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, = GATLINBURG, Tenn., Nov. 1.—The most tamous man in the Smokies, ag far as visitors’ are concerned, + is Wiley. Odkley. He is called “The Roamin’ Man ot the Mountains.” He is 55, and all his life he has just wandered around through the Smokies. ) He is a natural woodsman, with a soul that sings in harmony with the birds and the trees and the clouds. His English is spectacular, and on many things he is as naive as a baby. But on other things he almost shocks “you with his meticulous knowledge. He has a house in the hills, and a rustic-cratt shop in Gatlinburg, Most of his life he has made a living as guide to hunters, ana later to tourists. ‘There are industrialists by the score in America who | worship at Wiley Oakley's feet after a few days in the mountains with him. He is a famous teller of tall tales (but pe won't tell one on Sunday). He has been on the radio, and on one trip to New York was ottered a contract. It scared him so badly he took the train home without saying goodby. Throughout his wandering, Wiley has dropped past home often enough to raise a. dozen children. They ‘are all grown now, except one.

A Mountaineer Museum One of the places a visitor to Gatlinburg must see-

is the Mountaineer Museum. This is a collection ot

some 2000 old-fashioned mountain articles, gathered by Edna Lynn Simms. Mrs. Simms came from Knoxville 24 years ago. She herself roamed the mountains long betore the

, tourists came. She picked up articles, and lore, and . | the language of the hills.

She has a bubbling enthusiasm that has not begun to simmer down even after 24 years of mountain discovery. Mrs. Simms’ museum is the best collection of mountain stuff in the Smokies. And in her own head is one of the finest collections of mountain speech and legend. Why, she has quoted so long that she -talks like a mountain woman herself. ' Uncle Steve Cole lives on at his old home place, right in the park. He is a typical mountain man of

* BOTH THE Democratic and Republican head-

: guarters continue to gnaw on fingernails in appre-

hension as Tuesday draws closer. Sure, both of them issue confident statements, but they wish they were backed up by figures. All their polls show the race to be practically a dead heat with the ‘lundecided” voters holding the answer. : This story is typical of what's been going on: There's a sixstary apartment building up on Pennsylvania St. with a drugstore on the first floor. The other night a Republican poll-taker went through the apartment ' building and on his way out the pharmacist asked how things looked, “I'm afraid it looks like this EY building might go. Demogratic,” answered the Republican glumly. Two nights later, a Democratic poll-taker went through 'the process. The drugstore man asked how it looked to him. “Bad,” said the Democrat. “There are too many Republicans in this building to suit me.”

‘A Plea for Unity

AND WHILE WERE on the election, we ought to tell about the two wellrknown local men who have gotten together and who have been sending telegrams every night to President Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie begging that as soon as the election is over the two get together in the interests of unity.

Washington

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Any prediction about the outcome of this election ican be only a guess. But

. I can relay the best-informed guesses available. They

add up to this conclusion + Roosevelt needs only a few breaks to win. ‘Willkie needs all the breaks to win.

That would seem to give Roosevelt an edge. Yet it must be remembered that at Philadelphia Willkie also needed all the breaks to win, He got them. There is a pro-Willkie tide at work—and no d and frank Democrat will The only question is jde is sufficient to over the line. I doubt [if that question can be answered until the votes are Meantime partisans can and will answer it in their own favor. The best line on the situation perhaps is afforded by the inside picture which the Republicans have of their own chances, because it shows so clearly why Willkie must have all the preaks to win. Republicans can give him an electoral majority by counting on his side most of the big industrial states, which are considered close. The Republicans claim these states as sure: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and ‘Wyoming—total, 151 electoral votes.

Republicans Claim 270 Votes

Republicans say they probably will win also Massachusetts, Michigan, New |York and Pennsylvania— total, 119 electoral votes. Those two groups total 270 electoral votes, four more than a majority. Note, however, that to reach this total Willkie must carry New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, | Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin—all of which seem to be close. The of any one of them would be serious, if not fatal. " The only protection the' Republicans have against losses in this essential group of states comes from a scattering of other states about which they are not too hopeful but so of which might go to These are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,

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! " My Day ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt., |Thursday—The farmhouse In erick, Me., is over a

hundred years old and they have had to modernize it in many ways. However, one thing about it is not

