Page Displacement on Swipe

Page Displacement on Swipe

I thought that jQuery Mobile included the page displacement on swipe by Default, but i'm working on a new site and I'm unable to get it to work.

I'm using the jQm multipage template as a model (see here: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/docs/pages/multipage-template.html) for this site and the only thing that differs is the swipe events defaults have been modified. The new settings can be seen below:
  1. $.mobile.defaultPageTransition = 'slide';
  2. $.event.special.swipe.horizontalDistanceThreshold = 150;
  3. $.event.special.swipe.scrollSupressionThreshold = 20;

From my understanding of the documentation the Supression Threshold allowed for pages to have some play when a user swipes to the right or left. On my page when a user swipes left or right there is no page displacement or play, shouldn't there be 30px by default?