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HEARS
WITH NEW DEVICE
Chicago Convention Is Using Re.
markabIe Invention to Spread
Voice of Speakers.

CHICAGO, June 11.-For the hrst
time in many years the attendance
at the Republican Convention is not
too large to hear the speakers
voice Not that the crowds are any
less in number of jammed any closer
together. but the voice of each speak
er is made loud enough for every one
to hear. by means of a new and re-
markable invention, the latest de-
velopment of the loud-speaking tele-
phone.
Just in time for the Republican
Convention the engineers of the Bell
Telephone System successfully COM
pleted a voice magnifying apparatus
embodying newly discovered features
OF telephony. which the inventor of
the telephone could not have fore
seen. In the Coliseum's vast audi
torium, the experts of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
the Western Electric Company and
the Chicago Telephone Company, were
at work for ten days installing the
intricate apparatus through which
electricity. the master magician,
brought distinct sounds to the occu-
pants OF the most distant seats.
There Is little to see of the miracle
working mechanism in the great con-
vention hall. An inconspicuous
transmitter of speech raised few
feet from the front OF tho speakers
platform, and over head is suspe nded
several receivers, being rectangular
wooden horns. perhaps 10 feet long.
with their open ends pointed towards
various parts OF the auditorium.
without seeing how It is done the
audience finds that as far as hearing
is concerned the great crowd is tel
escoped by the public address system
in close proximity to the speakers
platform. Under the floor and be-
hind the walls of the Coliseum run
the wires which lead to and from the
speech msgnifying apparatus, itself
| hidden away in an unseen part of the
| building.
Although this invention is unlike
any of tho previous attempts to solve
| the problem Of speech magnification,
| IL Is not spectacular in appearance
and like telephone plant in general
1t accomplishcs its great results from
| behind the scenes.
The loud-speakinT telephone sys-
tenn which the Bell system has placea
| in the Coliseum at Chicago ana
which Il plans to place in the san
Francisco convention also, has oeen
in process OF development FOR ABOUT
ten years. .
| Tho experiments have been numer-
Gus and of great scientific interest,
but there has also been romantic
side to the work, which was mostly
done in the laboratories of the Bell
system. situated on one Of the busiest
and noisiest water front streets in
New York.
| Amidst all the rattle and bang Of a
thousand teams and motor trucks
rounding the stone pavement, team
sters thinking OF nothing but their
right Of way wcrc startled 10 near
strange voice. apparently close 10
| Their ears. deliberately and clearly
| countipr above all tho confusion,
"onc. two. irrrc. four" or rccHtnr
| some rhyme like Hickory, dickory'
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REPUBLICANS SNUB
PR0H|B|T|0NC CHIEFS
Fail to Declare for Enforcement
Or IndorSe VoIStead Act
In Platform.

CHICAGO. June ll.-Republicans
gave the prohibitionists a jolt by re-
fusing to make special declaration
for "prohibition enforcement" The
following. proposed by William Allen
White of Kansas, was turned down
by a substantial majority vote:
we declare for the effective en-
forcement OF the Ei,hlrrn.h Nn,'s'-
mcnt and laws enacted pursuant
thereto as construed by the Supreme
Court of the United States"
II was greatly disappointed at the
action of the platform committee in
rejecting my proposition said Mr.
White Il told the members that They
should come out boldly and frankly
or not touch upon the enforcement or
law. I moved to strike out the dec
laration for a general enforcement of
law, asserting that IL was bunk, as
far as prohibition is concerned
Dry leaders were assured, before
the committee headed at breakneck
speed for the Coliseum. that the law
and order" plank, which does not men
tion prohibition, was in the platform
under Senator Watsons ann.
port of its absence was had until Sem
ator Watson's attention was called
to the omission. Prohibition leaders
also were under the impression that
the platform listed the Volstead en-
forcement act among Republican Con-
gresslonal achievements. but as read
il contained no such Endorsement.
