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SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 1940
Hoosier Vagabond
in. Nov. 2.—This is the last | Great Smoky Mountains Na-
GATLINBURG, Ter
tional Park. + This is the biggest and best known National Park east of the Mississippi. Its mountain mass is the L highest in the East; its people are as picturesque as any left in America. nd yet friends here say that heir trips out West, and even h below in their own deep h, they frequently talk with le who have never heard of mokies. t that can never happen After the current mass of which this column has fired
of the Smokies will nave to be jailed
8. : Great Smokies Park is Ross His men say working organizations in the Park Service. been in charge here from the start. Before that he was superintendent at Glacier, and at Grand Canyon. ~The Smokies have CCC and the
Many Miles of Trail r
They have built hundreds of miles of trail, and fire roads for trucks, and camping grounds and bridges and even the beautiful stone buildings for Park Headquarters. The park does have, |it seems to me, one definite lack. And that is enough Rangers for direct contact with the public. The park charges no ‘admission, so you are not stopped or given information when you drive in. And in Gatlinburg you are apt to get tion . about distances and trails and places to stay. :
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By Ernie Pyle
Both Assistant Chief Ranger Harold Edwards, on the Tennessee side, and Assistant Chief Ranger James Light, on the Carolina side, have driven us all around through the interior of the park on firé roads—gravel truck trails not open to the public. We enjoyed these trips, yet as far as I can see, the most/ spectacular views in the Park are available right rg the cross-park highway, or from the trails out of Gatlinburg. Thete is one place on this trail, called Charlie's Buniofi, which I have not yet seen. It is a place wherg you ride or walk (or crawl if youre like me) acros§ a narrow, wind-swept ledge where it drops straight off for 1500 feet. There aren’t nrany such places in the Smokies, but this one is a lulu.
Tough on the Mountain People
/ Charlie's Bunion is only a four-mile hike from the
/main paved highway that crosses the Park.
me day, if my game knee ever gets fully aE ee have to hike up there and peek over the edge. I hope my knee never gets better. When the Smokies became Government land, a ‘eat many people were moved out, But also a great Hany were left in. Today there are around 400 native fnountain people still living in the Tennessee half
en fortunate in having the [of the park, and probably an equal number on the / Carolina side. ,
But it is hard for them. They are no longer masters of their own souls. His independence is a mountain man’s staff of life, and the reason he was here in the first place. . Today a mountain man in the park dare not go hunting. He can’t even have a gun, unless he’s a trusted old-timer allowed to keep it for sentimental reasons. He cannot trap. He cannot cut down a tree. He dare not cut balsam boughs for an outdoor bed. When a mountain schoolteacher wants to give some of the boys a whuppin’, he has to get a Park Warden to
+ cut the switches for him.
Inside [Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
PROFILE ‘OF TH WEEK: Frederick Doyle Kershner, dean of Butler University’s College of Religion, and one of the town’s few really nonpartisan people. | On his desk ale two nicely tinted photographs—one of Mr. osevelt, the other of Mr. wit It seems that one of the
Dean | said nothing doing unless the other candidate came along,
Kershner's reputation as plar is world-wide. He has isitors from Australia, New ad, Korea. and other faraway | spots. He is now 65, a serious-looking man. about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, well filled out (about unds) with a round, full : andy, gray hair and thicklensed glasses. He is extremely near-sighted and has been since youth. He actually has a three-track mind. He can dic~ tate to his stenographer,|look over papers and listen to someone's conversation at the same time. When he dictates, he usually paces the floor of. his office, hands\in trouser pockets, at a vapid gait. The faster he paces, the faster he dictates.
He's A Baseball Fan
THE DEAN IS a dy
d-in-the-wool baseball fan. He goes to’ games once ih a while, but does most of his following by radio. He knows the game from A to Z and can rattle off team standings and batting averages like a major league manager. In writing articles for magazines, etc., he often brings in the names of baseball players to drive home some point. He likes to listen to classical music broadcasts, he is fond of the theater and fond of flowers. He often brings great armloads to| Butler for his associates or on special cccasions. His|greatest relaxation is ta get into the family car with [some member of the family for a week-end“ trip to Chicago, Cincinnati or ‘even farther away than that. : A forceful and cultured speaker, he is in heavy de-
Washington
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.+As those on the inside of the , Democratic campaign know, the Republicans have been going rather|easy on Vice Presidential candidate Henry Wallace. That makes it all the more ironical that Wallace should] be the chief mouthpiece for the attack on Willkie as proGerman, pro-Nazi, pro-appease-ment, | pro-Hitler. Wallace came here to New York and at Madison Square Garden again led the cry that Willkie is Hitler's man.