% modern and I like it. Instead of a small bathroom

where you could not “swing a cat” I took my bath and dressed yesterday morning in a room with an open fireplace. Do you know anything. more luxurious than that? We had listened the night before to [Joseph Kennedy's speech. Everybody on the farm had done a good day’s work, and we had spent a long day motoring, so we retired to nine [good solid hours of sleep. After shaking hands with the nice Maine men who are working on an addition to the barn, we left ? Limerick yesterday morning to motor to Colby College, Waterville, Me. . Everything went smoothly until just before we hit Waterville, where we crossed a small bridge and looked for a police escort which we were told would be on hand to meet us. (We saw none, but a car ed ahead 2nd a nice young man got out and

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the old school—a good mountain man, the kind who lives right and does. right. I dropped in one afternoon to talk to him. Uncle Steve lit a fire, and sat down beside it and began spitting in the fireplace. He wasn't chewing tobacco, but he spit in the fireplace all the time anyhow. Uncle Steve has killed more bears than any man in these mountains. He says so himself, and others say so too. He hasn't the remotest idea how many he ‘has killed. But he has killed bears with muazzie-

_loaders, modern rifles, deadtalls, clubs, axes, and he

even choked one to death with his bare hands.

How to Strangle a Bear

I got him to tell me that story. He and a neighbor went out one night. The dogs treed a bear. The way Uncle Steve tells it would take halt an hour, and that’s too long for us. But the essence of it was that they built a fire, the bear finally came down the tree, Uncle Steve stood there until the bear’s body was pressing on the muzzle of the gun, and then he pulled the. trigger. “I figured 1 couldn’t miss that way,” Uncle Steve laughs. » He didn’t miss, but the shot didn’t kill the bear. He ran 50 yards or so, and then the dogs were on him. And the first thing Uncle Steve knew the bear had clenched his great jaws right down on a dog's snoot, and was just crushing it to pieces. Now Uncle Steve's gun was an old-tashioned, sawed-off, muzzle-loading hog rifle, and he didn't have time to reload it. So to save the dog, he just rushed up to the bear from behind, put his legs around the bear, and started prying the dog’s shoot out of the bear’s mouth. “And before I knew what happened,” says Uncle Steve, “the bear let go of the dog, and got my right hand in his mouth, and began arcrunchin’ and a-growlin’ and a-eatin’ on my hand. “One long tooth went right through the palm ot my hand, and another went through the back ot my hand. There wasn't nothin’ for me to do but reacharound with my left hand for the bear's throat. I got. him by the goozle and started clampin’ down. Pretty soon he let go. Then I just choked him till he was deader'n 4 o’clock.” Uncle Steve spit in the fireplace. - Mrs. Cole was sitting on the bed, listening. Mrs. Cole chuckled and said, ‘Four o'clock ain’t dead.” Uncle Steve didn’t dignify het quibble with an answer.®* He just spit in the fireplace again.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”

The two local men, one for Willkie, the other for F. D. R., are deeply concerned about the bitter feelings this election is engendering and they are poundihg away at the top men to pull together after the big show is over next Tuesday. ab Incidentally, the telegraph company is bound not to reveal their names except to a Congressional committee. ’ :

The Reserve Officers’ Dilemma

IF THE POLICE should start asking for draftees’ cards, many reserve officers, of all people, would be in the worst fix. You see, there is a Reserve Officers’ Association, but it costs $3 a year to belong to (and get a card). Those who don’t belong don’t have cards, of course, and since they couldn't register along with all the others Oct. 16, they have no cards. The Reserve Officers’ Association estimates that 40 per cent of the reserve does not belong.

Smoke, Not Smog

IT WAS NOT smog that hung over the City yesterday, an airport attache tells us. He says it was smoke, just plain smoke, and that it was 4000 feet above the city. . . . A pretty young woman was standing on the Circle yesterday handing out Willkie buttons and a few feet away was a red-faced heckler carrying on for Roosevelt. Ardent Willkie-ites gave the heckler the very dickens. . . . Scene at one of our hospitals the other night: It was midnight; there were a few snores; almost all the rooms were dark, but in one there was a faint light. A night nurse whose patient was) getting a few restful winks was reading. The book: -“While the Patient Sleeps.”

By Raymond Clapper

Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey and Rhode Jsland— a total of 60 electoral votes. ’ The remainder of the states, totaling 201 electoral votes—including the South, the border, California and some of the Mountain States—are regarded by the Republicans as likely to go for Roosevelt. That does not mean they have quit fighting. In California especially’ an intense last-minute effort, with speeches by Senator Hiram Johnson and Governor Stassen of Minnesota, is being made. The Republicans are fighting with everything they have. It should not be assumed that they are ready to lie down and accept the division of votes as indicated above.