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She's an alternate from our State.
worked with her on our famous eight
hour-law for women slate.
INDIANA
Oh, dear. don't l wish the alternate
from Missouri would arrive. She's al
ways late.
CALIFORNIA.
She's probably giving out an inter-
view Did you see anyone grab the
publicity the way she can?
INDIANA
It's disgusting.
CALIFORNIA.
That's Irwin Cobb over there now.
INDIANA.
Is he doing interviews? Oh. my
dear. do you think we could meet him "
CALIFORNIA.
Oh, no. he's not an interviewer. He
belongs to what you call the big
league class. He's the famous feature
writer.
INDIANA.
Oh, then. I guess we had better not
push through the crowd to get to
him. He's all surrounded anyway
ALTERNATE from Missouri rushed
up.)
MISSOURI
Ny dears, don't tell me I've kept
you waiting. I'm so sorry, but the
reporters are tearing me to pieces.
They broke into my room at the ho-
tel for a statement on SHOULD won.
On remove their hats at the Coli
seum?" and just wouldn't let me go.
II there's one thing I loathe more
than another il is being interviewed!
CALIFORNIA.
You poor dear, OF course you do.
MISSOURI.
Where shall we lunch--here?
INDIANA.
No. had some string beans here
for dinner last ni~Nt that did not
agree with me at all.
CALIFORNIA.
Well. then, same place as yesterday
MISSOURI.
Fine,
(E1eunt all three for the "Pussy
WILLOW" Cafeteria around the cor
mr.)
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dock. the mouse ran up the clock
These teamsters could hard y see the
horn on the roof of the lofty labora-
tory building, nor guess that tests
vere being made which would factlk-
tate the nomination OF a Presidenuai
candidate. The best the teamsters
could do was to wonder now tney
could hear these tests in spite OF the
nearest load of angle iron which was
clsttering over the cobbles-
On a foggy night little group of
Reu telephone engineers crossed the
hudson river and from the roof Of
the Pennsylv ania station listened
while the same rythmic counting came
wejrdly out OF the mist But the test
which counted most was the vocaliz-
ing. for vast outdoor audience in
the New Jersey velodrome, tho judges
announcements of the bicycle races
There have been various demon
strations OF earlier apparatus, but be-
yond the tests necessary to assure
complete success, the demonstration
at Chicago Is unprecedented In the
history OF the world.
During the war the loud speaking
telephone was adapted by the Bell
system engineers to several different
classes OF military service. On bat
tleships such telephones were de-
veloped for transmitting orders. On
the submarine chasers the loud speak
ing system OF telephony was exten-
sively used in connection with the
radio equipment and in detecting
enemy submarines.
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CITY CLUB TO RECEIVE
CONVENTION RETURNS
Ballots win Be BuIletined, Afternoon
and Evening, Until Nominee
Is Chosen.

Bulletin returns from the Repub-
lican National Convention at Chicago
will be received at the City Club from
the time balloting starts until the
nominee Is chosen. officials Of the
club announced today. The service
will be limited. however. to between
the hours of noon and 2:3o and and
II o'clock, the periods when the club
house is most frequented.
Because OF the uncertainty as to
when balloting will start, the club Of
fcials are unable to announce exactly
when the service will begin. They
have asked members of the club and
their friends, however, to watch the
newspapers for information as TO
when the baIloting probably will start
and then visit the clubhouse for the
returns.
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pICKETS WILL
EPUPF|
Alice Paul Says Thirty-sixth
State, and Not Platform
Plank, Is Their Goal.
NJ DAVID n. CHURCH.
iatevnAtteasi News Service.

CHICAGO, June 1.-THE suffrss.
ist pickets today refused 20 declare
an srmistiee with the Republican
party despite the suffrage plank
adopted by the Republicans In their
platform last night.
| Alice Paul. ield marshal of ths
suffragette hosts In the convention
city stated today that orders have
gone out through the nation 70 all
women suffraxists TO "vots against
the Republican party as long az Il
blocks suffrage" 4.
| Viewed With suspieisa.
