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FASTER THAN RADIO
An unpleasant rumor began to cir
culate about-a certain man.
Such storiee aire an unsolved mys
tery. How do they start? What is the
magir which spreads tbem, magic
more deadly- than lightning, fa.'^ter
than radio.
You hear the Ule in New York; you
climb into an airplane and as you
climb down in SanFrancisco you hear
ever did anything crooked. 1 don’t
care what the story is. I simply will
not believe it.”
The full facts came out a few weeks
later and proved X an innocent victim. |
But the damage had been done. |
There w’as a wise preacher in myi
boyhood who would say to the Sun-|
day school: “Never believe what youj
hear and only half of wdiat you see.”
Niuch of whast our eyes tell trs is un-
a voice exclaim: “What do you know true. I see the sun move every day
about So and So?” | around the earth but it does not move.;
If the VTctim is famous and of en-11 ?ee that my cane, when 1 thru.st it,
viable reputation, the broadcasting is‘into the water, is crooked. But it isj
twice as rapid. In the instance refer-j not crooked. . i
red to this w'^the case. Here are Kycs are notorious deceivers. And
the comment-H of the first three men,,.is for the ears, they need to be po-
who hastened to^tell me the story:
Number One: ‘“It ju.'=t shows^that
you never can tell. Who’d think that
old X would-be up to such tricks?”
Number Two; “I was terribly
shocked. What in the world could he
have been thinking about ?
iced every minute by tolerance and
ympathy and common sense.
Mr. X, of whom I have spoken, had j
lived an uprighi life for forty years.'
.Surely, this should have counted in his]
favor. Surely, the answer of all his!
»vc ucT-ii miiirv... . acquaintances should have been: “lie’ll
"Both'^^es^broackasters, you see,jail right. He cannot have done it. Wej
assumed at once that the man was' deny this libel. ■ |
I The discourajjing thing was that;
Number Thre<‘ spoke with honest I two out of three seemed to be secret-!
indignation. “I’ve known X for years.] ly pleased that another good man had
You can’t make ^ne believe that he gone wrong.
Barkley Attacks
G. O. P. Regime
which are sick and dejected, the dead
flesh and de<-ayed kines resulting
from 12 years of Republican quak-]
ery,” Barkley continued. 1
“We must apply to the hopeful but;
Kentucky Senator, In Keynote misu.sed patient the rec'Uperative pro-
Address .\t Convention, Lash
es Out At Republicans.
cesses of a democracy which for a
century and a half has responded to
the emergencies which always have,
iK'set us at the end of every period of
('hic ago, June 27.—,A bitter attack ' Republican control which lasted long
upon Rcfiuldicari rule through three, enough for its virus to take effe< 1.”
admirii."trations and a plea fccr a vote
on repeal of the IHth amendment were
laid before the I>eni{K*ratic national
in
the keynote
(’oM-erning the cighU^nLh amend
ment, Barkley saici "so long as it is a
part” of the constitution “no citizen
of the republic has a legal or moral
convention today ... — . repuouc im.-> a >»,
-pt*ech of Speaker Alben W . Harklc*y, | violaTe It,” and added
of Kentucky. ' . ■£
The Kentuckian jiunchc'd and jablied
unceasingly at his Republican foes—
calling the Harding administration the
“darkest chapU-r of public betrayal in
the history of this or any other na
tion,” heaping blame on President
<'(H)lidge and Secretary Mellon for an
“orgy of speculation and inflation
:hat had no foundation in real values.”
"Whatever may Ije the divergent
views of men and women on the mer
its or demerits of the eighteenth
amendment a.s a national policy, it is
inconceivable that this or any other;
part of the constitution of the United!
States should apply to only a part'
and not the whole of the American
nation. That great irustrument de
clares that ‘this constitution and the
and terming the Republican plank or. j laws made in pursuance tht;reof shall
prohibition “a promiscuous agglom- be the supreme law of the land.’ But
oration of sc rap-lumber.” it eannot be the supreme law of the
Barkley denounced President Hoov-lland if it can .be abrogated by the peo-
er and the Republicans for the “ex-! pk of a part of the land while re-
opbitant and indefensible rates of the I maining in force over the rest of
.srnoot-Hawlev tariff act” and prom- them. .Such a conception destroys the
.<ed “to lift tariff making above the very nature and structure of the con-,
sordid proce-<ses of log-rollers and | stitution, for if it can be made thus;
t ack-scrat.hers.” 1 to qualify one of its provision- i* may
, . .V. ; be made to qualify all of them. I his
he kevnotcr gave over the major < j r i .. u..tion
„:„t ..r his s,H...,h K. .,.i»lalc« hC he 'he end ..f .le.- r-ns. .1 m .on
.noa-ed to the Itepubln an Ph'Cv »™->'|„st.tnees thisHjl
(UH'htion rather dee-ply, howi ver, andU . ^ , ... , i.,,...,i il
, . 1 . -i—J- iMhe nati<»n to makt* its declaralnoi i.p- ||
ui'giH that the convtMition recommend i- j ■ . i i.,Ma - •
, . e 1 on this sui)j<H-t c ear, understurdalile ^
tin- pa--acc by congr<-ss of a resolu- ,n M
1 .. \f,u iv^v.-antl umsiuivocal. There is no j Cvison M
tioTi submitting a ri’pcal of the IHtht ij i i . . i
, .. .f , i. .u whv the people shoubi be de<e!\<‘d oi
amendment for ratification by the , * . . ...u.-fV.. i
—; T——n———r-,-—dc udccU Jbexu.la nu reaaoii-3£ii5l->».ja):iH
p» ( pie through idTite c on v eimt)n¥, .■ u iii i- i..
