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CHINA, FOOTBALL OF WAR LORDS.
It hardly seems possible that China should slip from the
high niche she once occupied in by gone centuries to the posi
tion of a football kicked around by the selfish aims and purposes
of war lords of the country proper, and of neighboring nations.
The Chinese, as a rule, are acting in the role of human clods who
have been performing as puppets for the wiles and intrigue em
ployed by enterprising nations.
From figures released by authoritative sources, the high gov
ernment of China has set aside one-half billion dollars for the
use of providing ways and means of ample protection and pro-,
viding for war, and only fifty million dollars for the purpose
of education. Then the answer to the whole problem must be
that there is too much time and money devoted to the prepara
tion of war aims than it is to the ever present need of education
for the huge masses that call China their mother country.
There are many people in China who do not even know that
there are countries outside the sphere of their every-day exist
ence. There are many people in China whose only ambition is
to please the high and mighty presence of their war lords. Is
it any wonder, in view of these circumstances, that the masses
are controlled almost in their entirety by a handful of men
whose very existence can be bought by other countries who eye
the mighty reaches of the Chinese territory with gloating ap
prasal? We people in America little realize the true condition
of the human herd which has its home in the Far East. We little
realize the influence that can be brought to bear on the people
of a certain locality by one person who owns the very souls,
figuratively speaking, of the subjects of that particular realm.
It harks back to the days of the relationship of lord and vassal,
only many times worse, as not even protection is afforded the
hapless Chinese subjects in some instances.
Education is the only answer that can be offered as a pre
ventative and cure for this alarming situation. Education of the
masses to the glaring realization that they are puppets to be
employed only as cannon fodder and as a means to an end for
the personal and selfish ambitions of some figure-head whose
main track in this life pertains to greed and greed alone. It
will be many years before this fact can be driven home to the
minds of the Chinese people. It will be many years of seeing
their territory taken away from them by selfish nations and
home war lords. But in the end, due to the steadily increasing
world wide pressure being brought to bear upon the high gov
ernmental agencies of the Chinese nation, the masses will see the
light and begin the gigantic reconstruction of their socal, politi
cal and industrial welfare and future.
NOT—In the News
• • • • * *
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
FORGETFULNESS isn’t always a
detriment. Sometimes it is an actual
benefit, as this story should indi
cate.
Bill Ritt reports that his brother,
Lou, once was going to the horse
races when another brother, Carl,
asked him if he would place a bet
for him.
"Put it on Black Knight to show
in the first race,” instructed Car.
"Okay”, said Lou, and pocketed the
money.
Now Lou is one of those people
who can remember something if he
doesn’t have to remember it too long.
And, since the race track was quite
a ways from home, by the time he
arrived he had forgotten completely
which horse he was to play for his
brother.
Desperate, he scanned the list of
entries on the day’s card in an effort
to recall to his mind the name of the
horse given him by Carl. He vaguely
remembered there was something
dark about the name, but had forgot
ten the race.
So, when he saw the name of
“Dark Hazard”, running in the third
race, he decided that was the horse.
The name didn’t sound just right to
him. but it was the nearest to his
vague recollection of the right horse,
so he put the bet on him. But he
didn’t bet the horse to show, as his
brother had Instructed. He bet it to
win. which, if you know racing is
something very, very different.
Well, incredible as it may sound,
“Dark Hazard” won the third race,
and paid $32.50 for a $2 ticket.
And what makes this true story
even stranger is that “Black Knight",
the horse he was supposed to have
bet on, came in last!
♦ ♦ *
WHILE IN Genoa 81., recently,
a friend of ours stopped at one of
those small churches there to look,
listen and perhaps catch a grain of
wisdom from the good old-fashioned
religion, as preached only in the coun
try meeting houses.
Our friend happened to join the
congregation just when the fat per
spiring preacher was beginning his
long-winded sermon. He told his
flock In simple, understandable lan
guage how to “live the good life”,
and finally he finished, sitting down
to wipe his wet brow while a hymn
was being sung.
During the sermon the attention
of two rather spinsterish ladies had
been distracted from the preacher by
a discussion between them. They
talked in low tones, of course, but
once in a while the sound of their
ahattter was audible in several pews
around them.
When the minister arose to deliver
his closing prayer, the two gossipers
were still involved in their deep con
versation. And so, while the rest of
the congregation bowed heads while
the minister rendered the prayer in
a loud, booming voice, the pair kept
right on chattering.
