Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1936, Page 9

Danger Lurks in Emotional Campaign Roosevelt Strategy Uses Psychology of War on Masses. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 'OTHING that was said or done at the New Deal Convention compares in either force or significance with the speech of President Roosevelt accepting renomi- nation. For is was a revelation of the state " of mind of the man who seeks four more years of power in which, as he conceives it, the United States of 1936 is to be r e ¢ o nstituted as % fundamentally as it was in 1776. Indramatic| techniqueand masterful com- | mand of crowd psychology, Frank lin Roosevelt showed himself by that speech far more skillful than either Mussolini or Hitler. He employed not the fear of & foreign invader. but of “economic royalists” from within, whose dynas- ties are portrayed by the President to have taken away or sought to take | away from the citizen “his right to work and live.” An obedient galaxy of delegates, hand-picked from the pay rolls of the Government and the party machine, gave the President his renomination without a murmur of dissent nor a minute of debate. They considered themselves already soldiers in the ranks. The use of the military phraseology. the vocabulary of revolu- tion, was conspicuous. Thus even Vice President Garner in accepting renomi- nation said: “I am a soldier and my duty is to follow where my commander leads. I accept the rules of war laid down in the platform.” Roosevelt Strategy. Coming from a man who has been known to differ with the New Deal philosophy and a man who four years azo made a different sort of speech, attacking paternalism in government, the note struck by the Vice President explains the whole psychology of revo- lution and dictatorship which envel- oped the New Deal Convention Roosevelt himself is responsible the str He announced it t in his message to Congress on the “State of the Union"” and he reiterated 1t in his Jackson day speech over the radio. But the address at Philadelphia eapped the climax as it set the stage for the campa Mingled with such words as “the resolute enemy within our gates” were phrases like “enlisted for the duration of the war” and “I accept the commission” and “I salute.” Anti-Despot Psychology. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that his own psychology is that of a man who be- lieves he is the leader of a tion against despotism and “industrial dictatorship” and he wanted the radio audience to believe, as he probably will ask the voters this Autumn to believe, that their freedom and their oppor- tunity to live is being challenged by a group of rich men. In due time Mr. Roosevelt will tell who he means by “economic royal- ists" and he will make the case against tyranny just as strongly as it was made in the first keynote speech of all delivered by Undersec- retary of Agricult Rexford Tugwell recently at Los Angeles. The Presi- dent ought to be commended on every side for his frank avowal of the Tug- David Lawrence. | | | | | campaign attack instead of the strat- egy offered him by timid politicians, who urged him to go a the right and save the conservative Democratic yote from disintegration. Mr. Roosevelt may have time convincing the people of the West that the Governor of a “typical Prairie State,” where covered-wagon hardships have not yet been forgot- ten, is the leader of a band of “eco- nomic royalists,” but the coming cam- paign is not going to be a debate by the New Deal party on issues, but | 8 contest for the vote of those whose | emotions can be aroused. evitably means a class plenty of demagoguery and hysteria Dangerous Strategy. Under such circumstances it is go- ing to be difficult for hitherto level- headed citizens to restrain themselves. A speech which misrepresents the is- gues of today as much as did Mr. Roosevelt's in Philadelphia is bound to stir up antagonisms that will not have their end next November. It has always been and always will be & dangerous strategy in a republic. The tactics of those who oppose Mr. Roosevelt ought not to be to get caught in the snare of “revolution” psychology, but to insist on temperate and persuasive debate, putting their trust in the abiding fairness of the American jury as long as constitu- tional guaranties of freedom of speech and press remain. Thus it will be up to Mr. Roosevelt to simplify what he meant by this paragraph in his speech, which will stand out for all times as the embodiment of his strategy: “The royalists of the economic or- der have conceded that political free- dom was the business of the Govern- ment, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's busi- ness. They granted that the Govern- ment could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the Government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and live.” Relief May Be Stake. Information will be sought as to whether the citizens who have been dragged to the polls in the primaries will be dragged again next Fall under penalty of losing their relief pay- ments really have their right to vote