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Show THE SUNDAY HERALD. SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1924 I I I I 1 1 M I I 1 I I 1 I li I I I l l i i 000000000000000000000000 NOT LONG ENOUGH TO FORGET By H. LOUIS RAYBOLO i i i i i i i I, " 1 immiiiimTiTiTi 1114. MeClure Newepaper Syndicate.) France Meredith laid down ber towel and tank down on the soft pine needles through which she had been working to make a hole deep enough to take the lower part of the stake which backed the small white sign. She sighed and looked wistfully down one of the shadowy corridors made by evenly planted rows of slender young pines. Like one of these very trees. Tall, straight, aspiring heavenward.'' she murmured. .. That was John. Cut down In the strength of bis youth. Oh, but life and death can be cruel I" And because It was warm and sweet there In the grove, she sat quietly on for many minutes and traced through from the beginning her romance, which had terminated, like so many others, on the battlefield In France. John Stoddard and she had grown up together and drifted Into love and wedding plans so naturally that neither one could have told when the other ceased to be only a friend. Nothing prevented an early marriage, for John was advancing rapidly In his chosen field of engineering, and Frances was both alone in the world and financially well provisioned. John, also, oddly enough, was without any relatives that mattered. now That, Frances sometimes thought, made his early death all the sadder. She alone could keep his memory green. If only she had married hlra before he went I But John had refused to let her take the chance of becoming a widow before she was fairly a wife, and she had tried to acquiesce as sensibly and cheerfully as possible. So he had gone across, and for some months his letters had come reg-- , ularly. Then had followed a dreadful silence to be broken only after weeks of suspense and agony by the telegram which told her be had passed away from the effects of a wound. She had made no effort to have him brought home, respecting what she felt would have been his wishes, but the longing was often heavy npon her to erect some memorial to his memory. Just what form It should take did not occur to her until the circumstances arose which decided her to break up her home and go East. advertisement In a magazine caught her attention one evening, offering a splendid opportunity for a young woman to go Into partnership with a not unknown landscape gardener, herself an older woman. It had appealed to, Frances, who was beginning to wonder Just bow she would fill the years which seemed fo stretch An before her so emptily. A correspondence had followed, and when Frances wrote that she was coming that part would be ended. Tonight Frances planned to send that letter, which would suddenly uproot her from the existence she had always known. And she was feeling the wrench of parting with the house In which she had been born, the little garden-- In which she had learned to walk, but most of all, the wonderful grove of pines set out by her father before his While her mother lived she death. had taken her daughter almost dally carto trudge along the pet and to gaze wonderlngly at the blue sky patches far up through the tree tops. As she grew older Frances had loved to gather up her sewing or reading and run up to the hill where the grove began. It had come to symbolize for her much of that which she had missed her parents' companionship and their affection. Then as her love for John blossomed, each separate tree seemed to signify to her his clean young manhood. This was more than ever true after his departure and sweet-scente- d failure to return. And today she had come up to the grove to give expression to a "desire which had come to her In the night. She had been wishing for a means to commemorate his memory. Suddenly the words of Charles Dickens had flashed through her mind: "Lord, keep my memory green." And with them had come the Inspiration. She would dedicate her wonderful pine grove to his memory, Instead of selling It as she had thought she must. No other memorial could possibly be more fitting. In the morning she lost no time going down to the village and having the sign made up. "In memory of John Stoddard," It rend, "Died In Kninee." Then she came home, hunted up her trowel and climbed the hill. The sun was well pnst its zenith when Frances rose, brushed off her skirts of the clinging needles, and looked at her handiwork. Yes. it was puipinnt In Its simplicity and, placed t the grove's edge, would be read by nil passing along the road. And the trc"s would continue their . steady fowth, Increasing their strength and bet my. Without looking back, Frances went