Show Scenes and Persons I Current News e in-tli- National Topic Interpreted by Williato Bruckart National Press Building and Washington — The Republicans ‘ Presl the Democrats have their dentlal tickets The the elephant andtheir donkey have Jockeys for the cam The tumult and the shouting palgn —and the withering fire of blistering politics have begun It Is a long way to the finish line where the checkered flag falls for the winner of the race But the big fight Is really on and It Is Interesting as well as significant to note how It has started It Is always a sure sign thnt party leaders respect and fear their opponents when they start a campaign with a declaration that the enemy is weak that his selection resulted from chicanery or bosslsm or thnt the par tlcular candidate selected has been That Is what put up as a sacrifice has happened already In the current campaign and you can eiect It to no secontinue because It Is stntlng cret to disclose thnt the New Dealers fear Gov Alf M Landon of Kansas nominee and that the the Republican beneath the leadership Republican surface are wishing for a clairvoyant or crystal gazer to tell them how to inch of a chance they have beat Franklin D Roosevelt obno astute political Of course at this dare predict server would stage of the game who the winner It Is will be On the other hand part of the psychology of the game of to claim everypolitics for politicians Yet I know thnt each thing In sight real battle a horse side expects race The November result Is pretty to determined be by events of likely At the end of the next two months that time trends will be evident and will some appraisal of the campaign be possible In the Interim claims and high sounding phrases will be offered by the basketful and enthusiasm will be promoted Yet the end the result will not begin to be evident intll afterward because this Is the season for the tumult and shouting I cannot concur In the claims already advanced by Postmaster Farley that the election Is in the bag for Mr Roosevelt that any more than I can believe Chairman John Hamilton of the Rewith special publicans Is equipped foresight enabling him to say that Governor Landon Is a stire winner I said above that the campaign has all of the appearance of a horse race and a close one To that extent It Is a condition much more favorable to the Republicans than obtained three months ago when as I recall I suggested that If the election were held at that time Mr Roosevelt had a advantage over anybody the Republicans could name To say now therefore thnt the race probnbly will be close necessarily indicates two things: unification of Republican strength and some mistakes by the Democratic leadership (one may properly Inquire what has brought about the unification of the Republicans) The answer seems rather obvious It Is that the Republican party has been reorganized from tip to toe The reorganization has been more sweeping and more effective and the result much more eattsfactory to the country than most political observers had any reason to I sny "satisfactory to the expect country" because the Republican party Is a major political unit and though at present a minority party will emue back to power some time The Democrats have been a minority pnrty and the course of human events has witnessed It restored to power So the people have a stake In either pnrty one proceeds to Imand whichever prove Its political structure Is giving something of vital value to the country as a whole The Democratic attack on the Republicans for the last sixteen years has been concern C O trated to a large Cleani House tent on the charge that the Republicans were Chairman harped on that Farley has continually When the Repuballeged condition licans did their house cleaning Job at Cleveland they took away an Important Issue from the Democrats but even to some of tbe Democrats and some Independents like Senator George Norris of Nebraska refused to accept the purging as genuine Senator Norris disclosed his attithe other day tude very definitely when he broadcast a radio speech lie employed the allegation that the Cleveland was convention dominated by “special Interests" and that the platform adopted there was plainly reactionary” - Senator Norris has not supported a Republican candidate for 12 years although he ran for re election six years He believes In ago as a Republican and lhslsts that Mr Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt alone can save the country U to assumed also that Mr It be Roosevelt will have the support of the LaFollettes Senator Bob and GovThese men ernor Phil In Wisconsin however have labeled themselves as and have not carried the Progressives party label of either the Democrats or Republicans There will be others of tbe same P Wanhlngton D of the Southwest N M— Through of vanished yesterwe’ve j'ust traveled the high days ranges of the earlier pistoleers — Pat Garrett of the itchy trigger finger and John Wesley Hardin the Texas preacher’s boy turned scorpion and Doc Holliday the coughing dentist with his