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Altoona Tribune, Tuesday Morning, October 25, 1938 ALTOONA TRIBUNE The Bogeyman The News Behind the News National Whirligig This Morning's COMMENT By HENRY W. SHOEMAKER By THE TIMES TRIBCNE CO. No. Ulo Twelfth Strt, Altoona, P. Henry V.

Shoemaker, President Theo. Arter, Jr, Vies President and Editor. Robert W. Boyer. Managing Editor.

Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered at Altoona Postofflce as Second Class Mall Matter Member of Tne Associated Prea The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use tor re publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the local news published herein All rights or republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Sole National Advertising Representative: Fred Kimball, rrrlar Subac rintion Rates One Week One Month (In Advance). One Year (In $9.00 Mall Subscription Rata One Month (In Advance 60 Two Month (In adrance) Six Month (In Advance), a.io One Year (In law, who says that it will not become a "lash over industry." If it were to become such it would throw into reverse the wheels of progress that, fortunately, now are begin-1 ning to turn in tne ngnt direction. Perhaps the law was enacted too hastily and because of that Tnanv imperfections may be found. If by trial we find what is wrong it may i be assumed that the matter will be rectified.

Certainly it increases government regulation of business to a degree that may be unpredictable and becaus? of that there may be certain resentments on the part of business. However, the wise course would seem to be to give the law a trial a fair trial and decide, not in the haste in which the law was enacted, but studiously and after honest effort just what changes should be made. The law will either increase trade and employment or it will decrease employment and industrial production. If success attends the operation of the law, well and good. If it doesn't then we shall have to have something else.

BEAUTIFYING HIGHWAYS IGHTS-OF-WAY along national and state highways entering Pittsburg will be landscaped and beautified by crews of young men of the national youth administration. The work is being sponsored by the city. Beautifying the highway entrances to a city is a most important piece of work and if it is needed in Pitts burg it certainly is needed in Altoona. Our highway entrances to the city might well be improved and made more lovely. After all the visitor gets the proper conception of civic mindedness and community development if the approaches to the city not only are convenient and safe but beautiful as well.

There is plenty of work to do here to make these approaches beautiful and of great benefit to the community. City officials, of course, have much to do, but it does seem that a combination of the city officials and others interested in civic matters would result in a concerted movement to carry forward this important work. VIKING SPIRIT Romance and adventurous spirit of the old-time Vikings still lives. And it is fortunate that in this world which is growing more or less soft that this is true. Miss Anna Foyn Bjonnes, a sturdy and good-looking woman of Norway, with a crew of three, brought a 45-foot sailing lifeboat over a restless Atlantic ocean to New York City there to meet Captain Charles A.

Crown-shield and marry him. And now the two of them with the crew of three, are bound for a honeymoon cruise that is expected to last two years. Thus the bride and bridegroom follow the sea trails laid by Viking ancestors who sailed and rowed their tiny boats into all parts of the world. Thus these two prove again that legend and tales of daring and tradition have not done it all, that even today when giant ships of the sea and giant ships of the air make speed and annihilate distance that there still is room for darinj deeds in i tiny ships. agricultural program for submission to both the Republican and Democratic platform committees with the full weight of all seven groups behind it.

The agricultural planks In this year's state Democratic platform are a strikingly accurate paraphrase of the policies outlined in a statement by the conferenc board dated September 28 (Just before the conventions), The Rs-publicans did not follow It nearly as closely. ASSET Another point: Governor Lehman has established himself firmly as "the farmer's friend." Ever since he took office he has been careful to consult the heads of these organizations on all agricultural questions and has followed their advice practically 100 per cent Naturally they rata him a swell governor and let their followers know It. Milk prices to producers (not to consumers) rose by more than 30 per cent from August to September of this year. The happy dairy farmers give all credit to tha Rogers-Allan milk marketing law. This bill was passed because the governor brought personal pressure to hear on his party leaders In the state legislature after they had originally turned It down.

The farm organizations know that too. So G. O. P. attacks on Lehman's agricultural policies as from Moscow" fall on unresponsive ears.

Normally the upstate farm vote, is Republican. But the situation outlined above is a tremendous political asset to Herbert H. Lehman and a corresponding handicap to Thomas E. Dewey. REVERSAL The steel industry doesn't seem to know its own mind.

