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as productive as was hoped.
In some states the laws specifically di-
rect the merchants to collect the sales
taxes from consumers. But in most sales
tax states, the merchant is allowed to use
his own discretion.
The authors of the book found that
the larger establishments, as a rule, have
succeeded to passing the tax on to the con-
sumers, while the smaller establishments
have, because of competition, been forced
to absorb the tag.
ARE WE GOING TO HAVE
DALLAS RATES ON POWER?
THE city will investigate to see it Dallas
1 under its new rate agreement just
reached will get lower electric rates than
Fort Worth.
ft the investigation establishes that
rates are to be lower is our neighbor eity,
a majority of counelimen seem to be in
favor of reopening negotiations with the
Texas Electric Service Co. for rates here
comparable to those in Dallas. Since the
Dallas cut puts rates there eight per tout
under ours, action may logically to ex-
pected.
So a Press reporter established- yester-
day by interviews with councilmen. He
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
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SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1984
THS
REVIEWING
STAND
o roncor FLEMING -----
TONE of the best shows of the Summer
Oempairn will to visible from Fort
words only as nest-ilantnins on the west,
ern horizon. 1 refer to the Congressional
contest ia which the Hon. Tom Blanton,
w. e., released from his duties defending
the people to Washington, will put MB
■ trusty riammenwerter into action for the
“teenin time, to retain his seat. (Flam-
menwerter: Flame-thrower, an Instrument
I of war used to burn the other fellow to’
1 Tom is an adept in the use of this
instrument. He has piled it with such
success that the prairies around Abilene
are heaped high with the scorched skele-
tons of those who have attempted to tor
Ma way back to Washington. Hit biography
in the Congressional Directory is a cemer
tery of their names. He served for 12
years, then left Me district to campaign
for the I g Senate and was beaten, de-
feated the widow of his successor for
Congress, and was again Installed as
Abilene’s pride in the U. g. Lower House.
:ISSuEs.
-BUT
N OT
Much!
Tracu Says:
With regard to war he
debit, we have reached a 1
point where there seems i
to be nothing to do but
twiddle our thumbs. 1
____Ily M. E. TRACY _
WITH the exception of FInH
YY land, all governments owing
us war debts are now in default 1
and the Johnson bill becomes ef I
fective. They won't pay, and wi B
can't lend, which makes the in 1
ternational set-up look very $
much like a stalemate.
Just how trade can be reha ,
bilitated in the face of suctB
handicaps is a puzzle whien y
should keep even our dougties ing:
experts busy for some time.
Possibly they will find the so-e.
lution in Mr. Peek’s discovery,
that the more we sell the more,
we lose, which leads to the cor ■
rollary that It might be wises
to forget foreign trade.
• • •
TRULY, this ia a new erallia
1 Where we once looked upon L.
exchange and interdepend rice a
growing factors In the process o
civilization, we seem bent on.)
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also established that most couneiimen
thought Fort Worth, as a result of recent
T Do not think he will "have • great deal
1 of trouble this time, despite the fact
--------—----- ...----—---j that Blanton sealo-lifting expeditions are !
