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...leading editorial last week, the ultrarespectable American Journal of Surgery ran an "enthusiastic" discussion of "Dog Surgery and Self Development" by Drs. Clyde Merideth Jr. and Thomas Peck Butcher of Emporia, Kans. Small-town surgeons, said they, with little chance to show their versatility, can keep in trim by practicing on dogs. "Skill . . . had much better be developed at the expense of the dog than at the expense of the patient...
...Kansas City, lunch and politicians, then waving to crowds at Kansas stops all the way to the cool green shade of Emporia (William Allen White was in New York City), and a banquet on baked ham in a stuffy room with scores of postmasters and their ladies. For the tenth time he heard singers roar God Bless America. As he got on the train, said Big Jim: "Thank God we're getting out of the fried-chicken belt." Next morning Fort Worth and Dallas, where a posse of Garnerites hauled him off to breakfast: Cactus Valley grapefruit, Red River...
...white collar would conquer all. Liberal too is irritable Stuart Chase, who writes hotly about the conservation of U. S. resources, seems to think everybody else wants to go out and erode a lot of soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered the New Republic straight along its New Deal course...
William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette and homespun pundit of American affairs, has published the lectures he gave here last spring under the auspices of the American Civilization Committee on "The Changing West...
...citizens who had contributed to the Front simple libertarian goodwill, there was no outlet save a murmur of disillusion over the land. For millions of suspicious isolationists the worst opinion of the Reds was merely confirmed. Famed Editor William Allen White's son William L. reported from Emporia: ". . . No one in Kansas was stunned this morning, and we are doing business as usual. . . . It's much simpler now that the dictatorships are arranged in one neat pile...