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LIQUOR ISSUE UP - ATNIGHT SESSION Administration Compromise Plank Approved by Sub- committee. __(Continued From First Page.) has set itself resolutely upon that course. “‘Herbert Hoover, the engineer Presi- dent of the United States, is solving and will solve stupendous and vexa- tious problems, as did our first engineer President for the benefit of all man- kind.” Some of the unkind things Mr. Snell said about the Democrats were: “The complex, which they cannot change. As a fault-finding, cavilling minority opposition, they are 100 per cent per- fect. As a driving, constructive ma- jority they are a 100 per cent failure. The Democratic party is a mob of feuds and of factions unable to bring crder out of the chaos in its own ranks. How can it be expected to maintain order in government?" Galleries Well Filled. Enthusiasm began to increase at to- day’s session. In contrast to the quiet manner in which the convention went through the preliminary steps of organ- ization yesterday, the delegates began to give vent to cheers and shouts as Per- manent Chairman Snell flayed the no such thing as resubmission of any | M Democrats. Snell's darts at the political enemy were punctuated by interruptions in which State banners began to wave and the bands began to play. The three galleries, extending nearly to the roof and encircling the stadium, were well filled today. It was 11:50 when Chairman Dick- inson rapped for order to start the proceedings. Democrats have a minority Former Official Urges Repeal Rather Than “Weasly Word” of Resubmission. Woman Leader Does Not Be- lieve, However, That Dry | Laws Should Be Issue. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 15.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, long a leader of the dry cause. said in a radio speech | last night she hoped that if the ma- | jority of the Republican convention ! were determined to have the Constitu tion changed, the platform would de clare for repeal instead of “disguising | their real object” behind the “weasly | word of resubmission.” | “For the sake of preservation of the | orderliness of Government,” she said, | “I hope that this convention, if a ma- Jority are determined to have the Con- stitution changed, will frankly state in favor of repeal, rather than disguising | | their real object of securing a repeal, | | behind the misleading and weasly word | of resubmission,” she said. | Resubmission Impossible. H “Thus drawn.” | | Mrs. Willebrandt, former Assistant | Attorney General in charge of pro- | hibition enforcement, said there was the issue will be clearly | | part of the Contitution. She argued | that change could be obtained only by | submitting a new amendment repeal- | ing the old and thrusting the whole | question of probibition back upon the | | States, or substituting some changed | form by which the Federal Govern- | ment would deal with it. Either of | these would have to be ratified by three- fourths of the State Legislatures, she contended. MRS. WILLEBRANDT IN FAVOR OF PLAIN PROHIBITION STAND MRS. MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT, VARIETY OF PLANKS ASKED AT HEARING any Prominent in Political and Welfare Work Here Make Appeals. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, I, | UNTIL AFTER 7 AM. Weary Members Hear Long Discussions Before Writ- ing Party Declaration. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO. June 15.—Agreed on & tentative prohibition vhn?lhe Reso- lutions Subcommittee intrusted with the task of drafting the Republican plat- form adjourned today at 7:20 a.m. In answer to questions just after the adjournment, Senator Hastings of Dela- ware sald the prohibition plank could be regarded as a “compromise.” Asked if it contained the word “repeal” he answeved: “It is a substitute.” The Delaware Senator revealed that the prohibition plank would be presented to some of the larger State delegations for approval after it was reported to | the full committee. That procedure was unusual, No Minority Report. Secretary Mills was asked if there would be a minority report on the pro- hibition plank or any other of the proposed planks in the platform. He answered: “Not that I know of.” Mills sald “certain things” remained to be rounded out. He did not amplify his statement. members of the subcommittee were obviously tired and they quickly shook off newspaper men who sought extended questioning. The expressions by Senator Hastings were taken to mean that administra- tion desires had prevailed and that some form of prohibition resubmission had been agreed upon. Party leaders last night indicated that efforts would be made to conciliate the more liberal prohibition leaders Some of these have insisted that a sub- SESSION CONTINUES WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1 | | | | | | Closeted since 11 o'clock last night, This general view of the Républican National Convention in the Chicago Stadlum was made as Senator L. J. Dick- inson of Iowa was delivering his keynote address yesterday. Chairman Snell’s Speech Democrats Have a **Minority Complex,” He Tells A. P. Photo. | | $10,000,000,000 of hard-earned wealth. | “In its present gigantic form this is a new enemy and our people have been mystified and terrified in trying to de- fend themselves. Fortunately, our President was well prepared for the task of generalship in fighting off this en- | emy. You know the record. You know the PLATFORM GROUP LIMITS SPEAKERS Value of Oratory Before Com- mittee, However, May Be Small. