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THE MON I COMER AOVER I 1SER Cotvatructiva Fearle Indepeitvd'ett THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. 1934 POUR It's In The Air a Letters To The Editor e-' tiUf'' tie dictator cf Louisiana He did not forget to provide for a sweeping investigation ef "vice and corruption" in Kew Orleans, of which there is an abundance, and has always been, although not until Huey decided he most "get an enemy turn reformer. There one detail we had thought that he might forget We never did believe that he would think to have himself made thief counsel for the legislative committee which is to Investigate vice and corruption, as well as Walmsley, in Kew Orleans; but we were wrong again. Huey did not forget even this inconsequential detaiL Huey, by the way, is a good lawyer, a good prosecutor, a good investigator. Since the underworld of New Orleans waa formerly on his side, Huey is bound to know a great deal about it He is an expert on life of all kinds in the great city of New Orleans.

Now that he is mad with the city and its politicians, the world may be assured of a great free show, at the expense of New Orleans's reputation. Brother Walmsley has been licked all along the line lately and we fear that he is to take still another drubbing. All he can do now is to await vindication by posterity, the well known uncertain quantity. CAliFORNlA'S POLITICAL 'QUAKX Is California fcberal or reactionary? The Advertiser Las lived a ring tin. one ban-aired ail years ta be exact but it has aever yet found the answer te that important question.

One day we read that "Hen-Roaring' Hiram Johasea has bees elected to office he is always elected when a candidate for acythicg except the Vice-Presidency a the Bail Moose ticket and he is always a candidate and the next day we read that a nun named Your.g or a man named Rolfe has been elected Governor, whereas the other Senator if we except McAdoo is usually a conservative, harmless person. One day we read that somebody with an unorthodox political opinion has been humiliated by enforcers of the laws of that great State, and the next we learn that Upton Sinclair brilliant Socialist propagandist, has been nominated for Governor by the same Democrats who sent William Cibbs McAdoo to the United 'States Senate. Organized labor ia loved more passionately and hated more ardently in California than in any other State. There is eternal warfare between the unions and the open shops, and the warfare does not itself in love-licks. Usually organized labor takes a licking IU I NmA S.

Ma. ix at i- 'o a. The News MAIXON But the funniest part is that the main thesis old. It was first pointed out publicly by our own Federal reserve board In a monthly bulletin Issued six months ago. WaU Street never noticed it then.

AH nf whlrh rrrtalnlv ahnwt that vou farm ers out west are missing your opportunities, trying to make a living on the farm, when you could go to Wall Street and sell gold bricks the bulls and bears. a a a a FORTUNE The prospective new governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Marrlner Eccies, got into the new deal In a peculiar way. The Inside story is that Stuart Chase, the well known financial authority, was going to make a speech in Eccles's home town out west and Eccies came out to hear him. Chase was late, so the presiding officer called on Eccies, the local banker, to make a speech. When Chase arrived, he found Eccies making better speech than he intended to make.

He was so impressed that he reported Eccies to Prof. Raymond Moley. Shortly thereafter, when the administration was looking around for a treasury assistant not connected with any New York banking' interests, Moley recommended Eccies. His treasury connection has been so satisfactory that Treasury Secretary Morgenthau strongly supported him for the reserve board job. LIBERTY LEAGUE The powers behind tht American Liberty League are planning to coma out soon with a new list of backers showing wider distribution of support They would like to get some prominent names west of the Alleghanles, like those of Jim Reed, Newton Baker and outstanding people of that type.

TnntrfAt.t.llR V. 1 ii.iui;mvwij, Uluy (lave iluuueu Ulttl ID the same time the name of Al Smith was announced as a backer of the Liberty League, Al's old political ally, Boss Hague, of New Jersey, publicly announced himself for Roosevelt In 1936. Hague was last on the Roosevelt band wagon this-time. a a NOTES The Richberg report on new deal progress is going to be made a campaign text book for Democratic Congressional candidates Commerce Secretary Roper's sobering speech on the new deal attitude toward business took the same moderate tone as speeches by Chairman Kennedy of the Securities Commission and Assistant Commeroe Secretary Dickinson. There will be more of them number of the New York speculators have been quietly going in for cheap gold and silver stocks on the Toronto exchange.

