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STREET SLEEPERS
Appropriately. on the Mar approach of winter, the Street Sleepers Shelter Society hias Issued its annual report, which | fells a story revealing the value i of dumanitarian work amongst those who have 110 better place than the pavement&)
lonel
[on which to lay their heads at
over
670.
All over the world people are talking of the momentous American Presidential Election which takes place to-day. How exactly does this huge nation go to the polls? What strategy is involved? Geoffrey Crowther explains it in this article. The map, too, is informative- U.S.A. is here divided into traditionally Republican-Landon land (small area on right) and traditionally Democratic-Roosevelt land (larger area), Shaded areas: light shading, uncertain; heavy shading, almost certain defections. Numbers: electoral votes each State possesses.
HOW
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years.
HE American Presi- dential election is in its last phase. Both the large par-
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States. The excitement is con-
"entrated on the doubtful States.
of the Electoral
States of the East and the Most of the great industrial Middle West, are hovering on the brink. The live important ones ure New York, Pennsyl vanja,
That is why it was so neces- majority sary for the Republicans to College. choose as their candidate some- body from the West in the hope of winning away some of these Roosevelt States. They have This year's stategy is shown probably succeeded in capturing on the map. The United States
some of them by nominating the can be divided into two separate Governor of Kansas. On the political countries. One of them, basis of the latest "straw votes,' much the largest in area, but three of these Western States
are lost to Roosevelt and four Illinois, containing only about half the population, is natural Roosevelt more are doubtful. The "lost" territory. It consists of the States are shown on the map by Southern States which lost in dark shading, the "doubtful" Civil War and have voted De- States by light shading. Be- mocratic ever since, and of the tween-them-the-seven-States States west of the Mississippi. have 51 votes. The other country, the smaller by area, is natural Republican. or Landon, territory.
These two countries have
about equal votes. If Roosevelt carried all the Roosevelt terri tory, he would get 272 votes in the Electoral College (that is, the 531 delegates of the States), and if Landon carried all the Landon territory he would get 259 votes. Roosevelt would be elected by a narrow margin..
night. It is shown that during ties held their Conventions longer worries about that State. last winter the three shelters in June those strange, Extra votes there cannot be off- maintained by the Society had mad, week-long jamborees set against shortages in other
51,000 registrations, the in which the candidates are number of men using the facili-chosen. Mr. Roosevelt is, of ties provided being more than course, his party's candidate Not only have these poorest "to succeed himself," as the of the poor been provided with a Americans say. The other roof over their heads during the large party, the Republicans, cold winter nights,, but many of nominated Mr. Alf Landon. them have been given medical Most Englishmen would. I [treatment, over 250 cases being
imagine that Mr. suppose, sent to hospital, apart from the | Roosevelt 'will have an easy vie- large number who were supplied tory. But that is not so, and with dressings, etc., at the he is going to have a hard fight. shelters. Another indication of Why it is not so is another-and the value of the Society's work is a very lengthy-story, but with- to be found in the successful treat-out beginning on that story, it ment of opium addicts, whilst in may be said that all the indica- tions point to to-day's elections yet à further, branch of its acti-!
being the closest in twenty vities the Society has been the means of securing work for some of the inmates and in getting strangers into touch with the right
Most Englishmen also imagine people for the purposes of re-that the people of the United patriation. When the Society States elect the President. They first began its work three years do not. The 48 States elect the age, an old bogey was raised in President. The people vote, in some quarters by the suggestion each of the 48 States, for dele- that the care of street sleepers gates to cast the States' votes. would attract large numbers of The States have votes roughly in people from outside the Colony, proportion to their population, ranging from New York's 47 The same argument has been votes down to the three voles raised in connection with the each of the six smallest States. when shown through the charitable work of other organisa-But the whole of a State's vote tions, but in actual experience it is cast for the candidate who has been shown that the fear is gets the largest vote inside that wholly unfounded.. A moment's State. Thus if Mr. Roosevelt thought will show that, even if we gets a majority of only 100 over exclude the work which existing Mr. Landon in New York, the organisations perform, there are will go to Mr. Roosevelt..
whole of New York's 47 votes
still thousands of the Colony's own poor for whom nothing whatever The strategy of an American election thus turns entirely on is done. In the absence of a
the States. If a party is sure system of poor law relief, such organised aid as is given to the of a majority in one State, it no poor and needy is the result of the
efforts of voluntary societies state of poverty in which the mass created for the purpose. In this of the people live. In that work, respect, Hongkong has a record of the Street Sleepers' Shelter
Roosevelt's task, then, is this: for every vote in the Electoral College that he loses west of the Mississippi he must win one in the Landon territory. Now look at the smaller map and see his chances of pulling it off.
is
One of those Landon States, Maryland with 8 votes, already safely in his column. But that leaves him with 37 votes still to get for a bare
How Your Fountain Pen Is Made
RATHER an uncommon trade, the art of fountain-pen making is little known outside the industry.