Two weeks ago a cut in sheet steel prices was announced. Last week the cut was rescinded and the original price schedule restored. Sheet steel is taken principally by automobile manufacturers. Inside reports are that the official price had been seriously undermined by widespread "chiseling" before the reduction. Auto makers had staged an informal buyers' strike for several months, precisely In the hope of forcing prices down.

Finally, in their hunger for orders, steel companies here and there bagan making sub rosa concessions. The practice spread rapidly it's by no means a novelty in the industry's history because of fierce competitive conditions. Steel leaders decided they had better regu- larize the situation in the interest of stability, so the cut was officially confirmed. No sooner had that happened than it became apparent that i boom was developing in the motor industry. Auto officials made optimistic statements.

Workers were rehired. Production schedules were stepped up. The steel people decided they might as well cash in on this prosperity henca the prompt restoration of the former price for steel. They figure the auto companies will have to buy from them at the higher quotation now. OHIO New Yorkers get reports from trustworthy scouts that Republican Robert A.

Taft is steadily gaining on Democrat Robert J. Bulkley in the Ohio senatorial contest. Mr. Bulkley is nervous about his prospects. He lost his temper publicly at a recent joint debate between the rivals.

The audience Booed him lustily and a number of them walked out. The outburst made a very bad lmpres-sion. Analysis of the Ohio registration figures indicates that only about 35 per cent of the W. P. A.

workers in the state will take the trouble to vote. This is a blow to state Democratic leaders, who had counted heavily on their support. There are other signs of serious disaffection also. Insiders estimate that perhaps 20 per cent of those who registered as Democrats will vote for Taft, and a slightly smaller percentage for John W. Bricker (G.

O. P. candidate for governor). If these estimates are borne out in the election, the Republicans should win handily. (Continued oa Tag 12) Well, I'll Tell You By Bob Burnt There's a big movement on foot now to establish a world court where representatives from all countries will meet and decide things fairly and squarely.

Some of tha nations don't want to go lnt it They're probably like my uncle who was put in jail and says, "You leave this to me I'll Kt that you get Jus-rice!" My uncle says, "Now wait a minute they've got twelve men on the Jury that will give Justice. What I want with you Is to git me out of here!" DAILY MEDITATION Freedom from Sin. Romans The wages of sin 'a death. Death on the highways, death on the battlefield, death of the body and death of the soul it seems that our age is headed for destruction. But we can be saved from death when we are ready to be saved from our sins.

several sweet loans from the R. F. C. soon, as well as private flotation of utility issues. TIPOFF President Roosevelt's and Secretary Hull's No, 1 man on their black list is Herr Hitler.

America's statesmen are privately bitter over the Cxechoslovakian sellout and Der Fuehrer's strong-armed methods, though they haven't the heart to blame Great Britain and France. The informed opinion here is that the agreement was preferred to 10,000,000 dead. But, Washington Is making scant effort to conceal its dislike of the German strong boy. Mr. Hull has never summoned a meeting of the Arms and Munitions Control Board to review the decision on selling helium to Berlin, although the item has hung on the docket for months.

You can bet that he won't, for stubborn Harold Ickes has been completely vindicated in dynamiting the transaction. Likewise Mr. Hull simply snorts when Berlin, through Its newspaper propagandists, suggests negotiation of a tariff agreement. In their efforts on behalf of beleaguered Jews, Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull are administering a racial snub to the dictators.

But the real tipoff is the staging of the New York spy trial within a few days of the Munich conference. Had that affair promised world peace or a move toward disarmament the exposure of Germany's espionage system would undoubtedly have been delayed for fear of muddying the waters. But the D. of J. offered no objection to Immediate prosecution, and F.

D. R. made it the occasion for demanding more funds for counterespionage. WINNER No White House statement in months has provoked such a favorable public response as the President's plea for peace between the Green and Lewis wings of organized labor and Secretary Perkins' follow-up. From employers as well as work-ingmen came requests for more attempts to knock the leaders' heads together.

What F. D. R. is trying to do is to apply outside pressure, knowing well that inside Insistence on a reconciliation the Tobln demand for Instance is almost Irresistible. The reinforcement of the Tobln teamsters' request for a truce by the President and Miss Perkins suggests that the drive against the C.

