Evening star., 1936-06-23
Sidelights of the Convention
States Whoop 1t Up With More Campaign Songs
as Convention Begins to Get Noisier
and More Colorfui.

TlNeQ yesterday, utdueu ny GOV. 11eI-
bert H Lehman. A caucus of the
delegation was called to elect repre-
sentative on all convention commit
tees. Headquarters were established
in the national headquarters hotel.
Mrs. Blair Bannister Of Virginia and
Washington. Assistant Treasurer Of
the United States, was forced to hold
several impromptu receptions at head
quarters Of the women's division yes
terday. She was associated with Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair in the women's
division OF the Democratic National
Committee from 1921 to 1924. She
edited the women's handbook used in
the 1924 campaign. She was former
editor Of the Democratic Bulletin,
predecessor of the Democratic Digest.
A big new badge-a yellow circle Of
cardboard about S inches in dame
ter-made its appearance yesterday,
and the originator held up traffic while
he tied one into the buttonhole Of
General Manager Jim" Farley. This
badge said:
Let Hearst and Ldndon
Squ1Wk and sQuedl,
1886 (cut OF FooseUeH) i940-
IN stick to RooseUelt's NeU Deal
For four years more.
Miss Marion McDonough, niece Of
Representative Mary T. Norton, and
serving as her confidential secretary
in Washington, Joined the New Jersey
delegation last night as its official host
ess on the roof garden of the head
quarters hotel-the swank Bellevue
Stratford. She wore a tunic COM
pletely covered with Roosevelt buttons.
Considerable acclaim is being given
to William A. Smathers, State Senator
from Atlantic County, N. j., who is
a candidate for the United States Sen
ate against Warren Barbour. Smath-
ers election to the State Senate was
the first by a Democrat in go years
from that county. He had previously
served II years as judge and then as
first assistant attorney general.
The entire Pennsylvania State dele
CATION, numbering upward of 200, were
photographed yesterday afternoon at
the Walton Hotel.
Through the maze Of modern traffic,
with taXicabs whizzing by it on all
sides, there rolled into the Quaker City
late yesterday a relic of pre-revolu-
tionary dayS-a conestoga wagon, built
200 years ago.
It was the contribution of BerkS
County, Pa, to the show the Demo-
Gratis are staging here this week to
offset the dullness of too much har-
mony. The ancient vehicle was the
predecessor of the covered wagon that
blazed the trail into the wide open
spaces of the West.
On its weather-beaten sides were
banners, Blazing the trail for Roose-
velt." Hauled by two mules, it rumbled
up to the convention hall, with one of
its custodians walking behind it to
operate the protruding iron brake rod.
The wagon is owned by Harry A.
Obold of Temple, Pa. 1t was brought
to what is now BerkS County in 1887
by Peter Rothermel, and was used in
the early days of Pennsylvania his
tory to haul freight between Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh.
The Democrats have not overlooked
the opportunity to advertise the New
Deal in the elaborate Government ex-
hibit in the museum building adjoin-
ing the convention hall The usual
Government demonstrations found at
a worlds fair, or exposition, are on
display, depicting the services rendered
by the regular Federal departments,
but the alphabetical off-shoots of the
Roosevelt regime have not been neg
lected.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, for
example, has moved truck-loads Of
shrubbery and plants into the museum
hall to help show what the boys in
khaki have done in the forests and
parks.
The w. P. A. projects of Harry L.
Hopkins also have prominent place
in the exhibit, ranging from women
at sewing machines to young men
demonstrating how punch and judy
are staged.
One of the most interesting exhibits
in the Government collection Is that
of the recently created national
archives establishment. 1t was ar
ranged by James D. Preston, an as
sistant administrator to the archivist.
1t consists of Photographic copies of
historic state papers, showing the
signatures of Presidents back to the
days of the foundation of the Republic,
and pictures showing how old docu-
ments are scientifically treated in the
Archives Building, to preserve them
for ssnsrations to come.