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/ T\w'.'r The Barnwell Peoph [*11 S. C« Thursday, July 9, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK Land Ho! The Changing Ocean Safety and Speed Much for Science On Board Steamship Normandie.— Four nights from New York and the ship la at South ampton. The Isle of Wight la on your right Passengers are landing for England. On your left Is France, across the water. You land there later. On old crossings passengers watched eagerly for the first land. Now cross ing and landing are about as excit ing as a trip by rail from Chicago to Lake Forest, or from Wall street to Forty-second street by subway. You are in Europe before you realize that you have start ed. The poetry of travel has depart ed with fast ships on the ocean and automobiles instead of camels on the desert. Arthur Brlabaa* No matter how often you cross this Atlantic ocean, or the North American continent, the crossing is always dif ferent and Interesting. The ocean, like the wide plains, is forever chang ing. Two days ago the waves looked like playthings for children. Last night the ocean changed Its mind and rolled the waves up high with a shrieking wind. The steward said, “We shall have to fasten the arm chairs tomor row,” but the heavy ship paid no at tention to the waves. The ocean changed its mind again and calmed down. A speedometer telling how fast the ship moves Is operated by a mechan ism below the keel that records the ■peed of the rushing water. Burning oil produces steam; steam power Is converted into electric power, and that drives the ship. The captain always knows how deep the ocean Is* beneath him; an electric contrivance sends a sound wave down through the water to the bottom, which sends back an echo. Knowing the speed at which sound travels through water. It Is easy to calculate the depth. The machine doe« It for you. It Is ■ feeble sound—one hundred and sixty thousand vibra tions to the second. No human ear could pick it up. but the machine re cords IL Twenty-five thousand vibra tions per second is the limit of your ear. and that is not bad for a primi tive contrivance like a human being. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war In the ''big” war, tells graduating stu dents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology It Is their duty to “carry science Into politics.” Scient ists, Mr. Baker thought, must seek for “the solution of world problems when the great International crisis comes, as it surely will come.” A sufficient “great crisis” seems to be here now, with many countries wanting to fight each other, different classes already fighting each other, and In this richest country In the world—ten million human beings liv ing practically on charity. If that Is not a real crisis, few would care to see one. George Bernard Shaw, not yet eighty, says, “I must give up public S|>eak!ng, lam too old." That surprises you from • Celt and an Irishman. At eighty many men have been vigorous In thought and body; for instance, Pope Leo, Von Mo.tke, Gladstone, Michel angelo. Not one of those, however, suffetod from handicaps that have aged George Bernard Shaw prematurely; he Is a vegetarian and a teetotaler. Youth and strength reside In a saddle of four-year-old mutton and good, light claret, greatly diluted with water. In spite of England’s pitifully weak and belated backdown on sanctions, due to" London’s fear of Mussolini’s air fleet; a backdown denounced as cowardice by Lloyd George, Britain, for face saving purposes, will main tain a great fleet In the Mediterra nean. Mussolini will welcome such convenient air and submarine targets near home as a soft of British hos tages to fortune. M. Auriol announces that France will not devalue the franc any fur ther. It has already been reduced by 80 per cent, as though our dollar had been knocked down to twenty cents instead of fifty-nine cents. Prime Min ister Blum knows that it does jiot pay to scare capital out of its wits, something that our best Washington minds have still to learn. The French workmen will have their forty-hour week and the strikes are about over. The French, a homogeneous people, realize that If they destroy France they will not have much left. PRESENT ^DEMOCRATIC ^ NOMDCETS/ PRE31 %S3Ss3 Franklin D. Roosevelt John N. Gamer Democrats United for Roosevelt and New Deal Wild Demonstrations in the Philadelphia Convention— Flexible Platform Adopted and Two- thirds Rule Abrogated. