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Evening star., 1936-05-16

Note-HoD do you get along NTH
policemen? That is to say, hoD do
you get along pith them at that
delicate moment rhen one has
caught you tn some infraction OF
the ldp? In the accompanying ar
ttcle, irritten by police officer,
some uery constructive counsel on
the etiquette OF such occasions is
offered, tCith the idea that both the
policeman's and the public's lot
may be made happier ones.
TINE fine art of dealing with po-
lice officers is one very much
neglected by the public, if, in
u deed, it Is understood at all.
We may pass two or three years at a
stretch without having to speak to a
policeman. But when we do our voice
and manner may cost us money or 1t
may save us money.
The one word that Is most likely to
act as a charm is Officer" Copper
Is word used in fiction when it speaks
the vernacular Of the underworld. and
its use implies sneer or ssnarl. Cop
Is q word used in some newspaper
headlines and the sneer Is hardly
around the corner.
1t won't help a bit to say, Hey, cop
peri" He doesn't like it. His reac-
ton is this Ito himself. of course),
Huh! So here is wise guy. Well,
we'll see." We call an army officer
captain" priest father" a physi-
clan doctor" BY the same token. We
should call the policeman officer" He
likes 1t and it gets us of on the right
foot for whatever else We have to say
Courtesy. We should remember that
his superiors are constantly telling
him to be courteous to the public. We
might even give him credit for trying
to be courteous. But courtesy, like
laughter. gathers where courtesy Is
If the officer owes courtesy to the pub
lie, the public likewise owes courtesy
to him. Well try to speak courteously
and see what results we get.
If we don't have occasion to dea
with an officer ourselves, we will never
theless hear great deal from those
who have had dealings with him. Anc
we might remember that every tall
told by some friend of his dealings
with an officer is biased tale. and the
bias is not toward the officer. M
American likes to be told what to dc
and what not to do. 1t is innate II
resent being told. It follows that HI
dislikes the one who told him what HI
could not do. His story of the Incl
dent usually runs like this:
$50 the copper comes up alongside
me and shouts. Pull over!' I pull ovel
to the side. He parks his motor cycl'
in front of my car and comes back
and says I was doing As miles in a
22-mile zone and what am I doing
with four people in the front seat. ]
| tell him was not. So he charges me
with 80 miles and it costs me S25
And I was only doing % miles an
hour"
THE story, as we hear it, doesn't ado
that the driver was doing so mile
an hour before he saw the officer ant
slowed down. It doesn't add that th'
Evening star., 1936-05-16

After We have answered that one we
begin our reasonable excuse.
Reasonable excuses are born of the
circumstances. The only rule we can
follow in dealing with an officer is to
refrain from telling an untruth. They
are told in court, under oath, every
day. Sometimes they fool the court
or the jury. But we cannot tell one
to the officer and make him believe it.
He knows what happened. Some per-
sons seem to think it is dishonorable
to lie to friend. but that it is all right
to fib to an officer. 1t doesn't work
so we won't try it. We won't boast OF
our ability to take his buttons OF. v
It doesn't fool him. He knows from
experience that any one powerful
enough to do that does not bother tc
boast about it.
WE KNOW rather well, whether We
were right or wrong. If he sees
fit to give us a ticket. we'll take it. II
we believe we are right and he Il
wrong, the place to try the case is In
court and not on the street. A sur
prising number of cases 60 into court
and suspended sentences are given
The officer has to present bona f1de
evidence or there will be no convic-
tiors.
There is no way to be sure that we
will not be given ticket or that We
will not be arrested once an ofdcer
starts after us. He doesn't start with
out a reason. The point is that he
may have started with the intention
Of warning us. 1t may not have been
his intention to make an arrest and
the things we say and the things we
do, once he has moved toward us. may
be the deciding factor. They are well
worth watching, even rehearsing.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
DELEGATES AWAIT SPOTLIGHT
Most Anonymous Men and Women Playing Important Roles in
Nations Political Life Soon Strut Their Moment in the
Spotlight Of Party Conventions.

