"Give 'em Hell, Harry"

At week's end, heavily guarded, Harry Truman flew west. He landed at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., gave Miss Mary Jane Truman a brotherly peck on the cheek. His Secret Service men flanked him on his 25-mile ride to St. Louis with their hands near their revolvers.

At St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium--where 12,000 seats were only two-thirds taken--Harry Truman made his one avowedly political speech of the campaign. The party put up $100,000 to broadcast it over 1,200 radio and 72 television stations.

To Harry Truman the issues of the 1950 election were clear. For all that was bad, the voters could blame the Republicans and the "no-good, do-nothing 80th Congress." For all that was good--the "smashing victory" in Korea, the prosperity of farmers, labor and businessmen--the voters could thank the Democratic Party and its boss. Any farmer, especially, who did not appreciate the Democrats should have his head examined--"and will have his head examined," he declared.

"Give 'em hell, Harry," someone shouted. "All right, I'm doing it," shouted Harry Truman. "Go to the polls . . . vote for yourselves, vote for your future . . . vote for the Democratic ticket." Then he went off to Independence, Mo. to follow his own advice, from there planned to return to Washington to hear how many of his fellow countrymen thought his advice was right.

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