lowly down the hill. She meant It to be her last visit to the grove before going East Her thoughts, however, lingered in the fragrant spot she had left, and she lent about numerous little errands In Jhe village before taking the path that lt J1 absent-mindedl- home. y Dusk had fallen aa she came np the box bordered walk, and not until she had reached the very porch steps di I she see that a figure was standing at her door, his back to ber and something white under bla arm. At the sound of her foot on the atep be turned Quickly, then grabbed her suddenly as aha swayed and eemed about to fall. "You didn't get my letterr be said. "I was afraid the shock Frances was herself in a moment, but not ber old, quiet remote self. Ratbei was she almost delirious with "No no, John, I didn't happiness. Unless this afternoon but I waa away. W& fes A. . where " "Lost my memory In a hospital In France." said John briefly. "And there was a mix-uId names and. oh, darling, the long explanations will keep. What worried me was whether I would find you married. Three years la a long time." "Not long enough to forget, John. Did you really think" John picked up that which bad fallen from under his arm unnoticed to the veranda floor. "Not when I passed along the Grove road and read this," he said tenderly. "'In memory of well, darling, I picked It op and brought It along 1" Oil, tell me. how I of every state seeking admission to Hie Union to dwide whether it would admit or bar slavery. It Is of present Interest In view of Ku Klux Klan activities, to note that the Democratic platform denounced in these words : A political rruaade tn the Nineteenth century and In the I'm led States ot America against Caihollo and foreign-bor- n ia neltber Juatlfied by tba paet hletory nor th future prueperta of the country nor In unlaon with the aplrlt of tol.railon and enlarged freedom which peculiarly the American ayatem of popular government dletln-cutan- p won the elecBuchanan tion und during his adminisy tration history was made along the line of the slavery Issue. The United Slates Supreme court rendered the Dred Scott decision that no negro, free or slave, was a citizen, thus Implying that the Missouri Compromise had always been unconstitutional In Its discrimination against slavery. There was a farcical vote In Kansas tn favor of the Lecompton rap-Idl- , Intellectual Mate It Modern Woman y state constitution, and practically a state of civil war In that territory. The famous "Freeport Debates" In Illinois Idea, "Women must be approached through the Intellect," the modem woman announced to her dearest chum and confidant as she handed her a letter she had Just finished reading, says the New York Sun. "That letter 1 perfectly ridiculous nowadays, "I like him very much; I thma I might even love him some day, but, my dear, he can never touch the deepest feelings In me with such thoughts. Just read the closing paragraph of that tender missive." And this Is what the friend read: "No. dear, I have not been pyschan-alyze- d yet mid I canuwt atiswer your questions. I don't knew what I might or might not be according to these modern thinkers. I only know that I love you and that Is sufficient That lovely little head of yours must not be troubled with such things. . . ." "There yon have Tom In his usual mood," exploded the modern woman. "Whenever I taTk to him about any of the many things developed woman wants to talk about he puts a loving finger over my tips, so to speak. "Women used to be all feeling, but developed woman thinks rather than feels nowadayV. And It Is this new something developed In ns that will be the fulfillment of a deeper love. "It Is possible that I have not been clever enough to select the subjects Tom may be Interested In. The other day I approached the subject of colors. I am Intrigued hi what colors do to the soul. I noticed Tom was wearing a necktie with red stripes and I ventured to tell him how red was very disturbing to the soul. And, my dear, he laughed In my face. Charming as he Is and fond as I am of Tom, I Just hated him at that moment. Had he discussed the thing with me or shown the slightest Interest be might have even convinced me of my folly, If folly It Is. But he didn't say a word." Odd Locomotion Tibet has her feminist leaders no less renewed In their own way than prominent women of western lands, according to Sir Charles Bell. At one monastery Sir Charles, who spent a year In Tibet as a British government lunched with DorJa Parmo, official, the most eminent woman In Tibet who, he said, was believed to have the powers of turning herself and the 59 other Inmates who Were monks, not nuns Into pigs, says the Detroit News. On his way to Lhassa, the holy city, he met pilgrims who were covering