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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-03-04
GOVERNOR DOUBTS
TOBACCO CROP BILL
Not Opposed to Special
Session but Seeks Surety
Bill Will Be Eff
fective
MUST CLEAR QUESTION
MUST CLEAR QUESTION
Ehringhaus Says Special Session
Would Be Useless Unless
Georgia and South Caro-
lima Sign Compact

Raleigh, March 4.-(AP)-GoV-
ernOr Ehringhaus said there was
nothing new or definite" today
in regard to request made of him
to call a special session OF the
legislature to consider tobacco
compact legislation.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-03-04
is SOMEWHAT
STUNNED BY PROPOSAL

Washington, March 4.-(AP)-Pow-
erful Democrats limited today that
Congress might make drastic changes
in President Roosevelt's tax program
under which the government would
dip into corporation profits and stock
holders dividends to pay the 1920, 000,-
<Nootiovad On Douo Tour
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-03-04

Continued on Page Three.)
Evening star., 1936-06-26
HOARY TRADITION
DIES WITH RULE
Bennett Clark, Son of Its
Victim, 0fficiates at
Quick Burial.
BY JOHN H. CLINE,
STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

PHILADELPHIA, June 26.-The
rampant New Dealers turned their
backs on the past here last night and
bade farewell forever to the last of
their old traditions.
In one brief minute, they thrut into
oblivion the hoary two-thirds rule,
which for 104 years had stalked
through the party's councils, wreck
ing the dreams of men and coloring
Democracy's history with the bitterest
| political battles in the annals of the
land
The end came during a short lull in
the confused shouting Of the delegates,
but, despite its brevity, the passing Of
the ancient rule was not without its
drama.
On the platform, tolling the death
knell under the brilliant lights, stood
Senator Bennett Champ Clark Of
Missouri.
Flash Back to 1912.
AS he banged on the table with his
gavel to signify that the motion to
abrogate the rule had carried, his
minds eye must have cast back along
the years to a sweltering night in
Baltimore in the Summer of 1912.
Then, as now. the Democrats had
gathered to nominate their candidate
for the highest Office in the land.
On the platform that night stood
the father of the present Senator
the late Speaker Champ Clark. He
controlled more votes than any man
in the party and the path to the White
House looked smooth.
On and on went the balloting, until,
on the tenth vote, the New York del
egation went over to Clark and gave
him q clear majority. The realization
OF cherished dreams seemed near, but
his enemies rallied their forces and
with the aid Of the two-thirds rule,
they blocked his nomination.
When the final vote had been taken,
1t was Woodrow Wilson and not
Champ Clark who sat in the Presi-
dents chair.
And so, last night, it seemed pecu-
iiarly fitting that the son of the de-
feated Speaker should be the one to
engineer the destruction of the 104-
year-old political oddity that had be-
come so deeply imbedded in the ira
dition Of Democracy.
Deep South Protests.
The motion to kill the rule was car
ried in a burst of applause which all
but drowned out the emphatic noes"
Of the delegates from the deep South.
To these delegates, champions Of the
probably erroneous belief that the
two-thirds rule gave the South q
measure Of control in the Democratic
party, came memories of fought
campaigns of a vanished political era.
The story of the two thirds rule
runs back to 1882, when it was invoked
by Andrew Jackson to block the re-
nomination of his Vice President,
John c. Calhoun of South Carolina.
The fiery jackson wanted Martin
Van Buren of New York as his run
ming mate and he got him as q result
OF his strategy, but Van Buren paid
heavily for it in the end. After the
New Yorker served a term as Presi.
dent, the seething Southern delegates,
remembering the trick that had kept
Calhoun out of ofnce, mustered
Evening star., 1936-06-26