The extent their operations Is indetermlable, but each purchase represents a flight of capital The maximum number of workers in all branches of the textile industry was 1,096,000 in 1929, which Indicates that the current popular estimate of 800,000 is somewhat large The current forgotten man appears to be Budget Director Douglas, once the best informed new dealer, now the least noticed. In demand and he never manages to keep up with orders for drawings of his cut-up col-leglates. Held Is also one of the few established writers to desert th big town. He has selected New Orleans, also a growing locale for fiction, and spends most of his time there. a a a a Harlem now has a negro columnist whose pieces appear under the heading, "This Hectic Harlem" in the Black Belt's leading gazette.

The Amsterdam News. His name is Roy Ottley and the quarter halls him as Harlem's Mark Helllnger. He writes of the highlights and shadows of the main arteries Seventh and Lenox Avenues and has quite a knack for the graphic. Already his year's collection of stories are to be published under the quaint enough title: "One Year in a Coal Bin." a a a a Ben Bernle Is one of the few broadcasters to use restraint about family affairs. Only intimates know of his singular devotion to a 16-year-old son in a military academy.

His references to the lad are adroit such as the time Ed Wynn snd son were dining at the place where Bernle appeared in Chicago. He introduced Wynn and especially extolled Wynn's son as one of the most remarkable boys of the day, a fine athlete, a fine this and a fine that. But as he wound up he exclaimed: "If Culver listening in, I'm only kidding." That was revealing little touch of sentiment for his boy but not many knew it. a a a a Bagatelles: Mrs. Morris Gest has never stepped foot in the now sold Belasco Theater since her father died.

Marilyn Miller Is reputed America's richest actress. Elsie Robinson's serial, "I Wanted Out" drew more fan mall than any other written in 20 years. George Raft once played drums In sn orchestra. Feter B. Kyns removed 15 pounds recently writing a novel.

Luther Reed has finished a biography of his friend Joseph Urban. Mary Boland uses the longest clgaret holder in Hollywood. Winston Churchill is sn expert bag puncher, a a a Readers often well, two did anyway ask one measures a column. How to know the number of words. They seem to think it a trade trick.

It isn't A fellow just somehow has a feeling he's said enough. And there, by gum, is the end of the column. (Copyright. 1934, McNaiubt Syndicate. Inc.) tavf ra luJut acHni t-vm mi tu tuM Cunt hlhM trm l.

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The Birmingham police department, it is pointed out, bow has a special bomb squad, but it will have to make more arrests before the trouble can be cured. One or two arrests should do the work. A COMMON ERROR A British clergyman is all upset' over the use by a fellow Englishman of a phrase which he believes is a "horrid Americanism:" The clergyman who lives in Colchester, if that makes any difference writes The London Times: "Why does Sir John B. Marriot inflict on us the horrid Ameri-manis of face up to'? Why cannot he simply and tersely face the facts'?" On this side of the Atlantic, The New York Sun scratches its editorial head and asks: In what part of the three Americas is the phrase "face up to" commonly In use with the algnfllcation of "face the There are on this hemisphere many men of many tongues and many degrees of literacy between the north pole and the south, and somewhere "face up to," difficult though it is to say, may be in common use; if it is, It has escaped the notice of men whose opportunity to make note of the oddities of Idiomatic speech and the strange turns of the vernacular are latrly good. On the other "face the facts" is widely used now as It has been for generations.

Is the "horrid Americanism'- merely the personal idiosyncrasy of an Individual whom the cleric it annoys has too hastily accepted as representative of all the people of a land Well, "face up to" is not an Alabama expression, anyway; In fact The Advertiser never has heard an American use such a phrase. In Alabama, as in most sections of the country we "face "look at the record," "face the music," "take it on the chin," "take the rap," and indulge in divers other forms of Fact-Facing. But we never, never "face up to." It is true that we sometimes "own up "to" something. But that Is an admission, and not a matter of direct Fact-Facing. We do not agree with the English clergyman that "face tha fact" is an apt phrase.

It is too time-worn. It is used too much. We are inclined to believe along with The Sun that the expression "face up to" is merely a peculiarity of Sir John -Mar-riot Yet we wonder if many expressions we Americans consider "English" are not mere psuedo-British Americanisms. Certainly England and Europe have certain ideas about the American use of the English langauge which do not always conform to our actual usage of words. Sometimes provincial Americans are annoyed when fellow countrymen return after several years in England, wearing tweeds and a British accent Oftentimes Americans confuse phrases peculiar to the individual with the country whose accent he wears.

The English cleric is wrong. But mere Americans can not blame him until we clear ourselves on the same thing. SCOTLAND YARD FOR HIRE Scotland Yard has gone commercial. For $7.50 one can hire a uniformed bobby. And for $17 one can employ for 12 hours sleuthing a bona fida Scotland Yard de tective.