every Inch of the way by prostrating themselves. By this tedious method of traveling the pilgrim stretches himself on the ground, then makes a mark with his fingers a little beyond his head. The pilgrim rises, walks to the mark, mutters a prayer and again Some pilgrims prostrates himself. have been known to go 2,000 miles like this and spend seven to ten years on the Journey. Bookbinding Bookbinding as a fine art as well as a fine craft. As a craft It serves to fulfill bur desire to treasure the objects we love; as a fine art it assists us In treasuring that object in Its most beautiful form. We treasure the loved book that we may have continual experiences of love; we clothe It In fine raiment and decorate It with brilliant Jewels so that It may be as beautiful In Its outward form as It Is lovely to our Inward vision. Both as art and has therefore, bookbinding craft, value for us. It ministers to real wants and emotions felt in our longing for beautiful things and the enjoywith them ment which association brings. Temple Scott In the International Studio. "Judas Slit$" A clever French device for avoiding the unwelcome caller is reported by Frank G. Carpenter In the volume of his world travels, "France to Scandinavia." Many of the apartments are equipped with a "Judas si:t." a little brass plate about the size of a playing card with slits about a sixteenth of an Inch wide cut across It, says the Detroit News. This Is tacked over a hole In the door In such a way that a person within con peep through and without being seen can tell who Is knocking before she decldei whether to be at home or not. Lincoln and Douglas attracted the attention of the nation; Lincoln forced Douglas to uphold the of "popular sovdoctrine thus bringing ereignty," about the defeat of the "Little Giant" in the next Presidential campaign and his own And finally there election. was the John Brown raid In 1859 on Harpers Ferry In Virthe ginia, which inflamed South. The result of Llncoln'i political strategy of 1858 was seen when the Democratic Convention of 1860 met In April 21 Charleston, S. After taking 67 ballota with Douglas always in the lead with 145 to 151 votes out of In 1858 between M " Hi I) nfrMd.?' Hi C 303, the contention adjourned June to Baltimore. After Chairman Caleb Cush-ln- g of Massachusetts and many of the southern delegates had left this adjourned convention nominated Doug-gla- s with 181 votes against 7 for Vice President John C Breckenrldge of Kentucky. The rump (Breckenrldge) Democratic Convention met In Baltimore June after adjournments from Charleston and Richmond, and nominated Breckenrldge, Both the regular and rump Democratic Conventions reaffirmed the Democratic platform of 1856. , In the meantime the Republican Convention had met at Chicago and nominated Lincoln, with a platform denouncing the Kansas Lecompton state constitution, denying the right of congress to legalize slavery and calling for the admission of Kansas, With the Democrats divided, Lincoln won by the following votes In the electoral college: n and Hamlin, 180; Breckenrldge and Lane, 72; Bell and Everett (Constitutional Union nominees), 89; Douglas and Johnson, 12. The slavery Issue came to a head with the election and inauguration of Lincoln, The Civil war began April 13, 1860, with the fall of Fort Sumter. The Democratic Convention of 1864 was held at Chicago and nominated Gen. George B. McClel-la- n of New Jersey; only twenty-thre- e states were represented by delegates. The platform upheld the Union but characterized the Civil war as a failure and called for a cessation of hostilities. The Republican Convention, meeting In Baltimore, renominated Lincoln on a platform urging the fighting of the Civil war to a finish. The seceding states did not vote. In the electoral college McClellan got 21 votes from Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey. President Lincoln was shot April 14, 18C5, five days after the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, and was succeeded by Vice President Andrew Johnson, who was impeached In 1868 and escaped conviction by tie bouse by one vote. The campaign of 1876 brought about the famous contest between Hayes and Tilden, nominated respectively by the Republicans at Cincinnati and the Democrats at St. Louis. The decision in the diselectoral college depended upon the twenty-tw- o puted votes In four states South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Oregon. The house was Democratic; the senate Republican. Congress appointed an electoral commission to seat the disputed electors. It was composed of five senators, five representatives and four Supreme court Justices. The Justices chose Justice Joseph P. Bradley as the fifteenth member. The commission thus