Evening star., 1936-10-07

change OF mlnu D,v;d Laurence
on the part OF
about 1000 persons would give Mr..
Landon a majority.
One might ask, why not a change
from Mr.. Hoover's vote of 1882, so
that 40 900 who voted Republican last
time would vote now for the New
Deal party? The answer is that the
various polls being taken show shift
the other way. Nearly every poll OF
Importance conducted by newspapers
shows that there are more votes
coming over to Mr.. Landon from
those Republicans who cast their bal
lots in 1882 for Mr.. Roosevelt than
there are Republicans who voted for
Mr.. Hoover in 1882 now going over to
Mr.. Roosevelt Thus, the Literary
Digest reveals two persons are going
to Landon from a 1882 Democratic
vote for every one person shifting
from Republican in 1892 to Roosevelt
In 1886.
Other Roosevelt Losses.
But these switches in the voting
are not all MIR. Roosevelt is losing
votes to the Lemke-Coughlin ticket
that might otherwise have gone in
large part to Mr. Roosevelt.
Take the poll being conducted in
Lucas County by the Toledo Blade.
A mailed ballot is being sent to every
registered voter in the county, which
means every kind of voter, irrespec-
tive of class. The polling of total
registratio vote eliminates the ques-
tion of whether the ballots reach
everybody.
Lucas County went Democratic in
1892. with Mr.. Roosevelt getting 56.6
per cent of the total vote. This year
the Toledo Blade poll shows Mr.. Roose-
welt getting So per cent, Mr.. Landon
81 per cent and Mr.. Lemke about IL
per cent. If this percentage is applied
to the cities of the State. where gen.
orally Mr.. Roosevelt's vote is strong,
1t would show that Lemke is taking
away enough votes so that the rural
districts and towns, which seem this
year Republican a bit more heavily
than usual in Ohio, would be able to
counterbalance all of the Roosevelt
strength and have a little to spare.
Lucas County includes such large
population of pro-Roosevelt labor ele-
ments as to present a fair cross-section
OF Northern Ohio.
Toledo, it should not be forgotten,
has had more than its share of strikes
and disturbances and had plenty of
banking troubles before 1888. Today
retail business men are not saying
much publicly about it, but privately
they are inclining more and more to
the theory that, because their indi-
vidual businesses are humming, they
do not want change of admins
tration.
Managers of large business enter
prises, with few exceptions, are, how
ever. opposed to the Roosevelt admins
tration and want a change because
they declare the Roosevelt spending
will bankrupt the country and bring an
end to good business unless he Is
stopped, especially when mounting
taxes are added more and more to the
prices of goods and bring on buyers
strikes and diminished consumption.
incidentally, the more study the
viewpoint of business men, the more
am convinced that the administra-
tion's one-sided handling of labor con-
troversies by Federal law, even though
temporarily giving labor an advantage,
has built up such antagonisms as to
lead to serious industrial disturbance.
Works Out Labor Relationship.
Toledo, curiously enough, has had
its experience with labor agitators and
extremists and today the leaders of
thought in this city have begun to
understand their responsibilities and
obligations to the social welfare Of
the city.
I believe Toledo is entitled to be
called "the city of cooperation, for
1t has introduced an industrial peace
plan that appears to me to be capable
Of being used on a national scale.
The plan was described in a recent
public address by Grove Patterson,
editor of the Toledo Blade, as follows:
I'VE have an individual peace
board, always organized, always ready
for action, always alert to lend q quick
hand to the settlement of those labor
controversies which are inevitable in
any industrial community.
THE board is made up of five men
drawn from the ranks of organized
labor. five from the ranks of en-
ployers, eight citizens at large. The
citizens at large include q priest, a
rabbi, merchant, two lawyers, two
Judges Employed on full time, is a
highly qualified executive manager
and secretary.
by reason of the presence of this
peace board, and its cooperative ma
chinery, most Toledo strikes now are
settled before they begin. Those that
have taken place, since the Toledo
peace plan became operative, have
been practically devoid of disorder.
The plan is the invention Of Edward
r. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of
Labor. 1t has lately been introduced
into several other American cities. 1t
forms a constant panel from which
arbitrators can be chosen, although
it is used almost exclusively as an in
formal court and In an advisory Ca
pacity. commend it to all American
industrial cities"
Toledo, be it noted has driven pol
itics from its city hall and installed q
city manager plan. 1t has brought to-
gether in cooperative spirit all the
groups common to American city life.
There is new Toledo In the max
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