National Affairs: Voices Over Illinois

Like the cry of Stentor, a voice arose last week over the noise of rush-hour traffic at Chicago's Archer and Western Avenues. "It was Henry Ford who made the automobile," it thundered, "but it was the Democratic Party that gave you the social system which enabled you to buy the cars." While Chicagoans headed home for dinner, the voice continued to sound. When traffic began to thin out, a powder-blue Ford station wagon with four loudspeaker horns on its roof wheeled off from Archer and Western and headed across town.

In the car sat...

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