Quick, Watston, the needle! What would Sherlock Holmes say about such braw penny-picking? Back when Mr. Holmes made monkeys of the men from the Yard, English de tectives were not retained in such an un- romantic fashion. Indeed, private detectives of the Holmes ilk frowned on the commercial aspects of a noble calling. In not a single adventure of the ace of British sleuths do we recall reading that Sherlock Holmes haggled over money. But times are harder in England.

And even a Sherlock Holmes must buy groceries. Prince George is going to marry the beautiful Grecian princess. But what about Wales? Isn't it about time that Eddie thought about setting up housekeeping? We see where a White Plains, N. butler sat up half the night for two months recording the noises made by a neighbor's 40 dogs. We know of some people who sit up all night long without even any records to keep their minds off the the (traS fc T.

B. V. rOK THE LEGISLa TCU Editor The Advertiser: In eejecuEf a man to fUl ttat vacancy in the lguiature caused by lot oeaui of Hon. Thocna-s Amnglon I suggest T. B.

BUI, Jr, a Toucg of whoa are a3 proud. Abie, leaijea. patflouc. Montgomery. Ala.

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Southern Writers Corra Harris cries out against the Southerners who are writing jUspaxag-trifly about their own people, she says, to please Northern readers, and so ta feed a false sense of superiority, sirs. Harris doetnt Use the new realms, and she dislikes it when it involves, Irom her standpoint, an exploitation of condition in the South for the satisfaction of Northerner, who, having grown Indifferent to their own sins, gloat at reports of Southern backsliding. "Some of their writers and 'readers retain a sort of maggot-minded culture which can only be nourished by whatever is evil and scandalous in the South." There can be little question touching the assumption of superiority on the part of many Northerners. And this attitude may account for some of the popularity which some recent novels by Southern writers have attained. But to bear down too hard on this explanation is to miss much that such books have done and much that they stand for with respect to an honest facing of realities.

We have had a full share of romance in Southern literature. We ought to get rid of our squeamishness about the social data with which some of the fiction under fire Is packed. What Is to be borne in mind is that many Southerners are reading the work of this "Peeping Tom snd finding in a great deal that is valuable and significant despite exaggerations that Irritate. You cant dismiss men like Faulkner, Caldwell, Stiihllng, even if they happen to Jar you and make you wish that they had choaen other themes. And you dont damn the realists by pointing to the fragrance of Stark Young's novels.

Let us rather be grateful that the abundance ef literary material In the South is at least being utilised by native writers, realists snd romancers. Birmingham Age-Herald. Dog Talk A Hamburg scientist has announced the result of a recent experiment which should be of interest-to all who ever owned or loved a dog. Dr. Emanuel Sarrls, of the Institute for Environmental Research, declares that dogs "learn the meaning, of certain words very well snd are not fooled by similar words." several dogs were used, named variously Paris, Haris, Arls, yet says the Hamburg dispatch, "they learned to respond to their names It is likely that Dr.

Harris experiments with dogs of a breed known variously as German shepherd, German police, Belgian police and Alsatian, a breed which is peculiarly adapted to work requiring quick Intelligence. Moreover, the experiments were carried on Indoors, where tonal qualities are more readily distinguished; For, as everyone who has ever had any experience with sporting breeds knows, dogs do have a certain amount of difficulty in distinguishing similar vowel sounds. The bound books of Maryland and Virginia hunt clubs would reveal such names as Melodious, Bounce, Logan, Cherokee, Scots man. Sheriff, Rlngwood, Dashwood, Frolicsome, Fancy, Julie. Couples bearing such anti-phonal names ss Buckshot and Powder, Bugler and Drummer, Nip and Tuck, are sometimes found; and there is an interesting instance of a bitch named Music and her three puppies-Do, Re and Ml.

The bestowal of such names reflects a certain whimsey on the part of the huntsman, but their practical use while hounds are working in a covert or going to or from a meet is of first Importance. It is highly probable that hounds, or setters and pointers, or terriers, or any number of breeds or mongrels, named Paris, Harls, Arts, would eventually learn to distinguish their names in the privacy of home or kennel. Indeed, it would be surprising if this does not prompt dog lovers to come forward with stories of their pets. Baltimore Evening Sun What 4re Vacations For? An English essayist has worked out a fresh version of the ancient injunction in Genesis: "In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou enjoy holidays." He has just 'come back from a vacation, he has seen other vacationists in a veritable travail of enjoyment Being leisurely at a Summer resort is something everybody is at great pains to avoid, he reports. Why must there be this enormous hustling and bustling on the part of people who are avowedly seeking utter ease? "The odd thing," continues our British observer, "is that it is only during holidays that many of us become victims of this passion for the strenuous life.