I. O. and A. F. of L.

chieftains was planned, premeditated and carefully arranged. It is hoped that John L. Lew. is will show a more tractable attitude at the November 14 conference for transforming the C. I.

O. into a more permanent organization. Mr. Roosevelt wants peace needs it badly. For should the schism last through the next session of congress, It will jeopardize important legislation, possibly force a New Deal retreat on labor, relief and agricultural fronts.

And he usually gets what he wants. He ought to win in this battle, for the rank and file of labor still think he's their best bet as a national leader. Every poll, private and public, testifies to their hero-worshipping attitude. CO-OPTED President Roosevelt has a new member of his official family. His name is Steve Vasi- lakos.

For years Steve, Grecian by descent, has parked his peanut stand on East Executive Avenue across from the treasury. Few years ago District of Columbia police ordered him off the thoroughfare because his stand menaced the safety of traffic as it swept around the corner from Pennsylvania avenue. Mrs. Roosevelt intervened, however, and he was permitted to move his whistling contraption onto the tree belt There he sells peanut to cabinet members and gives them free to White House squirrels. Since his rise into the headlines, his friends send letters to him in care of the President.

They usually address him as "Steve Vasila-kos, White House peanut vender." NOTES Foreign trade authorities see doom of Hull's reciprocal trade policy through new dominance in Europe of Germany's managed economy. estimated that national income will be five billion dollars higher for the second half of this year than for the U. S. A. slum clearance projects are now under way in 41 Six newsreel moving pic ture companies spent about 000 getting ready to cover the European war that didn't come off.

Official American observers on Spanish war front rate Russian aviation performance at 4(5 per Good at long distance bombing only. NEW YORK By James McMullin UNITED The upstate agricultural vote is likely to be a deci sive factor in the New York election. Backstage elements enter this picture that the average citizen and many city politicians know nothing about The key to the situation is that leaders of New York state farm groups work together on agricul tural issues, year in 'and year oui, with remarkable harmony and solidarity. The seven leading farm hodies (New York State Grange, Farm Bureau Federation Horticultural society, Vegetable Growers association. Federation of Home Bureaus, Dairymen's league and Grange League Federation Exchange) maintain a joint New York State conference Board of Farm Organizations.

Every year when state party conventions are scheduled, this board drafts an WASHINGTON i By Ray Tucker SHORTAGE War's necessities may produce the seemingly impossible a lasting and constructive peace between the White House and the private utilities. In private pow-wows with Louis Johnson, Assistant War Secretary, over mobilisation of power for national defense, the administration's "bad boys" have behaved like angels. Mr. Roosevelt has shown himself appreciative and in a reciprocal mood. It has been a by-product rather than a deliberate or anticipated result of almost weekly "town meetings" at the War Department, where Washington "radicals" and the Industry's "economic royalists" have been exchanging ideas for more than a month.

After treble checking of their studies, army engineers reported to the utilities that by 1940 their capacity for even peacetime production vtoiild lag behind demand. Shortages were found to be especially acute In Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit areas. Other centers vital to national defense needs in the survey are Boston, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Schenectady, New York, Niagara Falls, Baltimore, Cleveland, Birmingham, St Louis, Cincinnati. The industry's topnotchers Messrs. Zimmerman, Floyd Carlisle, Fogarty and Philip H.

Gadsden admitted that the engineers had not exaggerated the situation. They promised to cooperate in construction of new units, with the Implied admission that they had overplayed their hand through live long years of feudisra with Washington. ARMISTICE Although current agreements are highly confidential and tentative, the private utilities will probably spend about $950,000,000 to bring their produc tion capacity up to peacetime par. If they cannot finance the expansion from their cvn funds, th R. F.

C. will lend them the money at a reasonable rate. Only a few technical difficulties prevent prompt announcement of this surprising rapprochement The private boys won a few vic tories of their own, however. With the possibls exception of completion of a dam in Georgia to relieve the load on T. V.

this new supply of power will be developed by steam rather than wateran inside blow at F. D. pet theory. Except for T. V.

A. which figures only minutely in the national defense setup, the government has promoted no large scale rival for the private industry in the affected area lying entirely east of the Mississippi. In the national defense power man, whioh is scaled to show a region's wartime importance, Connecticut shows up larger than Tennessei and Alabama T. V. home grounds.

