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(CLEVELAN D, June 13.—1t is a pjty that ~_Reinald Werrenrath, the most interest- - ing performer at the Republican convention, did not sing “The Road to Mandalay” at the end of the session rather than at the beginning. In that event he might have used the logically revised version which runs, “Ship me somewhere east of Suez where the best is like the

Worst, where theve ain't no Ten Commandments and : our ticket’s Hearst and Hearst.” Before the conclave opened I suggested that in common gratitude Mr, Hearst deserved a place on the national ticket. But I had no idea that he would get both. It will be necessary at the moment to suggest that San Simeon may have carried more weight than Topeka in bringing about the nomination of Alf Mossman Landon. The case of Col. Knox is something else again. To some extent the good : gray colonel owes his choice to the : spirit of sportsmanship in the ReHeywood Broun Dublican Party. There was no 5 crowding or pushing around the door of the lions’ den. On “the contrary, all the cantes, even the small fry, were eager to get up and withdraw in “the interest of ‘hominy’.” In the final session the race to avoid the laurel me a ponicky rout. All the eligibles except Col. Knox seemed to regard the vice presidential wreath AS 50 much poison ivy. .

” ”n » Hearst Not Mentioned EVERTHELESS, all previous new lows were shattered on the final morning sessions of the Republican national convention. Whenever the lightning seemed about to strike a potential vice presidential candidate fe promptly duckéd under the bed. That 1s, all but fearless Frank. The most telling argument advanced in favor of his candidacy was that “he followed Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan Hill” In the light of yesterday's events it would seem that Prank was a fool ever to come down again. But having pursued Theodore Roosevelt up the hill; Col. Knox most indubitably did come down. Indeed he came down sufficiently to gain the post of general manager for al] the publications of William Randolph Hearst. By some oversight this was not mentioned in any of the nominating or the seconding speeches for Frank Knox: In fact, the good taste of Ban Simeon’s” squire was 100 per cent throughout the Republican convention. Not once did he send any direct orders to the delegates and his name was never mentioned. ‘This was no convention in which the decisions was reached in a small and smoke-filled room. On the contrary, the issues were decided in a large California chateau within a huge room constructed in rough imitation of Westminster Abbey.

“That's All for Today”

1s time the Harding technique was completely reversed. John Hamilton, the small town slicker who has been hailed rather prematurely as a new political genius, would get off in a hideaway somewhere with William Allen White and a few others to decide the problems of high strategy. But when they came up for air they would discover that the Whole thing had been settled otherwise and elsewhere without their knowledge. Thus, ih the final session, while John Hamilton was out in the corridor firmly conviticed that Vandenberg had been drafted someing went on in the twinkling of an eye and he found Frank Knox sitting in his lap about as welcome as a Morgan midget. * ‘When the choice of the Chicago publisher became official the din of the demonstration was so terrific that one could scarcely hear the booming of a ‘buts terfly. A young soprano tried to stampede the delegates and visitors by singing that excellent ditty, “As the Caissons Go Rolling Along.” You remember it “in aud out roundabout } 2 : “Keep em rolling,” sang the little lady .as; if throat would break. They just wouldn’t i iz n far-off California an elderly gentleman put down the telephone, smiled pleasantly to his secretary and said “That will be all for today.” Laan

My Day

BY MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROUSEVELT

F=: WORTH, Tex., Friday—Such a changeable L' day! Bright sun this morning, and I never saw a prettier sight than the stadium in the Dallas’ fairground. Dresses and hats and .every coler we may see anywhere. in summer. However, here we had parasols of varied hue to make the whole stadium look more like a garden of. flowers in full bloom. One incident marred the morning for me. Out in the heat stood detachments from the Army, the Navy : and the Marine Corps. Suddenly I saw a Joy being almost carried out to a car on the sidelines by two of his comrades. I knew how badly he would feel at dropping out, but I was even more afraid he might be really fil. My husband stopped long enough on the way out to ascertain that he was feeling better. - + After lunch we started out for Fort Worth. Soon the clouds began to gather and then we had wind and, quite a heavy rain. This was a great disappoint- . ment to many people, I know, but throngs still lined the sidewalks and cheered the President. I only hope no one is the worse tomorrow for a drenching. At least it is deliciously cool now. ol We are about to go out and spend the night with our son, Elliott, and his wife and baby. It is rather pleasant to have a family dotted around in various places, for one always had an added interest in the locality where a child is living. : + In this case I have. seen Elliott's home before, but his father has never been here and I know Elliott will want to show him everything. Since I was here last autumn he has made certain imbrovements—and then grandchildren do grow so rapidly I expect I will hardly know Chandler. ) = Every one seems to think that my husband will be too tired to really enjoy this short interlude in an official trip, but I think he really thrives on the feeling - that he is seeing an improvement in conditions wherever we go. He certainly shows no sign of fatigue. (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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her footsteps,” she said.

