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Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02

HE WATCHED LANDON-Sen-
ator Borah soaifed for AT Landon's
campaign before "prejudging him,
but he later confded: Il am not
for him."
his speech-which he secretly hoped
would stampede the delegates-I
countered Borah leaving his hotel.
It was past midnight, hot and sticky.
"Come along, Robert, and walk
with me-" he said. "It's cooler out
here"
So we walked about the deserted
streets and he talked about Hoover,
the convention, and ALI Landon.
Doubted Landon's Ability.
They'll nominate Landon tomor-
row." he said. 1.-THE stage is all
set. Hoover tried to run away
with the convention tonight, but they
don't want any of him. It will be
Landon and Knox, you mark my
word"
"And then what are you going to
do, Senator?"
II don't know. I'll wait and see
what Landon says. But what I'm
wondering is what can he say. He
knows nothing about national or for
eign affairs. I am told he is a nice
gentleman, but the country needs
more than that in the White House
in these times. don't want to pre-
Judge Landon. I shall hear him out,
but I have a strong bunch I will not
support him."
He Didn't, Either!
Borah's premonition was right.
Three months later I spent a day
with him in Boise as he campaigned
for his sixth senatorial term. We
had a long talk that night in his
room before he retired. remarked
that I hadn't heard him say a word
during the day about Landon.
"And I don't intend to say any,
thing about him." Borah replied
quietly. 81 am not for him."
care you for Roosevelt?"
"WeI, Robert" he said, 1--WE got
a lot of Democratic friends in Idaho
and I think they know where I
stand" And then with gentle smile
he added, That's a pretty good
news story, isn't it?"
It certainly was. 1t was the big
scoop of the campaign.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
Mannerisms Mark the Man.
They All Perform Off Guard

lone woman speaker asked me
for a handkerchief just before she
went on" Miss Wells remembers.
"All through her lecture she stood
twisting it in her hands. When she
returned it, the handkerchief looked
like a cruller."
Sen. James Reed of Missouri used
to have habit of chewing tobacco
in the courtroom, while Sen. David
I. Walsh of Massachusetts, can never
speak without thrusting his left
thumb into the corner of his trou-
sers' pocket. Ex-Gov. John G. Wi
nant of New Hampshire used to
hang his arms straight down his
sides and walk sideways across the
stage like small boy reciting his
"piece."
Emerson Had 1t Too!
Such manneriSmS are not exclu-
sively modern device. Many years
ago the highly intellectual Ralph
Waldo Emerson had a habit of plac-
ing the thumb and foreinger of one
hand between the thumb and fore
finger of the other, moving them
gently while speaking. Henry Ward
Beecher would emphasize the eli
max of his speech by rising to his
toes and throwing his arms over
his head, virtually pulling the audi
ence up with him.
Psychologists who have watched
such carryings-on from the specta-
tors seat don't believe it's neces-
sarily a matter of nervousness.
Sometimes the speakers are merely
throwing off excess energy. Or, as
one psychologist suggested, it may
not be SO much the energy or the
audience as what the speaker had
for dinner.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02

NEW YORK. - AL Smith
~ jingles coins in his left
pocket and the duke of Windsor
straightens his necktie. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt jerks his head
sideways.
Call them habits, manner
isms or just plain nervous
ness, but they're among the
distinguishing features you've no
ticed when famous men make
speeches or appear before the news
reel camera. Most of US, great or
little, are thumb twiddlers, button
twisters, arm swingers or fist clench-
ers in our forgetful moments.
This Is the Point
A widely known Boston professor
used to enter his classroom holding
a short, wen-sharpened pencil which
he twirled as he talked.
'Now this" he would say at in
tervals, sis the point" Each time
he would jab the pencil at the class,
until his amused students finally
made up sweepstakes on how many
times he'd do it each hour.
The late William Jennings Bryan
combined his mannerism with prac-
ticality. Before his platform ap-
pearances he would have someone
bring an old-fashioned dishpan with
a piece of ice to the rostrum. AS
his fiery speech-making warmed him,
Bryan would run the palm of his
hand over the ice, then over his
forehead. To break this routine he
would occasionally step to the front
Of the platform, weaving back and
forth while the audience gasped for
fear he would topple into the front
row.
A Monocle Swinger.
Bertha Wells of Boston, who was
formerly in Chautauqua work with
Bryan, recalls the platform gestures
Of many other speakers. Dudley
Crafts Watson, director Of music at
the Chicago art museum, went
through q repeated routine Of TAX
ing Oh his monacle, swinging it
around In his hand and replacing it
70 the eye.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02