had eighl Republicans and seven Democrats. By a strlcl party vote the Republicans were seated, whereupon congress In Joint session March 2, 1877, declared Hayes and Wheeler elected by an electoral vote of 185 to 184. During the four months feeling ran high and the strain upon the nation was dangerous. There was another dangerous strain In 1884. The Democratic Convention at Chicago nominated Cleveland. The Republican Convention at Chicago nominated Blaine. It became apparent that Blnine had 182 votes' and Cleveland 183 In the electoral college, with the returns from New York (30 electoral votes) not complete and the popular vote very close. Tammany was accused of withholding returns until reports from upstate New York showed how many votes were required to carry the electoral vote of the state and elect Cleveland. After wo days of waiting. New York was reported Democratic by 1.149. This gave Cleveland the election. It was nt tlie 1S90 Democratic Convention at Chicago that William Jennings Bryan stampeded the delegates with his famous "Cross of Gold" speech and got the nomination. The platform demanded free and unlimited coinage of sliver and gold at 16 to 1. McKinley's vote In the electoral college was 271 as against 176 for Bryan. The Democratic Conventions of succeeding s were held ss follows: 1000, Kansas City, Mo., Bryan and Stevenson ; 1904, st. Louis, Parker and Davis; 1908. Denver. Bryan and Kern; 1912, Baltimore, Wilson and Marshall; 1916, Wilson and Marshall ; 1920, San Francisco, Cox and Roosevelt 18-2- By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN NITED STATES SENATOR PAT HARRISON from Mississippi (who was christened Byron Patton), official keynoter of the 1924 National Democratic Convention In Madison Square Garden, New York, will presumably keynote aa sweetly to "the various factions .among the delegations a If the Fathers of the Repub lic had made the keynoter the keystone of the political structure. To be sure, they neglected to mention him In arranging the political machinery for the election of the President of the nation. But neither did they mention nominating conventions or platforms or national committees. In fact the Democratic party, which had Its beginning away back In 1800 in the administration of Thomas Jefferson, never held a convention until 1832 and was guiltless of a platform until 1840. The Democratic Convention of 1868, which nominated Horatio Seymour of New York against General Grant, was notable only for one fact thnt for the first time the Democrats met in New York city. Why the Democrats have never gone back there in fifty-siyears nobody seems to know. The humorists have it that "Jeffersonlan simplicity" has been scared to death of "Wicked Wall Street" and the Tammany tiger. It was In 1870, It will be remembered, that the Tweed exposures startled the country ; and Wall Street had already demonstrated Its financial power. Anyway, they do say now that Gotham, before, during and after the 1924 convention. Is going to do Its darnedest to prove to Innocent and timid country Democrats, both delegates and visitors, that these "sinister Influences" are nothing but bugaboos. Doubtless New York will make a glorious success of this laudable undertaking. Anyway, the convention will probably be "as chaste as Diana" whose statue tops Madison Square Garden. It would be Interesting If sbme of the delegates to the 1868 convention could attendee 1924 convention. They would find the New York of today much like another world. The first national nominating convention ever held dates .back to 1812. The Federalists that year nominated Lieut. Gov. De Witt Clinton of New York for President and Attorney General Jared Ingersoll of Pennsylvania for vice president These nominations were first made by a caucus of state legislators at Albany, N. Y. For some reason, more formality was desired and the nominations were made over ffpiln by a convention assembled In New York. Madison, nominated by the Republicans in congressional caucus, beat Clinton easily. So the convention Idea got a bad send off. Perhaps that Is the reason why the next twenty years were The campaign of 1832 saw without conventions. the real start of national conventions. There were National Republican three parties and all three conventions or Whig and Democratic were held In Baltimore. The Democratic Conven- tlrm was held May 21. There were then twenty-fou- r states and all except Missouri sent delegates. s rule was adopted. No platform The was Issued. Andrew Jackson was unanimously renominated for President, The nominee for vice president was former Secretary of State Martin Van Buren of New York. The election was held November 6 and the people voted In every state except South Carolina, whet the