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War on Riches
Menacing
Property
New Phase of Fight of
"Have Nots” and
"Haves” Entered.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
REDUCED to its simplest terms
the entire Washington situa
tion today may be expressed
in a phrase—a drive against
properly.
The drive be
gan in 1933, with
the public pledge
of the Roosevelt
administration to
bring about a re
dlstributlon of
wealth. Mast on
lookers, consider
ing that, the word
"wealth” was the
same thing as
the word ''rich
es,” sympathized
with the move
ment. For per
sons with riches
David Lawrence.
are always few in number, and those
without riches are numbered in the
tens of millions.
But now the drive has come into
clearer outline, not merely as an at
tack on the few who really have
riches, but on a system that permits
savings to be accumulated, even in
modest quantity and put in the form
of property.
Every single issue of importance to
day involves the pro and con of prop
erty rights. Shall persons be per
mitted to keep their property or shall
the Government divide it up as it
thinks best and as it thinks the votes
of the communities want it divided?
Who Shall Get It?
The atack on the Supreme Court
and in some respects on provisions in
the Constitution itself, is an attack
on property. When the supreme Court
interprets the Constitution as de
fending the retention of property
against confiscation by the State or
spoliation by the politicians. It is
called “reactionary.” When Congress
adopts law's which, followed to their
logical conclusion, mean taking prop
erty from one group and passing it
on to another, this is called "liberal.”
But the controversy is basically over
property, who shall retain it, who
shall be given the proceeds of higher
and higher exactions made by Gov
ernment in the form of taxes.
The "sit-down” strike is a property
Issue. Workers are being told by their
leaders that they have a property
right in the planus where they work.
Government officials, from the Presi
dent dowm, are telling the workers
that they may form a monopoly, and
Bt will extort from employers and
owners of property what they deem
to be adequate.
Because this form of increasing the
east of living is officially encour
aged, unorganized workers and small
ealaried persons and a vast class of
white-collar workers who have fixed
Incomes, have the purchasing power
of the amounts in their pay envelopes
gradually reduced against their will.
Their interest payments on property
they own may then be in default.
Their properties are sold at public
auction and the equity of years of
savings is wiped out. The properties
then are bought in by speculators, who
win, as they always do, by observing
the weaknesses of political govern
ment.
The movement to recustriDuie prop
erty is as old as civilization itself.
Demagogues have risen to political
power ever since history can remember
by championing the cause of the
"down-trodden" even though it meant
the disintegration of the state. Caesar
himself rose to political power by that
method. The pages of time record
many an example of the same thing.
Too often it is wrongly assumed that
human nature has changed throughout
the centuries and that the desire of
the rich to grow richer and the desire
of the politicians to redistribute prop
erty is merely a modern phenomenon.
One hundred years before Caesar
lived, Polybius, Greek statesman and
historian, wrote concerning the "lib
erals" of his time:
"So when they begin to lust for
power and cannot attain it through
themselves or their own good qualities,
they ruin their estates, tempting and
corrupting the people in every possible
Tray. And hence when by their foolish
thirst for reputation they have created
among the masses an appetite for gifts
and the habit of receiving them, de
mocracy in turn is abolished and
changed Into a rule of force and
Tiolence.
"For the people having grown ac
customed to feed at the expense of
others, as soon as they find a leader
■who is enterprising but who is ex
cluded from the honors of office by
his penury, institute the rule of vio
lence. And now uniting their forces
massacre, banish and plunder until
they degenerate again into perfect
savages and find once more a master
end monarch.
Mob Rule Generated.
"And for this change for the worse
the populace will be responsible when,
on the one hand, they have shown
themselves grasping, and when, on
the other hand, they are puffed up by
the flattery of others who aspire to
office. For now, stirred to fury and
passion in all their counsels, they
will no longer consent to obey, or even
be equals of the ruling caste, but will
demand the lion’s share for themselves.
"When this happens the state will
change its name to the finest sounding
of all. freedom and democracy, but will
change its nature to the worst of all,
mob rule.”
The drive against property in
America is in its incipient stages only.
Taxation is rising, but it is mild in
Its penalties compared to what it is
going to be if the present administra
tion continues the doctrine that it
must spend more than it takes in, a
philosophy of spendthrift individuals
who have retorted to anxious parents
that they can always make more than
they spend.
