THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATIONS
With the two big conventions but a matter of days,
political interest appears to settle around the widely
heralded uninstructed delegations. Particularly is this
true in Cleveland where contest for the nomination is
in prospect. From all indications the first ballot at
Philadelphia, the gathering place of the Democrats on
June 23, will go for Roosevelt. But things are different
in Cleveland where the badly split up Republican for
ces are due to trot out their best. There the unin
structed delegates are expected to plsv the deciding
roll.
Some where in the dim. forgotten past it was a
theory that an uninstructed delegation meant the dele
gates would use their best judgment and nominate the
candidate who would be most acceptable to most of the
people. But that idea has long ago been exploded.
There are delegates no doubt who would, if given an
opportunity .decide on candidates solely on their merits,
but. of course, those delegates are first timers and not
well acquainted with convention procedure.
In Cleveland it is going to be a different story, and
as the Plain Dealer of that city says, as it awaits the
arrival of the G. O. P. crowd on June 9, the lineup of
uninstructed delegations bodes well for Governor Lon
don of Kansas, but that simply means the bosses as
usual will decide on the candidate. Commenting on the
setup, the Plain Dealersays:
ah red m. L,anaon appears at the moment the
probable Cleveland nominee, though there are
plenty of possibilities ahead which might wreck his
craft. If the Governor is named, however, he will
owe h:s success not to Landon-instrusted delegates
but to the several hundred “uninstructed” dele
gates—delegates uninstructed because the party
bosses wanted them uninstructed.
Thus the Presidential primary, devised to curb
the influence of party bosses, is made to play into
the bosses’ own hands. Comparatively few of the
nearly (109 delegates already chosen are actually
instructed for London. The rest, comprising dele
gates claimed for Landon but uninstructed for
him. will be voted at Cleveland as the leaders of
the party see fit. At the moment they are expect
ed to see fit to vo*e them for the Kansas Governor.
Obviously, if the Presidential primary is ever to
meet the hopes of those who devised it, there must
be an end of the “uninstructed” delegation. Vot
ers must express their real preference for Presi
dent and Vice-President, and be restrained some
how from abdicating their authority.
AUTOMATIC LANDING
(New York Times)
Few of the passengers of an airplane realize
the responsibility thrown on the pilot during the
crucial moment of landing, especially at night or
in a fog. Once he has picked up the radio beacon
of an airport he must keep a vigilant eye on at least
seven purely navigational instruments which in
dicate air speed, altitude, rate of descent, position
relatively to the radio beam and the like. Hence
the research which has been conducted here and
abroad during the last ten years to lighten the hu
man task and make it possible to bring the plan^
down automatically. That the problem should at
last have been solved, according to a dispatch from
Chicago, is welcome news. Safer air travel is the
obvious end achieved.
Yet it would be a mistake to suppose that blind
landing has at last been reduced to complete auto
maticity.Indeed, it is doubtful if that goal will ever
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The new gyroscopic robot becomes part of the two
most important instruments as an airport is ap
proached—the directional gyro compass and the
artificial horizon; the others must still be watched
by the human eye.
How little are we able to foresee the needs of
tomorrow when the inventors have their way.
Just about a generation ago the Wrights vaulted
into the blue without any instruments at all—de
lighted at leaving the ground. Gyroscopes and
pendulums were soon proposed to keep a plane on
an even keel in flight and thus to make flying less
the virtuoso performance that it was at the time.
Altitude and speed meters early became necessi
ties. But that some day instrument boards would
present so bewildering array of indicators that one
pair of human eyes could not encompass th^m all
and that artificial senses would have to be devised
to aid a pilot—the pioneers never imagined that.'
Yet it is all a natural evolution. The airplane is
becoming more and more bird-like. And birds are
not the simplest mechanisms in the world.
Addis Ababa has fallen, Haile Selassie has fled and
the final score is Italy 2. Ethiopia 0, with 32 sanctions
left cn bases.—New York Sun.
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