Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1940 — Page 18

« - Term electors vote.

THURSDAY, OCT. 3,

1940

Readers Give Views on Candidates

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was a “mandate” from the American people. Almost immediately his first action was to try to upset our Constitutional Government ‘ rights. by attempting to pack the . Supreme Court. I ask you, to what lengths would he go at this critical time should he be able to claim “another mandate?” We will all agree that the campaign will be close if all Anti Third- | I am hopeful, of éourse, that Mr. Willkie’s prodigious courageous effort will overcome his opposition, but it must be apparent to all that it is of vital necessity that this election be so close that, first, there can be no claim of a “mandate” and second, that in those communities only slightly influenced by machine politics a sufficient number. of Republican Representatives and Senators may be elected to shackle the thirdterm candidate in the event of his election. I urge that you emphasize this point of this campaign and reiterate it again and again.

8 on » - HE TAKES THE WORD OF JOHN L. LEWIS By Mark Mantus, Marion, Ind. I am going to vote for Wendell Willkie because I helleve the working man has much™o lose by the election of any man to a third term.

The giving of power to one man is a greater danger than any threat from overseas. One man can step by step control our Congress and our courts. The Supreme Court is controlled by the New Deal and Mr. Roosevelt if elected will consider it a mandate to do just as he sees fit, regardless of Congress which will be servient to him, This is dictatorsh ! ' know some workers think this is far-fetched and that it cannot happen .here but with so much to lose I am afraid to take the chance. John I. Lewis has spent his life fighting for ,the working man and I am going t6 trust in| his judgment.

: - td 8 ” EGG-TOSSING COOKED UP BY G.0.P, IS CHARGE : By N. N.

One writer says the season for egg throwing should end Nov. 5. Why give the Democrats credit for throwing eggs if it makes thousands of votes for Willkie, every egg thrown. That looks like a Republican stunt to me. Wall Street could well afford to pay for all the damages done to clothes if Mr. Willkie is elected. Think it over. I think Mr. Clapper is barking up the wrong tree, about the source of the egg throwing. I'm guessing that trial set for Nov. 12 for egg throwing will never come to trial. | You see it’s set for a week after the election s6 the source won’t be gone into “until the dirty work is in the past.

BROADMINDED, BUT IRKED BY WILLKIE CAMPAIGNERS

By Mrs. Emily J. Pendegraft

Having prided myself on being broad minded, not believing all I read in all the papers and not holding grudges at all Republicans, there being mistakes on hoth sides —but when a Willkie booster called . at my door and on my phone and called our President nasty dirty names of which should cause these callers to be horse whipped is bad enough. But when over the radio and in moving pictures, all we hear is Mr. ‘Willkie saying 2s such disgraceful falsehoods about our President of U. S. A, it’s time to wonder what ind of a President he would make? If the Willkie boosters who do bemean Mr. Roosevelt are so sure Mr. Willkie will keep his promises then why do they sneak on our porches with books full of disgusting slurs trying to lure people to their way of thinking, I thank God that he has given us a President like Mr. Franklin D. A rattler is even more safe than these books of trashy poison. ” 8 |8

‘WRY MOUTHED’ PEGLER TAKES A SHELLING By L. Reed, Bloomington, Ind.

The gentle and cultured Mr. Clapper is wrought up |over the egg throwing contingent.| I hold that it is all wrong to throw, eggs at candidates and besplatter their group. It was to be hoped that this phase had passed. It is no worse, however, for an underprivileged person to express himself thus than it is for ® chain of newspapers claiming culture and fairness, to give cut the work of a group of malice dispensing columnists, one of whom has a personal grudge, to| lambast and slander the President and his family. You have permitted the low name calling, the vile insinuations, the spiteful and vicious and frequently false criticisms of inoffensive action. It is not one bit w ter Mrs! Willkie with egg than it is for your wry-mouthed Pegler te splatter Eleanor Roosevelt with his unseemly words or| your senile * Johnson to besmirch|the Roosevelt children, Let the Howard papers first set a good example of the way decency shotild prevall and perhaps the egg-throwers will also get ashamed.