Today the Federal budget is almost
hopelessly unbalanced. Expenses are
running higher than last year and
at a higher rate than they were in
preceding years. The New Deal is
committed to the notion that it can
keep cm spending because taxes will
be adequate to cover. But the truth
Is beginning to dawn on many ob
servers, especially country bankers,
that tax receipts are not increasing as
rapidly as estimated, and that the
Federal Government faces a fiscal
crisis unless expenses are reduced.
The administration, having started a
system of bounties and paid work
called “relief,” is being urged by May
ors and Governors not to cut down
Federal outlays. So borrowing con
tinues, expenses rise and taxes grad
ually impair the value of property
from an earning standpoint.
There are plenty of alternatives.
News Behind the News
Spending Policy Blocked by Natural Forces—Market
Troubles Laid to Recovery.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE new order Is running up against a sterner Constitution and a
higher Supreme Court. Its financial policies are being blocked by the
law of averages and a natural court order. As the decrees of Nature
csnnot be amended or packed, an alteration and reversal of policy
has been started. The period of transition has now begun.
That is the story behind the Queer manifestations of ths
Government bond market and ths President s new announcement
of policy on prices and spending.
It means: The old Government policy of spending has been stopped by
recovery, a firm hand must be laid on the budget, the debt cannot be
further materially increased, extra
budgetary outlays for housing, farm
tenancy, P. W. A., C. C. C., etc.,
must be avoided entirely or kept
down to a small experimental basis.
Old-fashioned arithmetic is again
likely to become necessary—if not
popular. The Eccles-Morgenthau
school of thought has triumphed.
* * * *
r
The troubles of the Govern
ment bond market, they say, are
mainly due to recovery. No Investor outside the booby hatch will keep all
his money tied up in Governments at 2 plus per cent interest when he can
make good commercial loans at two or three times that rate. Banks are
taking some of their money out of Governments and putting It Into com
mercial loans. They will continue to do so as long as business continues
to improve and good commercial loans can be made.
This situation, however, is largely technical. The field for
commercial loans i good ones' is still limited and consequently
the amount of Government bonds which will be sold for this cause
is likeicise limited. Also the matter of tax costs involved in trans
ferring from Goiernments trill be a brake.
No one doubts that the vast powers held by Treasury Secretary Mor
genthau will be sufficient to meet tide particular situation, If he only has to
meet this situation alone.
It just involves a period of readjustment of interest rates which may
easily work Itself out, for the Immediate future at least.
But if Mr. Morgenthau Is forced to find money for farm tenancy, hous
ing. P W. A . expanded C. C. C. and such things. In the face of his tax
receipts which are falling below estimates—that. Is an entirely different
thing. His powers are admittedly not sufficient to cope with a lack of
faith in the Treasury. No power on earth Is. This factor is Involved to
some degree In the present condition of the bond market.
That is why the farm tenant bill was maimed In the House com
mittee the other day by an unseen administration hand. Other scuttling
will follow.
* * * *
The price-spending announcement by President Roosevelt Involved
the same hidden motif. He said steel, copper and cement prices were
getting so high there was no economic Justification for Government spend
ing to help those durable goods Industries. Government spending should
shift to consumers’ goods, he said, that is to direct relief payments which j
go into the purchase of food, clothing, etc.
The way he told it Indicated he only contemplates a shift of emphasis
from P. W. A. to W. P. A., but the shift really covert a aound and deeper
purpose. Actually, there is no new need for helping consumers’ goods.
They held up throughout the depression and are going strong now. All that
has happened lately is a passing of the need for synthetic Government
stimulation of durables.
The real extent of the “shift” trill be evident when Mr. Roosevelt's
relief message goes to Congress next week. Then It will be discovered that
the Government at last is beginning to take this curtailment business
seriously.
* * * a
Politicians are closely watching an obacure by-election in Michigan
Monday. Tw o Republican Supreme Court Justices of the sit-down State are
up for re-election. The vote may furnish a line on popular reaction to
Mr. Roosevelt's court reform program and alt-downs in general. It Is the
first State election since these two Issues have been thrust into the political
situation.
No one seems to have good advance dope on what will happen,
but the best guess here is that the Republican entries have an
excellent chance. Both justices up for re-election are Republicans,
and are good men. The State highway commissioner is a jxrpular
Democrat and will certainly lead his ticket, if he does not win re
election. All the other incumbents of lesser State offices are Re
publicans.
