Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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l . The Judging Committee was composed of President and Mrs. E. H. Wilkins, Mayor and Mrs. C. R. Com- ings, Mr. and Mrs. Don Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Haylor, and Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Fenn. Mr. Gifford Pinchot was guest of honor. 22 The judges, who sat in a reviewing stand in front of the Art Building, gave first prize to Ohio's delega- tion, which portrayed Brain Trusters stirring alphabet soup of the New Deal. Honorable mention went to Massachusetts with its Tea Party, to Utah with its covered wagon driven by Brigham Young accom- panied by his several wives and an army of children, to Pennsylvania with its funeral of the Nu-Deal, to Kentucky with its Queen of the Bluegrass. According to the Plain Dealer, ln a long line of Mock Con- vention Parades, this was easily the best.

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Oberlin alumni came to the rescue at the last minute. Students thought their parade would be elephantless, but the alumni, upon the sug- gestion of Bob Stephan, radio editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, paid sixty dollars to the Cleveland Artificial Flower Company for the use of a mechanical elephant, which had appeared in a floor show in Cleveland's May- fair Casino. Evelyn Moulton, with help from Electrician Harvey, mounted the paper mache beast, and led the parade. lRGlNlAl VPf0f'f lll ,ZQMIMM J. I-k 4at'Q ERE ling 1 Bathing beauties, Popeye's Jeep, William Randolph Wurst, mountaineer dancers and fiddlers the Boston Tea Party, Simon Legree, Abraham Lincoln, Liberty, several bulls a dog team, cow boys and cow girls, hula-hula dancers, two-and three seater bikes, ducks, chickens made up a mile-long parade.

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Now it seems to me if Ohio and New York will only swing to Landon after playing up their favorite . . . You know, I saw the duckiest red . . . Say, who's that talkin' up there now? 3 ' wi. X Here y'are! Getcha roasted, toasted, sugar-coated Califor- nia almonds . . . Getcha bal- loon on a stick, b'loon on a stick! Here y'are! Candy, choon gum, peanuts, popcorn, pop, peanuts . . . Here y'are . . . MOV 8, l936, 7:00 P. M., Carl Helms, national chairman, called the convention to order, National Secretary Richard Aszling issued the Call for the Convention. Mr. William lBilll Seaman extended a welcome to the delegates and 2,000 visitors. The response was made by Mr. Frank A. Stetson, chairman of the Republican Committee of Lorain. Three minutes of sustained cheering and applause greeted the honorable Gifford Pinchot, former governor of Pennsyl- vania, as he mounted the rostrum. Himself an Oberlin Mock Convention nominee for vice-president on the very liberal platform of l924, Pinchot clarioned for a revamped Re- publican party, and with his keynote sounded, speeded to ElYFia accompanied by a screaming motorcycle escort to catch an eastbound train. The remainderof the evening, until l:2O A. M., was devoted to a debate on fourteen of the twenty-two proposed Dlonks of the National Mock Republican platform. With little exception, all of the fourteen planks discussed were adopted with slight changes. Birth Control legislation was the only plank in the preliminary platform draft which failed to pass. Just as it was stricken from the record, a DOwer tube that had been worrying Chief Electrician Harvey Qave out and temporarily put an end to debate. Time and time again after the hour of midnight the Convention tried to adjourn, but the sleepy conventioneers persisted in trying to finish their job . . . at an early morning hour with the amplifying system on the blink, they decided to meet at ten that same morning to finish building 0 platform. The American people need- God knows how much they need -a generation of public rnen whose honor is clear, whose mo- tives are clean, and whose in- telligence is up to the level of their task. -Governor Pinchot.