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PHILADELPHIA, June 23.—Al Smith is still potato minded. He may disown, disinherit, and deny the Democratic claims of Franklin. D. Roosevelt and even so his heart remains in the highlands as the clans

begin to gather for the convention. I have

no desire to go into a Freudian analysis of Al's unconscious but it is a fact that a dull gathering has been animated and made dramatic by the announce- : ment of a walking tour. It is generally agreed that the most useful oratorical effort on the Democratic side during the spring training season was Smith's outburst at the Liberty League dinner. Now he has rung the bell again. It is possible, of course, that the open defection may cost Roosevelt votes in November but at the moment Al has saved a dead show by introducing the element of conflict. This is written after only a few hours in Philadelphia but on first . survey it is frue Yah ithe Democss ts -Heyw are putting on a r perform90d Brown uy the Republicans achieved in Cleveland. More people are out in the streets. There is" more hollering and a far greater number of arguments. In Philadelphia delegates offer to buy you drinks. : Before- Al Smith got into’ politics he had stage aspirations. His economic views may have changed a score of times since he was graduated from Fulton Fish Market and swallowed by that whale of a building on Fifth-av, but he has never lost his touch with the dramatic verities. Somebody has to thase Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model, or it just isn’t a drama. And so the old play doctor stepped in at just the right time. ” 5 ” Just an Old ‘Mellerdrammer’ HE plan was for a pageant. Instead a man with T a brown derby introduced himself into the proceedings and exclaimed as he attempted to throw. the heroine into the East River, “Nellie, why do you ‘fear me?” Last night men and women were standing

around Philadelphia bars arguing fiercely as to what Grover Cleveland would have done if he were alive

today. The best local drink is a rum - concoction called a Brighton punch. Take two and you will have a decided and articulate position as to whether Al was right or Andrew Jackson. .*- Smith and the four other querulous guints played a mean trick on Lemke and Coughlin. The delegates haven't even begun to get around to them yet. They are much too busy discussing Al's grand march. Jt 1s generally agreed that all the competitors in the .perambulation should be strictly judged by the A. A. U. rules of walking. As soon as any man’s hands or knees touch the ground he should be instantly disfiualified, Some think that Al has Topeka as his estination but the more accepted view is that the frenzied five mean to beat it all the way to San ‘Simeon where it is understood that a fatted calf

will be butchered in Al's honor.

Liet’s Call Out the Marines

F course, the program set forth by the ‘Weston ! Marching and Chowder Club has aroused a certain amount of criticism. There is particular interest in that part of the program of the five squawkers which says, “you must insist upon a chief executive ‘who will collect the moneys due us from “defaulting ‘governments instead of encouraging by silence and otherwise a continuance of defaults” Some of the’ ‘boys want to know the formula. They would like Al to elucidate. Would he favor calling out the Marines or sending a gunboat up the Thames? Of course, if the fleeing five can get as far as Topeka the rest will be easy. In the. Kansas metropolis a kind friend has promised to supply each of the fugitives with a cowboy suit. From that point on it will no longer be necessary to sleep in haystacks and to travel only on dark nights. Once they have

their: chaps and sombreros the boys can pretend to:

‘be Republicans and take their chances. Between here

: and Kansas Al has been instructed to give the name

of William Allen White.

! . BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

TASHINGTON, Monday—I left the peace ani § ! quiet of the country yesterday afternoon and