Some quiet national campaigning has been going on. The Democratic
Congressmen all went back to plug for administration candidates. The Re
publicans generally have been "laying low.”
If there Is a Republican victory you will hear it advertised nationally
as a repudiation of the Roosevelt oourt program and slt-downa.
Mildest of all gentle grafts Is congressional mileage. Unselfish Repre
sentative Mitchell of Tennessee arose the other day and moved to cut the
mileage allowance of each Representative from 30 cents to 10 cents to save
ytotohr/
*75,000 a year. He pointed out it
doe* not coet the legislators even
10 cents a mile to get to and from
their homes these days. They flew
at him, howling such things as
“Why don't you try to cut down
something important?” and “Have
you turned back your extra 10
cents?”
The vote showed exactly 2
favoring the curtailment and 78
against, but you will never know
who was the other unselfish Representative beside Mitchell because Congress
never takes roll calls on such delicate matters.
The only thing certain Is that 434 Congressman will be saying In the
next election that they were the other one.
(Coprrisht, 1837.)
Most o' them are filed away In pigeon
holes of the administration, having
been submitted by men who believe
in the institution of property and
also in the welfare of the masses. But
the remedies involve often a course
that might possibly seem to be poor
politics, so these are rejected by
the New Deal. The drive against
property will not for two or three
years yet interrupt the inflationary
trend; in fact, it may encourage the
tendency to forsake fixed income se
curities for equities, cash for pur
chases of things such as accumula
tion of commodities. But the next
two or three years will prove crucial
in determining how many millions of
voters who own some form of prop
erty from a cottage or farm to a
flivver, from a life insurance policy to
a share in a building and loan asso
ciation, will want to join, not with
the handful of selfish or greedy mil
lionaires, but with the vast number
of property owners whose savings and
investments are being shaken by the
attack on property rights engineered
by the “have nots” against the
“haves.”
Statistically speaking, the property
owners far outnumber the indolent,
the poverty stricken or the parasites
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on governmental favor. But unhap
pily the property owner* cling to
the tradition that they must divide
into two political parties, so that
the balanoe of power inside each party
is really held, irrespective of label, by
the “have not," who today are being
taught the philosophy that broke down
ancient republics, namely that the
rule of the mob is superior to the
rule of law and written constitutions.
This is really what the Washing
ton situation is all about, and if ob
servers keep their eye* on what hap
pens to property they will learn that
redistribution of wealth lb a political
slogan that has for 6,0(Jo years made
votes, while its companion slogan—
redistribution of poverty—has brought
one-man government, sometimes
called monarchy, or dictatorship, but
ending usifally in something that
plainly isn’t a prosperous or happy
democracy.
(Coprrisbt, 1937.)
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readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star's.
The Grouse Talks Prices
Part of the Theory That Scarcity Leads to Cheapness
Comes Under Scrutiny.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
Ut Y JILL, I see we are going
\ \ / to take another atep to
V Y ward the abundant life,”
” ’ said the grouse. "More
chewing gum and cosmetics, more
earth dams and postholes In the
prairies. I have always had a pas
sion for postholes. More overcoats,
now that Spring
is coming on.
"A r • you
crazy?"
"Evidently.
Somebody’s crazy.
It couldn't be the
Government, be
cause govern
ments are always
■wise. So it must
be me.”
"The theory,”
c o n t i n ued the
grouse, "is that
prices are too
high in ’durable
goods.’ ”
Otrtthi Thtmnta.
“Do you mean by durable good*
Supreme Court Juatlce*?”
“Ye*, In a way. Everything that’*
not here today and gone tomorrow.
Not political platform*, for instance,
or chocolate bars. Ships, but not
shoe*. Not sealing wax or kings. You
see, »uch things as steel, copper, all
the main metals and all the things
you make out of them, such as auto
mobiles, houses, reapers and binders,
plows, railroad cars, all machinery—
these things called durable goods are
getting to cost too much. So the
theory is that to make them cheaper
you make them scarcer.”
“You mean the less you make the
more unemployment increases, so the
more people offer themselves for hire,
so you pay them less and can there
fore sell for less.”
“Oh, no! You pay them more.
While you are making less you put
up wages."
“You are craxy.”
The Grouse Disowns Idea.
