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“The hedgerows are thick and ancient. - The stone walls are sometimes so mounded over with earth that you don’t know there's a wall beneath, The trees in the apple orchards are mellow with moss so thick that it seems ‘like a coat of green velvet. : ~The towns and cities are just "as old and worn-looking. I have yet to see. a buiiding in Normandy that appeared to have been built within the last three generations. ° The tone is not one of decad- | ence, but just of great and contented age. Even Cherbourg was a surprise. All of its buildings were old and worn, @ It was a contrast to other war cities we have passed through—Algiers and Palermo and even Naples—where much building and remodeling have been done in this century, and the new homes are shiny and modernistic, and the street fronts look almost American. * A street scene in Cherbourg looks so ‘much like >the Hollywood sets of old European cities that you get your perspective reversed and feel that Cherbourg has just been copied from a movie set.

‘All Buildings Are of Stone

EVERYTHING is of stone. Even the barns and cowsheds are stone—and in exactly the same design and usually the same size as the houses. They are grouped closely together around a square, so that a farmer's home makes a compact little settlement of byildings that resembles a country estate at a distance. Normandy is dairy country. Right now the people have more butter on their hands than they know what to do with. It is a stupid soldier indeed who can't get himself all the butter he wants. But even though it is a glut on the njarket, the French still ask 60 cenis a pound for it. Although their new order was strict and full of promises of an ordered world, the Gérmans themselves crealed and fostered the Paris black market,

Inside Indianapolis By Loweir

ONE OF OUR eagle-eyed agents calls our attention to a peculiarity in one of the L. Strauss window dis- _ plays. A handsome window dummy, attired in comfy summer wear, reclines in the window, holding in one hand a newspaper turned to a Strauss ad. He's supposed to be reading the ad, but what “got” our agent was how he could be reading while also wearing one of those masks for sleeping in daylight! . . . Dudley Smith, state personnel director, and Blodgett (Bill) Brennan, of th state conservation department, were mighty happy to return to their respective jobs yesterday after six days vacation up at the Dunes state park. The reason they were so glad to get back was that they ‘ took along the two livewire Brennan youngsters and two of the Smith children, with a fifth child for company—while Mrs. Brennan and Mrs. Smith remained home and rested. The task of keeping the five youngsters fed, clothed and out of trouble gave the boys gray hairs and added respect for their wives. ,,. Louis Eckhart, proprietor of Louie's tavern, and Mrs, Eckhart returned to their home, 950 Bradbury, the other evening and noticed 8 hole in the screen. - They thought someone had been trying to break in. Then they noticed a hole in the window casing, Louie dug in the hole and pried out a 45-caliver bullet. He figured out it must have been fired by police during a bandit chase last week. He asked police about it, and they said it must have glanced from the pavement. Good thing the Eckharts weren't sitting on their porch,

To Stand or Not to Stand!

THERE WAS a packed house at Loew's Saturday

’ evening for the showing of the film, “White Cliffs of

Dover.” One scene shows the Yanks landing in ‘England during world war I. During the scene, the national anthem was played. An elderly woman ‘promptly stood up. Folks beside her thought she was leaving, but she just stood there, Some others began snickertng. And then they realized she was standing for the

Robot Refugees

(Third of a Series) LONDON, July 19.—She was‘four or five years old. Little golden curls fell about her neck. Her head, turned to one side revealed finely chiseled features, and one arm curved over her head served as a veritable frame for the little face. She was sound asleep, oblivious to who she was or where she was. Ce Grown-ups milled about her. ~ Noisy trains swept by, clanging and raising dust within a few feet about her, She did not stir. For she was a little English girl reared from birth amidst bombing and all of the civilian hardships of modern war — and now she was sleeping on the cold cement floor of a public subway station. This was a scene in the London “Underground,” or only one tiny segment of many larger typical scenes that began to unfold agdin in the embattled city as the flying bombs launched by the Germans began to fall recently in “southern England.”