addresses to most conventions. those
made at Philadelphia and Cleveland
this year will be anything but dull in
mood, however prosaic in content.
They will be rallying cries-the
civilized, democratic equivalent Of the
beating of war drums. They always
are. That explains why convention
delegates go berserk when the orator
of the moment neatly dissects the
obvious.
IN all truth, though his ability in
that respect rarely is considered, the
delegates aptitude for going berserk
can be quite an asset, or liability, to
the convention. This always has been
true. It is much more so In these days
of the radio, which have made noise
an important convention product.
EvEN in pre-radio days. when the
only idea Of the volume Of noise
and the degree of hysteria was that
conveyed by the cold, printed word in
the newspapers-when the public got
the story through the eye instead Of
the ear-noise was the convention
measure of enthusiasm. It has been
an axiom of political leaders since the
early days of the Republic, that, how
ever despairing 1t may feel In its heart.
the party. at the convention, must be
full of enthusiasm so far as its lungs
and vocal chords are concerned.
Elections are not decided upon the
volume of convention noise, to be
sure, but a quiet one would be looked
upon as q harbinger Of disaster.
Apart from the attractiveness OF
political conventions as exciting spec
tacles, another factor influencing the
individuals desire to be q delegate Is
that 1t Is an excellent stepping stone
toward what often is called greater
service to the party" but which often
mears advancement tn the party.
There Is q camaraderie among State
delegations to political conventions
that transcends all those barriers
which normally would separate the
different members who. compose the
group. It is a modified "old home
week" in that the spirit Of that occa-
sion Is carried over to alien soil, where
it can express itself rather more freely
If that is desired.
The physical propinquity Of sharing
the same headquarters, living in the
same hotel, sharing the same section
of the convention hall door engenders
q pervasive closeness that carries over
beyond the interval of the convention.
It means that the newer, younger and
less widely known members Of the
party within State have . chance to
observe the technique Of those whose
ambitions have been more amply
achieved.
So, In addition to the excitement
Of attending q national convention %
q delegate, here are definite practical
advantages to those with ambitions to
climb the political ladder.
It is apparent, therefore, that while
the delegate may remain anonymous
SO far as the general public Is con-
cerned, he does manage to meet the
right people. politically.
At the end when the tumult and
shouting will have died the delegates
win 60 home, the majority Of them tt
remember that once they nlled pub
lie ONCE, ra-legal In nature. but nj
less filled with fun and fury because
Of that fact.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
MYSTERY AND ENERGY ABOUND AT PARTY HEADQUARTERS
VOTE MAKING A BIG INDUSTRY
Capitals Most Active Scenes Be Found Offices Where Den
and Republicans Bend Mind and Muscle to Task of
Making Citizens See Their Particular Way

to that one. Thus among the Repub-
licans tin cans Of dog food labeled
"fit for human consumption" might
affect some people adversely against
the New Dealers. which Is what the
Republicans would like to do, while
1t would be meat for the Washing
ton correspondents, but In different
sense.
This being the case, both commit
tees have publicity specialists for the
farmer and publicity specialists for the
metropolitan newspapers. Both head
quarters, incidentally. are engaged
mostly in publicity. The organization
work is left largely to the State and
Continued on Page B-3.)
Evening star., 1936-05-16