“Not I, my girl, not I! That’s not
my idea. My idea would be to pro
duce a lot. That's the Government's
idea. It's all part of the theory that
Jhe leas you produce the more you
have, the more you spend the richer
you are, the greater number of people
that are withdrawn from actually
producing goods, the better off we
shall be.”
“But the Government say* we
must produce more consumers' goods.”
“Listen, sister. Durable goods are
used to produce consumers' goods.
Shoe*, my dear, do not grow on trees
but on machines. Cloth does not
come off rose bushes but off looms.
It happens that at this moment we
need more looms for woolen cloth,
but we ought to buy more cloth and
have leas loom*, according to the
Government. We must ship the
woolen goods, but not build more
freight cars, of which there aren’t
enough as it is.”
“Are there too many houses, too?”
Aren't those ‘durable goods' ?”
Chewing Gum, But No Houses.
“As houses are built in our great
speculative Nation, not exactly. But
relative to chewing gum, yes. And
there aren't enough houses. Not
nearly enough. In most towns the
people are clamoring for cottages,
apartments, bath rooms. They ask
for a tub and are offered a tube—
of toothpaste. I see by another
section of the paper that in some
places there’s only 1 per cent of va
cancies.”
“But the prices are high. Too high.
Why?”
“They are high for the following
reaeon*: The Government primed
the pump to keep up production.
That means that when nobody was
buying because nobody had any money
the Government started out and
bought and bought and bought. But
the Government didn't have any
money. So to pay for what it bought
it borrowed the money from the banks,
and to pay the Interest it had to raise
taxee. And the taxes were added by
the producer to the cost of the goods.
So the factories had to pay the work
ers more, so they could buy what
they produced, and higher wages were
added to the price of the goods. The
Government paid out the money it
borrowed to people who were poor, so
they bought a lot of things that they
needed. And that increased the de
mand without increasing production.
And then those foreigners began
making trouble"
"Foreigners always make trouble,
don’t they?”
‘‘Uh-huh. It seems they are get
ting ready for another war. And to
make wars you need lots of ‘durable
goods.’ So we passed a law and we
said, ‘We’ll sell you what you want
until you really need It desperately,
until you actually get into a war,
and then we’ll sell it to you only if
you can lay the cash on the line and
haul the goods.’ Well, some of those
boys are poor haulers, and some of
them have a long haul, so they de
cided they’d better take no chances,
and began buying now and putting
the stuff away in moth balls.”
Prices Go Up Again.
‘‘And that . . .?”
“Raised the prices some more. And
all the time the Government said, ‘In
spite of the fact that there’s now a
demand for goods faster than they
can be produced, and in spite of the
fact that the factories are clamoring,
many of them for skilled labor, there
is a permanent technological unem
ployment, so we must go on spending
money to keep a few million men at
permanent pottering.’ And keeping
people pottering costs money and adds
to the prices, without adding to the
production of goods.
"And we've been restricting the pro
duction of wheat and com, hogs and
cotton, so that a sandwich or a ham
berger or a shirt costs more, and
people who need them must get still
higher wages—and that, again, adds to
prices.
What youre saying is that the
Government started all this itself.
"That's right, and It had to start It.
But it's hard to stop what you’ve once
started. Now the Government should
stop. If a woman asks me to hold the
baby for a minute while she shops, that
doesn't mean that I undertake to raise
it to the age of 21 with a college edu
cation. But the Government can't
stop.
It's Difficult to Say "No.”
"Why not?
"Because stopping is unpopular. The
Oovemment ought to say, ‘Boys, get
busy. If you want real things—autos
and houses and radios and canned
soup, you've got to turn ’em out. Lots
of ’em.' The people who make them
have got to have the money to capi
talize making them. They’ve got to
have faith that they’ll be doing busi
ness at the same old stand tomorrow.
Or the Government ought to say,
'Boys we are sick of the capitalist
system and we re going to do it all
ourselves.’
"But that's socialism.
"Right. And you can make out a
case for it. But capitalism or socialism,
we can’t all be rich except by pro
ducing. At least, that’s what I’ve
always thought.
"But, as you sty, I'm probably
crazy."
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To Observe Sun’s Eclipse.
An American expedition will go to
Lima, Peru, to observe the most
spectacular solar eclipse in 1.200
years, which takes place on June 8.