legislature chose the electors. Jackson and Van Buren were elected. The campaign of 1832 also saw the first purty platform. After the National htvublican Convention had nominated Henry Clay tor President and John Sergeant of Pennsylvania for vice president tie adoption of a platform was left to the National Assembly of Young Men, which met at Washington and put forth ten resolutions, constituting the first platform ever Issued In the United States. The resolutions urged "adequate protection to American Industry," favored a system of Internal Improvements by the general government, upheld the respective powers of the Supreme court and vie senate and condemned the Indiscriminate re-- moval of public officers tor political reasons. Thia last plunk was aimed at the Democrats, inasmuch as the slogan, "To the victors belong the spoils," was first raised in the Jackson Campaign of 1828. The Democratic Convention of the campaign of 1836 waa held in Baltimore, May 30, 1835. Though over 600 delegates attended from twenty-twstates and the territories of Arkansas and Michigan, the vote, was limited in each state delegation to the number of representatives in congress. There wai no platform, though the New York state Democrats Issued a declaration of part principles In January of 1836. Van Buren was nominated by acclamation and defeated Gea William Henry Harrison, the National Republican candidate. In the campaign of 1840 the Democratic Convention met at Baltimore and unanimously renrmlnnt-eVan Buren. No one was named for vice president The platform reaffirmed states' rights and denied the power of the general government to carry on Internal Improvement and the power of congress to charter a United States bank or to Interfere with questions of slavery. Van Buren was beaten by Harrison, who died a month after his Inauguration and was succeeded by John Tyler of Virginia, the National Whig vice president Probably the most significant feature of this campaign was the first convention of the National Abolition party at Albany, N. Y. It nominated James G. BIrney, a native of Kentucky, who had A resolution was emancipated his slaves In 1834. adopted calling for the support of Christian free men of all parties In a campaign against slavery. The Abolitionists were called political cranks, but they laid the foundations of the new Republican o d x party. ' The Democratic Convention of 1844 met in Baltimore and nominated James K. Polk of Tennessee, who won over Henry Clay, nominated by the National Whigs. The platform reaffirmed that of 18-fo- 1840. ' two-third- There were no less than seven conventions In The winning candidate was Gen. Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Mexican war, who was nominated by the Native American Convention and the National Whig Convention, both held In Philadelphia. The Democratic Convention In Baltimore nominated United States Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan. United States Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was a candidate In this convention for the vice presidency. President Taylor died In office and was succeeded July 9. 1850, by Vice President Millard Fillmore of New York. In 1352 the Democratic Convention, meeting in Baltimore, nominated Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire over Cass and United States Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. Pierce won the election over Gen. Wlnfleld Scott, the National Whig candidate. The conventions of 1856 were of great interest and Importance as preliminary ti the election of Abraham Lincoln in 18G0 and the coming of the Civil war. There was the American Convention In February In Philadelphia, with 227 delegates from 27 states. Its platform was "America It nominated Fillmore. A romp for Americans." convention nominated Gen. John C. Fremont, tlie exp.orer. A Whig Convention In Baltimore ratified the nominations. There was the Republican Convention, the first of the new party, at Philadelphia, which nominated Fremont and Dayton of New Jersey. Lincoln got 110 votes for vice president. The platform opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 In regard to slavery; favored the admission of Kansas as a free state : denied the right of congress to legalize slavery, and upheld "liberty of eonscWr.ce and equality of rights among citizens." And there was the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, which nominated United States Minister to England James Buchnnan of Pennsylvania. The platform warned the country that continued Interference by congress with slavery and armed resistance to law as to fugitive slaves would end In civil war and disunion and declared It the right 1848. . (Know-Nothin- Know-Nothin- g 18-2- pro-slave- Lin-coi- . cam-polgn- Master