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Jhinks about
An Immortal Oration
D EVERLY HILLS CALIF.—
D The future has a rotten trick
of mussing up the judgments of
the present. What a pity it is that
we can’t wear our hind-sights in
front.
When I read where some pon-
derous performing pachyderm of
the literary elephant quadrille says,
“This story will live forever,”
I get to thinking about a time-yel-
lowed copy of a metropolitan news-
paper I saw once, a
paper that was print-
ed on November 20,
1863. j
It devoted great
gobs of, praise and
nine solid columns
very soli d—to the
eloquence of the
Hon. Edward Ever-
ett of Massachusetts,
who, on the day be-
fore, after months of
Irvin S. Cobb preparation had, on
( a battlefield down in
Pennsylvania, spoken two hours and
turned loose enough oratory to fill
about nine- gas balloons. But of the
subsequent and incidental remarks
of another man, an awkward, shy
man from Illinois, who had spoken
just two minutes, it said, “The
Presidentwas also heard briefly.
The applause was formal and scat-
tering.”
Prejudices of Critics.
( FTEN, ‘twould seem, the pro-
fessional reviewer makes
his mind beforehand that
up
he
doesn’t like you and behaves ac-
cordingly.
A friend sent me a clipping from,
a small city—it dealt with the open-
ing of the picture, “Everybody’s
Old Man.” The writer was quite
severe 'in his analysis. He didn’t
like the film. Passionately, he
didn’t care for me.
The joke was that the theater
where the picture was to have been
shown burned down just about the
time the paper went to press, and
the picture wasn’t ever shown in
that town.
SECTION TWC
1
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Meridian and Bosque County
MERIDIAN, TEXAS, JULY 31, 1936
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Governor Landon Accepts Republican Presidential
Nomination—Organized Labor Schism Widens
—Spain Torn by Bloody Civil War.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
(ov. ALF. M. LANDON now
U knows officially that he is the
Republican nominee for President
of the United
States. Before more
than 100,000 of his
fellow citizens he
stood at the south
entrance
Kansas
Topeka
ceived
of the
cap tol in
and re-
the formal
RIBUN
Love, Honor and Obey
PRICE $1.50 A YEAR
WERE ALKIE
CSOB)
* * *
Self-Anointed Dukes.
( UT here we’re waiting for that
U Spanish baron and that French
count back in New York to form
the mother branch of their Noble-
men’s club for the protection of
holders of genuine titles in Amer-
ica and, presumably, as a guar-
antee to our own home-grown heir-
esses that, when they marry for-
eign princelings or what not, the
goods will be as described. There’s
been a lot of title-legging, you
know.
As soon as the organization gets
started we’re going to open the Hol-
lywood division.
* • *
The State of the Nation.
WAR be it from me to turn alarm-
” ist right on the heels of the hot
wave, but I feel it my duty to warn
my fellow-Americans that this frag-
ile and crumbling republic is
doomed. That is, it’s doomed if
you can believe what comes out of
our sainted political leaders in the
way of predictions.
Hark to the quavering chorus
which already has started up: A
crisis exists. Every professional
crisis-breeder in the land openly
admits it. I can’t remember when
a crisis wasn’t existing. But they
come larger in campaign years. We
-are facing a dread emergency
-which has had no parallel since the
last occasion when we faced a
dread emergency. This very hour
the nation totters on the brink of
an abyss.
* * *
Miracles and Misdemeanors.
Q NCE upon an early time there
U was a man so holy that even
the wild creatures would not harm
him. ' He drew a thorn from the
paw of a tame lion and the grate-
ful beast followed after him.
Only the other day in a court in
Tanganyka, which is in Africa, a
black man—a savage by our defi-
nitions—was on trial. It seemed
the lions were raiding the stock, so
the native authorities set traps for
them. The accused found a lion in
one of these traps and made a lad-
der and went down and helped the
.great brute to escape.
Being arrested, he explained sim-
ply that the lion was his friend. So
they fined him $12.50. In the olden
times it was a miracle. Nowadays
it’s a misdemeanor.