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JIBES AT BYRNES FOR: SOUTH CAROLINA'S VOTE

, By An Independent Willkie . Referring to the World Almanac “Elections” for South Carolina in the 1936 election:

‘County Horry Lancaster ceceeeee. 2,631 Edgefield ....0000.. 1,304 Calhoun .......... [821 Barnwell ..cee00e.. 2,157 Allen ....c0000.... 1;236

Roosevelt Landon

11,076 © Total for the state—Roosevelt, 113,971; Landon, 1,646. Question: -Is United States Sena- - tor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina a proper representative of our . form of government to tell the people of Elwood and Rushville how to vote? Question: Is South Carolina in the : United States?

” » "PAYS A TRIBUTE T THE HUMBLE MOTHERS By Voice in the Crowd | n

| It does not, spedk so well for us that so much’ , debate exists condemning and or

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ng the First , Lady of the land ) One thing ‘that it is well to re- . member, is that the Roosevelts are human, and have the same old human attributes.

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The Raised Hands

Roosevelt may be a pretty fair mother, but there are millions. of sweet tempered, home loving mothers in the lower income groups, who stay home nights and keep their children out of trouble, out of the newspapers and out of the divorce courts. If you want to brag about mothers, real. women, you can tip your hats to them, ~ Mrs. Roosevelt is a brilliant woman of good character, but she has become one of the most powerful

“Roosevelt family” is elected for a third term, the third termites can thank Eleanor. She probably controls the votes of more gullible people than F. D. R. himself. Considered entirely from plain facts, the Roosevelts have not done badly for the family fortune during their life in Washington, and as a family it seems that they have commercialized a home that to each of us should be the second most respected home in America. And have you ever noticed that they do not call people “economic Royalists” since one of the boys married a duPont and another “started at the bottom” in a wealthy merchant's

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8 8 8 : THIRD TERM CRUCIAL ISSUE, SAYS P. R. MALLORY

By .P. R. Mallory Please accept this letter as -a spontaneous expression of another American citizen deeply concerned

with the important decision facing us all on Nov. 5th. ... The sacredness of the No Third Term tradition is that issue. The tradition that no man shall hold the office of President for more than two terms is 150 years old, dating from our first President. That is an undeniable fact. It has been challenged on only three occasions, only to have the challengers in each case, scornfuly and overwhelmingly repudiated by the people. . . . When patriots and leaders such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Cleveland and Wilson, no matter to what party they belonged, unanimously held this tradition sacred, there must have been a good reason. When no important leader of enduring reputation has advanced any worthy argument against the tradition, there must be every reason for its merit. . . . Throughout the years, in other countries, we saw the growth of tyrants—Napoleon I, Napoleon K III in France, the Czars in Russia, Kaiser Withelm in Germany, among many others and now Hitler and Mussolini. In every case it has been the people who lost their liberties, who became the puppets of the will of one man. ‘And so in this country in each generation we have had leaders, brave, strong and true, who vowed gnd acted so that the curse of tyranny should not be shackled on America, and our people, true to their great tradition, backed those leaders. The greatest protection against such a change in American life has been rotation in office which has made it imposible for any party, for any man, to foster the harsh and oppressive hand of dictatorship on our throats. And so we have come to revere this tradition as sacred—to value it as the greatest safeguard of our liberties. To me it seems so important— so absolutely fundamental that I could not vote to break it, even though the candidate were a second Lincoln—the greatest American in our history. And why should we We considering breaking it today? To be sure we are facing grave problems. So we have in the past. No one can truthfuly minimize the present emergency. It is most serious. Nor does one need to in order to answer this question as we have in the past. Regardless of the merits or demerits of the respective candidates, America is still greater than any one man. America is still basically strong because she is still free; because her’ people are still willing to make sacrifices for what is right; and America can and will survive this and future emergencies if her people preserve that rampart against tyranny—No Third Term. But if we sacrifice this sacred tradition, we have done our country, our future, our children, an irreparable injury. It may not appear so at once. The present beneficiary of our scut-

tling of this tradition may prove

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to be all that some of us think of him. He may prove wise and true. Be that as it may, we have broken for all time our bulwark against tyranny :in the future—we have proved disloyal to the teachings of our greatest men—we have assumed a responsibility to posterity. That is a responsibility I for one have not the courage to assume. We have broken a life-line that may never be restored. :

