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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06
ROckp0rt

Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Smith and
son Kent of Tontogany were week
end guests in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. o. Cupp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Begg were
business callers in Croton last Fri
day.
Miss Eunice Trumbo of Council,
ID, spent the past week in this
vicinity stopping at the old home
stead now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
William Stephens.
Miss Beatrice Cupp, student nurse
at State Hospital in Toledo, was a
Saturday night and Sunday guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Cupp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Van Meter of
Delphos spent Decoration Day with
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Van Meter and
Mr.. Harley Van Meter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Whistler of
Ocean Side and Miss Ethel Boyer of
Covena enjoyed farewell dinner in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E..
Marshall last Tuesday evening and
left Wednesday for their California
| homes.
Children's day services will be
held at the Presbyterian Church
next Sunday evening at 7:45. An
interesting program is being pre-
pared and anyone interested is cor
daily invited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and
son Robert and Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo
Marshall attended the wedding of
Miss Hilda Amstutz and Mr.. George
Thomas in the First Mennonite
Church in Pandora, Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Jaeger of
Columbia City, Ind, attended Dec
o~stion Day services here and visited
with friends in the community.
Rev. and Mrs. John Neuensch-
wander of Creston, Ia, who attended
the meeting of General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in Roches-
ter, N. Y, stopped here on the re-
turn trip for visit with Mr.. Amos
Neuenschwander and sons Isaac and
! Hiram.
Miss Jean Marshall who has COM
pleted her Sophomore year at Miami
university will return here Friday to
spend the summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo Marshall.
Miss Eunice Trumbo of Council,
ID, and William Cupp motored to
West Liberty last Friday and spent
the day with MI. and Mrs. Grant
Mccormick.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Smith and
son Kent of Tontogany- and Miss
Edythe Cupp were Saturday even
ing supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Begg and family.
Miss Eunice Trumbo and Mr.. and
Mrs. Orlo Marshall were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w
E. Marshall.
| Mr.. and Mrs. James Swick OF
Canton attended the services here
Decoration Day and were guests in
the home of Mr.. A. T. Fullerton.
Mr.. Milton hmutey oi
vaughnsville and daughter Margare,
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of Indiana, Mr.. Lemuel Parker of
Mansfield, Mr.. and Mrs. David Core
of West Liberty, Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
Van Meter of Delphos, Miss Eunice
Trumbo of Council, ID, were among
those who attended Decoration Day
services here. Herbert Marshall was
elected President of the organization
for the coming year, A. F. Fuller
ton, Sec'y., and Orlo Marshall, Treas.
Dinner guests in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Begg Decoration
day were: Mr.. and Mrs. David Core
of West Liberty, Mr.. and Mrs. Del
mer Smith and son Kent of Tontog-
any, Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Cupp, Miss
Edythe Cupp, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Begg and sons John and William and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Begg and
two sons.
The Presbyterian Missionary So
ciety will meet in the home of Mrs.
d. C. Campbell Tuesday afternoon
of next week. The ladies of the
M. E. Missionary society will be
guests. Mrs. Foulkes of Lima will
be the speaker and will give a talk
on prayer Life". Please note the
change in date from the regular day
to Tuesday.
Mary Jane Mayberry who was
among the recent graduates al
Columbus Grove is spending the
summer in the home of her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. R. Masor
in Columbus Grove and will entel
Bluffton College the coming year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo Marshall wer,
among those present when Mr.. ant
Mrs. c.. d. Steiner of Pandora en-
tertained group of Krohn cousin:
at potluck supper last Thursda.
evening.
Miss Eunice Trumbo was a Tues
day dinner guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Guy Mayberry and family.
Miss Mary Marshall who has beer
student at Bowling Green Univer
sity the past two years will return
home Sunday to spend the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Marshall.
Miss Elnora Marshall is nursing
at the Beam home in Columbu.
Grove since Tuesday of last week.
Miss Edythe Cupp and her elias.
of home economics girls of Blufftor
high school spent a day sightseeing
in Detroit, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Stephens ant
family and Miss Eunice Trumbo o.
Council, Idaho were supper guests a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonart
Klausing near, Delphos.
Misses Francis Ball and Lena Ma,
Wilson of Wasatch Academy, Mt
Pleasant, Utah, visited Sunday an,
Monday with Miss Edythe Cupp
Miss Cupp was former instructor
at Wasatch.
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East Orange

