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SIMMONS-BAILEY RACE IN NORTH CAROLINA AND FIGHT IN NEW JERSEY STAND OUT
By RODNEY DETCHER
NEA Senice Writer
(Copyright, 1930. NEA Service. Inc >
WASHINGTON. June 4.—The biennial primary season is under way.
congressional elections loom ahead in November and it's a great year
for all politically-minded citizens who get excited about issues and
personalities.
The voters are going to have a chance to give the
Hoover administration a vote of confidence or dis
approval. democratic leaders are hopeful that they
can overturn the republican majority, not only in the
Senate but also in the house of representatives; they
contend that the country is dissatisfied.
Meanwhile, the nominating primaries are full of
political thrills. A few of them have been held, ehm
J. BaUey
mating prominent figures rrom
public office, but the majority re
main tfw be run off between now
and fall.
In these primaries the greatest
interest centers on the fond hopes
of the wets to replace dry mem
bers of congress with wet members
and on the political fate of such
MBiesmen as uwigni Morrow, senator ueorge w. wor
ris of Nebraska, and Senator Furnifold Simmons of
North Carolina.
The most exciting primaries to date have been those
cf Illinois and Pennsylvania. In the first. Mrs. Ruth
Hanna McCormick was nominated by the republi
cans to oppose J. Hamilton Lewis, democrat, in No
vember. Theirs will be one of the best of the wet
ary ii^nis ana win a iso aeciae me nrst serious auempi Dy a woman 10
enter the United States senate.
The recent Pennsylvania primaries nominated and assured the election
of Secretary of Labor Davis to the senate and of Gifford Pinchot to the
governorship. They also drove Senator Joe Grundy back into the lobby,
proved that Andrew W. Mellon has no political influence in Pennsyl
vania and left crippled Boss Vare of Philadelphia the undisputed boss in
the state.
Next comes North Carolina on June 7. The question there is whether
i Senator Simmons, longer In the senate than any other man and 76 years
old, must pay the price of political retirement for his temporary deser
I tion of the democratic party when it nominated A1 Smith for president in
1928. His opponent is Josiah W. Bailey, a Raleigh lawyer 20 years younger.
Lots of North Carolinians want to punish Simmons but there were many
democrats who joined him in bolting the ticket and last reports indi
cated a close race. Reoublicans have four candidates in their senatorial
primary.
The wet issue and the future of brill Lint Dwight
Morrow are before the voters of New Jersey on June
117. Morrow, former Senator Joseph T. Frelinghuysen
and Congressman Franklin Fort are after the repub
lican senatorial nomination. Morrow’ and Frelinghuy
sen are wet Fort is dry and there seems to be a
good chance that he will walk away with the nomina
Pwjght Morrow
non wnue Morrow ana rreimg
huysen split the wel vote. But It
Fort is nominated he is likely to be
defeated by Alex. Simpson, the
probable democratic nominee wht
gained fame as prosecutor in the
Hall-Mills murder case, when the
wet-dry issue is fought out in the
fall campaign.
v franklin Fort
iiie siaae in me iigm is a regular six-year term,
but Morrow is also a candidate for a short term ex
piring in March nex't year and his democratic oppon
ent will be Miss Thelma Parkinson, organization can
didate. whose campaign will be managed by Reoresen
tative Mary Norton. If Miss Parkinson should be
elected, she would beat Mrs. McCormick into the
senate uy several munuis.
Of somewhat less general interest were the Iowa primaries on June 2.
in which Governor John Hammtll lost to Congressman L. J. Dickinson,
and the Minnesota senatorial primary on June 16 in which Governor
Theodore Christianson is trying to grab the tpga from blind Senator
Schall. In both Iowa and Minnesota nomination is almost certain to be
equivalent to election; Senator Steck of Iowa is not expected to retain
his seat.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh will be renominated by Montana democrats
on July 15 unless National Committeeman J. Bruce Kremer, a wet, decides
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to oppose him—and perhaps in any event. The republican primary in
Montana is a fight between Supreme Court Justice Albert Galen, wet. and
O. H P. Shelley, dry. The chances are that Walsh, dry. and Galen, wet.
■ will fight it out in the fall.
Sana tor Sha^^wd. father of the Eighteenth J*w»«*iaant, pre
; sumably will be renominated by Texas democrats on July 26. Senators
Capper and Allen of Kansas doubtless will have opposition in their Aug. 5
t primary, but none which appears very formidable
nas yer arisen.
The other primaries are so far away that it ia hard
to forecast what the situation will be when they are
run off. At this time, however, the greatest interest
centers on Nebraska, Massachusetts and Wisconsin.
Senator George W. Norris deserted the Hoover ticket
in 1928 and catnnaigned for A1 Smith. Norris has been
fe:v’
1 rclinghuysea
one of the senates two or three
most conspicuous members as well
as Its outstanding independent, fee
of public utilities and all reaction
ary elements Regular republicans,
the Anti-Saloon League and the
utilities will try hard to remove
him as a thorn in President Hoo
ver's flesh in the republican sena
ben. X. J. Waist
torial primary of Aug. 12, but it Is not yet apparent
whether his main opponent will be former Gov. Bam
MrKelvie. now on the federal farm board, or another.
