Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1928, Page 6

B N O —=——— - Social Side of Convention Booming With Arrival of Distinguished Women ——iiia 1 BREAKFAST SERIES ! FOR NOTED GUESTS Feminine Contingent to En- tertain Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Smith. BY MARTHA DALRYMPLE. A od Press Staff W HOUSTON, June 25.—Plans for the snevitable social events attendant upon the arrival of many distinguished fem- inine guests for the Democratic national convention superseded the more busi- ness-like political discussions today in ‘women's circles. Battle lines have been pretty well laid by carly male arrivals and the women feel they can now devote themselves partially to the entertainment devices that must of necessity fall upon their shoulders. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who arrived 4n Houston vesterday, just in time to| be the guest of honor at the dedication | ceremonies at the new convention hall | and to be the first to sign the register at the Hospitality House, will be given breakfast tomorrow morning by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. A. B. Foster of the local chapter is in charge of the arrangements, while Mrs. Court Norton of the Colonigl Dames will present the late President™® widow with a corsage of orchids Honor for Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, whose arrival at noon today was awaited eagerly by | both supporters of her husband's candi- and those opposed to him, will pt only one of the many invita- tions extended her, and that also will be a breakfest affair, tendered by the Jocal committee on entertainment, under the direction of Mrs. J. O. Ross of Houston. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, nationai PART IN CONVENTION PROMINENT Upper, left to right: Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Emily Newell Blair and Miss Belle Sherwin. | Lower, left to right: Hull and Mrs. Al Smith. GEORGIA WOULD TEACH “ LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY Candidacy on Dry and Farm- Aid Issues. Mrs. Cordell | | ‘Woman By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, June 25.—Georgia is back- | ing Senator George for President “to teach the Democrats of the East and West a little geography,” in the opinion of Mrs. Edgar Alexander, national com- | mitteewoman from the Cracker State | and a charming leader of the Senator's supporters. ANTISMITH HOPES RASED BY REED Forces Hasten Last-Minute Campaign, Aided by Sena- tor’s Dry Statement. BY FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON, Associated Press Staft Writer HOUSTON, June 25.—Heartened by the prohibition pronouncement of Sena- tor Reed of Missouri, the anti-Smith forces were feverishly rounding up their | troops today after perfecting an organi- | zation at a series of secret Sunday con- | ferences. Daniel C. Roper of North Carolina, one of the supporters of William Gibbs McAdoo in the memorable 1924 cam- paign, was revealed as leader of the| Southern dry hopefuls mobilizing along- | side the Missouri Senator, who has held | the trenches so far against the swelling tide of Smith delegates. Drys Get Busy. The militant Missourian is continuing | his lone-hand policy, but his prohibition | declaration of Sunday quickly won the attention of the dry forces. A few hours later the Southerners were at work. After a brief night con- ference Mr. Roper, who has been quiet- Iy conferring with many factions since Friday, made the following announce- ment “The elements of this convention which are convinced of the necessity of saving the Democratic party from nul- lification of the eighteenth amendment and from Tammany control of the Fed- eral Government, are in agreement upon | the course of ptocedure to be followed in the fight.” Steering Committee Named. The “course of procedure” of the | “elements” involved were not disclosed | G FOR DEMOCRATS ISUBMITS LOUISIANA . ROW T0 COMMITTEE | | Subbody Rejects Resolution to Un- seat Delegate Paction for “Fraud.” | By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, June 25.—A subcommit- tee yesterday decided to refer to the Democratic national committee, wtihout recommendstions, the dispute between two factions of Louisiana dele- | gates for that State’s 20 seats in the natfonal convention, after a resolution to unseat because of “fraud” the dele- gates elected by the State central com- mittee had been rejected. | The resolution to unscat was offered | by Prank Hampton of North Carolina, Ju:un; by proxy for Senator Simmons, North Carolina national committee. man. The subcommittee decided ti the action of the State central com- mittee was “unprecedented and un- usual,” but that the full national com- mittee would have to say whether there had been fraud. | The delegates clected by the State | central committee are favorable to the | candidacy of Gov. Smith. The pro- ! testing delegation, under the leader- ship of Ferd Claidorne, chairman of the citizens’ democratic committee of Louisiana, and Harry Gamble of New Orleans, is uninstructed, but