Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 9, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 January 1948 — Halleck To Make Lincoln Day Talks [ARTICLE]

Halleck To Make Lincoln Day Talks

Second District Congressman To Be In Indiana In Early February For Series of Addresses • - Majority Leader Charh s A. Halleck, although one of ti e busiest legislators in the Capitol, will take time off to renew t ome ties in the Second District early in February in a series of i’ rec Lincoln Day addresses. His schedule calls for speeches at Lafayette, Warsaw, and Logansport, on Feb-! ruary 10, 11 and 12 respectively. Between addresses he v. ill visit other towns and cities in the dis- j trict. Mr. Halleck s oratoru .1 knowhow and his position of leadership in the Republican controlled House of Representatives combine to make him one of the most j sought after speakers in the Na- 1 tion, and according to Ben Whitehurst, director of public speaking for the National 'Republican Com-i rnittee, a flood of requests for him to speak at Lincoln Day ( meetings throughout the country! swamped the National Committee j speaker’s bureau. Congressman Halleck's decision to return to Indiana for the three' day period was announced by Sec-I ond District Republican Chairman, Ira Dixon, who was in Washington early this month as a guest of Halleck. “Last year,” said Mr.

Dixon, in voicing approval of the speaking plans, “Congressman Halleck, at the urgent request of . the National Committee, took to • the road during the Lincoln Day period and delivered eleven ■speaches in a cross country swing that took him from coast to ! coast. He travelled by train, plane : and automobile in one of the most rapid fire and exhausting speaking tours ever made by a Con- 1 gressional leader in the same long-' th of time. While Mr. Halleck is reluctant to disappoint his admir- 1 ers in other sections of the conn-! try, his first loyalty continues to

be to his staunch supporters and friends of his home district.”