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It Seems to Me
HEMMMN
CINCINNATI, May 27.—0n1y a few days
ago a client who signed herself “Faith
ful Reader” wrote and said, “For years I
patiently endured dull columns by you
about speakeasies, but now if you are going
to go into a panic about the ponies it really
will be too much.”
I can not afford to offend the susceptibilities of
so much as one laithful reader, the supply being
what it is, and yet I must make
mention of the fact that through
no fault of my own I saw the La
tonia Derby. My presence in this
remote Ohio city had nothing
whatsoever to do with horse rac
ing. I came to listen to a discus
sion of newspaper ethics and prac
tices, a journalistic double-header
as you might say. But there was
no session on Saturday afternoon.
A friend asked me whether I
had ever been in the state of Ken
tucky and I had to admit that it
was one which I had missed.
“Well, it's just across the river,”
he told me. “And x understand
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Heywood Broun
the scenery Is delightful. I believe comparatively
close to the Blue Grass regions. Let’s get a car and
make a survey of agricultural conditions in the bor
der state.”
It did not prove feasible, for we found the roads
crowded with cars all headed for the Latonia race
track, and so we decided that we might as well go
along with the current. In a material sense the trip
uas not profitable for me, but I live to learn rather
than earn, and the afternoon was decidedly educa
tional. I saw an <traordinary race horse and met
the Governor of Kentucky. The former is called
Rushaway and the latter Happy Chandler. And I’m
Bitter Broun because I bet on Bow and Arrow.
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Always Turning Up
SOMEHOW or other that horse is always turning
up under my feet. He follows me a great deal
better than he does the pace, although I must admit
he is the greatest 100-yard dash horse in the coun
try. In that sense you get some satisfaction out of
betting on him. Rushaway is made of sterner stuff.
Indeed, if steps are not taken promptly this gelding
may revolutionize racing in America. On Friday aft
ernoon he won the Illinois Derby at Aurora and as
soon as he cooled off they put him on a train for
Latonia, more than 300 miles away. Just 24 hours
after winning at a mile and a furlong he came out
upon the track to sweep in an easy first at a mile
and a quarter. He scored more easily the second
time than the first, and his time of 2:02 1-5 on a
track with sharp turns is brilliant.
After (he race he proved himself a thoroughbred
by the dignity and grace with which he submitted to
the photographers. It looked to me as if nothing but
our Sunday laws stood between him and another vic
tory on the morrow. Two derbies in two days is not
bad at all, but as yet the possibilities of Rushaway
have only been scratched. Give that horse a quart of
oats and an upper berth and he may make a mockery
of competitive racing in America. Indeed, he should
be restrained in some manner and made to conform
to the principles of the 40-hour week. Otherwise all
the stake hoises of the country and one of the col
umnists will be on relief.
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No Sign of Fatigue
THE trainer says that Rushaway lay down peace
fully as soon as he was put on the train and slept
soundly for 300 miles. Certainly there was no sign of
fatigue in the manner in which he raced.
Gov. A. B. Chandler is also an interesting figure.
He says he is 37, and he looks much less. He is called
Happy Chandler because he is always smiling. I
wished he wouldn't. I didn’t bet on Rushaway.
(Copyright. 1936)
Hoover Invited to
Party's Convention
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
WASHINGTON, May 27.—Former President
Hoover may yet turn up at the Cleveland
convention. Republican National Chairman Fletcher
has invited the party’s elder statesman to attend
as a distinguished guest.
Mr. Hoover’s acceptance has not been received,
but it is understood that he and his advisers are
giving serious thought to the possibility of a personal
appearance at the convention. Undoubtedly if Mr.
Hoover goes to Cleveland he will be asked to address
the delegates, perhaps immediately following the
nomination.
In this Chairman Fletcher has been scrupulous to
avoid any move that would seem to favor or prejudice
any candidate for the nomination. He did not extend
the invitation until after Mr. Hoover's statement last
week that he was not a candidate. Chairman
Fletcher apparently took the statement to mean that
the bee which has been buzzing around Mr. Hoover’s
head had succumbed to a fatal swat.
On his last trip East, Mr. Hoover sounded out
friends regarding former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of
Illinois as a possible nominee.
One friend, it is understood, cabled to Lowden,
who is now in Europe, asking if he was available
for the nomination. The reply, it is said, was that
Lowden would accept if drafted. The suggestion has
met with restrained enthusiasm chiefly because of
Lowden’s age. That is the basis of recent Lowden
talk.