is sup- posed to lean toward Senator Reed. The subcommittes also decided to recommend the seating of the six- Smith-pledged delegates from the Canal Zonme, led by Mrs. L, O. Keen, national committeswoman, who op- MISS MALVINA PASSMORE, | posed an uninstructed slate heaced by Frank T. Hamlin, national committee- A daughter of the South, will sing at the opening of the Democratic convention ... in Houston. na Miss Passmore is shown testing her voice in the hall. | —Associated Press Photo. | | the bridge making possible a co-ordi- | of the program also calls for a consid- | t! bet: 11 el £ " B z,;’:‘:‘}o‘:vcr;:‘ff"’"" opposed 10 crable bloc of votes from the Southern | Alaska Delegate Wears Too Many Not Determined on Candidate. So far, it appears to be the strategy FORCED TO SHED VEST. | states for Gov. Donahey of Ohio, a dry. | Atlee Pomerene is the present cholce of Ohio for President, but it is the under- standing that the Ohio convention in- | Troy, publisher of the Juneau, Alaska, Clothes to Convention. HOUSTON, June 25 (®).—John W. by the former internal revenue commis- | of the band of Southerners who are un- | structed its delegation to vote for any | pm, pire and a delegate to the conven- | sioner, who named a steering commit- | derstood to be counting strong on the |other native son of that State so long in on a sweltering Hous- | “The Democratic party should realize | tee representing each faction having a |support of Gov. Moody of Texas, to have | 2 sscans B | e e D action. of - the | ceadidate other than Smith in the field, | voies kept, in i Repreéclnt:‘:h‘:‘“ he recelves general support from the | o s vest and showing dis- | country besides the East and West," she | While Senator Reed has giver. the | Hull of Ténnessce, Senator George of | Convention. By this means it is hoped | comfort S1 ) QUIET IN HOX [S‘l ON FIGHT ST JRIE |1, aesiueriias iqs ‘Senator's dry |word fo his Missourl delegation that | Georgia, Evans Woollen of Indiana and | that Smith will be stopped from plcking| - “How come the waistcoat?” he was Stand ‘and agricultural relief proposals | they are not to fight any one candidate, |other favorite sons. No one man has Up strength from the Buckeye State in | o s ; | Tefiect the opinions of the women in the | but are to work only for their own goal, | been determined upon as their candi- | (¢ event Pomerehe releases his delega-| ““T'm going to ditch it right now.” he Y came back as beads of perspiration TO BREAK OUT. SAYS WILL ROGERS; --“A‘.?a the women's vote is very mn.m..§2§,&L‘1‘?}"’é§~““£ifi"fi§“‘n&' sx;:fi“:;g‘\g:::;p;sxéhs;l.lu;mmw" A ——— | 7 | There seems to be no doubt that part Germany has an art revivi committeewoman from Missouri and outgoing vice chairman of the national | committee, will be guest of honor with | Mrs. Wilson at a breakfast Wednesday morning given by the National Demo- cratic Women's Club, of which she is president. Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham of ‘Texas, candidate for the Democratic i dropped from a brow used to semi- tial in Georgia,” she concluded. some of the “dle-hard” anti-Smith folks Arctic temperatures. o nomination for the United States Senate, was to arrive this noon to take active charge of the club’'s program during the convention week, relieving Ars. Blair of the details. Others Greet Visitors. | Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson, wife of | the military attache at Paris, and| Mrs. Cordeil Hull, wife of the Ten-| i the presiden- | tial nomination, have already taken | their stand at the club headquarters on | th> mezzanine floor of the Rice Hotel and are busy dispensing courtesy to wisiting members. Miss Florence Sterling, district dele- gate from Houston and a member of the National Waoman's Party, is enter- taining those of the party's -delegation who have arrived in the interest of the equal-rights-for-women plank. Miss Mabel Vernon, executive secretary; Miss Sue White of Tennessee and Mrs, William Retter of Wisconsin have been ®er guests thus far. Miss Vernon announced that Mrs. Mary Murray. & subway ticket changer in New York, would arrive some time Party to have the woman’s constitu-| tiopal amendment plank inserted in the Democratic national platform. | An early convention arrival was Miss | Belle Sherwin, president of the Na-| tional League of Women Voters. She has already begun to muster her forces o storm the platform committee in the | interest of the Jve-point plank the sdvocates. Peminine genius is seen in the suc- «cess of the Hospitality House, headquar- ters for all delegates and home folks who want & to sit down or to meet their nds. Mrs. Ethel B. Brosius, a real estate woman of Hous- ton, is executive secretary of the local | organization that has made the house possible. Mrs. Jesse Jones, wife of the man who brought the convention to Houston, | has opened her home to several note- worthy feminine guests. most important of whom is Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Blair Takes House. Mrs. Blair has taken a house in Hous- ton, where she