The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-04

vote for him-and so will most of the farmers around here"
 Down in Indiana on the beauti- full Wabash river I visited an ele- vator man I had spent a summer afternoon with five months ago. He had said then, T don't see a chance of beating Roosevelt unless something unforeseen comes up That something must be pretty big" This October day he hac change din Stune. He said: Mos of the republicans who voted fol Roosevelt in '32-and he was elect. ed by the republicans-are return ing to the old fold. People who owr property of any kind are beginning to be alarmed over the waste oi government money. And they're beginning to realize that the whole New Deal is a tragic flop that not only has cost billions and billions of dollars but has created class who under relief have learned how to live without working. Fully 90 per cent of the republicans who back slid in 1892 will vote against Roose- welt next year"
 
 In Industrial America
 But this present survey has to do with the industrial east-that is, east of the Mississippi.
 In this ever-seething industrial cauldron-the American melting pot of foreign and native-born peoples II found workers willing, evenf eag- CT, to pour forth their hopes, their fears, their belief and their disbe- lief in the present social and politi- cal set-up.
 Let me pick at random from the pages of my notebooks.
 In Gary, Indiana, in the heart of the steel country, the new pres- ident of the Indiana Federation of Labor said me, People don't seem to realize that it's almost over II mean that the depression is almost ended. Why even our build ing trades, that have been idle for five years, are getting to work. Of course the supreme court decision knocking out the MIRA raised cain with many of our new unions but the working man doesn't blame Roosevelt for that. And you can believe me that the average nt- tie fellow is for Roosevelt. He re- members how things were back in 1882. I wouldn't be surprised if Roosevelt would have just about as many votes in 1886 as he had in 1882"
 Over in bustling Chicago, the adopted home of Candidate Col onel Knox, I asked a friendly taxi driver what he thought of Knox. "Knox?" he queried. Never heard of him."
 In Lebanon, Indiana, a garage mechanic, shy at first, finally open ed up with this: Say, we done more repair and new business the past six months that we done the whole six years before that. Things is boomin'. And the farmers are lousy with dough. And will them babies put a white ball in for Roosevelt. Why election day in '32 I dropped over at that elevator right over there across the tracks and they was payin' ten cents for corn. Today mature corn is around seventy-five cents. And hogs was less than three cents and now they're around twelve. And wheat was less than thirty cents bushel and it's way over dollar now. You think them dummies are go- ing to forget Roosevelt! They may think they are now but wait until that silver-voiced canary in the White House gets singin' to 'em over the radio again"
 .'Daredevil'' Roosevelt
 U in Detroit little haberdash- CT on the main stem put 1t this way: Roosevelt is the most dare devil president we ever had. Of course most small businessmen didn't get much help from the MIRA but a lot of us who were kicking against 1t then wish 1t were back now. We're on our way up and out. I'm making money again. SaleSmen E tell me there's soon going to be al, s-a,.ka 4.A naws1A A1@&uar,N r..