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EDITORIAL
The Fort Worth Press
a seal res-JK>w ABD NEWSPAPER
SEWARD a SHELDON:
JAMES F POLLOCK. .
......Editor
Business Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postoffice
at Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 1, 1921. under Act of March
3. 1879.
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Want Ad Service—Call 2-5151
Increased reliance upon collective bar-
gaining."
If Mr. Richberg’s admonition is not
heeded, some such statutory measure as
a 30 hour week probably will be fastened
upon the industry.
This issue may come to a head speed-
ily. The NRA will report in a few days
on working conditions and seasonal em-
ployment in the automotive industry.
When he ordered NRA to make this
investigation, President Roosevelt said:
"It is not very useful to pay a man
$10 a day if he is employed only 65 days
in a year." ‘
THE FORT W0 KTH PRESS
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
CAIPPS=nowan
cueie
Member of the United Press.
Scripps-Howard News Alliance.
Newspaper Enterprise Associa-
. tion. Science Service, Newspaper
Information Service and Audit
Bureau of Circulation.
WEDNESDAY, JAN 23. 1935.
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‘ “Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today -
COD is my strength and power; and be
U maketh my way perfect.—11 Samuel, i
22:33.
BABY BONDS
THE U. S. Treasury intends to give Mr.
I John Citizen a chance to 'become a
creditor, as well as a tax debtor of his
Government. Its general refinancing pro-
gram Includes a new plan to offer to the
public 10 and 20-year bonds in 'denom-
inations as low as $25. .
There will be no coupons to clip. The
bonds will be sold on a discount basis.
Mr. John Citizen, who probably hasn't
seen a government bond since the last
Liberty Loan drive; can go Into the near-
est postoffice and if the interest rate
is fixed at 2 % per cent, as expected—pay
$78 for a bond which he can cash in years
later for $100. If, at any six months' In-
terval before maturity, he wants cash, he
can sell his bond for $78 plus interest'
to date.
Of course, those John Citizens who
have plenty of money always have been
able to buy Government bonds through
the banks. But.to the millions whose sav-
ings are small the baby bonds will he. a
safe and attractive investment.
The plan should stimulate thrift,
should help make the market for govern-
(Copyright, 1935, for The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK.—Connie doesn't think
I there’s any sense in playing poker all
night particularly if you don't win. She
has imposed conditions which create a
most perplexing literary problem. The
----------------------------- rule provides that I can-
rtia not go to the Hoyle Club
espened in any given week un-
67 less I have faithfully and
" * I punctually performed all
W the obligations of my
fornergwe newspaper Job and have
* 1also set down on paper
one short story or ap-
ao.preciable proportion of
some even more epic un-
dertaking.
moot The first stipulation
f l" was that I must have
titenahs scooeded in selling the
IBanTI manuscript befo r est
Broun
could give hostages to
chance. This suggestion
I rejected sternly on high
said, "the poker game is
moral grounds.
“Suppose," I
just around the corner and I am gallop-
ing through a piece of deathless prose in
order to gain the necessary sanction for
Want Ad Service—Call 2-5151.
Condemned!
—poor HOUS'
PRESIDENT
ROOSEVEETURITY
SOCIAL SECORIT
MESSAGE
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY zo, Auon
Strength, wanting judgment and policy
to rule, overturneth itself, Horace.
HURTING HIMSELF AND SENATE?
SENATOR. FRANK RAWLINGS of Fort
D Worth is unduly disturbed and excited;
in our opinion, about the proposal that
Texas legislators make public the names
of those retaining them for services out-
ment securities even more steady than it
is, should make more Americans feel that
they have a real interest in their Govern-
ment and make them less inclined to fall
, for every blue-sky plan that comes along.
Until it has been tried, no reliable
forecast can be made of the extent to
____which the Government’s obligations can
r be withdrawn from the hands of the banks
and insurance companies and placed in the
hands of the people. Nor can there be
side their service for the state. ,
in our opinion, also, Senator Rawlings’
apparent opposition to a simple and nec-
essary step in the public life of Texas —
the necessity of which has been urged,
with increasing emphasis for some years
is apt to hurt him in the mind of the
■public and obscure the fact that he is an
able legislator- whose public record if bal-
anced would show more good than bad.
