Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-04-09
Democratic Club Has
Interesting Meeting

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ic club, Friday night. The operetta
at the school drew on the crowd
which otherwise would have over
flowed Maccabee hall, where the
meetings are held. Mrs. Flo Strahl.
president of the club, called the
meeting to order, and in the abb
sence of secretary, Mrs. Llewwella
Mcdonald, Mrs. Stella Durbin read
the minutes of the March meeting,
which were approved.
No business was brought before
the club, in order that all the time
could be given to the guest speak
ers. Mr.. Harry Gordon, chairman
of the program committee, in few
well-chosen words introduced the
first speaker, Mrs. Ann Makeley, of
Dayton, who is now located in Col
umbus. Mrs. Makeley is president OF
the Federation of Democratic Wom-
ems clubs. and is deputy clerk Of
the house of representatives, the
first woman ever to hold this office.
She spoke of the great debt the
women of Ohio owe Governor Davey
for his recognition of their services
and pointed with pride to the work
being done by the women he has
appointed to various positions, es-
pecially mentioning Mrs. Myrna
Smith, secretary to the governor;
Mrs. Margaret Altman, welfare di-
rector; Elaine Shelter, chairman Of
the committee on minimum wage,
and Mrs. Marguerite Riley, super
intendent of Marysville reformatory.
Mrs. Makeley had spent the day
in Delaware inspecting the indus
trial school for girls, and regretted
much to find little girl ten years
old. She thought there should be
another place for these under priv
ileged children. She spoke Of the
work being done by the women's
clubs over the state; told of the or
ganizations in nearly every county,
and said the picture in her mind
was of these women standing shoul-
der to shoulder in a line reaching
across the entire state Mrs. Make
ley labors hard, at this work so
near her heart, and complimented
Morgan county women club men,
bers for working> together so har-
moniously, and told the women to
ever remember that they are help
ers in this work which the men
nave OA oO loAS. 1hi o.
Makeley is a fOrceful, entertaining
speaker, of pleasing personality, and
was we'll received.
Mr.. Gordon then introduced Miss
Olive Tannehill, of the governors
office, who we feel still belongs to
Morgan county, and she seemed to
feel the same way She spoke of
her fathers interest in Morgan
county politics when she was 4
child, and he edited the Morgan
County Democrat Election night,
she said, was his night out, and
next morning it was not necessary
to ask questions, her fathers face
would tell then whether Democrats
or Republicans were ''in." She stat
ed that since in those days the DEM
ocrats were so often "out," and the
Baptist Sunday school the smallest,
she vowed that did she ever leave
McConnelsville she would fall from
grace, join the Republican party and
the Methodist church, but she was
glad to say she is still a Demo-
crat and Baptist. She pointed
with pride to the fact the governor
is operating the state government
with no more taxes, staying within
the budget, and at the end Of the
current year will show balance of
1O,000,000.
While on recent trip to Flor
ida a native son of Georgia noticed
the Ohio license and said to her:
s'You have a fine governor up in
Ohio. l presume you have heard
what our governor is doing down
here" She acknowledged she had
read of it and he further said, ''go
ahead and elect him again, don't
give up governor like that. He is
fine man.
Judge Dennis F. Dunlavy of Ash
tabula was the next speaker. He
made an excellent address, and was
given closest attention. His work
carries him all over the state, and
he said he was impressed anew
each day by the difference between
business conditions two years ago
and today. Then the big plants in
cities like Youngstown and Akron
were closed, and dark. Now mills
are running full time, everybody is
busy and happy, and all business
on the cup" There are 100000
900 more in circulation in this coun-
try than there was in 1888. Can
that help but make times better?
When Charlie Dawes left Washing
ton, he took $93,000,000 in order
to bolster up his Chicago bank;
$18,0O0,00O have been lent to for
eign countries for rehabilitation. !
Can we not spend four billion dol
lars to keep our own people from
starving?
If the AAA did nothing else it |
provided one Republican who could
balance the budget, Governor Lam /,
don of Kansas; but Kansas farmers !
could never have made this possible
without the aid of Franklin D. !
Roosevelt. Judge Dunlavy took up |
one by one the specific promises |
made during the campaign by Gov. !
Davey, and showed that practically |
all of them had been kept, or at |
least attempted. OF the sales tax, |
which he said, neither he nor any
one else liked. but which withal |
seems the fairest way of collecting
necessary revenues, he said that of |
100000 goes to the schools of
counties, the remaining 100000
UUV lOT TClicl w udL WOuIu we uO
for schools and relief without this |
tax? The only other method sug-
gested, that OF an income tax, the !,
most that could be raised would be |
$21,OOO,OOO. (,
The speaker then took up the |!
criticism that some have heaped up
on Governor Davey, because of veto |
ing certain 0. S. U. appropriations. |
He showed that for the biennium !