has been plenty of demagpguery on both sides in i paign but it will go down books that on foreign
as a partisan football. It has been a disservice to the country to manufacture | this pro-Hitler attack on Willkie. It has encouraged pro-Nazi influences in the United States to get on the Presidential fight. It has tended to make the voters of German descent more racially conscious and to drive them into the Willkie camp. The Administration has raised the German issue and the effect has been to stimulate blocs of foreign descent, tending further to divide the country. | 5 rd 2
False, Hopes Stimulated
Worst of ail, it has |encouraged the false idea abroad that the American people are divided and that the Axis has large, numbers of real friends here. How much better it would have been had the Administration recognized the true state of affairs and broadcast to the world that on this question of the Axis powers the country was united, and that
both candidates were standing shoulder to shoulder,
refusing - to permit the country to be divided by enemies from without. Ihstead, the Administration has encouraged internal division and stimulated false hopes that Willkie was Hitler's man. * All this is the less ekcusable because President Roosevelt has made such’ a point of being expert in. foreign policy. The pretension is that Roosevelt
HYDE PARK, Friday.+—I have said about the campaign in these last few weeks. Of course, 1t is obvious that [there is .a campaign going
on and, while I am the wife of the President, I am
also the wife of one of the candidates. In many news‘papers fon the same page with my column, there appear the columns of gentlemen who have treated, during | this campaign period, of subjects whicl: seem to me to have no particular value in clarifying the real issues in the campaign. There is, however, one issue that comes very close to my heart as a woman, as a mother and as a friend of many young people, and I wanti to speak of it in this column| today. Today no. one can honestly ~ promise you peace at home or abroad. All any human Being can do is to promise that®he will do his utmost -to prevent this country from being involved in war. You must judge, as in-
very little
| dividuals, whether What has been done in the past few { ' | years has been done in the/hope and in the belief that , | it will strengthen us in o
effort as a nation to remain at peace and to serve the cause of peace in the
“world as & whole. The fact is before you that in a world of war we are still at peace. ’
I do not believe that the weak, physically, mentally
mand for speaking engagements and makes many trips around the country. Perhaps his greatest tribute is that his former students who have gone out into the world keep coming back for advice and help. He has a tremendous correspondence. He is justly famous for his patience, courteousness and kindliness.
A Master of Repartee
IT IS NOT OFTEN that you will find a dean of a college of religion with an acute sense of humor. But Dean Kershner does have a grand sense of humor and his students delight ih repartee with him, He has never been known to come out on the short end. . The average professor has a pet subject and students are fond of diverting their tutor from the subject at hand to the pet topic. But not Dean Kershner. He's quick to recognize an angled question and he has an easy way of keeping on the tragk. He is a fastidious and consergative dresser. He usually wears dark clothes, except ummer, He used to wear bow ties most of the time, but now goes in for subdued four-in-hands. . ! He is{everlastingly organizing (or helping organize) cultural groups. He is partial to groups which discuss foreign and philosophic affairs and takes an active part in them: .
A Photographic Mind! DEAN KERSHNER actually has a photographic
mind. In lectures on English literature, he can quote
without limit from Shakespeare and has been known to reel off as much as half a play. In his younger days he made two trips to Florence, Italy, to study the great masters’ religious art works and to this day his memory carries every detail of drawing and color shading of those pictures. One day he got a letter from a stranger who had read one of his articles. The stranger wanted some certain information. The Dean thought for a moment. “We could tell him,” he told his secretary, “to look on page 111 of Volume 10 of the Brittanica, but that weculdn't be courteous. Take this letter—.” And, believe it or not, he dictated a long letter, giving all the information in detail.
By Raymond Clapper
is so good at foreign policy no one can replace him. Secretary Hull could have replaced him and could have carried the policy forward on a more levelheaded basis. Although the Roosevelt policy has been fundamentally sound, it has been a logical growth out of the start made under Henry L. Stimson when he was Hoover's Secretary of State. Stimson tried to put the pressure on Japan when the Manchukuo affair began. Stimson began the good-neighbor policy but neglected to give it the name Roosevelt has carried that policy forward and made it more positive and more exiensive. It is not his own patented policy, and his execution of it has not been perfect by a long shot.