The Battle of New: York

New York seems extremely close. Possibly 6,000,000 votes will be cast. When dealing with such numbers no one can be sure. Governor Lehman was re-elected two years ago by a margin of 60,000 votes. Polls and the judgment of informed political leaders on both sides indicate that the state is neck and neck now. Both parties are putting enormous effort into New York—Republicans because Willkie must have New York to win, and Democrats because if Roosevelt carries New York the fight is over. Democrats have missed former National Chairman Farley in this campaign. Organization activity has been sluggish, lacking in the enthusiasm which on the Willkie side has reached evangelical fervor. Farley is now pitching in to carry New York. He is making no speeches and will make none, but he is at his office every day, working on the telephone with Democratic leaders around the state. Outside

~ of New York state his activity has been casual. But

as a matter of party regularity and because of‘ his responsibility as Democratic State Chairman, he is doing everything he can to get out this state’s Democratic vote. This may be the deciding factor in New York State, where the retirement of Farley as National Chairman undoubtedly had weakened Roosevelt support. » In many states unpredictable factors will have their effect—the Elliott Roosevelt affair; the encounter between White House Secretary Early and ‘the New York Negro policeman; the draft, which is

a silent factor but probably an important one; the |

volunteer campaigning by women for Willkie, and the blocs of voters of foreign descent. All of these bear to unknown degrees on the result.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

be looking far us, so we drove up beside him and asked. He disclaimed any interest in us, but did tell us how to get to the next bridge, where our police escort would probably be waiting. Sure enough when we crossed the bridge, the police car started out ahead of us and we reached President Johnson’s house a little after 12 o'clock. President and Mrs: Johnson have been most kind and cordial, though their lives have been complicated by the endless telegrams and telephone calls which have followed us. Colby College is an old college and though it orig-

‘inally owned a great deal of land, a right-of-way was

given to the railroad straight through the campus. This now makes for many difficulties. The citizens of Waterville have given the college a new and very lovely site on“Mayflower Hill. Some of the buildings are already up and are delightful. The model of the whole plan shows one what the dream is for the future, and I think it’ must be very exciting to work on a new institution of this kind. We dined at Foss Hall with the women’s division of the college. At 8 o'clock I spoke in the senior high school auditorium and a forum discussion followed. We left Waterville at 7:30 this morning and drove through the lovely northern part of Maine and New Hampshire, coming down into Massachusetts to spend the night at Deerfield, ¥ an

WILLKIE PUTS AMERICA FIRST

The Duty of the President Is To Protect U. S., He Tells Listeners.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Nov. 1—The last days of the campaign find Wendell L. Willkie concentrat-

problems, looking inward as it were rather than outward toward Europe.

This brings him closer-to the basic position long taken by most of the Republican Party and by a militant minority of Democrats. Mr. Willkie cannot be termed “isolationist,” for he goes along on helping Great Britain and China. He has approved the general course of the Administration in implementing its policy; that is, the successive steps from repeal of the arms embargo up to the recent destroyerisland swap. The point lies in a shift of emphasis. With this he couples an attempt to show that the President has been reckless in his conduct of foreign affairs and that he is heading the country into war.

A Veritable Jeremiah

In recent days, particularly in the border states.of Kentucky, West Virginia and Maryland, he has been a veritable Jeremiah shouting, time after time, that the concentration of power in the hands of one man has always led that man “down the road of war.” His development of the “war danger” thesis and the “inward view” philosophy may be traced in his recent speeches. Analysists gf the shift of public support toward Mr. Willkie think it derives at least in part, from this new line of attack, timed as it was with the registration for the draft, the Elliott Roosevelt captaincy and the drawing for the draft, all of which Mr. Willkie has used skilfully by indirection. “The duty of the President,” he says, “is to protect the interests of the United States. Those interests come first. All of my policies will start with this question: What is best for the United States? “In protecting America, the maintenance of peace in the Western Hemisphere will be my objective. The President must be dedicated to the objective of peace in our part of the world. Aid to Britain to the limits of prudence for our own safety is essential to that objective.