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Schoonover
of Lonoke, Ark, took dinner Friday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Stager.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Agin and son
Evan, Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell,
and son Byron Leo spent Thursday
near Kalida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Schapter and
family of Erie, Pa, and Mrs. Cora
Daniels of Dola called in the Ralph
Stager home Saturday.
The Tried and True class of the
Riley Greek, Sunday school will meet
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. B. j.
Boutwell, on Friday evening, June
14th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Williams and
daughter Mrs. Ada Williams, Mr..
and Mrs. C. E. Agin and son Evan
attended a birthday party Friday
evening for Park Williams of Arl-
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Stager, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Stager were Sunday din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Picket of near Dola.
There will be children's day pro-
gram at the Riley Creek Baptist
church Sunday evening, June 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell, and
son Byron Leo spent Sunday even
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ream
and children.
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Add Daffynitions

SOCIALISM-If you have two
cows, you give one to your neighbor.
COMMUNISM-If you have two
cows, you give them to the Govern
ment and the Government then gives
you some milk.
FASCISM-If you have two cows,
you keep the cows and give the milk
to the Government; then the Govern
ment sells you some milk.
NEW DEALISM-If you have two
cows, you shoot one and milk the
other; then you pour the milk down
the drain.
NAZISM-If you have two cows,
the Government shoots you and keeps
the cows.
CAPITALISM-If you have two
cows, you sell one and buy bull.
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must explain this phenomenon! II
electricity could make dead frogs
muscles move, then it must be elec-
tricity that made its muscles move
when it was alive, he reasoned. Was
there such force as animal elec-
tricity? Was electricity the force
that made all animals-and men
move? Wasn't electricity life itself?
Galvani thought so-and he told
the world what he thought. The
world believed him-even the medi-
cal world-and a new word, galvan-
ism, was added to every European
language. 1t meant the force in a
living body that gives it the ability
to move and remain alive.
And today we still say persons
are galvanized into action" when
we mean they have had life put into
them suddenly like Galvani's frog.
lRcleased by Western Newspaper unionl
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Pandora

Mr.. and Mrs. Reuel Sutter are
the happy parents of a baby girl,
Shirley Ann, born at the Bluffton
hospital last Thursday. Mrs. Sutter
and baby We're removed to their
home Sunday.
DR.. M. B. Rice is having his house
painted by ]. f. Steiner and sons.
Mrs. Alfred Reichenbach has been
confined to her home and has not
been showing much improvement.
A. C. Coats was removed Sunday
to the Findlay hospital. His sister,
Mrs. Hancock who had been staying
with him left for her home in
Montanna.
A group of girls had birthday
party for Miss Geraldine Sutter last
Thursday. Miss Sutter who became
twenty years of age received a num-
Der of nice gifts.
Miss Mildred Krohn accompanied
her uncle John Bernius of Benton
Ridge to Springfield, Ohio, Monday
to attend commencement exercises
of her cousin who graduated from
Wittenberg college.
Jesse Sutter is remodeling his
home.
Junior Hatfield, who attended his
first year in Taylor University, at
Upland, Ind, is home.
Mrs. Raymond Miller and sons of
Smithsville, are visiting with her
father, Noah Bixel.
The Krohn cousins had a potluck
supper on Decoration day at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. d. Steiner.
Mrs. Hiram Krohn has bought a
lot from Norman Bushong in the
southern part of Pandora.
Mrs. Mary Burkhart who was 92
years old Sunday, is feeling much
better at this writing. A number
of friends called on her Sunday.
Henry Hilty who has been on the
sick list for sometime is slowly i'm
proving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Snavely and
son Richard Dale and Charles And
erson are spending a few days with
Mr.. Snavely's parents, at Bellevue.
Miss Zelma Hager former Pandora
resident and Miss Isabel Yeaman OF
Brooklyn, New York expect to ar.
rive in Pandora this weekend tt
visit their friends and relatives.
DR.. H. A. Neiswander is the owner
of new 1910 Chevrolet sedan.
The wedding of Miss Hilda Am
stutz to George Thomas of Vaughns
vile was largely attended Sunday
afternoon at the Grace church. After
the wedding a reception was held IL
the basement of the church.
A number of the young people o.
the Missionary Church attended ths
young peoples rally at Grabill
Indiana on Decoration day.
| Mrs. George Devore has beer
quite sick for sometime.
Mrs. Esther Doriot and famil,
have moved to Toledo.
Mrs. Ellis King has been on th
sick list. Her mother, Mrs. Bowers
from Beayerdam is taking care o.
her.
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touched a nerve
of the dead frog
while the ma
chine was turning
and sending out
sparks. Immedi-
ately the dead frog
jumped into ac-
ton and went
through all sorts
of physical con-
tortions.
Galvani was a
great professor,
an authority on
anatomy he
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06
Snake Would DetOur
Garden Of Eden N0tC