IRVIN S. COBB
@ WNU Service.
notification from
Congressman Snell
of New York, who
was permanent
Gov. Landop chairman of t h e
Cleveland convention. Around him
were grouped a thousand leaders
of the party, and in front of him
were the throngs of his supporters
and admirers who had gathered
from far and near to do him hon-
or and to witness the ceremonies.
Trains, automobiles, buses and air-
planes had been pouring them into
Topeka for several days and the
gaily decorated little city was
crowded to the limit. Everyone
was happy and enthusiastic and ev-
eryone appeared confident that
Landon would be the next chief ex-
ecutive of the country.
The nominee’s speech of accept-
ance was the plain spoken, outright
kind of talk his hearers expected.
Asking divine guidance to make
him worthy of the faith and confi-
dence shown in him,, he said:
“This call, coming to one whose
life has been that of the everyday
American, is proof of the freedom
of opportunity which belongs to the
people under our government ”
Here, briefly, is what Mr. Lan-
don had to say on some of the
more vital issues:
Recovery—“The record shows
that these (New Deal) measures
did not fit together into any defi-
nite program of recovery. Many
of them worked at cross-purposes
and defeated themselves . . .
The nation has not made the dura-
ble progress, either in reform or
recovery, that we had the right to
expect . . . We mus. be freed from
incessant governmental intimida-
tion and hostility. We must be
freed from excessive expenditures
and crippling taxation. We must
be freed from the effects of an ar-
bitrary and uncertain monetary
policy, and from private monopo-
listic control.”
Relief—“Let me emphasize that
while we propose to follow a policy
of economy in government expendi-
tures, those who need relief will
get it. We will not take our econ-
omies out of the allotments to the
unemployed. We will take them
out of the hides of the political
exploiters.”
Agriculture—“We -shall establish
effective soil conservation and ero-
sion control policies in connection
with a national land use and flood
prevention program—and keep it
all out of politics. Our farmers
are entitled to all of the home
market they can supply without in-
justice to the consumer. We pro-
pose a policy that protects them in
this right ... We propose to pay
cash benefits, in order to cushion
our farm families against the dis-
astrous effects of price fluctuations
and to protect their standard of
living.”
Labor—“The right of labor to or-
ganize means to me the right of
employees to join any type of union
they prefer, whether it covers their
plant, their craft or their industry.
It means that, in the absence of a
union contract, an employee has an
equal right to join a union or to
refuse to join a union.”
Constitution—“It is not my be-
lief that the constitution is above
change. The people have the right,
by the means they have prescribed,
to change their form of govern-
ment to fit their wishes . . . But
change must come by and through
the people and not by usurpation.
. .. The Republican party, how-
ever, does not believe that the peo-
ple wish to abandon the American
form of government.”
State Rights—“There has now ap-
peared in high places a new and
dangerous impulse. This is the
impulse to take away and lodge in
the Chief Executive, without the
people’s consent, the powers which
they have kept in their state gov-
ernments or- which they have re-
served in themselves. In its ulti-
mate effect upon the welfare of the
whole people, this is the most im-
portant question now before us.
Shall we continue to delegate more
and more power to the Chief Execu-
tive or do we desire to preserve
the American form of govern-
ment?”
Preceding the notification cere-
monies there was a huge parade
that included more than a hundred
bands and drum corps, an ele-
phant, hundreds of Indians, cow-
boys and cowgirls in full regalia,
and other hundreds of men and
women garbed to illustrate the his-
tory of Kansas.
FATHER COUGHLIN, the De-
D troit “radio priest” who in a
speech before the recent Townsend-
ite convention called President
Roosevelt a “great betrayer and
liar,” has realized the impropriety
of his language. He has published
an open letter to the President
offering his “sincere apology.” The
priest also says:
“As my President I still respect
you. As a fellow citizen and as a
man I still regard you highly, but
as an executive, despite your ex-
cellency’s fine intentions, I deem it
best for the welfare of our com-
mon country that you be supplant-
ed in office.”
Dispatches from Rome said Fa-
ther Coughlin’s speech caused a
“painful impression” at the Vati-
can, and Bishop Gallagher, the
priest’s ecclesiastical superior,
leaving for a visit to the Vatican,
intimated he might report on the
incident.