And then, right in the midst of
the prayer, the preached lowered his
voice almost to a whisper and during
the lull from out of the audience
came a high-pitched voice in crisp,
sharp tores:
“I fry mine in lard!”
Plain Jealous
The WPA worker, not being sup
plied with a shovel, went to the fore
man and objected to being overlook
ed when the tools were passed out.
Foreman —“Why should you wor
ry? If you don’t have a shovel, you
can’t work, so why worry about it?”
WPA Worker—Well, it ain’t fair.
The other boys have something to
lean on.”
Wrong For Once
Mother (to very young flapper
while watching animals at zoo)
“And this, darling, is a stork.”
Modern Child—“ Don't be silly,
Mother. Don’t you suppose I know’
there isn’t any such thing.”
Far •Removed
“I asked a cute little hula hula
dancer to dance for me last night.”
“Did she shake her head?”
"Heck no! Don’t you know how a
’ hula hula is done?'
CORRECTION
“Johnny,” said the teacher,, “you
i must not say ‘I ain't going.’ You
should say instead, 'I am not going,’
j 'We are not going, 'They are not
s going'.”
. To which Johnny responded:
t “Ain't nobody goign?”
SKY ROCKETS!
r *
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
THIRD PARTY ELEMENTS
Not Stopped By Democratic Liberalization
STILL DISTINCT THREAT
Central Press Headquarters, Demo
cratic Convention
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
PHILADELPHIA, July I.—The
Democratic party is leaving the Phil
adelphia convention behind without
definitely meeting the third party i
threat.
It is true that a liberal platform
and “speeches directly to the people”
have gone a great deal farther than
the platform and the speeches of the
Republicans.
The fact remains, however, that a
large element in the northwest and
in the industrial regions of Michigan,
Ohio and western Pennsylvania is
not at all mollified.
It is queer that the Coughlin-
Lemke group term the Rooseveltians
"communists” for going too far,
while at the same time revolting be
cause the Rooseveltians do not go
“far enough.”
Within the Coughlin-Lemke group
are three elements. There are the
agrarian progressives, then the group
that believes inflation is a cure-all,
and, finally men (who, although they
may not realize it) have Fascist ten
dencies —and who are quite the re
verse of Progressives. These last
named object to the New Deal, as
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much as do the reactionaries, yet
have catch phrases that are popular.
The Democrats cannot hope to
mollify that particular group. But the
Democrats could hope to make it
powerless by dlsaffectng the down
right Progressives from the others.
In that respect the Philadelphia
i convention probably has failed.
• • •
Not United
It is obvious why the Democrats
have failed to meet the issue square
ly. The Democrats —as the Repub
licans—have many divergent forces.
Tammany and the south, and the
south and the Progressive northwets,
simply will not mix.
President Roosevelt had tried to
lead gradually. The speeches have
been his words, not the words of the
conventino. The cheers have been
for party victory, not for principle or
policy.
The president, therefore, has pulled
his punches. Much has been said
militantly, but the isues whch the
New Deal itself raised have not been
fully met. Check them off yourself.
It is possible that the president be
lieves once he is in power again, he
can fight for his cause as he did
during hs first year.
The Republicans realize that. In-
deed. that is their campaign argu
ment. They asert President Roose
velt, no matter what words are spok
en now, will go ahead with the New
Deal.
Paradoxically, the vast restless
masses are not so certain.
In brief, the “little to the left of
center” policy of President Roosevelt
is becoming less and less successful.
Deft Hits
The president was hit badly by the
victories of the right during the clos
ing hours of congress. When Sena
tors Vandenberg of Michigan, Stei
wer of Oregon, Townsend of Dela
ware and Holt of West Virginia killed
the Guffey coal bill, the president
probably lost thousands of votes in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir
ginia to a third party. The miners
probably said: “Oh, what’s the use?”
The blame falls not on the Repub
lican senators and the revolting Dem
ocratic senator, but on the New Deal
ers who failed to hoi dthe fort suc
cessfully. The last days of congress
always are field days for‘the opposi
tion.
TERRIFIC BLAST
“Her body is dynamite to that
handsome costume designer she’s
been running around with.”
“Yes, and he knows how to set it
off.”
HAD NO CHOICE
“There was a terrible picture on
the screen last night, but Johnny had
to look. He couldn’t help himself.”
“Was he fascinated in spite of him
self?”
“No, his girlfriend‘wouldn’t pet.”