Removed From Danger

THE LITTLE GIRL with the golden curls has now probably been removed from danger, since dispatches report that thousands of children are being evacuated from London. And, hénce, it is permissi~ ble now to say that for night after night up to the time of their evacuation thousands of little children, their fathers and mothers and bigger brothers and sisters were again driven underground like animals to escape the flying bombs. One by one, or family by family, they arrived “at the underground entrances as dusk approached. They carried their bedding. In the stations, along. the platforms paralleling the tracks, there was ample space and triple deck beds stood against the-back walls. Each family had its space, or bed, allotted, and tickets for the accommodations were shown if any

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—Almost a year ago I visited the Schomburg library in Harlem, New York City, and at that time I noticed a book which had recently come out. It was called “The Negro Caravan,” edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee. -I meant to speak of it at the time in my column, but it slipped my mind and now I have just received word that a néw edition is’ being brought out and I have read a little item from the Louisyille Courier-Journal which will show you that my own interest in this book is shared by others: “The best of its kind, this collection should be an eye-opener. Both as sociology ‘and as interest - ing reading ‘The Negro Caravan’ in richly worthwhile. No previous anthology of Negro literature, and not too ‘many anthelogies of American

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Normandy is rich agriculturally. The tople can sustain Hheitgelves. It. is in the cities that occupation hurts worst. I suspect that when we get to Paris we will hear an entirely different sory from the

people. Normandy Is a Land of Children

NORMANDY 8 certainly 2 land of children. It seems to me there are more children here even than in Italy. And I'll have to break down and admit one thing—they are the most beautiful children I have ever seen, It is an exception when you see a child who isn't exceptionally good-looking. Apparently they grow out of this, however, for on the whole the Norman adults look like people anywhere—both good ‘and bad. One thing about the Normans is in contrast with the temperament we have known so long in the Mediterranean. The people here are hard workers. The story of the Frénch underground, when the day comes for it to be written, will be one of the most fascinating things in all history. : On the Cherbourg peninsula the underground was made up of cells, five people to a cell. Those five knew each other, but none of them knew any other members of the underground anywhere. It was fun to see the Frenchmen on the day the underground began coming out into the open. They identified themselves by special arm bands that they had kept in hiding., One underground man would look :at a neighbor wearing an arm band and exclaim in amazement: “What! You, too?" In one village we asked some people who were not in the movement if they had ever known who the underground members in their town were. They said they could pretty well guess, just from the character of the people, but never actually knew for sure.

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national anthem. Several others arose, sheepishly. Finally, everyone in the house stood up. By that time the music had stopped, and they all sat down again, probably most of them uncertain whether they should have stood. Just to be sure, we checked and find they need not have steod..-Whenever the national anthem is played just as part of a scene, it's not necessary to stand. The same is true when it is heard over the radio in your own home, Our authority: The Ameri-| n Legion. . .. The current issue of Esquire, the ughty magazine that Uncle Sam won't carry through e mail, has a piece in it by Pfc. Victor Rensberger, formerly with the News and now stationed at Stout field. Entitled “Americanism in Little White Pills,” the article is a’ biographical sketch of Homer Chaillaux, the Legion's natiorial Americanism director, and describes his American Legion junior baseball program. The phrase, “little white pills,” refers to baseballs.

Good Deed Backfires

SEEN ON THE Beech Grove bus Sunday evening: A young fellow, about 15, startled spectators by arising to give his seat to an elderly woman. Before the

appearing man slid into the seat, triumphantly. The elderly woman managed to get a seat when someone got off the bus a couple of blocks farther on. . . . One of our agents reports coming in 16th st. after the ball game the other evening and noticing a big electric! sign reading: “Hot Riley.” It was the Hotel Riley © sign with two letters unlighted. . see George Rice, of Pittman-Rice Coak Co. indulging in setting up exercises, blame Mrs. Rice. Mr. and! Mrs. Rice were driving in the 3500 block of Illinois st. 8 little before 7 a. m. Tuesday when they saw a man,’ attired in blue pajamas, doing his calisthenics on a! front porch on the west side of the street. When they | stared, the man scowled back, Mrs. Rice suggested | that calisthenics might help George's figure. . . . The| equanimity of diners in a popular dining room was, upset Tuesday noon when a good sized mouse trotted around the room, apparently looking for a handout. One Red Cross worker gave a muffled scream and left the dining room without bothering to finish her meal. The mouse saw it wasn't wanted, and left,