when a special emergency schedule in ef- forming in all directions, and that the
feet in Dallas expired, boundaries of his district were changed to |
THEN I saw that wisdom excelleth folly. But the emergency schedule le not so- the redistrietier, of last ze*L, . d |
T r.r llaht excelleth darkness. LEe- . ing to expire. Dallas Power and Light Co. His opponents are District Judge Carl ’
E as far as 3 excelleth has agreed to continue « and to taek on 0 Hamiin of Breckenridge and an etel
crealaster, 2 12. . .. j another reduction, both reductions to be mumper of the Texas Houee-—Oeear C***
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous permanent. Tom for zime reason has laid up a lot
pleasures at the cheapest rate.-'Fielding. Are we going to have electric rates on of fiammenwerter ammunition, despite the
. a par with those in Dallas or are we not? fact that he tised to stamp in his stride 1
I That is the next Mg question for counelk the sort of opposition he has this year,
men to answer. He derives a powerful advantage from |
------------------------- i the fact that he uses the “leave to print"
privileges of the Congressional Record 1
with perhaps more skill and less serupu-
losaity than any other Congressman
Mr. Blanton secured “leave to print"
some remarks on veterans’ legislation a
“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today
RECOVERY: THE SECOND STAGE
IS BEGINNING
A PPROXIMATELY $8,000,000 worth of |
A work and business seem guaranteed for
commercial reductions here, would get
rates M low as those in Dallas, at least
AUTOMOBILES AND TARIFFS
THE American automobile industry,
1 which thru the years of our tariff
Fort Worth In the next year or so. In the
form of the school building program and
the decision to go ahead quickly with the
U. S farm for the treatment of narcotic now hopefully suggests that the govern-
addicts. ‘ ment hurry up and, do something about
Both are eagerly welcomed, and both
madness has shown the patience of Job, few months ago. They appeared in the
will aid to strengthen the weakest point .
In recovery: that of the construction and
the heavy industries generally. The, be-
ginning of these two great projects will
be significant of more than their aid to |
Fort Worth. They mark commencement of |
the long promised reciprocal tariff treaties.
Speaking thru the export committee of
the National Automobile Chamber of Com-
Record as 12 pages of blistering comment 1
on the record of Judge Hamlin in con- I
neetion with veterans’ benefits Get 20 -
000 of these reprinted, mail ’em to the
C;»<r." and you have 20,000 campaign
pamphlets Mr Blanton 414 the same
| thing ia the same way to a well-known
merce, the industry points out that em-
ploymentfor American workers and mer Texas newspaper man
keta for American manufacturers and farm . *
sul
Visiting the World of Books and Authors
proving that they ere of no.."
greet consequence or destroying 5
tirem.
At any rate, that happy famat
ily of nations which the war was
supposed to have created appear .
to be breaking up. Most of ou B \
| open covenants are being openis-
smashed or ignored.
With regard to war debts, wi’s.
I have reached a point when ■
there seems to be nothing to d 1
I but- twiddle our thumbs—a grea
| triumph for all the verbs
| squirming, side-stepping and
shadow-boxing.
i WE WOULD be in as good 1
’’ not better shape had why
Church:
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topic.
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W Houle'S'
H speak or
contented ourselves with merel -
forwarding notices of paymen 1
due six months and let it go a
that
Still, the mesa into which w
bition to be mayor go out ths have worried ourselves and th
I rest of the world may not b
ears'' iwacea. ‘R remix” begin. 1 without its compensation . „
11. He-comacon ia become U. s. . ---L. Europe -guld Plow W
senator ths most powerful polite again, as many people expect I
i .I boss in the land, maker of will, our unpaid war debts ma
Presidents and chief liaison offi- prove cheap insurance againi 1
cer between industry and politics, participation
vast power and riches... We certainly could afford 1 1
• But nomething in him has lose the ' even billions now ««
lied. His old dream dissolves:, ,
ie . ays the game henceforth. | ,r it prevented us from pursuin 1
out a ruples. for what there such as forlish course As we 1
• ''4 it; he sells his soul tO gain in 1917.
ds—and .---~ , 4
• end there is no profit in * ■ ,IT
Ask The Press
You can’get an answer to any an.
swerable question of fact by writing
to Frederick M Kerer Question Edi-
tor, Fort Worth Press Washington
Bureau 1322 New Fors Avenue Wash-
Ington D C enciorina three cents in
tampa for reply Meilea and legal
advice cannot be given
Q. How tons has the British
legislative body been called 1
Parliament?
A The word was first used
EDITED BY C. I,. DOUGLAS
is buttressed with honest crafta-
THERE are some spots on this
1 earth whose very eakness
and loneliness gives them an
eerie attraction.
manship
'The book is published by the
" Argus Press of Albany, N Y.
products can be gained by reviving world
trade.
