Life — June 19, 1924 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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ee ASHING- FON, June 17.—At this mentous time when men and women are gath ering from the TUADITIONAL VIEW farthest corners OF A DELEGATE 2 of our great re- public for the solemn purpose selecting a Standard Bearer who shall go before the people as a candidate ior the highest office that the nation can bestow up. I wish to f the full serious remind the delegates their ness of lities, responsi! Two great cities, I remind them, have gone to no little expense to secure the privilege of ente One of the first ates, therefore taining them, tions of the dele see to it that their wives spend a sum t to the city’s expenc is to equal at le: At the nor capacity of Vr this will days, and to nomin me than nal, or a spending wives, take at least three a candidate and adjourn in less that the fair name of the party would leave a lasting stain upon Of scarcely less importance is the delegate’s duty to the He should be ready, day pose with palmetto fan a camera night, t wilted collar, looking extremely hot. A pic- ture like this in the rotogravure — sections is vital in keeping up the of the great body zens who wanted t attend th ention but couldn't They can clip it to show to all their friends with the remark that, per lly, they found dead at morale co wouldn't he nd- ing a convention in all this heat—no, ! But, above all, should member that the vention is cal sirree delegates re- con an oratori safety - valve TRADITIONAL for The Duties of Delegating Outlined by a Veteran of Twenty-six Conventions the entire nation. The desire to make speeches is inborn in us. Many, of course, find sufficient outlet tal Idresses to the boss, in dis ms at ve home dinner table, or in few brief remarks” at the annual banquet to the sales force Some, however, in whom the fires burn deeper require at least one fling at a national forum, and the political convention provides it with the possible hardship to the nation at large Here untold speakers may make un- told speeches putting in nomination un told favorite sons, and may then go home, happy and content, and become chance to rid thei of public speakir seful citizens such sentatives, bility under stop with uy no circumstances do poking you, so much « as eminent likewise | 1 the ric yo words a year. ator VIEW Heflin, THE ain, systems of erwise bec the nation, Senators dele lo an: speaking ism it has becon More with a are f it do while in others. annual capaci NOMINATION OF Without they might run f who sh few the germ The more hardened orators, ind Repre responsi id ything to ich like habit moderate milli like Sen- ty is vir A PICTURE tually infinite, Pre is an exception in the annals of public he can take it or leave it The Contention, therefore, have col even by t nee they can in one ses- satisfy ventional custc the Moreover, every permits a y to be got out of great deal of oral the without word of it way any one’s hearing a That brings us to the last duty of the delegate, which is to select a fitting man as the candi date of his party tradition which no party has ever dared But since, by a quaint ways done between the er violate, this is a the h ¢ and rin a small group of the party leaders in whispere ferences among the bedrooms on_ the cleventh floor of a hotel, the delegat is left free to put his mind on his more important responsibilities. Sounder The Choicest Bit AUDI had just returned from the lecture illed to the ¢ the lecture upon the Ultra Modernity of the Obsolete. Of course, it had been most. interesting, for Sir Hugh Cecil Fitzroy- Derrickson had been the speaker, and Maude simply adored him. “But tell me," asked her chum, Anette, “what part of it did you really like best 7” “Well.” replied — the other, should say that I liked best of all that part where he te out his blue silk kerchief dusted off nY What's a n of an inferiority complex? Asking PeNevore PRESIDENT about it. comicbooks.com