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE
DIXIE THINKING HARD
Os Third Term Suggestions Arising
OVER MAJORITY RULE
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA, July I—Demo
ocratic Chairman James A. Farley
speaks of the asininity of reports
that President Roosevelt, if re-elected
next November, will seek a third
nomination in 1940.
However, the very fact that Far
ley had to term the reports asinine
proves that they are current.
They are; quite so.
The southern delegates, in particu
lar, at the Philadelphia convention,
discussed them pretty freely
• ♦ »
Two-Thirds Rule
Most of these delegates from Dixie
were resentful of the president’s ad
vocacy of the abandonment of the
two-thirds rule at Democratic con
ventions, and surrendered grudgingly
when a voice vote swept the rule out
of existence following a recommenda
tion by the rules committee (by a
vote of 36 to 13) that it be aban
doned.
The south hadn't enough votes in
a convention to give a majority to a
candidate of its own choice but it
has had enough to prevent any can
didate to whom it objects from get
ting two-thirds. In other words, while
the Dixielanders couldn’t win. they
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, July 30—Mr. George
Raft, the dapperly sinister heart
breaker, who has moved through the
movies with increasing acclaim dur
ing the past dozen years received me
in his hotel suite at half-past six in
the afternoon (Daylight Time). He
had not yet dressed for the day and
wore a dark blue unfrilled dressing
gown.
There were about a dozen people
in the suite, but they fluttered in and
out and Mr. Raft and I had oppor
tunity to chat satisfactorily, despite
a half-dozen telephone calls (includ
ing one from a vague gentleman who
demanded, in no uncertain terms,
that Raft surrender a slice of his
earnings forthwith, on the ground
that he, the vague gentleman, had not
been able to provide money for him
self).
Mr. Raft was byway of being in
a blue mood. He had, it is true, been
up very late the night before enter
taining a large party of “I-Knew-
Him-Whens”, but he is a teetotaler.
He has never had a drink in his life
and so his mood could not have been
induced by katzenjammer.
“I’m tired of being made out a
heel in pictures’’ he said with the
same staccato directness lie uses in
his scenarios. “It makes it so I can’t
go out without having strangers
come up to me and call me names.”
At that moment Mr. Mack Gray,
who has been described as the Raft
‘ bodyguard”, appeared and inform
ed his patron that a wire had just
arrived summoning them back to the
Coast at once for retakes on the pic
ture just finished. Mr. Gray does not
look like a bodyguard; he is tall,
thin and amiable.
“He’s just an old friend,” Raft ex
plained when I bodly asked about
the bodyguard story. “That body
guard stuff is bunk. The papers
made a big story out of a fight I got
into with Mack out in Hollywood six
months ago. It just goes to show.
“Mack went to the hospital to get
his nose straightened and I went
along to keep him company and get a
little scar taken out of my ear.” Raft
rubbed his left ear ruefully.
“We got out of the hospital and, with
the bandages still on, went to a case.
Some guy started to pass remarks
about ‘pretty boys’ who got them
selves fixed in beauty parlors and I
couldn’t take that. I stepped in, when
this fresh guy kept on handing out
insults, and mixed it with him. Mack
started slugging, too. Wouldn’t you
have done the same thing?”
I admitted that I might have, if
the man weren’t Schipeling.
“Some of the stories make me out
an actor who’s always having fights.
I’m reasonable and peaceful fellow
but enough’s enough. Also when I
complain* it is usually about some
thing worth while. For instance,
some of the stories I get and every
picture I’m in I’ve got to carry on
my own. I don’t get the big stars, like
some of the boys I could name. You
never saw me with Dietrich, or with
Garbo, did - you? Well, I think a man
who’s been in pictures as long as I
have might get a break with one of
the really big box-office names once
in a while, don’t you?”
I knew George Raft had grown up
in Hell’s Kitchen, and that one of
his old boyhood friends was Owney
Madden, the gentleman whose name
was once a power in New York rac
kets and who has now married and
settled down in Arkansas.
“He’s a white guy, through and
through.” Raft spoke with fervor. “I
don’t know why he took the wrong
road, or why I didn’t take one
just as bad. Things just happen and
sometimes a man is pushed into a
way never intended to take. Owney
always seemed okay to me and I
never saw the things in him I read
about in the papers.”
George Raft is a likable young
man. He is almost totally lacking in
self-consciousness. He speaks candid
ly. quickly and to the point. He was
a dancer in Texas Guinan's place
when the movie scouts found him.
