Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors:--For release to MORNING papers of Oct. 25 and after 'NATIONAL TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR headQuarters ARCHIVES AND Madison Hotel William P. Harvey RECORDS BERVICE" Jefferson City,Missouri Publicity Director MARYVILLE,MO., Oct. 22:--Basing another question on one which Pres- ident Roosevelt had said in his latest "fireside chat" every citizen should ask himself, Judge Harry S. Truman,in a speech here tonight, declared that om the answers to both questions rested the claims of the two major parties for support. The President had Kaxea said that the voters should ask whether or not they were better off today than at the end of the term of President Hooverx,T ruman said. Another pertirnettiquestion Tru- man asserted.vas as to whother the citizens were better off at the end of Hoover's term than at its beginning. The latter question throws into as strong a light as any other whether or not the Republican leaders can be trusted again with nat- ional control, Truman said. "The President's question was intended to show the great improvements in social and economic conditions affecting every line of endeavor in the country. in his regime. " The question I am asking, however, gets down to the matter of a Republican administration allowing this country to go to the bot- tom of the pit while it was in a prosperous condition and with no political opposition to keep the Republican leadership from main- taining that prosperity." Truman said that the same 01d duard Republican leadership which allowed the country to collapse is asking for a return to power. " A leadership that shoved no more foresight than mas shown by the loover-Mellon-Mills-Foss-Patterson bunch of 'rugged individu- alists in not preventing such a collapse,surely cannot know the way back to prosperity. They have only one remedy,a return to rugged individualism. If that brand of political leadership couldn't avert depression,it cer- tainly cannot cure one. They form the type of political doctors -ho have more patients in the cemetary than in the hospital and they are the kind of quacks not doctor our ills. 1 economics by Widespread knowledge of many millions of Americans, learned at the "hard school" of experience, has outmoded the 'rugged Truman declared. individualistick school of thought, The Republican party is slowly A disintegrating, he said,and in the event of success, it would die. If a return to 'rugged individualism vould cure the depression,