“I work for Peace”

“I have given you my pledge many times over. I will work for peace. We are against sending our boys into any war other than the defense of our own country.” And again: “I am interested in developing America. I want to look, when I am in Washington, to the mid-con-tinent rather than always across the seas. Sure, we have a stake in what is going on abroad, but don’t say to me that there are 131,000,000 people, that the domestic issues that affect us, the state of our liberties, the state of the unemployed, and the number of jobs we have, the possibility of development, that none of those things are~of interest to these American people of 1940, “Well, I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it and I think I understand the American people.” At another time, he declared that “the question of America coming through this period is the question of whether America can become productive. If America becomes productive, she can survive in her domestic economy; she can build an adequate defense system, and she can give adequate aid to Great Britain. If she doesn’t become productive, she cannot.”

Charges Poor Diplomacy

. In criticism of President Roose velt’s diplomacy, he said: - “A nation cannot have an effective diplomacy unless it is a strong and effective nation. But however strong we are, our diplomacy should be circumspect, wise and consistent. During the last eight years the third-term candidate has made reckless flights into the flelds of diplomacy. Those flights were made envirely on .his own initiative, and they have contributed to the confusion of the world. “Statements of the third-term candidate made in 1939 led British observers to publish opinions that the United States would participate in a European war. Those statements were probably made with good motives. But they had that misleading effect. “The interests of the United States would have been better protected if the third-term candidate had been outspokenly for peace #nd non-participation at that time—instead of waiting to pledge it in an

election.” “Road to War”

Typical of what he shouted to the crowds over and over in his borderstate tour, with harsh emphasis, is this passage: “If you read the pages of history you will find that whenever the people of any country began to be lured by the allurements of one man and gave to him a long term of power, they always went down one road. “That is_always the road of war, war, war!” (He rolled that ominously like mountain thunder.) “The dictatorial complex in men’s lives associates itself inevitably with a desire to control armies, fleets and navies. It has been true since the beginning of time and it always will be true.”

BOY WOUNDED IN MILROY SHOOTING

RUSHVILLE, Ind. Nov. 1 (U. P). —Earl Aldridge, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Aldridge of Milroy, was in serious condition today from

pre-Halloween celebration Wednesday night. Young Aldridge was struck with a .32-caliber revolver bullet fired by Arnold J. Perrigo. 62, of Milroy. Perrigo told police he shot four

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SCHRICKER SEES GARY SUCCESS

Predicts Lake County to Vote Democratic by 25,000; Plaque Presented.

By NOBLE REED

Lieut. Gov, Henry F. Schricker, Governor candidate, predicted at Gary last night that Lake County, which is the First Congressional District, will vote Democratic by a majority of 25,000 at Tuesday's election.

sented him with a bronze plaque in the shape of a map of Indiana, bearing a bas relief of the Lieutenant Governor, the state seal and the state flag. The presentation bore the names of more than 70 Democratic leaders. Mr, Schricker warned party workers and voters against “Republican propaganda intended to frighten voters into joining the party in a last ditch stand.” “The Republicans are trying to make you believe that your life insurance will be worthless if President Roosevelt is re-elected,” he said. “You and I know this charge is ridiculous because it was Mr. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party that saved many of the insurance companies from financial collapse in the aftermath of the Hoover Administration. “You remember the last-ditch stand made here, before the election two years ago when there were slips in the workers’ pay envelopes warning that no unemployment compensation benefits would be paid to the jobless if the Democratic Party returned to office,” he declared. Mr. Schricker said he opposed repeal of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Law, but “favored an amendment to relieve inequalities affecting retail merchants.”

2 DEAD AS STORM RAKES EAST TEXAS

DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 1 (U. P.).— Heavy rains and windstorm raked the eastern half of Texas last night from Uvalde to Texarkana. At least two persons were killed, communications were disrupted in several communities, and hundreds of homes were damaged in southeast Texas. Ralph R. Blankenship, 46, was killed by lightning near Texarkana. A. Danos, 38, oil employee, was blown from a 96-Ioot derrick near Pelley and died in a hospital. There were numerous injuries.

Democrats Eat

_ President Roosevelt's third term candidacy has forced the Democratic Party to “eat its own words,” Myers Y. Cooper, former Ohio governor, said in a talk last night at the Indiana University Forum in Bloomington. > The Ohioan quoted the Democratic platform of 1896 as stating: “We declare it to be the unwritten law of this republic, established by custom and usage of 100 years, and sanctioned by. the greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our government, that no man should be eligible for a third term to the presidential

ce. He added that the Senate, in 1928, passed a resolution declaring “any departure from the time-honored custom of two terms would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions.”