I myself, If I wished, could take a walk, for example, on almost any day of the year. But I seldom do so. I can find a hundred excuses for sitting in a chair or for being driven from this place to that instead of walking. Let me loos on a holiday, however, and before I know what I am doing, I am walking till I feel more tired than after the hardest day's work I have ever done in my life." It isnt so odd after an. Vacationists have an idea that they ought to have a complete change.

If they do no walking at home, they become hot-footing pedestrians when away for their surcease from the regular grind Only few seem to realize that a holiday is distinguished for freedom from everyday cares, thereby providing an opportunity for special emphasis on the durable satisfactions of the rest of the year. Judge Hall, of The Montgomery Advertiser, has the right slant on that problem, as on most other questions. When he goes to a resort, he wants to meet people and to talk to his heart's content Yet being companionable and talkative is his chief avocation at home. Birmingham Age-Herald. Keep Your Temper, Boys As everybody knows, ridicule is one of the best of weapons.

The reason it is so good is thatHt tends to make the opponent lose his temper, and a man who has lost his temper is easy. President Roosevelt, we suspect had this fact in mind when he discussed John W. Davis's Liberty League with the correspondents yesterday. He was polite about the -league. He was excessively polite.

But there was a condescending note In his politeness, there was a grin behind his grace and his hearers burst into laughter when he suavely scored his most effective points. His object was obviously to make monkeys of his opponents, and he earn perilously close to doing so. Such tactics are calculated to ride Messrs. Davis, Smith, dii Pont et al. But we hope, for their own sake, that they won't let themselves be riled.

Besides sf they show their anger, then the rest of the country will laugh as loudly as the correspondents laughed yesterday afternoon, and the Liberty League, instead of being the solemn, high-minded organisation which they hope to make it, will turn Into a butt with about as much dignity and as much power as fhe Jflux JUan Baltimore levelling Bun. HITLER AND CENSORSHIP Few persona were surprised to learn that Herr Hitler had expelled Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) from Germany because she happened to write an article several years ago telling the American people that Hitler, the soap boxer, fell far short of being a Mussolini. Certainly for a Leader who insists on controlling the domestic press and all other mediums of expression as well as the pulpit the mere dismissal of a foreign writer ia not an unusual thing. Miss Thompson writes tha truth as she finds it about Germany.

Of course Hitler does not want tha people of the world to know the truth about Germany. Any day now one must expect Hitler to order all foreign correspondents to pack up their typewriters and march along home. But if Hitler were a more subtle propagandist he would not go about censorship in such a manner. For once the 'foreign press is barred from Germany the papers, especially the American newspapers, will insist on getting and printing whatever news they can get from Germany, Such a method of news gathering would work hardships and expense on the American It would mean that much news would have to come for sources outside of Germany sources which perhaps would not be favorable to the Nazi Government In that even Hitler would be defeating his purpose. THE PRIVILEGE OF LAUGHTER Imagine a United States of America with a Constitution which forbade any writer making his reader laugh.

Imagine that if you can, and then think of the plight of thousands of Russians under a Soviet Government which fitbie Russian writers to use satire. Happily for the Russians, however, they will not be denied the right to laugh next year. A recent Congress of writers asked the Soviet Government for permission to use comedy in the written word. And the Government granted the request Was it not Shakespeare, or Billy Sunday who once said: "Give the tyrant soldiers and a corrupt house of Lords, but give my people the right to laugh and I defy the monarch to tyrant longer?" There are Government medicine men who think quinine is good for what ail government because it tastes bad. And there are those who think that anything that tastes bad is good for it because it's hard to take.

Finding Good In World A character in a current novel is described as a man who set out to compile his own Bible. This chap was an offshoot of the village atheist species. He had no use for formal religion, but he did have a lurking belief In the lUvinity of mankind. Bo he got a big scrapbook and went through the newspapers dally, collecting clippings which would support his thesis that humanity has within It the seeds of something very great and noble. He got together quite an interesting book.

