New Britain herald., 1928-09-26
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER at lsA
MAKING VOTES FOR SMITH

MAKING VOTES FOR SMITH
 The Republican National Commit tee has received 2 letter from Ben- 1 jamin Fuelleman. member of the Wisconsin Republican state central committee saying Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt is making 70 many votes for Al smith that Wisconsin will go Democratic.
 Wisconsin, however. is not the only state where Mrs. Willebrandt's speeches are making votes for Al Smith. She is, making votes for Al in all states where anu-prohibitton sentiment is strong. or where citi- zens oppose identifying church with state.
 The other day Mrs. Wtllebrandt addressed Methodist ministers, the following day --ae addressed Pres byterians She seems to have some such engagement every day. Her thesis is that prohibition is a moral issue' and that 1t is 2 spiritual achievement" A great many voters who might vote for Hoover don't think so, and the more they read of Mrs. Willebrandt's speeches in Ohio the more inclined they are to resent them and the party for whom Mrs. Willebrandt is making them.
 The Republicans will not be able to hold the lady politician in check. however. Her speeches may not be sent out under Republican auspices any more, but that isn't necessary The reporters and the press asso- citations attend to this little detail.
 Mrs. Willebrandts desk is in Washington. She is receiving pay from the government for being as- sistant attorney general but isn't working at her job.
 Her hope, is that. if Hoover Is elected, she may get an appointment to a federal judgeship in California. She then would go down in history as the first woman federal judge.
 Mrs. WAlebrandt ia working for herself. not primarily for any great moral issue or spiritual achievement. HOOVER AND PRICE CONTROL
 James W. Good, western cam- I paign manager for Mir. Hoover, has job is to convince the farmers that the Republican candidate had noth- ing to do with limiting the price of grain during the World War.
 The farmers for years have blamed Mir. Hoover for limiting the price because he was the boss of the administrators food disposal sys- tenn. Months ago, when the Hoover candidacy loomed as. likely, efforts
 were made to show that he had
 nothing to do with the fixing of
 grain prices during the war; but it
 is hard to dissipate a general be- lief that has been current in the ! farm belt for years. , What if he did: Wasn't it the : right thing to do under the circum. . stances? Why should the farmers be allowed to charge all the traffic . would bear when millions of people
 in the Allied nations, not to over . look the troops, needed American grain to carry on?
 : The farmers hoped that wheat I would increase to $ bushel. Had that been permitted the war would l have cost the peoples of the Allied 3 nations heavily and would have : gravGly deterred the successful
 prosecution of the war. It wal l essential that the price of whea a should be regulated at time wheI |, the dictates of warfare demanded e such regulation. If the farmers wer' s unable to get an enormously higl 8 price for grain they were thus forced t to help in winning the war in 1 t most effective manner.
 Mindful of his political futur d perha ps Hoover saw to it that he wa t not the determining influence in thi : price regulation: but there can b }. little doubt that he favored - heartily. He could not have been al e efficient food administrator had h - not favored such action. He neye il spoke against it, and this is hel
 against him by many farmers wh o assert had he done 50 they woul s have known and recognized thei
 friend in governmental circles. Bu
 he didn't oppose it because ths 6 would have been the wrong thin e to do.