Miss Paul looks with some suspiciss
| upon the plank In the Republican
platform which urges Republics
governors TO call special sessions Of
their legislatures TO ratify the amend
ment.
The plans in the Republican plat
form are all very we'll" Miss Paul
said. The one reported is undoubted-
ly a great advance over the suffrage
plank of the 1915 platform. but we
are not concerned with plans in plat
forms or with resolutions and prom
ises. We are picketing and will picket
to force the Republican party TO give
us the thirty-sixth State. Until we
get the desired thirty-sixth State we
will oppose the Republican party"
Miss Paul declares that the efforts
OF the pickets will be successful and
together with her cohorts she is hope
full that after the convention dick
ering" has been completed that the
Republican leaders will be able to
spare sufficient time to bring pres-
sn oil 90 ~
States OF Vermont and Connecticut to
call special legislative sessions, to
ratify the suffrage amendment.
stu Expect Actios.
Miss Paul declares that at least 50
per cent of the women who have
picketed the convention here have
been Republicans. and that when this
fact becomes impressed upon the per-
ty leaders that there will be action.
Mrs. Walter c. Jackson, OF Tennes-
see, who Is entitled to an alternate's
seat on the convention floor. has fore
gone that privilege in order to carry
a purple and gold banner outside the
Coliseum.
The eyes of Republican women are
now on the Republican party TO see
IL they will continue their coed rSc-
ord. I am picketing my own party.
therefore, for its own good and for ne
own of woman"
Cast Party Aside.
Mrs. Bertha c.. Miller. of u nne-,
apolis, is another Republican woman
who has taken up the suffrage ban
ners and cast aside q perfectly good
office as assistant sergeant at arms OF
the convention: "At this critical time
had a difficult struggle betw cen by
loyalty to my party and my loyalty
to woman suffrage" Mrs Moller ex-
planned. "I decided to put woman
frst, and I think many other women
voters have come to that same con-
clusion."
other women who are called to At
tention in the picket line each morn
ing are Mrs. John Gordon Battelle. OF
Ohio, Mrs. Howard Cretschmar, Miss
Mary Phelps Morgan. of Simsbury.
Conn. and Mrs. Richard Lloyd Jones,
Of Tulsa Okla
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They first tried with their handker-
chiefs to save their collars from
complete collapse. II was useless.
Later the heat forced them TO remove
their coats. Some appeared with
vests. some without. but still they
looked hot and wet and uncom-
Portable.
Seemed to Enjoy II.
The women seemed to enjoy the
day. They looked cool. enticing, COM
Portable and happy. They were just
as neat at the end of the hot after
noon session as they were when they
entered the hall. Not a single woman
was dish eleved or untidy. Not one
mopped her face. Not one dripped
from perspiration. and not one had
Il shiny nose.
The platform committee was in
aeSsion seventeen hours. They smok-
cd and talked and argued and dis
cussed and drank sarsaparilla (per-
hapsl, for seventeen long tiresome
hours. When they emerged into the
world again each man was tagged
to the limit. They said the strain
had been so great that they had
reached a point where they could no
longer think.
All the men on the outside began
to pull long faces and look serious.
Tho condition Of the platform com
mttee had suggested a great big
question--would women he able to
stand the strain?
Have More Endurance.
can't recall anything in which
women have less endurance than men.
II is a woll-known and accepted fact
that woman can endure pain which
would Kill man.
In foreign countries. the woman is
the beast of burden. II is the woman
who pulls the plow and the man
who merely guides II. 1t Is the wom-
an who IL htched with the COW to
the truck wagon, which bears tho
marketing and tho man to town.
It is the woman who carries the
brick up the ladder and the man who
lays it. 1t Is tho woman who climbs
the side of a ship. with a bag OF coal
on her back at the Oriental stations.
cannot recall in any foreign coun-
try where women do not perform the
heaviest and the hardest tasks.