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June oratory? Not much if the Resolutions Commit- tee of the Republican Convention is & g0od wind gauge. For four hours the 50 men who will write the party platform sat in open session as a big parade of speakers on many subjects passed in review. It might not be entirely accu- rate to say they listened. All heard | some of the speeches and some, per- ‘HIIDI. heard all of them, but not many. The prospective speakers and specta- | tors, to start with, had some trouble | getting in position to participate in the | program. The committee organized be- . fore opening the committee room doors to press and public and there were dis- tressing rumors that the time-honored hearing. with its attendant speech might not be held. S Number Limited. Several hundred prohibition and anti- prohibition supporters crowded about the doors, ready for the grand rush. But first the line-up had to be | Suddenly a sergeant | outside the doors to say, “Three propon- ents and three opponents of the eight- eenth amendment will be permitted to speak. Wil they kindly step forward.” Thirty times three in each class were prepared to accept the invitation but they could not step forward and before & way could be cleared the invitation was withdrawn. It was then found that the speakers for each side would be selected by the leaders of the several 15.—What value | June 15—Many prominent n political, | stitute for the eighteenth amendment She argued that by no constitutional | welfare and other organization work in |be presented by Congress in the event method could the people be given any " |that resubmission were approved and direct vote on the question. | Washington appeared before the Reso- | ypay ¢ should go to State Legislatures | | Delegates, in Commending Record of Hoover and Republican Party. Following the opening prayer, Chair- man Jeffries of the Credentials Com- mittee reported the action of that groun last night on several contests. including | battles he has already won. | A “ D. C. ALTERNATE URGES | organizations pressing for retention and ‘l'fl)ell of the amendment. Early in the hearing Chairman James the recommendation that the Ham- bright group of delegates be seated from South Carolina, in place of the delegation headed by Joseph W. Tol- bert. The convention promptly rati- fied the report of the committee. The convention then quickly adopted the report of the Committee on Per- manent Organization, including the se- lection of Mr. Snell as permanent chairman. Hamstringing Threatened. Wet and dry forces unlimbered their guns and began firing frantically when they appeared last night before the Resolutions Committee to argue the pros and cons of prohibition plank. Into the Florentine room of the Con- gress Hotel crowded the adherents of wet and dry until every available inch was occupied. For an hour, with the time equally divided, the two sides were heard by the National Com- ° mittee. An orderly, well conducted hearing, with good speakers on both sides. None of those who appeared on either side represented less than a mil- lion or two voters, and some of them claimed to represent a dozen millions. Threats were openly made to ham- string the Republican party if it went we.ar if it went dry. The members of the D their seats as these determined men and women announced the intention of their followers to run out on the G. O. P. next November if the party failed to ! accede to their wishes. “Big Shots” on Hand. All the big shots in both wet and dry | camps were on hand. For the wets | Pierre S. du Pont was a leader and | introduced the speakers. Dr. Nicholas | Murray Butler of Columbia University | was the first of the wets to get into | action, and he said a plenty. He is as | ardently wet as that other professorial | gentleman, Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, who is to lead the wet forces in the convention itself. Former | Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, head of the woman's organization for prohibi- | tion reform; Mrs. Courtlandt Nichol of | f the same organization, Capt. Clark of { the Crusaders, Ralph M. Shaw of the ; Lawyers’ Committee, Inc.; Frank A. >Boland, representing the American | Hotel Association, and George H. Sib- | ley of the Young Men's Republican Club of New York City were other wet Epeakers. Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, chairman of the national board of strategy, repre- senting the dry groups, marshaled the dry speakers—a telling array in more ways than one. He presented Mrs. Xlla Boole, president of the W. C.| ¥. U.; Dr. F. Scott McBride, general | superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League; Raymond Robbins, veteran progressive leader; Mrs. Henry W. Pea- kody of Massachusetts, Mrs. Rushmore Patterson of New York and Washington, and Dr. Daniel A. Polling. Dr. Butler called the committee's attention to the resolution he presented in the convention yesterday for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, that resolution to which John D. Rockefeller, jr. gave his approval recently and thereby rocked the dry cause to its very foundations. He urged its incorporation into the platform. Go on 1ecord, he said, now for repeal. The Democrats will do so at their national convention in a couple of weeks. If the Repub- licans would lead off, then the liquor guestion would be taken out of politics. Mr. Dupont, speaking for the group of wet organizations which made him head of their board of strategy in the last few days, presented the plank drafted by those organizations also strong for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He put on former Sena- tor Wadsworth, who gave up his politi- cal life in 1926 for the anti-prohibition cause, when the drys knifed him be- eause he had dared to come out for repeal. “I want you to know,” said Wads- worth, “that I come here as a Republic- an deeply concerned in the decision which you shall make upon the most vital political issue of the hour. If the party is to endure and serve, it must enjoy self-respect. Without it life is torture, service impossible.” Party’'s Hour “Struck. e ‘Wadsworth declared that prohibition has been an utter failure. He said that the “hour had struck” for the Repub- lican party. “This is a political issue,” he said, “of the most fundamental character, and can only be settled by political action.” It is impossible, he continued, to fool anybody with talk of modifying or re- vising the eighteenth amendment. “Beware lest an obvious dodging of this question will pin the label Pro- hibition party on what is still the Re- publican party.” “We myst repeal the eighteenth amendment,” he closed on a note that ‘was reminiscent of dry crusading. “Say it. It is the truth, and the truth will | set you free.” Mrs. Sabin, garved most becom- ingly in° light green, hed her brief say. She admitted that she represented an organization which had signed up a total of 1,009,252 women for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. In turn she presented Mrs. Nichol. “However noble in purpose,” began Mrs. Nichol, in calm, well modulated voice, “the eighteenth amendment was, no fair-minded man will say it has not proved ignoble in practice.” She charged the professional drys “today are fighting with backs to the wall, and that they are no longer able to boast of prosperity as the child of prohibi- | lutions Committee cf the Republican | Ussvention “Famisly Mol | National Convention last night urging esolutions Committee squirmed in | Mrs. Willebrandt said she thought | the complexion of the convention was | ‘plainly wet” and it was inevitable that | | the Resolutions Committee would fa- vor some change in the eighteenth | amendment. | She did not believe, however, she | | said, that prohibition was the issue | upon which the campaign would be fought out. | “Ibelieve,” she added, “that whatever | this convention declares in its plat- | form on prohibition the real issues | that will decide the election will be | | jobs—and the best means of starting 3me wheels of industry turning again.” | | — | | tion. A new generation is going to the polls next November, she added, and upon the decision in this matter of | prohibition will depend their party allegiance. | | “The eighteenth amendment must be | repealed, not merely diluted,” she con- cluded, epigrammatically. |~ Capt. Clark told the committee that prohibition had fafled not only in! the United States, but also in 13 other _countries who had discarded . Ralph M. Shaw, representing the Lawyers' Voluntary Association, | Inc, said that not one bar asso- ciation in the country had gone on rec- ord for retention of the eighteenth | the adoption of planks in the party | platform. These included former House ' Leader John Q. Tilson. who asked that the platform ncw being framed carry a definite promise to the taxpayers of | relief from the “back-breaking load they are now carrying with little hope | for the future.” | William Green, president of the Amer- | ican Pederation ¢’ Labor, presented a lengthy program covering relief cf un- | employment, Government wages, liber- | alization of retirement laws and a| general outline of relief and betterments for the workingman | Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Republi- | can national committeewoman for the | | District of Columbia, spoke in support | & of a plank declaring for equality