making a sling shot to annoy the
neighbors' cats, and he went on
making it while I cleaned the
Shoes"
That's one kind of husband. The
fascinating college graduate of %
who married Elise last June is diff
ferent.
Nettled by His Stinginess.
''Thorny exasperates me until I'm
all but a nervous wreck" writes
Elise, from Wilmington, Del. His
father divorced his mother because
she was so extravagant, and it seems
to have affected him. I never no
ticed it while we were engaged, but
now he doesn't want to spend a cent.
Everything-our home, our comfort,
the question of having baby, is
estimated in terms of cost. He asks
me at dinner what the chops cost;
wasted butter annoys him, and if
some friends come in and drink up
our cocktails and smoke our ciga-
rettes he gets wild at them.
I'VE have a small income, but
we're not as poor as that comes to.
I'd rather be in one room, and be
happy and easy about it, than scrimp
in a pretty five-room apartment.
What to do?"
Then there's Emily, whose new
husband, she complains, is "still
just a bachelor.
HE had four years in college,
three in law school, and three in
his own bachelor apartment" writes
Emily, land I thought I was lucky
to get husband with no family to
complicate matters! But Jim simply
doesn't get the idea of being mar
ried. He'll bring four men home
Unexpectedly for dinner, and when
I look startled he laughs and says
It's not up to you, darling. Tom
here is doing the steaks and we got
a lot of beer and Saratoga chips
"Then they proceed to get the
kitchen into the most terrible mess,
scatter cigarette ashes over every
thing, use up every pan and bowl in
the place, and presently they're all
playing poker in the dining-room, as
oblivious to my existence as if were
a fly.
The Sport-Loving Husband.
"Jim sends me word he's playing
golf, won't be home to dinner. Last
week he and three men went fish
ing; there were no women on the
trip, but on the way home they
stopped at Toms house for dinner
and he wasn't back until midnight.
"Am a fussy cry baby that this
doesn't satisfy me? My mother and
q married sister live near, and I
can always 60 to them, but I get
ashamed of explaining what Jim's
doing"
These are a few Of the problems.
And over and over again comes the
innocently surprised complaint,
1.-THE trouble is, he's selfish"
As il we weren't all SELFISH
Two-thirds Of this trouble could
have been spared by wise mothers;
mothers who trained their sons and
daughters in self-control and con-
sideration. Mothers who made IL
natural for them to talk over ex-
pensea and plans, before marriage.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
Last Newsman to See Borah
Recalls How Lion of Idaho
j Kept Mum in 1886 Campaign
Didn't Favor Landon, So He
Played Ball With Home
State Dems.
By ROBERT S. ALLEN