protected under the royalists of a po- litical tyranny. Information will be sought likewise 85 to what steps the Government at Washington has taken to protect workers in their right to continue at work. Every piece of legislation de- signed to protect a worker from the strong-arm tactics of union organizers and strikers has been frustrated by the President and his associates in Congress. But generalities will rarely be as eonvincing as concrete examples. Just 8 few miles away from where the President spoke last Saturday night there’s a strike in Camden. It was fostered by a minerity of Lire employes ynder the influence of John L. Lewis and his industrial unit campaign. The workmen have collective bargaining, high wages and good working condi~ ,tons. The union, which s conduct This in- war with plenty of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, thind the News Market Control and More Spending Are New Deal’s Aces in Hole for Campaign. BY PAUL MALLON. HERE will never b another convention like that one in Philadelphia. The Farleyites who managed it will agree, off the record, that it was & somewhat dull show. They found it impossible to keep up any real enthusiasm in a cut-and-dried party rally where the routine was well known In advance. They wonder what effect it had on the country. The speeches, for the most part, were senatorial, which is to say, very, very heavy. The cheer barometer in Convention Hall did not get anywhere near the top. except at the planned Roosevelt demonstration. After all, there was nothing for the delegates to cheer, except about Roosevelt, and it was difficult for them to keep up constant pandemonium even for him. Looking back, the arrangers can sce that they could have kept a hot tempo going for two days, and per- haps three. They believe their mis- take was in trying to drag the rally out for five days. If they are in charge of the next Democratic convention, they will get younger, better and more modern speakers, plan stunts which will attract the interest of the country, cut down the cumbersome convention machin- ery—and keep it short Note—A big purpose of conventions is to promote national interest in party principles and the candidate. Judged on that basis, average news \t‘nlllers seemed to believe this one did not help the Roosevelt cause mate- rially, e The Minnesota delegate compromise is supposed to have been Farley's slickest convention trick. The Wolf faction was apparently weak on grounds and was glad for any recognition. It plays in with the Farmer-Labor groups, and Farley did not want to sacrifice this hold. The other faction, the Moonan-Ryan crowd, got the post of national committeeman mainly because Ryan is the only Democratic Representative from Minnesota. This group wants a straight-cut Democratic Party, without a Farmer-Labor party. The dual recognition will permit Farley to work both sides of the street, At least that is the purpose of it D. C, more radical promises and intimations. With his right wing gone and much of his left wing, consider vhat com- poses his remaining body of supporters. First, the officeholders. They are a formidable army, and their power is not limited to their numbers, for the officeholders are the workers who get voters to the polls. And Mr. Roose- velt has far the largest number of officeholders that any party ever had. At the Democratic convention I was told that some one who had made a careful investigation found that 64 City Machines May Forget Nominee If Roosevelt Doubtful, revolu- | more to | a hard | in their idle moments about the hole. Surveying their unerposed that the administration can start claimed was: Democratic dealers at Philadelphia chuckled among themselves campaign aces they have in the cards, they concluded confidently a substantial business boom in the Fall which will take the heart out of the Republican campaign. Whether or not their confidence is justified, the highest pair they | Margins ace—The ability to help the stock market into much higher ground through Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission | policy. particularly by moderation of margin requirements. | Spending ace—Mr. Roosevelt can | (including left-overs and the new lay his hands on about $3.000.000,000 relief appropriation) which can be put out at an opportune time, September to November, to stimulate business before the election. They have many others, but like these two best, .o The basic Roosevelt-Farley strategy underneath the eonvention was to keep evervthing unanimous at all | a big-hearted mood. If anybody here asking. - | For instance, the only importa: tween | settled by giving each faction an equ | Abandonment of the two-thirds | from down South got mixed up wit on that here.) But just to keep the the two factions of Minnesotans costs. The benevolent bosses were in wanted anything, it was his for the nt delegate seating contest was be- Solomon Farley ordered that 1al half of the delegation. rule was fixed up far ahead of time. (You may have noticed that not one of the leading smart politicians h the minor contest against Farley