One Of these bills in the Senate would
have allowed incumbents Of positions
outside the civil service to acquire a
civil service status by taking a non
competitive examination.
The plank adopted by the Demo-
Gratis followed appeals to the Platform
Committee by Luther C. Steward.
president Of the National Federation
Of Federal Employees; William Green.
head of the American Federation of
Labor, and others.
Evening star., 1936-06-26

enough votes to defeat Van Buren,
under the rule in his efforts to secure
a second nomination for the presi-
dency.
Remember That Victory.
That was the first such victory for
the South, and from that time on the
delegates from Dixie have fought
tooth and nail for its preservation.
In 1860, the rule prevented the
Democrats from naming any candi-
date at their Charleston Convention.
Stephen A. Douglas would have been
the choice, but the chairman, Caleb
Cushing, insisted that a two-thirds
vote of all the elected delegates was
necessary for nomination, ignoring
the fact that a third of them had
already bolted the convention.
The same ruling at Chicago in 1896,
when the gold delegations from the
East walked out or sat silently in their
seats, would have made the nominal
ton Of William Jennings Bryan i'm
possible had not the chairman re-
versed Cushing's ruling.
Since the defeat of Van Buren in
1914, no man with q majority of
the votes of the whole convention
on the first ballot has failed to Sc
cure the necessary two-thirds. Douglas
failed on a technicality, and Clark
did not have his majority vote at
the start.
McAdoo Lost Ont.
In 1924, william Gibbs McAdoo
would probably have been the nominee
If the rule had not been in effect. At
one point, he came within 20 votes
Of securing q majority, and If the
majority rule had been in effect at
that time there is little doubt that
enough delegates would have climbed
on the Californian's band wagon to
make him the party nominee.
Incidentally, McAdoo was one of
those who sat in the packed hall
last night and shed no tears as the
last rites were administered.
That the Southern delegates were
the only ones to oppose the abroga-
ton movement is one Of the things
about political conventions that are
hard to understand.
Since the Civil War at least, the
South has never benefited by the
rule. In several cases, Southern pref
erences have been blocked by its
application. OF recent years 1t has
become the instrument with which
Tammany and the political machines
Of Northern cities sought to block
the nomination of men like Tilden,
Cleveland, Byran and Wilson. In 1892
1t was employed in an effort to block
Roosevelt, yet all Of these candidates
were popular in the South.
The Southerners did not give up
without a fight here, but their re-
sistance was made during the hearing
on the abrogation proposal by the
Rules Committee, which voted 36 to
Is in favor Of nominating by ma ajority
vote.
Evening star., 1936-06-26
STRATEGY is TO LIKEN LANDON TO HOOVER

"non-policy-making positions" Gov.
ALI M. Landon, the Republican NOM
inee, was more specific and positive In
the telegram he sent to the Cleveland
convention, in which he advocated ap-
plying the merit rule to all positions
below the rank of assistant secretary
Of q department, including post
masters.
Wording Of Plank.
The Democratic plank reads as fol-
lows:
"For the protection of Government
itself and promotion Of its efficiency.
We pledge the immediate extension Of
the merit system through the classi-
fed civil service-which was first es.
tablished and fostered under Demo.
cratic auspices-to all non-policying-
Evening star., 1936-06-26
B0THPART|ESNOW
PLEDGED TO MERIT.
Democratic Plank to Spread
System in Government
Adopted.

BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, June &C. The
Democrats wrote into their platform
for the coming campaign q plank in
favor Of the merit system to all mon
policy making positions in the Federal
service"
Democracy's declaration on this
question was awaited with particular
interest because of the thousands Of
appointments made during the pres
ent administration to which the civil
service law was not applied. A number
of the laws creating New Deal agen-
ciss since 1888 have specifically pro-
vided for appointment of necessary
personnel, without regard to civil
service. Both parties have now adopt
ed merit system planks.
While the Democrats referred to all
Evening star., 1936-06-26
Hymn Model of English,

