BOB LA FOLLETTE IS VOTED IDEAL U. S. SENATOR AMONG BODY'S YOUNGER MEMBERS
Bob La Follette Is Voted Ideal U.S. Senator Among Body's Younger Members State Abolishes Branch Offices of Road Body Heil Complains Nobody Wants To Work Any More ACTING in cooperation with Gov....
...Lancaster, j which will lose its branch, will con- | tinue to have a small contact office 1 working under the Madison district headquarters...
...The poll was made b.v Fulton Lewis, Jr., Washing-ton reporter over the Mutual Broad- j casting System...
...Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington...
...Thus their total vote was built up by more i mentions, but many of those were for j second and third places...
...He is 45...
...Hell would only apply some of his criticism of stair employes to himself and his staff, the taxpayers might get more for (heir money...
...Heil, the state highway commission last week ordered elimination of its branch offices in Wisconsin Rapids, Eau Claire, Superior, and Lancaster...
...Styles Bridges of New Hampshire...
...It's much different now...
...He is 41 years old...
...Rush D. Holt of West Virginia...
...Frry...
...This new honor for Wisconsin's La Follette comes just one year after the Washngton correspondents voted him the most industrious member of the senate, regardless of age, and ranked him with Sens...
...Norris of Nebraska and...
...and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts...
...The announcement might have been even more timely if it had come last week when 82,000 low and moderate income families had to dig down to pay .surtaxes for the first time and thousands of others earning modest salaries were clipped for sizable lax increases...
...Diversion of road money to finance regular state operations is being practiced by the present Republican administration to an unprecedented extent...
...The 13th, and the winner of the poll, was La Follette, Progressive...
...In replying to criticism against his policy of closing offices outside of Madison...
...Raids on Road Fund Assailed By F. M. Elliott FRED M. ELLIOTT, secretary of the Wisconsin Petroleum Industries committee, assailed diversion of highway funds in a talk at Milwaukee last week...
...But they believe the gasoline tax should be levied only by the slate, that the tax rate should be reasonable and that the income should be used for highway purposes exclusively...
...In this week's polling Bob La Follette received 173 votes for the top-ranking honor...
...Anil a little society note tells us thai Mr...
...Claude Pep- 1 per of Florida...
...A checkup the othrr day showed that the govrrnor was absent from his office 70 i,( the last "I) days...
...who is paid $5,000 a year to rua the secret poller, is on his second excursion to MoiitU this winter...
...John A. Danaher of Connecticut...
...Yes, there's a lot the Milwaukee Athletic club will have to answer for, and not the least will the insidious demoralization of the state service by a high-handed wrecking gang bent on making life as miserable as possible for the state's civil sonants "There was a time when the state service of Wisconsin was the envy of taxpayers in other states where the spoils system prevailed...
...Reporters not fully familiar with the senate membership as a whole were excluded from the poll, the ! results of which were announced this week in Washington...
...La Follette has been in the senate for nearly 15 years, previously serving as secretary to his senatorial father for many years...
...These were the first three choices, based on the integrity, ability, and general attributes that go to make up the individual correspondent's conception of the ideal senator, as expressed in a poll of over 100 Washington correspondents, columnists, news and radio reporters, all of whom cover the senate regularly and observe it constantly and intimately, day in and day out...
...Rhinelander, I LaCrosse, and Ladysmith...
...District offices of the commission 1 will now be maintained in Madison, j Milwaukee, Green Bay...
...Robert M. La Follette Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, was voted the "ideal United States Senator" of not more than 45 years of age in a poll of over 100 Washington correspondents, the results of which were announced today...
...Henry C. Lodge, Jr., o' Massachusetts, was third with 96 votes...
...Richard B. Russell of Georgia...
...The list of 13 senators who are 45 years old or under, which was shown 1 to each reporter, included eight Democrats and four Republicans...
...The day before the announcement was made a protest group of 40 Eau Claire residents complained against ! the elimination of the commission of- j fice there...
...Lodge and La Follette were included among the first three choices by a -somewhat larger number of the cor-respondents than was Danaher...
...Every time a couple of clerks or stenographers are fired there is a great to-do of publicity about Republican economy, but when Republican politicians are put on the payroll to take the place of the discharged civil servant, there is great silence in the governor's office...
...Fred Risser of Dane county said in a talk before the University of Wisconsin Progressive club last night...
...The Democrats: D. Worth Clark of Idaho...
...If Gov...
...John A. Danaher of Connecticut was second with 171 votes and Sen...
...Correspondents Award Senator New i Honors WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen...
...Each reporter was asked to give his first, second and third choices—three votes to go for his first choice, two votes for his second, and one for his third...
...Progressives joybusly accept the announcement as a challenge from this thoroughly discredited Republican administration which campaigned in 1938 on a platform of efficiency and economy and then voted the bi?gest taxes in the history of the state...
...Of the three top leaders—La Follette, Danaher, and Lodge—it is noteworthy that Danaher has been in the senate less than 15 months...
...and Lister Hill of Alabama...
...Heil complained bitterly about the necessity of the state program of old age pensions and relief...
...The trouble is everybody is on relief or a pension—nobody wants to work," Heil told those who crowded his offices with protests, a high order for intelligent adults Risser Cheers Heil Statement On Candidacy 'Invigorating Tonic For Progressives,' He Tells U. W. Governor Heil's announcement that he will be a candidate for re-election is an invigorating tonic for the Progressive-minded men and women of Wisconsin," Sen...
...Lodge, who is 38 years old, has been in the senate three years...
...The Republicans: Chandler Gurney of South Dakota...
...Wagner of New York, as the most intelligent...
...Heil said he was1 "flexible" and would see what he ' could do, but when the Eau Claire citizens arrived home, they read in ! their papers that that office would be j abandoned definitely...
...To give complete freedom of expression, their votes were listed anonymously...
...Albert B. Chandler of Kentucky: Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut...
...The oil men have always supported the principle of taxing gasoline to finance highways," Elliott said...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