. . = Time and again Roosevelt has short-circuited Hull.
" The quarantine threat in 1937 was shoved into a
speech by Roosevelt without consulting the State Department, and he had to pull back on it later. The Charlottesville dagger-in-the-back attack kK on Italy produced such a shock that even Roosevelt has had to join in buttering up the voters of Italian blood.
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Hull and Foreign Policy
Executive for a foreign policy is complicated and diffieult, particularly in a democracy. Having observed some of these difficuities at close range in recent years, I would not join in much of the carping over failure always to do the perfect thing. One does not always know what is best until hindsight speaks. ‘But in view of the record, it is setting up a preposterous claim to say that Roosevelt is the only man who could sit in the White House in this period. So long as Secretary Hull continues to sit across the street in the State Department, as he will be asked to do if Willkie is elected, our foreign policy will be safe. Willkie would make his share of fumbles, just as Roosevelt has. But we do not have a one-man foreign policy. It is a natiokal foreign policy resting upon our national interests and upon public recognition of those interests. The advice of many experts goes into its execution. To say that it would collapse in a heap if Roosevelt wasn’t there to run it is not being realistic about the way the wheels go around in Washington.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
or morally, ever serve the cause of peace and I think we must always have the courage to state in what we believe, and to stand by our beliefs. I believe that is what we have been doing as a Government and as a nation, and I believe that is what we are going to do. Beyond that we must put our trust in the Lord and believe that he guides his children when they ask his guidance. . Violence of any kind, whether by action, writing or speaking, seems to me out of place in a campaign to elect a President of the United States. Some of the literature which I have seen, some of the things which I have heard on the radio and read in the papers, seem to me to appeal to prejudice and emotion rather than to clear thinking and seasoned judgment. Some day, perhaps, we will learn that what is really important in a chief executive is what he believes in for the people and what his record in public office, or in his field of work, has been. When that happens, our campaigns probably will be much duller, but also much less bitter! « + We did have a glorious drive yesterday. Even in Maine and Vermont some people were saying nice things about the President! We reached old Deerfield, Mass., at about 4:45, so I had a chance to see the Bement School before the day pupils went home and to join Diana Hopkins in a Halloween party which came before supper. We had supper with Mrs. Bement, her staff and the youngsters. After kissing Diana good-night, we continued on our way and reached home ptt midnight. ;
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THAT TIRELES WILLKE STIL HALE HEARTY
Supreme . Effort to Rally People to ‘Crusade’ Comes Tonight.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
2.—Parked here in the Jersey meadows is the quarter-mile-long train
which has borne Wendell L. Willkie nearly 19,000 miles up and down and across the country. Within the private car at the end of the train is Mr. Willkie, secluded for a few hours, but not at rest. For he is busy drafting the speech —he still calls them “talks”—that he will make tonight at Madison Square Garden in his supreme effort to rally a majority of American voters to his “crusade.” This brief respite from the clicking of train wheels, the squawling of Brakes, the bands often off tune, the cheering crowds, affords an opportunity to look back.
The Images Go Past
You close your eyes and the images go past—the small prairie towns, the hamlets tucked between bleak mountains, the vast expanses of plain, the streets of so many cities through which the cavalcade has passed, and, like a great heaving sea, the millions of faces you have seen. This is the background which flowed past, but always there was the dominant figure against it, the big, broad-shouldered man, talking, talking, talking, in that husky voice, and. between times standing hour on hour in an automobile at the front of a procession, waving now to this side, now to that. He never let up. When you think of all that, and realize the energy it required, you suddenly are conscious that this campaign has been almost a miracle {from the purely physical standpoint. And as the tide seems {o turn toward him in these closing days, you realize that persistence is bringing results
In 34 St
He has made some 500 “talks.” He has spoken to millions in 34 states. In addition to nearly 19.000 miles by train, he has traveled 8000 miles by plane and 1500 by bus and automobile. Today he looks as hale {hearty as when he started. He says frequently in his speeches that he knows the American people. He certainly seems to know something of their psychology, and as a promotion expert for himself and a cause he must be given a good deal of credit for the success of his campaign. From the outset, he decided that the best type of campaign for him was the active “barnstorming” that would let him talk to and be seen by as many people as possible. He got off to a bad start and lost his voice the first two days out from Rushville, Ind. Immediately, thousands of friends all over the country began to pour advice in upon him. He was doing it all wrong, they argued. He would break down. They advised this and that.