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union Returning to the real American In terest, the defeat of Joe Louis, young gentlemen and old will observe that it is most important In ail undertak ings not to be afraid, worn put or cowardly. Fighters that Louis had encountered saw before them “an la- vincible conqueror of men.” • King PeatiirM Syndicsta, law WNU Snrvlo*. Convention Hall, Philadelphia — “What this country needs is four more years of the New Deal under the ad ministration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And that is just what this country is going to get." Such in effect was the expressed belief and confident determination, of the Democratic National convention of 1936. With complete and beautiful una nimity the delegates again put at the head of their party ticket the names of Roosevelt and Gamer. If there was one among them who didn’t like this, \e wisely held his peace. All those who had anything to say—and most of them had—were confident vocifer ously or serenely, of a sweeping vic tory in November comparable to that they had in 1932. Before it concluded its labors the convention did another notable thing. It voted to abrogate the old rule re quiring a two-thirds vote for the nomination of candidates. The south ern states fought the change stub bornly in the committee on rules and voted against it on the floor, but they were outnumbered. Platform Draft Was Revised Whatever other dissension there was in the convention related to the platform upon which the candidates were to take their stand, and this was carefully confined to the committee rooms. Senator Wagner of New York, chairman of the resolutions commit tee, had been in conference with President Roosevelt in Washington »nd brought here a well planed lot of planks which had the approval of Ihe chief. But there were two startling political developments shortly before the convention opened which required much revision of the platform. First of these was the formation of the third >r Union party with Congressman Lemke as its standard bearer Second «vas the open letter to the delegates ,iere signed by A1 Smith. Ex-Governor Ely, Bainbridge Colby, Ex-Judge Cohalan and Ex-Senator Jim Reed of Missouri. This rather astounding document urged that the convention discard Franklin D. Roosevelt and nominate a “real Democrat" or else abandon the old party name. The five ?minent gentlemen said that if this demand were not complied with, and of course they knew it would not be, they would be forced to take the field in opposition to the New Deal and its leader. The letter frqjn Smith et al. was re ceived here with angry scorn, silent contempt or fierce declarations that it meant nothing more than five Old Deal votes lost to the cause. But the Union party was something else again. It really caused much trepidation in the minds of the leaders, who realized that the prospective combination of radical and dissatisfied farmers, fol lowers of Father Coughlin and ad herents of the late Huey P. Long now shepherded by Rev. Gerald Smith might well lead to the loss of a num ber of states and certainly would draw heavily from the New Deal vote unless something were done about it. Many thought the best plan was a decided liberalization of various parts of the platform though this would ne cessitate moving Mr. Roosevelt quite a distance from the “little to the left of center” position he had chosen. Conservatives who have opposed many of the New Deal doings but still remain in the party ranks, fought stubbornly against this shift to the left, and the subcommittee that had the building of the platform in hand spent long and weary hours debating the proper wording of the resolutions. Gives President Wide Scope As finally decided upon, reported to the convention by Senator Wagner and adopted by that body, the plat form is a cleverly devised affair which dodges many issues and leaves the President free to follow almost any policy he may determine upon, as occasions arise. It is flexible in the extreme. Starting off with the “self- evident truths” that the nation was brought to the brink of ruin by twelve years of Republican rule and that in three years under Democratic admin istration it has been revived and put on the road to restored prosperity, the document sets forth the services of the New Deal in the way of protect ing the family and home, safeguard ing savings and investments and lay ing the foundations for the aged, orphaned and infirm. The consumer is then assured briefly that he will be accorded fair value, honest sales and a decreased spread between the price he pays and the price the producer re ceives. Extension of rural electrifica tion and cheap power are promised. Coming to the plank on agriculture, the party congratulates itself on hav ing “taken the farmer off the road to ruin" and promises that all available means will be used to raise farm in come toward its pre-war purchasing power. How this is to be done is not stated in detail except that soil con servation and the domestic allotment program with payments to farmers are to be continued, as is the retire ment of submarginal land. The