for | men and women. Mrs. Greathouse, | ssistant United States district attor- ney, and Mrs. Burnetta Matthews also spoke for this same plank. | John Thomas ‘Taylor, vice chairman | of the National Legislative Committee | of the American Legion, asked the Res-’ olutions Committee to adopt & plank for l maintenance of adequate national de- fense, and asked that a careful study | be made of existing veterans' legisla- | tion with a view to eliminating inequal- | ities and injustices and effecting all possible economy. | Offers Anti-War Resolution. | eration now about to vote knew nothing | amendment, and a great many had de- | Miss Jeannette Rankin of Montana, manded its repeal, among them the Bar | the first weman ever elected to Con- Association of the District of Columbia. | gress, presented an anti-war resolu- Mr. Sibley said that the new gen- | tion. Samuel L. Hastings, speaking for the | of the evils of the saloon, but plenty Midwest Manufacturers’ Association, | about the evils of the speakeasy, the | protested against public expenditures as | gangsters and the racketeers. The a national menace increasing at the young men and women of the country rate of $400.000.000 a year. cannot be caught by a “straddling | George Olmstead, representing the plank” on prohibition, he insisted. ! United States Junior Chamber of Com- Dr. Cherrington opened the ball for | merce, which is seeking 50,000,000 vot- the drys. ers this year. asked for a platform dec- | “A national political convention,” he | laraticn to stimulate this drive argued, “should not seek to bind the | Fred B. Smith spoke a- the official | presidential candidate to & change in | representative of about thirty societies the Constitutfon, but should leave such | working in the field of international a matter to an unhampered Congress. | good will. He presented a peace plank | No national platform should attempt to t and urged the Platform Committee to coerce a State or national legislature | re-emphasize the Kellogg treaty. i on a constitutional amendment, nor| Miss Jane Addams, winner of the| place Congressmen in a position of be- | Nobel award for accomplishments ing disloyal to a party platform or to toward world peace, advocated cancel- 2 majority of his constituents.” lation or drastic reduction of war| Mrs. Boole sald she represented an debts as a move toward economic organization of women who_supported relief. President Hoover and the Republican The American Farm Bureau pre-| party in 1928 because he and tne party sented five speakers who sought party | supported a principle in which the declarations for the relief of agricul- women believed. |ture. They were Edward A. O'Neal, “We believe that our organization Charles E. Hurst, Earl B. Smith, L. J helped to break the solid South four Taber of Ohio and Gov. Turner of years ago.” Mrs. Boole continued. 11 | lowa. i e Republican party indorses resub- | 5 mission, we will fail to vote, and the World Court Plea Made. party will lose our support for Presi- Mrs. James W. Morrison, for the | dent. We believe that the way to win | National League of Women Voters, the woman vote is to give us a plat- offered three planks—one for economy, form and a candidate for whom we do | another for child and maternity care not need to apologize.” | an da third for international agree- instead of State conventions. Hours of Discussion. Before the carefully chosen subcom- mittee began its work, its members had listened to several hours of discussion, both within and without the committee. ‘Twice during the night. members of the subzommittee sent for steaming pots of hot coffee. Weighing words as carefully as nug- gets, the subcommittee of 17 members chose its language after an exhaustive all-night discussion which was still un- der way long after traffic in the streets outside had begun a steady rumble. Parleying for days, administration forces made concessions in the hours Just before the subcommittee began the tual drafting. The administration does not desire— never has desired—a split with the bulk of those who believe the eighteenth amendment should stay embedded in the Constitution. Moreover, President Hoover has declared against its repeal. Voices have constantly vibrated over a private line leading to the White House since the delegates began to arrive. Hundreds of miles away, Mr. Hoover still controls. Awaits Convention Vote. The immediate goal of the subcom- mittee was approval of the full Plat- form Committee of the convention, rep- Tesenting every State and outlying pos- session of the Nation. Beyond that, however, lay the con- vention itself, criss-crossed with diverg- ent views that at times have seemed irreconcilable. Not until the 1.154 votes of the great party rally have been cast will the final form of the Republican prohibition plank be known. Haggard and tired, the wrinkles of worry on the brow of party leaders will remain until the convention itself has spoken. There was no hope of drafting a plank which would