By Fred S. Ferguson

arguments arose. Gradually all of the cement floor space would be filled with pallets placed side by side, and the weary children went to their rest, the mother propping herself up to maintain watch until sleep overwhelmed her. It's an overwhelmingly tragic picture presented by these scenes in the underground stations and shelters. But the realization of tragedy rises from the heart and mind of the onlooker through sympathy for what it all means, rather than as a result of anything that the actual participants in the tragedy say or do. Some of them approach being actually gay. There is ughier and good humor. There is patience and. tolerance, TR

British ‘Take It’

IT IS EVIDENT that from the highest to the lowest the English man and woman are again “taking it” with utmost. courage, without complaint, and with confidence that the new menace will be conquered, The success of the censorship exercised during the early stages of the flying bomb attack is a striking example of the importance of censorship when properly applied. The fantastic stories put out from Berlin propaganda sources indicated cléarly that the Germans had only an approximate idea of where their bombs were hitting and little idea of the damage being done. They were badly in need of information, With all references to the bombing in newspapers and on the radio, however, confined to “southern Eng1and,” they had little to feed on. And considering the great number of dispatches that were cabled to the United States for newspaper publication, without causing many Americans to realize that London was being hit, 'it seems safe to assume that the Germans may not have gotten’ much more meaning out of the published material. ‘To anyone on the ground the “southern England” datelines seemed very thin camouflage, considering other things in connection with the dispatches that might be studied. But it appears to have been very

effective and a lot .of people in America who thought they should have known from past experience were

as surprised at Churchill's statement as anybody else.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

T was reading the other day a very interesting little ‘pamphlet entitled, “Public attitude towards ex-serv-icemen after world war I,” which is taken from the motnhly labor review, (December, 1943), of the bureau

of labor statistics, United States department of labor, This little pamphlet should be “must” reading for “every one of “us because it indicates so clearly how important it is to think and plan ahead when today the probiems of our returning: servicemen are and will be so much greater than in 1819. - The economic situation cannot be left entirely in the hands of the industrialists themselves. It must have at least some supervision from government, since everything that industry can do, government will gladly accept, but if at any point ‘the probléms become more than industry can handle, there is only government to fill the gap. To say-that government is usurping something which should remain in the hands of industry is

foolish, because quite obviously government will be enchanted if industry can handle the problems alone. |M Bt sifie SovesuGnts primar) SAR: is io sue tha) ;

C.1.0. RISKING.

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Contrasting Views of Labor on Politics.

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Sta® Writer CHICAGO, July 19—As the Democratic national convention opens here today -a definite con= trast is presented in the political} positions of the prineipal leaders of American organized labor. : i Philip Murrdy and Sidney Hill~

man of the C. I. O. are deeply in-|}

Wallace, and they are risking the future of their organization on success of the Roosevelt ticket in November. William - Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, pursues the traditional policy of that organization in not becoming an appendage of -any political party, and of working. ‘both sides of the street. in -efforis to get favorable commitments from both the Democratic and Republican platforms.

Lewis Backs G. O. P.

John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, who got some burnt fingers through involvement as head

party, in 1936 (on a scale not so great as that on which Messrs. Murray and Hillman are now involved), is backing tié Republican ticket and ‘hoping he will be more successful than in 1940 in swinging miner votes against President Roosevelt. The Murray-Hillman importance in Democrajic affairs is indicated by. the deference being shown them by other party leaders:in selection of the running mate for Mr, Roosevelt; by a press conference they held which drew one of the largest crowds of reporters during this convention period; by applause in the resolutions comniitiee for Mr. Murray ‘when he finished a spirited presentation of the C. I. O. ideas of what should be in the Democratic platform: Just how many delegates the C. I. O. has in the convention is uncertain, but the number is believed

’ WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1944

Democratic National Convention Chairman Robert E. Hannegan (left) and Daniel Tobin, head, of the Teamsters’ union, Indianapolis, have a moment of conversation during pre-convention doings of the

Democrats in Chicago.