NR BLANTON has been ss heartily dis-
liked ss any man in Congress Onee
The automobtie industry, Hecatse of he was almost thrown out of the Fivueen-t
I tariffs, has lo pay artifically high prices
Civil Works Administration and work-re- I for many of the materials that go into
the second phase of the Roosevelt recovery |
program.
Most that has gone before, such as the
lief, has been quick priming of the re- | automobiles. Yet the automobile industry
| has never asked tor protection against
covery pump.
Mr. Roosevelt realised from the first
foreign competition Instead, it has gone
for permitting some nasty language to be
printed in the Record
That was probably the lowest point of
hits pop larity, H» is now Used and re
spected by many of his colleagues. For
into the markets of the world and out-
that the heavy industries, and particularly
the construction industry, must be stimu- | sold foreign competitors.
lated before recovery could progress very i
far. If they could not be self-stimulated, I
then Uncle Sam must do the job. Uncle
Sam is doing it.
The need is shown by the fact that un-
employment has been most dire among the
skilled men of the .construction trades-
those whom he dislikes he is ** pestifer-
ous as a bug an the neck
The export committee s report that
tariffs ranging from 20 in 540 per cent
clog our world trade channels as a mat-
ter of fact some tariffs are as high as
| 1000 per cent of the cost of production
emphasizes the insanity of Smoot-Hawley
worse, perhaps, than with any other branch |
of labor.
boot st raps economies. Such high dutle s
cannot be protective They are prohibitive.
If the administration this summer will
turn its bombardment upon world trade
What his eritics will #06 admit, how-
ever, and what even st this distance they
may sneak to me about saying, is that
with the years Mr. Biaston has become
in many respects a valuable public servant
The newspapers do: set and can not
carry one one-hundredth of his activities
in Congress Since Florelia La Guardia
left to become Mayor of New York, Mr
Blanton le the recognized Congressional
watchdog of the Treasury.
Whether a bill carried $13 Of for re-
onaor the menus to ta Pats: -
gonta and a very excellent book
about It :• George Gaylord Simp-
son’s “Attending Marvele," which
is the account of an expedition
from the American Must in of
Natural. Mietory gone down to
the tail r: 4 of Mouth America
to collect tonsils of prehistoric I "1 People P i 1 >
painters would come down to
pause. Ahint an unarigntened
Mr Einipeon found Patagonia
a savage and lonely land Much
of it, he says M like the land
scape of the moon utterly bar-
ren. without a hint of vegetation.
He Debunks-
T you have loitered • atsul in
l.our ignorance before pa
inga of the ultra, modern variety,
ondering y on earth-infor
Manuf
Ref
Din
barriers, it will do much to restore vigor lief of Jenny Whoozie in Oregon, or wheth-
We are blazing er it carries a billion, if Mr Bantos doesn't
many new trails, hoping they will lead . like it he will fight it to the last ditch,
out of the jungle. Meanwhile, we should 1 with all the parliamentary trieks of which
clear out the underbrush that has been he n.com e’nd € wearing no collar
choking progress over the normal highways —except those of his own violent prej.
of trade, udices—as any man to the House He is
Thirty of the nation's business leaders, — —— a feared rough-and tumble debater I
meeting at Hot Springs, Va., decided that I WHO'S WHO ABRIDGED !have .neye * ART reason ihelteve
NR A or something closely akin to it that he ever acted or voted thru fear
should be preserved permanently, and that TF it be true that the New York City either of * minority or majority
business should be more active in Ite sup- i police are building a campaign against or .„ ... .....
* the Reds on the basis of a book published CREDIT for the political * P of the
by. an obscure Illinois woman, 1€ is clear , week, in the gubernatorial race at
that Mayor Uguardia retains his rare least, must '” to the Jion clint Amall, in
sense of humor.