. took a train for New York. On the train a young

.woman, who is a Reuters correspondent in China, and who was on her way back there, came up to speak to me. ; She expressed regret that she had not been able to be at a press conference or have an interview. I told her that I was “off the record,” and in any case not giving individual interviews. She was very kind and considerate. We got off in New York and dashed for a taxi with our bags. Pantingly the same young woman followed and murmured to me: “I had almost forgotten how wonderful it is to be back in the United States until I saw you travel-. ing.” : Rather a sweet tribute to the individual liberty allowed even the wives of our hard-working public cfficials! The midnight train to Washington, a brief chat with my husband this morning anc a longer time over: the newspapers than I should have spent. In periods such as these, the papers are always interesting from a psychological point of view. : Every one is writing and doing something spectacular to bring himself before the public eye, even those whom we have almost forgotten because of their - months of more or less peaceful retirement are coming back into view. It reminds me a little of “bury the dead” where no one wishes to stay buried. ; Off by train to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, for .the Chi Omega award, given every year to a woman who has proved her ability to be of use to mankind. In this case it is richly deserved by Dr. Alice Ham“jliton, who holds a professorship in Harvard Medical

: i College, which accepts an outstanding woman as a |

professor and rejects women students. We get to White Sulphur at 6:45, and are there Just for the night. ;

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"THE KING A P Edward, 42 Today, Retains

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BY MILTON BRONNER ' NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ONDON, June 23.—Edward the Eighth, who has been sovereign of the United Kingdom since midnight of

Jan. 20 and who is 42 years old today, has already

in his

brief reign of five months impressed upon the British people the fact that he is primarily a human being of warm impulses and direct manners.

He neither is nor wants to be. , mere stuffed shirt nor :

symbol of empire. He put it tersely and sympathetically in a recent short speech in which he said: 5 : “l am the same person I was when I was Prince of

Wales.”

For the British that simple sentence had a wealth of

implications. As Prince of Wales he had always been as outspoken as his royal position in a constitutional. kingdom allowed him to be. Known the world over as the

“Prince of Sales,” Britain's best commercial = traveler, at home he always seemed

to have especially at heart

three things: 1. The well-being of the former soldiers whose deeds of valor and

endurance he witnessed in France }

by being in the trenches with them. 2. Pushing by all the means in his power every effort to relieve the tragedy of unemployment. 3. Fighting the slum evil and practicing what he preached by tearing down the tenements on his own estates and putting up

model flats for working men and

their families, ” E 4 8

T every opportunity he has . had since he became King, he has shown that these things still lie very close to his heart. For instance, in April, deputations representing many classes and creeds of his subjects, he said earnestly;

“I have witnessed the horrors of war . .. I got to know the hardships of the men at the front . . . I realize the hardships of those since then who, through no fault

of their own, have had the mis-.

fortune to endure long periods of unemployment. With all sincerity, therefore, I not only join in your prayers: that the future may bring peace and prosperity to this country, but I would assure you that my constant endeavor will be to promote . the establishment of peace throughout the world . . . “As Prince of Wales I bore a

device with an ancient motto: ‘I.

serve’ As King, I shall hold this in constant remembrance, for:a

Xing can perform no higher func -{

tion than that of service.” The people of England have seen a new young King who has buckled right down to his job with intense seriousness. In his working days, he spends long hours going over state parers which must come before him and doing other formal things demanded of an English King. One of the most touching of these was on April 9 when he went to Westminster Abbey personally to bestow maundy money on 42 old men and 42 old women, the number 42 equaling that of his years. It was the second time in 250 years that an English sovereign had “made his maund” in person. The last time was when his father did so in 1932. In all such state matters he shows an inclination piously to follow in his father’s footsteps. :

PIR UT in less formal affairs or in affairs that he chooses to make informal, he has already shown himself to be himself and no shadow of King George. It is for this reason that when the

receiving .

official period of mourning for the royal family is over many ex- . pect a rather new deal with a new slant on things given by King Edward himself. br ; People thought when he came to the throne he would give up flying. He shows no inclination to do.so. In fact, before King George was buried, King Edward - and the Duke of York flew to-

rangements for the funeral. Loyal English held their breath. - Had that plane had a fatal crash, little Princess Elizabeth, the Duke of York's eldest daughter, would have been sovereign of England. The King has flown a number of ‘times since then and shows every inclination to continue doing: so. ‘He has broken kingly precedents in other ways, too.” If he wants to visit the business offices of ‘his Duchy at- Cornwall,

he walks just like plain John Smith. He doesn’t wait for his car. If is raining and, like John Smith, he hoists his umbrella and trudges along. Early in May there ‘was the annual flower show in London. The King is ah ardent gardener in. his bachelor estate at Fort Belvedere. Without: any previous announcement, he paid a surprise visit to the show. He thus cut the fussiand feathers. ;