On one page, there would be a newspaper photo of some such man as Marconi. Then, there would be a clipping telling how some phone girl in a town menaced by forest fire stuck to her post In spite of the danger, to warn others of the flames. Next there would be a story of some youngster who lost his life trying to save another from drowning; a picture of a traffic cop whose kindly, good-natured efflcisncy protected the lives of scores of school children daily; a story about some country doctor who had rounded out half a century of underpaid service; pictures of such men, as the Mayo Brothers, and so on page after page of revelations that people can be far more unselfish and brave and devoted to the common good, than anyone has a right to expect them to be. The dally papers are full of such clippings; stories of people who use their intelligence to put new comforts or new tools into the hands of tolling men, 'stories of men and wemen who are willing to sacrifice their ease, their careers, or their very lives in obedience to some mysterious but. imperative call to sacrifice.

Usually we read them and then go on to something else. Since the dally gist of news about people contains much that is discouraging, much that has to do with stupidity and greed and wilful wrong-headedness, we are apt to forget about the brighter spots. Keeping a scrap-book of this kind might be a wholesome corrective. Whatever progress the race makes must depend, ultimately, on the resources that exist in the human heart. We cannot be reminded too often that these resources of heroism, or unselfishness, and of Intelligence are drawn from an Inexhaustible reservoir.

Huntsvllle Times. CIRCUS STUFF Circus Manager "Well, what's wrong now?" India Rubber Man "Every time the strong man writes a letter he uses me to rub out his mistakes." Boston Globe. THEN THE SPARJKS FLEW Fond Mother "Will the photograph be anything Ilk him?" Fed-un Photographer "Yes. madam, but we can easily alter that." Smith's Weekly (Sydney.) It'll bt news, too, if you ever read: 'TugUlvt Seeks Posse. 'Tsmpa Morning Tribune.

when it strikes and riots, but always Hiram Johnson, the "progressive," is nominated and elected, even though at other times soma moderate conservative is elected either as Senator or Governor; and the next thing we know a Socialist who promises to abolish poverty, following an expensive campaign which any old political boss would envy, is nominated Governor by a party which he had spent a lifetime in denouncing. I Tuesday Hirman Johnson was nominated by every party that had a chance to vote for him. Both the Bepublican and Democratic parties certainly nominated him, so that his election in November by a practically unanimous vote, is assured. Now, Johnson is so much of a free lance in politics that originally as a candidate for Governor he could defeat the vested interests and the political machines of California, and subsequently have himself elected Senator. In 1912 the bolting Bull Moosers, headed by T.

made Johnson their candidate for Vice-President Barely has he been regular. In 1916 he delivered California to Wilson over Hughes, not by espousing Wilson's csuse, but by remaining silent on Hughes. In 1932 he advocated the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and this year Roosevelt advocated the reelection of Johnson with the result that Johnson has been nominated for Senator by every party in California whose name he could remember. Johnson is independent, courageous and able; he is liberal with regard to domestic policier, but" as narrow-guaged as any cross-roads justice of the peace in the remoter sections of Vermont with reference to foreign policies.

The men is obtuse if pot downright stupid with reference to international questions. He is as backward as the anti-Washingtonians in the 18th century. What a pity it is that one who might have been a great American leader is yet content to be small-minded, petty and even vicious in his hostility to every liberal impulse regarding international cooperation. The statesman who sees nothing in the world picture but the obvious aspects of his own nation is but a cheap clown by comparison with those who see mankind as an organic unit and the many nations inter related. Hiram Johnson could have been one of the great figures of recent parliamentary history if only he had had the imagination to see what is obvious to every first rate intelligence on earth, namely, that no nation can live unto itself alone.

Nevertheless, Johnson is a bold, gay blade in American politics and it is remarkable that a State of turmoil and anxiety, such as California, a State of purplish radicalism on the one hand and pale, yellow conservatism on the other, should yet have caused its two major parties to nominate this grim old bloodhound to propose him for United Senator and that upon the very day that one of these parties should have nominated a Socialist for Governor! What an amazing picture California presents at this hour! No other political situation in the United States is so interesting or significant Here is the fabulous Sinclair, author of numerous radical novels, one of the heroes of modern literature, sweeping the State as a candidate for Governor in a party which he had before, scorned and denounced. Now, a Democratic nomination for Governor of California is no empty gesture of courtesy. Once in a while a Democrat carries the State. Wilson carried it Roosevelt carried it, McAdoo carried itfor Senator. Now McAdoo and President Roosevelt have an arrant Socialist on their hands.