Optimism Is Contagious
He is doing it his own way up to the end, for the final day before election will find him barnstorming about New York City just as the last two days saw him barnstorming through New Jersey, despite: the consensus of political experts that New Jersey looks certain for President Roosevelt—largely because of the Frank Hague machine. He talks before every audience as if it were the most important he has taced. He talked just as earnestly to 500 persons gathered about the train at Cloves, N. M., as he will talk at the Garden tonight, That certainly has had its ettect. By continuous plugging. he built his campaign up to the point where the Democrats got alarmed and the President had to take the stump.
Pounces on Breaks
Now, with the President campaigning, Mr. Willkie takes advantage of every break.’He never sleeps on any Roosevelt speech, but pounces upon it as soon as it 1s over, picking flaws and otfering something else for Mr. Roosevelt to answer. Like lightning, he caught up the President's reference to Joseph P. Kennedy as “my” ambassador and made merry with it. ridiculed the Kennedy visit to the United States by suggesting that ambassadors should be at their posts instead of ovér here making political speeches. He has harped constantly—and has always been rewarded by guftaws-—on Boss Hague calling the President “Frank.”
{1TH HOUR SMEAR OF WILLKIE HEADED OFF
Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—A threatened last minute “smear” of Wendell L. Willkie has been headed off. William P. Maloney, counsel for a Senate subcommittee investigating wire-tapping had voiced a suspicion that the telephone wires of Supreme Court justices had been tapped while the court was considering a case against the TVA, involving the worth of shares in the Commonwealth & Southern Corp, then headed by Mr. Willkie. Mr. Maloney’s case was built on reports he had received through wire-tapping channels that in tne period of the TVA case wire-tappinz was going on in Washington; thas eight officials were involved (and at that time there were eight justi:es of the Supreme Court) and that one of the officials involved had a last name ending in “er” (the laie Justice Butler was then a member of the court). Mr. Maloney, lent to the commititee by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and still on the SEC payroll, announced a hearing, and then found it could not be held bacause no members of the committee were in Washington o
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ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Nov. |
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The Indianapolis
“Hmm, lieutenant, you did a nice job shining up the buttons on that uniform. And your ears; they're really clean!” That is from Martha Metcalf, Washington High School R. O. T. C. sponsor, to her brother, Merle,
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She Sponsors Her Brother
Merle Metcalf . . . “nice job,” says sister Martha.
a lieutenant in the cadet corps. Assigned to, her brother's company, it is Miss Metcalf’s duty to check up on the appearance of his platoon. Afterwards, she does a little sisterly inspection of Merle.
MINTON ‘STANDS BY ROOSEVELT
Senator Declares Destiny Of America Depends On Re-election.
Senator Sherman Minton reiter-
last night at Evansville.
“Fulfillment of the destiny of America and of the democracies of the world depend upon the re-elec-tion of the President and of members of Congress who will stand by him,” he said.
“wheel of the ship of state be given over to a man who has never even piloted a row boat” and asked that the country be wary of trusting an “amateur in domestic policies, much less an unknown quantity in international politics.” Senator Minton named three ways the present campaign has been unusual. They are, he said: 1. The personal attacks. more bitter than any since President Jackson’s time, that have been made on a President. 2. A man with no experience in public service has put himself forward as a presidential candidate. 3. The “vested interests” put up a “Wall Street utility trust” candidate. He urged- his audience to think twice’ before casting a ballot that would re-direct the policies of the nation in “this crucial hour.”
He said it was folly to ask that the
WILLIS CLOSES HIS CAMPAIGN
Declares New Deal Failed On Job Problem; Raps Third Term.
Raymond E. Willis, Republican
ated his 1934 pledge to “stand by candidate for U. S. Senator, closed | Mr. Roosevelt” in a campaign speech | his campaign at a Ft. Wayne rally people,” he said in closing, “is the {last night by charging that the Ie!