farmer, and one a railroad man; one girl is a house-

wife, one a teacher and one a doctor, “because,” explains Miss Brigham, “she didn’t want: ic be a teacher.” i , But if Miss Brigham had to live the last 33 years over again, she would still be -a teacher. The first of next week will find her in her car and headed forMichigan and home. And by home she means a real home, for she’s going to build it herself. Real estate, her one-time hobby soon is to be her profession.

s ” ” HE owns seven lots in Michigan which she purchased during “boom” times and she thinks now is the time to build. She confessed that if she didn’t . own the lots she probably would travel, but she can’t let seven lots go to waste, she explained. Her family? It's opposed to the venture, but Miss Brigham isn't discouraged. She intends to build a small house, Cape Cod style, live in it until sold and then build another. _They’re to be landscaped personally by Miss Brigham, for gardening has been one of her hobbies. ho ~ Her interest in building first was: aroused in 1917 when she was designing and supervising the erection of a summer cottage at Whitmore Lake, 10 miles from Ann Arbor, Mich. She and other members of the family lived in it for four summers. Then it was sold. Fir trees, lake breezes, and the happy hours spent at the cottage were recalled. Although she likes fish, she admitted she wouldn't have anything to do with catch|_ing them.

: 8 ” s ISS BRIGHAM started teaching at Livingstone, ‘Mich., remaining there six years. The next two years were spent in

BY ELIZABETH CARR “Y NEVER thought of doing anything else.”

Not so her brothers and sisters, however. Brigham family, which made its home in Howell, Mich, there were two boys and three girls. One boy became a

This is the last of a series of articles on Indianapolis school feachers who retired this month,

Brigham’s explanation of a

teaching career that ended this month after 33 years. \ “My mother taught and I just naturally followed in

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study at the University of Michigan. She next went to Huron, O., for two years, teaching the fourth

grade. She came to Indianapolis in 1904.

Decided

" She taught fourth and fifth

grades at School 7, fifth at Schools 61 and at 36; moved to ment at School 50 and to junior high at School 72 where she concluded her teaching career. Geography, civics -and history ‘were the subjects she taught in the high school.

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course I taught in one. Every one had to get his teaching experience there,” she explained... There's a very marked change in teaching, said Miss Brigham, confirming the opinion of the other retiring teachers.

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subject . more interesting,” she said. “Everything uséd.to be so cut and dried, but not so today. The radio, the newspapers, movies and theaters have helped to make teaching problems easier.” She has traveled a good bit about ‘the United States, but when she contemplated a trip to Europe a sister asked her why she didn’t see more of America first. This same sister journeyed to Europe several years later. Her report was: “I can understand now why you. were so anvious to go abroad.” They were agreed on the beauty of the scenery and the evidence of old cultures. = : Miss Brigham intends to spend the winter in California with a friend. She may even remain there. = : She’s excited about the trip already. She’s got ‘the route all mapped out, straight out 66. And it she gets tired she'll stop over and do some sight-seeing. * THE EN

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LEVELAND, June 13. — Under the conditions, it is extremely close to the best ticket the Republicans could have nominated. I say, “under the conditions.” One of the conditions is that the candidates must be young—young, that is, in a sense which includes being new ‘in national politics. Few realized until we came here how thoroughly Republican voters throughout the

for new leadership. It was not that they had any feeling against the old leaders. On the contrary most of the old leaders were respected. It was more like the commonest process of nature, a new generation growing up, passing out of the tutelage of elders, evolving new ideas of their own and proceeding to function, to take over the world and its institutions as new generations must. What happeneded at Cleveland - was not a revolution; there was no violence or heat in it. It was precisely like the orderly succession of generations — one group reaching the age of senescence and retirement, another reaching maturity and dominance.

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country were in a mood of looking.