In Mexico, the Indian woman on
her way with other barefooted poems
to market. bearing upon her head and
her back her heavy load OF wares,
stops along the weyside to give birth
to a child. And after that child is
born, ties II up in small bundle,
slings Il upon her back and races
down tho dusty ron-ways to catch UP
with her companions.
would Ridicpic idea.
II ask woman-any American
woman--if she could endure the
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MRS. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, wife of DR..
M Butler, president of Columbia University candidate
for the nomination. and Mrs Katherine T. Hammer alter
nate delegate from New York. photographed at the Re-
publican convention in Chicago.
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strain of seventeen hours discussion,
she would laugh at me. What wom-
en- ever thinks of time or WEAKNESS
or strain when illness visits her fam
lily!
A mother will attend her sick child
without rest and sleep for days at a
time. she will do it. too. without
even suggestion of strain. II
doesn't need to be child to bring
forth the untiring and almost super
human endurance of womankind. Any
member OF a family or any i'll friend
will make a woman serve with untir-
ing energy.
There is absolutely no reason to
worry about the strain politics will
bring on women. Women will never
know IT is there. They will not have
any long ~seHcnteen hours sessions.
They are COO efficient for that.
Women are very clear and business
like in conferences and meetings.
Much more so than men. There will
be no foul air, heavy with tobacco
smoke. That doesn't mean that
women don't smoke. They do. many
Of them. But when they are doing
business, they do business. They are
clean, orderly efficient, and rapid.
Are More Efacient.
Just as women in their clothes
have the advantage OF men in their
apparel. so women have the advan.
tage of men in their power of endur-
ance. That was clearly demonstrated
yesterday.
The next convention will be de-
void OF black coats and high silk
hats, also vocal gymnssts as enter.
tainers. In appearance It will be az
different from this convention as a
| suffrssette parade is from a business
mans parade. And in clarity OF busi-
ness and swiftncss of execution, II
will surpsss this convention as an air.
plane surpasses the steamboat. Poll.
tics Is woman's vocation. They are In
It. They will rule It,
Men may accompany the women &c
tho Republican convention in 1924 II
they do IL will be just TO have a littl,
excursion with mother snd the chill.
dren. But the work OF the conven.
tion will be done by women.
Perhaps we will sec then what W,
should see this year--a woman noml.
mated for Vice President.
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AMT POLITICS
'GRAND,MABEL
Fair Delegates Have Dandy
Time Talking Of Gowns, Hats,
and Complexion.
~ FANNIE HURST.
FaRe~s sAert story Writer.

faRO0s ehort story Wuter.
Copyright. 1920. by Universal Service.
CHICAGO. June H.
PLACE-Lobby OF one OF Chiessos
largest hotels. Ttme-Lunch hour.
DISCOVERED: Two fair delegates.
one from Indiana ana one from Calf
fornis, keeping a luncheon appoint
ment with an alternate from Missouri
who has not yet arrived.
INDIANA.
Ny dear, wasn't Cardinal Gibbons
just too Impressive In his red robes
As he read the player this morning?
Tho Church does know how to dress.
CALIFORNIA.
That's more than l can say for some
OF the delegates l see milling around
the jam of this lobby. Just look at
that great hat trimmed In CORA.
INDIANA.
Shh-h-h! That's the clever chair
man OF somewhere or other whom we
met over at women's headquarters
last night--M- -m-m-m m, what WAS her
name?
CALIFORNIA.
Well ] like her politics better than
INDIANA.
There goes Amelia Bingham!
CALIFORNIA.
What's she?
INDIANA.
You mean, to say you don't know
Amelia Bingham, the ac----
CALIFORNIA.
i didn't say Who'll said what?
INDIANA.
OH don't know-member OF the
National Executive something or
other. l think-isn't her badge
beauty?
CALIFORNIA.
And look at her skin, will you"
Like peaches and cream. How do
they do 1t, considering all the make.
up they are obliged to use on the
stage?