The big Saturday night acceptance rally planned
at Cleveland in imitation of the Roosevelt Demo
cratic practice is being called off as quietly as pos
sible. Landon’s forces opposed it and, in view of
the likelihood that he will be nominated, unofficial
word has gone out that the show is off.
Republicans will adhere to their customary prac
tice of holding mid-summer acceptance ceremonies
on the home grounds oi the candidate.
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CHAIRMAN FLETCHER had made a tentative
reservation for the big Cleveland stadium, seat
ing more than 100,000, for Friday or Saturday night
• following the nomination. The intention was to
provide a show which could be attended by Cleve
landers unable to see the convention itself. Excur
sions were to have brought in thousands of visitors.
It had been planned to put the new nominee on the
platform and on the air and also to parade other
convention stars in a rousing campaign kickoff. The
new candidate, it was hoped, would deliver his
speech of acceptance there, as Roosevelt did in 1932
and as he plans to do at Franklin Field In Philadel
phia this year. However, chief enthusiasm for this
plan came from Cleveland concessionaires who saw
an opportunity to prolong the take from the con
vention visitors.
Landon insisted that if nominated he wished to
have his acceptance ceremony at Topeka, in the old
fashioned way, probably about mid-August. His
friends thought it would be a mistake for the Re
publicans to uncork their acceptance speech at Cleve
land, with the Democratic convention coming around
the corner. This, they felt, would play directly into
.Democratic hands.
There has been a quiet turnover of Republican
control in Pennsylvania into new hands.
That’s what’s behind the retirement of former Sen
ator David A. Reed as Republican National Commit
teeman.
The Mellons have let go in western Pennsylvania.
E. T. Weir, the steelmaker who became famous in
the Welrton steel labor controversy with the New
Deal, is the new kingpin. He has had little experi
ence in politics. But he has a bankroll and enthu
siasm. With those you can hire all of the profes
sionala you reed.
yln eastern Pennsylvania Joseph Pew of the rich
oil family has taken over and begun housecleaning.
He has been a het vy sugar daddy for the Republican
National Commltiee, the American Liberty League
and numerous anti-New Deal groups. Now he's in
Pennsylvania Republican politics several bankroll
layers deep.
SMOKING OUT THE CANDIDATES
Knox Favors Relief, Locally Managed; State Old-Age Pensions
This is the third of a series of articles, “Smoking Out the Candi
dates,” written by Frazier Hunt, world famous reporter, for NEA Serv
ice and The Indianapolis Times, in which are presented the answers of
Republican presidential possibilities to the same 10 questions on the
vital issues of the day.
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BY FRAZIER HUNT
(Copyright, 1938, NEA Service. Inc.)
"CRANK KNOX, third presidential candidate to come to
bat on my ten questions, is a sturdy, square-toed, old
fashioned fighting man. He can give and take punishment.
A few years ago on a matter that did not involve prin
ciple but only questions of the details of newspaper man
agement, he voluntarily stepped out of a job paying more
than §150,000 a year. To do that takes courage.
It takes courage, too, to answer those 10 little high
explosive questions without at least a modicum of plain and
fancy side-stepping. The Colonel didn’t
indulge in any footwork at all. And
incidentally his title is not of the Ken
tucky variety, but of the vintage of 1918
and from the district occupied in France by the
Seventy-eighth Division.
It is generally recognized that he was the
first man in this current campaign to step out
boldly and attempt to reshape and revivify- the
slightly battle-scarred Republican Party. He ex
pected the rap—and he wasn’t the least dis
appointed.
But when it rains such pleasantries as "self
seeker,” “horn-blower,” and “political adventurer,”
the Colonel simply turns up his collar and lets
it run off his back. It doesn’t pay to have too
thin a skin if you’re somewhat of a shin-kicker
Hunt
yourself. Col. Knox has kicked shins and stepped on sore toes for
a good part of his 62 years. When he steps or kicks he does it with
the whole of his 190 pounds of high-pressure energy.
When I talked to him the ex-Rough Rider went after my list of
questions like a terrier after a rat and here’s the way he answered them.
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IDo you favor balancing the
budget? If so, do you advo
cate reducing relief expenditures
or increasing taxes? If by taxes,
what kind? If not by taxes, how?
I favor an immediate attempt
to bring the budget into balance.