He has never been out of a film job
since, and despite his several frac
ases he has certainly failed to "go
Hollywood.” •
' What do you want to do most of
all?” I asked, because I couldn't
think of a better question botween
telephone calls.
“I want to be a director," Mr. Raft
said.
always had been able to force a com
promise.
The south prized this veto power
and exercised it, too, as when it
euchered the late Champ Clark out
of the Democratic presidential onmi
natlon. Calrk had a majority, but
he couldn’t run it up to two-thirds;
so finally his supporters had to yield
and thq convention agreed on Wood
row Wilson, which, despite the fact
that Wilson won for their party, was
mighty aggravating to the Ciarkites.
• « •
Roosevelt’s View
President Roosevelt took the posi
tion that it’s unfair for a minority
to dictate to a majority.
He also held that it’s bad politics,
on the ground that a convention ma
jority’s first choice of a candidate is
likely to make a more formidable run
than the gathering’s compromise sec
ond choice, with which, in all prob
ability no element will be altogether
satisfied.
At first thought this seems like
sound reasoning.
Nevertheless, Dixie ha<J an an
swering argument of some cogency.
* * *
South’s Argument
It’s true, admit the southerners,
that their delegates were in a minor
ity at Democratic convention.
But when it comes to an election —
THEIR STATES GO DEMOCRAT
IC.
The OTHER states, though with a
majority of convention delegates, may
almost all go Republican electorally.
That is to say:
A certainly Democratic state like
Alabama, for example, disliked to
have a probably Republican state like
Pennsylvania pick the candidates for
Alabama Democrats to support, and
then go Republican in November,
while the faithful Alabamans did
their Democratic duty. The Alabam
ans have felt that at least they
should have some little check upon
the selection, as under the two-thirds
rule.
That’s more or less color of justice
in this contention.
• • •
Unimportant This Year
To be sure, the dispute’ has been
only academic as applied strictly to
the present instance the Roosevel
tian renomination this year having
a foregone conclusion.
However, the southern delegates In
Philadelphia, with a few exceptions,
expresssed violent opposition to the
two-thirds rule’s abrogation.
What the president appears to
them to have undetaken, I have
heard many of them charge, is to
gain absolute convention control in
1940 by the abandonment of that rule
and another modification or two,
making it perfectly possible for him
to renominate himself or to designate
his successor, anyway.
That that’s what he really has had
it in mind to do is a question for
anyone to guess one, but it’s what
numerous southerners have main
tained that his program has been cal
culated to render practicable.
There are anti-New Deal north
erners who whisper the same suspi
cion. 0.,
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In 1940—What?
I don’t honestly suppose that
there’s a definitely deep-laid plot at
this stage of the game to make Frank
lin D. Roosevelt America’s first three
term ppresident.
Still, when the time comes! If
there’s a demand for him, and the
thing’s manageable? Who knows?
It looks asinine to Chairman Far
ley now. But in 1940?.
The suggestion’s been made, any
how or Farley wouldn’t have had
to notice it.
Your’e Telling
Me?
THE POLITICAL conventions
brought one boon, at least to radio
listeners. It prevented the horror of
having to listen to a couple of hours
of toothpaste, liniment an< beauty
cream ads.
• ♦ *
The aquarium in New York
boasts an average yearly attend
ance of 2,500,000. Well, by this
time the fish in the glass cases
should have a pretty fair idea
what a native American looks
like.
♦ ♦ ♦
Everj r speeder overlooks one fatal
truth —the faster he drives the quick
er the law—or the undertaker—will
catch up with him.
•
The value of political conven
tions may be guaged from the
fact that now leading adherents
of the two major parties are
quarreling over which convention
made the most noise.
• ♦
The man who holds his head up
suffers less when adversity assails
him. A punch on the chin is never
as painful as getting it in the neck.
« * *
Chinese are reputed never to
be surprised at anything, no mat
ter how incredible. But they must
have gotetn a shock the ether
day when their army actually
won a battle.
We think the old parties made a
mistake in picking the elephant and
the donkey for their emblems. After
listening to their convention speeches
we think a fitting symbol for either
party would be a parrot.
One-Minute Test Answers
?; T R fP rcsentative William Lemke
of North Dakota.
2. Tables used in insurance compu
tation on risks and premiums.
3. Resemblance to remote ancestors
rather than to parents; recurrence
of disease after intermission of sev
eral generations.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
Wednesday, July 1; first day of
fiscal year, Domniion day in Canada.