nervous mannerism of shooting people and that babyish king of all the killers Billy little the Kid who 'smiled bis diflldent smile even ns he blasted out a life for every one of the years of his life "not counHeroes C GALLUP and woof There will be Democrats who will do aa Senator Copeland of New York bus done take a walk Alfred E Smith Is not going to support the New Dealers not will a great many of his followers So It Is obvious that each party will be to defections of one kind oi subjected warp another - Now concernlrg mistakes that havs been made: Chairman Farley made a bad mistake politically when he said that Alfred M London was Some “just the littleMistaket known governor of a prairie typical state" That remark has been rising chairman alto haunt tbe Democratic most dally since It escaped from his lips and unless I miss my guess he thrown Into his will hear It repeated teeth so many times between now and November thnt the words will give to a stomachache him equivalent green apples Tbe reasons this remark was a serious blunder are two First and foremost Is that every state In the Union rightfully” has Justified pride ‘of Its people Its commerce and Industry and Its future prospects Every state feels resentment when Its caprofound pacity to do great tilings 1s questioned when Mr Farley cataConsequently Kansas as a typical logued prairie state and its governor ns there was a surging" tidal wave of rewas sentment and It not confined to Kansas alone The second reason why Mr Fnrley’s remark cut tbe wrong wny was that Mr Farley Is a New Yorker and a There Is something reTammanylte of ndd westpulsive to the millions and a very erners about Tammany residents of prairie states many great long have objected to the attempt of certain New Yorkers to "run things" for the whole United States mistake Another that has been Is made really a series of mistakes the coercion that has been permitted to go on among those receiving redef It Is not exactly fair to charge Mr Farley and President Roosevelt with these yet I am inclined to believe have could they prevented local from attemptDemocratic politicians ing to force relief clients to vote the Democratic ticket That condition has obtained In as many as fifteen states 1( Is one of those things In politics that naturally causes a revulsion of yet It Is one of those things feeling with which the leaders possibly may have had nothing directly to do The fact that they might have prevented it and did ' not is accepted by the average voter In exactly the same light as though a written order directing such procedure hnd been Issued The hnndllng of the tax question by In this session of the administration congress has not been of a character It has warranting too much prnlxe alienated many Influential persons who might otherwise have supported Sir Roosevelt Of course In the end the President can sny that he wanted additional funds In order to start the of the nntional budget but balnnclng I know of a great number of Democrats In congress who have been thoroughly displeased by the White House for a reform tax law rathInsistence er than a revenue law It seems to me therefore that a considerable amount of campaign material will be from this fact developed And bo It goes with Democratic mis- himself ting" ss he would say "Mexicans Injuns” We viewed tbe historic bullet pocks and their personal nd we discovered burying grounds Just one survivor of those ancient clans — a rancid octogenarian wearing the look about him of a ven shamefaced erable sheep where he with a gingham apron dnhping’ the sat withered flanks which opce had supported his artillery and he shelling the kitchen door of his presby peas ent wife’s boarding house and 1— National convention Delegates attending the Republican the late Joseph W Byrns speaker of the house of newly elected speaker of the house funeral of Alabama In Cleveland representatives Primitive NEW GOLF CHAMPION 2— 3— President Roosevelt Is Representative William Fishing Sport present at tbe Bankhead of Is Revived As somebody prematurely remarked before I thought It up myself the old Southwest Is gone But you never saw nobbier service stations than we passed nor shinier beauty parlors and the curb service was excellent Destructive this year grasshoppers have threatened growing things In the Midwest True to their advance notices the locusts are popping out along the eastern seaboard In Ontario a of the plague caterpillars covered railroad tracks so thickly trains could not run on schedule There's no word yet from our little southern friend the boll weevil but news Is expected Maybe he’s waiting for the return of the cotton crops that to used we plant for the export trade — when we had an export cotton trade The pine borer Is reported on the In the north woods To date out Job here we have only the regular resident pests Including the white termite the red ant and the mother who can prove her child Is another Shirley If somebody would only lisTemple ten Of the we already have upwards of 30000 and more arevery riving day Still