“nation is marching to war.” | He also charged the New Deal {administration with failure to end unemployment and assailed the third-term candidacy. { “The New Dealers did not say {anything about a third term when {they were building up a huge poli‘tical machine and many smaller | political machines, and lavishing tax money to obtain the continuation of the New Deal: for a second term” he declared. “They are not saying anything now about a fourth term, or a fifth, when these machines, which! have grown bigger and stronger while feeding on public treasuries, are trying to perpetuate the New Deal in. power for a third term.” Mr. Willis said there is no more pressing problem before the people of America today than that of unemployment, relief and social security. | “When the New Deal went into {power in 1933 there were 10 million {unemployed in the United States. | Eight years and 60 billion dollars
later there are still 10 million un-
employed,” he said.
Biographer of President Roosevelt
B Ernest K. Lindley |
Conflicting Speeches Obscure Willkie's Stand on Economics
reforms. : It is difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile Willkie's declaration that he favors the New Deal reforms and will protect them with his warning that they are leading us to state socialism or state capitalism. At times he has spoken the language of reaction to the good old days of laissez-faire economics. The clue to Mr Lindley. | a: Willie really believes may lie in his enthusiastic indorsement of a book early in his campaign. The book is “Capitalism, the Creator,” by Carl Snyder. It was one of the books Willkie bought in preparation for his campaign. He invited its author to visit him in Colorado and told the press that “in my judgment it is the most stimulating and provocative book on the capitalist system that I know of.” He added that he had urged that the book be published in a more popular edition so that everyone could read it. Mr. Snyder believes devoutly in laissez-faire capitalism. He specifically condemns nearly every objective and achievement of progressive government during the last half-century. 2 2 = R. SNYDER warns of the inherent in relief on a scandalous scale.” Apparently he regards relief payments under the New Deal as “on a scandalous scale.” He would not deny “the economic necessities of life” to those who suffer economic misfortune, but is fearful lest the “self-reliance of labor” be destroyed. Mr. Snyder is against unem‘ployment insurance, and gives even old-age insurance a dubious blessing on the ground that it seems to have become politically necessary.
Willkie’s indorsement of Sny-
T is hard to make out from his campaign speeches what Willkie's economic philosophy is. He has preached the virtues of free en- |firing with the Governor,” Senator terprise. . He has said on more than one occasion that the great issue [Jenner said. of this campaign is private enterprise versus state socialism or state capitalism. He has promised the repeal of “pernicious legislation.” But he has also asserted that he favors all the important New Deal
| der’s book does not imply that he agrees with every passage in it. But as the excerpts quoted above indicate, the book’ has a consistent pattern. It is one of the most cold-blooded defenses of laissez-faire capitalism ever written. It is so logical that it even opposes government regulation of public utilities and sets forth the thesis that “from the point of view of general benefits, there are no ‘bad’ trusts.” - Snyder deifies the accumulation of capital. Nothing must be permitted to interfere with it, and almost any effort to mitigate the . effects of laissez-faire capitalism on the great majority of people is either futile or a step toward disaster. *
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HIS book, in short, is| incredibly reactionary. If Mr. Willkie had searched through all the hundreds of books on economic subjects written during the last decade it is doubtful if he could have found another so reactionary as Snyder's. Yet this is the one economic book that he singled out for special public praise. Willkie’s assertions that he believes in and will . protect the major New Deal reforms cannot be reconciled’ with his recommendation of Snyder's book. His indorsement of the New Deal reforms served a useful political purpose. If he had not given it he would have been out of the running at the start of his campaign. His enthusiastic praise for Snyder's book served no useful campaign purpose. Few people have read it, and fewer will find in it a theory of philosophy which is not repulsive to them. A Since it could not conceivably have been helpful to him politically, Willkie's commendation of Snyder's book must have sprung from real enthusiasm. Either Willkie's mind is hopelessly muddled, or here is an enigma, which must seem ominous to anyone who plans to vote for Willkie in the' belief that he will retain
the major reforms of the New Deal