enough to include even the subordi-
nate groups in attendance.
There are always women at the
convention. Of course. who wear IA
nous names Of their own or some one
else: delegates to whom anonymity
might indeed seem blessing. They
constitute, however, relatively a small
proportion of the total number of
delegates; much smaller proportion
than is apparent in the amount Of
space devoted to them In the newspa-
pers.
How are they chosen, these men and
women who shall represent the body
polite at the quadrennial political
sessions which constitute the out
standing conventions on the national
calendar?
Two methods are in general use.
One is the primary, the other the
hand-picked method. The latter Is
the type in force in the District Of
Columbia. Every one is familiar with
the situation created by the circum-
stance that two states of delegates
from the District have been desig-
mated for attendance at the Republic
an National Convention this year.
Both will submit credentials at Cleve-
land and the convention itself will
make its choice between the two groups
as the more representative Of the
party in Washington.
That situation Is not at all unusual.
In fact, one of the first jobs of the
convention every four years Is to de-
eide between hand-picked delegations
representing different factions. The
winning delegation takes 1t place on
the convention floor. while the losers
retire to the galleries to lick their
wounds and ruminate on how much
better they could have done the job.
EVEN in the case Of delegates chosen
- in the primary, there is q consid-
cradle element of hand-picking.
Theoretically, as in the quest for
public Office, any eligible voter is quail
fled to represent his district as con-
vention delegate. Practically 1t Is not
so simple as that. Party chiefs have
quite a bit to say about whose names
shall 60 on the ballot, q limitation
which the independent can overcome
If he is willing to devote q lot OF
handwork to overcoming the machine
product.
He must prove his desirability to
suficient group of voters by the petit
ton method to get his name on the
onicial sheet. It can be done, but 1t
involves much more effort than grows
out of the zeal which most would-be
delegates have for their candidates OF
causes.
So the primary voter casts his bal
lot for q machine -made delegate most
of the time, although ostensibly he
casts 1t for q presidential candidate
In other words, the choice Of the peo-
pie In primary elections usually has
been the choice Of the party or frac-
tional machine at some earlier stage
of the political scheme Of things.
Several factors influence the individ-
ual in his desire to become delegate
to one Of the major political conven-
tionS.
One Of them is the circumstance
that the quadrennial party session
happens to be the greatest show or
earth, politically speaking. Politica
conventions, unlike most sessions. have
about them quality Of Wild excite
ment. In contrast with the matter
of-factness which characterixes ths
Evening star., 1936-05-16

which had been designed for the farm
ers of the Middle West.
Both organizations, 1t seems, have
certain things to say to the raisers Of
hogs which they do not care for the
Washington correspondent to know
about and vice versa. There Is q psy-
Geological question here. Both de-
partments-the Democrats in the
Press Building and the Republicans
in the Barr Building-have their
psychologists.
They may not have college degrees
as such, but they are men whose live
lihood has been made in the past from
the business of knowing what ap-
peals to this class and what appeals
Evening star., 1936-05-16
By F. Jay Carmody.

TINE most important anonymous
figure in American political
life-the delegate to the ma
a tional convention-is about to
strut again his moment in the spot
light.
Out of nowhere he will come, and
back to nowhere he will go when the
conventions end. at least SO far as
the vast body of his fellow citizens is
concerned.
In the interval between his coming
and his going, he will have played a
part which he, at least, will never for
get. He will have shouted, paraded,
perspired and, perhaps. all but died
in the great cause Of the party which
he calls his own. At the end of the
shouting, parading, perspiring and
hysteria, he will have helped nominate
a candidate for his political cult and
helped to devise a platform with
which that candidate shall stand-or
fall.
Not all delegates, Of course, are
submerged in anonymity. Some of
them are mighty men, first-page per-
ennials, with a magnetic attraction
for the spotlight. Party leaders are
these, comprising at the outside 10
per cent Of the total number officially
accredited at the doors Of the conven-
ton. They are the ones who deliver
the goods in the form Of votes The
80 per cent are the goods delivered,
again in the form of votes.
But, anonymity or no, the average
delegate Is glad to be there. Glad
enough. indeed. that he pays his own
expenses, which may run pretty high
in spite Of special railroad rates and
the like. In this respect, the political
convention delegate stands alone in
the world. for those who represent
local groups at national conventions
usually have their way paid. Recon-
pense, Of course. has been known to
come later in one form or another,
but to all outward appearances the
average delegate pays and pays will
lingly for the privilege Of being an
unidentified whoop in Americas radio
sets in the general whoopla of the
convention.
THERE are no particular specifica-
tions for the political convention
delegate. He may be In the 70s or
the 20s. He may be I feet 6 inches
tall, or he might be s feet Z inches.
He may look like Clark Gable or Herr
Hitler. In the latter case, he probably
will lose his anonymity through the
egis of feature story written by q
prima donna Of one Of the newspaper
or magazine staffs present. In the
former. however. he probably will have
better time in either Cleveland or
Philadelphia.
The delegate, Of course, may be q
woman and frequently is. That fact
explains the staccato squeaks inter-
laded between the whoops which mark
the slow progress Of the sessions. For
all their equal rights, politically speak
ing, the number Of women among the
1000 Republican delegates and the
1,100 Democrats Is small.
In fact, so comparatively rare is
the woman delegate that individually,
or collectively, most Of them get fea-
ture-story treatment in the course Of
the convention. This usually occurs on
the first day Of the sessions, when the
enthusiasm Of the convention scribes
and their assistants Is boundless
Evening star., 1936-05-16
By S. r. WinferS.