plank continues: “We favor the production of all the market will absorb, both at home and abroad, plus a reserve supply suffi cient to insure fair prices to consum ers; we favor judicious commodity loans on seasonal surpluses and we favor assistance within federal au thority to enable farmers to adjust and balance production with demand, at a fair profit to the farmers.” Labor Gets Some Promises Organized labor, through President William Green of the American Fed eration of Labor, had urged a number of suggestions upon the committee, but it had to be satisfied with rather vague promises that the worker would be protected and his rights, “both as wage earner and consumer, in the production and consumption of all commodities" would be guarded. Says the plank: ‘The worker has been re turned to the road of freedom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road.” The same statement is made concerning the American business man, and the American youth. __ Monopolies are declared to be uvt creation of Republican rule and priv ilege, and the party pledges vigorous and fearless enforcement of the crim inal and civil provisions of the exist ing anti-trust laws and the restoration of their efficacy where it has been weakened by “new corporate devices or judicial construction.” , This led naturally to the matter of the constitution and the question of its amendment, which had been a subject of hot debate in the subcom mittee’s deliberations. As to Constitutioiial Changes The plank adopted is strikingly similar to Governor Landon’s inter pretation of the corresponding plank in the Republican platform. Detailing some of the problems that “cannot be adequately handled exclusively” by the states, it says: “If these problems cannot be effec tively solved by legislation within the Constitution, we shall seek such clari fying amendment as will assure to the legislatures of the several states and to the congress of the United States, each within its proper jurisdiction, the power to enact those laws which the state and federal legislatures, within their respective spheres, shall find necessary, in order adequately to regulate commerce, protect public health and safety and safeguard eco nomic security. Thus we propose to maintain the letter and spirit of the Constitution." The merit system is lightly touched upon with a promise to put all non- policy-making federal positions un der the civil service law. “Permanently Sound Currency” Coming to “Government Finances,” the platform approves “the objective of a permanently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fhictuations in value.” It asserts a determination to reduce the ex penses of government and to achieve a balanced budget and reduction of the national debt at the earliest poo- sible moment Details of proposed methfc^s are omitte<}. There is no men tion of golfi or silver. The policy of the “Good Neighbor" is tome continued in foreign relations; war/as an instrument of national pol icy is condemned, and the nation is to be kept out of any war which may develop anywhere. No mention is made of the League of Nations or the world court National Chairman James A. Far ley, whose person, pictures and name were everywhere at the fore, opened the convention Tuesday with a well composed speech, after the delegates had been welcomed by Mayor Wilson. Mr. Farley’s mention of Mr. Roose velt’s name precipitated the first dem onstration; but the convention had not yet warmed up to enthusiasm. By evening plenty of steam had been generated and it was first let loose for Governor Earle, who told at length and vigorously why he abandoned the Republican party in 1932 and was still a Democrat Keynoting by Barkley jj$then came Senator Alben W. Bark ley, stentorian orator from Kentucky, with his keynote speech, he having been selected as temporary chairman. He lost no tirng^n setting forth the praiseworthy accomplishments of the New Deal and the sins of those who oppose it. His phrases were neatly turned and his style often elegant Especially notable was the fact that the senatoh .almost ignored Landon and Knox, directing most of his keen thrusts at Herbert Hoover and the American Liberty League. Denying any intention of attacking the- Su preme Court, the orator yet expressed keen disappointment with its rulings that killed so many New Deal enter prises. “Is the Court beyond criti cism?” he shouted rhetorically, and replied that Jefferson, Jackson, Lin coln and Theodore Roosevelt did not think so. Senator Barkley gave the conven tion the kind of speech it wanted, and it was really a fine example of politi cal oratory, sarcasm, satire, denuncia tion, pathos and argument being skil fully mingled. That he often left him self open to counter attack goes with out saying, for every partisan speech is full 