satisfy everybody. There were signs of insurgency only a few yards from the hotel room where the platform builders talked and pon- dered, Leff off the subcommittee, Senator Bingham of Connecticut, a leader of the aggressive group demanding repeal of the eighteenth amendment, led fol- lowers across the corridor. They draft- ed their own plank. It is certain to | send seething waves of approval and | disapproval over the convention floor. Weighed Other Issues. With what they wanted clearly in | mind, they were at home and in bed while the subcommittee was still toil- ing and wrestling. The subcommittee had other duties | than the drafting of a prohibition plank. Its task was to shape the broad platform on which the party will make its bid for renewed approval at the polls in November. i | “"Other issues, however—farm relie! | foreign affairs, the. tariff, economic_is- | sues—were given only the proverbial COMMITTEE TAKES UP PLANK. Administration Compromise Given Ap- proval by Sub Group. CHICAGO, June 15 (#).—Prohibition repeal advocates declared opposition to the administration resubmission com- promise today as the Republican Plat- form Committee took up the proposal approved early in the morning by a subcommittee. The administration plans sent along | by the subcommittee provided for re- | submission to the people of a substi- | tute for the eighteenth amendment. It won a viva voce vote. Ambassador | Edge of France, New Jersey's repre- sentative on the subcommittee, voted against the proposal and joined with Senator Bingham of Connecticut to fight it in the whole committee. i However, administration forces held | command as the prohibition controversy near the convention floor. _ When Chairman Garfield began read- ing the numerous planks presented to the whole committee by the subcom- mittee he was challenged by Ambas- sador Edge on the statement that all planks had unanimous approval. Upon this statement of Edge the chairman made an exception of the | prohibition plank, upon which he defer- red action until the committee in closed | session had voted on the many other | planks. | ~'The "administration submission pro- | | posal was approved by the subcommit- | tee on a viva voce vote, but some of | its language was left for final wording | by the whole committee. The prohibtion plank deplores pro- hibition as an outstanding issue in the economic crisis and deprecates partisan consideration of the question. It differs from the united repeal plank, which recommends submission of a repeal amendment to State con- ventions. The administration proposal recommends Federal control of liquor in any substitute for the eighteenth amendment, while the anti-prohibition proposal favors State control. The farm relief plank was pasced over temporarily by the committee to await the return to the room of Secre- | ary Hyde. Some changes in the language this declaration were planned. Leaving the committee room for a | moment, Secretary Mills expressed con- fidence the plaform would be ready for of afternoon. ‘Whether submission of the prohibi- | tion controversy should be to State conventions or to State Legislature oc- committee session. agreed to make it the final decision It was éenuuvely} to conveations, with | lett _torthe whole » ments. | lick and promise by comparison to the Charles H. Stron, representing the | study bestowed on' the liquor compro- of League of Nations Association By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 15—A portion of the text of the address by Representa- tive Bertrand H. Snell, permanent chairman of the Republican National Convention, to its delegates, follows Victory has come to the Republican party because victory has been earned The Nation has been safe when the Republican party has been in control of the Government. It has never been safe when Republicans were not on guard. Everywhere outside of the Republi- can party is confusion and chaos. The only sound and unied public sentiment of the United States is represented in this convention ‘The Democratic party is fatally weak because it does not command the sup- port or confidence of the Nation and because it is utterly lacking in team work. “A Minority Complex.” The Democrats have a minority com- plex which they cannot change. As a fault-finding, caviling minority opposi- tion they are 100 per cent perfect. As a driving, are 100 per cent failure. As proof of this I need not recall to your mind the false gods they have pursued for over a century: the pa- naceas they have proposed and a wise people have rejected. Events of the past five months furnish abundant evi- dence of their failure. Accepting their promises at face value, the country placed them in charge of the House of Representatives. They had assured the Nation that if given this power. they would restore economic equilibrium. This much must be stated to their credit: As long as they followed the leadership of the one man in America who has furnished leadership in this great crisis —Herbert