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That's a very good article on Ray Clapper -accurate, fair and adequate. At home we think that TIME'S frequent quotation of Clapper is a high tribute to his good judgment and to the good judgment of TIME...
...When he recently turned on Congress, calling its proceedings "99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery.' he stepped on sensitive and corny toes. Said Clapper, "The very heart of democracy is Congress. In the scramble for X cards it was destroying itself, forcing the people to turn to somebody else for leadership...
Pragmatist From Kansas. The evidence of Clapper's levelheaded common sense shows not only in his column but in his attitude toward his trade. An isolationist until Munich, Clapper was roundly berated by some readers when he thereafter veered toward Roosevelt's foreign policy. Said he: "I try to learn from events...
Columnist Clapper confirms his pragmatism thus: "Public opinion will not tolerate indefinitely theories that don't work in practice." He consciously writes his column for "the people I knew out in Kansas," and his favorite maxim is "Never overestimate the people's knowledge nor underestimate their intelligence...
...Clapper is a stocky, stoop-shouldered man with beaked nose, retreating forehead, thoughtful blue-grey eyes set in dark rings like small rain clouds. Younger looking than his 50 years, he gives the appearance of being easily transplantable back to the east Kansas farm where he was born...