few unimportant malcontents happy, | Farley agreed to a new svstem of delegate apportionment. | The platform was permitted to reflect practically any views the unanimity displayed by the Republ contributed a fitting anti-climax. Off-the-record diseussion in possibilities for 1940. Names me various leaders wanted to express, as long as these did not conflict with Mr. Roosevelt's ideas. However, if the delegates knew what was in the platform when they adopted it, they are mind-readers. No copies were distributed among them. No deba‘e was conducted, no explanation offered. The carefully worded document was merely read aloud once. But here, too, unanimity had been arranged ahead of time. The convention had to be handled this way in order to match the icans at Cleveland, but it certainly Philadelphia included presidential ntoned most frequently (by their friends) include Jesse Jones, Senator Barkley, Jim Farley, Attorney General Cummings. | The inadequacy of the list generally caused comment to turn upon the possibility of a third term for Mr. Roosevelt, in case he is re-elected. None of the four mentionables is ii n a position now even to think of succeeding to the Roosevelt throne, and there is no one else. | However, there is a little matter of a second term to be settled first. | Give the naive Dr. Townsend credit for the shortest description of | this and every other national convention, including his own: mad-house.” “A lovely | (Copyright, 1936.) | he declared, and he drove into Wash- ington on business that night. On his DAWSON ABSOLVED.B5zszrg 2 well philosophy as the basis for his | OF DRUNK DRIVIN Maryland Official Is Fined $5, However, on Charge of Recklessness. B & Stafl Correspondent of The Sta ROCKVILLE, Md., June 29.—A charge of driving while under the influence of liquor, brought against Thomas L. Dawson, Maryland Secre- | tary of State, after a triple collision |on the Rockville Pike, April 26, was | | dismissed by Judge Harold C. Smith | in Police Court here today. Dawson was found guilty, however, of reckless driving and was fined $5. His attorneys requested that the fine 1bfl raised to $11 to permit an appeal |to the Circuit Court and their plea | was granted and the appeal to the | higher tribunal was filed immediately. | Virginian Swore Warrant. The warrant for driving while un- der the influence of liquor was sworn out by C. J. Gentzler of 4505 Key Boulevard, Clarendon, Va., who told the court that while he could not de- | tect any odor of alcohol on Dawson's speech and appearance led him to be- | toxicated. It was for this reason, he testified, that he swore out the warrant for Dawson's arrest after Dawson’s ma- chine had careened across the road, | side swiped another ear and then hit his automobile. Returning From Pennsylvania. Mrs. Maggie Diehl, Gentzler's sister, said she and her brother were return- ing from Pennsylvania at the time of the mishap. She declared the acci- dent took place so quickly that she was unable to declare just how it | | happened. 1 Testifying in his own defense, Daw- | son declared the return of an ankle injury was responsible for his losing | control of his machine and piling into the two cars that were proceeding to- ward Washington. The secretary of State, who is a local attorney, was driving toward his home at the time. Sprained Ankle Week Before. | Dawson said that he had sprained his ankle a week before the accident oceurred, It apparently had healed, ————_—ee ing the strike, is outlawed by the American Federation of Labor. Fully 5,000 workmen have been pre- vented from working. Violence and strong-armed picketing have been used. The company has offered all sorts of plans for settlement, includ- ing a plea for an election to be held by the National Labor Relations d, but all to no-avail. For it's a struggle for membership power, for mastery of many thousands of em- ployes who are being denied the right to work, not by *“economic roy- breath after the crash, the latter’s | | lieve the secretary of State was in- | off the road and in jamming his foot on the clutch to regain the highway he sprained the ankle a second time. 1 The pain was so intense, he told the court, that his mind was distracted | for the moment and he ran into the two cars before he could regain con- trol of the machine. Police and firemen who responded to the scene of the wreck declared Dawson appeared in a normal physi- cal condition. The Secretary of State was repre- sented by State Senator Stedman Pres- cott and F. Barnard Welsh. QUEZON IMPRb\;ES MANILA. June 29 (#).—President { Manuel Quezon was reported last | night much improved after being re- | turned to Manila from Cebu, where he was suddenly stricken with an | iliness diagnosed as angina pectoris. 