HE evolution from old to new, as répresented' by. the ticket, would have been more complete, and the symbolism of it more obvious, had Senator Vandenberg been made the vice presidential nomination instead of Col. Knox. - Senator Vandenberg is slightly: more on the side - of newness—in the Senate, after he came there a few years ago he was called one of the “Young Turks.” But Senator Vandenberg had a perfectly sound reason for counseling against giving the vice presidential nomination to himself. In the Senate are two outstanding aggressive Republicans, almost the only two who function well as fighting debaters. One is Senator Hastings of Delaware. His term is coming to an end and he appears determined to retire. The other is Senator Vandenberg. Had Mr. Vandenberg been nominated for Vice President and elected, the Republicans would be without any aggressive leadership in the Senate. In years Col. Knox is not so young! He fought in the Spanish ‘War. But in every other respect he reflects the young and the new. He is new as a figure in formal politics; he is a high leader in the American Legion, which is a new

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BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

YOUR MIND

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| Hoover for the presidency. It did

force in politics, and he was one ofthe. 10 or 12 men closest to:Thsodore Roosevelt when the latter, in 1912, made his Progressive fight for what meant, then and still, ‘new ideals in politics and Rookie life. ; : » oa

_S for the head of the ticket, ‘Gov. Landon, he : completely represents the new. And he was literally the best possibility for the presidential nomination. The nomination had to go to the new, and Gov. Landon was the best of the new. It is self-evident that the older group of Republican leaders contains men more experienced and better-known to the public. But the convention, and the country as a whole, was determined to turn to the new. It was not in hostility; it just had to be; it was the course of nature. Nothing could better illustrate the mood of the convention than what attended Mr. Hoover's speech. He received far the greatest.ovation the convention gave anybody. Rarely has such a tribute of pride and af: fection been given any one. The convention indorsed 100 per cent the ideas in "Mr. Hoover’s address, and these ideas are basically the ideas of the convention and of the Republican Party in this campaign. Yet the convention had not the faintest notion of nominating Mr.

not occur to them. Inexperienced

observers and much of the distant

BY HERBERT LITTLE ‘Times Special Writer

LEVELAND, June 13.—President William Green of the A. F. of L. still favors Franklin Roosevelt for President. : : “There has been no change in my -attitude,” he sala tocay at the home

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As to: the official attitude of ths

Governor,

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A. F. of L. itself, Mr. Green said no |. being made to check on the labor | policies and record. of the Kansas

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radio audience may have thought ‘when they heard the ovation to:Mr; Hoover, that he might become a possibility for the presidential nomination... The convention made no slightest gesture in that direction, did not give a thought to it. The convertion was as certain to turn to the new; as a generation reaching maturity is certain to function in its own way. : Sen 2 2 =» - F the new, the wholly normal new, the new in the precise sense in which every tomorrow must differ from every today, the old not being overturned but merely taking on inevitable modification—of the new. in that wholesome sense, Governor Landon is the perfect epitome and symbol. He is at once as old as the Bible and the Constitution, and at the same time as new as the radio and the automobile. That is a combination which President Roosevelt’s carefree impetuosity thinks impossible. But it exists, it

- is apparent every day, it is inherent ‘in nature, it is the commonest fact

of existence —and Gov. represents it. . A fair essence of Gov. Landon’s ideas would say: Old principles preserved, new technique adopted. That is the need of the day, and Gov. Landon reflects it. Common imagination likes to call all. change by a dramatic name, “revolution.” - The truth is that ninety-nine hundredths of all change comes in the

Landon

Roosevelt Still Is Favored for President by A. F. of L. Head

amendement, a Federal housing program, anti-injunction legislation, and a constitutional amendment to curb the Supreme Court.

NS’ SAYS MARK SULLIVAN

less dramatic form of orderly evolution. LF his, of normal evolution at a phase which h e the eye, the convention. a ample, and Gov. Landon bol and agent. ; ” ” ” : F the new. regime; the most important. figure present at the convention was John Hamilton, Mr. Landon’s manager and, as the

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new national chairman, now active |

head of the Republfcan Party. He made a peculiarly deep impression’ It was not a spectacular impression; indeed it was the opposite of that. He has the kind of force that is quiet and unostentatious: he is vital, earnest, clear minded, as frank as a window-pane, as direct as a straight line. He has ability without the vice of “cleverness,” without smartness. In no solitary respect does he remind any one of a politician of the old

Mr. Hamilton seemed an example of the new, the best possible new not only in politics but throughout all American life. One characteristic of this whole new American generation is insistence on reality, quiet distaste for whatever seems to them sham or.postur-

ing or sentimentalism. This qual- k

ity in Mr. Hamilton, this admiration for - whatever is devious or adroit or “clever,” infused every line of Mr. Hamilton's speech putting Gov. Landon in nomination. Mr. Hamilton's speech was a remarkable performance. Not once,

‘as I recall, did he mention Presi-

dent Roosevelt's name. He talked only of Gov. Landon. But in ev. ery sentence in which he told the kind of man Gov. Landon is, he seemed to add, in an unspoken parenthesis, “this, you will observe, is the opposite of Mr. Roosevelt.” (Copyright, New York Tribune, Inc.)