SECOND SECTION
Formal Campaign at Sullivan Tonight.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM
formal speaking campaign for the Governorship with an address at a Republican rally tonight at Sullivan. Nominee Hillis, after speaking last night at Shelbyville, was campaigning in Delaware, County tuday. He expected to fly from Muncie to Sullivan late in the day. He will spend Sunday and Monday touring his own Fifth District. In his talk at Shelbyville last night, Mr. Hillis reviewed his program as outlined during the campaign. ‘Proposes Extensive Campaign
He proposed an extensive program by the State Government for what he termed “Indiana’s greatest industry of agriculture.” He reminded his audience he was born on'an Indiana farm and now owns and operates Howard County farms, and thus is familiar with the farmer's problems. He said he was familiar also with the problems of industry and labor through actual experience, having worked in factories and dealt, as an employer, with labor organizations. He invited questioners of his labor policy to confer with representatives of organized labor in his home county. . : At one time he was a teacher lin the Howard County schools, and he pledged his co-operation with all movements for the betterment of teachers. Would Change Gross Tax Mr. Hillis expressed the belief that the Gross Income Tax law “can be made into a fair and equitable instrument with. its revenues devoted primarily to the states educational system.” The New Deal, he said; has nothing new to present to the people of Indiana that it hasn't borrowed from the Republicans. He said his Democratic opponent’s experience in government consisted in ‘‘accepting dictation from the political barons.” “The important issu, before the
ledged s in
‘return of good government the Republican. candida this campaign. | ‘I'm Nat Indispensable’ “I am not the indispensable man. {There are many persons in Indiana {capable of serving the public hon|estly, and ably. { “But I speak.to you as the nominee of a party dedicated to the service of the whole people, and I speak to you as a man who from the bottom of his heart pledges the last full measure of effort to pe state and its people that good overnment shall be restored to Indiana, that the future shall hold bright promise for our Hoosier commonwealth.” ®
Raps Reorganization Act
State Senator William E. Jenner, Shoals, at a Republican rally at Elkhart last night, promised that “constitutional government will be restored in the Hoosier state with ithe reorganization of a Republican administration next January.” | Senator Jenner said the three separate branches of government as defined by the Constitution will be “reinstated” in Indiana. “Each will function in its own sphere, each #jstinct one from the other,” he said.” The senator charged that the executive branch of the
influence into the judicial.” He said that that an “outstanding example” of the dictation to the legislative branch by the executive department “is the Reorganization {Act of 1933." | This law placed all “hiring and
State Speakers Listed by Parties
DEMOCRATS
TODAY—Henry F. Schricker at Kendallville; Governor E. D. Rivers at Linton; Senator Tom Connally lat Clinton; Congressman Luthet {Patrick at Attica; Senator Carl (Hatch at Lebanon; Paul V. McNutt lat Kokomo, afternoon, and East | Chicago, night; Senator - Sherman [Minton at French Lick, afternoon, |and Lawrenceburg, night; Governor | M. Clifford Townsend at Monticello; Anderson Ketchum at Vincennes. afternoon, and Winslow, | Clarence Judge William G. Fitzgerald at Brookville; Mrs. Inez M. Scholl at Batesville, afternoon, and Versailles, night: Earl Crawford at Brownsville; Judge A. J. Stevenson at Rosedale; Mrs. Hettie Dunkin at Attica; Fred Bays at Shelbyville; Sam Jackson at Greensburg.
REPUBLICANS
TODAY —Glen R. Hillis at Sullivan; Raymond E. Willis at Angola; William _E. Jenner at Arthur R. Robinson at Danville; Robert H. Loring at Montpelier; James A. Emmert at Liberty; Myers |Y. Cooper at: Elwood; Richard T. James and James M. Tucker at Portland; Lloyd Claycombe at Madison; Harvey A. Grabill at Ft. Wayne; Howard ‘M. Meyer at Celestine; Charles W. Jewett at Connersville.
DENY MILK PROGRAM LINKED TO ELECTION
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (U. P).— City Welfare Commissioner William Hodson said today it was “just a coincidence” that a Federal-state-city plan to give a pint of milk a |day to each of fthe 149,000 children funder 16 on the city home relief rolls was announced four days before election. ‘ ; The plan, worked cut by Mayor F. H. La Guardia, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Federal Surplus Marketing Administration and the State Department of Social Welfare, goes into effect Dec. 15.
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Republican Nominee to End
Glen R. Hillis will wind up his]
HILLIS, SCHRICKER IN FINAL SPURTS
Democrat Charges Vote for G. 0. P. Is One for Special Interests.
