Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors: For release to morning papers of Oct. 13 and after. TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR HEADQUARTERS Madison Hotel INATIONAL WHITE william P. Harvey Jefferson City,Missouri Publicity Director St HANNIBAL,MO. Oct. 12:-- Departing from what he said he had intend- ed to be purely a disoussion of farm issues, Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence, Democratic candidate for United states Senator, tonight in a campaign talk here, launched a bitter 12 attack ag inst Republicam speakers who inveighed against the cost of the New Deal. The remarks were directed by inference against Senator Roscoe C. Patterson, his Republican opponent, who has mille the expense of the Roosevelt policies the theme of several of his speeches. One could write a homily on 'Man in Peace and War, , Rruman said. The rugged individualists among the Republican speakers so far this campaign have talked a great deal about the cost of the New Deal. I have ally never heard one of them ever speak derogatory of the cost of the world War. " The bill ,of Uncle Sam for his party in th t terrible orgy of slaught- er was more than 30 billion dollars, spent in less than two years. The cost of the New Deal so far,also in less than two years,has been below 5 billion dollars. This is one-half billion dollars less than Andrew W. Mellon, the high priest of the rugged individualism oult, returned to other rugged individualists, including himself, from their income tax payments. " I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious benefice in spend- ing money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable amounts ane deprecates the expenditure of a much smaller sum to patch up the ills of erring mankind;to feed 10 million helpless men, women and ohil- dren; to find employment for those for whom jobs may be set the keel of the very ship of state in place. " Not being able to understand such a mind, I shall not hope to fathom it of to follow its devious windings. But I do know this: