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P: It was discovered that Henry Ford, after advising all his employes to support the Republican ticket "to prevent times from getting worse" (TIME, Oct. 31) had forgotten to register to vote. So had Mrs. Ford.

P: Motoring from Oyster Bay to Manhattan one evening last week, Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, T. R.'s second daughter, halted her car at a filling station. "Gas?" asked the attendant. "No, radio," replied Mrs. Derby. Thereupon she tuned in the attendant's set, heard a familiar voice: "For the good of the nation we must re-elect Herbert Hoover. We don't want our country to be made a laboratory for wholesale experiments in government ownership, tariff tinkering or currency inflation. I don't accuse the Democratic standard bearer of advocating all these theories but any sensible individual knows that when you marry you don't merely marry your wife but her family as well." The speaker was Mrs. Derby's older brother Theodore, Governor General of the Philippines, broadcasting to the U. S. from Manila.

P:Secretary of the Treasury Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope--the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change."

P: In Los Angeles, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde cut loose: "It's a pity Roosevelt didn't see that his own vicious and untruthful attack on the President merely confirmed his reputation for political expediency. His declarations consist of a jumble of loose-lipped, flabby-minded generalities which mean anything to anybody. He has brought to his support the largest aggregation of frowsy pinks, greens and yallers ever assembled under one tent [including] the world's premier mudslinger, our own Jim Reed of Missouri."*

P: Secretary of Labor Doak, heckled by Communists at a Brooklyn meeting for "the illegal deportation of thousands of workers," calmly retorted: "I'm used to that."

P: Clenching his fists, pouting his chest, Secretary of War Hurley barked at a Philadelphia audience: "If Governor Roosevelt could put into force one-tenth of the promises he has made, he would not only deprive the people of their control of the Government but he would establish an autocracy with himself as the autocrat!"

P: U. S. Ambassadors, home on political vacations, plugged hard for the man by whose grace they hold their jobs. Walter Evans Edge, Ambassador to France, flapped his elbows and told a Paterson, N. J. crowd: "The Democrats apparently had us on the run a short time ago but now Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." At Omaha Frederic Mosely Sackett, Ambassador to Germany, proudly recalled: "I told President Hoover if Germany prospers the United States would be prosperous and he made a study of the situation. Later the President in a long-distance telephone call to Berlin told me about the moratorium. He asked for a letter or telegram saying the German republic would stand behind him. The letter was signed by von Hindenburg."

C. John Coolidge, son of President Hoover's predecessor: "I'm firmly of the opinion that present conditions demand a continuance of the principles of the Republican party."

*Democrat Reed has called Republican Hyde "a steam whistle on a fertilizer factory."

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