Commemoration day in Newfound
land, Independence day in Iraq. Sum
mer holiday in China. Mars, Invisible
for several weeks, is reappearing in
the east, rising about 4 a.m.
• « «
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Charles Laughton, b. 1899, stage
and screen actor. . . . E. P. Cosbigan,
b. 1874, senator from Colorado . . .
Madge Evans, b. 1909, cinemactress
. . - Albert Bushnell Hart, b. 1854,
historian . . .
• * •
‘ TODAY’S YESTERDAY
July 1, 1859 —The man who in
spired and was ridiculed by John T.
Trowbridge’s famous poem, “Darius
Green and His Flying Machine,”
which made him out a fool for pro
phesizing that men would fly through
the air with the greatest of ease,
made the first transcontinental air
mail flight. John Wise sailed from
St. Louis, Mo., to Watertown, N. Y„
1,150 miles, in 19 hours and 15 min
utes, in a balloon in which he hoped
later to cross the ocean carrying two
other men and a bag of letters. Wise
had intended to reach New York city,
but was forced down.
July 1, 1862—Everybody went bo
work for the federal government. On
the 71st anniversary of the imposi
tion of the first federal taxes (on
distilled spirits and carriages) upon
citizens of the U. S., the first taxes
were laid upon incomes and tobac
co and the Internal Revenue Bureau
was created. The income levy extend
ed to all incomes over S6OO a year,
including those of federal officials
and employes.
The extraordinary thing about these
taxes was that they were repealed.
One supreme court even ruled in
come taxes unconstitutional.
July 1, 1879—Illinois, first state to
have sex equality legislation (enacted
in 1872), decreeing that “no person
shall be precluded or barred from
any occupation or employment (ex
cept military) on accuonb of sex,”
was the first state to have a law
prohibiting their employment! It went
into effect on this date and barred
them from working in coal mines.
Shortly thereafter, President Gar
field issued an order excluding wom
en from holding any government po
sition.
July 1, 1919—The first airmail
service began between New York and
Chicago—at a slower speed than that
of Wise 50 years before!
July 1, Among State Histories: 1859
—The first college baseball game was
played between Amherst and Williams
.. . . 1861—First daily overland mail
route opened, between St. Joseph,
Mo., and San Francisco. 1863—Bat
tle of Gettysburg, biggest battle ever
fought on American soil, began . . .
1872—Spain ceded Florida to U. S.
. . . 1874—Charles Ross, 4, was
stolen from Germantown, Pa., in the
first great kidnaping case, and never
seen again. 1898—Theodore Roose
velt won fame with his rough riders
in the battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba.
1875—First League of Nations—the
postal union—became operative, with
U. S. as a member . . . 1921—First
state sales tax became effective, in
West Virginia . . -
* * •
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Allies raised
the blockade of Greece. French divi
sions recaptured Thiaumont at Ver
dun, which had become a bouncing
ball. But the big news, of course, was
the great assault launched at the
Somme by the British, with Belgian
and French support on the flanks.
William Seaver Woods places it
among the “Colossal Blunders of the
World War,” one of the most inter
esting books among the thousands on
the conflict. He said:
“It was on July 1, 1916, that the
great British assault was launched
against the German lines north of
the Somme. In all the Allied lands
the highest hopes were pinned on its
success. The British armies were at
a pinnacle of perfection never at
tained before, and never reached
again.
“By a curious exchange of roles,
the British were now to try out the
same kind of attack the Germans had
used at Verdun, and were to meet the
same kind of failure.
“The British assault on July 1 was
terrific; the losses were also terrific.
Between 50.000 and 60,000 British
soldiers were killed, wounded or taken
prisoner before nightfall, nearly half
of the total number who went over
the top that day. It was the most
disastrous day the British army had
ever knew.”
(To be continued)
The Grab Bag
I
One-Minute Test
1. Name the presidential candidate
° f n tl^J l€wly ’ organized Unl °n party.
2. What are actuarial tables?
3. Define atavism.
Hints on Etiquette
_D° nt forget your good manners
when someone accidentally spills
something on you at a party or din
thl' S ?° W yOUr tem P« r - Smile
a J cid ? nt aw ay. Remember you
may do the same thing some day.
’ Words of Wisdom
n ° Place more delightful
than ones own fireside.— Cicero.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are ant to
be rather silent and reticent at time?
IW w n ui k if lt aulte
sSch Th? f One can force their
T ? elr sensil3 iHties are fine
a d,ep tove “