The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1936, Page 3

eae “years ago. Today they are drifting Railroad Tracks Split — Iowa Towns’ Political Sentiment, Says Hunt Roosevelt’s Popularity hoods Counter-Balances Growing Revolt of Solvent Citizens in Shanty Neighbor- Against New Deal More than the tall corn grows in Iowa. root there, too, sometimes—then Political trends take spread throughout the country. Correspondent Frazier Hunt, continuing his unprejudiced reportorial survey of current pre-election sentiment, writes today of his find- ings in that politically important state, This is the fourth of six impartial articles on “Listening to the Farm Belt.” AZIER HUNT copyright, 18 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) In the pleasant, air-cooled Hampton Cafe, in the rich, little county seat town of Hampton, Ta., 110 miles north of Des Moines, I took a poll of the noon diners. Outside it was blister- ing hot. Iowa, premier corn land of the world, was losing 10,- 000,000 bushels a day due to the .heat—more “than $5,000,000 every 24 hours. Here in the cafe there were 20 customers enjoying the country fried chicken and the refrigerated air, town’s professional and busines. They were the 8 men, with one or two women and three or four farmers scattered among them. Twelve voted for Landon. Eight marked — slips of paper for Roosevelt. Here was direct evidence of the re- volt of the small towns—the turn- back to their normal and ingrained Republicanism. It is the most sign- ificant factor in the shifting, chang- ing campaign. It might possibly be the controlling factor. ‘These thousands of small towns, dotting the endless miles of the mid- dle-west, are largely made up of elderly people who did not listen to the call of the cities. For the most Part they have been cradled in Re- publican traditions. In their unrea- soned hate against Hoover, many of them blindly voted for Roosevelt four back into the regular fold. Luxuriating on Relief Those among them who are still independent and can pay their bills are bitter against the administration, and Roosevelt personally, for the way relief has been handled and billions expended. To middle-class people in cities the whole business of relief is T more or less removed and impersonal. Here in these small towns it is with- in the range of their eyes and ears. And many of them have become s0 skeptical about its worth that they will vote against Roosevelt. But counter-balancing them are the hundreds of thousands who are them- selves either on direct relief or on ‘WPA work Most of them will vote for Roosevelt, And their numbers are legion. These small towns, with their broad and neat Main Streets and their pleasant homes that casual visi- tors so admire, have another side to them. Over “beyond the railroad tracks” you find the dirt lanes with their unpainted shanties—the homes of the true forgotten men. Many of these families are today living better than they ever have before. The $48 & month they receive from their WPA jobs counts up far more at the end of the year than the sum of their for- mer casual earnings in harvest of corn, plowing time or the total of their odd-job work. Time and again farmers have com- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936 Plained to me because no longer can they drive to town and pick up a man or two who will help them out with emergency plowing or harvesting— Jong, hot days 6f gruelling toil that for years they paid for at the rate of $1.50 to $2 per day. Today these low- ly men work their six hours four days & week and receive their $12—and the rest, of the time sit in the shade in the park or on the curb in front of the garage and laugh when the farmer offers them work. Many of them kick, too, because they do not get more pay for even fewer WPA hours. Fear Rules Big Farmers Back at the restaurant, after I'd taken the poll, I had an interesting conversation with four men seated in @ booth. Two of them were large- scale farmers, one was a businessman and the fourth a salesman from out of the state. One was a little un- how he'd vote this ir but the others said they would go for Landon. An intelligent looking farmer, around 40 years old, did most of the talking. He said: “I operate a thou- sand acres of land and I received $4,000 in AAA benefits—but I didn’t believe in it. It was like finding money in the street—somebody else’s money.. I tell you this wild spending is all wrong. And this relief and WPA is crazy. And’I don’t like the way we are drifting. Say, first thing we know we'll have a government that will be half Socialistic and half dic- tatorship ... But for all that, a lot of the farmers here are going to vote for Roosevelt. I imagine Roosevelt will carry Iowa.” ‘The three others agreed. But they all added that Roosevelt was con- stantly losing ground in Iowa. Election in Doubt Down at Ames, where the splendid College of Agriculture is located, one of the most distinguished “Ag” pro- fessors, who goes pretty generally about the state, had this to say: “Wallace truly reflects the mood of the intelligent Iowa farmer. This man today is strongly behind the farm program. And he isn’t frighten- ed by the bogey man of increased agricultural imports. This Wallace- Roosevelt farmer sees his problems in terms of uncontrolled weather, un- controlled prices and uncontrolled surplus. He's been able to solve only this last of the uncontrolled factors that harrass him. Somehow or other he believes it is possible to have something to say about the other two uncontrollables, He is conscious of SAVE on EVERYTHING You Buy in WARDS HARDWARE STORE Your Choice of Any 13-gal.s 5-Ot. 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Iowa is anybody's state at present Moines, four of the men present were for Landon and four for Roosevelt. They were all men of affairs who could talk dispassionately about po- litics. The consensus of their opin- ions was this: “Iowa is very doubt- ful. At present Roosevelt has a slight edge, but there is a constant Landon drift, The election is still to be won in this state.” Til leave it at that. I'd say it’s the best estimate a mere human being can get. TOMORROW: Landon gains in Nebraska but the state is in Reo- sevelt’s bay JAMESTOWN TEAM REORGAN- IZES Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 20—()— Ownership of the Jamestown North- ern League baseball team has passed into the hands of a new corporation to be known as the Jamestown Base- ball Olub, Inc. A. J. Breitbach will be president of the new organization which is incorporated for $10,000. If the hydrogen in a teaspoonful of water is converted into helium, about 100,000 kilowatt hours of energy, or $10,000 worth of electrical current, is set free, At @ luncheon I attended in Des | "°r": TREASURY REPORTS INCREASING INCOME Federal Collections in July Rose $66,728,906 Over Those Year Ago Washington, Aug. 20—(?)—Increas- ed federal income in every important eategory of taxation was reported ‘Thursday by the treasury in its sur- vey of internal revenue collections for the first month of the 1937 fiscal Income during July, the treasury revealed, rose $66,728,906 above col- lections for the same month a year! The increase in some items amounted to several hundred per cent, The total rose from $221,597,633 in Suly of 1935 to $288,326,539 for the same period this year, an increase totalling almost 30 per cent, Publication of the treasury recalled the statement issued last week by Secretary Morgenthau. 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