Though too early to venture on rosy predictions, the outlook for an armistice is hopeful, meaning that this key industry may put money and men to work within a few months. You may look for Side Slants On The News By the Associated Press Nic Kitty Scat DETROIT, Oct 24. Part of Detroit was jaguar-jumpy tonight. The reason was Bussie, a 20-pound, 18-month-old jungle cat broke his leash and left his birch-pole shelter yesterday. Police warned the public that the cat was not vicious if no attempt was made to touch him.

The officers pointed out, however, that it probably was very hungry by now, and that small children probably would want to pet its pretty, spotted pelt. Hi-Yo Silver! EVANSTON, 111., Oct 24. Exeunt the fireman, the motor-man and. the candy store owner as Idolr of the younger generation. Drs.

Paul Witty and David Kop- el of the school of education of Northwestern university concluded today that boys in grammar school are planning to be aviators, engineers, athletes, doctors or cowboys. Their conclusions were based on the results of an "interest inventory" of the activities and prefer ences of 3,400 school children. Girls were found to be more "conventional" in their choice of careers. They stm wisn to De teachers, nurses or actresses. Count Your Many Blessings NEW YORK, Oct.

24. JP Pointing with pride to 108 descendants, including children, grandchildren, great and great great grandchil'Ven, Benjamin Kot- lowitz, celebrated his 113th birthday today in the home of the Daughters of Jacob, the Bronx. At the same time, his great great gTandson, morton Leon Mois-eyev, 13, also of the Bronx, was confirmed in the Jewish religion. Kotlowitz was born in Russia and came to this country in 1905. He attributes his longevity to moderate living and moderate drinking.

He does not smoke. Papa Who (Doesn't) Pay MEMPHIS, Oct 24. Attorneys for Mrs. Nellie Nuckolls said her divorced husband was in "perfect health but won't work" to pay alimony. Counsel for Nolan Nuckolls replied he was too ill to work.

Circuit Judge Harry Laughlin dismissed Mrs. Nuckolls plea for a contempt citation, cut the alimony from $50 to $30 monthly and opined: "You can't make a man work to pay alimony in Tennessee if he doesn't vant to." RIVER ALLIGATOR OR HELLBENDER TVRNS VP IX THE DELAWARE NEAR PHILADELPHIA. Dark-eyed old-time fishermen in the Juniata recall boyhood memories every time the name of hellbender Is mentioned. This does not bring back to them a "bender" or spree or debauch, as woodsmen termed a night of alcoholic conviviality, but a "river alligator," called by scientists "crypto brancftus Allegheniensis." Recently a newspaper in Philadelphia published the following: "A hellbender a flat-headed, tiny-eyed, evil-looking salamander, arrived today at the Phila delphia Zoological Garden. This zoological freak.

looking as though someone had stepped and stomped on It a few times, was caught in the Delaware river it Florence, New Jersey, by Richard F. Miller, 2627 North 2nd street, Philadelphia. The specimen, about ten inches long, was caught in a fike net and created somewhat of a sensation among the fishermen who helped land it. "According to legend a few hellbenders were turned loose in the river about and the present specimen may be a descendant of the original ones. Certainly the hellbender is not native to the Delaware although it is common enough farther west in Pennsylvania.

"Hellbenders are so slimy that it is almost Impossible to hold them. Next to the giant alamander of Japan, they are the largest of ail livine kinds of salamanders." Last month a Central Pennsyl-! vania Sunday newspaper carried a picture of a small boy with six dead hellbenders on a stick, which he had killed on the Loyalsock creek near Williamsport How silly it seemed to destroy these almost prehistoric looking monsters which do no harm to anything. Old "boom rats" and "water dogs," as habitues of the West Branch riverfront are often called. like to sit in their superheated shanties on foggy nights and tell of giant hellbenders they have caught after fierce struggles. Usually the old watermen call theso salamanders "alligators," the term hellbender being only occasionally used.

