Grandpa at a convention?

Fri., April 12, 1935 - Cleared up today.  Warm outside.  Went to lodge tonite.  I'm on the next lunch committee with Alma.
Sat., April 13, 1935 - To Wayne this a.m.  Had a ride there with Chas. Misfeldt's.  To Sewell's office and at Aunt M.  Went on the noon train through to Norfolk.  Got new white slippers, some things for my party also.
Sun., April 14, 1935 - Confirmation services today, Louis B. one to be confirmed.  Had to stand in the hall.  Howard went to a W.O.W. convention at Lincoln this a.m.  Mom, Irene, Helen and I saw Will Rogers in "Life Begins at 40" at Wayne tonite.

I did not know that Grandpa ever went to anything close to a convention, but I'm glad to learn that he did.  I know he was a young man then and I knew him only as a grandfather, but I am imagining him having a difficult time sitting still for speeches and conferences and such.  It would have kept him inside too long.

I am a bit intrigued by the movie Grandma and the others went to see.  Here's a plot summary from IMDB:

     Kenesaw H. Clark (Will Rogers), owner and editor of the local small-town newspaper where the subscriptions are usually paid off in farm produce, comes upon young Lee Austin (Richard Cromwell), just out of jail and about to commit a crime. Clark takes him under his wing to put him on the straight and narrow, and also serves as Cupid in Lee's courtship of Adele Anderson, and gets himself in wrong with Colonel Joseph Abercrombie, the town banker and political boss. Losing his paper, Clark picks out the laziest man in town, T. Watterson Meriwether and runs him as a opposition candidate against Abercrombie. Believing that there is something strange about the hatred that Abercrombie and his son Joe have for Lee, Clark digs up the files of the crime that sent Lee to jail. Clark, with the aid of Meriwether and his hog-calling relatives, breaks up the Colonel's hog show/political rally, and then learns and proves that young Joe Abercrombie had stolen the money instead of Lee.

That all sounds like a fun story, but I learned from wikipedia that the movie is based on a non-fiction self-help book which is not at all what the plot would infer.  Wikipedia explains the book was "written during a time of rapid increase in life expectancy (at the time of its publication American life expectancy at birth was around 60 and climbing fast, from being only at age 40 fifty years before), it was very popular and influential.  More an extended essay and exhortation than a detailed self-help book in the modern sense, the general thrust of the book is that, given the current conditions of the world, one could look forward to many years of fulfilling and happy existence after age 40, provided that one maintained the proper positive attitude."  So, maybe the movie and its characters are drawn from a story in the book that was used as an example to make a point.  In any event, I hope they had a good time.