I believe this can be achieved, in
large measure, by reduction in the
cost of government, including the
costs of relief.
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2 Should relief be by direct cash
payments or as wages? Should
relief be paid for and adminis
tered by the Federal government
or by the states, or both?
I am firmly committed to the
policy of local administration of
relief, and in the form of cash
relief, which we know from ex
perience here, and from studies
we have made elsewhere, will be
infinitely less expensive and far
less detrimental to morale than
fake work-relief such as has been
all too characteristic under the
work in the WPA. If additional
taxes must be imposed after the
most rigid economy has been set
up, then I am in favor of addi
tional taxes to bring the budget
into balance.
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3 How should the problem of
permanent unemployment and
care of the aged and unemployed
be handled?
The problem of permanent un
employment, care of the aged and
unemployed, is exclusively a state
problem for administration. The
administration, it goes without
saying, should be completely di
vorced from every flavor of parti
san politics. I believe in old-age
pensions and practice the princi
ple in my own business, where
we have an old-age pension plan
which has been in operation for
years. A similar plan could be
made operative for every industry
supplying steady employment
throughout the country. There is
ample provision for such a system
within constitutional limits.
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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IFAR FROM IT. They should
accept the cartoon as one as
pect of their character that the car
toonist has revealed by exaggera
tion. It is usually either a defect
or one that many people dislike or
think undesirable and often one
that the individual can correct. This
is true even of the cartoons that
little Willie makes of “teacher” on
the blackboard during her absence.
She often gets angry and gives Wil
lie a spanking; but a far wiser pol
icy would be to join in the laugh
and decide to correct the defect that
inspired the lad; this would likely
induce him to draw as beautiful a
picture of her as possible next time.
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2 ABOUT THREE times out of
five they are “telling you.” Wm.
J. Reilly, in his “Straight Thinking
—How to Solve Your Business Prob
lems,” says that one of the finest
experiences is to watch the eager
face of a child asking questions—
he asks because he really wants tc
The Indianapolis Times
4 Do you favor further devalu
ation of the dollar or stabiliza
tion at present gold content? Do
you believe in any form of cur
rency change, currency inflation
or credit inflation, a return to the
gold standard, the remonetization
of silver or a managed currency?
I do not favor any further de
valuation of the dollar, but I be
lieve in its stabilization at its
present low content. Ido not be
lieve in currency inflation in any
form. Ido believe in a return to
the gold standard; and along with
stabilization at the present gold
content, I believe in making our
paper currency convertible into
gold on demand. In other words,
I believe in a complete return to
the gold standard. I do not be
lieve in a managed currency.
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5 Do you favor any program
whose aim is to control or fix
wages, working hours or a shorter
work week?
Under a philosophy of individ
ual freedom there is no possibility
of any law, which is constitu
tional, which would control or fix
wages. Any attempt by the Fed
eral government to impose regula
tion with respect to employment
in intrastate industries, I believe,
is unconstitutional. Any approach
to this problem must be through
state authority.
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6 Do you favor an amendment
to the Constitution authoriz
ing the Federal government to deal
with economic and social prob
lems, national in scope, or of lim
iting the courts as to their right
to declare laws of Congress un
constitutional?
I do not favor such an amend
ment to the Constitution. I be
lieve there is ample room within
the limits of the Constitution as it
now stands to deal with our eco
nomic and social problems. I am
violently opposed to any effort to
abridge the power of the judiciary
to interpret the Constitution.
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7 Do you favor modification or
suspension of the anti-trust
laws to enable business men to get
learn. When your friend asks, “Do
you really believe in telepathy (or
the tariff or sales tax or predesti
nation or transcendentalism)?” he
is really trying to tell you he does
not believe in it. We don’t like to
admit our ignorance.
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3 VASTLY LESS true—indeed
such women are usually splen
did risks. According to this same
authority—Dr. Paul Popenoe—vast
numbers of women are unmarried
at 35, not because they do not pos
sess the qualities of physique, tem
perament and personality that
would make excellent wives, but be
cause they have decided to get their
college degree first, then do post
graduate work, or else make a ca
reer in business and then get mar
ried; but unfortunately when they
begin to look around at that age
nearly all the best risks have been
picked off by the younger girls.
Next—Are Women Really More
Beautiful Than Men?
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936
V
together: (a) To agree on trade
practices; (b) To agree on labor
relations; (c) To agree on control
of production; (and) To attempt to
fix prices?
