Show it S This Nation Is at af War Wart ERE RE getting hip deep in standard bearers f y fe fellow countrymen n When the aspirants for forthe the presidency march to the conventions next summer summer ummer the van vanguard will look like the massed colors at the head of f an Armistice day parade Call Calling ng the roll roil Hoover Landon Knox Knox Fish Borah and Al Smith converging ing on Clev Cleveland Jand Roosevelt Talmadge and Al Smith h heading ading for the City of Brotherly L Love y Then hen th theres there's res re's California's as a's Merriam with his jils hi ear cocked to listen for lor his party's call cali A Alot AS Alot S lot of l lance nce corporals in Democracy's ranks W. W Would ul like to pl in n the hands of their theix llie fri friends but f faintness of t f heart healt deters them No Ko rt newsworthy man in an any of the camps of the has so far stuck his neck out of the flap of his tepee tepees Doc Townsend put his nose out ut for one quick whiff of the political weather but like a g groundhog pulled it in again when he be saw a shadow ii'S The ilc red G Gene ne Talmadge Talmadge Talmadge Tal Tal- madge had himself his convention in Macon Wednesday V Imagine his surprise when Georgia's Georgias Georgias Georgia's Geor Geor- gias gia's chairman of the national executive com com- suggested that it i indorse the Buzzard tats states tat ts governor for president So surprised in fact was He lie that he pulled pUlle a prepared five- five platform oUt ut of his pocket proposing to tut taxes faxes and pay off ff the national debt Ther Theres There's S arithmetic rit eti for tor or y you u. u An Another ther plank Stop top nine nineS niner iner S tenths of the federal activities in America With h half the population Hon on government governments payrolls payrolls payrolls pay pay- rolls what kind of oL a vote-getting vote idea is that Tear Tar ar down eighths seven of th the buildings in Washington and c cover ver the grounds with beautifUl beautiful ful parks h 11 he demands That would only obly leaVe lelve leaveS S the White WhilE House and the government printing office sta standing but standing but that would suffice for Talmadge Talt Tal Tal- madge t if the broadcasting stations were not notS S razed Its It's all good comedy but at that it may help a little to give Jim Farley Parley a mess of in in- in somnia A split in the soI solid d south is nothing t to make Democracy laugh out loud But the politicos have plunged the nation into War war ar The first phase mobilization of resources I I is 16 pa passing pasing i g into the second organizing the field forces forceE The pl plans s of action will be followed ved by t. t the launching of the offensive as spring comes and then the heavy will get going with lenty plenty of snipers r in n action n on all fronts A At t Cleveland and P Philadelphia both sides s will dig but m In but in inthe the trenches there will willbe be two civil wars va s going on on ani the winners winnet-s to togo go over the top and have at each other th r for lor or the big v. show in inNo No vember About the only hope for the he survival survival pf of f national sanity will be two to exciting pennant races and a humdinger of a worlds world's series It St St. S |