Zany Platform By Committee

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps. Howard Stal Writer CHICAGO, July 19.—The making of a political platform, as ex-|nouncements against racial discrime emplified by what gdes on at the Democratic national convention, is a inatjons. for the right.of franchise

dreary business that drags on for have their say before party statesm of it and write what they had in The list of witnesses who step shoe table at which resolutions committee members sit - ranges from people who believe a national’ lottery is ‘the answer to our financial problems to advocates of “soft” money, the Pownsend plan and various brands of world government.” The idea is to give everyone a; hearing, though many of them are given a scant minute or two to make their stirring case. If the committee ever tried to roll all the ideas advocated into what eventually becomes the party's platform, it would fill hundreds of pages.

Parade Ends Today

Zealous ministers, groping small businessmen, advocates of economic panaceas, ‘evangelical pleaders for particular kinds of international peace organizations, militant appellants for women's rights—the long parade is ending today as the platform builders get ready to throw jout most of the chaff and to de-

to be less than 100 among the total! iqe what they hope may attract

of 1176.

Depend on C. 1 O.

That proportion, however, is not the important point. The Democratic leaders are depending on the C. 1. O. to produce enough votes in strategic states to produce a victory over the Dewey-Bricker ticket. If it works out that way the Democratic party will become more than ever an alliance of professional politicians with labor leaders. If it doesn’t, the strategy of the politicians and the labor leaders will be due for a revamping before another presidential campaign rolls around. When the A. PF. of L.and C. I. O. platform recommendations were presented at the same session to the Democratic platform framers, there were attacks from both organizations on policies of the department of labor. Secretary Frances Perkins, head of that organization, heard both criticisms, but made no reply. The C. I. O. condemned the cost-of-living figures of the bureau of labor statistics, calling them a false basis for wartime wage. control. The A. F. of L. called for reorganization of the labor department “under a secretary satisfac+tory to labor and really representative of the interests of labor.”

ADVOCATES 30-HOUR

CHICAGO, July 19 (U. P).—Alfred F. Chapman, Wheeling, W. Va., who polled the largest vote of the last 20 years in his district to become a delegate to the Democratic national convention, today advocated a post-war 30-hour week with a 40-hour pay to bridge the readjustment era. He also said in an interview that he favors revision of the social security act to provide sliding scale benefits collectable by persons reaching 50 years of age.

part-time basis, with the amount increasing to $75 at the age of 65. Chapman, whose following in labor ranks was evidenced by his overwhelming vote in the election of delegates, said he believes that only by cutting the work-week and retaining the present salary level will the country be able to provide em ployment and retain its purchasing power in the reconversion period. Present-day social security benefits fail to protect the middle-aged,

persons reach the age of 65.” He said he ‘hopes to see a Democratic gradua

CONCERT SCHEDULED

WEEK AFTER WAR”

He suggested a $60 monthly payment, even for - those qualified but employed on a

Chapman objected, “because so few.

Blstfotus plank saliing lof 3 ted scale of old ‘age benefits.| -

BY NEWSBOYS’ BAND

A concert will be given at 8 p.m. today in Washington park by the| Indianapolis News Newsboys’ band playing under the: auspices of the Women's league. This is their

votes in November. The Kentuckian who. wanted a national lottery based on the Kentucky Derby was typical of the dozens who go through the motions of making a bid for a special plank and who hold the stage for a few brief minutes in the Stevens hotel here and then walk off, to be heard no more, Language poured from him as he

EICHEL BOOSTED ON G. I. BALLOT CARD

Attaches of the office of Secretary of State Rue J. Alexander said today that they had received an official war ballot application from a Boonville serviceman, with an

nominee. Receipt of the a perforated

cards in the last five weeks.

added.

Tobin and Hannegan Confer

attached stub boosting the candidacy of a Democratic congressional

application, with attachment bearing the name and platform of Charles J. Eichel of Evansville, eighth district congressional nominee, brought a statement from Eichel that he/qry had distributed . thousands of the

Mr. Eichel said, however, that the war ballot law passed by the Indiana legislature last spring did not restrict the servicemen to the use of a form printed by the state applying for the right to vote. He said that his application form was identical with the state-ap-proved form and that he had mailed copies to servicemen only after legal advisers of the eighth district and Vanderburgh county Democratic committees had approved their use. The two committees shared expense of the distribution, Mr. Eichel