Hoover—they functioned in splendid fashion. But when they set out to carry for- | ward their own program they exhibited colossal incapacity, hopeless division and disintegration. with the result that there was a complete collapse of their party machinery. | Says Country Has Suffered. | As tragic as is the breakdown of a great political party, had the party alone suffered the situation would not have been so bad. But it was the coun- try. the whole people of these United Sates, who suffered. With this record behind it in this grave hour of national distress, the Democratic party is about to ask the country to accept a candidate whose identity is still unknown, standing upon a platform whose planks will probably contradict themselves. The Nation is to be asked to accept confusion as a constructive majority che)‘i | national policy and disorder as a rule of Government The Democratic party has as many wings as it has candidates. and cer- tainly its candidates are legion. These wings do not flap together, they flap against each other. My countrymen, the solidarity of the Republican party in this crisis means the salvation of the United States. If this country is to be governed with judgment &nd prudence, the Republican party must do the job. Call the roll of Presidents from Lin- coln to Hoover. The illustrious names of Republican Presidents are an epitome of the history of the United States. In Lincoln’s day the people stood loy- aily by their President. who brought them out of the shadow of disunion In Hoover's day the people stand loyally | by their President, who is bringing the | country out of the shadow of vast eco- | nomic adversity No man living or dead has had to | grapple with such gigantic problems at | home and abroad. | No man living or dead has fought tworld-wide economic adversity with so | stout a heart and so deep an under- standing. Defends Protective Tariff. | We hold that a protective tariff is tnecessary for the common defense. The Democratic party refuses to pro- vide this protection, although I could name Democrats by the score who eagerly seek such protection on the sly for thelr own States and districts | while denying it to the Nation at large. ‘The tariff was revised by the Repub- lican party just in time to avert a catastrophe. This tariff law has been the bulwark of the common defense against world-wide depression. But for that law the United States would have been inundated with foreign imports and vast additional numbers of our workers wouid have been unemployed. ‘Washington, as an engineer, solved stupendous and vexatious problems for the benefit of mankind. President Hoover's mind is the mind of an engineer. He first gets his facts and then he acts. No engineer has at- | tained success by deciding his prob- |lems on a basis of expedience. Equivo- cation is directly contrary to the fundamentals of the profession. We are now engaged in a war of de- fense. We are fighting under the lead- ership of the most capable citizen in the United States. Already he has gained many battles, and the victorious end of the war is nearly in sight. Our enemy is the invisible but ghast- ly pestilence of world-wide economic | depression. It is the ghost of the World ‘War, stalking over the earth. It is the reaper, that gathers the harvest of 10,000,000 lives and the destruction of | R. Garfleld found it necessary to warn the ubiquitous photographers that they presentation to the convention by late || casloned some controversy in the sub- | | | America, offered a World Court plank and asked for greater co-operation by | the United States in the League. | Three members of President Hoover's cabinet are members of the Resolutions Committee—Ogden Mills, Secretary of | the Treasury; Patrick J. Hurley, Secre- tary of War, and Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, who represents | Missouri on the committee James R. Garfield of Ohio, chairman | of the committee, named as a subcom- mittee to draft a program for submis- ! sion to the full committee at a meeting called for today at 11 o'clock, the fol |lowing: California, Charles C. Teagu Colorado, William V. Hodges; Dela- ware, Senator Daniel O. Hastings: Illincis, Garrett B. Kinney; Iowa, Jay N. Darling: Kansas. Charles F. Scott; Massachuse! William M. Butler; Michigan, Fred W. Green; Missouri, Secretary Hyde: New Hampshire, John G. Winant: New Jersev. Ambassador | Walter E. Edge; New York, Secretary Ogden L. Mills; Ohio. James R. Gar- field: Pennsylvania, Senator David A. Reed: Texas, R. B. Creager, and Wash- ington, John J. Sullivan. 'NOT A CANDIDATE, _ROOSEVELT DECLARES| By the Associated Press. MANILA, June 15.—Commenting on reports from Chicago he was being con- sidered as a possible “dark horse” can- didate for Republican Vice President, Gov. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt said to- “I am not a candidate.” Roosevelt recalled he sald at Wash- ington, before sailing for Manila to take | over his new duties as Governor Gen- | eral of the Philippines. he favored Sec- retary of War Hurley for the office. Frames & Sash for Closing in Porches Come to J. Frank Kelly, Inc. and buy_everything you need for closing in porches. We sell all high-grade material at reasonable prices. “No Order Too Small” I “Sudden Service” J. FRANK KELLY, Inc. | Lumber. Miliwork, Paint, Coal | Sand, Gravel, Cem: mise. Newspaper men, lounging outside the room where the aroused followers of Theodore Roosevelt decided to leave the tent of regular republicanism in 1912, also centered their speculation on pro- hibition. The word will always be as- | sociated with the Republican conven- | tion of 1932, It had echoed and re-echoed in the room where party and national history was and is being made before the sub- committee withdrew. Wets and drys were given an opportunity to present | their views before the committee. They 50 hard to attain. Most Difficult Job. party annals that members of the com- mittee could recall no precedent. was a general airing of opinion on the one dominant subject. It was in a | sense a testimonial meeting. Spon- | taneously arising one by one, the com- mitteemen gave their opinions and told the feeling of the people back home. These expressions were a revelation of differences prevalent among the oth- er delegates and the people. From Ten- nessee and South Dakota came demands for subordinaticn of the prohibition issue to other things. In quick reply, Connecticut and Rhode Island demanded anti-prohibition action. Secretary Mills read, without com- ment, the declaration of New York for submission to State conventions of a repeal plank. Then the doors were closed for the | first. test. When You Motor Over the MEMORIAL BOULEVARD TO MT. VERNON —why not return by way of the Richmond Highway—and _stop for LUNCHEON or DINNER at Continusus Service Until 9 P.M. DH\'NERS—!Se—Q;.OD—'L!S Special Week-day Lincheon, 65¢ did with the emphatic assertions that | | have made the sought-for compromise | ‘Then came something so unusual in | Be- | fore the subcommittee withdrew there | $15 Diamond ‘ Crystal and diamond set in I4karat solid goldl Beautiful chain. 0 Ve I \ » » ® [ ] [ J [} [ ] [ ] $17.50 Diamond Initial Ring 31 2.95 Man’s onyx and solid gold ring with a brilliant diamond that makes a wonderful gift! America’sOldest Smm—— Credit Jewelers! V——u— [ (] ® [ L) (] L] [ ] L 4 BETTER JOB DISTRIBUTION Francis Wells Offers Resolution to Improve Employment of Colored Race. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, June 15.—A resolution advocating “more proportionate distri- bution of employment” to colored peo- ple was suggested yesterday by Francis Wells, colored alternate delegate from the District of Columbia to the Repub- lican National Convention. The reso- lution was prepared with a view to hav- ing it considered by the Committee on Resolutions. The resolution also sug- gested a declaration of policy against “the loss of employment for reasons other than inefficiency.” The preamble recited the efforts of the colored race to advance along edu- cational lines and declared it has re- mained true to the principles of the American Government in these times of radical teachings. ! Lieutenant Governor Dies. JAMESTOWN, N. Dak., June 15 (®). —John W Carr, 58, lieutenant gov- ernor of North Dakota since 1929, died at his home yesterday after more than a year of illness. He announced with- drawal from politics in March, on ad- vice of physicians. His second term as lieutenant governor would have ex- pired early next year. were out of order. “You take up too much room with your implements,” he told them. The photographers retired, frowning darkly at the word “imple- ments.” Cut Off Suddenly. Several speakers soon ran into the relentless time limit fixed for each cause. Frenk A. K. Boland, counsel for the American Hotel Acsociation, was one of the most severe suffere; His address ended in the middle of a sentence. He tried hard to reach the next period, but the chairman’s gavel knew no mercy. Mr. Bolan's climax: “Many of our guests have improvised temporary bars in their—' never was completed. Many members of the Resolutions Committee are good two-fisted speak- ers in their own right. Some of them seemed to grow more and more ill at ease as they sat on the bench when, perhaps, they were tempted to step up and take a full swing at the conver- sational ball. Others appeared frankly bored, but most of them sat up in their chairs when the well loved Jane Addams, with a whimsical reference to courage and | bravery under the circumstances, sug- gested planks in the Republican plat- form calling for reductions in tariffs, cancellation of war debts and recog- nition of Russia. Already Knew Score. But Miss Addams sought no oratorical effects. Chairman Garfield presented her as one needing no introduction and a number of the committee mem- bers arose as she advanced to speak. There was no such honor paid any of the men orators. 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