TT SEEMS at this time that noth-
1 ing can prevent the great schism
in the ranks of American organized
labor. John L. Lewis, head of the
United Mine Workers, and his/ fol-
lowers in the industrial union
movement, are determined to go
ahead with their plans for the or-
ganization of steel workers into a
mass union, and now have expand-
ed their program, proposing to un-
ionize thus the employees of steel
fabrication and processing plants.
Moreover, Lewis and his asso-
ciates have declared they will not
appear before the executive coun-
cil of the American Federation of
Labor • to stand trial on charges
of “fomenting insurrection,” so it
appears the council can do nothing
but suspend the rebels and their
unions, these constituting about one
third of the federation’s member-
ship. If this is done, the final de-
cision as to expulsion of these un-
ions will be made by the national
convention in Tampa in November,
CPANISH Fascists and royalists,
D in rebellion against the leftist
government, were temporarily in
control of most of the northern part
of the country and
were moving on
Madrid from Burgos
and Segovia, threat-
ening to bomb the
capital from the air
if the .government
did not capitulate.
In Barcelona, capi-
tal of Catalonia,
fierce fighting was
I reported, and at the
request of the
G. Bowers Washington authori-
ties a vessel of the American Ex-
port line was hastening there to
evacuate Americans, whose lives
were in danger. Catalonia, had de-
clared against the rebels.
The rebels gained possession of
San Sebastian, near the French
border, and the loyalists were said
to be making a desperate attempt
to recover that town. This is the
place where Claude G. Bowers,
American ambassador, is in sum-
mer residence, and as communi-
cations were completely disrupted
there was much anxiety in Wash-
ington as to Mr. Bowers’ safety.
Socialists, Communists and work-
ers in large numbers were joining
the loyal troops for the defense of
Madrid, and also helped in crush-
ing the rebellion in several towns,
according to the claims of the gov-
ernment.
In the south, where Gen. Fran-
cisco Franco commanded the revo-
lutionaries, there was almost con-
tinuous fighting, and in the engage-
ments between rebel planes and
loyal warships some bombs and
shells struck the Rock of Gibral-
tar and others fell close to a Brit-
ish destroyer. The latter fired
warning shots and the acting gov-
ernor of Gibraltar protested to
General Franco.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Carter Field "s
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Washington.—Return of the cor-
ner saloon figured in a conversa-
tion in Baltimore a few days ago
which, retailed by some of those
present, has been going all over
Washington, exciting considerable
interest.
The two leading figures in the
conversation were a retired Irish
contractor and a young Catholic
priest.
The contractor was holding forth
against Franklin D. Roosevelt and
the New Deal. Just before he ran
down he shouted that Roosevelt had
kept just one, and only one, of the
pledges of the platform of 1932 on
which he was elected.
“What pledge was that?” in-
quired another participant.
S "The promise to get rid of prohi-
bition,” said the contractor.
. "Wait a minute,” broke in the
'priest “I don’t think Roosevelt and
'the New Deal kept that pledge.”
“We certainly got rid of prohi-
bition, didn’t we?” snorted the con-
tractor. “We got liquor back, thank
God. Hoover would never have
Such wet states as Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey and- Mary-
land, did. -
But, most observers think, they
never would again.
The danger is of another kind.
It is of the spread of dry terri-
tory, county by county, state by
state, with a resulting unfriendly
political feeling towards the liquor
business, and oppressive interfer-
ence, such as preceded the adop-
tion of the eighteenth amendment.
Many ardent wets view this situ-
ation with alarm, and think the
return of the open saloon in so
many localities is fuel on the
flames.
Give Landon Edge
Tremendously potent in overcom-
ing what remained after Cleveland
of the “defeatist” attitude of Re-
publicans all over the country, the
first nationwide polls since the Con-
vention, in showing that Landon
has a slight edge on electoral votes
done that for us.”
: “Yes,” .said the priest.
‘That
part is true. But you are forgetting
another part of that promise—a
pledge without which, I very much
'doubt, you would have gotten liq-
uor back. The platform and the
candidate promised that, with the
return of liquor, the saloon would
never be permitted to come back.