ny hODEnI .. ALLEN
(Co-author, pifh Drep Pearson, Of "The
Washington MerTy-Co-Round"J
Reieased by Western Newspaper union.)
WASHINGTON. - The Sem
w ate just doesn't seem the
same without Senator Borah.
He was the first leader I
came to know intimately as a
cub Washington reporter Is
years ago, and I saw him last
the day before his fatal acct
dent. I think I am the last news
man he talked to.
1t was late in the afternoon.
knew that the Presidents message
on the Finnish loan was due the
next day, and dropped into Borah's
office to get his views. Wrapped in
an army blanket, he was lying on
. couch, reading an article on trade
treaties. He motioned me to chair,
which I pulled up near him. On the
marble mantle directly over him
was a striking new photograph of
himself which he liked very much.
Duty Came First.
Borah looked well, but frail, and
recalling that during the Christmas
holiday he had told me he was think
ing Of taking Mrs. Borah south, !
said, what about your trip?"
81 guess that's off, Robert" he
replied. MRS. Borah won't stay If
I don't, and I can't" -t.tE "
.'Why not? Things aren't so active
now. A few weeks of warm wealth
er and sunshine would do you lot
Of good"
eyes, but can't leave. Those
trade treaties are up and I've got
to be on hand to keep an eye on
developments. It's close fight and
we can't take any chances. I would
like q little rest, but I feel it's my
duty to stay on the job and oppose
this act"
"What about the Finnish loan?"
asked.
''That's a very distressing dilem.
ma for me, Robert" he said. my
heart goes out to those gallant peo-
pie, but at the same time I have
grave misgivings about lending
money to anyone in Europe. Once
we let down the bars we can't fore.
see what it may lead to. We must
keep out of that mess regardless Of
our personal sympathies."
Dilemma Of 1886.
l remember another time when
he was in a dilemma. It was in 1886.
That spring, at the age of II and
for the first time in his long career,
he decided to make serious try for
the presidency. There was consid-
cradle popular response, but the ma
chine politicians were against him.
He went to the Cleveland conven.
ton empty-handed-and he knew it.
The night Herbert Hoover made
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
THERE'S GOLD IN THEM GALS

Most interesting table at the Jack
son day dinner was No. 4, immedi-
ately under President Roosevelt's
nose, and occupied by three of the
wealthiest women in America. They
were:
Doris Duke Cromwell, wife of the
new minister to Canada and heiress
of the vast Duke tobacco millions.
She is a contributor to the Roosevelt
campaign fund.
Ethel DUPONT Roosevelt, daughter
in-law of the President. Her family
owns the biggest munitions and
chemical industry in the world, and
controls the biggest automobile in
dustry-General Motors.
Mrs. Jock Whitney, whose family
owns part of Pan-American anyways
and is one of the oldest of the First
Sixty Families of America"
None over 80 years old, together
they have a finger in a sizeable
amount of American wealth. Yet
they are great favorites with Roose-
welt.
And while Speaker Bankhead
opined on the many liberal, if not
radical reforms of the New Deal,
these three looked very bored, but
very, very beautiful.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02


other plan-which is preferred
would be for RFC to buy the bonds
of the authority. This could be done
under existing powers of the RFC.
Disclosed for the first time is the
fact that last year, a syndicate of
British banks, including the giant
Midland bank, offered to buy bonds
of the canal to the total sum of $780,
000, 900 sufficient to cover the entire
cost of construction.
Democratic Convention.
The Democratic national commit
tee meets on February 5, which is
before the Republican national COM
mittee meets. That doesn't mean
the Democrats have abandoned
their determination to hold their
convention after the Republicans.
However, the Democratic strategy
is not only to nominate after the
G. o. p. but, even more important,
to force Republican convention as
late in the summer as possible. i.
The Democratic, theory is the
shorter the campaign, the better.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
First Year Is Difficult

Forty years ago girls knesO nothing
Of the physical side Of nafvimony. To-
day they are sUeu informed. But in all
other spays the marriages Of our young
people are left to chance.
The ne,U sOite expects to do i0hat she
likes. The young husband is undis.
ciplined. They can't believe they are
meant for each other schen the first
shock Of their confendins Uils stag.
gers them.
The first year is the hardest it is
said. There is truth in this. The num-
Der Of divorces Of first year couples is
appalling.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
The Answers

l. Probably not less than 80, ZOO
pounds per square inch.
2. Because of its Interchangeable
ness, it is an old language and the
most universal.
3. 1t is of very ancient origin
and is one of the few known to
have been used by the Crusaders.
4. The hookless fastener was in
vented by Whitcomb L. Judson m
1893.
S. Russia (8,144,228 square
miles) is the largest country.
China lover 400, 0OO, 600 people)
has the greatest population.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
4sk Me 4nother
. A General Quiz
The Questions

1. What is the expansive force
exerted at the moment of freezing
of water?
2. Why is the Latin language
used in the medical field?
8. What is the origin of the bugle
call, Retreat?
4. Who invented the Upper?
5. Which country is the largest
in the world, and which has the
largest population?
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
If the Lights Go Out,
Look for a Muskrati