According to some of them the struggles of the creatures when caught in nets are so grotesque that the name was transferred from the crazy antics of a person on a "hell of a bender" well "yorked." as they generally call alcoholic subjects' "goings on." "They are 'gators and that is their real name," said one of the old Minges brothers at the foot of Penny Hill, near Montgomery, on the West Branch many years ago. There was no more aristocratic family in Central Pennsylvania than these same Minges. In Scotland the name is spelled Men-lies, but pronounced Minges, just as other noble Scotch scions in our Pennsylvania mountains, Fergus is called Dalziel, and so on. Legend has it that the original Minges came to Pennsylvania about 1748 in hie own yacht and sailed up the Delaware under his own as well as British pennants. One of the family had offended a member of the British royal family, by harboring a Highland chieftain after the '45 rebellion, and it was intimated to him he could join Lords Lovat, Balmerino and Tullabardine in the Tower of London, or find an obscure hide away in Pennsylvaaa.

When the sealed orders were opened at the port of Philadelphia the officials advised the Minges party to "heave to" and return to Chesapeake Bay and sail up the Susquehanna; they were not permitted to land in Philadelphia. So they resumed the voyage and sailed up the Susquehanna as far as Penny Hill where the proud yacht was wrecked not far from where the "last raft" capsized last March. Much of the family wealth went to the bottom and the aged Lord Menzies, nearly SO at ths time, died from worry and anxiety in an Indian country. They had been able to get past the Blue Hill, as the Indians looked with suspicious awe on the full-rigged sloop but swarmed aboard the wreckage carrying off pieces of Iron and rope, even the figurehead a trim Scotch lassis in kilts. The old lord declared if the Indians came abroad again he would make a figurehead out of an Indian and tie him under the bowsprit.

Years later when Minges descendants were able to salvage some of their treasure, their horde was called "counterfeit" and they were accused of beings "coiners." "That old offense against royalty stuck to us," Sam Minges said, "and if they had nothing against us, seems always orders were to concoct something to make us miserable." It was in Muncy Dam, about 1902 when one of this nobla house captured a 26-inch hellbender in a net, a slimy monster that fought like a sea wolf and exhibited it at a newspaper office in Montgomery. Once old Sam. McCloskey caught a 24-inch "bender" near the mouth of Chatham's run In Clinton county but by the time the remains got to the late Charles H. Eldon, in Willianw-port, for mounting it was "too far gone" for the great taxider mists to handle. Like a Pennsyl vania wolf, there is no mounted hellbender in our natural history museum in this stata jsew lone FLAYING IN STREETS DANGEROUS Fortunate, indeed, this city where so much playing is tolerated in the street not to have any more accidents and fatalities due to youngsters being run down by motor cars and trucks.

The fatality in Juniata Sunday afternoon, when a little lad lost his life, throws this problem of playing in the streets into bold relief and challenges us all to put a stop to it not that one would deprive childhood of its playtime pleasures but as a matter of safety to the children themselves and the motorists who make use of the highways. After all the streets are for traffic. They never wers planned for playgrounds. Parents can play a large: part in any crusade against playing in the streets. Roller skating, forms of football and basketball and tennis and a conglomeration of "tigger" and "hide-and-seek" and what not are indulged in bv children in the face of conditions.

dangerous traffic They dart in and out behind automobiles and porches and dash across thoroughfares, many times without looking. In the enthusiasm of their games and pastimes it is hardly possible that these boys and girls give any thought to traffic or to dan- Especially is this condition fraught with great dangers in the darker hours of evening and after school. Motorists know of the dan- gers and many a driver pro- ceeds with caution, to be sure, but even so the danger 1 is too great for either comfort or safety. Especially in this season of Hallowe'en are the streets in many sections of the city filled with youngsters in the evenings, bent on amusing themselves in one form or another. Whenever someone makes a suggestion that playing in the streets should be stepped he is accused of wanting to deprive the boys and girls of recreational enjoyments.

The opposite is true. We cannot deprive youth of playtime pursuits, but the loss of one life, such as occurred in Juniata on Sunday afternoon, is too great a price to pay for the general custom of playing in the streets. It is about time that definite action were taken to put a stop to it for the safety of the youngsters themselves and the comfort of motorists. If the parents will not take a hand in the matter then sterner measures should be applied. SHOULD HAVE FAIR TRIAL AlMED to eliminate low wages and excessively long hours, the new wage and hour law now effective, should have a fair and honest trial both by employes and employers.