Cardinal Newman's hymn, Lead,
Kindly Light" considered to be a
model Of English, is composed almost
entirely Of monosyllables, and, with
six exceptions, Of words Of Saxon
origin.
Evening star., 1936-06-26

making positions in the Federal
service"
A passing reference to the departure
from the civil service requirements in
setting up emergency agencies during
the depression was contained in the
following concluding sentence Of the
plank:
I'VE shall subject to the civil serv-
ice law all continuing positions which,
because Of the emergency, have been
exempt from its operation"
Pending Bill Died.
During the recently adjourned Con-
gress there was proposed legislation to
extend the civil service law to positions
In the executive branch not now COW
cred by that law, but 1t failed to come
to vote and died with adjournment.
Evening star., 1936-06-26
Don't Cut Corns
Shed Them Off

You should never cut corns! E-Z
Korn Remover softens hardest and
most troublesome corns. Deadens
pain, loosens core, and entire corn
peels right of. Works fast. Rarely
ever fails. Thousands use it. Only
35c at drug stores.
Evening star., 1936-07-12

are denied the Partisan. And Germans.
And Swedes.
CCRIBBLINGS: Germany Is opening
- an open-air theater to seat 10000.
Eighty-five rows of seats rise steeply
before the stage, back Of which are
dark trees Of the Grunewald. Located
near the Olympic Sports Stadium, the
theater will be opened for the games
in August with a program of special
plays, concerts and dance presenta-
tions.
French school children must COM
NIT to memory the fables Of Jean de
la Fontaine.
Seeing the sea-gardens of Bermuda
from glass-bottomed boats is a I2-
hour excursion from the Hamilton
harbor.
India's mongooSeS are more widely
known, but Brazil has a native animal
that acts as a snake policeman. It is
the mussurna, a member of the rat
family.
The Box Singing Tower" has II
bells
A modern and popular resort has
risen on the west coast of Sweden at
Tylosand, where bold Viking explorers
centuries ago outfitted their ships.
One of the features of the festival
of the Provincial Association of Bands
being held tonight at Shawinigan
Falls, Quebec, will be the release of
dam, permitting a flow Of 5000, 900
gallons of water per minute over the
rocks of the cataract.
Evening star., 1936-07-12

skyline as 1t tmpresses the visitor from
foreign shores-has been slow to sell
its wares.
Europeans now are going to learn
the attractions of visiting America.
Railroads Of the United States, Can
ada and Mexico and the Trans-Atlan-
tic Steamship Passenger Conference
have launched q campaign to substi-
tute an "ah" for the "pooh-pooh"
when travel in America is mentioned
in homes and Offices and clubs abroad.
One Of the first steps In the campaign
is to publish for redistribution abroad
descriptive map Of the North Amer
ican continent, with texts in English,
French, German, Italian and Swedish
pointing out the high lights Of travel
in America. Florida. the national
parks, the Far West, New England,
Niagara Falls, the National Capital
they're all there. and many more. The
folder is a model in pointedneSs and
comprehensiveness.
If the Americanward movement
reaches sizable proportions, incoming
francs, shillings and lira will help busi-
ness. Europe has found that out.
Tourist spending filters through hotels
and shops, primary beneficiaries of
travel, into remote channels.
But Europe's experience has more
to teach. The Old World really wanted
the business, and welcoming a tourist
became a national trait down to- and
up to. the last man. Nations polished
up on new language-American-and
stationed interpreters at places where
the American wanted to spend his
money-railroad stations, hotels,
stores, and, to a lesser degree because
food is a universal language, in res
taurants.
American travel facilities do not in
clude the faintest trace of such an in
terpreters' service. The Englishman, n,
Of course, will get along all right, with
the possibility Of only having to re-
peat himself only once to an American
bellhop, but what of the French and
Italian? And Spaniards? And Swedes?
In hundreds of excellent hotels In
Americas most progressive cities an
interpreter can be located only after
the less stout-hearted guest has de-
cided he didn't want it anyway.
One of the essentials in inducing
foreigners to come to America is an
exposition Of desire for their busi-
mesa I'VE speak your language"
motto. Rare, indeed, is the American
hotel or shop which displays the sign,
French spoken" More rare yet is the
policeman with band around his arm
with the same slogan. Such lifesavers
Evening star., 1936-07-12
STATE WILL HOLD
FOLK FESTIVAL
Pennsylvania Fete at Bucknell
Stadium to Feature Old
Times.
Epecial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
LEWISBURG. Pa, July 1.-THE
Pennsylvania Folk Festival will be held
in Bucknell's Memorial Stadium July
80 and 81 and August and 2.
The entire State has been searched
for material for the festival. The un-
dertaklng was conceived more than q
year ago and five regional festivals
have been held at Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre and AL
lentown. The best performers from
these regional fetes are being selected
for the festival here.
The festival opens with an evening
devoted to racial folklore. Among
the groups to appear will be Corn
planter Indians, Pennsylvania Ger
mans, Scotch-Irish bagpipers, Negro
spiritual singers. gypsies, Ukrainian
dancers and Welsh group
Occupational folklore will be the
feature for July 81, including among
the participants coal miners, river
raftmen, lunnberjacks, canal boatmen,
stagecoach drivers, river roustabouts,
oil well driliers and Conestoga wagon
ers. Contests Saturday evening will
be gala event, featuring competitions
for Jig dancers, figure callers, street
criers, auction criers, tall story" tell
ers. ballad singers, yarn-spinners and
many others, including picturesque
battle for the square dancing cham
pionShip of Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1936-07-12
:DULUTH BOASTS
t HAY FEVER HAVEN
z
Lake Superior and Woods
of Area Provide Natural
"Air-Conditioning." .