Bobby Start Out to Find a Father By HAROLD CARTER Hit. It), Weetera Newepaper Uataa.) TDORBY was lost It la very hard to be lost when you are only five years old and have gone out Into the world to find a father. He held the wrap of paper which was to be a tullKman In bis hand. He hud taken (hut from mother's dek when site was in the other room. He knew that this would help him to find a futner such as he bad always wanted. Suddenly Bobby's legs gave out. He was tired and bewildered by the rush of tratlic and the busy pedestr- ian. He sat down upon the curb and rubbed his eyes with two grimy little bunds, and still be could not rub the tears away. "What's the matter?" asked a big policeman, striding up to him. "Are you lost, boy?" Bobby banded him the piece of paper. The policeman looked at It and whistled. "Mr. Swanscottl" he ejaculated. "Saints alive I Ia he your daddy T" Bobby nodded dubiously. The policeman picked him np and carried him across the street to a big building and spoke to tlie porter. The porter took Bobby to the door of a little room that was moving up and up. Upstairs John Swanscott was hold ing a company meeting. The directors were ail assembled and ready to beJohn Swanscott walked gin business. restlessly about the room. His heart was not In tlie company that day. He was thinking of the girlish wife who had left hlra five years before because because Well, he had tried to find her many times. But Hilda's pride bad lent ber power to evade him, and he had learned nothing. He did not know, for Instance, that he was the father. But with the shrewd Instinct of five years Bobby bad long ago divined that something was the matter with mother. True, he did not know that mothers ought not to cry at night and sometimes during the day aa well; it was only a subtle Instinct that informed him how happy he would be, and mother, too, if be could bring home a father. He had noticed particularly that the piece of paper wlthhe name on it was treasured, and that often mother took It out of the desk drawer and began to write a letter, and that she always ended by tearing up the paper on which she bad written, and throwing tlie pieces into the basket. Ah well. It was not necessary for John Swanscott to know all this. He had troubles enough. He bad thrown himself unreservedly into his workv an embittered man, and not a very generous one. The name of Swanscott had become feared in Wall street. TBere was not one of the directors, who stood nervously about th room, who was not afraid of him. "The meeting ia called, gentlemen," he said and Just then a clerk came In through the private door. "To see me !" exclaimed John Swanscott lncreduously. "The porter, did you say?" Then anger got tlie better of him. "Did you tell blm I had a company meeting?" be began. And Just then a dirty little boy with face and grimy hands a that clutched a scrap of paper, came toddling into the roo,m. Bobfly looked round gravely, and he stared into tlie face of each of the amused directors In turn before planting himself upon his sturdy little legs in front ot Swanscott "Well, sir, what can I do for you?" gravely. "Have Inquired Swanscott you come to attend the meeting of tills company?" "Yes," answered Bobby, with equal gravity. "I want a father." The words stung Swanscott to the quick. He glared at the little boy, and the directors, each of whom knew the tragic story of Swanscott's life though he did not know they knew, tried to suppress their Interest "So you have come to me to find a father for you, have you?" Inquired the president. "What Is that you have in your hand, young man?" Bobby stretched out his hand and offered him the paper, with the assurance of five years old. Swanscott took It and gave an involuntary start. It was Hilda's handwriting that he saw before his eyes. It was Impossible to mistake that How many times had he not seen it upon those letters at home, every one of which he had read so often that he knew It by tear-staine- d heart I "Mother is always crying because I haven't a father," explained Bobby. "She cried all night, and sometimes she writes things on a piece of paper and then tears it up and frows It away. So I thought I thought I would get a father." John Swanscott looked round him, and suddenly a warm sense of humanity filled his shrunken heart. And the directors, seeing the look upon the face, drew together into a corner. "What is your name?" asked Swanscott of the boy. "Bobby?" That waa his name his second name, and it had been arranged that if there were a boy he was to Inherit Swanscott reached for his hat. "Well, Bobby, I guess you have found one," he answered. "Gentlemen," he added, turning to the directors, "there will be no company meeting today." |