To The apparent unpopularity of
movement in the Senate is also apt to
injure that body in public opinion. The
resolution which aroused all the furore—
passed by the House 118 to 0 simply .
calls for information as to the "names
of any organization, corporation or asso-
ciation by which the member Is retained *
and from which he accepts any retainer
or salary.” ' '
... • * *
THIS is legitimate information which the
1 public is entitled to have..
The demand for-it is increasing, and
within a year or so. If not now, it may be
demanded not only of legislators but of
other state officials, by law and not simply
by resolution, .
In our opinion the Senate will continue
to hurt itself as long as it refuses to com-
any dependable estimate of how much of
the Government’s indebtedness can by this
method be converted from short-term into
long-term obligations. But the baby bonds
surely will encourage such healthy trends.
A TEST IN TEXTILES
DELAY has been a major irritating fac-
U tor in adjustment of labor disputes
under the New Deal.
Last spring a textile strike was threat?
ened. General Johnson prevented it by
pledging four prompt NRA studies of tex-
tile labor conditions. Two of them have
never been publicly released to this day. |
The delay caused a renewal of demands
in July and August which resulted in the
national strike on Sept. 1. After three
weeks, that strike was settled under the
formula of the Winant Textile Board,
providing that the Department of Labor
and Federal Trade Commission should
make necessary studies.
Their factual reports have been sub-
attendance. And conceive the circumstance
that I have put the hero and the heroine
in such desperate plight that there is no
honorable way out but for them to die in
piteous tragic fashion. And am I at this
point to be seduced by the fact that editors
like happy endings and that my tale must
be marketable before I can so much as
draw a single card to any hand?
1 went on to inquire, "Wouldn't any
setup of that sort have ruined the morale
of William Shakespeare and dulled the
vital bitterness of Dean Swift ?
CONNIE replied that she didn't think
U Shakespeare sat up all night with a
bunch of klucks and that anyway what
was the sense, of writing pieces that no-
body wanted to buy and where were the
silk stockings which, she was told, had
been assigned to her to come out, of the
Hoyle Club's kitty? -
I raised the argument to a higher plane
by pointing out that the condition of Im-
mediate market-ability should be with- |
drawn from the picture. Her scheme
would be unfair to me and to posterity
and to the poker game
In particular I stressed posterity A
.national weekly could conceivably reject
some gem which would be included in ev
The New Deal
In
Washington
By KODNEY DUTCHER ,
WASHINGTON. — President
Roosevelt's big economic
program is the talk of Washing
ton and has shoved even the gold
clause trial out of the conversa-
tions of parlor economists and
dinner sophists. .
Big business men wag their
heads, saying It's too big a slice
to cut at one sitting. Left-wing-
ers was their heads because iney
think it s too small a slice.
The great middle-of-the-road: .
class, including labor unionists,
think it's the biggest thing that
has happened to the United
States in decades
Indeed, It does mark a his-
toric abandonment of the whole
theory of the Rugged Individ-
ualists.
That a government which
three years ago refused to ac-
cept the burden of feeding even
the hungry should now propose
to take over the beginnings of s
security system for 20,000,000
wage earners, and even to sell
annuities to the middle classes,
is said to amount to little short
of a revolution.
mitted to the President. Under the
Winant agreement, they are to be passed
—along—tosome board designated by the
President for final determination of the
Justice of workers’ demands for adjusted
wages, shorter hours and elimination of
the stretch-out.
The workers, although generally re-
ported as even more restless now than
when the September strike occurred, have,
waited patiently for the studies to be
completed. The task required more time
than anticipated.
pel its own members to- divulge the in-
formation. We do not expect such informa-
tion. if divulged, to bring out anything
particularly sensational. We do believe it
is part of the record upon which the pub-
lic is entitled'to pass.