# nn 8 LAUGHS AT THOUGHT OF F. D. R. AS DICTATOR By Henry Prell, Anderson, Ind. One who singed himself “A Catholic” in a. recent Forum article warned minority groups against al-

lowing any Administration at Washington to remain in power for more _than eight years. Dictatorship will surely follow, he claims,” and these groups will suffer the same persecution as certain of their European cousins. This intriguing article ends with the solemn admonishment, “let's not let it happen here.”. '. . . Perhaps you meant if one man like President Roosevelt heads our Government for more than eight years, we are threatened by dictatorship. That is quite doubtful, considering the truly humanitarian character of Franklin Roosevelt, though I don’t suppose you:will accept that as an argument: So let us suppose he should become a dictator—let us try to imagine it, however laughable as such a possibility may seem. Really, we are quite used .to dictators in this country. For the past hundred years our country has been ruled by one. He once told us what we could earn as well as how long we must work to earn it, what food we can buy and what we must pay. He told us whether we can form a company without his ruining it, what we must pay for lighting our homes and for the very drinking water we draw from the water main. He has placed several puppet Presidents in Washington to administer our government to us and the prosperity of every manufacturing town or city in the United States rests in his hands. His name is Mr. Wall Street. And the small shareholder, I suppose, could be the minority group. Every industry of any importance at all is ruled by a single man or group of men. He sets the price level, and used to set the wage and hour. regulations—now the New Deal does it. Utilities in the Midwest, for instance, were once ruled by Samuel Insul—he had beat out all competitors, and we are told Wendell Willkie exercised the same control in Tennessee and neighboring states. These men didn’t worry about serving longer than two terms. But this era is passing— and we are not facing dictatorship. We are facing an era of Americanization of Washington. . . .

s ” ” YOU: CAN'T EAT ’EM, HE SAYS OF WPA MOVIES By B. Lambert, Rockville, Ind.

In his speech of innuendo the other night, the President forgot to mention several things. He forgot, for one thing, to explain to the people on relief why he had taken money, appropriated for relief, and used it to make silly moving pictures—and then used them for political propaganda. The millions out of a job, many of whom do not have sufficient food or clothing, probably wish it was possible to eat these pictures, or use them for clothing. But that being impossible, and the Roosevelt family apparently being unwilling to divide up the two and a half million dollars it has put into its own pocket

alternative is to vote for Willkie, 2.8 a L THAT ‘SUCKER’ VOTE AND THE G. O. P. By Mrs. Corda Sedam Answer to J. B. P. If the Angerican people are such suckers for electing President Roosevelt I am surprised at you Willkie supporters who are out begging and begging these suckers to vote for Willkie. We are upright 100 per cent

gratitude to the man of humanity. During his eight years in the White House you haven't read in papers

and Mageanpe where a family

in the last seven years, the only}

Americans who want to show our

killed and cleaned their pet dog or cat to cook so they might have something to eat, and you haven't heard anything said about breaking up furniture to burn so they could keep warm. I haven't forgotten what President Roosevelt and Eleanor have done for both”young and old, besides keeping peace where your socalled suckers reside, J. B. P. I am one of them and I am proud to vote for the third term for Franklin D. Roosevelt. God bless our President and Eleanor for everything they have done. We have 14 so-called suckers in this family who vote right. My mother and dad,sMr. and Mrs. John Schilling, will verify this statement.

o » ” ‘FAIRY TALES,’ SHE SAYS OF WENDELL’S TALK By Mrs. Stanley Smith What has become of common sense and justice during this campaign? Two drunks throw eggs, so the morale of the whole Democratic Party is blamed. Third term rights are attacked because it's never been done before.