And that's Lillian Russell with her
(sotto voce). Wasn't 1t she who burst
into tears the other evening over the
women's clause in the national COM
mittee row?
CALIFORNIA.
No. 1t was a delegate from South
Dakota. Only OF course, being a
celebrity, Lillian Russell got all the
credit.
Isn't it just too splendid the way
the commtte on resolutions Is ac-
cepting our platform: You know, of
course, that the naturalization clause
went through.
CALIFORNIA
Look, quick! That's Governor Low
den pushing through toward the ele.
vator. He couldn't have my vote for
President, but he could In a beauty
contest. Isn't his profile gorgeous?
INDIANA.
From what happened up at the
Coliseum this morning, do you know
it looks to me as il the dreaded dead
lock Is about to happen and ] only
brought three shirtwalsts along.
CALIFORNIA.
Well, with my husband off on q
fishing trip and my two children with
my mother-in-law, / should worry
especially with my expenses paid.
INDIANA
Just the same it goes against my
grain. My dear, do you know l paid
so cents for an order of string beans
in this very hotel last night?
CALIFORNIA.
Oh, dear. and I could buy bushel
of them from my huckster that comes
up Hollywood avenue. at home.
INDIANA
Do you dehydrate them?
CALIFORNIA.
No, my cook prepares them with
bacon.
INDIANA
Lucky woman, to have a cook. In
Indiana they are an extinct species.
CALIFORNIA.
Yes, mine is n gem. I've had her
three years. She is a married woman
with children, but she comes at in
the morning and stays until 10 or II
at night. According to how many I
have to dinner.
INDIANA.
/ wish could steal her from you.
CALIFORNIA.
You see that woman in purple?
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''Tad' -
Tells EN-
And in a Language That
Is All His Own.
ny .~rAn.y
writes Espv~ssby fer the i.ses-
aaeSssai News service.

asstsssi News service.
CHICAGO. June Ii.-Weil. boys.
! got TO tell II TO you. I'M THHr
DARK HORSE that they're all
talking about. I'm dark. I'm so
DARK that the irenies follow RE
around In the daytime. They're
afraid OF me. Paul Fedinck tpid
me today that Lowden and Who'd
are scared silly. Hiram Johnwon
il the only guy that has my
nanny. I'm not making any
speeches. Get me BUT III AM
ELECTED I'LL CLOSE UP TIL OsE
DRUG STORES, THOSE STSKS
or INIoUITY, TIGHTER THAN
A PULLMAN WINDOW. They'll
be no soda water for Bryan and
his cohorts.
AS said before. Il am the
ho0ch candidate. As the Con-
gresham from Where's This said.
'Hooch has more enemies in pub
lie and MORE FRIENDS IN
PRIVATE than any substance
known to history" He sf6d a
trunkfull and expressed himself.
Nut sundse In the Alps.
Prohibition is Uncle Sans
crown OF thorns. 1t isn't right.
II Bryan and those birds think IL
is, why don't they move 10 the
sahara desert or some OF those
joints They won't have any
thing to worry about then
II I am elected on the King
ticket. I'll make cellar srnellers
wear Oregon boots with bells on.
Prohibition is an awful thing.
I'm agin prohibition in SWitzer-
land. Can you picture yourself
stuck in the Alps? You know.
stuck way up on the side of the
mountain in the snow and yelling
for help. Can you picture a big
st. Bernard coming up the noun
tain toward you with young Z
keg tied about his neck?
Can you picture yourself grab
bing that keg. pulling the bung
out and finding a nut sunsiae In
there?
A Glass Eye at the Keylssie.
That's picture NO ARTIST
CAN PAINT.
They'll see me way before the
week is up. Silk Hat Hs;rry is
pussyfooting for me and gets an
earful every minute.
There is buzzing around the
lobbies about Judge Rummy, They
know that I'm the idol. Inn the
Babe Ruth OF politics.
People want to see a shIgger
That's my middle name. Fm al
ways slugging. .