Adam and Eve returning to the
site of the Garden of Eden would
be safe from any annoyance by the
serpent of wisdom because any snake
who saw the Garden now would
know it could ignore human beings
with the assurance they would COM
plete their own destruction.
The land areas where the white
race developed from savages into So
called civilized beings, the Promised
Land to which they give lip allie
glance, and the colonies which sup
ported empires that reached the peak
in art now are desolate wastes where
nomads have returned to savagery or
where refugees have fled to try to
reclaim a land so useless none of the
nations covet it.
The wooded slopes to which Solo
mon sent 500 wood cutters to obtain
timber for the Temple and for build
ing ships now are CHASTITY walls of
bare earth where one tiny grove of
cedars of Lebanon overlooks the des-
olation. The land given by Joseph
to his brother as the best grazing
ground in the world now is criss-
crossed by paths worn by goats
searching for the last blades of
grass.
w. c. Loudermilk, assistant chief,
Soil Conservation Service, speaking
at Ohio State University, told of his
trip through those ancient garden
spots which was interrupted by the
battles of modern nations for places
in the sun. In the Near East and
in northern Africa lie empty lands
which once supported millions of
people.
AS blood waters the earth of
Europe and as Italians look at the
ancient boundaries of the Roman En-
pire, swirling sand grinds Latin in
scriptions from the walls of ruins
where imperial eagles foated above
agricultural empires. Dust chokes
olive oil presses that once squeezed
tributes to Rome from the groves of
conquered nations in northern Africa
and Asia Minor.
The millions that die in the strug-
giles for scraps of European terri
tory are insignificant beside the null
titudes which might have lived and
prospered on the old lands which
have been despoiled. The billions in
wealth being poured across the skies
in streams of hate could have re-
habilitated part of these lands for
human habitation.
The Valley of the Mesopotamia
once supported population of near
ly 50,O00,OO0 people but is now thu
inhospitable home of not more thar
100000 human beings. Wandering
shepherds make camps in th'
shadows of ancient glories of which
they have no knowledge.
DR.. Loudermilk says that if Nose
could have foreseen what has hap
pened he would have written al
eleventh commandment which woul,
conclude, "If any shall fail in thi
stewardship of the earth thy faith
full fields shall become sterile ston,
ground and wasting gullies, and tn.
descendants shall decrease and liv
in poverty or perish from off tn
face of the earth"
Snort the sort of kindness tha
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Pleasant Hill

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Binkley and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Huber and son were Sunday evening
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Donavin
Anspach and family of Ottawa.
Mrs. Kennedy of Philadelphia
spent the weekend with Mrs. Cora
Huber and son Joy and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings
and family and Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Hilty and family were Sunday even
ing visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Avery
Watt and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Amstutz and
daughter called Sunday evening at
the VIM. Lugibihl home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Yoakum and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mrs. Cora Huber and son Joy
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Althauser
and Mr.. Norval Scoles and Walter
Booth called Sunday afternoon on
Mr.. and Mrs. Coy Binkley and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hess and
family were week end visitors of
Mrs. Lily Fett and Nellie Huber.
Mr.. w. w. Huber and Mr.. and
| Mrs. Walter Garmatter and sons
called Sunday evening at the Dennis
Brauen home.
| Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman were Mr..
and Mrs. Cal Herr and son Wade,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Herr and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Huber and
/ family called Sunday evening on
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Fett and daugh-
| ters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen and
family called Thursday evening at
the Dan Badertscher and Bill Reich
enbach homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Yoakum and
family and Mrs. Cora Huber called
Sunday afternoon on Mrs. Bessie
Heffner.
| Mrs. Harry Weaver called Sunday
afternoon on Mrs. Jane Ransbottom.
A drop of more than 100000
bushels in the peach crop for 10
southern states, as compared with
1889, is predicted. The crop is ex-
pected to be a near failure in the
north central states in which Ohio
is included.
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The New York Experiment Sta
tion reports the European corn
borer has become so pleased with it's
home in that state that it is produc-
ing two broods of young in some
sections. This is threatening
change from it's normal habit of
producing larvae only once each
year.
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Ancient Roman Theaters