If our President is elected it will be because ‘we .feel we need him, so little men who decry egg throwing and third term, find yourselves a real argument and stop wasting time on the air. The public is tired of this '‘Tis,” “Taint,” “Tis,” Taint” childs argument being waged between two parties over the most dignified position in our country. After hearing both speeches the other evening I believe our President will continue to lead us through these trying times. I've heard, as have most of you, a tired parent reading fairy tales to children. No expression, no feeling because it was only so many words that had to be spoken before the little ones fell asleep. So Willkie’s speech. Seems to me Willkie is trying mighty hard to get hold of that pcwer that is “too great for any man” as he said so many times in his speech. I agree it is too much power for the hands of putty with which Lewis has decided to knead. Lewis’ swing to Republican makes me 100 per cent Democratic. Please credit the American public with intelligence and stop ‘mud slinging” Thousands are dying across the water and Wwe sit over here arguing over eggs and thirdterm rights when there are so many real issues at stake.

” 2 ” THOSE LITTLE PIGS AND NEW DEAL “PROSPERITY” By Charles L, Blume All you who say youswill vote for PF. D. R. and Henry Wallace; the New Dealers that rave and rant about F. D. R., the indispensable

man, sink your intellectual teeth in the following, quoted from my school days reference book, namely the American Educator, and know one reason why I shall vote for Wendell L. Wilkkie. . “CONSUMPTION, in political economy, is the use of products to satisfy human needs. The use of machinery to manufacture clothing and the wearing of the clothing by the purchasers ‘are both forms of consumption, and each illustrates a different kind of consumption. The employment of machinery to make clothing is an example of productive consumption, for the result is production; the wearing out of the clothing on the other hand, is final consumption. The eating of food is another example of{final consumption, and it differs from the destruction of food in that a human need is satisfied. Consumption and destruction are therefore not equivalent. The same comparison may be drawn between the burning of wood for fuel and the destruction of trees in a forest fire. Economists also distinguish between useful and harmful consumption.” Remember? The burning of little pigs? The plowing under of crops? Subsidized scarcity? All in the name of prosperity? :

a 7 a EDITOR'S NOTE

A letter in the Hoosier Forum Tuesday attacking The Times was written by Gertrude Smith, 429 S. Hamilton Ave., and not by any other person who may bear the

same name,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ELECTION BOARD SEEKS WARD 21 POLLING PLACE

Moved Inside District; Machines Ready.

By HARRY MORRISON

not a precinct voting place? The answer is: other precinct. That answer didn't satisfy mem-

either Republican or Democrat—

Precinct, Ward 21, had to start all over finding a polling place for their district. The committeemen couldn’t find a polling place when the sites were chosen so they located it in the

at 64th St. and College Ave. jus across the street from the boundary. Now they're selecting one inside the precinct. ‘A G. O. P. Precinct, Too’ Said Robert Smith, G. O. P. member of the Election Board: “The votes might be thrown out because of an unlawful voting place —and this a Republican precinct, too!” Said Hendricks Kenworthy, Dem-

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Precinct 8 Booths to Bef

When is a precinct voting place 4 When it’s in an-

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ocratic Board member: “Why, if the Republicans ever got, into power they might put all the polling places outside their precincts and we might all have to go up to the 21st Ward to vote.” Said Cletus B. Seibert, chief deputy clerk: “The County Commissioners will be notified of a need for a change in the polling place of that precinct.” Voting Machines Prepared

Everything else is going smoothly on the county’s pre-election front. The County Clerk's office is seeing to it that voting machines’ are trundled into 339 of the city’s 341 polling places. They are inspected and locked and will not be opened until Tuesday morning. In room 8412 of the Court House, clerks are busy signing absentee voter ballots. About 300 absent voter hallots have been signed already and it is estimated the vote will reach 3000 by Tuesday. Election boards for each precinct were named yesterday and the board personnel will receive its credentials tomorrow and Saturday.

Check Registrations

Other clerks are checking the tentative registration with the master registration file and preparing the final registration sheets, which will be finished Saturday. The final registration sheets will be used for challenging. : A final meeting for all election workers will be:held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at Tomlinson Hall. County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger will issue final instructions and the challenge sheets, along with other paraphernalia, will be turned over to the workers. . All this activity is preparation for twhat is expected to be the heaviest vote ever cast in Marion County. The registration is estimated at 306,000 as compared to the 1936 figure of about 287,000.