By THOMAS

profile of a coming storm, in = (the Democratic convention which opened here today. Two philosophies are clashing, something must give. It is manifest in the fight over the platform. The Northern wing, basked by labor and by Negroes in the big cities—at last released for effective political action’ by the New Deai—is demanding ¢iear-cut "pifo-

Ideas Heard and Forgotten

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days as dozens of pressure groupsifor Southern Negroes promulgated en who then proceed to forget most/ by ‘the supreme court, for abolition mind in the first place. | of poll taxes which disfranchise poor brightly up before the long horse-| whites as well as Negroes in eight Southern states. The South, particularly the bour-

DEMOCRAT ‘SPY’ AIDS MEETING

Streamlines the Convention After Sitting In On

GOP Sessions.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent ~ CHICAGO, July 19. — Steadham Acker, the Democrat who used the Republicans for guinea pigs during their convention, put his findings to use today and ordered up some cold weather. As the Demoeratie convention manager, Acker—the public meeting expert from Birmingham, Ala. — spent four days inside the recent Republican convention as an honorary assistant sergeant-at-arms, with a G. O. P. button on his shirt, in the hope of gaining some useful hints. He was a spy in a nice sort of way. He said not even a dog, and certainly not a Democrat, should suffer as did the Republicans. His prayer was answered, the weather man came up with cloudy and cool,

described the benefits to be derived. He had talked to le far and! wide and knew such a lottery was| favored. Only the newspaper writ-| ers and congressmen were blocking! it. The thing to do was the party to declare for it, to. insist that it would be done, just as President Roosevelt went to bat against the prohibition amendment in 1932.

Three Women Applauded

Some committee members listened attentively, others not at all. When he had finished .three wom en applauded vigorously for a few| brief: seconds, and that was the end of that. Every advocate seemed to have just about three such supporters,

Lower the voting age to 18, build the St... Lawrence seaway, don't build the B&-.Lawrence seaway, plump for 30-hour week if you wang prosperity, abolish war, control inflation, give (or don’t give) women equal rights, stop tax-free government housing, stop inflation—hour after hour it goes on. Some of these appeals make a dent in the thinking of the plat~ form builders, no doubt, but many are never thought of again once the speaker has sat down. In the end the party’s creed will jell down to statements on foreign policy, jobs for all who want them, labor's rights, social security and the usual basic principles.

NORTH AND SOUTH DEMOCRATS SE OVER RACE ISSUE

Northern Wing Demanding Clear Cut Pledge Against Discrimination; Southern Wing Resists Bittterly.

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Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 19.—As wide as the Mississippi in flood :| time in the lowlands of Arkansas is the breach in the Demo- ~~ | cratic party between the Northern branch and what are |coming to be called again ‘the confederates” of the South, so noisily do they raise their rebel yells here in Chicago. The cleavage stood out stark and clear, like the cloudy

bon element entrenched in’ the tight little political machines represented

{in delegations here, is resisting bit-

terly, drawing within itself jealous-

ily, its temper up.

Resistance Is Bitter The tleavage is plainly revealed in the hot contest over the vice prisidential nomination. The new

from the masses. in the big cities of the east and middle west, white and colored, is demanding the renomination of Henry Wallace. Ths southern .leaders, and .conservatives elsewhere, will have nothing of him. The south wants James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, former senator, former supreme court justice, now war mobilization director. The north is fearful of his selection, saying it might lose the Negro vote in key urban centers of the east and middle west, The cleavage appears even over the presidential nomination itself, which is assured for Roosevelt, in a protest from sections of the south. In rapid succession, delegations of three states voted to support Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia— Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. He may muster as many as a hundred protest votes, for he has scattering support elsewhere in the south, and his Virginia delegation is expected to plump solidly for him.