; Ts 8 = . JT was a hot day and he wore a straw hat, thereby doing a good turn to the English straw hat

manufacturers. Also he wore no vest—again just like plain John Smith ona hot day. He

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| of which the basic principle is, cen-

The New Deal's NRA gave to Washington: ‘a control, detailed, minute and complete, over every aspect -of business . and industry. The New Deal's Triple A gave to Washington the power to tell a Georgia farmer how much cotton he might raise, a Virginia farmer how much tobacco, a North Carolina farmer how much potatoes. The New Deal subjected every person in the South in inspection, and punitive action, by officials getting their authority from Washington.

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N this convention, also, the South is to be deprived of a safeguard which for a century has.given the South ability to protect its principle of states’ rights and its other local positions about national affairs. For 104 years an unbroken rule of the Democratic Party has

BY DR. ALBERT

Would i NT BE B PEOPLE o GENERAL THE LAWS OF

PNOTIOM?

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EDWARD WIGGAM

gether to London to make ar- |

not far from Buckingham Palace, .

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Affection for His Poorer Subjects

King Edward VIII

lit and puffed away at a cigaref and chatted easily with the gar-

decreed that a. presidential candidate can be named only by twothirds of a convention. ‘That meant that one-third of a convention could veto a nomination. That meant that the Southern states, acting. as a unit in a convention, could prevent the nomination of any presidential candidate deemed ‘by the South to be unfriendly to its particular views and interests. Now what are the particular views and interests that the Soulh has passionately wished to protect? Why has the South always prized. states’ rights and always insisted on their preservation? Why has the South, ever since the Civil War, always voted the. Democratic ticket, practically solidly? And why has the South fought jealously to maintain a rule which gave the South power to prevent Democratic presidential nominations. What motive. has been behind this long and determined insistence by the South on a point of view peculiar to itself? * Much of the point: of view peculiar to the South arose from what was once called a “peculiar institution”—a,_ political euphemism ’ for slavery. What the South has wished to insure by states’ rights and by the two-thirds rule in Democratic conventions was that the local affairs of the South should be determined by white voters. Ever since the Civil War, the Democratic Party has stood for white domination, for the minimizing of Negro voting, for the rights of.the states to have their own election laws and usages. fom a ” ”

The South has always refused to vote the Republican ticket

| because the Scuth felt that the Re-"

publican Party stood for Negro voting and Negro participation in public affairs in proportion to the Ne‘groes’ share of the populdtion. This

Southern states and many Southern communities, where Negroes outnumber whites. Such-communities upon the South's own power within the Democratic Party to protect voting and office-holding proportion to the numbers of race.

was unthinkable to some whole |-

participation by Negroes jn |

deners in charge of some of the exhibits. : To one discussing

SOUTH SHOULD ‘WALK,’ NOT SMITH—SULLIVAN

South is about to lose in this convention. In the welter of revolutionary changes taking place, the least-noticed yet one of the most important is the change" in the Democratic Party's policy about Negro voting, Negro:office-holding and

‘Negro participation in public af-

fairs. The party, under the leadership

1 of Chairman James A. Farley, Sen-

ator Joseph Guffey and other Northern and city leaders, set out two years ago to draw the Negro vote as a mass from the:Republican Party to the Democratic. They seem to have succeeded to some degree. - There are signs that this

year, for the first time since the Ne- |.

gro voteds; he may vote in large numbers with the Democratic Party.

