Show 1 WI WILL 4 BEVERLY HILLS HILLS Wen Well all an I J know is Just what I read In the papers or hero lately Its not so much what 1 4 SQ SS V real read In the th-e pap papers pa- pa 5 d p pers ers as what I 1 had to 11 listen s t ton o n V too Not over P the radio But tr right out lou loud r N first hand as asI I t you per perhaps hap s sh it NA h havo a v e gathered from Crom a roundabout roundabout roundabout round round- about way there thore has been lately held In the City of Chi Chicago c ago couple of by America leading second sight artists Well I was drafted to go there Of Ot course courso no one would have gone gono of ot his own free ree will and accord and now that they are all over and andI I 1 sit and think of the tho amount of ot Applesauce and Hooey that was spilled there you wonder that we are aro even doing as well as we weare weare weare are as a Nation When you think of thousands of ot 1 people In a hot stuffy hall away up till the early morning hours listening listening listen listen- ing to The man I 1 am about to nominate has tho the qualities of ot a Jackson the statesmanship of a Jefferson and the homely common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense of an Abraham Lincoln Then the next neat one nominated would have all these and then a couple of more maby the looks of McKinley and the oratory of ot Bryan Dryan Hours on hours of that then they would all get up and march around the hall I part art would march and part would hiss or be against the ones that was marching Then all sit down and then some local prodigy Y would havo have to mako make a Seconding speech And go all through the samo stuff the tho others had anything Jn in 1 the world orId to get to talk But with It all they were a good bunch I guess Just so much o or of that has to be An Englishman si sitting sitting sit sit- ting In the Press Stand from tho the worlds most liberal paper the Mae Mav Chester England Guardian I just Jus looked at him when thousands were acting like newly corralled monkeys monkeys mon mono keys and wondered what he mus must think of this odd way of arriving a at I talked to him 0 Of courso course he was like Ilke all well well bred bred Englishmen very Discreet and say anything against our system but It would have been worth a lot to have had his rea real thoughts I guess there Is no profession as Crazy as ns politics Its a profesSion sion slon all Its own Of all the Tra Trades es and Deals and Under tinder Cover happenings happenings hap hap- I that go on during one o of those conventions State Deliga Lion is with Their man but are they Maby their leaders have already already al 01 al- al ready r-eady sold out to some opposition man and are to deliver to him after atter the next ballott Is 18 taken They Trade Trado all kinds of ways w Bring your over to me and I will give your govenor the vice presidency You meet some great folks a athose at those conventions ex cx- Senators Senators ex-Senators altho al all all the tho names that you have havo become accustomed to in the past and maby ent heard of in a long longtime longtime time why you find em at these con eon von Then its becoming a great trip for tor the women They slipped sUpped her herthe herthe herthe the voto vote and she slipped sUpped off orr the theold theold theold old Mother Hubbard and Into the theold theold theold old Organdie an and 1 she sho Is la meandering meander meander- Ing Ins her way through a solid week of ot gabbing sobbing And having a great time It gives em something to do Every once In n awhile while they allow one up p t en the stana to make male some kind of of little Seconding Ing speech or something of ot ofa ota a minor order b but the old Ho Ho t loaders leaders are pretty pretty pretty pret pret- ty careful to not Y g give 1 v e e em m too fad much uch They F S1 rope o Ep P sorter keep em p like a well well well-regu- reb u c S. S lat od family does the small t child Its supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to mostly listen and every once in awhile If It a lull comes to ask maby some little Inoffensive question but never allowed full leeway Course Courso the women are more moro serious with It all When they do get a chance chanc they try to make their very best oest of it it They are generally more brief than tho the men I 1 cant tell whether thata from choice or from tho the fact they are aro always limited to Just lust so many minutes But Its a show that no American should miss Its I and Its Us enlightening It gives us a n kind of ot an idea that most men that emerge from Crom It with any spoils were wore more lucky than competent A soo good goad l manager can ran dc de demore e emore more than an able ablo candidate Trades make mako Presidents more than ability But as ns bad as we are and as funny as we do things weare W we are aro bettor of off than the tho other Coun trios so su bring on more conventions The bigger tho the noisier the crazy or the tho better No nation like noIse and Hooey like we do W Wf are ore all aU cuckoo but we are aro happy 1931 l s I lie |