The old parties are dead. They're
dead from the neck up.
A plank without reference to
the wet issue is about as effective
as a detective with a glass eye at
a keyhole-
.The Beck Shall Fly as Soon ~ T."
They know it but won't admit
II. They look at old John Barley
corn as they blow by and IN the
words Of Pink Marsh say:
'sMah goodness, the town b full
of strangers!"
I'm on the up and up. 7 want
the old brew. want the book
when that season comes anound,
too.
II I am elected as I said before
Il think ! mentioned 1t. I will
stand with my foot on q keE and
like Rhoderick Dhu in the Lady
Of the Lake. exciaim:
-Come one, come all, this BOOK
shall fly from its firm baaa As
soon as L"
Wall bere's Jookin~ ar van
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Ito tm MCSte. M Garrett h M Joh.
Mr. Jossphme Preston o
Miss W. Ra. and M. Raymond ROBIN.
den
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OLD-TIMER IS PRESENT.

CHICAGO. June 11.-A picturesque
personality at the convention was
that Of william ". Sweet He Is
cighty-fve years old. lie Is n cousin
Of the late Leonard Sweet. Abraham
Lincoln's law partner. In 1850 he rat
az delegate and managed the cam
paign OF Lincoln for President
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Looks EN- Over
tCspyrlsht. isao)
By .BUGsy BAEH.

W usses Expressly tor intrrssttsssl
News servtes.
COLISEUM. CHICAGO. June II.
Wood. Lowden. and other can
didstisi competitors claiming the
national committee isn't playing
fair.
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would Ridicuic Idea

II ! ask woman-any American
woman--if she could endure the
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G0M?ERS MAKES ROUNDS.

CHICAGO. June 1l.-Samuel Com
pers msdc tho rounds OF the Prest-
Dental candidates headquarters. He
u,ct Governor Allen in the lobby ~:
tho Conrrcsg. They smiled and chat
ted amiabiy for a few minutes.
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national committee lent playing
fair.
Reminds US uninstrueted tour
lists OF that ivy-garnished. moss
spangled legend OF the old gam
bier.
He was dealing 'em neat and
pretty with his old feather edged
shuttle. The other four poker
delegates stood pat and carried
the bidding In the blue chip dis
trict, which is the fourth dimsn-
sion OF pokerism.
They laid down their cards, the
old timer takes one porcelain
eyed squint and then reaches for
his six-cylinder colt fountain pen.
This game amt on the square,
he bellows. You amt playing
with the cards l deal you.
When the young man wheeled
on TO the European ballyhoo. his
folks hung out a gold spsngie.
The eagle had called.
When his old man came out to
the Chicago war, tho family huns
out the Swiss clock. The cuckoos
were calling.
The Chicago scuffle is q cruel
riot. IL is an mans shipdis.
Having heard the babble cry OF
his Republican country, the old
man shook his toupee like an old
war boss sninling he furre OF
campaign cigars, strappedhis falss
teeth tv his Enin az, g.. ous "
babble for the native turf. He
went forth 10 doodle or to die.
This Is an oId mans war. The
ruthless delegate draft caught up
the old boys right in the prime
Of their second childhood, tore
'em from the arms OF their NOR
ris chairs. and hurled 'em into the
squalor and misery of the finest
hotels in these here United States.
Crank the fiyver, papa. baby
wants its rattle. ....
This is an old mans melee
The boys are in the front line
convention seats, ready to waddle
out into No Candidates Land and
babble for victory. Rather than
see civilization made safe for
democracy, he Is ready to bare
his hard boiled bosom to the
fosman's steel or his pocket to
the loeman's gold.
This is an old timers tussle.
The Hon. Bryan and the Hon.
Adoo are stalking through the
land. We must defeat the men
ace OF the Hon.
Lodge has sounded the babble
cry OF victory against the scourgc
of the Hon.
Save your food. especially the
Pecan and hickory nuts. One of
them will win this year.