Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-13
News Behind the News
Too Many Animals Campaign
Full of EN- DOnkeys. Elephants
and Pigs =. Latter Deceased
NEW YoRK-what this campaign doesn't

NEW YORK.-What this campaign doesn't
need most is few more animals.
FTP T. Barnum were alive, one could imag
inc the old Snowman promoting mammoth
parade of these political animals up or down
Fifth Avenue, led by an elephant and a donkey
He might have Republican Chairman John D.
M. Hamilton astride the elephant and Demo
cratic Chairman Jim Farley atop the donkey-n
the donkey were big and husky enough
Then, by rights, should come the six million
little pigs"-or was it three million?-becauSe
they we're the first bankruptcies to enter the cam
pagn They are still in it, despite few tons
of Statistics and economic data which Secretary
Wallace has on hand to prove that their slaugh-
ter three years ago was justified, even II the
price of pork is going up at this time
Then the pigs Of Ed Pottle up in EaStport,
Me, Immediately leap to mind
These are the porkers which were reported
to be eating 800 pies day at government ex-
pense because the army had contracted for the
pies to feed Passamaquoddy workers who were
no longer there to feed
Inquiry developed that there had never been
any such pies at Passamaquoddy, raised serious
doubt as to whether Ed Pottle ever had any
pigs, and even left vague msgivings as to wheth-
er there was any such person as Ed Pottle.
Somewhere in the line of march should ap-
pear that now celebrated COW skull which the
Resettlement Administration has been using
in its photographs of drouth country
This skull, according to Republican publicity,
has been carted around the Dust Bowl area and
planted every TIME the TIA photographer Wdutcu
to take a picture, although the photographer
insists he found it and took lot of pictures
in the same area, never moving the skull more
than 20 feet or so.
Farmer George Mays of Arcadia, Mo-, and
his six cows must also be given place OF
honor since they are understood to have been
employed by the Republican National Committee.
The COP. publicists heard that PWA had
built $4,000 sidewalk system in Arcadia which
was used only by COWS, and sent sound-movie
photographers there for pictures. No cows were
being found on the sidewalk, but only people,
the movie men are said to have paid Mays SIS
to drive his COWS along the sidewalk and also
paid him a dollar minute to make sound
movie speech about it..
Make way, also, for few thousand birds
from the Carthage, N. c., quail farm of Julian
T Bishop, the New York broker who lives in
Greenwich, Conn. and has been sworn down
and oppressed by the New Deal that he has
promised to sell the farm, quail and all, and
move to Canada if Roosevelt is reelected.
Thanks to publicity given to the offer OF
purchase from New Deal fellow who said he
would appreciate it the sooner Mr.. Bishop left
and to the assertion of Minister of Public We'll
fare David Croll of Ontario that Canada didn't
want Mr.. Bishop, those quail also have become
very famous
And of course if one wants to be liberal as
to the entry requirements, it would be possible
to include such celebrated quadrupedS as Gov
ernor Landons horse and the White House dog
which bit Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas
in the left leg.