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70/ [[left margin in red]] Franklin Roosevelt elected [[/left margin in red]] [[underline]] July 4 [[/underline]] Radio announces that Democrats after [[strikethrough]] long p [[/strikethrough]] many days of wrestling trickery and fools play have finally elected [[red underline]] Franklin Roosevelt [[/red underline]] as their nominee, [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] with [[red underline]] Garner [[/red underline]] of Texas for vice-president. [[red underline]] Al Smith [[/red underline]] is furious and left immediately. [[red underline]] Roosevelt is decidedly better [[/red underline]] than Smith or Garner. He [[red underline]] has shown his weak points [[/red underline]] lately in being [[red underline]] lenient with Tammany [[/red underline]] corruption and by his rebuke of Judge Seabury when the latter indicated Jimmie Walker, the Tammany New York mayor. Like almost all who bite into politics, [[red underline]] his political ambitions got the better of the man he was in former years and as I have known him when he was assistant secretary [[strikethrough]] to Dani [[/strikethrough]] [[/red underline]] to the Navy under [[red underline]] Daniels. [[/red underline]] The strong point of the adopted plank is "repeal of the 18th Amendement [[underline]] without reservations! [[/underline]] X [[left margin]] X [[underline]] prohibition [[/underline]] [[/left margin]] This may take away many votes from [[red underline]] Hoover, [[/red underline]] whose plank is less outspoken [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] at a time when the majority of the people in the U.S have become thoroughly disgusted with so called prohibition and all the immorality and lawnessness it has brought about. Rough sea. N.W. & rain. Independence day honored by American flags on all tables of dining room. Cold [[underline]] July 5. [[/underline]] Warmer but thick fog. Temperatures of the sea water reported 58°F [[underline]] July 6. [[/underline]] Again foggy this morning. S.W. rough seas July 7 - Sea moderate but gray skies 3 P.M. Cinema. 4 P.M. concert [[end page]] [[start page]] 71/ 9:30 P.M. dancing. Afternoon bright but cool. Sent radio to office announcing Statendam will arrive Sunday morning about 8 A.M and to notify Yonkers. - We were supposed to arrive Saturday afternoon. July 8. Rough and unpleasant thin rain & fog evening and night. S. wind [[underline]] July 9. [[/underline]] Bright and moderate but cool. Wrote a letter to Weger, Sachs & Stauss [[left margin in red]] Modern steamers [[/left margin in red]] Modern steamers are needlessly complicated and elaborated to foster to the whims of passengers, either for unnecessary luxuries or mere trifles which all tend to further complication and much increase the cost of operation and in the same way the cost of travel. - [[red underline]] Today third class accommodations are decidedly better than 1st class in 1889. [[/red underline]] The unnecessarily elaborated and complicated à la carte dinner instead of table d'hôte has also unnecessarily increased the expenses. Today is the first real pleasant, bright day since we left. We are nearing American shores and will make Quarantine about 10 P.M (9 P.M. Standard time I still am wearing my winter suit and underwear. [[left margin in red]] Statendam [[/left margin in red]] The tasteful and [[strikethrough]] lu [[/strikethrough]] luxurious [[strikethrough]] dec [[/strikethrough]] interior decoration and woodwork of this steamer has been much facilitated by the excellent wood from the Dutch Colonies, dark red mahogany teak etc. The draperies of the chairs etc of the Palm room are probably handmade designs of the East Indian colonies. - American ships have no such advantages
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