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the Landon nomination affected his | |

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. | (CLEVELAND, June 13.—The hoarse and

"" weary are scattering toward their homes at this writing and the hall where they ratified the instructions received by phone from the hotel rooms is now in the hands of the wreckers and sweepers. From

| now on the patriots will apply themselves to the task

of selling Alf Landon’s personality and explaining the state of mind of Kansas and the historical and other influences which have produced it. Mr. Landon is the first

and although he seems hardly like-

his campaign should serve to acquaint the East with the nature of a hardbbitten, horny-han breed of insurgents who have always been left wing in the Republican

The Kansan of the present has a much more accurate measure of the Eastern American than the Basterner has of him. Kansans go

“East, but Easterners never go (0 Westbrook Pegler

Kansas except of necessity. Av It has been a long time since there was frontier anywhere in the East, but the grandparents of the present generation of Kansans were sod-hut people, ‘many of whom were born without the assistance of . doctors, and the population still knows by personal ‘experience a number of inconveniences which are only newspaper talk to the East. Blizzards, drought, the scorching heat of summer, cyclones, dust storms and grasshoppers are some that come to mind.

» » » Cow $5; Steak $4

FEW years ago, in Washington, your corres spondent discovered on the menu of the hotel a

“steak listed at $4 the same day that a letter came

from a friend in the town of Soldier, Kas. telling of a Kansan who had just been compelled to sell a whole cow, complete with cowhide in god condition, steaks, tripcs, stew meat, liver and one set of horns, for $5 because, there wasn’t enough water for her. True, the steak in Washington was a twopassenger steak, but still there was a rather unreasonable markup between the producer and the consumer. Chickens were a nickel a piece in Kansas at the time and chicken salad was $1.50 in a large hotel in New York. During the convention your correspondent renewed old friendship with Mr, Jess Harper, the old Notre Dame football coach, who preceded Knute Rockne. Mr. Harper is a Kansas farmer and he was all for turning the rascals out of Washington next fall, even though he had been in receipt of certain checks from the United States government for pres! venting wheat on his acres.

» » " Good Fellow Not Wanted

HERE was another Jess in the sport industry some years ago who faithfully interpreted Kan sas to the East and made few friends because he wasn’t a good fellow. That was Jess Willard, who made two fortunes in the ring and established a reputation for frugality second only to that of the man who beat him last, Luis Angel Firpo. Mr. Jack

. Skelley of Yonkers, ‘N, Y. who trained Willard for.

“the Firpo fight, reported afterward that his reward

iv has-been nothing more than the gloves Willard wore Fd losing the fight. He thought ‘he should have had

“more, but’ Willard’s idea of the value of a dollar had been acquired on a Kansas farm and he looked on the task of training an ex-champion as mere recrea= tion. Mr. Willard wasn’t a good fellow, but he was a real Kansan. Mr. Landon may not be elected, but . he might be and your correspondent therefore hopes he is not a good fellow, either. . ; The champion political good fellows of the present generation have been Jimmy Walker, Warren G. Harde ing and James A. Farley. The citizens will be pay ing for their open-handedness for many a year.

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, June 13—All week a pall was on Capitol. : The chambers of oratory were still, the galleries ‘vacant, the elevators idle. Even the Negro barbers, whose free shaves for Senators are immensely popular, lounged around reading the comics. Cleveland stole the show. The only voices heard in the monotones of Capitol guid sightseers through the ancient * Bven the office buildings were still. The monorail «= subway car between the Capitol and the Sénate office building droned back and forth with a single passenger each trip. . pl * The list of committee sessions fell off to three for both House and Senate combined. The only heavy labor done was by the conferees in ironing out the tax bill. : It was a concurrent resolution that caused the Capitol to be left like a death house. Since neither the Senate nor the House may adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other, both joined in giving consent. \ The great mace was removed from its marble pillar in the House to be locked up in the office of the sergeant-at-arms. The Republicans went to Cleveland. The Democrats went

e building have been

, conducting straggling rble corridors.

But now the banks of the Potomac are beginning to look alive again. : i : . » ns ”

A GROUP of Indiana delegates called on Senator

Borah at his hotel suite before the nomination and said: “Senator, we wan{ you to come into our state in the campaign and make a speech.” “But you

Practically every delegation in- Cleveland made a special plea to Landon managers to send the G. O. P, -candidate into their state, promising that if so he