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(CLEVELAND, June 13.—It is a pity that Reinald Werrenrath, the most interesting performer at the Republican convention, did not sing “The Road to Mandalay” at the end of the session rather than at the be-

ginning. 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 opensd 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 Landofi. 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 Re‘Heywood Broun publican Party. There was no * crowding or pushing around the ddor of the lions’ den. On the contrary, all the candidates, even the small fry, were eager to get up and “thé interesq of ‘hominy’.” in the final session the race to avoid the laurel Jecaitie a paiicky rout. All the eligibles except Col. m regard the vice pres 8 5 cy Sa presidential wreath ; ; ” ”n E 4 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 he promptly ducked under the bed. That is, all but fearless Frank. The most telling argument afivanced in favor of his candidacy, was that “he folloyed Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan Hill.” In the light of yesterday's events it would seem that Frank 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 WilHam 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 San 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 yas no convention in which the decisions were 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

_Tough imitation of Westminster Abbey.

the Caissons Go

“That's All for Today”

Ye 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, in the final session, while John Hamilton was out in the corridor firmly conviriced that Vandenberg had been drafted something went on in the twinkling of an eye and he found Frank Knox sitting in his lap about as welcome as a Morgan BE ugel. "When the choice of the Chicago publisher bec official the din of the don oD was so i that one could scarcely wedr the booming of a buts terfly. A young soprano \iried.io stampede the délegates and visitors by singing that excellent ditty, “As t Rolling Along.” You remember it, in and out roundabout 2 “Keep ‘em rolling,” sang the little lady as if h throat would break. They just wouldn't roll. But ; far-off California an elderly gentleman. put down the

telephone, smiled pleasantly to his secretary an “That will be all for today.” ary aad sid,

~My Day

BY MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROUSEVELT

: Fe&T WORTH, Tex., PFriday—Such a changeable

day! Bright sun this morning, -and I never saw a

- prettier sight than the strllium in the Dallas fair-

ground. Dresses and hats and every color we See anywhere in summer. However, here we go 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 boy 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 ill. My husband stopped long enough on the way out to astertain 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.

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 has an added interest in the locality where a child is living.

.#" In this case I have seen Elliott's home. before, but

family. Rescued by a Christian

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 improvements—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, 1036, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1936 iy

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Portoffice. Indianapolis, Ind.

“SCHOOL'S OUT’ FO

This is the last of a series of articles on Indisnapolis school teachers who retired this month.

BY ELIZABETH CARR

“I NEVER

thought of doing anything else.” : ; That's Miss Mary K. Brigham’s explanation of a ;

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

her footsteps,” she said.

Not so her brothers and sisters, however.

In the

Brigham family, which made its home in Howell, Mich., there were two boys and three girls. One boy became a

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 {c be a teacher.” 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. for Michigan 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.

n ” n 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 gardehing has been one of her hobbies. 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 catching them. 3

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

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.

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. “A one-room schoolhouse? Of course I taught in one. Every one had to get his téaching experience there,” she expldined.

There’s a very marked change :

In’ teaching, said Miss Brigham, confirming the opinion of the other retiring ‘teachers.

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are more interested and the subject more interesting,” she said. “Everything used 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 Statés, 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 anvioys 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 if she gets tired she’ll stop over and do some sight-seeing. THE END

Mary Brigham Has Decided to Build Some New Homes

Miss Mary K. Brigham . .. teaching came natural.

‘BEST TICKET UNDER CONDITIONS SAYS MARK SULLIVAN

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

. | uritil we came here how thoroughly .| Republican’ voters throughout the

country were in a mood of looking 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, ideas of their own and proceeding to function, to take over the wérld 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 matur-

ity and dominance.

evolving new.