Further, the Senate has recently been
the victim of a canard by an ill-informed , talace , a . , ,
and sensational journalist, and if it hes- | pro 1 action is take " on the
itates further to spread on the public books re 1 ' ' 1 1 and "•' 1 " itiona tex:
such elementary information about the in- tile strike in thepring is predicted.
terests of its members as the resolution. ..Similar situations exist in other large
calls for. It will tend 10 keep the unin-
formed public suspicions of It and of the
motives of its members.
CENATOR RAWLINGS' main argument is
D that If legislators are compelled to
divulge the sources of some of their pri-
vate Income, other state officials ought to
do so too, and that investigation should
uncover the campaign expenses of candi-
dates for high office and the source of
their funds.
With his general thesis we fully agree.
The public has been told many times that
■ “probably " candidates for governor Wand
other major offices benefit from vastly
larger campaign funds than the law al-
lows.
‘Man in the Street’ Is in the Middle
W H NT OL K READERS BAY __________________-
Editor. The Press: days, and yet allow hint to re- consumers and I am sure
tduon io heltair anderish the sa e, principle - rs oi gas will agree that
PrS ""' usation in the of democratic government which high time they did so. ,
mind of the man in the stres te, prompted Patrick Henry to shout It is public ry admitted that our
day seems to h. Will the presentile----------a-----------------------------mpply. Is muted more man 15
per cent by the introduction of.
Congress swing toThe Left—or
Right ? .
Personally, I believe Congress.
men will follow the beaten track of
“Aireyme, Hberty. “ or Five Me
death!
CHARLES B McCAFFERTY,
3024 North Terry st
Townsend Plan Again
CO far business men have been
~ sitting more or ent on
the anxious seat
They will be mollified by the
fact that the program will cost
them as taxpayers only about.
$100,000,000 this year: 'that
workers must contribute half of
their—security funds; that the.
States are being left to- choose
their own systems, subject only
to federal guidance and mini-
mum standards.
Many enlightened employers
already haccome to accept it:
dustry’s responsibility for is
hazards
Left-wingers are more svocat
Ready to hirl forensic thu i - _
bolts at the program are the vo-
all
is
me but Adit noeeitenien ANT eiferous members of t
heat at the stove burner, and it send blos in ( onrress 1.
also said that the ma o: pore ' CI gresen an J ■ Ste • M.
Groarty, California’s poet aur-
the gas, is delivered to the distri eate and author of, ■ Tow send A
button plant here, plan bill t pension a . rs
I am not a gis expert, but 1. past € it s2c , n r
democratic conservatism, with-such. . I
necessary sorties to the Left as God’s Own People Have
bnanmednconitaic country by- A Not ′Divorced Him
. This litre‘af-procedure will be Editor The Pre
that long for the privilege of playing oncesatisfactory to the greater portion. Mr. Hooper of Idaho says the like thousands of others, fail to
a week in arpooker kame where the last of the people . . I in in the iro i . with the American people and rstand why it should be . '' provided they -:
. rounds are always started promptly at - street realizes that conservation is is they have di.....1 God.essary for us to pay for 15 or 20 thing they get each month, said
three a. m the bulwark of the democrat Gos people the common peo-per cent that iTat burnable in he would wait
- -====== . -
I have written any literature hot or old.thin 1-e-r - 1cept the rod of greed. The trou-required to pay for o per cent Towns
My own understanding is that if I write establishment of our national bled is they have gotten a few of water in our mind, or our. Faso-to the old a st
a novel or a three act- tragedy I get equilibrium, he is reluctant to hypocrit .
absolution for a year.1 am just—begin-—deviate—too—fat.— ---------—Devil’s work in the name of God—in ous coal—oi—wo 1 siluply_________r_______61_____..
I ning to wonder if I could not produce. The Am • ■. ' million people I amisur ......are Just Pauper R
with mysterious d. some typerritt n Fa-cism, Socialism or Communism in"breaddinegand A million the case," ' and see various fed-
manuscripts fr the upper left hand hit he does wan.....ritythe capital * in state inmpectorn cettine
corner of the desk drawer, of course feels, with propgrandsing Tegisla- After all the dumbest of all the., E N HUBBARD
I'd have to shake them very vigorously tion ongre cages that ' old baboons wouldn’t have made 3971 Lafayette st.
at first to make it quite certain than non such drmess of things as we have • *
ancient rejection slips would suddenly pop hetseewnotbemeate dankerinn They would take oneilegk at us
out and show me up as one - ty of -- ------ -—1 1 - .. and climb higher in their trees
sharp practice.