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Hénry Breckinridge's “protest” candidacy for the Democratic presi- dential nomination, those who are alienated by Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward the Constitution and the Supreme Court, those who are alienated by the threat of credit in- flation which would reduce the pur- chasing power of savings and lip insurance policies, those who are dis- turbed by Mr. Roosevelt's tempera- mental zest for being surprising, for the novel. In sum, Mr. Roose- velt is losing practically all ¢ the conservative Democrats. To say “practi- cally all” the con- servative Demo- crats is not an exaggeration, if we omit the South. In the ° election, only those will work and vote for him who have a specific personal stake which is greater than their general conservative interest, meaning the officeholders who wish to continue to be officeholders. No conservative Dem- ocrat will support Mr. Roosevelt on principle, Mr. Roosevelt sees departing also the extreme portion of his left wing, the followers of Father Coughlin and | the miscellaneous radicals who will go to the Lemke-Coughlin third party. | Substantially all these will be & subtraction from Mr. Roosevelt. Just | | how many there will be is a question | { which will be largely answered by | Mr. Roosevelt's strategy in the cam- | | paign. That he will try to hold as i many of the radicals as he can goes | without saying. Left Wing Wide. The left wing as a whole covers a | broad gamut of degrees of radicalism. Those at the extreme left will follow the Lemke-Coughlin party infallibly. | They are set. In the middle of the | gamut is a fluid group, indeterminate in number, some of whom Mr. Roose- velt can hold by being suffciently | radical in the campaign. This he will do. In the campaign, he must forget the conservatives, for they are gone; he must hold as many of the radicals as he can keep by means of more and | F Mark Sullivan. per cent of the delegates were office- holders. | upon that body of The Federal officeholders have been enormously increased by the new agen- cies of “Government, set up by the New Deal. One whole new army of officeholders consists of those in charge of relief. But it is not merely the Federal officeholders. In addi- tion to these, the number of Demo- cratic officenolders in States, cities, counties and smaller units of Gov- ernment is larger than either party ever had before. The Democrats won 50 many local elections in 1932 and 1934 that perhaps four-fifths of all local officeholders everywhere are Democrats. All these, Federal officeholders and local ones, will be hard at work to re-elect Mr. Roosevelt. To this state- ment there is one possible exception that may arise. Local officeholders in cities and counties are concerned with holding their own local jobs. They are not directly interested in Wash- ington or in Mr. Roosevelt, except as Mr. Roosevelt is a good vote-getting | symbol. If during the campaign, in any given community, it becomes doubtful whether Mr. Roosevelt is strong, the local Democratic office- holders will cease to work for him and devote themselves to local suc- cess. Such conditions arise in many campaigns, and it is not infrequent for local officeholders to “lay down on” the presidential candidate, or even trade him out. Representative Short’s Advice, Mr. Roosevelt's body of support in-| cludes also the beneficiaries of the billions and billions of relief money. It is commonly assumed that these will vote for Mr. Roosevelt. Yet is| that sure? There is a Missouri m-i publican Representative who has hope. | Representative Dewey Short has a republican campaign speech which he makes to beneficiaries of relief: “Take | the money,” he tells them. “It's pub- | lic money; it's meant for you: take as much as you can get of it from | the Democrats. But when you go| to vote in November, show ‘em you can't be bribed.” ; The advice may appeal to many. To a great extent. the beneficiaries of relief may at the polls this year divide in whatever proportions they | would divide normally. In practically all discussions, the relief vote as a Democrat asset is seriously exaggerated. To estimate the number on relief and say this figure 15 an addition to Mr. Rooseve]t's‘ strength, is misleading. Many of those on relief were already Demo- crats; in all elections they overlap voters in great cities who are herded to the polls by the machines. DR, CHARLES GRAY DS ON OHI VIST | Former President of Tuscu- lum College Was Resident of City Since 1931. Rev. Dr. Charles Oliver Gray, 69. of 1900 H street, former president of Tus- culum College, Greeneville, Tenn., and | resident of this city since 1931, died suddenly yesterday at Ashtabula, Ohio, | according to word received here, A son, Edward R. Gray, Arlington Ridge, Va., assistant secretary of the | Central Statistics Board. left for Ohin | when informed of his father's death. Dr. Gray, who in early life served | several churches as Presbyterian min- ister, was president of Tusculum from 1908 until his retirement in 1931.| He previously had been pastor of churches in Long Island and Ash- ville, N. C. A native of Heuvelton, N. Y., he was graduated with a bachelor of arts de- gree from Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. in 1890, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa there. In 1894, he was graduated from Union Theo- logical Seminary, New York City, and took post-graduate work at Colum- bia University. Subsequently, he re- ceived a D. D. degree at Hamilton and an LL. 