We, the People
De Tocqueville’s "Democracy in America” Can
Supply Ammunition in Modem Political Wars.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.
THE other evening Htuold Las Id. the British political scientist who
delivered two of the Bronson Cutting memorial lectures, surprised
a Washington audience by calling Alexis de Tocquevllle’s "De
mocracy in America” one of the two greatest books of the nineteenth
century. The other was "Das Kapltal,” by Karl Marx.
A lot of people talk about De Tocqueville but few bother to read what
he has to say. "Democracy In America” Is out of print In this country and
I have recently amused myself by
asking, high and low, whether po
litical commentators and admin
istrators here have ever studied
the brilliant Frenchman’s work. I
have yet to meet one who has. al
though I guess that President
Roosevelt and Mark Sullivan, as
students of Americana, are familiar
with this truly great book. To be
quite honest, X had never read a line
of it until recently, so there is no
•elf-righteousness involved in this particular column.
A century ago Europe dreaded democracy as today it fears
communism. De Tocqueville was a young French aristocrat whose
family had suffered in the reign of terror and who felt his govern
ment job endangered by the revolution of IS30. So he persuaded
his superiors to send him out of the way, on a junket, to study the
American prison system. He returned to France, not only with an
official report, but with the makings of the book which even today
holds true of American ways and people.
For De Tocqueville studied democracy as the Rockefeller Institute
might study infantile paralysis or a geologist might study earthquakes.
* * * *
A quick glance at “Democracy in America” suggests that among great
vices of a democracy is its unwillingness to study the causes of its symptoms
and its distaste for both the past and the future. Yet it is a fact that De
Tocqueville detected a hundred years ago the existence and nature of the
forces which would help us understand and deal with our present problems.
Today we think of "rugged individualism’’ as one of our typical
virtues. Yet as recently as 1S62 the American editor of De
Tocqueville had to apologize to his readers for using the very word
••individualismwhich the Frenchman invented. De Tocqueville
did not regard it as a virtue, but as a refined form of progressive
selfishness: ”Selfishness blights the germ of all virtue—individualism,
at first, only saps the virtues of public life, but, in the long run, it
attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in down
right selfishness.”
Here is a passage to the address of those who are urging the President
to “do something” about the sit-down strikes: “I readily admit that public
tranquility is a great good; but at the same time I cannot forget that all
nations have been enslaved by being
kept in good order. • • * A nation
which asks nothing of ita govern
ment but the maintenance of order
is already a slave at heart.”
Here is a forecast of the “eco
nomic royalists”: “• • • The manu
facturing aristocracy of our age
first impoverishes and debases the
men who serve it, and then aban
dons them to be supported by the
charity of the public. • • • The
manufacturing aristocracy which is growing up under our eyes is one of
the harshest which ever existed in the world. • • * The friends of democracy
should keep their eyes anxiously fixed In this direction, for if ever a
permanent Inequality of conditions and aristocracy again penetrate Into
the world, it may be predicted that this is the gate by which they will enter."
* * * *
Here's one for our professional viewers-with-alarm: "When property
becomes so fluctuating, and the love of property so restless and ardent, I
cannot but fear that men may arrive at such a state as to regard every new
theory as a peril, every innovation as an Irksome toil, every social improve
ment as a stepping stone to revolution, and so refuse to move altogether for
fear of being moved too far.”
And, just to keep the balance even, here’s aid and comfort for Mark
Sullivan:
"After having thus successively taken each member of the
community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the
supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community.
It covers the surface of society with a neticork of small, complicated
rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds
and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise aboi'e
the crowd. • • • Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents
existence; it does not tyrannise, but it compresses, enervates, ex
tinguishes and stupifles a people till each nation is reduced to be
nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of
which the government it the shepherd."
Now that both aides of the 8upr*me Court fight we digging up dead
Presidents for ammunition, they could do far worse than go back to Alexia de
Tocquevllle if they want aome first-rate brickbats.
(Ooprrlsht, 1937.)
