Show m Noted W Writer ritel Places Illinois Indiana in Roosevelt Column Editor rote Not In this lh the third of or nix lz art dU Trader Frailer r Aunt noted r C nd nt Illinois and nd Indiana Indian pounding out political 11 in then the two Mates plates By FRAZIER HUNT BUNT r Copyright for The T Telegram The township supervisor and I sat on the running board of my car in a little village in central east Illinois and talked of relief and W P A work He was a Landon man and was not the least shy in his criticisms of the present resent administration There ago aro exactly 1844 people inthis Inthis In this township township and and in this villager village vil vil- lage lager ho he explained Altogether i there are arc la fam fam- I i V Of ot these 49 I faro are ara on direct relief relief re- re Ilief lief lief that comes 7 j through me at atthe J- J the rato of 1561 1561 f P Ps per er family In sum aum- J s 1 mer and 2150 1 0 in r. r ff winter There Thoro arc are 5 44 s also also- other t r if j families on WP VP A 4 t fJ t work eel relief who get get t paid 50 60 cents t i s i lp per r hour for 24 R y t hours a 1 week week week-or or or orR r 12 a week In JJ very c ry a special P ectal cases Frazier Hunt Hunta a boy o over er 1 18 16 can get in 16 worth of work each month even if it his lather father is on Eliminating say eight of these part nine workers from this gives us 1 1 plus 49 or families out of a a. grand total of living either on direct direct- county relief or oron oron oron on W V P A work That's just a a. little under 50 per pel cent cent and and this is one ono of off the richest townships township in one of the tho richest counties in one ono of I the 5 richest states of the Union I For Roosevelt Roose I I asked how these and W V WP P A workers would vote Most of them will vote for Roosevelt although they kick now because they dont don't get more moro handed out to them ho he answered They no longer longe suffer from humiliation They figure now that they've got gothelp gothelp gothelp help coming to them They take it as a matter of course They figure that no matter who is elected elected elect elect- elect I ed president they'll get taken I faro aro of Now that's one erie one side of f. f how the small town in hi n the tho midwest is going to vote I went to a furniture dealer deal deal- er cr in this same village Ho He didn't bother to mince his words the least bit Ho said People are aro going to rise up against Roosevelt Were We're frightened of ot the power that he is getting And I think its it's nothing short of ot a crime the way he be has Ihas squandered money to bring up an indolent class Look what's happening happening happening hap hap- pening in this community right here Almost half the tho people arcon are arc on relief of oC some kind or other I They're Theyra actually insolent actually insolent nt about it I Many any of f them are arc living better than they ever haVe have In in their Whole worthless lives It has put a 3 premium pre pre- on shiftlessness and indo indo- lence And their votes are aro m making almost a dictator out of nf Roosevelt I tell you its it's got to stop The rhe peo- peo pie ale have got to to torise rise Main l Street streit Turns Turn Here was the turning of ot Main street street street-of of the small town town against against Roosevelt that is a a. phenomenon of oC the past six si weeks Living close to the realities of relief and W WP P A work projects in hi this same village is being spent pent on on a township township township town town- ship high school athletic field I tens of thousands of small towners have returned to their ancient spiritual home within the Republican party They will vote for Landon Four years ago many ny of them voted for rather Hoovert Hoo Hoo- Roosevelt Roosevelt-or or against ver vert Here in the heart of ot the midwest the farmer apparently has become less strong for Roosevelt than he once was One intelligent county farm agent explained it to mo me in these words The majority of farmers under 40 years old still arc for Roosevelt They are strongly behind the new soil soli conservation program They feel it Is their program program pro pro- gr gram m and that they must work together together together to to- to- to gether and make mako their political power felt But older men arc are not so so 50 progressive In this state most of oC them are old Republicans and they will not change their beliefs But Roosevelt though ho has haa lost str strength with the farmers still should carry 60 per cent of them with him in Illinois Fear Dl Dictatorship ta Just over the Illinois line Una in the Wabash bottoms on the Indiana side a grain elevator owner had bad this s st t to say A A good many people ople are afraid that Roosevelt wants to be bea a dictator But tho the main thing to remember is that about 95 per cent of the people are more or less failures failures fail fall ures and they want h help lp Lots of them look to Ito Roosevelt to give it to them in some ome way or orthe the other Im I'm going to vot vote for Landon but butI I honestly d dont don't nt se see seo much chance of him carrying any of oC these states around here Across in Indiana I picked upa hundred half-hundred comments Two-thirds Two of the people I talked to gave Indiana Indiana In In- Indiana In- In diana to Roosevelt Several of them who had had political experience had the figure o of in their minds as Roosevelt's probable ma- ma ma ma- I take no responsibility for that figure But I have no hesitancy Inputting Inputting in inputting putting down that Indiana looks almost as sure lure for tor Roosevelt as s does Illinois L Continued Friday |