DULUTH, Mimi, July 11.-This city
has again been selected as head
quarters by the Hay Fever Club Of
America. AS during the past 80 years,
many hay fever sufferers from all
parts of the country will again make
this city their residence during that
time when noxious pollen in other
parts of the country makes life one
long sneeze after another.
It Is Duluth's natural "air-condi-
toned" facilities that make it the hay
fever haven 1t Is. Situated at the head
of the Lakes-at the northwestern tip
of Lake Superior-Duluth is famed
daily by winds blowing over the sur
face of the worlds largest body of
fresh water Cooled and purified in
their journey over $4,000 square miles
of water these winds keep Duluth and
its surrounding area singularly free Of
pollen and dust particles. 1t is Lake
Superior that serves as an "air condi-
ktioner" for Duluth.
During the Summer months, ac-
cording to records of the United States
Weather Bureau, the prevailing wind
direction is of the lake and varies
from gentle and refreshing breeze
to a cool northeastern. AS is the
A, case of most cities, Duluth is not sur
rounded by cultivated fields that pro-
vide a natural breeding ground for
: weeds. Rather, 1t is bordered by
rugged and beautiful country-the
Superior National Forest and the Ar
rowhead Country, with their birch,
pine and thousands of lakes and
streams.
Duluth's Summer climate ranges in
temperature according to Government
records, from So to "a degrees. During
the past IL years, an average of but
. one day year has seen mercury
columns at 80 degrees.
Northeastern Minnesota provides
hundreds of miles Of rare scenic mag
nificence with its lakes and streams,
its virgin forests-America's last will
derness.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
The Travellers Notebook
Game Hunting With Camera, advocated by
Theodore Roosevelt, Begins New Season in Ma.
tional Pnks-lnyiting Europe to america.

newer sport Of camera hunting. once
said: "The older grow. the less
care to shoot anything but 'varmints.'
If we can only get the camera in place
of the gun and have the sportsman
sunk somewhat In the naturalist and
the lover of wild things, the next gen.
Grafton will see an immense change
for the better in the life of our woods
and waters"
ROUGHLY, one European sails to
the United States for every four
Americans who go abroad. The ratio
of sailings to Southampton, Cherbourg
and Naples was even higher in the
booming 20s. when the Old World
really discovered how profitable was
the American tourist and the Ameri-
can middle class began to discover
Europe. America. with scenes that ri
val and surpass those abroad, and with
manmade developments that dwarf
such undertakings on the other side
best typified, perhaps, by New York's
Evening star., 1936-07-12
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE. JR.