ADRIAN, MICH.-Twice the head
lights of John Bates car went out
and twice he went to a garage to
have defective wiring replaced. The
third time he suspected that some
strange agency was at work so he
placed q trap under the hood-and
caught q muslxrat which had been
gnawing the wires
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02

snip canal before
congress, asking
for action at this
session.
Its proponents
have a new argu-
ment and a new
money plan. Their
money plan has
two alternatives.
One would be for
the federal gov
eminent to under
write bonds of the
Florida ship canal
-kl nj
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
Don't Sleep When
Gas Crowds Heart

II you toss in bed and can't sleep from con-
stipation with awful GAS FLOATING
femember this: To eetSgisksr relief you
relieve the GAS. You must clear the bowels.
Adlerika 10 Just what you may need became
Il acts on the stomach and BOTH bowels.
Adlerika 10 BOTH carminative and cathartio.
stomach and help expel GAS. .Cstharties that
quickly and gently clear the bowels Of waste
matter that may have caused GAS BLOAT-
ING, sour stomach, .sleepless nights and indi-
At once. Adlcrika usually acts on the bowsls
In less than two hours. No waiting for over
night relief. Adlerika does not gripes b MT
habit forming.
Sold az all drug scores
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
Florida Ship Canal.

Dynamic Senator Pepper of Flor
ida once again will bring the Florida
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
Use of Time

Know the true value of time;
snatch, seize and enjoy every mo-
ment of it. No idleness, no lazi-
ness, no representation never
put off till tomorrow what you can
do today.-Lord Chesterfield.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
1x;ntI;Mg
, ai,;t B!sI[f]
Britain Buying 10000 Combat
Planes in U. s. :. Hope Psychic
logical Effect ON German People
May Hasten Peace.
By DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT ALLEN

WASHINGTON.-Few knew that
Lord Riverdale, co-ordinator of Brit
ish air defense, was in Washington
several days ago.
What Riverdale reported was that
the French and British now have
patched up their argument over
strategy, and the British have ac-
cepted the French thesis that in the
last analysis this war must be
fought out in the air.
The factor which finally influenced
this policy was the now recognized
failure Of the British blockade. More
and more German merchant ships
have been slipping through.
As a result of all this, Lord River
dale flew to Canada and the United
States to arrange for the largest air
plane manufacturing campaign in
the history Of the world. In the
United States alone, Britain will buy
10000 combat planes.
simultaneously the British are
stepping up their own airplane pro-
duction, now 1000 a month, so that
by March or April they will be
turning out 1000 planes monthly.
One reason the British are partic-
ularly banking upon the American
planes is because of their effect
upon German psychology. So far
the German people have discounted
any air offensive from the Allies.
However, British government lead
ers believe that not even the most
efficient Nazi censors can keep from
the German people the impact Of
what the purchase of 10000 Ameri-
can planes will mean.
Glacier County chief., 1940-02-02
NEW IDEAS

0DvERTISEMENTS are your guide
Il to modern living. They bring you
today's NEWS about the food you eat and
the clothes you wear. And the place TO
find out about these new things is right
in this newspaper.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-10-11

The Women's Republican Study
Club held its monthly meeting Oc-
tober at eight o'clock. The guest
for the evening was Mrs. Eliza
beth Kennedy, volunteer Campaign
Speaker for the Republican Com
mittee. Mrs. Kennedy recommend
ed several books for reading to
the club, and especially expressed
a desire that all members read an
article by Gen. Hugh johnson in
the October 9th issue of the Sat
urday Evening Post, entitled AN
CHORS AWAY. Our speaker said
she believed this article was one
Of the best to be written on the
political situation of the moment.
A very splendid article by En-
met ]. Scott, released through the
Publicity Division of the Republic
an National Committee, was read
by the secretary.
An official certificate of MEM
bership and good standing was re-
ceived from the national head
quarters of the National Fedora
ton of Women's Republican Clubs
of America.
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HERE'S MORE ABOUT
REPUBLICANS