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN
WASHINGTON, May 27.
What to do about Con
troller Gen. J. Raymond McCarl
is causing considerable discussion
in the inner circle of White House
counselors.
Appointed by President Hard
ing, the 15-year term of the
heavy-set, Windsor tie-wearing
Nebraska Republican expires
July 1. Under the law he can
not be reappointed.
Some of the militant left-wing
New Dealers are after McCarl’s
scalp. They charge him with try
ing to hamper the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the Public
Works Administration and other
New Deal undertakings. They
are urging that he be ousted
from the government service.
Other Administratiorites take
an entirely different view.
They make the surprising sug
gestion that McCarl should not
be dropped, that instead his un
excelled knowledge of government
business should be utilized in the
office of budget director.
This job has been vacant since
Lewis Douglas broke with the
President in the summer of 1934.
Daniel Bell, a Treasury career
man, has been filling the post as
acting director. Roosevelt of
fered him the appointment but
he declined, preferring to keep
his high rank in Civil Service.
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Retorting to the complaints
against McCarl by the left
wing Nev’ Dealers, his friends in
the inner circle group contend
that he has been co-operative and
sympathetic.
They point out that Harry Hop
kins as Relief, Civil Works and
Works-Relief administrator; Gen.
Hugh Johnson as NRA boss; Mor
ris Cooke as head of the Rural
Electrification Administration, and
other top-rung New Deal execu
tives never have had difficulty
with the controller general.
The argument is also advanced
that if McCarl, noted as a watch
dog of the Treasury, became bud
get director, the Administration
would have an effective answer to
Republican attacks about extrava
gance and reckless spending.
Note—McCarl and the President
are old friends, have been on
cordial, personal terms throughout
Roosevelt's incumbency in the
White House. t
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CHARLEY MICHELSON, po
litical pundit of the Demo
cratic National Committee, is
planning a 200-page program for
the Philadelphia Convention. That
is 100 pages more than ever was
dreamed of before by either party.
Advertising in the Democratic
Convention Program will cost
$2500 a page, and is being sold by
a staff of high-pressure salesmen
to space buyers who know on
which side their bread is buttered.
Advertising alone is supoosed to
net $250,000.
Charley hopes to sell 100,000
copies at Philadelphia. Guests and
delegates will be “invited” to pur
chase special copies at $2.50.
Since the textual matter is ob
tained free from various govern
ment press staffs, the net profit
per copy should be around $1.50,
which may earn another $150,000
for the Democratic Party, making
a total of $400,000.
Note Jim Farley is following
the policy of raising his campaign
funds from the masses.
Col. Frank Knox
I believe in the rigid enforce
ment of the existing anti-trust
laws, and I believe under recent
decisions of the Supreme Court
there is ample opportunity for
A S the group of Progressive
Senators emerged from the
White House last Wednesday
night following a three-hour chat
with the President, newsmen bom
barded them with questions about
what had been discussed.
“Just a social gathering,” was
the refrain from all but Senator
Henrik Shipstead. The tall, pom
padoured Minnesota Farmer-La
borite had a different story.
“We talked about the common
people,” he said. “How best to im
prove their lot. I have always
been for the common people. My
colleagues say they are, too, but
I notice” (pointing to the other
departing guests) “that they have
limousines waiting to take them
home.
“I’m walking home. Just like you
boys. I’ll walk with you.”
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AN exodus from the Securities-
Exchange Commission is tak
ing place. Various of the boys
once engaged in regulating the
stock market are now being hired
by prominent banking houses and
brokerage firms doing business
with the stock market. They know
all about government regulation.
. . . Sumner Welles, erudite As
sistant Secretary of State, has
built a fish pond. Speculation is
whether he will name his goldfish
for members of the Cabinet. . . .
Secretary Hull wins increasing
popularity with the diplomats.
They like him because he is nat
ural, honest, and talks in a slow,
Tennessee mountain drawl. “I
reckon” is one of Mr. Hull’s
favorite expressions. . . . When
aroused, the Secretary of State
has a vocabulary which not even
Gen. Johnson, a hard-riding
cavalryman, can equal. . . . Am
bassador Francisco Castillo Najera
of Mexico intermingles more with
the American people than any
GRIN AND BEAR IT + + by Lichty
“My arthritis is driving me frantic, doctor—l find I can’t
even wrtte_ a checkl"
sound trade agreements which do
not attempt to fix prices or con
trol production. Neither of the
latter prices can be tolerated if
we ar eto protect the consuming
public.
