The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-24
"A Chicken for Every Pot"


Republican party entirely responsible for the present
hard times Calvin Coolidge pointed out the other
Gay, nobody can be blamed for the drought And
we know that the economic depression is world wide
This being true it may seem unfair to reprint at
this unhappy moment some of the promises made by
the Republican party management during the golden
months of 1928 Nevertheless we propose to do just
that and then to explain why.
There appeared shortly before the 1928 election
advertisement entitled "A Chicken for Every Pot
Consider some of its phrases:
THE Republican partys isn't poor mans party;
Republican prosperity has erased that degrading
phrase from our political vocabulary The Republican
party is equalitys party-opportunity'S party
deocracys party the party of national development
sectional interests-the impartial servant of every
state and condition of the Union"
Republican efficiency has filed the workingman's
dinner pail-and his gasoline tank, besides-made
telephones radios and sanitary plumbing standard
household equipment and placed the whole nation in
the silk stocking class"
Republican prosperity is written on fuller wage
envelopes written in factory chimney smoke written
the walls of construction written in savings
bank books written in mercantile balances and writ
ten in the peak value of stocks and bonds"
Republican prosperity has reduced hours and in
creased earning capacity, senced discomfort put the
proverbial chicken in every pot And car in every
back yard to boot"
Which ought to be about enough of that already
YOU asking:
Why bring that up?
Not because of a desire to point out that little
or any of it is true now or was at the time it was
printed Not to point out that the Republican party
claiming credit in 1928 for good times that it
hadn't invented Or manufactured even inteli-
-
made the same claim.
Nor is it because we wish to remind the Republican
management that the party actually is responsible
for some of our present hard times. The erection
of tariff that already has cut seriously into our
foreign trade, for instance The refusal to put
through program to forestal widespread unempoy-
ment on the one hand, and aid the unemployed on
the other
No. it has nothing to do with the partys sins in
the past. 1t has to do with the present and future
For the Republican party is on the stump in the
present congressional campaign, not promising to
undo the damage done through the tariff but defend
ing its suicidal action. Not promising to expedite
measures to safeguard against future unemployment
but preserving clammy silence this all-important
subject.
While this is the attitude of the partys responsible
spokesman in $780, feel reminder of the platinum
promises of 1928 is not out of place.
The stock market is in the doldrums this year
some one says, because the numerals of 1880 add up
to 49, The only significance many will see in this
explanation is the connection between their resources
and the
A North Carolina bootlegger who asked for year
at Atlanta rather than eight months at local jail
showed qualities of good craftsmanship He tried to
cell himself
John Doeg United States tennis champ, is selling
advertising space for New Jersey newspaper 1t
should be easy work for fellow who so often has
cried on the courts MY Adj"
steamship line reports that rs per cent of the
reservations are made by women. Is this what is
meant by berth control?
jazz band news item says, plays daily in
London railway station And maybe the fellow with
the megaphone croons the train announcements
A riot ensued in the German reichstag when Fas-
csts appeared in khaki shirts and Communists in red
ones. The colors clashed
New Jersey dentist advertises to exchange dental
work for groceries. He intends apparently to fill the
bill