No. I am determined to play fair. The
first of the little masterpieces will be writ-
cry school textbook after a hundred years
had fled. And I was quite willing, I as-
serted, to make my appeal to the verdict
of posterity but I didn't want to wait
come and inheritance taxes \
he sees no imr ediate danger
an unbalanced national budget.
1 wants ‘insurance of employme
old age pensions, minimum w a.
and collective bargaining, 41
ten early tomorrow morning / or maybe ,
in the late afternoon. I will take my
chief characters in hand like a pair of
hors the present dole systen
C M EVANS.
Breckmnidgent
t* Scores Gas Dilution:
1
now interred, i
Means committee
for a '■-••'
Government recognition of the 1m-
portance of prompt adjudication proved
by strikes attributable to old delays- will
do more than anything else perhaps to |
determine whether the spring brings a
new crop of strikes.
dice and cry out to them. "Get hot, Romeo.
Get hot; Juliet. Papa wants to get to the
- poker game.’
relief and wants it made.possible Says It Must End
for him to earn what he gets by - -
a national economic planning of .Editor, The Press
public works. Recent news items in. The Press
He realizes a system of capital-indicate our city council has at
ism alone can assure the success last awakened to the necessity of enough
of tin se departures from the old affording some protection to gas the world -
So Tired of "Living" •
A« Furnished by FERA
Editor, The Press:,
I see where they, are side-track-
ing the bonus bill again If this
bill was
the rich
would
MOVIE COMPETITION
OP course, the scheme isn't perfect. At
U least it would not be utterly suitable
for Flaubert. Sometimes he paced the floor
for hours racking his mind for the mot
juste I can hardly see myself striding
MeGroarty an
ifbrniar Dr. T
"pauper relief
th to the aged poor
to promote something for ,
I or big corporations it
carry a headlight big
to light its way around
This Is Life
By JACK MAWEL
TELLO and howdy
• For instance M ya
ago, Billy Burke waxed
THE Government says the big producers
1 have been building up 'monopolistic
chains of movie houses, and have been
freezing out independents by refusing to
sell them suitable pictures. :
The Government adds that such prac-
tices violate our anti-trust laws, and has
prepared evidence for a test case in St. -
Louis..,
• There are thousands who would and made the following
rather have their bonus now, than crack "I hold that othingin
to get down on their knees and this world is PERFECT ′ n
beg for what subsistance they can each private closet ther •
get from the. FERA, especially skeleton, or two TA •. *
— those classed as unemployable anything to be gained opr* ng
NEW YORK An examination nothing there. Still it was ac When you area not
Fair Enough .. By Westbrook Pegler
up any down the torture chamber all hot
and bothered about the right word when
my anticipatory thoughts are already con
cerned with the right card to fill the flush
Yet I doubt if posterity will propar/y-t*
able to accuse Connie of having murder e Pusan tai
the stately prose of another Millen hi opher, If the at hor happens to be
a man in public =
N of the pet remarks of famous cepted as being characteristic and and conexitejuat toeoruXOE Yer ' ha.be: ,.,■■.-
men reveals how very little wit it somehow very good, until Mr The case workers are told just suggest that YOU. kind
ra your life by render
phrase-maker or humorous philos-ent who covered the meeting, ad-day. If you are able to work amilthese—ords; written et
mitted. some time afterward, can pick up a little on the side. "It’s today’*
that nobody had h.....no able to you oo tAa wroffar the mm*.....row .....
hear just what Nr ith did say p anything " Then there ■ ' ■ ' ' 1 S
and that be had taken the liberty as many in thee unemployable elnas hhave passe t >< r y ■ J 4 ■ nay
of putting the words in Mr. who are capable of sitting 'down rain again tomorrow
Smith’s mouth. on some of those desk with
The best quoted phrase of all just as good an education as the
to creat
all the years a very tiny faction of my
. time has gone into the business of pur-
suing phrases with a hilterfly net.
The game a waits hd the whole urge
life.
This situation should be Investigated,
and fully. But the investigation should
not bealfishing expedition nor directed . ......
at any one man. —----4 —judzes re-write-and do not know always
I whether the nets alleged are illegal. But
। they do know that such discrimination, if *
1, proved. Is unethical and up fair......LKine James, version of the Bible.
Under our system. It was natural that
| large movie producers should organize
j chains of exhibition houses as an assured
I outlet for their films. Such a combina-
And how much mow effective and now
much more deserving of public confidence
such an investigation would-be, 41 under
taken by a body with clean hands! By
a legislature? for instance, every member
of which had sworn to the exact extent
of his employment and income from any
“organization, corporation or association," |
Or a Senate which had withdrawn op-
position to making such information known
to the public which elects it and pays its
4 salaries.
A NEW MODEL NEEDED
THIS is the season of the year when the |
A automotive industry operates at high
gear, employing thousands of additional
workers to turn out hundreds of thou--
sands of 1935 model cars.
In a few months thousands of work-
ers will be dropped from the payrolls and
returned to the relief roll to wait for
the industry to get-ready for another sea-
sonal spurt.
Thus the "rugged individualists" of the
automobile industry depend on govern- |
ment to support their workers until they
have need for the latter to make profits.
Crying out against "government in |
business'' they are perfectly willing for
government to help them make profits,
by supporting their workers in the slack
season. . ‘
Donald Richberg, Administration
spokesman on Industrial matters, bluntly
told the industry in a Detroit speech that
it must cease this irresponsible treatment
of workers. He advised the manufactur-
ers to agree on year-round production and
permit workers to bargain collectively for
steady employment.
* * * *
“A N Investment of $100,000,000 in pro-
A ducing capacity which is used for six
months is obviously uneconomical, com-
pared with an Investment of $50,000,000 ‘
which is used for 12 months. To employ
4 200,000 men at comparatively good wages
for six months, especially under the strain
of continuous high-speed operations, is......
obviously a less efficient use of human......
labor than to give a smaller number of
men continuous employment at lower
wages under better conditions."
By denying workers the right to bar-
gain', Mr. Richberg said, automotive manu-
facturers are Inviting Government regu-
lation of hours and wages and working
conditions.
"There is only one sure deterrent of
, increased political control of business
I along these lines," he said, "and that is
ant think
wo
Laymen find it hard to understand the
laws--their--lanl»lul.MW--write—and--their
will be toward brevity and such simple
words as require no excursion to any die.
tionary. The stylistic result, I hope, will
be something like John Bunyan or the
Moreover, the tendency will be toward
great simplification of plot structure
The patterns will lie not so much of the
tion has many obvious advantages, but
should not be allowed to use its power to
starve.out small competitors by refusing
pictures to them.
sort as those popularized by Marcel
Proust but rather more like those of Har-
old Bell Wright in his earlier and less
sophisticated manner.
in my stories the people will come to
the point. If any, very quickly. Nobody
ing at the mo-
ment <4 Charlo
G. Dawes’ ex
pression, hell-
an’ - Maria,
which m ad e
him vice presi
dent, and of
Al Smith’s
scornful refer
ences to the ba-
loney dollar.
Only a very
dull comedian
attributed to .Mr. Smith, somehow.
lacked staying qualities. That was
the expression with which he fl-
naify and completely did — twty
we are looking for the do THE
Rule to shine out for what it real doo w or
with young Theodore Roosevelt
the time Mr. Roosevelt was run-
ning against him for governor of
New York. Perhaps running is
an exaggeration. Toddling would
be more like it.