Ancient theaters of early Rome
began their plays by dropping a
curtain from view, not by raising
it as in the modern theater. This
was discovered by psychologists in
specting old records and remains OF
early Roman dramatic scenes. Dur
ing the time of Augustus, theaters
were built without roofs. The cur
tain was held high on each side
of the stage and as the play got
under way, braces holding the cur
tain were released, dropping the
curtain into a slot at the front of
the stage. Theaters in early Roman
days made our modern "movie pal
aces" seem tiny by comparison; the
smallest of three Augustan theaters
seated 5000 persons, while the larg-
est seated $1,000.
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The Name
Is Familiar.
HY -
FELIX Q. srREYcKMANs
and ELMO scoTT WATSON


ONE day in the latter part of the
~ Eighteenth century, while Luigi
Galvani, eminent professor of anato-
my at Bologna, Italy, was at work
in his laboratory, an accident oc-
Cured that startled the entire sci
entific world.
Galvani had placed dissected
frog on q table near an electrical
machine. His assistant accidentally
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

Agricultural exports from the
United States to Europe practically
ceased in May, and there is little
prospect for any material immediate
improvement.
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United States cash farm income
for the first four months of 1910
was IL per cent higher than for the
same period in 1889. Sales of crops
brought 16 per cent more, livestock
sales were 6 per cent higher, and
government payments increased
slightly. Total income for the period
was $2,615,000,000.
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Sport the sort of kindness that
laughs at the worlds rough usage.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Nasty Business
AMESSAGE

Hanes must certainly certainly dnible
however somewhere in the said that White
House nmaon that Hanes should conveyed
Judge Leibell ' -
This by exhausts the which
senators George Norris and Burton Wheeler both
involved
status that back up has given
Hanes the refusal of the trusteeshp
right OF Veto epdy admits that mo objection
declaring that fees must be kept low The
Justice are still moving Heaven
Hnes who has no great interest the fees considering taking
sometimes liable has been convincingy revealed.
Anerc Newpa rnel
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Argentina Withdrows
From New York Fair
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Argentina,
which had one Of the outstanding
pavilions at the 1899 New York
Worlds Fair, has withdrawn from
the 1910 exposition.
Edward F. Roosevelt, the fairs
foreign participation director, said
today Chile also probably would not
continue participation. Last year,
Chile had a pavilion and exhibits
valued at $1,00O,000.
Mr.. Roosevelt said, however, he
had received assurances that Guate-
mala, Ell Salvador, Costa Rica, Uru-
quay and Colombia would have in
dividual exhibits in the Hall of
Nations. They had only nominal
representation last year.
Other Latin American nations
which will have individual pavilions
or space In the Hall of Nations, he
said, are Brazil, Ecuador, Peru.
Cuba, Venezuela and the Dominican
Republic,
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Pepper Bemoans Souih's
Tendency 10 0bsfruct'

The South viii see the solution
OF its economic and social prob-
lens only when it ends q tendency
to "pout and draw back and oppose
and obstruct" and gains support for
consideration Of its woes from other
sections by supplying leadership
toward adjustment Of difdculties
facing the Nation as q whole.
Senator Claude Pepper Of FLORIDA
told the Alabama Luncheon Club
yesterday.
Senator Pepper declared there
was justification for . feeling Of
discrimination against the area Ia
the minds Of southerners, but e.n.
phad1ed he saw hope for Q better
DAY u full cooperation were ex.
tended by them in consideration az
national questions.
The Florida Senator, himself 4
native Of Alabama, told the club he
had noticed - very distinct change
IN the sentiment Of the Senate"
toward problems Of the South since
Southern members Of the upper
house aided in passage Of the wages
and Hours Act.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Hope to Prevent Spread