What will they do about him? Will they support him in November, or will they pull for his more conservative Republican opponent? Can a Democratic administration and its Democratic affiliates support an avowed Socialist under any conditions? Whatever may be the perturbations of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. McAdoo, to say nothing of their buddy, Hiram Johnson, the fact remains that they have Upton Sinclair on their hands, and that too, in a State where it is unlawful by statue to exercise the privileges of free speech voushsafed in the bill of rights of the Federal Constitution. Is California liberal or conservative? You answer. This is our busy day.

PROSECUTOR LONG Kingfish Huey does not overlook much. He did not forget to have himself elected Governor, and subsequently United States Senator. He has not forgotten at any time to have a friendly Legislature elected. He did not forget to elect a rubber stamp Governor to succeed him. He did not forget to consolidate his position ss News Behind By PAUL Washington, au.

as. The cotton tex tile mill owners have a very sood reason for sitting around twiddling their thumbs in the lace or the Impending suixe. They know some thing. Their figures of stocks on hand are nevef made public, but are cir culated privately among leaders in the trade. These show that cotton textile manufacturers had on hand a few days' ago enough finished grey goods to supply demand for a normal month.

In fact their stocks are so high that they would probably have sought a continuance PAUL MALLON of the NRA order curtailing code production. had they not suspected a strike was eomlng. Furthermore, the old order curtailing 'produc tion expired last Saturday, so they have a week of unlimited production now at hand before the strike breaks. If they operate a capacity they can boost production 33 1-3 per cent above what it has been, thus piling up additional stocks, DANGERS These manufacturing stocks are at least equalled by additional stocks in the hands of the garment makers, dyers, retailers, et al. (The grey goods include only those wnicn nave not yet been ayeai.

This means that as far as the public is con cerned, there Is at least a two months' supply of cotton goods at hand for the strike. The price will probably go up, but not very much, unless the silk, woolen and rayon workers also walk out. In that possibility lies the main importance of the strike, both to the industry and the public. If silk, woolen and rayon goods continue to be manufactured the average buyer will automatically accept these substitutes. Habits thus formed sometimes remain after strikes are over.

The experience in the coal Industry ten years ago Is proof of Repeated strikes encouraged the development of substitutes, so that the coal operators have never recovered their markets, even to this day. a a HAYSEEDS O. Henry's 1 assumption that New York is the biggest hick town in the world was fully justified by the way WaU Street bit on the Angas pamphlet. i Competent authorities contend that this little book, written by an English economist, had more to do with the recent stock market rise than anything else. The title of it is "The Coming American Doom" and Its thesis is that there is so much money piled up in banks now that, at the first sign of restored confidence, speculation will run rife.

The Wall Streeters read it decided the boom Was here, and shot prices up. A few days, later they began to discover minor passages in the pamphlet suggesting a lack of fundamental knowledge regarding the American financial system. New York Day By Day By a a McINTYKB NEW YORK, Aug. 29. With Dorothy Parker married and residing In California, Irvin Cobb drafted to Hollywood and Wilson Mlzner gone from the mortal scene, there seems no one left in New York upon which to hang the bright quip.

They were the three unfailing pegs. Somehow, it gave a gag especial plume to preface it as coming from one of these three. As a result, thousands of stories snd wisecracks credited to them were not their handiwork at all. Although each has a pronounced flair for the devastating mot. As a matter of fact many of Broadway's choicest puns, dusted off a bit, have been spawned by Frisco and Roger Davis, an indifferent actor who acts as a sort of personal clown for Fannie Brioe.

Eugene Kelcey Allen, dramatic critic for a garment daily, also sponsored swift ones credited to others. There has been a distinct falling off In this crackling form of humor since vaudeville went into eclipse and the majority of curbstone comedians became highly-paid gag-men in the movies. The old-time barroom, too, was a hive for ra soring remarks that convulsed the town, a a Nothing is quite so lonesome looking as a lonely boy on a quietly aristocratic New York residential street. As a rule, he has no playmate in the entire block and, so great is the fear of kidnaping, someone is always watching him. I saw one today in East 86th standing beside a fire plug, digging a toe in the sidewalk and looking vacantly nowhere.

"Why aren't you in the country?" I asked. His reply was direct "Papa hasn't money any more," he said. a Statistics show that Invitation audiences to radio broadcasts do more than anything else to cement the artist's most valuable asset-fans. People who see a broadcaster at work are not likely to miss dialing in for months to come. Ed Wynn likes to watch others broadcast.

86 do Amos 'n Andy. John Held, is one of the few successful combinations of witter and artist. His books hsve fair sale, hit short stories snd articles are Is to a is a A of is a.