0f loopholes, but the Kentucky statesman added to his fame as an orator by this effort in Philadelphia. As much cannot be said for Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas. Chosen as permanent chairman, he delivered his address as a delegate because the credentials committee had not re ported and the radio broadcast time was at hand. The speech was carefully written but was too ponderous to be really effective. It repeated much that Senator Barkley already had said, and the delegates and guests became very restless. Senator Joe also scored Herbert Hoover mercilessly, and it became evident that the Democratic strategy was to picture the ex-Presi- dent as still the actual leader of his party. Other speakers had avoided Presi dent Roosevelt’s alleged abandonment of the platform of 1932, but Senator Robinson had this to say: “The Roosevelt administration has faithfully complied with the spirit of the Chicago platform promises. If there has been a partial departure from the letter of the planks in that platform relating to economy and bal ancing the budget, that failure is at tributable to the constantly changing conditions and necessities and to the guerrilla warfare of the Republican party.” Wild Demonstration for F. D. R. Friday’s session was the culmina tion of the convention for at that time was renominated Franklin D. Roose velt. The Auditorium was packed to its ultimate inch and the enthusiasm of the immense crowd was so tense as to be almost painful when Chair man Robinson recognized John E. Mack of New York. Four years ago Judge Mack put Mr. Roosevelt in nomination in Chicago, and the Presi dent had selected him to do the job again. He did it, and did it well. A finished speaker and sincere friend and admirer of the man he was serv ing, he had a grateful task. His glow ing eulogies of the President repeat edly inspired the throng to wild bursts of cheering, and when he closed bed lam broke loose. If there had been some apathy in former sessions, there certainly was none now. The noise meter was at its top mark for long periods as the parading Democrats yelled and screamed and both band ahd organ played full blast. The dem onstration reached the point of hys teria before the men and women sank wearied into their seats. Action of the nomination revealed the fact, already suspected, that Franklin D. was the unanimous choice of the convention. Renomination of John Nance Gar ner for the vice presidency was ac complished Saturday and was marked by an ovation for the well loved Texan second only to that which greeted the naming of Roosevelt. Then the convention adjourned sine die. By this time President Roosevelt had arrived from Washington and in the evening he and Mr. Garner ap peared in Franklin Field of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania before a crowd that filled that huge place and all the surrounding streets. There they delivered their speeches of ac ceptance, speeches that were carried by radio to millions and millions of listeners all over the broad land and even to foreign countries. The demonstration for the Presi dent was tremendous. His counte nance was wreathed in smiles, but there was deep emotion in his eyes and his voice as he addressed this part of the hosts he hopes confidently to lead to victory in November. A Charming Sports Frock yoke will enable you to “bear your burdens” lightly. Try mak ing it in tub silk, shantung, print ed crepe or linen. Whichever fabric you choose gives a sil houette that is universally flatter ing and a touch of sophistication. Barbara BeU Pattern No. 1857-B is available in sizes: 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Correspond ing bust measurements 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) requires 3 7-8 yards of 39 inch material plus 1-4 yard for tha belt. Send 15 cents in coins for the pattern. The Summer Pattern Book con taining 100 Barbara Bell well- planned, easy-to-make patterns is ready. Send 15 cents in coins for your copy. Send your order to The Sew ing Circle Pattern Dept., 3«7 W Adams St., Chicago, HI. e B«U SrndloaU.—WNU Scrvlc*. The Mind Meter • e B*U Syndic*!*.—WNU S*rvte*. By LOWELL HENDERSON No. 1857-B Trim modish raglan shoulders, no sleeves to set in, make this attractive dress easily fashioned by even an amateur sewer. And the neckline is extremely flatter ing and youthful. Equally lovely for office wear or busy shoppers, it answers perfectly, too, for gen eral daytime functions. You’ll appreciate the two roomy pockets, and the back Syllables Test In this test there are two col umns of syllables. Take a syllable out of the first column and unite it with one in the second column to form a word. When you are finished, you should have ten com plete words. 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