Tie
Jy means ed and do rio
- ------THOMAS R FRAZER -o’, bones "t
704 Anthony St. YESTERDAYS
Tts mvreramt--
VE in THE PL' -
r word,—keep the .—
rn “CLOSET co -
“rattle those hor-
1 e sorrows rn yb — -
FIGURED OUT
TOW does a 59.06 cent dollar make a
dollar debt under a "gold clause"
equal to $1,697
Here is the mathematics of it,
- An ounce of gold formerly had a fried
value of $20.67,
By presidential proclamation the dollar
was devalued In terms of gold, the dollar
being made equal to 59.06 cents of Its
fomer-value and an ounce of gold being
fixed at $35. .
Divide $20.6% into $35. Answer: $1.69.
Or stated algebriacally: 59.06 is to 100
as $1 is to I. That equation worked out
gives $1.69 as he value of x. .
Last year's drouth, the U. S. Weather
. Bureau decides," after long and deep study,
was caused by excessively hot and dry
weather. WThat’s a hot record, and dry,
too.
The Daily Nosegay
Mr. Earl Mitchell,
Mr. Joe C. Thannisch,
Mr. W. W. Merrett,
County Commissioners,
Courthouse,
Dear Earl:
Dear Joe:
Dear Bill:
When the reporter asked you: "Please,
Whose Idea was that salary increase
For you commissioners?" none of you
knew.
Someone must be trying to force it upon
you.
Here's an idea which gives me pause:
Could it be your old friend Santa Claus?
Yours, etc.,
LESTER (Just call me Les)
in my fiction can afford to strike the pose would
of Hamlet and murmur, "To be or not to
. be!"
In my own mind there will be no such
question. Indeed I’ll probably jog the
introspective character inimy story and.
point out, "Either you marry the girl in
the next paragraph and live happily ever
after or you don't. Make up your mind.
I’ve made up mine. I'm starting for the
poker game."
Ask The Dress
You can get an answer to any answer
able question 01 fact by writing to Fred-
erick M. Kerby, Question Editor, Fort Worth
i Press Washington Bureau, 1322 New York
Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C., inclosing
3 cents In stamps for reply. Medical and
legal advice cannot be given.
%
1
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
Never nail, "We left without anyone
knowing"; say “We left without anyone's
knowing.”
4
Q Wns Leon Czolgosz, who assasin-
aled President McKinley, an American? A.
He was nn American of German-Polish
par ntake . .
Q What does varsity mean? A. It la
a contraction of university.. •
Q. Has any trace of the ship
"Cyclops" ever Been found? A. No.
Q. What does to with mean? A,
That is to say; namely.
*
Q. What does the word lla mean? A.
It is the Bantu language of Northern
Rhodesia. ‘
Q. When were 20-cent pieces coined?
A. From 1876 to 1878, inclusive.
Q. Do chimpanzees have tails? A. No.
' Mr. Smith listened tolerantly to
Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign, and,
I be satis- Pegler at the climax, said simply, The
fied with hell-an’-Maria as origi- 1 y oung feller ain't there."
or sport writer
Pegler
nal material in his work, but so it was Mr. Joe Tumulty, then
little is ever expected of men so secretary to Woodrow Wilson
highly placed that when Mr. who first described as boll weevils
Dawes began to say it, that was the new southern congressmen
news. 5 and deserving Democrats from be-
i You may challenge the notion low the line, but out of consid-
that his use of this remark made ' eration for his position he was
him vice president, but It did, all not charged with it at the time,
right with the assistance of his There were some amazing spec-
character pipe, his comedy collar imens of wild life in Washington
andpolitical ciretmstanees.H-JueL Chien and soille 0 the sock-e
, „ less types newly elected to the
That was back in the he-man lower house charged into town
era and Mr. Dawes express ion under the impression that the
made him famous and popular government furnished barracks or
| where his war record had failed dormitories for the statemen.
to distinguish him in the public Finding no such accommodations
imagination. Later on, when the certain of them carried bedding
Republicans moved into Cleveland into their offices and moved tn.
to nominate Mr. Coolidge and The same tactful forbearance
startled statesmen were fleeing that shielded Mr. Tumulty then
the vice presidency in wild alarm, now protects the man who re.
Mr. Dawes was the obvious one. cently referred to a celebrated
When Mr. Frank Lowden finally radio clergyman as the Mad
refused and almost threatened to Monk
sue the party, Mr. Dawes express-
ed a willingness and he was it.