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O What is your remedy for the
farmer? Do you favor the
curtailment of production, in
dustrial or agricultural?
In brief form, I favor the rem
edy suggested for the farm prob
lem by former Gov. Frank O.
Lowden of this state. You are
familiar with the terms of that
proposal. lam positively opposed
to any policy of curtailment of in
dustry or agriculture. Ido not
believe in a policy of scarcity.
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9 Are you in favor of the policy
of making reciprocal trade
treaties to encourage foreign trade
or reduce tariff walls?
I do favor the building up of
our foreign trade through prop
erly negotiated reciprocal treaties.
However, this must be done only
when it can be done without im
pairing the American standard of
living. This is of the first con
cern, and I believe an effective
reciprocal policy can be built up
without impairing those stand
ards. Such treaties should not,
however, be secretly negotiated by
the executive.
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“t Do you favor a policy of
public power development;
the continuance or expansion of
TVA, and control of utilities
through the utilities holding com
pany act?
I do not believe in a policy of
public power development, save,
only, in the case where tha t is
incident to the promotion of
navigation in navigable streams.
I am opposed to continuance or
extension of TVA, and I would
rigidly restrict the control of util
ities to that point where it will
reach the admitted evils in the
utility situation, but leave the
operation of utilities and their
management in private hands,
subject to adequate regulation.
Next—Senator Frederick Steiwer.
previous Mexican ambassador. He
also keeps 17 canaries.
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CHAPERONED by her father,
her uncle, and 100 other old
sters, anew Joan of Arc has come
to Washington, flying the banners
of reform. She has come not on
a white charger but in a big au
tomobile, and the visions which
this Joan sees are visions of S2OO
a month for every citizen over 60
years of age.
She is 16-year-old Lois Jeanne
Johnson, who quit school to play
the role of Joan of Arc of the
Townsend movement.
It started last February in Los
Angeles. She had come there from
her home in San Diego to address
a meeting of Townsend Club 93,
the largest in the country. Shar
ing the spotlight with her was
founder Townsend. After the show
he asked her to continue speaking
for the movement.
When she talks, it is no Min
ute-Girl address. She holds forth
for an hour or an hour and a
half. And her audiences range as
high as 14,000.
A trim little thing, only five feet
tall, with pretty brown eyes and a
turned-up nose, she was first re
ferred to as “the Sweetheart of
the Townsend Movement.” But
when organizer J. W. Bridges
dubbed her “the Joan of Arc” she
admitted she liked that better.
And the name has stuck.
She is staying these nights in
the Washington Auto Park with
the other Townsend caravaners,
preparing for more speaking this
summer, and hoping that in the
meantime the San Diego High
School will grant a diploma de
spite her truancy.
(Copyright. 1936. by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
Second Section
Entered as Second-Cits* Matter
at PostoSice. Indianapolis, Ind.
Fair Enough
WEMMIfR
May 27.—There has
been considerable excitement in the
papers over the feat of a little griding 1
named Rushaway, who won the so-called
Illinois Derby at Aurora, 111., just outside
Chicago, Friday afternoon, and won an
other so-called Derby at Latonia. Ky., just outside
Cincinnati, 24 hours later. Rushaway cooled out
nicely, as the professional phrase goes, shipped well
overnight, a distance of 300 miles,
and arrived fresh and ready to
run.
A. G. Tam, the owner and
trainer of Rushaway, reports that
his steed lay down and slept, un
usual conduct in a horse riding the
cars. But not to deny the little
critter any credit which is legiti
mately due him, it might be
pointed out that he did not have
to remove his pants and under
wear and climb into his pajamas
behind a curtain in his car and
sleep on a shelf during his 300-
mile journey. Neither did he have
to haul on his lingerie and trousers
again in the morning while lying on his back behind
a curtain and maintaining due care not to crack his
skull against the upper berth. The cars in which
they ship the racing hides to keep their dates are
much more conveniently arranged than the Pull
mans and the privacy provided for the horse makes
for better repose and close knitting of the ravelled
sleeve of care.
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They Don't Wear Suspenders
TTORSES do not wear suspenders and they are
neither modest nor self-conscious. They do not
have false teeth, toupees or trusses to embarrass
them in the presence of their fellow passengers and
if a horse wants a face full of water in the middle
of the night he need not fumble around in the little
hammock to find his bath robe and grope under the
berth for his slippers in which to walk to the cooler.
