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FORTY-NINERS (340 pp.)-Archer Butler Hulbert-Little, Brown...
Prayers & Poisoned Water. Forty-Niners (first published in 1931) is the work of the late Professor Archer Hulbert of Colorado College, who gathered the materials for it while mapping the great trails across continental U.S. Hulbert imagined a "typical" wagon train-16 wagons, with four mules to each wagon and three spares, 125 Ibs. of flour for each man, as well as 50 Ibs. of ham, 50 Ibs. of bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road...
P.O.A.U.'s new executive director, Dr. Glenn L. Archer, former dean of the Law School of Kansas' Washburn University, was encouraged by the success of last week's meeting. In an "Address to All Americans," his organization declared that recent events "have aroused a substantial body of public opinion to the danger that threatens religious liberty as guaranteed by the separation of church and state . . . In a recent public pronouncement issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference and signed by American cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the hierarchy brands the separation of church and state a 'shibboleth...
...plea for a ballot was rejected, Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29, secretary of the board, explained last night, "because that is not within the purview of this committee or the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Laid in San Francisco in 1896, Strange Bedfellows tells what happens when the son (John Archer) of a Senator who is apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...