BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

"Drennan J. Slater, 2441 Central Park Avenue, candidate for Republican nomination to Congress from the Tenth Congressional district, announced his platform this week. Mr. Slater, a graduate of Evanston public schools and Dartmouth where he was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, is also a graduate of the Northwestern Law School. He has been practicing law for twelve years.

Mr. Slater, who seeks to succeed Ralph Church in the lower house, was first elected to the state legislature in 1932 and has continued to serve since that time. He was highly recommended by the Legislative Voters' league in its February report in 1938 for his fight for the City Manager bill which he had introduced with another member, and for his "fearless, aggressive and effective efforts to expose racketeering measures."

His platform for Congress includes radical reduction in government spending with the aim of balancing the budget; protective regulation of business and adequate relief for all in need administered through State and local governments, and determination to stay out of war and strengthening the national defenses sufficiently to protect America from possible aggression. He maintains that the government should quit all new social schemes and new subsidies no matter how worthy or persuasive until some way has been found to pay for those already in existence, and should pay as much attention to the man from whom it takes a dollar as to the man to whom it is given. From Evanston Review.