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Mr, Schricker was honored by| : Gary Democratic leaders who pre-| :

As County Tax Deadline Approaches

The time gets shorter and the lines get longer as the deadline approaches for paying taxes at the The office will be open until 4 p. m. tomorrow and from 8 a. m.

r—g Ernest K. Lindley

Biographer of President Roosevelt

'Indispensability’ Doctrine Is a Straw Man Created by G. O. P.

HE closing days of the campaign find the Republicans still hammering at “the doctrine of indispensability” and still trying to

cultivate fear that Roosevelt, if re-elected, will take us to war. Together they probably are ‘chiefly re-

efforts are “good politics.”

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sponsible for the swelling of pro-Willkie sentiment during the last

two or three weeks. applied to Roosevelt—is, however, about 90 per cent a straw man of Republican creation. Roosevelt has made no claim to indispensability. v : He has attacked it in the past, and there is no reason to think that he has changed his mind. There are some Roosevelt supporters ‘who have declared that he is indispensable under present conditions. But Mr. Lindley this view cannot be held by most of the people who are ‘going to vote for him. For the idea that any man is

indispensable is essentially for-

eign to American ways of thinking. Roosevelt is not indispensable. Willkie is not indespensable. By native ability hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American citizens are as well qualified as either Roosevelt or Willkie to be President, “and by experience thousands are better qualified than Willkie. Roosevelt was not nominated for a third term because he was indispensable or was considered s0 hy a majority of the Democratic National Convention. He was nominated because a majority thought he was his party’s strongest candidate.

$ ‘9 » FE HE question to be decided by the voters next Tuesday is not whether Roosevelt, or any other man, is indispensable. It is whether Roosevelt or Willkie would make the better President

during the next four years. Willkie seems to me to be better qualified by natural ability than the general run of Presidential candidates. Roosevelt certainly is. In addition, Roosevelt has had. the experience—and this is peculiarly a time when experience is an important asset. Whichever is elected, I don’t believe that disaster will follow. When the verdict has been given by the voters, all but the usual handful

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Own Words

On Third Term, Cooper Says

Alben Barkley, now Democratic majority leader; Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin.” “These men,” he said, “have repudiated their stand against a third term, but now have the brazen effrontery to smile upon a violatiorr of the policy that they condemned so severely 12 years ago. The principle for which they stood was right then and it is right now, and they are now dead wrong.” He charged that “the whip of the dictator could be discerned in the President’s renomination,” and said the Presidency has not only been a source of unprecedented power for Mr. Roosevelt, “but a windfall for the entire Roosevelt family.” Mr. Cooper told the students that “it the present administration is returned to power for a third term, one may look. for the regimentation that goes with totalitarianism, and

The doctrine of indispensability—particularly as

next President and hope for the best,

Willkie and Roosevelt do not see eye to eye on economic and social policy. The divergence between them is no greater, however, than between Roosevelt and some of the members of his own cabinet. Both are committed to the democratic way of life. To say that Willkie’s election would not be a national disaster is not to say that Willkie would make a better President than Roosevelt. ’

From the conservative side, the most impressive plea for Roosevelt’s re-election was Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's on Tuesday night. Kenhedy had been honored by the President, but he has more than paid off any debt which he owed to the present Administration.” He often has disagreed with the President on public policies. And he has been sniped at so mercilessly by persons close to the President that many people would not have been surprised if, on his return from Great Britain, he had come out for Willkie. Yet without uttering a single word of criticism of Willkie, Kennedy set forth his temperate but firm conclusion that the national interest would be served better by the re-election of Roosevelt. ” ” ”

'ENNEDY'S views on Roose- . velt’s foreign policy also are worth the sober consideration of every voter. Kennedy has been and remains stalwartly opposed to our entry into the European war. His conviction on this question is so deep that I don’t believe .anything could prevent him from breaking away if he believed the President intended to take us into war across the Atlantic. Kennedy was clearcut on three important points. Never has he given “to one single individual in the world any hope whatsoever that at any stage or under any conditions could the United States be drawn into the war.” Secondly, there is no secret understanding of any kind with Great Britain which might lead to our entry into the war. Thirdly, for reasons tersely set forth by Kennedy, aid to Britain by means short of war does not mean going to war. On the contrary, a declaration of war by us would impair our ability to aid Britain for some time to come. It would be against Britain's interests, at the present time, as well as our own. Good arguments can be advanced in favor of Willkie, but the attack on an indispensable straw man and a politically generated war scare are not among them.