4 30,000-acre game preserve-an
" area larger than the combined
~ cities of Washington and Balti-
4 a more-is in the process Of de-
velopment near Natural Bridge, Va.
Located in Augusta County. in the
northern end of the Natural Bridge
division of the George Washington
National Forest. this immense tract
has been set aside by presidential
Evening star., 1936-05-16
POLICE ETIQUETTE
There Is a Lot in Your Manner With the
Policeman When He Apprehends
You in Law Infraction.

officer did not charge him with falling
to have emergency control of the We
hicle-that Is, that because Of the
number of persons in the front seat he
could not have reached and operated
the hand brake. 1t doesn't add that he
had boasted to the officer that he could
get out Of any charge the officer might
make against him.
So we'll try to discard what we have
heard and try to form our own opin-
ions when we have to handle an officer
If we believed all we hear. we would
think that the officer goes about with a
grudge against taxpayers and he Is
looking for victims to. haul into court
The fact is, he is a workingman who
has job to do. If he could warn
every offender instead Of taking him
into court, he would. More than hall
of the time, when he takes a case into
court he does so on his own time, and
he would much prefer to avoid it.
The officer responds to the same
stimulus as We do. If we see some
one doing dangerous thing needlessly
it makes us angry. If car is doing
45 miles an hour in a 20-mile zone 1t
is the officers duty to pursue the car
and stop 1t. To catch it he often has
to do so miles an hour. Probably he
chased through a red light which the
speeding car made on the green. Per-
haps he narrowly avoided spill as he
lodged cross-traffic at that rate OF
speed. 1t is so needless a risk of his
own life that he Is burning with anger
at the driver who causes it.
Naturally, incensed as he is, his first
words are not going to be mildly
spoken. But he Is conscious Of the
restrictions placed upon him by his
job. He is conscious of his need to be
courteous.
WHAT he says and what he does Is
in a large measure, the result OF
what we do and what We say. If the
driver cringes and is sullen or is de-
f1ant and boastful it won't help him
There is Psychological effect. We
can't explain it, but it Is there. To
take command of the situation, II we
happen to be the luckless driver in the
case, we will first get out of the cal
and stand. Standing up is more i'm.
portant than 1t seems.
Well produce our operators per-
NIT and registration because we know
that his first duty is to ask for it
Well hand him the permit and per.
haps say in quiet voice. "Oficer,
must have done something wrong OF
you wouldn't have stopped me. Smith
is my name and here are my cards.
The immediate effect is a placatory
one. The officer didn't know at whom
he was angry and he cannot continue
to be that way with decent sort Of
chap. In handing him the cards
we have virtually given him an order
He has to accept and he will probably
read them. His next thought is not
so much whose name is on the cards
but whether or not they are in gooc
order. His next question Is likely Il
be, Where do you live now?" He Il
checking the accuracy of the address
and his mind is getting away from
what he originally intended to say
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27

and mo forgotten races"
Landon declared at Philadelphia
last night. that the New Deal "wields
the same axe which has destroyed the
liberties Of SO much of the world
To the accompaniment of shouts
and cheers, he declared also that New
Deal waste and extravaganza violates
the Constitution and that the ''little
fellow must pay for it,"
Early today the "Sunflower Spe-
cia1' moved on to Pittsburgh, where
Landon will address a gathering to-
night.
Tomorrow President Roosevelt will
speak at 50th birthday ceremonies for
the Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor. This speech will be followed
ny stumping tours through Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Delaware and
New York
John G. Winant, former head OF
the social security board, said Re
publicans were back Of misleading
information" about the social security
act. President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, also
went to the defense of the act with
a declaration that it was something
for which workers prayed for many
Years
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27
DUAL HIGHWAYS IN
NEW CONSTRUCTION
That Is Plan of Highway
Commission w h e n.
Money is Available
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
1Iy j. e. Will