- AME hunters, armed with
cameras instead of guns and
with ambitions ranging from
bagging the plentiful bear to
elusive mountain sheep, have begun
to invade Americas wide-open space
zoos-the National Parks Prize shots,
of course, are usually the reward of
a patience not feasible with an infleX-
ible two weeks vacation, but bear and
deer, occasionally elk and moose, pro-
vide interesting hunting for the
| camera carriers who are content to
stick to the beaten tracks.
No longer need the visitors expect
to snap bear in the Old Faithful
area. Deer have replaced them this
year, the evolution having been pro-
NOTED by the simple expedient of NOV
ing the bear cafeteria from the geyser
vicinity to Yellowstone Canyon, some
35 miles air line. Old Faithful haunts
were quickly forgotten, especially by
the blacks, who have established a
reputation for becoming pests wherever
and whenever food is available.
41lC AANd1 Va G1AC dCCA dI o1o
full is one of the several changes in
animal habits that have been going
on in the parks. Moose are increasing
in the Yellowstone and sometimes are
caught staring at visitors, although
instinctively they prefer places remote
from man-swamps, back woods, lakes
and wildernesses. The herd in the
Yellowstone has grown to about TOO
although in the early days Of the park
none was reported. The. imposing
beasts, standing feet high at the
shoulders. weighing about 1000 pounds
and with an antler spread Of from 50
to 78 inches, also forage in Grand
Teton and Glacier National Parks
Theodore Roosevelt, advocating the
Evening star., 1936-07-12

AME hunters, armed with
cameras instead of guns and
with ambitions ranging from
bagging the plentiful bear to
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-19

The Countess Galeazzo Ciano, the
former Edda Mussolini, daughter of
Italy's premier, who, according to
reports, will visit New: York and
Washington early this winter. The
countess is the wife of Foreign Min
lister Ciano, who may succeed II
Duce when the latter retires from
political life.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-19

An officers full dress uniform of
blue which has recently been adopt
ed by the War department. The
new uniform has a roll collar coat
and light blue trousers, and it's wear
is to be optional. Officers who are
in possession of the old blue uni.
forms will be permitted to wear
them without time limit, accord
ing to ruling of the War depart
ment at Washington. D. c.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-19

Most prolific baker of bread in
America is Lorin H. Bailey, Sc
date scientist in the bureau of chem
istry of the Department of Agricul-
ture in Washington. For 20 years
Mr.. Bailey has been baking bread,
testing it and grading it. The re-
suits of his work have been pub
lished in dozens of scientific papers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-19

Pretty Maurine Kerns, Oh Miami,
Fla, shown with her homemade
harpoon rifle, designed by w. M.
Edwards. The gun operates by
means of stout rubber bands which
discharge a steel arrow tied to
fishing reel line under the barrel.
The fish is speared (if the angler is
a good marksman) and reeled in.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-19

Just as an "extra hand" when
football season started, Fritz Was
kowitz, young soph halfback of the
Huskies of the University of Wash
ington, has developed into one of
the mainsprings of the squad.
Evening star., 1936-02-06

Some Of these lamps and sha'
S Fis1re Lamps, bronze nm
ishes, assorted styles. Were
$3.50. Now--------------S
8 Figure Lamps in bronze
and verde finishes, assorted
styles. Were $3.50. Now $1.25
2 Figure Lamps in verde fin
ish. Were SIS. ow---$2.50
LAMPS, SEVENTH FLOOR.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Novelty Lamps Reduced

re slightly damaged or soiled.
1 Capi di Monti Lamp with
gold finish mounting. One
light style. Was $3.50. Now IS
2 Shirred silk Shades, egg.
shell color, 16-inch size.
Were $3.50. Now---S3
1 Champagne-colored Glass
Lamp, two-light style. Was
$3.50. Now--------------S7
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Rain Capes
Special /Sc

