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President Returns From
His Western Tour
P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned
to Washington from his tour
through six western states and, though
he was rather tired, he hoped to run up
to New London, Conn.,
for the Yale-Harvnrd
boat race. That de
pended on the congres
sional situation. He
had to deal with the
lawmakers who were
all tangled up in the
controversy over the
tax bill, and also to
sag complete his speech
l||i of acceptance to be de
ck t.4 / livered at Philadel-
President phJa on June 27>
Roosevelt The flna , g peech of
Mr. Roosevelt’s trip was delivered at
Vincennes, Ind., where he dedicated the
handsome memorial to George Rogers
Clark. He paid eloquent tribute to
that conqueror of the Northwest, and
found occasion to appeal for support of
his own program. Said he:
“In his (Clark's) day among the pi
oneers there were jumpers of land
claims and those who sought to swin
dle their neighbors though they were
poor In this world’s goods and lived In
sparsely settled communities. Today
among our teeming millions there still
are those who by dishonorable means
seek to obtain the possessions of their
unwary neighbors.
“Our modern civilization must con
stantly protect Itself against moral de
fectives whose objectives are the same
but whose methods are more subtle
than their prototypes of a century and
' a half ago. We do not change our
form of free government when aaur
ourselves with new/weapons against
new devices of crpme land cupidity.”
In a series of rhetorical questions
the President^efended the* AAA sub
sidies to faptaers, soil conservation, re
forestation, and preservation of wild
life. /
From Vincennes Mr. Roosevelt went
tfv'Hodgenville, Ky., for a brief visit to
incoln’s birthplace, and then hls train
carried him back to Washington.
Senator Norris Again Will
Support Roosevelt
F OUR years ago Senator George Nor
ris of Nebraska, Independent Re
publican, warmly supported Franklin
D. Roosevelt for the Presidency, and
he now announces that he will again
back the Democratic ticket. He urges
his countrymen “to forget partisanship
and come to the support of the man
who more than any other man in re
cent years has stood for the welfare
of the common people.”
The senator said the Cleveland con
vention “nominated a man for President
whose greatest asset is that nobody
knows him and nobody knows what he
stands for. It does not necessarily fol
low from this that the nominee is not
a good man. But it does mean that if
he will not take orders from the un
disclosed bosses who made him, then
these eminent gentlemen have been de
ceived.”
Gov. Landon
Uandon and Knox Are
Named by Republicans
I N ONE of the greatest demonstra
tions of popular acclaim in the his
tory of American politics. Gov. Alfred
M. Landon was nominated for Presi
dent of the United
States by the Repub
lican national conven
tion meeting in Cleve
land.
Nominated on the
first ballot, Governor
Landon received the
unprecedented number
of 984 out of a possible
1,003 votes. The nom-
1 n a 11 o n was made
unanimous. Although
his name had not been
placed in nomination, Senator William
E. Borah of Idaho received 19 votes,
Including 18 from the Wisconsin dele
gation and one from West Virginia.
Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, pub
lisher of the Chicago Daily News, was
nominated unanimously for Vice Pres
ident on the ticket.
Party unity and harmony were the
watchwords of the delegates. The ac
tion of the three other leading candi
dates for the Presidential nomination—
Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, Senator
Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and
Senator Borah—in withdrawing in Lan-
don’s favor paved the way for a mili
tant and unitqd front in the coming
campaign by the Republican party.
T#ie convention adopted a platform
of “Americanism,” pledging a broad
farm relief program, repeal of recip-
tocal tariff bargaining, the elimination
of monopolies and opposition to Amer-
fcan entry into the League of Nations
and the World court
Governor Landon in a telegram read
to the convention by his campaign
manager, John Hamilton, placed his
own interpretation on certain planks in
the platform. Under the title of labor
he advocated a Constitutional amend
ment permitting the states to adopt
legislation necessary to protect women
and children in the matter of maximum
hours, minimum wages and working
conditions, provided it Is not possible
to do so under the Constitution as it
now stands.
He likewise advocated a currency ex
pressed in terms *f gold and convert
ible into gold, adding: “I recognize,
however, that this requisite must not
be made until and unless it can be
done without penalizing our domestic
economy and without injury to our pro
ducers of agricultural products and
other raw materials."
Concerning the merit system in civil
service, he suggested that it should
include every position in the adminis
trative service below the rank of as
sistant secretaries , of major depart
ments and should cover the entire Post
Office department.