has ensconced her two sisters, Mrs. Ralph Putnam and Miss Newell. both of Joplin, Mo., and her 21- year-old son, Newell Blair. | Considerable comment was caused by the absence of Mrs. Blair from the plat. | form during the convention hall dedica- tion ceremonies yesterday. She was finally discovered in an obscure seat in the press stand. and said that she had no comment to make upon the apparent oversight. Miss Jessie Scott, national commit- teewoman from St. Paul, Minn., is one of the busiest persons in Houston, mak- ing arrangements to collect a steno- graphic staff for the conventionf. She was an early arrival and says that she i now about ready for the opening scs- sion on Tuesda; SEES WOMEN GAINING IN POLITICAL POWER Eansas Delegate Declares Feminine Influence Is Result of Ability. Comedy Will Come in Trying to Write Grabbed Chief “Alibi.” ! | Dry Plank, He Holds—G. 0. P. | | f BY WILL ROGERS. Special Dispatch to The Star. HOUSTON, Tex., June 25.—Every- thing is so quiet, restful and beautiful, you wouldn't think there was a Demo- crat in a thousand miles. Been here three days, haven't heard a cheer, a band, an argument, cr even an echo. I wouldn't stay for the thing. | { but T know that a Democrat is just like | a baby, if it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it, but if it's quiet and still and don't pay much aitention to anything, why that's when it's really dangerous. The Kansas City convention took the | life out of this one in more ways than | one. You know you wouldn't feel so good, if some one just had announced t0 | g 4 you 10 days ago, that it was Tunney and Dempsey that you were to meet in the | finals. But there is bound to be some com- edy coming and here is the reason.| Since prohibition was unearthed nine years ago, there has only been one ar- gument invented that a politiclan when he is cornered can duck bchind, and | that is the old applesauce one, “I am | for law enforcement.” It don't mean anything, never meant anything, and never will mean any- thing. It would take practically & lunatic to announce, “I am against law enforcement.” Now, the Republicans held their con- vention first and naturally they grabbed this lone tree to hide behind. Now, that leaves the Democrats out in the open. If they say anything about prohibition they either got to say “it ought to be modified” or it shouldn't be modified.” They can't duck behind the’ old “alibi” tree, “I am for law enforce- ment,” for there is only room for one back there and a Republican is alrcady hiding there, crats I would have held my conven- tion first, so I could have grabbed that “alibi* first if I had had to held it three years ago. Now, naturally the logical thing to do if it was “legitimate” business would be to nominate with Smith another wet as Vice President and also put into the platform a plank on modification and have the whole prohibition thing, out on a straight-out issue and let the voters settle it once and for all But politics is not a “legitimate” busi- ness and they won’t do it that way. Why? Because they don't know if there | is more wet votes or dry votes. So they are afraid to take a chance. 1f I had been the Demo- | | So they will try to “straddle” the | same way the Republicans did. But| as there has only been one “straddle” | invented in nine years (and the Repub- licans appropriated that), why, it's go- ing to be pretty hard for the boys to think up a substitute in just this one week. So anything that is done will have | an awful good chance of having some | comedy attached. For there is only three other things to do, and here they | are. Nominate with Smith. a dry Vice | President. Well there is sure a fine laugh, for you then have an animal | with a wet head and a dry tail. How you may salve the drys with a | dry Vice President, but up to now no | one has ever paid enough attention to | one to know if he is pickled or petri- | The next thing they can do is nom- inate for Vice President a man that ! no one knows whether he is wet or dry, in other words, a man that has re- mained of so little value to the coun- try that no one has ever taken the | trouble to find out. The third plan is to nominate any- | body, either wet or dry, as Vice Presi- dent. and then put in the platform a | strictly dry plank. That brings more laughs. Smith running on a dry platform. That's | like turning a whale loose in Death | Valley. | "'So all the boys are up against here | | 15 just these few simple problems, “We | want Smith, for he is the only man | | we got a chance with." | “We wish he was dry instead of wet, but as he is not we got to make the| | most of it. We got to dress him up |80 he will look wet in the cities and | dry in the country.” | “we got to hold our wets, but don't . | turn loose of the drys.” | It’s like T remember Coolidge said one time, “I am for labor but not against| capital.” | They got to promise the women some- | thing pretty dry or they will go to Hoover, 8o, boy, these babies are studying. Tammany Hall and the cities are their meal ticket, but the women and the W, C. T. U. are their clothing and lodging. So if these boys are not shouting and singing down here, it‘s because they not only have a convention on their hands but a problem So there is bound to be some laughs in the world | (Copyright. 