"a in assorted patterns and
colors. II regular would be
higher priced.
10 Utility Cabinets Of fibre, with
wood reinforcements. With one
lingerie, one hosiery and four
shoe drawers. Covered with
novelty paper, In blue or rose.
Were 81. Az is------------75c
MOTIONS, AISLE Al, FIRST FLOOR.
Evening star., 1936-02-06

1 Walnut Radiator Enclosure.
11x24 inch top x % inches
high. Was $3.50. Now S2.95
S Ivory Radiator Enclosures,
5l2 inches wide and an as
sortment of lengths. Were
$18. Now------------$2.95
1 Crosley Refrigerator, model
F-55. A floor sample with
a new refrigerator guarantee
by the manufacturer. Was
$164.50. Now ------S119.50
8 Gilbert Electric Mixers,
Beaters, Juicers with chro-
MUM stand and motor hous-
ing. New mixer guarantee
by the manufacturer. Were
$19.95. Now -------S9.95
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Friday Special
Toilet Tissue, 65e Dozen Roll.

100 dozen rolls Of Woodte.
leo dozen Wash Cloths in
assorted colors. Dozen, spe-
cial Csc
I8 boxes vionnet's Face Pow.
der in assorted shades. Were
$3.50. Now---------$1.
As d GU Bile Loose-powder
Compacts in assorted colors.
Were soc. Now Zoe
SO bottles Perfumed Body
Massage In assorted odors.
Were 35c. Now-------1Sc
ToILETRIEs, AIsLEs II, 16, Il
Evening star., 1936-02-06

3 to 8 years.
IL Girls Wash Dresses of
pique and broadcloth. Sizes
2 to 6 years. Were 50.
Now -----------------$1.45
8 Snow Suits with navy blue
pants and plaid tops. Sizes
4, 5 and Z years. Were
$5.95. Now----------$2.95
Evening star., 1936-02-06

sue. In 1000 sheet rolls.
173 Compact Puffs in as
sorted colors. Were Sc.
Now -3c Sc
Is Large Loose Powder Com.
2acts with puffs. In assort-
ed colors. We're 81. Now CSC
Is bottles Imported b ath
Salts In assorted odors. Were
Csc. Now ----------45c
Is Imported Adjustable Mir
rors, slightly marred. Were
50 to $3.50. Now $1.25 TO So
20, FIRST FLOOR.
Evening star., 1936-02-06

. Radiator Shields in wal.
nut finish. 734x22 to 43
. inches. Were $l.15. Now 55c
. Radiator Shields in walnut
and ivory finish. 734xl3 to
Is inches. Were 81. Now soc
I Easy Washer, model 2-U.
A floor demonstrator with
new washer guarantee by
the manufacturer. Was
$l59.50. Now-------$99.50
l Easy Ironer, model 81. A
floor demonstrator with new
ironer guarantee by the
manufacturer. Was $3.50.
NOW .-----..-----. -SC0sSV
HOUSEWARES, FIFTH FLOOR.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Kaysere++e
Combinations
b8c We're SIPS
We're SI.25

II in tearose. 20% wool,
SO silk and 75% cotton
mixtures. In small, large
and extra large sizes.
4 Kayser Combinations of mer.
cerized Isle, with silk tops. In
flesh, sizes a and 46. Were
$2.25. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
5 Gleve Silk Gowns, lace
trimmed. In blush, dusty pink
and yellow. Sizes Is to II In
the group. Were $5.95. Now
Sass.
KNIT UNDERWEAR, Third FLOOR.