Russia to Become Only
“Real Democracy”
R USSIA proposes to establish what
Its rulers assert will be the only
real democracy in the world. A new
constitution, to be promulgated next
fall, has been drawn up under the di
rection of Josef Stalin, the dictator,
afid will be acted on by the all-union
congress of soviets on November 25.
This document guarantees protection
for private property, suffrage for all
citizens more than dghteen years old,
regardless of race, sex, religious be
lief, and previous activities or ( prop-
erty ownership. The communist party
will be retained as the only recognized
political organization.
There are to be two legislative bod
ies, the council of the union, elected
by the peopl?, and the cotincil of na
tionalities, selected by the present in
direct system. These two bodies will
elect a noard <yf 31 officials to run the
government. The chairman of this
hnurCi win W eqUrraient to the presi
dent of a republic.
The official press in Moscow say;
bourgeois democracy is a “diciatorshi
of capitalism,” whereas the So^jpt d
mocracy will grant the widest
to all working people, the “old, e
plotting classes” having disappea
over there.
Eastman Offers Program
o£ Railway Reform
J UST as his office was about
pire, Joseph B. Eastman, federa/
ordinator of transportation, subicted
a report In which he proposed ayt of
reforms by whk the
railroads migh win
back the busin
have lost t
and the
Among his
are lower fais, light
er weight, afl speed
ier cars, usqbf busses
and trucks f the rail
roads to n£t compe
tition and/consolida
tion of teninals and
J. B.Eastman 0 tij er faeries.
He also advised the deflopment of
a nation-wide “container service in
the movement of freighf by'railway,
highway and water, pfdicting that
this would save million|of dollars in
the handling of preset freight and
would create much netfbusiness. The
containers are now usfi in a limited
manner in some locates and indus
tries. f
Eastman recommenrd a “searching
examination and th/ough overhaul
ing” of railroad puljian service, and
a plan of operation^nder which the
Pullman company wuld own and op
erate the cars andrailroads, leasing
them and retainlnglie entire revenue
from the sleeping ^d parlor car serv
ice.
Pershing Says/utlook for
Peace Is Not fight
G EN. JOHN - PERSHING is not
optimistic (Ocerning world peace.
Addressing the raduating class at the
United States Jlitary academy on the
fiftieth annive*ry of his own gradua
tion, the gened said “no one can tell
when we shaligain need our armies.”
He continued 1 “The situation in the
world today # far from reassuring.
None can foiee the effect upon uc of
another worjf catastrophe. Loyal citi
zens cannot Jut their eyes to the pos
sibility of #. They owe It to all that
is sacred fmake ample preparation
against anvil day.”
The 27®idets of the 1936 class go
on three fnths’ leave before report
ing to tlf first stations as second
lieutenant
Death dG. K. Chesterton,
Noted Jbglish Author
O NElEngland’s most distinguished
an/interestlng authors and crit
ics palp from the scene in the death
of GilH Keith Chesterton, generally
knowfcs “G. K.” He was sixty-two
yeara^d. Chesterton was converted to
CathClsro in 1922 and thereafter
muc$f his writing was devoted to
impionshlp of that church. For
^years his writings were very
and in 1926 he established his
reekly magazine. He was the
of about 50/ books and innu-
jle articles.
‘sterton loved to write something
ifl^gruous and was called “prince of
loxes.” Combative, unconvention-
Ind dogmatic, his was a distinctive
His outspoken criticisms in ad-
»s and writings frequently led to
troversies.
‘his
mai
Irvin S. Cobb
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^Jhj/wkd about
Self-Annointed Leaders.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Only eight years ago Bishop
Cannon sat in high state at Hous
ton, wringing the last drop of
moisture out of a bone-dry plank
in the Democratic doctrine so A1
Smith, the wettest of the wets,
would have something congenial and
appropriate to run on.
In the opposition camp the politico-
financial high god, to whose lightest
word all present re
sponded with hails ami
hallelujahs, was Bank
er Charles Mitchell.
Today, if either of
these gentlemen in
serted himself into a
national convention of
his party, he’d be ar
rested for trespass.
Four years ago Mr.
H e a r s t was moving
heaven and earth and
Jack Garner to nomi
nate F. D. Roosevelt,
in whom he reposed everlasting faith.
And the Republican Old Guard was ex
plaining that when its candidate had
promised two cars in every garage he
dida*t figure that for either car there’d
be i deputy sheriff with a writ.