1928 SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES WIN FRONT ROW By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, June from two Western and two Southern States will occupy ‘“baldhead row" during the sessions of the Democratic . | convention of Kansas a5 nationa recognition ew pri Jt now wom- politics are losing their sex and places in the party as same basis 85 men J. Walsh nal Dem- ndidate for nomingtion will not be il commitiee tins delegation is pledged to ith cannot be nomi lssi night from shington end will spend the Sum- in Montena, The final seating arrangement shows North Carolina and Tennessee occupy- ing the choice front chairs of the two center sections, with the former te the left of the platform, facing the speaker and Tennessee 1o the right, Utah, on the left wing, and Nebraska, on the right, will take up 16 seats each in the front ranks of the flanking sections Immediately behind the Tar Hee!| delegation in the left center section will be Alabama's famous 24" while to their right, in back of Tennessee, 30 ¥ have been set aside for the Ken- California Behind Alabama. delegation will be distance _right will be followed, | order named, by Louisiana, Vir- Minnesote, New Hampshire, New exico, lowa, Georgla and Missouri. In the right-c y, two rows of 15 seats each arfes from Missia- | ppi. _Behind them, South Dgkota, orth Dakota and Oregon will split up t of this the order v York, Porto Maryland and | 12 delegates, each with o il sit immediately behind the left section, with thes following: Arker Connecticut, Ii- n Plorids, Ohlo, Maine Color: schusetts, Georgla, Mich- igan, Hawail, Vagin Isiands, Alasia Canal Zone and Fhilippines Kersas in Front Rank In the far right contingents, Kansa will bs emong the front rankers be- hind Nebraska followed by Delaware New Jersey, Indlana, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Nevada, Rhode Island, Dis- trict of Columbia, Idaho and Oklahome, (Y 25— Delegations | nter section, behind | IN CONVENTION An aisle running the width of the hall will separate the delegates from the alternates. Missouri has 93 seats, ey 'one behind the biggest chair | monopolizer, New York. | CAPPER DECLARES WEST | GAINS BY G. 0. P. TICKET Hoover and Curtis Mean Sound So- Jution of Farm Problem, | Says Senator. The outcome of the Republican na- tional convention at Kansas City is heralded as & recognition of the grow- ing importance of the ‘West in natlo affairs by Senator Capper, Republican. of Kansas, in an editorial in Capper’s | Weekly. | " “I do not believe,” said the Senator ‘thut the West vet fully realizes what has happened at Kansas City—that the West has finaily arrived politically and | nationally, that it has been found | worthy of the highest seats of the | mighty, that the Republican East nas | capitulated to the Republican West, ' | that the West has now come of age | and full stature. We are all a little dazed yet yd the full | significance | of events 15 just beginning to dlwnl | upon us. Referring to the Hoover and Curtls, | satd | ‘With two farm-bred Western men at the head of things, can we have a | | real doubt that a practical and work- | able and genuine measure of farm re- lief will be evolved and put in opera tion?" nomination of | Senator Capper ' Will Fly to Convention, HOUSTON, June 25 (#)—In emula- tion of & Republican delogate, who flew | to Kansas City for the G. O, P, con- clave, Dr. D. O. Nugem{, Democratic | delegate of Centralla, Wash., will cross :‘: great divide by alr to reach Hous 1 Who Will It Be? The Star has made the same cemplete arrangements for the Houston Convention, where Miss Democracy will pick her favorite son, as covered Kansas City. . The Star’s efficient staff is now in Houston—intimately in touch with every phase and fea- ture of events as they take place—in the Convention Hall and cut of it. G. Gould Lincoln, Bel‘l McKelway of The Star staff will center his altenticn upon chronicling the human interest events. The Star’s political specialist, is there to observe with his keen observations and wide experienc=. Wi“ K also of The Star staff, will keep in close teuch with the things in which ennedy’ the District of Columbia and its delegates are most concerned. The Associated Press will have a ccrps of 60 trained writers, telegraphers, etc.— in attendance—seeing, hearing and reporting everything of interest. David Lawrence will write for The Star exclusively in Washington—and his politi- cal experience makes his dispatches interesting and informative. Frederic wm. Wile will send to The Star only in W ashington his viewpoints of the Convention. Wiu Rogers will send daily dispatches full of typical Rogersesque humor concerning the people he.meets and the events as he sees them. You can depend upon @he Toening S —for all the news—reliable and complete