Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-28
Fair Luce Beats
Heat Foe as
Listeners Wonder
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28.
CUP)-What happened at the Re-
publican national convention to
Clare Bocthe Luce, the original pop
sicle, shouldn't happen to lady.
Mrs. Luce burst upon the swelter-
ing delegates with smile upon her
face, a white frill on her chest,
and an icy blue gown reaching
down to her silver slippers. She
looked cool She looked comfortable.
The Republican ladies smiled
knowingly as they settled down to
watch the lovely playwright dis
integrate under the white heat of
the arc lights. Well did they re-
member what had happened 70 one
masculine speech maker after an
other who stepped briskly to the
stand and staggered down an hour
later limp and dripping wet.
WATCH IN VAIN
Mrs. Luce began her speech and
the ladies looked for the first in
citations of the melting down
the shiny nose. the moist brow, the
wet ringletS of hair at the neck
line.
These things did not happen to
Mrs. Luce. She leaned over the
speakers stand, which caught her
we'll above the waist, with The cas-
ual assurance of the great actress.
Even her hands, tipped with coral
nails, looked cool as she geStured
and the longer she stooo under
those mighty arcs the cooler she
seemed to be.
The knowing look rapidly was
leaving the faces of the lady deleg-
ates as they famed themselves and
dabbed at their necks with wet
kerchiefS. What was Mrs. Luce's Sc
cret?
The laCies were SO busy wonder
ing that they hardly noticed when
Mrs. Luce finished her address,
bowed, and walked back to her seat.
Then, as they looked closer, there
came from throughout the staCium
collective feminine gasp-or per-
hapS 1t was sigh of relief.
SHE PLAIN SWEAT"
Mrs. Luce had turned out to be
| human after all AS she came out
from behind the stand, it could be
seen that she was as damp as any
lady in the hall. Around the midcle
Mrs. Luce was wet through.
And now, for report on what
this charming-but human-lady
said and how she said it we lead
you to the report of our United
Press colleague and pre2S-box COM
ranion, Miss Dorothy Williams:
The Democrats have Clare Luce's
capsule version of what she be-
lieves awaits them when they as
semble here in three weeks to nomi-
nate a presidential candidate.
They 1.-THE Democrats will meet,
not to chose president, but to
take Franklin Roosevelt and like
it," Mrs. Luce told the convention.
The harpooning by the COPS big
gest feminine box office brought
cheers and applause from word
weary auC Cience.
Her voice was razor-Sharp when
she gave her prediction, just as
when she attacked "the inefficien-
cy. abuSivenesS, evasion, self-Seek
ing and personal Whim in the man.
agement of the countrys business
which are diStorting our democracy
into dictatorial bumbledom."
PLEADS FOR "G.I. JIM"
Her plea was made in the name
of "G.1. Jim," her symbolization of
the fighting men who have dice
and will die for this nation in this
war.
I'VE are come together here to
nominate president who will make
sure that Jim's sacrifice shall not
prove useless in the years that lie
ahead Mrs. Luce said. For a
fighting man dies for the future
as well as the past: to keep all
that was fine of his country's yes
terday, and to give it chance for
a finer tomorrow"
She questioned whether "GI. Jim"
needed to die and whether wise
+ craftsmanship might not have
averted war or, when it became in
evitable, whether fearless leader
ship might not have better pre-
pared the nation.
1T was not Republican presi-
dent who deal with the visibility
rising menaces of Hitler and, M,ls-
solfni and Hirohito," she reminded
| her licteporc