we cannot hope to escape Presently the party who goes around baking straw votes on the election will start multiplying rapidly And then California professional spellbinders will be binding and at any moment Upton Sinclair Is liable to start run- Tony Mancro with the National Golf open winner's cup shown after he won the United States open championship with a acore of 2S2 which set a new title world’s record for a major tournament Going back to tbe primitive sport of fishing with a bow Mary Todd is pictured fishing for bass at Santa Monica Calif row with a long cord to retrieve the fish Is used Army Flyer Succeeds in Blind Flight DR TOLLEY and A arrow Miss steel tip ar- HEADS AAA ning the picture tbe mistakes yet of them an have They vantage over the Democrats In one regard: they have not been charged of government with the responsibility for the last three and years and therefore will not have to answer It In administration for mistakes lies In the hands of the Republican therefore to prevent pomanagers litical mistakes between now and election If they are capable of so doing They have started out with an offenand hnve an opportusive campaign nity to continue It whereas the Democrats can conduct an offensive campaign only so long as they can avoid entering Into a defense of Roosevelt New' Deal policies I understand that the Democratic Is loaded lo the committee national with material for attavk dashboard but from this stage of the batlle It seems quite apparent thnt fliey are going to need plans for defense as well as offense and they will not have enthusiastic support from some spots In their own army The Democrats are prepared to attack Governor Landon on the theory that the country cannot feel sure of that he has his plans and policies done nothing to enable the country to appraise him and that there Is no asIn event of his election surance that he 1s a big enough man for the Job 'On tbe other of Chief Executive can hand tbe Republicans by using the language of Senator New York Lemocrat who Copeland declared that no man nor party disIts pledges was to be trustregarding ed and right there Is where the New Dealers must begin to defend £ KiMyvpet Uo ua On the Vtm on paign plenty MaJ Ira C Eaker U S A pictured at Union air terminal the pleted first flew formation In left and MaJ William E Kepner U S A Burbank Calif Just after the former comblind flight the latter flying another army with Major Eaker for something What Makes News OOME gentleman who most work at the postofllce because seemingly stamps don’t mean a thing In the world to him keeps taking Issue with me for saying the reason why successsenful newspapers feature sations above news of art and science and literature is not through any desire lo pander to morbid or vulgar tastes hut because the average publisher being a smart merchandiser puts such wares In his shop window which Is his front page as are calculated to catch the eye and win tbe trade of the general public demands nn anMy correspondent swer All right let’s make It par- takes On the other side of can make Republicans Pests THOUGH It weren't bad enough AS already with a Presidential cam- Howard R Tolley whom M L Wilson assistant secretary of agriculture announced would succeed Chester C Davis as administrator of the AAA He has been noting administrator since Mr Davis left more than two months ago on an agricultural Inspection tour able: mister thut Suppose tomorrow the town where you through live a train bearing a distinguished who has made some great disthe cause and cure of covery— sny botts — and on another train there Is a lady who after a spectacular murder trial has Just been triumphantly acquitted on the ground of for shooting a gentleman friend eight or nine times In the back Which one of these two travelers will draw the biggest crowd down to the station? And brother which train will raises savant Bonus Bonds Are Distributed to War Veterans you v yV — " f i L - r 1 - i fi V yi is A J-f- 1 i ' ' t' a ' j f "fj w it ' V A f Jl ' A jt View trlbution Favorite Son Keynoter home the folks are all puffed np with pride Ourotyn Albto for the Democratic I’arkley keynoted convention nntll the rnffers warped Resides being a grand person and a hardworking senator he’s one of the last of the real southern the kind that can make a song of a syllable and turn any reasonably long word Into an anthem And does he come from' the place where the true faith prevails? The majority stabilized Just as soon as we got a lot of to quit voting for Jeff Davis AA'e weaned them on W J Rrynn Ours Is probably the only congressional district In the Union that never has gone Republican although when Smith ran It had a comparatively close call from going Baptist Let the creatures of entrenched greed beware As goes Taducah so goes Paducah IRVIN S COBB—” FJ ACK I meet? of the sorting room of the District of Columbia of the soldiers' bonus nnder way Among f post ollice where the spectators Is workers tolled long hours In getting the Postmaster Vincent C Burke (white suit) dia- Service I |