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
1940 Candidate Honor
Beckons to George
Henry Payne.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
IN THE early sessions of the fusion
group, which finally nominated
and elected Fiorello H. La Guar
dia, mayor of New York City, the
three leading La Guardia pioneers
were Samuel Seabury, W. Kingsland
Macy, and George Henry Payne. Now,
In the Republican shifting and shuf
fling which prefaces the selection of
a candidate to run against Mayor
La Guardia. Mr. Payne's name is the
first out of the box. It is offered
by Mr. Macy, former State chairman,
in his publication, the Suffolk Every
week. This writer hears more and
more talk about Mr. Payne as a possi
ble candidate—a Warwick tilting at
the throne.
Mr. Payne Is the only Republican
member of the Federal Communica
' G©orre Henry Payne.
tions Commission.
He is a native
New Yorker, of
Long and varied
experience in lo
cal and national
politics, one of
the New York
campaign mana
gers for Theodore
Roosevelt. He is
the author of six
or eight books, a
play, and a musi
cal comedy. At
the College of the
City of New York,
he studied phar
macy, became a political writer, the
editor of the Gothamite and the
Criterion Magazine, a musical and
dramatic critic, a lecturer on history
at Cooper Union, tax commissioner
of New York City, secretary for the
Society for the Preservation of Ameri
can Rights in the Panama Canal,
prominent in politics, a member of
exclusive clubs here and abroad, and
a holder of the decoration of the
Order of Danilo I of Montenegro.
Along with all this. Mr. Payne had
time to acquire a reputation as an
; epicure. He is famous as a host
and as a raconteur. This writer has
enjoyed a pleasant acquaintance with
; Mr. Payne and can testify that he is
one of the Nation's most fastidious
gourmets, an eclectic in his think
ing, flexible and never obdurate in
his political thews, and unbeliev
ably versatile. He is 60 years old,
highly urbanized in dress and de
meanor and ready to go a block or
two with anybody who has a good
idea or knows of a good restaurant,
j His musical comedy was called "In
I Silver Idaho,” and his play “The
Lightning Stroke.” As lightning rarely
I strikes twice in the same place, it
may hit him this time
(Copyrisht. 1937.>
Japan Given Plants.
Pour thousand six hundred fiftv
plants sent as a gift to Japan by the
Garden Club of America in January
are being grown In Hibia Park, Tokio.
and later will be transplanted to other
parts of that city, Osaka, Kyota and
Kobe.
Sent to you on
10DAYS FREE TRIAL
FOR
LIMITED
TIME
THE BEAUTIFUL NEW STREAMLINED
WITH MOTOR DRIVEN BRUSH AND
MANY SENSATIONAL NEW FEATURES
• Greater Ease of Operation
• Beautiful Streamline Design
• Many Mechanical Improvement*
• Mar* Durable Construction
• New aed Greatly Improved Attachments
• Mara Sectioe pin* Better Brush Action
Hm Typ* OrtvM Bn* U com
biaed with more powerful auction
•ad produce! hiahest develop
ment of the new Eureka cleaning
process which eliminates tiresome
arm-action from vacuum cleaning.
Equipped with
Dirt Finding Searchlite
SPECIAL FACTORY SALE!
1925
Small tarrying tbargt
an taty paymtnts
limited time only
MODEL »
Originally sold at *45.00
Thoroughly reconditioned at the factory with all brand
new parts and fully guaranteed same as new cleaners.
10 DAYS FREE TRIAL—ONLY *2.00 DOWN!
Trada-in allowance for year eld cleaner
EUREKA VACUUM CLEANER (B
724 * IUI[ STREET. N.W.
NAiional 2700
factory inspection given to all Bureka
FREE users. Avoid unauthorized agents.
SAVE *175? NOW!
GET 2 CLEANERS
FOR PRICE OF 1
BY TRADING IN YOUR OLD
CLEANER ON THE PUR
CHASE OF A POWERFUL
NEW EUREKA MODEL "M".
For • limited time
this $17.50 Eureka
Junior complete with
attachments for quick,
conrementdeahing of upholstery, mattresses, auto, etc.,
will be given you in exchange for your trade-in cleaner.
SMALL DOWN
PAYMENT-THEN
$|25
PER WEEK
PAYABLE MONTHLY
Request FREE TRIAL in your home. Select the par
ticular Eureka model that suits your needs—give it
a good thorough trial in your own way—then decide.
Positively no obligation.
--PHONE, OR MAIL COUPON AT ONCE
Please send the □ New Model "M" Eureka
□ Guaranteed Factory Reconditioned Eureka
Model 9 to me for free trial—positively no
obligation. (Check model desired).
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