CROMWELL REFERS QUERIES TO DORIS

JERSEY CITY, N. J. Nov. 1 (U. P.)—James H, R. Cromwell, former minister to Canada who now is campaigning for the United States Senate, left it to his wealthy wife, Doris Duke Cromwell, today to confirm or deny reports that she will sue him for divorce in Honolulu. “It's up to Mrs. Cromwell to verify or deny the information,” he said. “I have nothing to say about the matter.” 5 ! Mrs. Cromwell plans to leave for San Francisco soon and will

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PARTY CHIEFS 1S TOO LATE

Concede That Willkie Has Been Marching in ‘Sevene

League Boots.’

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Important Democratic leaders are expressing worry over the lateness of Presi dent Roosevelt’s answers to the ale leged Republican “falsification” of the record.

These democrats concede that Wendell Willkie has been marching in seven-league boots in the last three *weeks. They are hoping that Mr. Roosevelt, who has three speeches ‘yet to make, has not waite ed too long. . Unusual importance is attached to the President’s speech tonight in Brooklyn, where he faces the task

‘|of turning back the tide that has

been running against him in New York State. Hemmust roll up a big plurality in this borough Tuesday to help offset the heavy Willkie vote upstate. : Reception Mild

of New York City Monday, Mr, Roosevelt nowhere got such a mild reception as in Brooklyn. Manhate tan and the Bronx turned out in hundreds of thousands, but crowds in Brooklyn were only fair. Brooklyn in 1936 gave the Presie dent 525,000 of the 1,100,000-vote plurality by which he carried the state over Alf M. Landon. But some estimates today placed his plurality in this borough next Tues« day at about 300,000, far below his strength in other years. Leaders here, checking on the efe fect of Mr. Roosevelt's speech in Boston Wednesday night, have ree ceived reports that he was less efe fective than in his earlier Philadele phia and New York speeches. . Apparently ‘because it was felt that the President should discuss the farm issue at some point in his late-starting campaign, a sizable part of the Boston address was give en over to farm questions. Whate ever the importance of these elsee where, many Boston observers agreed that the speech generated little enthusiasm there.

Tonight’s Talk Important

Mr. Roosevelt's Boston audience did not give him nearly the hand he received Monday night in Madie son Square Garden here. An audie ence of about 20,000 heard him at each meeting, but where there was an overflow crowd of tens of thoue sands in New York, there were come

auditorium, Some New York leaders, viewing the touch-and-go race in this state,

night as one of the most important in the President’s career. ey are counting on him to make a fighting attack on the Republicans, who, in many reports today, are given a slight edge in the batfle for the state's 47 electoral votes. _ Party officials are citing certain incidents and “bad breaks,” which, they say, have caused serious losses in the President’s strength. They mention especially his *dag= ger-in-the-back” speech in Virginia, which has cut into his strength among the large New York Italan population. They say also that Ele liott Roosevelt's captaincy has been built up in a way which has cost the President many votes. ! They rate Mr. Roosevelt's military inspection trips, repeatedly called political by Mr. Willkie, as detrie mental. py One top Democrat expressed a bee lief that the draft would lose the President votes, even though Mr, Willkie indorsed it.

Side-Stép Charged

Republican leaders, at the same time, are contending that Mr, Roosevelt has sidestepped certain issues raised by Mr. Willkie. They cite particularly the third-term question and the long unbalanced ‘Federal budget. : Election feeling here is at high pitch, with street-corner orators dee claiming—and before large crowds even on Fifth Avenue. Frequently the Roosevelt-vs.-Willkie squabbling in these soap-box audiences bee comes .so noisy that the speakers have to suspend. Orators on both sides work in squadrons, and when one is fine

bobs up to take his place. The hecklers are having a field day.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The Coast Guard Academy is in Norfolk, Va., New London, Conn, ‘or Washington, D. C.? 2—What is the main film attraction ; a theater called? . 3—What is the official name of Siam? : 4—What does “Sic Temper, Tye rannis” mean? 5—Name the largest South Amere ican country. 6—What battle did Napoleon win shortly after he abandoned the invesion of England? T—Is linseed oil obtained from the seeds of cotton, flax or hemp?

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1—=New London, Conn. 2—Feature, 3—Thailand. 4-Thus always to tyrants. 6—Austerlitz. T1—Flaxseed. " . *®

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