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Toward Utopia, but Differ in Speed and Routes. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. HILADELPHIA, June 29 (N.A.N.A.).—In Philadelphia they are taking down the flags, sweeping up the confetti, airing the great hotels, rerouting traffic and counting the cost. When this is read, the multitudes that yipped and yammered in the great hall where the Democratic National Convention was held, will be scatter.d a thousand miles away, West and North and South, telling the neighbors all about it—trying to explain what it means. America will be all Summer figuring that out. For Roosevelt and Landon probably will take command of the situation and intérpret the platforms in terms of their own fortunes. Ol Boy ! a ¥ BEUEVE ( can 4 TRomp THar! £ President Roosevelt on Saturday night struck a high spiritual note. “But hold on,” said a hard-boiled Philadelphia Republican district leader, “we got some spiritual cards in our hand. Our boy’s mother was a shouting Methodist preacher’s daughter and when it comes to hit- ting a high spiritual note—any Methodist can outpoint any Episcopal. Wait for our lad's spiritual note.” Landon’s mext turn at the bat will be July 7, when he will deliver his message to the Kansas Legislature, called to consider social security. Landon then will have the opportunity to put on his own tremolo stop, like that which throbbed across the Nation Saturday nmight from the Roosevelt motification exercises. And, after that, Landon, at his own notification service, can get down to political brass tacks on all the issues before him, But today, considering the two presidential conventions and the two platforms—plus Landon's comments to the Republican platform—one may read of the issues in the differences, in the slant, in the direction and in obvious aims of the two major parties. ‘The objectives differ widely—not in the place the two parties are seeking. That is the realizable ideal of Utopia. Both parties promise “the brave new world” but, in platforms and in candidates, the temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim painting into their millenium. While Landon, with his jabbing elobws in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. .- . » Still, it is more than a difference in speed. We have two highway specifications. Landon’s social security planks—ald-age pensions, unem- ployment minimum wages, farm relief and labor legislation generally— are put in the platform, not solely for the immediate beneficiaries of these changes in the social order. These new serial and economic gadgets, just listed, are evidently part of a plan to establish a basic American standard of living below which no citizen who is willing to work may ever be allowed to fall. This high American living standard, which apparently is held de- sirable by the Republicans, is. of course, expected to please and gain the support of its beneficiaries. But, primarily, these henefits are to furnish & guaranteed consumer’s market for the benefited farmers and for the protected industrial workers, of course, this is distributive justice. It is taking the money from one group., which has a surplus, and giving it to another underprivileged group in social benefits, old-age pension, minimum wages, agricultural subsidies, public health—to farmers for instance and laborers—so that the whole economic organism may be sound. ‘Then, the Republicans seem to imply in their platform that, when we have established by distributive taxes a high American standard of living, making & reliable American market, we shall permit any man to g0 up in the economic scale to whatever reward his exceptional talents entitle him. But, say the Republicans, he must not use his exceptional talents for anti-social purposes. So the Republican platform stresses the control of public utilities and the sale of stocks and bonds and the enforcement of the criminal section of the anti-trust laws. These planks redefine honesty, narrowing the areas in which smart men may operate. But this is not a regimented society. The Republicans and the Democrats, in their platform ideals. clash in the matter of fundamental principles of whether the present economic order is worth saving; the Republicans say yes, the Democrats say no. ‘That settles the question as to whether we are to have an evolutionary growth from the old to the new, or a revolutionary change which will take over the entire regulation of commerce and make it a function of the Government. The phrase, “regulation of commerce,” is in the Democratic plai- form. The platform and the President’s speech make it only too plain that the new party, born in Philadelphia last week, has lifted its anchor and is sailing for a new port. Its ideal is Jeffersonian equality, except that this new Jeffersonian equality is to be economic equality, the same to be established by a strongly centralized Hamiltonian government. .. The reserved powers in the platform, which