Well, the saloon is back. It is
here. And I think a great many
people resent the failure of that
pledge more than the breaking of
these others you have been talk-
ing about.”
More and more talk is being
heard all over the country about
the liquor situation. The distilling
industry is distinctly concerned
about it. It has been pulling in
its horns, so to speak, in many
ways. The Distilled Spirits insti-
tute has persuaded many distillers
to get off the air, and to tone down
their advertising. They are more
sensitive to what they fear is a
change of sentiment than the brew-
ers, and are worried that their ad-
vice in this direction has been ig-
nored by the brewers.
Fear New Dry Tide
They are disturbed about local
elections in various states, and are
very much afraid that a new dry
tide is rising. Meanwhile the drys
are beginning to recover from the
| state of coma into which they
lapsed about 1930. If they had had
the vim and pep they have today
in 1933, it is very doubtful if the
eighteenth amendment could have
been repealed.
Even the distillers do not fear
another prohibition amendment in
the federal Constitution. They do
not believe there is much danger
that 36 states would ever again rat-
ify such an amendment. When the
eighteenth amendment was ratified
only two states, Rhode Island and
' Connecticut, refused to ratify it.
******************
★ ★
I STAR :
* *
$ DUST *
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* Movie • Radio *
★ *
★★★ By VIRGINIA VALE***
‘THE death of Thomas
1 Meighan may not mean,
very much to the younger
movie-goers, but it will shock
those who remember him as
one of the big stars of the days
of silent pictures. Like many
stage stars, he was not too sure at
first that he would like pictures.
But he did “The Miracle Man”
and with it hit his stride. Oddly
enough, Lon Chaney made his
name in that picture too. And so
did Betty Compson, who was find-
ing it none too easy to climb the
ladder of fame.
Nobody suspected that “The Mir-
acle Man” would be such an epoch-
making picture as it was. But it
established its three leading actors
as stars almost overnight.
—•—
And speaking of star-making pic-
tures, see what’s happened to the
people
peered
Private
who ap-
in “The
Life of
Perhaps he went a title too strong
in his claims to be believed. Peo-
ple were used to claims, even more
extravagant made by James A.
Farley, who claimed 48 states this
year just as he claimed them four
years ago.
But Farley has a better back-
ground for his claims. In the first
place, he was wrong on only six
states four years ago. Four of
these six — Maine, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts—
elected Democratic slates two
years later. So that a 48 state
claim this year, from Farley, had
a better chance of being accepted
by Democratic workers than a 42
state claim by Hamilton had of be-
ing accepted by Republican work-
ers.
Hope Aroused
Several Republican leaders, who
motored back to Washington from
Cleveland, made interesting reports
of their wayside encounters—at gas
stations, at small hotels, etc. Ev-
erywhere they found Republicans
who wanted to know, once they
realized their visitors had come
from Cleveland, whether there was
“any chance of beating Roose-
velt.”
“You ought to have, seen their
faces brighten up when I told them
I thought we had better than an
event chance,” a delegate report-
ed.
Organization Republicans have
been wishing and praying for the
Literary Digest poll to start. They
have been bothering .the life out of
the representative here of a big
farm weekly, which has been tak-
ing polls for years, and which have
been rather accurate.
Not because they wanted the in-
formation the polls would bring.
They have the situation fairly well
sized up without that. What they
want is the confidence and fighting
spirit the publication of the news
will have on the Republicar work-
ers all over the country.
There is another interesting an-
gle. In the early days of the New
Deal a great many Republican sen-
ators and members of the house of
representatives went along with it
to a considerable extent, voting for
John D. M. Hamilton
over Roosevelt, have been of ex-
treme value to the Republican high
command.
One of the reasons why John D.
M. Hamilton has been making so
many speeches, and making such
optimistic claims — 42 states for
Landon, etc. — has been to over-
come this same defeatist spirit. He
has recognized, as have most Re-
publican leaders, that this was the
first hurdle to be taken.
It is not just a question of band-
wagon psychology. It was apathy
based on hopelessness, which not
only choked off contributions to
the campaign fund, but prevented
people who normally work for the
Republican ticket from making any
effort.
