orator. When he speaks, he stands rather awkwardly with his arms at his sides, hands outspread and thumbs pointing. out. About his only gesture is an occasional lifting of one hand with a warning finger pointed at the audience. When he gets through with his prepared address, which he usually writes: himself, he generally adds about 10 minutes of impromptu speech, and that’s when he’s at his best—when he makes the biggest hit with the crowd. He doesn’t’ go in for ranting, vitriolic speeches. He’s too conservative and mild-mannered for that. Frequently his friends and supporters urge him" to tear the hide off the New Deal and his opponent, but he ignores them and sticks pretty much to positive statements of his principles with a minimum of condemning the opposition. s 8 " AY WILLIS was born in Waterloo 65 years ago. After

graduating from the Waterloo High School, he attended Wabash

Race to Win

Bethlehem, Republic Steel

ganizing Committee before the end of the week. ‘ ; Reliable C. I. O. sources confirmed reports that Mr. Lewis, who is seekto win organized ‘labor suppert for Wendell L. Willkie, has ordered that informal talks with the two com-

panies proceed at top speed in an effort to open formal negotiations.

In New York, Bethlehem officials|000

said they have been conferring with Mr. Hillman, on “labor matters in which the defense ‘commission was interested.” i The company denied the meet-

ings had been in bghalf of any labor

E. WILLIS

for election to the United States Two years -ago

Reformatory at Pendleton. Lo 2 2 . URING the World War, he

mainder of Africa, 685,000 bales.

College, receiving his A. B. degree in 1896, Later he was given the honorary degree of Master of Arts by Wabash. From college he went to Angola and became a partner inn the Angola Magnet, a weekly newspaper. In 1907, the Magnet was merged with the Steuben Republican. Since ‘the merger, Mr. Willis has been the editor of the merged paper and president of the Steuhen Printing Co., which was formed in 1928. The printing company also prints the Angola Herald, a Democratic newspaper; using the same mechanical facilities as the Republican, for economy of. opera=tion, but having a separate staff.= It’s pretty hard for a small town newspaper ‘editor to keep from being interested in politics, and Ray Willis is no exception. He has a background of nearly four decades in political life. Back in 1908 he became secretary of the Steuben County Republican Central Committee. President» Taft appointed him Postmaster at Angola in 1912 for a four-year term. He served in the 1919 and 1921 sessions of the Legislature as a State Representative. In the oneday special session in 1921, he was the Republican floor leader and had charge of legislation in the House establishing the State

served as chairman of the Steuben County Council of Defense. For this service, he later was made an honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He has been active in Rotary, and in 1934 was elected governor of the Indiana Rotary Clubs. In 1937 he was named a member of

the State Republican Advisory Committee. For many years, he has been active in affairs of the Republican Editorial Association. Mr. Willis has been Sunday School superintendent of the First Congregational Church of Angola a third of a century. He is a member of the Angola Masonic Lodge and of the Ft. Wayne Scottish Rite Consistory.

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E was married in 1902 to Miss ; Margaret Taylor, of Orland, Steuben County. She has been an invalid a number of years. Two of Mr. Willis’ brothers live in Indiandpolis, Fred I. Willis, secretary of the Indianapolis jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, and william H. Willis, operator.of a N. Illinois St. gift shop. Another brother, Frank B., is an official of the dix Co. of South Bend. His oldest sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hornaday, is the widow of James B. Hornaday, veteran newspaper=man and for many years a Washington correspondent. Another sister, Mrs. Walter Hoffman, lives in Ridgewood, N. J. ird sister died in 1925 and after her death, Mr. and Mrs. Willis reared her three children.