TT evolution from old to new, as represented by the ticket,

would. have’ lleen 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 newhess—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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.dore Roosevelt when the latter,

force in politics, and he was one of the 10 or 12 men closest to Theoin 1912, made his Progressive fight for what meant; then sand still, new ideals in politics and public life. un 2 x

"A _S for the head of the ticket, Gov. Landon, he completely represents the new. And he was literally the best possibility for the presidential homination. 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 mén 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. or 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 affection 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. Hoover for the presidency. It did not occur to them. Inexperienced

radio audience may have thought when they heard the ovation to Mr. Hoover, that he might become - a possibility for the presidential nornination. The convention made! no slightest gesture in that direction, did not give a thought to it. The convention was as eertain to turn to the new as a generation reaching maturity is certain to function in its own way. - ” ” 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 thinks impossible. But it exists, it | is apparent every day, it is inherent in nature, it is the commonest fact of existence—and Gov. Landon 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 hun-

observers and much of the distant

Roosevelt Still “Is Favored for

President by

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 toGay at the home

of his daughter here, when asked if |

the Landon nomination affected his statement of last month approving Roosevelt's policies and candidacy. As to the official attitude of the A. F. of L. itself, Mr. Green said no

being made to check on the- labor |

policies and

the A. F. of | L. is to draft a statement compar-| | records, and to make it public at

the July meeting of the & F. of L.|

dredths of all change comes in the

A. F. of L. Head

amendment, a Federal housing pro‘gram, anti-injunction legislation, and a constitutional amendment to curb the Supreme Court.

impetuosity

less dramatic form of orderly evolution. . Of this, of normal evolution at a phase which becomes plain’ to the eye, the.convention was ‘an example, and Gov. LiRd@én is he sym bol and agent. 3 Fam pve 9) ” ” s F the new regime, the most important figure present at the convention “was John Hamilton, Mr. Landon’s manager: and, as the new national chairman, now active

‘head of the Republican 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 type. : 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 quality in Mr. Hamilton, this admiration for whatever is devious or adroit or “clever,” infused every line of Mr. Hamilton’s speech put-

iting Gov. Landon in nomination.

Mr. Hamilton's speech was a remarkable performance. Not. once, as I recall, did he mention President 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 seeméd to add, in an unspoken parenthesis, “this, you will observe,

is the opposite of Mr: Roosevelt.” - (Copyright, New York Tribune, Inc.)

GRIM AND. BEAR IT + + by Lichty

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Fair Enough ;

WESTBROOK PEGLER

(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

nominee from his fork of the creek _and although he seems hardly likely to turn the rascals out this time his campaign should serve to atquaint the East with the nature of a hardbitten, horny-handed breed of insurgents who have always been left wing in the Republican Party. ; The Kansan of the present has a much more accurate/measure of the Eastern American than the: Easterner has of him. Kansans go East, but Easterners never go to~Westbrook Pegler Kansas except of necessity. 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 corree 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 good condie tion, steaks, tripcs, siew 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 une reasonable markup between the producer and the consumer. Chickens were a nickel apiece 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 preventing wheat on his acres. SE

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Good Fellow Not Wanted

HERE was another Jess in the sport industry some years ago who faithfully interpreted Kane 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. Skellev of Yonkers, N. Y. who trained Willard for the Firpo fight, reported afterward that his reward --had been nothing more than the gloves Willard wore (rin; losing the fight. He thought he should have had +-more, but Willard’s idea of the valye.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. Hard ing and James A. Farley. The citizens will be paying for their open-handedness for many a year.

Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT §. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, June 13.—Al]l 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 comiics. Cleveland stole the show. The only voices heard in the building have been the monotones of Capitol guides, conducting straggling sightseers through the ancient marble corridors. : Even the office buildings were still. The monorail subway car between the Capitol and the Senate office building droned back and forth with a single passenger each trip: : The list of committee sessions fell off fo three for both House and Senate: combined. The only heavy labor done was by the conferees in ironing out the tax bill. - : a 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 re=moved 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 fishing. But. now the banks of the Potomac are beginning to look alive again. r Res - ;

GROUP of Indiana ‘delegates called on Senator Borah at his hotel suite before the noniination “Senator, we wani you to come into our

your invitation in mind, but-I warn you, I don't think you will like the speech I make.” . Practically every delegation in Cleveland made a to Landon managers to send the G. O. P,