"Why work when it’s no use,”
they were saying. “You can’t beat
a four billion-dollar-a-year spend-
ing machine.”
Hamilton was working hard on
this, but he was not being believed
by thousands of the people who
ought to be reached if the Republi-
can ticket were to have a chance.
Henry the Eighth,”
none of whom were
well known in this
country till it was
released—and the
rest of the world
had acclaimed only
Charles Laughton, •
of the cast.
But since then ^
Laughton, Robert
Donat, Merle
Oberon, Wendy
Barrie and Binnie Barnes have
been welcomed by Hollywood. All
have been extremely successful in
New Deal measures, etc. They
were obliged—all the representa-
tives and some of the senators—to
seek reelection in 1934, and at that
time they defended their own rec-
ords, with no thought of any na-
tional campaign to come. They had
to save their own skins first.
These men just happen to be the
bone and sinew of the Republican
national organization. They are out
in front among the speakers.
Those who are running for the
house are again seeking re-election.
Polls showing Landon is running
strongly, campaign strategists here
believe, will put heart into their
work, change the character of, their
speeches, and make them brave
enough to attack Roosevelt and the
New Deal with all their strength,
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service,
Large Eyes Most Popular
The first condition of beauty in
an eye is size; large eyes have
been extolled since the beginnings
of poetry.
Erected by Aid of Lottery
Boston’s second Faneuil hall,
of the Revolution, was erected by
aid of a lottery..
Charles
Laughton
American pictures.
—•—
Since her marriage Jean Parker
has been luckier than many Holly-
wood brides; she has had assign-
ments that provided a pleasant
honeymoon. First they went to
Texas, on location with the com-
pany that was making “The Texas
Ranger”; now they’re off to Mam-
moth lake and the mountains for
“King of the Royal Mounted.” Now
all she needs is an engagement
with some company that’s headed
for Honolulu, Hollywood’s pet hon-
eymoon spot.
Joe Penner is going to make that
picture at last. And because chil-
dren have become sure-fire hits on
the screen, he’ll be assisted by
Patsy Lee Parsons, a five-year-old
who sings and dances. The danc-
ing teachers of this land ought to
give Shirley Temple a medal or
something. Everywhere—even out
in the country where you wonder
where and how they can take danc-
ing lessons, you see little girls do-
ing tap dancing nowadays. And
Shirley is responsible for that!
—Ie-
Just one more story of the way
things happen in Hollywood. Sam-
uel Goldwyn wanted a German ac-
tress for a role in “Come and Get
It.” He was sure that none of the
local talent measured up. So he
had old German films run off for
him, for days and days, in the hope,
of seeing exactly the right actress
in one of them. If he found her,
of course he’d have to find out
where she was, and put her under
contract, and have her brought to
California at once.
He found the girl in a picture
called “Frederika” and the wheels
began to turn. Then it was dis-
covered that she is Mady Chris-
tians, who has been right in Hol-
lywood for two years, - yearning to
make a lot of pictures but not get-
ting too many assignments.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Don’t miss
“The Moon’s Our Home” if you want
to see a very funny picture . . . Rich-
ard Arlen has just entered the Van-
couver $5,000 golf tournament; he’d
rather golf than eat . . . Joe E. Brown
and his wife went to Peoria, III., for
the opening of his picture, “Earth-
worm Tractors,” Peoria being the
world’s tractor center . . . This last
year in radio has proved that the pub-
lic doesn’t care any more for programs
that depend on gags instead of funny
situations . . . And the fact that Ed
Wynn failed to regain his former pop-
ularity is one proof of it . . . Rubinoff
(and his violin) turned down an offer'
to reappear with Eddie Cantor . . .
Constance Bennett, Simone Simon,
Loretta Young and Janet Gaynor will
work together in “Ladies in Love”—
and Hollywood looks for displays of
temper from at least three of them
before the picture’s finished.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Birds’ Feathers Counted
The Smithsonian institution actu-
ally counted the feathers of a
woodpecker, and found the foliage
of hairy and downy varieties is the
same. They have also -ound that
the birds wear less feathers in
summer than in winter.
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