The mayor, himself, as listed in the
book of revolutionaries, along with Mrs.
BUSINESS FOR N.R.A.
* MERICAN business, after one year's ex-
A perience, seems to prefer the so-called
regimentation of N.R.A. to the old dog
eat dog rules of competition so sacred
to the traditions of rugged individualism.
port of and more helpful In its advice to
N.R.A.
Thus do the industrial captains recog-
nize that they have more to gain in the
long run by recognizing the community of
interests between capital, labor and the
government.
They prefer not to return to the alter-
native of capitalistic anarchy, with its 1
destructive economic warfare. They con-
cede that the government has a right to a
voice in industrial relations and planning.
But what the American people want to
know of these business leaders is: Does
big business intend to continue trying to
skim off for itself all of the cream of
N.R.A.? The news dispatches out of Hot
Springs say nothing of any consideration
being given by the conference to the wide-
spread violations of the collective bargain-
ing section of the N.I. R. A. law. They say
nothing of any concern over the failure of
mass purchasing power to rise faster than
consumer prices, or of the failure of codi-
fied business to absorb a larger portion
of the unemployed.
Do not the business leaders realize
that N.R.A. has succeeded only to the
extent that it has spread jobs and pur-
chasing power, and that all other achieve-
ments are mere superstructure which will
collapse unless the foundation is made
more secure?
to domestic business.
Franklin D Roosevelt, Secretaries Wal-
lace and Ickes, Senators Norris and
coming out with a big bang for the repeal
of hoss race betting legislation This took
courage, but there are more folk opposed
to racing then, perhaps Mr Small dreams
Mr. Small not only came out fiat-
footedly on the jes e one which has been
Borah, Rabbi Wise Father John A Ryan * little ton of for the tender tootale* of
et al, et al. The list even includes of
all persons H. 1., Mencken, who has be-
come the common scold of the New Deal.
Like such brain baiters as Ham Fish
ana Dr. Wirt, the Illinois woman employed
the one sure-fire trick of crashing the
front pages. Red hunting is America s
favorite indoor sport.
But, perhaps, the author of this new
list of radicals has unknowingly done a
public service. Who's Who is a bulky
volume, and there is need for a pocket
edition containing the names of persons
who have been caught in the act of think-
ing.
IT SHOULD GO NEXT
HORT WORTH has some anachronisms
" surviving out of the Dark Ages of traf
OVERHAULING OUR TAXES
TT is welcome news that the House Ways
i and Means subcommittee, which spent
last Summer devising plugs for the loop-
holes in existing tax laws, will spend the
coming summer on plans for overhauling
the entire Federal tax system.
This is an undertaking long overdue.
Local, state and federal taxes have been
piled on top of each other indiscriminately.
As a rule, each new tax la brought forward
to meet some special emergency, but usual-
ly the tax remains long after the emer-
gency has been forgotten. The result of
years of un - coordinated taxation is a
hodge-podge of duplicating and discrim-
inatory levies.
/ An ideal, scientific tax system should:
2. Re based on the principle of
ability to pay.
2. Provide a steady yield.
3. Contain no so-called "painless"
levies, which mulct the taxpayer without '
his knowledge.
'Our conglomerate taxes fall, far short |
on all three points.
As a starter In its stupendous task, the
House sub committee will do well to ex-,
amine a book of 800-odd pages released
today by the Columbia University Press.
"The Sales Tax in the American States,"
prepared by a group of Columbia tax ex-
perts, is a factual review of what has hap-
pened to the tax system of various states
in the last two years. It is a good account
of bow taxes ought not be levied.
The sales tax, which to legislators in
near-bankrupt states seemed so simple a* 1
so productive, has turned out to be not
at all easy to administer, and not nearly
fie. The Press has disclosed They
are the solidly-based traffic lights and
safety islands which still remain In va-
rious parts of town. Any solid obstruction
to traffic is dangerous. At the low speeds
which used to prevail, collision might mean
no more than a shattered fender or a
broken nose. At modern speeds they are
other candidates for governor -but he sue
seeded in taking his chief journalistic
supporters with him.