“A vote for any Republican cane didate is a vote for the special ine terests,” declared Lieut.-Gov. Henry Schricker, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, at. a speech at Greene field last night. “The issues in this campaign are about the same as they were four years ago and eight years ago.” He said the Republicans were fighting the re-election of President Roosevelt because of the “great benefits he has brought to farm and labor groups.”
‘No Program for Masses’
“The opposition, once more stake ing its future on another Hoover, has no program for the masses, and seeks only to reinstate special prive ilege to governmental power.”
Mr. Schricker said special privi« lege was drafting its forces for a
“comeback to political power” and that this attack on a people's gov~ . ernment is being offered, to the
| voters under the label of a “polite
| ical crusade.” .
i “A man who claims to be the
‘hope of the country’ freely predicts great disaster on every hand,” he said. “Our opponents tell us this will" be the last chance ‘to vote under a republic.’ ”
Speaks at Tipton
Mr. Schricker spoke at Tipton, center of a corn-producing area, yesterday afternoon. He said the farm income had more than dou= bled during the last seven and a half years of the present adminise | tration. Continuing his heavy speaking schedule, the candidate for Gove
ernor will talk tonight at Kendalle ville.
Dances Climax Campaign
Two free dances tonight will cli max campaign activities for Marion County Young Democrats. The East Side Young Democrats will dance at the Liederkranz Hall, 142] E. Washington St. The 23rd Ward Young Democrats will hold their dance at the Red Men's Hall, 17th St. and Roosevelt Ave. Lewis Thompson ‘and Mrs. Mare garet Groff will serve as chairman and co-chairman for the 23d Ward dance, - The committee for 'the East Sice dance includes: Grace Alice Spite, Mar Switzea, Margaret Hague, Edith) McKay, Vivian Moore, Mary Kissell, Edna Bolander, Thomas E. Shaner, Wilson A. Seward, James McGovern, John L. Sullivan, Gerald Druley, Carl F. Pulhman and Francis Hartman.
Claims Lewis Aided F.D.R. Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind, Nov. 2.—Ane derson Ketchum, Democratic lieu tenant governor candidate, last night charged “the sellout by John. L, Lewis will make rather than lose votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Speaking at.a’' Bartholomew County rally, he warned against “last mine ute propaganda tricks” by the ope position. ’
He predicted the national and state Democratic administrations would be continued in office “if every possible effort was continued
night; | J. Donovan at Versailles; !
Bluffton;
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to get the votes of the people into
government has dominated the leg-|the ballot boxes next Tuesday.” islative and . sought to ‘inflict its
“The people of this country are too wise to handicap themselves in this period of world disorder and warfare to force President Roosevelt to step down for an untried, inexperienced and a very much cone fused successor,” the speaker said.
Backs Entire Slate X
The election of the entire Demo= cratic ticket was urged last night by Clarence J. Donovan of Bedford, candidate for secretary of state, at a 19th Ward meeting at 2113 W, 10th St. 3 “The Republican Party offers . nothing constructive except a continuation of the policies of President Roosevelt, and that is no reason for support. “Tb preserve the gains we have made in the last two administrations, we must continue the Demo= cratic government we have bene= fited’ from these past eight years.”
Cites Party Record
~ Judge William Fitzgerald, Demo= cratic candidate for State Supreme Court judge last night at West Lebanon charged the Republican Party had no basis for asking the cone fidence of voters. Citing accomplishments of the Democratic Party, he pointed to “a reduction of five million in the rolls of unemployed and a rise in the national income by more than double to 27 billion dollars in the last two Democratic administrations.” Urging the election of Henry F, Schricker as governor, Judge Fitze gerald said: 1 “The State Government was reor= ganized so that a saving of millions of dollars was effected, and along with that saving went infinitely more service to the people. The voters of this state are not blind enough to disregard these facts, and they will manifest their approval next Tuesday at the polls.”
SHINDLER DIRECTS WILLKIE VETERANS
Harold A. Shindler, Newburgh, Ind., former State American Legion commander, today was named chairman of the Indiana Division of the Willkie War Veterans National
The appointment was made by Harry W. Colmery, Topeka, Kas, past national Legion commander, and national chairman of the come mittee. At the same time, Mr. Colmery announced that , E. Arthur Ball, Muncie, has been named chairman of the executive division of the . Indiana Committee.
| Mr. Ball served as Indiana State | Cominkh
der of the Legion 1923-24.
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