He just waves his tongue a couple of licks and his
caddy comes a-running with the bucket and sponge,
to wipe down his lips and ooze a gentle splash into
his neck. He hardly wakes up, unless he has some
thing on his conscience or some business worry.
I doubt very much that Rushaway would have
been as fresh at Latonia if he had had to perform
the acrobatic feat of pantsing himself in the morn
ing, snapping his suspenders over his shoulders,
shoving his shirt into his trousers and adjusting his
buttons, at the same time maintaining his privacy
and nonchalance. This is the ordeal which makes
travelling drummers old before their time. As to the
problems of ladies I will enter no discussion except
to sympathize belatedly with those unhappy girls
of a previous generation whose accountrements in
cluded a device known as the corset, copied from
the blue prints of the wooden-stave silo, with some
acknowledgments to the football shin guard. Modes
ty, in their time, was much more oppressive than it
is today, and how they ever managed to reappear,
once they had managed to shuck their armor, is
more than I have the impudence to inquire. Per
haps they didn’t take it off at all, which would have
made their suffering even worse.
The Pullman Cos. offers nowadays an accommo
dation known as the single room but having made
the offer almost invariably withdraws it. The single
room is something on the style of the old-time first
class cabin of the American line steamships, con
taining all the comforts and the privacy of a hotel
room within the capsule walls of a telephone booth.
But they never have any single rooms left because
there is so little demand for single rooms that they
can not meet the demand. Invariably they could
sell a dozen more single rooms if they could get
them but the rooms are not available because it is
impossible to sell them. The story goes ’round and
’round and comes out nowhere and the customers
then are invited to pay the Pullman Cos. a bribe of
$2.75 to refrain from pulling down the upper shelf
and shutting out the ventilation and cramping the
compass of the lower berth. If you don’t pay the
$2.75, the unfortunate porter pulls down the shelf
on which you will bust your skull if you don’t take
care. And the unfortunate customer gets so sore
that he determines to get even with the Pullman Cos.
by cheating the unfortunate porter out of his tip.
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It Could Happen Only in America
AND the point is that the little horse, Rushaway,
winning two nominal and ;rbies in 24 hours with a
sleeper-jump in between, has nothing on Paavo
Nurmi, the fish-eating Finn who came to this coun
try in 1923, broke an old world record for the mile
on his first night ashore, broke another world record
in Chicago the next night and broke a third one
back in New York the third night of his American
visit.
Derby has become a cheap name for horse races
in the United States. Any broad-jump for a stake of
$lO and a collar of carnations presented by some
politicians more than half soused on mint-juleps is
a derby in America. The accounts of the Latonia
Derby exclaimed that not even in England could
they match the record of the little gelding which
won two derbies in 24 hours. That is quite true. In
England derbies happen once a year.
New Books
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This book tells of his struggles to attain success, of
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Because of its clear, detailed descriptions of both
the old and the new Russia, the book will appeal to
the general reader, as well as to the student of the
Russian theater. The book, by the way, is devoid of
propaganda.
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A POET of distinction. Winifred Welles says of
Rachel Field in FEAR IS THE THORN (Mac
millan; $1.35):
“She is a writer whose truest devotion always Is
given to earth itself, its sights, sounds, scents, and
scenes; and if you happen to share her delight in
these, you will be grateful for her ‘roots that keep
fierce councils of their own,’ and the ‘lovely, multi
tudinous rain,’ as well as the smaller, more dis
tinct ‘burnished berries’ and ‘harebells swung to salty
air’.”
That last phrase might well serve as a descriptive
one for many of these unpretentious lyrics, the clar
ity and sunny color of their thought, and the stur
diness of their tunes.
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IS your child afraid of the dark? Is temper in
herited? Can we be too health conscious? Should
boys be allowed to fight? These and hundreds of
other pertinent and vital questions are discussed in
an excellent guide, PARENTS* QUESTIONS prepared
by staff members of the Child Study Association of
America (Harper’s; $2).
Inquires from perplexed parents make up the book.
Each chapter is prefaced with an article written by
an expert on the particular subject, and concluded
by a story based on case studies of the Association s
Consultation Service.
Well indexed and equipped with bibliographies
for each chapter, this practical and helpful book
should be of great value to thooe responsible for th*
care and well-being. of children.
MjRKM
Westbrook Pcgler