There may be imperfections in the statute but those imperfections can probably be found and remedied more quickly by observance to the law than by opposition to it. If it can make working conditions happier it will serve a deserving purpose. True, the new law is a gigantic experiment. It is pioneering in a new field. It may savor a little too much of the old NRA but there are some reassuring words coming from Elmer F.

Andrews, the administrator of the new itfiLuAAli DAY BY DAY B. Dritcoil. Square Garden by the Chilean Carabineros. The horse's age is announced as 28, and still jumping. I doubt that there is any birth certificate along with the horse.

Chile is far away, and the method of figuring up horse-years may be different down there, under tho Southern Cross. Our Old Tom was 21 when he lay down for his last snooze, out on the farm In Kansas. I promise you he hadn't been doing much jumping for five or six years. We heard of horses in our county that lived to be 30, and, of course, there are all kinds of freaks and exceptions to all rules. But when I see that Chilean horse jumping, I'd like to see a birth registration, guaranteed against accidental mixup.

Spot-jottings: In almost every community, printers are among the most original thinkers. Borglum, sculptor of super-heroic figures on Mount Rush-more, S. has a home near the City, In Connecticut. There he keeps four French poodles and a A New York woman who has divorced her husband has employed a psychoanalyst at $45 an hour to play with little Junior one hour daily. In all the games there's a villain, called Papa.

The psychoanalyst guarantees that the boy will despise his father and love his mother in a year or Seems to me I could think of more constructive ways of spending $17,000. Psychoanalysts o( the upper brackets do very well in New York today. Of course, there is still the fringe of miracle-workers, fortune-tellers and magnetic healers who call themselves psychoanalysts in their printed matter. These minister to a gullible crowd recruited from the gipsy tea rooms and similar resorts. But the orthodox, big-time psychos are prospering on the earnings of the Intelligentsia and business men who thought they were rich when the stock market went up.

It's quite the fashion for heavy thinkers to get themselves psyched, even if there isn't anything seriously wrong with them. Walter Lippman and Heywood Broun rather like to talk about their favorite psychoanalysts and experiences. And when that talk starts, there's always a tight little group forming, comparing methods and results. It gets to be a hobby an expensive one. (Copyright, 1938.

McNaught Syndicate) Kansas university this year is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its founding. By Fred t'ehcr tooth any day now." NEW YORK ChaHes NEW YORK, Oct? 24. The Oval room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, was a master-stroke of hotel architecture when the place was built, and remains unique as a place of gay and rather high-flight dining. Restraint in furnishing and lighting has kept the place from becoming night-club-bish, as, with its shape and dimensions, it might have become. The room is a perfect oval, with high ceiling and many windows.

A narrow raised platform runs ail around the room, with a railing separating it from the other floor level. Tables are on both levels. "A seat at one of the perimeter platform tables gives one a view of the diners. At gay parties some of New York's most festive scenes may be viewed thus. Fortunes have been spent on debutante parties in room, with special construction work, extravagant decorations and valuable gifts as favors.

Yet, I'm told that many families, desirous of launching young daughters in this setting, have got off for as little as $600 or $700 for a party. In such cases, two ambitious mamas often club together and give a joint coming-out party, with from fifty to a hundred guests. While champagne is the standard beverage for these occasions, and it costs more than buttermilk, ways have been found to encourage moderation among the guests. Outsiders in New York are seldom more amazed at any of the city's wonders than by the signs reading, usually in Hebrew and English, "Marriage Bureau." These match-making establishments, formerly existing almost altogether in the lower East Side, have spread to the Bronx and to Brooklyn. Some marriage bureaus are run by rabbis and some by couples that have specialized in matchmaking for many years.

Lists of eligible men and women of all ages, with descriptions, age, and full details as to financial standing, are kept at the bureaus. They may be consulted by parents of prospective brides or bridegroom. The bureau always guarantees the financial statements, though just what kind of recourse would be had on the guarantee if some error should be made, I don't know. The marriage bureaus advertis? in neighborhood and section .1 newspapers. Handsomely decorated parlors are furnished for first meetings of couples brought together by the match-maker.

There's a good deal of talk among horsey folk about a jumper that's to be brought to the National Horse show at Madison LIFE'S LIKE THAT "He expects his first.