Raleigh, Oct. 27.-The construction
Of dual roads or rather of another
,oad parallel to an existing roadway.
going to be preferred and recon-
meuded by highway engineers from
now on instead Of the widening of
e2isting highways wherever the flow
of traffic indicates a need for a three
way or four-way highway. Chief
Highway Engineer w. Vance Baise of
Inc State Highway and Public Works
Commission said today. The cost Of
the dual highways will be somewhat
more than the cost of widening a two
way into a three-way highway, Baise
agreed But he indicated that the ex-
ira cost is justified by the increased
safety Of the dual highway over the
three-lane roadway. But whether or
not the State highway department
will ever be able to build. any dual
roads or even widen any existing
one depneds entirely on whether it
can ever get the money to build them
with Baise said.
The reason we have not been able
to build any dual roads in North Car
DINA so far, with the exception of
one semi-dual road now under con-
tract, is because we, have not had the
money to build them WITH Baise
said. I'VE have known all along, of
course. that the dual roads are safer
than the three-lane roads. But we
have done well to get enough money
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27

TO Widen some of the two-lane roads
INTO three-lane highways. Another
FACTOR is that when the surfacing of
an old road is worn, it is cheaper to
widen it. and resurface it than it is
to build an entirely new road and
then resurface the old one. Hence it
is not economic to build an addition
al road unless the surfacing of the
other is still in first class condition"
The only semi-dual highway in the
State is now being built from Just
above China Grove to Concord. The
new highway will almost parallel the
present highway from China Grove
to Concord, but it has not yet been
decided if the traffic on each high
way will be limited to one-way traffic
or whether two-way traffic will be
allowed on both stretches of roadway
The dual roads are regarded as
safer than any other type, since the
traffic on each lane is limited one
way, thus eliminating the passing of
traffic going in opposite directions,
making head-on collisions impossible
the big hazard of three-lane roads.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27
Wife PreServers

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27
Mercury Slides
"a Degrees Here
With Minimum 81

A sharp decline of "a degrees
in temperatures overnight brought
to- this section the first real taste
of winter today, with the neces-
sity for firing furnaces not yet
warmed uD for the fall, and the
appearance of numerous over
coats.
From a maximum of II degrees
on Monday, the thermometer slid
down to 81 degrees during the
night for the minimum, it was
stated today by HI. l.. Allen, Of
fetal Weather Bureau observer.
1t was the coolest weather of the
fall, and was accompanied dur
ing the night by drizzles of rain
and a brisk northwest wind.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27
LONG TERM ESCAPEE
IS CAUGHT IN FLORIDA

Tallahassee, Fla, Oct u (AP)-
Walter A. Roberts, state prison bu-
reau identification officer, reported
today he identified Negro prisoner
here as an escaped life .ermer from
the North Carolina penitentiary.
The Negro was sentenced to 80 days
on an assault charge here October 4.
Roberts said fingerprint records show
ed he was received at Raleigh in 1881
to serve a life sentence for robbery
under the name of Mack Morris Tay-
lor. He escaped Nav IA. this wear.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27
HANCOCK IS SPEAKER
AT STATE'UMVERSITY

Chapel Hill, Oct. 27-Four leaders
in State Democratic circles last night
brought to a close the prediction
political activities at the University
of North Carolina with fervent at
tacks on Republican policies, coupled
with praises for the new deal, as hun
dreds of students and town pee
gathered in Memorial hall for a rous-
ing Democratic rally.
The principal speaker was Repre-
sentative Frank Hancock, of Oxford
The others were Attorney General A.
A. F. Seawell, Miss Mary Henderson
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-10-27

A. 1. Ferree, of Asheboro, Repub-
llcan candidate for Congress in this
the fourth district against Congress
man Harold d. Cooley, Democrat,
was visitor to Henderson Monday
ne was escorted in brief rounds in
the city by H. E. White, Republican
candidate for the State Houe of Rep
resentative from Vance county, oppos
ing }. M. Peace, Democratic nomi-
nee. Mr.. Ferree met a number of
Henderson people of both political
faiths.