In Massachusetts former National Chairman Wil
liam M. Butler, dry, and close friend of Calvin Cnol
irige, is opposed for the republican senatorial nomina
tion to succeed Senator Gillett by Eben Draper, a wet
Butler is likely to be nominated and then defeated by
i ;ne wet democratic candidate, wno may, according to last reports, turn
out to be a man named Marcus Coolidee. On Sept. 2. however, Wisconsin
j republicans will decide whether they want a Governor La Follette and a
: Senator La Follette at the same time. "Young Bob" La Follette is in th*1
senate and is not up for re-election this year, hut his brother Phil is ram
; paigning for the nomination for governor against Governor Walter J.
Kohler. Whether the magic of the La Follette name is sufficient in the
Badger state to bring about such a unique situation as the election of
t Phil in addition to Bob will be a question of national interest.
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MEXICO PROMENADE SUCCUMBS
TO MODERN TRAFFIC DEMANDS
• Special to The Herald.'
MEXICO CITY, June 4— As
Father Time moves along the path
ot modernity, as progress in sci
ence. aviation, radio and rapid
motor transportation sweeps Mex
ico along in its course, the land of
the Mayas, Toitecs, and Aztecs con
tinues gradually to surrender to
civilization, abandoning into the
national scrapbook customs and
habits, some that date to pre-his
tonc days, some that go back to
only a century ago. and surrender
ing romance and glamour to the j
staid conventionality of the twenti
eth century.
The latest characteristic of Mex
ico City to succumb to the inevi
table, not without a sigh of regret
on the part of the residents, is
*‘E1 Paseo” or “the promenade ’ as
it might be called in English.
There is a long thoroughfare that
cuts through this city, linking
through a distance of three miles
tYjf heart of the city—the Plaza de
Constitucion or the
W more common’.v known — w ith
Chapultepec Castle. Chapultepec
Castle—“The Hill of the Grasshop
per," as the word signifies—was once
th® home of Aztec emperors, and
it is. now the Mexican White House.
The Plaza de la Constitucion is
the kernel of the country; the
drawbridge that leads to the scat
of government. It is a w.dc square
The park in the center a brief hrlf
score years ago was thickly wooded
with magnificent trees that one
Mexican executive dpemed too pro
pitious as possible as machine gun
nests. He had all the trees chopped
down. Now the park in the center
cT the Zocalo is an attractive crass
plot dotted with harmless shrub
bery and great green patches of
grass, well kept.
Shops Invade
The Zocalo Is a squa’-e. flanked
on one side by the ancient National
Cathedral, admittedly the largest
Catholic temple of the new world.
The National Palace, seat of the
Government, occupies one entire
side, and the Municipal Palace or
city hall, a building with native
tilt tables as Its principal mural
decorations, stretches alone anoth
er side. The fourth unit of this
quadrangle is composed of buildings
of colonial design, once private
residences, with their yard and a
half deep walls, hut new converted
t< house present-day bars, candy
stores, ha* shops, and general de
partment stores.
But in the renter of the plaza
still stands a kiosk, a music stand
that vies with the Cathedral in
tradition and fact as to the origin
of “El Pasco." Six blocks of the
thoroughfare that leads from Cha
pu’tepec to the Zocalo constitute
it is now known - Aver, la
\incisro I. Madero. named afTr
Mexico's martyred prudent a suc
cessful dreamer, illusionist and
spiritualist, father of the movement
against the great dictator Porfirio
Diaz, who was catapulted into ev.lc
and death in 191! Avenida Modem
is a comparatively narrow s're'U. It
forms one of the three serrions of
the thoroughfare between the Zoc
alo and Chapult*pcc nark
Autos Displayed
The other two links of this thor
oughfare are the Pason do la Re_ j
forma, the “Mexican Champs Fly
fee". a bmad and beautiful avenue:
and Avenida Juarez, the ir.t’rme
diate stretch be*ween the p*<-m d«
la Reforma and Avenida Madero |
Along one side of Avenida Juarez
snreads the Alameda—Mexico Citv's i
Central Park-Jand on the other
side buildings that once were resi
dences of the nas* aristocracy now
here antomob-’e displnv rooms and
the like. Avenida Juarez is as
broad as the Paseo de la Reform,
twice the width of Avenida Ma-,
dero
“El Pa sec .** or *he nromeoide has
keen since the middle of *be nine
teenth centurv until a brief month
or so ago the social hour for the !
“who's who" and "would tv> who*s
v^o” of Mexico Citv The P->spo
exaetlv wha* *he wor^ imoU«s
-U“ nromena^e The American bus
iness slogan th** time is money was
forgotten bv the rich, near rich i
and never-will-be-rich; bv the so
r‘al lights, the social lights tha*
may be. and those thaf nre*end to
hut neve1- wilt he fh» lure o'
promcnado eclipsing everythin’
V*e
This parade of legitimates, near-I
legitimates, hopeful-legitimates and i
never-will-be-legitimates originated
about the middle of the nineteenth
century, as far as historians are
able to trace the records.