More Magie Needed

By political magic which is the envy of other politicians, high and low, President Roosevelt has been able to hold the diverse and conflicting elements of the Democratic party together through three elections, and, on account of the war, may hold it together again. But it ° is coming unsewed at the seams. This is plain enough in what is going on here. The conflict was demonstrated clearly in two events of yesterday. The first was a press conference held by Sidney Hillman, head of C. I. O. political action and the recently formed national political action committee. The significance of this new force in American poli-

Soe of Drudgery Ap) ces of dozens of organ-

ization representatives before the resolutions committee are backed up by a flood of telegrams and letters. There arg more than usual this . year as pecble all over the country offer their ideas on how to bring lasting peace to the world and set up just the right kind of; international organization. The committee is headed by Rep. McCormack (D. Mass.), house majority leader, and has on it *men such as Senators O'Mahoney (Wyo.), Hatch (N. M.), McCarran (Nev.). There is some honor in such service, but there's also a lot of drudg-

and Acker rubbed his hands. That was only the beginning. He ordered up a brass band to play at every session and some bunting; he built a special platform to keep 102 photographers happy, and he beveled the edges of the benches in the press box in deference to the tender anatomies of 778 news writers. t still wasn't all.

His Friends Wonder

“But don't get me wrong,” said Acker. “Until three weeks ago I

as a species. I just asked ‘em could T watch 'em and they said

Word hag gone around that the White House has sent out its own idea of what the platform should be; President Roosevelt, in fact, laid down his own brief and effective one in announcing he “would accept a fourth-term nomination: But resolutions committee members say they're doing the job, and will have their coats off for the next couple of days trying to meet the “postage stamp” platform prescription many leaders want.

meeting, some of my friends won-

be safe. “I now can say that Republicans are as nice; almost, as Democrats,

would not want to be quoted as say-

I was not grateful for the hospitality of the G. O. P. and above all I do not want to criticize.” So all right. If you Republicans, | please, will keep that in mind we’ll | get along with our account of Jekyl-and-Hyke Acker’'s improvements:

CIRCLE WILL MEET T. W. Bennett circle 23, Ladies of the G. A. R., will meet at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at Ft. Friendly.

Up Front With Mauldin

He has investigated the situation involving the 35-cent cheese sandwiches, without cheese, which {plagued the Republicans, and he

has inquired into the 5-cent soda {pop which started out at 10 cents rand went up to 15. He has ordered ithe movie makers to keep their |Kleig lamps doused except when 'actually making movies.

Orders Donkey Cart

knew very little about Republicans

they would be delighted. When word got around that I was going to bé an honorary official of _their

dered if I was doing a wise thing. Some of them wondered if it would

and very gentlemanly to boot. I

ing anything which might indicate

He has ordered up a donkey cart in case anybody wants to lead a parade. Abraham Lincoln's giant portrait has disappeared, to be replaced with an éven bigger picture

neon V-for-Victory signs are ready to flash at the psychological mo-

ment. “Ahd another thing,” continued Acker in accents southern,” “was that entrance jutting out three feet

they could not help themselves.”

use an acetylene torch.

of President Roosevelt. Fifty-six| |

into the aisle under the speakers’ stand. You know, the one with the} solid gold paper eagle on it. I} noticed many Republicans bumping | into this and hurting themselves.|' Involuntarily, of course. I mean

The Democats also will be pers} fectly sober and to keep them from bumping their noggins, Acker has sawed off three feet of the entrance. This was quite a job. The dumn! thing was stolid steel. He had to

tics was suggested by the large number of . newspaper correspondents who crowded into a hotel room to hear the New Labor leader reiterate labor's demand for the renomination of Wallace and to learn that labor has more delegates in this convention than any other in history. Southerners Meet

The other event was the meeting of about 200 men and women from the South, many of them delegates representing Alabama, Florida Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia and Texas, called te state the South’s position. - It was embodied in a resolution adopted unanimously against social equality for Negroes, against interference in

port to Senator Byrd ‘for the nomi= nati e (sofitherners do their deviltry most pleasantly. While waiting for the Texas delegation, the others passed the time = with music by a hill-billy band of * which one member at least had been in the South—he told a story about Baton Rouge, La—and by community song led by Jimmy Davis, the singing governor of Louisiana. A delegate from Texas wanted the song “It Makes No Difference Now” in honor of Henry Wallace, and Jimmy gave it to them. He opened with President Roosevelt's favorite “Home on the Range,” and the crowd joined in with a repertoire that included “Dixie,” “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You,” and “Sweet Adeline” twice. Then they got down to the business of what is known locally in the South as “gut-cutting,” with oratorical accompaniment.

HOLD EVERYTHING

southern elections, and by adoption... of another resolution’ pledging sup- - =