All of which proves our anointed
leaders are not only courageous but
consistent Well, let’s see what the
beys will promise us this year in those
fictional whimsicalities called plat
forms.
• • *
First American Families.
E’VE been skirting the sun-baked
domains of one sizable group of
early American families who don’t care
“who’s been nominated at Cleveland or
who’ll be nominated at Philadelphia.
No matter which side wins, these folks
still will furnish the raw material up
on which blithe amateurs .of the In
dian bureau work weird experiments
in the name of civilization.
Nothing worse can happen to them
than already has been wrought bv
well-meaning meddlers and earnest
muddlers under this administration or
that. For instance, trying to make
farmers out of Apaches, a task akin
to twining caged henhawks to imitate
cuckoo clocks.
Of course, should their reservations
by some miracle prove productive, the
white man will crowd them over into
a remoter thirst-blasted area, 1 where a
horned toad would have to go on relief
or else starve to death.
The vanishing American can’t com
plain that we’ve ever failed to expe
dite his vanishing act for him.
• ♦ *
Beating the Welkin.
T HE poor old welkin certainly took
an awful beating at Cleveland,
didn’t It? And just about the time the
new skin forms, they’ll rip it all over
again at Philadelphia. Language is to a
national convention what yelping is to
a coon dog trailing. It’s a fine personal
advertisement for the dog and doesn’t
Kean anything either way to the coon.
The old superstition that the Repub
licans always pick their candidate at
2 a. m. “in a smoke-filled room” didn’t
come true. You’d think the bosses
would emerge from the session looking
like so many hickory-cured hams when
you hear people tell of the old times.
I’ll bet the G. O. P. boys kept a win
dow open to clear the air. It might
also have come in handy for chucking
Senator Borah out of.
But when the credentials committee
sat to hear the contesting delegations
from the deep, d^*k South—that’s
when you’d see what properly might
be called a smoke-filled room.
* • *
Defying the Congress.
T HREE years ago Bishop Cannon, the
famous Virginia smooth-bore, invited
a senatorial Investigation committee to
go jump off the Washington monument.
Perhaps they didn’t jump off the mon-
umeat, which caused regret to some,
but it was the best offer they had all
season.
This year Doctor Townsend, who
hasn’t lost a cent by being the head
of the Townsend plan, tells an investi
gating committee of the house to kiss
his foot.
They never punished the bishop for
contempt, although they sputtered like
a bunch of damp fire-crackers. Here’s
laying a little eight-to-five they’ll never
punish the Doc, either. He’ll go mer
rily on with the ever-popular idea that,
if there isn’t a pot of gold at the foot
of the rainbow, the government should
supply same without any more of this
shilly-shallying.
Next to the League of Nations, noth
ing seems to make so much noiso and
accomplish so little as a defied con
gress—unless it is some fellow playing
a slide trombone into an empty barrel.
IRVIN S. COBB.
©—WNU Service.
9og> in America Million Yeara
Dogs, or at least animals of the dog
family, have been numerous In Amer
ica since the Oligocene period, which
ended some 1,225,(XX) years ago.
Bitterroot Forest Larga
The Bitterroot national forest In
Idaho and Montana has the greatest
net area of the nation's timber re
serves.
# .smiled *
Knight Life
Teacher—Why were the early days
called the Dark ages?
Student—Because of all the
kmghts.
Discretion
Mistress (to new maid)—Now,
Norah, when you wait on the guests
at dinner, please don’t spill any
thing.
Norah—No, ma’am, I won’t say a
word.
Tough Grubbing
Alice—My dear, those cakes of
Mrs. Smith’s at tea were as hard as
iron.
Alicia—Yes, I know. I suppose
that is why she said, “Take your
pick,” when she handed them around.
Blame Placed
Mrs. NuBryde—I don’t want any
more flour like that you gave me last
week.
Groceryman—What was the matter
with it?
Mrs. NuBryde—It was so tough my
husband couldn’t eat the biscuits I
made from it
THOSE WHO DANCE T ^
WAV'
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than eat.”
“Well, she’ll find plenty of me*
who would rather sign a dance pro
gram than a dinner check.”
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“We keep our kitchens as neat as a pin.
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simmering and just-right seasoning. For a
starter, try Phillips Delicious Southern Tomato
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these country-made soups . . . and each can
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AMERICA’S GREATEST FOOD VALUES!”
PHILLIPS;
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kidney
2)4 cups left-over
meat, diced
1 can (2 cups) PHILLIPS
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1 can PHILLIPS DELICIOUS
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