Trysting Place
Mexican cities for time lmme
moral have had what are known
as “paseos.” They are all built
along the same general lines, small
or large, with the plaza the apex
about which the community evolv
es. The plaza has its inevitable kiosk
ar.d its usual multi-hued floral
ith. The larger cities have sev
eral plazas. But about all these
plazas is entwined love and ro
mance. Youths of both sexes make
this their trvsting place. While the
music plays the boys in the smaller
villages walk about the plaza in
c.ne direction, while the dark eyed
girls walk in the other. This is the
pa.soo in its primitive form.
In the capital of the country it
has been more developed. Between
tht hours of noon and 3 p. m. each
day. but especially on Thursday and
Sundays, th' elite and non-elite
gave themselves over to this prom
enade Formerly in carriages drawn
by horses that were the pride of
Mexico, and with men on horse
back in gorgeous native array,
many trappings and braid, between
the two files of carriages, the resi
dents slowly promenaded In two
lines running in opposite directions
Old and young of both sexes sat
back and crowd each other in idle
past me. developing a peculiar
greeting consisting n? a wave of
the hand bu‘ accompanied bv a
q lick movement of the finger®.
By 3 o'colcJc in the afternoon, the
i rrmenade that stretched from the
Zocalo to around Chapultepee park
generally ended. In latter rears it.
kept pac" with Father Time and
eh tomobiles replaced the riders and
the carriages, but finally t.he gen
eral paralvzation that was caused
in traffir movement had to be faced
'ey the author-ties and an unkind
The Dates by States
Senatorial primaries are sched
uled in the following states on
the dates given below :
June 2—Iowa.
June 7—North Carolina.
June 16—Main and Minnesota.
June 17—New Jersey.
July 15 Montana.
July 26—Texas.
July 29—Oklahoma.
Aug. 2—Kentucky.
Aug. 5—Kansas. Virginia, West
Virginia.
Aur. 7—Tennessee. ,
Aug. 12—Alabama. Arkansas,
Nebraska. Ohio.
Aug. 19—Mississippi. Wyoming.
Aug. 26—South Carolina.
Sept. 2—Michigan.
Sept. 9—Colorado, New Hamp
shire, Louisiana.
Sept. 16—Massachusetts.
Idaho, Delaware, Rhode Island,
New Mexico will nominate by
conventions.
All members of congress must
run for re-election this year, if
they ch<H»se to remain, and in
many states gubernatorial elec
tions will be held.
order issued did awav with a time
worn custom. Avenida Madero was
converted into a one-way street, i
Commonplace and unattractive
trucks and buses, emblems of com
mercial development, formerly bar
red on Avenida Madero, have re
placed the limousines of the
wealthy and the hired taxis of the
plebeans, who have sought refuge
tr. continue that hand and finger
wave shaking about the cypress
shaded lanes of Chapultepec Park.
Origin of Promenade
Not much historic data is avail
able on the origin of the promenade
Such records as are available show
however that the promenade cus
tom started about the middle of
tne nineteenth centurv, when it
was known as the “Paseo de lac
Cadenas," the “promenade of the
chains.'*, because the Cathedral at
trat time was circumscribed by a
chain fence, and in the evening
while the music played in the kiosk
I 1
;n the middle of the Zocalo. which ■
was built during the empire days
of Maximilian, residents of the
city promenaded about this chain
enclosure. Many stories are told
oi romantic episodes of the period
traceable to the chain promenade
o.i moonlight nights. For some
leason unexplained, probably be
cause the chains were removed, the
promenade moved to the portals on
the opposite side of the Zocalo. the
arched ••portales" that are generally
to be found about all Mexican
plazas. As the cobblestone streets
of the period were generally im
proved upon, the promenade took
to carriages and horses and moved
to what was known until the name
was changed 15 years ago to Ave
r.ida Madcro, as Avenida Plateros,
because many silversmiths or jewel
rv stores were along the street,
then as now.
This is the story generally told
cf the origin of the promenade, but
the historian Carlos Gonzalez Pena
in a recent article chronicling the
"Paseo" and its place in the nation
al life of Jdexico. claims that the
custom dates back to the period of
Ihe conquest and says that the
"Paseo" was historically recorded
in 1539. Pena’s claims are substan
tiated bv Madame Calderon de la
Barca, the American wife of the
first Spanish Minister to Mexico,
who in her book on Mexico, which
is generally credited even to the
present date as one of the best
books e’er written on the country,
mentions the “Paseo" as one of
the customs of the country that
had most impressed her. Historic
mention of the Pa^o is also mad'’
by Marcos Arronia in his book
published in 1858. All of these au
thors were especially impressed bv
the magnificent horses that drew
th® broughams, "mail-coaches.” vic
tcrias. and other carriages of the
time.
“Lizards" Lounge
Then, as until the Paseo was
suspended, one of its features was
the part, that love-inclined young
men played in it. They were known
then as now. as the “lizards." gen
erally the offspring of rich families,
rr others posing as such, who snent
hours leaning against the house
frontages.
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