This is stranger than it seems If
Mr. Small gets his wish, the "good race
tracks, which take your money legally
thru little windows, will have to close up
shop along with the bad town route it
has always been illegal to make a hot
away from the tracks
But the boys had better make no
mistake If Clint Small is elected, he will
do the best his dogged nature knows, to
close 'em all up.
............* AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT----
Power? Splendor? Oh. Yeah!
___By Mus, w ALTER FERGE Mik
| "MAGNIFICENT, stupendous, awe in-
AVI spiring" were some of the adjectives
j us»d to describe the, naval parade When
| one reads, however, that it was "essen-
tially a parade for peace,” as a few
solemn editors assure us, suspicion must
res also attach to other
good for death or serious injury or com-
plete wreck Some may say people ought
not to run at speed, but the fact remains
they do.
The city has removed one hazard by
tearing down the mid-street Gibraltar at
Fifth and Henderson, of those remaining,
the “safety" island at the Jennings Avenue
underpass has the bloodiest record — twos
killed, eight crashes, in three years. It
should go next.
The Daily Nosegay
Mr. T. J. Harrell,
Chairman, Utilities Committee,
City Council,
Fort Worth
Dear Togie:
I think it strange, as you must too,
That members of your committee.
Are so slow to move against
The problems of our city.
In fact, you remind me of a captain
Who, leading a charge In the midst of
the fray,
should glance back over his shoulder
And see his troops- heading the other
way.
Yours, etc.,
LESTER (Just call me Les), -
swept by a wind which never
stops blowing and which some-
ths -• rises to 100 miles an hour
It 1. In fine: a regular jump
ing off place But it is very rich
in fossils and Mr Wimpson, as a
paleontologist, had a gorgeous
time
Patagonia maimed monsters un-
like those anywhere else on
earth Petrified bones of w hole
new species are to be found •
there Mr Rimpson dug them
up in great numbers and tella
about it very entertainingly
Attending Marvels” is an ex-
ceptionally fine book
Published by Maemillan, ft re.
tails at $3,
Poetry Returns
(INE of the most encouraging
U iral signs of the day is
the very appreciable amount Of
good poetry that is being written
by what you might call local
posts
J that term tel meant poets
who stay close to the soil and
write verse about things they
I ace and know with their own
•• see and who ignore the high-
j priced verbiage of those who
1 write weightily about modern
trends In poetry
A good example of that kind
of thing le found in Wild Pas.
ture Pine,” a book of verse by
W W Chrietman
Mr Chrietman was born on art
upstate New York farm and has
lived there all his life
But he has soaked himself in
a sincere love of nature, he ia
keenly, aware of the life that goes
on about him, and he has taken
the paltie to master the me-
chanics of his craft
The result is a book of verse
which is melodious and sincere
ft breath's s kinship with The
forces of nature sturdy trees
wild things in the woods, rich
fields under the sunlight and it
descriptions.
Here era excerpts
from a typical tribute:
“The naval parade was
a mighty spectacle. It
represented the power
and splendor of this
government. We know
the Navy as the best
insurance we have
against involvement in
war. We know the peo-
ple of this country do
not want any war what-
ever and that the policy
of the government to
distinctly peaceful.”
Mrs. Ferguson "Oh, yeah!" would
be the proper Hollywood retort to ail
that. If our parade was a -parade for
peace then the long marching lines of
Herr Hitler’s troops are signs of German
— amity and love, and the frantic arming of
the French but evidences of their amiable
attitude toward the world.
YirE ARE told by the militant element
W in this country that preparations for
war in Europe always mean ultimate war
for Europe. But, they say, preparations
in America will mean peace for ts
But if you lived In Europe, and you
heard that the United States had built
and equipped the largest naval force in
all its history, would you honestly believe
that we expected to keep peace?