CONTINUED from Page One)
onic system must be harmonious
and productive all the time for all
purposes or else 1t simply cannot
be harmonious and productive for
the purpose Of national defense. "
1.-THE New Deal has never en-
couraged production. I'VE have to
have a government which upholds
production as an ideal and which
inspires the people to produce
and which then lets them do it."
THAT is WHY WE NEED
WENDELL W1LLKIE.
Labor can never get what Il
ought to get, nor can payrolls be
built UP to absorb unemployment,
as long as there is a government
which intimidates the managers Of
production and which prevents
production from going into its best
and biggest"
Wendell Willkie is q successful
business man. When he told labor
in plain language, before 30 thou
sand people assembled in Rainier
Ball Park, that he stood for every
social gain that labor has made
and for laws to enforce them; for
the extension Of social security of
all groups who do not enjoy them;
for insurance against unemploy-
ment and for adequate pensions to
the aged, he meant every word Of
lit.
When he said there would be
Jobs for every person who is will
/ ing 10 work, he meant that too.
Because, as one who is well
grounded in our economic system,
who knows how to provide for de-
tense needs and still have enough
men. materials and industrial ca
pacity left for general increase in
| the living standards, And most
! important of all, he knows how to
make the necessary adjustments
in the industrial machine. so as
to avoid another depression when
defense orders taper off. No guess
work. WENDELL WILLKIE IS
! A. PRACTICAL MAN.
"WE WANT WIBLKIE."
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Nv Arthur B. I.angIle

intend giving the state Of
Washington the same efficient and
responsible government that I have
given Seattle, a government hon
estly manager for the common
good of all persons and classes.
MANY of you will recall the con-
dition that existed here two and
a half years ago-the city was
practically bankrupt; that city en-
ployes could not cash their pay
checks without taking them to loan
sharks and diseounting them from
5 per cent to so per cent; that
our transportation system was de-
plorable.
Today these conditions have been
changed. The city's credit has been
restored; some $500, 600 a year was
saved from operating costs without
cutting wages or eliminating essen
tial services; interest rates have
been reduced from 5 per cent to
pa per cent; employees receive
their wages in cashable warrants;
the fine new transportation sys-
tenn speaks for itself.
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POME

The other day, IN a rather whim-
steal mood. Somewhat Expressive
found himself equipped with a pen
ell and paper So he started writ
ing This is what came out:
Here are some facts about the land
that we live in,
The country to which taxes, we're
always givin'
Where they throw eggs and things
at candidates,
Where prejudice shoulders and
fosters hate.
Where people get married to avoid
the drafts,
And Labor organizes into crafts,
And fights the employer tooth and
nail,
But fails to make the capitalists
quail
They have way to get around
this trend.
Pay higher wages to fewer men.
Let F. d. r. take care of the rest
With the WPA, by many It's blest
Soak the rich, give to the poor,
There's no point in getting rich
any more
Shut up big factories, put men out
of work
It's just too bad for that extra
clerk.
Where people live beyond their
means
They never get things paid for it
seems.
Where radios may be tuned to any
frequency,
Programs being censored by the
F. c. c.
Where people travel at their lei
sure,
When and 1ofere the aoish, business
or pleasure.
BIZ train, truck and auto, trolley
and bltS,
That is the living intended for qts.
Gruesome, isn't it?
Quertyuiop
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Seattle LIST Nat. Bank

A new personal service by
which checking accounts may be
opened without any requirement of
a minimum deposit and minimum
balance, viii be offered by the Sc
attle-First National Bank, begin
ing octoger Ia, according to J. A.
Swalwell, president of the bank.
''This Economy Check plan,
which we are introducing. is in
line with the trend to extend the
services of banks to larger pro
portion of the public by meeting
their particular needs" he stated.
Just as we have made bank loans
available for automobile financing,
for home buying or building and
modernization, for practically any
person to enjoy the advantages of
a personal checking account
Under the Economy Check plan,
Mr.. Swalwell explained, anyone
can open checking account with
any sum that is convenient. No
minimum balance is necessary, and
there is no monthly service written
against the account and for each
deposit In return, the depositor
has all the convenience and the
saving in time Of being able to
pay bills by check, as well as a
permanent record of financial
transactions.
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