President Roosevelt has simply sent surgeons
ne operating heater the ecnues
Far from hoping for that we
may be able to prevent the spreading degree that
European civilization will succumb to shock ~
Inc major diplomatic problem Of the italy
remain neutral the
said to favor declaration
theory that Italy victory than from allied
victory In this calculation allies double
crossed Italy Versailles but he also
ane record OF broken pledges possible Duces reported
oegerency designed for bargaining Certainly
Count Ciano
force for and
The fact that Mron Taylor President personal
resenav to the Vatican the Rex
gess that American diplomacy
in keeping Italy neutral ~
The allies their will major concessions TO
italy which now regards herself the prisoner
french cession of Tunis transfer Italy
Morocco MOI real voice in the manasment the
British blockade Neutrality
items in the BARGAINING which going to Rome
may well to be the decisive mission
AS for his subsequent visits and Paris our Under
secretary OF state can 40 little more than confirm the
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Washington Observations
Only Dewey Of 6. 0. ?. soid to Hove Established
Self as Roosevelts EquuI in SpeIIbindnq

racket-buster Is said to have estab-
Ashed himself as the only topflight
Republican spellbinder equipped to
challenge the President on equal
terms. Dewey's speeches across the
country during the winter, his
boosters claim, have demonstrated
this conclusively.
Little Difference In Programs.
Dewey. Taft and vandenberg
have had surprisingly little different
provehder to offer the country or the
Republican electorate In their repec-
tive appeals, for convention support.
There is q deadening sameness In
their arguments and appeals.
None Of them as yet has set the
prairies afire. Each harps, In only
slightly varying tones, on the fiscal
sins Of the New Deal. on the evils
Of mounting debts and deficits. and
on the broken promises Of Roose-
welt to avoid national policies that
are taking the Nation down the
road to inevitable bankruptcy. Also
there is noticeable similarity OF
failure on the part of the three
chief @. o. P. rivals to propose con-
crete remedies for the financial
maladies from which they allege the
United States is suffering. Nor is
there any marked divergence OF
view among them that certain social
reforms sponsored by the New Deal,
costly as they are, are here to stay.
\ X
Mum on Foreign Policy.
These Republican White House
Barkises are virtual unit, too,
in shifting Roosevelt-H Hull foreign
policy hip and thigh, without any
very manifest, positive substitutes
for 1t. They all want to keep US
out Of war" So does Mr.. Roose-
welt. They condemn totalitarianism
in Its various guises, but have
nothing very specific to offer as to
just what this powerful Democratic
people could or should do either to
hold totaliarianism In check on the
other side of the Atlantic, or keep 1t
from spreading Its tenacles to these
shores.
Japan and Brasil.
! In the midst Of its trade dificul-
ties with the United States, Japan
has been steadily STRENGTHENING
commercial ties in South America,
particularly Brazil. The latter Is
now ranking source OF supply
for Japanese cotton. In 1888
Brazil sold a mere 375 bales to
Japan. Last year her exports rose to
5000 bales, placing Brazil with the
United States and India among the
principal three sources of raw ma
terial for the Japanese textile in
dustry. From Brazil's standpoint, the
japanese have become equally i'm
portant as customer, taking about
"a per cent of the Brazilian total
cotton export Of roundly 1000 900
bales annually. To symbolic her
high esteem Of Brazil as a new factor
in japanese national economy, Nip
pon's newest and largest luxury liner,
the l3,000-ton motorship Of the
Osaka Shosen Kaisha Line, which
recently sailed on her maiden voy-
age around the world, was christened
Brazil Maru. A year earlier, a sister
ship, Argentina Maru, was placed In
commission.
Evening star., 1940-02-16

mired the institution, and particu-
larly the men who head it, like
Jesse Jones and Emil Schramm, are
predicting that the r. F. c. will be
among the first of the governmental
agencies to declare null and void
the position 1t has taken hereto
fore and announce that hereafter
only after company has been duly
ordered by a Circuit Court of Ap-
peals to carry out a stipulation Of
the labor board will there be any
Withholding of funds or disburse-
ments, or any disturbance Of the
routine with respect to loan appn-
cations.
Reproduction Rights ReserYed.l
Evening star., 1940-02-16

mystery, especially as the S. e. G.
claims that even before Morgen-
thau's statement. 1t had conveyed
to the Treasury the refusal to ac-
cept the trusteeship.
The Treasury, Of course, denies
receipt Of this information from the
s. E. c., and explains Morgenthau's
sudden trampling on the Hanes
candidacy as dictated by principle.
The influence Of the White House,
where the New Dealers ohiectjons