give the President a broad leeway in his choice of methods to bring about the new order, are revealing, even startling and, to many conservatives, will be astounding when read in the light of the President’s speech Saturday night. Here is no mere promise to establish an American standard of living for the sake of making a sure market for the farmer and the industrial worker Here is no large elbow room for the man of talents to use them to his own advantage, limited only by a redefinition of social and economic honesty. In the Democratic platform and presidential speech may be found the charter of the American expression of totalitarian state—not Hitler's— not Mussolini's—but Roosevelt's. The President expresses a fervent hope that the new state may survive as a democracy. But he does not mince words in his promise to establish economic equality. Possibly, even probably. he means equality of economic opportunity, but he does not say so. His speech will be to this campaign the new testament, while the platform is Merely a catalogue of things hoped for—a book of numbers full of “begats”! A few departing Statesmen packing their bags here in Philadelphia realized that they have emerged as heralds of a new day, the sponsors and underwriters of an economic revolution. The mob has gone to the bastile, right, 1038, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc) Mitsuis Yield Position as Richest Baron Sumitomos Placed come Tax List. at Top of Japan's In- BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. | OR the last century or two ft | has been a rare occurrence for any one in Japan to earn more money or make more profits in a single year than the Mitsuis. To- day’s news that young Baron Kichie zaemon Sumitomo tops the list of in- come taxpayers apparently gives the baron the world lead in the money race, Baron Takakimi Mitsui, who runs second, has been generally regarded as the richest man in the world. dents of Far Eastern finance ratir him higher than Ford or Rockefe ler, The Sumitomo clan is a retiring sort of dynasty. not given to flaunting its wealth, but now, possibly reluctantly, it is out in the noon-day glare with its vast gleanings in Japan's trade | outreach of the last few vears They are related to the venerated | Prince Saionji, who comes down from | his mountain top at times to put the | Parliament to rights. Hichizaemon Sumitomo, brother of Prince Saionii, died in 1926. The reigning baron, | titular head of the firm. is like all the | others of his ancient famjly, punctili= | ous in all the niceties of the Samurai | tradition, accepting its age-old dise | cipline, living without too great osten- | tation, schooled in both chivalry and | percentage. | The young man, like most of the sons of the great Occidental monew masters, is informed and keenly inter- ested in modern technology. and it is in iron and steel techniques that the | Sumitomos have been gaining a lap or two every year on the Mitsuis. They make the export steel rails, ma= chinery, tools, copper wires, steel | plates and tubes, iron rods and other such products, landing them abroad ! at a price which has been disquieting to the American steel kings and to the great European steel cartels. | Japan recently cancelled an order for a string of German blast fur- naces and also killed some big orders | for American serap iron. Under the patronage of the Sumitomos, there has been a dazzling advance in economical smelting and refining processes and the fashioning of steel products out of almost any old kind of industrial litter. | The Mitsuis are mere parvenus com- | pared to the Sumitomoe. The former go back only to 1600, when one of their family. a daughter, started selling sake wine. The Sumitomos were far |ahead of them in what in this day would be called “finance capitalism.” This year Baron Hisaya Iwasaki is third on the income tax list and, of the five next highest names, there are three Mitsuis and two Iwasakis. On !the whole there is indicated a nare rower concentration of wealth than among the 200 families which run the Bank of France | Alfred Duff Cooper. British secre- ‘tary of war, has been characterized as ‘a Baldwinized Torv—cultivated and earnest.” Currently he echoes Bald- win's remark. “Britain's frontier is the Rhine.” as he tells France, “your frontier is our frontier.” A few davs ago, he said “the duty of those in authority is to frighten the people of this country out of their wits.” He wants the Church of England to make a pacifism a heresy and ground for excommunication One of the younger Conservative leaders in Parliament. he was made secretary of war last November. For a year previnusly he had been financial secretary. He's somewhat of a gadfiv in England, now writing a huge biog- raphy of Earl Haig. in which he finds that Llovd George let Comdr. Haig down badly in the war | (Copyright. 1836.) 165~ COLORADOD —and NO EXTRA FARE The fastest long distance train in the world is now in daily opgration — Chicago and Denver only 16 hours apart!. . . overnight service a reality! 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