One-Two

Otto Adolph Wittwer is not content with the way things are going. He has money, inherited from his Swiss immigrant parents. At 45, he has a nice little business of his own in Seattle, selling hair rinses and shampoo (which sweetly scent his two-story building). He is married to a beauteous exactress wife. Nevertheless, Mr. Wittwer is not content with the way things are going.

In 1936 he attended the State Democratic convention in Aberdeen. That decided him that the whole trouble with the country was professional politicians, who, controlling the votes of non-property owners, the ignorant, the vagrant, the parasitic, dominated elections at the expense of home owners. Mr. Wittwer sat down and thought till he thought up a cure: give an extra vote to every man who can show a tax receipt for a home or a piece of property.* The name Otto Wittwer gave to his system for knocking out the politicians : the One-Two Plan.

Last week in Southern California, where panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going.

* Last week, the report of a special committee to investigate relief administration in New Jersey was laid before the Legislature. The committee's recommendation: declare a pauper every "adult, able-bodied male of sound mind" who has spent three consecutive years on relief. According to New Jersey's State Constitution, no pauper can vote.

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