= 2 ” oH ERE in Philadelphia on Sunday, Chairman Farley and Secretary ‘W. Forbes Morgan addressed the National Colored Democratic Associations at a meting to synchronize with the Democratic national convention. - Secretary Morgan quoted a Negro Democratic congressman from Chicago as saying that, “Mr. Roosevelt has appointed more Negroes to responsible government positions than the last three Republican. Administrations taken together Ye 3 » In Pennsylvania, the Democratic state administration has under way a conspicuous campaign to get the Negro vote of the state. Their policy is to appoint Negroes to office in proportion to their share of population... The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law making it a crime for hotel keepers and similar purveyors to decline - accogumotation wn New Yolk, Chicago, Cléveland and

| King came to Southampton in

weather, which had been rather dry, he said: = “Thank goodness we did have & half hour's rain out at my place at Fort Belvedere, but that . was all. It is miserable for us amateur gardeners, but I suppose. you professionals. do not mind so much.” Partly, perhaps, to. boost the steamship Queen Mary and actually just as much because he was genuinely. interested, he paid two visits to the great vessel. One was early in March when she was still lying in the yard basin in Glasgow, only completed as to her exterior and her engine: rooms. The big Scotch city is a hotbed of radicalism, but nowhere did the King get a warmer. reception than from the men who built ‘the ship. This was repeated when he paid a surprise visit to the slum district of Glasgow, one of the worst in the world. ” 2 2 ‘WO days before the Queen - Mary sailed on her maiden voyage to New York on May 27, the entire royal family visited her in her now completed state. The

his big airplane, had his pilot circle over the ship several times while he photographed her from the air just like any other photo fan. : One other thing in his five months’ reign stands out: Parliament discussed and passed the King’s civil list. The crown lands, whose revenues once went entirely to the sovereign, now by agree= ment, yield that money to the country’s treasury, In return, Parliament votes grants for the civil list of the royal family and the state wins on the deal. King Edward's, at his request, was fixed at $2,050,00). But what for a few days caused excited tongue-wagging was the provision that, if the King married, the new Queen would get $125,000 per annum, and if a son and heir were born .the baby would get $125,000 per annum. It was thought by some this was the prelude to an announcement of the King's betrothal. Cooler second thought saw it was just one of those legal provisions —in case. But there are no “in case” indi-

cations as yet. At 42, the King still. seems a confirmed bacheior,

other cities campaigns are under way to get the Negro voters and leaders into the Democratic Party. In Congress, the South sees & Negro ‘eongressman: from Chicago, who is a Democrat, the first case in history, I think. In .this convefition it is said there are 30 Negro delegates and that never before were any.

About all this as a phenomenon, many things could be said. If the attempt to take the Negro voters from the Republican into the Democratic Party “is isuccessful, it will make a difference in the election. Negro voters happen to be especially numerous in certain key cities, Cin- | cinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis. : sw a HOSE cities are in large, doubtful states. It might be that migration of all the Negro voters would determine the election in those states. and hence in the country. - No one can question the right of the Democrdts to go; after the Negro vote, nor the right of the Negro to vote where he thinks his interest lies. ;

Nevertheless, concentrated pressure on one race to induce it as a mass to change its political afiiliation is a form of class appeal that contains more than ordinary dynamite,” pe But the particular application to this convention has to do with the South. Here the South sees disappear practically every reason whether of principle or local interest or prejudice which has hitherto kept the South in the Democratic: Party. The South has more acute reasons for outbreak than Gov. Smith and his associates have. To see whether the Southern leaders will do anything, we must wait until

later in the week.

