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...Mountain Indian boys, with no idea what the war was all about, were conscripted in herds and sent to die in the steaming Chaco. Last week t'.ie lighting Paraguayans struck back and Fort Saavedra fell. So did two more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans...
Representative Bolivar Kemp of the 6th Louisiana District died in June. In accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the Long faction to succeed him. Four other candidates also prepared to enter the primary to win a Democratic nomination which in Louisiana is the same thing as an election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece...
...Bolivar E. Kemp has been elected as a representative to Congress by the Sixth Louisiana District. The circumstances of her choice should be interesting to all those who insist that Fascism can never come in the United States. Mrs. Kemp was the only candidate; the Senator had insured that this would be the case by forbidding any primary elections in the district. Nat Tycer, a courageous judge who issued an injunction against the balloting, did not succeed by this mere constitutional device, and he called out several hundred special deputies to insure that it would not take place. Well...
There are many more details in the saga of Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, all faithfully reported by the newspapers, all either ignored editorially or considered as just so many more gems in Senator Long's crown of folly. Senator Long seized power in Louisiana by a coup of this same kind, he has retained it by a series of them, but all of this is treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy...
Chicago's militant Obstetrician Joseph Bolivar DeLee, founder of remarkably sanitary Chicago Lying-in Hospital, last week threw the morbid facts into Medicine's teeth,* tamped them down Medicine's throat with the heavily honest Journal of the American Medical Association. Roared Dr. DeLee: "Evidence enough to convince any jury of husbands or any committee of life insurance adjusters. . . . The general hospital is a veritable cesspool of infection. . . . Meddlesome midwifery and puerperal infection seem to cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something...