I should like, also, in challenge the
idea that a huge navy represents the power
and splendor of our government. It rep
resents, instead, just as It has always
represented In history, the beginning of
the end of all power and splendor. It is
the first sign of national decadence, be.
cause it transforms’an agricultural and
home loving race into a military machine,
and that machine eventually grinds up it#
own creators.
man eou1d recognize
If as I say, you have had this
little experience and deplored
your own Philistis lam then you
ought * get an enorn us kick
out of Modern Art by Thomas
for Mr Craven, in this blunt
and combative book declares
that moderr art. Is I a bad way
and that • KT leal of it is
pure and unad. ersied boloney
Modern art he continues, is
cursed by Paris Painters from
all over the world flock to Paris |
to s instead of .learning 1
how to paint he says they learn
• to become self-indulgent
Bohemians !
In short, says Mr Craven.
“cranks and failures have ■ ade
modern I painting a blunder and a
shan e "
This clearly is a controversial
j book: and it is a vastly enter-
taining one as well Published
by Himon and Schuster. It sells
tor $3 75.
Mr Hart has written a
thoughtful and interesting book.
blished by the John Day Co.,
It sells for $2.50.
Best Sellers—
local book shops this weel re
ported the following most pop
lar
The Fair Lamb in His Bosom,
They Had Their Hour If You
Want to Get Ahead, Life Begins
at Forty
Monnig’s Men In White, An.
thony Adverse Lamb in His
Bosom, Unfinished Cathedral.
Bert Barber’s Forest of Ad-
venture Maaxter Murderer, Emily
Post a Eiquette. Marie Antoin-
Matthew Par is n 1246 but only srad
ually replaced the names by which the
councils of the Enrilan kings had prewi
sly been
ment ni
Loses His Soul-
THERE is always something
I fascinating about the spec-
tacle of a man losing his soul.
and when he sells out for in.
tangibles that fail to bring him
anything resembling happiness,
the fascination is somehow all
the greater.
That a the sort of spectacle you
get in The Great One,” by
Henry Hart
This novel tells about a Phila-
delphia politician who has more
than a passing resemblance to
the late Boles Penrose
Well . born and wealthy and
gifted with a limitless vitality,
this man emerges from Harvard
■ with the determination to enter
| politics and strike a blow or two
This Is Life
By JACK MAXWELL
. UIELLO, and howdy-dol
11 For instance The weather
is HOT,' bear percentage is
LOW; price of potatoes is going
UP: fish are not biting WELL:
the boll weevils are doing their
stuff in the Cotton Patch: roast-
ing ears, well, they just did not
Amake on account of the Dry
Weather: the price of cowfeed
is going UP. and I gotta Buy
Milk Lindy Lou and her Meal
Ticket are motoring into the vil-
lage of Fort Worth this eve.
ning to see Maxie Baer knock
the stuffing outta Mr. Carnera
and that's just about as
near ths “Big Time" 1 can get
until sumpin I gotta sell goes
UP.
i tor the common man.
But the game licks him. He 1
i has to touch too much pitch: his | NEW YORK. — Broadway,
dream slowly flickers out And I where a bootblack who
by and by, having conducted
1 himself too arrogantly, he has to
take a beating and see his am.
SIDE GLANCES - By George Clark
NLA SIBYKL EL REAU A PALOFE
"Certainly, I’m dressed better than any woman here,
but this crowd is so stupid they don't even know it.”
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Witenagem
Q. is the author, Harold De
Wish, living:
Q What is the word that Thee enn
means one who goes to a picat. been sue
nie? N 181 year
A Penieke, . , 1 Mr. Re
Q To what church does a stock fir
George Arliss belong? America
later, tn
for directs? insurance
Hi stock and
The Fe
of Mutua
A Protestant Episcopal
American citizens
- travel to Cuba?