ESTIMATE LARGER COTTON HARVEST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.).— The 1940-41 world’s cotton crop was estimated tentatively today by the Agriculture Department at 30,500,000 bales, compared with 28,900,000 bales last year. About 1,000,000 bales of the dncrease are accounted for by the increase in the American crop. ‘The Crop Reporting Board estimated United States cotton crop at 12,741,-

Estimates for cotton crops in other countries included: Russia, 4,300,000 bales; British India, 4,200,000; China,. 2,200,000; all Latin American countries, 3,240,000; Egypt, 1,801,000 bales; the re-

29.—A new buoyancy

GRIPS WILLKIE

Now,” He Shouts as He Feels Enthusiasm.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Oct. seems to course through the rugged physique

| of Wendell L. Willkie in the final stages of his campaign, despite a voice worn raw by speechmaking.

This is at the same time cause and effect. The preaching he has done for weeks is catching hold at last, and he is infected now by the enthusiasm he feels sweeping up to him from the crowds. He put. it together concisely in winding up his speech before a large audience at Champaign, Ill. His shock of hair shaking in a chill breeze, his arms reaching out to his listeners, he shouted hoarsely: “We are on the march! We are going fo win! We are going to save America! I never felt so sure of that as I do now! “I wish you could have had the wonderful experience that I have hatl of seeing the rising tide of free

‘men, men free from control of pres-

sure . groups, free of political machines and free of the domination of the Federal Government, rising in their might and saying once more that America shall and will be free.” Preaches ‘Simple Things’ Again, at Indianapolis, he was the evangel before the thousands who clustered about Monument Circle and roared their approval. From the start he has called ‘his movement a “crusade” rather than a campaign, It is acquiring now the aspects of a dynamic counterrevolution. Its core is the upper and middle-class revolt which rose —and fell—under Alfred M. Landon four years ago, and which today involves the white-collar class to a substantial degree.

Lewis’ indorsement, Mr. Willkie is seeking “ to capture some of the basic Roosevelt labor support.

unity,” and with it he mixes an appeal for a return to religion and the simple things of. life. . His new confidence rises from evidence that the tide has begun to turn his way. ‘Encouraging reports came to him all day yesterday from politicians who joined his train in Indiana and Illinois and told him that the support of the C. I. O. head would count in votes —in the Illinois coal regions, where United Mine Worker officials have pledged their ‘support to their chief, and in Indiana's coal and steel areas. Labor Pledges Votes Labor officials from Illinois came aboard the train and promised their = support—Ray Edmundson, president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois and Illinois chair man of labor's Non-Partisan League, the C. I. O.'s political organization; Walter James, secre-tary-treasurer of the Illinois U. M. W.: Robert Howe Jr., its legislative representative, and Harry Deck, executive secretary of the Illinois Non-Partisan League. Mr. Willkie continuously reveals his consciousness of an improved standing with labor by saying re-

and confidence of the leaders of American labor.” In his final journey into the Middle West he made a last and high bid for the relief and farm vote. He pledged that no one would be taken off relief until he had a job; that he would make it easy for a man on relief to take a temporary job and get back on relief when he loses that job; and that public works would be given out by private contract so that people wild be employed by private con=tractors at standard wages, to remove the stigma of relief. -

CHAIN STORES PLAN MORE REMODELING

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (U. P.).— The natioff’s chain stores this year will expend approximately $130,101,332 for the opening of new stores and remodeling of old units, an increase of 3.1 per cent over 1939, the magazine, Chain Store Age, reported today. These figures, the trade publication said, do not include some $26,« 000,000 spent by landlords in pre‘paring properties fot chain store occupancy. Several illion additional dollars were s t by chains in modernizing their warehouses and offices.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What important fuel is the solid residue remaining from the. dry distillation of bituminous coal? 2—What do’ the initials “G. A. R.” stand for? . 3—Which animal can sleep sus- « . pended upside down? 4—Wellington is the capital of which British Dominion? 5—0Of which ancient people was Sanscrit the language? 6-—-Was the Leaning Tower af Pisa purposely erected oblique? T—Contract Bridge. is a development from whick card game? 8—Are both President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie Masons? Answers 1—Cake. of. 2—Grand ‘Army of the Republic. 3—Sloth. 4—New Zealand." 5—Hindus. 6—No. T—Whist. 8—Yes.

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IN FINAL DRIVE

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