Proof, is given by the surprise of factory I work in at the simply enormous amount of intricate, pro- cesses involved, and the minute caro and skill necessary before the finished product, glistening and beautiful, in ready for the showcase,
way
The pens vary in character from year to year. Cortainly we have steady lines, but now materials and new methods are constantly balrig experimented with. Lately colours and novelty have been the voru vogue, probably to catch the feminine vye. Some of our latest models æra really superb, and represent 'n very great advance on the rather "owdy" pen of
of yesterday. Transparent pens, showing the ink capacity, have leapt to favour. Xylonite, the material used, is entire- different from the vulcanite the
older form of pans are fashioned folved for dealing with it, and many A new technique had to ba
were our trials before it was perfect- which it can well feel proud. Society plays a prominent and ed. At the moment a few of the most These organisations admit that beneficont part, and those volun- found, after
dinzzling and loves of office usage, colours have been they are touching only the fringe teers who give of their time and to be unsatisfactory, shrinkage or of a huge problem, but, none the energy
expansion being the trouble; but on behalf of others, to before long these Initial difficulties less, the work that they do is of whom life is a drab and dreary will doubtless be overcome. real social value, and, but for it, existence, have the consciousness them casually that all our pens 370 People are amazed when we tell there would be much more suffer- that their labours are appreciated correct to size to a thousandth part ing and distress arising from the by those who benefit therefrom. of an inch. Yet it is the one.
Naturally, cyc measurement is hope--i
less in a case like this, and therefore, in our oxamination room the walls are hung with hundreds of steel Kauges, while ingenios mechanical "clocks" are also greatly employed.
Each new model of pen, propelling pencil, or style means a fresh batch of gauges.
Girls sit all day here doing nothing but checking endlessly the thousands of small finished parts which pour constantly from the machine shop. What a "alew" there is when a fault is detectedl
Now and again we get unusual jobs. Once we made pens with brush points Instead of fitting, gold nibs.. They were destined for Japan. At another time our gold shop was greatly in- trigued by an order for a speciał nib for an Eastern potenlate. It measure ed a quarter of an inch wide at the point,
tho
Ohio, Michigan, and States vote for Roosevelt, no If any two of these
he will be elected. The biggest matter by how small a majority,
York, is sufficient by itself to of these Eastern States, New
give Roosevelt his majority, even if Landon succeeds in winning all the doubtful Western States,
That is why the President has trained all his guns on Neiv York. A majority of only one vote over Landon in New York will be more precious than n majority . of hundreds of thousands in California Texas. If Roosevelt
or
wins in New York, he is. elected. If he loses in New York, he still has a chance. But if Landon cannot carry New York, he has failed.
There is one Democrat who is more popular in New York even
than Mr. Roosevelt. He is the
present Governor of the State, Mr. Herbert Lehman. In 1932 New York gave Mr. Roosevelt 2,535,000 votes for President; but it gave Mr. Lehman 2,660,- 000 votes for Governor.
Some months ago Mr. Lehman declared that he would not stand for re-election this autumn. This was a shock for the Presi dent. There are thousands of people in New York who would not bother to go to the polls to vote for Roosevelt. But if Lehman is standing they will turn out to vote, and once inside the polling booth they will vote The latter department always for, Roosevelt rather than for arouses interest of the visitor. Landon. That at least was the spinning "bulls," wrinding and polish-strategists. Enormous pressure The workers, chilefly girls, wear white calculation of the Democratic overalls, and sit before furiously
was consequently put on Mr. Strange to say, all the profit made Lehman to reconsider his de here a picked up off the floor. Using cision and at length he yielded ils zine surface each day collecting and consented to. stand once the precious metal.. Ila prospect more. ing amounts to thousands of pounds. annually. Even the wet splash of By that action he may have mixed water, emory paste, and gold decided the history of the United dust on the wnil behind a machine States in the next four years, may value over twenty shillings.
When next you lift your pen, spare
In any case, the tip for the ob a thought for those by whose brain-server who wants to know what work and trained skill you have will happen to-day is: "Watch: obtained such a wonderful instrument. New York."
ing
the gold nibs.
a powerful vacuum, a man goes over