State Speakers Listed by Parties

DEMOCRATS

Tarn F. Schricker at East Chicago, noon, and Gary, night; Senator Alben W. Barkley at Elkhart; Senator Carl A. Hatch at Vevay, Senator Robert F. Wagner at Ft. Wayne; Governor E. D. Rivers at Huntington; Congressman Luther Patrick at Vincennes; Paul V. McNutt at Plymouth, afternoon, and Crawfordsville, night; Senator Sherman Minton at Brazil; Governor M. Clifford Townsend at Washington; Anderson Ketchum at Knightstown; Judge William Fitzgerald at Center Grove; Mrs. Inez M. Scholl at. Muncie; Fred Bays at Sullivan; Earl Crawford at Rising Sun; Mrs. Hettie Dunkin at Hanover; Alex Gordon at Dunkirk; Clarence Manion at Knox; Ben Scifres at Yorktown; Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston at Petersburg.

REPUBLICANS '

rf Onar—dlen R. Hillis and Raymond E. Willis at Gary; James M. Zucker at North Vernon; Florence K. Thatcher at North Manchester; Mary E. Benadum at Noblesville; Charles M. Halleck at Attica; Richard T. James at Peru; Charles W. Kern at Evansville; Charles W. Jewett at Cannelton; Senator Edward D. Burke at Muncie; Herbert K. Hyde at Nobles-

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Willkie's Hour 11 to Midnight

NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (U. P.).— Wendell Willkie’s campaign for the Presidency will come to a close with a one-hour program on all three national radio networks at 11 p. m. on election eve, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., chairman of the Republican National Committee said today. Asked whether Mr, Willkie would make a personal appeal to voters during the program, Rep. Martin said that the radio time had been bought by the Associated Willkie Clubs and that he did not want “to cut in on their show.”

WALLAGE FLIES EAST T0 CLOSE CAMPAIGN

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Henry A. Wallace flew to New York today to conclude in the East a campaign of quickened tempo that carried him 1000 miles yesterday by plane, rail, ferry and automobile. The Democratic Vice Presidential nominee makes his only appearance in New York City tonight at a rally at Madison Square Garden sponsored by the American Labor Party. He plans to conclude his campaign Bb Wilmington, Del, Saturday eveg. Mr. Wallace pointed to New Deal reforestation and soil erosion projects in numerous addresses before crowds of 1000 to 2000 gathered to hear him as he swung across upper

Michigan yesterday.

Jinx of Debs

This is Jinx Falkenberg, beauteous model. What did | she do? Well, she not only appeared mysteriously as a guest at the East's most difficult-to-crash debutante party, the Tuxedo Park, N. Y, Autumn Ball, but—though no deb herself — she is reliably reported to have been the belle of [the ball. Socialites’ tongues are still wagging about it all.

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COL. LINDBERGH

URGES CAUTION

Says U. S. Entrance Into War Would Aggravate, Not Help Situation.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh said last night that the United States was “following a course alarmingly parallel to that of England and France in 1938—a course which can

lead only to disaster.” In an address sponsored by the Yale University = America First Committee, Col. Lindbergh said America’s entry into the war would be a disaster for both this country and Europe—“a disaster for America because it would confuse and aggravate our international problems, which are critical enough without war . for Europe because I am convinced that the relationship of European countries cannot be solved through American interference in their affairs.” After the last war, he said, the United States withdrew from the affairs of Europe and ‘turned to such problems as prohibition and war debts we reduced our Navy, neglected our air force, let our Army dwindle to skeleton size. “Meanwhile, Germany and Italy rearmed. Then, after Germany had equipped her army, built her air force, installed the Siegfried Line and formed an alliance with Italy, we began again to take an active interest in the affairs of Europe. We encouraged England and France to declare war; we repealed our Neutrality Act . . . and"did most of the things that should have been done more than five years ago if we intended to take an effective

INSURANCE HEADS

HARTFORD, Conn. Oct. 31 (U. P.) .—Executives of leading insurance companies struck back today at President Roosevelt’s charges that they were “trying to instill fear” in| C the minds of policy-holders about |a the objectives of the New Deal.

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