u 11 . I n 1 .1. • litH-aJ declaration should look in i\eTy'
who.>;e (U-lt gates shall he chosen upon
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I dirxvtiun and see nothing,
t i> Is. U( a om. order, therefore, to obtain the
II the peojile are to pass again; ’ r a , ,,,lo
V „ , 1 1 - J ..I ♦'present wi of the .American pe > pie
upon this (luestion, he declared, let »
T . a I 11 L lion this subject of universal contro-
theni jiass upon it in such bald, naked ” •* . ,u ...i i ♦!,«
. I . versv, this convention should in the
and unequivocal terms as to make , * , * a i . . ...-i
,, . I . • »Mi)latform here to be adopted ie>oin-
their decision intelligent and certain, y u
r,Y, 1 , I- .1 » J 1 4 mend the passage by congress ol a
The history of the slock market ^ .„,a
... .. .1 111 r - i restx Ution# repealing the eighteenth
bixim was recounted and blame for «‘-i.*' -- i
, ,, 11 .all amendment and its submission to the
the collapse was placed upon the lead-1 ,
.1 . , > .1 4- o 11 I ueoi) e of the states through convci-
ers at the helm of the nation. Barkley y . , . . n v... .i, ..=11,1
...,<1 .•xp, n..« „f tlie national Kojern-! w^hoa.. deloKaWs shall bo oho«.n
menl had incroastnl undor I’reaidont!t . uiraln
l-oolKl^l- "nion. than $i;r,ll.(IO.I.0U0."!
I, 1 4 4 .a 4 lA I upon this que.'-tion, let them pass upon
He gave credit to the present Demo- V , ^ n j 1 . w.„i
... f 4 . tj ; 1 4 lit in such bald, naked and unequivocal
cratic house for reducing President . • ;/„ ;..4^i
, • 4- terms as to make their decision intel
Hoovers reijuests for appropriations ,7' ,
... .. * 1 Mil iwui «»no'• I ligent and certain,
bv more than if 1(10,000.000. . . a n i
. , . 4 .,/■ 1 If their verdict shall Ik* in favor of
He bespoke eiiactment of laws set.\: . , . .. .a * ^ j‘«
4 . ta a' retaining the eighteenth amendment
ting up cootxeralive agencies throuvrh f 4 4 .• 1 * .. 4„.-,44
a a .a f ' i .♦ a., 1 n the Constitution, let every trbe citi-
whuh the farmer may work out his ' ' ' , , . . .a j
-1 t t zen of the nation accept the decisKm
own priflileins over a period of years, . , . , , .4 • 1 ** j
, .. J *• 4*1 and abide by it in letter and in spirit,
along w ith a recommendation to take 1 a n i - *1,. ,.4,
,a 44# •uu AA i . If the verdict shall be for the re-
the government out of the dubious , - 4. . . *a u.* ......t.,.
J . , \ ^ peal of the amendment then let every
adventure of speculation in farm pro- *
duels, and, in.sUllaUon^ .at_.the head jpf . .a,,,, „
4. J 4 4 ^ • 14 r -^ercise all powers they posset's to^^o-
the depaitment of agriculture of a 7 * .
secretarv w ho has “some knowledge' *^*‘^‘‘* observance and
s^retary "ho has some ^fo^emenl of the laws which they
of the subject and some sympathy 7, \ ^ 4 , , . '
, 4a a 4 I -.a;*** , shall enact to Control, regulate or pro-
for those who struggle with it 1 .-MtoM ^
branch of the national government ex-
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He promised that the Democrats
would “abolish every u.^eless’ office,
every unnecessary bureau and cohi
hibit the traffic in intoxicating
liquors.”
The tempotary chairman went back
every unneves.ary oureau ano vuiii- reviewed the intervening
mission and proposed that the Dem-
ocrats solve the tariff problem by in
augurating friendly international con-
years of Republican leadership.
The Harding administration he de-
, ” ■’•4. • ' - scribed as “the darkest chapter of
ferences with a view to reopening nor- . Jy . 4 1 • .u u;..*..,.., ii,ia
m»I trad, rhanels in th, world and' I*'*'''''- bfV-ayal in history of thi.
mak, th, tariff commission a fact- "f 7',. „„ i
finding b.Hly for congress. aa 7 L. fTr
CIS * _4U 41. u I • *" larv Mellon he heaiied the blame for
To strengthen the banking struc-j 7 , , V. , . .4- „
4 . J • • -J 4 an orgv of speculation and inflation
ture he urged giving consideration to; i 1 • „i
4, 4. J , . * 4„ . that had no foundation in real val-
revising the federal Reserve act to in- „
sure more direct contact with , • i * j
morcial banks and borrower,. I Stm-ks were manipulate,^ prn^s^
He ridiculed “fine spun" distinc. ‘h'". up, then dis-
tiona between local and national among mnocen poop e un e ,
aponaibility on unemployment and de-'‘ht, "P"*''fabulous financial hopes
plored “sophomoilc dispute over thel buiH up by the most gigantic cam.
identity of first aid- while the I pa-gn of official b.llyhootng ever wit-
lion’s “defenders or their dependentsthe annals of American his-
auffer from want and neglect.” ^tdi-y, he exclaimed.
The keynoter advocated consider- j '
ation of the five-day week or the six-i RPTn^R
hour day as a possible' solution of un-1 OCs I 1 CsX\
employment problems growing out of, 0| |f\I7 D |7 D A ID
the country’s industrial advances and,; 1\ILa /\UxUNVJI
concluding, declared:
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''In all the generations of American
history the people in every great
crisia have turn^ tp the Democratic
party to lead them from the wilder-
nefa of disappointment and disaster.”
Declaring that “we ’must by a ma-
4or operation, remove from the body
of our nation and the world, both of
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