THERE Is a much brighter wit
1 than all these to the language
CERTAINLY the word baloney of the sport business, particularly
U had lost its humorous qual- the racing, fighting and baseball
By, if it ever had any, long be- branches, but originality rou-
tine there and few men have be-
fore Mr. Smith got around to It
His use of the term alphabet soup
in connection with the new gov-
eminent agencies set up under
the Roosevelt administration was
belated, too, for it occurred more
than once in Mr. Bugs Baer's syn-
dicated nonsense in the papers as
far back as 1920. Yet when Mr.
Smith said baloney and alphabet
soup he was making language.
The human, folksy, philosophi-
cal quality of his salutation,
“Hello, you old potato," on the
night of his famous reconciliation
with Mr. Roosevelt in Madison
Square Garden defied inspection.
When you examined it, there was
come associated with a particular
phrase. One of them was Willie
Keeler, who said the way to hit
was to hit ’em where they ain't
And In all the sport business
there never was a phrase-maker
comparable to the late Phocian
Howard, the horse journalist who
ran A little gamblers’ trade jour-
nal called the New York Press
which he always mentioned as the
1 Fireside Companion.
Mr. Howard handled up the
whole thought behind the profes-
sional gamblers' business in the
phrase, "Suckers ca t wait."
(Copyright. 1935, by Ut d Feature
Syndicate, Inc
TDT
A Red Letter Day at Woman’s Club
_____________By C. L. DOUGLAS___________________
THE Woman's Club has mark-
1 ed down January 28 as a
red-letter day on Its calendar.
That’s the. day when the
modern successor to Jules
Verne will come to town. That
term, however, is used merely
as a figure of speech for as a
scientist the. estimable Mon
sieur Jules could not hold a
candle to Dr. William Beebe.
The little naturalist from
New York's Zoological Society
brings with him more romance
and wonder than the distin.
guished novelist ever found pos-
sible to pack Into any of those
"impossible" books in which he
used fiction to accurately pre
diet the future.
Dr. Beebe, in fact, has gone
the writer one better he has
brought the impossible Into the
sphere of reality.
WILLIAM BEEBE, a man of
letters as well as science,
is one of the liaison officers be-
tween the general public and
the workers who toll in the
Not to mention his investiga-
tions into the myths of he
Sargasso Sea, and similar en-
terprises.*
WIPE all these things off the
Vboard, however, and wis
most recent accompl i s h in e n 1
would assure him a place among
the-greatest -sionnet
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have looked A Y
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why he is MiG
coming toeing
Fort Worth-ikenoesst
Last Sum MAT rings
mer, off the EA
B er m u d a
Islands, he
DOIgIDN
crawled into.
laboratories or explore the un- bathysphere
known corners of the world- -
bringing to the man In the
street the latest golden argosies |
of science, and telling him
strange tales of jungles, deserts
and deep seas. F
In short, he carries on for
a 400 - p o ind
steel ball with windows of
fused quartz capable of hoidine
back nine tons of water ind
allowed himself to be lowered
into the sea to a depth of 3028
Thoreau, Fabre and ' W. H.
Hudson.
Borneo, Mexico, Malaya, Mon-
golia, the Sargasso Sea,' the
Galapagos Islands, British Gu-
iana he knows them all. The
monograph he once wrote “on
the pheasant would assure him
a place in the hall of fame, if
he accomplished nothing else
, . as would the essays con-
tained in “Jungle Days" and
"The Edge of the Jungle,” two
of his books.
feet, the greatest dive ever taken
by man.
He discovered a new world-
a world as strange and wonder-
ful as a man might find on the
planet Mars. He found tinge
and hideous fish, some fanged,
some carrying headlights and
tail-lights—marine life never be-
fore known to exist.
These are the things he will ,
describe when he comes here
January 28. . . and that's why
the Woman's Club has marked
it a red-letter day on their cal-
lendar.
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Sheldon, Seward R. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 97, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 1935, newspaper, January 23, 1935; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688682/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.