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Fair Enough air Erough PHILADELPHIA, June 23.—This orgy of noise, color and excitement, this wail. ing of motorcycle sirens and din of inco-* herent oratory beating on the nerves'and emotions of the patriots, is actually the

American method of selecting a ruler. These

men and women, shoying and squirming through the hotel lobbies, leaning against the walls to ease their burning feet, these goggle-eyed, sweaty chame pion chasers and autograph hunters with the badges and the trick hats and mottled sashes are the |: ‘delegates. That raucous whoop |: from some unseen female with the voice of a Big Four engine, magnified a thousand times by the infernal ingenuity of the radio, is |! a patriotic song, insp - Amer- |i icans to perform their so duty. | And that tall, bland, bald gen=- |: tleman with: the cud of chewing |; gum is James A. Farley of New |: York, who first felt the thrill of Sbsluie power as chairman of the ew York prize fight commission tbrook Pegler and now finds himself more pow- Weathrgok ; erful { i pe Sver dreamed of being. : € wheel turns. It was Al Smith who appointed Mr. Farley to the prize fight commission ang today Mr. Farley reads Mr. Smith out of the. Democratic Party with & contemptuous, patronizing sneer about certain people, prominent in organizations like the Liberty League.” A great Democrat, with ‘a fine reca ord of public service, caught in the awful crime of disloyalty, is cast out in an offhand statement.

Times Have Changed

I : has fallen into bad political company and that his selfish interest in his personal fortune colored his Judgment in denounc

the New Deal. And ce he showed a pathetic Talnly

oss of his old political knack in the tactless manner in which he addressed himself to the convention. Nevertheless, it comes as a bit of a shock that Mr. Farley can lightly dismiss Al Smith as “people of this kind” and slur his “Amer= icanism.” Never was a convention as loud and thoughtless as this one is even before the gavel falls for the first session. One band quits and another breaks intg sound with the crash of a railroad wreck. Any Democrat with a badge, it seems, is entitled to a motorcycle cop for an escort, and the piercing wail of the sirens is heard above the tumult. The hall is something to shame the crude and frugal showmanship of the Republicans. It is a big hall, with two great tiers of seats above the main floor, and the-platform and press section are solid and expensive.

i'n nw a Mr. Robinson Arrives

1 Jalues PRESTON, of the archives in Washington,

__ a tall, lanky man, with a bang of hair and a cat tail mustache, has charge of the press section. A man of unique talent is Mr. Preston. He went to Washington as a cub. correspondent in the early ninetiés and became superintendent of the Senate press gallery in ’96. He has known thousands of statesmen and journalists. He has handled the press arrangements for 20 national conventions. - A thousand new pale yellow cabs have been pus into service and add their squawks to the general din. clear his way up the Bellevué steps as the delegates gape and cheer. He might be a dead man politically today but for the death of Huey Lorig, who had prome-

about something that might have happened. Eight years ago this time he was in Houston teaming up with Al Smith to run for Vice President in a hopeless contest. He rémains loyal. He may not believe in the New Deal. There is little about: him to suggest a heartful of sorrow for the poor or anything else but fidelity to the organization, bit he is a leader a Mr. Smith is an outcast of dubious “Americanm.” :

Merry-Go-Round :

HILADELPHIA, June 23.—Although not many AX good old Jeffersonians will admit its seriousness, the Democratic Party this week faces a milestone more vital than the task of nominating a candidate. It is the old clash over the two-thirds rule, which for exactly 104 years has made Democratic conven

the party claims as mascot. : : The two-thirds rule is the mother of Dark Horses, and hds madé the Democratic Party, at times, the laughing stock of the Republicans. ¢ It has also played an important part in the international destinies of the nation. Had it not been for the two-thirds rule, it is possible that there would have been no war with Mexico, and that our course in the World ‘War would have been different... The two-thirds rule is chiefly a shang-over from slavery days, when the South insisted on keeping it in order to have a hard-and-fast veto power against any unfriendly Northern candidate. ; = . Actually, however, it was originally introduced for the sole and insignificant purpose of preventing the four. delegates from the District of Columbia from controlling the balance of vention,

2 8 = er AN BUREN had an easy majority, but those pledged to voi& for him were really more inter on the annexation of “Texas, Van Buren,

may be that Mr. Smith has grown old, that he ’

Senator Joe Robinson steps. out of ong and three cops

ised to knock him off, but he is no man to worry

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tions more unwieldy and obstinate than the animal