No
does
Q What are the salaries of
the president and secretary of
the American. Federation of La-
bor?
A The constitution of the A F.
of L fixes the sa ary of the prest-
dent at 112 000 a year and that of the
secretary at $10 000 per year Durites
the depression both the president and
the secretary have ac epted voluntary
pay cuts of 26 per cent
Rep
Bar Dir
-—.............IN NEW YORK ---------1
Broadway-Where Anything Happens!
----------------By PAUL HARRISON.
never read Horatio Alger, retires
with $85,000 . . . Where a the-
atrical hotel advertises: "We
serve breakfast until 3 p. m "
. . . Where a sign on the Holly-
wood reads: “Appearing nightly
Helen Kane—Cooled by Refrig-
eration." ...
Amelia Earhart doesn't like
to be called "Mrs Putnam,”
nor does she wear an engage-
ment or wedding ring . . .
The social and athletic
Messrs. George Lowther and
George Hobson trot around the
Central Park reservoir each
morning ...
Katharine Cornell took in
$650,000 on her tour. Yet there
are people who'll tell you that
the theater is dying . ..
Everywhere that Mary goes
- Mary Brian, I mean—Dick
Powell is sure to be . .. Mar-
lene Dietrich is thinking about
| an offer from Max Gordon, the
producer, for a Broadway play
in the Autumn .
PROADWAY isn’t conscious
5 of its own social democ-
racy. I scarcely had thought of
It myself until an English visit-
or got to asking the identities
of people in a night club.
, A distinguished looking fel-
"• low who caught his attention
was a song-plugger who. I’m
sure, makes less money than
the average necktie salesman.
Another man,darkly handsome,
was a minor racketeer who op-
erates precariously on the un-
certain fringes of legitimacy.
A third was a promoter
who’d been absent-minded
about his Income tax and was
celebrating his return from jail.
A lass in pearls and backless •
gown, whom many people greet-
ed cordially, was a hat-check
girl taking a night off from her
chorea In another cabaret. And
then there was the mounte-
bank "Prince" Mike Romanoff,
i speaking with broad a’s to peo-
ple who didn't seem to mind.
Among these and many other
folk of little consequence were
such people as Mrs. Charles
Whitman Payson, two admirals
from the fleet. Nr. and -in
Sailing Baruch, Marjorie oe
richs, Constance Talmadge. Lat
die Sanford, a well-known judge
a man from Wall Street—an
the latter was the escort of th
| hat-check girl.
TWO ex-bond salesmen, a fol
1 mer teacher of romance lar
guages and a broke broker
among the students at the Bar
tenders’ School. Also a youn
doctor who plans to earn enoug
money to set himself up in sprat
tice ...
Hotel McAlpin has the tw
oldest practicing bartenders-
Louis Ghiosay, head mixer J
Delmonico’s 45 years ago, an
Hans Neumann, who’s 83 . ,
Only cabaret proprietor wh
kisses ladies’ hands—or eve
knows how to. for that matterfl
is M. Joe Zelli, fresh from Par
May Sutton Bundy (remen
bar her—women's tennis chan
plon of some SO years ago
teaches the game at Newport
Maybe you haven't heal
much about the I. W. W. latel
Well, it has a headquarters her
right on Fifth Avenue , . . 1
• *
DEGGY JOYCE, who meets
I lot of people, doesn't r
member all of them, even afte
repeated introductions.
There's one matron of at lea
50 who has been presented man
times, in New York and Holl
• wood and London, but alwa;
without a sign of recognitic
from the actress.
Chances are, tho, the latte
4 will remember after this, for th
other afternoon the pair agai
were* formally made known 1
each other.
“Oh, Miss Joyce!" gushed tj
gray-haired woman, maybe a 11
tie maliciously, “ever since ]
was a little girl I’ve been dyis
to meet you!"
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